A/N: Hello everyone! So I'll admit I use Google Translate sometimes so I won't use the same words over and over again, since English isn't my first language. Sometimes I can really imagine your frowning faces, like whenever I use a word that is totally irrelevant. Still most of the time it works for me :) Just tell me when it gets out of hand :3 A lot of you really do despise Hook and Robin, and I agree. Especially CS. I think Emma and Hook's relationship is just toxic and self destructive. Emma has become quite a stranger to us lately so I really wish they'll bring that badass-sassy side of hers out again in season 6.

I hope this chapter will be enjoyable!

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Emma clenched her jaw tightly at a loud crack when walking the steps of Regina's staircase. She made it upstairs and tiptoed to the older woman's bedroom where she peeked around the corner. She listened closely for any sign if the woman was already asleep.

"Emma?" Regina muttered from underneath her covers.

"Hey… Can't sleep?" Emma asked and walked in slowly.

Regina sighed and sat up, leaning against the wood of the headboard. "Not really."

"You came." The mayor said with a smile. She didn't actually expect the sheriff to show up anymore.

"Of course I came." Emma said and sat down at the edge of the bed. "Sorry I'm late."

"That's okay." Regina shrugged her shoulders. "You're not obligated to be here Emma." Regina pointed out.

"No I am not. But I want to be here." Emma softly smiled, her eyes turning smaller at doing so.

Regina snorted softly, finding the idea of someone actually 'wanting' to be with her a little confusing since she wasn't exactly the most pleasant person at some times. Even with Robin, she still felt like she wasn't enough.

If like the saviour was able to hear the older woman's thoughts. "Have you been able to get in contact with Robin yet?"

Regina shook her head. "No… I don't think he feels much like talking."

"He's being ridiculous; they are all being ridiculous." Emma said referring to her parents and Hook.

"All?" Regina frowned.

"Hook… My parents think it's unwise of me to visit you." Emma sighed.

"Well maybe they are right." Regina said instantly receiving a disapproving look from the other woman. "I've been the cause of a lot of misery- hell… Emma I even ruined your childhood."

"You did not." Emma firmly said.

"I did… Indirectly. If it weren't for me, your parents wouldn't have had a reason to put you in that wardrobe in the first place."

"But then we wouldn't have had Henry." Emma said, sensing the older woman's distress.

Regina weakly smiled. "I guess not…" She said.

"You just try to get some sleep. I'll stick around." Emma suggested and motioned for the woman to lie down which she did.

"What? Now you are going to tuck me in like a child? What's next? You'll tell me a bed story?" Regina sarcastically said.

"Be good and I might just sing you a lullaby." Emma joked and wrapped the covers around the mayor. "Just sleep." It was hardly a whisper. Regina looked at Emma, for just a moment a thought crossed her mind. To grab Emma by the back of her neck and pull her in for a kiss. Regina found herself troubled with the alluring thought and just closed her eyes, following the saviour's instructions. "What about a goodnight kiss?" Regina snorted in soft laughter, coming back on the bedtime routines. Even though it was meant as a joke, Regina suddenly felt lips planted on her forehead, she still had her eyes closed throughout the whole thing but her lips parted instinctively. Emma pulled back shortly after and left the mayor unable to say another word.


Emma jolted back in her chair when her head dropped like a bag of sand. The mayor was already fast asleep, and Emma guessed it was time for her as well. She slowly tiptoed to Regina's bedside, allowing her eyes to wander across the older woman's features. Again it was so easy to appreciate the little details. Who would've thought the Evil Queen would snore? Emma held back a grin on that thought and decided to return to the guestroom.

Regina was whistling a cheerful tune, coming up the stairs. In her hands she held a plate with breakfast. Some strawberries with sugar, baked eggs; one for each, some orange juice and mint tea. Something to surprise the saviour and thank her for her help.

Regina knocked three times before she was answered by Emma's sluggish voice.

"Good morning." The queen said when she walked into the room. Emma was laying on her stomach, the bedsheets half on her and half collecting dust from beneath the floor.

"I don't want to know what you do during your sleep." Regina pointed out, sitting down on the guest's bed and placing the plate in front of her. Emma immediately caught on the smell of baked eggs and crawled up. "Oehhh you've brought breakfast."

"Strawberries with a little sugar, baked eggs, orange juice and mint tea." Regina proudly announced.

"You really shouldn't have gone through all that trouble Your Majesty." Emma teased and took a bite of her egg.

"I wanted to surprise you." Regina confessed. "And thank you, for everything you've done for me."

"Regina…" Emma found herself lost for words. A simple 'thank you'. A word that was so little used by the two in the past and yet so powerful. The gesture alone was already enough to make Emma's heart melt.

"Just shut up and eat your breakfast." Regina strictly said but with a cunning smirk.

"Yes, Your Grace." Emma obediently replied.


Regina was just starting on her self-made orange juice when she suddenly heard the doorbell. "Odd, I wasn't expecting any visitors." Regina said as she looked at the blonde who had already finished her breakfast.
"I'll be right back."

Once Regina had made it downstairs her eyes pierced through the glass of her front windows to see the infamous pirate standing on her porch. She opened the door and carefully greeted him. "Hello."

"Where is she?" Hook asked, obviously referring to his 'lover'.

"Where is who?" Regina asked, choosing to act ignorant.

