Author's Note: I am back guys and girls! I should have updated this chapter two weeks ago but a lot of stuff happened. Anyway, my updates should be more frequent as I am finally on my summer break and I plan on finishing this story before it ends, well I'm going to try. I know I said in my previous chapter that this chapter will have happy swanqueen moments, I changed my mind lol that will be in my next chapter I promise. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Emma's POV:
Entering the mansion, I call out Regina's name making my presence known. She doesn't respond yet I know she heard me, still clearly mad at me. I Make my way to the kitchen knowing she is there due to my heightened senses.
Walking into the kitchen she has her back towards me making it clear she was ignoring me. I hate when she does this, when she decides to cut me off and refuses to speak to me. Her silent treatment is the worst because they last forever, well maybe not forever but it might as well be.
Walking up to her, standing directly behind her I turn her around so she was facing me. Taking hold of her bruised arm I inspect it seeing the damage I have caused. It has gotten worse in the small time frame of being in her vault and now. Sinking my teeth into my wrist I lift my wrist towards her mouth to erase the damage I've caused. That's how this works, I drink from her but I erase any damage I have caused. That is the only reason I allow myself to do this because I can almost pretend what I'm doing doesn't hurt her. The need to remove her pain beings to creep up with force and it suddenly becomes the only thing I can think about. I just need her to be safe, to be OK.
However, she refuses to drink from me and I can't help the hurt and shocked expression that appears on my face. She hasn't refused to drink from me ever since the first time she did due to the fear of creating a blood bond, but once we got passed that she has never refused to drink from me again until today. Pushing my wrist away she walks away from me, however without thinking I grab hold of her uninjured arm to stop her in her tracks.
"Let go of me"
"Come on Regina, don't be like this"
"Miss Swan, I won't ask you again"
Why does she always do that?
"Back to Miss Swan again? I thought we were over this, I thought we were friends?"
"Clearly not as a friend wouldn't threaten to leave Storybook knowing they would be leaving their family behind"
Mentally smiling knowing she considers me to be a part of her family, our family.
"Regina I didn't threaten to leave town"
"So what do you call what you said a few minutes ago?"
"It's just an option I have to consider"
"You wouldn't have it as an 'option to consider' if you just trusted me, obviously you don't"
"I do trust you Regina"
"You don't! If you did you wouldn't fight me every time you think I'm 'hurt'"
"Regina do you not see your arm?! I did that, I hurt you!"
"You know what Emma, if you want to leave then leave because I'm sick and tired of having this continuous argument with you"
Forcefully pulling her arm out of my hand she storms off into the foyer, and I follow behind her.
"Well if I'm going to leave town let me at least heal you before I go"
"No"
A frustrated growl escapes my mouth. Doesn't she understand this will keep both her and Henry safe, that this will keep everyone safe. Plus, I don't even know if I'm actually going to leave town yet.
"Regina"
She continues to ignore me making her way to the stairs.
"Regina let me just heal you"
Stopping at the base of the stairs she turns around to give me one of her signature glares.
"Are you leaving Storybook?"
"I don't know"
"Then I don't know if I want you to heal me"
My next words cause her to halt.
"Come on Regina this is stupid and childish, the kitchen towel will not stop the bleeding let me just heal you"
"Oh so I'm the stupid and childish one"
She struts towards me fire in her eyes not stopping until her face was only inches away from my own, I couldn't help but go back to the time when we were this close outside the mines.
"What do you call leaving Storybook with a curse you don't understand? You don't even know if the curse will be gone when you leave. For all you know you could just be taking this curse into the real world as you like to call it, but I'm the stupid and childish one. You are the one who is cursed Emma because of your stupid impulsive actions not me!"
Every word she says her heartbeat quickens as the vain on her forehead slowly beings to appear.
She is right I'm in this position because of my stupid actions but it doesn't mean she should suffer because of them.
"Regina you know I didn't mean it like that"
She lets out a frustrated sigh running her fingers through her hair, taking a few steps back to put some distance between us. All the fire in her eyes now gone only disappointment and sadness left behind.
"You keep saying we're friends but you don't even trust me to help you"
"If I agree to stay in Storybook will you let me heal you?"
"No" She turns to make her way up the stairs but once again I follow behind her grabbing hold of her arm.
"Then what do I have to do?!"
