Chapter Six
"So despite my best efforts to fuck this up, Henry has sent us out on a date like every night," Emma commented as they walked through time square eating hotdogs.
"Yes, and despite my best efforts to avoid you until our trip, I still end up on a date with you," Regina pointed out.
"You're always going to be this sassy aren't you because I hurt your feelings?" Emma asked. Regina shrugged.
"You've more than earned it, take me as I am," Regina reminded her. "I thought I was hot and cold, but seriously you've taken me to a new level." More than once Emma had practically thrown herself at her, but they never had sex, and Regina just felt so powerless against her, because she knew by Sunday if not already Saturday, they were for sure over. "I mean what are we doing here Emma, seriously though?" Emma was about to answer when her phone rang and she sighed and looked at it. It was Walsh again. Regina frowned as usual Emma was hiding it.
"Does Henry need something?" Regina asked, but she knew it wasn't Henry, Emma always answered. Emma frowned for a moment before she stuffed her phone back into her pocket.
"How about we go see a movie?" Emma asked. "You're surprisingly behind on all the good films, but doesn't mean we can't watch some new stuff too." Regina huffed.
"Emma…" Regina started.
"Come on…don't worry about that, I'll buy you some Red vines, I won't even ask for one, you don't have to share."
"Will the movie have violence, because last time you were so sure that there was violence and it ended being straight romance," Regina told her.
"Well this time, Henry didn't pre-select the movie for us on purpose," Emma pointed out. "We can decide when we get there; I bet there are plenty of movies full of violence." She linked her arm in Regina's and walked off with her or at least she would have if Walsh hadn't appeared.
"What so you're not taking my calls now?" Walsh asked.
"Ah I now I get it all," Regina commented as she unlinked her arm with Emma's. She turned to Emma. "I'll let you deal with this." Regina was careful to sound like there was a chance Emma could repair her relationship with her even though inside it had taken a heavy blow. She needed Emma to go back to storybrooke, she needed her son back. If nothing else had happened this week, she knew that she couldn't pretend to be Henry's stepmother, to pretend like her Henry was different from him. It was just not true, and as much as she wanted to leave the Evil Queen far behind she would also be leaving Emma's parents behind and Emma with all her memories would never forgive her.
"Regina," Emma called, but she was already walking away.
"Emma do you want to tell me what's going on?" Walsh asked.
"Nothing, I've just been really busy with work sorry, she knows where this really important perp is so I've been becoming her friend," Emma lied. "I didn't pick up because I don't want her to think sometime else is more important than our friendship, except Henry. She spotted me with him so she knows about him." He nodded.
"Oh of course, I just didn't realize you didn't have a free moment to call me later."
"I know, I know I'm awful, it's not you, between her and Henry and work, I've just been dropping the ball, but I'll make it up to you I promise. I just need to go after her, I'll text you tonight, yeah!" He nodded as she stepped forward and gave him a kiss as if to reassure him before she was gone again. She tried to call Regina, but her phone just went to ignore. Emma tracked her on gps though, she had gotten access when she decided to leave Henry with her for two days. When she got to the movie theatre she questioned the attendant about which movie Regina had gone into.
"The only one left was the great and powerful Oz," He told her.
"One ticket please." He gave her one and she paid before she went in. She saw that they were just restocking the big bucket of red vines.
"Hey did this woman already buy a bucket of red vines, she's my date, and I don't wanna go in with one if she's already got it." The guy shrugged and barely looked at the photo on her phone, but his friend shook his head.
"No, we were out, I came up just as she finished buying the small pack, but that was all."
"Great give me the large carton, large popcorn, extra butter, and two drinks, one coke and one pepsi." Emma paid for it and thanks to carton tray carefully carried everything to the theatre. It was dark as the movie had already started. It didn't take her long at all to find Regina. Surprisingly the theatre was not full that night for this particular movie anyway. Regina had already finished her small packet of Red vines.
"You look like you're in need of a refill," Emma told her. Regina turned and saw Emma standing there giving her that same nervous smile that always begged you to forgive her for whatever it was she had done that rubbed you the wrong way. Before it had been terribly easy to scoff at others when she gave them that look, and in the beginning when Henry had first introduced her it had been the easiest for her to resist, but now two years later everything had changed. "It's the carton one."
'Regina, she has to come to storybrooke,' Regina thought to herself, so she reached over and pushed the seat next to her down making it easier for Emma to sit. She took the red vines from Emma and happily pulled out another red vine. She didn't know why or how she had gotten addicted to the damn things, but she was. She blamed Henry and his new found love of candy.
"Here I got you a drink," Emma told her but she tasted it first. "Yeah that's my coke." She handed Regina the pepsi.
