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SWAN QUEEN WEEK

Day 7- Trapped Together

"Miss Swan, may I ask what the hell are you doing, poking around my basement?" came Regina's annoyed voice from behind her and Emma spun around, feeling awfully like a child caught with their hands in the cookie jar. Even though she actually had a reason for being down there.

"Henry asked me to bring up his roller skates, he said they were in a box on top of that cabinet." Emma pointed to the cupboard she was fiddling with.

"Henry doesn't own roller skates. He fell with his ice skates when we tried one winter and ever since he refused to put anything like that on his feet. He has a skateboard but that's upstairs in..." Regina's sentence was cut short when they heard the door to the basement close up with a loud bang and the unmistakable sound of a lock turning into place followed.

"Oh no..." Emma muttered while Regina strode up to the door and tried opening it and failed. There was a sound of key jingling and footsteps getting away and both of them knew instantly that this wasn't accidental.

"Henry Daniel Mills, open this door right away or so help me..." Regina yelled, the threat hanging darkly in the air and if it was Emma on the receiving end of it she was sure she'd pull her tail between her legs like a scared little puppy and make herself as small as possible. That voice coupled with the way Regina squared her shoulders and schooled her features into one of icy rage, brown eyes flashing furiously, was one of the most terrifying things the blonde have ever seen. She was half expecting Regina to start throwing fireballs any minute now but then again, of course it was their son. Regina would never ever hurt him. And sure enough, Henry was perfectly aware of that as well, that was why he had the nerve to pull a stunt like this. Emma would have never said it out loud, especially not when Regina was this mad because she was sure the brunette wouldn't spare her from the fireballs, but she was rather proud of Henry, he did it like a pro.

"Relax Regina, he'll let us out as soon as he gets hungry..." Emma grinned, plopping down into an old armchair.

"There's leftover lasagna in the fridge and enough ingredients for sandwiches for about two days." the brunette told her and Emma jumped up from the chair, striding across the room to bang on the door.

"Henry! Open this door now!" she shouted, her fist thumping on the wood.

"No moms! You gotta talk it out!" Henry's muffled voice sounded and to his credit at least he sounded a bit guilty.

"Talk what out?" Emma asked back, confused.

"Come on, your feelings... it's getting ridiculous." Henry said.

"What feelings?" Emma asked.

"Yeah that's what I mean... have fun!" Henry's voice sounded entirely too cheerful.

"Henry! HENRY!" Emma yelled but to no avail, their son was gone. She huffed, pushing away from the door in annoyance. "Can't you open it magically? Or teleport us out of here?" she asked, looking at Regina helplessly.

"No, this room is the only one in the house that's protected from all magical activity. I put a curse on it in case we needed to lock something magical away. We can't do magic in here and Henry knows that. He planned this out perfectly... there's no way out of here unless he opens the door."

"Great! Now what do we do?" Emma asked, looking around desperately, looking for a window or any other way out but of course there was none.

"We wait." Regina said and walked to a wooden rocking chair in one corner and sat down, slightly rocking in it, an almost peaceful expression instantly flooding her face, a small smile playing on her lips. Emma couldn't help imagining the brunette in the same chair many years ago with a baby boy in her arms, finally asleep after hours of wailing.

"Or we could... talk?" Emma suggested shyly, walking closer to Regina who shot a surprised glance at her. "Not like that... I mean...Just talk, maybe you could tell me some more about Henry's childhood. There seem to be a lot of memories stocked down here." she said, letting her eyes wander over shelves and cabinets and piles of boxes.

"Yes I guess there are." Regina nodded absent-mindedly. "But I don't know what I could tell you about..."

"Hmm... let's say, I pick am object and you tell me the story of it. How does that sound to you?" Emma asked, thinking of it as some game to pass the time with. "That is, unless you feel uncomfortable by this. We really don't have to if you do..." she added hastily after seeing Regina's uncertain look around.

"No, no... it sounds okay. I suppose there could be worse ways to spend our time down here than that..." she shrugged and Emma smiled.

"Great, so...hmm..." she walked up to a shelf as she thought, eyes lingering on some of the things there, thinking how many possibilities there were.

Regina followed the blonde with her eyes, holding back a smirk and just rolling her eyes at seeing how ridiculously excited Emma got over this game... She actually found her childish eagerness just a bit adorable to be frank, but she wasn't about to let Emma in on that.

