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AN UNEXPECTED QUEST
Chapter 3
"Then try me. If there is any way I can prove to you my feelings, I will make sure I leave no space for doubt in the future." Emma said with resolution and Regina narrowed her gaze on her. "Curse me and when I wake up with your kiss, there will be no turning back." Emma told her and went back into the room containing Regina's magical items.
"NO! What if we're just confused and nothing happens and you don't wake up? Henry would never forgive me, or the two idiots. They would think I sought vengeance." Regina crossed her arms over her chest. "Of course unless the handless wonder comes to save the day and his revolting lips prove he was your one True Love." Regina said with bitterness and could almost taste bile in her tongue by the mere thought.
"Hook? Not a chance and I'm not confused." Emma's brow furrowed. "It's gonna be fine, trust me." Emma assured her. "It isn't your confusion what troubles me." Regina's tone was somber and Emma turned around to lock gaze with Regina. She felt a slight tug in her chest at realizing her feelings could most likely be one sided. That really hurt. "Then Henry will wake me up and I won't bother you ever again." Emma smiled sadly and started looking in a chest.
"Is it this?" She showed her a potion and Regina moved her head in negative. "No and I'm not doing it." She answered sharply but Emma didn't care and continued showing her things. Regina continued to ignore her, until Emma finally found a pointy needle in the depths of an old box and Regina's horrified expression gave her the answer she needn't even ask for.
Meanwhile, Henry had been worried for both his mothers after the strange reunion they had outside the diner. He had followed behind Emma without her noticing and when he finally made it into the vault, he stopped after seeing the backs of his mothers by the end of the stairs. "Wait, don't make noise." He told some who was accompanying him and they waited for a while, until they heard Regina shout.
"NO! Put it down!" Regina shouted. "I see." Emma said contently and before Regina reached to her, she pinched her finger with the needle and fell in Regina's arms and both women landed on the floor. "Idiot! What have you done?" Regina shook her body and Henry and his companion came to join her.
"She's just stubborn like my grandma." Henry shook his head and Regina was surprised to see him. "Henry! I swear I didn't do this." She looked with horror into his eyes but he returned a warm smile. "I know, mom. But now would be a good time to kiss her." Henry told her and his cheeks flushed pink.
"How much did you hear?" Regina asked with shock. "A little bit?" He frowned. "Mom, you can do it." He encouraged her and Regina was the one to blush lightly now. "This is silly, Henry, you will do it." Regina moved to a side to allow him some space.
"No. It's you who has to do it, mom. That's what she wanted and we need to know." Henry put a hand on Regina's shoulder and squeezed it gently. Regina was surprised by his answer and gathered the courage to find the truth about what was really between her and Emma. "Fine, but don't look." She ordered and he chuckled. "Okay, we will turn around." He answered and did as promised.
Regina brushed a blonde curl away from Emma's face and then looked at her serene semblance with nervousness. Okay, this is not too different from kissing Lionel. She told herself and looked again at thin lips she could remember kissing in the past; the image just as vivid as if it had happened the day before, despite several years of the occurrence.
She leaned down slowly and when crimson lips touched rosy, a wave of light traveled through the chambers and all over Storybrooke, surprising people at the party and everyone asked each other what the heck was happening.
"You did it!" Henry exclaimed as he turned around and one of his eyebrows went up when he saw Emma pull Regina even closer and prevented her from parting from their kiss. "Wait." Regina tried to pull away but couldn't. "Emma there's so-" The brunette tried to tell her they weren't alone but Emma wouldn't allow the Mayor to escape true love's grip. "No." Emma uttered and kissed Regina's lips with need but had to stop after a minute, or a couple, when Henry finally made his presence known to her.
"Ahem." He cleared his throat and Emma was startled. "Oh my god, Henry! What are you doing in here?" She blushed and slowly got up together with Regina. "I followed after you." He told her and rolled his eyes. As if she didn't know him by now. "And who did you just kidnap?" Emma asked worriedly after noticing the little girl clung to his arm.
"That would be my daughter." Regina narrowed her gaze on Emma. "WHAT?" The blonde asked abruptly. What else did I change? She thought. "Who you seem not to remember." The brunette was slightly confused but then understood Emma had different sets of memories in her head. Of course she wouldn't.
"Emma… There's someone I'd like you to meet." Regina looked at her nervously and it was now her hands the ones sweating. "Uh, sure." Emma walked toward Henry and the fair skinned child. Could she be Robin and Regina's love child? Please no.
"Hi" Emma smiled at the infant and the little one stared with curiosity. "Hi." The little girl replied nervously because she wasn't used to being so close to Emma, as her mother rarely ever let her anywhere near the Sheriff.
