Emma felt like she was moving on auto pilot. She mechanically set the items down on the table as she moved to the kitchen. She was dimly aware of Mary Margaret talking frantically but she only had one question she wanted answered.
"You kissed him back?" At least this time around her voice was much more even. Hiding the many emotions she was going through at the moment.
"Oh Emma." Mary Margaret sighed as she made her way over to the blonde. She went to grab her hands but the blonde just pulled back and set her with a cold stare. Mary Margaret tried not to let the hurt show on her face.
Emma saw it of course and almost reached out to comfort the other woman. The blonde quickly tossed the idea out. This is why she didn't do relationships. They always hurt in the end.
"Yes.." Emma started shaking her head and moving to leave the small kitchen. She needed to get away from Mary Margaret. She refused to break down in front of this other woman. Mary Margaret blocked the path and grabbed Emma by the shoulders. Mary Margaret was surprised at herself for making the move to stop Emma. She just knew if she let the blonde walk away now there would be no way to get her back.
"Please Emma just let me explain. The day was hectic between Regina and then almost falling off the cliff-" That brought Emma's attention back to the brunette in front of her.
"You almost fell off a cliff?" Emma pulled back enough to check the other woman over. Mary Margaret was wearing loose sleep pants and a tank top. She couldn't make out any obvious injuries. "Are you okay?"
Mary Margaret had to smile. Given the way this conversation could have gone, Emma worrying about her was not something she had figured. There was hope after all.
"Yes. I am fine! Let me explain everything okay?" Emma locked eyes with the school teacher. Her relief that the other woman was okay flooding her. Emma nodded and slowly pulled from her. Mary Margaret spied the two abandoned mugs on the counter. "Let's finish the cocoa. Then we can sit and talk about all of this."
"Let me just go get wash-" Emma was surprised by the authority that came from Mary Margaret.
"You will do no such thing. You will go in there and get in your head and nothing I say will let you open back up." To say Emma was shocked was an understatement. Then again, Mary Margaret was equally as shocked. "Go sit on the couch and I will be over in a second." Mary Margaret went to tend to the drinks so she missed the look on Emma's face.
Emma stood there baffled by the absolute mom voice that came from the other woman. Emma found Mary Margaret's sweet and meek demeanor adorable, but she couldn't help but be turned on by the authoritative tone. Emma made her way over to the couch, had the mindfulness to toss a throw over where she was going to sit, and waited for Mary Margaret.
Mary Margaret had gotten her thoughts sorted in her long shower. She knew why she kissed David back, at least to a point, and she also knew that Emma might not understand. She could only hope the blonde could see her perspective on this.
Mary Margaret brought the drinks over to the couch. She handed one to Emma before sitting on the other end. The two both took a small sip of their respective drinks before Mary Maragaret started.
"This morning I had obviously had a small wardrobe malfunction." She looked pointedly at Emma who at least sent her a small smile. That was something at least. "When I had gotten to the school, I had completely zoned into getting my neck covered up that I didn't see that Regina was in my classroom."
"What did that bitch want?" Emma held her hands in mock surrender at the look from Mary Margaret.
"As I was saying, I hadn't yet covered this up." The school teacher gestured to the marks adorning her neck. "Regina saw these and questioned if I was going to teach fifth graders with them showing. I quickly explained I was just running late and…" Mary Margaret stopped. She wasn't sure if she should tell Emma about Regina threatening to keep Henry away from Emma because of her.
"Hey…" Emma had seen the conflict on the other woman's face. She reached out and touched the other woman's knee. "Regina is seriously a bitch. Don't take what she says to heart." Mary Margaret just sighed.
"She said it wouldn't be good for Henry to know about us and that she would keep him away from you if he found out." Mary Margaret sighed again when Emma moved to take her hand back. What surprised her was that same hand coming to stroke her cheek.
"I don't care what Regina says. I want to be with you. We will just have to be a bit more discrete." Emma leaned over and almost kissed Mary Margaret's lips. She pulled away with a sigh. "I just don't understand how that got you to a cabin with David." The blonde leaned back over and sat her cup on the coffee table.
"I went for a hike after school." Emma shot her a look. "I know, I know. It was stupid with the storm. I went to the store beforehand to get stuff for when you got home tonight but I ran into Kathryn…" Emma looked genuinely curious at this point.
"She was picking up a pregnancy test and I don't know. It just threw me for a moment. So I went to the woods to get some clarity. I stumbled across this hurt dove-"
"Snow-freakin-white." Emma mumbled as she shot the school teacher an amused look. Mary Margaret just sighed good naturedly. She was never going to get to the end of this if Emma kept interrupting her.