"Okay, I want to know the story of this shoe." Emma finally decided, holding up a single baby shoe, dark green and faded. "For instance, where's the other one?"

"Probably on the bottom of the lake." Regina told her, a smile creeping onto her face at the sight of the shoe. "I actually cannot believe I kept that." she continued. "Henry had that, along with its pair, when he was about one and a half years old. His favorite color at the time was green and he wouldn't wear anything else... I actually couldn't believe how a one-year-old can be this picky but he seemed adamant so I bought him mostly green clothes. One day we went out to the park, I was pushing him in his stroller around the lake because he loved watching the ducks swim and he got really excited when one of them started to splash around and flew away and he kicked his legs and flailed his little arms around, probably trying to mimic the duck and that was when one of the shoes fell off his feet and went flying into the water." Regina chuckled, letting the memory overwhelm her and Emma just watched, completely enthralled by the story and how the brunette's face softened as she talked. "At first he was so amazed, he started giggling as it landed in the water but then he seemed to realize what happened and he was absolutely inconsolable, he was crying to desperately I had to buy him dinosaur-cookies to bribe him into stopping that afternoon. And the next day I had to go out and buy him another pair of green shoes because he wouldn't let me put anything else on his feet... Actually that pair might be around here somewhere too." she finished, motioning around with a wave of her hand before looking at Emma expectantly.

The blonde was frozen in place for a long moment, just lost in thought, imagining it all, putting it together with the already mostly faded fake-memories of baby Henry she got when they had to flee from Pan's curse. Then she felt Regina's eyes on herself and she snapped out of it with a smile, realizing she should pick out a new object. She set aside the little shoe, stroking it before letting it go and she went about searching for a new one, curious and impatient to hear another story.

"This one!" she said, holding up a red cape with the trademark Superman sign in the middle. "Please." she added when Regina raised an eyebrow at her.

"Henry started reading comic books when he was seven. I don't exactly know where it came from to him but one day he came home from school with a bunch of them and when I asked where he got them from he said he traded his lunch for them. I suppose I don't have to tell you how mortified I was to hear that, the Mayor's son having to trade his lunch for some cheap picture books... So I told him to return the books the next day and tell me which ones he wanted and I'd get them for him. That year he was obsessed with Superman, he told me he wanted to be Superman when he grew up and that in order to prepare for it, he'd want to dress up as him for the carnival at school and Halloween as well. He even drew me a picture of what his costume should look like, so what could I do? I sat down one evening and sewed one for him..."

"Wait, you can sew?" Emma asked incredulously.

"Uhum." Regina hummed in agreement and reached out for the cape. When Emma handed it to her she ran her fingers over the material. "He was so happy, he barely wanted to take it off..." she murmured.

Regina seemed so lost in her memories that Emma almost felt reluctant to go on but then she spotted a half open box a few feet away that made her lips curl up in a grin and she couldn't not ask about it...

"What about these?" she asked, kneeling beside the box and pulling out a few items of clothing, all of them having the same, weird, light baby pink color that she had never ever seen Regina wear.

The brunette actually laughed out loud when she saw what was in Emma's hands and she reveled in the sound, feeling like it should be cherished for the rare treasure it was.

"That is little Henry's first and only attempt at helping me with household chores." Regina said, her eyes twinkling in amusement. "He must have been about... five, I guess when one day when I was doing laundry he announced that he was a big boy and he would help me with work. I let him help sort out the whites and the colored ones but I forgot to check afterwards and that's how I managed to wash a pair of Henry's red socks with all our white clothes, creating this lovely shade of cotton candy pink..." she shook her head. "When he saw what happened, he asked me why everything was pink and I told him he must have put something red between the whites accidentally. I wasn't about to scold him, he was just child, he couldn't have known... And you know what he replied?" Regina grinned at Emma, who was sitting next to the box with her legs crossed, listening intently and waiting for Regina to continue. "He said he did put the socks there but not accidentally. He said he put his red socks with the white ones because he didn't want them to feel lonely in the colorful pile with no other socks there..." Regina laughed and Emma soon joined in, the image of innocent, sweet Henry so clear in his mind like she was there as well.

"That's so typically him, wanting to make everyone happy around him. Even if only his socks..." Emma said with a gentle smile. "Do you think that's what he's doing with us now?" she asked after a moment.

"What do you mean?" Regina asked back, sounding a bit confused.

