Chapter 4: dalliance.
"Miss Swan a word please?" Regina's voice rose to a high pitch and her patronus roared in Emma's direction.
The girl gulped in place, watching Lena flee from the dungeon as fast as her legs allowed her.
The brunette remained sitting on her desk and her patronus panther laid at her feet on the floor growling lowly in her direction, the professor lured the blonde to her position with a gesture of her index finger.
"Emma—," the woman whispered when the blonde was close enough to hear her silky tone and her eyes flew to the vials pilling up on her desk, suddenly ignoring the girl in front of her felt like the most appealing task to carry out, "should I assume that the little infatuation you mentioned yesterday, disappeared in behalf of now being an object of Lena Luthor's obvious affections?"
"What? No, I'm not an object of Lena's affecttions!"
"Well then, but Would you like to be, Miss Swan?"
"No!" Emma shook her head fervently, "wait, why are you asking this? Are you jealous Professor Mills?"
"Most professors would say they are glad you are now with someone your age, that's what we are supposed to say," Regina explained twirling what seemed to be Lena's flawlessly made potion in her hand, the only vial with a colorless serum inside you could spot on the desk, she still wasn't looking at the blonde, " but let me tell you something Miss Swan, I've never been fond to share anything with the Luthor's—," she suddenly fixed her gaze on Emma's and got hold of the girl's chin between her index finger and her thumb, pulling her close by it, "—and today is not the day I'll start doing it," she added and for the second time that day Emma found herself completely shocked and being kissed by a gorgeous woman, of course she preferred Regina in every single way, but she wouldn't deny Lena was deliciously beautiful as well.
In that moment Regina grunted against her lips and all of a sudden, the woman was on her feet and she was being pushed against the nearest wall.
"Exactly that, has always been the problem with you since we first met, you never listen to what I'm saying," Regina hissed cutting off the kiss, she remained as close to the blonde as it was humanly possible and her hand traveled to grip the girl's neck in both a threatening and delicate way, her fingernails dipped slightly on the pale skin underneath as she leant into a more demanding kiss, "I already told you I do not share with the Luthors, so you better be aware that the only woman that is deliciously beautiful here is me!" She warned breathing in Emma's fragrance before she let go of her and stepped back a bit.
"I'm pretty sure I didn't say that out loud professor Mills," the blonde frowned confused.
Is she reading my mind?
"Next time you better be sure of not saying that at all!" The brunette crossed her arms over her chest and looked away from Emma's green eyes, she was being riddiculous, she knew that, but that knowledge wasn't enough for her to stop acting like a jealous teenager, not in that precise moment anyway.
The blonde started panicking, because if the professor was really in her mind she would by now know everything about the stupid bet with the other girls. Emma tried to divert the thought of her mind concentrating in something else, like why the fuck had Lena Luthor kissed her in front of Regina and how many ways of torture she could use that night on the Slytherin as punishment. Damn, why did you even go there? Thank you very much hormonal brain, for giving me detaled visuals of Lena in a BDSM torture scene, specially when Regina is most likely watching.
The brunette grunted in response And her eyes were two chocolate ponds burning up in flames when she turned back to face the blonde.
"You have detention tonight Miss Swan, eight sharp, off you go!" She hissed, dismissing the blonde with a movement of her hand.
"What, why? What did I even do?"
"Do you think I didn't notice your girlfriend changing your vials?" Regina asked coldly.
"No she didn't! And she's not my girlfriend!" Emma got near the desk to inspect the potions, the one Regina was previously playing with had the tag with her name on it, Lena... "so what? Just because it's flawlessly mad e it automatically makes it impossible to be mine?" She asked getting mad, she didn't deserved that detention and Regina was taking it out on her for something she didn't even knew Lena would do.
"Are you saying I'm wrong and this is actually the serum you made?" The woman asked with an arched eyebrow, her infamous sassy tone showing in her voice, she knew this was Lena's even when she hadn't seen the girl change the vials, she knew the Slytherin was the best potionist in that class, she also knew Emma was pretty capable to do that potion if she was concentrated, which she knew was not the case that day.
"No, you are right, that's not mine, I'm not able to do anything that flawless, see you at night professor Mills."
"I didn't mean it that way Emma," Regina regretted saying anything, at the exact moment Emma opened her mouth and her gaze fixed on the floor.
"Oh, but you did," the blonde said leaving the dungeon rapidly.
