For some reason Regina rose with sun which was way too early for Emma but she still got out of bed. Regina walked her back to D block, only catching the attention of a few earlier risers.
Outside the cell door, Emma turned around and grinned up at her. Regina smiled back and kissed her sweetly on the lips, telling her she would see her at breakfast. Emma nodded her head, kissing her again and turned, walking into her cell.
August was slowly rising and was on the bed, with Henry on his chest. Not every cell was the same. Some had bunk beds and others just had one, like Regina's. When August was finally cleared to move from the Medical Wing Emma took to taking the top bunk.
August turned his head when he heard her come in.
"Where the hell have you been?" He voice still groggy from sleep.
Henry's head immediately popped up from his chest and he whined reaching out for Emma. He was woke up a while ago. Where had his mom been? Emma picked him up and he snuggled into her, sticking his hand into her top.
"I told you I was going go speak to Regina." Emma turned and grabbed Henry's blanket off of the desk, sitting on the edge of the bed near August's feet.
Henry sat up in her lap and pulled her top down, she almost didn't cover herself in time, but August was there when she gave birth, he's seen her naked.
"Yeah I thought that meant you would come back." August sat up and groaned. "When do little kids stop kicking you in their sleep?" he rubbed his side.
"Never." Emma snickered.
"Seriously, where were you?"
"Seriously, I was with Regina." Emma rolled her eyes.
August squinted his eyes at her and shook his head. Stretching as best as he could, he scooted off of the bed and as he went, he quickly sniffed Emma's hair and gasped.
"You smell like sex!" August looked at her with wide eyes. "Emma!...Emma?!"
Emma was just ignoring him. "Relax August."
"Sex! You had sex?! With who?!" August hissed.
"August-"
"Who! Emma!" he pressed. But didn't get an answer. "Was it Jefferson?"
"Ew what? Why would you ask that?" Emma cringed.
"Was it him?!"
"No! Now stop shouting!" Emma hissed.
"Then who was it?"
"Why do you need to know?!"
"Because you can't just be out having sex with people."
"It's one person August."
"The who is it? So I can kill him."
"Oh would you stop. I am not a child."
"No but you have a child."
"I can't have someone because I have a child?"
"No. You have enough to worry about."
"I really want you to stop talking right now."
"Who. Was. It."
"Regina! It was Regina!" Emma hissed.
August stopped and looked at her confused. "You're...you're gay?"
Emma rolled her eyes and sighed, "No I'm not gay August...I don't know what I am. I've just... had sex with women before."
"So you're bisexual?"
"I just like what I like August. I don't know! Geez you just couldn't leave it alone could you?" Emma huffed.
"No I couldn't. You're my sister."
"A blessing or a curse I can never figure out."
"...So...you had sex with Regina?"
"Yes."
"When did you even start liking Regina?...I thought we told each other everything."
"I do tell you everything, I just...talking about it would have given me hope and then if she didn't like me back I just... would have been crushed." Emma reasoned.
"So she likes you back? It wasn't just a quick rub and done?"
Emma cringed talking about sex with August was never not weird.
"There was no rubbing it wasn't like that...Regina is different." Emma sighed.
"Different? The fuck does that mean?" August questioned with a scrunched up face and flinched when Emma hit him.
"Language!" Emma hissed, "...And I'm only telling you so you get it. Don't go around talking about her."
"Who else would I talk to about this?" August asked.
"I don't know you have a way of running your mouth...Regina is different from other woman...she...she doesn't have what I have."
August thought about it for a minute before it dawned on him, he gasped and nodded his head understanding. Looking at Emma he smiled and patted her leg.
"Well now I have to kill her." He went to get up.
"August!" Emma tugged him back down.
"What?! I'm your brother Emma, it's my job to do these things."
"I don't need you to do anything but keep your mouth shut ok?" Emma poked his chest. "Please August...I'm serious."
August sighed and looked at his sister. "You really like her huh?"
"Yes I really do." Emma sighed and had a small smile, "she wants to date me. Like actually be with me. And I don't want you scaring her off."
"Well if she wants to be with you, she's going to have to go through me first." August scrunched his nose, "Not literally, I mean metaphorically. She's already been through you, I don't want your sloppy seconds."
"August." Emma sighed and pushed his face away.
He laughed and pushed her hand away. "Ok but seriously Emma...you're a great girl. She would be stupid not to know that and fall for you."
"You're my brother, you have to say that."
"As your brother I also have to say that if she hurts you, I will kill her. Literally! I may have a bum leg but I can still kick some as- toosh." August caught himself.
Henry came out from under the blanket and rubbed his eyes.
"And you've got a cute kid as your personal wingman. Use that to your advantage, she pretty much loves him already with the way she spoils him." August shrugged.
Emma looked down at Henry and she smiled at him as he looked back at her. Her last relationship was a total bust but she got a baby out of it. A baby that she loved and would do anything for, but if she could have had a baby by anyone else that was not a psychopath, she would not question it. Things with Regina could not go like that, that relationship literally ended up in flames.
