Hello beautiful Swan Queen lovers! I thought I'd update this fic after that heavy Outlaw Queen episode from last night! Some of you have asked why I write both ships -SQ & OQ - the answer is simple. I just ship Regina with everything! Heck,if there was a possibility to choose Regina & that spoon that we all wish we could have been! I would ship them too!
So without further gibber gabber, here's a fabulously AU prompt I received a while back! I really do love & appreciate all of you sending your ideas! You all are so creative (like you will see with this one!) If you have a prompt you'd like to see written leave it in the comments and i'll take a whack!
Prompt: How about something along the lines of Emma being a werewolf, a fact she has hidden since coming to Storybrooke and even after she broke the curse. Ruby confronts her and makes her tell Regina, first, because of the lasting consequences it has on Henry who is coming of age to have his own wolf time. Regina isn't happy that it was kept from her because her and Emma have been in a secret relationship with honesty in the forefront.
The half moon shimmered just behind the clouds, casting a pale light She smelled her before she saw her. The door to Granny's diner swung open and in walked Sheriff Swan carrying the damp night air with her.
Ruby watched silently as Sheriff Swan shook her head, sending her scent further through the room.
"Emma," she acknowledged as the woman in question walked across the room.
"Hey Ruby, got any hot chocolate?"
Ruby nodded. Turning she made the Sheriffs favorite drink. Adding just a sprinkle of cinnamon on the top, she turned back round to the woman now sitting at the counter.
"Thanks Rubes."
"Mm." Ruby responded, eyeing the woman.
Lowering the mug after a large gulp, Emma noticed the her friend staring at her intensely, "What is it?"
"You need to tell her."
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"You're a werewolf?! And you didn't think that was important to tell me?" Regina fumed, flummoxed at what her lover had just said. She had come home to a very shaken looking Emma. After tucking her son in bed, she had come downstairs to find her lover pacing the floor, biting on her nail. A nervous habit she had never exhibited before. Thinking that word of their secretive relationship had gotten out, she went to comfort the woman. When she had asked what was troubling the blonde she would have never expected the answer she would get.
"Look, I know this isn't really an ideal way to find out, but it's not really an easy topic to tell to a woman you're dating when you first meet her."
"And so you figured to lie about it instead and pretend that it didn't matter?!"
"No! I just figured that I shouldn't tell you upfront that the woman you were dating turned into a fur covered beast at the end of every month, and that the son you're raising would eventually loose his dimples and turn as well! I didn't think that was the sort of thing you'd like to discuss while on a first date?!"
Regina squeezed her eyes shut, counting to ten before continuing, "What about honesty first, Emma?"
"I know, but how much honesty can there really be in a secret relationship?"
Regina's heart dropped as the words flew out of the woman's mouth before she could take them back.
"Well, if that's how you feel then-" she began but the blonde had already cut her off, waving her hands around.
"No! No" She said. "No that's not-that's not what I meant. I-" She sighed, exhaling a large batch of air out of her mouth in a heavy hiss.
"No, I think that's exactly what you meant!" Regina shouted, now feeling the anger rising, boiling in her veins. She turned, grabbing her jacket as she made way to the door of the woman's small apartment.
"Regina, wait!" She heard from behind her, but she didn't stop. Choosing to plow ahead, not looking back, until the woman spoke again, "Regina, It's going to affect Henry!"
Regina turned on her heel.
"What do you mean it's going to affect Henry? Are you saying he's going to turn into a fur covered man eater as well?!"
At the silent scrunched nose and shrug from the blonde Regina laughed incredulously.
"You can't be serious."
"Well..." The blonde started.
"No." Regina cut her off, silencing her with a hand, "No, you don't get to just come in here and tell me that the woman I'm in love with doesn't even trust me enough to tell me not just who she is but what she really is, and on top of that, then say that the son I share with her, my son, was never really a boy, but is just like his mother?! A liar! How long has he known!?"
"Regina! No! It's not like that! He doesn't know, and he won't start figuring it out until her turns 16, but that's only a month away, so I thought maybe it would be nice if he knew what he was going to go through before hand. Because I didn't and it sucked."
Regina stared at the blonde in front of her. The woman's wide open eyes were pulling her in with their sincerity making her almost empathize with the woman.
