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Sunrise.

The pink and orange sky never looked as beautiful as it did with Regina underneath it, breath taking in the soft morning light.

Emma sweetly sucked on Regina's bottom lip as she rested a leg between Regina's, her thigh pressed against the mayor's hip.

When she released Regina's lip, she pulled back at stared at the brunette beneath her. She pushed a strand of cropped hair behind Regina's ear and subtly smiled.

"Again," Regina huskily demanded, sleepiness evident in her voice.

Neither one of them had gone to sleep yet. They had drifted off for an hour at the most not too long ago, but it was all they had to go on for the day.

Emma gave Regina another slow, lingering kiss. It was sensual and unlike their normal pace or style when it came to their physicality. It had happened maybe once before and, as incredible as it had previously felt, it was different then.

Regina had a lot on her mind before she'd asked Emma to kiss her. If the blonde knew half the things she had thought about, though she hadn't wanted to think them, the sheriff probably wouldn't have stayed with her.

But if Emma hadn't stayed, Regina feared the things she might have done. In all honesty, the younger woman had saved her from herself. The voices inside her head were unbelievably negative and strong. She knew the voices were only that, voices, but she also knew they held some truth.

Had Cora been in Storybrooke, she would have told Regina to fool Emma. She would have told her to make sure the blonde received every last painful trick in the evil book of wicked sorceresses, though Cora would never call it that. And she probably wouldn't tell Regina to have a lot of rough and intriguing sex with the woman either. That was all part of Regina's plan, something fun to keep her hands busy. Something to challenge her after the twenty-eight year snooze fest she'd lived through before Henry brought the train wreck of a woman to town.

Emma hummed against Regina's chest as she kissed down the brunette's sternum. As tired as she was, Emma enjoyed the feel of Regina beneath her at a time like that. She hadn't learned anything new about the mayor, but she did what she could to kiss the woman until sunrise as desired. Except for their little nap, she'd succeeded.

"I think this is the first time we've ever kissed and it didn't lead to sex," Emma stated with a small, victorious smile before she kissed Regina's collarbone.

Emma was careful with her kisses. Anytime she moved south, she always came back up before things became too lustful or devious.

"Talk about it like that again and it only happens this once," Regina firmly, strictly informed her.

"Oh, so you plan on making this a regular thing then," Emma asked, though it sounded more like a blissfully cocky statement.

Regina looked up at Emma as the blonde stopped kissing her to make eye contact.

"No, I don't plan on that, but if you say anything more about it I'll make sure it never happens again. I doubt you want me to do what I did to you yesterday in my car all the time. A girl needs a little foreplay, right? And time to heal from constant orgasms? One right after the other."

Emma shook her head with a smirk. She bit her bottom lip as she continued to stare into Regina's brown eyes.

"Fine. Then what would you rather talk about instead," Emma asked.

Regina reached between them and slipped a hand inside Emma's jeans.

"Nothing. I don't want to talk," Regina purred, a wild glimmer of desire in her darkening eyes.

Emma gasped at the teasing contact Regina's fingers made with her sex. Instinctively, her body moved forward and arched into Regina's touch to feel more of the brunette.

"We were doing so well," Emma said as she felt a mix of emotion between allowing Regina to get her way or stopping the mayor to get even a slightly revealing conversation out of the woman.

"I'm not that kind of person, dear."

"What kind of person," Emma asked as Regina's fingers slipped further between her folds.

Emma gulped then parted her lips before she tried to take a deep breath. She pulled herself up Regina's body to bring the brunette's fingers closer to her opening. In the process, she moved her breasts in front of Regina's face.

"The sweet and slow kind. I like it fast, hard, and rough," Regina emphasized her last word by scraping her thumb nail over Emma's clit as she plunged a single finger into Emma.

Emma closed her eyes and moaned as she felt a warmth spread between her legs. She pulled her center away from Regina only to slide back onto it as she started a slow, steady pace.

Regina permitted Emma to ride her finger only a few times before she put an end to it. When Emma pulled away, Regina curled her finger toward herself after she removed it from the blonde.

Emma moved forward to bring herself onto the finger, but felt only the knuckle reach her opening. She groaned as she stopped her movements and opened her eyes.

Regina grinned with satisfaction when Emma met her gaze.

"Are you sore," Regina asked.

"Yeah," Emma nodded.

"Fun," Regina purred as a wicked gleam flashed in her eyes.

Without warning, Regina thrust four fingers into Emma.

Emma squeezed her eyes shut at the sharp pain Regina had caused and let out a strangled moan.

Regina quickly pumped in and out of Emma a few times before Emma tried to form a word.

"No," Emma breathlessly said when Regina had thrust into her a fifth time.

"No what, dear," Regina asked as she continued to move in and out of the younger woman.

"We're gonna talk," Emma said as she reached between them and grabbed Regina's wrist.

Regina frowned and bitterly glared at Emma as green eyes met her brown ones.

"I told you, I don't want to talk," Regina growled as she pushed against Emma's hold on her.