"No I didn't,"Regina answered but it was too late for the blonde to hear, "fuck!" She cursed throwing the vial against the chalkboard, it broke in pieces and she watched the colorless liquid erase a part of her perfectly written rules. She thought of following the blonde, but by that moment she would be in the other wing of the castle, Emma had the ability of disappearing if she didn't want to be found, she knew that all too well from unsuccessfully trying to talk with the girl the previous year when she insisted on avoiding her at all costs.
Well done Regina! Make her run again. What is going on with you acting like a hormonal teenager? She's a student and you have already cross a line there.
She couldn't avoid feeling like she was being scolded by her mother instead of herself. And just as her mother's image formed in her head, the three words she used to repeat non stop flooded her brain. Love is weakness.
"No it's not mother!" She screamed shaking angrily and her normally controlled magic unleashed in a big wave that smashed all the vials on her desk to the grown.
Great.
She couldn't love Emma though, not in that way, she was only fifteen years old for God's sake.
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The day had been a blast for Lena Luthor so far, which was unusual to say the least, she usually got bored so easily and lost interest so fast, that it was hard for her to keep track of her 'brilliant' ideas most of the time, this bet though was indeed brilliant and kept her brain racing at a quick pace.
She saw professor Mills apparate at the great hall's door around seven PM, she blinked twice thinking it was just her imagination since only the headmaster had the ability to use the apparition within the castle.
She suddenly diverted her gaze from the now storming woman, when someone she didn't see coming stepped in front of her.
"What the fuck were you thinking Luthor?" Emma burst upon the brunette stabbing Slytherin's table dangerously close to Lena's hand with a knife she found at reach.
"Oh calm down birdie," Lena moved her almost stabbed hand dismissively, "I was just helping you out," she winked at the blonde flirtatiously and Emma huffed in response.
"You call that helping me out?" Emma crossed her arms in front of her chest, "you just ruined things up with her and I got detention to make things worse," by that moment the entire greathall was silent and paying attention to both of them.
"Oh well, blondie," Lena stressed out the words standing up to face the blonde over the table, "let me tell you something, all the time you have been complaining here, your significant other has been dying of jealousy in her table, because it doesn't matter what is really happening here all she can see is that kiss I gave you earlier, on repeat," Lena said in a whisper placing an object on the table in front of Emma, it was a mirror and on its surface she could see Regina sitting at the head table with her face boiling red and that little vein on her forehead popping out in rage, "now be good and play along Swan," the brunette added playfully shifting the knife Emma threatened her with between her hands, right before she leaned further over the table and pecked the girl on the lips.
"I hate you," Emma responded lowly.
"No you don't," Lena rolled her eyes at the blonde and turned around to face the crowd, "sonorus" she casted holding her wand against her neck, "in case it wasn't obvious for all of you and your 'discrete' glances towards us, yeah we are arguing here, yeah we kissed and yeah I also like girls, sorry mother, not really, but I'm a Luthor and I'm supposed to appologize if I missbehave," she said patronizingly looking at the headmaster and the woman looked like she was about to make Lena's head explode with a nonverbal spell, " now don't worry people, we are taking our matters to our bedroom, because luckily we share one now," she finished in a naughty way and far in the distance there was a sound of breaking glass, by this moment Emma was so flustered she couldn't move let alone she dared to look at the head table to find out whose glass was that, Regina's or Lillian's, before she could notice Lena was at her side dragging her out, "she's the typical shy bombshell," she heard Lena telling those near them on their way out.
"But I'm hungry," she managed to complain when they were out of earshot.
"Don't worry I know someone at the kitchen," Lena said heading to their bedroom, still dragging the blonde with her, "now let's get you ready for this detention of yours."
...
"Okay guys, how do I look?" Emma asked and Kara automatically stopped trying to keep Belle's book out of her reach by standing on her toes and holding it as high in the air as she could.
"Like a typical shy bombshell," Kara conceded to Lena's earlier words.
"Lena you did a great job making it impossible to know if she just got laid with you or not," Belle added, "honestly professor Mills will go nuts when she sees her."
"Yeah maybe it's a little too hard to tell the difference," she said pulling one of her lipsticks out of her purse, the one she put on that morning she reapplied it on her lips and then bent over the blonde.
"Oi! What are you doing?" Emma asked defensively pushing Lena back.
"Calm down birdie, I'm just letting some clues for the hot professor to find and get crazy, she explained bending further to stain Emma's shirt subtly with her lipstick, then she quickly stuck her mouth to Emma's neck like an octopus tentacle, sucking the life out of its prey.
"The hell Luthor!" Emma complained pushing the brunette back, "that hurt, you monster."
