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Stuck Together

"What I'm more interested in is why you're STILL holding hands." David supplied suddenly, making all the women in the room turn to him with varying degrees of a raised eyebrow.

Snow's eyes finally seemed to fall onto their joined hands. Regina really hoped Snow wasn't going to start screeching again. Emma wouldn't be the only one with a headache if she did.

Regina rolled her eyes as Emma sighed.

"Regina won't let go."

"Emma won't release me."

The women spoke at the same time, eyes widening as they snapped their eyes to each other.

"What do you mean I won't release you/let you go?"

Regina tugged on her hand again and watched as Emma did the same. "Release the grip you have on my wrist this instant Ms. Swan!" Regina took to trying to walk away from Ms. Swan to extract herself from the blonde's grip. She only ended up pulling Emma with her as the blonde's fingers remained clamped on her wrist.

"I can't!" Emma whined as she stared at her fingers and thought about them releasing Regina's wrist, but nothing happened. She concentrated harder than her headache would normally allow, and still. Nothing. Her fingers remained super glued to Regina's wrist as if they were holding their own protest.

It wasn't like Regina's hand was unpleasant to hold. It was almost nice. Scratch the almost. Regina's hands were generally soft, except right in the center of her palm there was raised skin, a callous of sorts that Emma was fascinated with.

"Ms. Swan. Stop." Regina hissed; goosebumps forming up the length of her arm as Emma ran her pointer finger back and forth across her palm.

"What do you mean you can't?" Snow asked as she stepped forward. She grabbed a hold of Regina's arm and Emma's and tried to physically pry them apart. Regina stared at Snow, eyes wide and unbelieving as the woman continued to try and tear their hands apart.

"It's not working." Snow finally admitted with a heavy sigh, meeting Emma's eyes with a worried glance. As if this would be a hardship on EMMA. Regina fought the urge to roll her eyes but she couldn't.

"Did you exert yourself?" Regina asked darkly, eyes shining with the promise of pain if Snow so much as touched her again without her permission. They had a truce, an understanding, but that didn't mean she wanted the woman touching her. She wasn't even sure she wanted Emma touching her and she was pretty sure she was in love with the blonde.

"Here, let's try together." David offered as he moved to stand beside Regina. Regina didn't even get to open her mouth before Snow was rushing to Emma's side and pulling on her daughter's arm.

"Mary Margaret!" Emma complained as she tried to pull her arm away from her mother.

"You need to move with me, Emma. We'll get you two apart." Snow vowed tugging on Emma's arm again.

Emma didn't compensate for the pull and ended up falling towards Snow, dragging Regina with her.

"Here, together." David announced as he touched Regina.

Regina snapped her head to David eyes glued to his arm as it snaked its way around her waist. She stared at him as if he were insane. He was…it was unthinkable. He. Was. Wrapped. Around. Her. D

id he not know who she was?!

Then her eyes saw David and she did a double take, it looked like her father was awkwardly hugging Regina. "David…! Let her go!"

Regina remained still as David was thrown several feet away from her, his back meeting the wall. A smirk crossed her face as he hit the wall with the loud resonating THUD. He didn't fall to his ass like she hoped but bent over, dazed by the blow.

"Regain!" Snow screeched, again. Regina cringed and looked to the complaining woman.

"I am standing scant feet from you, Snow. There is no need to screech."

Snow ran over to help David up to his feet. Glaring at Regina as she did.

Regina sighed, "I did not do that, though if your husband did not release me I would have been happy to." Except she'd have sent him flying out the window or down the stairs. Much more efficient punishment for touching her without her permission.

"Oh?" Snow looked disbelieving. "And who-"

"I did." Emma waved her free hand awkwardly outward as she leaned over to stare at Snow and David from behind Regina.

"Emma?" Snow was scandalized.

Regina found it rather…endearing. Last night she clocked her father for threatening her, knocking him out cold. Today she threw him against a wall for touching her.

"It wasn't my fault."

Regina snuffed, because she thought Emma's inability to control her magic was the perfect excuse, and the Sherriff could use it for the next two days or so.

Snow no longer appeared scandalized, rather she seemed sorry for Emma. Regina refrained from saying anything, lest she have to hear Snow shrills echo around the room once more.

"Moms, is…is everything okay?" Henry asked from the door as he peeked his head into the room. He looked between his mothers and his grandparents.

"Everything is fine Henry." Regina assured him with a smile. "It just seems Ms. Swan's glued her hand to mine."

Henry raised a brow obviously finding that explanation impossible. It was her. She was looking into one of her own incredulous gazes and was warmed to realize that.

"Kids gonna be a killer when he's a teenager." Emma mumbled only loud enough for Regina to hear.

"Yes, he is." Regina agreed just as quietly. And she would loathe it when it came but would be proud all the same. He was her son, in most manners, intelligence, and logic if not by blood.

"Is that what that thud was?" Henry asked as he slipped into the room, still a bit unsure. "Where's the other Emma?"

