Regina grabbed Emma by the hand and pulled her up from the computer chair, yanking her forward two steps, before stopping short and turning back to grab the towel.
Leading her out and down the hall, they stopped at the door of the study. "No one's knows about this. Even Rumple thinks it was destroyed long ago. I don't know why I'm even asking this, but promise me that you can try to keep a secret?"
"I resent the implication," Emma responded crossing her arms, but nodded and agreed that of course she could keep a secret. Though she was a bit fearful at what Regina was going to show her. They entered the room and Regina swung open a picture by the fireplace revealing a secret safe. Emma situated her towel on the sofa and sat down, never taking her eyes off of Regina.
The brunette coughed and looked back, with a side gaze as if Emma was going to memorize the numeric code to open the safe. The air seemed tense while neither woman spoke as she pulled open the thick door and pulled out two books.
Emma cocked her head puzzled. She had seen the purple book with the heart embossed on front. It was Regina's spell book and they had used it to look up various spells many times.
"Your spell book isn't a secret; at least it's not anymore."
"No, this spell book," Regina lightly touched the blood red book as her eyes widened and she stared at it in wonder. "This book is special. It also belonged to my mother, but the spells contained within are different."
"Different like how?" Emma asked, feeling slightly annoyed by the prospect of spending their special sex day reading. If she wanted to do that she'd go find Belle at the library. First, Henry had ruined the mood with his porn by proxy and now Regina seemed to want to start a book club.
"When I was young, I would sneak into Mother's room and sometimes she would leave the book under her pillow. It makes me blush just thinking about it. I felt so naughty and the risk of possibly getting caught was…exciting," Regina's eyes were jetting back and forth as she stroked the cover of the book, lost in memory.
Emma opened her mouth to say something, but realized she valued her life, and she didn't want to be kicked out into the street buck naked so thankfully the filter between her brain and mouth came in handy for once and didn't speak. But she thought it and snickered. Regina was essentially admitting that as a young teen she would look at porn, albeit- her mother's porn, which was pretty weird, but the internet had yet to be invented and they probably didn't have a subscription to Playboy back then so she had to get while the getting was good.
The most ironic part of it was that Regina had just admitted to doing essentially the same thing as Henry. It amused her to no end to imagine Regina doing the rebellious equivalent of smoking cigarettes in the garage while her mother was out getting her hair done.
"So what is that book about that has you acting like to you wanted to fuck it?" Emma did let that slip out, because Regina really was acting like she wanted to make sweet, sweet hot love to that book and frankly it was making her feel unholy jealous. She realized it was ridiculous to be jealous of a book though, so she just crossed her arms and waited for Regina to stop reminiscing in nostalgia land and explain things.
"There were rumors of the things my mother did to get her hands on this book: the hearts she had to rip out and the acts she had to perform. When I discovered it I had no idea what to expect, and I didn't even know magic at the time," Regina whispered with reverence. She moved swiftly across the room, and sat down next right next to Emma to show her the spell book.
She opened up the book, and Emma noticed that it was written in some foreign language, maybe Spanish, but there were odd pictures that she caught glimpses of as Regina flipped quickly through the pages. She stopped on a certain one and brought the book close to her nose and with eager glee, took a hearty inhale like she as snorting cocaine off a hooker's ass. When she looked up her eyes were fiery red and rolling back into her head, her lips were parted and she let out a breathy sigh like she was rapt with pleasure. Emma wanted what she was having, and as she watched, Regina moaned contentedly and slid over on the sofa to rest her head on Emma's lap.
"Are you going to explain this or just use me as a pillow while you take a drug trip?"
Regina murmured incoherently, blowing hot breaths against Emma's stomach as her hair tickled at her thighs, "Are you familiar with the Kama sutra?"
"Yeah, like a guide to different sex positions, right?" Emma wrinkled her nose and moved her hair out of the way, shifting slightly so she could cradle Regina's head. The brunette rolled onto her back, languishing like a cat being petted as Emma stroked her hair. She made a weird drawn out sound, and Emma realized that Regina was giggling, her body shaking and her lips pursed and eyes shut tight.
"Yes, this book pre-dates that. No one knows exactly how old it is, but I have it on good authority that all other copies were destroyed. You see, contained within is dark sex magic that no one has been able to replicate, and it's dangerous unless the user has impeccable control of his or her magic," Regina looked proud of herself as she continued to writhe and smile.
"I thought you can't use magic to make someone fall in love with you?"
"You can't, but lust is another beast altogether. There are spells for everything, some with greater success rates than others. For instance, there's a chapter on powerful curses that can be enacted against another: impotence is the most popular, of course. And conversely, priapism is second popular when it comes to afflicting men with sexual curses. My mother cursed one man to only become aroused by women's feet."
"I never thought about cursing someone with a weird sex fetish, but perhaps if one has a lot of enemies. What made it so dangerous that all the copies were destroyed?"
"One reason is that there is a spell for uncontrollable lust, and sorcerers cursed whole enemy villages with it. Everyone was completely preoccupied having sex to do anything else. It put sex above basic survival and everyone starved or froze because they couldn't stop."
"They literally fucked themselves to death? What about the children?" Emma made a disgusted face as she contemplated the impact of that particular curse.
Regina cleared her throat, and shuddered, "It is best not to think about that… or the animals….those poor, poor animals." She paused for a moment, trying to erase the image from her mind.
"That's not why I am showing this to you now. This book isn't all evil. There are some perfectly harmless, yet extremely pleasant spells that I want to teach you."
With reluctance, Regina heaved herself up from Emma's lap and shifted on the sofa, tucking in beside her, so they could peruse the book together.
"I'm kinda scared now. I don't want to something mess up, and Snow ends up finding our just our sex-starved skeletons wrapped around each other on this couch."
"There are much worse ways to go," Regina bumped her shoulder and winked, leaning in to kiss her cheek and pat her thigh.