A/N Well, this is it. The final chapter, I'm going to miss writing these…
I'm grateful to lisqueen for letting me play with her idea, I still don't know if I have written the story that her manips deserved but it has been funny to write this and play with Regina and the idea that we all have of The Evil Queen (That for me it will always be The Queen) funny and a real challenge. I really hope that have written a good story for all of you and I expect your opinions at the end of this chapter. Nothing else from me, we will see each other at the end, enjoy!
Notes: I wanted to end this with the same idea as it started, with our main focus on The Queen's perception about everything.
The return (Or how The Queen gets something she wanted, Regina sees something she doesn't like and Emma receives something unexpected)
Regina made them evaporate or puff, as Emma kept saying to herself, in front of the barn from where both Emma and The Queen had exited just the night before.
After the woman's admission Regina hadn't say a single word but her eyes, permanently fixed on The Queen's figure, were full of fear and embarrassment and refused to glance at Emma's stunned face.
The three of them approached the open gates of the place and waited for the others while The Queen looked between the other two women with a smug smile playing on her lips; her eyes glinted mischievously as saw how her older self was trying desperately not to look at the other woman when Emma fumbled with her phone as she stole glances at the brunette.
"This still can be interesting" The Queen thought and even if she had learnt some colorful events that apparently she was going to live in some bizarre future, the idea of messing up with Snow White, and why not, with herself was still present inside of her.
It was also true that she was going to love the blonde spawn of her enemy, at least in the future that they had shown her, and while it was unprecedented for her to see something like that she wasn't blind to herself and even with her own refusal to look at the blonde's eyes she could still feel what her future self was going to feel. And that was what made it so desirable for her to mess up a little with Regina and Emma, and speed up the things a little between both of them, of course.
She was still thinking of the many ways in which she could make the blonde woman admit her own feelings for Regina- While using the moment to make fun of the blonde and maybe making her tremble under her voice just the way she liked it- when she saw one of the strange carriages that she had saw hours before approaching them.
From it Snow, her prince charming, Rumplestiskin, a boy and the infamous pirate appeared, all of them looking at the trio with a mix of fear and nervousness. The boy appeared to be even eager to approach them although Snow touched his arm as preventing him of something.
The Queen tilted her head to her right as her older self approached the dark haired boy and hugged him tightly, the name Henry resonating inside of her as she recalled how the other two women had talked about Henry before.
When the boy looked at her she didn't smile though and when he approached her she waited until he talked, his voice was deep although young and she found herself looking briefly at her older self with a sudden wonder inside of her, the wonder that she always had when the memory of the life she could have had haunted her.
Regina nodded at The Queen while she still refused to look at Emma or even acknowledge the fact that the other woman knew about the feelings that she had for her, feelings that she had fight against them until it had been already too late.
However, when The Queen looked at her with ghosts haunting her own eyes Regina pushed those feelings and thoughts aside and merely nodded, knowing that the other woman needed that single acceptance. She could be The Queen, the woman that had reigned over kings and queens, but she still was the woman that Regina remembered.
"It's good to know you" Henry said while The Queen turned her eyes at him, the blonde was saying something at Snow and the other idiot but no one was close to the three of them, a bubble protecting them from the outside world.
"You can't never know if is good to know me, boy" The Queen said with a sly smile, unable of helping herself and she was rewarded of what appeared to be an smile, the dark haired boy nodding slightly to himself before moving, letting the bubble burst and making The Queen look at the sleazy eyes of Rumplestiskin.
Emma hugged her parents once more before dodging Hook's intent of grabbing her as she briefly looked over her shoulder, relishing on the quick exchange between Henry and The Queen, Regina also looking at the couple with a strange expression on her eyes.
The blonde still felt her heart pounding on her ears; Regina's admission echoing inside once and again.
The brunette was complicated, passionate, beautiful, intelligent, she had made her want to scream and fight more times that she could remember but the idea, the fact, that that incredible woman was in love with her was something that she couldn't compute. Not in that moment.
So she just turned her eyes to Mr. Gold, the man talking while smirking to The Queen's scowling look.
"After a few hours of hard work" The man was saying and Emma almost scoffed as she remembered how the man had actually refused to do something while Belle and she did all the hard work on the shop. "I finally found what it's going to bring you back to your original time line."
The Queen raised a brow as the group gathered around Gold, the man's maddening smile still on its place while Regina clenched and unclenched her fists nervously.
"And what's your plan, imp? Because last time I trusted you I ended up in one of your magic sealed vaults" The Queen's voice boomed through the barn and made everyone except Regina and Gold cringe slightly. Emma looked quickly at Regina as the woman glanced at her briefly just before The Queen resumed her speech "I won't be tricked again, I hope you understand that because if it's not I'm going to assure your perpetual suffering, even if it's not in this life or in any other possible future."
Gold chuckled but shook his head as The Queen crossed her arms, her features darkened by the magic that both Regina and Emma felt under the woman's skin, an alluring feeling filling Emma's body as every time that The Queen used her magic near her.
"Those methods won't be necessary. Both of you; yourself and our present Regina, need to discharge your magic at the same time in the center of our beloved… deceased Wicked Witch creation, that would make a loop in time in which both of your magic would annul each other creating a vortex" Gold opened his eyes as he pointed at the middle of the circled symbol that Zelena had created a few hours before. "That way our majesty is going to be able to travel through time until the moment in where she made the decision that made her appear here"
"And she won't remember her travel through time?" Regina asked to Gold even if her eyes were fixed on her younger version with warning eyes. Emma could sense that something was going on with The Queen but from her position she couldn't discern what it was, Charming and Snow were also looking between the two brunettes, their eyes filled with worry as Regina shake her head in silent warning to The Queen before looking again to Gold.
