The hiatus is over. I'm back. Hopefully I will update this baby soon because I'm tease I know. Just read the chapter.
It looked like the right decision at that time. But now that she has time to think it doesn't. Now she realizes that what she did was cowardly and threatens her marriage. The last thought made her heart skip a beat or two.
"What?" Mal's voice cuts her thoughts.
"I'm worried." Regina says rubbing her belly.
They sit in the garden, next to the apple tree that was planted when Regina was born. It's strangely soothing for the former Queen.
"About Emma and Reina?"
"More about Emma." Regina swallows.
The blonde nods. "She is far weaker than your sister."
"No." Regina laughs at how simple Mal's thoughts are and how little she knows Emma Swan. "She might run." It is a simple but she knows it's going to hurt the most.
"From the temptation?"
"Of course. She is trapped inside the mansion... inside our bedroom with the woman she feels strong pull towards. That is cage." After a beat she continues. "The worst part is that I left her there."
This time it's almost impossible to swallows. Because it hurts far too much. This Truest Love thing is too demanding and highlighting every feeling. Regina knows that Emma is in so much trouble because of it and muses that her wife is strong but not all powerful. She has weaknesses as everyone else does too.
"I doubt it."
"You don't know her like I do." Regina hisses back but regrets it. Maleficent isn't the one to blame. She is. She had abandoned her love because she is scared... as shit, as Emma would say.
"I have to come back." She says after a while hoping that it's not too late.
"Are you sure it's wise?"
"No. But I think it's the right thing to do."
"Ha." Mal chuckles. "The right thing was to stay next to your wife. Not run like some coward. For fucks sake, you have Truest Love to protect you."
"Yes. I realized my mistake." Regina rubs her temples. "I'm going home." She states and gets up determined to reunite with her wife.
This time when Reina wakes up there is no dream. She is more than grateful for it and feels relaxed.
Her eyes search for Emma but she is not in the bed. Scanning the room she finds it empty and pushes the covers away so she can get up.
Emma is already in the kitchen when Reina walks in. She senses the other coming but continues to make toasts. She cuts the ham and puts it on the bread when Reina is breath away from her. Her whole body turns on its own accord.
"Hey." She greets with a smile.
"Did you sleep well?" Reina asks and puts a mug under the coffee machine.
"Kinda." The other woman shrugs. "I'm still worried about Regina."
"I think it's completely normal. I mean... You are her Truest Love and that means you are bonded for life. Your souls are made for each other." Saying those things now feels a lot easier now. Reina notices with relief.
A huge chunk of air leaves Emma's lungs. "It is heavy, Reina."
"I suppose. But it is the way things are and no one can change them."
"I know but..." Emma puts the plates on the table and sits down. She waits a beat then two for Reina to sit next to her. "I feel like I won't be enough to be the half of Truest Love. I've never been enough. There was always something missing in me and I got tossed from home to home."
"Emma, that's different. Regina won't throw you away because you are always going to be enough for her. She worship the ground you walk on."
"I know all of this but... I still have insecurities. Regina and I are both damaged people and we are trying to fix each other. We are giving our best."
"I know how hard for Regina is. I feel her but you seem like a stable couple."
"And we are stable. It's just that deep inside we are not. I love her, she loves me too but there are moments where everything collapses." Emma sighs heavily and takes a bite from her plate.
"There is no happy ending, Emma." Reina says but it's just a reminder of what Regina said.
Naturally Emma laughs.
"What is so funny?"
After a few beats Emma stops her laugh and looks up the other woman.
"Nothing. It's just what Regina told me few days ago. It's constant work. Never ending. Which gets tiresome sometimes."
"I guess but imagine no problems at all. Everything is smooth. Boring even."
Emma chuckles and nods. "It could never be boring with Regina."
Later that day they arrive at the flower shop where Tink had started working.
Tink had moved out from the nun's compound to a place where she could do things her way. The shop, owned by Belle's father was her hobby. She didn't feel it as work.
After putting the orchids in the vase next to the cash register her eyes lift up
at the sound of the little bell that gets hit by the door.
"Hey, Emma and..." Her wings tremble with excitement which is unusual. "Reina, I guess." She raises eyebrow.
"The same." Reina feels a slight tingle in her magic and smiles at the flower girl.
"Tink, we have to ask you something regarding Regina's disappearance." Emma said thumbs hooked at the back of her jeans.
"She doesn't want me to tell you, Emma."
"I already know where she is. I just have a question about fairy magic."
"Fairy magic? Here?"
"In the Enchanted Forest."
"What it was used for?"
"Creating a portal between the two worlds." Reina added.
"No. That's... A portal is hard to make."
"I know that but my sister had sensed fairy magic around the portal."
"Fairy magic isn't strong enough to make a portal. And get a person between worlds. Maybe there was someone else there too."
"So if it's not a single fairy... How can someone come here through it and leave a fairy trail?"
"Fairy trail can be left by fairy or someone more powerful that knows how to extract fairy smell."
Emma scratched the back of her head. "Who the fuck could extract it?"
Reina finds it utterly adorable.
"I know only Regina could do it. She had told me that she can set me up in any crime she wishes if I tell you where she is."
"It can't be Regina because the portal had been created from the Enchanted Forest and she wasn't there when it happened." Reina reminds them.
"So it has to be someone was we haven't seen." Tink shakes her head.
"If the crosser has that power than they are as powerful as Regina is. That means we are fucked." Emma concludes.
"I agree with you." Reina shakes her head. "And given the fact that Regina is a bit rusty with magic..." She exhales.