"I don't know why you have to taste one every time, they're the same thing you know," Regina commented starting a familiar argument. Emma liked coke, but her and Henry thought Pepsi was better.
"They are not, if they're the same thing, why do you prefer pepsi?" Emma pointed out.
"It's just made better," Regina answered a smile playing on her lips, she hadn't meant it to be a genuine one, but she couldn't help it. She never could no matter how upset she was at Emma.
"SHS!" the person in front of them said. Emma threw a piece of popcorn at them. They glared at her and Regina chuckled as Emma glared back and he looked away. She always found it cute when Emma was a little bit rude to other people. It went against the whole savior holy than thou act, but Regina just loved when Emma was completely unapologetic for a moment.
"Did you get extra butter?" Regina asked her reaching for some popcorn.
"Just the way we like it," Emma replied. They watched the movie in silence after that and Regina didn't miss when Emma laced her fingers in hers. At the end when the witch turned green and flew off Regina sat up straight in her chair and leaned forward her eyebrows knitting together hard as she tried to remember something, something about the wicked witch going green gnawing at her mind.
"Are you okay, were you really shocked that happened?" Emma asked. Regina looked a Emma frowning hard then back at the screen as the credits rolled. She gave a growl of frustration and left the theatre quickly. In the fresh air she tried hard to think and remember the last year. Emma hurried out after her only stopping to grab Regina's red vines.
"Regina?" Emma asked finding her outside. "Are you all right?"
"Yes, I'm fine, but I just we just need to get back home, get back to storybrooke," Regina got out.
"Storybrooke…what…you mean our trip, we're leaving the day after tomorrow, what does that have to do with you freaking out at the end of the movie?" Emma asked. Regina seemed to finally focus on in and calm down.
"Can we just leave tonight or tomorrow morning?" Regina asked her.
"Why?" Emma asked her. "This seems really sudden." Regina thought how could she make Emma feel her urgency without running away from her? "And no, you promised Henry to bake for the bake sale, if we miss it now, he'll be really upset. But maybe we can at least leave right after it?" Regina thought about it and nodded. The next words out of her mouth would have to be said calmly and as if Regina had simply just figured it all out. "Come on let's get you home, you seem out of sorts." Regina nodded and let Emma lead her home. She didn't even object when Emma didn't let her go to her apartment, but pulled her into her own. They got undressed and crawled into bed after checking on Henry. He was sound asleep.
"I think I might know who your parents are or rather a couple who might know something about back then," Regina told her in the silence of the room. Emma sat up immediately and turned on the light.
"What, who, how, why are you just now saying something?" Emma demanded to know straddling her as if to ensure Regina couldn't run away, but Regina didn't move.
"When did you think was a good time for to interject with that info without sacrificing us?" Regina asked her. Emma was silent.
"I wouldn't have run off that fast." Regina raised an eyebrow at her.
"You would have, you still might, you haven't even broken up with that guy we ran into earlier, because you've got one foot out the door as always," Regina told her.
"And you don't?" Emma asked her. "I have a skill you know, I can always…"
"Tell when someone is lying. I know your super power," Regina interrupted. "Does you super power tell you I'm lying now?" Emma watched for a moment.
'How did she know that?' Emma thought.
"No, it doesn't, but it does tell me when you've not been one hundred per cent about some things you say to me. I confess I don't ask because I have my own things." Regina nodded.
"My past is not one that I love," Regina told her. "But I promise when we get to Maine, I'll lay all my cards on the table and you can finally decide if you want both feet in or if you want out." Emma nodded.
"Fair enough, if you really have a clue, I would like to follow it with you; you would be the closest thing I ever found to coming close to the truth of why I was left on the side of the road." Regina nodded her eyes sad. "Don't, I'm over being sad so you don't be sad too, sometimes it's just nice to know the truth of things."
"Okay," Regina answered, but some tears still came. Emma wiped away her tears and kissed her.
"Maybe I can't be all in on everything yet, but we could get a little closer tonight?" Emma suggested.
"Emma in my world if we go that far you are all in," Regina pointed out. "And I think in yours too or you would have taken the chance already."
"No, I've been waiting for you to show all your cards, and put both feet in. It made me hesitate to get even closer to putting both feet in. One day it's sex and after sex the only last bit is to say it."
"Say what exactly?" Regina asked. She wondered if Emma would dare to say already that she loved her.
"Girlfriend, and if I say that then I know it won't be long until I say those three words we all want to hear," Emma told her. Regina had to chuckle a little; Emma was truly of this world, in the Enchanted Forest love always came first. "Don't laugh, you know how it is, you know everyone always talks about love at first sight, but I don't."
