AN: I am for sure not a doctor, so if anything is medically inaccurate... sorry? I tried doing some research to try to make it as accurate as possible but idk guys.
Also there are some time hops, they generally happen between the cuts between characters. So just as long as ya'll pay attention you should be good :)
There may or may not be smutt at the end of this chapter, and there will be a lot more coming ;) in a chapter or so I can't remember where I cut these chapters but I promise there will be more before the story is done.
She felt numb, her eyes were still closed, she could vaguely feel something over her mouth, a mask maybe, there was a little beep she kept hearing. There was something clamped on her finger and she could feel wires. Her back was throbbing.
A voice she didn't recognize was talking. "Miss Mills, I assure you she's stable. Her head is trauma free. However her right leg is fractured, she has bruising, burns and lacerations down her back. As well as some burns on her right hand. Thankfully most of her burns are second degree, her jacket protected her from the worst of it. She passed out due to lack of oxygen because of the smoke, she will be fine." The voice had sounded far away. She still couldn't move her body felt heavy.
"If she dies in your care doctor I will personally see to it that you lose your license so you better make sure she is getting your absolutely best care or this may very well be your last patient." Regina of course she was threatening the doctors. She heard some shuffling and a hand was interlaced in her.
"Emma you're an idiot" she heard Regina's throat catch. She must be crying. "But you're an idiot I need alive, so please come back to me, please don't let go ."
She wanted so badly to move, to tell Regina that everything was going to be okay, but she couldn't. The darkness was taking her again. She had no idea how much time had passed but she could hear someone pacing near her feet. The heaviness was gone, she willed her fingers to wiggle and they did.
"Mom, you're going to wear a hole in the ground. You should sleep." It was Henry's voice. He sounded sleepy.
The pacing stopped "Go back to sleep dear. I'll get some sleep in a bit." Emma could tell that was a lie. Regina had no intentions of sleeping.
"They said she'd probably wake up in the morning." Henry knew his mom was lying as well "you should get some rest."
Emma finally managed to crack her eyes open. There was soft moon light coming in from the widow. It was late, Regina was now sitting in the chair next to Henry. Stroking his hair out of his face. Regina looked exhausted. Henry had already fallen back asleep.
The mask over her mouth was now bothering her. It felt heavy on her skin. She slowly moved her left hand up to her face. Regina saw the motion and was standing in a split second.
"Emma?" Regina voice was a whisper, she was swiftly at the side of the bed. Their eyes were locked in a gaze. "You're awake." Regina looked relieved for a second and then she looked pissed.
Regina's voice was quiet but harsh "What the hell were you thinking? You could have been killed. Henry needs you. I- I know I'm strong but I can't lose you, I've lost too much in my life and I am not losing you. Do you understand me Emma?"
Emma's hand had finally reached the annoying mask, she tried to move it very unsuccessfully at first but she finally got it far enough away from her mouth that she was satisfied. It was now resting on her throat.
"So my jackets a gonner huh?" Her voice was raspy, her throat was burning.
There were tears in Regina's eyes. "You're an idiot you know. Only you would run into an unstable burning building."
Emma reached her hand out resting it on Regina's abdomen. "I'm sorry Regina. I was thinking of you, Henry, and this one. And if any of you were stuck in a burning building and I couldn't do anything I would need the next person I saw to save you." She paused, looking into Regina's eyes, tears were streaming down the brunette's face. Regina brought a hand up and rested it over Emma's.
"You need to rest Regina." She tried to shift over to the far side of the bed to make room for Regina. It really fucking hurt to move.
"Stop moving Emma." It was a command, but Emma didn't listen. It was excruciatingly painful but she kept moving until there was enough space for Regina. She patted the empty space. Regina looked like a furious mother.
"No. You shouldn't have moved you're in pain."
"Come on, are you going to leave me hanging? Leaving all the work to waste. Look there's enough space for you and you need to sleep too."
"Only if you put the mask back on, it's helping your lungs, you need it."
Emma grabbed the mask and placed it back over her mouth looking at Regina expectantly. She sighed and crawled into bed being careful not to mess with any wires, her body was close to Emma's. Their hands interlocked. Emma brought up her other hand to the mask. It hurt like hell it was the hand she'd grabbed the doorknob with and it was wrapped up. But she moved the mask slightly down as she turned her head to face Regina.
"I told you to keep the mask on." Regina sounded stern but tired.
