Here's chapter 9! And like I said in the last one, this one would involve music.
Enjoy! – Sorry for any typo.
Chapter 9: Something I need - Part I
Emma&Hook's House
"Seriously girls, only you two to make me go back home to get these files." Emma huffed out as she rolled her eyes and walked down the driveway to the house she bought with Hook.
"It's your job as the Sheriff of town to keep up with your reports and leave them at my table every Sunday. It's Thursday, not my fault that you are so horrible at keeping up with dates, Swan." Regina said in her usual demanding tone but she had a slight smile upon her face.
"Yeah yeah, whatever, but why is Ruby scolding me too?" Emma asked as she perked up an eyebrow and looked over her shoulder seeing Ruby besides Regina.
"Because I don't have anything else to do, I am really bored so I decided to come bother you." Ruby stuck out her tongue at Emma with a chuckle.
"You really need a boyfriend to distract you, girl." Emma rolled her eyes again and kept on walking.
When they were arriving the front door, Emma's house had a big mirror on the left wall that showed were the living room was; the curtains were raised up and the window was open. Emma thought she had left the curtains down before leaving home this morning. And before she could stop paying attention to her window, something else caught her attention again.
There was Victoria wearing only some yoga pants with a tight sport bra, revealing her flat stomach, and her brown hair was tied up in a pony-tail. She was dancing, and she seemed to really know what she was doing, that belly dance was very well done, Emma had to admit that; but which song was Victoria dancing to? Well, to 'Touch my body' from Mariah Carey, she seemed to be really enjoying herself in the dance, and she was also cleaning things around while doing it.
"What's the matter?" Ruby asked Emma, wondering why did the blonde decided to stop there and just look at her window, so when the tall brunette decided to check things on her own, she felt her jaw totally falling down. Victoria was doing some hot dance while cleaning and perhaps singing to the song of Mariah Carey. "Oh I am so going to touch that body." Ruby mumbled with a silly grin as she licked the upper corner of her lips.
Regina also wondered why they stopped to just look at the window, and when she got to witness what was really happening, she felt saliva quickly forming inside her mouth and she had to swallow it right away to make sure she wouldn't be drooling over the sexy and hot view she was having of Victoria dancing, cleaning, singing, or whatever she was really doing. When she heard Ruby's comment about really going to touch Victoria's body, the older brunette couldn't help it but slap Ruby's arm, like a warning.
"Ouch! Why the hell did you do that?!" Ruby complained as she rubbed her arm, oh yeah, she had totally forgotten here the evil queen was a love sick fool for Victoria.
Yeah, why did Regina hit Ruby? It's not like she and Victoria were dating, because they were far from it. Yes, they did almost made out at the hospital last month when Victoria was injured, but after that they spent an entire week avoiding each other, hoping nothing would get too awkward around them, till they decided to just get over it, and they act like nothing happen, but Regina was very sure that she caught Victoria staring at her ass few times and even her breasts every time Regina is talking with someone and Victoria happens to be there too. It makes Regina feel better every time she caught those glances from Victoria, but then she remembers that she isn't dating Victoria and it only gets her sadder, knowing what she wants is so close yet so far away to get.
While they were watching and getting a bit lost in thought with Victoria's moves; all off sudden a man showed up behind Victoria, grabbing her by her sides an quickly lifting her up, which made Victoria yelp, Emma wasn't sure if she was scared or not, but she had never seen that man before, so obviously Emma thought the worst. "Hey, hey!" Emma shouted, as she quickly ran up to her door and began to open it by clumsily remove the keys of her jacket.
Ruby and Regina gasped when they saw a stranger getting hold of Victoria and they just acted like Emma. They followed the blonde and soon they were inside at the living room.
"Hey, put her down!" Emma shouted again as she aimed her gun at him.
The stranger that grabbed Victoria, now had her over his shoulder, like she was a tiny toy he was holding against his bare muscled shoulders, he turned around slowly when he heard Emma's voice, he basically looked all confused at her, wondering why the hell she had a gun pointed at him. "Oh shit-"
Since the stranger turned around, Victoria now had her butt facing everybody, but she could tell Emma was here, and she was probably threatening the poor guy with a gun. "Hey, hey calm down! Its okay, Emma, he's a friend." Victoria warned her, as her friend slowly put her down, and once her feet were settled on the ground she took a step away from him to gain back her balance and let the blood slid back down from her head.
