Chapter three

-The next morning-

Regina groaned slightly and allowed herself to stretch as wakefulness began to engulf her muscles.

Before the brunette opened her eyes, she furrowed her brow as she recognised that there was a pair of strong arms wrapped firmly around her waist. Next, she realised that the hands were laid on her bare stomach and her eyes flew open as her groggy mind tried to catch up with what was going on.

The mayor turned her head and let out a sigh of relief when she realised that the dozing woman next to her was the one and only Emma Swan. She took a moment to blink just to make sure that the most amazing night of her life wasn't a dream.

When the beautiful image remained she sighed in relief, but winced when she felt a small throb on her neck. She brought her hand up to her neck and felt the two small punctures and the brunette almost moaned at the memory.

During their 'activities' the blonde had gotten caught up in the moment and had pierced her skin. Even if she hadn't taken a single drop of blood, she had still apologised profusely, but before she could explain why she had done it, Regina had shut her up with another heated kiss.

"I shouldn't have done that…"

Regina's hand dropped from her neck and looked over to the source of the sound to see emerald green eyes filled with regret.

The brunette twisted fully in her arms so that they were practically nose-to-nose, and leaned forward to capture her lips in a sweet peck, at least compared to the many kisses that they had shared the night before.

"I thought I made it clear that I was perfectly fine with it," she sighed, shifting closer than should have been possible, she whispered, "I liked it."

Emma tightened her grip on the brunette and looked more than relieved, "I should have asked though…"
"I'm assuming that it was some kind of instinct, and I haven't exactly hidden the fact that your…vampire-ness is something that makes you even more attractive…"

"Vampire-ness?" the blonde laughed.

"That was what you took from that?" Regina pretended to sigh exasperatedly.

Emma chuckled and they fell into a comfortable silence, during which they each simply stared at each other and seemed to simply took in the other woman's features that they had both been wishing to have been allowed to look at so closely in the past.

"Are we going to be adults and talk about this?" Emma finally asked, she thought about simply not having this conversation and probably continuing with some kind of secret relationship. However, after finally having been allowed to tell a secret she had been hiding for so long, she was determined to not have to have to keep anymore secrets, especially not when this could possibly turn into the best thing that ever happens to her.

"You want to be adults?" Regina smirked and raised her eyebrow.

The blonde let out a faux frustrated sigh and said, "I'm being serious Regina, I…"

Before she could say anything, she felt her lips being covered with the other woman's and she instantly melted into the kiss.

The saviour smiled dopily, before she quickly shook her head and said, "are you trying to distract me?"

"No," the mayor laughed, "can you not just read my mind instead of having this conversation?"

"I can't have every vampire ability, Regina," Emma sighed.

The brunette was about to reply, but the door opened and everything seemed to go into slow-motion as she realised that her Little Prince was about to be scarred for life.

Emma seemed to have the same realisation as she jumped out of the bed and in a blink of an eye, she was dressed and had wrapped the other woman in her dressing gown.

Regina raised her eyebrow at the blonde who let out of a sigh of relief as she fell back onto the bed and she said, "not every vampire power?"

"Super speed is one of the ones that I do have," she shrugged as if it was the most natural thing in the world.

The brunette rolled her eyes, but before she could retort, the door was fully open and Henry was crossing the threshold.

"Mom? I'm going to be really late…"

His mouth dropped open and he completely forgot what he had been so worried about a moment ago and he simply stared at the two women situated on the bed. His young mind didn't even register what Emma being in Regina's room truly meant, but he did realise that it probably meant that they were more than friends.

"Ma?" he just about managed to get out, "why are you in mom's room?"

The blonde thought about lying for a moment, before she realised that she hadn't gotten an answer to her earlier question, "I don't know, what am I doing in here, Regina?"

The brunette let out a sigh and thought about reminding her that she had agreed to be an adult, before she thought of something that would make everyone happy, "she was asking me on a date."

"She was?", "I was?" Henry and Emma said at the same time.

"Yes, but I'm afraid you will wait until after I take Henry to school for your answer, Miss Swan."

Emma's mouth remained open for a moment, before she smiled as she realised what the woman was doing, she was waiting to see how their son would feel about it before she agreed to defining their relationship.

