A/N: Hey guys! Hope you're doing good!
Another week has come and gone and with it, another chapter of Captain Swan. It's always bitter sweet when I a fic comes to an end, and this one only has two chapters left.
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Also: In the middle of writing the first scene of this chapter, I came up with a terrible pun. I'm going to write it as a note at the end so that I can share it with you all without spoiling anything.
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There were very few moments in her life, at least, as far as she could remember, where Emma Swan thanked her lucky stars. Through all the hardships and difficulties she's faced, she came to believe that luck had little to do with any success, and that one only had themselves to thank when their determination and hard work paid off.
But when Regina's lips met hers again, after she was sure she'd lost the princess for good amidst the chaos and her own sheer idiocy, there was little else Emma could do than thank the gods and whoever else might have played a hand in bringing them together again.
For how they'd fallen apart, the reunion was rather simple, at least after Regina had calmed Emma down. The princess had taken Emma's ring from her hands, a gentle finger running over the marks that the pirate captain had pressed into her hand by gripping on the ring like it was her lifeline, and easily slipped the ring back onto her finger. A soft, relieved sigh had left the blonde's lungs. The sight of the ring on Regina's finger made it real to her - she hadn't lost her, despite how hopeless it all felt, the love between her and Regina endured.
She'd barely noticed the tears that left her eyes when she felt Regina gently stroke her cheek to wipe them away. When she looked up at the brunette, she found Regina's lips seeking out hers and happily reciprocated.
Kissing the brunette always had the strangest effect on her. A whole war could be happening right behind her, she wouldn't even notice. It was like Regina put her into this kiss-induced trance that made everything that wasn't Regina suddenly not matter. The whole world could fall apart, indeed she thought it had, and it wouldn't bother her because she had Regina in her arms.
Or rather, on top of her, since they were now laying down with Emma's back pressed into a bedroll that had been laid out beside the crate she'd been sitting on earlier. It was suddenly getting too hot for her coat in this cave, and it only grew hotter when she felt Regina's tongue caressing hers in her mouth, unable to fight the soft groan that left her throat.
"Gods, I missed kissing you like this." Regina whispered against her lips before she kissed her deeply again. Suddenly, Emma felt her hat being taken off her head and Regina pull away again. When she looked up, the girl was sitting upright while still straddling her, and her hat was on her head.
"That's my hat." Emma said teasingly.
"Mmhm." Regina nodded, raising a brow at her, sending a jolt down Emma's spine with just a look. "Mine fell while I was climbing out my window."
The captain chuckled. "You actually climbed out of your window?"
"It wouldn't be the first time." The princess shrugged. "How do you think I snuck out of the palace to stow away on that naval ship in the first place?"
"It seems the gods bless me every time you climb out that window." Emma said, reaching forward and gently taking Regina's hands gently, Regina took it as an invitation to come closer and leaned forward again, her hands resting on Emma's chest as she kissed her softly. "I don't suppose you could be persuaded to do it more often?"
A smirk. "Only if you promise to be there to catch me if I fall."
"Always." Emma grinned. Regina smiled back and kissed her deeply again. Emma gently bit down on the brunette's lower lip, eliciting a gasp from the younger girl that sent chills down her spine.
"Gods…Emma." Regina sighed, her eyes darkening in the warm glow of the fire. "I need you…"
Emma took in Regina's expression and sighed. "Do you want to?"
Lips were pressed against hers in a second, hungry, insatiable. Her heart started beating like a war drum in her chest as her hands cupped the back of Regina's head gently, accidentally tipping the hat off of her head.
The princess pulled away, sitting up and reaching up to the back of her head, loosening her braid and shaking her hair out and letting it fall over her shoulders. Emma sighed in awe. She always loved the way Regina looked with her hair like that. It was intoxicating.
"There's nothing I can want more in this moment." The princess said softly, her hips slowly grinding against Emma's, a small gasp escaping her lips when she placed pressure in just the right way. "I've been craving you for days. Our being separated was torturous in more ways than one, my dear captain."
"Well then, come here and let me make it up to you." Emma said with a smirk, her hands trailing up Regina's legs to slip under her shirt. Regina reached down and grabbed it at the hem, pulling the shirt off and tossing it aside.
"Sit up and take off your coat." The younger girl requested. Emma chuckled.
