The days following after the ball, telling Mal had slipped her mind. Cora, Her mother, and Hestia had knighted her. In front of the whole kingdom. The happiness she had coursing through her body couldn't be dampened. She was finally following her father in their official armor but she was reveling in not only that but not having to hold herself back from Regina. Being able to hold her every night again. But being able to kiss her, that was truly heaven. They did this whenever they were by themselves, not wanting to expose it yet with the fuss they knew they'd get, but also they wanted to focus on Mal, spending as much time with her as they could before she left.
Mal had been just as confused when she met Roni. At first, she had thought it was Regina. They were all meeting for breakfast the day after the ball. Merida, Tink, Elsa, and Roni had all come down from their rooms to meet with them and the rest of the family to get acquainted. Emma and the rest of them had snickered when Mal came into the room, she had leaned down and kissed Roni's head before sitting down next to her. Clearly still waking up she looked up to see all attention on her, but most importantly, she saw Regina sitting next to Emma on the other side of the table in front of her. She turned her head to see what brunette head she had just kissed and came face to face with Roni.
She ended up doing a double-take, opening and closing her mouth as her sleepy mind was still waking up and trying to process this new information. The rest of them had lost it, all laughing around the table but as Roni smirked, when they finally locked eyes, Mal looked confused as Roni's smirk dropped. She cleared her throat and reached out her hand. Everyone calmed down enough to allow the introduction to be heard.
"Sorry we are just meeting now, but I'm Roni. How I didn't see you last night at the ball is unknown to me." She smiled
Regina raised her eyebrows at the clear flirting. "Is that how she greets everyone?" she asked Emma.
Emma chuckled, "No, I've seen her greet people normally, though I've noticed she has a thing for blondes." she winked
Regina gave her a glare and a nudge, knowing the joke she was getting at. Clearly not finding the humor in it, but chuckled at her loves giggling.
Mal reached out, "I'm Mal, why do you look like Regina?"
"I have found that everywhere in the world, someone has a doppelganger. It just so happens Regina is mine and Emma found me in Dunbroch."
Mal looked to Emma for confirmation and at the blondes nod, she looked to Roni, "Well I welcome you to our kingdom. Any friend of my sisters is a friend of mine."
After that, the conversation around the table had flowed, all asking about everyone's night, adventures, and other kingdoms. Emma watched as Roni kept glancing at Mal and kept most of her conversation with her. Watching as Mal's expression was still one of confusion, and she couldn't tell if it was one of still trying to comprehend the doppelganger notion or of something else.
Throughout the week as she went throughout her duties she was glad to see the look-alikes strolling together or horsing riding together, knowing that was something they had in common. But what surprised her the most was during the times she stayed with Regina in her lessons, staying close to her love, she would look out the window to see Mal strolling with Roni. Roni actually looked girlish and smiley around the dragon. While Mal still had a conflicted look about her.
When the day had come, it resembled the day Emma left for hers except for a few added members
They all gathered at the front of the castle. Though this time, they didn't have horses, being dragons, they could cover more ground and just carry their bags in their claws as they flew to each kingdom and clans.
The wolfpack, Mals flying pack, and the Dunbrochs all gathered around to say goodbye. Emma's pack was always around more often than Mals so they had grown closer to the dragon, considering her one of their sisters as well. Emma was glad for that, it showed Mal she had more than just one family to rely on.
After being given little tokens and gifts to take with her, she loaded them into her carrying bag and the packs left, hugging her goodbye once more before they were off. It left just Emma, Regina and Roni.
Regina walked up first, hugging her and giving her the necklace they agreed on for her. A wolf tooth with a design of protection symbols engraved in it with a dragon's head at the top. A sign of all three of them, to keep them connected. They said a few hushed words they Emma tuned out to give them privacy until she saw them hug one last time.
Roni then walked up, another bout of hushed words was said. A few smiles, a few laughs, and finally they hugged. Surprisingly fast friends, they hugged tightly. Emma looked on curiously as Roni placed a hand on the back of the blonde's head to whisper something in the woman's ear before they pulled back. A few nods and Roni brushed a hand down Emma's shoulder to tell her she was next and walked away with Regina.
