"What the hell happened?!" she heard from outside of the room and couldn't help but chuckle at the ferocity of her wife's cries, an angry Emma was formidable enough but an angry and protective Emma was someone not to be messed with. It was no one's fault, that much had been explained to her, but still she knew the blonde would need someone to blame, it was part of her way of dealing with traumatic situations.
It wasn't long after Emma's questions had been answered, most likely by Ruby, that the door to her room opened slowly revealing an extremely concerned looking blonde. "Hey," she called out with a soft smile as her wife walked over to take her hand within her own, a look of worry within her green eyes as she took in the purpling bruise adorning Regina's cheekbone.
"Don't hey me woman," she replied, though her tone was gentle, "what happened?"
The brunette sighed deeply before moving so that Emma could sit beside her on the bed, their fingers interlacing automatically as she leaned her head against the woman's shoulder. "…I fell"
"No, you fainted" came the correction to which Regina closed her eyes, whether she fell or fainted was not important, though she knew this would bring no comfort to Emma.
"Okay, I fainted and apparently I hit my head on the counter on the way down…well, my cheek to be more exact" she hissed slightly as a thumb came up to stroke across the tender flesh.
"I'm sorry beautiful" Emma kissed her temple in apology before resting her forehead against her wife's when Regina turned to face her, "I was so worried about you" she breathed.
The brunette angled her face upwards in order to place a kiss to Emma's nose before moving back into her previous position, "I'm okay my love" she felt the small shake her reply received but said no more, she knew how she would have reacted had it been the other way around.
"What have the doctors said? Do they know why you fainted?"
Right on cue, the door opened to reveal both Doctor Whale and a nurse neither woman had seen before. Both were smiling gently as they walked into the room though, in both their experiences that could mean anything.
Regina must have been able to feel the pounding of Emma's heart if the small squeeze of her hand was anything to go by, though it could also have been for her own source of comfort. "Is something wrong Doctor Whale?" Emma's voice was anything but steady as she looked to the man before her, not bothering to move from her position on the hospital bed as she waited for his reply.
"Ladies, I would like to introduce you to a valued member of our team here" he began, both sets of eyes instantly moved to the woman standing beside him, she was pretty, her light blonde hair curled and her pale blue eyes gentle as she looked over the two women sat close together. "This is Doctor Haddon, she's a specialist here, one of the best we have"
"Wh-what kind of specialist?" Emma spoke once more for Regina seemed to have lost her voice as well as the circulation in her hand as her wife clamped down even harder. "Whale what's wrong with my wife?"
His eyebrows rose at this, though in worry or amusement neither woman could tell, "oh, I wouldn't say anything is wrong with her Emma" he smiled now, confusion flitting across both Regina and Emma's faces at the change, "on the contrary, I would say everything is perfectly fine…more than fine in fact, Doctor Haddon?"
At the sound of her name, the blonde woman stepped closer to the hospital bed in order to speak to the two now studying her. "Ladies…as Doctor Whale explained, I am a specialist and one of the best in the department I manage in the hospital…"
"Which is?" it was Regina who spoke now, the animosity of the Doctor's words was getting to her now, if nothing was wrong then what the hell was it?
A twinkle seemed to enter blue eyes then as she spoke once more, "paediatrics…you're having a baby Regina"