AN: Feedback was amazeballs! Learned a new word everyday lol.
The sudden urge to relieve her bladder startled Emma awake and stumbling to the pot before day break. She was surprised to feel no pain, not even the tension in her muscles as she did her business before stretching out. The fire had long since burned out, but the cool air surprisingly didn't bother Emma as she roamed around Regina's tent in soot covered clothes. She could feel the caked on grime and dried blood matted to various places on her body and she desired a fresh wash and a change of clothes before the day began. Walking out of her tent, she was shocked to see various members of the Nanakia already starting their morning. Fruits were being cut and put into massive bowls, meats were being trimmed and prepared for roasting and she could smell the huge pot of grits already bubbling over the flame.
Making the short journey into her tent, she was once again caught off guard at Regina curled up in her bed asleep. The brunette's face was pressed into a frown, and her whole body posture was tense. Emma knew the Khaleesi would wake up in a bad mood when she finally got herself up. Ignoring the urge to slide into the bed beside her wife, she turned to find an outfit for the day. Her rummaging had awoken the darker woman, who shot up with a start.
"My Love..." Regina's voice was laden with sleep and was so husky that Emma fought off a shiver. She still had her back to the woman and she was intent on ignoring her for the rest of the day. As long as she controlled her body language she could get away with it.
"Moon of my Life, why are you up so early?" Regina tried again but was still ignored. Huffing at her wife's childish antics, she clambered over to her before turning the blonde to look at her.
"Emma please speak to me." The use of the word please had Emma speechless. She knew that Regina was trying to make herself seem smaller to appeal to Emma's good side.
"I require a bath. Can you-?" Emma let the question hang and without hesitation Regina made the girls tub appear, already filled with steamy scented water. Emma wordlessly stripped her ruined clothes from her body, unable to care about Regina's presence any longer before she slipped into the tub.
"I need to speak with you." Regina said once she saw the blonde had gotten comfortable.
"Can this wait?" Emma sighed. So much for ignoring her.
"You don't have to say anything, just listen." Regina assured, waiting until Emma nodded before she continued.
"I know I've been a bitch since we've gotten married. I've never done the whole courting thing. It's not my way but that doesn't mean that I couldn't have tried for you. It's my fault that you got hurt last night, and I'm going to take full responsibility for it. If I had never entertained the idea of playing with Ginger to get under your skin, she wouldn't have gone that far. I'm sorry." Regina apologized, watching Emma clench her eyes closed.
"I've never done any of this either. But you don't see me running around letting others touch what isn't theirs to touch." Emma hissed, not willing to except the apology that easily.
"Nothing I say can change what I've done. My words wont bring you solace or peace. I will spend the rest of my days proving to you through my actions that I am committed to only you." Regina vowed.
"I need time...I'm so angry and I don't want to say something that I will regret. I want to hit something or someone but I don't want to be n the position to cause another pain." Emma admitted clenching and unclenching her fist.
"Finish your bath and you can take your anger out on Graham during your lesson if your up to it." Regina got up to leave to give Emma some privacy.
"Where are you going?" Emma's voice in her head stopped her.
"To sleep My Love, I am utterly exhausted." Regina grinned lazily.
"Go back to my bed. Yours is filthy from last night." Emma sniffed but deep down she really didn't want the brunette to leave the tent. She watched her wife's tight lean body crawl into bed, suppressing a moan when the leather stretched against her ass. The brunette smirked, having caught her eye but Emma raised her eyebrow in challenge. Trailing a hand down her exposed chest, she watched Regina sit up to get a better look as she circled her own breast.
Pouring soap onto a wash rag, she lathered up her body, scrubbing firm yet gentle enough to look seductive. Toying with her nipples until they pebbled, she was surprised at her own boldness before she flushed with embarrassment \. She went back to simply cleaning her body until she was clean and free from all the nasty bits that clung to her skin.
