Okay so first of all, thank you all SO much for all the reviews, favs and follows, I really wasn't expecting that! It really motivates me to read all the reviews and I'm so glad to see you enjoyed it, so as promised here's chapter 3!
Flashbacks will arrive in the next chapters and things will start to get clearer/explained don't worry.
Enjoy!
(trigger warning for some minor "sexual" talk towards the middle of the chapter)
They arrived in front of the house and David turned his car off, taking the key out.
"What are you doing?" Regina asked, confused.
"Well, accompanying you inside of course," David answered getting out of the car and running to her side, opening the door for her. "After you, Your Majesty," he said smirking at her.
Regina eyed him for a second and narrowed her eyes at him.
"What?" David cast her an innocent look.
She sighed, got out of the car and said with annoyance, "I'm not in the mood for games, Charming."
"Look who's playing now, Prince Charming uh? Interesting," he said chuckling and Regina gave him a dark look that made him swallow hard. If only he knew how ironic the situation was right now. Regina smirked and walked past him towards her house, when she came to a stop, staring at the house clearly confused. David joined her and looked at the house himself.
"Is Henry home?" he asked and couldn't help the slight worry in his voice. Regina turned to him and replied with anger in her voice, "Of coursenot! Do you really think I would take a walk in the forest and come back hours later if my son was in the house? Alone?"
"I know, I know, jesus Regina I was just asking, how the hell am I supposed to know when the lights are on in the house and you're not there yourself?" David answered, getting angry himself.
Regina sighed and rolled her eyes at him in annoyance, before walking toward the house and saying "I must have forgotten to turn them off when I left, that's all."
Regina opened the door with her key and stepped inside. As soon and she opened the door, Regina noticed two things. One, Henry was there, phone in hand and trembling and two, he was crying.
"Henry? What are you doing here?"
Henry turned his head towards his mother and when he heard her voice and saw her, his face lit up and he ran to her and wrapped his arms tightly around her, almost knocking her down in the process but David was right behind her, his hands on her shoulders to steady her.
"MOM!" Henry cried and squeezed her in his arms.
"Baby what's going on?" Regina said, putting an arm around him and the other holding his head again her middle.
Henry started to sob against her, filled with regrets and relief.
"I-Im so s-so-rry mom, I didn't m-mean what I said ear-lier, none of it, p-plea-se don't go away a-gain, I l-love you so m-much," Henry sobbed, still clutching to his mother as if she would fade away at any moment. It was then that Regina understood: she was too late, he had read the letter and knew everything, but still, there he was, crying into her arms and asking for forgiveness.
Regina had tears running down her cheeks after hearing the words she hoped to hear again for so long. She got down on her knees and hugged her son fully, since she was still a lot taller than him.
"Oh Henry… I'm so sorry sweetie…" Regina cried in her son's arms.
David was looking at them in pure confusion. What the hell had happened between those two for them to be in this situation? David felt like an intruder at that moment and cleared his throat to remind them that he was still here, even though he didn't want to interrupt.
Regina and Henry both turned toward David and let go of each other. When Henry looked back at his mother, he saw that something had happened to her head and got scared.
"Mom, you're hurt! What happened?"
"It's nothing sweetheart, just a scratch. I'll be fine don't worry," she answered, caressing his cheek softly and whipping away the few tears that were running down his cheeks.
"What is David doing here?" Henry asked turning to David.
"I hurt my head so I called him and he brought me to the hospital to get it fixed and then brought me home."
"But mom where did you go and why is the car not here, yo-" Henry started but his mom sighed and took his chin in her finger softly.
"-Listen Henry… It's very late and we're all very tired, I promise we will talk in the morning okay?" Regina asked, a fake smile forming on her lips.
"… Are you sure you will be okay?" he asked and David could see that Regina was getting tired and couldn't deal with a ten year old so he answered before she had to explain once again that she will be fine, in vain.