"Good, then the lovebite will remain where we need it, or even get worse during the night, which will drive her nuts, I bet I can make it heart shaped" she said bending over Emma again, but the girl pushed her back again.
"Get off me Luthor, I have to go now or I'll never get to the dungeons in time," she hastened to say slipping out of the brunette's reach.
"Good luck Ems," Kara wished her.
"You look great," Belle added before she left.
...
Emma casted a last glance at herself on the hallway mirror, she was still wearing her school uniform, her skirt was some inches shorter than usual thanks to Lena forcing her to use hers instead, her shirt was half way out of the skirt, her tie was slightly loose and her hair was reorganized lock by lock to show the perfect amount of bed wilderness as Lena so called it. She finally moved her gaze down to her neck, the hickey was huge and reallly hard to miss to someone with you know, eyes.
She decided all the clues Lena left for Regina were maybe too much and so she started fitting her shirt completely inside her skirt, as she walked out of the prefects common room.
Emma automatically stopped on her tracks when she saw the person leaning on the window sill in front of her.
"P-professor Mills," she stuttered shifting uncomfortable trying to hide the red Mark on her neck with her hair.
"Birdie you forgot something," Lena burst out of the common room with a bottle of her perfume ready to splash Emma, crashing with her from behind and almost making her lose her ground, "Oh sorry honey," she said holding her in place, "professor Mills," she saluted noticing the woman's murderous gaze fixed on her, "won't you give me my 'laters' kiss?" She asked playing with a lock of Emma's hair leaving the perfume forgotten as if it was just the thing she was holding in her hand when she realized Emma hadn't said goodbye.
God, this girl knows how to improvise. The blonde thought and she started wondering when and why did she even accept to play this game with Lena and Regina.
She felt Regina's gaze stabbing her back like daggers and Lena's hands burning the life out of her waist as she was now facing the younger brunette.
What the hell! I'm still mad at Gina anyways and she deserves this. Emma shrugged pulling Lena closer by her tie to kiss her slowly, her hand then slipped slightly under the brunette's shirt and she sucked the girl's bottom lip within her own to then bite down hard on it as a little revenge for the hickey she now felt the need to try and hide from her professor.
"Laters," she winked at the brunette in a naughty way and then turned around blatantly to face the woman waiting for her.
Lena gaped at the blonde now walking towards the other brunette, she then turned around and walked in the common room.
"Professor Mills," the blonde repeated, this time confidently, "I was just heading towards your office.
Regina said nothing, she just stared back at the blonde, rage taking over all of her features and seconds later she leaped on the girl like a hungry panther grabbing her arm with more strength than it was really needed to then apparate with the blonde outside of the castle, the brunette automatically let go of Emma's arm and walked away until she was at the Black lake's shore.
...
"Now tell me, why are you so pissed off at this cutie Belle?" Lena said letting herself fall beside Kara on her bed, pinching her porcelain cheek like she was a chubby toddler.
Belle pulled a piece of paper from her pocket and with a simple spell it flew over to Lena's hands.
"This is evil Kara," Lena laughed reading the note.
"You think?" Belle deadpaned.
"Did he read it?" Lena asked trying to dishevel Kara's hair with her hand, but it would always fall back in perfect order on the pillow.
"Of course he did!" Kara laughed.
"It's not funny Kara! Next time keep your journalist spells to yourself," Belle scolded, "I've been avoiding him all day but tomorrow we have other two hours of class with him and what the hell am I supposed to do? Show up and act like nothing happened?"
"Well you could do that, or you could lay the cards on the table and see what happens," Lena offered.
"Like it wasn't Mr Gold who we are talking about," the Ravenclaw grunted in response covering her face with a pillow, to then throw it in Kara's direction, "I hate you gay alien girl!" She said remembering Kara's ridiculous secret that morning.
"Alien girl?" Lena asked finding Belle's words amusing, "should I be worried that you'll abduct me at night and impregnate me with little green babies?" She joked.
"More like be terrified I'll incinerate you with my heat vision or flight you away to the north pole and leave you there freezing to death."
"I could do that with my wand and my broomstick," Lena comented, "what's the point of being an alien if all your alien abilities everyone can accomplish with a little magic?" She asked and Kara shrugged in response.
"I'm also bulletproof and thanks to my alien DNA I cannot get acne," the blonde responded with a goofy smile.
"There you go alien girl, that's something," Lena turned around to lay on her side facing Kara, the girl turned as well and Belle's little tantrum was quickly forgotten, "now to the important matters, what will we do to get ourselves a kitty?"
