Prompt: Is there a jealous one?
Regina sat at a booth with Robin, the two of them cozied up and holding hands. Emma grimaced and faced forward again on the stool she occupied. She lifted her beer bottle to her lips and tipped it back to gulp down a long swig. She wasn't drunk and wasn't even close, but drinking gave her something to do and helped quiet her unpleasant thoughts.
"Careful, Savior," she heard a recognizable voice say as they walked behind her and took the stool next to her, both of them just a turn of the head away from seeing Regina.
Emma turned to the woman seated next to her and saw wild blue eyes, a wicked smirk and curly red hair. She glared at Zelena, but it didn't keep the other woman from finishing what she had to say.
"You're starting to look a bit green," Zelena gleefully said. "Now, Robin's not much of anything, really. He's really actually quite boring. So, it's not Regina you're jealous of, which means…"
Zelena trailed off for a moment as her eyes glittered with twisted delight. Emma tightened her grip on the bottle and clenched her jaw.
"You have feelings for her," Zelena said and then laughed. "I don't see why you'd feel anything for her either. She's not nearly as pretty or powerful."
"What, compared to you?"
"Well," Zelena replied with a smirk and held up her arms in a pose that would prompt someone to check that person out. Anything ese that could be said went unsaid.
"I have no problem being rude to you, but I understand what it's like to be unwanted. So, I'm not going to say anything that might hurt you or make you angry, unless you come after me or my family again. But I will say this, Regina deserves happiness. She's been through plenty of crap, despite you thinking she's had it all."
Zelena rolled her eyes and pouted. "How Charming of you. A real white knight," Zelena dryly said.
"It's not like that," Emma replied before she took another sip of her beer.
"Of course it's not," Zelena responded, sarcastic as ever.
"She doesn't need saving. She can take care of herself."
"But you protect her anyway. And she protects you."
Emma sighed. "We're friends. Friends look out for each other."
"If you're lying to me because you don't want me to know the truth about how you feel about my sister, there's no need. I've already figured you out. But if you're lying to yourself because you think denying it will make things easier, it's not. Never has, never will."
"And what would you know," Emma asked as she looked up at Zelena and saw the redhead's attention directed to something over Emma's shoulder, most likely focused on Regina and Robin.
Zelena looked at Emma and answered, "Because it's more complicated than that. It always is."
Emma furrowed her brow and she set down her beer. She turned her body toward Zelena a little more as she tried to understand what exactly the other woman was getting at with her cryptic responses. But trying to figure Zelena out only led to more confusion.
Zelena flashed her a brief grin and said, "You're welcome."
Before Emma had a chance to ask what the hell for, the redhead leaned in and kissed her. She felt a swipe of a tongue and immediately pushed the other woman back.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?"
The enraged question surprisingly didn't come from Emma, although she had every right to be pissed. Emma looked over her shoulder and saw Regina with sharp, angry brown eyes set on Zelena.
"Nothing that should bother you," Zelena said as she looked past Regina at Robin while the man cautiously approached with that pained look on his face, the expression he wore often that Emma supposed was a look of concern. It looked like gastro intestinal issues instead.
Regina looked back at Robin and as she turned toward Emma and Zelena, she pursed her lips and sighed through her nose. "I don't like or trust you," Regina told her sister. "Everything you do bothers me, especially when it involves my son's family."
"You mean, your family," Zelena corrected.
Zelena reached out and ran her fingers through Emma's hair while she continued to stare at Regina, victorious. Emma slid off her stool and shrugged off Zelena's touch.
"Are you two… Are you seeing her," Regina asked and pointed at Zelena.
"What? You really think-?" Emma didn't finish her question. She looked between the group, from Regina to Zelena to Robin and then gently grabbed Regina's arm. "Can we talk?"
Regina resisted Emma's touch, so Emma let go. "Fine," Regina agreed to the offer. The brunette glared daggers at Zelena as she and Emma made their way to the back hallway between the diner and the bedrooms. "You know," Regina started to speak when they were alone. "I think we've been here before. In fact, we were exactly here before and talking about my sister then, too. How? How could you- After everything she's done?"
Emma was ready to argue that she wasn't actually with Zelena in any way, but Regina's last question was something Emma couldn't ignore.
"Okay, you've done a lot of awful things, too," Emma said.
"You're defending her? I've done terrible things, yes. But I never hurt or threatened Henry. Not like she's hurt him. And I'm reformed. That should at least give me a little more credit than her."
