AN: I stole a couple lines of the quick one-worded back and forth from an episode of Frasier… it was brilliant and I couldn't let it go! Episode 8X10 if you're interested.
Date #14
I was thinking about a date tonight…
Emma read the text from her girlfriend and knit her brows. Okay…? She responded back. There was something about that ellipsis that made her wonder what the woman had possibly come up with.
Remember that conversation we had a week or so ago about how fun it would be if we weren't ourselves. If we weren't the evil queen and the savior or the mayor and the deputy and we were just normal people?
Now the woman had her attention. Emma started to text back but her mind was working faster than her thumbs, "Screw it." She said before clicking Regina's name and calling her.
"Hello my darling."
"What are you thinking?"
Emma could practically hear the brunette roll her eyes, "'Hey baby! How're you?' 'I'm alright, my love. I've missed you the last couple days; we haven't seen much of each other.' 'I know. I luh you.' 'I love you too, darling.' 'So… about that date…'"
Emma sighed bored by the end of Regina's not so subtle, 'this is what should have happened', "Yeah, yeah. What are you thinking?"
Regina laughed. She had to have been somewhere alone, "I was thinking that we might meet at the Rabbit Hole…"
"That's it?"
"As different people…"
Emma's ears and eyes perked. She leaned back in her chair, "I'm listening."
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Regina was sitting at the bar of The Rabbit Hole in a pair of ass-hugging black slacks and a red sleeveless shirt that showed a lot of back. She knew how to lure her woman into her clutches. She smirked at the thought before picking up her appletini and taking a sip.
It wasn't long before she felt familiar fingers make their way down the back of her upper arm. Regina looked to the other woman and took in her sexy halter vest top and the large patch of skin splayed between the end of the vest and the top of her hip hugging skinnies. As her eyes traveled back to the blonde's, she saw her smirk.
Emma masked her features, "Hi."
"Hello." Regina looked her up and down again, "My God, you're a beautiful one, aren't you?"
"I don't know…"
"Modest. That's good. Eva." Regina smirked when she said her fake name.
"Allison."
"Unattached?"
"Yes."
"Looking?"
"Sure."
"For a woman?"
"Right."
"Employed?"
"Doctor. Immunologist."
"Mmm. Impressive."
"Thanks. You?"
"Same. Trauma Surgeon."
'Allison' paused with raised brows, "Impressive."
"Thanks." 'Eva' shrugged.
They stared at each other intensely for a long moment; both seeming to get closer.
Finally the blonde pulled away, "I have to go powder my nose."
The brunette was eager to follow, "Me too…"
Once they both got to the bathroom and found it empty, it did not take long for the door to lock and for them to powder their noses like they hadn't ever powdered their noses before.
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Date #15
Regina and Emma sat in the diner watching the summer rain take over the streets; it had set in the night before and stayed steady throughout the night causing plenty of muddy, slippery areas. Ruby set down their breakfasts and watched as the sun struggled behind the clouds.
"I think it's gonna stop as quickly as it came."
"And what doggy sense makes you so sure of that?" Emma turned with a grin, wanting to know how Ruby figured the rain was going to leave.
"Well, the weather man for one… And because the sun is trying to come out. It's going to be a good, hot, humid day…" Her eyes lit up, "And you know what that means?"
"What?" Regina turned from watching the sun trying to shine through the dark clouds.
"Mud Ultimate." She gave them a wicked, closed-mouth smile, "You want me to text you when it happens?"
"Oh Ruby…" Regina started, but Emma looked at her with a puppy face.
"Come on! It could be fun! It could be a date…" Emma tilted her head and smiled when she saw the inner struggle of her ladylove.
"Okay, I will call you this afternoon. Wear clothes you don't care about. We're gonna get dirty."
"I never would have guessed by the word 'mud' that we would get dirty." Regina deadpanned.
Emma looked to her brunette lovingly, "Babe… We're gonna have fun… and Henry is hanging with Nicholas all weekend, remember? They wanted to play some videogame or something, have a marathon…?" She leaned forward, "We're gonna have lots of fun!" She promised again.
Later that afternoon, Emma got a text from Ruby.
Park. Now!
She quickly gathered her things and called Regina.
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Emma, Regina, Ruby, Belle, Mary Margaret, David, Leroy, Kathryn, Frederick, Sean, Ashley, and August all turned up to play.
Emma held onto Regina's hand as they picked teams, hoping they could be a pair, but everyone yelled at them to separate when they were the last two to be picked.
"But we don't wanna!" Emma whined.
