Hello! This is my entry for ECweek 2021 day one: David as the Dark One. I'm planning on writing something for every day of ECweek, but I'm not sure I'll get everything done in time. If not, I'll just write it when I can and post it later.
Warning: contains smut. I'm not sure I did a good job on that but I hope you enjoy either way lol.
Fear,
"David, no. There has to be another way," she said, terror gripping her very core. He could not be doing this.
Panic,
as he declared, "there isn't. You've worked too hard to have your happiness destroyed," conviction filling his eyes.
Chaos,
as he plunged the still not engraved dagger into the swirling tendrils of darkness surrounding her. A scream from Snow, who undoubtedly favored Regina being surrendered to the darkness instead of her husband, filling the air.And a deafening roaring, a combination of the hurling wind and the uncontrolled darkness that was now streaming into David, through the dagger.
And silence,
as they all, except for a disappeared David, looked upon the dagger that had just clattered to the ground, the moonlight reflecting in the blade. As she stepped closer,the sight of the dagger confirmed what Regina had already feared.
For now, the Dark One's dagger was once again engraved, bearing the name:
David Nolan
"Where did he go?" she heard Snow ask and, even in her befuddled state of mind, Regina scoffed. As if any of them knew where Snow White's precious shepherd had gone. While the rest of them talked amongst themselves, Regina slowly crouched down to take hold of the dagger. Getting back up just as slowly, eyes fixed on David's name, Regina wondered about something... But could finding the new Dark One really be that easy? One way to find out.
"Dark One, I summon thee," she said with conviction, four heads snapping up to look at her.
She heard a small whoosh behind her and felt dark magic filling the air. Apparently, it was that easy. The hairs on the back of her neck stood up and goosebumps rose on her skin.
A few resounding steps followed by warm breath at her ear. "Well, hello, Regina." Even his voice was deeper. Darker. A cold hand touched her shoulder before, "you summoned me?"
Regina's eyes snapped up to Robin, standing about three strides away from her. He didn't look like he was about to move to interfere anytime soon. Good, she didn't need him to stand in the way. Who knew what the darkness had already done to dear David. She turned around quickly, coming to stand face to face with the Dark One himself.
At first glance, it didn't seem as though he had undergone quite the drastic change in appearance, like Rumpelstiltskin had. With the clothes he had already been wearing now turned black and a little coal lining his eyes, he didn't look that much different.
The expression he wore, though, made a world of difference.
The usual open expression with friendly eyes and a kind smile were replaced with playful menace and hard eyes. Even though Regina had learned to like the soft and friendly Charming over the years, this darker version intrigued her even though it shouldn't. She had sworn off the darkness years ago.
Behind her, Regina heard Snow gasp, "David!"
No reaction. Dark One David was more interested in Regina than in his wife, it would seem. How the tables have turned...
With a wave of his hand, David—who was giving off Prince James vibes, in Regina's opinion—enveloped himself and Regina in a cloud of dark blue smoke. Before she knew it, Regina found herself away from the middle of Main Street and in a… shed?
"Where are we?" she asked David, who was now rounding her. She didn't know whether to believe if he'd really changed much in the two minutes the darkness had taken hold of him and if she should be wary of him, or if something else was going on.
"A barn," she heard him respond as he circled around her.
Despite the serious situation, Regina snorted. "A barn? Still a shepherd at heart, I see."
His blue eyes, which had darkened significantly due to what Regina was sure had to be the darkness inside of him, were flitting over her form. "Some things never change."
A few seconds of silence followed, while Regina tried to figure out if his words had a deeper meaning than being just about his status as shepherd. Shrugging the thought off, she questioned him "why did you bring me here?"
David, who had stopped his circle and stood before her again, took a step forward, invading her personal space, looking down at her lips. What was going on here? David taking in the darkness, saving Regina in the process, should be giving him torturous and homicidal tendencies, not seductive ones. Even if Dark One Charming was a seducer, he should be here seducing his wife. Not her.
"I brought you here, Regina," he said while lifting his hand up to touch her hair, fisting some of it in his hand, "because I want you. Here."
This made Regina's brow furrow and she moved her head back to be able to look at him better, him having stepped so close it was hard to see him in his entirety. She opened her mouth to speak, not knowing what exactly would come out yet, but not getting the chance to even try to formulate a response for he grabbed her jaw forcefully and kissed her right on the lips.
