So I started working on this chapter but what I have ended up writing wasn't meant to be in the story. I hope you like it anyway.
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Emma wakes to the feel of a warm wetness engulfing the tip of her cock. She blinks the sleep from her eyes and pulls the cover up to see Regina sucking on her. "Mmmm… hi… good morning," she greets between stuttering breaths.
"Good morning," Regina replies as she looks up into green eyes after pulling back and letting Emma's hard dick fall against her stomach. "I hope you don't mind me waking you like this… I'm just really, really…"
"Horny?" Emma finishes for her.
"Yes," she smiles sheepishly and crawls up the blondes body so she's hovering over her on her hands and knees.
"I don't mind at all," Emma replies as she wraps her arms around Regina's neck and pulls her down against her so she can brush their lips together.
"I can't wait any longer," the brunette confesses a she pulls back from the gentle kiss so she can reach for a condom in the nightstand. She had already stripped herself when she woke up and spotted the bulge under the covers as Emma lay sleeping, the sight turning her on more than it had any right to do that early in the morning.
Emma's hardness was protruding from the gap in her boxers where Regina had freed it from its constraints. With a roll of her wrist the latex was snuggly fitted over the blondes cock and she was kneeling over it, holding the thick base as she lined it up with her entrance, already wet enough to take it.
Emma had barely been awake for a full minute when Regina pushed down and her entire length was sheathed inside the warm channel of her lover.
Regina lets her head fall back as a long satisfied moan escapes her lips and her nails dig into Emma's abs, as she holds herself up.
"You are so wet," the blonde comments at the fact she slipped so easily into the brunettes slick tightness, as she runs her palms up and down tanned thighs.
"I need you," is all Regina says as she finds Emma's hands with her own and links their fingers on her thighs as she begins moving on the dick inside of her.
Emma is stunned into silence when Regina moves above her, rocking on her pulsing shaft. She watches her body move, her hips gyrating and her breasts bouncing just the slightest bit as she takes what she needs. Small gasps and groans fall from plump lips as the coiling in her stomach builds quickly.
Emma feels like a bystander and she wants to do more to participate but she's loathe to separate their hands and she doesn't have much room to thrust up because Regina is pushed hard down on her. Before she can come up with her next move she feels Regina tighten and shudder around her as she exhales deeply.
"Mmm," the brunettes happily moans as she falls forward with the blonde still hard inside of her.
Emma wraps her arms around her back and strokes the soft skin soothingly as the smaller woman catches her breath. She was astounded and a little bit smug that Regina had cum so quickly, she can't remember it ever happening that fast before. The aftershocks were still making the smaller woman twitch around her, only increasing her need to find relief. She screws her eyes shut tightly and tries to think about anything but the tightness in her balls and the sporadic flutter of Regina's walls around her.
Regina laughs lightly before lifting her head to look into green eyes that are staring at her questioningly. "Sorry, I didn't mean to laugh. I just can't believe how quickly that happened."
"It happens to the best of us," Emma jokingly tries to reassure her as she recalls the amount of times it's happened to her since being with Regina.
"More," is all Regina murmurs before she pushes herself onto her elbows and slowly starts moving up and down on the dick inside her, she was still sensitive but she wasn't ready to stop. Emma reaches down for her firm backside and helps her grind against her cock as they lazily kiss.
The brunette is building up quickly again so she grabs the sides of Emma's vest and pushes the material up her toned body to reveal her small breasts and hard nipples. Breaking from their kiss she dips her head down until her lips meet a stiff bud. She gently kisses it before swiping her tongue over it then sucking down hard on it.
"Shit," Emma moans as she thrusts deeply into Regina's slick core. Dragging one of her hands up the brunettes back she tangles her fingers in silky tendrils and holds her against her breast. "That's it, sweetheart, use that beautiful mouth on me."
Regina clenches around her at the term of endearment and moves her mouth to the neglected breast where she showers it with the same attention as the one she had just been sucking on.
Emma bends her knees so she can get better purchase on the mattress to allow her to thrust up faster into her lover.
Regina's moaning against her breast and in no time at all her body goes rigid and her walls clamp down on Emma's shaft, sending the blonde over the edge and pulsing into the condom with each spirt of her seed.
Regina kisses her chest as she slowly pushes herself off the softening cock, wincing just a little at how sensitive she feels, before laying down on her side next to Emma.
The blonde goes through the usual routine of pulling off the sticky latex and dumping it in the bathroom bin before climbing back into bed and pulling the smaller woman against her.
