Evil Snow, GingerBread Men, and WickedWolf
Regina called for Emma. When she saw who was on the other side, Emma groaned. Her mother was all suited up in Evil Snow garb.
"Not this again!" She whined.
Another knock, then, "Regina! Open up! I know you're shacking up with my daughter in there! You can't hide it anymore!"
The two women stared at each other, wide-eyed. Had she just implied what they think she was implying?
Evil Snow continued, "If you don't open this door, I will blast it open with magic!"
Just as she raised her hands, the mansion door swung open. Regina glared at her from the other side while Emma rubbed at the back of her neck.
Evil Snow smiled happily.
"Finally! What must a Queen do to get attention around here?" She said before marching right over the threshold without a care in the world.
Emma and Regina followed after her as she settled into the sitting room with Henry, Ruby and Zelena.
"Well, I didn't expect you to have anyone here, I figured the two of you would want to be alone." Snow simpered.
Emma blushed. What was up with this version of her mother and implying that she and Regina were a thing?
Zelena smirked. She decided this was a chance to play up a game she had been wanting to play on her sister all day.
"Oh, you would think so from the way they look at one another, wouldn't you? Half the time I can't tell if they want to devour one another or sing love-songs when they see the other!" Zelena remarked with a sly glance at her sister. Regina shifted uncomfortably. Zelena grinned. She had hit her mark.
Snow nodded her agreement. "Indeed, and they spend enough time together, Emma may as well move in! I'm surprised she hasn't done so already!"
Emma stared up at the ceiling and the walls anywhere but Regina. Why was she in this room?
Henry chimed in, "The way she and mom play around and joke sometimes, I'm starting to wonder if they're together."
His mothers stared at him.
"What?" He played innocent. "Mom never let's anyone tickle her or jokes with anyone like she does you ma."
His mothers glanced at each other and quickly away, blushing.
Evil Snow nodded. Then she frowned.
"Wait, are they not a couple?" She asked the room.
Ruby, Henry, and Zelena simultaneously answered.
"Nah."
"They're idiots."
"Not yet!"
Emma just wanted to leave the room as quickly as possible. Of all the conversations to be stuck hearing while Regina was in the room, this was the most awkward. Particularly coming from her mother.
"Snow, what are you doing here?" Emma demanded. She wanted her out, particularly if she was in evil mode. So far she hadn't done anything particularly evil, but Emma wasn't sure if that last conversation wasn't cutting it close.
Evil Snow sighed. She stood and walked over to the fireplace, resting an arm on the mantle and dramatically posing herself.
"Your father left me."
Everyone's attention focused on her at those words. What? The ultimate true love couple was no more?
"It seemed he cannot love me as Evil and he called me vain all whilst hopping into a new sports car and driving off with that pirate." She spit the word pirate out as if it were the most vile word to ever leave her mouth.
Emma gasped as Regina threw a hand over her mouth muffled the sound attempting to come out.
Evil Snow shot them both a dark look.
"Do you find this funny?" Her voice dripped with malice. Zelena watched, bored. She found the true love pairing to be quite boring herself if she was honest. Though Hook and Charming? She smiled at the thought. The prince had run off with the pirate.
Emma shook her head.
"Of course not mom. It's terrible." She disagreed.
But Regina, however lost her cool. She started to laugh.
"I'm sorry Snow!" She said between breaths. "It's just this is getting ridiculous. Ruby is a puppy, you're dressed like that, the Muffin Man is cursing the town, Emma has a penis…. I'm done with today."
With that, Regina attempted to walk away but was pulled back via magic.
Emma came to her defense. "Snow!"
"Laughing at the Evil Queen, Regina?" Snow tsked. "I would have thought you'd know better."
She dragged Regina toward her with magic. Emma tapped into her own and pushed her mother away, knocking her back. Regina was released from Evil Snow's hold.
Her mother stared at Emma.
"Emma, she insulted me!" She simpered.
Emma shook her head. "I think it's best if you left mom."
Snow frowned at the two women.
"Fine. But only on one condition. If the two of you see my husband, send him home." She told them.
Emma rolled her eyes. "Whatever, just leave."
Evil Snow straightened out her dress as she stood. She marched toward the door, but rather than leave through it, she said, "Until next time," then with a flourish, disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Emma glanced at Regina. "Do you feel as if she left a little too easily?"
Regina frowned thoughtfully, then nodded her agreement. "She'll probably be back."
"Great." Emma threw her hands up in the air, exasperated. She stomped into the sitting room to join the rest of the group. Regina followed.
"I say we pay this Royal Baker a visit." Zelena declared. Ruby sat in her lap as Zelena scratched her ears. The puppy woman seemed to be enjoying herself. Regina shook her head. What was up with those two?