"You know bloody well who! I am speaking of Emma!" Hook now raised his voice.

"Easy pirate. She's not here." Regina thought it was best to keep Emma hidden, especially after what Emma told her about their last rather unpleasant encounter.

"You're lying." Hook snarled, grabbing Regina by the throat with his good hand, not actually choke her but with enough force to make the woman feel it.

"You're making a big mistake." Regina said with an intimidating glare.

"HEY HEY!" Emma came running down the stairs, looking daggers as she watched the scene unfold. Hook hesitantly let go of Regina who immediately paced back afterwards. Emma protectively rushed in front of Regina and angrily pushed Hook against his chest. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" She yelled.

"Emma easy…" Regina grabbed the blonde's shoulder, shaking her head in protest.

"Swan. I thought she had hurt you." Hook explained, trying to excuse himself.

"Why would she do that?!" Emma asked, still on edge. She balled her fists so hard, her nails pierced through the skin of her palms.

Hook didn't know what to say. "Because she… she-" Never had he seen Emma this livid.

"Because she is the Evil Queen? Is that your excuse of grabbing her by the throat?" Emma gnashed her teeth.

"My apologies." The pirate said, avoiding eye contact by staring at his feet.

"We're over Hook!" Emma said giving one more push before turning her back at him. "Don't show your face here again." She took Regina inside and closed the door.


Once inside, Emma breathed out, whether it was from relieve or something else, Regina could not tell. "Are you okay?" Regina asked.

"I'm fine." Emma said, walking away from the older woman.

"No no… You're not doing this. You're not putting up your walls for me Swan!" Regina called out after her, watching the blonde drop her head in defeat.

Regina carefully approached the sheriff, Emma could be a fragile tea cup sometimes. Even though she always acted the 'badass', deep down Regina knew from experience it was just a defence mechanism.

"Emma…" Regina had barely touched the blonde or she had found two arms wrapped around her waist and Emma's head against her shoulder.

"He doesn't know you. He's a jerk." Emma mumbled, her eyes turning a little watery.

Regina felt for her friend and in some way guilty she was the cause of their break-up. Never had she been much fond of the pirate. Was it jealousy? Was he even good for Emma? Well what did it matter anyway how she felt, this was about Emma. Set your priorities straight Regina.

"Sweetheart…" Regina placed her hand on the saviour's back and started rubbing a vertical line. "Are you alright?"

"I am actually. It was about time we ended things." Emma said as she pulled back and rubbed away some lost tears.

"But I thought things were going well between you two." Regina said.

Emma shook her head and smiled vaguely. "Half of the time we were avoiding each other and the other half we were fighting." Emma explained.

Regina took the blonde to the living room where they sat for long hours and just talked.


After they had ordered a pizza, they decided to watch a movie on Netflix. Something Regina had never heard of before but was apparently something known in Emma's world.

"There is a movie of Snow White?!" Regina's eyes flared up at the title.

"Uhm… yes." Emma nervously chuckled and quickly skipped a few movies.

"Am I in it?" Regina asked.

Emma gulped. "Yes."

"Let's watch it." Regina said with much excitement in her voice.

"Yeah… No."

"What? Is it that bad?" Regina asked, curious to know what made the blonde so secretive about this matter.

"The Evil Queen gets jealous of Snow White because she is the most beautiful. She then turns into a freakish creepy old lady to get Snow White to take a bite of a poisonous apple. The Evil Queen's plan is a success but later on in the movie prince Charming finds Snow in a glass coffin and kisses her awake." Emma kind of spoils her the whole story in hope Regina would change her mind about watching the movie.

"What happens to me?"

"You kind of fall off a cliff." Emma bluntly said.

Regina deeply furrowed her eyebrows and stared at the bottom of her wine glass. "Alright. Maybe a different movie."

"Yes." Emma said agreeing with the mayor's final decision.

"So she went as far as to poison a girl simply because she was… prettier?" Regina asked, coming back on the Disney movie.

"I guess."

"Tsk…" Regina scoffed. "How dull."


After the first hour of the movie, Emma had already fallen asleep, her legs across the arm of the chair and her head resting on Regina's lap. Regina was following every small movement. Every twitch of Emma's lips, every mumble that escaped her every now and then. Regina felt flattered the saviour felt so at ease with her. She has had the best time with Emma. Regina felt genuinely happy, to finally know the true essence of friendship, still her mind couldn't be more clouded whenever she wished they were 'more'. Was it possible she was developing feelings for the blonde? Regina wasn't yet able to name the emotion she experienced whenever she was around Emma, an emotion so very distinct from how she felt with Daniel. Her heart just seemed like to run as that of a wild horse's whenever she was with her.

She mocked the idea of her happy ending being 'the saviour'. Surely she was not worthy of such a woman. All the terrible things she had done. The damage she had inflicted and people she had hurt. Could there ever be redemption? Regina's hand nervously searched contact, and rested at Emma's head, her thumb stroking the blonde's well-tended eyebrow. The fact Emma was still fast asleep gave the mayor some courage to continue. She moved her hand a little lower, her fingers trailing the side lines of the woman's cheekbone. Emma mumbled some unclear words which made the mayor's heart skip a beat. "What am I doing?" She whispered to herself, removing her hand from the sheriff to support her heavy head.


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