AN : this was in my head and it just HAD to be written. I'm still writing Dear Henry.
DISCLAIMER : all rights go to Onice Upon a Time. I'm merely borrowing them.
Regina's hand tangled and pulled dark brown curly hair. She heard her throaty moans and felt it vibrate under her tongue as she licked up the front of her neck. Regina felt her tense and groan as her body rocked between her fingers. She felt the other woman's thighs slip and grip against her hips. Then Regina felt her unfold as her teeth dug into the base of her neck where her neck meet her shoulder.
She came undone with a resounding loud cry, Regina's hand felt wet, warm, and sticky. Her body rested against the former mayor, as their foreheads met, Regina's hand disentangled itself from her curls. Her hand roamed down her back, feeling the crevice of her spine and rib cage.
"This is so very wrong Regina."
Regina nodded against her heated breath and sweaty forehead, "yes. Yes it is my maiden."
"Hush you," she kissed Regina.
They sat on the floor of her vault, surrounded by books and old magic. Regina's naked body leaned against the wall as Marian's head rested itself on her shoulder.
Her fingers pulled out of Marian and she moaned as Regina brought her hands to rest against the woman's hips. Marian moaned again into Regina's ear and shivers crept up her back until she gasped, "you shouldn't do that."
"Do what?" Marian kissed the side of her neck.
"That."
"What? This?" She kissed her ear.
"Yes that!" Regina grabbed her shoulders and pushed her away.
"Oh common, my queen," Marian's hands cupped her face.
"I told you not to call me that." She looked away.
"You almost killed me, I get to call you whatever I want."
"You can't keep using that excuse to get what you want!"
"It worked when I asked you to kiss me."
Regina rolled her eyes.
It happened a month ago shortly after she arrived. Emma had implored her to just talk. she wanted them both to talk. So...talk they did. Loud talk they did.
Okay they argued.
Then Marian said something along the lines of, "you're evil and you'll always be evil."
Regina sighed and commented, "if I'm evil then I'd have you burned as soon as I saw you."
Then it happened, Marian challenged her. She poked and prodded and said, "if you're not evil then let me call you whatever I want."
Regina asked for an ultimatum.
She could call her anything BUT evil.
Marian had called her, "a cold hearted bitch in heels."
Regina riposted, "with legs to kill."
Honestly, if she was to repeat it all, she would say it was cat fight with words.
So then it started.
Marian called her a witch in pumpkin suits. And Regina cackled at Granny's diner. Explaining a pumpkin is an overgrown vegetable, not an insulting word. Marian said it's insulting because it supposedly means fat.
Regina frowned.
Then Emma pushed her further to talk and talk with Marian. Explaining that's what good people do. Make amends. And one day...they did.
With alcohol. Lots of alcohol. Which then lead to Regina saying Roland is sweet and takes after his mother in the best of ways. Marian retaliated by saying Henry takes after Regina in many ways. They talked about motherhood and the moon in this world compared to the Enchanted Forest. They talked about the uses of this world and its own magic. Then...they talked about Robin.
Regina explained she wasn't angry anymore at Emma. That sometimes when she looks at Emma she gets sad for reasons unknown. Marian said she's probably in love with the white knight. Regina then laughed, which turned into a sort of sob. Then she claimed she's not...that way towards women.
Marian said if she wasn't then she'd kiss her.
Regina asked why.
Marian said because she says so, or Regina will be evil once more.
So Regina kissed her, because what else was she to do?
Then it began again. With that kiss. That kiss that lead to deeper kisses and an exploration of hands and falling clothes against the firelight. Morning light revealed a cheating wife and a new found side to Regina.
They avoided each other.
Until Emma pushed AGAIN. Literally. She pushed them into one closet, because she's Emma Swan with little conscience and brute power. Another kiss happened and more touches were found. Marian felt wrong but she also felt nice. Regina realized then that perhaps Marian didn't feel half as bad as Robin. Marian didn't find the heart to go after the brunette. Instead...the roles were reversed. Regina invited her to more meals, more walks, and more invites to her house.
When Emma asked Regina how her and Marian were. Regina replied with, "we're friends."
Emma clapped and bounced on her heels, cockily elbowing Regina with raised eyebrows. Regina said she's childish and to leave her presence to go to captain eyeliner. Emma frowned and told Regina he's an ass.
Regina replied, "well I could've told you that."
A new friendship was formed between Regina and Emma.
Her heart pounded each time Emma smiled against the sunlight, highlighting her freckles and agate emerald eyes. Her palms became sweaty as Emma laughed and placed her hands on Regina's forearms after a well-placed joke. Her stomach leaped and twirled as Emma chewed a fry and talked to her.
But all that was forgotten as tanned legs wrapped around her waist. It was all forgotten as their lips met and Regina found light in Marian's brown eyes.
"I have to meet Robin soon." Marian's finger tips drew circles against Regina's stomach, breaking her review of memories.
"Of course," Regina pushed her away and she got up, stretching her arms upwards.
"We could go out for coffee later on." Marian began pulling on her shirt.
"It's already well past noon, who would have coffee in the evening?" Regina leaned against the wall, cold stone embodying her soft skin.
"Those who have all night to drink wine and dance and maybe kiss." Marian tried snapping on her bra.
"What did you tell Robin?" She began helping Marian, "you know one day you'll have to get use to these. It's a common art in womanhood here."
"I told Robin I'm building a trust exercise with the notorious evil queen, over a cup of coffee," Regina buckled it together, "and excuse me if I missed the whole bosom holder thing."
Regina slipped away and leaned against the wall once more, "bra, it's called a bra and I thought we agreed the title evil queen is a tad...waspish." Her face crinkled at the word.
