Chapter 9: Kitchen and Tuna
Emma's House
"And this is the kitchen." Emma announced whenever they stepped inside it. "We cook our meals here."
Gina simple looked around as she noticed it was very different from the one back in her castle.
"And speaking about cooking, I think we should have lunch." Emma mumbled as she looked up at the clock on the wall. "What would you like to eat?" She asked with a small smile before look at the brunette.
And Gina was still slightly lost in thought and lost in this world, so she wasn't sure what she wanted to eat. She was hungry that was a fact, but for all she knows there might be new kind of food she doesn't even know about. "I-..I am not sure."
Emma wrinkled her nose at that as she started to think about the things she could cook best. "Well what about I make some rice? And then we eat it with tuna? I know it's not much, but it will fill our stomachs for now." Emma was now looking through her kitchen, trying to see how much food she had. "I have to go to the groceries later." She sighed out when she noticed the amount food she had.
Gina figured anything Emma was going to offer her would be better from that cell. "Yes, that would be pleasant."
And that's what they did. Emma prepared the rice and explained Gina how things worked around the kitchen, made sure to tell her when to be very careful with that she used. She also pointed out the way she makes rice might not be the best way to do it, so if it didn't taste that good Gina should say it and Emma would run to the Grannies to get them something, but Gina assured her that whatever the taste was she would be satisfied.
Or so she thought…Emma's rice was too moist and with no taste at all, she felt like she was 'eating' water. – Yet the Evil Queen managed to keep a straight face while eating it, not wanting to make the other woman feel bad about how poorly the rice was, plus she had the tuna which gave a better taste in her mouth.
"I am going to get you so addicted to TV, you just wait." Emma mumbled before take a sip of her juice.
"TV?" Gina asked after swallowing her food.
"It's like one of the best things here when you are bored, trust me, you will like it." Emma assured her but she wasn't sure if Gina would even like the TV because she highly doubted the Regina here did. "But you know, if you don't you can just tell me and we can do something else." Emma now shrugged not wanting to make the Evil Queen feel uncomfortable.
"Well I-" Gina was about to say something but then she felt like something was wrong, very wrong. She quickly dropped the silverware over the plate and placed her left palm over her mouth and her right palm over her stomach.
"Gina? Is everything okay? What's wrong?" Panic started to invade Emma as she looked at the brunette with a slight frown. "Oh my god, you want to throw up, right? Okay, okay hold up." Emma quickly stood up from her seat and approached the other woman before place her palms over her shoulders and help her stand up. "You can thro-" And before Emma could tell her to go to the bathroom or at least use the sink from the kitchen, Gina had already thrown up over Emma's hoodie and sweatpants.
But Emma wasn't going to complain, she did make a face at it and a low groan but when she noticed the panic and embarrassment on the brunette's face, she figured Gina didn't need any more stress. "Hey, it's okay, don't worry." Emma assured her.
"I want to-" Gina held her belly tighter as she pressed her palm over her chest bone, feeling another wave of vomit coming.
"Alright, hold up, you can throw up here." Emma quickly moved Gina to the sink and it only took a second for the brunette to throw up again. Emma wasn't sure why Gina was throwing up like this, but she figured the best was to just rub her back and hold her hair up. Yes, that long hair that Emma thought just looked formidable on Regina and she couldn't understand why she cut it.
Gina felt horrible, she couldn't understand why she was feeling so sick all of sudden and she was trying to move pass the embarrassment of throwing up over Emma, it was just so not..lady like.
While the Evil Queen was more concerned about the impression she just caused, Emma was more focused on what made the brunette throw up so quickly, cause if it was the food then Emma should be throwing up as well, right? Or maybe it was just a matter of time, and that's what Emma decided to do, wait while taking care of Gina.
But after the all waiting Emma was even more concerned because she didn't throw up a single time and Gina still carried on, emptying her stomach, at some point all she vomited was just water and Emma knew something had to be very wrong because she just noticed hives on the olive skin. "Oh fuck." Emma cursed under her breath as she just realized what was wrong with the other woman.
Gina was still bent over the sink while taking small sips of water, when she heard Emma cursing, she perked up an eyebrow or tried to while looking up at her.
"You are allergic to tuna…" Emma mumbled as she palmed her face and let out a sigh, but then reality hit her. "Okay, we need to get you to the hospital and quick." Emma said as she quickly went to find out where her car keys were.
"Wh-what?" Gina stuttered weakly while watching the blonde walking around the house.
