31 Days of Fanon Swan Queen, Day 2: Who is the first to find out about them and how?

Summary: Emma and Regina think that they have a private moment alone. They were wrong… and in a rather comical way!

Rated T

The Flying Bicyclist

"Sheriff Swan!"

Sheriff Emma Swan moved suddenly at the reproachful sound of her name and hit her head up against the roof of the car yelping in pain. Backing out slowly, she turned on her heel to find an inquisitive Mayor Regina Mills glaring back at her, with an agog expression and hands on her hips.

"Jesus, Regina." Emma rubbed the back of her head.

"I am burning with curiosity, Sheriff. Would you mind telling me just what you think you are doing in the backseat of my car?"

Emma's face turned beet red and she chuckled nervously, "Well… you see… you're going to laugh."

"I doubt that." Regina sauntered closer, sashaying sexily in a navy blue business suit, tapered in all the right places to showcase the brunette's bewitching curves. Emma's mouth dried, mentally recording the movement of Regina's hips. Mayor Mills flicked a dark brown lock from her face with two fingers and placed the hand on the top of her back door. "How did you break into my car?"

Emma feigned offense, thinking back to her burglary days, and held her palms out at her sides as if the answer was obvious and gloated, "Please…" as opening the door had posed no real challenge for her.

Regina's eyes displayed her disinterest in hearing too much about Emma's mastery at auto theft. "Ah yes… your days of larceny." Regina inspected her car. "But I have an alarm."

Emma leaned against the inside of the door, closer to Regina. and winked, "Child's play."

"Well, I doubt it was my radio you were pilfering. Pray tell, what exactly were you trying to steal?"

"I wasn't stealing anything!"

Regina snorted and leaned forward demanding the truth. It was a little suspicious to catch Emma breaking in. "Come now, Miss Swan."

Just like that a playful light glimmered across green eyes and Regina instantly realized her mistake but was not all that upset. She felt a bolt of sexual awareness when Emma leaned even closer in a taunting manner and remarked, "Careful Regina. Remember what happened the last time you told me that."

The tip of Regina's pink tongue skated slowly over red pouty lips, thoroughly wetting them. "You are so naughty, Sheriff."

"Can I help it if you're all that and a bag of chips, Mayor Mills?"

Regina chuckled, licked her lips again and caught the bottom lip between her teeth, sucking the side of it in her mouth as she hungrily gazed at Emma's as it spread into a knowing smile. The aggravating blonde knew how much she wanted to kiss her. Damn Emma Swan and her adorableness anyway.

Sighing, Regina leaned against the door and softly asked, "What were you doing in my car?"

Emma's hand moved along the top of the door until her index finger was draped over Regina's pinkie, and at the first caressing stroke, Regina inhaled sharply.

"Emma…" It was a rather weak warning and Emma's grin became even wider. "Do not flash those dimples at me. It's not Tuesday."

"Or Friday," Emma mentioned of the special secret meetings that involved just the two of them, scheduled every Tuesday and Friday. "Although, I think maybe we should call an emergency Thursday meeting tomorrow." Emma draped her other arm over the door now and looked around and noticed the streets clearing. Surely, she could score a kiss from the mayor. It was late enough in the day. People were on their way home. Offices were vacant. Regina's car was the only one in the parking lot.

"Sheriff?" The mayor demanded an answer as her eyes flit from the Benz' interior to the blonde.

Emma colored a little and reached into her pocket. "Speaking of our last meeting…" From the inside of her leather jacket, Emma pulled a scrap of light blue material and held it up in front of Regina, whose eyes widened in shock, and snatched them from the Sheriff's grasp; her head of dark hair whipping from side to side to see if anyone was watching them.

"You left them in my car?"

"Well things got really hot yesterday and we ran over and were in such a rush to get back to work that I tried to find them, but couldn't, so yeah… I just left them."

"Henry could have found them!"

"Hence, why I was trying to get them back." Emma made a hand gesture to try and calm Regina down with only half a heart because, honestly, she quite liked it when the Mayor was flustered. "I knew he wasn't going back to your place until today anyway."

"You know you could have asked me to get them."

"When? In our town department head meeting this morning?" Emma assumed her most official voice and joked, "Madame Mayor? I'd like to make a motion for you and me to search your car for my underpants. I think they might be under the driver's seat when you slipped them off my person to finger me while you were sitting atop my head, taking certain enjoyable liberties with my face."

