AN: Wow, it's been a really long time. So sorry for the wait. I promise, no matter how much time passes between chapters, this story will be finished.
The trio arrived back home in a cloud of swirling purple smoke. It was only upon their arrival that Emma realized her precious yellow bug was stranded back at Snow and Charming's place. She groaned internally, knowing she would have to retrieve it tomorrow. Hopefully her wayward parents would have left by then.
Regina strode into the kitchen while Emma and Henry collapsed onto the couch. She took a moment to gather herself, and her run away thoughts. It had been a long time since she had felt a legitimate urge to kill someone. Threats against her family brought the Evil Queen roaring back to the surface. Thankfully her family also kept her grounded.
Pulling an apple pie from the fridge and a pint of ice cream from the freezer the brunette gathered up some spoons and joined her family in the living room. Her partner and her son tore in to the proffered desert with gusto. Smiling, Regina wasn't far behind them.
For the first time in a long time both women tucked Henry into bed, sitting with him until he drifted off. Once he was asleep Emma grabbed Regina's hand and gently tugged her up off the bed, leading her by the hand into their bedroom.
The mayor closed the door behind them swiftly pulling the blonde into her arms as soon as the latch clicked. A single breath later, gut wrenching sobs tore through the sheriffs strong form. With a subtle hand gesture behind Emma's back, Regina magicked them onto the bed and under the covers. In this new position she pulled her lover to her chest and hooked a leg over Emma's hips.
As sobs continued to roll through Emma's prone form Regina ran soothing fingers through long blond tresses, gently scratching her nails against the blonde's sensitive scalp. She began humming a simple melody, the same one that Granny had sung to her so many years ago when she was a little girl in the Enchanted Forest.
Slowly the sobbing eased, the blonde's breathing slowed and Emma began to uncoil her tense muscles in Regina's lap. She looked up into the face of her true love, dark orbs filled with compassion and understanding peered down at her. Reaching up she traced her lovers strong jaw with trembling fingers.
"Gina" she began, "I have never felt more grateful for anyone's presence in my life. You make me strong and whole, even when I feel like falling down. I never want to spend a day without you. Marry me?"
"Emma... of course I'll marry you. But, I don't want you to rush into this because of the actions of your imbecile parents."
The blond pulled back, untangling herself from her brunette lover. She stood and strode to the closet reaching in and grabbing something from inside one of her running shoes. Turning around she held a black velvet box in an out stretched palm.
"Babe, this may not have been the super romantic proposal I had been planning, but it's a genuine one."
Opening the box, Emma knelt on the mattress next to her speechless fiance. Taking the ring, a pillow cut diamond tension set in an elegant platinum band, from the box Emma proceeded to slip it onto Regina's left ring finger. Tears streamed down sculpted cheeks while the brunette worried her lower lip between her teeth.
"I love you Emma Swan! With everything that I am, have been and will be." The dark queen sobbed before throwing herself at her princess who easily caught her and pressed their lips together.
Moaning, Emma opened her mouth to the ravenous queen, who quickly plunged her tongue into the welcoming cavern, beginning the only kind of duel that both contestants win. While her mouth was being pillaged, the blonde began running her hands up and down the brunette's strong back causing her to shiver, goose bumps breaking out across olive skin.
Reverently, the women began stripping one another only breaking their heated kiss when shirts had to be lifted over their heads. Emma pushed Regina back into the mattress, covering every inch of naked skin with her own. Pressing their foreheads together the blonde snuck one hand between the press of their bodies, pinching and rolling an already hardened nipple between two fingers.
The brunette groaned, grinding her hips into the sheriff's. She grabbed Emma's ass and pulled the blonde further into her already dripping core.
"Fuck, Gina! You're so wet for me baby." Emma gasped.
She pulled back, looking down at her beautiful fiance and smiled. She traced a line from pouting lips to heaving chest to quivering abdomen. Like a sightless scholar, Emma gently traced the braille road map of scars on her lovers damp thighs, a poem she had already memorized and cherished. As Emma's finger tips tickled each ridge Regina's smile widened.
"They were worth it because they led me to you," she sighed.
With that, Emma's hand finished it's journey and buried itself between her thighs. Arching her back off of the bed Regina cried out for the first time that night. The blonde's nimble fingers were massaging the spongy tissue within her while her thumb circled the hardened nub of her clit. She knew it wouldn't be long before she fell over the edge, and didn't want to fall alone.
Regina wiggled her hand between their now sweat soaked bodies and found Emma's drenched and clenching pussy. Without pause she sunk two fingers into her frantic lover, burying herself to the hilt. Twisting within the blonde's heated core she easily found the spot that would throw Emma from the ledge. With several perfectly timed thrusts both women fell, screaming each others names. A soft golden glow spread through the room, originating from the tangled bodies on the bed.
"Regina! What the hell is that?!" Emma exclaimed.
"That's us. It's a manifestation of our true love magic."
"Damn babe, we're pretty awesome. Yeah?"
"Yes dear, we are indeed awesome."
Emma rested her head on Regina's chest, listening to the steady beat of her lovers heart. She fell asleep with a smile on her face, that didn't fade even as she dreamed.
AN: I know, short chapter with limited dialogue – but Emma needed some serious loving after her parent's betrayal. I promise the next chapter will move the plot forward.