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Much later that morning Emma is working out in the home gym and Regina is baking some fresh bread for their lunch when Kathryn arrives home.
"Hello," Regina cheerfully greets her friend as she closes the oven door on the tin of dough she has put in to bake.
"Hey," the blonde says rather glumly as she slumps down into a chair at the kitchen table.
"Are you alright?" Regina asks in concern at not seeing the usual smile on her friends face. Kathryn was always quite upbeat, particularly after spending the night with Ruby. They had also had the incredible news about Gold the previous day so there really wasn't any logical reason for the older woman to be upset, and that was quite worrisome.
"I cried in front of Ruby, bawled my eyes out like a little kid actually. She was so sweet and kind and I couldn't even tell her the truth. Then it just felt all weird between us and I think I've messed it up." Kathryn answers matter-of-factly.
"Why did you cry? What happened?" Regina asks for clarification.
"I don't know. Everything was fine. We had a fun time together and then this morning she had breakfast ready for me after I had showered. She looked so pleased with herself, like she was happy to be doing something so sweet for me and it made me cry. I'm hiding so much from her and she trusts me and the stupid backstory Cruella came up with." The blonde puts her face in her hands as her elbows rest on the table.
"You care for her," Regina simply states.
Kathryn nods her head in her hands.
"Kat… that's great!"
"No, it's not," she sits up straighter, "I cried and she tried to comfort me. She offered me comfort and all I've done is lie to her. How do you think she would react if I told her the truth?"
"Emma was supportive when she learnt the truth. She saved us," the brunette counters.
"Emma was using the escort service. She knew what we did. Ruby doesn't have a clue!" She didn't mean to raise her voice but she felt trapped by the lies she was living in.
"Maybe we could talk to Emma."
"Talk to Emma about what?" The woman herself asks as she walks into the kitchen, fresh clothes on and a towel around her shoulders from the shower she had taken after her workout. The smile drops from her face when she notices the frown on Kathryn's. She looks from the blonde to Regina, wondering what she had just walked in on. She leans back against the counter, not wanting to intrude too much on what looks like a delicate moment.
Regina looks at Kathryn and the blonde gives her permission, with a small nod, to let Emma in on what was going on. "Kat got a bit upset when she was at Ruby's. It seems things might be a little more serious between them, but she's worried because Ruby doesn't know the truth about our situation."
"Oh… urm…" She wasn't sure what to say. She didn't want it getting out that she had been using escorts, which is exactly what could happen if Ruby found out the truth and reacted badly to it. She wasn't sure how Ruby would react at learning something like that and she didn't want to risk it but looking at the sadness in the dull eyes of her friend she knew she had to be strong and not think about herself. "If you want to tell her you know I'll support you. I don't know how she will react but I would like to think she wouldn't be horrible about it."
"I think I at least owe her the truth. How would you feel about that, Regina?" She looks at her friend with hopeful eyes. She felt selfish because she knew it could go badly but she would feel better with herself for being honest. Either way she would know where she stood with the woman she was growing to care for deeply.
Regina really didn't want anyone else knowing, she was scared of being shunned by the new friends she had made if any of this got out, but mainly she was scared of things going pear-shaped for Emma. The blonde had already put so much on the line for them, she didn't want her risking everything all over again. But she had found her happiness, she couldn't stand in the way of Kathryn possibly finding hers, especially seen as Emma was willing to take the chance.
"I want you to be as happy as I am, Kathryn," she looks at Emma and smiles, "we will stand by whatever decision you make."
"And if she acts like a twat I'll tackle her and break her legs in training," Emma jokes with a wink to lighten up the mood.
"Thank you. The two of you, thank you so much," she beams as she hugs Regina and smiles at Emma. "Would you mind if I invited her over. I think it will be easier if I told her on home territory."
"Whatever you think is best," Emma answers.
"I'm going to go do some painting and calm down a bit and then I'll call her." She squeezes Regina's shoulder in thanks as she gets up and then she places a grateful kiss to Emma's cheek before going to her room to get changed into some of her already paint splattered clothes.
"I don't envy her having to have that conversation," Regina sighs as she stands and takes a few steps over to the blonde to be embraced by her. She rests her forehead against the taller woman's chest and holds onto her slim waist.
"Whatever happens… it will be okay." Emma reassures her.
"How can you be so calm about this?"
"Because I'm fed up of worrying what other people think and getting caught up in the consequences of being honest and happy. Whatever will be, will be. We will all still have each other and that's all that matters."