"You don't, really?" Regina asked her. Emma shook her head.
"If I'm honest I think that's just what people say to get laid." Regina laughed.
'My cynical little Swan,' Regina thought.
"No really, I think people just say that because fairytales have taught us that, that's what we should want is love at first sight. Take Snow White for instance."
"Okay," Regina said not betraying for a minute that she knew the story of Snow White better than anyone.
"That story is totally ridiculous and involves necrophilia." Regina snorted.
"She's not dead," Regina told her.
"No, she's totally dead, it clearly states that she's dead so that makes it necrophila. And Charming totally falls in love with a dead body, how sick is that?"
"So sick," Regina agreed, but a smile was clearly tugging at her lips as she tried to take Emma seriously.
"Oh Regi, take me seriously," Emma told her giving her a little nudge, but her body was already rocking a little as she tried to suppress her laughter. They laughed for a moment.
"Okay, okay, I'm taking your thoughts seriously honest, they're just also funny," Regina told her. "And I totally agree Snow and Charming's love is completely sick." Emma smiled and nodded her head.
"Enough about fairytales, life isn't a fairytale, and I admit I have no idea what we're doing, all I know is right now in this moment the thought of just letting you go is a hard one. And even I gave it an honest zero minutes of effort I can't stop running my fingers through your hair, wrapping my arms around you and intertwining my legs with yours. And God can I not stop kissing you when we're alone." Emma sighed dramatically and kissed Regina as if to prove a point.
"But," Regina started. "All speeches that start like this always come with a but."
"But I wanna make the most of the time we have together now. We don't know what the future holds, we have right now, and I wanna live in the right now, which in some way with us I haven't been. That guy you saw means nothing to me compared to what you mean to me. I feel bad about Walsh, but from the moment I met you I knew I couldn't live without knowing you friend or lover. And with him he could leave me tomorrow and I won't be surprised."
"I don't think I can live without you either," Regina admitted before she pulled Emma down into a kiss and she didn't stop Emma from getting her naked, but after that she took charge this was Emma's first time after all. If they only ever had tonight she was going to leave it forever burning in Emma's mind. Emma was already moaning as every kiss on her body left a ring of fire that just seemed to expand through her body.
"Oh fuck how do you do that?" Emma managed to get out she was already short of breath as Regina caressed her breasts and then her nipples.
"Do what?" Regina asked her teasingly.
"Make fire spread through my body." Regina smirked.
"I'm not sure," Regina told her. "If it makes you feel better yours send a cool shiver through my body in a very pleasing manner." Emma didn't respond as she was lost in the pleasure again. Regina returned her attention to Emma's body, but most importantly to between her legs. She ran her hands down Emma's body. She teased her at first with her fingers. Emma's body shuddered at her first touch.
"Regina," Emma whispered. "Stop teasing me."
"It would serve you right if I kept at it." Regina grinned. Emma grinned as she bent her leg giving Regina more access to her as her fingers slipped inside of her. Emma's breath got short as she breathed hard and her heart pounded in her chest in reaction to the pleasure. Her eyes went wide and she bit into the back of her arm when she felt Regina's tongue. Nothing had ever felt this good before not even when she was with Neal, but Neal was quickly blasted from her mind again.
"Oh my God we have to stop," Emma moaned as she sat on a stool with Regina's head between her legs in the kitchen. Emma gripped the island behind her and her toes were beginning to curl.
'Oh God we can't stop,' Emma thought as she moaned again trying hard to keep it low. They unfortunately did not have this apartment to themselves.
"Mom?" Henry called as he opened the door to his room. Regina pulled back and Emma got off the stool panicking as she looked for her panties. Regina also put her clothes back on and was pretending to have just spilled the fruit bowl she had knocked off the counter earlier.
"Morning Regina," Henry greeted with a smile.
"Morning Henry," Regina greeted. "Did you sleep well?" He shrugged.
"I kept having weird dreams last night, but if you have time to make breakfast I'm sure I could be feeling a lot better." Regina chuckled.
"I'm sure I can whip something up, how about pancakes in fun shapes?" Henry grinned and nodded. He hugged her and then Emma good morning before popping himself down in his usual spot. Regina gave Emma the fruit bowl, who quickly picked up the rest of the fruit. Regina made pancakes and topped them with some fruit Emma cut up for them with a side of eggs and bacon. Henry chatted about the bake sale.
"I'll be baking all morning like yesterday, but then I have to go into work, so Emma will bring everything to set up," Regina told him. Henry frowned and started to complain she wasn't coming. "I should arrive after that though." He smiled and went back to eating.
