Waking up the following morning with grass green eyes staring into hers wasn't what Regina was expecting and she found herself longing to stay in bed and keep looking in them for the rest of her life. But the grinning face of a certain Emma Swan told her that this was not going to happen.
"Good morning, did you sleep well?" Emma asks scooting a little closer to Regina. Regina breath hitched at Emma's closeness. She wanted to feel Emma's warm breath against her skin. Regina scooted away from Emma and stood up.
"I slept well, thank you." Regina told Emma and grabbed her robe. "Have you been watching me all night. "Regina asks feeling a shiver run down her spine at the thought of Emma watching her. No she can't keep down this to herself, she had to stop these thoughts.
"Yeah I have and yeah I know I totally sound like a creep right know but in my defence you look so cute when you're sleeping, it's hard to look away." Regina had to bite her teeth, she couldn't hear these things, theirs is no way Emma and her are ever going to be together.
"I'm going to take a shower." Regina says and hurries into her bathroom, locking the door and resting against it. Why does she keep saying these things, why can't I just ignore everything she says. Regina turns on her shower and for the next ten minutes she let's all her thoughts go and when she is back in the bedroom she has her perfect mask on again and there is no way Emma is going to detect her feelings.
"So what's the plan for today?" Regina asks siting back on the bed and putting on some of the flats she found in the back corner of her closet.
"Today I need you to do some things for me. We are going back to the hospital and I want you to talk to my mother." Regina gulps and swallows.
"You…you want me to speak to your mother. Do I need to remind you about what happened last time. She yelled and scared the shit out of me."
Emma burst into laughter and clutches her stomach. "Oh god…please….hahaha…..don't…hahaha tell me your scared of my mother. You Regina Mills, the woman who can make a grown man cry is scared of my mother."
Regina rolls her eyes. "Don't you laugh at me Emma, she is scary. You didn't see the crazy look in her eyes when she saw me almost touching your face."
Emma shakes her head. "I'm sorry, you're right. Mom can be really protective at time but I promise you. I'll be there and I will tell you what to say."
Regina looks down and breathes in. She groans when she feels a little pressure on her chest but ignores if for now. "Alright, let's go."
When Regina entered the hospital again she was convinced that she didn't like hospital at all. It had a weird smell and people were sick or sad. No she definitely didn't like it here and having to go talk to Emma's mother wasn't making this visit any better.
They entered the elevator and Regina pressed the button to the third floor. She could feel herself sweat and her breathing was getting heavier. Emma saw how uncomfortable Regina was feeling and let her hand take hers.
Regina focused her eyes on their intertwined hands and looked up into Emma eyes and smiled. Emma was there with her and she was going tell her what to say to her mother. Regina gave Emma a nod showing that she was fine, things are going to be okay.
The elevator doors opened and Regina followed the signs to Room 108, just like last time Regina found herself frozen at the door when she saw Emma lying in the bed, looking pale.
"You okay?" Emma asks still holding Regina's hand.
"Yes I'm fine but it looks like your mother isn't hear yet." Regina says walking further in the room and taking a seat next to the bed.
"Yeah, she always comes around twelve o'clock. She has a lunch break from work and then she leaves and when work is over she comes back and stays with me until visiting hours are over." Regina nodded and looks at her wristwatch, they still had half an hour to go before she would show up.
"You know they should really brush you hair more often." Regina says looking at Emma's curly hair. She reaches out and brushes some pieces out of Emma's face.
"Wait! What did you just do!" Emma says raising her voice. Regina startles and retracts her hand.
"What? I …..just brushed some hair out of your face. What's wrong?"
Emma places a hand on her cheek. "I felt something. It tickled, I think I felt you touching me." Regina looks back at the Emma in the bed. She reaches forward again this time cupping Emma's cheek. Regina looks back to Emma and sees how the blonde's eyes grow really big.
"I can feel you! I can feel your hand." Emma enthusiastically says walking closer to Regina and behind her. "Do it again."
Regina reaches out again and this time she let only her fingertips trace the pale skin of Emma cheek. Regina turns to Emma and watches how Emma closes her eyes while Regina let her fingers trace over the skin again.
"This feels really good." Emma says opening her eyes again. "I have never felt this before. My mother would touch me but I never felt it."