Emma held Regina's wrist tighter and pushed back. She didn't want what Regina offered. Not in that moment, not when she had the chance to watch the sun rise with the brunette.

"I'm saying no," Emma firmly said as she stared into Regina's eyes.

Regina, though still angry about being denied, searched Emma's eyes and recognized what the blonde was really saying. Her expression softened and she tugged her hand away from the sheriff. She carelessly rested her hand at her side in the grass.

"Thank you," Emma said after a moment then leaned in and kissed Regina on the lips.

Regina rolled her eyes.

"It's not a big deal," she dismissively said.

Emma smiled at Regina, though the brunette refused to make eye contact. When Regina finally did look up at her again, Emma's smile disappeared.

"One of these days, I'm gonna get you to talk to me," Emma said.

"Not in this life."

"We'll see," Emma said as her smile returned, though it quickly turned into a small, crooked smirk.

"I have to get to work soon," Regina said as she changed the subject.

"Not a problem since you're already at your office."

"If anyone comes back here and sees us together-"

"Who's gonna see? You're the only one that comes back here."

"When I'm not in my office, this is the first place on the premises they'll come to look for me."

"No one's coming to see you," Emma said before she kissed Regina's neck.

Regina easily closed her eyes as she relaxed. She stifled a moan as not to encourage Emma, though she wanted to, before she spoke.

"Someone always comes to see me," Regina replied as she kept her eyes closed.

Emma kissed her again in the same spot.

Regina tilted her head back in response and exposed more of her neck to Emma.

Emma pulled out her phone and checked the time as she started to suck on the area she'd kissed twice by then.

"We've got plenty of time," Emma said before she kissed then sucked Regina's neck again.

"I thought you didn't want this to lead to sex," Regina said, her eyes still closed as she squirmed beneath the blonde to press her body against Emma's.

"I thought you didn't want to talk," Emma quipped before she moved her body against Regina's as she felt the mayor's breasts and stomach brush against her.

"I don't," Regina said.

"Just like I still don't want this to lead to sex."

"Well, keep doing what you're doing," Regina started before she already had to catch her breath. "It will."

"It's just a little heavy petting," Emma said as she started to grind against Regina, both of them still fully clothed.

Regina brought her hands to Emma's hips and clawed at the younger woman's jeans. She hooked her fingers into unused belt loops on either side of the blonde and pulled Emma flush against her.

"Don't ever call it that again. It makes it sound like we're on some farm," Regina said as she started to pant.

She opened her eyes for a moment when felt Emma move away from her neck. She stared up at Emma as they rubbed against each other at a matched pace.

"Aw, Regina doesn't like farms," Emma sardonically teased.

Regina throatily chuckled as she pressed harder into Emma.

Both woman moaned in unison, their tones low as they drew out the sound for several seconds.

"You don't know nearly enough about me to know how I feel about farms."

"Is that so," Emma stated as she started to pant, Regina already at a loss for breath.

"I'll have you know, I grew up around horses. I was at the stables at least once a week and had riding lessons. I was good."

Emma smiled.

"I bet. The way you ride me all the time," Emma let the statement speak for itself instead of finishing it.

"Except I don't mistreat my horses like I mistreat you," Regina added in response to Emma's comment.

"The horses get more respect than me?"

"And they always will, dear."

"Even though I'm the only one that can do this," Emma said before she fluidly slid both of her legs between Regina.

She used her knees to part the mayor's legs as far as the brunette's pencil skirt would allow. She the slid down Regina's body a bit and continued to grind against her, that time with her jean covered center against Regina's thin panties.

The button on Emma's jeans ran up the length of Regina's folds through the panties, the blonde pressed firmly against her sex as she moved.

Regina closed her eyes as she moaned in a higher pitch than either woman had heard come from her. She arched her back to feel more of Emma and slid her hands down Emma's jeans, from her belt loops to the blonde's ass, and gripped both cheeks with need and lust.

Emma had successfully made Regina wet and both of them knew it. Emma felt it against her jeans while Regina felt the heat increase between her thighs.

"You might not want it, but I do," Regina rasped out as she bucked her hips to push her center against Emma's.

Emma leaned down and passionately kissed Regina on the lips.

"As soon as you admit the horses won't always get better treatment from you than I will."

Emma used one hand to hike up Regina's skirt while the other kept her balance. She pushed Regina's skirt up to the brunette's hip then switched hands to do the same to the other half of the skirt.

"Never," Regina said only slightly above a whisper.

With the skirt mostly out of the way, Emma maneuvered her arms under Regina's legs and balanced herself on her forearms. She gripped Regina's hips, a ninety degree angle at her elbows in her new position, and rammed her center against Regina's. When she made contact, she slid up Regina's sex to tease her as the backs of Regina's thighs almost rested in the angle made at Emma's elbows. She continued to slam herself against Regina then teasingly scrape her button between Regina's folds.