"I suppose, when he locked us in here he had our happiness in mind as well, right?" Emma asked tentatively, knowing that this was a bit dangerous territory. She and Regina always had a fragile relationship, only very slowly becoming friends and trusting each other with lot of obstacles on the way. And there was always something she felt, something more... something that made her question her every word, every act around Regina, not wanting to make a fool of herself. Something that still made her do crazy stuff just to save or impress the brunette woman. Something that she couldn't put a name to, something she refused to think too much about and instead pushed to the back of her mind every time because she was sure Regina didn't feel it. And this friendship they had, she didn't want to ruin it with thinking about something that was probably nothing. What if her eyes lingered a little longer than usual on Regina's form when she entered the diner? Or on her hair when the sun shone on it or when the wind got caught up in it. What if her heart seemed to skip a beat when Regina smiled, when the other woman's brown eyes sparkled in excitement or glee? It was probably nothing. It certainly wasn't why Emma made it her habit to bring Regina lunch every other day. Or why she started to take her runs in the direction of the mansion. Or why she now had a longer text message history with the woman than anyone else. Or why she developed a strong dislike for Robin Hood. Or why she ended up breaking up with Killian just the week before after Regina pointed out some of his less than attractive traits that Emma somehow didn't seem to notice before... No it was nothing.

"I guess." Regina said and to someone who didn't know her as well as Emma did, she would have seemed unbothered by it all but the blonde saw there was something in Regina's eyes, just a flash of emotion that was quickly gone and replaced by a smirk on Regina's face. "He wanted us to talk and we're talking so he might as well let us out soon..." she added.

"Yes, well I doubt this is what he meant when he said talking." Emma murmured but when Regina shot her a questioning look she just averted her eyes and got up from the floor and made her way to a cabinet, opening the glass doors. "What's this?" she asked, pulling out a framed picture and it took Regina a few moments to recognize what she was looking at. It was a drawing but not one of Henry's, as the brunette first thought. It was something older and bringing up not so happy memories in her.

"I don't want to talk about that..." she muttered, turning her head down to stare at her lap. She really didn't mind sharing with Emma at all, but that was just something she wished she didn't have to think about. It was a drawing young Owen made before it all turned so wrong...

"Um, right. Sorry." Emma said, quickly putting it back where she found it and closing the cabinet and moving away to a different pile entirely. And that was when she caught sight of a few photographs shoved between books. She pulled them out and gasped, a huge grin splitting her face in two. "Oh my God, what are these?" she laughed, viewing them one after the other. They were photos of Regina and Henry, they were both dressed up in what seemed like Harry Potter costumes, making funny faces at the camera.

"What is it?" Regina asked, hearing her giggles and the brunette stood from the chair and walked over to her to see what she was looking at over her shoulder. "Oh... yeah, that was a few years before the curse broke. Probably the last time Henry and I really bonded over something..." she said, her voice taking on a sad edge to it.

"Regina..." Emma, letting her hands fall to her side, turned towards the brunette, only then realizing how close they were standing. She met Regina's eyes, feeling her heart beat in her throat. "I don't think I ever said this to you, but I should have... I'm sorry I threatened to take Henry away from you for that first year and a half, I really am." she said sincerely.

"I think it's safe to say we both did some very nasty deeds back in the day, Miss Swan." Regina said with a bitter smirk.

"Yes but... Henry is your whole world, he has been for much longer than for me and...being here, surrounded by all these stuff and hearing you tell these stories... I can't tell you how grateful I am that you feel like I'm worthy of sharing these memories with but it also reminded me of how hard you fought for Henry, how it was the one thing that could piss you off in an instant and I used to think you were just jealous and possessive...It never actually occurred to me at the time that what I was doing was threatening to tear your whole life apart..." Emma said, remorse and guilt flooding her, making her embarrassed of the way she acted.

"Emma you were just fighting back with what you had. It's not like I gave you much choice, I was hitting you everywhere I could..." Regina told her, bringing a hand up to squeeze the blonde's arm. "But thank you for saying this, I really appreciate it. For what it's worth, I'm sorry too and I'm just glad it worked out well and we ended up here today after all we've been through."

"It's crazy, right?" Emma smiled, not really believing that this was reality. Her life had changed so drastically since she came to this strange town.

"Indeed it is." Regina smiled back and Emma was lost in her eyes. For long moments neither of them broke the connection and Emma felt her pulse race.

"Regina? Can I ask you something?" she murmured, her voice sounding a bit hoarse all of a sudden and she quickly cleared her throat.