"Tell you what Henry, you put your pyjamas on and go to bed and I'll make sure your mom is ok until tomorrow, okay?" David asked, smiling at Henry. Regina looked at him in surprise, and felt relief run through her when Henry nodded, thanked David and kissed her goodnight before running upstairs to his room.
David sighed and put a hand on her shoulder, "Why don't you sit for a minute, I'll bring you some water." Regina nodded and sat down on the sofa rubbing her temples at the headache that wouldn't leave her alone.
David came back a minute later with a glass of water and some medicine that Dr Whale had prescribed for her headache and Regina took them hurriedly, very grateful for him to be there at that moment.
When she was finished, she put the glass on the small table and leaned back on the sofa, closing her eyes and rubbing them with her fingers. A few seconds had passed silently, David sat next to her and got startled when she started to speak again.
"Thank you David."
"Whatever for?" David asked with a smile.
"For… coming to get me in the forest and bringing me to the hospital, I know it's your job but-"
"-Woa wait, you think I only came to get you because it's 'my job'? Regina I… Of course it's my job to make sure everyone is safe in this town but… with you it's different. I care about you Regina," David said and chuckled, "and for the love of god I don't know why because you can be infuriating Regina but for some reason I do an-"
"-And you shouldn't," Regina cut him.
"I- what?" David asked, confused.
"You shouldn't care about me David." Regina was so tired and didn't feel like fighting back at that moment.
"Regina y-" David started but was interrupted by Regina.
"-David listen I'm tired and my head is killing me I… can we not talk about this right now? Please."
David sighed and nodded, there was no use to fight back while clearly she was in no mood and state to talk. A couple of minutes passed without any of them saying a word or moving, until Regina broke the silence.
"I'd like to thank you also for Henry, I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't been there, he can be quite the handful."
"Of course Regina, Henry is a great kid and I could see he was quite worried about you and you were in no state to take care of him…You do know we have to talk about this at some point right?" David asked, looking at her in the eyes.
"No we don't. I don't owe you any explanation." Regina said, starting to feel anger fuel her.
"Excuse me? Regina you ran to the forest nearly killed yourself and called me to help you but you don't owe me any explanation? I do hope you're kidding me right now!" David replied, losing his patience and starting to raise his voice.
"Who exactly do you think you are?! You're no one to me, just because you care about me doesn't mean I do and I don't see why I should explain anything to you! I called you because you're the sheriff, and it is your job to do what you did. Now that you've made your number you can get the hell out of my house." Regina said and started to get up but she started to feel dizzy and had to grip the back of the sofa in order to stay on her feet.
"No," David said and he was sure Regina was ready to burn him alive on the spot before he added, "I promised Henry I would make sure you were okay until tomorrow, so I'm gonna make sure you go to bed safely and then I'll leave. Henry doesn't need to find his mother passed out on the staircase in the morning because clearly you can't stand on your own. I don't know what the hell happened between you two but I think he's been through enough for the day." David placed a hand on her shoulders and added, "Now come on, I'll help you to your room." Regina groaned in annoyance but let David guide her upstairs anyway, she didn't have much of a choice.
They arrived in the bedroom and the first thing David noticed was how nicely decorated it was and how familiar it felt.
"Made it to the bedroom in one piece, you can go now.", Regina said, her voice emotionless.
"I told Henry I'd make sure you would get to your bed safely, not the bedroom, and you're still not in your bed so I'm still not leaving." David replied and smirked when he saw her roll her eyes
"I'm gonna take a quick shower," Regina said heading to the bathroom, "so go do something else." She closed the door. David decided to take a look around and went to what he assumed was Henry's bedroom. He opened the door and saw the boy lying peacefully in his bed. He must have been exhausted bc he seemed out like a light. David smiled and closed the door, heading back to Regina's bedroom.
When he went in, she was still in the bathroom but he couldn't hear the shower anymore, so he decided to just sit on her bed and wait.