"But all you'll do is talk… and everyone else has already been picked." Kathryn smirked as she watched the two of them look at each other then glumly separate.
Emma glared at August as she walked over to her father, "You guys did that on purpose."
August grinned, "Yes, yes we did."
The game got started and the mud was flying. The sky darkened and lightened a few times, and throughout all of the fun, Regina seemingly remained clean and composed. She would walk from end to end, knowing she would never see the Frisbee come her way.
Emma on the other hand was covered. Though that is what happens when you can catch and throw a Frisbee, and are super competitive with the athleticism (and maturity) of teenager. She was sliding in the mud, jumping as though she weren't white, and seemingly passing it to herself.
The blonde was taking a few moments to catch her breath when she saw her girlfriend yawning at the other end of the soccer field turned huge patch of mud. She tightened the bun in her hair as she bit her lip and narrowed her eyes on the brunette. Regina didn't know she was being watched yet. That was good. She subtly started making her muddy way towards the brunette.
She passed by Kathryn, who gave her a questioning glance, then saw who was on the other side of the field and smirked, turning her attention back to the game. Emma eased with the flow of the Frisbee as it moved towards Regina's end of the field, and finally, she was close enough to pounce.
She took her time, sizing her girlfriend up, and when the brunette finally looked her way, she knew it was then or never. The smirk she gave Regina made the woman's eyes widen.
"Don't you dare do it!" Regina had her hands up, as if trying to keep the blonde tame; everyone else paused their movements to see what Regina was yelling about.
Emma's smirk grew to a grin and she ran.
Regina froze to the spot and closed her eyes. She felt the initial impact of her lover and she felt her lover hold her close as they fell to the ground. She even felt the blonde turn them so she would take most of the impact from the ground, but she knew that a simple muddy hug would not be all she got. She heard all the laughing, but kept her eyes closed as she felt Emma roll them so her backside was completely covered in mud and her front side completely covered by Emma. Finally she opened her eyes to see bright, shining, hopeful, almost euphoric green orbs staring back at her.
"Now you look like you've been playing a bit." Emma whispered as she leaned down and kissed her cheek.
Regina nodded, "I suppose I do.." She said as she ran her fingers through the mud beneath her. She made sure to coat her hand in the thick, mushy mud before she gave her lover an evil grin and brought the hand up, slapping the mud all over the blonde's face whilst rolling them back over so she was on top.
She laughed a bit as she moved so she was sitting astride Emma's stomach, "And so do you."
Ruby and Kathryn were the loudest of the laughter that was happening behind them.
"Way to get her, Regina!" Kathryn clapped for her friend as Emma scooped mud from her eyes so she could see.
"Thank you." She looked to the other blonde and smiled.
This gave her blonde a sneaky opportunity. Emma quickly sat up, causing Regina to fall. Emma didn't let her, she held her tight actually, but her next move was just as wicked as Regina's had been. She pressed her cheek against Regina's and began rubbing her muddied face all over the brunette's face and neck.
"Payback's a bitch." Emma smirked as everyone reacted in different gasps and chuckles to the entire exchange.
Regina's jaw was slack as she felt mud dripping from her face. She recovered though and gave the blonde a look, "You keep that in mind, my love." She said with threatening eyes.
Emma's face fell slightly, "What does that mean?" She let her girlfriend push from her and stand up.
"I think you know." Regina put her hand out and helped Emma up.
"But you promised we could go back to the mansion and…" She leaned in knowing her parents and everyone were eaves dropping, "Clean up." She whispered.
Regina stared at her a moment and shrugged before looking to everyone else, "Shall we continue."
Emma pouted the rest of the game and sadly said goodbye to everyone. She then followed Regina like a sad puppy back to the mansion.
Regina walked them a round to the backyard and turned on the garden hose. She gave it to Emma and turned around. "Try and get most of the mud off, please." She asked gesturing to herself.
Emma gave a short huff of a sigh and did as she was asked. Regina took it from her and washed off Emma's front before signaling the blonde to turn to get her back. Emma felt the water cease and turned around once more. She looked at the hose as it was given back to her then saw that her girlfriend was walking back up her back porch. She watched Regina take off her tennis shoes and socks, then the shorts and tank she loaned her. And to Emma's surprise she watched as the woman took off her bra and panties. But the naked sight did not last long due to a towel that magically wrapped around her. Emma sighed once more as she scrubbed the mud off her front.
