Regina woke up from one of the best nights of her life. She knew Emma didn't sleep, but she was pleased to see her girlfriend way laying right beside her in bed. She rolled over and placed a soft kiss on her mouth.
"You're awake," Emma greeted her, moaning into the kiss.
"Were you there the whole night?"
"Well I was planning on stretching my legs for a bit, but you seemed comfortable using me as your personal pillow. So yes, I have been here for the last eight hours, playing games on my phone with the brightness at the lowest setting. Thank goodness for the extension cord,"
Regina scoffed, then kissed her again.
"You know you can move, right?" She said, stifling a laugh. "I don't want you to have to be uncomfortable for eight hours while I'm asleep,"
"I wasn't uncomfortable,"
Of course, that was a lie. Regina moved a lot in her sleep, but the only consistent thing was using Emma as a pillow. It definitely wasn't the most comfortable position to be in, but she didn't dare tell her that.
Emma sat up, then grabbed her clothes and put her shirt on.
"I must admit," Regina began. "Sex with a vampire was much better than sex with humans,"
Emma raised an eyebrow in amusement, then leaned back down next to her so she could whisper in her ear.
"It's cute that you think I'm good at that just 'cause I'm a vampire. Nope, that was all me,"
Regina scoffed. She knew Emma had only done it once when she was a human. She remembered hearing the story of how she was turned right after she lost her virginity. So she knew damn well some of it had to do with her being a vampire.
She grabbed her arm, and gave it a little tug.
"Why don't you show me again?"
"Show you what?"
"Just how good you are in bed, my vampire,"
Emma raised an eyebrow at the new nickname, but she was more turned on than anything. So once again, her shirt was on the floor, and she was on top of her girlfriend.
As Regina stared at her naked body, Emma raised her eyebrows in amusement. Regina was whipped and unashamed.
Emma placed a kiss on her girlfriend's neck, then whispered in her ear.
"Y'know, I'm pretty confident about all this," she said, gesturing to the space between them.
"You should be."
An hour later, they were finally dressed again. Emma looked pleased with herself.
"So what now?" She asked.
"In case you forgot, dear, I actually do need to eat to survive. So I'm going to have some breakfast,"
Regina stood up, then walked to the kitchen. She cracked an egg against the counter as she felt Emma kissing her neck from behind her.
"Emma," Regina began, looking behind her. "I have a question for you,"
"Okay," she replied with a shrug. "Ask away,"
After she got the eggs on the stove, she turned around to face her girlfriend.
"All those nights ago, when we almost did it right when we first got together; you had said you didn't want to. After you told me that you were a vampire, I assumed that was the reason. But since you clearly can sleep with humans, what was the real reason then?"
Emma took in a deep breath. She was really hoping Regina wouldn't want to know that, because she didn't want to tell her the truth. But then again, she did deserve to know. Plus, Emma told her she could ask.
"Alright," she began. "Y'know how I told you that I've only ever loved two people in a romantic way, right? You and Lily. Well after Lily turned about to be an annoying dragon bitch, I told myself I would never love anyone like that ever again. When I was turned, I fell into a sort of depression; my parents thought it was because I missed being a human, but it was because of what Lily did."
She took another deep breath before continuing on,
"You see, my parents didn't know that Lily and I were like, 'together' together. It was 1912, and practically unheard of. They thought we were just really good friends, and didn't know why I was so upset. When I started writing, which was two years after I was turned, I based characters off of her. Characters who the main character loved, then crushed their heart. When my parents read my stories, that's when they knew,"
Regina wasn't quite sure where she was going with this, but she nodded for her to continue.
"So anyway," Emma continued. "They were cool with it. They encouraged me to go out and meet girls, but I didn't want to. For decades, I just slept around with girls. My parents didn't like it, but it wasn't like they could stop me. 30 years ago, Mary Margaret met Ruby. She found out that she was bisexual, and was hoping that her and I could be together. Of course, Ruby and I are only friends. I love her to death, but she's like a sister to me. So I continued sleeping around with girls for decades, until I met you,"
Regina raised her eyebrows,
"Why was I any different from all the girls you slept with for over a century?"
"When I first saw you; the goal wasn't any different. I just found you really attractive, and I wanted to sleep with you. For the past hundred years, I had a whole system; I would sleep with a girl, maybe even more than once, then leave. I wasn't planning on it going any different. But then I realized that I had real, genuine feelings for you. That scared the hell out of me, 'cause I didn't want to like anyone. But then I decided to explore those feelings, and then I fell in love with you,"
Regina couldn't help but feel hurt at her explanation. When Emma had flirted with her all those times, she really just wanted sex.
And now she had given it to her.
Sure, Emma said she fell in love with her, but what if she really hadn't? Maybe being alive for 126 years got boring, so she went to such great lengths to get Regina to sleep with her.
"Regina?" She asked, placing her hand on her arm. She instantly flinched at her touch.
"I can't believe you,"
She had never sounded so cold before.
"What?" Emma asked, feeling confused.
"You got what you've wanted for the past eight months. Was it fun to drag out the game? Are you just gonna leave now?"
"Regina!" Emma was clearly frustrated. "Of course I'm not going to leave! Why the hell would I tell you I love you if I didn't mean it? Why would I expose the existence of vampires if I didn't love you? You can't be serious right now,"
"You don't think I'm serious? I had feelings for you! Real genuine ones before we even kissed for the first time! I risked my whole career for you because I had feelings for you! I thought you had feelings for me too, otherwise you wouldn't have been flirting or letting me read your stories. But now I'm learning that none of that was real!"
