Guess who's back! Sorry this has taken so long I thought I was a chapter ahead of what I was and I've not had much time to write recently with uni looming but I'll try for you guys because your comments give me life...
Snow had never planned to get angry at Regina but her inability to feel to the depth David did gave her cause for concern. She knew in the bottom of her heart that she wasn't in love with David but she still loved him and he deserved so much better than a woman who would destroy him because of his kindness. The fact was that Snow wasn't ready for him to move on because if he moved on that'd mean their chances of getting back together would decrease rapidly. He'd cheated on her for goodness sake and she was supposed to roll over and accept it but it hurt her deep down. Hurt in a way that caused a blazing anger she'd never expected or experienced before in her life.
A sudden thought came to her and her eyes widened. She couldn't, could she? It was plain cruel but it'd make David fall out of 'love' with Regina no doubt. It may even push her and David back together so he could be loved the way he needed. A smile graced her face as she got home to find David and all of his stuff gone.
That'd soon be corrected.
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"Regina?" David walked round the corner to see Regina asleep at her office desk. She looked troubled even in her sleep and David felt the sudden urge to help her get through whatever it was that was bothering her. Making his way to her desk he kneeled down and moved a strand of her hair from her face. She mumbled slightly in a language that was far from English and he smiled as he started stroking her hair. The language almost sounded made up, as if it were from a programme or a film of fiction. "Regina?" He whispered again and she stirred and mumbled again. "Hey, it's me." He whispered again and her eyes started to flutter.
She swatted as if trying to remove the voice before her eyes opened fully. "David!" Regina shot in her seat and looked down at him to see him laughing. "What?" She frowned.
"I've never noticed it before. Did you know you speak a different language when you sleep?"
Regina couldn't help the slight smile as she moved a piece of hair behind her ear. "Um, yes actually, Henry's told me before. It's Latin."
"You never told me you speak Latin." David stated still on his knees.
"You never asked." Regina smirked before saying, "I also speak French, Spanish, Italian, Greek and a little Elvish. Mother had me tutored from a young age but Latin's the one that seems to come out in my sleep." Elvish? Surely that was a made up language, apparently not.
"Wow." David said as he stood and perched on her desk so he was facing her as his knee brushed hers. "You're quite amazing you know."
"I'm quite sure you've told me that before." Regina played.
"Ah yes, right before I did this..." David leaned in and took her lips in his. Standing she slipped between his legs and continued to kiss him before they ran out of breath and pulled back. "What did Snow say?" He asked now he'd relaxed her but saw her tense again.
"Nothing really of any importance. I'm not letting her get to me." Regina breathed out as his arms slipped around her waist and she found herself in the embrace of David. "You seem stressed." He kissed the side of her neck lightly and squeezed her a little bit tighter.
"Oh that'd be the stress." Regina tried to laugh it off but David pulled back and cupped her face.
He stared into her whiskey eyes and almost got lost. "You can speak to me you know."
Regina softened and deflated in his arms. "I know, I'm just anxious to get us out in the open."
"I get it but you have to trust that we'll be fine." He gave her a chaste kiss.
"I know." She replied before kissing him back.
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"We need to tell your parents. We can't keep this from them forever and you know it's getting harder and harder to hide-"
"I know babe. Look, I'll tell them at dinner this weekend, I think it's time I invite them round." Emma said to Killian as they sat at her office desk in the station. She was now just over 12 weeks so she knew it was safe to tell everyone but with her parents splitting up and everything she didn't know if they were on good enough terms to all sit around a dinner table. Not even Henry and Violet were aware yet. "I just want them all to be as happy as we are."
Killian sighed as he gripped her hand. "They will be. Hey, maybe this'll bring them all closer together?"
"Yeah, maybe." Emma smiled softly as his attempt to comfort her. The door to the station was heard and they both looked through the glass to see Regina and David, both of which hadn't realised Emma and Killian were sat in the office. They both watched as Regina sat down at the desk and opened a file. David's smile was bright as anything as he leaned over and grabbed it from her causing her to spring up and fight him for it.
"David! Give me the file!" Regina jumped on his back and reached over for it as Killian and Emma opened the office door. David looked up and saw the couple in the doorway causing Regina to jump off David's back and take a few steps to put distance between them.
"Emma, Killian? What're you doing here, I didn't think you were in today?" David scratched the back of his neck.
"We, um, I had paperwork I needed to finish. What were you two doing?"
"He has my file and he won't let me see it." Regina snitched on David and sent him a wicked smirk.
"And why might that be?" Killian walked up and took the file from David so he could look inside it. There was general information and there were notes scribbled with questions, detailed accounts of all statements from people from the Enchanted Forest when the trial was going to take place and photo after photo from when Sydney walked free. Dirty photos which caused him to shut the file quickly and send a look to Emma who made her way to him and looked at the photos. "Holy crap." Emma whispered at a revealing picture of Regina and Graham that could have only been taken from Regina's closet.
"I'm not sure she deserves it." David smirked right back.
