Chapter 9.
The doorbell rang as the evening started to roll in. Neither woman woke to the sound. Regina had been the first to fall asleep. She slept on her back with her head lolled to her left. Emma had stayed awake and shimmied down the mayor's double bed to get a better view of her face. That was what she told herself for the first few minutes.
But she couldn't help but watch the brunette's chest rise and fall with each breath, how her lips were parted ever so slightly, how a soft snore would occasionally leave those lips and thinking how she can tease her about it when she would wake up. She knew she should pull the covers up at some point but seeing the beauty before her she chose against it.
She ran her eyes over Regina's body, memorizing it. She noticed a small hole just above the mayor's belly button.
'No way...Regina had a body piercing. That is a belly button piercing. I wonder when she got it.'
Her thoughts of the woman were getting to her making her body temperature rise. She groaned and removed her tee shirt placing it to the side.
She had no idea how long she had laid there staring longingly at the other woman's breasts but it had gotten to the stage where she had to hold her own hands to stop herself from reaching out and touching them.
They were perfect. Emma wanted so desperately to remove the bra that kept most of them from her view. She sighed and realised that she would have to close her eyes if nothing else but stop herself from molesting the mayor as she slept.
She soon drifted off with her head near the mayor's abdomen with one hand draped over Regina's thighs.
Henry assumed his mother's couldn't hear the door and bound down the stairs to answer it.
He opened it seeing David behind it. "Grandpa!" He gave him a quick embrace. He never had a grandfather before but from the way his mother talked about her father; his namesake, he knew that grandfather's were very important. "What are you doing here?"
"I just came to talk to your mom?" He ruffled Henry's hair with a good natured smile. "Do you know where she is?"
"Which one?" He asked furrowing his brow and stepping aside as his grandfather walked up the steps to the foyer.
"Emma...Is she here?" He looked around suspiciously seeing neither of the women downstairs and not wanting to confront Regina. Henry shut the door and walked past him. "She's in mom's room." He pointed up to the ceiling. "It's the last one down the hall."
Henry went off to the kitchen to grab a snack leaving David tentatively walked up the stairs and across the landing to Regina's room.
Emma jumped awake when she heard a loud pitch girly screeching sound.
"What the fuck was that?!" She rubbed her eyes and saw her father in the door way with his hand over his mouth looking at the two of them with wide eyes frozen on the spot.
Emma frantically tried to cover herself with the bedsheets. She pointed at him. "This is not what it looks like." Her eyes were wild, she knew what it looked like. She was half naked, in bed with the woman his father despised most.
"You are in bed with her!" He said in a voice higher than his own. Regina grumbled and slowly woke up. "We were just taking a nap." Emma explained innocently pulling Regina's sheets up to cover her body more. Her father flicked his eyes over to Regina and she narrowed her eyes at him.
He was appalled and in shock. "Your son could have walked in on you!" He never wanted to think about his daughter's dating life. Up until now it had been pretty non existent. Now she was in bed with a woman, the woman who had made his wife's life miserable for years in their land.
Emma glared at him. "We were just napping."
"In your underwear." He pointed out and blushed along with his daughter. Regina sat up and smirked at the two of them embarrassed, getting a small amount of amusement out of the situation.
She leaned closer to Emma and placed a kiss on her cheek. "I'll be back in a minute Sweetheart." The act leaving the blonde completely dumbstruck. David fumed at her, his nostrils flaring.
Regina got up from the bed and strutted to her en-suite while the two Charming's stared at her ass as she walked away.
David pointed at the bathroom door. "What was that?!" Emma squared her jaw. She would get revenge on her for that. "S-she was messing with you! We were just sleeping. If we had had sex why would we put on underwear?"
They both blushed a dark red and she wrapped a sheet around her almost tripping when the sheet caught on a bed post. She stood up and approached her father. "Why are you here? Is Mary Margaret okay?"
Emma and David hadn't spent much time together alone since the curse broke and before that they had very little interactions. Whereas Mary Margaret was her best friend before she found out she was her mother. She had always felt an awkwardness between them and this time it was tenfold.
"She's fine...I had a talk with Mother Superior and she wants a meeting to decide on Jefferson's faith."
"R-right now?" He looked at her with a dour expression. "Oh I'm sorry, am I getting in the way of you messing around with the woman who enjoys torturing your mother?"
Emma glowered at him. "We were sleeping!" She all but growled making David jut out his chin. "It's tomorrow at city hall in meeting room A, should be starting around 2."
She was fixing the sheets when Regina came out of the bathroom in a very short silk dress robe. Emma turned her head and stared at her, subconsciously licking her lips as she took in the image in front of her.
The tanned, perfectly toned legs and the way her hips swayed as she walked closer. Her mouth went completely dry when Regina leaned on her shoulder and looked at her with a sultry pout. "Everything okay babe?"