"Darling there's a towel on the bench when you are through. I'll be in the shower." Regina gathered her intimates and opened the back door, "If you hurry, I might be inclined for some company…" Once she caught green eyes with her brown ones she winked and moved inside.
Emma grinned wide and finished getting all of it off as best she could before quickly doing the same thing Regina did then running after her lover to the bathroom.
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Date #16
Emma was looking for something different for her and Regina. She wanted to go out on another date-date, but she had nothing in mind. So she took to the Internet and on some 'fun date' Google search, she found six little words. These words made her laugh then ponder the whole idea over and finally decided that that was going to be their next date. The words were so clever to her, she decided to text them to Regina.
Socially irresponsible date… One word: Graffiti.
What? Came the immediate respone.
Come on! It'll be fun!
I really don't think it will…
You didn't think a lot of our dates would be fun, but they have been… Please?
You're doing the face aren't you?
Yes.
…Fine.
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Emma stealthily entered the mansion all in black. Regina thought she heard something and looked up from her book only to find her girlfriend sneaking into the room dressed all in black and with a black messenger bag around her side. Regina knit her brows and watched her girlfriend, giving her a stare that told her she saw her.
Emma jumped from the darkened hallway and somersaulted into the room—the contents of the messenger bag going everywhere, "I scared you!" She said happily.
"Hardly." Regina smirked and set her book aside while Emma gathered her cans of spray-paint and face masks—she wanted to be risky, but she also wanted to breathe—from the floor before crawling to Regina and snuggling herself to the her front, making her spread her legs a little to the let the blonde in, "Why are you dressed like that?"
"Why aren't you?"
"Because… You're the sheriff… Who's going to stop us?"
Emma pouted, "Regina! It's all part of the fun! We have to go under the cloak of darkness when all are asleep to strike!"
Regina smirked, "You…" She shook her head when she saw the pleading eyes for her to change. "Fine." She snapped her fingers, changing from her white button up and slacks to all black. She looked to the blonde, "Only because you're adorable."
"Am not."
"Yes."
"Only 'cause you love me."
"Yes." Regina nodded and kissed the blonde, "Shall we go?"
"Yeah!"
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"You pick the Sheriff's Station? Really, my love, out of every place that is around, you pick here? Why?"
"Because it's neither of our houses, and if we did City Hall or the diner, we'd have to clean it off… I don't really care about what the exterior of the back of the station looks like. No one sees it except for me, and maybe a few runners in the morning…" she shrugged.
Regina only smiled at her and nodded, "Alright. Let's do this." She started shaking the can of paint Emma gave her while Emma took to putting a mask on herself then Regina, "You put yours on first?"
"Of course! That's what every airplane tells you to do… Put your mask on first before assisting others."
Regina gave her a look.
"But how would you know?" Emma said after realization, "Either way it doesn't matter, babe. We're masked and ready!" Emma said excitedly before shaking her own can and popping the lid off. "Shall we?"
"We shall."
They moved to the wall and drew the biggest heart they could standing where they were, then in the middle they put 'S+Q'. They took other colors and highlighted certain parts, but the whole thing took them maybe 20 minutes. Emma took a picture with her phone and took off her mask then looked to Regina, "I like it."
Regina hugged her tight and nodded, "You think anyone that sees it will ever know?"
Emma smirked and shook her head, "No… the 'Q' will always and forever throw people off. 'S' practically attacks me though… That might be incriminating…"
"How does 'S' attack you?"
"Sheriff, Swan, Savior… I'm all about the 'S'…" She said the letter to sound like 'ass' instead of 'S' and smirked.
Regina gave her a look, "Yes, I know you are, my love." She was not surprised when she felt Emma's hand trail down her back to her 'S'. She looked back to the paint, "This really was fun…Even if there was no way we could get caught or in trouble now, it's always gonna be there…" She looked to the blonde.
"Yes it is." Emma nodded and smiled. "Let's go back to your place while we're still under the cloak of darkness."
"And where is our son?"
"He's with his grandparents…"
"He's at home by himself alone. What happens when he wakes up scared and you're not there?"
"He calls the cops, which is me…?" Emma laughed at the brunette's reaction. "Relax, Regina. I told him I was going out after I put him to bed. I told him I had some stuff to take care of at the station…" She laughed at herself.
"Oh, you are so smart. Lying to your son—"
"Not lying, I am at the station taking care of things."
"You're a horrible human being. How are you the savior?"
Emma shrugged, "Just lucky I guess. How are you the evil queen?"
Regina took Emma's face in her hands, "Just lucky I guess." She kissed her.
AN: Thoughts and Feels?