"You're the best," Henry told her. Regina smiled at him genuinely happy that even without his memories he still felt something for her. She rubbed his head before drinking coffee.
"Oh can you make me lunch?" Henry asked as he paused in going to get ready for the day.
"Sure what do you want?" Emma asked. He looked at Emma and laughed.
"Oh mom you're so funny, I totally left myself open for that." Emma pouted. Regina chuckled and rubbed her back.
"Your mom can make your lunch Henry," Regina told him trying not to step on Emma's toes.
"Correct me if I'm wrong and these things aren't actually up for dispute, but you live here, I don't really even know why your stuff is still next door, you cook for us, you help out with my school, and you love us both yes?"
"Do I love you, yes, but I don't know if I can say that I live…" Regina began.
"Henry come on that's like a lot of pressure to…." Emma started at the same time as Regina.
"Thanks for making me lunch mom," Henry told her. He turned to Emma. "No, you may want to keep messing things up, but me I'm locking myself in this. I'm all in." He stalked off back to his room leaving tears pouring down Regina's face.
"Oh Regina I'm sorry I'll talk to him, he's probably not even thinking and you lost your…"
"No, don't you dare!" Regina cried. "Today is like the best day of my life. If he's all in then so am I." Regina grabbed a tissue before getting up and making him a lunch. But she had already organized Emma's refrigerator with premade items, and little containers for him to add condiments to his sandwich. But she cut his tomatoes and lettuce fresh.
"When did you do that?" Emma asked eyes wide. "I never thought of that, it's so smart." Regina chuckled
"I did it for you too," Regina told her. "All you have to do is grab the pre sliced butter onto the sandwich toaster for the ones labelled grilled cheese."
"Sandwich toaster, we don't have a sandwich toaster?" Emma asked as she looked in awe at the drawers that were labelled. Regina pointed to her sandwich toaster.
"I thought if I'm spending time here, I'm toasting my sandwiches and so you don't break it, there's a dot for you to where you need to set it for your grilled cheese." Emma gasped when she came over she did see the dot, and she saw that not all her sandwiches were grilled cheese.
"What?" Emma said as if to say no she didn't when she saw that her coffee was actually on a timer. "How did you figure that out, I've been trying to get this timer to work all year!"
"I know, Henry told me," Regina laughed. Henry came back all dressed for school.
"Mom check out the snack cupboard," Henry told her. Emma did.
"Spices, where are all the snacks?" Emma asked. Regina opened a drawer, but Emma couldn't see the snacks anymore.
"Russian Roulette you never know what you're going to get."
"I love it, it's like testing my luck every morning." He opened his lunch box and carefully selected fruit, a snack of pre packed crackers, cheese, and meat, a yoghurt, a juice, and finally he went for his dessert putting his hand in to see what he would have that day."
"Yes Oreos, I was hoping for that," Henry grinned as Regina packed his sandwich away. "Ooh was this from the left over bread you brought from your bakery."
"No, we send that to the shelter so I made this one at home for us well you and Emma," Regina told him.
"Nope us," Henry corrected with a smile. "I won't let mom ruin this." He gave them both a hug before he headed off to school with one last reminder to them about the bake sale.
"Well if he's gone, you were quite busy before he woke up," Emma reminded her as she held her panties out. She had apparently never got them back on. Regina smirked and reached out to grab her when the front door opened again. Emma hid her panties behind her back before they both turned to the door innocently.
"Forgot my backpack," Henry told them picking it up. "Bye."
"Bye, have a good day," They said. Finally he was gone, so Emma commenced chasing Regina around the apartment.
"Emma's that's for the pie," Regina told her as she moaned against the kitchen counter and one leg was being held while her foot rested on the refrigerator door, she had managed to get her baking done, but Emma was currently using all of the whip creamed on her crotch. "Ah fuck right there." Regina's body relaxed as all the tension left her body and Emma licked her way back up.
"I know it was for the pie, but honestly it tasted way better down there," Emma grinned before kissing Regina hungrily. "I seriously regret not fucking you sooner, I had no idea you would blow my mind every time." Regina grinned.
"I'm full of surprises like that," Regina replied kissing her back just as hungrily. "And unfortunately our fun is over, you have to take this stuff to Henry and I have to go into work and make sure everything is right for us to leave tonight." Emma made a face. "What you don't want to go?"
"Right now no, but I promised Henry," Emma told her. "I'd rather stay here and eat whip creamed from my new favourite place." Regina chuckled.
"Oh I bet you would, you're insatiable, the way I like you." Emma grinned.
"However I'm just saying maybe we leave tomorrow morning like originally planned so I can play with you some more tonight. I've been waiting thirty years, what's another night?" Regina shrugged.
