Chapter 11
Sorry for the longer wait, but at least this chapter is a bit lengthier! Enjoy :)
| Saturday |
A knock at the door indicated Regina's arrival. Emma's bare feet slapped the floor as she quickly walked to the door.
She opened it to a very hesitant and almost shy Regina. Emma knew why so she pulled her into her arms, "Everything's okay with us, alright?"
Regina pulls back and looks up at the blonde with grateful eyes, "Good."
Emma leads the way inside and takes Regina's jacket. "Are you hu-" She stops, realizing her mistake. Regina looks over at her, "Hmm?"
She shakes her head and lets out a nervous laugh, "Nothing, I was just going to ask if you were hungry...and then yeah."
Regina frowns, she knew this would take some getting used to for the blonde, but she didn't want her to feel awkward or anything. She decides to change the subject, "Where's Henry? I've missed him."
Emma sits on the couch and Regina follows suit. "He's at his friend's birthday sleepover thing, he's missed you too. Never seems to stops asking about you."
Regina grins, "Awe. He's a sweet boy, gets that from you of course."
Emma blushes, how does even the little things affect her in such a way? "Oh shush."
Regina bites her lip and scoots closer so that their thighs touch, and runs her finger up and down Emma's cheek, "What, you don't like being called sweet?"
Emma's eyes close automatically from the contact, the gesture was very soothing. She finally opens her eyes and turns her head towards Regina, kissing her softly. Regina hums into the kiss and when they pull apart, she already misses Emma's lips against her own.
She looks at Emma but Emma is now looking to the front of the room, lost in thought. Regina grabs her hand and rubs circles on it with her thumb, "What are you thinking about?"
"It's just…" Emma licks her lips. "I have a few questions is all. About your lifestyle…"
Regina saw how nervous Emma seemed, "That's all? Ask all you want, Emma. You don't have to be anxious around me, nothing's changed. At least I hope not."
"No, I mean yes but no. My feelings for you are as strong as ever, I just...this is different. But I want to be more comfortable because it's who you are, Regina. I want to know everything about you. But let's start with the more current situation."
"Of course, what do you want to know?"
Emma lets out a long breath. She honestly has pictured this type of scenario in her head plenty of times. She's always wanted to know certain things about a vampire's life. Their lives are so unique and foreign, of course they always ended with Emma killing it afterwards, but obviously, that will not be the case now.
Emma opens her mouth but then closes it, where does she even begin?
She opens her mouth again, deciding to start from the beginning, "How long have you been a vampire?"
Regina tucks a strand of hair behind her ear, knowing her sad story is shortly ahead. "Almost seven months now."
Emma was surprised, when she thinks of vampires, she thinks of them being vampires for hundreds of years, she couldn't believe how recent Regina was turned into one.
"Who turned you and...why?"
And there it is. The famous question which leads to the tragedy of Regina's life. She hasn't really thought about the hard details for months now, she just wanted to act as if it never happened, but she owed Emma this and she knew Emma would help her through it. She made her stronger.
She licks her lips and rubs her hands on her thighs, "Fiona turned me. She found me after...um." Regina's eyes start to water as she recalls the memory. Emma notices her sudden shift in moods and puts her arm around her to comfort her.
"It's okay, you don't have to tell me now if it's too hard, I can wait. But just know, I'm always here for you for everything."
Regina nods and takes in a deep breath, she's already in so she mine as well finish. Besides, Emma should know what happened in her life. "I was in a car accident, not just me, my mother too. It was slick on the roads, and we were driving home when our car hit black ice. My mother...she died on i-impact."
Tears slid down her cheeks and Emma gently wiped them away. With her other hand, she rubbed soothing circles on the brunette's slim back.
Regina sniffed and then continued, "Apparently Fiona overheard the crash since it was near a wooded region, she called 911 but before they arrived, she turned me into one of them. I was going to die from the amount of blood I had lost. She told me later that she sensed something in me, and therefore did what she did. That's why I stood by her side for so long, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her."
Emma was speechless, that must have been so hard for Regina. "I'm so sorry you had to go through that." Emma wanted to say so much more, but it already happened, nothing she'd say would change those events or how Regina feels about them.
Regina leans her head on Emma's shoulder, she felt safe when she was close to her. Emma's hands stokes Regina's hair. "I love you."
Despite the emotions Regina was feeling at the remembrance of how she lost her mother, a small smile made its way onto her face. Those words coming from the blonde's mouth made her so happy.
She lifts her head up so she can look Emma in the eyes, "I love you too." She gives her a peck before sitting up straighter and clearing her throat, "Is that crazy?"
Emma shrugs, "I'm pretty damn likeable so I'm not surprised."
