Still shaking, Emma considered her options. As much as she wanted to simply puff herself out of there, she still wasn't able to. Magic was serious business and she didn't want to end up slip in two or something. So it was either sneak out by the very same entry she used to get there or wait for the lovely couple to finish their playtime. Except they were there for 48 hours and Emma'd rather die than hear Robin moan again.

The blonde got on her fours and risked a glance at the couple by the side of the chest. Robin's chair was looking the opposite wall, so he wouldn't be able to see her. Yeah, like he could see anything by this hour, she thought to herself.

And Regina had her eyes down, focused on her ministrations of the man's sex. Gross. Emma went back to hiding and closed her eyes tight.

"Don't you boy even think about it, do you hear me? You're not allowed to come, your Queen didn't give you such permission."

Emma couldn't help but smile. So Robin Hood was this kind of guy, hun?

"On your knees. C'mon!" The queen commanded him and Emma figured she let the man's feet loose. "Good boy, yes. Gentle, dear, no need to rush. Hmmm"

The blonde composed herself. She sure wanted to hear Regina Mills respond to oral sex, but she also knew the woman'd be distracted and it was her only chance to scape that horrible place before she damaged her sanity forever. She looked at the stairs in a short distance and pondered the best way to crawl over there as fast as she could.

A quick peek to make sure Regina had her eyes shut and Emma invested on her first move towards the exit. Don't look back, don't look back. She ordered herself, but when she was at the most vulnerable of places, her whole body on display, she risked a glance and her eyes and the mayor's met. Emma froze. She stopped breathing, eyes wide open with guilt. Regina's moans were interrupted immediately with her surprise, but the brunette's shocked expression didn't last long and it soon gave place to a mischievous smile.

"Keep going, dear, don't stop." She said, and Robin fastened his licks, satisfied. Regina was smiling at Emma and the blonde couldn't believe that situation was real. The mayor gave the sheriff a wink, smiling that smile and Emma got the hell out of there not looking back anymore.

Emma couldn't speak to any human soul for the rest of the day. She considered going back to Boston and never seeing Regina again, but then there was the little problem of abandoning her son and parents. Oh yeah, and the pirate, she almost forgot about Killiam at all and the moment she realized it, she shivered. "Hook's my boyfriend, Hook's my boyfriend." She repeated out loud while adjusting herself in bed for the night. Not Regina. Her mind completed. Definitely not Regina. And with these last words, she closed her eyes and drifted off.

Emma's phone vibrated and she checked to see Hook's message: "Ready, love?". Ready for what for God's sake?! She wondered. It was then that she looked up and saw her boyfriend's lustful expression right in front of her. She opened her mouth to ask him what was going on, but her surrounding got her distracted. Where the fuck I am and how the hell did I get here?

"Problem, Swan?" He arched one eyebrow, confused.

"No, I… Where are we?" She took the rusty and narrow little bedroom in.

"Why, in my boat, of course! Going explore the world together, remember?"

"What?! No, Killian, I gotta go back!" She said while getting herself out of his embrace.

"There's nowhere to go back to, l thought you were happy with our new home?"

"New home? What are you talking about?" She was getting desperate at the minute, storming out of the room and climbing the stairs two steps at a time.

"Emma, wait!" He called after her. "If you're still not ready I can wait a little longer," he said in a soft voice reaching her, "you don't need to run away just because you don't want me to…" he regarded his words for a second, "bed you… Yet" he completed, hopeful.

It took Emma a second to make sense of what he was trying to say to her.

"Killian, I don't-" She tried, but the pirate interrupted her pulling the blonde into an embrace.

"Shhh.. It's okay, Swan, I'm here." He kindly petted her on the back. "Everything'll be okay, I promise." He said, but it wasn't his voice at all that reached Emma's ears. She quickly pulled away to look at his face, but it wasn't Hook anymore that had his arms around her waist, it was Regina and she had the kindest of the looks directed to her. The look she was very much used to get from the pirate, but never from Regina.

"R-regina?"

"What is it, dear?" The brunette asked while caressing her cheek.