The blonde simply nodded and pulled up so that she was back to laying on the bed, this time fully clothed, "I guess I'll just wait here then, madam mayor," she smirked. She was tempted to flash her fangs just to make the other woman squirm, but she remembered her aim of not scarring her son for life, she resigned herself to just smirking and crossing her arms.

Henry looked between them and he instantly decided that they were lying about something, but he also decided that it was probably not something he wanted to know about. Granted, at thirteen he didn't know much about that kind of thing, but he also wasn't completely oblivious, which meant he definitely didn't wish to know what his mothers had gotten up to. He would much rather think about them going out on a romantic date, which was something he was sure he would be able to tell them both when the shock had fallen away. He honestly couldn't believe that he hadn't seen this coming, now that he looked back over Emma's time in Storybrooke, it made complete sense. But then again, she had managed to hide the fact that she was vampire, so he imagined that she must have been better at keeping secrets than he thought.

At the thought, his eyes widened as he realised he had completely failed to think about what he had been told last night as he had woken up so late.

His eyes fell onto his blonde mother and he said, "maybe ma could come with us to take me to school?"

"We agreed to talk about it later, Henry and I'm sure that anything she says will distract you in class," Regina chuckled.

The little brunette's shoulders slumped and he looked at them both with a pout, "I'll be distracted anyway."

The mayor looked over at Emma and she could tell that she wasn't exactly prepared to tell them every single detail straight after she woke up, she would probably need some time to decide what she should and shouldn't tell Henry. At this point, she was very much against lying to the boy, but she could certainly understand some omissions. When she had told him more about her time as the Evil Queen, there were many stories that she had deliberately chosen not to divulge and she was beginning to suspect that was something her maturing son understood.

"Straight after school, I promise kid," Emma said when she saw Regina seemed to understand her position.

"Go and have some cereal, Henry, I'll be ready soon," Regina smiled.

The other brunette looked between them, he was sure that they had important things to talk about and he figured that he could wait until after school to learn more about his blonde mother. They did have all of the time in the world it seemed, so he just offered her a reassuring smile and turned on his heel to do as he was told.

Once he had closed the door, Emma turned to the brunette with her signature half-grin and said, "I was asking you on a date?"

"I had a feeling you were about to ask me to be your girlfriend, which is not an answer I can answer until I find out if you are as charming as your parents?"

"So you're saying that you won't date me if I'm like my parents?" the blonde pouted and Regina noted not for the first time how close it was to Henry.

The brunette leaned forward and pecked her lips again, once again receiving a grin in response, "as long as you are not as sickening as them, I think I can take your chivalry in my stride."

"I think I can handle that…" Emma sighed contently.

"We can talk about this when I'm back, feel free to help yourself to breakfast while you wait."

The blonde bit her lip, before she said, "I don't think you have what I'm hungry for."

Regina furrowed her brow, and a second later, they shot back up when she realised what she meant, "I wouldn't really know where to begin looking for that."

Emma smirked at how adorable she looked and said, "I usually order it at the diner from Ruby...obviously I don't eat there when I have it…"

"Okay…wait here and I will bring us breakfast."

"I was joking when I said I would wait here, Regina," the blonde chuckled.

"After last night, I hardly think there would be any reason that you wouldn't be welcome in this room, Miss Swan. Besides, we have a lot to talk about once I return."

The vampire just nodded and said, "you should probably go, you haven't got long to get the kid to school and I think you two have a serious conversation to have on the way."

Regina smiled at her and leaned over for one more kiss, before she slid off the bed, adding extra sway into her hips as she made her way over to the en-suite.

The blonde swallowed hard as she watched her go, even after one night, she knew that she was already in deep with this woman, and she couldn't find it in herself to complain.

Regina pulled up outside the school after a silent car ride, and she looked sideways at the brunette in the passenger's seat who seemed to have been deep in thought since she had come down into the kitchen.

She tapped her finger on the steering wheel nervously, before she said, "Emma and I will come and pick you up straight after school and we'll discuss everything."

The younger brunette nodded and looked at his lap for a second, before he replied, "you should say yes."

The former queen furrowed her brow and asked, "what do you mean?"

"You should say yes to ma…"

Regina allowed her lips to stretch into a smile, "are you sure, sweetheart?"