She walked up and smiled at the other blonde
"What no gift?" Mal teased as they wrapped each other in a hug
"Regina and I went halfsies on the necklace, deciding it would keep all three of us together, she enchanted it to be like your bracelet you gave me. Speak into it and we can hear you, if you need us we'll be there, but if you just touch it, you can feel us. Our love for you." she nodded to it
"Ugh, Swan why do you have to get me all choked up." She laughed
"To remind you that we care about you so that you stay safe out there. Get yourself a lover maybe so we can tease you when getting back and plan the wedding." She winked
"I don't think you'll have to worry about me bringing someone back." she smiled hesitantly
"Ooh well I have seen how close you and Roni got real quick." she smiled
"Oh no, I like her, but not like that. She is like a mix of Regina and you though." she laughed
"Oh well then I'm sure you'll find someone out there." she laughed
Mal looked over Emma's shoulder to see Regina and Roni preoccupied with her Uncle, talking to him to let the blondes say their goodbyes
"I love her Em. Regina, and I mean more than just a sister bond." Mal admitted
Emma stopped laughing
"Em, please take care of her. She was finicky when you were gone. Barely slept, I don't want her to be like that with me." she looked at her pleadingly
"I will." Emma reached out to hold her forearm, to connect their tattoos as they did whenever they said goodbye. Mal looked at her with such relief,
"And you don't have too much fun with Roni, that was the one you kissed right? Don't want to come back to find out I'm about to be an aunt." Mal winked to break the seriousness as always.
Emma sighed
"Mal.." She started, but she was interrupted by Mals uncle Blaise
"Mallory, come on, we have to reach the first village before sundown, we have to help them with their chores to stay tonight." He shouted for her in his deep booming voice
Mal groaned, "Yay more chores."
She nodded to Emma and started stripping to morph.
She threw her clothes in her bag and kissed both Emma, Regina, and even Roni on the cheeks, lingering on Regina for a fraction longer before she waved to them and shifted to catch up with her uncle who had already shifted and was waiting on her.
She looked back, tilting her head in wonder at Roni again before nodding to them as they both flew off to their first destination.
Emma let out a breath and guided the look-alikes back inside the castle for lunch
A week after, Merida, Tink, and Elsa had gone on the pack run with Emma, connecting them to the rest of her pack. They proved to be as entertaining as Ruby when they all knew their thoughts were private to them. It became a new normal to have Emma start chuckling out of nowhere as Merida and Ruby started bantering back and forth with their mates trying to control them. They spent their days keeping busy. The Donbrochs had decided to stay for longer, hearing that their kingdom was still calm and good for it. They helped start building new homes for newly mated wolves. Including Ruby and Belle. They even began making extra homes for the Dunbrochs since they wanted to visit as often as they could but without the hassle of staying in the castle, even if Regina and her family had insisted it was no trouble. Emmas room had become Roni's though since Cora had taken the girl under her wing as well. Saying that she had no problem becoming a mother figure to her since Roni's was evil and just wanted her to be happy instead of using her for kingdom gain.
"You look like my daughter and act like the ones I consider my own, I might as well just consider you Reginas lost twin," Cora said
Cora had begun having her in lessons along with Regina to help cover magic Roni hadn't learned along with showing her the love her mother never had.
Many nights they were found in the library discussing their lives. Regina had grown closer with her as well since she had joined in her mother's library talks, even Regina began considering the woman as another sibling as she heard her story and grew closer to her.
Emma spent most of that time training with fellow knights or following behind her mother or father. Some days she would appoint herself as Regina's personal guard and follow her to court council meetings and magic lessons with Rumple as her seventh sense had finally come in with Emma's arrival home. Even she began joining in the library for the "Mama C talks" as she would call it.
