Chapter Two
Disclaimer: IN CHAPTER ONE
Chapter Two: The Swan
Emma had read the last letter Regina had written that night and even now, under the midnight moon, she still couldn't process anything.
Emma,
My world is crumbiling down, my life with you is slowly fading away. My mother has done something terrible and I have no say in the matter.
I have a plan. Meet me by the river that seperates us when the moon is at it's highest. I will be waiting for you.
-Regina
She sat on he wet grass and listened to the water quickly flow through the earth and the wind dancing with the trees. She remembered kissing Regina here and telling her she loved her and how she was the only one for her. Emma smiled to herself, remembering the taste of her lovers lips on hers and the laughter of an angel.
"I will never grow tired of your smile." A very familiar voice called out to her from across the river. Emma looked up and saw Regina. Her Regina.
"I will never grow tired of hearing your voice, Regina." She smiled. It still amazes Emma that her lovers smile is so bright and beautiful and the scar on her lip just completes her. Her hair is tied back in a ponytail and her blue riding suit is freshly cleaned except the mud stained boots. Regina stepped on the rocks that cut through the river like a brigde and ran towards Emma; launching herself into her arms and covering her face with sweet kisses and steadied her lips on Emmas, slowly kissing her. Emma stopped and pushed Regina back.
"Emma?" Regina's voice was wavering. Emma looked up from the ground and saw tears escaping from her eyes and her heart shattered.
"Regina, what is going on? Why are we here?" Regina turned her back to Emma, trying to catch her breath.
"My mother" Regina said quietly, "She is making me stay away from you."
"She thinks that I am ill-natured and an embarassment to the Mills family. So to save our honor, I must marry a prince." Emma couldn't believe what she was hearing. She didn't want to believe it.
"No." Regina turned around and saw how beautiful Emma looked in the moonlight. Her blue eyes were so serious and her jawline shadowed her neck while her blonde hair fell over her shoulders.
"No?"
"No. No you will not marry a prince... You-"
"Emma. My mother is more powerful than you realize."
"And I am the goddamn Princess Emma Swan White! I marry who I want and I want you, Regina!"
Regina stared at her in awe. Emma stepped closer and placed her cold hand on Regina's cheek and looked into her dark brown eyes.
"Regina, I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I can't just keep living my life knowing you are kissing someone elses lips instead of mine. I can't just look away when someone else makes you laugh and I certainly can not-" Emma was cut short when Regina slammed her lips onto hers.
Regina released Emma from her hold and smiled as tears ran down her face. " I was going to say that I have a plan." Emma tilted her head a little. "We could go to another...land and start our life there. My Mother said that there is a land without magic but it is far from here. we culd go there and no one could keep us apart anymore, Emma! We could be..."
"Free." Emma smiled and kissed her again and nodded.
Regina smiled. "I love you, Emma Swan."
"And I love you, Regina Raven."
"Meet me here in two days and we can go away. Together."
Emma laid on her bed and thought about how their future.
We could be married and have children. We could wake up next to one another in the morning and I could hold her whenever I want. Kiss her whenever I want to and no one would judge us.
Then there were suddenly three knocks on the door. Emma sat up and fixed her white silk nightgown and her hair.
"You can enter." The door opened and revieled her mother, Snow White. "Hello, Mama." Snow smiled.
"Hello, my beauty." Snow walked to her bed and laid down beside her daughter. Emma laid her head on her chest and Snow stroked her hair, quickly noticing how cold her hair was. "Emma. Your hair is freezing! Are you feeling alright?" Emma's eyes grew and tried to think of an excuse.
"Oh no, Mama. I had the window open because it was humid in here." Snow,'s hand stopped brushing her hair for a moment and coninued again.
"I see." Snow muttered.
"Mama, is there something you wanted to talk about?"
"Yes." Snow removed her hand and placed it on her daughter's arm. "I have heard... Rumors abou you and a girl." Emma sat up and stared at her.
"Mama?"
"Emma, you are a Princess."
"Mama."
"Sweet heart, you can't just go out and kiss," Snow stopped her sentence to swallow whatever was coming up in her throat. "A girl. When your father and I pass, you will be next in line to take the throne which means," Emma got up from her place on the bed and walked to the doors that lead to the balcony. "You will be queen, Emma."
Emma opened the doors and walked to the rail of the balcony and looked over the court yard and into the sky. She didnt have a good view like she had at the river. She heard her mother's footsteps aproach and she turned her back on the rail and stared at the floor and whispered, "But what if I don't want to be queen?"
Emma saw her Mother stumble back a little. Oh I'm in trouble now, She thought to herself.
"Emma. Sweet heart. I know how you feel." Emma looked up and met her mother's eyes. They looked sincere and yet confused.
"You do?"
"Yes, of course! I too didn't want to become Queen but here we are. When I met you father..." She started to whisper the words but Emma still could hear. "He wasn't a prince. He was a farm-boy, a sheep herder." Emma laughed out loud.
"Wait! Dad was a farm-boy?" Snow smiled.
"Yes. He had long hair and wore wool. He sure was handsome, though. With his big muscles and little stubbly beard and-" She felt her daughter staring. "Well, he still is pretty handsome!" Emma laughed.
"What I am saying is, as long as you love them, you can marry who ever you want." Emma smiled and started blushing.
"Really?! Then can I marry Regina?" Snow stepped closer and held her daughter's face in her hands.
"Sweet heart, I'm sorry but you can't marry her."
"But-"
"I know what I said. But you can't marry her. I'm okay with you marrying a...woman, but Regina? No. I'm sorry but no."
"What is it with you and Regina?"
"It isn't her that I don't agree with. It's Cora. Her mother."
"What?"
"Her mother and I have a past and I do NOT want you in the middle of our mess Emma."
"But Mama, I love her."
"I know, Sweet Heart, but you can't marry her."
Emma's heart grew with rage and the steam was building up in her throat and face as it turned dark red. "Get. Out."
"What?"
"Get out, Mother! Get out!" Snow had never seen her sweet daughter built up with so much anger. She was terrified. She quickly ran out the door and Emma ran to her bed and cried her heart out.
"Why can't I be with her? Why can't they just see that I love her and only her?" She sobbed for two days, saying nothing to no one, not even to Regina's bird. Until it came back with another letter. Emma got up and opened the letter and gasped.
No! No! She thought to herself and quickly ran to the door.
AN: Muahaha! What a cliffhanger, right? Please review and tell me what you think!