"Back where she belongs." Regina stated as Emma nodded enthusiastically.

"Thank god." Emma muttered under her breath.

Henry smile was telling, he was glad the other Emma was gone. "Good. She was, well, kinda inconsiderate and rude."

"Hey!" Emma was obviously insulted even while Regina found their son's opinion refreshing and accurate.

"Yes, she was." Regina quickly agreed.

"Okay, enough of that." Emma complained as she watched Regina and Henry share secret pleased smiles with each other. They did that more often now. It was nice. So long as she wasn't the one at their mercy. Which wasn't very often since she was whipped by both Mills'. The only blessing was that only one of them was aware of just how whipped she was, and it wasn't the woman stuck to her hand. Thankfully.

"So, how'd you get stuck together?" Henry asked as he stood in front of his moms and lifted their joined hands and looked at them critically.

Regina and Emma shared a momentary glance, Emma's cheeks flaming red while Regina tried to control her own blush.

"I don't want to know do I?"

"No." All four adults quickly spoke up and Henry nodded, accepting that. For now.

As he lifted his mother's arms up so they were held above his head and he could look under them and get a better visual he tried to wiggle his finger under Emma's to loosen the grip, but he couldn't.

Emma winced. "Owtch."

Henry bashfully dropped their hands and stepped away, head down. "Sorry…" He apologized; he hadn't meant to hurt her.

"It's alright Henry." Emma patted Henry on the shoulder and nicked his chin with the side of her pointer finger, raising up his head so he'd look at her.

"At least you didn't try and yank our arms off." Regina exaggerated her tone purposefully, sniffing as she turned her nose up to Snow and Charming's actions.

Henry snickered as Emma used her good arm to pull him into a hug. "Is that why Grandpa's over there?"

Emma cringed, feeling a little bad about throwing David all the way across the room. "You could say that kid."

"Ms. Swan threw him across the room with her magic." Henry's eyes widened as the other three adults in the room gasped Regina's name. "It was not her fault. Nor, would she make you believe, was this." Regina gestured to their sealed hands.

"It wasn't my fault!" Emma defended herself, rolling her eyes at Regina. "Like I want to be stuck to you." Inwardly she cringed at her tone, that had been more biting then she'd intended.

Regina didn't let the words affect her. She was expecting them. She was already well aware of whom Emma would much prefer to be attached to. He thankfully was nowhere to be found and for that Regina was thankful.

"Can I get stuck to you?" Henry asked, slipping out from underneath Emma's arm, just in case. His moms being stuck together was one thing. If he got stuck to Emma while she was stuck to his mom it would be all kinds of awkward. He'd need even more therapy.

"I am, unsure." Regina admitted, as she watched Emma's eyes tear up a bit at Henry's dismissal of her. Regina knew how much that could sting. She patted Emma's hand with her fingers, causing the Sherriff to meet her eyes. "It is only to be safe."

"Yeah, no offense, Ma. It's just that being stuck to you would be awkward. And stuck to you while you're stuck to my mom would be humiliating. We'd have to stay in and stuff and…" He didn't want to think about how they'd sleep or get changed or shower. He shivered, yep. Therapy was where he was going to be for the foreseeable future.

"I'm sure she understands, don't you honey?" Snow asked as she came up behind Henry and draped her hands on either of his shoulders.

"Of course. I just…I'll miss your hugs until this is over is all." Henry beamed at Emma's admission. He was still young enough that he would enjoy hugs from his mother. Soon that time would be gone, and Emma had a lot of lost time to make up for. This predicament didn't help.

The sound of Regina's cellphone cut through the room. Regina tried to reach around her body to grab her phone but her deep pockets made it impossible. Growling in frustration Regina glared at Emma, pointing blame.

Emma rolled her eyes, "Let me get that for you." Emma used their combined hands, stepping behind Regina a bit awkwardly, so Regina could grab the cellphone.

The caller ID read Tink. Emma tried not to scowl at the name. She really had liked the fairy. She had saved them all a time or two during their travels. It was just…well she hated her. Hated that Tinkerbell got to be with Regina. Hated that Tink could hold Regina. Could spend hours with Regina. That the fairy touched Regina, got to see Regina bare and breathless and god! How beautiful that would be.

Emma ground her teeth together as Regina swiped her finger and picked up the call. "Darling? What are you doing up so early? Oh. Yes, well I am with Henry at the moment. There was a bit of an emergency. Yes. Emma is fine. In one piece. No…" Regina laughed, the sound of it made Emma's ears twitch and her heart ache. "No, she has not blown up anything. Or set anything on fire, yes…hahaha, very unlike herself."

Emma's sorrow was replaced with annoyance as she cleared her throat loudly. Regina knew she was standing right there. It was impossible not to know, they were attached!

"Yes, well." Regina eyed Emma carefully, trying to understand the changing emotions on the blonde's face. "Lunch? Uhm…I'm afraid I won't be able to do lunch this afternoon darling. No, no, work isn't consuming my attention. There is just…"

"Oh give me the phone." Emma growled as she stomped her foot and wrenched Regina's iPhone away from the woman. "Tinkerbell?"