"You'd be surprised how quickly things can change in a night," Regina told her. "But sure we can leave early." Regina rubbed her finger down Emma's nose. Emma crinkled her nose up cutely.
'So selfish Regina, but you know you'll lose her soon, and as she said last night, you should make the most of now.'
"What are you thinking?" Emma asked her. Regina smiled at her.
"Just how beautiful you are, I swear in all the realms I've never seen anyone as beautiful as you." Emma smiled widely.
"Realms?" Emma asked. "I swear you're so adorable when your language gets all flowery." Regina chuckled.
"I don't know that I would call it flowery." The oven dinged and the last cookies were finished. Emma grinned.
"See I told you I could finish you before they were done."
"Oh ha, ha," Regina laughed and slapped a towel at Emma's butt. "Go get ready, already, it's unfortunate, but you have to put some clothes on today." Emma laughed and hurried to her room. Regina packed everything up for Emma before she found clothes and went back to her own apartment. She was showering when Emma came in and gave her a kiss.
"I'm already ging, I think I have to set up tables and crap too. Do you want to take my car?" Emma asked.
"No, I'm sure the subway will be much quicker than trying to get uptown in your bug and back here." Emma chuckled.
"Probably and I just realized I'm not sure how I would carry everything without it." Regina nodded as she washed her hair.
"That is the mystery of the century…." Regina was saying, but then she paused. "Wait a minute new mystery, how did you get in my apartment it wasn't open." Emma grinned.
"Well if you can organize my entire apartment without me noticing for several days, I cannot tell you the secret of how I got into your locked apartment." They laughed before Emma gave her a goodbye kiss and bounced out of her place. Regina finished getting ready and was soon ready for her day and she noticed that she couldn't help but be all smiles. When she got to work, she was no longer in a happy mood as she literally saw her business go up in flames.
"What the fuck?" Regina asked Julie as she hurried up.
"Oh Ms. Mills someone came in and threw fire bombs into the place, we all got out okay, but your business, I'm sorry." Regina's face flushed red as her teeth clenched together.
"Did you see who did this?" Regina asked her. Julie shook her head.
"No they wore masks, they were out of the car and throwing the bottles before anyone could react." Regina sighed. She had hoped to keep her bakery, run away to it every now and again to get out of storybrooke and into a place that didn't see her as evil, but inherently good.
"Of course not," Regina sighed. "I'll get everyone last pay checks, I don't know when I'll be back from Maine, my family needs a lot of help, and I don't want to keep you from finding new jobs." Julie nodded. Regina walked over to an officer and demanded he find those responsible for her bakery immediately. He was scared when she was done, but determined.
"No, I don't know who would do this," Regina told them. "We've had nothing but happy customers. Even the one disgruntled customer who came back, came back with her daughter and apologized, it was not her." They took down more details, Regina went to the back and made sure her employees were well taken care of before she took the subway back to Henry's school.
'Compose yourself Regina, you are going to Henry's school now, and you can cry about it later,' Regina thought.
"Really Emma, store bought," Susie Zickler commented with a laugh. Emma glared at her, Susie was a perfect PTA mom always involved and Emma couldn't stand her. Henry glared at her as well, they weren't from the bakery, she had assured Henry, just the boxes were for transport, but she had watched Regina make it all herself.
"They aren't store bought, my girlfriend owns the bakery, and she just brought the boxes home, but I assure you these were all made in my kitchen, and yes with no gluten or bpa or whatever the fuck else you harp on about at the meetings," Emma told her annoyed. Susie paused.
"Wait you're a lesbian, are you serious?" Susie asked her crossing her arms.
"Not that it matters, but no I don't identify as a lesbian Susie, bisexual if you will." Susie rolled her eyes.
"Whatever, I'll still be making sure my kid doesn't touch anything you've handled," Susie told her. "And I still think they're store bought." She stalked off.
"Where is Regina?" Henry asked looking at his watch. She was late which was so unlike her.
"Right here," Regina answered. "I'm sorry I got held up, but I'm all yours now." Henry and Emma smiled and hugged her. She helped them sell everything and to Susie's displeasure everyone wanted their baked goods, and only came to her when they had officially run out. Regina had been sure to bake a lot; their revenue alone was more than half of the entire bake sale.
"Can we really give her credit for buying everything?" Susie asked everyone around her when they were congratulating Henry.
"My mom made everything herself," Henry told her upset.
"You expect us to believe that Emma suddenly decided to participate and baked such amazing goods?" Susie asked him.
"No, my mom, Emma doesn't bake, but my new mom Regina does," Henry told her. "She owns Poison Apple bakery, and the boxes were just for transport." Regina showed them she did and everyone believed Henry and Susie looked stupid. Regina and Emma quietly fist bumped as Regina now knew what she had said earlier.
