"So how are you and Robin doing this 'we are just friends who have sex in hopes of having a baby' thing?"
Running the tip of her tongue hard against the edge of her teeth, Regina tilted her head to the side and fixed the woman standing at the other side of the kitchen's island with a harsh glare.
"I beg your pardon?" Hissing the words, Regina tilted her head up and for a moment, she stopped peeling apples so that she could pay attention to the intruder.
Shrugging, the blonde just arched an eyebrow and reciprocated the stare off, bluish green eyes inquiring into the warm chocolate orbs of Regina.
"You know… how is it going between you two?" She asked at last, a small smirk making her lips curve maliciously. "Still feeling, how was that you said it… emotionally detached?"
Placing the palms of both her hands against the granite countertop and leaning forward the slightest bit, Regina blinked slowly. "Not that this is any of your business, Miss Swan, but we are doing just fine. Now do you care to explain what are you doing in my kitchen?"
Taking the liberty of taking a seat, Emma drew in a deep breath. "Bullshit. I don't know if you remember this but I know when people lie to me and Regina, you are lying right now. Oh but I knew this was going to happen; with the way he looks at you and let's be honest, how you look at him…." Snorting, Emma shook her head and took one of the apples and bit into it.
Curling her upper lip and refusing to look away, Regina waited a second before replying. "I don't look at him in any particular way." And she really didn't, quite the contrary, she has made a special effort not to look at him like at all whenever they would cross paths and even though she was sure he noticed this sudden change in her, she could say without a doubt that no one else could detect the tension emanating from her in such huge waves.
At least she didn't believe so.
"Denial isn't just a river in Egypt, you know."
Puffing out a breath, Regina reached forward for the apple Emma took from her basket and after snatching it from the woman's hand she threw it into the sink.
"What do you want?"
"Did you know that Henry has a girlfriend?"
Satisfied because she could say that she has known for a while now, Regina smiled a genuine smile. "I did, didn't you?"
"Ugh," Emma groaned. "Not until I saw him trying to swallow her face… in my couch!" Shivering at the memory, the blonde made a grimace. "I think it was a traumatic event for all three of us."
Turning a bit serious at the knowledge that her son was old enough to be making out with that Darling girl, Regina pushed the inside of her cheek with her tongue and considered things.
"Maybe if you wouldn't lead by example, he wouldn't be doing that kind of… things."
Chuckling and opening her eyes as wide as she could, Emma did a double take. "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"Well Henry told me that you have Hook spending the night over sometimes so of course he is going to get ideas in his mind."
"What? I've never done anything inappropriate in front of him. Maybe he got the idea from you sleeping with just a friend to get pregnant."
Gasping, it was Regina's turn to do a double take. "No, no, no… Henry has never been here when Robin comes over so…"
"Ah so he comes over often… Ha! You did hear my advice of doing it at least three times a week, didn't you?" Emma interrupted in a sing-a-like tone and Regina opened her mouth to reply.
But seeing that Emma somehow turned things around so that she could feed her morbid fascination with her relationship with Robin, she clasped her mouth back shut and straightened up.
"I'm not going to answer that. God, I don't even know why I confided this to you."
"Because it was either me or Mary Margaret and she would have called for a pink party in the name of love and babies."
"Filled with rainbow kisses and unicorn stickers." Regina snickered and Emma laughed out loud.
"Admit that besides Robin, I'm the closest thing to a friend that you have, that's why you told me."
Chewing on her lips, Regina considered it. Maybe it was true, but she wasn't going to admit it so freely. "You think? So should we start braiding each other's hair now?"
"Nah I think we can leave that for later."
Humming, Regina grabbed an apple and started peeling it.
"So what are you up to?"
"I'm making a pie…"
"And are you pregnant yet?"
Pouting her lips, Regina shook her head. "It's too early to tell. I did however wake up with the worst case of an upset stomach." She was still feeling kind of queasy about it but a hell of a lot better that in the morning.
"Oh, and isn't that one of the first signs of pregnancy?" Emma asked over excitedly.
Shaking her head and keeping her eyes focused on the apples, the raven haired shrugged. "Apparently, but even if I was with child, it would be too soon to have any kind symptoms; I think this is something I ate.
Now, even with her eyes casted into the forbidden fruit she was now cutting, Regina could easily visualize Emma shaking her head while grinning at her, her mind running a thousand miles per second with thoughts of babies coming to the world through her. Sometimes Emma was so much her mother's daughter that Regina had to snort.
But in some way, Regina could understand why the blonde was thinking like that, after all she was trying to conceive and logic dictated that if she woke up throwing up like crazy like crazy, it was because she was pregnant.
Fortunately, Regina knew better than that and so her hopes wouldn't shatter later on if she wasn't pregnant. No, she had her dates very clear in her mind and she knew it was impossible to have pregnancy symptoms just a week after being intimate with Robin.
"Maybe it was that pizza Robin brought last night…"
"Oh, so our beloved Robin spent the night here?" Emma asked slyly and at that, Regina lifted her face and looked at her in the eyes.
"He didn't spend the night; he and Roland came over for a while to watch a movie. Nothing happened if that's what your wicked mind is thinking. And honestly, nothing out of the ordinary happened; since their last time together not even an inappropriate touch had been exchanged between the two.
"Hmmm, and that was because you didn't want to or because he didn't throw the idea around? I mean this is a big house and once Roland fell asleep a lot of things could have happened… anywhere."
"You are impossible." Regina said curtly, rolling her eyes and breathing in. "I've told you this a thousand times, Robin and I are friends and nothing more."