Regina's hands moved up Emma's back as the blonde collided with her like tackling football players. One hand quickly found blonde curls and her fingers immediately tangled in them. Her other hand shot to her mouth as she muffled a particularly loud moan.

Emma used her teeth to pull Regina's blouse out of her skirt then licked the mayor's lower abdomen to push the blouse up toward her navel. She wanted the button up out of her way and when she achieved that goal. She kissed and sucked on Regina's stomach just above the brunette's skirt.

Regina gripped Emma's hair tighter and held the woman's mouth flat against her skin.

Emma moved up to Regina's belly button and nipped at the skin surrounding it. She licked and kissed and sucked before she dipped her tongue inside her belly button.

Regina's hand fell away from her mouth and into the grass to dig her nails into it. She grabbed a fistful of grass and the dirt beneath it as cried out in anticipation.

Emma grinned and pulled her mouth away from Regina's skin to look at the frazzled brunette, her eyes shut tight.

"Say it," Emma commanded.

"No," Regina tried to stick to her original decision.

Emma reached down between them as she pulled her center away from Regina's. She pulled Regina's panties to the side with her index finger then ran it between the mayor's folds from opening to clit.

Regina's breath hitched before she emitted a soft moan. She opened her eyes when Emma's finger refused to touch her anymore and soon found herself staring into green eyes, darker than usual as she brought her coated finger to her mouth.

Regina gulped as she watched Emma hesitate, though she knew the one thing she didn't want the blonde to do was inevitable.

Emma smirked before she wrapped her lips around her finger and sucked it clean of Regina's wetness.

Regina sighed with relief as both she and Emma felt her replace the juices Emma had taken from center.

That was the reason she hadn't wanted Emma to do it.

She dropped her head back down into the grass as she stared up at the sky.

Emma bit her lip as she tried to keep her cat-ate-the-canary grin from spreading across her entire face. She put her hand back where she'd had it in the grass before she moved Regina's panties then resumed her rough slamming motion.

"Say it and you'll feel better. I promise," Emma wickedly grinned as she spoke in a dark, lust filled tone.

Regina moaned again and clamped her legs around Emma's hips as she tried to hold the sheriff close to her.

Emma looked absolutely evil as she recognized Regina's faltering state. She could tell Regina needed more, a harder touch to make up for the absence of slender fingers. Emma didn't think she'd satisfy Regina completely if she obliged the brunette and she'd still be able to get what she wanted.

Emma, with limited ability to move as Regina encased her lower half with her toned thighs, continued her rapid and forceful brush up with her jeans. There was less distance between their centers as she slammed into Regina with as much energy as she previously had, but when she pulled away, the button on her jeans hovered just in front of Regina's sex instead of fleeing a few inches from it. That pleased Regina immensely as Emma felt the other woman's warmth dampen the front of her jeans.

The button scraped between Regina's folds and briefly pressed into her clit before Emma pulled away and crashed into her again.

Regina let out another strangled moan as she tried not to make a sound at all. She tried to pull Emma's mouth closer to her stomach once again as she held on tightly to blonde curls, but Emma fought it. Regina groaned in response.

"Say it," Emma said.

"Why do you want me to admit that? Out of everything else you could get me to say, that's what you're teasing me about?"

"It means more than just saying I'm more respectable than an animal and you know it," Emma argued.

Regina knew that to be the truth. If she said she would treat Emma better than her horses, it would be the same as confessing that Emma was more than some whore or piece of meat. It was a reach in terms of interpretation, but with the way Regina continued to put Emma down, any admission that Regina prioritized her above something else would be a victory for the blonde.

Emma changed up her actions and focused solely on Regina's clit. She pressed the button of her jeans into Regina and moved her hips in a circular motion. With each full circle she made, Emma would pull away then push against Regina.

Regina's thighs twitched and held Emma even tighter. She couldn't help how increasingly wet she became at Emma's new, tempting touch.

"Damn," Regina growled as she knew she'd lost. "I don't always treat the horses better than you."

Emma beamed, a satisfied grin plastered on her face as she watched Regina admit defeat. She reached down between them again and slipped three fingers inside the mayor with ease.

"How do you want it," Emma asked.

"Fast and hard," Regina closed her eyes and answered as she refused to make eye contact with the blonde.

Regina opened her eyes after a couple seconds to stare up at the sky. Soon after she did, Emma started a record breaking pace as she thrust in and out of her. Her breath hitched as she bit her lip. She tried to keep her eyes open as she watched the sky gradually change colors. She removed her hand from Emma's curls and let go of the grass beneath her dirtied fingernails. She brought both of them above her head and kept them there as she willingly let Emma fuck her.

Everything she'd experienced in the Enchanted Forest, her arranged marriage to King Leopold, the night's she spent underneath the old, wheezing man trying to satisfy him though she didn't want to, her mother using magic on her, Rumpelstiltskin teaching her magic, her transformation from the Queen to the Evil Queen all came flooding into the forefront of her mind.