"Let me wash your hair." Regina was by the tub now, only Emma didn't hear her walk over there she when she turned quickly water went sloshing around.
"You've always looked like you were swimming." Regina murmured, putting in the cinnamon scented soap through blonde locks.
"Mmmm, the water is comforting when its warm." Emma mumbled when Regina began to massage her scalp. Feeling the brunette tense, she tried to open her eyes but was stopped.
"Don't, you'll get soap in your eyes...I was worried yesterday. Your maid was screaming and she told me you walked into the fire. I seen the magic bubble surrounding it but it wouldn't falter. I thought I had lost you." Regina unconsciously tightened her grip on Emma's hair.
"You didn't loose me. The fire...it called to me. Promising me that everything would be okay if I listened to its prayer." Emma explained as Regina rinsed her hair.
"Does the fire burn within you my wicked one?" Regina nipped at Emma's ear with her teeth causing the blonde to moan out.
"Your not touching me until I deem so. Consider it your punishment." Emma broke away before rising from the tub.
The darker haired Khaleesi couldn't stop her eyes from roaming over Emma's body, pleased to see the blonde was starting to fill out more. Her ribs were still noticeable, just not as prominent and the muscles in her thighs bulged with every movement that Regina attributed to the other woman's love for riding her horse. Rose colored dusty nipples stood out against pale flesh that glistened with moisture. Regina noticed that the woman's nipples were slightly puffier than usual and slightly darker. Choosing not to mention the fact, less her wife take it the wrong way she shook her head at the woman.
"So is your plan going to be to torture me then, My Love?" Regina snorted
"I have no plans on torturing you until I feel I'm the only one that's ever going to do that again" Emma's voice in her head was no louder than a whisper as the woman laid on the bed in her naked glory.
"Aren't you going to put on some clothes?" Regina tried to keep her eyes on blonde's feet, but they always snapped back to the apex of the woman's thighs and those short wet blonde curls.
"No, I'm comfortable like this." Emma shrugged.
"We have to get up soon, and I expect you to be clothed. We are going through the Dark Mountains today so dress warm." Regina warned before forcing herself to turn away so she didn't touch Emma.
"I've heard a tale, of the mountains. About its protector, the small dragons of fire and ice." Emma mumbled wrapping a blanket over herself.
"It is nothing but a tale. Only some dragons are of fire and ice, and they were all wiped out." Regina replied.
"This I know. I am of Kopaka." Emma reminded causing the woman to shoot up.
"How the hell did I forget this! This changes everything." She hissed at herself, unknowingly sending it across her connection.
"Forget what? What does it matter?" Emma asked sitting up but at a much slower pace.
"You fell into that fire last night, yet you weren't burned. Don't you see?!" Regina practically shouted inside of Emma's head causing the blonde to flinch.
"Oh wife of mine, it is far too early for your yammering." Emma mused not taking Regina serious. She watched the Khaleesi pace up and down the tent muttering to herself in her own language. Tan skin rippled against dark brown leather and Emma wondered if she was going to be torturing herself more by not letting the brunette touch her. Sighing at the picture, she trailed a hand down her stark naked body feeling her excitement grow as she begun to play with her breast. They seemed extremely sensitive and she didn't have time to bite back the moan that spilled from between her pale lips. Seeing Regina, eyeing her hungrily she could feel herself dampen. On its on accord, one hand slipped in between her legs rubbing the sensitive heat that laid there. Her index finger rubbed small circles around her opening and just as she was about to slip the finger into herself, her tent burst open.
"BY THE GODS!" Emma screamed, covering herself from Graham and Red's prying eyes. Regina had jumped in front of her just in time, so they didn't get a chance to see much of what she was doing before they burst in.
"I told you, you should have put on some clothes." Regina's voice teased her, causing Emma to huff angrily.