"I agree." Regina inclined. "We should get to this Gordon Ginger and find out how to remove this curse once and for all."
"Well let's stop wasting time!" Zelena picked Ruby out of her lap and hopped up out of her seat. "Let's get a move on!"
"I want to come along!" Henry pleaded.
"No!" His mothers answered at once.
Henry deflated at their reply.
"Henry, it's just…" Regina began.
Then Emma cut in, "Maybe he should come along."
Regina glared at Emma. Emma shrugged.
"Your magic is wonky at best right now. Henry has magic. He might come in handy." Emma told the other woman. Regina relented. She realized Emma was correct.
"Fine. But we're driving." Regina gave in.
With a plan in action, the odd family all moved out of the mansion and clambered into the Mercedes with Emma and Henry fighting over "Shotgun!" Emma winning out at Regina's behest. Henry mumbled something about "lover's bias" as he shuffled into the back seat with his aunt Zelena. Zelena settled into the back with Ruby in her lap.
Regina began the drive to Drury Lane as the group began to discuss a plan for how to deal with the Royal Baker once they reached the Muffin Man's bakery.
Zelena's suggestions included "Flying monkey transformation."
Henry, "Talking it out and believing in the good and understanding where the baker came from."
Ruby, "Eating all his cookies."
Emma was the only quiet one during the entire ride. She was contemplating some of her restored memories of the day before and the woman beside her. All she could think about was sweaty skin, Regina's body in all its naked glory, her own lips pressed to Regina's inner thighs and oh, fuck, Emma had to stop. She could feel her pants tightening as the male appendage between her thighs rose. Her nipples hardened against the shirt she borrowed from Regina and she swallowed as she remembered that it wasn't her own clothing she wore.
"Emma?" Regina spoke tentatively. She had noticed the woman seated next to her squirming.
Emma snapped her head up to stare at her.
"What?" Emma gulped. This must be how teenage boys felt around their crushes. Or at least the ones without any sort of hormonal control.
Regina shook her head. She realized she couldn't help Emma with whatever was going on in her pants. Not with everyone in the car. Regina patted Emma's thigh and continued driving.
Emma groaned. She concentrated on getting herself under control as they reached Drury Lane. She really wanted to stick a fork in this Royal Baker at this point.
The Muffin Man's bakery came into view. Regina drove the car up to a parking spot and stopped. Everyone eyed the place wearily. It seemed to still be in business.
"You would think with a new hobby of cursing folks, the baker would have quit his day job." Regina remarked.
"It seems not." Emma replied.
The group opened their doors and climbed out of the car.
What they found as they entered the bakery was not what they expected. There were customers to be sure. Some transformed townsfolk sat around the bakery or stood at the counter. But what was shocking was not who, but what, stood behind the counter.
Gingerbread men, the size of full grown people manned the bakery.
One of the gingerbread men, upon seeing Emma and Regina enter hurried away and out a back door. Emma suspected to warn their maker.
"Well, what do we do now?" Emma asked of the group.
Regina took the lead, marching right up the counter.
"I wish to speak to the proprietor of this establishment." She told the giant cookie behind the counter.
The gingerbread man didn't answer. Instead it turned around and pulled out a tray of muffins then turned back to the group offering them up to Regina.
Regina crossed her arms. "I didn't ask for sweets!"
"No but if you wish to speak you'll at least take one." A mellow voice spoke up from the door that the earlier gingerbread man had disappeared through.
Everyone stared at the gingery haired man that came up to join his gingerbread minion as it offered muffins to Regina.
"I'm sure you'll find they taste quite as wonderful as anything I ever made in the royal palace." Gordon Ginger remarked.
Regina sighed as she picked out a muffin. She unwrapped part of the sweet and delicately took a bite. When the taste hit tongue, she held back the moan threatening to spill forth from the back of her throat. She didn't normally indulge in such treats.
The man smiled.
"I'm sure you have plenty you all wish to discuss with me. However, I ask that you leave the witch, wolf and your son here in the bakery. They may take their pick of my creations on the house." He offered.
Regina looked to Emma for her cue. Emma shrugged. She still had magic, even if Regina didn't. She also sensed that this man didn't mean them harm at the moment.
Emma turned to her family.
Henry looked as if he wanted to protest. Emma held up her hand.
"If you hear a commotion, or we aren't back in…" She looked back at the baker.
"Forty minutes at the most." He shrugged.
"What he said." Emma told the group. "Then come rushing after us."
Henry nodded his agreement. Ruby and Zelena looked over their treats whilst Emma and Regina walked around the counter to follow Gordon through the back door. He led them up a set of stairs and into what looked to be his rooms above the bakery.
Gordon settled into a rather lush and comfortable chair. He gestured for the two women to sit on a well-broken in sofa.