"Gina, you are allergic to tuna! Do you know how bad that is?!" Emma quickly shouted from the living room, searching for her keys. "We need to get you to the hospital right away! I have seen enough TV to know what awful turn this allergy thing can take!"
Gina was even more confused and groaned, feeling an incredible stomach pain, but at least she wasn't throwing up anymore.
"Okay, I found my keys." Emma quickly invaded the kitchen again as she stepped closer to the brunette. "We have to go now and hope Whale knows a way out of this."
"Wait.." Gina quickly rose her hand between them. "You are taking me to the place we spent the night over when you were injured?" She asked with a confused frown.
"Yes, that's the hospital." Emma nodded as she gently took Gina's wrist. "But don't worry, okay? You will be fine and I won't let them do anything wrong to you. They will just make you better."
"But they hate me." Gina groaned as she looked down.
Emma sighed as she grabbed Gina's chin gently, to make her look at her. "Trust me in this, please? I won't let anything bad happen to you. I just want them to make you feel better. Allergies are bad, Gina, and if you are allergic to tuna we need to take care of you as soon as possible."
Chocolate eyes met green ones and as much as Gina didn't want to go, she felt she could trust Emma, so she simple nodded and took a deep breath. "Alright."
Hospital
"I am watching you, Whale." Emma warned him as she stood on a far corner inside the room.
Whale rolled his eyes with a sigh. "Tune down the possessive girlfriend attitude." He told her as he used the cold tool to hear Gina's heart beating or at least he thought he was going to do that but it seems sneaking hand under the hoodie without any warning was completely the wrong move.
"Dude!" Emma quickly gasped when Gina jumped back on the bed the very moment Whale tried to put his hand under the hoodie. "The hell you doing?!" Emma asked him with a frown as she approached them.
"I want to check her heart beat, is that a crime?" He almost snarled. "I also need to know how if she's breathing well."
"Well what about a warning first?" Emma rolled her eyes.
"Well what about she cooperates and just tells me if she feels like her throat is swollen? Cause I can't tell by looking at her lips, they are al-." Before he could finish whatever the bastard was going to say, Emma quickly smacked his arm.
"For your information her lips are indeed slightly swollen than usual." Emma barked at him.
"Amazing, leave that for you to know how her lips were." Whale still kept with his attitude and Emma smacked him again. "Okay fine, what about her breathing?"
"Are you breathing well?" Emma looked at Gina who simple gave her a look that would say 'so and so'
"Wonderful, what about she says something, huh?" Whale said not so amused.
"Leave her alone." Emma told him.
"I just want to see if her voice sounds hoarse."
"Isn't this all enough signs that she's allergic!?" Emma was having enough with this man and she was only letting her temper get the best of her because the pain against her ribs were getting her again.
"Ugh." Whale huffed out as he still held up the stethoscope. "Can you remove that hoodie? I need to listen your heartbeat." And Gina quickly frowned, giving him a glare that could kill if possible. "Well what about just lifting it up?" And Gina just kept refusing. "I am not going to make any progress like this." Whale quickly stated with a bored expression as he looked up at Emma.
"Oh please, gimme that." Emma rolled her eyes as she took the stethoscope from him and pushed him out of his stool besides the bed, so she could sit there.
"Do you even know the normal heartbeat sounds?" Whale perked up an eyebrow.
"I am not stupid, Whale!" Emma barked at him as she took a deep breath to calm herself down before look up at Gina. "Okay, remember when I told you to trust me?" Gina nodded. "I will just slide my hand under the hoodie and place this upon your chest. It will help us know if your heart is beating normally." Gina still cringed at that idea but she figured it was best if it was Emma doing that.
"Do it." Gina simple stated and Whale caught that her voice was indeed hoarse.
"Alright, this is cold, okay?" Emma warned her as she sneaked her hand under the hoodie and moved her hand all the way up to Gina's chest to place the cold metal against her skin.
That action made Gina breathless, not only because of the cold from the metal but also of how Emma's skin slightly brushed against hers and to make it worse Gina was not wearing a bra like Emma and women did in this world, she only had the hoodie on her.
And Emma seemed to only realize it now because her wrist brushed against the bare skin of Gina's breast and the blonde was doing her best to just focus on her task and not let her mind wander. "Her heart beat sounds fine." Emma cleared her throat before announcing it.