"Do you ever just feel like gloating in a manner unbecoming of a lady?" Emma asked her as they packed up.
"No, I always gloat in a manner befitting a lady," Regina told her seriously.
"Oh you're so cute when you're all uptight," Emma told her kissing her nose. Regina wrinkled her nose.
"Oh no public affection, I'm gonna die." Emma laughed at Regina's dramatics, and went back to her packing. She knew Regina preferred to be in control, but every once in a while she just liked to give her a little kiss on the nose and watch it wrinkle while she tried not to smile.
"Everything all set at work?" Emma asked as they packed away whatever she had taken that was reusable as well in her trunk.
"Oh…I don't even know how I managed to forget," Regina murmured. "Must be you and Henry; make even bad afternoons feel better." Emma frowned.
"What happened?"
"Some guys firebombed the bakery in a blitz attack it's all gone, just like that," Regina told her. Emma looked furious.
"Please tell me you have video of those fuckers, I will track them down by tonight," Emma told her seriously.
"The cops are combing the surrounding areas for tape that didn't get destroyed in the fire," Regina told her. Emma hugged her tightly and Regina was a little startled. She was so use to having bad things happen to her and people acting as if she deserved it that it was startling to see empathy thrown her way. She hugged Emma back and even dared to cry about it a bit.
"I wanted to run away and become a baker when I was a kid," Regina admitted to Emma later. She had never said that out loud before.
"Why didn't you?" Emma asked stroking her head as she turned back from the television. Regina shrugged for a moment, but Emma waited for her to say.
"My mom wouldn't let me she thought it was beneath me, she thought slaving all day in front of hot oven was servants work," Regina answered truthfully. "But I snuck and had lessons from our cook until she found out." Regina sighed.
"Is that why you became mayor?" Henry asked curiously from his place on the other side of the coffee table.
"You could say that, my grandfather was a mayor once," Regina told him. "And my Uncle after him, and I married a mayor, but I wasn't really supposed to be the mayor just marry the mayor, you know."
"No," Henry said. They laughed.
"It just means I'm supposed to stand around look pretty and entertain the important people and stuff. I'm not supposed to think." Regina rolled her eyes. Emma rolled her eyes as well as she took a drink from her beer.
"God I'd love to punch your mother," Emma told her. Regina smiled and gave a small snort; Emma would soon remember she had been able to do that.
"A lot of people would agree," Regina answered.
"But we'll rebuild together," Henry told them with a smile. "Now I'm thinking the bakery needed a little makeover, like a star wars edition." Regina humoured Henry and took his ideas into consideration, but she knew they unfortunately would not be back to rebuild.
'Maybe I can rebuild in storybrooke,' Regina thought. Maybe I can let Mary Margaret be Mayor and actually rule the Kingdom. It would certainly change the way Henry looks at me when he gets his memory back.'
"Regina, what's there to do in your town?" Henry asked.
"Not much I'm afraid except hunting and fishing, but all the kids are in school right now, if you want I could enroll you so you can make friends," Regina suggested. She'd have to remember to tell everyone he didn't remember them. "Then I'm sure they will take you to where they go to play." Henry nodded. "There's a beach nearby, but it's often chilly up there."
"Oh cool, can we skip rocks?"
"Definitely ," Regina replied. "I happen to know where the flattest rocks are." Henry grinned. Regina wondered why Emma wasn't chiming in, but when she looked up Emma was busy trying to quickly eat a red vine. Regina stared at her open mouthed as she sat up.
"Ms. Swan, are you really eating my red vines right now?" Emma blushed as Henry laughed. Regina was looking at her sternly with her hands on her hips. "You're unbelievable you know that, you swore you wouldn't ask for not one."
"Oh well there you go, I didn't ask," Emma pointed out as if this changed everything. Regina tilted her head to the side, pursed her lips, as her brows came down and together.
"I'm gonna get you back for that," Regina told her. "This means war." Emma grinned at her.
"Oh no come on Regi, what if I give you lots of kisses to equal the red vine," Emma told her trying to look cute. Well she wasn't trying Regina knew she was cute, and she found it kind of cute that she was calling her Regi. It was new and different, no one had ever done that, her mother wouldn't have allowed it.
'She's going to kill me," Emma thought. 'But God do I love when she says Ms. Swan. '
"That might be a good repayment Ms. Swan if I didn't know you better enough to know that, I didn't catch you with your first vine, how many did you really have before I noticed?" Emma blushed again and opened her mouth to answer, but nothing came out. Regina squinted at her before she leaned over Emma for the carton to look for herself. She sat back and looked at Emma incredulous as she turned the carton over and nothing fell out.
