Good morning from my time zone. I got another chapter for you guys hope you enjoy sorry it took so long I got stuck on the direction of this chapter and how it will effect the story in the long run. Any way please let me know what you think. Also I promise this drama wont last long.

Season 2 Episode 3: Love can be weakness

"Hey," Emma said nervously, "I didn't mean to wake you."

"What are you doing here?"

"I am here to deliver this." Emma held up another letter. "Sometimes, a lot of the time, I can't help myself and find myself sitting watching you sleep longer then I should."

"I told you to leave and I meant it." Regina felt venerable sitting on her bed, but moving would only show Emma that her presence bother her. "Do you know I could have you killed for breaking into my room? Hell I could even shackle you and send you to your mother after all she is hunting for all the members of 'the Queens'."

"But you haven't, have you?" Emma stepped closer testing her luck, "In fact I think your bark is worse than your bite."

"Oh my bite is for sure worse," Regina's heart started to beat out of her chest. It had been so long since she had been this close to Emma.

"I don't think so." Emma now stepped close enough to be hovering over Regina. "If you meant a word you have said then I would have been caught the second night, the third night. Even now a guard could have jumped out and taken me away."

"Who says I am not trying to give you a false sense of security then roast you myself." Regina felt Emma leaning in to connect their lips. For a second she was going to let it happen. She was going to let Emma take her lustfully away, but then she could see herself, alone and naked in bed with her heart once again broken as Emma was off gallivanting once the morning sun came up. "Stop," Regina said pushing Emma away softly.

"Regina-"

"No Emma. I can't let this happen it's not fair to me." Regina rolled to the other side of the bed.

"But-"

"No Emma. I can't keep doing this with you. I need to move on and you are not letting me." She watched as Emma fought with her inner self. For a split second Regina thought she saw rage build in Emma, but it tapered down almost instantly.

"I get it Regina. I know I have hurt you and I don't blame you for not trusting me." Emma sat on the bed, "I know you have always deserved better than me. Hell I couldn't even protect you from myself."

"I don't need you to be my savior all the time, Em. You just don't realize it." Regina sat next to Emma, "I get that you want to protect me, but I just want you, the old you. But you are a whole new level of you and I don't know what to do with it. You have become obsessed with protecting me and keeping me safe that I don't even know you anymore."

"Regina, if you knew what I knew. You would know why I have to protect you," Emma absentmindedly said.

"Then tell me." Regina prodded hoping Emma would give in.

"No, it's for your own safety that you don't know." Emma turned away from her instantly angering Regina.

"That is exactly what I mean. You have all these secrets that you claim are to keep me safe, but in fact all they do is make me this fragile little egg that no one looks at! Not even you look at me!"

"I do look at you." Emma listened to Regina scoff. "I see how smart you are and although you can be a terror you care for your people."

"That is not what I meant. I don't need you to tell me I am just and fair," She ran her hand over her face, "I mean that instead of 'protecting' me. You should be here with me."

"I am here." Regina shook her head then stood and walked over to then note that lay on the coffee table.

"This is not being here," grabbed the note before throwing it back down. "This is keeping me trapped into thinking you actually love you."

"I do love-", Regina stopped her.

"No you don't. You think you do, but you don't. People who love someone don't just disappear on the premise of love and protection. People who love don't keep important thing from each other. People who love are not like us, Emma."

"You told me to leave." Regina could tell Emma was becoming frustrated.

"I did, but you know and I know that if you hadn't or even if you had come back things would be different. I would have forgiven you because I love you so much to look passed everything!" Regina growled, but as quickly as her frustration grew it disappeared due to a new realization. "And maybe my mother was right. Love is my weakness. I am so blinded by my love for you that I keep letting you dictate our relationship."

"Regina I am protecting-"

"And yet while protecting me you are hurting me in the process!" Regina rubbed her for head, "I can't do this anymore Emma. Either you stay and we will figure out whatever it is you are protecting me from or you leave and don't come back at all. When I mean don't come back I mean I don't want you to poison my sobriety from you."

"Regina you can't be serious."

"I am and before you decide just know you are not the only one interested in me." Regina watched as a small fire lit in Emma's eyes

"Who is it?"

"No one you need to worry about." Regina lied. Yes there had been suitors, but she was neither interested nor willing to allow them to show her any attention. She turned her attention away from Emma allowing her to steel herself.

"So what you're just going to fall into bed with this mysterious person like a common slut?" Emma was suddenly furious Regina could feel the hot vibrations flowing off her. Regina was frustrated and angry. She suddenly made a decision to make Emma feel as bad as she felt.

"Please I am not you. I don't open my legs for just anyone then use being 'poisoned' as an excuse to do it." Regina poked.

"It's not an excuse!"

"How did it feel Emma? How did it feel put that dick of yours into another vagina after all these years of the great ball and chain called marriage?" A crackle of magic could be suddenly felt by both of them as Regina pressed on.

"Regina stop," Emma growled her body tensing with anger and magic. Regina started to feed off of Emma's energy. She needed Emma to be as pissed off as she was. She needed her to be hurt. She needed Emma to feel how helpless she felt.

"No. I bet it wasn't even the first time you cheated. You probably were fucking around while we were courting." She stepped closer to a very still and deliberately not moving Emma. She knew her wife was on the edge of breaking.

"Stop." Again Emma warned.

"I always was suspicious about all the time you spent at the pub. You probably found various resting places for your cock on those nights." Regina felt so intoxicated with anger and magic that she avoided the brief moment of self-preservation and fear that begged her to stop antagonizing Emma.

"Stop." She didn't she pressed forward into Emma's space pushing the blonde to react.

"I should have known when I married you that your charm would only lead your head," she gestured to Emma's pants with a slight rise of her eyebrows, "to be you main source of thought. It's a shame I didn't catch on before I stupidly fell for a cheating lying piece of shit like you." next thing she knew Regina felt herself being roughly pushed against the wall with Emma's forearm in her neck.

"You know nothing." Emma seethed lowly before pushing off leaving out the balcony door. Still feeling the magical static in the room Regina let out an excruciating scream. The force of which released the pent up magical energy that had built up in her causing every piece of glass to shatter and explode throughout the room.