Chapter 35.
The horses took commands easily and they made their way effortlessly through the deep forest surrounding the castle. They were quickly approaching.
"How are you back there?" Regina asked Emma as she leaned her head back to get a look at Emma's face. She was gripping Regina's hips for dear life. "I prefer my bug." Regina shook her head. "That contraption really?"
"Contraption? What are you 60?"
"Technically..." Regina mused. Emma tried to process that the woman she was holding could technically get a senior rate to the movies. She rest her head on her shoulder and whisper in Regina's ear.
"So you aren't a Milf but a Gilf?" Regina scrunched her face. 'What is that?'
"Gilf?"
"Grandmother I'd like to fuck." Emma spelled out louder than she had meant to. Regina raised her eyebrows and tried to fight the smile that was forming on her face. Snow cringed on the horse next to them.
"I wish I was Helen Keller right now."
Emma blushed darkly and Regina tried to bite back a laugh at Snow's expense but it escaped her lips. She looked at Snow and shrugged. "Sorry..."
Snow grimaced and stared straight ahead.
"And technically she wouldn't be a grandmother...Henry has no children."
"I just meant that I would like...to...uh...um."
"Fuck her?" Snow added making Regina gulp. She could feel Emma grip her harder and felt her hide her face in her shoulder as she mumbled.
"Uh...well um..."
"Well judging by the love bites all over her I assumed you already have." Snow said flippantly. Both women looked at her with wide eyes.
"Oh god." Emma hide herself behind Regina feeling embarrassment washed over her.
"How do you know about that?!" Regina demanded stopping her horse making Snow do the same in order to answer her.
"I walked in on you two trying to go for round two in that cabin, remember?" She cringed and shook her head trying to wipe the image out of her head.
"Would've been round 5 actually." Emma admitted shrugging. Snow squeezed her eyes shut and shook her head. Regina spun around as much as she could to yell at Emma for telling her that.
"Emma!" She spun back to Snow. "And w-why were you even looking?!"
"I...well um...it was uh..." Emma smirked as she watched her mother turn red with embarrassment.
"Oh shut up." She started riding off, the others rode after her. They arrived at the castle by sunset. The building loomed over them.
Snow hopped off her horse and helped Emma down from hers. Emma helped Regina and held her waist longer than necessary.
"Ow. My thighs hurt like hell." Emma stated when she was on her feet.
'Wait until I have you with a strap on.'
'It was not that bad, try childbirth without drugs.'
'Oww, this is so painful.'
After tying up the horses they made their way inside the grounds. Two large doors blocked them from accessing the old castle. Snow pulled on the door trying to get them open but they barely budged.
"Is the key beneath the plant?" Emma joked trying to lighten the mood. Snow sighed at having come so far to be stopped by a door.
"Regina, can you magic it open?"
"Yeah you know, Alohamora." Emma swished her hand and Regina gave her a puzzled look.
"I have no idea what you are doing." She placed her hand over the handle and closed her eyes. A small puff of purple smoke erupted around them. The heavy doors swung open to reveal a grand foyer with a large chandelier and a large staircase that led in two directions. Emma stepped inside and looked around with wide eyes.
"WOAH! This was yours?"
"Yeah..." Snow walked into her now disheveled old home. She led them to the staircase. Emma followed her looking around amazed at the interior. Regina hugged herself and grumbled.
"I hate this place."
"The wardrobe is upstairs...in the east wing." Snow informed them as they climbed the stairs. The walked past a large door with ornate handles. Regina stayed back. Emma opened it and took a quick peek inside.
"Oh what room was this?" She asked Snow curiously.
"The master bedroom." She stated and took a step inside to take a look at the room. Emma followed her but Regina froze by the door unable to follow them in.
'I can't go back in there.'
"Regina, are you okay?" Emma asked noticing she had fell behind. Regina snapped her eyes up to her.
"Huh? W-what? Oh...yes." She gave Emma a fake smile and waited outside the room until the others returned. They walked past more doors. Snow stopped them.
"This is my closet, I need to change. I bet you two want to too."
