I've been cranking out stories lately because I'm going back through all my old Word Documents and realizing I have some relatively interesting ideas floating around. Most of these have been paused for years, many from as early as 2014.
Please, enjoy.
Regina thought she would feel threatened, angry, disappointed. Anything, other than the sheer awe she feels when she locks eyes with Emma Swan.
"You're Henry's birth mother?"
"Hi." The blonde smiles softly. Her vibrant green eyes flick to the child standing between them.
"I think he was hoping for something different when he got the idea to drag me back here." Emma laughs richly, making no effort to hide her fangs. Henry sighs, feeling foolish. Regina's arm winds around her son's shoulder protectively.
"Henry, why don't you get ready for bed, Miss Swan and I are going to have a conversation." Regina hugs her son briefly and releases him.
"Please don't hurt each other." He begs quietly, desperately. Regina smiles proudly at her son.
"We're just going to talk; we're not going to fight." She responds. Henry still appears to be apprehensive about leaving his mothers alone, but he walks away anyhow. Regina watches her son go into the house, followed by the town Sherriff, Graham. When she faces the blonde, she is smiling at her.
"What are you grinning at?" Regina asks caustically. Emma chuckles.
"He's cuter than I thought he'd be. His dad wasn't anything to brag about and the last time I saw him he was a squishy screaming ball of pink flesh." She explains. Regina opens her mouth, but realizing she doesn't know how to respond, asks if the blonde would like the best apple cider she ever tasted. Emma accepts the offer. Regina shakes her head and leads the way into her house. Regina pours them each a glass of cider, handing one over to the vampire.
"When were you changed?" She asks the younger woman. Emma accepts the glass and hums in thought.
"Four years ago, I believe," she nods, "yeah, I was 24."
"Voluntary or accident?"
"Accident. I was taking night classes at a community college and you know what they say about walking alone at night." She takes a sip of her beverage. Regina almost feels bad.
"You?" The mayor regards Emma with a steely glare, deciding whether or not to tell her.
"Both."
"Excuse me?" Emma cocks her head to the side. Regina laughs.
"I was volunteered by my mother. So, in theory it was done on purpose; in effect, it was done against my will." She shrugs. The pain of her mother's betrayal has dulled over the years.
"I'm surprised you adopted a human child. Aren't there rules about interspecies adoptions?" Emma follows Regina into the study.
"Not any a mayor and an excellent legal team cannot find a way around." Regina's smile is practically lethal.
"Why fight so hard for a human? Doesn't the conflict of interest ever become a problem?"
"You sure are full of questions." Regina remarks.
"Just picking your brain."
"I didn't believe it would, but as Henry has grown older he's become more inquisitive of the morality of this way of life." She sighs, "I suppose, if I were human, I would be proud of him." She admits. Emma shakes her head.
Regina quirks an eyebrow but says nothing, raising her glass to her lips. "He wanted you to be human." She points out evenly. Emma smirks.
"I know, he was so disappointed." She shrugs, "people usually are when they meet me."
"I wasn't." Regina blurts. She didn't mean to say it out loud; she doesn't want to be so forthright and honest with the woman. Emma smiles again, this time it is predatory and dangerous. Regina smiles back.
There is a quiet knock on the door of the study and Regina stands to answer it. When she pulls back the heavy oak door, Henry stands in front of her. He is small and unintimidating in his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pajamas. Emma nearly groans at the sight of the boy, as she did when she saw him on her doorstep.
When she was seventeen years old she made the mistake of falling in love with a man who had no ambitions and no money. They lived out of hotel rooms with stolen money and at their lowest in their car. Their most successful ruse was to stuff a bag under her dress and pretend to be expecting parents; an act that usually allowed people to extend them a sort of trust and usually they could get away with stealing a few bags of food here and there. Of course, this is when she was still human and relied on high priced food to live. Then, a week after winding up in prison for Neal's crime, she discovered she was actually pregnant. She gave the baby up; there was no way for her to raise him and she knew it would be best for him to live with a family. Not a teenage criminal.
