CHAPTER 15
Ruby POV
After running from the hospital I finally made it to the forest. "At last some peace and quiet" I said aloud. Don't get me wrong, I didn´t like to leave Emma worried, but I needed space.
The race was quite a tiring one, so I tried to calm myself by breathing slowly. Just as I was regaining my breath, those memories came back.
"No, please not again" I closed my eyes and I repeated over and over again to myself this soothing words:"It´s just a memory, it´s not real, I´m safe now".
And again I said aloud: "It´s just a memory, it´s not real, I´m safe now".
"You know if I were you, I wouldn´t be so sure about that" A deep voice said.
I turned around and I saw a man wearing a suit that matched his hat, and covered in a coat. He was probably in his forties, he was tall and strong. He looked intimidating.
"Who are you?" I said with the small courage I had in that moment.
"You see, it doesn´t matter who I am. I´m just a man doing my job" He said mysteriously.
"And what job is that?" I said crossing my arms getting tired of his bullshit.
"Well, kill you of course" He smiled in a creepy way as he pulled a gun from his coat.
I gasped slightly.
"Woah woah, stop. I´m sure we can talk this one out" I said lifting my arms. I had to think a plan to escape.
"That can´t happen, I have clear orders to terminate your life. It´s not negotiable" He pointed his gun at my chest.
"Orders? That´s what you are huh?" I smiled wickedly. "A simple man doing the dirty job of his boss, how pathetic" I mocked him. He growled and I remembered the flick knife that Granny gave me.
"How dare you?!" He came to me and knocked me off like in a football move, action that made my head bump into a rock which made me scream in agony.
"You arrogant child" He shot me in the right leg.
"Ahh you bastard" I shouted painfully. I stood up as well as my wounded leg allowed me, and I put some distance between us. Just as he was about to come at me again, Ipulled out the flick knife and I threw it to his abdomen hitting him fully. "Well those throwing knife classes finally paid off" I thought.
"Bitch" He said as he fell onto the floor.
I limped until I got where he was and I kicked the gun out of his reach.
"Look buddy, you don´t need to die" I paused "That is, if you answer me of course" I paused again and then said "Who sent you?"
He laughed "I´m not telling, bitch" He spit.
That was his wrong move.
"So the hard way you choose" I pulled out the flick knife out of his body. He hissed in pain from the sudden move.
"You know I just need answers, and if you're smart enough you would not like another wound, now would you?" I said in a menacing tone.
He remained silent so I pressed my hand against his wound, wanting him to answer "Would you?" I repeated louder this time.
"Agh alright alright, I'll tell you" He surrendered. "It was Marcus"
Not again.
I swallowed, hard trying to recompose myself in front of the bleeding man.
"Look I told you" He said "I need an ambulance" He demanded.
"I don't see how that is my problem" I said coldly.
"What?!" He looked at me nervously "You're the one that stabbed me" He complained.
"And you're the one that wants me dead!" I yelled in frustration.
I moved quickly and then the pain in my leg made me stop.I paced back and forth trying to think of a solution that would get me out of trouble.
I stopped moving and I looked at him.
"How about this" I made a pause "You don't kill me and I'll call 911" I suggested.
He looked distressed. I could see his inner debate between surviving and having to face his boss, or dying out here in the woods. In both scenarios he would suffer. His bad though.
"Well I'm waiting" I said carelessly.
"Fine" He said between gritted teeth.
I smiled deviously, "Perfect". I grabbed my phone and I called 911 " Hello, uhm I found a man in the woods unconscious and with a wound in his abdomen" I looked at him and he stared back at me with a confused look on his face "Alright thanks" I hung up.
"They'll be here any minute now" I began to walk out carefully not to harm my leg.
"Hey you!" He shouted.
I groaned "What now?, I thought you would keep your mouth shut now that we made a deal" I turned around staring at him.
"Why did you said I was unconscious?" He asked me.
"Oh that" I went to collect his gun. "I was hoping you would pass out from the pain. I guess I'll have to induce that to you" I approached him as fast as my wounded, leg allowed me.
"What the h-" I knocked him off with the back of his gun. Not strong enough to kill him, but with a powerful move enough to send him to sleep.