"Ah finally, let me just go get the right stuff and the nurse." Whale eyed them as he totally noticed there was some tension, sexual tension, and he was loving it. "I'll leave you two ladies for now." He smirked before remove the stethoscope from Emma and leave the room.
Emma just rubbed her hands together and tried to not make any eye contact with the brunette, as Gina simple fixed better her hoodie while making sure it wouldn't give away how erected her nipples were. – The whole purpose of this was just to check Gina's heartbeat not make any of them aroused by this, and how stupid could Emma be to forget that Gina wasn't wearing any bra? What if Emma had requested her to really take off the hoodie?!
Emma just chewed her lower lip at those thoughts as she scratched her cheek nervously. "We will have to get you underwear from this world." The blonde mumbled still not making any eye contact.
But Gina just stared deeply at the blonde's figure, she wanted to know what was going through her mind, she wanted to know if she made her feel uncomfortable or embarrassed, because the only person who should be uncomfortable or embarrassed would be herself. – And even if she didn't know what the blonde really meant by the underwear from this world, she simple nodded and looked down at her own hands, hoping the all awkwardness would just leave the goddamn room.
Soon Whale stepped inside with the nurse and few utensils needed for the Evil Queen. "We will have to take a sample of her blood." Whale pointed out as he grabbed a syringe.
"There's no way you are going to put that in her." Emma quickly said, pleased that Whale was back but upset that he was going to take Gina's blood.
"We need it for the tests." Whale frowned at her.
"But she will freak out. She doesn't know what's that." Emma warned him.
"Look, I am just doing my goddamn job here, and I could have called the Charmings and the Mayor to just deal with this all issue."
"Don't you dare."
"Then let me do my job and tell her to just suck it up." Whale snarled. "'Cause I am really getting tired of this. If you want me to not snitch anything, then tell her to roll up the damn sleeve."
Emma rolled her eyes a she turned at Gina. "You still trust me, right?" The brunette simple nodded. "Okay, so they are going to remove a bit of your blood, but don't freak out!" Emma quickly said as she noticed Gina's expression changing. "It's only for tests, it helps them to know if it was indeed the tuna that caused this or whatever. I don't know medicine stuff, but I know this needs to be done."
"H-How are they going to do that?" Gina asked, starting to feel trouble with her tongue and throat.
"They will put a needle in your arm." Emma started to explain as she rolled up the hoodie's sleeve. "Your veins." Emma pointed at the greenish line. "They will remove a bit of your blood from there with the help of a needle, but don't worry okay? I am right here." She then leaned slightly forward and gave Gina's shoulder a comforting squeeze. "I won't let them hurt you." She assured her.
"Now that the all evil lesbian show is done, I woul-"
"Watch it, Whale." Emma warned him with a frown.
"You guys really aren't funny." Whale rolled his eyes a she gave the syringe to the nurse. "I'll just let Kelly take care of the blood." He then walked up to the rest of the utensils they brought. "And I'll give you something to calm down the allergic effects."
Emma had stood up from the stool, to let the nurse work, but she still kept besides Gina, squeezing her free hand and when the nurse was about to use the needle, Emma noticed Gina's face fill with panic. "Hey, Gina, look at me, it's alright." Emma was trying to make the Evil Queen only look at her and not look at what the nurse was doing.
But Gina was just so tense that even keeping her eyes away wouldn't make the pain disappear, and instead of showing everybody in the room that she was in pain, she just turned her head to face Emma's arm and tried to hide her face between her arm and side.
Emma felt slightly hurt by this, because she just promised she wouldn't let them hurt her but in the end Gina was indeed hurting; even though it was just a slight pain she was feeling, and it was something that Emma couldn't really void from happening. "It's alright, you are safe." Emma mumbled against dark hair before peck her head while caressing her back and still keep a firm hold on her hand.
I wonder how long does it take for them to make out.. Whale thought as he watched the scene unfold. Emma seemed very protective over the Evil Queen, it was something that made his stomach turn because well that was the Evil Queen, but the way the brunette was acting and the way Emma held her, it felt like it was just another normal couple taking care of each other while the partner is ill. – If things continued like this then maybe just maybe Emma can change the Evil Queen for good. "After this I won't you two out of here, cause the smell of puke is really getting me."
Emma gave a sheepish smile because only now she realized she was still wearing the clothes Gina puked over, of course she used a wet cloth to try clean it but the smell wouldn't just go away. "I really don't mind." Emma said mostly because to assure Gina that she didn't mind if her clothes had puke on it.
Wasn't that sweet.
What you wanna see next chap?