Closing her agape mouth, Regina pinned Emma with an amused stare for the Sheriff's humor. Shaking her head a little critically, Regina muttered, "Amazing."

Emma purposely chose to misunderstand her and jibed, "I know. I know." After a pause she continued with a mischievous smile, "The things we were able to do in that back seat. Absolutely amazing. Regina, I had no idea you were so limber."

The brunette mayor lost it then and silently chuckled. Emma Swan said the craziest, silliest and yet sexiest things. She tried to pretend to be scandalized, but Regina was nothing but intrigued. Without thinking she leaned forward, wanting to shut the blonde up with her lips but pulled back. Dammit. Why can't it be Friday?

"What am I going to do with you, Sheriff?"

Emma blew out an impatient huff, her body already effected and wanting Regina in the worst way. "Well, we can set up an emergency meeting tonight." Blinking, the blonde thought better of it. "Or now. Right now." Emma was nearly ready to climb over the damned door to get to Regina.

Regina leaned up against the it hopefully. She wasn't serious about staving this passionate moment off until tomorrow. If anything she wanted the Sheriff just as much right now as the woman wanted her. "What happened to an emergency meeting tomorrow?"

"Regina! I've got an emergency in my pants right now that needs your attention."

Playing coy, Regina shot her a winning grin, which also happened to be one of her most alluring and teased, her tone rich with passionate promise, "Why Sheriff Swan… I have no idea what you expect me to do about that."

Tease. She's such a TEASE but holy crap, I like it. The hand of the arm that was draped over the door caressed the brunette's hip before skimming over her left buttock, generating a heated gasp from Regina but then it disappeared as the Sheriff had to remind herself that they were in public. Emma couldn't help herself though. "You can start by giving me a kiss. One little kiss. The streets are empty. There's no one around, look!"

Regina temptingly took in Emma's lips and scanned the area around them. The streets were unoccupied and she really did want the Sheriff's taste. With eagerness, she stepped forward and watched Emma perk up in excitement.

"I knew you wanted me, Mayor."

Shaking with light silent laughter, Regina uttered before their lips joined, "Against my better judgement, Sheriff."

The kiss began slowly, as if they were savoring the touch of lips as they moved against one another. Perhaps it should have ended there, but when they started nipping at one another and their tongues came into play, their heads angled so that the kiss could deepen and they were moaning, tasting and enjoying every movement, sandwiching the Mercedes' door between their revved up bodies. The inside door panel was already digging into Emma's middle, but she didn't care. She couldn't get enough of Regina.

They were so involved with one another that they didn't see the flash of yellow and white until it was too late and then it was gone, having crashed into the bushes across the street. They heard the hearty curse word before the bicycle's rider was thrown into the foliage. After separating, they looked at one another with foreboding and walked briskly together to see if whoever had caught them kissing was hurt.

[X]

"Nick! NICK!" Emma and Regina ran to the other side of the bushes and helped the 15 year old to his feet. He was dressed in his Storybrooke High Uniform, without the sweater, and his tie was knotted loosely at his neck. Emma inspected him and decided that he didn't seem to have a head injury or anything. As a matter of fact, the teenager seemed to recollect exactly what had caused the crash that had sent him hurtling over his handlebars and onto the ground.

His wide blue eyes darted nervously between Emma and Regina and he blurted. "I didn't see anything. Honest."

Emma's jaw dropped and she apprehensively looked at Regina, wondering what her reaction would be at getting caught. Regina seemed to be scrutinizing the situation with her signature, unreadable, furrowed brow. When the brunette lifted her eyes to the Sheriff's, Emma was relieved, and delighted, to see a bit of humor in them.

Both women knew Nick Zimmer. He was Henry's best friend, which posed a bit of a problem at the moment. No one knew that Emma and Regina were seeing each other in secret, especially not their son, and they had only been seeing each other for a little over two weeks now so this was still new to them.

Regina seemed to read Emma's mind because she looked at the boy and said matter of factly, voicing both their concerns. "It is a little unfortunate that you happened along when you did, Nicholas."

Emma knew Regina had meant that it was unfortunate for them, not for him, but his face drained of all color and his eyes widened in fear. He put his hands up at them. His upper arms were already clasped in each of their hands as they had helped him up.