"And I'm sorry I didn't tell you before. If it makes you feel any better, I only eat plants as much as I can help it. You know those wolf packs in Twilight? Yeah, I was raised by one kind of like them, except no buff tan guys. All girls. I just really wasn't sure how to bring it up, it's not really something you say in conversation."
Emma stepped forward as she spoke, finally latching a hand onto the brunettes crossed arms. She stopped when she was a foot in front of her, lifting the woman's chin up with her forefinger, so that their eyes met.
"I really am sorry I didn't tell you. And I'm sorry for what I said. But I am telling you now."
Regina stared into Emma's eyes. She had never noticed before how lupine they were in shape, but she had seen the way that they lightened when she was happy, into a almost sky blue color in contrast to the dark sea blue that they were when she was angry. She sighed, closing the gap between herself and her lover.
"I hate you," She mumbled between small kisses.
Emma chuckled, breaking apart for a second, "Actually, I'm pretty sure you just confessed that you love me a second ago."
"What?!" Regina pulled back, breaking the embrace of her lovers arms. "When!?"
"Um, in the middle of you tirade you said the 'woman I love', and since I'm the only one you're dating, I'm assuming that would be me whom you secretly love." She said smugly.
Regina flushed, realizing that she had in fact let her feelings slip in the heat of the moment. But standing there in the embrace of the warm, loving woman she couldn't find it inherself to care.
"Well don't let it go to your head," she spoke, leaning back in, "Or else you'll be sleeping in the dog house, Wolf!"
"Oh, don't say there's going to be lame were wolf puns." Emma whined.
"Oh yes," Regina laughed viciously, before taking her lovers lips between her teeth, "Yes there will be!"
xxx
appendix
Emma found herself sitting at her favorite spot at the bar of Granny's, waiting for Regina to show for their morning coffee. She was running late, so when her friend Ruby came on shift she seized the moment to question the girl on how she had known that one night, long ago about her monthly tendencys.
"Hey Ruby." Emma started, catching the girls attention.
"More cinnamon?"
Emma was confused for a moment at the girls question before continuing, "No, no the cocos fine. I just had a question. Remember a few weeks back, when I came in one night and you quite mysteriously just leaned over and said that 'I needed to tell her?' How did you know of my abilities? Could you tell I'm a were wolf too? Was it something I said?
The bar girl with the large red streak in her hair looked stunned, staring at the blonde like she had grown a third eye. "I was referring to you just getting over yourself and telling the mayor how you feel about her? It was about time! That's all, yeesh! What were you talking about? You're a wolf as well? How did we not know!?"
"OH!" Emma squeaked, instantly deciding that Granny's was not going to become their favorite new place to sit and chat after all, while trying to sush the bar girl.
Their relationship was still secret though Emma knew with all of the touches and heated looks that it couldn't stay that way for long. The mayor would have to get over it, just like she had when finding out about Emma's monthly change.
However on the morning of their anniversary it might not be the best time for all of that to come out into the open. Emma waved her hands at Ruby, trying to get her to quite down before someone noticed, when her secret lover walked in.
"Good morning dear." Regina said, making her way to the empty seat next to the blonde. "Miss Lucas- what are you doing?"
Emma's vision snapped to Ruby whose eyes were as big as the plates she used to serve the double toast, bacon, sausage and egg platter on.
"Oh my God! Does she know?" Ruby yell whispered, still loud enough for anyone in the diner to hear.
"Yes!" Emma hissed, trying to send her friend a hint to shut up.
"Does she know what?" Regina spoke, her voice raising as she went, "Did you tell her about us?!" She yelled before she could take it back.
Emma scrunched her eyes as Rubys jaw dropped. When she heard the sound of dishes breaking, she wanted nothing more than to sink into her seat.
Everyone inside of Granny's that morning now knew of the relationship between the mayor and the savior.
When the silence was to much she popped open an eye to see a crimson Regina and a gaping Ruby. Well, she thought, at least that was better they know they than them knowing-
"WAIT! You're a werewolf too?!"
Now Emma really did wish that she had worked more on her magical abilities as she would have given anything to dissapear at that very moment.
She heard the gasp from everyone in the room. Welp, now all of their secrets were out in the open. She sat up straighter and turned to look at Regina. When the woman made eye contact she spoke.
"Well how's that for honesty?!" She laughed, staring at the mortified woman. "At least I can kiss you now."
And she did.
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