It was a rainy night when she came into sight, standing by the road, no umbrella, no coat. So I pulled up alongside and I offered her a ride. / SwanQueen / Regina didn't plan on sleeping with the blonde stranger after knowing her for mere hours, but even less did she plan on falling for her.

Emma had fallen in love with a woman that didn't really exist. Regina, her Regina… she wasn't real. It had all been a lie. •Emma/Regina• SEQUEL TO 'OF LOVE AND LOATHING' - HIATUS

Regina could still smell her cologne and feel the cheap pleather pressing into her back. The brunette sucked in a breath. She was still lying on the floor at the staircase's base and she stared back up at it. Everything was different now. Changed. She felt broken by what had just happened, appalled and enraged, dirty. WARNING: NC17 for non-consensual sex. Dark. (But gets lighter.)

"I have been sleeping with someone," Regina began tentatively, an acute awareness that once she said the words out loud that the madness behind her highly unorthodox situation became all the more real, "whom I absolutely loathe." •Emma/Regina•

Upon Regina's banishment, the small town of Storybrooke becomes protected once again by an enchantment that prevents anyone from leaving or entering Storybrooke. Emma and Regina find themselves on the edge of the town, wishing for a way to the other side.