A couple of minutes later Regina opened the bathroom door and went back in the bedroom, David hadn't looked up yet from the picture he was holding from Regina and Henry until he heard a gasp. What he saw when he looked up at Regina took his breath away. She was in her underwear, her wet hair almost resting on her shoulder, not quite long enough yet, curling softly. She was wearing a dark-red lace bra hugging her breasts tightly, making the soft swell of her breasts come out beautifully at the light, and matching dark-red panties that hugged her hips nicely. She was a vision, and he felt his pants grow tighter just by looking at her, her breasts screaming at him to suck on them and her toned belly yearning to be kissed.
He was staring, and he didn't seem to notice it until she cleared her throat and said, "Do you want a picture or shall I go on and get dressed?" crossing her arms, which made her breasts grow even fuller in her already tight bra.
David blushed and said a tiny "Hum, sorry…" before he turned around and suddenly found a very interesting spot to stare at on the wall. He didn't see Regina's smirk, and it was gone before he could see it. She picked up her robe and put it on, tying the belt tightly around her waist.
"I thought I had told you to go do something else David, if I didn't know any better I'd say you waited there on purpose," she said eyeing him slowly.
"And if I didn't know any better I'd say you came out of here half naked on purpose."
Regina frowned at him, which was supposed to make her look angry but instead it was a frown of pain when her head started to pound again and she had to put a hand on the wall to support herself, a soft moan escaping her when it became more violent.
David immediately got up and almost ran to her, putting a hand on her shoulder and asking, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah yeah, I just need to lie down and sleep for a while…" she replied, her head still tilted down and a hand on her forehead.
David led her to the bed and helped her to lay down. When she was finally lying in her bed, she let out a big sigh and closed her eyes, enjoying the comfort of her bed. She felt David's eyes staring at her and opened her eyes to look at him.
"What are you still doing here? Are you going to tuck me in, read me a story until a fall asleep and kiss me goodnight now or are you finally going to leave?"
"Merely going to use the bathroom, if I may," David smirked, clearly amused by her sarcasm.
Regina sighed in annoyance, closed her eyes again and nodded toward the bathroom door, "Right in front of you."
David just shook his head in amusement and went inside of the bathroom, closing the door behind him.
When he came back, a glass of water in one hand and a wet cloth along with some medicine on the other for her head, he found her sound asleep and smiled. He walked toward the bed and put the glass of water on her nightstand and put the medicine right next to it, she'd probably need it in the morning. He then put the wet cloth on her forehead, careful not to wake her and put the covers that were still spread on the other side of the bed on her.
David chuckled softly and said to himself "Looks like I'm tucking you in after all."
He looked at her for a moment and wondered what it would feel like to just lie next to her and hold her through the night, soothing the pain away. He could almost see himself next to her, could almost feel the heat of her body, her soft hair on his cheek… David came back to his senses and shook his head, he was being pathetic. Regina wanted nothing to do with him, or so she said. David sighed and bent down, kissed her temple softly and pushed away a few brands of hair that had made their way on her eyes. He looked at her one more time and left the room, turning the light off and closing the door silently behind him.
He was about to leave when he realized that he needed to find a way to lock the front door behind him. There was no way he was leaving them both alone in an unlocked house. He thought about it for a few seconds until he remembered that Henry had a second key. David made his way upstairs again and opened Henry's door, letting the light from the corridor lighten his room a little bit and searched for the key in his backpack, being extra careful not to wake him up.
Fortunately he found it pretty quickly and took a pen and piece of paper from Henry's desk and quickly wrote a few words on it, before taking the key and the piece of paper and closing his door again.
He went back to Regina's bedroom and quickly put the little note next to her glass of water, he put the wet cloth back on her forehead, since she had turned in her sleep and made it fall and then, after making sure she was okay and still sound asleep, made his way back downstairs.
He took his jacket and phone, putting it on and turning all the lights off. He made his way outside, making sure to double-lock the door and put the key into the mailbox.
On his way home, he made a quick note to himself to come back later today to make sure everything was okay. But first, he needed a few hours of sleep, at least.
Here we go, I hope you enjoyed it and I know it's a bit shorter than the first two chapters but the next one should be longer.
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