"Can I say goodnight to Emma?" Henry asks his voice timid. Regina glances back at Emma. She raises an eyebrow in question and Emma shrugs. She walks across the room so that she's standing beside Regina. Henry bursts forward and wraps his arms around her slender waist.
"Goodnight, Emma, I'm glad I got to meet you." He tells her. His voice is sleepy and she pats his head like a dog.
"Yeah, it was nice to see you too, kid." She glances at Regina. "Maybe next time don't run away from home when you want to do something." She says in the sternest voice she has.
"It's dangerous out there for you to be alone." Regina adds softly from her side. Henry backs away from Emma and looks at both women.
"Because of people like you." He says. Regina nods, because she can't lie to him and he's not naïve.
"Yes, because there are vampires who hunt humans and it is not safe."
"Not safe." He sighs, seeming much older than ten. "Will I ever be safe?" He questions. Regina opens her mouth to answer but realizes she doesn't know what to say. She lets out a huff of breath.
"Do you know how to protect yourself?" Emma asks. Henry eyes her distrustfully.
"No."
"Well, that's a problem, now isn't it?" She says. Regina shakes her head in response.
"He has a bodyguard," she responds, "he does not need to learn self-defense."
"That's naïve." Emma shrugs lifting the glass to her lips, "he's your son," she takes a sip, "do what you think is best."
"He is and I will, Miss Swan." She says, haughtily, "you have no right to Henry." She finishes. Emma laughs.
"Listen, I'm not looking to take him from you." She backs up. "I have no interest in taking a kid, especially a human." She lets out another chuckle before downing the rest of her drink. "Trust me." Regina settles her hand on Henry's shoulder and squeezes.
"Henry, please go up to bed, it's a school night." Regina says. Henry nods and gives her a hug.
"Goodnight, mom." He tells her. He sounds hopeless.
"Goodnight, dear."
After Henry walks out of the room and Regina closes the door she turns to face Emma Swan. Her lips are set in a deep frown but her eyes gleam with something else, excitement, perhaps.
"Please refrain from filling my son's head with harmful ideas." She crosses the room and takes the empty glass from Emma.
"Of course." Emma responds as she grabs Regina's wrist and pulls her back.
"Miss Sw-" Regina begins and Emma cuts her off by crashing their bodies together. Their kiss is firey and passionate. Regina drops the glass and it shatters on the hardwood floor but neither pull away. Emma snakes her arms around Regina's back and the Mayor moans. They pull apart and Regina opens her eyes.
"Miss Swan." She is breathless, overwhelmed and hot.
"Emma." The blonde corrects.
"Shut up." Regina pulls her back and they are kissing again. They back up and Emma falls back when her knees hit the sofa. Regina crawls on top of her and Emma grabs her ass.
"Emma," Regina pushes her hands back again Emma's shoulders, holding her against the back of the chair, "I don't normally do this." She says before returning to kissing the stranger in her study.
"I won't hold it against you." Emma replies breathlessly. She drags the mayor's grey dress over her ass revealing black lace panties and garters holding up thigh-high stockings.
"Holy shit." She bites Regina's lip and the mayor smiles. Emma groans when she puts her hands on Regina's ass again.
"Fuck."
Regina begins kissing Emma's neck as she pushes the blonde's red leather jacket from her shoulder. A knock sounds at the door and Regina nearly falls off Emma's lap in shock.
"Stay." She points at Emma as she moves to the door while smoothing her dress over her legs.
"Yes, Ma'am." Emma leans back. Regina pulls the door open and Graham stands at the threshold.
"Sheriff." She tries to smooth her hair.
"Madam Mayor." He nods his head and looks over her shoulder at Emma who does not look as put together as Regina was attempting to.
"Henry is in bed, all points of entry are locked and I'm sure you will activate your security system when you are finished with your…discussion." Regina does not appreciate the pause or the inflection of the word. She almost opens her mouth to dispel any rumors but the Sheriff clears his throat and she simply ducks her head.
"Of course." She agrees.
"I'll see myself out." He gestures over his shoulder and shoves his hands into his jean pockets before walking away. Regina watches as he leaves and waits until she hears the door close. She turns around and faces Emma. She lifts her hand and beckons the other woman closer. The blonde stands up and hurries to the woman's side.