"Aren't you a chatty one" I said to the unconscious man.
"Well Ruby, time to get out of here"I said to myself.
Zelena POV
I started to run towards the sound of the previous gunshot.
"Please don't be dead, please don't be dead" I repeated this to myself as I ran, until I bumped into someone.
"Hey watch it" She said angrily. I instantly recognized her voice.
"Ruby?! I'm so glad you're alive" I said thanking whoever it was to thank that this young girl was still alive and kicking.
"Why wouldn´t I?" She dodged the whole gunshot situation.
I pulled one of my classic Mills' faces.
"Really? Do you think I didn´t heard that bloody gun and the scream, which I think was yours?" I arched a brow.
"I don't know what you're talking about" She said distant. I huffed and when she started to walk away from me, I noticed it.
"You're limping" I pointed out.
"That is just a… Well it is a..." She tried to make an excuse but she was failing so hard.
"Oh cut the crap already. You know I came here to talk to you. Emma warned me about what would happen if I ever hurted you and how bad that would end for me. Do you think that she will be happy when she sees you like this?" I reasoned.
"No" She answered with a small voice.
"Then if you don´t want to tell me, just let me take you to the hospital" I said touching my body that still ached from the car accident and it was hurting from the previous race I did.
"Speaking of hospitals, are you crazy?! You should be resting now woman, you were in a car crash" She helped me sit in a big rock that was situated nearby.
"Well you are the one to talk, miss problematic" I bickered back.
"Okay fine" She huffed. "I don't know why but I think you can be trusted. After all you are the sister-"
"Half sister" I precised.
"Half sister" She said rolling her eyes a bit "Of my best friend´s girlfriend" Ruby ended her sentence.
"I can be trusted, I have as much issues as you if not more" I laughed sadly.
"Ha! I doubt that" Ruby replied.
"Well why don´t you tell me your drama and then I´ll tell you mine" My strategy was working.
She doubted for a few seconds before adding a "Whale why not" Which made me want to laugh, but I suppressed it.
"It all started when I was thirteen..." She began.
Regina POV
"Please say something" Emma said.
"I don´t know what to say, I´m kind of speechless" She looked nervous."It´s like whatever I say won´t even stand a chance with your declaration of your love for me" I teased her.
"Oh come on, don´t flatter yourself love" She approached me.
"I think you just did that for me" I teased her more which made her chuckle.
"Don´t be a meanie" She pulled her classy puppy eyes.
"You know I can´t do that. It´s-" I began.
"Part of your charm I know" She kissed my cheek. "So what do you say your majesty… Want to go home?"She said with flirty eyes.
"What about my sister?" I reminded her.
"She is going to be okay. Is not like she is going to die for talking to Ruby or something" She wiggled her eyebrows, which was a very convincing thing for me, and then we rushed to her yellow bug.
We arrived to the car. We were both eager to feel each other. Emma started the engine and I fought with all my willpower to not fuck her while she was driving. It was hard but I did it.
She parked the car and by the time I was struggling to open the damn door, Emma was behind me moving in a sensual way.
"Damn it Swan" I said breathlessly.
After what felt like hours I opened the door and the thing that happened after that shocked me. Emma closed the door, sandwiching me between her and the previous object.
"I´m going to show you my dark side, your majesty" She said in a predatory tone.
I was so turned on that I couldn´t even form words, so I just growled.
She kissed me and things got heated fast. I teased my tongue against her soft lips and she gladly allowed me entrance. That feeling was indescribable. Her tongue swirling around mine as we battled for dominance got us impatient, so we started undressing each other in a messy way. Is like we couldn't be apart from each other, we attracted the other like magnets, those which even with the hardest pull back, always found a way back to their opposite.
"Emma" I said in a pleading tone as she kissed my neck, while she was tearing the remaining clothes that still attached her body.
"Yes my majesty?" She said provocatively.
My eyes signaled that I wanted her and I wanted her hard, thing that she got by the next movement she made.