Emma could tell as pleasurable as her brute force was for Regina, the brunette seemed disinterested, like she hadn't told Emma what she really wanted.

"Hey," Emma said as she slowed her pace and moved up Regina's body.

Regina didn't move, but she did look down at Emma as the younger woman slithered up to eye level with her.

"Where do you think you're going," Emma asked.

"What do you mean?"

"You're not in this. You're just letting it happen. What's wrong?"

Emma stopped completely as she waited for an answer. She kept her hand up Regina's skirt, her fingers unmoving inside the mayor.

Regina shook her head.

"I've...got a lot on my mind."

"But you don't want to talk about it."

"No, I don't."

Emma frustratedly sighed.

"Fine, then at least tell me what you really want."

"What I want is for you to finish what you started."

"And how would you prefer I do that?"

"I already told you."

Emma rolled her eyes.

"Guess I'll have to figure it out myself then," Emma said with bitter determination as she started to pump in and out of Regina at a quick pace that wasn't as fast as her previous one.

Regina briefly closed her eyes as she hummed in appreciation for the new tempo Emma set.

Emma was moving in the right direction. She saw the change in Regina, but it wasn't a state Regina would get the most pleasure. She locked eyes with Regina for a split second before the brunette turned her head to look at Town Hall.

Emma slowed her pace. It was still a little quick, but she'd slowed it down a lot since her first attempt at satisfying the woman beneath her.

Regina bit her bottom lip as she started to squirm under Emma and her back momentarily arched.

Emma slowed down again until she eased her fingers in and out of Regina, no force, no aggression, no rush. She moved inside Regina as though they had all the time in the world.

Regina closed her eyes and moaned as she dragged the backs of her hands through the grass to rest on either side of her head. She turned away from Town Hall and opened her eyes. She was immediately met with green eyes, Emma having never taken her eyes off Regina for even a second.

Emma looked into Regina's eyes and suddenly noticed the vulnerability followed by a flash of fear in them.

"It's okay," Emma reassured her. "Nothing changes, right?"

Regina silently stared up at Emma for a long moment before she spoke.

"Right."

"We don't have to talk about it after," Emma quietly told her.

It was the slowest they'd moved together. They were rough and quick, teasing and painfully playful. They'd never taken their time. They'd never shared such an intimate moment as they did while Emma tenderly slid in and out like a ticking clock as it counted the seconds in every minute.

Regina hadn't shared as many caring moments as she had with Emma in all her life. She didn't want to admit that she liked the way Emma looked at her, the way she touched her. It didn't matter how rough or soft, how fast or slow she did it. Emma always seemed to find a rhythm with her and Regina had never been with someone that could match her cadence, sexually or not, as much as it seemed to change. She wasn't even sure if she'd had that with Daniel.

Regina gulped as she kept staring into green eyes. She parted her lips and took a deep breath that hitched every so often before she could fill her lungs. She slowly reached down and unbuttoned Emma's jeans, her eyes never leaving Emma's. She unzipped the jeans soon after then gently pulled them down Emma's thighs.

"Skin on skin," Emma asked as she tried to read Regina's eyes as well as her actions.

Regina nodded.

Emma removed her fingers from Regina and finished what the brunette started. She stood and pulled her jeans down to her ankles. She kicked them toward the apple tree and they casually rested against the tree trunk in a wrinkled clump.

Regina sat up and unbuttoned her blouse. After a short while, she reached for a button halfway down her blouse when she looked up at Emma.

As though Emma had waited for Regina's attention to do so, she gracefully pushed her panties down her legs. She stepped out of them and tossed them on top of her jeans. When she stood up straight, Regina let her eyes wander down to Emma's newly exposed skin. She'd had Emma completely naked in front of her before, but she hadn't inspected the blonde closely and certainly not in perfect lighting. The morning sky gave Emma's pale skin a pleasingly warm glow regardless of all the injuries she'd suffered by Regina's frequent attacks.

Emma didn't usually like to be stared at too closely, but she felt Regina's walls crumbling the further they took things under the honey crisp tree Regina seemed so fond of.

Regina scanned her eyes back up Emma's body and locked eyes with the blonde. She flashed a small, almost undetectable smile at Emma then unbuttoned the rest of her blouse. She looked back up at Emma as the blonde stepped closer before she shrugged out of the blouse. The white dress shirt fell down her arms and landed angelically in the grass behind her.

Regina reached around herself and grabbed her skirt's zipper.

"No," Emma shook her head as she knelt between Regina's legs. "Let me."

Regina looked surprised, but after a moment of staring into Emma's kind green eyes, she brought her hands down to her sides and pressed her palms into the grass by her hips.

Emma reached around Regina and unzipped the skirt. She grabbed the material and started to pull it down.

Regina pushed off her hands and lifted her backside off the ground to help Emma remove the skirt.

When Emma freed Regina from the skirt, she carefully set it aside nearby. She grabbed Regina's blouse and placed it on top of the skirt to her right. She took in the sight of Regina in nothing but her bra and panties. It was the most of the brunette she'd ever seen at one time.

