Yea I got nothing except the drama of whether or not I graduated from college….AND I DID! WITH BOTH OF MY DEGREES! HIZZAH!
Well now in the process of writing my resume and putting together a professional portfolio, taking a small break though to bring you the next chapter of this story…almost a month after Christmas…oops. Oh well…
Although if I do continue this, then maybe I will make it a holiday shot type of story…how do you guys feel about that? In honor of Blizzard 2016 here is the next story kind of glossing over the holiday stuff…
A Storybrooke Christmas
Emma groaned as she stood in the aftermath of what seemed to be the biggest snowstorm she had ever seen. The snow was up to her knees and she sighed as she started to shovel again, "Remind me why we can't use magic again?" Emma groaned as she stopped and glared at Regina.
"Because we both lost the bet and that means no magic for a month. And we wouldn't want to disappoint Henry." Regina bit out as she heaved a load of snow and tossed it to the side.
The guys were working further down the sidewalk near the apartments, while she and Regina took the area further up. Snow, of course, was inside with Neal and little pistachio (Emma's nickname for the baby), "I really regret taking the bet." Emma groaned.
"You and me both. Honestly though it was your fault." Regina scoffed as she stopped glaring at Emma harshly.
"My fault?" Emma asked surprised, "How the hell was it my fault?"
"You, the epitome of being a bottomless pit, couldn't out eat your son in a pie eating contest during Christmas." Regina said in a drawl like tone as she started shoveling.
"Well it wasn't all my fault, Snow told me to finish the vegetables." Then turning back to Regina she said, "You didn't tell Henry to finish his."
"Oh please and embarrass our son in front of his girlfriend and be hated? Yea no thanks." Regina stated as she threw her shovel of snow over at Emma's area.
Emma glared as the infuriating white stuff on her part of the sidewalk, "Hey watch it queeny!"
"Queeny? Really Ms. Swan?"
"You threw snow in my area!"
"Oh boo freaking hoo. Let it go!"
Emma glared harshly as she started to shovel again. They worked in silence with the few remaining flurries falling until an evil thought came to Emma. Well not so much evil as it is funny. Looking across the street, she sees a metal pole, "Hey did you know that your tongue will stick a pole if it is cold enough?" Emma asked casually.
"Seriously? Please that is a myth." Regina stated.
Emma stopped shoveling and said, "Prove it."
"Excuse me?" Regina asked surprised as she saw Emma smiling.
"Prove it." Emma challenged pointing to the metal pole across the street.
Regina sighed and continued shoveling, "No."
Emma leaned on her shovel and watched Regina closely, "What?"
"N-O, that spells no." Regina said now annoyed as she stopped to glare at Emma, "What do we have to go back to watching Sesame Street?"
Emma frowned, "You people cannot get pop culture references, but you know what Sesame Street is?"
"Yes I do, and again the answer is no."
"What are you? Chicken?" Emma challenged.
"No I am not chicken. I am just not putting my tongue on a metal pole that is exposed to all sorts of germs and bacteria."
Emma threw her shovel down and began mocking Regina, "Oh look at me! The big bad Evil Queen of the Enchanted Forest!" She yelled, "I am too afraid to lick a pole because it might have bigger and badder germs on it!"
People that were shoveling their own parts of the sidewalk stopped what they were doing to watch the scene. They could see Regina's face getting redder with anger and some swore that smoke could be seen from the wood of the shovel, "Knock it off!" Regina yelled angrily.
"Oh look at me, her royal majesty is afraid of a little itty bitty pole!" Emma yelled loudly and mockingly.
Meanwhile in the apartment Snow was happily bouncing her adopted step-sister/ (step-cousin? Seriously anyone keeping track of this weird family tree thing), on her knee…that is until she heard the yelling. Placing the baby in the play pen with Neal, she went over to the window and saw Emma pacing around like she was Mary Queen of Scots and Regina fuming. What the hell? She asked as she opened the window, and before she could yell at them, Regina threw the shovel down and yelled, "SHUT UP!"
Emma stopped and smirked evilly that reminded Snow eerily of her Dark One days, "I dare you to!"
"Seriously? What are we in grade school or something?" Regina asked, arms crossed. Snow was now reminded of her step-mother's evil days.
The backdoor opened and the boys stomped in, "We are done on this side." David called, "How is Emma and-"
"Shush!" Snow said looking at them.