"What do you think changed?" Regina asks still with her fingers on Emma skin. She liked how soft it was.
"I don't know. Maybe your just special." Emma says staring in Regina's eyes. She can see how Regina breathing changes and how the brunette let her eyes lingers on her lips. Emma knew she was being unfair to Regina, she could tell Regina was starting to feel things for her and Emma would be lying if she didn't felt the same way. In the beginning Emma had just been intrigued by Regina, she wanted to know the woman behind the walls and now that she knew her and she couldn't get enough of her.
"Excuse me, what are you doing." Regina snapped her eyes away from Emma's lips and felt herself back away from the bed when she saw the same brunette woman that had yelled at her.
"Don't be scared Regina." Emma says standing right next to her. "I'm right here for you."
Regina nodded and looked back at Emma's mother. "Good day, my name is Regina Mills." Regina says taking a step towards the woman and holding her hand.
"Yes and what are you doing in the room of my daughter, again." The woman asks looking Regina up and down.
"This is going to sound crazy but your daughter wants me to talk to you." Regina says breathing out.
"My daughter is in a coma and she's not waking up!" The woman says raising her voice making Regina flinch.
"Her name is Mary, tell her that Emmy loves her." Emma says looking at her mother. Regina can clearly see that the blonde is struggling to hold in her tears.
"Mary." Regina says and the use of her name makes Mary pause and look at Regina in confusion.
"How…"
"She wants me to says that Emmy loves you." Regina quickly adds making sure that the woman has heard her.
"Tell her that I'm fine and happy but that I'm ready." Emma says taking a step closer to her mother and letting her tears fall freely.
"She wants me to tell you that's she fine and happy but that's she's ready."
Emma dictates what she wants Regina to tell her while standing right in front of her mother.
"She's ready to go. She doesn't want to fight anymore and she wants you to go and live, she doesn't want you to be all about work and her. She knows about your co-worker David and she wants you to go out with him ." Regina can barely hold back her own tears when she sees how Mary's knees buckle and she needs to steady herself against the bed.
"She says that she loves you with all her heart and that she will always watch over you."
Mary is sobbing and holding her hands in front of her face. Emma bends down to eye level and places her hands on Mary's. "I love you mommy."
Regina can't take it any longer and leaves to room. She finds the restrooms and locks herself up in a stall. She holds her stomach and cries. Is this how it's going to be when she has to say goodbye to Emma? She can't do that, she doesn't want to.
"Regina?" Emma calls out for her. Regina sniffs and whips away her tears before opening the stall.
"I'm sorry, I just needed a minute." Regina says taking some paper and cleaning her nose. "Alright what's next?" Regina asks and puts on a brave face but inside she feels like she's crying her eyes out.
"Now we need to find a certain brunette nurse." Emma says and walks out of the restrooms with Regina following close behind her.
"So how do you know Ruby?" Regina asks looking at the tall brunette that is making goofy faces to a crying child.
"She's my best friend." Emma says laughing at Ruby's faces. "We went to school together. We were a dynamic duo, we played pranks and rebelled against the rules of the school. We were like soulmates but without the romantic part. I did try one time but she's straight and we work better as friends." Regina nodded. She wished she had a friend like that it would have made her high school experience much better.
"So what do we need her for?" Regina asks sipping from her thee.
"I need you to tell her about me. She needs to know that I'm here and I'm looking out for her and that I love her." Regina nods.
"How am I going to make her believe that it's really you?"
"Tell her…tell her that she can come into my room and talk to me. She hasn't been in there since the accident, I think I would be good for her. And tell her that she has to put her red streaks in her hair again, they suited her." Emma says.
Regina breathes in deeply and stand up. The child that was crying has stopped and a other nurse is taking to his room.
"Nurse Lucas?" Regina says and Ruby turns her attention to the other brunette.
"Miss Mills, is everything alright?" Ruby asks concern written over her face.
"Yes everything is just fine. I was wondering if I could speak with you for a minute?" Ruby nods and directs Regina to a chair in the family room.
"What can I do for you?" Ruby asks.
"This is going to be hard to believe but I need you to have an open mind." Regina gives Ruby a serious looking making sure that what she is going to say isn't a joke.