"It was! I let you read my fanfictions, and I don't let anyone read those!"
"You let thousands of people on the internet read them,"
"That's different and we both know that. I may not have realized it until that night I left you high and dry that night, but I wouldn't have let you read my fics if I didn't have feelings for you,"
"Alright, so it just eventually became real then. How long was it all just an act to get me to sleep with you? How long were you playing with my feelings just like you played with the feelings of other girls over the past hundred years?"
"I-" she was cut off.
"I can't even look at you right now, Emma Swan." Regina said with a glare. "Just go away. Go turn into a bat and fly off somewhere, I don't care! Just leave me alone."
"Regina, I-"
"Don't!"
Emma knew there was no getting out of this, so she walked out the front door. As a tear fell down her cheek, she turned into a bat. She wasn't sure where she was going to go, so she flew around aimlessly.
Eventually, she made her way to the woods by Cora's house. She flew up near the top of a tree, and perched herself upside down.
She knew she fucked up. Bad.
Normally, she would call Ruby to figure out how to fix things; but her phone was still inside and she was sure that Regina still didn't want to see her right now.
So she flew off the tree, then flew a fair distance until she was well off their property.
Talking to her family in person would be better, and she could do it quickly.
So as soon as she was far enough, she transformed back before running as quickly as she could.
In around 10 minutes, she was back in Storybrooke. She ran to her house, then walked in.
Luckily, Ruby was there with her parents.
"Emma?" Mary Margaret asked. "I thought you were with Regina,"
Instead of replying, Emma finally let her built-up tears come out. As the tears fell down her face, David, Ruby, and Mary Margaret instantly got up and surrounded her in a hug.
"Emma, what happened?" Her mother asked.
She took a deep breath in, then sat down.
"I messed up," she admitted.
Ruby sat down next to her and wrapped her arm around her in a half hug.
Emma looked up sadly.
"Ruby, can we go outside?"
She loved her parents, but she didn't want to discuss her sex life with them. They knew she was sexually active, but everyone agreed it was best for them not to discuss that topic with each other.
Ruby nodded, then the two of them walked out the door where Emma broke down again.
"What happened?"
Taking in another deep breath, a few more tears fell down her cheeks.
"So uh, y'know how I had been holding off on sleeping with her?" She started. Ruby nodded in response, then nodded for her to continue. "Well uh, we finally did it last night. And again this morning. It was great, but she asked me why I didn't do it with her earlier,"
"I thought she knew it was 'cause you wanted to wait?"
"That's what I told her six months ago. Now, she just assumed it was 'cause I'm a vampire and she thought I would somehow hurt her or something. But then when she learned that vampires and humans could have sex, she wanted to know why I waited so long."
"What did you tell her?"
"The truth. I told her that originally, all I wanted to do was sleep with her because that's what I had been doing for the past century. But then I grew feelings, and now I'm in love with her." Emma explained. "Then she got mad, and thought that I would still leave her now that we had done it. When I said I wouldn't, and I loved her, she said she didn't know what was real. So she told me to go,"
"Emma, you're an idiot,"
"Hey!"
Ruby sighed, then wiped a tear off from her friend's cheek.
"You need to go back to her. When you left, you did exactly what she feared would happen. So you need to go back, and tell her that you're in this for the long-run."
Emma took in a deep breath, then wrapped her arms around her in a hug.
"You're right,"
Ruby hugged her back, then shoved her off.
"Go get your girl!"
Chuckling, Emma nodded before running again.
This time, she ran even faster than she had before. She needed to get back to Regina as soon as she could.
She swung the door open, nearly tearing it off its hinges, then ran inside. Her girlfriend wasn't in the kitchen or the front room, so she ran to the bedroom.
Luckily, Regina was laying in fetal position on the bed. She was crying so hard, she didn't even notice her girlfriend enter the room.
"Regina," Emma said, startling her.
She didn't reply, so Emma sat next to her on the bed. She stroked her back a few times before speaking.
"Regina, I'm sorry," she said. "I'm sorry for leaving just now; but you know what? I'm not sorry for going after you like I did,"
Regina rolled over so she wouldn't have to face her. That was about the dumbest apology she ever heard.
Nonetheless, Emma continued on.
"I'm not sorry that I've slept around for over a century. I'm not sorry that I've only loved two people this much. I'm not sorry for flirting with you just to try to get in your pants," she took a deep breath. "I'm not sorry for any of those things. If they didn't happen, I wouldn't have the chance to fall in love with you like this. Sure, the attraction may have started out with me being a horny and bored vampire; but you, Regina, are the love of my life."
She finally rolled over and made eye contact with her girlfriend.
Emma broke a smile, then started talking again.
"I love you so much. And I wouldn't do anything differently. I love you, Regina Mills,"
Regina then sat up, then got up from the bed.
Emma cursed under her breath as she thought her girlfriend was leaving the room. She messed up again.
Instead, Regina practically lunged at her. She crashed their lips together desperately before crawling onto her lap.
"So am I forgiven then?" Emma asked with a grin.
Regina kissed her again in response.
"Took you long enough, Swan,"
"Yeah, yeah, I know. But hey, at least I'm here now,"
Regina scoffed, then brought their lips together again.
No matter what happened, she would always love her.