Regina gasped into his mouth and brought her hands up to his chest to push him away out of reflex, not being able to comprehend what was going on. Taking advantage of her open mouth, David thrust his tongue into it, skillfully making her forget about her plans to push him away as all her thoughts and reason disappeared. She felt one of his hands on her hip, gripping it tightly as his soft lips moved over hers. His lips were the only soft thing about his kiss, though.
Whether this was the darkness' doing or if this was all David, Regina didn't know as she got lost in the kiss for a minute, moving with him. Her hands on his chest now moving up to grab his shoulders, keeping him close rather than pushing him away.
When he started walking her backwards, Regina walked with him, blindly trusting him and not even thinking about separating from him and his delicious mouth. Not a thought given to the soulmate she was betraying by reciprocating this very kiss. By the time they reached the wall, though, and Regina's back hit the wood, her eyes sprung open. All of a sudden, she remembered that this was David. She was kissing David, who had just sacrificed himself for her. David, the new Dark One. She remembered that he was married. And she was spoken for, too. Now using the grip she had on his shoulders to push him back and turning her head to the side to break their kiss, she said "David, stop." It came out a lot breathier than she would have liked.
Not trying to catch her lips again, but not moving from her either, David asked "what is it?" His voice, riddled with desire, made Regina almost change her mind and lean in to kiss him again right then.
Instead, she cleared her throat and bit her lip, "what are you doing?"
David laughed under his breath, hand that had been on her jaw now moving slowly down her body until it came to rest on her hip like his other hand. Then, he grabbed both of them hard, pressing her tightly to his front and making her feel his arousal. Regina gasped, feeling the heat building in her core. "What does it feel like I'm doing, Regina?"
Suppressing a small moan, she collected herself and voiced her thoughts. "It feels like you were planning on cheating on you wife, Charming, and having me betray my soulmate."
David scoffed, flexing his hands hard enough to leave bruises on Regina's hips. "Soulmate," he growled, his face darkening. "He left you, out of duty," he mocked, "and then went ahead and fucked the woman he left you for not weeks after he was supposedly so in love with you. Knocking her up. What a soulmate that is."
Regina felt a pang in her chest. His words hit her right where it hurt the most, and somewhere inside her she agreed with him. Not that that was any excuse for their behavior. "Well, even so, you are the one that's married," she accused him. "Why are you even doing this, all of a sudden? You'd think Dark One David would want to choke the life out of the Evil Queen, not… this." She gestured between them.
David smirked, smoothing his hands over her hips and bringing one back up, caressing her throat, gently. "Well, I would certainly like to…" he wrapped his hand around her throat, putting pressure on it, leaving just enough air for her to breathe normally, "choke the Evil Queen. I'll try not to choke you to death, though. I rather enjoy you."
Regina huffed, grabbing his hand, pulling it from her throat and ducking under his arm to escape his proximity. She couldn't think clearly with him so close. When did that happen?
"Bottom line is, though," she began, walking to the only door she saw through the darkness of the room, "you shouldn't be doing this. And neither should I. Frankly I find it rather strange that you are." She turned back to look at him again, now a safe distance from him. "I came onto you, twice. And you rejected me, twice. Why the sudden change of heart?"
This time it was David's turn to huff, running a hand through his hair. (Had that darkened a shade, too? Or maybe it was just the lighting; or lack thereof.)
"Don't you see?" he asked, as if there was some obvious reason as to why he had decided that he wanted her, and not just that he wanted her, but wanted her right then. So much so that he used his newly acquired magic to transport them away from their respective partners to fuck her in some shady barn. "I didn't have a change of heart. I've wanted you all along. I've just been too loyal to Snow, too good, to act on my desire. But now? It's like the darkness finally allows me to push away my sense of guilt for wanting you and is making me see that there is not a damn thing wrong about pursuing you." He stepped closer to her again, not touching her yet. "So I'm married; I don't care about Snow. I don't give a shit about what she thinks, or how she'll feel. I'll leave her. And I care about Robin even less."
Wide-eyed, Regina tried to absorb all the information he'd just presented her with. Not being able to deal with it right now, and not knowing what she was supposed to say, she threw her hands up and transported herself away in a purple cloud of magic. Before she disappeared, she saw David reach out in an attempt to keep her there, but he grasped at air as she had already disappeared.