Yet, Victoria's words wasn't enough to calm down the older brunette, so when Victoria was far enough from the male, Regina quickly moved her hand, like she was swatting him, and a blast of invisible energy came out from her hand and hit the male, making him fly away and only stop once his back hit the wall.
"Oh my god, Regina!" Emma and Ruby gasped as they watched the witch harm the man.
Victoria also gasped but she made no sound, she just brought her both palms to her mouth, like she was amazed and shocked to what had just happen. "Oh my, is he even alive?" Victoria mumbled under her breath as she quickly approached her new friend and checked if he had pulse, which was totally a wonderful relief when she found out his heart was beating and fine. He probably just passed out because of the hit, perhaps if he doesn't wake up in ten minutes they should get him to the hospital, but for now they should just wait.
Regina now quickly felt bad about what she just done, and she began to wonder if Victoria would be freaked out or blame her, she had to admit she had never used such harmful magic in front of the young woman, so she hoped she wouldn't start calling her mean names. Hell, Regina believes that Victoria doesn't even know she's actually the Evil Queen. Victoria herself doesn't even know she has magic, she doesn't remember anything what happen before the making out scene they had together, so, telling her an everybody else that Victoria has magic and she's indeed the daughter of the Snow Queen will be a hard thing to do.
"What were you two doing anyway?" Emma asked as she approached Victoria and her friend who still remained passed out on the ground. Ruby decided to turn off the loud music, while Regina simple got stuck on her own spot, not really sure what to do next.
"We were dancing. He was teaching me some salsa, and I was trying to learn." Victoria shrugged at the end of her words as she removed her hands from her friend and stood up.
"So this all music and shirtless hot Spanish guy with you, was only your dancing lessons and not some kind of robbery?" Ruby asked, perking up an eyebrow.
"Yeah, why would you guys think it was a robbery, anyway? It's not like people now randomly robs houses shirtless." Victoria joked a bit.
"Well, you never know." Emma shrugged as she made sure her gun was against her hip.
So Victoria was never at any kind of danger? Damn, now Regina felt bad about what she just done to the poor guy.
"Nah, Emma." Victoria chuckled while shaking her head.
While they were having a small chit chat, the Spanish shirtless guy finally decided to wake up. He made a groan letting everybody know he was alive and waking up. "Ugh, what happen?"
"Oh, Juan, are you okay?" Victoria got on her knees again to be closer to her friend.
"Hum, Regina knocked you out, man." Ruby explained as she raised her both eyebrows with her eyes half closed, clearly showing she was not impressed.
"I did n-" Regina was going to complain till the man started speaking.
"What?" He finally opened his eyes and now he looked around, when his view caught Regina's figure, he quickly went bezerk. "You! This is insane! Your wicked magic almost killed me!" The man shouted from the bottom of his lungs as he quickly stood up by pressing his back against the wall and using the strength of his palms and feet.
"Hey, calm down, I don't think you should get up so quickly for now." Victoria told him as she stood up as well and watched him flipping.
Regina simple bit down on her lower lip trying to control her big mouth from saying anything bad.
"I'm not calming down when the Evil Queen is right here! She can kill us all with her magic!" He kept raging.
"The hell you talking about? Stop being rude to her like that and calm down." Victoria frowned as she placed her palms on her sides. Despite her size, she wasn't going to let anybody act like that towards Regina.
"Rude to her?! She is the one who destroyed everybody's happy endings! She should be killed!"
"Okay, that's it, you hit your head pretty hard. Get out." Victoria huffed out as she grabbed her friend or whatever he really is now and began to drag him away to the door.
"But she's the evil queen, you aren't safe around her!" Juan kept his tantrum even tho he was already by the door but outside.
"Stop with that! She's not the evil queen! That's just dumb." Victoria shouted at him and then quickly closed the door on his face. Ugh, why did he turn so mean all off sudden? He was nice the entire day, but when he saw Regina he just flipped.
Emma and Ruby were both speechless, surprised that Victoria held the situation like that, and when the younger woman said that Regina was no evil queen, they just looked at Regina, wondering if the older brunette ever told Victoria if she was indeed the evil queen in the past, and the look that Regina gave them, was obvious that Victoria doesn't really know the past Regina. They know if that's a good or bad thing.
"geez, I don't know what happen to him, other than getting hit with the magic. But seriously, that was some awesome move." Victoria started giggle again, when she was closer to the couch, she basically done the same thing that happen to Juan and laughed in the end once her back hit the couch. "It was so awesome." The brunette kept laughing and joking.