Emma was at a sudden loss for words.
'Babe? She called my babe.'
'Not sleeping together, what the hell is that?! Get your hands off my daughter.'
'This is too easy. He looks like he is about to blow. Mhhmm she smells so good. I should probably leave before she loses it.'
"I should check on Henry..." Emma cleared her throat and shook her head at her father as the brunette left the room sniggering.
"Babe huh? How long has this been going on?"
Emma growled and jumped frustrated on the spot. "We aren't...She was fucking with you!...Regina and I aren't a thing!" She sighed exasperated.
David went slack jawed and looked back at the empty hall where Regina had gone. "But you want it?!"
His voice was higher again. Emma blanched of color. "I have no idea what you are talking about."
"Ruby said you were in love with her but I wouldn't believe it." He sat down at the end of the bed.
"Ruby? Why the hell are you discussing my love life with her?" She said more angrier than she had meant to. "Because she said it is obvious! And quite frankly it is! I didn't even think you were...you know..." He went red again and she sat down beside him.
"Gay..." Emma answered for him in a voice barely a whisper looking down at the floor. "Would it be so bad if I was?"
He looked over at her seeing his little girl beside him. "No of course not. I love you." He wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "Are you?"
Emma gulped and nodded silently. He kissed the top of her head and she let out a sigh. "And you like Regina?" He sounded pained as he asked her. She stayed silent but he got his answer.
"Regina isn't even gay sweetheart. What about Ruby? She is um, like you...and she is a good person."
"She killed an entire town and countless of Regina's guards." Emma said in a bored voice. She didn't want Ruby, she wanted Regina. "That was her wolf self."
"Splitting hairs if you're asking me." David sighed at Emma's attitude towards his friend and realized that he had known she felt this way in the hospital room. She had just come out to him and from what he had seen from the shows both Katheryn and Mary Margaret watched coming out to a parent was a big thing. He tried to remember how the father on the show with the singing teenagers acted. He rested his head beside hers.
"I love you no matter what honey. I should probably go before your mother starts to worry." He got up and gave her a warm smile. "I'll walk you down." She started but he stopped her. "You might want to put on some clothes first."
They both blushed and he left the room and quickly ran down the stairs seeing Regina walk into the kitchen while Henry sat on a couch in the living room. "Bye Henry!" He called out and his grandson waved to him with a smile.
When he was gone Emma rushed into her room and threw on a pair of pyjama bottoms and a baseball shirt before running down the stairs.
"Hey Kid." She said to Henry. He smiled at her. "Mom is making dinner." He winked at her making her laugh at him.
She walked into the kitchen to see Regina with her back to her laying a dish with pasta. Emma walked closer with her hands on her hips. "Babe huh?"
Regina turned to look at her with a smirk acting like she hadn't a clue what was going on. "Pardon?"
"Don't even." Emma tried to be mad but she couldn't help but smile. "Oh sorry did he get a wrong impression." Regina gave the blonde a mischievious smile.
"You really are evil, you know that. He thought we were screwing." Regina laughed and Emma scowled.
"What would give him that idea?" The mayor asked with a coy expression as she moved around the kitchen to get the cheese grater. She bent down to get it from the bottom drawer. Her robe riding up as she did. Emma stared at her licking her lips. "He, uh...just ass...assumed."
Regina got what she was looking for and walked back to where she was but turned to Emma. "Can you help with dinner? I need some cheese grated." She handed the grater and a block of cheese. "So what were you two talking about for so long?"
Emma blushed darkly. "I kind of...came out to him." The confession made Regina froze up with her back to the blonde.
'That is three people today, what is it fucking national coming out day?! Kept it quiet for almost 30 years...god I am going to be thirty soon...woah.'
'She is gay! I mean I knew because well she practically screams it but she just declared it. Gives me more of a chance although the way she looked at me earlier seemed like a good indication of that.'
Emma grated the cheese and cleared her throat. "You don't have a comment on that..." The mayor was being quiet something that seemed out of character. "Regina, come on, nothing?"
"Huh...oh well it's obvious." Emma pushed her playfully. "Shut up."
"Oh please Miss Swan you were anything but discreet. Look at your fashion sense... your butch walk." Emma gasped. "Butch walk? Really? Butch walk?"
Regina smirked. "Yes. You walk like a man." Emma rolled her eyes wanting to bring up that she kissed her and declared love for her but instead asked. "And you don't mind considering you know...the past few days."
Regina shook her head and turned back to continue laying the pasta for her lasanga. "Not at all. Hurry up with the cheese." Emma smiled and grated.
"When we were...uh..."
"Napping?" Regina added with a smirk as she took out plates. Emma flushed with color. "Yes, I noticed that, you uh...you seemed to have your belly button pierced." The mayor turned and stared at her. "You must have been looking very intently to see that."