Emma leaned in and pressed the heel of her palm against Regina's stomach just above her hip as she kissed her. Her fingers wrapped around Regina's side and lightly pressed into her back as her kiss went from sweet to passionate after a long moment.

When Emma broke the kiss, she pulled back enough to look Regina in the eyes.

"Bra and underwear too," Emma asked.

Regina nodded.

Emma reached up to get rid of Regina's bra, but Regina held up her hand and gently pushed against Emma's shoulder.

"You first," Regina said.

Emma stared at Regina for a moment as she continued to see the vulnerability in the brunette's eyes.

"Okay," Emma agreed.

Emma grabbed the hem of her shirt and peeled it off before she tossed in the same direction of the rest of her clothes. She reached behind herself and unhooked her bra as Regina watched. She slowly pulled the material down her arms and exposed herself to Regina. Nothing masked her body as she knelt in front of the brunette.

Regina could see all of her in the sunlight. She raked her eyes over Emma's front, from milky thighs to cornsilk curls that cascaded past her shoulders. When their eyes locked, Emma slowly leaned forward.

Emma watched Regina to make sure the brunette didn't protest at the last minute.

She hadn't.

Emma undid Regina's bra and slid it down her arms. She bit her lip the instant she saw Regina's nipples peek out of the bra. Though she wanted nothing more to throw the bra anywhere in the yard so she could start satisfying Regina, she put it down just as carefully as she had before in the neat pile of Regina's clothes she'd set off to the side. She was considerate with everything involving Regina, her clothes, her feelings, her body.

Emma ran her eyes up from Regina's breasts to her brown eyes.

"Gorgeous," she whispered before she leaned in and kissed the valley between Regina's breasts.

Regina relaxed her eyes shut and her breasts heaved as she calmly gasped, a quick inhale of breath as she reveled in the feel of Emma's lips on her skin. She slowly tipped her head back and hummed.

Emma hadn't planned on it, but she kissed Regina again after she heard the woman hum. She licked the patch of skin between her lips then lightly scraped her teeth over the area before she kissed it again. After the kiss, she moved up Regina's body again.

Regina's head was still tipped back when Emma reached her neck. Emma took the opportunity to kiss the base of Regina's throat then moved to the side and kissed her pulse point. She sucked on it after the kiss and elicited a low moan from the brunette.

Emma pulled back and stared at Regina in her peaceful state. Her eyes were closed and she seemed calm, her demeanor soft and relaxed.

It wasn't until Emma's hot breath reached Regina's lips that the brunette lifted her head. She opened her eyes and briefly met Emma's gaze before they kissed. She cupped the right side of Emma's face with her left hand as they did.

Emma pressed her lips harder against Regina's with every kiss until she started to push her body forward, into Regina.

Regina normally would've fought it and allowed the blonde to brush their bodies together, but that time she gave in. As Emma moved forward, Regina moved back. She laid on the grass, Emma on top of her yet again, as they continued to kiss.

They stayed like that for a few minutes before Emma broke the kiss and stared at Regina until brown eyes stared up at her. Only then did she hook her fingers into the panty line of Regina's thin underwear. She hesitated as she looked to Regina for an excuse to stop. Regina didn't give one.

Emma thought it over and released her light grip on Regina's panties. She got up and went to her forgotten red leather jacket tossed near the opposite side of the tree her clothes lay.

Regina stared after her, confused and slightly disappointed.

Emma picked up her jacket and knelt in front of Regina with it.

"Want to put this under you...so you don't have grass poking you," Emma asked as she held up the jacket.

Regina made an "oh" face out of realization that Emma was being considerate.

"Why your jacket and not any of my clothes," Regina asked.

"In case there's a mess," Emma provided.

Regina fought off a smile as she felt flattered that Emma cared enough about Regina to not only find something somewhat comfortable to lay on, but her jacket of all things she could have picked. She hadn't bothered to learn much about the blonde, but she'd observed her enough times to know Emma wore that jacket more than any other she'd seen the blonde in. She had deduced it was Emma's favorite jacket and yet, there she was offering it to be placed under Regina's exposed body knowing there might be a mess to clean off it later.

"Do you want it under you," Emma asked again as calmly as she had the first time.

"Yes," Regina said as she successfully hid her smile.

Regina lifted her backside off the grass and Emma slipped the jacket under her. Regina sat on the jacket and seconds later, felt Emma's hands on either hip as she sunk her fingers into her panties. She grabbed one of Emma's wrists and caused the blonde to stop and look at her.

"Thank you," Regina said, devoid of a smile though her eyes expressed her sincerity.

Emma warmly smiled, but didn't say anything. She stared at Regina a moment longer then removed Regina's panties.

Regina lifted herself a second time to help Emma.

Emma was as caring about Regina's underwear as she had been the rest of the mayor's clothes. Emma added them to the pile then focused on Regina's uncovered sex. She bit her bottom lip as she had when she saw Regina's breasts then met the brunette's gaze.

