AN: Here we go with Chapter 2, i hope you enjoy it! xxx
Emma pulled the bug up onto the driveway of her home and cut the engine. She released her seat belt and then the seat belt of the flowers, but left them in the car as she got out and walked towards her front door.
As Emma reached the front door with the key in her hand, she reached forward with her spare hand and ran her fingers over the shiny numbers of 108 that adorned the front door. It still amazed her every time she stood in front of it that she could call this her home.
It had been fairly easy for her to move in permanently with Regina. In the beginning of their relationship she would stay over the odd night during the week always coming after Henry had gone to bed and leaving before he woke in the mornings.
Once Henry knew about them the more time Emma would spend there and the more nights she would stay over, so the moving in process happened over time. Then one day while just the two of them were sat at the dining room table having dinner, Regina put her knife and fork down on her plate and just looked over at the her beautiful blonde girlfriend.
Emma felt the brown orbs studying her carefully and so she swallowed down the mouthful she had been chewing and placed her own knife and fork on her plate and looked up with a small smile to stare back into the intense brown.
"What?" Emma asked, suddenly feeling a little shy and nervous about the attention completely focused on her. Regina gave her a small but warm smile in return before sliding one hand into her pocket and then sliding it across the table towards Emma.
When she lifted her hand a polished silver key, attached to a solid sterling sliver swan keychain lay between them. Emma lent over slightly and picked it up, running her fingers over the weighty silver swan. Her fingers then found their way to the key and she looked up at Regina with a questioning look.
"What's this for?" Emma asked, although she had a pretty good idea. The simple fact was Emma already considered the large white mayoral mansion home; she had done for a few weeks.
"Emma, I know you consider this house your home already, and I consider it yours as well. But this key is more than just an offer to you to move in permanently. This key is also my way of telling you that you will always have a family waiting here, in our home, for you, if you will have us too."
Emma looked down at the key she was holding, tears threatening to spill over and down her cheeks any moment because the words Regina had just spoken, she had waited a life time to hear. She felt the movement next to her before she felt the contact on her knee. She turned to look at Regina who had come to kneel next to her on the floor.
As a tear slipped down her cheek she broke out in the biggest, brightest and most beautiful smile Regina had ever seen and Emma lifted both her hands to either side of the brunettes face, the keychain and key now hooked over one finger and placed a long, deep, head spinning kiss onto crimson lips.
Emma let her hand drop from the numbers on the door and she brought both hand up in front of her to look and hold that same silver swan, running her thumb over the body of it, still as shiny as the day it was given to her and she couldn't help but smile at the memory.
She reached her hand out the push the key into the lock and twisted, a small click could be heard and she pulled her key out again and then pushed open the front door to her home.
TBC…
