Snow and Charming raced up the stairs of the town hall, there destination set inside of their minds. Anger fueled them, there daughter was full grown, and they had missed all of it. All because of the Evil Queen. They had been separated from each other, ripped from their homes, because the Evil Queen had cast Rumpelstiltskin's curse. Everything they had known had been taken from them, and they blamed Regina.
"Regina!" Shouted Mary Margaret as she and David slammed open the office door. The two slid to a halt, David's sword out and ready for action. Snow's bow pulled back, the arrow ready to fly at it's target. What they saw had both of there jaws hanging loosely from there skulls.
Emma's face was buried between Regina's legs. Previously oblivious that there was, in fact, a world outside of the Mayoral office. Regina's eyes widened as they connected with Snow's own bug eyed expression. Emma lifted her head slightly, anger at there interruption burning through her system. She glared at the original true love couple with fiery eyes. Emma sat up, not liking that they were seeing Regina in the nude, that was for her, and her alone, to see.
"You are fucking the Evil Queen?" Mary Margaret said obliviously. Now, Emma was still under the assumption she was the Evil Queen. She grabbed the throw blanket that was on the couch and covered Regina with it before standing. She didn't want them to see her love's body.
"True love's kiss broke the curse." Emma stated, crossing her arms over her still naked body. David, who had been looking at the ceiling in an attempt not to see his daughters birthday suit, starting anxiously looking around. Seeking out the man who had won his daughters heart.
Regina stood up, wrapping the blanket around herself tightly. She kept her chin high as she grabbed Emma's jeans, and tossed them at the still naked woman, Emma quickly put them on, but didn't bother buttoning them. Her jacket slammed into the side of her face, and Emma smirked and raised an eyebrow at the woman she loved. Regina just smiled back as Emma zipped up the offensive red leather.
"Wait, I am confused. Whose true loves kiss?" He was still scanning the room with his eyes, trying to find the man. But, to no avail, he was the only man in the room. He scratched his head as he tried to figure out what the hell was going on.
"You mean to tell me that you two, of all people, are true loves?" As she spoke Snow's heart sunk down below the floorboards, it was the only answer. The fact that this meant that Regina and Emma shared a love more true, more deep then her own with Charming was just a large dick-slap to the face. Emma nodded at her. "How? How can that be!" She whined.
David had yet to figure it out, his mind racing, and failing on the fourth turn. He just couldn't put two and two together to make four. He kept ending up at three or five. He stared at his wife, then at his daughter, then the Evil Queen. Emma wrapped an arm around Regina's shoulders. Pulling her close, and kissing her cheek. He still didn't get it. But snow did, and she was furious, and disgusted.
"Our kiss, our love, broke the curse" Regina stated. Wrapping one arm around Emma's back tightly, holding onto her for support. She would not let them take Emma from her. "Our love is truer then your own, the true love of a person born of it and their lover. The true love of souls that were meant to be entangled together"
"That just cannot be!" David demanded. He looked like an overgrown idiot as he stamped his foot in anger. "It's just wrong. The savior and the Evil Queen. And you are both woman! True love is only between one man and one woman" He sputtered like a chicken with his head cut off.
"True love can between anyone! There is no gender when it comes to love!" Shouted Emma, she was beyond livid. David could take his ancient idiocy and shove it up his stupid ass for all she cared. "Do as you will for me for the wrong I have done in this world. But I swear, you touch a single fucking hair on Regina and I will come back from the grave itself to kill you."
"Emma-" Mary Margaret was quickly cut off as Emma continued her rant. Mary Margaret, or rather, Snow White, had no choice but to shut up and listen as Emma continued her speech.
"Shut up Snow!" Emma snapped. "My petty little schemes that I used to do in the old world were nothing. I will murder you in this one. I will become the title you forced upon me. I will kill you painfully, and slowly" She growled as she spoke, moving to stand in front of the woman she loved more then anything else in any possible universe.
"Emma, sweetheart, please" Regina started, she wanted to explain. Wanted to set Emma straight, Emma had not been the Evil Queen. She needed her to know that, she couldn't keep letting Emma believe that she was the Queen, that was wrong, and Emma didn't deserve that pain.
"Regina, let me finish." Emma said softly, before her voice turned cold again. "A sleeping curse? To bring them to this word? To make sure everyone lived a mostly happy life? I let that stupid fool live, had I left him in the old world, which would have been easy as shit, he would have died from that injury. Instead I brought him here. I gave everyone youth and immortality. Child's play. I wasn't Evil, I was confused. Yes, my actions were wrong." Emma took a deep breath, trying to calm herself.
Everyone knew better then to speak, not until Emma let them. For some reason she scared David and Mary Margaret, and they didn't want to piss her off just yet. Regina was quiet just because she craved to know the rest of Emma's speech. Emma clutched her fists together, fighting back the anger. The flames that were rising inside of her, right then she wanted to just kill the royal couple and be done with it, but she didn't want to accidentally hurt Regina in the crossfire. So she battled it back into her person.
"I have given them safety, medical care, and allowing Snow's fucking dimwit live should have at least given me, the Evil fucking Queen, who was created by Snow's stupidity, should have given me a second chance. The evil I have done in this world, the crimes I've committed here, I cast the curse to bring myself some happiness. And instead, I damned myself to a darker path then before. But listen real fucking closely, dead or not, anyone ever touches the woman I can't help but love, the woman I don't deserve, I will slaughter everyone and everything so fucking fast that nothing and nobody anywhere will know what has happened!"