"Your wish is my command." She teased as she did so. She shook the coat off and let it fall beneath her while Regina, with some difficult, unlaced her trousers and began trying to take them off. "Come here."
The captain pulled her closer, getting Regina to brace against her shoulders as she pushed the offending garment off, Regina kicking it away once it was loose. Emma took the proximity as an opportunity to start pressing kisses from Regina's chest to her soft breasts, eliciting another gasp from the brunette when she sucked a pert nipple into her mouth.
"Emma." Regina moaned, her hands running through gold tresses as she pulled her closer. Emma laved and sucked and nipped, enjoying the different sounds that came out of her princess in response, each more delicious than the last. At some point, neither of them were sure when, she moved to the other breast, pressing soft kisses in the center of Regina's chest where her heart beat wildly under her bones and under Emma's lips as she moved from one to the other.
"Emma please." Regina gasped after a moment. "I need your mouth somewhere else darling…"
She emphasized her need with a roll of her hips against Emma's and the blonde found that she started salivating at the thought that came to her mind.
"Come here…" Emma said, pulling away from Regina's breast and leaning back, laying down fully on the bedroll beneath them. Regina's eyes grew impossibly darker when she realized the captain's intention, made obvious by the way Emma tugged at her hips once she was laid down.
Had this been any other moment, perhaps Regina would have questioned the position. But with the urgency of their situation, the way her heart hammered in her chest, the way her body craved the blonde's touch in any way, shape, or form she could get it, the princess just didn't have the willpower to fight against her need. She moved up Emma's body, growing increasingly excited at the way the captain watched her move until she was hovering just above her mouth.
Emma could swear that Regina's scent made her dizzy for a spell, and she had to suppress a premature moan when she saw just how much the brunette really needed her.
With Emma's arms guiding her, the princess slowly lowered herself onto Emma's waiting tongue, letting out a shuddering sigh when her core finally came into contact with it.
"Gods." She sighed. Emma moaned as the taste that was so uniquely Regina filled her mouth, her scent and touch and the sight of the princess writhing above her filling her senses until at almost became too much. But she wouldn't stop. If Regina asked it of her, she'd lay here and pleasure her for eternity.
With the tip of her tongue, she searched until she found her treasure in the form of a hardening bundle of nerves that brought out a low moan from the princess above her, feeling a hand land on her head, entangling in her hair as Regina canted forward slightly. Emma brought a hand up against Regina's midsection to keep her steady, but a soft hand took hers, and brought it up to cup a soft breast with a stiff bud rubbing deliciously against her palm.
"Gods." Regina moaned. "Emma…"
If a request or a plea had been on the brunette's tongue, it died when the captain sucked her clit into her mouth. Melting instead into a low groan. She could feel Regina's thighs quake against her as pleasure overtook the princess' body and clouded her mind. Her hips started moving against Emma's face, spreading her essence across the older woman's lips and cheeks and chin. Trying to get a good hold on it, Emma sucked on the little nub harder and nipped it gently. Suddenly, the hand in her hair gripped tightly, and she'd have let out a yelp of pain if she currently had the capacity to give a damn. As it stood, she did not. Mostly because the surprised but pleasured yelp that Regina let out ran a shot of hot lightning down her spine and to her very core, and she moaned against the princess.
"More…Emma please…I'm so close." The younger girl pleaded. Emma unwrapped her free arm from around Regina's thigh and slipped it beneath her, gently and smoothly finding the princess' seeping entrance and sliding one finger in. It was the right move, judging by the long, low moan that Regina let out as she did so.
"Mmmm….ahh." The brunette tried desperately to say, but her mind was lost to the fog that held it hostage as Emma worked her up to that sweet, delicious release she desperately needed. Still, the captain knew her enough to know what she wanted without words having to be spoken, and she gently added a second and then a third finger, curling them upwards gently until she came into contact with the spot she'd been searching for, applying some pressure before she slid out and then back in.
Nails scratched against the back of the hand that held Regina's breast as the princess' moans started turning into sobs. "Yes…yes…Emma…please…harder."
Emma obeyed like her life depended on it, and with each thrust of her hand, Regina rocked forward slightly, moaning and sobbing as she was pushed, and pushed, and pushed, until finally she was thrown off that sweet edge.