She slipped two fingers inside Regina and watched the brunette's breath hitch. She leaned in and kissed Regina until she eased her onto her back in the grass again. She pulled away and stared down at Regina as she started up her slow pace again. She pressed her center against Regina's as best she could with her hand between them and began to grind against the mayor as her fingers moved in and out.

Regina let out a moan and opened her eyes. She found Emma's eyes and locked onto to them. She wouldn't, no, couldn't, look anywhere else.

Emma stared back at Regina and felt the intensity in her gaze. She gave as much of that intensity back as she could before she lowered her mouth to Regina's neck. She kissed her way down to Regina's breasts before she captured a hardened nipple between her lips. She sucked and licked several times as Regina arched her back to press further into her touch.

Regina moved with Emma as they had when they were fully clothed. She slid onto Emma's fingers as Emma slipped inside her.

Emma came up to kiss her on the lips again. She brushed her lips over Regina's then fell into place with them before she kissed her. When the chaste, tender kiss ended, Emma sucked on Regina's bottom lip. She pressed her body flush against Regina's and moved with the brunette. They had a good rhythm going as they started to lose their breath.

Emma kissed her again, that time more inviting as she she gently pushed her tongue past parted lips.

Their tongues danced together as they felt around, their hands exploring each others' bodies as their tongues explored each others' mouths.

Emma added a third finger and curled them inside Regina.

Regina broke their kiss as she turned in the direction of the tree, her eyes still closed as she emitted a soft moan Emma wouldn't have heard had the blonde not been so close to her.

Regina raised her hands above her head again and pressed them into grass as she tried not to touch Emma. She barely had enough self-restraint to do it.

Emma noticed where Regina's hands had gone, but as the brunette panted beneath her she knew it wasn't because of her previous reasoning.

"Why aren't you touching me," Emma asked.

Regina opened her eyes and looked straight into Emma's.

"If I do that, this all becomes real."

"Like everything else we've done together wasn't?"

Emma had a point. Honestly, other than Henry, Emma was the only thing in Storybrooke that was real. Everything else was based off a curse used to trap Snow White and her people in a foreign land without their memories. Instead, their memories had all been forged as they continued to believe they belonged in the land without magic Regina had brought them to. None of her interactions with them would be real or genuine. But that's not how it was with Emma.

Everything with her is real, Regina thought.

"Regina," Emma asked out of concern as she slowed her pace almost to a complete stop.

Regina met her gaze and forced a smile.

"I'm okay. Keep going."

"Are you sure?"

"Miss Swan," Regina tried to use her authoritative voice, only half successful. "If you don't finish, I have several ways of making you regret your decision."

"Right," Emma grinned as she resumed her previous pace.

She kissed the crook of Regina's neck then briefly sucked.

Regina hummed.

Emma rubbed her thumb in circles around Regina's clit.

Regina nearly hissed in pleasure as she bucked her hips and bit her bottom lip.

Emma kissed up Regina's neck and stopped just below Regina's ear. She flicked the brunette's earlobe with the tip of her tongue then nipped it with her teeth before she sucked on it.

Regina brought a hand to Emma's hair and twisted her fingers around loose curls. She gripped a handful of hair and gently pulled Emma's mouth down to her shoulder.

Emma let Regina guide her. When the mayor stopped her at Regina's shoulder, she took the reins and kissed her there. She gently, carefully bit her after and received a sigh of pleasure. She moved further down and made a trail of wet kisses over one of Regina's breasts until she sucked on the neglected nipple Emma had previously ignored for the other.

Regina gasped then released the breath in a moan as Emma created more friction between their sexes.

Emma twisted her fingers inside Regina as she searched for that spot, the one she'd hit a few times before that guaranteed Regina's release. She changed her circular patterns over Regina's clit into a stroking movement, up and down to match the in and out motion of her fingers.

Emma, as kindly as she could, pushed deeper inside Regina. She buried her fingers just past the knuckles when Regina let out a loud moan.

She'd found the spot.

Emma smiled, a little proud of finding the spot and slightly happy to see another side of Regina slowing things down had shown her.

She kept the same steady pace and repeated her previous action as she hit the spot again.

Regina bit her bottom lip again, harder than the last time.

Emma sucked on Regina's nipple with a little more force then pulled away with a soft pop. She kissed her way to the valley between Regina's breasts then up her sternum.

Regina extended her neck and Emma kissed up her throat.

Emma passed Regina's jaw and went straight for her lips. She passionately kissed Regina as she changed her up and down motion against Regina's clit to letters that the brunette tried to follow.

The blonde started with a capital "E".

Regina's walls tightened around Emma's fingers as she slowly formed the letter between inward thrusts, each thrust hitting the right spot.

Emma pulled her thumb away from Regina's clit to indicate a new letter.

Between gentle but thoroughly effective thrusts, she made a lower case "m". She pulled her thumb back again and waited until she slid her fingers back inside Regina before she started the next letter.

