So there were a couple of reviewers that wanted a second chapter. I hope I've done that request justice.
And to clarify a point Regina never actually removed Emma's heart she just made sure it was where it was supposed to. Safe and sound in Emma's chest. So I hope you're no longer freaked out redcharcoal. I got to tell you though that made me laugh, I didn't realise it might not be clear to the reader. It was clear to me but then I wrote it.
Emma didn't want to wake up, she had been stuck in a world were luxurious mattresses and deliciously soft, warm and naked Evil Queen bed mates did not exist. So it wasn't hard to understand Emma's fury at being woken by a the shrill ringing of a phone. What made it worse was that Regina was actually attempting to leave their bed in order to answer the bloody thing. Admittedly the brunette didn't struggle to much against the hold her lover had around her waist but it was still enough to waken the blonde further.
The ringing continued and Regina was still poised to get up and answer it. Or at least she was until Emma rolled over taking her lover with her and settling half on top of the brunette. The blond sighed contentedly when the obnoxious ringing stopped.
"You realise that sooner or later we will have to leave this bed?" The brunette asked running a hand through the tangled blonde tresses that lay on her chest.
Grunting and squeezing the body beneath her a little tighter Emma chose not to answer the question and attempted to bury her head into her lovers chest.
"We both have things that we need to do. Like shower for instance, because my dear I could ignore the smell last night but I have my limits."
"What exactly are you saying?" Emma asked raising her head off its comfortable pillow.
"You smell rancid." The brunettes nose scrunching in distaste to drive the statement home.
"Please don't pull your punches because you missed me." Removing herself from Regina's embrace Emma sat up, eyebrows knitting together. "It's not as if there were many opportunities to wash while I was looking for a way home while running from your sociopath mother."
"I'm sure that's true dear, but I'm sure that there would have been some chances for personal hygiene to be tended to."
"I get it you want me to shower." Getting up the blonde stretched, brown eyes travelling leisurely across the exposed body. "You want to join me to make sure that I'm washed to Regina Mills approved standards?"
Gracefully stalking to her lover Regina ran a hand across the pale abdomen in passing, pausing at the door to her en suite. "I think that would be for the best, I'd hate to think that you weren't thoroughly washed."
"You're so considerate." Entering the spacious bathroom in time to see Regina start the water flowing. "And I will be more than happy to return the favour your Majesty."
Beckoning the younger woman under the warm spray, Regina smirks. "Believe me, my gallant Knight, I know you will."
It took a ridiculous amount of time for the two women to finish in the shower. They had to crawl out of the cubicle their legs having lost the strength to hold them up after a particularly intense round of lovemaking.
Regina threw one fluffy white towel at Emma and holding tightly to the counter stood to wrap another around her glistening wet body. The blonde crawled in to her lover in a manner that shouldn't have been sexy in any way, with the towel hanging over back like a saddle, and took the proffered hand to get to her feet. Leaning heavily on one another they stumbled laughing into the master bedroom. Emma fell onto the bed while Regina successfully made it to her vanity table. Doe eyes tracing the delightful body lying supine in her bed, Regina dried her hair and set about getting ready for the day ahead.
The brunette had just put on one of Emma's favourite lingerie sets. It may not have been a practical choice but Regina wasn't thinking about practicality. The red silk and black lace corset with matching garter skirt had proven popular with the blonde many times in the past and Regina wanted Emma to know exactly what she was wearing under her clothes. After all the blonde would be the one removing them in the evening and the knowledge of what lay beneath Regina's clothes would drive Emma mad as the day progressed. Regina could feel hazel eyes raking over her back as she rolled the hold ups, up her leg. Attaching one black laced top to the clip, hanging from her red silk and lace garter skirt. Regina bent over to do the other leg, after the ordeal her lover had been through she should be rewarded further with a show.
She had was straightening out when strong arms wrapped around her waist pulling her firmly against a still naked body. Lips peppered kisses across a tan shoulder, the brunette tilting her head to provide easier access to her throat.