When she reappeared on the front steps of her home, she sighed. Something inside her told her she had just made a mistake. But how could that be, when she was listening to the reasonable voice inside her head? For years upon years she had acted on impulses, dark impulses. Never thinking of consequences. And that was evil. She knows that. She wasn't called 'The Evil Queen' for nothing. So, doing the opposite now, doing not what she felt like doing but actually thinking things through and using her moral compass (whatever was left of that, anyways), she must be doing the right thing. This is just what being good feels like. The excitement she felt earlier, being with David; evil. Her disappointment now that it was over and never happening again; good.
Taking one last deep breath, Regina prepared to open the front door, not thinking anyone would be inside the house. After all, Henry was left at the Diner with Granny and Ruby, and Robin was left in the middle of the street with Snow, Emma and Hook. She figured they'd be searching for her and David by now. Before she could open the door, though, it was done for her. From the inside. Seems someone was home, after all.
"Regina! Where have you been?! Where is David?" Robin came half running outside, bow and arrow in hand. Regina smiled. He had come back here to grab those, and come find her? He really was a sweet and good man. "Did David go dark? What is he planning? I want to go to the hospital to check on Zelena and the baby."
This made Regina do a double take, brows furrowing. So, he hadn't wanted to find her? Save her from the Dark One? Not that Regina ever needed saving. From anyone. It still would have been a nice gesture, though.
No, Robin came to her house, which he had been using as his own, to grab his weapons and defend Regina's sister, who was pregnant with his baby. Never mind Regina, who had been practically kidnapped by the Dark One. This made Regina's blood boil. Of course, she understood that Robin loved his child and felt the need to protect it. But there was no indication at all that David would want to harm Robin's child. Robin and Zelena's child, mocked the voice inside Regina's head.
She pursed her lips, saying "I don't know." She didn't elaborate or offer any information about what had happened. Just to see what he would do.
"Okay then," he said, closing the front door and walking past her before turning around to look at her again. "I'm going to go check on them. Are you coming?"
Regina's heart panged. Was he really not curious if she was okay? She took a few steps closer to her soulmate, catching his eyes and seeing the worry there. All that worry, and none of it for her. She frowned and said "no. You go. I'll see you when you get back."
That did it, and without another glance back, Robin was on his way.
For a minute, Regina stood there, on her front lawn. Not moving. Just feeling. This is what being good is bringing her? A man who doesn't even care about her wellbeing? Regina's heart ached. But not because of Robin, specifically. It was because she was alone, yet again, with no one caring for her. No one giving her the time of day. No one, except that David had. He saw her. He wanted her.
Before thinking about it too long, Regina transported herself back to the barn she had just left David at, hoping he was still there. But when purple smoke faded, all that was left was a dark and empty room. She glanced around quickly, making sure he really wasn't there, before throwing her hand up again and finding herself at the loft. She would not be discouraged now.
Lifting her hand to knock, she rethought it and brought that hand up to her hair, trying to fix the mess of dark locks. She was sure she looked wild, long hair all mussed up by the events of the evening. The wind had been strong, before, when the darkness surrounded her, and she couldn't get the tangles out with just her fingers. Settling for whatever she had been able to fix so far, she rapped on the door.
Snow answered. Regina's face fell, while Snow's lighted up. "Regina! What are you doing here? Come in! David told me you went home." Snow stepped aside to let her in, but Regina lingered at the doorstep, looking in to find David approaching.
What was she going to do? With Snow's puppy dog eyes staring at her it was almost impossible to ask to talk to David now, knowing it wasn't just talking she would be doing with the girl's husband. But glancing over at David, in his formfitting shirt and yes, darker hair, Regina made her decision. He looked too deliciously evil, too tempting.
"Actually, David, I need to talk to you for a second. Out in the hall?"
"Sure."
As soon as the door closed behind him, Regina grabbed his shirt to pull him down, got on her tiptoes and kissed him, hard. It was just a press of their lips together, while Regina walked them backwards until her back hit the brick wall in the hallway outside the loft. David moaned, finally catching on and kissing her back, while his hands started wandering down her body. First her shoulders, her arms, to her waist and down to her hips. On the way back up, he grabbed her lower arms and pinned them to the wall behind her, deepening their kiss for a minute before pulling away, towering over her.
"What are you doing here?" He asked, keeping his face close enough so that they were breathing the same air.