Emma's phone pings from where it's charging on the counter behind her. She keeps one arm wrapped around Regina and uses the other to check the text she had just received. "I think everything is going to be okay," she says with a smile before turning her phone to show Regina the message she had just received from Ruby.
Hey, Swan. Kat was a little upset this morning and she wouldn't tell me why. Could you please check on her and make sure she's okay? I don't want to text her in case I'm the reason she's upset. Let her know that I'm sorry if I have upset her and if she tells me what it is I will try to fix it.
"Maybe they will be okay." Regina smiles in the hope that her friend could end up being as happy as she is.
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"She should be here any minute," Kat informs them as she looks at the time on her phone and fidgets in her seat. Neither woman had ever seen her look so on edge before.
After spending most of the afternoon painting to soothe her nerves, she had finally built up the courage to call Ruby. The brunette had sounded happy to hear from her and had easily agreed to Kathryn's invitation of coming around to see her. The blonde hadn't let on to why she was inviting her around but Ruby thought it could only be a good thing that the blonde still wanted to see her.
"She's here," Emma announces when she hears a car coming up the drive.
"Right…fuck," Kathryn stammers as she stands up and straightens the non-existent lines in her dress, purely from nerves.
"No matter what happens we will be here for you," Regina promises.
Kathryn nods but doesn't say anything. She takes a deep breath and goes to answer the door, leaving her friends in the lounge.
"Hey, Kat," Ruby beams when the blonde opens the door. "These are for you," she holds out a giant bouquet of roses.
"Thank you," Kathryn says no louder than a whisper as she takes the flowers, her heart melting at the sweet gesture. She places them on the sideboard and holds the door open for her. "Come inside." She takes Ruby's hand and pulls her upstairs and into her bedroom.
When Kathryn closes the door behind them Ruby immediately sets upon her and presses her against the door, kissing along her jawline and down her throat. "I thought I'd done something to upset you earlier and I didn't think I was going to see you again."
"You might not," Kathryn says as she gently pushes the younger woman away by her shoulders.
"What?" Ruby asks looking upset and taking a step back.
"I have something to tell you and it scares me," she sadly says as she walks around her and goes to sit on the side of her bed. "I just hope you'll hear me out and understand why I've not been completely truthful to you."
Now Ruby's heart is the one racing, she was scared about what she was going to hear. "You've been lying to me? About what?" She sits on the edge of the bed as well, leaving about a foot of space between them.
"I really don't know how to say this so I'm just going to come out with it. You know that big trial that's just come to an end? The one about the man running a prostitution ring… amongst other things?"
"Euch, yes," she says sounding disgusted, "they should bring back capital punishment just for that piece of shit," she spits out.
Kathryn was happy to hear her say that but it still didn't make this any easier. "Agreed. But anyway," she takes a deep breath and closes her eyes, "Regina and I worked for him. We were trapped and made to work for him," she amends. She doesn't open her eyes, even as the silence drags on, she's too scared to open them and see the disgust and rejection on Ruby's face.
She doesn't know what to say. What can she say? The things she had read in the media about the court case and what that evil man was capable of made her feel sick. The pit of her stomach twisted and boiled with anger. She was only pulled from the thoughts spinning around in her head when she heard the blonde sniffle. She looks over at her and sees tears slip down her cheeks.
"Shit," she breathes out before scooting up closer to the blonde and using her thumbs to wipe away the tears that start coming quicker. "I'm so sorry you had to go through that." It sounded so lame and she hated herself for it. The sweet, kind, and funny woman had been through hell and all she could say was 'sorry'. She rolled her eyes at herself.
"You're not mad at me?" Kathryn asks as she finally opens her eyes and looks at the brunette.
"Jesus, no. Of course not. It's not your fault. Come here." She pulls the blonde closer, cradling the back of her head and Kathryn seeks comfort in the crook of her neck.
Her tears spill harder and she holds onto the front of Ruby's low cut top. "I'm so sorry I couldn't tell you," she manages to get out between heavy sobs.
"It's okay. I understand. Does Emma know?"
Kathryn lets out a watery laugh at that question. "Yes, she does. She saved us."
"She saved you?" Ruby questions in confusion.
Kathryn pulls back from her and wipes at her tears with the sleeves of her dress. "Yeah… she was using the escort service and Gold had been… well, he had been torturing Regina, there's no better way to say it. Then he tried to get Regina to record her sessions with Emma so that he could blackmail her. Regina couldn't do it so she admitted everything to Emma and that's how it all came about." She tried to give the basic details, now really wasn't the time for the explicit version of the story.