"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?" Emma moaned into Regina's ear.
"Hmm…Love?" The brunette turned in the blondes arms to face her.
"I love you Regina." Emma admitted with a chaste kiss to pink lips that are yet to have their usual coat of red applied.
"Just because I'm wearing lingerie, dear?" An eyebrow arched perfectly.
"Of course not, you weren't wearing any when I was loving you in the shower, or last night. Believe me when I tell you I love you with all that I am Regina Mills." Hazel eyes bored into doe brown imploring the other woman to accept her words as truth.
"I love you too Emma. More than I can say." Regina claimed Emma's lips in a decidedly less chaste manner. Pushing the blonde back Regina rested her forehead against her lovers bare shoulder. "Now dear you need to get dressed."
Ignoring the petulant look on her lovers face Regina quickly finished getting dressed, shimmying into her chosen shirt and pulling on her favourite silk shirt. She left for the kitchen, she'd built up quite an appetite. Grinning Regina called over her shoulder. "Pancakes in ten minutes dear. If you aren't there by then neither will your breakfast." Regina chuckled as she heard the blonde scrambling around the room, looking for clean clothes that she'd actually wear.
"I missed you." Emma declared hugging Regina from behind while the brunette sets the finishing touches on their pancakes.
"You've already told me that." Regina smiled.
"I'm going to keep telling you because I don't want you forgetting how important you are to me, how much I love you." Emma grabbed both plates and placed them on the table waiting for Regina to settle next to her before digging in.
"I missed you too. More than I could of imagined." Sharing a smile they happily ate in silence, content to be together.
Then the doorbell rang…incessantly. With the sound of a fist banging on the door just to ensure that there is no way the noise cannot be heard from any room in the house. Regina answered the door, ducking just in time to narrowly avoid the fist that was about to hammer against the door again.
"David, can I help you?" Regina asks
"What have you done to her? Where is she? I swear Regina if you have hurt her you'll pay." David stormed into the mansion barging past Regina, looking around madly leaving Henry and Mary Margaret on the porch
"I have done nothing that was not unwanted. She is in the kitchen. And I can assure you that she has not been harmed. Please come in, make yourself at home." Regina drawled motioning for Henry and Mary Margaret to enter the mansion.
"Thank you Regina." Snow said one hand on Henry's shoulder, making the briefest eye contact with the other woman.
"Yeah thanks mum." Henry stared at his mother, feeling there was something different about the woman that had raised him.
"You're welcome Henry…Snow." Regina acknowledged the two younger brunettes, walking past David and into the kitchen. "They're here for you dear." Regina said walking to the sink and busying herself with the dishes.
It proved just enough warning for the blonde to be marginally more prepared for the impromptu family hug that she found herself in. Snow was the first to release her hold on the blonde after the waves of awkwardness broke through the initial happiness that the pixie cut brunette felt at seeing her daughter. In an effort to ease Emma's discomfort Mary Margaret gently prised David and Henry off the blonde.
David placed a hand on each shoulder and looked over the blonde for any sign that she was hurt. His hands were quickly shrugged off and Emma took a couple of steps back until she was leaning against the worktop.
"What brings you here so early?" The blonde questioned crossing her arms across her chest.
"Emma it's almost noon." Mary Margaret replied frowning.
"Early is a matter of perspective then. You haven't answered my question." Emma shrugged.
"We phoned earlier and there was no answer." Snow said looking at the older woman at the sink. "We thought that maybe something was wrong."
"Because a phone wasn't answered." Emma laughed derisively.
"No because you were here with her." Charming said motioning to the brunette that had her back to the others in the room.
When Emma saw her lovers shoulder tense, her temper was sparked. "Ok first of she has a name, Regina. Secondly why would something be wrong because I was with her?"
"Because she's Evil, Emma. The Evil Queen!" David yelled moving towards the woman.