Regina laughs and slaps her arm, "But for real though, I've only been with you a couple of times."
"Well…" Emma starts, although is having trouble putting what she feels into to words. "It's not crazy, I mean if I saw this happening to other people, I would say they don't even know what love is. Hell, even with Lily, neither of us said love you until after a few months.
But with you, I don't know. I automatically felt connected to you, it's hard to explain. I was with Lily for several years, and she never made me feel the way you already have. You're so special, Regina."
Regina smiles with a blush to her cheeks, she looks into Emma's eyes and sees how much the blonde meant every word. The way she was looking at her with so much care and admiration made Regina's heart flutter. She leans in and kisses Emma lightly.
Emma needed more though, she deepens the kiss which causes Regina to softly moan into Emma's mouth.
Emma felt the heat build in her core at the sound that escaped Regina's lips, she decided that was a favorite of hers, and she wanted to hear it more.
She leans into Regina, who takes the hint and lies down on her back. Emma straddles her, leaning down and nipping her neck. Regina sighs with pleasure.
The brunette's hands grip Emma's ass and their lips crash together once more. Regina's tongue swipes Emma's bottom lip, asking for entrance which Emma quickly obliges.
Regina's hands slide up to the bottom of Emma's shirt, Emma leans up so Regina can remove it easier. After her shirt is gone, Emma goes for Regina's. The brunette arches her back and Emma removes her shirt and throws it to the floor in one swift motion.
She looks down at the woman in her black lace bra, "You're beautiful."
Regina smiles back up at her, her hands lightly brush Emma's back - giving her chills. Emma's lips find their way to Regina's chest and make a trail down her stomach. Regina needed her, but she was afraid of one thing.
Emma notices that Regina is lost somewhere else and frowns, "Is this not...okay?"
Regina shakes her head, "No, it's wonderful Emma. The things I want to do to you…" Her eyes darken and Emma licks her lips as she imagines what that could entail, "But I'm afraid that if I go all the way with you, I might lose control." She bites her lip and looks off to the side, feeling ashamed.
Emma pulls Regina up so that they both are sitting with Emma still in Regina's lap, "Oh."
Regina still saw something in Emma's eyes she didn't like, "I'm sorry. Seriously, things were heading in the direction I so desperately want but I couldn't live with myself if I hurt you. Especially during such a precious moment. It's already hard sometimes just kissing you."
Emma smirks, "I have that much of an affect on you, huh?"
Regina sighs, "You have no idea."
Emma voices gets quiet, "So uh...when?"
"I-I'm not sure. When I feel as if I can control myself better." Her fingers trace patterns on Emma's lean stomach. Oh god, she wanted to slam Emma up against a wall and fuck her senseless, but she knew that the blonde could literally get slammed into a wall. She couldn't risk it.
Emma kisses her on the cheek and gets up to find their shirts, "So are vampires intimate at all ever or is that just not a thing?" She slips hers on and tosses Regina her blouse,
Regina's brow furrows, "I'm not sure, I kind of kept to myself honestly. I suppose we're like everyone else, if we want to, we do it. Maybe that's how some vampires kill humans. I don't really know. Clearly we can feel and want those things because -" She gestures to her and Emma.
Emma smiles, "Well, I will wait as long as you need me to wait. Although that will be incredibly difficult." Her eyes trail down Regina's body.
Regina swallows hard, she needed Emma to stop looking at her like that or else she would definitely lose control. "Is there anything else you want to know?" She asks, changing the subject.
Emma wanted to ask more about the accident but she hated seeing Regina feel sad, she decided maybe in time she would ask more about it. "Yes. Do you sparkle in the sunlight or burn?"
A chuckle escapes Regina's mouth, "This isn't Twilight nor a spooky vampire story, Miss Swan. So neither. We are much weaker in the sunlight, that's all. It makes us feel drained.
Emma smiles - ignoring the way 'Miss Swan' rolled off her tongue - for making Regina laugh, "I know. Well not that it drained you but I knew it didn't do anything crazy. I just wanted to make you smile."
Regina beams at her, "I really don't deserve you."
"Very true." Emma says smugly.
Regina rolls her eyes, "Don't let that get to your head now."
"Too late. Oh! And I told everyone at FH that we would try to discuss some sort of plan for Fiona. Obviously we need Ruby but should she actually go in for the kill or just be a distraction?"
"I've never seen her fight, so I'm not sure. Could I...watch you guys train? I think it would help me know what to do with everyone. Oh and speaking of training, do you have magic?"
Emma's waves her hand and a pillow flies across the room right into Regina's face. "Does that answer your question?"
