"Have you ever noticed how hot the teachers are at this school?"
Regina, Emma and Neal were sitting around the one table in their geography class and Neal had his chin on his hand as he gazed at the beautiful Chinese woman teaching their class. Ms Mulan was passionate about her subject (Geography) and damned scary when she wasn't going on about her subject or basketball, the other 'love of her life'. She was currently standing near the front of the room, as they watched a video about mining in the Amazon.
Emma was sitting between Regina and Neal, and when she heard what he said she stared at Regina, one eyebrow raised. Regina arched an eyebrow and snickered. Then she wrote a note for Emma.
Dragon Fire?
Emma snorted and then tried to cover it with a cough. Regina had called Neal Fireboy ever since he'd managed to set the science classroom alight in a lesson in year 7. The fact that it was a biology lesson and they hadn't been using the Bunsen burners had made it just that extra bit impressive. Emma nodded and then leaned closer to Neal to murmur in his ear.
"I bet you couldn't get her in bed before the end of the year."
Neal's chin slipped from his hand and he almost thumped the desk as he stared at the blond.
"What the fuck?"
"Mr Cassidy! Language!" Ms Mulan sounded horrified as she paused the video. Neal's eyes were wide.
"Sorry Miss." He mumbled, and then hit Emma on the arm. The movie started up again and Neal waited for a bit before he hissed in Emma's ear. "What the hell did you say?"
"I bet," Emma smirked, leaning close to Neal as she kept her eyes on the screen "that you can't get her in bed by the end of the year."
"Of course not!" Neal grumbled. "She's a teacher!"
Emma raised an eyebrow but just sat back in her seat, sharing smirks with Regina.
After class they were headed to Maths and Emma was far too excited about the thought of seeing Chapelier, but Neal wanted to know what her smirk had been about.
"Why the hell would you dare me to …" he glanced around "Sleep with a teacher?" He muttered.
Emma just shrugged.
"Well Reggie and I have." she admitted, and then was hit in the arm by Regina. "What the fuck?"
"Seriously? Who?" Neal yelled, as Regina started swearing at Emma.
"God, shut up both of you." Emma grabbed them both and dragged them into an empty classroom. "Come on Reggie, he could help."
Regina was standing there, her face red and her arms folded. If not for the blush on her face she would have been the image of evil.
"We don't need his help!" She didn't look at Neal, she just glared at Emma. Emma rolled her eyes.
"Oh so you wanna do the Charmings then?" She taunted and Regina's eyes narrowed.
"What the hell are you two bitches on about?" Neal tried to get a word in edgeways, and was then hit, on each arm, and he cringed. "Ok, not bitches. Jeez."
Emma and Regina had a staring contest and then finally Regina, after a heavy sigh, started to explain. She still wouldn't look at Neal though.
"The whole 'good looking teachers' thing hasn't gone unnoticed." She admitted, and then she fished out the photocopy of the staff list that Emma had given her. She thrust it at Neal. "We decided that we wanted to, well, go out with a bang, so we're trying to …" her voice dropped. "Shag our way through the faculty."
Neal's eyes bulged and then he started to laugh.
"Oh man you girls are crazy! As if you could do that!"
Regina turned to face Neal, and he was getting death stares from both women.
"Crazy huh?" Regina asked, and then she twisted around and lifted up the back of her shirt. "See these scratch marks? I got these when I fucked Mr Humbert up against a tree when we were on camp!"
"WHAT?" Neal yelped, sounding all the world like his voice had never broken. Emma snickered. "What about you Swan? You too?"
"Not Mr Humbert." she replied, and gave a cheeky grin.
"Who then?"
But Emma didn't say anything.
Regina wasn't about to stay silent though.
"Let's just say that when she helped Red paint backdrops the other week, pizza wasn't the only thing she was eating!"
"REGGIE!" It was Emma's turn to squeal now, and Neal looked like he couldn't decide if he wanted to die or orgasm! "Anyway," Emma was muttering. "Technically she was the only one eating anything that day. I went down on her at camp!"
"Bugger me, why didn't I go on camp?" Neal grumbled. But then the bell rang and they had to hightail it out of there to get to Maths on time. "So you're serious?" He said as they raced for the classroom.
"Pretty much." Emma replied. "I mean, come on. We're all likely to leave Storybrooke after this year, so why not have fun before we go, you know? Give us at least SOME good memories before we leave the place in the dust."
Neal wanted to ask who was left over, but Chapelier was glaring at them then and they had to rush to their seats and concentrate on their lesson. So it all had to wait until recess.
No sooner were they out of the classroom though but Neal was dragging Emma and Regina around the back of the school and forcing them to tell all.
"I want details, and I want them now."
"There's really not that much to tell." Emma said. "I fooled around with Red, and Regina messed around with Mr Humbert, and there are a couple of other options. But there are some we're not really interested in, and I don't know. If you think you're up for it then you could give it a go!"
