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-6- Flirting [7th years]

Emma stretched her arms above her head, groaning happily as the class' door closed behind her. The Charm's exam had gone better than expected and as she turned towards Ruby and Mary Margaret, the later already a bundle of nerves while re-reading a particular difficult paper she needed to handle over in the next hour she saw, from the corner of her eye, a certain Ravenclaw hidden behind a large, azure book she couldn't distinguish its title from where she was. Leaning against the stone wall and bag between her legs the Ravenclaw's digits tapped impatiently against the surface of the book, the movement not being lost on Emma who found herself looking away the second she sensed the slightest of movements behind the open book. Biting her lower lip, she fiddled with her tie, tightening the loose knot she had done a few hours before until she felt a slight pressure around her neck. Casting a glance towards Mary Margaret she hummed a short and quick "I need to go to the bathroom" before she walked purposely towards the reading Ravenclaw, Ruby following her footsteps with her own gaze and chuckling behind her, the sound of her laughter reaching the blonde's ears who deliberately ignore as she stood in front of Regina. The brunette kept her eyes focused solely on the book as she pretended to not have noticed Emma's presence.

"Could you move?" She finally asked after a few seconds of silence. "I was using that light you are blocking."

Emma rolled her eyes at the snappish girl. Lips parting in a teasing smirk she kept waiting until the Ravenclaw, out of exasperation, glanced towards her, hair slightly messy from where she had been playing with it as she read. The blonde noticed a speck of red ink staining her cheeks but said nothing, swallowing down the laughter as she shrugged, looking at her feet as she tried to refrain herself from playing with the hem of her blouse.

"The exam went well." She finally said, looking briefly at Regina who didn't hide the satisfied look quick enough for her to lose it. "I just wanted to say thank you for your help." The last part was said with much less bravado but when Emma looked towards Regina once again she smiled, noticing the way Regina's eyes gleamed amused before nodding herself, her voice dismissive yet softer than what Emma had been accustomed to for years.

"Leaving a few notes behind can't be consider actually helping someone, Swan. You should know that."

"And yet you are here." Emma challenged back, decided to not give whatever she was doing up. She had seen how Regina had looked purposely at her own desk before walking away, being sure that Emma in fact looked at her the second she did so. No matter how much the Ravenclaw tried to say otherwise. "I know you should be three more corridors to the left right…"

"What do you want Emma?" The brunette asked and perhaps it was the way she said her name or the smoldering gaze her pupils hold but Emma smirked and crossed her hands over her chest, not feeling shy anymore.

"Just saying thank you." She said, lowering her voice and coming a step closer to the brunette. "For helping me out."

She didn't miss the way Regina's eyes dropped to her lips nor the way the brunette seemed to swallow as they kept staring at each other. "Anything else?" She said, her voice slightly breezy, slightly low.

"I would like to do something for you in return."

Regina narrowed her eyes, as she finally closed the book and lowered it, her eyes looking fully to Emma's as she considered the offer. "And what that could be?"

Emma nibbled on her bottom lip as she looked around her, unsure of what she could possibly offer to the brunette girl. Noticing at the end the title of the book the Ravenclaw was reading and recognizing it for one that was supposed to be for Astronomy she pointed at it before dropping her hand, the other one scratching the back of her neck as she shrugged, wanting her best to look and sound nonchalant.

"How about I help you with that?"

Regina raised one single eyebrow as she looked at the girl she had in front of her, a side of her mouth curving, giving Emma a lopsided smirk the blonde swallowed at.

"And how do you plan to do that?"

The blonde took a deep breath before speaking again. "I have an idea."

-.-

"This is really a bad idea." Said Regina, gritting her teeth. "A very bad idea." She repeated as the nocturne breeze caressed her cheeks. In front of her Emma chuckled once before sliding her body towards her left, the broom answering her commands as she did so. Below them the Astronomy tower stood, tall and proud, and if Regina squinted her eyes the reflection of the moon at the lake's surface also was visible from where they were; twinkling stars seeming as closer as ever.

"Afraid I'm going to drop you?" The words startled her and for a second she blinked, looking at Emma's back in where her hair, tied up in a loose ponytail floated gently with every new adjustment the Gryffindor made in order to keep the broom still.

"You won't dare." She replied, her lips feeling dry against the wind as she wet them quickly, seeing only the blonde's profile as the Gryffindor looked towards her, breeze moving the broom just enough for Regina to grasp the hidden pocket with her wand just slightly more forcefully.

"Try me." Came the answer, a teasing touch on her voice.

In any other moment Regina would have probably said something scorching before walking away. This time, however, she couldn't do that and she so she found herself scoffing, the starred sky momentarily forgotten as she narrowed her eyes, decided to regard the blonde's occurrence with silence. After a few moments the blonde's shoulders sagged, the broom trembling as another current touched its tip.

"C'mon, admit that this is better than seeing the sky from the tower."

The statement was true and Regina found herself grateful for the blonde's actions. An idea so foreign for her that she stared at Emma's head, at her shoulder blades which protruded slightly from the blouse she wore -the normal padding she used to wear forgotten on the lockers- due to the tension as she recalibrated the broom once again, before humming, hands gripping Emma's sides as yet another current moved the broom a few inches to the left.

"It's… nice."

If the admission surprised Emma the blonde didn't show and for a moment Regina's mind filled itself with another type of memories, ones she erased as quickly as they've come before focusing on the sky that stretched above their heads, the names of hundreds of stars waiting to be written on the piece of parchment she had brought with her and now rested slightly crumpled at her backpack. However, before she could grab it, Emma changed their course abruptly, eliciting a small yelp from Regina as the brunette grabbed even tighter to Emma's waist, her heart beating madly for a second as she steadied herself behind the blonde's back, noticing too late how close her lips where from Emma's earlobe and how the woman had fallen completely still.

"You ok there?" The question echoed between them, slightly breezy, slightly deep and Regina cleared her throat before nodding, her voice coming haughty and cold but yet with far too many banter for it to be considered anything else but such.

"I think you are enjoying this too much."

The answer for that wasn't the expected and when Emma did a lazy turn, stopping the broom once again just above the tower Regina shuddered, thinking again, trying to remember the hundreds of reasons the blonde had given her to hate her. "What if I'm?"

Finally, after what felt like hours, Regina breathed again, her pulse returning to normal as she swallowed, her eyes focusing on Emma's nose, silhouetted thanks to the silver-like moonlight that fell over the castle. "Don't be an idiot."

The silence between them only stretched further after that and Regina picked up the enchanted quill and parchment she had brought with her and started notating the names and positions of the sky's map, her eyes going back and forth between the sky and the paper, willing herself to keep writing as she felt Emma's tensioned shoulders just an inch away from her.

"I'm not." It was a whisper, one said with equal mixed parts of tiredness and amusement and Regina wondered what she was indeed doing with Emma Swan up there, why she had even considered the idea when the blonde had explained it to her between whispers as they had met at the castle's entrance.

"You are." She replied, quickly, silence falling between them and this time refusing to raise again even when Regina touched the blonde's back and muttered a quick. "I'm done" that made the Gryffindor descend slowly towards the stone-made tower, the silence still between them as they nodded awkwardly at each other, barbs and jibs leaving their lips as they motioned towards their respective bedrooms, a quiet "Thank you" floating behind the blonde's back as they parted ways.

Neither of them slept that night.