Everything She Wanted

Wait for me to come home:

Because of a rather nasty headache and heavy rain, Regina doesn't get the early start she had hoped for. Instead she's forced to wait at her hotel room until the rain subsides. When it finally does, it's late in the afternoon, and everybody else wants to go home as well, so Regina ends up stuck in a massive queue for hours. The traffic isn't moving at all, and Regina grows more and more frustrated. She's tired, she has a headache and she just wants to go home and give her children a big hug. She's been stuck for hours already, and she has texted Mal to let her know about the delay. The sorceress was none too pleased about that.

Storybrooke seems realms away right now, and Regina has never been more eager to get back home.

When she finally reaches the town line, it's pitch black and Regina is tired but ever so grateful to be home. She holds her breath as she crosses the town line, and she feels a whoosh when her magic returns to her. It almost feels like getting knocked out temporarily, and Regina has to pull over for a second to catch her breath. When she feels ready, she continues the drive through Storybrooke. The entire town is pitch black. Regina yawns. She is quite tired from driving all day, and it is 2 in the morning, so really, it's no wonder that she feels tired.

The Sheriff's station is dark as well. Apparently, Emma didn't pull an all-nighter like she sometimes does.

Finally, Regina reaches Mifflin Street, and her heart speeds up when she sees the mansion. Admittedly, she does speed a little when she drives down the street, it's lucky that there's no sheriff's around to arrest her for speeding.

Regina almost jumps out of the car and crosses the pathway up to the house in two strides. She quietly opens the sometimes-creaking door and creeps inside.

The house is dark and quiet, and Regina doesn't bother to switch any light on as she moves around downstairs. Maleficent has kept her word. The kitchen and living room is spotless and perfect. Very impressive. Heavens know the dragon is a bit messy from time to time.

Regina slowly trots up the stairs. Not a sound coming from here either. The whole house is asleep. She pushes the door to the nursery open and pops her head inside. Amelia and Emerald are fast asleep in their cribs. The only thing Regina can hear is the steady rhythm of their heartbeats. She quietly walks closer and looks down at her sleeping children. Oh, how she has missed them. She wants to pick them up. Wants to cradle them in her arms, hold them into her chest and shower them with affection and love, but she knows she can't do that. It would be merciless to wake them now, so she settles for a quiet "mommy missed you so much", and quietly leaves the nursery again.

The next destination on Regina's nightly walk is Henry's room. She opens the door and peeks inside. The teenager is fast asleep as well. With his cellphone dangling loosely in his hand. Nothing new there. Regina smiles at that sight. She has missed her big son terribly as well. She decides not to wake him and quietly tiptoes out of the room again.

Next and final destination on her route is her bedroom- no, their bedroom. She half expects Mal to be awake and sitting up in the bed when she pushes the door open, but no, the sorceress is fast asleep. In Regina's side of the bed, bless her. Regina sniffs into the air. The room smells of apples. Have Maleficent been using her perfume while she was away?

Regina doesn't have the heart to wake her up either. She looks so peaceful and relaxed when she's asleep. The brunette waves her hand and replaces her black dress with her grey silk pajamas. Then she quietly slips into bed next to Maleficent. The dragon doesn't wake up, and Regina decides to let her sleep. Two o'clock in the morning is too late to have a conversation.

The brunette yawns and curls up under the covers. It doesn't take more than five minutes before she's fast asleep next to her wife.

Moments later, or so it seems, she's awakened by a pair of arms wrapping tightly around her, pulling her closer. Then a pair of lips on her neck, and finally a hoarse and sleepily: ,,My darling."

Regina blinks. The bedroom is still dark, but the lights outside have changed a bit.

,,What time is it?" she asks tiredly.

,,Five in the morning. What time did you get home?"

,,A few hours ago. I didn't have the heart to wake you."

,,This was a very nice nightly surprise," Maleficent chuckles quietly and pulls Regina even closer.

,,Are you happy to see me?" Regina asks with a little smile. She already knows the answer to that question.