"How old are you, princess?" Emma asked the girl with curiosity. "Fou-Five." The little girl said with some confusion and then ran into Regina's arms. "That's right, honey. You recently turned five." Her mother kissed her pink cheek and Emma's gaze got lost in a perfect replica of her own jade eyes, at the same moment new memories adjusted in her head.
"I could never understand where she got her golden locks from. That was until now." Regina interrupted Emma's thoughts. "She's the reason why I cast the curse. I wanted her to live in a world where her mother wasn't…" Regina stopped before finishing. "I see." Emma said after her and moved closer to touch her newfound daughter, feeling just as baffled as the night Henry showed up in Boston by her door.
"You are beautiful, Nina." Emma gently caressed short golden curls after recalling the name from recent memories and she felt her heart swell for the innocent child she had grown specially fond of, ever since the first time she saw her in Regina's arms during the event where Mary Margaret helped Grumpy sell candles.
New images continued coming to Emma's mind about her life in Storybrooke and she remembered the little girl had been stuck at two years old during the twenty-eight years of the curse, and how much it had cost her to believe Henry in the beginning when he told her about his never aging older sister.
They went back to Granny's diner and everyone noticed the hands tangled in each other's and Emma carrying a smaller version of herself in her hip, whilst Henry made his way through the crowd to find a place where to sit down.
"So…" David wasn't sure where to start or what to ask.
"Let me present to you my True Love and our child." Emma said to them and all of the gathered denizens stared in disbelief.
"Are you kidding us, sister?" Grumpy blurted and it earned him Regina's hateful glare.
"Mommy gave Emma True Love's Kiss!" Nina exclaimed and several eyebrows went up.
"Yep. Their kiss broke a curse and now we can finally live our happy ending." Henry told them and now their mouths went agape.
"About time." David mumbled and went back to drinking from his beer.
"What?" Regina asked him in bewilderment but he avoided replying. "Nothing."
"You both were kind of obvious here and I also got that vibe from Prince Lionel in the Enchanted Forest." Mary Margaret answered and it was Emma who questioned now.
"How come?" Her daughter felt somewhat bothered.
"At the fire pit, you kept claiming Regina wasn't all that bad and you were SO mad because I called her an evil witch after Blue turned me back into a human." Her mother told her and Regina smirked with satisfaction. "I even thought you were one of her spies." Snow confessed.
"Really?" Emma asked incredulously.
"And lady here." Hook pointed at Marion. "Shared a peculiar story about Lionel making the Evil Queen soften for a night." The pirate exclaimed with disgust as he now pointed with his hook to Regina and then at Emma. "That's bad form, Swan." His brow furrowed and he went to have another gulp from his canteen of rum.
"That was unnecessary information." Mary Margaret muttered.
"Okay! Can we go back to celebrating our son's naming?" David interrupted. "Sure, but I'm afraid we might have to leave the party early." Emma offered an apologetic smile. "Why?" Her mother asked with concern. "Do you really want to know?" Regina responded for Emma with sass and the pixie-haired woman regretted asking her innocent question.
"I guess I'll be staying with gramps for the night." Henry mumbled and went to sit down with David. "Yay! Sleepover! Mommy, can I go too?" Little Nina asked Regina with big round eyes and the Mayor shrugged.
"Of course you can!" Mary Margaret answered instead and felt very happy to know this child was her granddaughter too and she looked so much like Emma, which made her very excited and it filled her with joy seeing the little girl grow up.
"Family keeps on expanding." David commented with amusement. "Cheers to new life!" He lifted up his beer while offering a smile to Philip and Aurora, who were expecting a child of their own and had turned back into humans.
After the toast, everyone went back to mind their own business and Emma and Regina made it into the mansion with magic, as their need for each other couldn't wait the dreadful five minutes it took them to drive home.
As Regina began removing her earrings by the vanity, Emma came from behind her and slipped her hands to hold her in an embrace. "You were on top last time, I believe it is is my turn now." Emma said behind her ear and began kissing at her neck slowly.
The brunette slowly turned around inside Emma's arms to face her and placed a chaste kiss on rosy lips. "No" She told her playfully and Emma pretended to be angry. "Yes. And I would love it if you used your practical smoke to vanish your clothing like before." Emma ordered and Regina laughed. Emma just felt desperate to indulge in the whimsical vision of Regina's nudity.
"There's no hurry, my dear." Regina responded, using the same words Prince Lionel had offered once. "Oh… using my words against me, huh?" Emma feigned to be offended and wrapped her arms tighter around Regina's waist, making her chuckle with amusement. "Hey! Don't laugh at me. Show some respect to your Prince Charming." Emma teased her.
"I find it amusing how much you missed my body, considering it was only yesterday for you, whilst it was three decades for me. Culture some patience, Princess." The brunette replied and Emma raised an eyebrow.