"Emma!" she screamed loudly, her voice echoing deeper into the dark den. And if perhaps either of them were paying attention, they would have noticed the sounds of wings flapping frantically as a few bats escaped the cave, mistaking Regina's sob of pleasure for the war-cry of a hungry predator.
Regina trembled and shook above Emma as she rode out possibly her strongest orgasm since she took the captain as a lover. Her chest heaved rapidly as she gasped in as much air as she could in a shallow breath. When she went from seeing white behind her eyelids to black once again, she blinked her eyes open and dismounted Emma's face, rather gracelessly falling beside the blonde on the bedroll.
"Gods." She croaked out, her voice hoarse from the earlier scream. The cave was suddenly quiet in comparison, with the only sounds filling their ears being that of their rapidly slowing breathing. "I fucking missed you."
"I love it when you curse like a sailor." Emma smirked.
"I learned how to from one." Regina said. The captain chuckled as she turned on her side and pulled the brunette closer so that she wasn't almost laying on the cold cave floor.
"I missed you too." Emma kissed her forehead gently. Regina lifted her head, gently cupping Emma's cheek to coax her head down and meeting soft, reddened lips with hers, moaning softly as her own taste filled her mouth.
"Please never keep us apart again." The brunette pleaded.
"Never, love." Emma sighed, unable to push away the shame of her earlier actions. A consequence of them, she figured. One she would have to live with until it hopefully ebbed and melted away. And if it didn't it would be her own fault. But at least she had Regina's forgiveness, she could live without her own for now. "I promise. I swear on my life I'll never let myself destroy the happiness you brought me ever again…I'm sorry I almost did in the first place."
"Almost." Regina noted. "But you didn't. I'm still here. I'll be here by your side till the bitter end, Emma. And I'll fight tooth and nail against anyone who tries to pull or push me away, even if that someone is you."
Emma smiled at her softly. "I never thought I'd be so happy to have finally met my match when it comes to how stubborn I can be."
"Hmm." Regina hummed as she smiled, pressing a kiss to Emma's chin before she nuzzled into her chest, the exertion of everything they'd just gone through suddenly evident in how exhausted she felt, and with Emma's arms surrounding her in warmth like a blanket, she found it was too easy to start nodding off.
"Emma?"
"Hmm?"
"Did I…hear bats earlier?" she asked, her voice little more than a sleepy mumble. Emma chuckled softly.
"It's possible love, I'm not entirely sure." She answered.
"Hmm." Regina hummed again.
"You rest love." The captain said, pressing a soft kiss to her forehead. "I'll be here when you wake up, I promise."
And with that peace of mind, Regina found it all too easy to drift off into dreamland.
When Regina drifted back into the waking world, she had a lot more space, and was still warm but for a different reason. She rolled onto her back and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, realizing that she was alone on the bedroll. She frowned, sitting up, she realized that what was keeping her warm wasn't the captain she'd fallen asleep next to, but rather her coat which she was covered it. Emma must have moved her very gently to get it out from underneath her and use it in lieu of a blanket. Either way, she'd much rather wake up next to the blonde. But, she said as she held the coat close to her, at least the garment smelled like her. Small blessings.
She found her clothes folded on top of the crate Emma had sat on when they came in, with a scrap of paper laying on top of it. When she picked it up, she saw the message left, meant to reassure her of the Captain's whereabouts.
I'm outside.
She couldn't be sure by reading the message alone, but something told her that there was a heavy weight on the captain's mind that she needed the fresh air and the sea breeze to help clear.
She got dressed with no rush. They were playing a waiting game at this point, and she was confident in the fact that Emma really wasn't going anywhere. She wouldn't have left her a note if that was her intention after all.
Fully dressed, she looked to the opening of the cave, feeling the chill of the wind. She looked around and saw that the coat Emma had given her - the one that belonged to her mother - was still inside as well. She sighed, picking it up and slipping it on before she picked up Emma's coat and carried it outside.
She found Emma looking outward towards the see, crouched down close to the ground with a small fire beside her, threatening to snuff out at any moment thanks to the wind, which was stronger than it had been a while ago when they arrived, and the spray of the sea that made it hiss. And Emma sat out here, in the cold, with just a shirt and waistcoat.