Regina saw a pattern, though her mind had become a little hazy. Halfway through the third letter, her walls tightened around Emma again. She wrapped her thighs around Emma's hips, their centers flush against each other, her calve pressed against Emma's backside. Each movement Emma made, her leg followed.

Emma finished the third letter: another lower case "m".

Regina was a few letters behind. She thought them over in her head, though it was increasingly difficult considering all the stimulation Emma provided her.

Regina closed her eyes and moaned as Emma curled her fingers against the spot then started the last letter.

"This is best part," Emma quietly said in a low tone. "You shouldn't close your eyes."

Regina clenched her thighs together almost seemingly in an attempt to break Emma's hips. She was close to her release.

Emma had only formed an open circle on Regina's clit. She had one last swipe of her thumb to complete the letter and she wanted to watch Regina come undone.

Regina gulped between her panting fit. She forced her eyes open and adjusted her focus to stare in Emma's green eyes with perfect clarity.

Emma pumped in and out of Regina a few more times, her thumb a lingering presence that hovered over Regina's clit. When Regina's breath hitched, she used it as her cue and gave a heavy push into Regina as she completed the lower case "a" with a single downward stroke.

Finally, all the letters clicked in Regina's head. Her shoes long forgotten the previous night along with Emma's boots, she curled her toes and let go.

"Emma," Regina loudly moaned as she drew out the blonde's name.

Their eyes never left each other as Regina came undone.

Emma's jaw dropped when she heard her name fall from Regina's kiss swollen lips.

It wasn't lost on Regina. When realization set in, her eyes quickly flashed with panic.

Suddenly, Regina wriggled and squirmed beneath Emma, her sexual high shortly lived.

"Get off me," Regina said as she struggled.

Emma removed her fingers, still in shock at hearing Regina say her name even though it's what she wanted Regina to say. It was why she made letters against Regina's clit in the first place, sort of like a subliminal message in hopes it would elicit her name from the brunette.

"Get off," Regina cried out, desperation in her voice.

"Regina," Emma started as she placed her hands on either side of Regina's body. "It's okay."

"Leave," Regina barked, though her voice cracked.

She slithered away from Emma as she pulled herself backward, off Emma's jacket.

Emma frowned and almost wanted to cry for Regina before she reached out and grabbed the back of Regina's knee.

"Regina, it's okay," Emma calmly but firmly repeated louder than the first time.

Regina shook her head.

Emma crawled back on top of Regina and leaned in. She chastely kissed Regina and let it linger before she pulled back. She stared at Regina and started comfortingly rubbing Regina's outer thigh with the pad of her thumb.

"I didn't say it," Regina pointed a warning finger at Emma. "We never speak of this again!"

Emma winced as Regina's words stung her. She didn't want to forget it, but they agreed earlier that nothing would change between them. Emma relaxed her face and nodded.

"Okay."

Regina sighed and laid down. She rested her hands over her stomach and closed her eyes as she tried to rid her mind of everything that had happened.

"But," Emma started after a moment.

Regina's eyes shot open and she looked up at Emma.

"Can we not pretend for a little while longer? Can we at least wait until we go to work to forget?"

Regina opened her mouth to say something as she sat up on her elbows, but she saw the sadness in Emma's eyes. After what Emma had given her and what she was agreeing to do, to give up, she sighed.

"Fine," Regina quietly agreed, no hardness to her voice.

"Thank you," Emma smiled.

Regina furrowed her brow in confusion as Emma leaned in. She almost jerked away from the blonde, but relaxed when she felt Emma's lips brush against hers seconds before they pressed together in a kiss.

After a few long seconds, Emma broke the kiss moved away from Regina completely. She crawled backward toward her jacket, still on the grass.

Regina frowned as she watched Emma back away from her.

Emma grabbed her jacket and inspected it. There was a little of Regina on the back of the jacket, the part she had laid on, but Emma wiped her clean fingers over the material to rid it of the mayor's juices. When she wiped the jacket clean, she sucked her coated fingers on each hand then shook out her jacket as one final test to its state of cleanliness.

Through all of it, Regina started to notice all the marks she'd left on the blonde. The biggest and by far the worst being the "R" carved into her left thigh. Coming in second was the new bruise on her ribs where Regina had punched her the previous night. And a close third being the still healing bruise on Emma's shoulder from when Regina had dug her heel into it in a conference room.

Emma moved with ease as she grabbed the nearest shirt, Regina's blouse, then crawled back to the brunette.

"Are you cold," Emma asked.

Regina finally stopped staring at Emma's body and remembered she had eyes. When she met Emma's gaze, she closed her mouth and nodded.

"I know it probably needs more cleaning to be acceptable for you to wear, but it's the warmest thing we have out here," Emma said as she offered Regina her jacket.

"I also happen to hate this jacket," Regina added.

Emma frowned and lowered the jacket.

"But it'll do," Regina continued. "Thank you."

She held out her hand and waited for Emma to offer it again.

Emma flashed a small smile and handed it over.

