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Rumplestiltskin was sitting at his spinning wheel in the afternoon when a white dove flew through his window and landed atop the wheel.
The dove cooed and Rumplestiltskin answered it without looking up, "Hello Eva."
The dove cooed again, but this time louder.
"You have a plan, eh dearie?" Rumple said. "You know I rue the day I taught you how to communicate through animals."
Eva cooed again and pecked Rumple's hand to get his full attention. "Ow!" he exclaimed. "Fine you have my full attention. You could have just said so." He said and rubbed his wound.
Eva cooed excitedly, jumped up and fluttered. Rumple's eyes grew to the size of saucers, and then he let out a huge laugh.
"Eva, you've gone crazy! You've spent too much time with your head in the clouds!" Rumple said between laughter.
Eva cooed again. "Regina and Emma?" He sighed out. "Your granddaughter and the daughter of your most hated rival?" He said with an unbelieving tone.
"Well it would end the feud between the lands. And your granddaughter was prophesized to bring peace to the land. I just never thought romance would be the way she went about it." He said as he rose and started to pace through his dining hall.
"It will be hard for them dearie, they will receive animosity on both sides, are you sure you want to put them through that?" Rumple said.
Eva flew from her perch and fluttered around Rumple's head.
"Alright! Alright dearie!" Rumple said and waved her off.
"I'll go along with this and give them a little push, but only because you asked me to Eva."
The dove cooed and landed on his shoulder, and nuzzled against his face. "You're welcome." He replied. "Don't you have a worm to catch or a nest to make dearie?" he said and the dove took off again.
Rumple let out an exasperated sigh. "Women."
Regina awoke with the bright sun in her eyes and a bad kink in her neck. She tried to sit up but there was a great weight on her chest.
She looked down to see the sleeping form of the young blonde princess.
How did I get here? Regina thought and replayed the incident from last night. Her heart swelled with feelings for Emma.
She looked down at her and ran her hand through Emma's long blonde curls. This caused Emma to grumble and cuddle closer to Regina's chest. She couldn't believe how amazed she was by Emma. She was brave and fiercely loyal. Regina was falling hard for the princess.
Maybe I could get mother to see reason and sign some kind of treaty with the Charmings. Regina thought but quickly shook it off, knowing her mother would never agree to that.
Just as she tried to think of another solution to her obviously growing problem, the source of it started stirring on her chest.
Emma stretched and yawned. Her blue ball gown had ridden up her legs during her sleep, so Regina got a good view of Emma's lean legs, as she stretched them out and flexed her toes.
Emma leaned up on her elbow, and looked at Regina, leaving her other arm resting across Regina's stomach.
"Morning." she said and rubbed the sleep from her eyes.
"Good morning dear." Regina responded and smiled at the princess.
Emma hummed in appreciation. "I could lie here all day." She said.
Regina laughed out loud. This woke up the two beautiful wolf dogs lying on the floor, curled together like their masters. "But then you wouldn't get anything accomplished Emma." She said between laughter.
Regina glanced at Emma and saw the princess looking at her in wonder.
"What?" Regina asked.
"You have a beautiful laugh." Emma said. "You should laugh more often."
Regina blushed. "Thank you." She said and tried to hide her smile.
"And your smile. Wow." Emma said and laughed to cover up her embarrassment.
"Well" Regina started and they both moved to sit up on the window seat. "Your smile just blows me away." She said and looked down.
"Really?" Emma said.
"Yea." Regina said. "It's kind of all I think about. When I met you all those years ago, I remember thinking you had the brightest smile and greenest eyes I have ever seen." Regina blushed.
"Well I have a confession as well." Emma said and took Regina's hands in hers. She looked down at their joined hands. "That day in the woods, I called you the beautiful queen for a reason." She paused and took a deep breathe. "I thought you were the most beautiful girl I had ever seen, and I still think that. Regina, you're the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. I really care about you too; it's not just that I think you're beautiful. You're smart and kind and-" Emma laughed in embarrassment and turned away.
"Emma—" Regina started.
"No, don't. You don't have to say anything you don't mean. I just needed to tell you." Emma said.
Just as Regina was about to tell Emma everything, Belle came in with Emma's clothes. Argo and Athena perked up and walked out of the room to find their own fun.
"Princess, your lessons start in 15 minutes so you should probably not skip them today because you're parents are pissed off and—oh hello." Belle said as she turned around to see Regina.
"I'll go today Belle I promise." Emma said and took her clothes and walked into the washroom.
"Well I guess I'll give these to you now, I was going to give them to you in your room, but alas you are here not there." Belle said and handed Regina a simple royal blue dress.
Regina looked at Belle's obviously playful face, "nothing happened." She stated.
"Really?" Belle said and sighed. "Pity"
"What? Why?" Regina said intrigued.
"That girl is the sweetest girl I know, and she will be a marvelous Queen, but her parents put so much pressure on her that it would be nice for her to have something or someone to help her." Belle said.
"Emma doesn't need help with anything." Regina said and changed into the blue dress.
"No she doesn't need help, lord knows how stubborn and strong she is, but she could use it." Belle said and turned to leave. "Make sure she goes to her lessons." She threw over her shoulder.