"You're going to freeze to death." Regina said, gently draping her coat over her shoulders.
"You'd probably bring me back to life somehow, even if it's just to yell at me for being so stupid." Emma said.
"Psht, you bet your ass I would." Regina said, kneeling down and sitting back on her knees beside Emma, noticing the small spyglass in her hands. "Where did you get that?"
"In one of the chests in the cave." Emma gestured behind them. "This was an old pirate's den."
"Yours?" Regina asked.
"No." Emma shook her head. "Ruby brought me here years ago…when she first snuck me out of Cora's palace the same way you did today, the plan was to hide out here while the rest of the crew."
"That must be how she knew what to do." Regina nodded.
"They thought it was empty too. We had the misfortune of finding out they were wrong." Emma scoffed. "When we arrived we found it full of pirates and smugglers."
"What happened?" Regina asked.
"Two young lasses show up in a cave full of men." Emma said. "What do you think happened?"
"Oh my gods…Emma…" Regina's eyes went wide. Emma chuckled softly and shook her head.
"They tried. But when one of them made a grab for me well…Gods…I was still fuming from Cora and the fight. Wondering if I'd done the right thing in letting her go." Emma looked at her and nodded. "I know now that I did, of course, but you know, you start second guessing yourself…anyway…the second he tried to touch me I stabbed him through the gut. Started a fight. Not sure how we survived it, but Ruby and I managed to fall into step with each other and we picked them off one by one, guns and swords shooting and swinging. A few of them ran off scared. The rest…psht…took us hours to pull the bodies out to sea."
A hand landed on her shoulder in a slap.
"Ow." Emma frowned at Regina.
"Don't scare me like that again." Regina said calmly. "I thought you were about to tell me something terrible happened."
"Right." Emma nodded. "Sorry."
"It's okay." Regina sighed, leaning against Emma's arm. "What are you doing out here in the cold?"
"I'm…I'm worried." The captain admitted. And gods, did it feel good to hear her being totally honest with Regina.
"About what?" She asked gently, her hand slipping into Emma's.
"Ruby." Emma sighed. "And Belle and the rest of them. They should have been here ages ago."
"Ruby warned me they were expecting a fight." Regina said.
"I know they did. That's what worries me." Emma sighed. "I'd hate to think something happened to them before I…"
"Before you what?" Regina asked.
"Before I had a chance to make things right with Ruby." The captain said, her voice barely above a whisper.
"Emma, you just told me that you and Ruby took down a whole pirate crew on your own, and that was when you both had little experience in battle." Regina gave her a reassuring smirk. "Trust me, I doubt Ruby Lucas would allow herself to die without hearing you grovel for her forgiveness."
"Bloody right she wouldn't." Emma chuckled, shaking her head. "It's incredible, that she'd still care enough about me to tell you where I was and how to get me out when I fucked everything up."
"When you almost fucked everything up." Regina corrected her. "Lucky for you, we were there to fix it."
"Lucky for me indeed." Emma said, craning her neck a little to press a kiss to Regina's head.
"Besides, now Ruby has a lot more to look forward to." The princess said.
"Does she?" Emma quirked her brow upwards. Regina nodded against the blonde's arm.
"Belle's father gave them his blessing." She said.
"The Ambassador?" Emma asked. "Gave his blessing to his daughter to go off and marry the pirate who abducted her?"
"All he wants is her happiness." Regina shrugged. "If she's happy being a swashbuckling pirate, then so be it."
Emma shook her head with a chuckle. "At least some good came out of coming back then."
"Yes, it did." Regina gave the captain a small smile and kissed her clothed shoulder. "And if we can escape the royal palace, dungeons and port and Belle can win her father's blessing to run off with a pirate, why do you doubt Ruby's ability to lead your crew in battle and leave Misthaven successfully?"
"You're right." The captain nodded. "She'll get here."
As if on cue, after only a moment, they heard a loud bang come from the distance, making both of them jump a little.
"What was that?" Regina asked. Emma pulled open the spyglass and looked through it. She looked out towards the horizon and focused as best she could. The sun was just starting to rise, so she could see a little better than she could earlier. And as sure as she was breathing, she was the shape of a ship, no, of her ship coming towards them. She looked up toward the flag's mast and a grin broke out on her face when she saw the familiar black flag that whipped around in the air.
