A/N: This is just a short fluffy chapter, basically just to set up what's going to happen in the next chapter! Just go with it ;) Enjoy! Xo
CHAPTER 7
The next morning Mellie was first to wake up, when she first woke up she felt Regina's arm relaxing around her waist. She lay like that for several moments before realizing she missed Regina's face already, she slowly turned her body attempting so hard not to wake Regina up from her deep slumber. Once she successfully managed to turn, Regina's hand now almost relaxing on Mellie's bum, she began to watch Regina sleep. She tried to take in every little detail, the way her hair lay slightly over one side of her face, the way her nose crinkled slightly when she was dreaming and the rhythm and beat of which she was breathing. Mellie wanted to remember every single second.
It was their first night sleeping together and Mellie prayed to God that it wouldn't be the last; she would do anything to make sure it wasn't the last time she woke up next to Madam Mayor Regina Mills.
Ten minutes later, Regina began to stir awake as she began to move, Mellie leaned in and kissed her hard, and making sure she had the best start to the morning possible. Regina didn't even bother to open her eyes, once she realised what was happening she embraced the kiss, and kissed back equally as hard and fierce. Her hand moved directly back to Mellie's bum where she squeezed much to Mellie's delight. Mellie's hand's moved around Regina's shoulders and neck making sure they were as close to each other as possible. Tongues began playing with each other, chasing one another around the opposite mouths, causing little moans to escape both women. Neither of them wanted to pull back, they wanted to take it further there and then, desperately.
Mellie reluctantly and painfully pulled back first, her mouth was already aching at the loss within semi-seconds. She smiled at Regina's who's arm hadn't moved and inch, they were both breathing equally as heavy and they were both equally as happy. "Good morning." Mellie said, in a low, sleep-ridden voice.
Regina smiled at the beautiful woman lying before her. "Good morning, dear." Regina said before leaning in for another kiss, this time it was gentle and passionate and certainly full of love. It was almost a dead-cert that it was the best kiss either woman had felt. None had been filled with so much lust and want but had been as gentle and loving as this one had. It was the perfect kiss some would say. Regina finally moved one of her hand's up and cupped Mellie's face, pulling her face as close to Regina's as possible. Noses were gently meeting each other and tongues were gently playing together this time. Mellie realised she could actually touch Regina anywhere at any time, and this made her smile more deeply into the kiss as she lowered her hand and felt Regina's muscular and perfectly toned bottom. She didn't squeeze, she just rubbed it up and down.
This time Regina was first to pull away, she looked into Mellie's eyes and saw nothing but love and admiration; it almost completely melted her heart. She had never seen such love through someone's eyes before. Is this what True Love was? Regina was desperate to find out.
After moments of watching and gathering their breaths back, Regina finally said, "That's the best wakeup call I've ever had." And she meant it.
Mellie smiled a meaningful smile; her cheeks were almost hurting between how big her smile was and how much she was blushing. "Me too." She simply said. Her mind was going far too crazy to think of anything else.
Once, Regina had managed to gather her thoughts she remembered she had something to tell Mellie, "Guess what?" Regina teased, she was moving her finger slowly up and down the side of Mellie's body, from her shoulder to her hip line and back again, it was sending instant shivers down Mellie's spine.
Mellie raised an eyebrow at her playful girlfriend, "what?" she said suspiciously.
"I don't have to go into work at all today which means we get to spend all day together and you can finally meet Henry." Regina's mind went into over drive, once she remembered Mellie hadn't even met her son yet and after what happened with Emma yesterday, she didn't know what Mellie would actually do if she saw her.
"Oh, I thought it was going to be something good." Mellie teased back before she realised the look on Regina's face had completely done a 180 and changed. "I was just joking, I can't wait to meet your son and spend all day with you!" Mellie said before kissing Regina to bring that smile back, it was the briefest of brief kisses but it worked.
"Yay." Regina said with over exaggerated excitement.
"You've never said that before in your life have you?" Mellie said, laughing at Regina's little burst of excitement.
"Nope, never." Regina joined in and began laughing along with Mellie.
In the kitchen, Regina was already dressed and had her make-up applied to perfection as per usual, her hair was coiffed not a hair out of place but Mellie who sat at the table was still in her sweats and t-shirt, she was relishing the fact she didn't have to go straight to hair and make-up as soon as she opened her eyes. "Mels, are you going to get ready today or what?" Regina said as she looked over her shoulder at Mellie who had her feet up on the chairs opposite her as she watched Regina move about.
"Yes, in a bit." Mellie replied with a sigh, like a child whose parent wouldn't stop nagging them. Mellie didn't take her eyes of Regina's bum once.
"Okay, is my bum better than getting dressed for the day?" Regina wittedly replied as she continued to look over her shoulder at the brunette.