"Why haven't you been in Emma's room?"
Ruby's mouth drops open and she frowns. "How…..what?"
"Emma has been accompanying me for the last days. The first time I saw her was when I woke up from my surgery. She wants you to know that you can go in her room. She's still looking after you and she loves you."
Ruby can feel herself starting to breath quickly. This is a joke! This must be a joke, there no way in hell that Emma is….that's she's still here.
"I knew from the moment that I saw you that you were a mean person, miss Mills!" Ruby says standing up. "But I could never think that a person can be this cruel!" Ruby wants to turn but Regina's voice stops her.
"She wants you to put red streaks in your hair again! She says they suited you!" Ruby's eyes go wide and she is looking around to room not knowing what to think or do.
"How can you know that?" She whispers.
"She's telling me what to say. She has been telling me what to do and to say for the last days, it's actually really annoying." Regina explains.
Ruby chuckles. "Yeah! That's Emma!" She stops chuckling and frowns at her own reaction. Is she really believing this? How else would this person knowing these things.
"Alright! I need you to answer this question! If it's true what you are saying, only Emma knows the answer to this!"
Regina nods and looks to her right making sure that Emma is ready as well.
"When we were sixteen and my first boyfriend and broken up with me. Emma and I we made a pact, what was it!"
Emma is smiling at her friends question. "We made a pact that if we were single when we were forty we would marry each other. We kissed each other to seal the pact and it was my first kiss." Emma says remembering the memory.
"You two made a pact that you would marry each other if you were still single when you were forty. To seal the pact you guys kissed and it was Emma's first kiss." Regina repeats when Emma told her.
Ruby's hand goes up to her mouth and she gasps. "Emma! She's here!"
"Hey Rubes!" Emma goes to stand in front of her friends who is looking right through her.
"She says hey Rubes. And she's standing right in front of you." Ruby's hand goes up trying to feel something but it's only goes right through Emma.
"O god!" Ruby says and almost faints but Regina quickly picks her up and sit her down on a chair.
"Why is she here?" She asks Regina.
Regina waits only Emma explains but for she repeats what Emma told her.
"She says that she needs you to remember what she ones told you about dying and her funeral. But she also says that you can't tell me. Really miss Swan, I have been doing you biting for the past days. Why can't I know!" Regina asks turning to Emma. Ruby only watches with her mouth open.
"Fine alright! She can't tell me!" Regina huffs and Ruby chuckles.
"Really Emma, you sure you still want that?" Ruby asks.
"She says yes."
"And you sure you want her to be this person?" Regina looks at Ruby and then at Emma.
"What person I'm I?" Regina asks at Emma.
"That's what she can't tell me! Your such a pain in the ass Emma!" Regina says rolling her eyes. Ruby watches how Regina speaks and smiles to the invisible person sitting next to her and something click inside her something she knew really well.
"Regina?" Ruby asks and Regina turns towards her. "Do you like Emma?" Regina's eyes widen and she can feel herself blush.
"What?" Regina asks nervously.
"You like her!" Ruby exclaims again.
"Yes of course. she isn't really a pain in the ass, she's nice."
Ruby shakes her head and smiles. "You like 'like' her."
Emma who is following the conversation watches Regina reaction. The brunette is sweating and fidgeting with her fingers.
"Regina?" She whispers. Regina hears her but doesn't turn to her.
"She's my friend." Regina says to Ruby and looks down. "Your my friend Emma."
Emma flinches at the emotionless statement of Regina. She thought she had read Regina right. All the signs she has been giving her, the looks. Was Emma making this all up in her head.
"Do you want me to say something else?" Regina looks back at Emma.
"No that was all, she knows what to do." Emma says and she can't help but the hurt is clearly heard in her voice.
"Alright, miss Lucas. I thank you for your help. Emma and I have some other things to do." Regina says ending the conversation.
"Wait! Where is she standing?" Ruby asks and gestures into the room.
"She's standing at your right side and she's looking at you." Regina says and watches how Ruby turns her body towards Emma.
"I love you Emma." Ruby says and Emma can't help but lurch at her best friend and pulling her into a hug.
"I love you so much Ruby!" Emma says and Ruby swears she can feel a shiver run down her spine.