"You're… you're…" Nick looked to Emma and said, "You're not going to turn me into stone, are you?" His gazed fixed on Regina and his eyebrows rose toward his hairline in horror. "Or, or give me a tail?"

Both women looked at each other in disbelief and they purposely kept their lips from turning upward at the comedy of all of this. "Nick, my turning people to stone days are over. Don't worry."

The relieved teen nodded but remembered the other woman present and looked at Regina warily.

"Hmmm…" The former Evil Queen raised an eyebrow in a clearly teasing manner. Well, at least it was clear to Emma, but poor Nick gulped and moved a little closer to the Sheriff for protection and she rolled her eyes, pinning Regina with a glare to stop kidding around. The brunette's red lips spread into a fetching smile, "My tail-giving days are over as well. After all, if I gave you a tail, I'd have to give you the ears to go with it."

Frightened and bug-eyed, he looked at Emma and Regina threw her head back and silently laughed and covered her mouth with her hand for Emma's benefit only and Emma shook her head reproachfully at her. Nick turned and caught the mayor laughing at him and his shoulders slumped in relief.

"I thought you were serious, Ms. M."

When the teenager and Henry had become good friends and they had started hanging out, he had addressed her as "Your Majesty" and Regina quickly put a stop to that. First of all she was not the Queen here and secondly it was time to turn over a new leaf with the boy and his sister, so she welcomed both into her house and told them Mayor Mills, or Ms. Mills, was a perfectly fine name to call her. Somehow all of Henry's friends began to call her Ms. M, if not just Mayor, and she had to admit she rather liked it. Ms. M wasn't the Queen. Ms. M was Henry's mom and really that is all she wanted to be now.

"Nicholas, I promise you that you have nothing to fear from me. However, there is a seriousness to this that needs to be discussed." Regina patted his arm and stroked his back soothingly. Only Emma saw the blush creep up his neck and onto his face and she turned her eyes away with a smile. She knew all too well what it was like to have a crush on Regina Mills.

"I… I won't tell anyone."

Twisting her face up unsurely, Emma threw him a sidelong glance and asked, "You'd be comfortable lying? Even to Henry?"

He looked down at the ground. "No. Henry's the best friend I've ever had. We don't lie to each other. He's like a brother to me. I'd take a bullet for him."

Emma's eyebrows shot up at the vow of sincere devotion while Regina gave a look of approval and a warm smile at the boy's loyalty to their son, which seemed to make Nick blush harder.

"I thought so," Emma chuckled and they all looked around them.

"So why don't you just tell him?" Nick shrugged gaining both women's undivided attention again. "Henry can handle it."

Regina worried the inside of her lip between her teeth and glanced at Emma uncertainly. "You think so?"

"Yeah…I mean, he can be a dufus sometimes, but he loves you both and only wants you guys to be happy. You're his moms."

"We were thinking more that he would freak out and not talk to us or something," Emma responded while toeing the grass with her boot. "We know he loves us but we haven't been too eager to have this discussion with him." And why are we having this discussion with you? Emma shook her head crazily to herself as Nick thought over her response in his head.

"Well yeah…" Nick slipped his hands in his back pockets and tilted his head. He looked at Regina. "But you know, he's going to be more peeved that you guys are keeping it from him."

"What do you suggest, Nicholas?"

Both pairs of eyes turned to Regina in surprise that she was asking the teenage boy for his advice. In truth, Regina was just as astonished at herself, however talking about Henry being "peeved" about them lying made her a little uneasy. Just last night she had been thinking about Emma and wanting to take their relationship to the next level, meaning out of secrecy and going public. She had thought about Henry, about how she had promised him she would never lie to him and how best to tell him that she was truly interested in romantically seeing his other mother.

He cleared his throat. "Well… honesty is always the best policy." He moved his hands from his back pockets to the front ones and afforded both of them a hopeful smile. "Tell you what. I'm Henry. Tell me that you're hot for each other."

Regina made a choked sound as she and Emma swapped incredulous expressions. Emma awkwardly scratched the back of her head.

"Come on. Let's hear it. Lay it on me. You can practice."

"Um," Emma sounded, shuffling her feet, then dug them in, "Henry…"

"Yeah, Ma." Both women jerked their heads back as Nick channeled their son perfectly. So perfectly that Emma became a little unnerved and fell completely silent.