"I like her that way." Emma moved to block access to her lover.
"Emma!" Snow couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"What? She's a bad girl I like that. I'm no angel myself." Emma smiled, she didn't just like it she loved it.
"But you've never killed anyone Emma." Henry spoke up, tired of sitting on the side lines while his grandparents and birth mother had a verbal tennis match.
"…" The blonde stood staring at boy for a moment. "There's a lot of things you don't know about me kid."
Gasping Henry rushed forward to grip onto his blonde mothers hand. "Is that why you went to jail, you killed someone? The deserved it though right?"
"No Henry that wasn't why I went to jail." Emma looked to the ceiling as if it would provide her with the will she needed to carry on. "Being a bounty hunter Henry is dangerous. It can occasionally be life threatening, it all depends on the mark you're after. I've had to kill men because it was them or me Henry. But that doesn't change the fact that there is blood on my hands. The blood of men that were sons, fathers, brothers. They all had families Henry, families that never got to see them again because of me. No one ever deserves to die Henry. In a perfect world no one would ever have to die of unnatural causes but the world we live in is imperfect and that's just not how it works."
"But you're…you're the White Knight. You don't kill people." Henry cried, willingly falling into Regina's comforting embrace. Snuggling into his mums arms.
"In the real world death can be caused by anyone. Being good or bad doesn't always factor into it." Emma sighed how had it gone tits up so fast, not that it hadn't been before but this was so far from what they should've been discussing.
"You're coming home with us, now." Charming grabbed Emma's arm.
"Don't think for a second that because you are a biological donor that you can tell me what to do David." Emma wrenched her arm out of the man's grasp standing by her lover and son.
"I am your father! You belong with your family, so get a move on and come with us." The man was stopped by the petite brunette before he could reach his daughter and grandson again.
"David! Charming! Enough Emma doesn't want to come with us, just leave before someone does something they'll regret." Snow pleaded with her Prince.
"Why?" When he saw the confusion that crossed all the faces in the room David elaborated. "Why are you so desperate to stay with that witch? What sort of spell has she put you under?"
"I'm not under a spell you idiot…I'm"
"Emma." Regina warned.
"No, if he wants to know Regina I'll tell him, ok?" At the affirmative nod she got Emma continued. "After being stuck in Fairy Tale Land I wanted to spend time with the person I missed the most. My lover. Regina."
"…" Mary Margaret managed to catch David before he collided with the floor before looking up to meet a pair of hazel eyes that matched her own. "You never told me that you were…uh. You know seeing anyone."
"I wasn't seeing anyone. Just Regina." The blonde points out obtusely.
"Mum have you and Emma been together long."
"We've been seeing each other for quite some time now Henry." Regina admits.
"How come I didn't know?"
"We're ninjas, kid."
"Swan." The brunette glared at her lover. "We didn't want anyone to know Henry. So we kept it a secret, even from you. We're sorry we kept it from you sweetheart but we didn't want to upset you." Regina smoothed the boys hair absentmindedly.
"Did you not trust me?" Henry asked looking between both his mothers.
"Na, we just didn't want you to get angry with your mum." Emma crouched down to pat her son on the back.
"Why would I get angry?" The boy narrowed his eyes when he asked, looking eerily like his brunette mother.
"You kept on reminding me that she was the Evil Queen every time you saw me kid. If you knew that we were together, would you have believed that it was because we genuinely wanted to be or would you have assumed, like your jackass grandpa, that I was under a spell?"
"Language." The Queen reprimanded.
"Whatever. So do you see why we kept it a secret kid?" The blonde asked glancing over her shoulder, when she heard the man behind her groan.
"Yeah, I guess." Henry looked between his mother's again before settling on Emma. "I know why I want to stay here now Emma."
"Well then enlighten me kid."
"This is where I belong. David said that you belong with family and so do I. So we need to stay here with mum otherwise we're not with our family."