"Oh mom you're in trouble," Henry laughed
"This is not my fault you should have seen me and stopped me," Emma told Regina as if that justified everything.
"You owe me a favour," Regina told her.
"Sure, but what could you possibly need?" Emma asked. Regina smirked.
"Oh don't worry when the time is right I'll ask you for it," Regina told her, her eyes flashing as she smirked. Emma suddenly felt worried.
"Why am I suddenly worried?" Emma asked. Henry shrugged.
"Because you should be weary," Regina told her laying back down. "It's natural when a favour is left open." Emma nodded as she went back to stroking Regina's head.
"Oh I didn't ask, where are we staying?" Henry asked.
"My house," Regina told him. "Oh do you think you could handle staying in Henry's room, I don't have a guest room." Henry nodded.
"Won't that make you sad?" Henry asked her concerned. She smiled at him.
"No, you make me less sad every day," Regina told him seriously. He smiled at her.
"I'm glad," He told her. Emma smiled at them, but suddenly she was eager for Henry to get to bed when she saw the clock. It was technically past his bed time.
"Hey kid look at the clock you should be in bed. We're getting up early tomorrow," Emma told him. Regina faked a yawn on purpose. Henry grimaced and begged them to stay up longer. Regina pretended to stay out of it, but she gave Emma a seductive look to let her know she was waiting.
'Hell kid go to bed, so not a usual thing that we have someone we both love in our lives and who makes me look forward to sex,' Emma thought. Outloud she said. "Henry you'll be up late tomorrow probably so trust me get some rest now." He complained some more but eventually he was in bed and Regina reappeared for a cuddle before bed. He realized as long as he was willing she clearly wasn't missing out. Emma turned out the lights before joining Regina in their bedroom. Regina was on the bed resting back on her elbows.
"Teach me something new tonight," Emma said as she shut the door behind her and locked it. Regina cleared her throat.
"Uh yeah sure, let me just take out my handy dandy sex book," Regina replied pulling out an imaginary handbook. Emma rolled her eyes although a smile tugged at the corners of her mouth.
"You know Regina, I was trying to be sexy here, not get sassed because you're still upset about your red vines until I buy you more." Regina raised an eyebrow at her.
"Oh sexy right, I can do sexy," Regina told her as she draped herself dramatically over Emma's pillows. "Emma….draw me like one of your prison girls." Emma stuck her tongue out at Regina who was trying to look as innocent as possible. Emma walked forward and crawled onto the bed until she was over Regina.
"Regi, I hate to tell you this, but you are no good at looking innocent babe." They both laughed as Emma straddled her and kissed her. They made out for a while giving Henry a chance to fall asleep.
"Hmm I need water." Emma moved and Regina turned and lay on her stomach and reached for a bottle of water she had brought to Emma's bedside. Emma lay on top of her.
"Come on seriously Regi, you can't have taught me everything you know in one night." Regina choked on her water as her laughter filled the room. Regina hadn't taught Emma all her tricks no, but the others involved a nice bit of magic that they didn't yet have access too.
"Oh couldn't I have?" Regina asked her.
"No, because you're way more experienced than me with women, you've must have had multiple female partners by now you're so hot, I can't think they'd let you pass them by." Regina smirked as she put her bottle down.
"Maybe I think you're so hot and you should have had multiple women by now," Regina replied.
"Funny, but…oh…was it your first time too?" Emma asked. "It didn't feel like your first time."
"One could say the same about you," Regina smirked. Emma blushed, she could see it, but she could feel it in her body language and hear it in her voice when she spoke next.
"I'm a quick study," Emma whispered. More loudly she spoke again. "No, really was that your first time too?" Regina shook her head.
"I won't lie I've been unfaithful before, but not intentionally." Regina told her.
"How are you unintentionally unfaithful?" Emma asked clearly feeling like Regina was doling out the bullshit.
"I mean that I didn't go looking to cheat, my first love, was trans and worked in our stables. She died though before we were about to run away, an accident. Not long after that my mother having found out our plans, married me off to a man who didn't love me and I didn't love him. But I did get a little bit of freedom to pursue some interests. While out I met this dragon of a woman, she was gorgeous; she knew something about what I was studying at the time. But life had beat her down too. We bonded over the loss we had both suffered in life. I like to think she was my real first. Sex was okay with Daniel, but that wasn't why I was with her. Sex however was great with Maleficent, but that's all there ever was for us fortunately, or I wouldn't be having amazing sex with you."
"Do you really think it's amazing or was Maleficent better?" Emma asked her.