Emma put a kiss on Regina's forehead. "I love you." She shifted the mask back in place.
"I love you too, now go to sleep."
And they did. An hour passed and Emma had drifted in and out of sleep. The night nurse Hayley checked in on her throughout the night, gauging her pain level. The doctor had allowed her a different smaller breathing device since her lungs sounded cleaner. Regina had surprisingly slept through it all.
The morning light was shining through the window. Regina's breath on her neck was calming. Her leg was throbbing and her back felt tender, her shoulder was stiff and of course the pain button was just out of reach. She didn't want to wake Regina because she look so damn peaceful. The pain was getting to her.
Emma tried to slowly inch her right hand toward the button but her plan wasn't working. She was getting nowhere and that hand hurt like a bitch anyways. She tried shifting her right shoulder lower but it sent a wave of pain shooting through her body, a sharp cry of pain came out of her mouth and suddenly Regina was sitting up looking down at her, terror in her eyes.
"I'm sorry. I should have slept somewhere else."
Emma's voice was still raspy "No, no, it's not you. I was trying to reach the pain button, my leg and back are throbbing, it was my own fault. Please lay back down."
Regina reached over pressing the button twice before looking back at Emma.
"Where is your mask?"
Emma could already start to feel the meds entering her system. She pointed to the thin tube laying across her face feeding air into her nose. "Doc gave me this one instead."
"When?"
"A few hours ago, I don't know. You were asleep. You needed the rest. Now please come back here."
Regina looked unsure but she laid down. She could hear Henry lightly snoring from his chair. Regina's eyes were scanning Emma's face for any sign of pain. Emma tried to readjust her shoulder and winced.
"Would you quit moving. I should give you more space." Regina went to move away but Emma's good hand grabbed onto her wrist not letting her go.
"Emma." She sounded stern
"Yes?" Emma's voice was as light as she could get it, playful.
"My hand."
"What about it?" Emma was grinning. The meds were taking away the throbbing.
"Let go of it. I'm going to go sit in a chair."
"No."
"Emma." Regina was now trying to pry the hand off her wrist but Emma's grip got tighter.
"I'll let go when you lay back down"
Regina glared at her but couldn't hold it for long because Emma had an idiotic grin on her face.
"You are acting like a child, you almost died-"
"-but I didn't, and I'm fine."
"You are the furthest thing from fine."
"You're right, I'm hot." She sent Regina a wink which made the brunette roll her eyes.
Regina went to reach for the pain button but Emma blocked her with her bad hand wincing.
"If I didn't know any better Madame Mayor I'd think you were trying to drug me."
"Would you quit fighting me? You are being a giant pain and it looks like you're in a great deal of pain."
"I'm not letting go. I'm never letting you go Regina. You're stuck with me. I will always come back to you. Now come here." She patted her bad hand on her good shoulder.
Regina sighed as a tear rolled down her cheek and laid back down. Her head resting on Emma's shoulder. Emma had her arm behind Regina and was rubbing her back.
"I'm really glad you're alive. I'm sorry."
Emma brought her hand up into Regina's hair and started playing with it.
"Why are you sorry?"
"I couldn't heal you. I tried I really did but my magic... It's on the fritz I can't reign in my emotions. I have too many hormones flowing through me. I thought this pregnancy was going to be the death of you."
"You're pregnant?" It was Henry, he had probably woken up during their argument. Regina sat up fast, it jostled the bed and Emma winced.
"Henry, I..." Regina didn't know what to say.
"Why didn't you tell me mom?" Henry didn't sound mad he just sounded confused.
"I- I only found out myself a few days ago Henry. I needed to process it before I told you." Regina paused "And you should know that the child is Emma's."
Henry looked happy but confused. "How? Doesn't it take a guy?"
Regina looked a little surprised that he knew that.
"True love kiddo, your mom and I are in true love." Emma was gloating.
"I knew it!" Henry was smiling. "Am I going to have a little brother or sister?"
Regina had relaxed "We don't know that yet Henry, I'm not that far along but we will let you know when we find out."
"Promise?"
"I promise Henry."
"Promise kiddo. See look I told you he'd take the news like a true champ." Emma was starting to sound sleepy.
"I seem to remember you suggesting we tell him once the child arrived."
"Hmm maybe you're right but I do remember saying he'd take the news well. Also these drugs are really, really nice."
"They probably are, but I'm going to talk to the fairies see if they can heal you."
Emma just nodded. The morphine was making her sleepy but it was taking away the throbbing. Everything went dark again.