Regina walked around the halls of the prison with a smile on her face that morning. No one could ruin her mood, well except one person.
Regina spotted Mal down the hall and instantly turned. She and the blonde woman weren't bickering anymore and there wasn't as much tension but they weren't exactly close friends either.
"Woah! Regina?!" Mal caught up to her. "Where are you going? What was that?"
"I have to go speak to the team. We may go back out today we didn't get very far yesterday."
"No I mean why did you turn away as soon as you saw me? I thought we were fine?"
"We are fine. I just need to go the other way Mal. Look I will see you later alright?"
Regina didn't wait for an answer, she just walked away. She knew it was impossible to not see Mal around the prison, but when she did she was just reminded how she wasn't good enough. True she has Emma now, but now she can only hope that she's enough for the younger woman.
Walking out to the courtyard, Regina bundled up and looked out at the weather. The sun was out but there was a breeze and the snow was going to start falling soon, meaning that they wouldn't be able to leave the prison much for runs. It was important that they stocked up on what they could.
Regina gathered everyone on the team and then sent a few hunters out to hunt some game. Walking to the greenhouse, Regina peaked her head in and saw Emma standing up on a table wiping a window clean to let the sunshine in better.
Emma heard footsteps and looked back to see Regina walking over to her table. She smiled brightly and stopped cleaning the window, squatting down she sat on the table.
"Hello there stranger." Emma smiled.
"Hello to you too beautiful." Regina walked closer until she was in between Emma's thighs.
Regina kissed her and she moaned Into it, putting her hands on the woman's shoulders. Regina reluctantly pulled back.
"I just wanted to come tell you I will see you later at dinner. Hopefully sooner." Regina pecked her lips.
"Huh? Why?" Emma question.
"The team and I are going on another run."
"But...you just went yesterday." Emma shook her head.
"Yes but that wasn't very successful, and we couldn't get around that herd. Today maybe different, Graham and I want to take a different route, see what we can find."
Emma's shoulders slumped a little bit but she still kept a small smile on her lips. Different wasn't always good.
"So I will see you when I get back?" Regina squeezed her hips.
Emma made her smile reach her eyes and then kissed Regina's lips.
"Yes. Of course you will." She pecked her lips and sighed against them when Regina wrapped her up in her arms tight. "Be Safe. Please?"
Regina looked down at her and kissed her nose. "Of course. Safety is my middle name." She joked and Emma snorted at the corniness of it. "Alright I'm going to go. They're waiting."
Emma kissed her one more time, "I'll be here."
Regina walked out of the greenhouse and Emma was still sat on the table looking down at the ground below. Every time Regina went out, through that fence there was a chance she would not come back.
Walking out to the truck, Regina got into her truck, Ruby and Mulan riding with her. Graham quickly jumped in her truck too.
"Someone switch with me Jefferson is being a complete dick." The scruffy bearded man huffed.
Ruby and Mulan both shook their heads no and Regina sighed, turning the truck on. Philip, Kristoff, and Jefferson were in the other truck like always. They waited for Felix to open the gate and when it was clear, they drove off.
During the drive, Regina was oddly humming and drumming her fingers on the wheel. Well it was odd to the other three people in the truck, usually Regina was dead quiet on these runs. Ruby looked back at Mulan and then Graham, with a baffled look on her face. The man and woman just shrugged and continued to watch Regina in amusement.
"Uuuh...Cap?" Ruby asked and got her attention.
Regina looked at her but still kept her eyes on the road. "Yes?"
"You're um...humming...you look happy."
"I am." Regina shrugged.
"You were kinda upset on the way back to base yesterday. But then you were alright."
"It's getting colder. It's unfortunate when we don't come back with anything at all." Regina nodded.
"Soooo whats got you all giddy?" Graham perked up from the back.
"I just can't be happy? I woke up this morning..." Regina shrugged.
"You've been a grump for like the last two months. Unless Henry or Emma are around." Mulan added.
"Are you and Mal finally fucking again?" Graham gasped.
"No. What? What do you mean finally?" Regina scrunched her brow up.
"When you don't get pussy, you get grumpy Cap." Graham shrugged.
"I-. I don't get grumpy and No Mal and I are not fucking." Regina huffed.
"But you're fucking someone?" Ruby asked.
"I wish you would stay out of my personal busy." Regina rolled her eyes.
"Oh please! Everyone knew you and Mal were bumpin uglies the way she draped herself all over you. Always coming out of her room or you out of hers." Graham tsked.
"Do I ask about who you fuck?" Regina groaned.
"So you are fucking someone!" Mulan chuckled.
Regina sighed and just drove, ignoring them as they talked about who was fucking who at the prison.
"You want to get busy with Emma don't you, Fa?" Ruby teased and Regina tensed up in her seat.