"Credit for what? Why would you care if I'm with her? You've got Robin. She hasn't done anything to harm you or any of us in a while."
"She's probably just using you to get to me."
"Why would she use me," Emma asked, her confusion and curiosity keeping her from denying she and Zelena were even a couple.
"I just told you," Regina huffed.
"No, I mean, why me? Why wouldn't she try to seduce Robin or something?"
"I—" Regina hesitated and seemed to choose her words carefully. "B-Because of Henry. He connects us in a way I'm not bound to Robin."
Emma shook her head. "That's not it."
"Why should it matter? You're sleeping with my sister!"
"I'm not," she yelled back. "She kissed me. Right now. That's it. That's all that happened."
Regina scoffed and rolled her eyes.
"Why do you care so much whether or not I'm with her?"
"Because she's not good enough for you." Regina appeared to regret the words as soon as they left her mouth.
"And…who exactly would be good enough for me?"
"Certainly not that pirate you hang around," Regina spat out, with extra emphasis on the word pirate. "And neither of them are people I want around our son."
"I don't get to tell you who to see, so you don't get to tell me."
Regina furrowed her brow. "Robin is a good man. He's also a father. He would be a good influence on Henry, unlike Hook. And Zelena." There was more disdain in the way Regina stressed the redhead's name than there was when she said Hook.
Emma sighed, frustrated.
"Yeah, well, if he's so great, why is Roland never with him? At least…not when Robin's with you."
That seemed to hurt Regina and hit her like a strong blast of magic.
"Damn it," Emma said and looked away for a second. "I'm sorry. See, this is the kind of thing we don't get to say to each other unless the person we're dating is a sociopath or something."
"Like my sister," Regina rhetorically asked with a growl.
"I'm not dating your sister! I'm not sleeping with her, I'm not thinking about kissing her or dating her or anything else. But…"
"But?"
"But…I think about all those things when- when I'm thinking about you." She took a deep breath as she said it and took a step back, away from Regina.
The brunette looked stunned. Regina stood with her eyes wide and mouth open, but after a moment when Emma finally tried to leave without saying anything more, Regina didn't let her shock silence her any longer.
"Wait," Regina called out as she grabbed Emma's arm and stopped her.
Emma opened her mouth and tried to apologize, but she was cut off before she began by a pair of soft lips as they crashed against her own. Regina kissed, was kissing her again and again and again. It took Emma far too long to realize what was happing, but when she did she responded to the kiss with equal feeling.
She placed a hand on Regina's lower back and threaded her fingers in silky, brunette hair. Within a few second, Emma pressed Regina up against the wall.
Regina let out a soft sound like a whimper when she came into contact with the wall.
"A thank you would be nice," Zelena loudly said, even though she stood in the entryway right next to them.
Emma tore herself away from Regina in an instant and both women looked to see Zelena. Robin was just behind her. Emma glared at the redhead, furious about the sort of clitoral inference that had occurred.
Regina stepped away to have a private conversation with Robin and Emma was stuck staring Zelena down until Regina returned. If Regina wanted to come back to her at all.
"What," Zelena shrugged as she asked the question. "I'm still waiting on my thank you."
"You want me to thank you for interrupting my first kiss with Regina?"
Zelena rolled her eyes. "Say what you want about the green monster or whatever, but jealousy is what got you and Regina to admit your feelings for each other. Or…well, at least it got you to acknowledge them. By the looks of it, I'd say there wasn't much talking between the two of you."
Zelena giggled and looked over her shoulder at Regina and Robin. Emma followed Zelena's gaze and watched Robin leave the diner with a sad look on his face. Regina looked a little sad, too, but Emma hoped it wasn't because she wished Robin had stayed with her. It wasn't until Regina walked back over to her and Zelena that Emma learned that definitely wasn't the case.
"Why didn't you say anything," Regina asked her and completely disregarded Zelena.
"Me? What the hell was that kiss? You clearly could have said something."
Zelena groaned and stepped in. "Honestly, can you two just get on with it? You like each other. Who cares about the rest? Again, you're welcome."
Zelena disappeared in her green smoke a second later.
"I guess she didn't want that thank you that badly after all," Emma said.
"After what she's done, let's call her and I almost even," Regina said. "Now shut up and kiss me."
Emma smiled and kissed her as instructed. She would always give Regina what she wanted if it meant Regina would be happy.