"So you did have it pierced?" She asked in a voice filled with shock and awe that Regina would ever have a body piercing. "It was the 90s before I was a mother."
"Oh my god. Did you listen to backstreet boys too?" Emma teased and laughed when Regina blushed. "Shut up. Like you were so cool. What were you listening to back then?"
"Good music. Like the Cure." Emma puffed out her chest but Regina scoffed. "You were a goth? Figures. I can see you now, wearing all black with black hair dye and that sad Emma pout." Emma cringed. "I was not a...I was grunge." The way she said it made the brunette burst into laughter.
"Well what were you?" Emma huffed. "Need I remind you, I came here in my 30's and until you broke the curse I never aged."
"Well when you were a teen what were you?" Regina stopped laughing and a stoic look took over her face. "I was a Queen." Emma sighed wished she had never asked the question. "I'm sorry. I didn't think when I asked." The mayor turned away from her sprinkling cheese onto her dish. "It's okay."
A sudden silence took over them, Emma wanted to go back to the playfulness. She spoke in barely a whisper.
"I liked our nap by the way...It was relaxing." Regina whirled around. "It was. Maybe we could do it again some time."
Emma burst into a wide grin and nodded bashfully and Regina mirrored the act before going back to the task at hand.
It wasn't long for dinner to be ready. Regina made her famous lasanga with some assistance from Emma. The three of them sat at the dinner table falling into easy conversation.
"You two spent far too much time indoors." Emma commented when Henry suggested another movie night. "How about we go out after dinner. I bet that new playground will be empty at this time of day."
Regina was about to turn down the idea but looked at Henry who gave her a pleading look. "Fine." She conceded.
Henry shared a look at his blonde mother that she would class as scheming. She was beginning to regret telling him. "What do you think of mom's lasanga?" He asked Emma. She grinned. "It is very delicious."
Regina smiled and continued eating hers. "Nothing beat's mom's cooking, wouldn't you say." Regina looked at them suspiciously. "It is amazing."
Emma shot him a look to say 'Cool it' he gulped. "So playground..." He finished his plate and looked at the two of them. "You will need to get dressed."
He got up from the table and Emma glanced over at Regina. "Any chance you have jeans?"
"Yes. I can put them on myself, I will just need a hand with a shirt." Emma gave a curt nod. "No problem. You go ahead. I'll do the dishes."
Regina retreated upstairs Emma came up after twenty minutes and almost fainted seeing the mayor in tight jeans.
'Her ass is going to be the death of me. And her boobs, god, I want to take clothes off her not add them. Focus!'
Regina fixed her hair quickly in the mirror with her good hand. Emma noticed she had a white short sleeve shirt on her bed and took it in her hands and help the woman. "Thank you for this." She mumbled as Emma helped her arm into the sleeve of the shirt.
"No problem...you should wear jeans more often." She commented causing Regina to smile with confidence. "Don't you have to get changed too?"
Emma went to leave and turned back and reminded her. "No heels." Regina groaned and went to her wardrobe pulling out sneakers she had bought back when Henry was a toddler. She couldn't chase after him in heels back then. She hated wearing them, they gave her nothing height wise.
"Are you wearing cons?" Henry asked waiting by the door. Regina wiggled her nose. "Don't get use to them." He burst into laughter. "I'm almost taller than you now." He teased causing her to narrow her eyes with a smile playing on her lips. "I get the feeling you are going to tower over me soon."
"You think? I am the shortest boy in my class." He straightened his back trying to add an inch or two to his height. "Your grandpa is quite tall." Regina added thinking of David.
"But I don't know how tall my dad is." He pouted for a moment and then looked at her with a smirk catching her off guard. "But Emma is taller than you so I still might."
"She is not taller!" Emma snuck up behind her quietly and whispered loudly in her ear. "I am too."
Regina jumped and clutched her chest. "Never sneak up on someone who just had surgery!" Emma and Henry smirked with each other.
She had just swapped her pyjama pants for jeans. She looked at Regina trying to cross her arms but failing due to her injured shoulder.
'She is so cute. Is it wrong that I really want to hug her? Well considering you really want to fuck her. What if she can read minds. She can't that is stupid. PENIS! If she could read minds she would think I was crazy right now. Jeez. Stop looking at her ass! I need to stop. Why does it look so good in jeans?! why!'
'Is she checking Mom out? If they get married will I get a new name? Henry Swan Mills...Mills Swan...I prefer Swan-Mills. Emma definitely needs a push though...'
'Why do they both look like they are on my meds?'
"I think we should settle this...the height thing." Henry told them. "Both of you stand down here." He pointed by the door and stood on the second step that lead to the foyer. They did as they were told.
The women stood a foot apart. "Stand closer." Emma took a step closer to Regina who gulped. "Closer than that." Henry moved of the stairs and pushed the blonde forward almost propelling her into Regina who grabbed her arms to prevent a fall.