Regina glares, "How could it not, the answer literally hit me in the face." She grabs the pillow and chucks it back at Emma with her full strength.
It smacks her thigh, "Ouch! Damn, who knew pillow could hurt so badly, guess I see why you stopped us earlier." Emma says, rubbing her thigh.
"If you think the pillow is bad, hear this: My hand went into a tree trunk when I punched it out of anger."
Emma chuckles, "Oh my god, did that happen when you first transformed?"
"I wish...it was like two weeks ago."
Emma's eyes widen a little and she tries to stifle her laugh, "I need to see this tree."
"No way! It's embarrassing."
Emma walks closer to Regina and caresses her cheek, "Well I happen to find it quite adorable when you're embarrassed."
"Emma, you are making this no sex thing very hard."
Emma blushes, "Sorry." She mumbles.
"It's alright dear, the longer we wait, the better right?" Regina says, trying to find a bright side to this.
"No." Emma pouts. Regina raises her eyebrow at her.
Emma sighs, "Okay maybe, if it means I won't get crushed by your intense strength."
Regina is satisfied, "That's what I thought."
Emma rolls her eyes and heads to the kitchen to pour herself some hot cocoa, wishing she could pour some for the brunette as well.
She shakes some cinnamon on and looks up to find Regina staring at her strangely, "What?"
"You put cinnamon on your hot chocolate?"
"Damn right. It's the best combination thank you very much." Emma says with her head held high. Regina grins at her defensiveness.
"Do you miss food and flavor?"
"Actually, no. Only because I don't really remember. Now, it all tastes awful and bland, the only thing that appeals to me is...blood." Regina sees Emma shudder, but she can't blame her. The concept is frightening honestly. Overtime, vamps find the blood thing just a normal part of life. But since Regina hasn't been one for very long, she can still imagine how she were to feel when she was human if someone told her they actually drank blood.
"That's depressing, I love food too much."
Regina chuckles, "Trust me, I know."
Emma glares, "And what's that supposed to mean?" She asks with crossed arms.
"I think you know." Regina uses her finger to lift up her nose, making a pig nose.
Emma's mouth opens wide, "Meanie! But also...very true. And I'm proud of it!" They both laugh together. Emma tries to get serious but starts laughing again which makes Regina laugh even harder. They keep this up for a while until they have tears in their eyes.
Finally, they both can breathe, "I just had an ab workout from laughing so hard." Regina holds her stomach.
Emma nods her head in agreement, "Me too, damn." She takes a sip of her drink, "Did you want to come tomorrow then to watch us?"
Regina grabs Emma's hand across the table, when she's near her, she just can't seem to go too long without touching her. "Do I want to? Yes. But remember, Gold wants me to keep my eye out on Fiona for a couple of days to see if she has a specific routine. He's hoping we don't actually have to lure her out alone ourselves."
"Ahh yeah that's right. Well you will be missed tomorrow." She says while rubbing Regina's hand with her thumb.
"The feeling is mutual. But the sooner I do this, the sooner things will become easier around here...hopefully."
The two women discuss their thoughts on the plans that were brought up by several members of FH. Pretty much every plan was good but when it comes to Fiona, there can't be any flaws, it had to be perfect. Hopefully, they will get to her before Fiona gets to FH first.
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| Sunday |
"I'll see you tomorrow!" Emma shouted across the parking lot.
"Bye!" Ruby yells back, waving.
Emma gets into her car and checks her phone, she smiles when she sees a text from her love.
R: After work, meet me at the place we first met.
Butterflies gather in her stomach, this seems like something out of a romantic-comedy. Emma wondered what exactly Regina had planned, all she knew was that she couldn't wait to find out. She started her car and drove to the place that started it all: the bench by the lake.
She parks and gets out, walking up the short path to the bench, but Regina is nowhere to be found.
"Regina?"
Nothing.
"If you're trying to scare me or something, it's not funny." Emma looks around the area.
Still nothing, Emma suddenly got a bad feeling. She turns around to go back in her car but comes face to face with a woman. Her eyes never saw her face, only that familiar glow. And then she saw black. Nothing but black.
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Emma's eyes slowly open, she winces as she feels a sharp pain on the side of her head. She brings her hand there and feels what she suspects is dry blood. And she was cold, where was she?
She looks around and it seems she's in a cage, like one from medieval times. And the cage was in a cave-like area, that was dimly lit by multiple torches. Panic settled within her, she flung her hand to use her magic, but it didn't work. "What?" She breathes out.
She looks down at her hands and notices a dark cuff on her wrist. She pries her finger and nails into it to pull it off but it didn't budge. She groaned out in frustration.