"Yeah, friends that had sex twice in the hopes of making a baby. Yeah, I get it, crystal clear…" The blonde said pursing her lips while keeping her amused eyes on her.
As her response, Regina closed her eyes once and kept quiet. Sure, she could have told Emma how she hadn't had sex with Robin two times but actually three; but because she knew the woman would go crazy with that little information, she didn't say a thing.
Oh, but it has been three times indeed; because last night Robin and her were together they had done it once more in the middle of the night.
She could remember it clearly, many nights after it she has laid awake in bed, thinking on the way he was woken her up by the soft touch of his fingers before eventually having her one last time, their bodies tangled together and blending into one underneath her blankets.
Still to that day, thinking about that made her shiver and if she closed her eyes, she could almost feel the phantom of his lips moving against hers… she could also imagine the way his scent impregnated itself all over her sheets and body and the way he felt buried deep inside of her… not that she was going to tell that to Emma… the same way she wasn't going to say out loud that the previous night she had hoped Robin would stay over so that he could sneak into her room in the middle of the night…
Luckily for her he never did; because now that a new day was there, Regina realized that she should never allow herself to get carried away in such a manner with him again.
Yes, it has been more than nice to be with him like that, but her feelings towards him where getting compromised and she couldn't allow that to happen. As she told Emma, they were just friends and now she had it very clear in her mind that nothing of the like should happen again; unless she didn't get pregnant and he still wanted to try it the 'conventional' way.
She hoped it didn't come to that because she couldn't see herself sleeping with him once again without changing completely the nature of their friendship.
And really, last night has been bad, it has been the first time they saw each other since their encounter and she was sure that the air has been thick with tension.
It was almost bad enough to make her choke on it and if it wasn't because Robin brought Roland and a movie to watch with her, she wouldn't have known how to engage in an easy conversation with him.
So they just watched the movie, ate pizza and after he went away, with Roland fast asleep and Regina confused with what she really wanted.
"You could still be pregnant though, I mean that's why you are sleeping with him, right?"
"Yes; but that was only a week ago and actual implantation won't occur yet. If I get officially pregnant, it will be near the day of my period and that's another week away."
"But that was not the first time you two sleep together. What if you got pregnant that first time and you didn't know."
Opening her eyes once again, Regina thought about what Emma said and frowned. "No, no… I got my period."
"Well anyway, while you spaced out a minute ago, I texted Robin and asked him to get you a pregnancy test."
Groaning and running her fingers through her hair, Regina threw her head back and settled her eyes to the ceiling. "Emma… why did you do that?"
First, she didn't want Robin to think she was seeing things where there were none and second, if she took a pregnancy test, she wanted to do it alone. She didn't want Robin and let alone Emma waiting outside her bathroom door to know a result she knew to be negative.
"Well, because if I asked Killian to buy it instead he would have freaked out and I don't want that. He would have thought the test was for me! Besides he hasn't gotten around to texting… or cell phones for that matter."
"Emma… I don't want Robin to…"
"You don't want Robin to what?" At the sound of that accent, Regina turned her head to the side and saw no other than the man in question walking into her kitchen with a few bags in his hand.
"To walk into a drug store to stare dumbly at a full rack of pregnancy tests without a clue of what to look for? Well too late."
"Ah come on, this is for the mother of your baby so don't be such a whiner." Emma laughed as she got to her feet to grab the bags from the man's hands. "Let me see what do you got?"
Grunting and pursing her lips, Regina saw as Emma started to take things out of the plastic bags, but all those things were candy and chocolates and at that she had to snort.
"Okay where is the test? Please don't tell me you didn't buy it."
"Really, I don't need a test… this is nothing."
"Yeah, one nothing that will probably pop out in nine months." Snorting, she turned to Robin and mumbled. She woke up puking her guts but you know how she is."
At that, Robin turned so that he could look at her in the eyes and Regina made a gesture to indicate that Emma was exaggerating.
"Are you alright?" After asking her that, he drew closer and lifted her chin with a knuckle. He probably did that out of concern and to take a closer look, but it made Regina swallow on dry.
For some reason his closeness was making her do that now, she realized it the previous night as he was leaving and kissed her cheek goodbye.
"Yeah, I just had an upset stomach earlier on. I'm fine now." She responded, her eyes fixing on his deep blue orbs.
"Okay, here it is. Come on Momma, just pee on this and we'll know if this upset stomach will swell up your belly to limits beyond belief."
With that said, Emma opened the box, ripped the plastic wrapper of the test open and put it in Regina's hand.
Moving her face from his touch, she clicked her tongue to her cheek and shrugged.
"Fine, I'll humor you but don't expect anything, alright?" Rolling her eyes, the oldest of the two women put her feet in motion and made it into her bathroom, but before closing the door she told both Emma and Robin that it was ridiculous to make her take that test when she knew she wasn't pregnant.
But she did it anyway, she knew that there was no way to escape Emma once her mind was set on something. So doing her thing, Regina put the used test over a paper towel over her sink and then she took a long look at her reflection through the mirror.
She was looking pale, way too pale for her own good but that was probably because she was feeling ill. Maybe she should sneak into her room and put some color in her face, she didn't want to look a complete mess now that Robin was there…
Shrugging and looking down at the test, the former Evil Queen opened her clear chocolate eyes as wide as they would go and then took the test in her hand to look at it a bit closer.
Robin has bought one of those that were easy to read, it either said pregnant or not pregnant… and hers, well… unless she was misreading it and she didn't think so, said pregnant.
TBC
Just a short chapter to get the story going, yay. And changing the subject, how amazing was that first kiss between Robin and Regina in last Sunday's episode? Uff I had a huge grin on my face as it happened! Go Regina!