She tore off my bra and started to kiss my breasts while she slid her left hand inside my panties and she began to play with my clit. "Ah fuck. Go faster" She didn´t, which made me arch my eyebrow. "Swan go f-" "Regina I told you that I would show you my dark side tonight, so I suggest you to stop throwing commands at me" She said in a sexy yet demanding tone. In any other occasion I wouldn´t have let her, or anyone, talk to me like that, but I was so eager and interested on what her dominant side looked like that I let it slide.
"Well, we like it rough don´t we?" I teased her.
"Yes we do my love" She stopped her actions which made me get frustrated. After that, she put her body behind mine. Then she did the same thing she was doing: she was playing with my breasts with her right hand as she kissed my neck while playing with my clit with her left hand.
"Well, I like this dark side of you Swan" I said half moaning.
Then she growled and her left hand went faster.
"Oh fuck. Someone liked that nickname" I growled.
"Yes she did" She bit my neck.
"Hm" I know very well how to play this game. I thought for an instant and then I said in my raspiest voice:"Take me Dark Swan"
The woman lost it. She undressed me in a lightning speed and threw me to the couch. Seconds after my butt landed on the object she started eating me out.
"Gods yes" I arched my back from the pleasure I was receiving. As a reflex move, I grabbed her head guiding it to the place I needed the most.
She hugged my right leg in order to get a good position in the limited space that was my sofa. Every time she licked me, she would accompany that move with a scratch on my right thigh.
"Damn it, you remember my thing with scratches" I said as I adjusted my hip movements with the ones that her head made.
"I would answer you, but I doubt that you want me to stop now" She stopped her tongue movements and she began teasing my insides with one finger.
"Don´t you dare Swan" I said in a regal tone.
"Thought so" She came back to her previous ministrations.
While she was eating me out, she added a second finger in a rougher way.
"Fuck yes" I moaned.
Then she stopped licking just to adjust the rhythm that she was creating with her left hand. So now, she was moving her whole body.
"Wait Emma I can barely move here" I stood up ignoring her frustrated growl. "Let´s go to my bed Dark Swan" I blinked an eye at her and she followed me upstairs.
Regina POV
We were in the bed now. My body was facing the bed. Girl must have guessed what I like.
"I'm going to make you scream in ecstasy my majesty" She whispered with a raspy voice in my ear. Fuck. That was so hot.
"You may get a surprise if you do it from that angle" I provoked her.
"Is that so?" She asked.
"Mm-hm" I voiced in agreement.
"Well I do like surprises" She scratched my back while she was kissing my neck. Then she did it harder and approached her delicate fingers to my core caressing it teasingly.
"Hmm Swan don't stop" I growled.
"Not a chance darling" She entered my vagina.
"Fuck!" I yelled at the sudden penetration.
She climbed on top of my back while she began to thrust. She needed to have me closer as well as I needed her.
"Do you want more your highness?" She said in a seductive voice as she kept thrusting me.
"Ah" I moaned. "Y-yeah Em-ma" I managed to say somehow.
"That's my Queen" She added a third finger and I could feel the orgasm approaching by now.
She went deeper and harder.
I lifted my butt slightly for her to go deeper. She noticed it and she obeyed my orders. One, two, three thrusts…
"Fuuuck" I cried out "I can't take this anymore "I moaned loudly "I'm going" My body started to tremble hard. This feeling that I was experimenting had seem forgotten to me.
Four, five, six seven and finally the eighth.
"Yes, come for me my majesty" The sound of her voice, that nickname and her rough movements were just too much.
"EMMA!" I came with the loudest scream you could ever imagine.
Then it happened.
"Oh woah, that's new" Emma said with a funny voice.
"What?" I said breathlessly.
"What´s new?" I turned around.
She smirked. "That" She said pointing at the sheets. I looked at her arching a brow and then I looked down.
"It appears that I fucked you successfully" She approached my face and then she bit my earlobe. "You soaked the bed love" She giggled.
"Oh gods this is so embarrassing" I covered my face with my hands. "This hasn't happened to me in years" I chuckled.
"Do you mean that I'm the lucky girl that made you squirt again?" She giggled in a cute way.
"Emma" I laughed as I hit her shoulder softly "Stop, this is not appropriate for a Queen" I said frowning.