"So if we can't find the crosser by trail then we should search for a reason." Emma is tired of sitting around. She needs her wife. "Why would the crosser want our baby?"
"Truest Love. There is nothing more than that. It's the ultimate power." Tink says while walking over to the door and turning the closing sign around. This requires no interruption. "I thought you learn that."
"Yeah, but it's just a kid."
"It is. But it can be used for a lot of things. Like it could be kidnapped and the crosser could want you to do something in exchange. Or they could use the child's power for their advantage."
"Yeah. But who?'
Tink shook her head. "I will go and see if the magic is fairy's."
Emma tsks "I doubt it's fairy. Why any fairy would purposely leave her own trail. It has to be someone more powerful."
"That makes sense, Tink." Reina agrees with her. "Maybe the crosser wants to frame the fairies."
"That sounds reasonable." The fairy agrees as well.
"Then who holds grudge against your kind?"
"May people were affected by the... pranks or schemes we've pulled. The list is long."
"We can't hit one dead end after another. You have to think of something." Emma practically yelled at the two women. The anger was building inside of her. She craved for Regina's eyes and the comfort she was bringing to her.
"This is not a dead end. We are just considering options." Reina senses the distress in Emma's magic. "We are merely thinking out loud." She knows how bad it is if Emma doesn't calm down. Part of her wants to feel the temptation again, to feel that sting in the heart again. But of course no one will benefit from it. Not even her. Because probably she will be the fallen victim of Emma's anger. Yes, she finds pain to be utterly delicious but this... It's going to be different.
"I know." Emma hisses feeling the magic moving around.
The forest is quiet when Emma poofs Reina and Tink right next to the well. She feels the pull towards the brunette due to the use of magic but now it's not that strong and less tempting.
Swallowing she looks around. "Now what?" She puts hands on her hips.
"I thought Regina taught you patience." Tink takes few steps towards the well and her wings tremble as she examines the air.
"She thought me to be patient and wait for when she decides to give me orgasm." But after looking at Reina's flushed face she mutters, " Sorry."
Reina clears her throat. "I'm alright."
"No. You are aroused." Emma corrects her.
"So are you." Reina fires back.
"Well the image is stuck in my mind and no way to blow off steam so..." She shrugs.
"Oh, I didn't know the situation is that bad." Tink says and retrieves her wings.
"It's worst when we are alone at night." Reina says her voice laced with arousal.
"Okay. Good. But this isn't done by fairy." She changes the topic seeing the discomfort in the two women.
"How..." Emma doesn't even know what to ask.
"It feels like it, it smells like it but it's done by regular magic."
"Regular magic?" Emma's eyebrows shoot up. "I need new dictionary for all the terms."
"Regular means it's not fairy'."
"Any idea who it belongs to?"
"No. But the crosser has just gone through. Which means they are probably searching for Regina."
"Then we are going to follow them." Emma says and looks over to Reina as if waiting for a go.
"If we focus we could open the portal. But you will have to let my magic in yours."
"That sounds dangerous." Even though it has been over seven years since Henry dragged her into Storybrooke a lot of things are still strange for Emma. Shaking her head she bites her lips.
"You can do it." Reina encourages her just like Regina would. She sounds like her and Emma, for brief moment, wants to grab the woman's face and kiss her senseless. A head shake chases the desire away.
"O-Okay. I will manage." She doesn't believe it. She really doesn't but having Reina next to her calms her down. Partly.
When she enters her bedchamber she is paralyzed by some magic. She tries to free herself and summons her magic until a voice startles her.
"Don't use magic. You will hurt the fetuses." Soft voice comes front behind her startling the pregnant woman.
"And you can?" She tries to turn but in vain.
"I do. I know how much to use and I'm not emotionally involved."
"Show yourself." She demands her magic pumping in her bloodstream.
"You are not Queen."
"I'm still the Queen of this castle."
"But you are not my Queen."
"Whose Queen are you?"
The voice behind her laughs and it sends chills down her spine. The wrong kind. She swallows hard.
"You are so predictable."
"You are the crosser, aren't you?"
"Queen suits me better." The voice is laced with sarcasm. "You on the other hand are coward and also stupid. You didn't need to come here. Truest Love magic would have protected you at any cost. Now you are much more vulnerable without Emma beside you."
Regina swallows again only this time it's because the truth has been outted. The truth that her actions were wrong.
Severely wrong.
"She is going to save me." It's sounds pathetic but it's the only thing she has.
"She can't. Because if she wants to cross over she would have to mix her magic with your sister's and that could be dangerous." There is hit of sarcasm in the voice and Regina is begging for some distraction not to feel the anger rising inside of her. She knows that using magic is dangerous to the baby and grits her teeth.
"Don't be like that." The voice whispered. "You have grown so much. Don't let the anger control you. It will damage the fetuses."
"Why are you talking plural?"
"Because they are more than one. The crosser states calmly.
"How do you know that?"
"Because... I am... Let's just say that I've seen them."
"But that's... Are you from the future?" 'Regina feels the magic holding her weakening but she stays put because she wants to know who this crosser is and what does she wants.
"Um... I've seen them. That's all I can say."
Bad Satan *hits head with rolled paper and brick* I know. Do not kill me. I didn't want to include the crosser so early but some of you wanted it so I did it. Here is the crosser. Now let the guessing start. Muhaha! Whoever this is it won't be easy for our girls. If you have guesses let me know. If you want faster update let me know what you like the best. If you want to ask me something I'm here. Yeah... I have to go to bed now. See ya!