Regina sat up all the way and slid into the jacket.

"You don't mind if I wear your blouse, do you," Emma asked though she'd already started to put it on.

Regina settled into the leather jacket and looked over Emma as she stuck her arms into the sleeves of her blouse.

"I don't mind."

"Thanks," Emma said as she adjusted the collar.

When Emma felt comfortable in the blouse, she met Regina's eyes.

"Are you gonna lay down," Emma asked.

"Would you like me to?"

"I thought we'd just lay here together for a little while."

A small smile tugged on the corners of Regina's mouth, though she fought to hide it. Nobody wanted to just lay with her. Everyone always left her. Daniel had been killed, King Leopold was never interested in anything other than sex when it came to sharing a bed with her, and Graham had only thought spending time with Regina was good and fun until Henry showed up. Then things got complicated and he started feeling like a toy.

Instead of giving Emma an answer to a question she hadn't asked, Regina laid down like Emma wanted, though a large part of her wanted it too.

Emma laid on top of her and rested her head on Regina's chest, the jacket unzipped as it served to cover Regina's breasts and arms. Emma covered the rest of Regina with her body and closed her eyes as she listened to Regina's heartbeat.

Regina looked down at cornsilk curls splayed around her chest and shoulders for a moment before she spoke.

"What time is it?"

Emma hummed and remained still for a moment before she reached into one of her jacket pockets. She fished out her phone, surprisingly unharmed during their previous activity, and made the screen light up.

"A little after seven," Emma answered and stuck her phone back in the jacket as it stayed on Regina the entire time.

"How little?"

"Six minutes."

"And you left Henry at the house? You didn't call or check in to let him know we were okay?"

"I was a little busy."

"He needs to be getting ready for school."

Emma groaned.

"You're supposed to be laying with me, not lecturing me. Can we just have thirty minutes to enjoy this?"

Regina sighed.

"Only if you text Miss Blanchard and tell her we're fine. Also, she can take him to school so you can go straight to work from here...and we can have about fifty minutes to enjoy this."

Emma smiled.

"Really?"

"I can still change my mind."

Emma's smile widened as she kept eye contact with Regina for a moment longer. She broke it only to grab her phone again and type out a text to Mary Margaret. She mentioned everything Regina had said except for Emma and Regina spending quiet, uninterrupted time together. When she pressed the send button, Regina spoke again.

"There is something I'll need you to do for me, though."

Emma dropped her head onto Regina's chest with a groan.

"Don't worry, dear. It won't cut into our time here."

Emma sighed in defeat and balanced on her forearms as she looked at Regina.

"You'll have to go to the house after you leave here. I'm going to need another outfit," Regina told her.

"You can't leave and get it yourself?"

"I have an early meeting today. I can pull off wearing my clothes from yesterday for it, but after that I'll need a change of clothes, especially since last night's outfit is wrinkled and my underwear is soaked from earlier this morning."

Emma proudly grinned.

Regina chuckled as she recognized the look.

"Okay," Emma said.

Emma started to put her phone back in the jacket pocket, but Regina grabbed her wrist and stopped her.

"Set an alarm for seven fifty," Regina commanded, though her tone didn't hold its usual amount of authority.

Emma pressed several buttons and, after a minute, turned off the display and slipped it back in the pocket.

"Done," Emma said then laid her head back down on Regina's chest.

She closed her eyes again and focused on the sounds that surrounded them. A few birds rarely flew above Town Hall, but some still passed by and chirped. The wind calmly blew, the air a little chilly but more refreshing than freezing to Emma in that moment. Then there was Regina's heartbeat and her regulated breathing. Her erratic breathing had started to calm from her earlier freak out and the steady rhythm it soon provided Emma as Regina's chest rose and fell helped her fall asleep.

Emma had rested on Regina for a minute or two before the brunette started to relax. She'd slowed her breathing to help put herself to sleep, but it hadn't done the trick that time. She reached up and lazily played with Emma's curls until suddenly, a thought occurred to her.

She hadn't heard her mother's voice in her head or relived any of her painful memories while Emma took it slow with her. She didn't feel the darkness she knew lived inside her. She just felt like Regina. Emma had saved her from herself yet again.

Well, if she is the damn savior then she's doing a hell of a job saving me, Regina thought.

She shook the thought out of her mind. She didn't want to think about queens and saviors and the Enchanted Forest. She wanted to focus on the side of herself the pesky, rebellious blonde brought out of her. She wanted to focus on Regina, the girl that only wanted to love and be loved.

She felt Emma's breathing slow and knew the younger woman had fallen asleep. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. When she released it, she slowly started to smile as she stilled her fingers in Emma's curls.

In that one, pure moment as she drifted off to a peaceful sleep, she was happy.

After a few moments, when Regina's smile faded, the apples in the tree above the women gradually regained their color and returned to their naturally firm state. The bark of the tree went from dry and thirsty to a rich, dark color and extended to the branches. It was replenished and, like Regina, it was satisfied.


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