"Ye…Emma?"

"Look. Regina can't go to lunch. She's stuck."

"Stuck, stuck how?"

"To me. She's stuck to me. I'm my own personal superglue factory. She can't make lunch. Might not be able tomake dinner later. Can she call you right back though? We're kind of busy."

"I, uh, buh…" Emma didn't wait for Tinkerbell to say anything more, she ended the call and glared at the phone as if the inanimate object was the center of her frustration. "God." Emma ignored the odd looks everyone was giving her, especially her parent's and thrust the phone into Regina's face. "Here."

"That was wholly uncalled for, Ms. Swan. She might have been able to help."

"Yeah? Well I don't want her help."

"Ms. Swan. You are acting like a child!" Regina scolded affronted by Emma's refusal to even consider allowing Tinkerbell to help them.

"I am not!" And yet, she was.

Emma wished she could cross her arms or walk away. Walking away—stomping really—would be preferable to standing here like this internally fuming that Regina's girlfriend probably could help them, fix the mess that Emma had created. Just like Tinkerbell had before.

The fairy just came flying in on her shimmering wings with a big smile and a witty snarky humor that pulled them all in. Pulled Regina in and helped soothe the wounds that Emma had made in the brunette's heart when she'd welcomed Neal back with open arms.

Really, it wasn't her fault. Neal had been so happy to see her and she had just been so happy that he was alive. When he kissed her as they embraced, it wasn't her fault. But she hadn't stopped him. Hadn't said anything. She kissed him back in fact. But that wasn't when she'd hurt Regina. Well, yes, it was. It was the first time she hurt Regina. But what had ruined what had grown between them was what came next.

Emma hurt Regina, irreparably when she'd closed ranks on her, cutting the brunette off now that Neal. Henry was thrilled to have his biological dad back and Emma was letting herself forget, was letting herself push Regina away by throwing herself at Neal and their happy 'family'. Having Henry and Neal together was one a dream come true for her, but it was an old dream. An outdated dream and she was stupid for being blinded by it.

They had left Regina, again. Turned on her, again. What they, what Emma her broken in Regina, Tinkerbell had fixed. Tinkerbell made Regina happy. Tinkerbell gave Regina a friend who wouldn't abandon her when things got tough. And everyone thought they fit and looked so good together. Everyone was always saying how striking a pair they made. And all Emma could think was that Tinkerbell had stolen her place. Just like Regina felt like Neal stole her place.

It was just, Tinkerbell made Regina smile and laugh.

God, Emma missed being the one to make Regina laugh. Missed being the one that Regina talked to, really talked to, about everything.

There had been something. Something wonderful and magical happened between her and Regina while they were in Neverland. Even after they had Henry back and were trying to get back to Storybrooke, there was something between them. This pull that made Emma crave Regina's attention, her affection. At first Emma blamed the magic lessons. The magic was messing with her head, making her want things that she shouldn't. But that wasn't it. It was just an excuse. One of many.

Hell, Emma blamed the thrall she felt towards Regina on the circumstances, needing to save Henry, just needing someone.

By making Regina feel the same, by acknowledging that pull and then running into Neal's arms as soon as he'd returned had destroyed something beautiful. Emma proved something to Regina in her actions. Through her actions she made Regina believe that it wasn't Regina that Emma needed or wanted. It had just been someone, anyone. Regina had been the substitute, the interim person while Emma waited for someone better, someone she really wanted.

But that's not how it really was. Emma hadn't meant for it to seem like that. Wanting it to not seem like that and making sure it wasn't like that were two different things though and she'd been scared. A coward. So she'd lost it, whatever IT was because she was afraid of what it might mean.

Emma wasn't afraid of IT anymore; the connection, the feelings she had for the witch.

What Emma was afraid of was losing Regina, losing what could possibly be the truest and purest love Emma had ever been a part of.

"Ugh!" Emma groaned as her mind raced. Why did everything have to be so complicated? Why couldn't things be easy? Like they used to be? Before everything got complicated with grown up problems!

"Mom look!" Henry pointed at the space between Emma and Regina.

Regina smiled as she looked down and saw her own hand in front of her, no longer attached to Emma's. She wiggled her fingers and rolled her wrist around as she gripped the appendage with her right hand. Henry rushed to give Regina a hug.

"Looks like I will be able to make lunch after all, Ms…" Regina eyes widened as she looked to her left.

Henry stopped mid step, sure that he could hug Emma now that she was no longer sticking to his mom, except.

Henry's eyes widened comically. Somewhere to his right Snow fainted into David's arms. Henry and Regina both heard the thud and David trying to wake his wife up, but neither looked away. They couldn't. Even David's eyes were hard pressed to look away.

"..Swan?" Regina asked with a thick swallow.

TBC…

Thus ends day three of Swan Queen week in Magical Mishaps Happen. I hope you enjoyed it. :-D Let me know what you thought.