"A kitty?" The blonde rushed to ask falling into realization when the question left her lips.
"Yeah the Swan is getting her Queen right this second, the beauty is soon enough getting her beast, but when are we getting our Kitty?" Lena said with pout and Kara found it ridiculously cute, "Kara," she whispered getting closer to the blonde, so close the girl held her breath nervously, "your bed is comfier than mine, can we share it?" The brunette trailed out slipping her hand under Kara's red pajama t-shirt to trace little circles on her belly. As she worked her hypnotic eyes on the girl.
Kara let out a little giggle and her goofy smile grew bigger while she nodded approvingly.
"Alright!" Lena clapped once jumping from the bed, "Imma change real quick and then you can call me your brand new huggable teddy bear."
The blonde watched Lena magically undress and then appear the tiniest silk short she had seen in her life and its matching top on her perfectly formed body.
"You are way sexier than the old one," the blonde let out crawling under her bed comforter.
"I better be," Lena winked at her, getting in the bed Kara seemed really willing to share with her, "goodnight alien girl," she said and Kara pouted in response.
"You promised me a huggable teddy bear," the girl complained.
"Well darling, what about you start hugging it now?" she laughed.
...
Emma breathed in heavily taken aback by the sudden nauseous feeling settling down in her stomach as the apparition turned her stomach and all the food Lena's domestic elf brought them to their room now fought its way back out.
She walked behind Regina when she regained control over her jelly legs and only when her professor turned around she saw her mortified expression, she could see how Regina was using all her self-restrain to don't start screaming at her on the spot, she also saw what seemed to be pain, lighting down her usually stunningly bright chocolate eyes and she started feeling guilty for following Lena around in her mad plans.
Emma reached out to grab Regina's hand but she stepped backwards putting distance between them.
"We are here because of your detention and only that, everything that happened between us the last two days was a mistake and won't happen again," she said with a bitter tone, but her eyes didn't look very convincing, which made Emma wonder if she really thought it was a mistake or it was just her anger talking for her, "we are gonna be collecting black algae and pond slime from the depths of the lake, so get ready," the brunette explained turning around as she unbuttoned her robe and let it slide over her shoulders to then fall on the green grass behind her, Emma swallowed audibly at the sight. The woman in front of her was now wearing only her leather black trousers and a very delicate black laze bra, she could only see her back from where she was standing, but only that view made her mouth dry and her hands extremely sweaty, "I hope you are changing as well miss swan," the woman's voice echoed in the night with her warning tone," Emma gulped and she started unbuttoning her shirt, she didn't take her eyes off Regina though, as she proceeded to slide her tight leather trousers down her really toned legs.
Emma felt how the image of her professor wearing only black laze underwear in front of her, made her ridiculously hormonal body arouse rapidly and she pressed her legs together trying to get a grip on her body's reactions to the stunningly hot woman slowly undressing in front of her.
Emma was finishing unbuttoning her shirt when Regina turned around to face her, she twirled so fast Emma couldn't avoid being caught staring at her ass, which meant she was now staring directly at Regina's privates and she had been caught in the act. The blonde rapidly diverted her gaze and fixed it on the grass in front of her as she let her own shirt fall to the ground at her feet while blushing furiously under the brunette's gaze and regretting not having changed when the woman wasn't paying atention. It was only fair that Regina was now staring at her, after all she had been staring at her for as long as it took her to get undressed. She could feel the brunette's gaze on her, even though she wasn't able to look up from the ground, she kicked her shoes off as well as her socks and her hands travelled to Lena's skirt zipper to get rid of the garment.
The blonde breathed deeply and decided she would now stop acting like a frightened child, she slid the skirt down her toned legs thanking quidditch training for her now nicely formed body, she lifted her gaze and fixed it on Regina's as she stood up confidently only wearing her underwear in front of the woman. Puberty had made wonders with her breast over the summer, she now had marked abs thanks to Graham's training obsession, she also stretched a few inches in the past months and now seeing her professor without her six inches heels she noticed she was now taller than her.
Somewhere in the middle of the minute that took Emma undress Regina had changed into a long sleeved neoprene surf suit, it was a lot less revealing than her previous laze underwear but it wrapped around her body perfectly and the blonde swore that woman had no flaw. Emma smirked when an idea crossed her mind and she transfigured her sport bra and her boy shorts into the tiniest sexy bikini she could imagine with a flick of her wrist.