"Oooh, I've been patient enough. Ever since that day when you offered me your precious apple by the door, I did nothing else but wait and wait, daydreaming about the day I could finally sprawl you in bed to indulge in your sweet nectar." Emma confessed with confidence and her own magic manifested out of instinct, making Regina's dress disappear and left her in the most elegant black lingerie Emma had seen in apparels of New York, but which she really didn't feel like getting for herself. But would sure get for Regina.
"I love having magic in moments like these, my Queen." She whispered into Regina's ear and the brunette felt humidity grow between her legs. "Emma…" Regina's voice came out soft but raw with desire.
Emma's hand slid to the front slowly and explored that area she had been craving for the longest twenty-four hours after the first taste. She slowly retrieved her hand from between warm thighs and brought her fingers to her mouth to savor the prize of the best bounty she ever claimed in a quest.
"Mmm… I have yet to taste anything more delicious than the fruit it offers." Emma repeated words the Mayor told her that day when she showed up in her door to threaten her with apples. "You are so bad, Miss Swan." Regina blushed lightly and Emma chuckled. "But just for you, Madam Mayor." She told her and gently guided her to bed, as if it was her own bedroom.
"So can I be the top?" The blonde asked playfully again. "As long as it's you, positions don't matter." Regina smiled warmly and went forward to lock her lips with Emma's lovingly. "But no more children." Regina said after parting from the kiss. "Don't worry. I don't plan turning into Lionel any time soon." Emma smiled warmly and stroked Regina's arm with her fingertips.
"Good. I still can't believe I forgot to drink my potion before playing with him, with you." Regina said to her. "I really didn't give you time to think and there were no condoms in the Enchanted Forest." Emma told her and they both nodded. They had succumbed to their most basic instincts and didn't think about the consequences, which for Regina were really burdening.
"If I had known, I would've brought some." Emma chuckled. "But then there wouldn't be Nina and I wouldn't have cast the curse and I wouldn't have you, nor Henry in my life. I would still be alone." Regina told her with sadness. "Actually, you would still have done it." Emma responded and Regina was confused for a moment.
"Before my trip to the past, you had cast the curse out of vengeance on my mother. But this time it was to give our daughter her best chance and I won't ever regret I changed that. It is the best outcome of anything I've ever done in my life." She said sincerely and it made Regina's eyes glaze. "Maybe some things are just fated." The brunette sighed deeply. "We were destined for each other." Emma smiled widely and kissed her.
It had been really difficult for Regina to find out she was pregnant with a bastard child and her Evil Queen moniker was at its strongest, to top it all off. Giving birth and keeping her baby had been a real challenge and the threats of taking revenge upon her child cornered her into casting the curse to escape that world of karma she brought on herself and unwillingly on her innocent baby.
"I checked on you in my mirror after sending you back to the dungeon and when I saw you escaping with that lady in your arm I just… I lost my remaining hope for a second chance." Regina took a moment to breathe deeply.
"I'm here now and I couldn't be more grateful to you for keeping my child, children, and letting me be that second chance." Emma said softly and placed a kiss on Regina's nose tip. She brushed a black curl from Regina's face and looked into caramel eyes with love.
"Is this really happening?" Regina couldn't still believe it. "Yes." Emma said after her and locked her gaze with hers. "Our happy ending at last." Regina smiled and Emma went forward and tangled her body with hers. "I love you." The blonde said softly and claimed Regina's mouth once again.
Kissing those red lips became an addiction Emma didn't want to quit and she knew not a day would go by that she wouldn't make sure they were the first and last thing her own lips would touch until her eyes closed for the last time.
"I love you, too." Regina sighed deeply and gave into Emma's loving freely.
- And they lived happily ever after -
BOOM! PREGNANT
(Okay, not)
A/N: I chose the name Nina for the girl because it means "strong" and she became Regina's strength to carry on.
This is how I wish the finale had gone. lol! Wishful thinking! Haha. So unlikely.
About the curse this time: Regina still used her father's heart. Guest asked about Regina having had to kill her daughter to enact the curse because she would be the thing she loved most and it sounds logic, but must not not forcibly be that way. Imagine if Snow have had David in the Enchanted forest AND Emma when casting the curse for whatever other reason. She could've used either of their hearts because the ultimate sacrifice is using the heart of that who you most love and family is the top option.
Regina really loved her father dearly and imagine how protectively he would've been of them, if she had to raise Nina alone. Mr. Henry would most likely have had supported her even more and given her his heart to let her dreams come true with the curse. I hope that explains. Regina used daddy's heart, this time he offered it as his ultimate sacrifice to give his daughter and granddaughter their best chance.