"I need to but I am not wearing a dress. I will wear something of Charming's." Emma moved over to a smaller room just to the side of Snow's closet.
"I guess I can try one of your dresses on..." Regina sighed and began to look through the large amount of frilly dresses.
"I actually kept some of your dresses in here...they are old ones...no leather." Snow pointed out and went to retrieve 4 dresses. They were all from the year Regina had first married her father.
"You kept them?" She asked as she held the dresses in her hands.
"I couldn't find the heart to throw them out." Snow gave her a lopsided smile and began changing into one of her dresses. It was blue and cream.
Regina did the same and slipped into one. She pulled it up. The cut on the dress was very revealing for her cleavage. She had stopped wearing clothes like that as mayor. She looked at herself in Snow's mirror.
"I forgot how revealing this one is...I should change." She turned around and caught Emma staring at her.
"Wow, you are not changing...you look...just wow." She raked her eyes over the Queen's body and licked her lips. Regina tilted her head and looked at what Emma had on.
"What are you wearing?"
"It was either this or pantaloons. David has no style..."
"Hey!" Snow yelled at them.
'He does to have style.'
"She has a point. He dresses like a lumberjack now." Regina stated as she fixed her hair in the mirror.
"Hey! I like plaid." Emma said with a pout. Snow and Regina shared a look.
"You just out gayed yourself."
"You watched mean girls?"
"Everyone has..."
They made their way to the nursery. Emma took Regina's hand as she looked at her surroundings.
"So this could have been mine?"
"I am sorry for taken this away from you but the life of royalty is no fun." Regina sighed trying to block out memories that were threatening to surface. Emma bumped hips with her jolting her from her thoughts.
"Tell that to Prince Harry."
"You would have been controlled to do everything one way, you could never mess up publically, show emotion, you become a drone. And they make you wear pouffy dresses."
"Ugh..." Emma made a face and felt a shiver run up her spine.
"All you heard was the pouffy dress part, wasn't it?" Regina rolled her eyes.
"Yes...ughhh"
Snow stopped in front of another door.
"This is um, was your nursery..."
She opened the doors to reveal a damaged nursery. Emma gave her a soft smile as she entered with her mom. Regina stayed by the door.
"It is very cute."
"I was gonna teach you to walk in here, play dolls with you...teach you to talk." Snow fought back tears. Emma gave her a weak smile.
"Would have been nice."
Snow picked up a bear and let out a sob. Regina looked down feeling ashamed that she had ripped that from Emma.
"Mom, please don't cry. I am here now." Emma pulled Snow into a hug. She cried on her daughter's shoulder.
"But we missed so much."
"We have a lot of time to catch up." Emma told her as she held her by the shoulders so they could look into each other's eyes. She wiped a tear of Snow's cheek and took her hand and walked towards a large tree trunk with doors in the center of the room.
"So is this the wardrobe that sent me to Maine?"
"The very same." She wiped the rest of the tears away with her arm.
"Even if we get it to work...we will need some type of compass to make sure we return to Storybrooke." Regina pointed out from the door.
"There is one in the wardrobe." Snow pointed out.
"There is one...in...so there is." Regina inspected the inside and saw a compass stuck to the inside of the tree.
"We need to remove it?" She told them.
"Why?"
"Because we need something that can restore it's powers and I am not lugging that...to Lake Nostos." She gestured to the large wardrobe.
"That is dried up...there is no water there. We trekked to it before. It was actually how I had you." Snow placed her hand on Emma's shoulder but the blonde cringed.
"I don't need to hear about you and Charming...doing that."
"And it is okay for me to hear about you two? No. The King made me barren with a spell...there was only a drop of water there but it changed that."
"You father did what?!" Regina asked appalled.
"Not our King. King George."
"Have you ever heard the phrase...'Still waters run deep?'"
"What are you saying."
"We get this to Lake Nostos then we get home."
"And how do we get it there?"
"Magical ashes...we burn it, carry some ashes and use the lake to restore the magical properties to the wood but first we need to get the compass off of it." Regina told them. Emma groaned.
'More trekking...really?'
"Is this lake far?"
To be continued.