"Much better. Stay there." Henry moved back to where he was before. "You know you are meant to do this back to back." Regina pointed out as she felt the blonde's breath on her skin. Their lips were a few inches apart and Regina was using all her willpower to not inch closer. "Shush. Emma is taller." Henry announced.
"You know you two look good together." He gave them a sheepish smile and ran off to the car leaving Emma wanting to yell to him about subtlety but instead found herself breaking into a bashful smile.
Regina just looked at him in shock until Emma cleared her throat. "Playground remember?"
Regina shook herself from her stupor. "Yes." Henry had been waiting by the police crusar. Emma's bug was still getting the interior cleaned after the shooting. "But, I am not driving around like a criminal." She handed Emma the keys to her Mercedes.
"You are letting me drive?" Emma said in awe looking at the car in the driveway. "I am on painkillers and according to the label 'shouldn't operate any heavy machinery'. Just please don't crash into any signs." She said in a haughty voice. Emma mimicked her rolling her eyes before getting into the Mercedes.
When they got to the playground Henry ran for the castle while his mothers relaxed on a set of swings. Emma let out a light laugh. "Remember when I thought you were building a second home here?"
"And you spoke up at the town meeting? How could I forget...Listen Emma, I'm sorry for how I acted after that with the banning you from Henry thing." Emma shook her head to downplay the event. She looked down and saw a hand over her own. "I am really sorry."
Emma smiled. "I know you are. It's in the past." They shared a smile and Henry watched them happily from the top of a castle turret. He took a picture of them thinking that someone needed to capture the moments when they were kind to one another.
"Mom! Is this like the castle you had in the fairy tale world?" He asked before sliding down to them. "I guess it's similar." Henry looked at it. "The turrets remind me of a drawing from the book about a part with you and Grandma."
Regina's brow furrowed. "It mentions mother?" Henry looked at her confused. "Cora? Yeah but I meant Snow." Regina gulped. The last thing she wanted was for her past to be available for all to read. "Whose Cora?" Emma asked curiously.
"She's mom's mom." Henry told her.
"She's dead." Regina informed her and put on a fake smile. "Want to go on the swings sweetheart?"
She moved to get up but Emma got up off hers first. "Here I'll push the two of you."
"I don't need to be pushed." Emma held the mayor's hips and whispered playfully in her ear. "Your feet can't touch the ground so if I don't you will just be hogging a swing." Regina turned to her. "I am not that short!"
The blonde and Henry giggled and he went higher with each push from Emma. "I bet I can swing higher than you mom."
"Are you going to take that Madam Mayor?" Emma played along and Regina rolled her eyes. "Fine you can push me, but not too hard, I already have two injuries, I don't want a third."
"I will go as gentle as you want. And if you want harder just tell me." The Sheriff had meant it to be about the swings but her words made Regina squirm in her seat. "I-I'll remember that."
"Come on mom! Go higher!" Henry yelled with glee. Emma was pushing at her lower back gently and quite frankly she was loving the way the blonde would caress her hips as she pushed her softly.
"Kid, we don't want her face planting into the ground. This speed is good." Emma was barely pushing the brunette forward. She would be gone from her touch for two seconds before coming back.
"Mom! I want to stop." Henry called out when he had gotten higher than he had wanted. She stood behind him preparing herself for him to crash into her. Once she was safe she grabbed both the chains stopping him abruptly. "Thank you!"
He jumped up and ran to the slide again. "I would also like to stop before I get queasy." Emma smiled and held onto either side of Regina's sides and steadied her. Both blushed at the action. Henry took out his phone and snuck another picture of them.
They stayed in the same spot until Henry ran back to them. "Mom, can we get ice cream?" He asked Regina who raised an eyebrow. "It is getting rather late Henry." Emma grimaced. "Sorry kid, she has a point. But I promise we will get one tomorrow...there is actually something I have to tell the two of you about."
"Ice cream?" Henry asked before sitting down beside his mother. Emma stood in front of the two of them wringing her hands. "The reason David came by this morning was that there is a meeting tomorrow to decide Jefferson's faith...I promise that the son of a b-" She stopped herself knowing that she shouldn't swear in front of her son no matter how mad she was. "I won't let them let him of easy. I promise it will be celebratory ice cream tomorrow."
Regina pursed her lips, she wanted to be a part of the council that decided his faith but knew she was too close to it as his 'victim' Even thinking that word made her body tense up. Then again she knew if she did go, who would listen to the judgement of "The Evil Queen". Most of the town hated her. She was safer staying home. She knew Emma would keep to her word and wondered what had transpired that she trusted that woman more than anyone to look out for her best interest.
"I like Rocky Road." Regina told her with a smile. Emma grinned back at her. "Me too."
This was almost 6000 words so I had to split the chapter. The next one will be up fairly soon.