"So Emma was paying for…" Kathryn nods.
"Just with Regina or…" She may not have finished her question but it was obvious what she wanted to know.
Kathryn sighs. "Mainly with Regina but there was an occasion when we urm…"
Ruby grits her teeth. "You and Emma?" Now she's the one about to cry. She had just been told that Kathryn had been made to work as a prostitute but the thought of Emma having been with the women she was falling for seemed to upset her even more for some reason, as irrational as that seemed.
"Not exactly. I came over here but nothing happened, not really." She knew that didn't sound very reassuring but what was she meant to say? She tried to blow her but Emma was just so in love with Regina that she couldn't get hard for anyone but her.
Ruby looks at her, waiting for her to elaborate. With a sigh she continues, "she couldn't get hard, nothing happened."
Ruby breathes a sigh of relief.
"Okay. So what does this mean for us?" Kathryn delicately asks.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, now you know the truth. I wasn't an au pair in Europe. I was being forced to work as a prostitute. That has to change things, right?" She prayed to every deity, not believing in the existence of any of them, but she still prayed in the hopes that this didn't change anything.
"Why did you decide to tell me this now?" Ruby's blatant disregard of Kathryn's question wasn't missed by the blonde.
"Because I needed you to know why I got upset this morning. I realised that I have feelings for you and that I couldn't go on keeping something so important from you."
"I guess that does change things," Ruby says with a small smile. "I have feelings for you too. So now that I know the truth maybe we could make this into something real?" She tentatively asks as she intertwines their fingers.
"You would really want that? With me?" Kathryn asks in disbelief.
"Well, we have feelings for each other so why don't we give it a chance and see where things go? If my time with you so far has taught me anything… it will at least be fun," she says with a smirk.
Kathryn laughs and pulls the brunette on top of her as she falls back on the bed.
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Emma and Regina had been waiting patiently on the couch for shouting or the stomping of Ruby's feet as she storms out of the house, but so far, nothing untoward had happened. Emma was prepared to step in if things did go awry, she had even toyed with the idea of getting Ruby thrown off both the national and club teams if the lanky brunette so much as threatened to spill any of the information she was told by Kathryn. She really hoped it wouldn't come to that but she was going to protect Regina and Kathryn above all else.
"Do you think she's told her yet?" Regina asks after a while of avoiding the subject completely.
"I don't know. I hope so because if she has then everything must have gone well. There's been no screaming so that's a good sign."
The brunette gently elbows her in the ribs and smiles softly. "I really want Kathryn to be…"
Both of their eyebrows shoot up when they hear squeals of delight from the floor above.
"Happy?" Emma finishes the brunettes interrupted sentence for her. "I think she is," she says as she looks at the ceiling.
"I'm so happy for them," Regina says with a big smile. The noises from the floor above get a bit louder and the two women look at each other. "Shall we go sit out on the patio? It's a lovely night"
"Good idea," Emma agrees and they make a hasty retreat for the patio. They were pleased for their friends but they had no interest in hearing their mutual happiness.
Regina sits on Emma's lap and nuzzles into her neck. It's a clear night and a few stars can be seen twinkling in the sky. "This will certainly make things interesting in the qualifiers next week," Regina muses.
"Your just happy because Kathryn will definitely be coming now and you will have someone to talk with when I'm training."
"I will have you know that I am always completely focussed on you when I watch you train. Especially when you take your jersey off and you're running about in the heat, all sweaty," she bites her bottom lip and gets lost in thoughts of Emma's sweat covered body as she runs around the pitch.
The blonde peers down at her with a smirk plastered on her face. "Get your head out of the gutter young lady."
Regina blushes and buries her face further into Emma's neck before breaking out into a yawn.
It wasn't particularly late and they hadn't had a massively early morning. "Tired, baby?"
"Just a little," she answers before yawning again.
"One of your only two states recently. You're either tired or horny."
"Are you complaining?"
"No, but I was thinking I should probably call my Doctor over, just so she can check you out."
"I've already told you, I'm fine. Life has changed a lot for me in the last few months and I just think it's all catching up with me. I'll be fine now that all of the stress of the trial is over with."
"I'm sure you are right, but will you humour me, please? I can have her here tomorrow, just to give you a quick check up?"
"If it will make you feel better, sure." She didn't think it was necessary but if made Emma feel better then she would do it.
"It will. Thank you." She kisses her head and relaxes, that was one less thing she had to worry about. Now all she had to do was find the most perfect ring ever, for the most important occasion of her life and everything would be fine.