"It's them." She said with a sigh of relief, looking through the glass for another few seconds before she pulled it away from her eye. "It's Ruby and Belle and the crew."
"See." Regina grinned, wrapping her arms around Emma's arm and holding her close. "We'd never leave you stranded. None of us."
Emma smiled at her and nodded, kissing her head again.
"Never doubted that for a minute love."
It didn't take long for the ship to arrive and anchor itself as close to the den as possible. The crew stayed on the ship, making themselves ready to set sail to the cape. But Ruby and Belle boarded the whaleboat and lowered it down to get to the shore.
"Swan!" Ruby called towards the cave. Emma rushed out of the cave, Regina on her tail.
"Ruby!" Emma said with a grin. "Thanks the gods you made it."
The captain stepped forward towards Ruby hastily, her arms open as if she were about to hug the younger woman, when suddenly…
Wham
Ruby had clenched her fist and swung, putting all her strength into a punch that landed on the captains jaw and nearly knocked her off balance as her head swung sideways violently.
"Ruby!" Belle gasped.
"Emma!" Regina ran over to the captain, who was cupping her jaw, running her thumb over her suddenly burning lip looking at her hand and seeing a drop of blood. She looked from her hand to the still fuming first mate who's gaze burned into her.
"I suppose I deserved that." She said.
"You deserve a lot fucking worse!" Ruby barked, taking another step towards her before Belle jumped in and blocked her path.
"Ruby no!" she said.
"Belle. I have been beaten down, locked in a dungeon, and just had to kill a whole section of the royal fucking navy. All because of her." Ruby ranted, pointing angrily towards Emma. "Not to mention I nearly lost you."
"I know, I was there doing most of that with you, remember?" Belle said.
"Well then perhaps you'd like to take a swing at her?" Ruby asked.
"Enough! We get it! Emma is an arse!" Belle shouted.
"Thanks…" Emma muttered under her breath.
"But you punching your frustration into her will do nothing to help the matter." The youngest brunette went on. Ruby looked from Belle to Regina, who shot worried looks between her and Emma.
"Did she apologize to you at least?" Ruby asked the princess.
"In…uhh…more ways than one." Regina said with a slight blush.
"Oh gods." Ruby groaned, Belle gasped.
"Regina! In a pirate's den?" she exclaimed. Regina shrugged.
"The best part of an adventure is that it's truly unpredictable." She said.
"Yeah, I'm glad one of us is enjoying herself." Ruby huffed, fixing her currently skewed hat. Belle stepped aside now that she wasn't too worried about Emma and Ruby getting into a fist fight. "At least you didn't completely fuck this all up, Swan."
"You're right." Emma nodded. "You were right all along, I should have trusted you…all of you."
"Well we knew that." Ruby rolled her eyes.
"I know." Emma nodded again. "I'm sorry, Ruby. I should have listened to you."
"You should always fucking listen to me, that's why you made me your first mate, you ass." Ruby sighed. "Just thank the gods nothing bad happened to Belle. I'd fuckin' murder you if it did."
"Wouldn't blame you." Emma shrugged.
"Good." Ruby nodded, taking her hat and throwing it on the ground in apparent frustration before she took three determined steps towards Emma and wrapped her up in a rough but tight hug. "You're a bastard Swan, and you owe me a lot of fucking rum, but you're still my captain and you're still my best friend."
Emma hugged Ruby back and sighed. "Thank you, Ruby."
"You're welcome." The younger woman said before pulling away and turning around, picking up her hat and dusting it off as she walked back towards the whaleboat. "Now get whatever you need from here and let's go. I'm fucking starving."
"Ruby Lucas will forever remain a mystery to me." Regina said quietly to Belle.
"Yes…but a beautiful mystery indeed." The younger brunette said with a smile. "Now come on, when we're on board I want you to tell me what happened in this den."
"Everything?" Regina gave her a knowing smirk.
"Uhh, leave out the more uhm…intimate details." Belle cringed. Regina chuckled and threw an arm around her best friend as they walked towards the boat.
The four of them boarded the ship, and the crew cheered when they saw Emma alive and well and ready to steer them back home.
And just like that, they were off to Cape black once again.
A/N: The Swan has been Queened. (feel free to yell at me in the comments.)