She awoke to Regina holding her hand, she looked frustrated and upset. In the room was also a nurse she hadn't seen yet and Blue.
"What's crackin?" Emma tried cracking a grin but it was mostly a grimace.
"Blue's magic isn't working on you. That fire wasn't an accident. We are under the assumption it was Zelena that set the fire with the intention of it hurting specifically you, which is preventing us from healing you magically."
Emma could see the rage in Regina's eyes.
"I'm sorry I couldn't be of more assistance. If you need help with anything let me know. Good luck in your recovery Emma." Blue headed out of the room but the nurse stayed.
"Hi Emma, I'm Ruth your day nurse. I need to change your back bandages. This is going to sting a lot, I'm sorry." She looked at Regina. "Are you sure you want to be here for this? I can get another nurse to help me."
"I'm not leaving Emma." Regina was stern, but her gaze went to Emma and her posture softened.
Ruth nodded and moved toward Emma's right side. "I'm going to need you to roll onto your left okay?"
Emma nodded. She laced her left hand into one of Regina's. Ruth placed her hands on her right arm.
"On three I'm going to start moving you. One, two, three." She began turning her body and she felt Ruth pushing her onto her side as the scream of pain escaped her lips.
The pain ran from her shoulder down her back she had no idea where it started and stopped. She could vaguely hear Regina trying to comfort her. She nearly blacked out from pain. It took a minute for her to become aware of her surroundings again. Clearly last night in her shuffle sideways she had been hopped up on morphine because the pain through her body was damn near unbearable. She realized she was now on her side. Regina was looking into her eyes concerned.
"Talk to me Emma, focus on me."
Emma suddenly realized how hard she had squeezed Regina's hand and removed it from Regina's grip.
"Sorry about your hand." She grimaced through her teeth. She could feel Ruth beginning to remove the old bandage.
"It'll be fine. Don't worry in a few months I'll be the one squeezing your hand for dear life." Regina had a small smile on her face, she was trying really hard to distract Emma. "Also I decided Zelena deserves more than a punch in the face."
"Punches aren't good enough for you anymore?"
"Punches are good but she deserves much worse. I'm thinking torture."
"That's pretty harsh, she is your sister. Maybe we just turn her into a piñata and set the kids of Storybrooke on her" The old bandage was now off.
"Are you defending Zelena?"
"No trust me I've thought of torturing her myself. She deserves it but-" a whimper escaped her lips, no words would leave her mouth, whatever ointment Ruth had just applied to her burns hurt like a bitch. She just wanted to scream and run.
"Let's talk about something else huh. Henry's really excited about being a big brother. He wanted to tell the town but I quickly put a stop to that. They'll find out in due time but right now I'm liking it staying between us, family."
Emma still wasn't responding.
"If we are having a boy how much do you want to bet your mother is going to suggest Leopold?"
Emma snorted at that trying to ignore the pain. "Five bucks says she doesn't. Keep talking" she pleaded under her breath. Regina just nodded.
"Speaking of your mother I have no idea how she's going to deal with the announcement that I'm having your child. I'm at a toss up between she tries to smother us both or she's going to pass out. She was here earlier, Henry went to school with her. He's going to stay with them until they discharge you. Just about everyone in town wants to visit you but I've been trying to keep them at bay until you're more up to it."
Ruth was finishing up the bandage.
"I saw Doctor Markus earlier. I think he's still absolutely terrified of me. I need to make a date for my next appointment. Hopefully he isn't apart of OBGYN." Regina paused, "You need to breath Emma."
Emma suddenly became acutely aware she had been holding her breath and let it go.
"Just hold my hand okay? You can squeeze it as hard as you need. And once you're back on your back you can sleep okay? I think you can have more morphine soon." Emma just nodded putting her hand back in Regina's. It was soothing, that simple touch.
Emma just felt her body shifting back onto her recently cleaned burns and it brought tears to her eyes. She could feel Regina wiping them away as they fell.
"Just sleep. It's going to get better."
Regina placed a gentle kiss on her forehead. She kept her eyes closed and felt the darkness take over again.
Regina was curled up on the chair in the waiting room, a new book on portals in her hand. Snow and David were in the room with Emma. It had been a week and a half and they were almost ready to discharge her. Her cuts and burns were mostly healed. It didn't hurt her nearly as bad anymore to have them cleaned. Emma refused to let Regina see the burns, some sort of honor thing. But Regina was just glad that Emma was now actually able to sit up and was more back to herself.
