'I'm sorry you're having to go through this.' Regina apologizes to Emma as they walk over to try and speak to Belle.
The blonde shrugs with a smile.
'It's okay.'
Regina takes the blonde's hand and squeezes in appreciation.
'Belle.' Regina calls out to the girl currently speaking with two boys.
'Regina, if you're here to apologize for Ruby, you can forget it. She punched him.' Belle says angrily, pointing a finger at the boy Emma assumes is Gold, who smirks.
The other boy checks Emma out. Bluntly.
Regina growls and suddenly forgets about Belle.
'Is there a problem, Neal?' She spits his name out with poison.
Emma blinks at the sudden reaction and squeezes the brunette's hand in an attempt to calm her down.
'Easy.' He snickers. 'Not my fault blondie looks fuckable.'
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Ruby hears Gold's crazy laugh and quickly stands up and walks over, looking worriedly at Emma, who's pulling Regina's back against her front, trying to keep the clearly angry brunette from going Hulk on whoever pissed her off.
'Hey, guys. What's going?' She tries to ignore Gold but his ugly excuse of a face isn't helping.
'If you really must know, Regina is a disgusting psychopath.' Gold says.
Emma lets go of Regina as the woman launches at Neal and punches him in the eye. Emma moves forward to punch Gold but two sets of arms pulling her back stop her.
'Emma! Cut it out! Ruby already punched him today!' Kathryn yells, trying to make the blonde listen to her but she fights harder against the boy and girl trying to pull her back. The girl grunts when the blonde's elbow connects with her stomach. Emma freezes and they hesitantly let go of her.
'Don't hit me again.' The asian girl mumbles, walking back to a blonde girl.
'Sorry.' Emma mumbles back before turning to Gold and glaring at the boy. She takes a step closer to him and although he doesn't move, his eyes show fear. She keeps walking until their noses are almost touching. 'If you ever call that to Regina again I will fight you and no one is going to be able to stop me.'
She turns around and walks over to Regina, whose right hand is being looked over by a ginger.
'Hey.' She says to Regina, putting a hand on her left shoulder and squeezing.
'Hi.' Regina smiles softly.
'When you get home you should ice it for a couple of hours but you'll be fine.' He smiles reassuringly.
'Thank you, Victor.' She smiles back and the boy leaves.
'What's up with Doctor McTeen?' Emma raises an eyebrow and sits on the stool next to her.
Regina wraps her arm around the blonde's waist and kisses her cheek.
'Victor wants to be a doctor when he's older.' She informs her. 'And thank you.'
'For what?' The blonde asks in confusion, her brows knitting together.
Regina reaches out her hand and soothes them.
'For standing up to Gold for me.'
'Oh.' Emma smiles. 'Any time. The jerk had no business on calling you that.'
Regina leans forward, her mouth inches away from Emma's, their breaths mixing together on the little space between them.
'You should still be rewarded.' She husks before closing the gap.
A constant finger poking her shoulder makes Regina break apart from Emma.
'What?' She asks with annoyance at Ruby.
The brunette pouts.
'I need your help.'
Regina smiles apologetically at Emma.
'I'm so-' Emma interrupts her with a peck on the lips.
'It's okay. She's your friend and she needs your help, I get it.' Emma smiles and turns to Ruby.
'Let me know if there's anything I can do.'
Ruby beams.
'Actually, later in the night I might need your help. But for know I need the evil queen here.' She grabs the brunette's arm and drags her away.
Not five seconds later a boy slides into the stool to her right and another one to the stool on her left.
'Hey there mate.' The one to her right tells her.
'Aye aye, captain.' She mumbles back, grabbing a beer from the counter and taking a sip.
'What you did with Gold was really brave.' He continues.
She shrugs.
'Especially since you just hit town.'
She shrugs again.
'Where ya stayin'?'
'David and Mary Margaret.'
'You're the teenage they kept running around saying they were adopting?' The other boy asks.
Emma takes another sip of her beer.
'Yup.'
'I'm Killian.' The one to her right says, extending his left hand towards her, the right one holding a beer.
'Emma.' She shakes the hand.
'I'm Graham.' The other boy says.
'Why did you come here to talk to a complete stranger?' She asks them.
'I'm not a Gold fan and thought congratulations were in order.' Killian said.
'For what?'
'For standing up to him.' Graham answers. 'Ruby, Killian and Regina are the only ones who do that.' He takes a sip of his beer. 'And now you.'
Emma shrugs again. 'Cool.'
'Great comments.' Killian mutters before taking a swig of his own beer.
'S'it to you with it?' Emma says, turning in the stool to look at him.
'Nothin', mate.' He lifts his hands in mock surrender. 'Just sayin'.'
'No need to be so stiff.' Graham says.
Emma rolls her eyes.
'You done lecturing me?' She asks, turning back to the counter and putting her elbows on top of it.
Killian might just have an answer for that but a girl and a boy approach them.
'Hey.' Killian says, wrapping an arm around the girl and kissing her.
The boy looks warily at Emma before sitting on Graham's other side and kissing him as well.
Emma's about done with the cupple-y stuff and stands out of the stool with her beer.
'Hi.' The girl tells Emma, stretching her hand and shaking the blonde's. 'I'm Milah.'
'Emma.' She says back.
'Jefferson.' The boy says when Emma looks at him.
Emma nods her greeting.
'Don't take it wrong. Jeff is cool, he's just suspicious of knew people.' Graham says.
'By the looks of it, you really couldn't say he's not cool any way.' Emma throws back.
'Is that a problem?' Jefferson asks.
'What part?'
He points at Graham. 'Us.'
Emma smirks.
'You do realize I was two seconds away from punching Gold because he called something to my girlfriend, right?'
'Touché.' Jefferson says, poking out his hand and shaking Emma's.
Emma nods her goodbye to the four teenagers and walks over to the asian girl that held her back before.
'Hi.' She says to her and the blonde.
'Hey.' They say together, the blonde with a beaming smile and the brunette with a polite one.
'I'm Emma.' She introduces herself.
'Hi, Emma. I'm Aurora and this is Mulan.' The blonde says, wrapping an arm around the other girl.
'Nice to me you. And I wanted to apologize for that earlier.' Emma says, nodding at the vague direction of Mulan's stomach.
'It's okay.' Mulan says with a smile.
Ruby runs to the four.
'Hey, ladies, how you doing? Enjoying the night? Really? Great. I'm going to steal Emma for a little. You don't mind? Good.' She rushes out before grabbing Emma's arm much in the same manner she did with Regina and dragging her to the kitchen. 'Emma, this is Fredrick, this is Ashley and this Sean.' She quickly introduces them before sitting Emma down on the available seat between Regina and Sean and pulling a white board from… actually, Emma's not really sure where. 'Listen up, guys, this is the plan.'
A/N: Not much SwanQueen but this was more a fill in chapter than anything else. Thank you to everyone that has favorite/followed/reviewed this story. Please, review :3