It's been a long day and all Regina wants to do is kiss her little boy goodnight, shower, and go to bed.
Regina sighs as she walks to her apartment door. She hopes that Henry isn't hyped up on candy. Emma has a tendency to act as if she forgets that Henry has a bedtime and shouldn't have snacks after a certain time.
Regina pushes the door open and is greeted by silence. At first she's confused until she walks further into the apartment and see two of her favorite people sound asleep.
Flashback
"Pregnant?"
"Yes."
"How?"
Yes Emma knows how sex works but up into few minutes ago, she could have swore that Regina was a virgin like her.
"Emma." Regina sighs.
Emma knows that sigh. That sigh means Regina is frustrated. But Emma doesn't care about that right now.
Not when she just found out her best friend is pregnant or might be pregnant.
"Are you sure? When did you..."
She feels the blood rushing to her head. Everything feels like it's closing in on her. They've been best friends since 2nd grade. As far as Emma knew, they told each other everything. But in just a few words their friendship has been rocked. Emma's world has been rocked.
Emma watches as Regina bites on her bottom lip. A clear sign that she's nervous.
"Tell me." Emma pleads.
"I haven't went to the doctor yet but I've taken test. I'm around four weeks."
Emma opens her mouth to ask the question when again but Regina admits to being four weeks and she kind of gets a time frame. Four weeks ago, hell even six weeks ago they weren't on the best of terms. Regina was acting weird. Not wanting to hanging and just being distant. Now Emma knows why.
"Was it..." Emma palms start to sweat. "Was it with Robin?"
Regina nods.
"You told me you were done seeing him. You said that months ago, Regina."
"I did." Regina sighs again. "This isn't about that though, this is me needing you. I need you Emma. I'm so scared. You know my mom. She's going to freak out."
Emma just watches as Regina has a break down. She's too busy having her own. Regina's been lying to her for weeks.
"Are you sure?" She ask again.
Here comes that sigh again. "Yes. All three of the test came back positive. I'm going to the clinch Monday to confirm. I want you to come with me."
"Test? When did you take the test?"
"Ruby bought them for me a few days ago." Emma flinches when she hears their other best friend name.
"Ruby knows?" Emma even hears the hurt in her own voice.
She's not mad at Ruby for keeping this from her or Regina for telling Ruby. She's hurt because Regina didn't come to her first. Regina didn't trust her to help at all. Yeah Ruby's their best friend but she's always thought that her and Regina were closer. They've known each other longer. Emma guesses she was wrong.
Emma backs up when Regina tries to step closer. "Emma please. I've just been in denial and afraid and I needed someone to buy the test and..."
"You could have come to me!" Emma explodes. "Instead you've been lying to my face!"
"I have not!"
"Right. Because you didn't tell me that you broke up with Robin but somehow you seem to now be carrying his baby!" Emma snares.
"It was just sex!" Regina cries. "Emma please. I didn't lie. We weren't even dating when we did it. I w..."
"And then you go get Ruby to help you and not even think about telling me." Emma huffs. "Make sense though. You've basically been telling me to fuck off for weeks now."
"I have not!" Regina ignores Emma's hands that are trying to keep her away. She grabs a hand and tug Emma into her arms. "You are my best friend. I love you. You know that."
They stand quietly in each other's arms for a few minutes before Emma pulls away.
"I have to go."
"What?" Regina's face fall.
"I'll call you."
Emma rushes out of the door before Regina can get another word out.
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"I'm sure she'll be back." Ruby says to the crying teen. "You know how sensitive Emma can be."
"She was so mad." Regina sniffles. "I messed up. She hates me."
Ruby rolls her eyes. Regina and Emma rarely fought but when they did, boy could they be dramatic.
"Just give her some time. You did unload a lot onto her."
Regina curls into herself and allows Ruby to rub her back. She knows that she really did upset Emma. First she blew her off for a couple of weeks and then announce out of nowhere that she's pregnant.
Regina cries into Ruby's shoulders until she falls asleep. When she wakes its to the sound of someone knocking at her bedroom door. She glances around the room to see she's alone. Ruby must have left after she fell asleep.
Regina quickly checks herself over in the mirror before answering the door.
"Hey." She breathes out when she sees Emma standing on the other side of the door.
"What time is your appointment?"
Regina's eyes go wide before she pulls Emma into her bedroom and shuts the door. She cant risk her mom finding out.
"Keep your voice down." She hisses in fear.
Regina relaxes when Emma doesn't argue but instead ask about the appointment again before sitting in her desk chair.
"It's at 3:30pm. I'm going to skip debate and go right after school. "
Emma nods.
"I'm so fucking pissed at you."
"I know."
"No more lying."
"I'm sorry."
"I want to know everything, Regina."
"I'll tell you." Regina rushes out. She moves over to kneel in front of Emma.
Regina let's out a sob when Emma reaches out to run her fingers through her hair.
"It's okay. I'm here."
End of flashback
Regina looks back at the futon with a fond but sad smile. Emma has been home for a month now and Regina has loved every minute of it.
Regina and Emma's relationship has been through a lot over the past few years. While Emma had been there physically through the pregnancy, emotionally she was closed off. Before they would talk about any and everything without a care in the world but as time went on Regina noticed that Emma would keep things to herself more often then not. The blonde would only talk to her if Regina somehow found something out and made her talk about it.
That's why this scene was so hard to take in.
Emma and Henry cuddled on the couch. This is something she recently thought she would never get to see. Regina had been trying to put distance between herself in Emma even before the blonde went of to college. Not because she doesn't care about Emma but because she cares too much.
Emma had been talking about staying in town and going to school or going to Boston so she would be closer. Emma wanted to be around to help take care of Henry. Emma knew first hand how bad Regina's home life was. Even becoming a grandma didn't soften Cora Mills up. And Emma wanted to stay in town and get a job to help Regina move out. But Regina wasn't having any of that. Emma had worked hard to get into her dream school. Their dream school. And while Regina's plans had changed, that didn't mean Emma's had to.
So most of the summer between the girls graduating high school and Emma leaving for college was spent with them arguing. Regina refused to let Emma change up her whole life just because she became pregnant. So when Emma went away to school they didn't talk as much. Regina wanted Emma to enjoy her freshman year. But when Emma came home for thanksgiving she couldn't stay away. They fought and made up but still had a strain on their relationship. Regina's just glade to see that their problems didn't affect Emma's relationship with Henry.
Regina would miss Emma something awful when it came time for the blonde to leave again. These past few weeks it has been so easy to ignore and momentarily forget all the things they need to talk about and just be happy. She knows it won't last.
Regina sighs and decides to leave them be for the moment. After going through her nightly routine, Regina removes Henry from Emma's hold and tucks him into his bed. Emma is awake and sitting up when she goes back into the living room.
"Hey." She's greeted with a sleepy smile from Emma.
"Hey yourself." Regina walks over to cuddle up next to the blonde. "Are you staying the night?"
Emma just gives her a look. Regina laughs. She don't know why she even bothered asking. Emma has spent most of her nights in the little apartment. Regina wonders how the Charmings are feeling about her and Henry taking up so much of Emma's time.
"Wanna watch a movie?"
Regina rolls her eyes. "You're half asleep as it is, Em."
"I'm fine." Emma grabs the remote to turn on Netflix.
Regina's not even surprised when not even fifteen minutes into the movie, Emma head lands on her shoulder. The blonde softly snoring.
"Night princess." Regina presses a kiss to Emma's head and continues to watch the movie.
As usually, in the morning neither one mentions how they woke up in each other's arms.
TBC