Mellie instantly started going red, her whole face was almost beetroot by the time the full embarrassment had hit her. As soon as she realised her face was burning she instantly replied with, "Yes." And smiled, causing Regina to laugh with a slight tint of evil peeking through. "Okay, can we cook pancakes together then I'll get dressed, deal?" Mellie continued.
"We? Do you remember what happened to my kitchen the last time you tried to cook?" Regina replied as she turned her whole body to face Mellie abandoning what she was doing.
"But…" Mellie said before pouting her bottom lip out, she knew Regina could never resist her puppy-dog-look. "You said you'd teach me?" Mellie said like an innocent child.
"Ugh," Regina groaned out, causing a smile from Mellie. "Fine!" Regina said before turning back around.
Mellie removed her legs from the chair next to her and put them on the ground so she could stand up; she walked over to where Regina was standing and slid her arms around Regina's waist so she could grab the flour that was on the kitchen counter. She quickly snatched it before scurrying to the other side of the kitchen.
Regina turned round with a horrified look on her face. "You wouldn't." was all she said. She could see how playful Mellie had been all morning and she knew exactly what was coming next. She turned around looking for something to grab but couldn't find anything except the left-over flour on the board she was rolling the pancakes out with.
"Oh, I so would." Mellie replied as she stuck her hand in the flour and grabbed some of it, before pulling her hand back out the bag. She knew Regina could stop this at any given moment with her magic and when she didn't Mellie knew Regina wanted this as much as she did. "FOOD FIGHT" Mellie shouted.
"Mels, it's not a food fight, because it's not fo-" Regina said before she was cut off by flour meeting her overly expensive black dress. "Oh, no you didn't" Regina said with the best-faked horrified look on her face.
Mellie stuck her hand in the bag again for another lot of flour ready to be catapulted at Regina. "Oh, yes I did." She replied laughing, before Regina magicked a bag of flour into her hands. "Oh shit." Mellie said when she realized Regina also had a bag.
Regina quickly ripped open the top of the bag, "Yeah, oh shit" came her reply before she managed to grab some flour and throw it at Mellie who managed to jump out the way before it hit her. Regina was more shocked by the fact she had missed Mellie to realize another bout of flour was heading her way.
Mellie walked closer towards Regina as the game wasn't fun enough being so far apart. "You're getting brave, Melody." Regina said.
Mellie was shocked, when she heard Regina call her by her full name, "You just called me Melody?" Mellie asked before Regina skilfully hit her with a ball of flour on the head. "Good game, Miss Mills, good game." Mellie scoffed when realized Regina's game plan.
"Thank you, dear." Regina replied triumphantly. Mellie held the bag three quarters of the way up so only a quarter would leave at once before aiming at bag at Regina and throwing without letting go, Regina was officially covered in head-to-toe. Mellie ran to the other side of the dining-room table, followed quickly by Regina.
Regina realized she wouldn't get a good shot at Mellie from the other side of the table, so she magicked the table away, causing Mellie to look at her. "Woah, that's cheating." Mellie said before Regina had thrown half her bag over Mellie, she was going in for the kill.
Regina ran back into the main part of the kitchen whilst Mellie wiped her face. As soon as her eyes were able to see where she was going she headed straight where Regina was standing, she put her flour on the counter before walking straight up to Regina and kissing her, deeply. As she kissed Regina she felt the contents of the bag of flour being dropped on to her head in one massive plop. Mellie pulled back, before shaking her hair all over Regina. "I'm pretty sure I came out best on that one."
Regina scoffed and coughed as she blew the contents of the flour out of her mouth. "Yeah, I think you did," Regina said when she looked herself up and down, her black dress now grey. "Now, I need to go change and look at the mess of my kitchen!" Regina said pretending to stress out.
"Just do some of the magic shit and clear it up." Mellie said as she kissed Regina on the cheek and walked away with a shake in her bum. "I'm going for a shower." Mellie winked as she strutted out of the kitchen.
"Yes, madam First Lady." Regina muttered under her breath, with one swoop of her hand the kitchen was spotless. Regina needed a shower too but she had already been for a shower, so she used a little of the old magic and magicked herself clean, she was fairly satisfied when she eyed her now fully black dress up and down.
"How did you get ready so quickly?" Mellie said as she walked back into the kitchen her hair still wet from her shower, she was wearing one of her new black pant-suits. Even with wet hair she still took Regina's breath away.
Regina held up her hand, tilted it to the side along with her head, she raised an eyebrow and smiled at Mellie with a sort of how-do-you-think-I-did-it-look.
Mellie nodded her head in acceptance. "Can you dry my hair?" Mellie said with the cheekiest smile, she hated drying her hair with a burning passion, these were the times she missed her daily hairdresser.
