Emma glances at her watch. It has been more than a half an hour and she still can't sleep. Doing the math in her head she realizes she has at least four hours next to Regina. Great.
She huffs but eventually gets up. She isn't sleeping anyway so she might as well drain her pressing bladder.
She waits patiently for the stall in her section to become available. She hears the water flush and the tub opened. Eventually, the door opens and Emma enters to the stall. Her face color with surprise at the amount of space this stall allows. There's a sink, toilet and a shower and even a padded bench.
Out of her slight state of shock she locks the door after herself and walks to the toilet seat.
She washes her hands while staring at her reflection in the large mirror. She looks a lot better than the sick Emma from earlier. To her right she spots complimentary brushes and toothpastes. She picks one and brushes her teeth thoroughly.
She opens the door to get back to her seat. Before she can even register what's going on there's a hand on her chest pushing her backwards. She stumbles back and looks up to see Regina locking the door behind her.
"What-?" Emma trails, having no idea what to ask.
"This was the only way to get you to talk to me" Regina walks towards Emma and the blonde walks back in return.
"I told, there is nothing to talk about, you've made yourself abundantly clear"
"That?"
"That you are not interested in me in that way"
Emma collides with the wall, jumping at the unexpected touch.
"But what if I want us to be friends?" Regina inquires, getting closer and closer to where Emma stands.
"No," Emma shakes her head "I don't want to be your friend, I want you"
"But I've told you before, I might not be into girls" Regina muses teasingly. They're so close they're almost touching and Emma, Emma had enough of this stupid game.
"I'm asking you to be into girls," she exclaims angrily "I'm asking you to stop sending me mixed signals, just say yes or –"
She doesn't get to finish this sentence and Regina is kissing her. She is shocked at first, confused by their conversation, confused by the array of sensations she is feeling. She kisses back, opening her mouth to Regina's demanding tongue.
The brunette presses her into the wall and her hands start to wander.
Emma breaks the kiss, her chest heaving.
"You fucking liar" she accuses while Regina molests her jaw line, her hands caressing and griping Emma in all the right places. "This is not a straight girl touch"
Regina chuckles near her ear.
"Fine, I lied" she admits and moves to nibble Emma's earlobe.
"Then why…?" she breathes out when Regina hits a very sensitive spot in her clavicle.
"I love watching you squirm" she admits into her skin and Emma can't practically feel the smoke coming out of her ears.
"You evil bitch" she moans when Regina places a thigh between Emma's and presses.
She chuckles again and her hands slip under Emma's tank top.
"No, no wait" she pushes Regina away.
"What?" Regina frowns while breathing heavily "Don't you want to…?"
Emma shakes her head "Not like this" she scans Regina's form; her mussed hair, pink cheeks and blazing eyes and there's nothing she wants more than to take her here and now. But Regina is the first girl to ever capture Emma's attention with more than just her body. Emma doesn't want a fling, she has plenty of those.
"Let me take you out on a date" she pleas.
"No," Regina's face turn serious "Absolutely not"
"Why?" Emma asks, disappointed.
"Because I said so. It's out of the question."
"Why?" she asks again.
"Take it or leave it" Regina sets an ultimatum and places her hands on her hips.
Emma chews her lip and cast her head down.
"Sorry" she says and makes her way to the door.
"But why? I thought that's what you wanted"
Emma doesn't turn to look at the confused blonde.
"No," she states "I wanted you"
She shuts the door behind her and walks back to her seat. Having nothing to do with all of those over-whelming emotions she takes out her notebook and start scribbling down her feelings.
She has to give it to Regina, no one had made her feel this cheap in a long time. It's not that she connected to Regina in such way that the parting hurts but it's the first time in a long while that she allowed herself to want something and it blew up in her face.
Rejection, self-doubt, you are not good enough. She writes the words angrily while her eyes water. She sniffs. She will not cry.
And then the emotions flow out of her, all the pent-up feelings she repressed over the years, the low self-esteem, the broken heart every time she didn't get picked to go to a foster-family; all the things she never talked about poured out of her in a non-ending stream.
She felt Regina's presence next to her but she ignored her, putting all of her attention on the song building in front of her eyes.
She stared at the finished product and felt her heart constricts at the amount of pain, passed along in the form of words. She nibbled her lower lip, trying to figure out how to call it. Rejection seemed too obvious so she went for the sequence of the sentence and a repeating motive in her life; Yet again.
She closed the notebook and placed it back in her bag. She turned away from Regina and placed the earphones in her ears.
The next time she took those off was when Tania shook her out of her fitful sleep to announce that they would be landing soon. Emma nodded and wiped the embarrassing line of drool from her chin. She sat down quietly, feeling the dread at the pit of her stomach again. It's just the landing and then you're done.
Saying this over and over didn't stop her leg from jumping nervously.
The light ordering the people to buckle up was on and she buckled herself.
"Emma"
"Drop it" she said angrily, though her voice was awfully calm.
"I'm sorry"
"Me too"
Regina was around all the way from to plane to the baggage reclaim. Emma broke her promise not to look only once; glancing at Regina and locking eyes right before she got into Mary Margaret's car and drove away.
Once they were out of the airport and away from all the paparazzi Emma let out a breath.
"How was your flight?" Mary Margaret asked cheerfully and Emma placed her head on the window.
"Horrible" she said with a picture of a certain brunette in her head.
"Oh I'm sorry" Mary Margaret said sympathetically "At least it's over"
"Yeah" Emma agreed, glad she won't have to see Regina ever again.
Or would she?
Okay guys, this was the final part of their first meeting. The next part of the series will be called 'Parting Ways' in which Regina and Emma meet again, this time in much less pleasant circumstances. It will be up on Tuesday (October 11th) but if you're not sure you'll remember you can always subscribe for updates of follow me on Twitter (Lifein10s_).
There will be angst and it's not a very happy version of Emma, consider yourselves warned.