Nick sensed her uneasiness and tried for Regina, turning to her and in his best Henry imitation narrowed his eyes and stumped Regina with, "What's going on, Mom?"

All Regina could do for a moment was stare with her mouth open. Composing herself she smiled and offered, "Henry. What Emma is trying to say is that she is utterly infatuated with me…" Nick glanced at Emma who rolled her eyes absurdly as if to say, Oh yeah it's just me infatuated. "And she would like to ask your permission to date me."

Nick had sucked his lips between his teeth to keep quiet, letting the mayor finish talking. She was probably going to give him that tail after his next comment. "Um… Okay. And how do you feel about her, Mom?"

"Thank you!" Emma crossed her arms and waited expectantly.

Regina's cheeks took on a little color and she snickered. "Fine! I feel exactly the same way about her and would like to see where this goes."

"Why didn't you guys tell me?" Nick crossed his arms sternly.

"We… We didn't know how to, Henry. But we never intended to keep it from you. Your mom and I realized we had these feelings and we were swept up in each other. But you are still so important to us and we're coming clean now and we really hope we can all just move forward as a family."

Nick leaned toward Emma and gave her a thumbs up. "I like the mention of family. Nice touch, Sheriff."

"Thanks," Emma chuckled.

"So you guys are into each other. Is it serious?" Nick slipped back into Henry mode.

Both women without delay said, "Yes," at the same time seeming to surprise one another.

A moment of quiet passed over the small group and both Emma and Regina seemed to only have eyes for each other and the smile they suddenly shared was one of promise. Nick eyed the two smitten women and put his fist up to his mouth and coughed loudly to remind them he was still there. He offered an innocent grin when he had successfully drawn their attention again.

Suddenly, Regina's ringtone went off in her pocket and she looked at the screen and told the other two quickly. "It's Henry!"

Nick spoke up. "Answer it! Tell him! You guys did good!" Regina shushed him by waving her hand, ignoring the impulse to correct his grammar, but the teen was so excited that he couldn't keep still and babbled on, "You're ready! He only wants you happy. He won't stand in the way."

Emma grabbed Nick around the neck and clapped her palm over his mouth, "Shhhh!"

He nodded then and they both watched, Emma's hand still over his mouth, just in case, when Regina activated her phone. "Henry?" She looked at Emma and Nick with a nervous inhale. Then she blinked and frowned. "What? Okay." She brought the phone down and activated speakerphone and Emma let Nick go as Henry's voice filled the air.

"Hey… so where are you and Ma? I'm starving. Can we get pizza for dinner? Ma, you're coming over for dinner right?"

"Uh," Emma verbalized through her bafflement, "…yeah?" She looked to Regina who shrugged.

"Sure, we can have pizza, Henry. Why don't you call it in?"

"Okay. Can Nick come over for pizza too?"

Emma gave the upturned phone in Regina's hand a suspicious look and answered. "Sure. Call him and ask him over."

There was a long pause.

"Hey Nick," Henry said in a relaxed tone. "You want to come over for pizza?"

The three pulled back struck dumb by Henry's question and Nick looked at Regina first and then Emma and mirrored Emma's reply from a few moments ago, "Uh… yeah?"

"Cool!" Henry sounded happy and excited but his mothers were totally bewildered.

"Henry…" Regina began quizzically.

"It's okay, Mom. I don't know what happened, but Nick butt-dialed me a while ago." Nick dug into his back pocket and took out his phone. "I heard everything."

"Whoa."

Regina and Emma exhaled and looked at one another.

"So, you're not mad?" Emma asked and moved a little closer.

"I was at first. I mean, come on, it was a little weird to think about, but I thought about what Nick said, and he's right. I want you guys happy. If you make each other happy then that's what I want too. I mean there'll probably be a few awkward moments maybe? I don't know. Maybe not. But we'll deal with stuff as it happens. Together."

Emma had gotten to know her teenage son pretty well and with a glance urged Regina onto the same wavelength and when the brunette shot back a knowing look she stared at her phone as Emma crossed her arms.

"And what else, kid?"

"What?"

"You heard your mother, Henry," Regina scolded, "We know you. What else?"

"Well…" Perhaps it was because he wasn't exactly in front of his mothers that gave him the courage but he did don the sweet-son voice that Regina was always a little weak for. "If I got a free video game out of the obvious guilt at your deception, I wouldn't say no."

