AN : SO...I'm back. Erm- lots have happened like you would not believe, my adventure was definately life changing. I'll give ya the short version, I traveled, met A LOT of new people, was yelled at A LOT, grew stronger in mind and body and spirit, literally saved a life, fell in love (which is somehow the most horrible thing to ever happen on this journey), broke my hip (like this was less painful than falling in love), and well - now I'm home. It's weird, so much happened in four months and somehow I managed to get back home.
I did my best to write again, I'll probably go back to correct things (like spelling.) And continue Dear Henry! Yay
P.S.-the stupid bold font isn't working. Hissss...
DISCLAIMER : see chapter 1
They say love is supposed to be easy. That if you fight for one person, that you're only supposed to love one exact person.
They didn't expect this did they?
Regina teleported Marian and Hood to the doors of the hospital. She collapsed as soon as the purple disappeared, but she held Marian in her arms. The maidens head rolled harshly into Regina's shoulder. Everything seem to dull and become muffled as Regina looked down at her lovers face. The faintest of white sparked along a few strands of hair growing into a sort of white ribbons from the roots of her hair to the tips. She barely heard Robin stumbling to his feet shouting for help.
Regina asked for help. He stumbled to his knees past the ice on the floor of the ice-cream shop to shout, "hospital-now!"
And to her surprise she didn't question it. A new pair of hands obscured her vision.
"Madam Mayor we need to get her on a gurney-"
"What?" the brunette asked rather harshly gripping Marians shoulders tighter, "no. No you can't just take her-"
Another pair of hands grabbed her shoulders, she looked up to see Robin, "they're taking her-"
"It's what they do, we nee-"
"No, no, no no no-" Regina shrugged him off and held Marian against her chest, "you don't understand she needs me-"
"Regina-"Robin began to pull Marian out of her arms.
"NO!" she pushed him away and he flew against a wall, "she needs me!"
A collection of gasps reverberated throughout the room. Robin groaned and a team of nurses then began to grab Regina.
"Ms. Mills-"
She pushed them away and they landed with a thud and a screech against the polished floors.
"NO! She needs me! its magical! I-I don't know how but-"
Robin sat up, "she needs to be hospitalized!"
"Oh what do you know forest boy?!" her face began to redden with anger and frustration, the vain on her forehead popped up as did the fire in her eyes shining like ember, "you didn't even know about your own wife's affair! What makes you think you'd know anything good for her!"
There was silence and Regina didn't want to think about why there was silence. She wanted them away. She wanted-
"Re…gin…a…" it was barely a whisper but it was her.
Regina thought she imagined it until she saw Robin's eyes widen, "Marian?"
The woman groaned against her chest, "Re…gin…a…"
Regina looked up to see Robins face contort into emotional pain. She wasn't calling for him. She called for Regina and perhaps that in itself says something more than Regina side comments ever will.
Regina merely looked down and cradled her lovers head with one arm and used her other hand to brush the hair out of her paling face, "Marian?"
Marian patted Regina's chest softly, "trust him…"
Regina frowned and the maidens arm fell limp.
"Marian? Hey common-"she shook her slightly, "please come back to me-"
Suddenly tell maidens lips turned blue and the tips of her fingers turned black.
"No- Marian wake up! Mari-"she gripped her hands and the sound of ice freezing glass filled her ears.
She looked below her, the white tiles were freezing blue.
She looked at Robin, he seemed frozen looking at the floor then at her, "Regina move-"
Her feet couldn't handle that, it felt stuck to the floor, "I-I can't-"her breathing became ragged.
"Someone help her!"
A nurse with blonde hair curled into small ringlets jumped up. The very same that kept trying to talk to Regina to let go of Marian moments earlier. Her flat shoes barely touched the ice beneath them then she was blown back and catapulted harshly into one of her coworkers. That same shroud of ice began to reach Regina as well, she felt like she couldn't breathe. She took in shallow breaths, short and quick.
"Robin?"
"Calm down Regina," he was just outside of the ice patch that surrounded them.
"I'm freezing too and you tell me to calm down?" her fist dug into Marians dress.
Her legs started to go numb but she wasn't worried about that. The woman in her arms was beginning to shake from the cold, Regina held her tighter into an embrace, burying her head in the crook of her neck and shoulders.
She closed her eyes feeling another onslaught of memories. It's been happening more often than not. Their memories. It's as if now that there's a strong possibility that Marian may never be hers, a trigger in her mind reminds her why she has to hang on.
"You seem to like it there," Marian giggled feeling Regina's bangs and her nose in the crook where her neck met her shoulder.
"I enjoy the way it holds my head." Regina mumbled into her skin.
"You're going to sleep earlier than expected," Marian traced the outline of Regina's hips to her torso.
"I'm in my own bed and I'm tired now, I think playing any word games are useless." Regina kissed her neck again enjoying Marianas hum of approval.
"Just earlier you had two cups of coffee and made a huge deal about me calling your room not extravagant enough."
"Well maybe you just suck my energy out, besides, aren't you suppose to pick up Roland from his play date with the real boy puppet?" Regina rolled away and sat up yawning, taking into account the dimming light streaming through the windows.
"No," Marian practically hummed as she grabbed the former queen by the waist and dragged her back down, there was no protest, "he wants to stay the night, and Robin is going to be hunting with Little John tonight."
"Mmmhh…" Regina nearly purred as Marian's cupped her breasts from behind, "Oh, bless Little John," Regina turned around making her lover squeal with laughter as she kissed her.
Regina felt Marian become colder and colder, she saw that her lovers hair become whiter and whiter. She held tighter.