"My, my. Struggling are we?" A woman's voice echoed through the cave. Emma squinted her eyes but couldn't see anyone.
Then in the amount of time that she blinked, there she was. Right in front of her. Her eyes glowed red.
"Let me go!" She growled in the vampire's face, ignoring the pain in her head from the sudden movement.
"But what fun would that be?" She stands back up and turns her head behind her, "Jefferson!"
Jefferson hears his cue and enter to small cave, dragging Regina by the arm.
Regina frowned, "Jefferson! What is this about?"
He pushed her towards Emma's cave, "See for yourself."
Regina gasps and runs towards the cage, crouching down in a similar position to Fiona's just a second ago. "Emma! Oh my god, are you okay? Did they hurt you?" She reaches in and grabs her hands, gripping hard.
Emma squeezed back, she was so scared. "I'm fine, but my magic doesn't work."
Regina turned to Fiona, hatred covering her face, "Let her go, please I will do whatever you want me to, just don't hurt her!"
Fiona puts a hand on her chest, "Oh Regina, I would never. You know why? Because you're going to do that for me." Jefferson smirks, he couldn't wait to see this.
Regina could almost laugh at what she just heard, "Are you insane? I would never hurt her."
"Not even if it means her son would be affected then?"
The two women holding hands freeze. "No." Emma says quietly.
Fiona smiles wickedly, "Oh but yes. Regina, you did a bad thing. You betrayed me, not even with just an ordinary human but one that hunts our kind. That is something that I will not stand for. So you are going to do everything I say right now, or her son will be the one who gets hurt."
"You-You're bluffing." Emma throws at Fiona, although she knows deep down, she isn't. From what she's heard, Fiona will do anything to get what she wants.
"Am I?" She says with a raised eyebrow.
Emma licks her lips, "Regina, you have to do what she wants, I can't let my son suffer because of this."
Regina's eyes start watering, "I-I can't Emma."
"You have to." She wipes away a tear that fell down Regina's cheek.
Regina turns back to Fiona, the fire returning in her eyes, "What do I have to do, beat her until she bleeds and can no longer fight?"
Fiona scoffs, "You really think it would be that easy, no no no. You have to kill her. And the slow way, by draining her blood. I want her to watch you do this."
Regina's eyes widen, "What? No! I'm not going to kill her! You can't make me do this!"
She starts crying harder now, Fiona enjoying every second of it, "Oh but I can, or else I will kill the boy myself."
Emma has tears running down her cheeks too, "R-Regina. I can't let Henry die, I just can't. You have to do what she says."
Regina looked at her like she was crazy, "Do you hear yourself, if I do that, you will die!"
"And if you don't Henry will die. And I'm sure she will end up killing both of us too."
Regina caresses her wet cheek, "There has to be another way."
"There isn't."
"I can't l-lose you, Emma."
"Hey, you'll never lose me, I'll be with you, always." Regina considered trying to pry the cage bars off and fleeing with Emma, but she knew with Fiona and Jefferson there, it would be too hard, plus they could take it out on Henry, something Emma could never live with.
"It's okay, just please, take care of Henry for me, and Belle will help too. And tell him, tell him I love him."
Regina shakes her head, like this wasn't happening, like Emma wasn't going to die. She leans her head through the bars but her shoulders are too wide to go any further. Emma leans in the rest of the way and kisses her softly. "I love you." Jefferson rolls his eyes, growing impatient.
Regina wipes at her drenched face, "I love you, too."
"Ugh, enough of this shit! Just do it already before I kill all three of you myself."
Emma holds outs a shaky arm, the one without the cuff. "Do it, and save my son." The words barely came out, she didn't want to die, she didn't want her life to end. But she knew she would rather it be herself than her son any day.
Regina gently grabs her wrist with trembling fingers and brings it close to her mouth, could she really do this?
Emma sniffs, trying to be strong, "It's okay Regina, do- ahh!" She felt the fangs sink into her wrist. It hurt like hell, making the pain in her head disappear. Fiona's eyes light up, she didn't think Regina would actually do it. She smiles an evil smile, enjoying every moment of that bitch of a hunter losing her life.
She hissed out in pain as Regina remained there, draining the life out of her. Regina's eyes were closed, she couldn't watch Emma die.
Emma remained looking at Regina as long as she could, trying to think about the times they shared, the amazing times. The love she saw in Regina's eyes when they were together, the way Henry adored her.
She wanted to keep going but her mind got fuzzy, she felt herself fading away, like her energy was leaving her body, in a way, it was. Her eyes get heavy and it starts getting hard to breathe. The last thing she sees is Regina's pained expression looking right at her, before once again, seeing darkness.