"I…" Emma tried to articulate, but she didn't even know if she wanted to say anything at all. Regina's face was so close to hers she could feel the other woman's perfume. Regina smiled at her lovingly and as if in slow motion Emma saw her closing the distance between their lips, eyes closed.

Emma woke up suddenly. Surely it had been the pounding of her heart that woke her up by smashing her chest fierily. She pulled herself to a sitting position and breathed heavily for a few moments. This wasn't right. This wasn't right at all. In any level.

She got up and walked to the bathroom, looking at herself in the mirror when she got there. She grabbed the marble stone of the sink in front of her and closed her eyes. "What are you doing to me, Regina?" she whispered.

Regina opened her eyes as soon as morning light hit the dark underground room through a tiny ventilation flap. She looked at her bed companion and smiled satisfied. She sure brought him to exhaustion with all the Evil Queen role-playing of the previous night. It was then that she remembered Emma Swan witnessed a part of it and a smirk played on her lips. She'd give anything to know what was Emma doing there and, most importantly, if she had enjoyed it. The mayor didn't quite know why it was important to her to know the sheriff's opinion on her seduction techniques and she didn't even bother to ask herself this question. All she could think was that in an unusual way the idea of the blonde being there made her really pleased.

Regina got out of bed to fresh herself up a bit and lost track of time while organizing the mess she and Robin left from their night together. Therefore, when the man hugged her from behind, she was a little startled.

"Morning" he said to her ear.

"Had a nice sleep, dear?" She asked to her lover as her sight got lost on a certain wooden chest where their spectator was hiding a few hours prior.

"Oh yeah, quite the best." He answered while caressing her stomach. Regina couldn't tell why, but the gesture made her a little uncomfortable. She blinked a few times to focus on the conversation she was supposed to be engaged in.

"Great." She replied gently taking his hands off of her waist.

"Are you okay, Regina?" He inquired worried. "You seem a bit off…"

"Nonsense dear, I just remembered I have some business to attend in the office before lunch time." She said still facing the opposite side of the room, suddenly realizing she just wanted to be alone for a moment.

"Nothing the mayor couldn't reschedule I presume." Robin suggested turning the brunette to himself.

"Robin…" Regina tried.

"Oh c'mon, let's enjoy ourselves a bit longer, who knows when we'll have this opportunity again?"

"That's exactly the problem here" she lied "See… You're a married man and I'm… I'm trying to do things right this time…"

Robin's eyes lowered to the ground and Regina almost felt sorry for lying to him.

"This can't happen again, Robin…"

"But, Milady!" He grabbed her hand desperately.

"No but, Robin… As much as I've… enjoyed our time together," she averted his eyes for a moment "you really have to make a decision here."

"I know…" The pain visual on his expression. "I'm sorry to put you through this situation."

"We've been there Robin, I don't wish to have this conversation again. Please." Regina was firm on each word she uttered to the sad man in front of her. It felt right to dismiss him now while her feelings weren't deep enough. One thing was really clear to her at this point: no fairy dust magic was worth all suffering that'd come from this involvement. She didn't wish to be hurt – again – by this or any other man.

The man was silent for a moment, before promising her "This isn't a goodbye Regina, I assure you."

"Don't make promises you cannot keep, dear." She snapped at him and walked towards the exit.

Regina drove to her office positive that she did the right thing. She wouldn't allow herself to drop any more tears over Robin Hood. She was a queen, for God's sake! A queen crying over a forest bandit? Oh no, that she wouldn't allow. She brought her Mercedes to a complete stop in the city hall's parking lot, raised her chin and composed herself, checking on her make-up in the mirror.

"A queen gives orders, she doesn't wait for men to abandon wives while crying her eyes dry." She told her reflection in the mirror. "A proper queen has lots of admires, she doesn't ask for love, she's just loved, desired, worshiped." And with these last words she recalled Emma on her fours looking at her from the floor, completely amazed. The mayor smiled, enjoying the thought that maybe the sheriff had fantasies over her. She turned the engine on again. She didn't have any business in the city hall after all. However in the sheriff's department…