A/N: This is a present chapter... I know it's weird because I have few chapters based in Regina's office in the previous chapters... (shrugs)
Meanwhile in the office, Regina carelessly signed her name to approve what the citizens needed for their town and sipped a cold coffee while reading some lines in the summary for the reason. Her secretary came in with the files and placed them on the corner of the desk. Regina nodded at her secretary with her thanks before working on another approval paper from the Sheriff's Department. It was ironic when the sheriff came in her office and announced his presence.
"Hello Madame Mayor."
"Hello Sheriff Nolan, what can I do for you?" Regina spoke up while looking on the budget excel on her laptop. The blond man sighed while standing in the front of her desk and replied back.
"I should inform you that I need some volunteers to help the Sheriff's Department to cover the Christmas Festival. We only have 10 people to cover but we need more. Before I go ahead, may we use the citizens if they are interested to volunteer for security part?"
"What kind of the security part?" The brunette mayor said before glancing over at her secretary who was in the doorway and gestured her to come in without interrupting their conversation.
"Like the front desk and back desk to check their ID and get their tickets to make sure that it is correct to match their descriptions. Also, alcohol permit." David explained.
"Oh, that part. It's fine to get recruits to be volunteers. Firstly, I want you to ban Leroy and his men to not use their alcohol permit at all because we know that they would get drunk during their duty. I don't want the trouble from the governor's state. Just let them off from the list. Please email me with new volunteers on the list and I will approve that when it is the end of day within a week before the Christmas Annual Festival."
"Yes, Madame Mayor. Thank you. I will do that when we start today to recruit the volunteers. We only need 15 people to cover some shifts to switch for lunch break and dinner break plus bathrooms too."
"It's great. What's else?" Regina answered before approving on the Sheriff's Department paper for some equipment to be updated. David shook his head and asked a last question before leaving the office. The secretary was waiting in her seat in front of the desk. Regina nodded.
"I got a message from Mary Margaret, she said that you would use her father's mansion for Christmas Ball after the festival? Is it true?"
"Yes, my mother would use that because it's big enough for all townspeople to come in and enjoy their time during the Christmas Festival, is it?"
"True. I hope you find your date soon. I need a RSVP very soon."
"Oh right, I forgot to tell my mother that she should need Mary Margaret's help to send the invites. Will you mind to inform her as well?"
"No problem, I will. Have a good day, Madame Mayor."
"Sure do, Sheriff Nolan." David bowed his head to both of the ladies before leaving the office. Regina sighed and finished her paperwork then looked at her secretary. She voiced her question.
"May I help you with what?"
"I need to call my father. It's family emergency."
"It's fine. You can leave now. I understand the difficult situation with your family since you got here for a job. I can give you a week to resolve the issues with your family matters. Hope everything is ok." Regina said with a smile. Her secretary was relieved with thanks and left the office immediately.
At a same time, Emma came in the office with the beautiful roses for Regina. The brunette mayor was focusing on her budget excel on her laptop when she was working with math to subtract away. The golden-haired actress smiled to herself when she saw a beautiful sight of Regina with her glasses on her nose then knocked on the door.
Regina heard it and saw Emma there in the doorway. Her smile grew when it came to the beautiful sight of Emma. She stood up as Emma walked toward her. They pecked on their lips and the blonde woman gave her the flowers. Regina felt her butterflies fluttering in her stomach when she saw the roses in the vase.
"Oh aw, thank you darling."
"I'm glad that you like it."
"No, I love it! Regina smirked while walking to the conference table then strolled toward Emma for another amazing kiss. Their lips touched in a good bliss. Emma embraced her arms around the brunette mayor's waist closer. Regina turned her arms on the golden-haired diva's neck while they started to make out in a short time. They pulled apart to have their foreheads touching and sighed in a good way.
The knock on the door was heard. It was Mr. Gold. Emma and Regina stepped apart to break their small bubble around them. Regina smiled at the pawn owner and answered.
"Oh, hello."
"Hello dearie. It's a nice show you put out there. I hope I didn't interrupt your bubble."
"That's ok, I just came to see her. That's all I can do." Emma said in her nervous statement. Regina palmed her hand on her lover's back to calm her down and smiled at Mr. Gold.
"My goodness! Is it you, Emma Nolan? Wow, I can't believe that it is true."
"What is true?" Emma was perplexed.
"That you came back." Mr. Gold explained. Emma nodded and explained.
"Yeah, we returned for Christmas and we are staying here until New Year's Day."
"We?" The silver-haired man asked with his curiosity.
"Our son, Henry Jr. is here with her. They are here." Regina mumbled.
"Your son? That's the one who was hanging out with Zelena in the diner? A brown-haired boy with emerald eyes?"