"As I was saying, I found this dove and took it to the animal shelter."
"Enter prince charming." Emma mock zipped her lips at a single look from Mary Margaret.
"After getting it checked out, I had to get it back to it's flock. Otherwise it would be alone forever." Emma may have been teasing but she could immediately see why Mary Margaret was so concerned about getting the dove back to it's flock. "Well the ground was soft from the rain last night and I slipped. I was truly scared and just wished you were there. Then David was there pulling me up."
Mary Margaret shifted closer to the blonde. Emma was avoiding looking at her now as she stared down at her muddy boots.
"The storm got really bad and we had to find cover. That's how we ended up in the cabin." Emma still wasn't looking at her. "Emma, look at me. Please.." It was the brokenness that made Emma finally look at the other woman. "I didn't go there with the intention of being alone with him."
"Why did you kiss him back?" Emma sounded like a small child now and it broke Mary Margaret's heart. She wished she had a straightforward answer.
"I was confused, Em. He had basically poured his heart out to me and realistically, I think I just needed to." Emma moved to get up but Mary Margaret grabbed her hand. She couldn't have Emma run away right now. "I needed to know for sure that he couldn't ever live up to you." Emma's eyes snapped to hers.
"I kissed him back. I won't sit here and tell you I didn't. I won't tell you it wasn't a good kiss, but" She sat her cocoa down, leaned close to the blonde and brought her now free hand up to grasp her chin. "It wasn't even close to this." She brought her lips to Emma's and let out a sigh in relief when she felt the blonde kiss her back. Emma slipped an arm around Mary Margaret's waist while the other still held her hand.
The two slowly pulled away when breath was needed. Mary Margaret was happy to see that Emma didn't look away from her.
"I'm not saying what I did was right. I just think that I needed it to confirm what my heart already knows."
"And what is that?" Emma held her breath. She wasn't sure she was really prepared to hear Mary Margaret talk about her feelings for her but after the whole thing with David, she also wanted to have them confirmed.
Mary Margaret brought their joined hands up to her chest. She settled Emma's right above her heart and held it there with hers.
"That it belongs to you and only you."
Emma wasn't sure how it happened. One minute they were both leaning in and the next they were laying on the floor. Mary Margaret was pinned beneath Emma's body. The two both stared shocked for a moment before they began laughing.
Mary Margaret reached up and brushed Emma's hair out of her face as the laughing died down. She leaned up and caught the blonde's mouth with her own. Emma shifted her legs to lean down further. She braced herself on her forearms by Mary's head.
It wasn't until Mary Margaret brough her knee up that the two noticed their position. Mary Margaret had placed her thigh directly between Emma's legs. The blonde couldn't stop herself from grinding down on the thigh. Mary Margaret moaned softly when the action caused Emma's knee to push up on her own mound.
Emma pulled back slightly from the brunette to take in her flushed face. The pair were both breathing heavily with goofy grins adorning their faces. Emma kissed Mary Margaret's nose before making her way to stand up. She pulled the other woman up as well.
"I'm glad it's mine. I promise to be careful with it." Mary Margaret just smiled and hugged the other woman. She looked down when she felt something between her toes.
"Ugh." Mary Margaret was trying to remind herself that she told Emma not to wash off earlier so it was her own fault that she and her floor were now covered in mud.
"Ah. Yeah. Am I allowed to go get a shower now, Ms. Blanchard?" Emma was grinning at her when Mary Margaret looked back up at her. She couldn't help but smile back.
"You may Sheriff Swan." She teased back. As the blonde went to walk past her, Mary Margaret looked at the couch to inspect the damage. She noticed the blanket Emma put down. "Oh Em, you put a blanket down." She was touched at the thoughtfulness of her friend.
"Of course. I knew once we talked that you wouldn't be happy if I sat my muddy butt on it." Emma chuckled and then squealed when she felt a hand connect with her behind. She looked back at the other woman in shock. It shouldn't have surprised her to see the arousal in the other woman's eyes that she knew matched her own.
"Go get cleaned up. I am going to take care of this." The brunette gestured to the floor without breaking eye contact. "Then I'll have to get out of these muddy clothes as well." Emma couldn't stop herself.
"You could always join me in the shower." Mary Margaret just blushed heavily, as though she hadn't made a similar reference a moment ago to them both being unclothed.
"Maybe another time." Mary Margaret just leaned up and kissed Emma quickly and then made her way to the kitchen for the cleaning supplies.
Emma stood there with a lopsided grin on her face. She truly cared about this woman and she refused to let anyone- or any man- come between them.
Up Next::: Mary Margaret runs into David. Regina fights with keeping her curse intact or letting her step daughter knowingly sleep with her own daughter.
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