A/N: I didn't update as much as I wanted to this weekend. Sorry. You can also find my Author page on FB as Writingfor Mysoul. There will be info on updates and you can also inbox me as well. :). I'm also sorry this chapter is shorter than the others.
Chapter Three
Emma was tossing and turning in the bed, more like thrashing. Suddenly she sat up and screamed at the top of her lungs.
Regina was scared to death. She nearly fell out of the bed trying to flick on the light on the bedside table.
"Emma? What's wrong?" Regina asked.
Emma was shaking and looking around the room wildly.
Regina straddled Emma and cupped her cheeks.
"Emma, you have to calm down. You're going to pass out." Regina said.
Regina looked into Emma's eyes and all she saw was fear.
Emma's breathing was erratic, her heart was racing and she was covered in a thin sheen of sweat.
"I'm sorry my love." Regina murmured before slapping Emma across the face.
The slap seemed to work.
"What the hell Regina!" Emma cried cupping her stinging cheek and glaring at her wife.
"I'm sorry darling. I didn't know what else to do. You were having a panic attack." Regina said.
"Couldn't you have done anything else but fucking slap me?! I mean shit!" Emma snapped.
"How about you tell me what you were dreaming about that made you wake up screaming at the top of your lungs." Regina shot back.
Regina knew Emma was trying to pick a stupid fight with her so she wouldn't have to talk about it and she wasn't going for it.
Emma sighed, rolled away from Regina and curled into herself.
"I already told you I was abandoned on the side of the road when I was hours old. And I already told you how I met the baby's father. But there are things that I don't want to tell you, because I don't want you to think of me differently." Emma said softly.
Regina scooted closer to Emma and wrapped her arms around her.
"Emma I would never think of you differently. You will always be my Emma. Do you hear me?" Regina said.
"My first foster family adopted me and I lived with them until I was six. They died in a car accident on the way home. After that I went from foster home to foster home and a couple of group homes until I ran away...The first foster home after my parents died was horrible...the foster Mother was an alcoholic all she cared about was her next drink and she used us as her personal slaves, she would beat us and starve us if the house wasn't clean enough and the foster Father...he...he would come into my room at night and...t-touch me and he would make me touch him..." Emma spoke so quietly Regina barely heard her.
Emma started to cry as she told Regina what her life had been like.
Regina was angry hearing how Emma's life had been.
"Emma, I'm so sorry what happened to you darling. But I could never love you any less. In fact I love you more. I'll protect you. Always." Regina said.
In the Enchanted Forest...
"Blue!" Snow shouted.
Snow paced back and forth in her chambers.
"What is it Snow?" Blue asked when she appeared.
"It's Regina! She proposed to Emma! And Emma accepted!" Snow cried.
"You knew this would happen, Snow." Blue said calmly.
"It's not right! They're both women and Regina is my Step-Mother!" Snow said.
"Snow...Regina hasn't been your Step-Mother since your Father's death. She kept her distance from Emma for eighteen long years. Don't they deserve to be happy? Don't be selfish." Blue said trying to calm Snow down.
"Emma is young...she doesn't know what love is." Snow said.
"Emma knows what love is. She loves you and she loves Regina too." Blue said.
"What about a spell to make her forget?" Snow asked. She totally ignored what Blue said.
"Do you really want to put Regina through that again?" Blue asked.
"I never said to kill my daughter. I just want her to forget her feelings for Regina." Snow said.
"Snow, a forgetting spell could alter Emma's personality." Blue warned.
"Maybe...that won't be such a bad thing. She's been obsessed with Regina her whole life. Regina was the first person she smiled at. Regina has been everything to Emma. And if Emma can forget about loving Regina, she can have a real chance." Snow said.
"Snow! You're being absolutely irrational!" Blue cried.
"But you never said you wouldn't do it!" Snow shot back.
Blue sighed. She was Snow's God-Mother and she had never been able to refuse her anything.
"Fine, I'll do it. But if Regina finds a way to break it, you have to let them be without anymore magical interference." Blue said.
"I promise!" Snow said.
Regina and Emma were sitting in Regina's chambers talking about anything and everything.
Now that Regina didn't have to keep her distance from Emma, she didn't want to.
"Regina, why did you keep your distance from me?" Emma asked.
"I promised your Mother nothing would happen between us until you were of age. But it was the hardest thing I ever had to do." Regina said.
"I hated only seeing you once a week." Emma said with a pout.
Regina leaned in and kissed Emma's puckered lips.
"Now you can see me whenever you want." Regina said.
Emma opened her mouth to say something and then her eyebrows crinkled in confusion.
"Emma?" Regina asked.
"Oh my gods! Look at the time!" Emma stood up and gathered up her skirts. "Sorry Regina, but I'm late for a meeting with one of the suitors." She said bolting to the door.
"Emma? What on earth are you talking about?" Regina asked.
"I'm of age to be married now and Mother has prince's from all the lands here to win my hand." Emma said.
"Emma...are you jesting?" Regina asked.
"No, Regina I'm quite serious." Emma said.
"Emma, you're in love with me." Regina said.
"How could I be in love with you?" Emma said. "It's just wrong! We're both women. I'm leaving. I'm never going to come visit you again."
Regina hated to do it. She really did. But she knew something was up with her beloved, so she froze her and scanned her for spells. She seethed internally. She unfroze Emma.
"Emma, before you go..." Regina said.
Regina walked over to Emma and cupped her cheeks and pressed her lips to Emma's.
Emma fought the kiss at first but seconds later her hands were curling into Regina's long brunette locks and she was moaning.
"What happened?" Emma asked breathlessly when they pulled apart.
"Your Mother had a forgetting spell cast on you darling." Regina said.
"She what?!" Emma shouted.
Emma laid wide awake listening to Regina sleeping. She was having trouble going back to sleep after the nightmares and her talk with Regina. She didn't understand Regina's unconditional love. She certainly wasn't the same girl Regina had watched grow up and fell in love with. This world had abused her and used her. She finally just got out of the bed and put on some clothes and shoes. She left the room quietly, crept down the stairs and out the door. She shoved her hands into her pockets and started walking.
It was the middle of the night.
Regina was in the state between consciousness and sleep when she felt around for Emma. She jolted awake when she felt her wife's side of the bed cold.
"Emma?!" Regina called.
Regina got up and put on a robe and tore down the stairs. She searched the house and was about to cry when she couldn't find Emma. The only thing that stopped her from completely losing it was the fact that Emma's belongings were still there.
Emma barely shut the door behind her when she felt herself wrapped in a pair of arms.
"I'm sorry Regina." Emma murmured.
"I was scared half to death. I thought you left." Regina said.
"No, I just needed to think." Emma said.
"What's going on in that pretty head of yours?" Regina asked.
"I feel so damaged you know? And I don't understand how you love me. I was told for years I was unlovable." Emma said.
"There's not a part of you I couldn't love, Emma." Regina said.
Regina turned Emma to face her and embraced her.
"You're still my Emma. No matter what this world has done to you. I love you more. Now and forever." Regina said pressing a kiss to Emma's neck.