Actually standing was a challenge she was not yet ready to tackle since her leg was fractured and her shoulders were severely bruised so crutches weren't really an option yet but Emma had been determined about a day ago, she claimed she was tired of the catheter. When she attempted the break for a real bathroom, Regina had just left the room to take a phone call, she had ended up sitting on the floor unable to go anywhere. Regina had found her a minute after the daring escape and she had been properly scolded.
Hayley and Ruth were Emma's regular nurses whom Emma had made quick friends with. Except for when they were cleaning her wounds, then she tended to call them her torturers.
Regina closed the book. There wasn't anything in there to help her deal with Zelena. She saw Ruby walk into the waiting room and before Regina could say anything to her Ruby put down the bag of food she had on the small table and put her hands up in surrender.
"I know, I know it's not my day to see Emma but I'm not here to see her. I'm actually here to see you."
Regina raised an eyebrow at that.
"You haven't left the hospital once since you found out Emma was hurt. You might be telling Emma that you leave but I know you haven't gone anywhere besides the cafeteria, this room and hers. Henry might be good at running an operation but he's not good at laundry, it was smart using him to sneak in clothes for yourself though. And I know about..." She glanced down at Regina's abdomen and then back up to her eyes "... Things and you need real food."
"And how would you possibly know definitively that I haven't left?"
"I might also have an insider…"
Regina squinted her eyes at Ruby
"Okay so I'm dating Hayley, and she noticed you hadn't actually left the hospital so I told her to keep an eye out for you."
"She's how you know that I'm… Well you know" there was anger in Regina's voice.
"Hayley is innocent she wasn't working that day. I figured it out on my own. And she had no idea I knew, she only realized I knew when I was talking to Emma in her room about it." She was opening the bag and handing Regina food. And then she was pulling out food for herself.
"I thought I told you not to talk to her about that." Her glare didn't even phase Ruby.
"Well word from Emma is you're pretty liberal about talking about it in front of the nurses and with your strict visitation rules no one else is bound to stumble in the room."
"Fine. But once we leave this hospital the no talking rule holds." She bit into the burger. It was delicious and tasted like the first real meal she'd eaten since she'd got here.
"So how are you?" Ruby sounded genuine.
"Tired. Irritable, my clothes feel tight. But I'm just glad Emma is alive. Hayley huh?" She had a smug smile on her face.
"I swear if you try to get her fired. She didn't tell me." Ruby looked slightly panicked.
"I won't, I think Emma would hate me for a very long time if I did, but that's not what I meant. I've never seen her at the diner, she is very pretty."
Ruby shrugged "I keep my private life private. No one else knows. Not even Emma."
"Is this your way of getting me to trust you Miss Lucas?"
"Maybe. Because I trust you."
"You impress me Ruby. The town gossip manages to have a private life no one knows about."
"Well turns out when you're the one telling everyone's secrets no one thinks to see if you have any."
The two of them were eating their food. Regina realized that Ruby saw her as a friend. Even though she was no longer seen as the evil queen she still didn't have many friends.
"You find a way to take care of your sister?" Ruby was curious.
"Unfortunately no. And after the number she did on Emma I'd like to lock her in a room and set it on fire. But she's been laying low."
"Well if you need a wolf to tear her a new one call me. I want her to pay, for what she's done to both of you."
Regina was glaring at the table like it was Zelena.
"Did you hear Belle banished Gold from Storybrooke?" Ruby had said it so casually. It caused Regina to look up forgetting her anger.
"Say again." Regina sounded shocked.
Ruby leaned in, "Well word is, Belle found out the dagger you gave her was a fake. His biggest weakness was his power and this magic gauntlet thingy lead her to the real one, she felt super betrayed and then she ordered him across the line and ever since the latest curse no one can come back."
"Maybe she isn't hopeless."
Ruby giggled. Hayley was walking by in the hallway, Regina watched as Ruby bit her bottom lip and the wolf's eyes followed Hayley walking down the hall.
"Do you love her?"
Ruby whipped her head, eyes wide at Regina.
"What? You're allowed to stick your nose in my relationship but I can't ask if you love the nurse?"
"Her name is Hayley…" She paused "and yeah I think I do. But I don't know if she feels the same."
Snow and Charming came walking into the the waiting room. Snow looked surprised and happy to see Ruby. Ruby was quickly on her feet hugging her friend "How's our girl?"