Regina walked and sat in on every one of Emma's lessons.
But Regina noticed that Emma didn't really care much for them, because in every lesson she tried to make Regina laugh that beautiful laugh Emma loved so much.
In her etiquette lesson, Emma balanced a silver spoon on her nose and then put it on her upper lip to make it look like a mustache. Regina giggled. Strike one. They were in trouble.
In her history lesson, Emma spilled her ink well on the professor's chair before the lesson started, so every time the pompous, old history teacher turned around the girls would giggle at his tan pants, blackened at the rear. Strike two. They were in bigger trouble.
In her needlepoint lesson Emma pretended to wound herself with the sewing needle by poking a hole in a small sack full of pig's blood that she had concealed in her sleeve. The blood ran down her arm and all over the floor as the teacher screamed, thinking she maimed the princess. Emma laughed and showed the teacher the prank. Regina laughed out loud at the look on the teacher's face. Strike three. They were in the biggest trouble ever.
The needlepoint teacher was so angry that she told the two girls to go out to the gardens and away from the castle.
The girls walked through the hedge maze behind the castle and laughed about all of Emma's pranks today.
"The look on her face when you pulled that bag out of your sleeve was the best part." Regina said and doubled over in laughter. She backed herself against one of the hedges.
"Yea, she an old bitter spinster anyways, she needs a little action in her life." Emma said and unconsciously moved closer to Regina.
"You're going to get in so much trouble though." Regina said and straightened up, noticing how close Emma was to her.
"I don't care." Emma said and realized how close she was to Regina.
They stood there awkwardly for only a couple of seconds staring into each other's eyes, but to them it felt like an eternity.
Emma looked down at Regina's lips and then back to her eyes.
"I'm sorry." Emma said clearing her throat and turned away.
"No." Regina said and grabbed her wrist and brought Emma flush against her body.
"Don't pull away." Regina said against Emma's lips.
"Why Regina?" Emma said, but didn't receive an answer.
Regina cupped Emma's face between her hands and brought their lips together in a sweet kiss.
Regina pulled back. "Emma about what you said this morning—" she started but Emma cut her off.
"I know." Emma said.
"You do?" Regina asked.
"Yea, I thought I did before, but if you kissing me in the castle garden isn't a good sign, I don't know what is." Emma said and both girls laughed.
"You are right Emma." Regina said and wrapped her arms around Emma's neck.
This time Emma didn't respond, instead she pulled Regina to her.
Unlike the last kiss that was sweet and cautious, this one was full of all the passion the two women were feeling for each other.
Regina threaded her fingers through Emma's long golden curls as Emma gripped Regina's hips, bringing them closer still.
Regina sighed in appreciation at Emma's bold move and Emma licked Regina's bottom lip, and Regina gave her permission by pulling Emma's bottom lip between her teeth. Their tongues explored each other's mouths while their hands explored each other's bodies. Regina slung her thigh up onto Emma's hip. Emma moaned and ran her hand up Regina's thigh, under her dress. Everything going on was so passionate that Emma's mind was all fuzzy with the thoughts of Regina's beautiful body and kind heart. She finally gathered herself enough that she pulled away.
"Emma what's wrong?" Regina said, trying to catch her breath. She looked both disappointed and worried.
"Nothing's wrong with you, or me. I just don't want this to escalate any further." Emma said.
"Oh." Regina said and looked down at the ground, thinking the worst.
"Hey." Emma said and walked over to Regina and took her hands in her own. "Would you look at me?" She said and cupped Regina's chin so that they could make eye contact.
"It's not like that okay?" Emma said as she gazed into Regina's beautiful chocolate eyes.
"Then how is it Emma?" Regina asked.
"I…umm…how do I explain this?" Emma said and rubbed the back of her neck, which Regina found adorable. "I could feel that kiss getting, umm, very heated and I have a hard time controlling myself around you to begin with, so I didn't want our first…umm…intimate time, to be in the middle of a garden." Emma said and blushed.
"Oh!" Regina said and perked up. "I get it." Regina said and smiled at Emma, giving her a quick peck on the cheek. "Belle was right."
Emma laughed. "About what?"
"You are very chivalrous." Regina said and linked their hands together and they started walking through the garden again. "My chivalrous knight."
"Anything for you my beautiful queen." Emma said and kissed her hand.
The two girls were happily enjoying each other's company in the garden when they heard a strange noise.
They turned around and standing there was a man in leather pants and glittery skin.
"Hello dearie." He said.
"Emma do you know him" Regina asked.
"He's an old family friend." Emma said.
"Follow me please." Rumple said and teleported to the end of the maze aisle. The girls ran to keep up with him. He kept teleporting and the girls kept running. Finally they were running so fast they didn't realize they were out of the maze and running on a stone road.
"Regina stop." Emma said and grabbed Regina's hand.
"What happened? Where are we?" Regina asked.
"It looks like the village beneath the castle." Emma said as they walked into the street.
"Make way for Prince Henry!" called a castle guard.
"Who the hell is Prince Henry?" Emma said.
A peasant girl beside her spoke up. "Prince Henry is the son of the Queens."
"Queens?" Regina asked.
"Yes, Queen Emma and Queen Regina." She said.
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