Regina tilted her head up, lower lip hitting his upper one, both their mouths opened as they were. He made no move to further this touch into a kiss, and Regina smirked. "What does it look like I'm doing, David?" She lifted her hips from the wall and pressed them forward against him, much in a fashion as he had earlier done to her. "I want you. Now."
David groaned, "finally," and enveloped them in a dark blue cloud again. How he had learned to control his magic so quickly, Regina didn't know or care in the moment. Least of all when she saw he had taken them straight to her home, and to her bedroom no less.
He kissed her again, not holding back and deepening it from the very first second. He did not ask for entrance to her mouth but took it as his hands rounded her body and landed on her ass. Regina heard him groan again as he squeezed the flesh a few times, clearly having wanted to do that for a while. She smiled into the kiss.
That smile turned into a yelp as David's big hands grabbed the backs of her thighs and lifted her up and against him, Regina quickly wrapping her legs around him and tightening her arms around his shoulders as he carried her to her bed.
What happened then was a flurry of desperate kisses interrupted by quick pauses in which they could remove an item of clothing. Before she knew it, Regina was on her back, wearing only her bra and panties (a nice red lace set she had originally put on for Robin. She smirked at the thought. Doing the wrong thing felt good,) with David hovering over her in only his underwear.
Because of their all-consuming kisses, Regina had not yet taken the time to appreciate the almost naked body that was so close to hers. She hadn't yet raked her nails over his deliciously toned arms or watched his muscled (but not too muscled) chest move with every labored breath he took. Now taking a little time to do so, Regina sighed happily. She didn't get much time to look at him, though, as he latched onto her neck. Kissing, sucking, biting his way down until he found a spot that made her breath hitch.
There, he focused his attention as Regina continued raking her nails over his arms, up and down, going a little further each time, until his shoulders and upper arms were painted with red lines by the time David had left a nicely shaped bruise on her neck.
David's hands slid under Regina, laying on his elbows as he was, hovering above her, with the clear intention of unclasping her bra. She arched her back to give him more space, pressing her still encased breasts to his face in the process. While still fiddling with the garment of clothing, David started licking and sucking his way across her chest, tasting her salty skin. As he finally opened the bra, and helped her get rid of it altogether, he took a moment to take her in.
There she lay, Regina Mills, rosy-cheeked, hair disheveled and make-up smudged, naked except for the underwear she was wearing. And god, it was a sight to be seen. Every part of her was a masterpiece on its own but for now her tits were just revealed to him, and he could help but lean in and take one into his mouth, his hand encasing the other, using his free arm to keep himself up as not to crush her. First, he licked his way around her nipple, seeing it harden in a combination of arousal and the cold air it had just been exposed to. "God, Regina," he groaned before taking her nipple into his mouth and sucking. He heard her hiss above him, feeling a hand in his hair, fisting some of it to keep him there. "Yes, David," Regina said as he sucked a little harder, then nipped with his teeth before soothing with his tongue.
She moaned as he switched, at first appalled that he was leaving her breast but then excited he was going for the other. He gave that one the same treatment before taking as much of it into his mouth as he could. Regina's legs wrapped around his hips, their centers brushing together through the thin layers of clothing separating them still. His hard length providing stimulation to Regina's clit as she rolled her hips against him.
"David. Fuck me."
David lifted his head from her tits, his dark blue eyes met hers; basically black in the darkness surrounding them. He leaned up and grabbed the side of her head with one hand, kissing her for a second, hard, their torsos pressed together tightly. Then he pulled away and looked down at her pussy; he could smell her arousal. "Are you wet for me, Regina?" He asked, even though he knew the answer.
Regina looked at him provokingly, "why don't you feel for yourself?"
So, watching his own fingers, he trailed his hand down to her center, drawing her panties to the side and sliding his finger all the way through her. "Hmm, you are wet," he said, gathering some of her arousal and bringing it up to face-level, licking it up with a hum. Regina watched him do it, not believing how hot it was to watch this man eat her arousal and took the back of his head to direct him closer for a kiss. She stroked her tongue over his, tasting a little of herself on him. This resulted in even more wetness pooling between her thighs.
Regina took her hand and brought it down between them to feel him. She didn't bother with his boxers as she just shoved them down as well as she could before gripping him at the base, feeling his girth for the first time. A little moan that had been stuck in the back of her throat broke free at the thought of this cock inside of her. Damn, would he feel good.