"That's him." Emma said.
"Oh my god, he is looking like Regina in his splitting image."
"Yes, he is." The golden-haired woman smiled with a pride. Mr. Gold chuckled and opened his arms toward Emma. They laughed and gave each other's hugs before Regina shook her head.
"I miss you so much since you almost stole my pawn."
"I'm sorry about that day. I'm so embarrassed."
"No worries, dearie. It's great to see you again."
"Oh, how is Belle? If I remembered correctly."
"Did you know that she passed away few years ago?" Mr. Gold said with a sad smile. Regina smiled.
"What happened?"
"Heart Attack and Cancer." Regina answered for him. Mr. Gold went into his memories with his wife. Emma almost apologized for his loss of family member. Mr. Gold waved his head in a dismissal and spoke up.
"It's not a good time for me to explain everything so we should catch up soon sometimes this week if you are available."
"Sure, I mean, I'm free tomorrow if you want to spend your time in Granny's or somewhere else quiet and private."
"Just come to my place and I can make something simple for us. We can catch up as long as you are available and have no plans for the rest of the day." The silver-haired man explained with a smile. Emma nodded to agree with him and Regina smiled to them before speaking up.
"May I help you, Mr. Gold?"
"One thing is simple, I wanted to close up my shop and it's worthless to sell many antiques in there. I just wanted to retire by now. I have no family. My wife died and I'm all alone in a big pawn shop. So, I wonder if you could pull up your mutual acquaintances to be interested to sell my pawn shop. Can you?"
"Sure, I will look it up if you have plans to discuss with me on this week. I am available on this Thursday morning at 9:30am. If you want to set up an appointment then go see my secretary. She know my schedule as well."
"No problem, I did it before coming to see you. Thank you so much. That's all I came for. So, that was great to see you again. I'll see you soon, Ms. Nolan."
Mr. Gold nodded with his farewell before leaving in her office. The secretary showed up with her apology smile. Regina furrowed her brows at her and cleared her throat. Emma was raising her eyebrow at her lover then looked at her secretary.
"This is Robin Locksley. He's waiting in the room for about ten minutes and requested to see you immediately."
Regina swallowed a lump in her throat and nodded with 'give me a few minutes and I'll be prepared when I'm ready to meet him.' The secretary sent her an apology smile and bowed out of the office. Emma was perplexed when it came to the name of Robin Locksley and she was fully sure that she didn't remember him from her childhood but heard Regina's voice.
"It's my ex-husband before Daniel. We amicably settled our agreement while I was in the law school for two more years. When it happened while you left New York City with our son, Robin and I were the fling buddies until we just got stupider to get married for a short time, technically, we eloped and settled up on our agreement. It was not our fancy time and we were in the financial situation where we lived together for like six months. Then, we fell out of our sham marriage and decided to get divorced before I graduated from my law school. We never spoke of it again and have our own life. I came here right after I was engaged to Daniel while I was in my law firm. It was like three months later after I graduated. Daniel and I started to date and immediately, it went into five months and we were engaged for almost a year. I dumped him off and moved here to start my new career as a mayor after finding out that my father was sick."
"Damn." Emma stated with her widened eyes. Regina sighed with a nod then continued.
"I want you to know that I'm falling in love with you for long time. I've been thinking of you since you left the city. I never knew or understand why you did it. This time, I want you to trust me in your arms and wanted you to know that I love you. I want you to be my one always. So, I'm going to talk with Robin and see what he says. I don't want to go back to be with him because of our history."
"Regina, I love you too. I understand but I want to know why you and Robin get married while you were in your graduate school. I meant, the whole story."
"It's not this good time to talk about it. I know Robin very well and he is impatient with his time. I better go. We will discuss tonight or on this week if you prefer."
"No problem, Regina. I will see you soon if you are interested to join Henry Jr. and I for the seafood restaurant tonight. I was planning to see Killian there."
"I'd love to go with you and our son tonight. Give me a kiss before you leave here." Regina said with a smile. Emma widened her smile before giving her a peck of a sweet kiss. The brown-haired mayor was blissed with Emma's softest lips on hers and returned her deepest love for her. They finally split away and Emma bowed out of her office to see herself out of the building before glancing over at the dirty blond guy with an expensive suit. His face was prim and proper with his darkened beard. Regina faced her secretary for more files and looked away to Robin who was smiling at her. It went unnoticed by Regina but Emma saw the glint of his eyes which it was ogling on Regina. Emma rolled her eyes and knew that Regina told her to trust her.
A/N: Uh oh? What do Robin want from Regina? Before you scream, it's a SQ story. Did you see my bio? It's always SQ. ;-P.