A/N Hello my lovelies! Thank you again for the comments and kindness! Had to have a day off from this to deal with mundane reality but will try to update as often as possible. There is an end coming but wanted some fluff first! Hope you like.
Dinner was a little awkward as it was the first time the pair had been in anyone else's company as a couple. Henry watched the exchange between his mother and her lover with curiosity. He hadn't ever imagined his Mom could be a lesbian, but now it began to make sense to him. The lack of dating as he was growing up. Never meeting any one of her suitors before Robin. The fights she and him would have at all hours of the night. Henry had never really seen her smile because of anyone else before, at least not until recently.
"So Mom, how long have you been dating?" He asked between mouthfuls of Regina's infamous lasagne.
Regina visibly turned red and looked at Emma, shyly reaching for her hand. "Well it's very new Henry, not long at all."
"Ten days officially, kid." Emma said to the boy. She had a feeling honesty was the best policy.
Regina waited with bated breath to see how her son would react. Henry was obviously doing the calculations mentally then a big grin crossed his face as he said, "So the gym was like a code name!"
Regina's thoughts raced. She didn't know where to look as she wondered how much he was implying with that. Henry seemed to read where his Mother's mind was heading and grimaced as he tried to back pedal.
"Like I mean, you know how like in the erm, comic books they have secret identities and code names and stuff?" He looked between the two women to make sure they were following his train of thought. Regina was obviously relieved that her son had been thinking about comics and not his mother having secret sex marathons. Emma was trying to stifle her laughter at the awkwardness of the situation and had spluttered wine all over herself in the process.
"Yeah like Peter Parker is Spider-Man or how Jean Grey is Pheonix, come on Gina, you must have heard of them!" Emma encouraged the boy.
"Oh, I see!" Regina finally caught on. "So Emma Swan would be Gym-Woman!"
Henry and Emma laughed at the ridiculousness of the name. Henry almost choked on the lasagne and Emma was hyperventilating.
"Seriously, I would so have a better super hero name than that! Hi, I'm Gym-Woman and my secret powers are running on the treadmill after bad guys!" Emma snarked in between fits of giggles.
After the mood had been well and truly lightened, the rest of dinner was a breeze. Emma and Henry seemed to click straight away as far as Regina could tell. She was shocked at how similar they behaved and their almost identical mannerisms. Come to think of it, they even had the exact same eye and hair color. Trust me to fall for someone who reminds me so much of my own son, she mused.
After dinner, Henry was eager to show Emma his videogame collection and she was more than happy to accept his challenge. Regina sat on the sofa with Henry stretched out on the floor beneath her and Emma bouncing up and down next to her everytime Henry managed to whip her ass a bit harder in their game. She was with the two people she loved more than anything in the world and suddenly realised that she never knew what had been missing in her life until now. She began to worry what would happen if things didn't work out and how empty her life would feel. Suddenly all those soppy romantic movies she had scorned for being unrealistic and sentimental felt very close to reality. This woman had bound into her life and somehow deconstructed all her walls within 10 days, leaving her totally defensless and vunerable but it felt so good.
Emma finally gave in, more so to save face than anything else. Regina told Henry to go and get ready for bed as it was a school night. He said his goodbyes and left the pair to relax on the sofa.
"Spit it out, Regina." Emma said
"It's nothing." Regina shrugged it off and wrapped her arms tighter around her lover's waist.
Emma rolled her eyes and said, "superpower, remember!"
Regina sighed and kissed the blonde. She finally said what was on her mind.
"I'm just so happy right now. Tonight was truly perfect and, I suppose, well, I suppose it would be very hard to forget how lovely it was."
Emma smiled softly realising what Regina meant.
"And what makes you think for a second you would ever have to forget it?" And she kissed her tenderly.