,,What do you think?" Maleficent replies and gives Regina another kiss. This time on the side of her neck.

Regina sighs contented and gives Mal's hand a little pat. ,,It's nice to be home again."

,,Was it a long drive?"

,,Mmm, as you know I got stuck in a queue for hours. But can we please talk about this later? I'm knackered."

,,Alright," Maleficent nods and gives Regina another sweet kiss on the cheek. ,,It's good to have you home again, my beauty."

Regina falls asleep with a little smile on her lips.

The next time Regina wakes up, it's to babbling and the babies tugging at her hair. It turns out that Mal have fetched the babies from the nursery and brought them with her into the bedroom.

Regina slowly opens her eyes and sits up in the bed. The babies' squeals and Amelia promptly wraps her chubby little arms around her neck. Emerald, who has her own view on affection, gives Regina's hair another tug and tries her best to stuff it into her mouth.

Regina chuckles as she frees her hair from Emerald's grasp. ,,It's nice to see that they have missed me as much as I have missed them."

,,They are not the only ones who have missed you, my dear," Maleficent points out and gives Regina a very fond look.

,,And here I was, thinking that you might have traded me for my sister," Regina jokes while the babies keeps crawling around on her.

,,As I told you, redheads aren't my thing. And neither is wicked witches."

,,Zelena isn't wicked anymore," Regina rebuts. ,,At least not much."

,,Perhaps not, but she's not a queen."

,,Neither am I," Regina points out. ,,Split myself, remember?"

,,Oh, my dear," Mal says sweetly and gives her wrist a little squeeze. ,,You'll always be the queen."

,,A queen," Regina corrects.

,,No, dear. The queen."

,,I think you're a bit silly," Regina accuses softly and chuckles when Amelia puts her little hand on her cheek.

,,Nonsense. Are you ready to have breakfast?"

,,Yes, and I think somebody else is too," Regina laughs when the babies squeals.

They take the babies downstairs, and Regina cheats a bit and makes breakfast appear on the table with a wave of her hand. She doesn't want to waste any time with making breakfast when she can focus on her children instead. Maleficent offers to feed them if Regina is hungry, but Regina declines the offer and insist upon feeding the babies herself. Amelia and Emerald are very good at eating the newly introduced baby food, and Regina finds herself missing breastfeeding them. Yes, it was an inconvenience to always unbutton her shirt at any given moment, but it was also very, very peaceful to watch her daughters eat and then silently fall asleep afterwards.

Halfway through the babies' breakfast, Henry emerges from his bedroom. He flashes Regina a big smile and a: "welcome home, mom." Regina returns the smile and insists upon giving her big son a hug, a gesture that elicts a smile from said young man.

Regina then proceeds to question him about how the three days with Maleficent has been, and Henry answers teasingly that Maleficent have lesser rules than she does, and by the way, the dragon is better at PlayStation than Emma is. That amuses Regina, and she makes a mental note to taunt Emma about it later.

Once the twins have been fed, and Regina has eaten as well, she gets a strong urge to stretch her legs, so she asks Henry and Mal whether they want to go for a little stroll with the babies. Henry declines, he has already made plans with Violet, so.. but Maleficent quickly says yes, and both women use a bit of magic to get dressed and done up, but the twins are gently dressed by hand. No reason to make them addicted to magic at this young age.

,,Do you realize that our anniversary is coming up in two months?" Maleficent asks once they are out on the streets with the babies securely placed in the stroller.

,,Yes, as a matter fact I do," Regina chuckles.

,,To think that you have put up with me for a year," Maleficent says half-serious.

,,Quite astounding, isn't it?" Regina teases. ,,I mean, you are kind of a pain in the.."

,,Watch it," Maleficent cuts her off and sneers.

,,What's the matter, dragon? Can't handle the truth?" Regina says and ignores her warning completely.

,,I would be careful with my smart remarks if I were you," Maleficent warns silkily, and it gives Regina a certain thrill.

,,Would you now?" she shoots back. ,,Otherwise.. what?"