"What is going on?" Henry asked holding the ice scraper as he went over to his grandmother by the window.
"Emma and Regina are arguing, but I am trying to find out about what." Snow answered.
"So is everyone else it seems." Killian said holding the other ice scraper.
Robin and David joined them by the window and asked, "Shouldn't we stop them?"
"No!" Henry, Snow, David, and Killian yelled.
Then more calmly, Snow said, "As long as they are not killing each other we are ok." Robin conceded and joined in the watching as his girlfriend argued with her step-granddaughter.
"So you are chicken then." Emma mocked as she too crossed her arms, "Oh how the mighty has fallen dearie." The way Emma purred the word out made Regina cringe as she had a small flashback to another life with another Dark One.
"No I just refuse to do it." Regina said standing her ground, "Honestly right now one would think you are a child than an adult." Both women unaware of the small audience that had formed all throughout their argument.
Emma was silent as she analyzed her prey in front of her. She really wanted to see this happen, especially since she missed this scene during the time she was at her parents for dinner and she had forgotten to DVR the movie, "I double dog dare you."
Henry inside gasped seeing where this was headed, after all he had to listen to her ranting and raving, "Oh she is not…" He grinned despite himself.
"What?" The adults asked wondering what the hell was going on.
"You'll see if mom takes the bait. Emma just issued a double dog dare." Henry explained.
"So?" Killian asked as did the rest of them giving the boy a curious look.
"This is serious." Henry said as Regina still shook her head.
Silence echoed throughout the apartment and it was definitely silent outside as people were wondering what the hell the big deal was, "Fine then you leave me no choice." Emma said grimly, "I triple dog dare you to."
"OH!" Henry cheered and clapped, "The coup de grace of all dares, the sinister triple-dog-dare." The adults felt their eye twitch and it was just now that Regina and Emma took notice of their audience. Emma caught Henry's eye and she knew that he knew what was going on and she winked at him.
"I am still not doing it!" Regina yelled at them and then at the other people that gathered that heard their argument, "I will not subject myself to the stupidity-"
"You have to do it. This is the mother of all dares." Henry yelled at her. Then looking around he started with, "Do it! Do it! Do it!"
The people got the hint and started cheering, minus Robin, Snow, Killian, and David who still had no idea what was happening, "Do it! Do it! Do it!"
"FINE! If it will shut you all up and," Regina glared at Emma, "to prove you wrong then FINE!" She continued to glare at Emma and she made a sweeping motion with her hand, "Lead the way Ms. Swan."
"As you wish your majesty." Emma smirked and stuck her tongue out.
From the view point of the window, the group inside watched as Emma led Regina over to the metal pole, "Oh no…" Snow said as she just caught on to what was going to happen.
"What?" Killian, David, and Robin asked still left out of the loop.
Regina gave Emma a final glare and she stick her tongue out and placed it on the pole and said, "See." Then she tried to get it off, "Hey!"
Emma started laughing as Regina kept tugging, "Hey! Hey! Are you kidding me?!" She pulled and pulled, "Don't stand there! Help!" Emma kept laughing, "Help!"
"Sorry not sorry! See yea!" Emma ran.
"EMMA!" Regina yelled. She then stopped tugging and grabbed the pole with both hands. Silently apologizing to her son, she heated the pole up a bit and gave a final tug.
Her tongue came off, but it had a bit of frost on it. Growling, she ran after Emma, "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!"
The people laughed for a while longer until they heard a loud explosion in the distance and it was then they returned to their shoveling, "Do we intervene now?" Robin asked as his own laughter died down.
The rest of them stopped laughing, but struggled to catch their breath, "Nah, it'll be fine."
As they started getting hot chocolate made the phone rang. David answered the phone, "Hello?"
"Hey David, its Ruby."
"Hey, I'll give you to Snow." He said as he was about to offer the phone to his wife.
"Actually don't bother, I called to say that Regina is currently trying to maim Emma and in the process of mentioned maiming, half the area over here is demolished…including the sheriff station and-" there was muffled yelling and Ruby came back on, "oh wait Gold joined in…apparently a large snow pile fell on Belle. She is fine, but Gold is yelling and now trying to kill Regina and Emma…"
David sighed and hung up the phone, "Ok we have to go stop them." He said to the group. Sighing in exasperation, the boys got their snow gear back on and trudged out in the cold as Snow continued to laugh.