"She's doing much better. She's in great hands." She looked over at Regina and stepped toward her leaning down to give the still seated Regina a hug. It surprised Regina and she must have looked shocked because Ruby was snickering.
"Thank you Regina for looking out for my daughter." Snow stepped back. "She speaks very highly of you and I see why now."
David smiled at Regina "I'm really glad we didn't kill you."
Regina rolled her eyes at that. But she got up and hugged Snow again and hugged David. It was weird but she is dating their daughter. If she had killed Snow, Emma wouldn't exist. The couple left and Ruby and Regina were left standing there.
"Well I suppose this means you're headed back to Emma." Ruby smiled at Regina.
"Would you like to join me? I'm sure she'd like to see you."
"Regina… Are you going soft on me?" Ruby was grinning but Regina gave her a glare. Regina's hands were firmly on her hips.
"I can easily take that invitation away."
Ruby sauntered forward looping her arm into Regina's "I know you like me, Emma told me. Come on let's go see the Savior. I heard she tried to make a break for the bathroom the other day when no one was in the room so we should probably get back there before she gets any other crazy ideas."
"I'm going to kill her."
"You love her too much."
"I do, it's a shame, I'll really miss her."
"She was right you do have a humorous side."
"Do you two talk about anything not related to me?"
"Occasionally. Only if there is really good gossip."
Those two really need a hobby. Ruby was pulling her back toward Emma's room.
"Alright Miss Swan you are officially discharged and free to go home. You'll still need to change your bandages for the worst of the cuts and burns but those should be all healed up within a week. I'll see you then. And I give your leg another four weeks." Emma was sitting in a wheelchair. Regina began pushing her toward the exit. They made it to a hallway intersection, the exit was dead ahead.
"Turn right." Emma sounded confident.
Regina paused "We are going home Emma whatever you have planned can wait. I'm tired the exit is in front of us."
"No it can't. Regina did you forget you have an appointment today?" She was looking over her shoulder at the brunette.
"I suppose I did." She sighed "I guess I've been focusing on you and not me" she tugged at her shirt. Regina's clothes were starting to get tight. She was about nine weeks now and she was starting to show.
She turned the wheelchair and pushed Emma toward check in. Emma was nearly bouncing in her seat, she was excited because this visit wasn't about her but about Regina. After they checked in and waited a very long five minutes they were being taken to a room. This section of the small hospital was much friendlier looking than the one that she'd been in for what had felt like forever.
Once her vitals had been taken, Regina was laying down on the bed. Emma's wheelchair was positioned close by. Regina's hands kept pulling at the bottom of her shirt trying to pull it away from her skin and Emma realized that Regina hadn't even been able to button her pants. She made a mental note to send Ruby shopping for her, she'd be able to find comfy clothes that would fit and could cover the beginnings of a bump.
"Relax" Emma wrapped her hand into one of the hands that had been trying to readjust her shirt for the millionth time.
"I am relaxed" Regina was almost glaring at Emma. She was the furthest thing from relaxed.
"Mmhm sure. You want to talk about it?"
"It's nothing."
"Okay, whatever you say." Emma was playing with Regina's hand. Trying to distract her from whatever was bothering her. They stayed in silence for another minute.
Regina finally sighed and said quietly, "What if something is wrong."
Emma sat up straight at that, concern etching into her face, "Does something feel wrong? Does anything hurt?"
"No just- I never thought I would be pregnant, I wasn't able to be for so long and what if that somehow hurts the child. And I haven't even had a moment to think about me and all my clothes don't fit so now lying here everything hit me and what if something is wrong."
"Breath." Emma pulled Regina's hand to her mouth and gave it a quick kiss. "I don't think there is anything wrong. But we just have to wait, they're running tests and if anything does happen to be wrong we will do our best to fix it. And until we get you something that fits I've got leggings and bigger shirts you can borrow."
There was a knock at the door and the nurse that had done the first ultrasound came in. She smiled at the couple.
"Hello again, I'm here to do the ultrasound. Miss Mills if you would pull your shirt up I can begin." She pulled the machine over, grabbing a bottle she walked over next to the bed.
Regina pulled up her shirt, Emma could see a distinct little bump and it made her heart flutter, there was a child in there that was hers and Regina's. She realized that she wasn't running, whenever things got tough she'd always run, and things were crazy right now but the only thing she wanted to do was stay. Stay with Regina, fight off Zelena, have a family for the first time for real.