"Emma, I have tried, so hard, so many times, to tell you. But you never listen, you wouldn't. You are not the Queen. You did not curse this world, you are not Evil. I" Regina's voice broke in shame as she stared into Emma's eyes. "I am the Evil Queen." Emma gave Regina a bittersweet smile.
"No you are not. You are a wonderful Mayor. You have protected these people for nearly thirty years. Made sure they had the best of everything. Schooling, medical care, food, you have protected this people from the outsiders. Other then choosing me as Sheriff you did perfectly. There is not a single evil bone inside of your wonderful body, my love" Regina looked down at her feet at Emma's words.
David, Charming, was fuming. Angry at everything he couldn't understand. He could not figure out why Emma thought like she did, why she was under the impression that she could possibly love such a sadistic horrible creature as Regina god damn Mills, the Evil Queen. He wanted to skewer Regina right then, but he was sure Emma would jump in front of her. Killing his own daughter wasn't an option. Locking her up until she came to her senses was viable he thought.
As if reading her husbands thoughts Mary lowered her bow and smacked him hard in the back of the head, her eyebrow raised. He looked away, he had rather liked his thought about locking up Emma somewhere until she could be reasoned with, but, he couldn't disobey Snow's orders, even if it had been a painful but silent one. He turned his head back to glare at Regina. And then something in his mind clicked.
"Emma, she is not lying. She is the Evil Queen. She had bewitched you, cast a spell of some sort, to force you to believe you are the Queen. She must have also done the same to make you believe you love her, there is no way you two are meant to be together!" Charming shouted angrily. He was sure that he was right. It was the only logical answer he had been able to come up with.
"I only became the Evil Queen because Snow was a stupid, worthless child who told Cora that fucking secret. If my mother hadn't killed Daniel then my heart wouldn't have shut down. Wouldn't have been forced to marry a man who only wanted me for sex and nothing more. He demanded it of me. If anything he was a rapist!" Emma shouted back.
Suddenly it dawned on Emma that Regina hadn't lied, that David hadn't lied about the Evil Queen bit. She took a few steps backwards as it hit her full force like a professional linebacker on steroids. Her whole body felt as if she'd been slammed into the side of a building with a wrecking ball. Her whole belief system had just been shattered. She started to shake in anger, anger at Snow, at Charming, and at the man who had dared to touch her love.
"Baby. Calm down, it is going to be alright. Your father and I are here now. We can cure you of whatever brainwashing techniques or curses she has put you under. Come with us, trust us. We can help you" Snow chose to believe her husbands theory, as it was the easiest to believe.
"Send me back there. Reverse time" Emma's teeth cracked as she ground them together. "I am going to broil that fucker alive before Sydney gets the fucking chance. I am going to kill him, touching you like that. I am going to shove a fucking pole so far up his ass that it shoots out his-" Her words were cut off by Regina's lips against her own. Shushing her entirely.
"Quiet. He is long gone. He has not been able to hurt me in a longtime. And he can no longer hurt me ever again. I promise you. Just, calm down. Emma, just calm down" After Regina had broke away from Emma she had taken a few steps back. Emma was shaking in anger.
Ghost like flames started to dance down Emma's shoulders, down her arms, they rose up her legs. Her power was reacting, and she couldn't control it. With scared eyes she backed further away from Regina, she couldn't live if she were to hurt her at all. She was fighting to pull them back inside, but she was failing, ghostly white flames were erupting all over the room. Her anger, her power, was out of control.
"I can't. I'm so angry. So angry. I can't. I can't control it" Emma landed on her knees, clutching her midsection as she struggled against her power, she could barely speak. She needed to hold it inside long enough for Regina to escape. "Please, get out. Before it's too late"
Flames were running up the walls, getting bigger and more ferocious with each second. But, escaping was not on Regina's mind. She would not leave Emma alone, and in pain. She would share it with Emma if she had to, she stalked forward quickly, pulling Emma to her feet in a miraculous show of strength and pulling her into her arms. She wrapped them tightly around the blond.
"I won't Emma. Me and you. Forever. I will not lose you. You can control your power. You won't hurt me, you would never hurt me" She whispered into Emma's ear as the flames stopped. Emma's arms wrapped themselves around Regina. Her flames were gone, and so was her pain.
It seemed that while Emma could not control her flames of her own accord, all it took was Regina's touch and Emma's instinct to protect her True Love would over power her anger. It was like dumping the entire ocean on a cigarette. Emma would never hurt Regina, and her flames responded to that. Emma buried her head into the shorter woman's neck.
"I've done so much wrong. Killed. Stole. How can you love someone like me" The blonde whispered. She had long since forgotten about the angry Charming, and mortified Snow in there midst. "I don't deserve you. You deserve so much more." Regina rubbed Emma's back. Trying to further calm her.
"Who else could I love? Who else could love me. You are my one. There's no one else. You understand me, I understand you. You believed in me when not even Henry believed in me. You wanted to set things right, if anything I don't deserve you. But you're stuck with me anyway" Was Regina's reply, before she kissed Emma deeply.
Whatever else lay in their future. Whatever else may come, no matter what the two had to face. They knew they would always have each other, because no one, and nothing, could ever break them apart. The universe had set so many things in motion to get them together, as had gold. The only thing they knew, was together, they could do anything.
A/N: Should I end it here? Or continue on?