"Oh come on Regina...Since when are we appropriate?" She reasoned. "Plus there is nothing to be ashamed of, my love" She kissed my hand.
"I like that nickname darling" I looked at her as I dedicated her beautiful self one of my enamored smiles.
"I´m well aware" She cupped my cheeks with her hands, and then she kissed me sweetly.
Ruby POV
"… I was in the foster system because my parents died in a car accident when I was two years old" I gulped remembering how hard was to grow up without them.
Zelena touched my shoulder to give me support and I replied to her gesture with a weak smile.
"Wait, what about Granny?" Zelena wanted to know.
"She was the mother of my mom and they weren´t talking since my mom was twenty, so she didn´t know about my existence" I looked at her and she nodded.
"I grew up in the system, and, as Emma knows, that place is not really good for children. Fortunately, I was adopted at that the age of thirteen by a lovely couple" I paused to regain my breath "They adopted me because they had just lost their son due to leukemia when he was two" I said sadly.
"Oh, poor family. It's a good thing they decided to adopt you then" Zelena said hopeful.
"I'm not finished yet" I said serious. "The mother was in a deep depression after the lost of her child, and she took her own life three months later" My voice cracked at the memory.
"I'm so sorry Ruby" She said in a sweet voice "What was her name?"
"Her name was Martha. She was very loving even though you could tell back then that she was hurting" I sighed, which got Zelena's attention.
"Are you okay?" She asked concerned.
"I'm just preparing myself for the rough part" I answered.
"Do you mean that this was the 'good' part?" She wanted to know.
"Yea" I controlled my breath in order to stay calm.
"After Martha was taken away and buried, the father kept me with him as a promise to his deceased wife. It didn't last. By the age of fifteen he sent me back to the system"
I was about to cry.
"Zelena could you please hold my hand?" I said looking at her with watery eyes.
"Of course" She held my right hand.
"So I was there, back at that place with no friends, because everyone had found a home already. I was missing my adoptive mom like crazy" A tear fell down my cheek. "A year later, Marcus, my adoptive father, came back and adopted me again. I was weary of him, because he seemed changed, but I still went with him because I missed having a proper home" I sighed "I must have listened to my gut" I paused trying to regain courage "As soon as we went back to the house he locked me up in the basement. He said he wanted me to suffer like his wife had" I was crying my eyes out by now.
"He blamed me for her death. He said that it was my fault that she killed herself because I wasn´t enough. I was locked up for three months. He gave me food and water but everytime he went down he would abuse me" I chocked on my tears.
"Ruby...Did, did he touch you?" She said fearful for what my answer would be.
"No, nor did he hit me. He just played mind games which made me feel like I was worthless" I sobbed and she hugged me. It was comforting to talk about it but it also made the memories come back.
I held her tight.
"It came down to a point where I believed him, so I was depressed for those months when I was down there" She hugged me back and rubbed circles in my back trying to soothe me. It helped. We stayed like that for a couple of minutes until I was calmed enough to continue with my tragic backstory.
"It wasn´t until the foster care went to check how everything was going that they noticed that Marcus wasn't the kind of man that he appeared to be. The police came by and that is when I met Neal. He was the cop in charge for the kidnapping and through him I met Emma and later on, Graham" I paused to regain my breath. "Marcus ended up in jail and he swore..." I doubted to tell Zelena.
"He swore what?" She asked eagerly. "Ruby please talk to me, I'm trying to help you" She touched my arm and I backed away.
"Why would you want to do that, hm? Do you think I'm just some case of charity that you can solve just to make yourself feel better about yourself?" I replied louder than before. "You don´t know how I feel!" I bickered filled with anger.
Zelena POV
"Do you know what? Fine, I will stop now. And for your information I do know how you're feeling. My mother rejected me before she got married and when I found her as a kid, she locked me up in an asylum after my father died. She had to take care of her adored reputation" I mocked the statement that Cora said all those years ago. "So don't you dare to reprimand me for not knowing how it feels to be mentally abused!" I replied in a menacing tone.
Ruby was speechless.
"I´m sorry, I didn't know" She apologized.
"I bet you didn´t" I replied coldly "Next time, think twice what you are about to say, specially before you lash out at someone that is just fucking trying to help" I ended the conversation angry.