"Shut Up, Lucas." Mulan hissed.
"Oh you do! I knew it! I. Knew. It. You like like Emma. Oooh." Ruby started making smooching noises.
"Real Mature, Ruby." Mulan rolled her eyes.
"Wait Lannie, you like Emma?" Graham turned to her.
Mulan sighed and looked out the window, "Yeah, I mean what's not to like?"
"So, have you liked her since we saved her that day?" He asked
"I don't know, maybe. She's just...I can talk to her you know, she's always been kind to me. She's really fucking smart. And pretty..." Mulan smiled.
Regina gripped the wheel, when had Emma even been alone with Mulan?
"Emma's cute." Ruby agreed. "Her kid's cute. I will really be glad when she's finished growing all those vegetables...She doesn't come off as completely straight to me though, so you may very well have a chance. Oooh can I set you up?!" Ruby turned and smiled.
"I don't need you to set me up." Mulan laughed, "I'm not that pathetic."
"Oh come on! Everyone needs a wingman, and I'm bored. Regina doesn't need my help she's already fucking someone." Ruby chuckled.
Regina shook her head and turned the truck down a dirt road. This is the new path she and Graham wanted to take today. They had only passed some biters along so that was good. Driving across some train tracks and down the road for about 8 and miles down the road.
Finally after driving for a little, they drove over the tracks again onto a main road.
"Ok that's the highway over there...so the supercenter so be...North." Graham was in the back seat looking at the map.
Regina followed his instructions and sure enough there the Walmart Supercenter was. The parking lot was littered with abandoned vehicles and dead bodies. A few biters were limping around the lot, but other than that it was quiet, a creepy kind.
Parking the trucks, Every one got out.
"Let's siphon this cars before we check in side." Regina ordered and looked around. "Mulan. Ruby." she nodded her head and they got the hint.
Turning around they started taking down the few biters that roaming the lot. Regina and Graham started on one side and Kristoff and Jefferson took the other. They managed to fill up two five-gallon gasoline can by the time they were.
Graham loaded can into the back of the truck and Jefferson walked over with the other and handed to him. Graham sighed and quickly took the can from the other man, ignoring him.
Jefferson sucked his teeth and blocked the door to the back of the truck. Graham sighed and turned to look at the long haired man.
"What?" Graham huffed.
"Why are you mad at me?" Jefferson question and his weight on the truck.
"I'm not mad at you now can you move?"
"Really? What does look like when you are mad? Because you're avoiding me." Jefferson laughed.
Graham knew why he was mad, he liked Jefferson he has for awhile...but Jefferson slept with Victor and now Victor was walking around the prison all smug. Shaking his head, Graham pushed him away and closed the back of the trunk.
Grabbing his gun and joining the others, he, Mulan, Philip, Regina and Kristoff went to scope out the store while the other two stayed with the trucks. Kristoff walked up to window of the Supercenter and peered inside.
Regina walked over and then banged on the window, making Kristoff jump back. Immediately about five biters made their way to the front of the store. Regina tsked and looked inside behind the snarling biters in front of her.
"Think we should try the back?" Kristoff asked.
"The loading docks and back doors are bound to give us more trouble...but yes let's still try them." Regina sighed.
They all creeped around the big building, taking down a few other biters on the way.
Regina gripped her rifle tighter as they finally rounded the corner. There were a few trucks still in the back, dead bodies and blood all around then.
Regina went to walk forward but Graham stopped her.
"Regina. Wait let me go." He stepped forward.
"I'm perfectly capable of checking out a truck Graham."
"I never said you weren't. There's just a lot of bodies and blood over there. What if its rigged?" Graham pointed out.
"Then you definitely aren't going over there by yourself." Regina scuffed.
Regina moved forward, stepping around the bodies keeping her eyes sharp for any movement from them. Creeping up to the back of the big white truck, Kristoff banged his gun on the side of the truck and they waited in silence.
Movement from inside could be heard, and a lot of it.
"Open it." Regina ordered and Kristoff stepped over the bodies.
Gripping the lock on the back, Kristoff pulled and back and quickly yanked the door up. Getting a hold of his gun quickly and backing up, Kristoff aimed at the biters slowly limping out of the back of the truck.
"Don't shoot!" Regina ordered but they all stayed at the ready, guns aimed at the truck.
There were tons of biters coming out the back of the truck, stepping down and falling to the ground. Their bodies slapped against the pavement and blood started to splatter. One by one they all piled up onto each other, a few of them hit there heads and others just continued to be buried in the pile. The numbers in the truck started to slack up, until finally the last one fell and rolled off of the top of the pile.
Taking their knifes and taking down any of the biters that dared to get up, they kind of worked up a sweat. Looking into the back of the truck, they could all see the door open to the store. Regina smiled and they all climbed up into the truck, gagging at the heated smell.
"Silencers on. Watch your step and move fast." Regina ordered and pushed her rifle against her shoulder.
