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Storybrooke

Present time (Snow)

I staggered back from the force of my memories throttling me at once and grabbed Regina's hand to balance me. We took a second to readjust ourselves, while Henry was nearly bouncing off the walls.

"So...what do you remember?" Henry asked excitedly.

"Uhhh, everything?" I answered. Regina huffed out a breathy laugh. She side-eyed Henry and Emma, but I could tell she wanted to tell me something without them there. I felt the same way.

"How about we go visit David before eating?" Emma suggested.

"But mom, you said-"

"Listen to your mother, Henry. I agree with her," Regina said. Henry looked between his moms and realized what was going on.

"Oh, okay. Sure. We could pick up the pizza on our way too."

"Good idea, kid. We'll get out of your hair now." Emma led Henry to the door to grab his jacket and we followed behind.

Once they stepped out the door and closed it behind them, I turned to Regina and kissed her hungrily. She kissed back and clung to me as I backed her into the nearest wall, near her study.

"God, I love you," I whispered to Regina. She smiled and dipped down to bite and suck at my neck feverishly.

"I love you too," she said back, her voice vibrating against my neck. I wrapped my arms around her waist and tilted my head to give her better access to my pulse point. She slowly licked a path from my pulse to my ear and breathed hotly against my cartilage.

"As much as I want you right now, how are we going to tell Henry that I broke it off with David and started dating you?" That immediately killed the mood. Regina pushed me away and swatted my shoulder.

"Thanks for ruining that," she grumbled, "but I agree. We need to talk. I'm sure he won't appreciate the suddenness of it all, but he'll adjust."

"I also think he'll be really happy you found someone. He's been wanting for you to be happy."

"That's also true." Regina sighed and adjusted her hair. We stood in uncomfortable silence for a moment while we thought of what else we needed to talk about. "Does this change anything?" Regina asked. "Are we still going to adopt?"

"Well, unless you don't want to adopt with me, I still want another child. But I still want you to do this with me."

"Okay. Because I still want to adopt with you."

"Wow. We're going to tell Henry that his grandparents are divorced and his grandmother is now adopting a child with his mother," I deadpanned.

"Gods, our family trees were damned by magic, weren't they?"

"Or just coincidental relations to each other."

"We lived in a magical forest, and we're all still related to each other somehow."

"I'm just waiting for someone to tell me David's family was related to mine. That's when I'll declare something is really wrong." We both laughed.

"There's still...a lot of confusion since getting our memories back."

"Yeah..." I laughed nervously and looked down at Regina's polished wood floor. Regina's hand tucked under my chin and directed my head back up to look at her.

"How about we both try and...process it later tonight?"

"But I wanted to do...other things later tonight."

"We have plenty of time for both." She grinned and winked, nearly incapacitating me with a need to have her on top of me.

"Now what do we do?" I asked. She grabbed my hand and led me to the couch in her living room, sitting down on it and pulling me down to lay into her side.

"We could start talking things through now, so that we have more time for other activities later." I nodded and laughed, grabbing onto her hand. She squeezed my hand back.

"We're back!" Henry yelled.

"And please be dressed," Emma added on.

"Ma! Ew!"

"What? I said I hoped they were dressed, not undressed." I could practically hear Henry's eye roll.

"You're weird." Henry glanced around and spotted Regina and I on the couch. He ran over to us with two pizza boxes balanced on his arm. He set the pizzas down on the coffee table and hopped onto the couch beside us.

We ended up talking for a whole hour while they were gone, but it was filled with many silences. We went over the events in the Enchanted Forest, but not much else. It was awkward, to say the least.

"Henry, put the boxes in the kitchen please."

"Can't we eat here?"

"No. Once you take the pizza to the kitchen, you need to wash your hands." Henry stood up and took the boxes. He left the room as Emma was entering.

"I don't want to ask, but-"

"Miss Swan, if you were going to ask if we had sex while you were gone, I will tear your throat out."

"Okay, jeez...but did you?" Regina barred her teeth and looked like she was going to jump from the couch to make good on her promise. I raised my eyebrows at them both.

"Really?" I asked shortly. That made Emma go quiet. Regina had the courage to look smug about it.

"You're in trouble too," I told Regina. She pouted and crossed her arms. I didn't want to tell Regina she looked like the cutest pouting adult I had ever seen; that would only make her angrier.

"So...do we know what to do with Zelena yet?" Henry wondered from the doorway. He walked in and sat down on the couch again.

"No, but we're waiting for her next move. It doesn't help that David's sword is broken and missing," I said.

"Missing?" Emma asked.

"He said something about duelling a vision of himself, and after he won, his sword disappeared," I supplied.

"How...did he duel himself?" Emma wondered, while Regina rolled her eyes and sighed.

"A vision of himself, Emma. And here I thought you kept your hearing after all your 'saviour battles'. God forbid your hearing takes as big a toll as your frontal lobe did."

"Hey! That's not nice."

"How about let's go eat dinner now." I said, staring pointedly at the two of them. They looked at each other coldly, then stood up and walked to the kitchen.

"But first, Regina and I are going to talk upstairs." I gave her my most serious look and waited for her to go up the stairs before I followed. She led us to our room. Once the door was closed, she took my face in her hands and captured my lips with her own.

I shoved her away. "Put a silencing spell on the room please." She smirked and waved her hand around in a strange pattern. "Can you please be nice to Emma? She's my daughter."

"I will be civil."

"Civil?! Was that little glaring contest and insult to her brain out there civil? You need to get control over your motor mouth and stop spewing insults every chance you get. You've been through so much together, can't you just...be friendly?"

Regina eyed me with an expression that looked like she would punch a wall.

"Fine. Is that all you brought me up here for?"

"Yes." I swept past her and left her there in the bedroom, boiling in her own anger.

