Chapter 4
Regina felt a few hot tears trail down her face as Emma put her arm in front of her strongly.
"What do you guys want?" The blonde said cautiously. After her spat with Sidney and his hurtful words, she wasn't about to let them harm her girlfriend.
"We just wanted to ask you something." Marco said in his thick Italian accent.
Regina wiped her eyes softly. "What?" she asked quietly and slightly embarrassed knowing that they knew who she really was.
"Do you love her, sister?" Leroy asked gruffly while Mary Margaret and Ruby moved to the front of the group.
"What are you talking about?" Emma asked softly as Regina's hand latched onto hers.
The brunette softly felt her head began to ache and felt a wave of lightheadedness flush over her.
"I think what Leroy is asking… is do you love each other? Love love each other?" Archie spoke up while moving forward next to Marco.
Leroy nodded and fixed his hat as Mary Margaret did the same, unconsciously.
"Yes." Emma admitted, making Regina slap her arm hard. "They already know everything Regina. They mind as well know that I love you." The blonde said toughly while turning back to the crowd.
Ruby and Mary Margaret stepped up onto the porch slowly, making Regina cling harder onto Emma in fear.
Ruby hugged Emma tightly as Mary Margaret motioned to hug Regina.
The brunette stayed back softly, feeling tears well up into her eyes again.
"You… don't care we're together?" Regina asked softly, her voice breaking.
"Love is genderless Regina. You can love whoever you want to love." Granny called out as Emma and Ruby broke their hug.
"We support you girls no matter what!" Marco said while throwing out his hands.
"We love you both. We're so happy for you!" Mary Margaret said as Regina stepped forward and hugged her lightly.
"Sidney may be a homophobic asshole, but we aren't." Ruby said while everyone began to laugh.
"That's why Emma broke his face!" David exclaimed, wiping a tear from his eye while laughing.
"You broke a man's face for me?" Regina said suspiciously while turning to Emma, who was now also on the verge of tears.
"Regina, I wanted to kill him. No one hurts my girl and gets away with it." The blonde said as everyone let out a unanimous "AWH!" making the two women laugh.
"I love you Regina."
"I love you too Emma." Regina said while wiping a slow tear from her eye.
"Kiss!" Archie, Leroy, and Marco all shouted at the same time.
Regina wrapped her arms around Emma's neck and kissed her softly. Emma returned it and tightly wrapped her arms around her waist while smiling
The small crowd let out a loud cheer and a few yells, along with some "Congratulations!" being throwing around.
The women pulled apart slowly, holding hands and not wanting to let go.
"Everyone to the diner! We need to celebrate! Cake and champagne, on me!" Granny exclaimed while beginning to walk down the driveway with everyone following.
"It's 7:30 in the morning!" Marco exclaimed as Archie wrapped his arm around the older man's shoulders as they walked.
"It's 5 o'clock somewhere!" Leroy shouted, gaining another loud cheer from the crowd.
Emma and Regina stayed on the porch laughing, drawing another kiss softly from the other woman's lips.
"I told you they'd understand. Times have changed Regina. A lot of people support the LGBT community." Emma said while following Regina into the house, realizing she was still in her robe.
"You were right." Regina said while giggling, wiping strands of mascara that had pooled on her cheeks.
The brunette started to walk upstairs when Emma jumped in front of her.
"What did you say?" the blonde asked as a large smile emerged from her mouth.
"Don't start." Regina said while going around Emma, who was still grinning like a Cheshire cat.
"The great Regina Mills said I was right!" She said while picking up the brunette woman and carrying her up the stairs.
Regina leaned forward and kissed her girlfriend softly while caressing her face.
"I love you Emma Swan."
"And I love you Regina Mills."
The two women walked down the hallway towards the bedroom together, laughing and kissing every few seconds.
A/N Here it is! The final chapter or epilogue will be up soon! It'll be a little bit bigger than the chapters usually are, because it'll be a flash forward. Thanks for reading! Also bonus points if you can catch the reference to the pilot in this chapter!