"This is going to be cold." She squeezed some of the gel onto Regina's abdomen. Emma saw Regina tense slightly, but then she relaxed. The nurse had put what Emma could only describe as a probe like wand on Regina and after a few seconds the screen was now showing their child. The fetus had grown and now the head was more distinct, however Emma had no idea what body part was what, it had been the same with the ultrasounds with Henry. Both Emma and Regina were grinning as the nurse filled them in on their child's growth, pointing out each body part to the couple.
"There's nothing wrong right?" Regina sounded hesitant.
"As far as I can see your child is at the proper stage. The doctor will be in to see you soon. Would you like a print out of the ultrasound?"
"Yes!" Emma had nearly jumped out of her wheelchair.
Regina chuckled at her enthusiasm "That would be greatly appreciated. Thank you."
The nurse printed out an image handing it to Regina and left congratulating them again. Regina was smiling at the print out and Emma couldn't pry her eyes from Regina. She was almost glowing. The rest of the appointment went perfectly, everything was progressing as it was suppose to and much to Emma's surprise Regina didn't threaten a doctor for the rest of the visit.
Trying to navigate Emma into the mansion had been just as hard as it had been to get her in and out of the car. Emma had nearly fallen at least three times but Regina had steadied her each time. Thankfully Emma had packed that bag of clothing the night she wound up in the hospital because Regina was tired and although happy that everything was good, she wasn't in the mood to deal with other people, especially Mary Margaret and David. Henry had been in and out of the hospital throughout Emma's stay so Regina had convinced him to stay at his grandparents to allow Emma to get settled into the mansion.
Regina had made up a roll-away bed in the living room for Emma for the time being. The stairs were going to be way too hard to navigate with her sore shoulders, back and fractured leg. Once they had settled in Regina had thankfully taken the clothes Emma had promised to loan her and she was actually comfortable in clothing for the first time in a week. Emma had already taken her meds and was passed out on the small bed. Leaning down Regina gave her a quick kiss on her forehead and headed upstairs to her room. She had left Emma's phone next to her and had told her that if she needed anything to call her and she would be down immediately.
The only reason she had agreed to sleep in her own bed was because Emma had threatened to go up the stairs if Regina attempted to sleep on the sofa, claiming Regina had spent too many nights sleeping in chairs as is. Which was true, Regina was grateful when she crawled into bed. Before long she was fast asleep.
She was laying in a hospital bed, she felt exhausted, there was a newborn infant in her arms. But she felt panicked she knew something was about to go wrong.
"They are not going to get past the protection barrier, relax. No one is going to touch our child." It was Emma.
Suddenly there was a spiral of smoke in the corner of the room and there stood Zelena and Cora. She looked down and her child was no longer there. Looking up she saw Zelena cradling her child. "Aw, she'll work perfect. Now I'm going to go make sure she grows up happy, something you can't provide."
Cora was now standing in front of Emma, she reached her hand into Emma and ripped out her heart. Regina was screaming at her to stop but she couldn't get out of bed. And then suddenly Emma's heart was dust.
The phone ringing brought her out of her nightmare. She fumbled reaching over and grabbing it. Looking at the bright screen she saw Emma's name. She quickly answered it.
"What's wrong Emma?"
"Are you okay?" Emma sounded out of breath and worried.
"Yeah, I just had a nightmare, are you okay?" Regina was getting concerned. The nightmare was becoming a distant thought.
"Well I heard you screaming in your sleep and I called you but you didn't answer so I tried coming up the stairs to make sure Zelena hadn't found a way in and now I'm…" She paused then sounding guilty "...stuck halfway up the stairs."
"Emma."
"I dropped one of my crutches, I would have made it. You sounded like you were in trouble. Could you come help me?"
Regina got out of bed ending the call and made her way down the hall, looking over the banister she saw Emma sitting a little more than halfway up. She was determined she gave her that.
"Alright let's get you back downstairs."
"Nope. I'm coming up." Emma was determined.
"Emma."
"If you go to sleep and you have another nightmare I'm going to try climbing the stairs again. I have to protect you."
Regina was now a few steps below Emma looking up at her. Emma was still slightly out of breath.
"Emma you can barely walk I don't think you'd be able to protect me."
"You'd be surprised, I'm resourceful. Plus I can at the minimum try to protect you from bad dreams."
Regina rolled her eyes, why was Emma always so persistent.