"Yes?" the brunette asked, something like...was it hope in her voice? Emma couldn't decide but it was too much for her, she felt she was very close to saying or doing something she shouldn't, something she'd regret later and she needed to distract herself with something. She needed to break this trance Regina put her in.

"Why do you have a book titled 'Help! I can't use my blow dryer!' ?" Emma asked between new fits of giggles as she pulled the previously spotted thin handbook from the shelf. Regina's face flushed deep red as she grabbed the book from Emma and stalked away with it.

"I came from the Enchanted Forest in the eighties, Emma, we did not have anything electrical there... It took some time to get used to everything around here." she told the blonde, unamused.

"Right... and why the 'Fishing for starters'?" Emma asked, pulling another book from the shelf.

"I had a lot of time on my hands at first... I got bored and started looking for hobbies." Regina sighed as if there was absolutely nothing funny about it.

"Did you really try fishing?" Emma asked.

"Yes, I found it immensely boring." Regina shrugged and Emma just shook her head with a grin.

"You're unbelievable." she said and put the book back onto the shelf as well as the photos, save for one where mother and son were grinning widely at the camera. She secretly slid that into her pack pocket.

"Emma?" Regina's voice sounded from behind her and she thought she was caught stealing the picture but then the brunette spoke again, surprising her with what she said. "What do you think Henry wanted us to talk about?" she asked. Emma's throat became dry all of a sudden, her palms starting to sweat.

"I...I don't know.. I mean, I guess a lot has happened recently and... we're friends now and... just stuff." Emma stammered knowing she probably sounded like an idiot.

"Yes, maybe..." Regina trailed off, not sounding too sure and when Emma looked at her, she was nibbling on her lower lip, making the blonde groan internally because could she look any hotter?

"Why did you hate Hook so much?" the question fell from her lips without thinking and her eyes widened when she realized what she just said, schooling her features into unaffected neutral just in time as Regina's eyes snapped to her.

"I... well there were many reasons for that. He was arrogant, way too confident about himself and too pushy and annoying and completely useless." Regina listed, the reasons coming to her mind without end, her burning distaste for the pirate even surprising herself at first but then it became second nature to her. She never really liked him but after he started dating Emma her feelings developed into full blown hate for him, probably because she was forced to spend more time in his presence than before. Or at least that was what she was trying to tell herself...

"Some of that could be told of you as well..." Emma pointed out and Regina rolled her eyes.

"He also smelled badly and drank too much. He used more eyeliner than me! And he had a hook for a hand, for God's sake. Didn't you mind it when he kissed you?"

"He didn't kiss me with the hook." Emma replied, not willing to admit that it was a bit weird when it dug into her back as he hugged her, nor the fact that he wasn't the best kisser ever either.

"Yes well he used to be a villain and his morals didn't seem to change at all, just see what happened when you broke it off." Regina pointed out, hinting at the fact that the next night Killian was seen making out with some chick in the Rabbit Hole. "He didn't deserve you." she finished her little rant, seeming rather affected by it all and Emma felt her heart race as she listened. Because this all sounded so much like... Like Regina was jealous of him. But that couldn't be, right? There was no reason for her unless... Unless...

"Yes well, it seems like I have a thing for ex-villains..." Emma muttered.

"What?" Regina asked curiously and Emma thought she might as well come all out now and hope for the best.

"I guess it's up to me to decide who deserves me, isn't it?" she said instead of repeating herself, moving a step closer to Regina.

"Yes well, you broke up with him so I guess you did know better..." Regina huffed with a satisfied nod to herself and Emma fought the smile that was curling at the edges of her lips because the brunette looked so adorable.

"I guess I did." Emma nodded, stepping even closer, now standing only a feet away from Regina who was staring at her the whole time.

"So why did you, anyways?" Regina asked when Emma finally stopped.

"I had an interesting conversation.. well you could say, a fight with someone that made me realize some things." she said mysteriously, leaving it up to Regina is she would take the bait.

"What things?" the brunette asked and the tension between them just jumped up a level or five.

"That maybe... I didn't really want to be with him. Maybe not in the first place. That maybe I was actually crazy about someone else." Emma murmured, feeling hot all over as they stared into each other's eyes.