"Well, it kind of freaked me out at first, but it didn't really take that long to realise that it all makes sense. Plus, it would be kind of funny to see her freaking out about trying to plan the date…" he chuckled, her dorky nature was even more hilarious now that he knew that she was some kind of powerful supernatural creature.

Regina chuckled as she had a similar image to him, and she said, "thank you."

"You thought I would be against it?" Henry frowned.

"I…I'm not sure, you have had rather a lot to take in since last night, I would have understood if you needed more than a single car ride to school to think about how you felt about it," she admitted.

The younger brunette reached across and placed his hand over hers, "I think what ma told us last night put this into perspective. It's not as unbelievable as it could have been…"

Regina smiled at him gratefully, and she brought her other hand on top of his and squeezed it, before she brought both of them away, "you should really get into school soon, we're lucky you're not already late."

Henry nodded and leaned over to place a kiss on her cheek, before he jumped out of the Mercedes, determined to get this day over and done with so that he could get home to learn what he actually wanted to know.

Regina smiled at his back and she let out a sigh of relief at the same time, since she had realised she had feelings for Emma, she had imagined Henry's reaction would be much more negative, but then again, he had long matured past the boy who claimed that he hated her.

She watched as he ran into the building and she quickly checked her watch, she figured that he would make it to homeroom on time, so she restarted the engine and turned the car.

The mayor made it to the diner within a minute, and five minutes later she stood at the counter, talking to Ruby.

"The usual, madam mayor?" she asked with a smile, choosing not to comment on the fact that she was very aware of the fact her best friend had yet to return after she had left the night before.

"Yes please," she replied, sounding much lighter than usual, "and Miss Swan would like her usual."

The other brunette smiled when she realised that the woman's tone of voice meant that Emma must have maned up and told her the truth. From the smell that was radiating off the women who didn't have time to shower told her that the blonde must have revealed more than one secret, and it seemed that it had gone well on both accounts.

"Coming right up," she smirked and went to work at the order that was way off the menu.

The brunette waited impatiently, eager to get back to home so she could have a discussion with a certain blonde, but her attention was quickly caught by the ringing out of the bell over the door.

When she saw the brunette who came in, she tried not to roll her eyes at the woman.

Even if Emma hadn't really lingered on the topic for long, it wasn't difficult to see that her parents lack of contact was painful for her. She was sure that Snow had some stupid reason that she had yet to talk to her daughter and she would be calling her moron right now if she wasn't so eager to go home. Plus, she didn't particularly want the princess to have any indication about what happened last night, at least not until she and the saviour had time to have a longer conversation about it.

However, this didn't stop the pixie-cut haired woman from coming over to the counter and falling heavily onto the seat next to the mayor.

"Morning, Regina," Snow mumbled as she waited for Ruby to come over to take her order.

"Should you not be at work?" Regina replied.

"I took a few days off, I'm sure they found someone to cover Henry's class," she sighed.

The older brunette tried not to roll her eyes at how depressed the woman looked, but she realised that she was also very much planning to have a day off work, although it was because she was she wanted to spend time with Emma while Snow was just going to be laying around feeling sorry for herself instead of actually talking to her daughter.

The two brunettes stood in silence for a minute, before Ruby came over and placed a bag of food and two to-go cups in front of Regina.

The mayor eyed one of the cups curiously and she quickly looked through small hole to see that the liquid was clearly a crimson red colour.

"I should be going," the oldest brunette announced.

Snow furrowed her brow at the two cups and began running through the potential people it could be for, but she came up blank.

Regina sighed when it became clear that the other woman wasn't going to reply and she just placed money on the counter, with a more than fair tip and she turned on her heels.

However, before she could walk away, she heard a little squeak come from her former-step-daughter.

The mayor looked over her shoulder questioningly and she instantly got her answer when she saw the teacher's eyes were lingering on her neck.

Regina brought her hand up and it brushed over the two puncture marks that the other woman's daughter had left there. She considered attempting an explanation, but instead she just turned back around and left without another word.

Snow continued to stare at the door with her mouth open even after it had closed.

"You have got to be kidding me," she whispered.

A/N Hope you enjoyed :) let me know what you thought XD

I'm not entirely sure whether there will be an update next week, but I'll try my best :)