Hey thank you for your reviews! I'm so glad you liked the last chapter :) so here's part 2-The Morning After.
Regina awoke to an excessive nauseating feeling in the pit of her stomach, and an excruciating pain ripping through her head.
"Ow." She groaned as she smoothed her hand over the raised area on her forehead. She sat up slowly and threw the sheets back so that they were just draped over her knees. Then she shuffled to the edge of the bed and rested her feet on the soft plush carpet, her hand still on her head.
It took her a few minutes of sitting there like that until the sickness and dizziness started to pass. When she felt it was safe to do so, she stood up.
And what a mistake that was.
The room started to spin around her and she doubled over as the sickness immediately returned. "Shit." She mumbled. Half bent over, she ran towards the bathroom in the most ungraceful and unladylike way. One hand now clutching her stomach and the other clamped over her mouth. Luckily she made it. Just in time. She got up from where she was kneeling over the toilet seat and inspected herself in the mirror, jaw dropping open as she saw the huge black and blue bruise on the upper right of her forehead. What the hell had she been doing last night?
She quickly washed her face, black eyeliner running down the plug hole and pulled on a grey robe over her silk pyjamas, then started to make her way downstairs. That's when she heard something. Someone was in the kitchen.
She froze. Her head was still spinning and her stomach started to ache.
She grabbed the nearest thing to her. A picture frame which she unhooked carefully from the wall, and slowly she walked to the kitchen, holding it in front of her. She was almost there. She could hear movement in the kitchen. She could smell something too. It smelled like...coffee? She pushed the door and it creaked slightly. And then she saw someone's shadow.
And she freaked out and threw the large frame across the room while shouting "INTRUDER", and watched it smash against one of the cupboards and fall to pieces on the kitchen floor.
"What the hell!?" A voice shouted. A familiar voice.
A blonde figure dressed in a red leather jacket and dark blue jeans emerged from around the corner, and Regina shrank back to lean on the door. Half from embarrassment, half because she could barely stand without swaying.
"Miss Swan?" She asked, eyes comically wide.
Emma looked her up and down, taking in the other woman's ragged appearance. "Woah, you look like hell."
"What are doing you in my house?!" The brunette snapped, suddenly furious."
"You really don't remember anything, do you?"
Regina just stared blankly at her.
"Remember...remember what?"
"I knew you wouldn't. That's what happens when you get drunk, Regina." She rolled her eyes then slid a mug of piping hot coffee across the counter towards the brunette. She stepped forward hesitantly and wrapped her manicured fingers around the mug, tapping her nails against it.
"I was drunk?"
"Yes. And it wasn't pretty."
"I didn't make a complete fool of myself did I?"
Emma bit her lip. She thought for a second about whether or not to tell her everything she did last night.
"And how did I get this bruise?" She asked pointing to her forehead.
"You fell from a bar stool and faced planted the floor." She replied casually, as if it wasn't a completely odd conversation to be having at 8am in Regina's kitchen.
Regina blinked deliberately slowly, feeling completely ashamed and took a sip of her coffee before asking in an accusing tone "Well what are you doing here?"
"Oh, Henry gave me his house key so I could come and check on you."
"That's very touching, Miss Swan, but I can assure you-" The mug of coffee was slammed abruptly down onto the counter and Regina was flying out of the kitchen and back up the stairs as the nausea washed back over her.
Regina was sitting back in her king sized bed, hunched over her laptop with a blanket wrapped around her when Emma entered the bedroom with a glass of water and some toast. She set them down on the bedside table and that was when she noticed the mortified look on the brunette's face. She snuck a peek over Regina's shoulder to see that she was on facebook, and it also appeared, the talk of the town.
Ruby Lucas [22:34]
well this isn't something you see everyday LOL
Regina gasped at the picture attached to the facebook status. An unflattering shot of her asleep on diner floor surrounded by pieces of glass and wearing only one of her heels.
Archie Hopper [22:15]
Regina, if you ever need to talk about your drinking problem please don't hesitate to come and see me. I'm quite concerned for you after what I just witnessed.
"Pft, drinking problem." She muttered.
She continued scrolling throfeeds he posts but could hear Emma frantically scuffling around in the background. She was looking for her phone and when she found it she started cursing at it. Like she was waiting for something to load and it wasn't loading fast enough. And when Regina refreshed her news feed, she could see why Emma was panicking so much.
Emma Swan [07:03]
babysitting regina, she got hella drunk last night lmfao, selfieeee hahaha
And Emma's heart sank in terror as Regina hovered the curser over the image underneath.
*click*
And now, stretching across the laptop screen was a picture that had received exactly 156 likes in the space of an hour.
"Shit." She heard Emma say from behind her.
"What the hell is this!?" She pivoted the laptop screen towards Emma.
It was a picture of Regina laying in bed, fast asleep with her mouth wide open, she must have been snoring. Beside her Emma stood pulling a goofy face and pointing at the sleeping woman. She looked at the selfie she had taken with a peacefully sleeping, drunk Regina half in amusement and half in shock at her stupidity. It was obvious that Regina was going to see this.
"Shit." Emma said again.
"Is that all you have to say for yourself?"
"Maybe this will teach you not to get shit faced again." Emma raised an eyebrow and smirked.
"You took a selfie with me when I was asleep and posted it on facebook for the whole town to see, are you serious?"
Regina would have got up right then if she had the energy and tackled Emma for the humiliation she had caused her. But instead she just groaned and shut the laptop. She had brought this all on herself afterall. So she settled with her usual threat; "I will destroy you, Miss Swan."
