Everything She Wanted
Days in the Sun:
Storybrooke has a beach. Not a very well frequented one, admittedly, but nevertheless a beach. It had been Maleficent's idea, but Regina had quickly agreed to take advantage of the beautiful weather and spend an afternoon at the beach. So they had dressed the twins appropriately, packed all the necessary stuff like sunscreen and towels and then headed towards the beach.
Regina looks up from her book and gazes over at Emerald and Amelia. The babies are fast asleep in their stroller placed under the large parasol they brought for the occasion. It's a very warm day, and Regina is grateful she chooses to wear a light, white sundress instead of a pantsuit. That would have been unbearable. Regina quickly stands up and walks under the parasol to check on the babies. She smiles to herself. Her babies are always so beautiful, and especially now when they're fast asleep in their little polka dotted dresses with matching bonnets. Amelia stirs, and Regina gently swipe a soft lock of dark hair away from her daughter's face. Apart from the dark hair, Amelia is an exact copy of Maleficent with her crystal blue eyes and her perfect teint. Emerald's hair on the other hand, is light and golden, but there's no doubt about where she has inherited her dark eyes from and slightly pouty lips from.
Regina returns to her spot on the towel near her children, and lays back down. The sun feels lovely on her skin, and she feels completely contend with just laying here in the sun and enjoying the lovely weather.
Regina is just about to return to her book, but she pops her head up when she hears laughter and yelling from the water. She smiles softly at the sight of Henry and Violet playing like children out there in the water. Henry waves at her and tries to lure her into the water, but Regina shakes her head firmly and gestures towards the sleeping babies. A genius excuse to stay here where it's warm and dry. Henry shakes his head at her but doesn't get the chance to try and convince her further before he's distracted by Violet, who takes the opportunity to splash water at him.
Regina chuckles to herself as Henry chases his girlfriend around in the water and fails to catch her.
The brunette sighs contented and abandons all thoughts of reading. Instead she rolls on to her back and let the sun warm her face, her arms and her legs. It really is a perfect day. A light breeze makes sure that it isn't too hot, and there's not a cloud on the sky. The couldn't have chosen a better day to make this little excursion. Maybe she could even fall asleep lying here on the towel in the sun, completely contented. For once she feels absolutely fine with doing nothing. Sundays are made for doing stuff like this.
,,Who's that sweetpea? Is that your aunt?"
Regina's eyes flutter open and she props herself up on her elbow when she hears her sisters voice. Zelena comes walking towards her, and the redhead is easily overtaken by Robyn who runs straight towards Regina and gives her a tight hug.
Regina laughs and returns the child's affection. ,,Hi there, little lady. Are you going to the beach too?"
Robyn nods eagerly and then tugs at Zelena's dress. The redhead smiles at her daughter and finds Robyn's bucket and shovel. The child instantly grabs the equipment's and begins to play with them.
,,Looks like we weren't the only ones with this idea."
Regina whips her head around again and sees Snow and David coming towards them with Neal. The young boy quickly wiggles out of his mother's grip and runs over to Regina. He gives the brunette a hug and a wet kiss on the cheek.
,,Gina!" he squeals.
,,Hi sweetie," Regina smiles as Neal quickly joins Robyn in her game.
,,Is this spot taken?" Zelena asks and gestures to the spot next to Regina.
,,No no, you are more than welcome," Regina smiles.
Zelena and the Charming's quickly finds their own towels, parasols, and the children are firmly told to come over so their parents can put sunscreen on them. Robyn and Neal only keeps still long enough to be greased in the sunscreen, then the children quickly return to whatever game they were playing before the interruption.
,,Lovely day," Zelena observes as she puts on her sunglasses and sits down on her towel.
,,Indeed," Regina agrees.
,,Hi grandma, hi grandpa!"
Snow and David glances out towards the water where Henry waves at them. The teenager's hair is wet and his skin is already getting tanned.
Snow and David waves at Henry, and then the teenager is ambushed by his girlfriend once again. Regina chuckles when she hears Henry say something that sounds like "I'll make you pay for that".
,,They are having a nice time," Snow smiles.
,,They sure are," Regina chuckles.
,,And the little dragons fast asleep I see," David says and nods towards the stroller under the parasol.
,,Mmm. They decided that enough was enough," Regina quips.
,,Your sweet wife isn't here?" Zelena asks and looks around on the beach.