,,Maybe you'll find out later. If you're lucky."

Regina shrugs, completely unimpressed.

Not very surprisingly, they end up in Granny's Diner. Once the little ones have settled down, and their eyes started drooping, Maleficent and Regina turned the stroller around and headed into Granny's to have some coffee.

They sit down in an empty booth, but the booth doesn't stay empty for very long. Two minutes after the two sorceresses arrived, they are more or less overrun by Emma, Snow and Zelena.

,,You're back," Zelena says as all three women without further ado sits down.

,,Nicely observed," Regina says dryly. Her sister is an except in stating the obvious.

,,And you don't look sad anymore," Snow beams at Maleficent.

,,Have she been looking sad?" Regina questions and frowns.

,,More like pissed," Emma corrects. ,,Like a dragon robbed of her treasure."

,,Well, what can I say," Maleficent drawls. ,,It's nice having all of my girls gathered under one roof."

Zelena sniggers and Snow makes a ridiculously stupid face.

,,I am not your girl," Regina grimaces and grits her teeth.

,,Aren't you?" Zelena mutters and winks at her sister.

,,No," Regina denies firmly.

Snow chuckles. ,,Well, it's nice seeing you two back together."

,,You act like I have been away for months," Regina says and rolls her eyes.

,,Feels like it," Maleficent says quietly.

,,Your dragon has been very sad without you, Regina," Emma says completely serious.

,,Shut up, Savior," Maleficent snarls.

,,It's true," Zelena chirps in with a smirk on her lips. ,,She's been driving all of us insane while you were gone?"

,,How so?" Regina asks and raises an eyebrow. This is rather interesting.

,,Oh you know," Zelena says and continues with a phenomenal imitation of Maleficent's voice: ,,I wonder what Regina is doing, when can I call Regina, why isn't Regina answering her phone, what if something is wrong, what if she can't get back to Storybrooke, I miss Regina, I have no one to talk to, I haven't been sleeping for three day.."

,,Alright!" Maleficent hisses while Emma and Snow laughs. ,,I think she gets it, witch!"

,,You haven't been sleeping while I was gone?" Regina questions her wife. She didn't say anything about that when they spoke over the phone.

,,You weren't supposed to know that!" Maleficent rebuts.

,,Maybe you ought to head back home and get some sleep?" Regina suggests, and Maleficent sneers and moves closer to her.

,,I am not going home while you are sitting here!"

,,Alright. I was only a suggestion, there's no reason to take that tone with me."

,,I weren't taking any tone with you."

,,Yes you were."

,,No I wasn't."

Snow laughs. ,,I have missed hearing you two arguing all the time."

,,I haven't missed arguing," Regina says darkly.

,,No? Well, maybe you should have run off with that guy from yesterday." Maleficent teases.

Regina frowns when she remembers a rather foggy piece of the phone conversation she had with her wife yesterday.

,,Guy? What guy?" Snow asks immediately and her green eyes widens.

,,Oh, just a man who pursued Regina at the dinner yesterday," Maleficent answers before Regina gets the chance to answer.

,,He did not pursue me," Regina denies.

,,He followed you back to your hotel room," Maleficent says flatly.

,,He did what?" Emma asks half amused.

,,I don't know which part of "I'm married and uninterested" didn't get through to him," Regina says a bit sharply. ,,But I told him to shove off and he did so…"

,,I'm glad your door was locked," Mal says sincerely. ,,You weren't exactly in a state where you could fight him."

Regina sighs deeply.

,,What do you mean?" Zelena asks and frowns.

,,Regina was a little drunk yesterday, weren't you, my darling?" Maleficent teases and gives Regina a little nudge.

,,Tipsy," Regina corrects darkly.

,,Ha! Given how you rambled on, you were more than just tipsy, my lovely."

Regina quickly looks down at the table instead of her wife. Suddenly she remembers bits and pieces from the conversation she and Mal had over the phone yesterday. Damn it. Damn her and her loose tongue.

To Be Continued..