"I'm sure you're here because of this spell." He remarked.
Emma waited for him to continue. Regina shifted.
Gordon crossed his fingers over his large belly. "I was Royal Baker for many years. I've been a baker my whole life. I love my work. I've been happy."
Emma frowned. What did this have to do with anything?
"My happiness stems from making people satisfied with baked goods. But for many years, I've seen people come and go and they're not happy enough." He sighed.
Regina chose that moment to speak up, "What do you mean?"
Gordon held Regina's eyes as he told her, "My Queen, you, for so long have held back your inner desires. So many people within this town have been holding back so much within themselves. It's keeping them from being happy."
Realization washed over Regina's face. Her words the night she and Emma had slept together. She had already fulfilled her own innermost desire. Emma obviously hadn't fulfilled her own however.
"It came to bother me so much that the Brownies found me. They come to those with a purpose set in mind but with good intentions. They helped me to find what I needed to enact a plan. A plan to help the townspeople to fulfill their inner most desires." He confessed.
Emma stared at him. Then everything fell into place. The waking up next to Regina. The transformation. The having a penis. She groaned. It had to do with a series of fantasies of hers she had been having for a long time. She placed her face into her hands.
"How do we get rid of this?" Emma asked him through her fingers.
Gordon looked at her. "Acknowledgement of those desires of course. Either through action or by speaking them out loud or the like. Some of the townspeoples' desires had to do with other people so it transformed them as well. If they acknowledge that to them it will change them back."
"Wonderful. Obviously there are many townsfolk that would like me without magic for their own safety, so getting any of them to admit that is going to take work." Regina snarled.
Gordon gave her a surprised look.
"Or it could simply be someone who thinks magic makes life dangerous for you, and wanted to protect you by taking it away and having their own." He pointed out.
Regina and Emma stared at one another.
"Henry." They realized.
"As we speak, your sister and the wolf are realizing their innermost desires and breaking their own curse." He told them.
Just below, in the bakery, Zelena held Ruby in her lap.
"You know, Ruby…" Zelena began. "I've got to admit. You've been so amazing to me these last few months. So patient. You haven't pushed me to show affection publicly or tell anyone about us, but… I think I'm ready now."
Zelena scratched at Ruby's head. "This last day, spending all day with you and having you in my arms, even as a puppy, I think I'd rather have you as a human so I could do this with you. I don't care what anyone thinks because I love you and I want to be with you at home, in public, wherever."
Quite suddenly Zelena felt a flare of magic and warmth. Her lap grew heavy as the puppy in her lap groaned and began to transform and grow until a lanky brunette woman sat in her lap fully clothed.
"Finally!" Ruby laughed before seizing Zelena in a kiss.
Pulling away she smiled at the green woman.
"I've been wanting to tell you, I don't care how you look or what people think, you're beautiful to me inside and out. I love everything about you, wicked and all." Ruby told her earnestly from Zelena's lap.
The green trickled away as it was replaced with Zelena's normal skin tone. The two women laughed as Ruby leapt off her lap and drew up another seat to sit closely and lean against the witch happily.
"Finally!" Henry joined the two of them. "I was wondering when the two of you would come out with it!"
"Oh don't you dare, young man!" Zelena chided him.
"Don't think I didn't notice your magic was purple during the memory spell. Your mother's magic isn't working because you have it."
Henry looked down at the plate of cookies he had picked out sheepishly.
"I know, I just…. I'm always afraid for her, you know? I sometimes think if she didn't have the magic, the townsfolk would leave her alone about it and if I had magic of my own, I could protect her." He admitted.
Just then, Regina, who he hadn't heard approaching behind him wrapped her arms around him.
"I'll be okay, Henry."
Purple mist flowed around them as her magic returned to her. Henry sighed.
"It was fun while it lasted though." He broke off a cookie and took a bite.
Regina turned toward Emma. She raised an eyebrow.
Emma shifted. "Let's do this at home, shall we?"
Regina realized Emma's confession might be a bit too personal. She nodded.
"Well, it seems we know how to break the curse." Regina told the group. "Let's go home and perhaps tomorrow we'll call up a town meeting to let everyone know, okay?"
"Aww, I really wanted to punish the baker." Zelena pouted.
Ruby gave her an affectionate smile.
"Come on Z, I'll give you a back rub and we can go home and relax." Ruby told the witch. Zelena outright grinned wickedly and Ruby seized her hand as they hurried out of the bakery. With a poof, they were gone.
Regina and Emma watched the entire occurrence curiously.
"Are they-?" Emma began.
"Yep." Henry answered his ma.
"Okay." Emma nodded.
"Henry, would you mind going to a friend's house tonight?" Regina asked her son.
"There are some things your mother and I need to discuss."