SQ Fix 1

Notes

Also know as You've been Swenned (in a Be Kind Rewind Sweding Kind of Way)

Because, Hook trying to hack at the barrier with his portable ice pick, really? Amateurs.


The phone kept ringing on her nightstand. She was so fed up with it that this time she actually picked it up, her fury on the rise when Idiot n#2 flashed on her screen.

"Charming, if you are calling on Emma's behalf, I order you to stop, or so help me I'll—"

The blonde prince interrupted her. "I am calling on her behalf, Regina. She's about to freeze to death!"

"Where are you." Came the instant reply, the irritated tone previously found on the woman's voice thoroughly replaced by an all-business one.

"At the town line. There's an ice barrier and she and Elsa got trapped ins—"

A swirl of purple smoke appeared from thin air, the former Mayor standing right before him.

"Who erected this barrier?" She asked.

Charming pocketed his phone, still a little dumbfounded.

"Elsa herself. She is a magic user currently looking for her sister, and apparently she can't control her powers all that well without said sister present." He explained.

Regina's line of sight fell on Hook desperately scratching at the frozen wall.

"Tell Handless Wonder to get down."

Without further ado and before Charming could alert the pirate, the sorceress conjured a fire ball that pierced through the ice, barely missing the man.

"Hey! That could've killed me!" He shouted.

Regina simply ignored him and entered the frozen fortress. She approached Emma, lying on her back on the floor, with Elsa anxiously waiting by her side.

"I can't hear her breathing anymore!" She cried.

"Get away from her now if you value your life. I won't repeat myself." The brunette warned her, kneeling next to the now blue Savior.

The boys had entered the make-shift ice cave by then, and when Hook tentatively tried to get closer to Emma, Charming held him back. "Wait. Regina knows what she's doing." He assuaged him. Hook seemed uncomfortable, but stood still as he watched the former queen gather Emma in her arms.

"Seriously, Emma, I retreat for one day and you get yourself nearly killed. What am I going to do with you?" Regina spoke softly to the knocked-out blonde, one hand over her forehead and the other across her abdomen, holding her whole body against herself. Light magic surged at the tip of her fingers, diving into Emma and warming her from the inside out. Elsa watched in awe as the Sheriff opened her eyes and a sigh left her lips upon seeing Regina.

"You called me Emma." She whispered, the color returning to her cheeks.

"A slip of the tongue." The brunette smiled sweetly. "How are you feeling, dear?" She inquired, concern evident in her features.

Emma gave her a lopsided smile. "Warmer by the minute".

"Good." Regina pulled Emma up a little bit, so that the blonde's head could rest in her chest, her hand leaving her forehead in order to seize her by the shoulder. The former mayor rested her chin at the top of Emma's crown, who nuzzled her oh so slightly.

Neither women seemed aware that they were enveloped in a blueish-purplish glow; but Elsa's eyes widened at the sight.

"Oh, Emma, your magic! It's working! You're calm now, right? She calmed you! Is she your sister? I'm really glad to meet you, Emma's sister!" Elsa looked elated.

Emma blushed profusely. "She's not my sister!" She hurried herself to explain. "She's my... my..." The blonde looked at a loss for words. "My son's other mother." She finished.

"Oh! Oooh..." Elsa smiled. "I get it know. She's your true love! Oh, silly ol' me, of course she is. I can practically feel the love spiraling around you two. Way to go, Emma!" She patted the Sheriff on the arm.

Emma couldn't utter a sound. Regina feared she was going into shock so she decided to step in. "We are not lovers. We just share a son. I suppose it is complicated." She admitted, awarding Emma a sideways glance while she unconsciously drew soothing circles on her abdomen. The blonde released the breath she didn't know she'd been holding until then.

Meanwhile a couple of feet away, Charming stood ... frozen in place, unsure of what he had just witnessed. Regina had saved Emma, sure, but... since when did the two of them become... so cozy around each other? Killian, in turn, chose that moment to spring into action, scooting Emma up from Regina's arms. The Savior felt the loss straightaway, but before she could protest, Regina rose and took charge again. "Take her to her apartment and keep her warm and safe." She aimed a final, softer gaze at Emma. "Don't go around doing stupid things. Henry will worry."

The blonde tried to reach for her. "Regina, wait —!" But there was no use.

The sorceress was gone.

Henry had left the mansion after the earnest heart-to-heart they'd had that evening; that is why, when she heard a knock at the door just mere moments after her son had walked through it, she figured he had left something behind.

"Did you forget something, darling?" she stopped on her path to the foyer as she noticed it wasn't Henry, but his biological mother at her door.

"Yes. I didn't get a chance to properly thank you yesterday." The blonde answered, seizing the term of endearment as if it had been addressed to her. "For saving my life yet again."

Regina glared at her and turned on her heels. "You are welcome. Close the door on your way out."

She heard the door close, all right, followed by a set of heavy footsteps hot on her trail.

"I also came to apologize for meddling in your love life. Yet again." The blonde insisted.

Regina rolled her eyes into her skull. « Fine. Now, if you'll excuse me, Miss Swan, it's late and I— »

Emma was in her personal space in the blink of an eye. « It's not. » she confronted her. « It's not fine if you keep calling me Miss Swan. » The Sheriff remembered the harsh Swan! thrown her way the day before yesterday that left her as bitter as the 85% cacao chocolate Regina had insisted on her trying a couple of weeks ago. When they still were… civil. She shook her head to clear the memory away.

The brunette's eyes steeled at her. « Would you rather have me call you darling after the way you betrayed me? » she spat. « Frankly, _Miss Swan_… » she tried retreating but Emma kept pushing.

« I didn't betray you. I never intended to hurt you. » she pleaded.

« Debatably at best. » the sorceress replied, unfazed.

Emma felt despair creeping in. « You know I mean it. 'Gina, please. I… »

That seemed to push the brunette's buttons, as she got on Emma's face in a flash.

« Don't you ''Gina' me! Don't you dare! After all we've been through, just when I'd begun to trust you, you go around and stab me in the back just like everyone I've ever cared about in my life has! » Emma's eyes widened at the sudden outburst, terrified to realize the other woman's eyes were welled up in tears. « You're just like the lot of them! You're— »

The blonde took a quick step forward and hugged the former queen fiercely, by all accounts trying to contain her meltdown, chanting I'm sorry, you're right, I didn't mean it, I'm not like everyone else, I do care, I do I do I do, don't shut me out, I trust you, I care, I'm here, I'm not leaving, I'm here, over and over again, as Regina went through shock, bodily resistance, more shock, more tears, a couple of Let me go!-s and I swear if you don't release me I'll end you-s, and a couple of failed punches and enchantments, until, finally and utterly spent, she collapsed in Emma's arms and let herself be held by the princess.

Infinity came and went in an embrace that just wouldn't end, until an undetermined amount of time later Regina uttered I will end you when I recover and Emma murmured back through a content smile, I'll be looking forward to it.