Regina smiled and with a wave of her hand, Mellie's hair was bone dry. "Like that, dear?" Regina said with a satisfied smile as she looked on at Mellie who was now happily running her hand through her hair.
"Yes! Thank you." Mellie said as she walked over to Regina, she had pancakes piled up on two separate plates waiting patiently for Mellie to come and get them. "Pancakes!" Mellie said like a child who had just gotten their favorite toy.
"Yes, dear," Regina said before imitating Mellie's voice. "Pancakes!" She held Mellie's plate up and handed it over to Mellie who triumphantly turned around and walked towards to the table.
Regina quickly followed suit. "What's wrong, dear?" Regina said when Mellie hadn't spoken in five minutes instead she spent the five minutes looking nowhere but her plate.
Mellie quickly lifted her head and faced Mellie. "Nothing," Mellie replied as Regina tilted her head. "Ok, I'm nervous." Mellie admitted before looking back at her plate.
Regina raised a perfectly arched eyebrow, "Nervous? About what?" She said before she took a bite of her pancake.
Mellie quickly chewed what was already in her mouth before replying. She kept her eyes on her plate at all times, she hated admitting her feelings but she had to get used to it, didn't she? "meeting-Henry," She said quickly with absolutely no spaces, Regina couldn't hear her much let alone understand her.
"Mels, I can't hear you," Regina laughed, she was mostly laughing at how vulnerable and adorable her girlfriend was but she was slightly laughing at how nervous she looked.
"Meeting-Henry." She said once again with absolutely no spaces, but this time it was loud enough for Regina to hear, after a few seconds Regina understood what Mellie was talking about.
"Why?" Regina said out of curiosity, no one had been nervous to meet Henry before.
"He might not like me," Mellie said seriously, this time she lifted her head and looked at Regina with the biggest puppy-dog like eyes Regina had seen.
"Don't be silly, dear. He'll love you." Regina replied trying to reassure Mellie.
"Kid's don't like me Regina, I've never met someone's kids, Fitz's kids were my kids, I've never done this before, remember?" Mellie replied she was speaking with more confidence now she had gotten over the biggest hurdle.
"You'll be fine, stop worrying, if he likes Emma, he'll like anyone." Regina said with a slight laughter, but her joke completely backfired when Mellie's facial expression changed. Regina quickly realized why. "Mellie." Regina said sternly.
"I just don't want to hear her name." Mellie said, seriously, her speech with almost fueled with anger.
"You have to get used to it Mellie, she's a part of my life, wither I like it or not." Regina said, straight to the point but fair. Mellie did have to get used to it but it would take time.
"I know," Mellie said with a slight, comforting smile before she stretched out her hand and laid it on top of Regina's. She desperately wanted to argue but something told her not to bother, deep down she understood completely but that still didn't make it okay.
"You have to promise not to say anything to Emma?" Regina said, this time she was serious. Emma and Regina had been through too much for it to go back to square one.
"Regina," Mellie said as she removed her hand from on top of Regina's. No more was said before Regina fired a warning look at her; normally Mellie would fight it but this time she just wasn't up for an argument. Mellie sighed and nodded in agreement.
"You need to say it." Regina said, this time she had lifted all seriousness out of the conversation.
"Seriously?" Mellie said, tilting her head. Regina just widened her eyes playfully. "I promise I won't say anything." Mellie replied moving her head from side to side with every separate word. Her mind going into over drive, she promised she wouldn't say anything, but that was all she promised.
"Want to go meet Henry?" Regina said as she stood up and took hers and Mellie's plates to the dishwasher.
Mellie took a deep breath. "Let's do this."
Mellie and Regina walked hand-in-hand over to the Charming's house, they didn't speak about anything in particular, Mellie was mostly in silence and Regina spent the whole time attempting to reassure Mellie everything would be alright.
Mellie insisted Regina chapped on the door to avoid all awkwardness. Regina felt weird because normally she would just walk in, but if it made Mellie feel better she knocked and impatiently waited.
Emma opened the door much to Mellie's distaste, but she politely smiled at Emma, Mellie waited patiently for Emma to smile back before putting her plan into action. Her stomach was full of fire and adrenaline, she knew this wasn't going to go down well with Regina but she figured if this didn't go down well with Regina, she'd go down on Regina later, plus she wasn't breaking any promises.
As soon as Emma smiled back, Regina went to speak before Mellie grabbed Regina's face with a hand on each cheek and pulled her close and kissed her hard and passionately right in front of Emma, she didn't allow Regina to pull back, not that she wanted too. Mellie continued to kiss her for a few seconds before pulling back, triumphantly and proudly she turned to smile at Emma.
"Hi Emma." Mellie said; her voice fueled with pride and power.