"Pond slime here we go!" she screamed winking at the brunette to then run and jump heavily like a cannonball into the cold water of the black lake, "mother of fuck this is cold!" She cursed immediately when she swam up to the surface.
"Language Miss Swan!" Regina laughed and followed the blonde into the water with a perfectly performed dive. She reemerge from the water right by the blonde's side her long ponytail was now completely wet and she moved it over her right shoulder as she looked intently into Emma's eyes.
Big droplets of water slid down her professor's face and the blonde tried but couldn't remember a time when she had seen Regina as beautiful as she looked that night under the moonlight, with all those little water crystals shining over her perfect facial features.
"Do you know the incantation for the bubblehead spell?" The woman asked dragging her out of her thoughts and she just shook her head in response, because whether she knew that incantation or not she was certainly not able to concentrate enough to remember it in that moment anyway.
Regina inched closer to her and she suddenly stopped breathing as the brunette slid her hand between her messy wet hair and her neck to then pull it all over one of her shoulders, she then put one stubborn lock of hair behind her ear and then she noticed it, the now completely darkened bruise on Emma's neck, it was exactly on the same spot she had buried her nails on the blonde that morning, but she was sure it wasn't hers.
She felt the heat of rage crawling up to her face as she moved Emma's head to the side to get a better look at the lovebite, she slid her thumb ghostly over the mark and shot a demanding glare at the blonde.
"Sorry?" Emma offered as if what she did was a minor mistake like forgetting to write a paper, not shagging a good damn Luthor.
"What are you apologizing for dear?" Regina coldly asked, "oh wait, forgot I really don't care," she added right after, before Emma could formulate any decent reply, "time's up," she suddenly said pointing her wand to Emma's chin and the blonde's forest green eyes went wide open.
Before she knew what happened the brunette pushed her down into the water by her shoulders and a bubble shaped mask formed around her mouth and nose allowing her to breath underwater. The moonlight seeped through the water surface and made the deep dark waters below her a little less threatening or maybe her newfound courage had more to do with Regina now holding her hand so she couldn't get far like she was in first year of school and they were going out on a school trip. Regina holding her hand for dear life on school excursions was her favorite thing growing up, maybe because it gave her the same feeling she got when the woman first came to her orphanage to take her to the school, the feeling of being cared of, like there was something in her that was worth being saved, Regina was her orphan miracle, the one every orphan wishes for, someone or something to belong to, Regina might not have her blood, but she certainly was the family she wished for even if she didn't think the same about her.
"I do," Emma heard Regina clearly but the woman in front of her didn't move her lips, "I created a telepathic link between us so we could communicate down here," she explained, "do you mind?" She asked pulling Emma closer and the blonde shook her head slowly.
"It's beautiful down here, with you," Emma softly said taking in her surroundings, there was really not much to see, she couldn't see anything but darkness and her professor's flawless features dimly lit by the moon light, but she felt like she could be there in the dark just looking at Regina forever.
"Emma, why did you do it?" Regina asked and once again her eyes were lit down by pain.
"I'm sorry," Emma apologized knowing what the brunette was talking about was Lena's game, "it was all just Lena's idea to make you jealous, I agreed because I was mad at you about the serum."
Stupid bet! Emma thought forgetting the telepathic link.
"What bet?" Regina cautiously asked, letting go of her hand.
Fuck! She can't find out!
"Bet? What bet?" The blonde tried to play dumb.
"You aware that I can hear your every thought right now, aren't you Emma?"
"It's silly," she tried hoping Regina would drop the subject?
"I can do silly,"the woman stated trying to cross her arms in front of her chest, but she desisted after moment finding it hard to maintain herself afloat beside Emma.
"It's just a stupid bet with my new roommates, teenage stuff," Emma said dismissively, "weren't we going to collect black algae and pond slime anyway?"
"Do not divert the subject Miss Swan!" She scolded, "tell me what bet are you talking about."
"Let's do something," Emma started inching apart from the brunette, "I'll tell you..." she continued stopping all the efforts she was doing to stay near the surface without sinking, "...if you catch me first," she said when she was at a safe distance from the brunette to then start swimming away.
"Swan do not get farther, the lake is not safe!" Saying she was concerned by Emma's safety was an understatement judging by the sound of her voice and how her heart bumped harder with every inch the blonde swam away.
"Then do not get left behind Mills!" The girl laughed as she used all her strength to get as far from the brunette as fast as she could.
AN/: I long owed this chapter to ThatEvilRegal from Wattpad for her birthday that was a million days ago, but here it is, at last. Hope you all enjoy it.