"I really think we're amazing together and Maleficent was different, but not better," Regina told her turning so she could wrap her arms around Emma. Emma moved a little so she could do just that.
"Good," Emma told her smiling. They kissed, but Emma pulled back. "But are you sure you covered everything, I wanted to be sure before I took the refresher course." Regina chuckled.
"I mean nothing you can do without a penis," Regina told her sadly. Emma pouted. "How about we work our way backwards for your refresher course?"
"We shouldn't chance the kitchen I'm already kinda loud," Emma blushed. Regina chuckled.
"You know I think you're over dressed for the refresher course," Regina told her.
"Oh no this is a practical, so you have to correct me when I go wrong," Emma told her. Regina nodded eager to have attention. "And by the way I want pie for my dessert." Emma reached under a pillow and pulled out some whip cream." Regina grinned knowing exactly all the places she wanted to put that. She must have bought extra from the store.
"Somehow I'm thinking you're going to get it all right," Regina told her. Emma was grinning when Henry screamed from his room.
"MOM!" Henry yelled. They both ran to his room and turned on the light, but he was fine except for staring out his open window terrified.
"Henry, what's wrong what happened?" Emma asked concerned.
"Fly…fly…flying monkey!" Henry got out as he clutched his chest and his eyes were wide. Regina frowned and went to the window, but she didn't see anything at first, but then she saw it flying off. She glared at it.
"Henry there's no such things as flying monkeys, you were just having a bad dream because we told you about watching the great and powerful oz."
"Yeah Henry, an owl just flew in," Regina lied as she closed the window. He wasn't convinced he knew what he had seen.
"I know how about I put a protection spell around your bed?" Regina asked him will that help you sleep. Emma frowned at her. Henry nodded his head furiously.
"Regina don't encourage him," Emma told her.
"I'm not, I'm giving him peace of mind," Regina insisted. "Just give me a moment to get my magic box." Emma's eyes narrowed but Henry insisted she get it, because if not magic what else would protect him from a flying monkey? Regina went to her apartment and retrieved a box, whatever had sent her to New York and not storybrooke, she had somehow managed to take some magical items with her, so she wasn't without any protection. She went back to Emma and Henry and opened her box. She mixed a few things precisely.
"No really what is all this stuff, you don't think you're a witch?" Emma asked her sounding as if that would be a deal breaker.
"No, Emma these things only work if you believe they will," Regina told her seriously.
"I believe," Henry told her watching her as soon as he said it the liquid glowed. He gasped and his eyes widened. She sprinkled a line on his window sill before she shut the window, and around his bed.
"As long as you stay in bed, you're safe," Regina told him. He nodded. "You believe it works then it will work, here you can keep the rest. If you feel in danger sprinkle a circle around yourself until one of us comes I mean when you have to leave your room." He nodded and took the rest of the potion clutching it tightly. He slowly relaxed as Regina rubbed his back and told him a story while he cuddled up against Emma. He hadn't cuddled up to her like that yet, but damn did she long for the day he did. Once he was resting, they quietly crept out and Regina took her box back to Emma's room.
"Do you really think you're a witch?" Emma asked her.
"I've never fancied myself a witch," Regina told her seriously. "It's just a magic trick, I picked up it helps kids relax enough to sleep. Every kid wants to believe in magic for as long as they can." Emma nodded.
"I use to believe and then I realized I was an orphan." Regina frowned and kissed her forehead.
"You are more than your past," Regina told her and you will find your home soon I think."
"New York is my home," Emma said crossing her eyes.
"Hmm…" Regina answered getting into bed. "So are you no longer interested in dessert oooor can I serve it to you warm?" Regina put some whipped cream on her finger and licked it off.
"Oh you damn well better serve it piping hot," Emma told her eager to not talk about her past. She dived into bed and Regina gave her the illusion that she was in control but really she made sure Emma was so well satisfied she fell asleep. She put protection potion over all the doors and windows before she checked on Henry. She wasn't surprised to see a flying monkey blocked at his window. Regina walked up to it and glaring at it.
"I don't know where you're from but go tell your master I'm coming for them, and for scaring my son, I'm going to make you eat fire," Regina whispered to it. It screamed at her and left startling Henry awake.
"Did you see that it was a flying monkey?" Henry asked alarmed.
"You're fine, you're fine," Regina reassured him. "It was definitely an owl, you're just on edge, relax, the owl couldn't even get passed my protection spell." He nodded and calmed his breathing before he went back to sleep again. Regina joined Emma back in bed and wrapped herself in her arms. She was only half asleep when Henry ran in burrowed under the covers and hugged them both tight well mostly hurt, because Emma was still quite naked. She just enjoyed being the one he cuddled too.
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