"No, no…" she practically begged with a ragged throat and her falling tears.
"Do something!" Robin's voice was booming and commanding, but apparently not enough.
No one moved.
"For gods sake! You're supposed to help people!"
"We can't save everyone." Her voice was spoken again, the blonde with the curly hair.
It seemed like she was the only one who wanted to truly help.
"But there has to be something…they're freezing!" he sounded devastated.
Oh the irony, Regina thought.
She didn't have to choose now. Because Regina chose for her. She chose to die with this tussle of a mess. This woman who quickly began to take on the custom of coffee beans and wine. This woman in her arms that kissed her in the middle of the night for no particular reason and asked her inane questions. The truth was this- that she'll definitely make sure Marian wasn't alone. She was ready to die now-
"Mom!"
The brunette jumped and looked up. Henry stood there with Emma holding his hand. He started to move towards her until-
"You can't come any closer," Robin held his hand out.
Henry glared and Emma pushed his hand away, "Why?"
He pointed at the ice beneath her and Marian, "that's why."
"It doesn't let you get any closer," the nurse woman spoke and she sounded so familiar now, "trust me- I think my coworker and I have to get checked for any broken bones." She looked to a few people clutching their arms just staring at the doomed couple surrounded by ice.
Emma nodded while Henry looked conflicted.
"But-"he began, "isn't anyone helping?"
He looked around at the faces that suddenly found it hard to look into his hopeful eyes.
"Henry we can't get close," Whale spoke.
He looked to Regina, seeming slightly sad, "there's nothing we can do."
"No," Henry said then finally locked eyes with his other mother.
"Henry…"
"You're not supposed to leave me yet," he began to cry and Emma grabbed his arm lightly but he shrugged her off, "you're supposed to be here!"
Her heart began to constrict again and her breathing became shallow once more.
She wasn't ready to die yet.
"Do something!" this time his voiced cracked towards her, "you love her don't you?!"
Regina opened her mouth, then closed it. Unsure how to respond, "Henry…I-"
"No you do! I know you do! You're by her now!"
She couldn't feel her fingers now.
"I'm not dumb mom-"
"I never said-"she started.
"I see the way you look at her…" he was using his hands to talk with him as well, begging with his body movements now, "you look at her the way you look at a sunset-"
Regina's teeth started to chatter together. She thought warmth from a sun set would be great about now.
"I'm not too young mom. If I can see it then you should too…just… do something. If not for her then for me. I don't want to lose you."
He was crying now bending slightly with his arms at his sides, pleading her with those big brown eyes.
"I-i d-don't know what to do…" she could feel her body temperature lower and her sentences were becoming harder to say.
"You can never go wrong with a true loves kiss…" he said with the glimmer of a smile tugging the right side of his lips.
"I-"she looked down finally at Marian.
White snowflakes started to pepper the linings of her lips. Her eyelashes started to freeze.
"You can do it mom," Henrys voice wrapped around her like a blanket.
She couldn't take it anymore.
"Regina you're doing it again," Marian said.
"Doing what?" she asked.
"That thing where you pretend to be tired but stay up just to violate my body."
The older brunette chuckled and kissed the back of Marian's shoulders, "I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about."
"Yes you do," she responded smugly.
"Well then, if we're talking about that, I'd like to point out that you don't protest when I do it," Regina's fingers began to map the body before her, the way her spine creates a line down her back, her ribs just barely poking out, and her hair messy and tossed over the pillow.
The moonlight danced its way past her curtains into the dark room, showing Regina just the barest of her lover's body, she had to touch her just to see her.
"You're like a work of art Ms. Maiden."
"You're awfully nice at one a.m.."
Regina scooted closer, "you know this is the first time you've stayed over since we began. Except the first time. You stayed then because you were too drunk to get up."
"Oh you remembered?"
Her arms snaked around Marian's waist, "okay so I forgot how you like your coffee, you can't hold that against me forever."
"I can and I just might."
She laughed and kissed Marians shoulder again, feeling oddly happy, "you know there's something about the absence of light at this time that makes me feel…odd."
"Odd?" Marian asked looping her hands through Regina's.
"Yeah, like…it's one a.m. and I feel nicer. There's no one to see my flaws or judge me for them. It's a place to think."
Marian turned around, "you feel nicer because there's an absence of light? My dear queen that's never sounded more evil."
Regina flicked her chest and she merely laughed at her assault, "evil has nothing to do with the absence of light. There can be great evil in even the lightest of times."
"Hmmm…"
"Anyway, yes, I do feel nicer. It's one a.m. my dear-"Regina pulled her on top of her.
"Mmh!" she laughed.
"-and I think I've never felt nicer-"she sat up making Marian's legs curl onto her lap on either sides of her thighs.
"-this is the time where great revelations are made-"she held her lover's waist as her back arched into Regina's body.
"Really?"
Regina kissed her collarbones, "yes. It's when I decided to kiss you over stupid wine and it's when I feel too deeply and too much-"
She didn't know it yet, but this maiden's heart raced, this was the first time she's been here since that first night together.
She didn't know the woman in her lap was having unknown stirrings in the organ beating so hard she was afraid she'll hear with each kiss Regina made to her collarbone.
"-one a.m. is the edge of excitement and absolute truth, the pivotal moment of time where even the dark can be mistaken as light and I'm so glad you're here."
Marian parted her lips slightly to speak but Regina replaced her words with her own lips.
Regina closed her eyes and pressed her lips against Marian's cold ones.
As soon as her lips met Marians a burst of light erupted clearing away the ice on the floor and everything felt warm once more.