"This happens once and I will never see you again and you will be gone by the time Henry has to be up for school. Understood?" She fingers the lapel of the red leather jacket. Emma leans forward.
"Of course, Madam Mayor." She smiles. Regina nods. She pulls Emma by the jacket upstairs and into her bedroom. She throws Emma back onto the bed and immediately crawls on top of her.
"You're aggressive." Emma tells her.
"Shut up." Regina growls again as she rips the jacket off and throws it across the room. Emma reaches up and unzips Regina's dress. She wastes no time pulling the dress over her head.
"I can't believe this." Emma mutters.
"What, dear?"
"You're so fucking beautiful." Emma sinks her fangs into Regina's shoulder. Regina digs her nails into Emma's back to prevent herself from screaming. She pulls Emma's white tanktop off, followed by knee-high boots and tight skinny jeans.
Both women are down to their underwear; Regina in her black lace and Emma in white cotton. Regina smiles down at Emma as if she were a predator and Emma her prey. Their lips crash together again and Emma brings her knee up between Regina's thighs. The mayor moans as she drags her fangs over her own bottom lip, her right fang piercing the fragile skin and a bead of blood seeps out. Emma lifts herself up and captures the lip between her teeth. Regina grounds her center furiously into Emma's leg and they begin moving more frantically. They peel off each other's remaining clothes. There is so much heat between them and Emma thinks she is on fire.
"I'm looking forward to making you come undone." Emma whispers into the mayor's ear as she pushes two fingers into the woman's aching core. Regina gasps.
"Fuck!"
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When Regina wakes up the next morning, true to her word, Emma Swan is gone. She goes about her normal routine for getting ready for the day; shower, hair, teeth, dress. When she finally feels that she is presentable she makes her way down to the kitchen where Henry sits at the counter eating a bowl of cereal. He looks up when Regina enters the room.
"Hi mom. I'm sorry I ran away." He stirs the remaining fruit loops around the rainbow colored milk.
"I know, dear, but you are still grounded." She tells him as she grabs an apple from the bowl in the center of the island. He sighs.
"How long?" He knows not to argue.
"Two weeks. No television, no after-school activities. You go to school, you come home, you do homework. That is all for two weeks." He nods and she is surprised about how easy it is.
"Did you get in a fight with Emma?" He asks after a few moments of eating.
"No, Miss Swan and I got along quite well after you went to bed." She begins slicing the apple.
"Really? You seemed really mad at her last night when she told you I should learn self-defense." Regina laughs.
"Yes, well, she shouldn't be filling your head with silly ideas."
"Why is it silly for me to be safe?" Regina sets the paring knife on the cutting board and sighs heavily.
"Henry, you are safe." She says emphatically. "I take a multitude of precautions to ensure that you are safe, as long as you're not gallivanting around unsupervised." Henry actually starts to roll his eyes but freezes when Regina raises an eyebrow.
"You can't always protect me. Neither can Darrell. Nobody can." He slides down from the stool and takes his bowl to the sink. "A vampire attack can take seconds." He looks at her as he dumps out the milk. If Regina's heart could beat it would be pounding in her ears.
"Henry."
"Mom." He turns around and he is glaring at her and she is shocked by the anger in his eyes. "Maybe what Emma was saying isn't so silly. I need to know how to protect myself until I'm old enough to make the decision about whether or not I want to stay a human." Regina sighs at the sight of her ten year old son. He is thinking about things he should not ever have to consider. He has tears brimming in his eyes and she wants to protect him. But she can't protect him from himself. "Or I'm going to die before I even get the chance." Regina walks over to him, her heels clacking on the floor; she kneels in front of him and takes his face between her hands.
"You are not going to die." Regina promises. "I will look into self-defense classes for you. I know you are safe; but it is important that you feel safe as well." She gives him a tight smile. He nods, a tear finally escaping the corner of his eye. She wipes it away from his cheek. "Come here, dear." She opens her arms and he falls into them. He will always find comfort in his mother's embrace.
Please, please, please review! I am a broke college student considering medical school. Reviews are my only source of sustenance. Also, this is most likely going to be a two-shot unless I get a lot of positive response.
