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My alarm clock startled me awake with a constant beeping I still haven't gotten used to yet, after thirty one years. I stuck my arm out of the warm, cocooning covers to hit the snooze button, when my hand stumbled onto my phone and knocked it off the table instead. I sighed and turned off the blaring alarm to look for my phone. When I was sure I was grabbing my phone and not a dust bunny, I turned on the screen to check the time.
It was already seven in the morning, but the sky was absolutely black. Why is it black, it's the middle of March? My eyes settled on the date below the large display of time, and my sleep-dazed brain finally caught up with me. The curse, Rumplestiltskin's inevitable doom, Regina, and Emma. We said goodbye to Emma, and now we're just here?
I clicked the home button and opened up my messages. My last message was from Regina, nine months ago, when she texted me everything that was going on. I sent her a new message and quickly burrowed my head back under the covers.
It took ten seconds before my phone buzzed again, making a strwnge sound against the wood of my nightstand. I sighed and stuck my hand out again to feel around for it on the table. I found it and brought it under the covers to read.
I'm coming over. We need to figure out what happened. I sighed and smiled to myself. I had at least ten minutes before she came over, I could sleep for a little bit. I pulled the covers back over me and exhaled deeply as my head hit the pillow.
"Snow. Snow, wake up," a hoarse voice said. I smiled as I felt my body being shifted onto someone's lap. Soft hands stroked my face and I begrudgingly opened my eyes and let the light into my misty brain. I didn't just let in the early morning sun, My eyes adjusted onto Regina's face, beaming down at me.
"You look adorable when you sleep," she said calmly. I smirked.
"You look adorable all the time," I shot back. She chuckled and cupped my cheeks, while boring her deep brown eyes into mine. I immediately felt floaty and happy in her lap with her hands on me, but there were more pressing issues to attend to.
"So you don't remember anything too?"
"No, but something's definitely happened. It's snowing outside, last I checked, it was March."
"It's December now, so we were cursed for nine months." I nodded and checked my phone.
"I was sleeping in for an hour?"
"I didn't want to wake you. And I wanted to make you breakfast."
"You were here, while I was asleep, for an hour?"
"Yes, what's wrong with that? You were clearly tired, you even snored a bit."
"I did not!"
"You did, it was cute."
"I don't snore, and if I did, I guarantee it was not cute." She laughed and shifted underneath my head. I sat upright as she hopped off the bed and extended a hand out to me. I gratefully accepted it and let her lead me out of the room and into the kitchen, where a fresh bouquet of flowers sat in the middle of the counter, adorned with orange slices, french toast, and muffins. I gasped quietly and sat down beside Regina.
"You still like french toast, correct?" I laughed.
"I do. How did you remember?"
"I had the chef cook french toast nearly every morning, how could I forget?"
"That's true, especially when I wanted to spend all day with you. You'd ask him to make french toast for me, and then you'd say that if you gave me french toast, I couldn't bother you during the day."
"I don't want to think about that," Regina said distantly. "I'm…sorry, for that."
"Don't worry about it. It's all in the past now, right?"
"Most definitely," she confirmed and grinned at me. "I don't think I've ever truly hated you. I wanted to, and I've been angry at you, nearly constantly after Daniel, but not anymore. But I don't think I've ever hated you," she added. I smiled.
"Good. I didn't either."
"Oh, don't worry, I knew that," Regina said smugly.
"What do you mean?"
"I knew you watched me all the time around the castle. I read between the lines, and you couldn't detach yourself from me. I think it was a little obvious." I chuckled dryly and she smirked.
"Really? That obvious?"
"Yep. Now eat, I'm sure your toast is cold by now." I rolled my eyes mockingly and poured a large amount of syrup onto the toast. I heard Regina chuckle, and I was tempted to ask her to do it again. She sounded so content right now, and her laugh has long been my favourite sound. I'm not sure what happened in the Enchanted Forest, but I know who I choose now, one hundred percent. If Regina didn't turn me down in the Enchanted Forest, I'd be married to her right now. I wouldn't tell her that, though. I wondered where David was at the moment, but if I wasn't with him when I woke up, I think I already know what my decision was. I had a feeling Regina knew too.
I sped through my french toast and offered Regina a few orange slices, but she told me she had breakfast earlier. I didn't believe her and forced to eat at least three oranges. She glared at me the whole time, but that was because she was forced to. I could tell she enjoyed the orange. She does this little dance everytime she's happily eating something, and she was wiggling on her stool a bit. I took it as a win.
After breakfast, I led her to the couch and watched her send out an email on my laptop for an emergency town meeting to discuss the curse. After the email was sent out, we wrote down what we knew on a notepad and came up with two points. 'The month when we left was March, it's now December, nine months as passed,' and 'Emma and Henry are not here.' It was a sad list and didn't help anything, but that was everything we knew.
"I didn't reappear with David, I think that's a hint," I offered Regina.
"We can't very well offer that up to the whole town."