Regina just swallowed and forced a smile when Victoria simple found everything humorous, and its shouldn't be like that, the brunette should know everything about Regina and her magic, she should know that her magic wasn't so awesome and harmless, it was dangerous, but the woman knew how to control it pretty well so she harmed people when she really wanted, and she actually wanted to harm Juan.
Emma forced a chuckle just getting along with it, she wasn't sure if Regina would make Emma her next victim if the blonde told Victoria the actual true about the so no evil queen Regina. Ruby was just confused, so she didn't made any move.
"It's not like Regina can be the evil queen anyway, first for obvious reasons, and then the evil queen is probably dead, right? I mean, in the movies they all die." Victoria looked up at Emma, Ruby and Regina with a questioning look but still innocent and kind one.
Their hearts basically melted when they saw Victoria's expression and heard her words, obviously the brunette wasn't well aware of the villains in this town, hell she was with Zelena, if she knew what really happen between Regina and Zelena, perhaps she wouldn't be with the Green Witch. Emma and Ruby looked at Regina now, wondering if she would tell the truth or just keep with the lie.
"Well actually-" Regina was going to tell the truth, or at least half of it, she was going to say that the villains aren't all dead, but nothing more, which wouldn't be a lie, but it wouldn't be the entire truth either. However somebody interrupted her, and she was thankful it was her son Henry and not that Spanish guy; and obviously that he didn't allowed her to finish her words, because she knew she would regret them.
"Victoria everything's ready! Now we just need-" Henry was still with his back facing everybody because he was closing the door, and he seemed pretty excited with his words. When he turned around after closing the door he noticed that there was his both mothers, and Ruby. "Oh hey guys!"
"Henry.." Emma mumbled as she was surprised her son was here, he told her in the morning when they both left together that he had some "project" to do with his friends.
"Heyo, looking boy." Ruby teased with a small chuckle.
"Oh, Henry! There you are, do you really have everything ready?" Victoria pushed herself up from the couch and approached the brunette boy, with a big smile.
"Oh yeah!" Henry exclaimed as he quickly removed his backpack and placed it on the ground slowly, before remove some papers that looked like some pamphlets. "Done with the pamphlets, Tinkerbell is already putting them around the streets."
"Oh wonderful!" Victoria almost jumped on her spot as she took the pamphlet on her hands and began to examine it. The first thing that caught her eyes was the big letters 'Regals – New Band'. "Oh dam, aint this fancy? I love it!" Victoria stuck out her tongue in a silly manner before keep looking through the pamphlet.
"What do you guys got there?" Emma asked, since her and Regina plus Ruby were staring oddly at them, wondering what was giving them so much excitement.
"Our band!" Henry answered his ma' as he approached her and handed her a pamphlet, doing the same with his mom and then with Ruby.
"You two got a band?" Ruby asked, perking up an eyebrow as she looked better through the pamphlet, and when she began to read the members, she saw her own name. "Wait, wait...Ruby the drummer? The hell is that kiddo?!" Ruby slapped the pamphlet playful against Henry's arm.
Henry chuckled when Ruby hit him and then stepped away. "You got the perfect skills for it! I've caught you many times doing some silly hits when you aren't doing anything at Granny's, plus Victoria told me one time you two hang out in the music shop and you played the drums!"
When Victoria heard her name being mentioned by Henry, she simple looked at Ruby and gave an apologetic look.
"So, Ruby is the drummer, Henry the guitarist?" Emma kept reading the pamphlet.
"Yup, I take care of the cords." Henry chuckled.
"Tinkerbell is the pianist? Should I be surprised?" This time it was Regina reading.
"Nope, she got some mad skills with her fingers." Victoria could sound totally innocent but if they took a look at her expression it was obvious she also had a dirty side on those words.
"Victoria is takes care of the bass guitar and-" Ruby couldn't finish her words without having both Emma an Regina gasping.
"Singer?!" The blonde and brunette woman exclaimed very surprised as they looked at Victoria.
"Yup!" Victoria replayed them with a big smile.
"Pretty cool, huh? She's awesome with her voice, she can adapt different styles!" Henry told them very excited as he turned to Victoria. "Hey, country style now."
Victoria grinned at Henry then nodded her head, her eyes then landed on the three women, but mostly on Regina. "Baby lock da door and turn da lights down low!" She sang it with the country suppose accent for the song, and then winked at Regina at the end of her words.