"Just trust me! That is all I ask Emma, is that so hard to do?!"
I don't respond and I see the clear hurt on her face because of this.
She made her way up the rest of the stairs before I heard her bedroom door slam shut.
I know I've made our current situation worse. It's not that I don't trust her I do, with my life. I don't know why I didn't respond, I just didn't.
Sighing, I slowly make my way up the stairs dreading what's to come. I know I can't just leave things the way they are but it doesn't mean I'm ready for another screaming match.
I knock on her bedroom door however, she refuses to answer so I persist and knock again.
"Go away"
Mentally roll my eyes, who thought I would see the day where Regina Mills acts anything but adult like, If I wasn't in this current position I would almost find it amusing.
"I'm coming in"
Entering the room, she is sited at her dressing table inspecting her now bandaged arm.
"Clearly you don't understand simple English"
"Regina I don't want to argue with you"
"Yet you always seem to pick a fight with me"
"I'm not trying to pick a fight with you"
"Emma please leave"
"No"
"Why?!"
"Because I'm not just going to sit back and watch you bleed to death Regina!"
"Why do you even care?"
"Are you being serious right now?!"
I wait for her to respond but she doesn't she just continues to looks at her arm.
"Is it always going to be like this because doing this is tiring" She whispers out minutes later.
"I can't keep doing this with you Emma, I won't. If you chose not to trust me"
"I do"
"Let me finish. If you chose not to trust me I will understand, I mean I'm the Evil Queen so of course you wouldn't want to trust me. I don't even know why I would expect you to trust me"
"I don't care that you were the Evil Queen your just Regina to me"
To further express my point, I kneel down in front of her taking her hands into my own. She refuses to look at me, only choosing to look down at our joint hands.
Slowly detangling our hands, I gently run my fingers over the side of her face, angling her so she was now looking at me.
"I trust you Regina but it's not you I don't trust it's me"
"You sound like you're getting ready to break up with me"
A small smile appears on her face and I can't help but mirror it.
"Trust me if we were dating I would not break up with you"
She shyly turns her head away from me bringing her bottom lip between her teeth.
Clearing her throat, she tries to hide the smile that began to appear on her face and my smile widens at the idea that I can cause her to react this way.
For the second time today I bite into my wrist and slowly offer it to her but she shakes her head in refusal. Taking a deep breath and releasing it through my nose to calm my anger and irritation.
"Are you leaving Storybook?"
"No"
"Are you just saying that to get me to drink from you?"
"No"
She looks at me and I know she is looking to see if I'm lying, she must have seen that I wasn't as she brought my wrist to her mouth. She looks at me as she slowly licked at the blood that had run down my wrist. Fighting back a moan as she does this, she began to suck at the wound I created. My breath quickens at her actions and I feel my core being to pulse, God it is taking me everything to not put her bed to good use.
Pulling away a few moments later she uses her thumb to wipe the trail of blood that had leaked down the corner of her mouth. Bringing the thumb to her mouth she slowly sucks of the remaining blood, slightly tiling her head back as she let out a small moan. After that I snapped, standing up at an inhuman speed bring her with me I lift her up holding her by her thighs. She gasped at my actions, not giving her time to think or respond I place her on the dressing table creating enough space for me in between her legs. I sink my teeth into her neck and as I do so her finger nails dig into my arms and my name escapes her mouth.
I touch her everywhere, her legs, arms, her back, anywhere my fingers could reach. Fingering my hands into her dark locks I tilt her head to the side so her neck was more exposed to my wanting mouth. It's times like this that made me wish she had on one of her skin tight skirts that leave little to imagine or a skin tight dress that hugged all her curves in the best way possible.
It took everything within me to pull away. Both of our breathing was ragged and I watch as her chest moved up and down at a rapid speed. Her eyes were dilated, almost black with lust, her arousal slowly engulfing my senses. There's no one here to disrupt us this time, she not telling me to stop this time, but I also know that is not an invitation for me to continue so I take a few steps back.
Shocked that for once it is me who was able to pull away as difficult as it was, I don't want her to do something she will regret or for her to turn around and say it was a mistake.
Trying not to lose myself control I try and focus on anything but her and how delicious she looks right now. Hair mused, her neck on display her cloths crinkled, God I want to kiss her so bad.