Downstairs, Emma and Henry were eating in the kitchen, right beside the pizza boxes.

"We got you and Regina vegetable pizza," Emma informed.

"Mom doesn't eat pizza unless it has veggies on it," Henry supplied.

"But tomato sauce is technically made of vegetables," Emma said.

"No, tomatoes are fruits and it apparently doesn't count when there are more ingredients added into it," Henry said smugly. Emma grumbled and took a bite of her cheese pizza.

Regina was down in the kitchen five minutes later, looking just as angry as I left her.

"Hey Regina, we got you some veggie pizza," Emma said.

"That's...very thoughtful." I swiftly stepped on one of her heeled toes. She took my hint and swiftly thanked Emma. We brought our pizzas to the dining room and ate there in tense quiet. Only the scraping of Regina's fork and knife filled the air with noise and it was tiresome, listening to silence. Once I finished my pizza, I got up, the scraping of my chair the loudest sound in the room since sitting down. I took my plate to the sink. I heard three other chairs scraping on the hardwood floor.

"Do you wanna stay here for the night, or come with me, kid?" Emma asked as she entered the kitchen.

"Um, can I stay with you tonight, then stay here for the rest of the week?"

"Sure. In that case, I think we should be getting back to the inn."

"Are you sure?" Regina asked.

"Yeah. We've had quite a day, I think the extra sleep will help."

"...but it's only eight." Regina looked so tired all of a sudden.

"Like I said, the extra sleep will help. 'Night mom." Emma gave me a quick hug, then Henry.

"'Night, mom," Henry said, hugging Regina. He looked so tall next to her. It was both off-putting and nostalgic, seeing Henry physically growing taller next to his mother. She whispered her goodbyes back and kissed Henry on the crown. She let him go and watched him leave. She turned around slowly and looked past me, making a beeline for the kitchen.

"You don't want to talk about this?"

"No, I don't." She pulled out a sponge and started filling the sink of dirty dishes with water.

"Well I want to."

"And everything you want, you'll get, princess," she sneered.

"Is there something wrong with wanting you to speak nicely to my daughter?"

"When you speak down to me likea child, there is."

"I was hardly speaking down to you, but if you want me to, I'll curse at you and yell at you like an adult."

"No, thank you. I've had enough humiliation for one night."

"Humiliation? There was a silencing spell on the bedroom!"

"I don't have to have an audience to feel humiliated." Her voice cracked near the end of her sentence, but she tried correcting it with a cough. I put my hand on her shoulder lightly, but she flinched away and scrubbed roughly at a dirty pan.

"Leave me alone," she grumbled.

"You want to spend our first night with our memories back fighting?"

"No, I don't!"

"Then stop it! I will be in the living room when you calm down."

"See? You're treating me like a child!"

"Then stop fucking acting like one!" I stormed off into the living room to find a book to read while Regina finished the dishes and sorted herself out.

I couldn't focus on the words in my book. I never cursed at Regina before and I wondered if I took it too far. If Regina was going to pout like that, though, I felt like she deserved a bit of it. The words of my book continued to look jumbled in my eyes, until I couldn't recognize a single word. I frustratedly put my book back down and curled up on the couch, resting my head on the armrest.

I was just beginning to feel the pull of sleep when the world shifted and the furniture was turned upright. My vision was corrected when my head was placed back on the armrest, but something was under me. I reluctantly opened my eyes and saw Regina's pantsuit supporting my legs.

"Do you want me to carry you upstairs?" Regina asked.

"No. I want to to walk by myself. And I want to hear what you have to say."

"Oh. We're getting to that already?" I sat up and rested my back on the armrest, keeping my feet on Regina's lap.

"Yes. I've been waiting for it for...how long?"

"Forty five minutes." I nodded and watched Regina fidget. She said once that her mother corrected her habit of fidgeting, except for when she was truly nervous. I rested my hand on hers and she didn't flinch this time. I smiled at our hands.

"I'm really sorry for how I acted. I should've just agreed to your terms and moved on, but I didn't want to, out of spite for you telling me what to do. And partly because I enjoy insulting Emma, but I realize that my enjoyment will come after my family. You and Henry come first, and by extension, Emma. I will learn to tolerate her and keep my 'motor mouth' shut."

"Regina, I didn't mean that. I was mad at you and it was a poor choice of words. I don't think you have a motor mouth." She only sighed in response. "I wasn't very mature about this either. Do you forgive me?"

"Of course I do. Do you forgive me?"

"Of course, honey." I scooted forward so I was sitting directly across Regina's lap. "I love you so much."

"I love you too." I grinned and cupped her cheek as I leant forward and kissed her. She gently griped my waist and twisted me around so I was straddling her lap.

"We're going to have so many arguments in the future," I remarked amusedly.

"With our history, there may be some broken furniture thrown into the mix." I laughed and wrapped my arms around her.

"On second thought, I would really like to be carried to our room," I whispered.

"Of course. Anything for my snowflake." I grinned proudly.

"What should I call you? Your name doesn't really work like mine does with snowflake. My Gina? My Queen? My miller's daughter?" Regina laughed.

"All of those except the miller's daughter." I giggled. "I also don't want to be called 'Gina' in public."

"Of course, your majesty. You've got a reputation to uphold, after all."

"I do. And I assume you want 'bandit' and 'princess' to be kept in private only?"

"Yup. Ooh, we should roleplay those! The Queen and her Bandit/princess." Regina cackled on her way up the stairs.

"Sure, why not? I don't want to dress in my old gowns, though."

"Oh come on! Those gowns were the best part!"

"Fine. But no 'magic play.'"

"Deal."

Next chapter: all aboard the smut train! If you don't like reading smut, you can just skip the next chapter. To make it easier, the chapter will be all smut and nothing important to the plot.