She stroked him a few times, feeling how rock hard he was for her, as he asked her "do you feel how hard I am for you, Regina?"
"Just for me?" she asked, a little breathlessly. The thought of him saying that his dick was hard just for her made her even more excited. When he confirmed "just for you," another moan escaped her throat.
"Then fuck me with that hard cock of yours, David, now."
In a flurry, David shoved and kicked his boxers off while Regina took her panties off with a little awkward movement, still laying flat on her back as she was. Then, he was on her again. One hand next to her shoulder, the other on his cock as he pressed the head to her pussy. Regina gasped at the skin on skin contact, feeling the heat coming off him. She wrapped her legs around his hips again, a little tighter to encourage him to get inside her.
Heated gazes locked, he entered her in one, slow thrust. When he was fully inside, they both moaned. "Fuck, you feel good," said David, a breathy you too following from Regina. He gave her a few slow thrusts, pulling almost all the way out before sheathing himself inside to the hilt again. Regina enjoyed this, feeling his girth and perfect length (not short but also not too long) stretch her. After those few slow thrusts, she put her nails into his shoulders and thrusted up a little harder when he brought his hips down again, telling him "faster."
And he did, going faster and harder, apparently having been holding himself back too, for he was letting out a groan at being able to speed up. Regina tilted her hips, feeling him hit her better each time he entered her again, throwing her head back. "Yes, like that," she breathed.
David lowered himself down to his forearms again and put one hand on Regina's left breast, kneading it firmly as he kept thrusting into her, building speed still. Soon, skin slapping on skin combined with their pants and moans could be heard throughout the room. "You like that, Regina?" He asked
"Mmhmh" was her only response as she focused all her energy on moving with David's every thrust. It felt good, but not yet great. "Harder," she said. He obeyed, but a few thrusts later, David slammed inside her hard, and stopped. He pulled out, and Regina whined at the loss of stimulation. Before she could say anything, though, David was on his knees between her thighs and grabbing her left leg, pushing it upward until it was pressed to her torso, holding it there by the back of her thigh. With his other hand, he helped her lift her hips as he thrust back into her again. From this angle, he hit her special spot just right and she moaned loudly.
David started snapping his hips then, fast and hard, asking her "Like that?" Bringing one hand to the headboard so as not to move up the bed too much with his hard thrusts, Regina answered "Uh-huh" with a furrowed brow, concentrating on the blissful feeling of him slamming into that perfect spot again, again, again. She brought her other hand down to rub her clit in quick little circles that matched David's pace.
On two particularly hard thrusts she screamed "David!" and "Fuck!" followed by her every breath coming out in quick ah-ah-ah's.
Trying to keep up the rhythm, David groaned loudly as he approached the edge. He didn't want to come before Regina, though, so he held back. "Think you can hold your hips up yourself?" he asked between heavy breaths. He felt her tightening her leg around him before "Y-ah, yes."
Using his last energy to thrust just that little harder, David let go of Regina's hip and brought his hand up to her throat, wrapping it around her delicate flesh and asking her "Are you close?"
"Yes!" she moaned immediately, the hard rapping of his hips kept on hitting her exactly where she needed him, and that combined with her own fingers on her clit had her right at the edge. He added a little pressure to her throat on every thrust, not really choking her but alluding to it.
"Come for me, Regina." He said, not being able to hold out much longer. He squeezed her throat a little harder, and that was all it took for Regina to see stars. She came, hard, squeezing his cock so tightly that she almost pushed him out of her entirely. It only took David one, two, three more thrusts before he slammed inside her one last time and came deep inside her, the feeling giving Regina pleasant aftershocks.
David let go of Regina's leg, letting it fall outward as he fell down to his elbows, laying his head in the crook of her neck, still inside her with one of her legs still holding him to her tightly.
"Fuck," Regina breathed.
"Fuck indeed."
"You really were serious about wanting to choke me."
After several minutes laying like this, regaining their breaths, David finally pulled out and laid beside Regina. She turned on her side to lay against him as he pulled the blankets over them, neither of them speaking as she lay in his arms. None of them knew what was going to happen come morning, but a silent agreement was made not to bring it up tonight. For now, they were taking a nap before enjoying several more rounds of each other.
And if Robin walked in on them later that night, coming home from checking on the woman pregnant with his child, he would find them still intimately wrapped up in one another. "…Regina, WHAT THE FUCK?!"