Emma snorted and Regina shook her head while Nick nodded his and mumbled to himself, "The dude's a genius," which had both mothers tipping their eyes skyward.

"We will talk about this later, young man. Order the pizza. I will be home with it shortly." Regina disengaged the call and Emma and Nick walked around the bushes to his bike that was stuck wheel first. They had to pull harder than they thought because it was wedged in there pretty tightly.

"Awww, balls!" Nick swore without thinking and then blushed in front of Emma and Regina. "I meant like basketballs and footballs and…"

"Yeah, yeah… we know what you meant," snickered Emma as she saw the bike's problem.

"What's the matter," Regina inquired dismissing the teens balls comment completely.

"The wheel is a little bent. It'll probably take a month's allowance to fix it." Nick ran his hand through his hair in disappointment.

"That's not a problem," Regina soothed and put her hand on his shoulder and Emma held back a laugh at the teen's pinking cheeks again. Oh Regina, Regina! The former Evil Queen aside, this woman was the town heartthrob and she didn't even know it. "Watch this." She waved a hand over the wheel and it shimmered for just a moment, revealing what looked like a brand new wheel.

Nick was so overcome with joy that he forgot himself and threw his arms around Regina and gave her a tight hug making the mayor squeak in surprise and Emma's jaw to drop.

Emma's hand covered her eyes in disbelief and then slid to cover her mouth to hide her laughter. Regina looked so awkward at the display of gratitude and affection that she patted Nick's back in a placating motion. "Okay, dear. You're welcome." But the enamored teen didn't look like he wanted to let go and poor Regina had no idea why. Emma chuckled then and moved to separate the boy from his crush.

"Okay, okay. We're all grateful. Yay, bike fixed and all that."

"Thanks." Nick gave a sheepish grin and put his hands in his pockets.

"Okay, well… Emma, why don't you and Nick head on home and I will get the pizza."

Home. Regina had meant her house but Emma liked it being referred to as home. Where they would be together, with their son.

"Yep. Okay." A playful grin lit her face and Emma caught Regina's eye. "Looks like we can come out of hiding."

Regina beamed at her and stepped a little closer. "Looks like it. I'll see you in half an hour, Sheriff."

"Copy that, Mayor."

Nick blushed and hid a smile again, turning to give them privacy as they gave each other an innocent peck on the lips, fully messaging to anyone who saw that they were together.

Emma backed away a little and Regina gave her a wink before she turned, but Nick moved to give Regina a hug of thanks again, and Emma silently laughed and grabbed the poor boy by the back of the collar before he could reach his target. "Hold up there, Romeo. Come on. Let's get you and your bike home and talk to your dad about dinner."

As they walked Nick's bike to the yellow Volkswagen, Emma smiled and said, "You want to see something really cool? Check this out!"

Laying Nick's bike on the ground, they stood back and she snapped her fingers. The teen goggled as the bike shrunk down to miniature size.

"No way!" Nick was fascinated as Emma placed the bike in the palm of his hand.

"Get in."

Once they were both in the car, and Emma ignited the engine, Nick narrowed his eyes and turned to her. "Just for the record, I know she's with you." Emma glanced over at him and realized that Nick Zimmer would probably never stop surprising her. She could see why he and Henry were friends. The kid had a lot of spunk, was honest and actually pretty noble. "I guess I have a tiny crush on her. Is that stupid?"

"Not at all."

"It's just Mayor Mills is really pretty."

"Preaching to the choir, kid."

"You don't think she noticed do you?"

Emma chuckled and shifted into 1st gear. "Nope. I think you secret's safe."

Nick assessed Sheriff Swan and nodded his appreciation. "I think you two are going to work out. You guys are perfect for each other."

"I think so too, Nick." Steering onto the street Emma glanced at him holding his bike between his thumb and forefinger still amazed to be holding it in his hand. "Hey. Thanks for all your help with Henry."

Nick slipped the bike into his shirt pocket and waved Emma's gratitude off. "Nah… it was nothing." He gave her a charming smile and retorted, making them both laugh as the car sped down the street, "My butt did all the work anyway."

Thank you for reading "The Flying Bicyclist". I hope you enjoyed it. Reviews and comments are always appreciated. More Swan Queen ficlets will be coming soon!

-JCSQ, xox