"If you get me my other crutch I can make it up."
Regina turned around and saw the second crutch had slid to the bottom of the steps.
"I'm already more than halfway up. I got this. Plus I miss you."
"I'm right in front of you Emma and I'm tired, would you please go down the stairs?"
"Nope. I'm coming up. The sooner you get my crutch, the sooner we can get upstairs."
Regina sighed, it was too late to be arguing and she just wanted to get back to bed. She wouldn't exactly be opposed to Emma sleeping next to her. She went down and grabbed the crutch.
"Fine. Let's get you up the stairs."
Emma flashed her a giant grin. After another 15 minutes of watching Emma grunt and struggle with a few slight pushes on Regina's part to steady her, she finally made it up the rest of the stairs. She was extremely out of breath.
"Was that worth it?" Regina was looking Emma up and down making sure she wasn't about to pass out.
"Yes, yes it was. Now I get to sleep next to you. In a soft plush bed. And if you need me I'll be right there." She began moving forward toward Regina's room. Regina followed behind. They made it to her bed and Emma managed to roll onto the bed abandoning the crutches on the floor.
Regina got back into bed watching Emma.
"Wanna tell me about your nightmare?" Emma turned her head to look directly at Regina.
"Zelena stole our child." She slightly shrugged she didn't want to tell Emma that she had also seen her die in front of her eyes.
"We will be rid of her before then."
"You don't know that."
"I know I just climbed a set of stairs and you didn't think I could do that. I think we will be able to handle Zelena."
"You're an idiot"
"So I've heard." Emma flashed a grin at Regina and then she scooted closer and brought her lips against Regina's. "I love you."
"Go to sleep Emma." She rolled over facing the wall "and I love you too."
With Emma next to her she felt more at ease and she was quickly back asleep. She went through a variety of different dreams and nothing really stood out. And then she was on to a particular dream about Emma between her legs and the heat was rising through her body, Regina kept getting close to climaxing but she never did which left her hot and bothered as she woke up. It was still early morning, the sun wasn't out yet and here she was laying in bed horny as could be. She looked over to where Emma would be and found her on her side her head propped up on her arm watching her. It startled Regina, she had been expecting Emma to be asleep.
"Go to sleep Emma."
"That sounded like an interesting dream you were having there."
"It was. Now go to sleep." She felt herself blushing. She desperately wanted to screw Emma but she was still recovering and she didn't want to hurt her. She rolled away from Emma trying to put distance between them, but she felt Emma move right behind her. The blonde swept Regina's hair away from her neck and began placing light kisses up and down her neck. She groaned, this was only turning her on more.
"If you want me to stop I will but you've taken care of me for three weeks, let me help you take care of that throbbing heat between your legs."
"And what makes you think there is?"
"You were moaning my name under your breath. Apparently I'm very good in your dreams. Do you want me to continue?"
Regina moaned. "Yes." She shoved her leggings down and then tried to turn around but Emma held her in place.
"I like this angle." She pulled Regina's hips closer to her body and angled her arm under Regina's neck. She pulled Regina's legs apart, one on the bed the other angled toward the ceiling. Her fingers ran down Regina's inner thigh. It was driving her crazy she already felt like she was about to come and Emma had barely touched her.
"I can please you the same way I please myself from this angle." Emma's voice was low and husky. Her fingers slid into Regina's wet slit. Emma's name escaped Regina's lips in a moan.
Emma's other hand began teasing her nipples. Regina was already on edge. Emma's fingers went to work quick but she didn't have to do much more than slide her finger over her clit a few times before Regina let out a breathy moan as she came. Her body had been so worked up from the dream and her hormones it hadn't taken much but Emma kept the motion up and Regina was squirming, her breath getting erratic. She vaguely felt Emma enter her with two fingers but her body was already on cloud nine.
Emma's fingers were pumping in and out of her at a slow rate. Her body wanted more.
"Faster, please." Regina pleaded.
Emma was kissing her down her neck. She began pumping her fingers at an increasing faster speed. Regina was on edge again she was so close to climaxing. Emma pushed her thumb onto her clit and then the rush of release flooded through Regina as she came hard.
Her breathing slowly came back to normal she tried to turn around she wanted to repay Emma for the mind boggling orgasm but Emma held her in place. And she was too tired to retaliate. She saw Emma bring the fingers that had just been inside her up to the blondes mouth as she licked them clean.
"God I've missed your taste. Just sleep my love. You've done enough for me."