A/N- Welcome to my odd little attempt at writing a Swan Queen story that's cannon. Or at least it starts off sort of cannon and deviates from there. This begins in the first season and will progress from there showing Regina and Emma's progression from just friends to more.
Chapters are short so I should be able to update relatively regularly.
Regina harshly rubbed her temple. There were many things she could deal with, many people she could deal with. Emma Swan was proving to be one she could not.
Ever since the blonde had blown into her town, she was stirring up more problems than the mayor was equipped to deal with. Regina found herself putting out fires left and right and she was just about fed up with it.
First the blonde interjects herself into her son's life, then she takes over her sheriff department, and now she has the audacity to disturb the functioning of the town Regina created to punish her enemies.
While Regina was busy cursing under her breath and trying to fight off her building migraine, Kathryn slipped into the office, unnoticed until she plopped down ungracefully into one of the plush chairs in front of her friend's desk.
She took one look at Regina's scrunched shut eyes, and the worry line creasing the brunette's forehead before deciding to interject, "That bad?"
"What do you think?" Regina asked, hardly bothering to look up, "In this week alone, I've had to replace a fire hydrant, play mediator with the nunnery because Leroy showed up to repair their electrical problem drunk, Ms. Blanchard has stopped by four times to complain about the age of the books at the school, and I had readjust the sheriff's budget to acomodate Ms. Lucas's employment."
Kathryn tried to hide her smile, but failed splendidly, "Well you and Sheriff Swan certainly do make quite a team."
The mayor dropped her pen harshly onto the paperwork in front of her, "That bumbling blonde and I certainly aren't a team."
"Oh?"
Regina narrowed her eyes, "No, we just share a son."
"Right." Kathryn said with an edge of disbelief that didn't go unnoticed by her best friend.
"What is it?" She sighed in resignation, there was no way she would get anything productive done with Kathryn sitting there with that look on her face.
"Oh, nothing." Kathryn enjoyed taunting her friend, she crossed her legs, and began idly examining her nails.
"Spit it out."
"It's just that you and Emma seem to be getting on pretty well lately. I mean yesterday when she accidentally backed the sheriff's car into the fire hydrant you only yelled at her half as much as you would have last month. And you didn't even threaten her." Kathryn knew that those landmarks would be lost on any other person, but were truly a big deal coming from her best friend.
Regina merely rolled her eyes, "I suppose I'm no longer surprised by Ms. Swan's capacity for idiocy." The blonde hummed, clearly not convinced. Regina was just about done with her, "Did you come by for anything aside from interrogating me about my relationship with the sheriff?"
"Yes, I wanted to see if you were up for lunch tomorrow?" Kathryn asked hopefully, it had been a while since she had dragged Regina out of the office, and she knew the brunette wasn't good at taking care of herself unless prompted to.
"I suppose I can shuffle some things around."
"Great!" Kathryn bounced up from her seat before Regina could take back her acceptance.
Their conversation was interrupted by Regina's cell phone ringing. She took one look at the caller ID and sighed in annoyance, "Speak of the devil." She muttered before addressing the blonde before her, "I'm sorry, Kathryn, I have to take this."
"Is it Emma?"
"Yes." Regina picked up her pen again and began to spin it, her regular tick, "She's probably broken something else."
"Mhm. You're sure that it's not anything more?"
The mayor fixed her friend with a piercing gaze, ensuring that she had her friend's total attention as she delivered her next line, "Ms. Swan is the biological mother of my son, and we occasionally must work together to keep this town operational, that is all."
"Alright." Kathryn smiled as she stood from her seat and showed herself to the door, muttering under her breath as she left, "That's all, for now."
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