"Why not? It could be useful, and who cares if the whole town knows about us, or even who I chose?"
"I do! What if people start attacking us. Or even worse, they're convinced I put you under a spell and still attack."
"First of all, I am bewitched," I joked. "Second of all, they won't attack you if I have any say in the matter, and even if they did, you could defend yourself."
"Yes, but they're all your friends. Say something happens with them."
"I trust you enough not to kill you, and like I said, they'll have to go through me first." I put my hand over hers and entwined our fingers together. She looked at our hands then up at me with the most vulnerable expression I've ever seen. Sadly, I knew what she was thinking.
"You are loved," I told her earnestly. "Henry, and I guarantee you, me, sometime in the near future."
"Now?" She asked quietly.
"I can love you now if you want that," I offered lightly. She chuckled and nodded quickly. I grinned and leant forward as I kissed her. I felt her arms wrap around my neck and heard her shift on the couch. I pulled back after a short amount of time, but if I had the lungs, I'd kiss her for the rest of my life. She sighed contentedly afterwards and scrolled through her phone as we waited for the time to go to the town meeting. She tucked her bare feet under her legs as I spaced out and grabbed her feet and started rubbing them. She yelped rather loudly and pulled her feet out of my reach.
"I'm sorry," I said in a squeaky, surprised voice and folded my hands in my lap. "I didn't realize what I was doing and-" Regina stopped my rambling when she turned to face me and planted her feet on my hands, still resting on my lap and squeezing each other until my knuckles were white. sne chuckled again and kept scrolling through her phone as I tentatively started rubbing her right foot, then her left, and memorized each sound she made; sighs, tiny little moans, and little puffs of air coming from her nose that all made my stomach twist excitedly.
"We better get going now, or we'll be late for the meeting," Regina said disappointedly.
"Do we have to? Can't we stay for a little longer," I begged. She chuckled.
"You want to be late? To our own meeting?" She smirked at me and raised an eyebrow, and I kind of wished I could take a picture of her, right now.
"Yeah," I said innocently, grinning and tilting my head slightly to the left. She laughed and rolled her eyes at me and my request.
"No." I kept massaging her feet and she wiggled out of my grasp again. "So help me, Snow White, I will teleport you there against your will." I sighed and huffed jokingly.
"Fine," I mumbled grumpily. She laughed again and waved her hands in the air, summoning a cloud of purple fog. A small tingling sensation ran up my ankles, to my knees, up through the length of my body, until my apartment blurred into the Town Hall, where we were in the hallway, right outside the council room. We both took a deep breath, as instructed by me, and walked in together, hands brushing together, but not holding. I sat down in the front row, but Regina merely hook her head and pulled me up with her. She never did town meetings with anyone else unless she had to.
The room continued flooding with people, and soon, every single seat was filled with friends and neighbours, my subjects. Now, our subjects.
Regina cleared her throat and explained why we we called the meeting, explained how we both didn't know what happened in the past nine months. We asked if anyone remembered anything from the curse, and everyone shook their heads. I ignored David's pointed and curious looks, but I answered his unheard question when I read out everything we knew. How many months had passed, that Emma and Henry were gone, and finally, what Snow White was doing at the front with the Evil Queen.
I told everyone briefly about our misadventures in Neverland and that I suspected that because I wasn't with David, I wasn't with him in the Enchanted Forest either. There were muffled whispers in the crowd, some people shouting confusedly, but I couldn't hear anything. It was all muddled gibberish in the background as I watched David's face crumble. I didn't want to hurt him like this, but it had to be said.
I felt Regina hold one hand on my elbow, and the other on my hand. I broke out of my daze and all at once, everyone's voices bombarded me with questions, accusations, and even more questions. Regina pooled us away and to her mansion, instead of the loft.
"I'm sorry you had to do that," Regina said.
"I should apologize to you. Everyone was blaming you for this, when I brought this upon myself."
"Did you hear them? They accused both of us. They said I bewitched you and that you were too gullible to see it. That you were evil for just 'joining forces' with me."
"Oh," I said lamely. "I won't let them touch you. I promise."
"You don't need to promise me, I can protect both of us, for the time being." Regina teleported away, and I swore I could hear voices shouting outside. I swallowed a lump in my throat and bit my lip. Ten seconds later, Regina reappeared with a blue potion in her hands.
"What is that," I asked her nervously.
"This is a protection spell. Only direct blood relatives can get through the shield."
"So just Henry and Emma," I confirmed.
"Unless you have a secret kid," Regina joked nervously. I chuckled and watched her pop the cork off the potion bottle. She poured it over the floor, and it was quickly absorbed into the floor. Outside, a sheen of blue sheathed the house, then disappeared. I could see the townspeople gathering, and now running as they saw the shield. I heard Regina shakily exhale behind me, and I was quick to grab her hands and squeeze them assuringly.
"I wot let them hurt you," I told her.
"And I you," she murmured, before pecking me lightly.