"Oh yeah?" Regina drawled and Emma nodded. "What was it you said about having a thing for...ex-villains?" the brunette smirked playfully, taking a deliberate step forward and right into Emma's personal space and it felt like all those years ago when they were fighting all the time except that this time instead of wanting to choke her, Emma wanted to kiss the other woman. Well truth be told, it did cross her mind a few times even back then but that wasn't the dominant desire in her...

"I tend to have naughty thoughts for them..." Emma teased, licking her lips deliberately.

"And who's on your mind these days?" Regina's brown eyes lingered on Emma's lips.

"Who's been there for quite a while now..." Emma admitted and Regina looked into her eyes again.

"How long?" she asked.

"Longer than I realized it." Emma whispered and saw something like amazement in Regina's eyes, like the brunette couldn't actually believe it could be her.

"And does this being crazy only go as far as naughty thoughts?" Regina asked shyly, making Emma grin.

"No. I'd do anything for them, and I feel like I can do anything when they're with me. Their smile lights up my world and I could listen to their voice for days and never get bored. And their eyes, oh god... I could gaze into them for the rest of my life. They're so intelligent and independent and beautifully complex it sometimes scares the crap out of me because I'm afraid they think I'm a complete idiot. But even like that it's worth it because my heart belongs to them. My heart belongs to you." she finished her little confession and there really was no going back now. Regina sucked in a deep breath and her mouth fell slightly open.

"Emma..." she breathed but then there was a noise to their right and suddenly the door to the basement opened, revealing Henry's face, who as soon as caught sight of them started grinning.

"Oh good, you talked!" he said cheerfully, sounding way too proud. "I guess you can come out now...But I can lock it back up if you want." he winked at them cheekily.

"Henry!" Regina scolded and Henry's beam faded just a bit.

"What? I'll be upstairs." he said then he disappeared, leaving the door slightly agape.

Their bubble burst, Regina stepped away and took a few steps towards the exit, making Emma's stomach sink. Would they ever talk about this? Did she just ruin their friendship? Was Regina only waiting for her to leave the safety of the magic free room so she could curse her?Or throw fireballs at her?

"Regina...?" she quietly called after the brunette, feeling crushed and hopeless. Her heart stopped as Regina halted and she held her breath, waiting to see what she would do. Would she ignore her, reject her completely? She wasn't sure if she could handle that actually... She just put her heart out there for Regina and if the woman stomped on it, she wouldn't be able to stand that.

The brunette spun around and without a word strode back to Emma and pulled her into a kiss that made her toes curl and a moan break free from her lips. Taking advantage of it, Regina deepened the kiss eagerly, her arms tightening around Emma, hands sliding up to tangle in blonde locks and Emma brought her hands around Regina's waist, splaying them at the small of her back and pushing the brunette's body impossibly close to hers.

There was a huge flash around them, light enveloping the whole room, accompanied by a loud bang and they broke apart, startled, both of them looking around.

"What was that?" Emma asked, confused.

Regina just put out her hand with her palm upside and in the next second a fireball appeared in her hand.

"What? No, Regina...I didn't mean to... I mean, you kissed me, you won't actually throw that at me, right?" she stuttered, stepping back and raising her hands halfway into the air and when Regina smirked in amusement she stopped. "What..?" she asked.

"I'm not going to incinerate you, Emma." Regina assured her and Emma relaxed visibly. "But I shouldn't be able to do this in here." she added and waited for it to reach Emma's mind.

"Oh, the curse. The no-magic curse... Did we just... did we break it?" Emma asked with a stunned look and a grin appeared on her face. "True Love's Kiss. Haha, suck it Robin Hood!" she laughed, punching into the air and Regina rolled her eyes.

"You're such a child." she muttered.

"But you love me like this!" Emma told her smugly and the smile on Regina's face told her she wasn't going to argue that.

She turned away again, starting for the door.

"Hey, where are you going?" Emma asked, reaching for her and grabbing her hand.

"Mom, Ma? Are you okay?" Henry's voice sounded and the door burst open, their son rushing in worriedly.

"Of course we are...we just broke a curse on this room." Emma grinned and realization dawned on Henry.

"Oh. Of course, it's True Love. I so knew it! Thank god I got you to talk..." he shook his head then left the basement again, leaving the two women to follow him.

"Let's go, Miss Swan!" Regina pulled on their entwined hands to get Emma to move. "I believe I have a boyfriend to break up with..."

And thaaat's a wrap for this Swan Queen Week! This has been absolutely fun and thank you all for the great experience! :) I hope you liked this one, please let me know what you thought! :) Thank you for reading!