After that last comment I decided to call Emma.
"Yes?" She said in a happy voice.
"Oh gods, you two banged didn't you?" I groaned.
"What? No, we-" She tried to lie to me. Ha, not in the mood blondie.
"Save it. You´re beloved friend is in deep shit. I expect you two lovebirds in half an hour by the Troll Bridge. It's important" I hung up before she could protest.
The following half hour we spend it in silence.
Ruby was clearly alarmed by whatever it is that happened in the woods.
"Why can´t she just tell me? I know that I'm practically a stranger but I am just trying to help… Actually the lashing out at people that don't have anything to do with her problems is a feeling that I know too well, in fact, when I reprimanded her like that, I was also directing that reprimand to me. I spent years hating almost everything and everyone" I thought.
"Oh wait how was that song? 'Once I was filled with rage, now I enjoy the ride, is so electrifying watching all her dreams deny. Oh I, will fly into tomorrow, my sister full of sorrow, finally paying for her sins. I'll smile, all the while she is crying, inside she's slowly dyinglearningwicked always wins. Oh evil may be powerful, but wicked always wins'..." I kept singing my favorite song just to pass the time. I know it is a mean one, but I found it when I hated my step sister, so it was kind of fitting. Plus the song is catchy, I can't help but loving it.
I looked at Ruby. She she was stressing. I knew that because she kept pacing back and forth nervously.
"You will dive a hole if you keep doing that, you know" I said carelessly.
"Oh ha ha, very funny. Remember me, why are you not a comedian?" She lifted a brow at me.
I approached her so I could talk to her looking at her in the eyes.
"Just knock it off miss problematic" I teased.
"Make me miss funny" She replied"
We looked at each other. Well there was some sexual tension over here.
I looked at her lips. Damn did they look kissable.
"Hold your horses Zelena, you are mad at her. And now is not the time" I reminded myself. I must have been dozed out for a long time because Ruby stood closer to my face.
She cupped my cheeks.
"Hey" She said loud "You in there ginger beauty?" She asked.
"Did she just compliment me?"I thought.
"Oh so you think I´m pretty then" I gave her a naughty stare.
"Psst, as if. You are a pain in the ass" She looked at me hungrily.
"Well that is what Regina often calls me yes" I said.
Our faces were inches apart now.
"Luckily I don´t want to fuck everyone that says that. I'm not into incest" I provoked her.
"Oh interesting" She stood closer than before.
Now our noses touched and just as I was about to lean in…
"WHAT THE HELL PAIN IN THE ASS?!" Regina yelled. "NO ONE FUCKS WITH MY SEXY TIMES!"
Emma POV
"Babe relax, I'll finish you up later" I tried to calm Regina with provocative words.
"Okay darling" She purred to my ear. She will kill me wit her sexiness one of this days I swear to Satan.
"Oh you two stop it" Zelena whined. "I called you for a good reason"
"To watch you and Ruby getting nasty out here in the open?" Regina sassed.
Zelena and Ruby blushed and I laughed.
"Shut up Evil Queen" Zelena bickered.
"You shut up Wicked Witch" Regina bickered back.
"Girls come on, let's get serious" I reasoned. I looked at my best friend. "Ruby, is there anything that you want to tell me?"
She looked down at the floor. Oh oh, that is her gesture of 'I just screwed up and I don't want to tell'.
"Well, I'm waiting" I crossed my arms.
She sighed audibly.
"Emma, is Marcus" She said.
That son of a bitch. I felt anger burst inside of me. I let a minute or so went by just to cool it off.
"Wait, who is Marcus again?" My Gina asked.
Ruby and I exchanged looks. She nodded giving me permission to tell her.
"Well, long story short, he wants to harm Ruby badly because he blames her for the suicide of her wife" I summed up.
"Oh" She reacted opening her eyes in shock. "I'm sorry for that Ruby"
"It's okay, we are not letting him harm me…" She paused. "Not again" Her voice cracked, action that made my heart ache for my best friend.
"Well, you don't need to say what happened precisely. I'm in" Regina said.
"You are?" I asked.