,,Oh, she should be here somewhere," Regina shrugs.
,,Really?" David frowns and looks around. There's no sign of Maleficent anywhere.
Suddenly, the water's calm surface is broken when the dragon pokes her head up in an "are you looking for me?" kind of manner. Henry and Violet both laughs and yells when Maleficent flaps her gigantic wings and sloshes water on both of them.
,,Oh." Snow says and chuckles a little. ,,She's here in dragon form."
,,What the hell is she doing?" David sniggers.
,,Bathing. Obviously," Regina shrugs and glances at the dragon fooling around in the water with Henry and Violet.
,,I didn't know fire-breathing creatures liked water," Zelena says.
Regina shrugs again. ,,God knows how long it's been since her dragon form had a bath."
Maleficent narrows her green glowing eyes at her.
,,I think she heard you," Snow sniggers.
,,Tough."
,,Dragon, dragon!" Neal squeals and his blue eyes widens.
,,Maybe she should change back, I have no interest in scaring the children," Regina mutters.
,,He's not afraid of her," Snow points out.
,,No but still," Regina says firmly. ,,Robyn's here too, and she's not as old as Neal."
,,Fair point," Snow nods.
,,But just how do you make her come back here?" David half teases.
,,It looks like she's having a good time," Zelena agrees with the prince.
Regina's dark eyes finds the dragon's glowing green ones, and the brunette makes a "come here" motion towards Maleficent. The dragon instantly glides through the water and makes several waves appear on the otherwise calm surface. When she emerges from the water, the dragon instantly bows her head down in a non-threatening manner, in consideration of Neal and little Robyn. Maleficent isn't interested in scaring the children either.
Regina chuckles quietly. Her dragon looks very tame right now with her head bowed and her tail dragging behind her. Almost like a dog and not a dragon.
The dragon growls softly and creep closer to Regina.
,,Nice water?" Regina asks nonchalantly, like she would do if Mal was in her human form.
The dragon bobs her head up and down and growls in affirmative.
,,Good. Happy to hear that."
,,Your dragon language is getting quite fluid, little sis," Zelena half teases.
,,You don't have to talk dragon language to understand what she's saying right now," Regina snips, and then, to Maleficent: ,,Do you mind changing back now? I think Neal wants to play in the water."
Neal hesitantly and curiously approaches the ginormous dragon, and Maleficent bows her head even more, almost lying flat in the sand now.
Neal stretches out a little hand towards the dragon's head and looks pending up at his parents.
,,It's alright, my boy," David encourages. ,,You can touch her. She's not dangerous."
Neal then slowly puts his little hand on the dragon's head, and Maleficent leans into the touch and purrs softly.
The young boy's face lights up. ,,Dragon." He tells Snow and David.
,,You're right, sweetheart," Snow says and beams at her son. ,,That's a dragon."
Robyn seems interested in the dragon as well, but chooses to stay shielded behind Zelena's leg. Maybe she is a little young to meet a dragon.
When Neal loses interest and heads toward the water with David trailing behind him, Maleficent changes back into her human form.
,,Ah," she says and cracks her neck. ,,That was fun." She brushes her red bathing suit lightly and squeezes water out of her golden hair.
Regina can't help but let her eyes linger just a bit. The bathing suit Maleficent is wearing isn't exactly outrageous or very revealing, but it still hugs her body all the right places. And some body that is.
Zelena coughs theater-like, and Regina snaps out of it. Oh right. She can't stare at Maleficent for too long. They are in a public place after all.
Snow sniggers and shares an amused look with Zelena, but Maleficent chooses the gallant way, and doesn't tease Regina. Instead she just saunters over to the stroller and looks down at her sleeping babies.
,,How are my little dragons doing?" she purrs and tickles Emerald's chubby cheek. Then Amelia's.
,,I would prefer if you didn't wake them," Regina says dryly.
,,Are you ordering me about again?" Maleficent teases silkily.
,,Maybe," Regina sasses.
,,I would be careful with that if I were you, dear."
,,Is that so, Maleficent?"
,,Oh yes.."
Zelena coughs loudly again, and Regina and Mal remembers that they are not alone right now, so maybe their conversation isn't completely appropriate.
,,Terrible you two are," the redhead mutters.
,,And you are a prude," Maleficent accuses nonchalantly, making Snow splutter.
