I'm really proud of the title of this chapter haha. Anyway, this chapter is for .581 with the prompt "Emma and Regina at the zoo".
Just a quick note, the zoo in this chapter is an actual zoo in Maine. And it looks AWESOME.
Ever since the town had gotten a little break from all of its usual craziness, Emma and Regina had been having "date weekends" out of town. It was a time for them to get away from town and simply enjoy being together.
However, Henry wasn't a huge fan. Ever since Neverland, he never really liked being away from his mothers unless he absolutely had to. Especially now that Zelena had been around as well. And while he understood that they wanted time together, they didn't need to do it every weekend. Did they?
"You guys are leaving me with Grandma and Grandpa again?" Henry whined. "I hate being alone with them. They make lovey eyes and talk about always finding each other."
Emma burst out laughing as she put her and Regina's bags in the car. "You'll live."
"Complaining about Snow and David again?" Regina teased.
Henry rolled his eyes. "As if you wouldn't do the same thing. If you saw what they acted like, you'd probably create another sleeping curse."
"Please," Regina scoffed. "I'm tempted to make a sleeping curse everyday that I'm around those two."
Emma closed the trunk and turned to glare at her wife and son. "Alright you two. Stop making death threats towards my parents."
"It's not a death threat," Regina said, smirking. "Sleeping curses just put you in a death-like sleep. Therefore, it's a sleep threat."
Henry started laughing and he and Regina high-fived. Emma couldn't help it. She started laughing with them. "Okay, okay. We have to get going," she said.
Henry gave them both a hug before walking back inside the mansion. Snow and David were scheduled to pick him up from school that day, and then keep him at the apartment until Regina and Emma returned on Monday morning.
"Ready to go?" Emma asked as she buckled in.
"With you, I'm ready to go anywhere," Regina said.
Emma laughed. "And you make fun of my parents for being cheesy."
"Where are we going?" Regina asked. Emma just smiled as she parked the bug. Regina looked skeptically at their surroundings. They were in a parking lot. With a lot of other cars.
"You know that I don't like crowds," Regina said.
"I have a feeling that the cute animals with make up for it," Emma said, smiling.
Regina just looked at her in confusion. Emma laughed. She loved showing Regina new things that weren't in the Enchanted Forest. Even if it was something as childish as a zoo.
"What is the point of this?" Regina asked as they walked through the front gate.
"You walk through and look at the animals," Emma said. "The other half is an amusement park too if you want to do that."
"That I'll pass on," Regina said. Emma laughed. Regina's first encounter with a roller coaster had been the funniest thing ever.
"Come on," Emma said, grabbing Regina's hand. "There is so much that we have to see."
They started by walking straight through the gate and looking at monkeys and other primates, before walking past a swan.
"Aw look," Regina teased. "It's a member of your long-lost family."
Emma laughed before pushing Regina playfully. "I am not related to a bird just because my last name is Swan."
"Whatever you say," Regina said. Emma rolled her eyes.
They continued walking, seeing a kangaroo, alligators, a bobcat, and other animals before stopping at an enclosure of black swans.
"It's your dark cousins," Regina said, laughing.
"I hate you," Emma said, starting to laugh. Within seconds, both women were hysterically laughing, drawing the attention of people around them.
They grabbed a snack before continuing to walk. They stopped again at the lion enclosure, and Emma started laughing again.
"What's so funny?" Regina asked, smiling at Emma's laughter.
"I was just thinking about how you could be related to lions," Emma said. "Since you're the Queen, and lions are the royalty of their habitat."
Regina laughed. "That is the lamest connection ever."
"Hey, I tried," Emma said. They continued walking, walking past the tiger exhibit next to the lions.
Emma smiled before linking arms with Regina. "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"
"You did not just make a Wizard of Oz reference," Regina said. "Do you not remember our recent encounter with my sister? The Wicked Witch?"
"Whoops," Emma said, smiling sheepishly.
Regina just laughed. "Come on. We should head back to the hotel. Let's go say bye to your swan family member."
Emma huffed but let herself be dragged back towards the swan as Regina laughed. "I can't take you anywhere," she mumbled.
"And yet we go on a trip every weekend," Regina teased.
Emma chuckled. "Okay, you've got me there."
They walked together, hands locked in between them. Emma started swinging their arms back and forth, and Regina chuckled. They walked out of the zoo gate and Emma smirked at seeing the roller coaster on the outside of the park.
"You sure you don't want to give roller coasters another go?" Emma asked.
"Over my dead body," Regina said, pulling Emma after her towards the parking lot.
Emma laughed and let herself be pulled back towards their car. "We'll work on it."
Thank you so much to everyone who reviewed! Tomorrow's chapter will be my own since it's the 4th of July, but after that I'll use the prompts in the reviews!