"Oh really? And what might I have to do to deserve it?"
"Say please."
Emma and Killian both watched the sparks fly between the pair as they flirted and seemed to have gravitated closer to each other without making a conscious effort to move. "When have you ever known me to say please?" Regina looked into his icy orbs and saw them darken.
"I can think of a few times." David played.
"Alright, enough of that." Killian handed Regina the file making her give a triumphant smile to David as she flicked through it.
Her eyes widened at the photos Sydney had taken. David had told her of them before they got to the station and the fact that the file had been on his desk gave her the strong impression he'd been looking at some of them. The thought made her smirk. "To say he spent a fair amount of his life in a bottle, he certainly had an eye for photography." She tilted her head to look at an explicit picture of her and Graham in a more than compromising position. "And breaking and entering because I'm pretty sure this was taken from my wardrobe." She muttered under her breath.
"Don't you think it's scary how many he took?" Emma asked moving next to Regina to look at the pictures to which Regina had no objections.
"I counted on his affection to get what I wanted so I guess it was only fair he got a little something in return." Regina shrugged.
"You knew?" David asked with a frown.
Regina took her eyes from the pictures to look at David. "God no, I'd have stopped him if I'd have known at the time. It's actually a bit unsettling how he got the photos but that's not why I asked about my file." She shut it and it was engulfed in a cloud of purple smoke. "I needed it to be safe. There's a lot of ammo in there for anyone that comes to Storybrook to get revenge. My file from Archie was dealt with a long time ago so I thought it was time I took care of this one. Zelena gave me the idea, apparently she'd tried to find it when she'd been trying to destroy my life." Regina sat down at the desk and faced the others.
"That's not a bad idea, getting rid of the file that is." Hook smirked and Regina rolled her eyes. "What?! I have enemies too!" He insisted and Regina and Emma started laughing.
David couldn't help the snigger and Hook looked to him with a frown. "I'm not even sure you have a file." David finally broke down laughing with the women.
"Oh shut it." Killian scowled and Emma went over to him and threw her arms around his neck.
"It's alright babe. I think you're a bad boy." She kissed him and laughed into his shoulder. Looking up she saw David sat on the edge of the desk speaking to Regina. "Dad?"
"Yeah?"
"Can you come round for dinner on Saturday? There's something me and Killian need to tell you."
David's mind was swimming with possible things they needed to tell him. "Yeah sure."
"Mom will be there as well, just to warn." Emma smiled weakly
"What about Regina?" David asked but before Emma could answer, Regina beat her to it.
"Oh please, I already know. No need for me to be there." Regina waved her hand to dismiss it.
David whipped round in shock. "You know? What is it? Should I be worried?" He looked at all of them and Regina smiled.
"Don't be worried dad, just be there." Emma giggled lightly.
"And you told her before me?" David gripped his chest in fake shock. "And here was me believing blood was thicker than water."
"Shut it." Regina swatted his arm as she stood. "Best friend beats parent." She started walking round. "I'll see you all later, duty calls." She smiled before leaving for her office again. The smile fell as soon as she left the police station and her hand came to her head as she sat in her car. She was positively shattered and her head was throbbing and just as she was about to consider setting off her passenger door opened and, to her surprise, Killian hopped in.
"Captain I believe you have the wrong car." Regina didn't open her eyes just heard him curse trying to shut the door with his hook.
"Aye, alas, Emma needed to speak to her father and I have a question for you." He took her silence as a go ahead and released a breath. "Do you think I'm good enough?"
Regina lifted her head at the question and almost laughed until she turned to see him looking into her eyes. She frowned and blinked. The self assured arrogant pirate was insecure? "For Emma or for the baby?"
"For both. I killed my father. How can I be a father if I never had one?"
"You don't need to have had one to be one. You have morals I suppose and you have Emma. This kid is a Charming so he'll practically raise himself." Regina smiled. "You'll be fine I promise. You've clearly changed and you want this child. Emma loves you and you love her so don't worry." Regina rested her head on her steering wheel looking to Killian.
"That actually helped." He looked at her and asked, "What was Henry like?"
"He cried nonstop for days when I first got him," Regina smiled lightly. "but then I made a promise. I promised I'd put my past behind me and I tried for him, really tried. He was brilliant and so smart, always looking for adventure, always telling stories and making mischief. You might not feel like a father now but as soon as that baby's born, as soon as you hold your child... well, it's as if the world stops. You're pressured with all this responsibility but you want it, you're glad you have it. You'll be an amazing father, Captain, don't let regret cloud your mind."
Killian looked at the woman and smiled. She'd managed to crush any fear he had about his child in a matter of minutes and he was so grateful for it. "You have no idea how much I needed that. Thank you."
"No problem. Now get out of my car."
Killian laughed a little at her change of tone as he exited the car. Turning back he saw her head in the palm of her hand resting on her steering wheel. She looked pained and for a second he thought about turning around but as soon as he saw it she was shaking it off and pulling away from the station.
Killian shrugged and went back to the station feeling lighter than he had when he'd left it.