Maleficent shamelessly nudges Regina until the former queen shoots over and makes room on the towel for the both of them.
David and Neal emerges from the water, Neal is completely soaked and David's shorts are wet. There's no doubt that father and son had a grand old time in the water. Snow quickly wraps her son in a towel and instructs him to sit down for a while, just to get warmed up again. The young boy reluctantly agrees.
Soaking wet and still laughing, Henry and Violet comes back to their little spot. Henry grabs a towel and throws it teasingly at Violet, and Violet responds by saying: "Henry Mills, that's not funny!"
Regina chuckles. ,,Are you two having a good time?"
,,Yes, thank you for inviting me, Regina." Violet smiles.
,,But of course, dear. You are always welcome."
The two teenagers quickly decide on taking a walk on the beach. Probably to be alone or something. Regina smiles to herself again. Violet is a lovely girl, and she makes Henry so happy.
Maleficent seems a little uneasy, she keeps shifting next to Regina, and the brunette raises a warning eyebrow. She's not interested in getting the towel full of sand. Maleficent however, completely ignores it and looks from the water to Regina and then back to the water.
,,Absolutely not," Regina says without giving her wife a second glance.
Zelena sniggers a bit.
,,Why not?" Maleficent says and sticks out her bottom lip.
,,Because I'm not leaving our children unattended."
,,We can watch them," Snow immediately offers. ,,Can't we, David?"
,,Absolutely," the prince says and smiles teasingly at Regina.
,,Well?" Maleficent says eagerly.
,,No," Regina says firmly.
,,Why not?"
,,Because I don't want to, that's why."
,,That's not a reason," Maleficent calmly points out.
Regina glares at her. ,,Don't push it, dragon."
,,Please?"
,,No!"
,,Why not, little sis?" Zelena half sniggers. ,,Are you scared of the water or something?"
,,Of course not," Regina denies. ,,I just don't feel like bathing that's all."
,,Please? Please?" Maleficent begs and bats her crystal blue eyes at Regina.
Regina groans. Mal knows exactly which buttons to push, and the dragon isn't playing fair; she kneels down and gives Regina's cheek a light pet with her index finger. ,,Please?" she repeats and flashes one of those beaming smiles that never fails to make Regina's knees buckle.
,,You are very, very annoying," Regina grumbles and ignores the snigger from Zelena and Snow and David.
,,And you are very, very beautiful, O queen of stubbornness and Mother of my children," Maleficent shoots back and flashes her a toothy grin.
,,Calling me stubborn isn't exactly helping."
Maleficent frowns and feigns looking like she's deep in thoughts. Then she flashes Regina another grin and says sincerely: ,,Thou O queen, fairest of them all, will you please go for a swim with me?"
Snow bursts out laughing.
,,Fine. fine. But only if you never address me like that again," Regina says and hopes she's not blushing. She does have a weakness for Mal calling her "queen".
,,You have my word, O queen."
,,Stop it."
Maleficent smirks. She knows she won the fight, and she grabs Regina hand and hauls her up.
The brunette sighs heavily and waves her hand, replacing the sundress with a swim suit. Regina does her best to pout and sulk as Maleficent drags her into the water with her. She shrieks when the water hits her thighs.
,,What?" Maleficent sniggers.
,,This water is bloody freezing," Regina complains with chattering teeth.
,,Oh," Maleficent sniggers as she leads her into deeper (and colder) water. ,,Perhaps I could warm you up?"
,,I'm sure you could," Regina says and enjoys the look of surprise on Mal's face when she sloshes water in her face. ,,But I don't think that would be appropriate."
,,And who's looking?" Maleficent asks nonchalantly.
Regina looks back towards the beach. They are already out on the deeper water, and the beach is pretty far away. It's highly unlikely that either Snow, David or Zelena should look in their direction.
,,Come here," Maleficent says quietly and persuasive. She wraps an arm around Regina's waist and pulls her closer to her in the water.
Regina gasp at the wet skin-to-skin contact. Why haven't they been swimming together before? She doesn't really get the chance to voice her thought before Mal kisses her hungrily and wraps one of her legs around her waist.
Regina's fingers disappear into Mal's wet hair, and the former queen chuckles breathlessly when Mal gives her rear a teasing squeeze.
,,What brought this on?" she questions in between heated kisses.
,,Your bathing suit, my dear."
,,Oh. Well, I'm so glad you approve."
To Be Continued..