I watch as the new bite I created began to slowly close up, the blood I previously gave her clearly still in her system. A small part of me is thankful because I don't know what I would have done if she had to drink from me again.
Sliding off the dressing table she tried to fix her mused hair and crinkled cloths.
"Thank you" She whispered out as she ran her fingers over her healed arm.
I just nod in response not trusting my voice.
"So hmm. I think⦠I think we should stop looking for ways to break this curse"
"What?"
I'm sure my confusion is clear on my face, wasn't she just talking about me trusting her to break this curse a few minutes ago? What happened in the space of then and now, why would she even say something like that?
"Just hear me out"
I give her a look telling her to continue, because if she couldn't tell I clearly have no idea where she is going with this. If there was any way to remove my current desire this is definitely the way.
"If what just transpired showed us anything, as much as I hate to say this or admit it If we don't find a way to break this curse you will be like this for the rest of your life. Now this is not me saying I won't find a cure or I am giving up, but we need to be prepared for if I can't break this curse. Plus, I feel like me being so hell bent on trying to find a cure just only encourages you to believe you're a monster which you are not"
"What your said sounds a lot like giving up, you're really sending me mixed signals right now Regina"
"What I'm saying is we should focus on you gaining some control over your hunger for human blood. Like you said you can't stay cooped up in here forever at some point you will have to live your life as you once did, and that means going to work and interacting with people. We have to prepare for another situation like the one you had with Hook the other night.
"I don't understand"
"You will, I just need you to trust me. Me decided to stop looking for a cure for a while is not me giving up. I can't keep having you doubt yourself, yes I do believe we will break this curse eventually but it wouldn't be wise if I didn't prepare for if we couldn't. Also, you will always remain a werewolf Emma whether you like it or not, you need to accept this is who you are now. You should not be ashamed of who you are, it's not healthy Emma"
"And how do you plan to do this, to get me to control my hunger and for me to accept who I am now"
"I can't make you accept who you are Emma that is something you have to do on your own, I can help you but I can't do it for you. In regards to control over the blood I think you should drink one drop of someone else's blood who is not mine every day. It will hurt but not as much as you drinking half a bag of someone else blood"
"But I don't want to live forever Regina, I don't want to accept this is what I am, I want to break this curse"
"We will I'll make sure of that but I need for you to let me worry about that and I need you to focus on accepting yourself. That is the only way we are going to be able to get through this curse"
"I don't know if I can do that Regina"
"I'm just asking you to try Emma. I promise once you do you will see yourself the way I see you"
"I can try but I don't know if that will achieve anything"
"Well as long as you try that is all I ask"
I just want to change the subject this Hybrid thing is so draining. Only moments ago I was angry because she refused my blood, then I was aroused, now I'm irritated because she wants me to start accepting this curse.
"So the Hook situation, it shows our blood bond is getting stronger right?"
"Yes"
"What did you feel when it happened?"
"Why?"
"I'm just curious, I know you were asleep when it happened when I left"
"As soon as you left I didn't feel at peace. Something was telling me something was wrong and I had to wake up and find you as soon as possible so I did. The feeling wouldn't leave until I did.
"Do you feel this way whenever I'm not close to you?"
"I feel uneasy yes. The reason you may always feel the need to be around me is because of the blood bond"
"Is that why you were angry when I said I would leave storybook? That you would feel as if your missing something"
"No"
I just nod in response.
"However, this does not happen again Emma, this talk about you leaving storybook. I need you to promise me, we can't have this conversation again it is tiring and stressful. No more conversations how your hurting me, how you think you should leave Storybook"
"OK"
"No, promise me Emma"
"I promise"
Author's Note:
I hope you liked this chapter, tell me what you thought of it. I really wanted to show that Regina does want Emma to accept herself as being a Hybrid and I hope this chapter showed that. Also, I would like to apologize for any mistakes that I wasn't able to catch. I really need a Beta Reader if you are interested please leave a review or private message me. (If you have previously messaged me about being my Beta Reader and you're still interested please private message me). I am just looking for someone who can frequently look over my work and give it back to me in a quick time frame.
Another thing, I am going to start updating my other stories that I have previously written don't worry this story is my main priority. If there is a story you want me to update let me know in a review and I may add it to my list of stories I'm going to update. OK, until next time.