"She won't" Gold assured them "Since I've also brought this potion, the only thing she needs to do is drink it before traveling through the portal"
"You are doing a lot for me, imp, any hidden reasons?" The Queen asked as she approached one of the outer lines of the magic circle that Zelena had made. Her eyes were still somewhat fixed on Regina and a quiet tension was growing between them as Regina also approached the circle, her eyes glinting with something that Emma recognized as magic.
"As I said to you once, Your Majesty, you will get that later" The man said just after both Regina and The Queen raised her hands and blasted each other's with magic, the resulting wave making everyone tremble except Emma, the magic filled air making her skin tingle as it recognized the electricity that the blonde could sense between the two brunette's in front of her.
The Queen raised hummed in approval as a golden vortex appeared in the middle of the circle, Snow's and the prince gasps making her smile slightly as the other brunette narrowed her eyes, still looking at her warningly.
The Queen smirked but didn't respond to Regina's provocation, her eyes still flashing with purple and the lust that she felt every time she created magic. The feeling was enhanced by the blonde's presence and the idea of playing with the woman was stronger than ever.
Moreover, her older self also felt the same lust wave filled magic than her and her eyes, albeit darker, were looking at her in a silent advise that The Queen was ready to break.
"This was easier than I thought" She said as she turned to glance at the boy who was beaming with big open eyes at the magic void that swirled and roared with changing light "Quite a disappointment"
"We will tell you when we need to commit a massacre" The pirate said as he tried to appear threatening but his weak attempt didn't bother her in the slightest, he was mere decoration after all.
"We wish you a safe ride" Snow said and The Queen saw how her other self rolled her eyes in distaste; the princess hadn't change over the years at it seemed and she thought briefly if it would count if she killed her in that time line.
Probably not so she let it go with a regal nod and a quick menacing stare that made the blonde prince beside her tremble a little.
"It's quite grateful that you want that given that I'm going to invest every second of my life to actively destroy you and your happy ending, dear"
Gold and Hook scoffed at that but The Queen saw Emma's quick smile and she bared her teeth, taking a step towards the blonde savior while her other self stiffened at the other side of the circle.
"And you...my dear savior, I hope you understand why I need to kill your parents" The Queen's voice was sweetened to the extreme and strongly laced with magic and hidden promises that everyone except Henry could sense or understand. Snow and Charming cleared her throats awkwardly while Emma tried her best to not to blush, her eyes traveling down The Queen's body as her chest heaved under the other woman's eyes.
Meanwhile, Regina wanted to growl as her younger self took another step towards Emma; the blonde woman seemed transfixed by The Queen's movements and voice, the other brunette's right hand already rising as if she was going to touch the blonde's pale skin.
Emma gulped as The Queen's fingertips grazed her cheek, the woman's alluring presence destroying every other thought that could be on her mind. She was vaguely aware that her parents were near her and Hook and Henry were there too but as The Queen talked softly in front of her everything else seemed to stop. She really needed to ask Regina for that particular trick.
"But I guess" The Queen was saying "I'm going to miss you, even if I'm going to try to destroy you. It has been an interesting meet, Emma"
And with that, as the "a" left the brunette's lips The Queen kissed the blonde sensuously, scorching the woman's body with the sudden fiery touch that made everyone except Gold gasp and growl (Regina and Hook in that case). The dark one smiled and nodded to himself before looking to Regina with an open smirk as he showed a tiny vial filled with a strange potion that glowed under the vortex' magic.
"Albeit I don't want to be the one who breaks this interesting moment is time to cross to the other side, your majesty" He said with the reminisce of the accent that he had sported on the Enchanted Forest back when Regina had first met him.
Distancing herself from Emma's mouth and winking quickly to Snow, Charming and a dumbfounded Hook, The Queen looked at Henry and nodded to herself before taking the vial and approaching to the vortex, the magic tendrils that came from it touching her face as she looked inside of it.
"Goodbye" Regina said and even if her cheeks were still red and her eyes sparkled with barely hidden rage her voice was soft, as if she was saying goodbye to a longtime friend and Emma, who had recovered her mind after The Queen had distanced from her body, nodded to herself, carefully avoiding her parents looks and Hook's sullen gaze.
The Queen swallowed the potion and took a step towards the void, the magic hole disappearing right before her, a sudden silence filling the place where the royal woman had been standing until a few seconds ago.
"It's over" Snow said and Henry approached her blonde mother and squeezed her right hand trying to get her attention as he looked over his shoulder where her other mother was looking pensively at the place in which her other self had been standing.
"I have a few questions though" Hook said with a growl but as he took a step towards Emma David grabbed him forcefully.
"Don't" He warned and Hook jerked away from him before turning and started walking towards Storybrooke.
"This is not over" He said but Emma nodded to herself with her eyes suddenly fixed on Regina's.
"Yes it is" She said before walking towards the brunette. "And yes, I love you too"
The Queen opened her eyes just as the guard left her room.
"I'm going to make Snow White pay if it's the last thing I do" The Queen thought sullenly as she killed the three bugs that were moving between her feet, the sound that their bodies did against the stone of the floor making her smile briefly as she pondered the idea of asking for the Imp's help.
"It would be a waste of time" She decided as she walked towards her magic book, she needed to find a way without the damned Dark One's help. And she wouldn't sleep until she found it.
A/N Yes, it's going to be an epilogue in which we are going to have our favorite ladies and a little talk about what happened in the last chapter but as it is the story ends here. I hope to have the epilogue in the next few days. And I have two prompts that I still need to submit here and for the ones that may still be waiting for them I'm sorry for not having written a lot these past few days. I have had… well, a bad episode (for a lack of better word) of my low blood pressure and I've been unable to write at my normal pace. I hope to write all of the chapters that I still want and need to write this weekend.