Each lesson Emma joined in on, their Godfather would smirk at Regina, knowing of the two and why her magic finally started cooperating. She knew he knew, he loved to tease. He made sure every day to make one of them blush or to tag team with Emma in torturing Regina
Their lunch was done by the lake every day where Emma would steal her from lessons, having a picnic already set up for them. They would eat and then spend the rest of the time cuddled together on the grass talking and sharing kisses or going for swims under the hot sun.
One day, weeks after Mals' departure, they were doing just that.
They had just gone for a swim, the summer sun blazing down on them from the cloudless sky, they sat on their blanket on the grass, drying out as they cuddled side by side together and kissed
Regina pulled back slightly, just to look at her loves face, to stroke a cheekbone with her thumb
She smiled when Emma took a few seconds to open her eyes like she always did when they kissed.
"What?" Emma smiled
"You're so beautiful." She whispered
"Eye of the beholder." Emma grinned as Regina playfully smacked her
"Please you turn many heads when you walk around town."
"As do you my love." she picked up Regina's hand from her face and kissed her palm
"Doesn't matter." Regina shrugged
"I beg to differ, you make people fall in love with you at just a glance upon your face."
"But why would it matter when the only one I want is you," she asked
Emma beamed as her hands traced the tan skin beneath her "then that's the only thing that does matter."
She leaned down and pressed a kiss into plump lips, sighing in relief as if it was torture just to be away from them for a minute.
Regina pressed back just as hard, shifting until her back was laid on the grass and she pulled Emma down with her.
Emma pulled back, looking into Regina's eyes and feeling her hands pulling her to lay on top of her.
The blonde made sure to hold herself up, they usually ended up like this with their make-out session. Their hands trailing over the skin, hands landing on breasts, and pulling out a moan or groan. Just ways of mapping out each other's bodies. That's usually when they stopped, knowing the moan was at a point of no return. It was when Emma palmed one of her breasts and kissed her neck, Regina sounded a moan. And when Emma went to pull back, Regina held her hand that was still there.
Emma looked up, surprised, and into golden eyes, filled with love and lust glowing back at her.
"Regina, wha-"
"Keep going." She said
"Are you sure?" Emma panted
Regina nodded frantically, "I love you."
"I love you too." She nodded back and laid gently between her legs, holding her upper body up.
She looked down and trailed her fingers along her chest. Feather-light causing goosebumps to erupt on tan skin.
She looked up to Regina biting her lip and reached up, cupping her chin and gently pulling the lip out with her thumb. Caressing her cheek, her eyes scanning her face as she smiled, memorizing this moment and the way Regina looked, "Breathtaking." she whispered and leaned in to softly kiss her.
She traced Regina's bottom lip, requesting access, which she instantly granted.
As soon as their tongues rubbed together, Regina let out a moan and ran her hands up and down Emmas back, feeling her warm skin and her abs contracting under her touch. Emma groaned. Since they had started going for swims again, Regina had insisted not to get their clothes wet or bring replacements, to just swim in the nude. It was only them there and had already seen each other naked, so there were no worries.
She was thanking whatever guardian watching over her that they decided to do that and laid fully down against her girlfriend.
Regina moaned again, louder than the last and it was music to her ears. Emma moved down and started kissing and nipping softly on her neck
"Emma?" She asked breathlessly
"Hmm?"
"Touch me," she whispered
Emma came up from her neck and looked at her, "Baby I am touching you."
Regina shook her head, grabbing the blonde's hand from her waist and slowly brought it down to between her legs. They both moaned at the wetness they found there
Regina wrapped her hand around the back of her neck and kissed her deeply
"It's okay Emma,"
She gasped when Emma looked back up at her and saw her eyes dilated. Emma nodded.
" You're absolutely perfect Regina, you're a goddess"
She smiled and leaned up to Emma and connected her lips with hers, biting and sucking at her bottom lip, making her moan.
"I'm not going to break Emma. You don't have to hold back. I can see you are."
Regina leaned back and Emma nodded. She leaned down to start kissing her neck. Emma would bite and suck and then soothe the pain with her tongue. She reached her pulse point making Regina moan as she sucked the flesh between her teeth, making sure to not fully bite her with a mating mark but to have some sort of mark showing she was hers.