Regina turned and looked at Mellie she knew instantly why Mellie had kissed her like that and a part of her wanted to applaud her for managing to get the point across to Emma without actually saying anything. Plus Mellie's way was much more effective than a few lousy words. Regina smirked and nodded ever so slightly before turning back and looking at Emma. Mellie knew instantly Regina was proud of what she had done.
"Hi." Emma said sheepishly and nervously, she felt so much jealousy with a slight part of fear on the side; clearly Mellie knew. "Regina why did you knock?"
Mellie hadn't felt jealousy as powerful and fierce as she did when Emma looked at Regina, but Mellie kept her promise and didn't say anything as Regina politely answered Emma.
"So, Henry?" Mellie said looking towards Regina with an arched eyebrow.
"Oh, yeah, can we see Henry?" Regina said looking back at Emma. Emma simply nodded and held the door open for them to walk through.
"Hey, Henry!" Regina said as she walked through the door and headed over to the couch where her son sat. Mellie followed closely behind.
"Hi, Mom!" Henry replied before hugging her for several minutes.
Regina pulled back and stepped to the side to reveal Mellie standing behind her. "Henry, this is Mellie."
"Hey, Mellie. Is this your girlfriend?" Henry said completely taking both the women by surprise.
"Who- What-" was all Regina managed to get out, she was lost for words, she didn't plan on telling Henry straight away, he wanted her to get to know Mellie first before she dropped the bombshell.
"Mom told me. I wondered when I'd get to meet her." Henry said, with a confused look on his face, he didn't understand what all the fuss was about. He didn't care who is mom dated as long as she was happy, that's all that mattered to him.
"Emma told you?" Regina said, slightly louder than necessary but she wanted Emma to hear in the kitchen what they were talking about. Emma looked over, not saying a word.
"Yeah, what's the big deal?" Henry said; Mellie laughed slightly at Henry's confused little face still fixated on the TV.
"There's no big deal, I just didn't expect you to know." Regina replied.
"Yes, I'm your mom's girlfriend, is that okay?" Mellie said, leaning forward closer to Henry, not in an intimidating way, more in an asking-for-your-blessing kind of way.
"Do you make her happy?" Henry asked, looking at Regina.
"That is a question for your mom, buddy." Mellie replied before straightening herself up and looking at Regina, Henry's eyes following Mellie's.
Regina nodded as she closed her eyes and pressed her lips together. She was holding back tears; not sad tears though, she was just so overwhelmed by how perfect it was all going. Her son and the love of her life were bonding already. "Yes, she does, in fact she makes me very happy, dear." Regina finally said.
Once Henry had clicked onto Regina's nodding, he smiled and continued to talk to Mellie. "Yes, it's okay. I'm happy for her. I'm glad you make her happy. So does this mean we get to hang out?" Henry asked.
"Um, sure, if you want." Mellie smiled, children normally hated Mellie and vice-versa, but this kid was different, she wanted to like him and she desperately wanted him to like her.
"Good. You can take me for a milkshake at Granny's then!" Henry said as she stood up.
"Oh, I can, can I?" Mellie said with a slight laugh. She looked at Regina who still hadn't said anything she was just basking in the perfectness.
"Yeah!" Henry replied, over eager.
"Go grab your coat then!" Mellie said before tapping Henry's shoulder gently as he walked past. She turned to face Regina but she was unintentionally looking straight at Emma who was standing in the kitchen which Mellie was now facing. "Baby, you okay?" Mellie said, emphasising the word 'baby' to get the point across to Emma, that Regina was hers.
"Yeah, Mels. I'm just really really happy." Regina smiled before leaning in and hugging Mellie who rested her head on Regina's shoulder, now staring Emma in the eye. Mellie smiled her most devious smile and slowly narrowed her eyes all the while looking straight at Emma, who had clearly got the message and quickly looked away.
"It looks like we're going to Granny's." Mellie said as she pulled back out of the embrace.
"It sure looks like it!" Regina replied as she put her hand around Mellie's waist and let her walk forward.
Once they were at Granny's they sat down, Mellie on one side and Regina and Henry at the other side of the booth. They had ordered their milkshakes and were patiently waiting on them being brought over.
"So Henry, how's your arm?" Mellie asked as she clasped her hands together on the table.
"It's okay, it's pretty sore but cool." Henry nodded; Regina looked at Henry who got the hint straight away. "Thank you." He smiled.
"It's okay." Mellie smiled back.
Ruby came over with the milkshakes and handed each person their own. "Enjoy." Ruby said as she smiled at the happy trio.
"Thanks, dear." Regina replied.
"So, Henry-" Mellie said before her phone began to ring, she quickly checked in her bag for it before pulling it out. She read the name flashing on her screen and sighed, the amount of horrible feelings she began to feel in that moment almost turned her stomach. "Sorry, I have to take this."