"Oh my god!" Ruby just began to laugh, while Emma quickly shoved her palms against her mouth to control her laugh, they weren't making fun of Victoria, they were only acting like this because Victoria's words were direct to Regina and the two women probably pictured Victoria and Regina on that scene, locking the door, turning the lights down low and…"Stop it Ruby!" Emma gasped as she slapped Ruby's arm to make her stop laughing.
Regina just froze on her spot, as she gulped. Yup, she was totally embarrassed now, and was blushing like a mad person. Why did Victoria have to tease her so much? She liked it, whenever Zelena existence didn't show up in her mind; she actually enjoyed having the silly Victoria teasing around.
Victoria chuckled along with them and then looked at Henry, waiting for him to give her another style.
"Okay, okay, now try huum… jazz?" Henry asked her.
Victoria cleared her throat as she closed her eyes and tried to get in character. "I put a spell on you, 'cause you mine. Doubidoubidou.~" She was trying to imitate Nina Simone, but it was pretty hard for her to do such thing. "Gosh, close enough though." She wiggled her eyebrows before chuckle.
Henry chuckled before pat Victoria's shoulder. "Anyway, we should go and practice a bit more, our first concert is tonight!"
"Let me go change first." Victoria told him as she ran upstairs, yeah, the brunette was still wearing the yoga pants and sports bra.
"I need to prepare the stage, don't I?" Emma asked Henry as she folded her arms in front of her chest.
"Duh, of course." Henry stuck out his tongue towards Emma before pick up his backpack.
"Soooo…will you lock the door and turn the lights down low?" Ruby hit her elbow slightly against Regina's arm with a silly smirk.
Regina basically pinched Ruby's thigh, a very odd move from the evil queen.
"Ay!" Ruby yelped as she quickly held her thigh and stepped away from Regina. Okay, perhaps she shouldn't tease the evil queen again.
Gold's Shop
"Gold, I need your help." Zelena quickly said as she entered his shop in a rather brutish manner by the slamming door sound.
Gold remained behind his balcony as he perked up an eyebrow and looked at the wicked witch. "It has been awhile, dearie. May I know what brought you here with your lovely presence?"
"Cut the crap. I want a potion that makes Victoria do whatever I want, and don't tell me you don't have it, because I know you do." Zelena frowned at him, she was his student, she still remembered few spells and potions that he had.
"Excuse me, you think coming in my shop and asking for a potion that will turn the kind Victoria into your puppet, will work?"
"I need this potion."
"Why? Your "love" for her isn't strong enough to make sure she will say yes to your proposal?"
"How do you…"
"Oh dearie, you should know by now, that I always know everything that is going around me." Gold chuckled as he turned around and began to look through his shelves.
"Give me the potion." Zelena frowned as she pressed her palm against the balcony.
Gold sighed out and turned around to face the balcony once more. This time he placed a tiny bottle over the table with a dark blue liquid.
Zelena smirked as she stretched out her hand to grab the bottle, but Gold quickly took it back before her.
"This potion needs to be used entirely in the drink she will have, you can't divide it and use it on another person. – The effect has a time limit, though."
"As I recall, it was a year, right?" Zelena kept her frown but a silly smirk slowly appearing across her face.
"You recall right. But there's a contradiction, dearie."
"Of course, you wouldn't give me anything for free. What do you want?"
"I don't want anything from you. All I need is you to be careful with what you do with Victoria and this potion. I will have my eye on you, and if I don't like how things are turning out I will quickly dismiss the spell on her and she will be back to normal, and obviously will hate you for using her like that." Gold shrugged like he was stating something totally obvious.
Zelena frowned at his next words, of course things wouldn't go so easy for her side, and she didn't understand why Gold seemed to care about this new Storybooke visitor, unless she had something that could be useful for him, but for now, Zelena shall take care of Victoria with this potion, and steal her sister's happy ending. "Alright, we got a deal."
Gold simple smirked as he placed the bottle back on the balcony, waiting for Zelena to take it.
Zelena kept eyeing his moves and then took the bottle into her palm before put it on the pockets inside her jacket. "I will see you around, Rumple." And with that she left his shop.
Yup, first part, it was getting too long, so I decided to stop by here for the first part. – Next one will be over in couple days! – Tell me what you thought about this Zelena thing.
Stick around!