"Mine" she growled into her neck, as the bruise already started turning purple, making Regina laugh
"Only yours my love"
She gasped as the hand still between her legs began circling her clit. Alternating between that and spread the wetness within her folds.
As she did this, Emma then kissed and sucked on her collarbone and down to her breasts, taking a nipple into her mouth and sucking it.
Regina gasped and grabbed the back of her head, pulling her closer. She let go of it with a 'pop' and then moved to the second , giving it the same attention and then kissed a path down her stomach and towards her core.
Emma moved between her thighs, spreading her open and looking as she could see Regina practically leaking. She inhaled and her scent just turned her on even more. She groaned, gripping the thighs around her to keep her grounded.
"Can I?" She looked up to Regina for permission
Regina smiled and nodded, reaching up and pulling her in to kiss her before allowing the blonde to slide back down to put her head between her legs
Emma could smell the arousal and it made her mouth water. She locked eyes with Regina and licked up her slit.
Regina gasped at the intrusion as Emma moaned at her taste. Musky and tangy. She swallowed thickly and lick her lips unconsciously, running her hands around Regina's inner thigh.
"Oh my Goddess"
"Wha-?" but she was cut off by her own moan when Emma lunged forward again and took her clit into her mouth and started sucking
She tangled her hands in blonde her while her hips bucked, making Emma have to wrap her arm around her to hold her down. It was slow but passionate. Regina could feel the heat in her stomach and her legs already starting to shake
"Oh, my Gods….Emma…... ah." she moaned. Emma slid her hand up her stomach and Regina took the hand, intertwining their fingers. She licked her from top to bottom and plunged her tongue into her, to get from the source. She just wanted more, making sure to keep Regina going as she quenches her thirst for this woman. She used her thumb to reach up and press on the witch's clit as she curled her tongue within her.
"Emma!" Regina screamed as she came. Emma moaned drinking up every last drop she could get before Regina pulled her hair to come up. She slid up her body, leaving kisses on the skin as she traveled until finally she reached her lips and kissed her deeply. They both moaned as their tongues met, Regina tasting herself on Emma.
She let her heartbeat rest and her breathing go back to normal before she let her hands start to wander across the ivory skin above her.
When she slid her hands down to the plump firm flesh, she squeezed and pulled Emma harder against her.
She giggled hearing the moan mixed growl the blonde let out with the action.
Green eyes snapped open, mirth swirling inside them with a hint of mischief. "What are you laughing at?"
Regina shrugged, "Just the thought that I can bring the animal out in you does well for my ego."
"Hmm well I'll just have to boost my own ego when I have you screaming my name again. Especially since I can promise you that I could spend the rest of my life between your legs as my only source of sustenance." she purred
The witch bit her lip at the thought causing Emma to chuckle as she leaned down, pulling her bottom lip back out with her teeth so she could suck it into her mouth. She thrust her hips forward at the same time, rubbing their sexes together and causing a groan to emerge from beneath her
She smirked and did it again, rotating her hips in a continuous rhythm, unable to hold a moan from her own lips any longer.
As they rocked together, Regina dug her nails into Emma's backside as they moaned together, pulling her harder against her to create more pressure on their clits.
The sting of her nails and the sounds coming out from beneath her, only fueled the flame within the wolf as she started speeding up, thrusting harder and faster with every movement.
As Regina climaxed, she reached her hands to her pale back and dragged her nails down, leaving red trails that were her own show of claim and what lead to Emma's undoing, pushing her over the edge with a "Regina!" ringing from her lips.
Emma stayed on top of her as she collapsed. The aftershocks still running through her even as she shifted down to wrap her arms around Reginas' lower back and use her breasts as pillows. Kissing at them while regulating their breathing.
They laid in peace, listening to the nature around them until Regina was the one to break it
"Who was screaming whose name?" She teased
Emma stopped her kissing and instead nipped the flesh. Smiling at the yelp that turned to the genuine laughter she knew would always be a highlight to her days for the rest of her life.