Marian smiled and put on her underwear then walked to Regina, "bras are much easier to take off than put on."
Her were lips inches from hers, her arms wound around Regina. For a moment Regina forgot why she was angry then suddenly she pulled away, a pair of pants being revealed as she took a step back.
"You threw it on your potions wall."
Regina looked back to the potions sitting in a decorated curve in the wall. She watched as Marian pulled on her shirt, a simple white long sleeved shirt.
"I have to go," Marian grabbed Regina's jaw with both hands and kissed her.
Regina sometimes noted how similar Robin and Marian kissed. Slow and rhythmically, holding her in place as if she'll disappear if they didn't hang on. They showed as much affection as one can show in a simple press of lips. Like lovers whom have known one another for years. And perhaps, in a way, they did.
She let go and Regina fought the urge to follow, "you should get ready."
"Why?" Regina smirked and pulled at Marian's pants.
"Because," Marian grabbed her hands and pushed it away, "it's distracting."
"Then my clothes will never be found until you leave."
Marian shot forward and kissed her again.
"Bye my petulant queen," she ran up the stairs.
Regina closed her eyes and smiled.
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Above the vault stood Emma Swan, rubbing her hands together pacing back and forth. Donned in the familiar red leather jacket and blue jeans. She bit her lip and paced.
"Okay Swan, you can do this. Just...go."
She stood still in front of the stone walls and wooden door.
"Common."
No movement.
"Damn it. Okay," she took a step forward, "just...say she needs to get out of her cloister of a vault and...and... Ask her for coffee. Just coffee. It isn't a date. It's just coffee and words and two friends hanging out."
She groaned and walked back and then forward to the vault. Then back again.
She frowned, "why is this so hard?"
She sat on a grass and pouted, "damn it Regina."
Her hand held her cheek as she leaned into it, elbow propped up on her knee, she closed her eyes. When she closed her eyes she saw caramel eyes and a queen's smile. The bright aureate of emotions swirled through her chest. She pictured that smile, then she stood quickly and surely.
She stepped forward opening the door quickly and...
"Marian?"
Marian stood, back suddenly rim-rod straight, "Emma!"
"What are-I mean-you know I expected..." Emma couldn't patch together words.
"Regina invited me for," a few seconds of silence, "coffee!" She smiled and timidly shifted from foot to foot blocking Emma's entry.
"Oh. Okay. Can I-?" She pointed towards the interior of the vault, indicating her desire to enter.
"Oh! Um...Regina's..."
Emma raised both her eyebrows.
"Regina's...indecently...acerbic at the moment."
Emma blinked, "acerbic?"
Marian sighed, "bitchy criticism."
Emma clenched her fist, "when isn't she not...acerbic?" She scrunched her nose using the new-found word.
"Probably later... When she's calmed down." Marian shifted slightly as Emma moved partially to the left.
"What did you do?" Emma squinted and gripped the door-frame.
"Nothing."
Lie Emma thought.
"Okay. Well...I'll come back later then?"
"Yeah, I have to meet Robin," she smiled and Emma moved to let Marian through.
Marian closed the wooden doors.
"You both seem to be getting along so well lately," Emma stood a couple feet from the vault, hands dug in her jeans.
"Oh yes, for a bumptious queen of her day, she's quite lenient now. It seems Henry changed her," Emma heard a lock click as Marian spoke with her back pressed to the wooden door.
"I must go now, goodbye Emma," she walked briskly past.
Emma waved and walked, she waited until Marian looked ahead. Then the blonde hid behind a tree and waited impatiently for Marian's footsteps to disappear. Then she ran to the vault doors and pulled.
Clank
Clank
Clank
Emma growled low in her throat then banged her forehead against the door.
"Damn it all," she kicked it slightly with her foot.
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Regina remained against the wall for a while then she propelled her body forwards and laid down on her clothes and Marian's forgotten jacket. She wondered how it came to this. Then she heard Marian's voice.
She yelled, "Marian!?"
No answer.
"Bye Marian!"
With a flick of her wrist silence enveloped her.
She smiled to herself, "silencing spells."
Marian does this all the time. No one visits except Henry, and he's at school. She stretched and yawned.
She never heard Emma break through the entrance.
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As a Charming it seems the genetic fault is assuming the worse. Perhaps coffee had turned into something more brutal, perhaps Marian didn't just talk and share coffee. Something in her stomach told her otherwise. So she kicked the door in and clambered down the steps two at a time.
"Regina!"
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Regina's yawn was cut short as Emma's voice rung in her ears. Silencing spells extend only so far. If she could hear Emma.
Then...
She shot up on her arms and was face to face with the blonde herself.
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Emma stopped and stared.
She did not expect this.
Her eyes roamed every curve and...
"Oh."
"Miss Swan..."
"I didn't... I passed Marian and I assumed-" her eyes grew wide, displaying a green hue contrasting against white.
"Wait..."
"Swan." Regina voice was stern as her hands searched the floor for Marian's jacket.
She covered her torso grasping a shred of decency.
"Oh god. No...really?" Emma seemed to whine, "Not her! She's...married! And has a kid and-" her mouth formed and O as that last thought hit her, "oh my god what about Roland!? And...and," her face pales, "You're dating your ex's wife! And you're naked!? Did you-? Regina! I-"
"Emma! For gods sake listen!"
Emma's eyes were still wide, her mouth slightly open, face turning as red as Regina's, but she nodded. Simply for the reason that the brunette used her first name.
"I cannot imagine the confusion you must be experiencing but Emma, you must know..."
Emma chest began heaving.
"She started it."