"Yep, I'm going to stick by you because you are important to me, and Ruby is important to you" She explained herself.
"And what about me" Zelena asked.
"Oh yeah you too" She teased her. Zelena frowned "Gee Zel, you know I'm kidding. You are my sister, of course you are important to me" She went to her sister and the duo hugged.
"Okay thank you" Zelena smiled and hugged her back.
After the family moment I thought that we really needed to have a plan so Ruby had to talk.
"Ruby, talk" I said.
She sighed "After I ran out from the hospital, I went deeper into the woods to think and calm myself. While I was doing that some bully that Marcus hired tried to kill me. Luckily I was only shot in the leg because I provoked him" Ruby confessed.
"Are you out of your mind?" I yelled.
She lifted her hands in peace "Just hear me out will you?" She said calmly.
"Okay" I said through gritted teeth still agitated.
"I only did that to distract him so I could think of a plan to escape. Eventually I remembered that Granny gave me a flock knife to protect myself after she heard about Marcus" She let that sink in and then she added "And above that, she made me go to throwing knife classes"
"Grandma is a badass" Zelena commented.
"So after he shot me, I threw the knife to him hitting him in the abdomen" She looked at me "It wasn't a mortal wound" I sighed in relief.
"Then I kicked the gun out of his reach and I used his wound against him" She ended.
"What do you mean by that Rubes?" I wanted to know.
"I pressured his wound because I wanted him to tell me who his boss was. And then..." She gulped visibly
"And then?" She didn't say a word.
"Ruby you better end this story now. I am not mad at you, I just want to know what happened exactly to get in control of this situation" I tried to reason.
She hesitated a few seconds and after that she continued with the story: "And then I made an anonymous call to the ambulance saying that I had found him like that in the woods and unconscious. He was still awake so I knocked his head with the back of his gun. But again it wasn't mortal" She excused herself.
"Well, aren't we screwed" Regina said.
"I agree but we have to be smart about this" I began "I have got to get back to NYC and Regina does too, because we have been here two days and we have works to get back to. So I will tell Graham and he will help us" Ruby groaned.
"Not Graham Em" She whined.
"Yes, after all is better to have two cops than one to handle..." I just couldn't describe the situation
"All this crap" I made a hand movement to indicate my words.
"Okay but what about Ruby? Are you going to let her stay in here?" Zelena asked worried.
"I am not a kid thank you very much" Ruby argued.
"I never said you were, it is your safety we are talking about here" Zelena argued back.
"Okay kids calm down" Regina intervened.
"Zelena" She looked at her sister. "You and Ruby will have to protect each other in case something bad happens"
"But-" Zelena began her complaint.
"No buts. Ruby has a work at the diner with her grandmother, which no offense, is like a mama bear with her" Ruby nodded "And you dear sis, have a work as well" She said pointing at her. "So all you have to do is live in the same house until we come up with a plan" Regina stated.
Both Zelena and Ruby looked like little kids being scolded by their mother. This would have been funny if there were other circumstances.
After she huffed, Zelena said "Okay, we will live in my house once I ask Granny if she is okay with it. That way she can look after you in the mornings, while I do that in the nights" She directed her speech to Ruby.
"Oh kinky" I commented in a low voice only for Regina to hear. She giggled.
"I heard that" Ruby said.
Maybe it wasn't so low after all.
"Okay, then is all settled" Regina looked at me". Time to get back to the city!"
Hello guys. First of all, I am really really sorry that it took so long. I barely had time but now is summer, which means that I will update more regularly. The days of the update may variety, but I assure you that I will do it. Another thing that I wanted to say is that I am really grateful. Thanks to the people who are reading this, the ones who favorited the story and also the ones that comment from time to time. This is my first fanfic after all and I am glad that you are enjoying it.
That being said...what do you think about the new drama involving Ruby? Feel free to comment your thoughts and I will take them in consideration for the rest of the story.
Okay and the last thing is that I wanted to make this chapter longer because you all deserve it honestly, but I make no promises that all chapters will be this long. I will try though.
So after this long Author's note I wish you all a happy day/evening/night!
Happy Pride Month!
Lots of love, Cris.