"You two better have a damn good reason for coming in unannounced! Graham if you so much as look in her direction again, it will be the last time you have eyes!" Regina hissed when she saw Graham trying to avert his eyes but occasionally snapping back to the naked woman behind her.
"Get them out!" Emma snapped.
"We were worried when the Khaleesi wasn't in your tent." Red explained
"Well as you can see, she is here. Leave, I'll be dressing her today." Regina dismissed them, watching the two of the scrambled out before she broke out laughing at the expression on Emma's face.
"Keep laughing, we shall see how long you can go without release." Emma sneered a her wife, who was still cackling so hard she was crying.
"Oh don't pout. You are the one who wanted to tease me. You can not be upset that your maid and her boyfriend got to see the show." Regina grinned, wiping the tears from her face.
"I'm not pouting, that was embarrassing! Don't worry, I shall only please myself whenever there is no one around to enjoy the view as much as you do." Emma retorted.
"There is nothing to be embarrassed about. We are all sexual beings, we thrive from that pleasure. The Nanakia especially. You don't see it because you end your nights so early but it is common for us to couple into the night, out in the open. With the moon and stars, the grass and the horses the Nanakia finds release." Regina pulled Emma up from the bed, taking the hand the blonde was using to pleasure herself between plump lips and licking the essence from the digits.
"That sounds barbaric" Emma tried to hide the hitch in her breath.
"I figured you would say that. I honestly want no one to appreciate you body but me. So unless you ever want to, I have no problem ending my nights with you in your tent or mine." Regina turned before grabbing the clothes Emma had picked out. Discarding the small leather top, she found a thicker cotton shirt that would provide some protection from the harsh whipping winds in the mountains. Helping Emma tie the leather trousers, she watched the blonde slip on the cotton shirt before placing a small kiss on the corner of her mouth.
"You should bathe and wash you hair. You have debris." Emma plucked a small piece of burned wood from Regina's braid. The brunette's hair was soft and silky, feeling cool to the touch, as Emma undid the braid. Her wife's hair was longer than her own once it was free from her confines, falling around her waist in coiled curls at the bottom. It made the woman look softer, younger even and it had Emma wondering the exact age of the woman in front of her.
"How old are you?" Emma questioned.
"Don't you know its impolite to ask a woman her age." Regina replied but Emma wasn't amused.
"Twenty-three winters. I never was told how old you were, My Love." Regina countered.
"I'm only seventeen summers." Emma responded.
"As in you will be turning eighteen soon?" Regina asked slowly tensing up.
"No, not until next season." Emma answered
"That inbred idiot! You are not even of age and he sold you off like cattle?! In the name of a crown?" Regina exclaimed.
"...does my age bother you." Emma asked pulling her hand away from where it had been playing with Regina's hair.
"Yes! I never would have bedded you had I known." Regina responded as Emma put several feet between them.
"I don't see what the big deal is." Emma sighed.
"You are so young, and the decision was taken from you! I told myself I would never do something like that to another person. You were innocent and I stole that!" Regina tried to explain.
"You didn't steal anything. You bought me, its very simple. I can't bring myself to regret it, I'd rather it have been you then him!" Emma shot back
"What? That's disgusting, he would have bedded his own sister?" Regina nearly gagged.
"I was his birthright. Kopaka's keep their bloodlines pure by breeding among each other. I had an older brother Durin, I was supposed to belong to him but he died with the rest of our family. Therefore I moved onto August. I don't regret anything about our relationship, despite my age!" Emma argued.
"I don't regret our relationship, I regret taking so much from you without thinking about how you would feel. You were forced to marry me. Nobody should be forced into bed that young." Regina's voice took a far away tone and Emma wondered if she was speaking from experience.
"Khaleesi's, we are ready to ride out!" Graham said from outside of the tent, despite not knowing what was said, Emma knew the conversation was over for now.
AN: I saw someone reading this at a Starbucks and it caught me completely of guard! I didn't know if I should have said anything but it was kinda cool. LOL