"I'm proud of you kid. I knew you'd figure it out, just needed a little reminder of what's important. But there is something else you need to do before you can stay here. Got any idea what you need to do?" Her lover and son frown at her, again the similarity is almost unnerving but incredibly endearing. Emma smiles when she can practically see the switch flip in Henry's mind.
The boy clambers out of his mum's arms to face her. A serious look plastered on his face, he took one of Regina's hands in his own. "I'm really sorry mum. For everything. I'm so sorry mummy, I didn't want to hurt you."
"What the hell?" David questioned looking at the scene before him. His grandson crying and being held by a crying Regina and Emma glaring daggers at him again.
"It's time for us to go Charming." Snow helped haul the man to his feet.
"You heard Mary Margaret time to go Henry, Emma." David held his hand out to his family.
Mary Margaret ran a hand over her face in frustration. "They're staying here David."
"Why?" Confusion spread over the Princes features.
"I told you already David. Your head never touched the floor so you couldn't have forgotten." Emma crossed over to the man to look him in the eyes. "Listen to me, without fainting. I'm staying with my lover, Regina and Henry is staying with us too."
"But…"
"I love her David. With every fibre of me being I love her." A pale hand rose to stop the man from interrupting her. "We're a family Regina, Henry and me, so we've got to stay together. And I know that you and Mary Margaret are family too but, and I don't mean to be harsh, I can live without you. But life without Regina is near unbearable, so there is nothing that can be said or done to make me leave her side. Especially after I just got back to her. Understand?"
The Prince looks at his wife before returning his gaze to his daughter. "Unfortunately I do. But I don't have to like it Emma. Regina has caused so much pain in this family, just because you think you love her doesn't erase all the evil she has done in the past."
"I know that I love her and she's responsible for a lot of happiness and good too." Emma shoved the man towards the door. The other's following close behind. "Henry was raised by her, a hell of a lot better than I ever would of managed. He's the brilliant kid that we all love because of Regina. She makes me happier than I've ever been before, Regina gave me something that I'd been searching for my whole life, a family."
"You would've had a family if she had never cast the curse!" Charming shouted on the porch.
"She wasn't the one that shoved me into a cupboard in the hope that I'd be alright and one day would save the day!" Emma yelled, satisfied that the man had nothing to come back with Emma stepped back into the house.
"Goodbye Henry, Emma…Regina. We'll see you another time." Snow hugged each of them briefly in turn before leading her husband down the path.
"I'm going to my room. Talk to you later mum, Emma." Henry dashed up the stairs, his arrival at his room announced by the thump of a door being swung shut.
Regina took Emma by the arm and practically dragged her into the lounge. Their glasses from last night still sat on the table and Regina made a mental note to take them to the kitchen later. Shoving the blonde onto the sofa Regina straddled her. The Queen claimed the pink lips that she loved in a passionate kiss. Their tongues duelling neither gaining the upper hand.
"What was that for?" The dazed blonde asked.
"I found it indescribably sexy, dear. Hearing you defending me and our love. Such actions should be rewarded." The brunette answered nuzzling the woman beneath her.
"Have I made my Queen happy?"
"Yes my love you have."
"Good. That's all that matters. I'll do it as many times as it takes to make people see that I love you." Emma said with a sharp nod of the head to drive her statement home.
"I don't doubt it Emma." Regina kissed the underside of the blondes jaw.
The laid on the sofa holding each other listening to the noises their son was making as he moved about his room above them.
"Emma." Regina whispered.
"Hmm."
"I love you." Another kiss was placed on the blondes jaw.
"I love you too." Emma smiled. "Hey, Regina."
"Yes, dear."
"I missed you." It was said in as serious a tone as the blonde could manage.
"I know, Emma. I missed you the most too." The brunette laughed.
"We'll I'd be worried if you'd missed Mary Margaret." Emma grinned at the disgusted look that crossed her lovers face. Emma kissed her lover soundly to give Regina something more pleasant to think about