Neal frowned, but he was grinning.
"Ms Mulan?" He asked, and Emma shrugged, nodding.
"You could give it a go. Although I'm not even sure she's in to guys."
"I could make her into me!" Neal smirked, and Regina just rolled her eyes.
"Sure," she drawled. "And how are you planning on doing that?" Neal glared at the brunette and opened his mouth to tell her exactly how he would seduce the prickly geography teacher.
When no sound came out Emma started to snicker and Regina just shrugged.
"Sounds like a good plan Fireboy!" She smirked and Neal glared. Then he looked at Emma.
"Come on Ems, you've fucked me. Why did you?"
Emma burst out laughing.
"Seriously?" she stared at him. "You really want to know?"
Neal looked cocky.
"I might be able to use it." he told her and Emma was laughing again.
"You were there."
This time it was Regina that started to laugh, as Neal looked crestfallen[27] . Emma felt a stab of guilt.
"That's not the only reason," She told him, patting him on the arm. "I mean, when we were together it was because I loved you and stuff, but yeah, the other day, and before that?" She blushed, looking rather sheepish. "Kind of just because you were there."
Neal frowned but he had to admit he agreed,
"Yeah, got to admit that's why I did you too," he told Emma, and Regina laughed. Emma glared, but she forced herself to not get too bothered. After all, she didn't want him in love with her again, so this was better.
"Anyway, you wanna do Mulan?" Regina asked as she opened her bottle of water and took a gulp. Neal couldn't help his grin.
"I'll give it a go, that's for sure" he beamed. Then he looked nervous. "But I have till the end of the year right?"
Emma lit up a cigarette and frowned when Regina shook her head, refusing the one she offered her. Then she inhaled and shrugged.
"Well we'll be gone by the end of the year, so yeah. By the end of the year."
"So I'm guessing you want Jones and Her Majesty is going for Locksley..."
Regina's splutter cut Neal off.
"What makes you say that?" She squawked and both Neal and Emma rolled their eyes at her.
"Seriously Regina?" Neal was chuckling. "You are always away in Dreamland whenever you are in English, I almost need a snorkel there's so much drool."
Regina loomed over him.
"You can take your fucking snorkel and stick it..."
This time Emma cut her off.
"Calm down, it's all good." She put her hand on Regina's arm to try to settle her. Regina glowered at Neal again and then slumped on the table. Emma watched her for a beat, gave her an encouraging smile, and then turned back to Neal. "Right. So Regina has called dibs on Locksley and Mr Humbert, and I've bagged Jones, the Mad Hatter and Red. Oh, and Booth. Regina is going to go for Mr Glass, and I so wanna fuck Gold."
Neal almost gagged.
"You want to fuck my god-father?"
Emma cringed as Regina burst out laughing.
"Oh man I totally forgot about that. Oh shit!" Emma was bright red, but Neal just shrugged.
"Meh. It's not like you wanna do my dad, so it's fine." He grabbed Emma's smoke and pinched a drag before handing it back to her. "So let's see. That leaves who? Ms Mulan, Ms Tinkonovich and Ms Blanchard. That right?"
"And Dr Hopper and Coach Nolan." Regina reminded him, and Neal cringed.
"Yeah, not sure about those two. I mean, I'm not sure I really wanna go that way, you know?"
Emma shrugged.
"We can't all be bifabulous!" She dragged heavily on her cigarette and Regina just groaned.
"Yes dearie." She muttered.
"Hey, what about Whale?" Neal finally asked, cautiously. Regina and Emma both stared at him.
"You want him, you do him." Regina's voice was ice cold. Emma gave her friend as supportive a grimace as she could, but Regina just ignored her. Neal watched her and then nodded.
"Fair enough." He agreed, and they started to discuss anything other than the Science teacher. Eventually the bell rang to send them back to class, and Neal headed off, with Emma lingering behind to speak to Regina.
"You ok with this?" She asked her and Regina nodded.
"Yeah, well it means we have more luck at getting a complete set," she agreed. Emma chuckled.
"True that." Then she slipped her arm through Regina's and they headed back into school. Every day their life seemed more and more surreal, and this year really was turning out well.
A/N: ok, first of all, before people start complaining, I know that there are lots of Anti Neal readers out there, but as a couple of people have mentioned in the reviews, this fic is kind of a place where all the ships can come together and play nicely. Besides, my Kindred Spirit (the girl i started writing this for) likes Neal, so I'm including him. Just like Emma and Regina are slightly different here, hopefully Neal will be different enough that you can like him too.
Also, there might be a couple of days without updates because tomorrow I'm flying to the other side of the world to visit my bff. So please be patient and I'll hopefully have lots of time to write while on a plane for almost 24 hours (including a stop over).
Thanks again for reading and reviewing.
