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CHAPTER 4
She's nearing the end of her second day on the job and Emma still hasn't met the man of the house.
Yesterday, Regina had went to pick him up by three,
around the time his school was out but she'd told Emma that she didn't have to wait around for them to get back.
Apparently, as a reward for his great efforts in school, Henry had been promised a trip to the park which would probably lead to ice cream,
which would probably lead to a sugar rush and his need to run around in the park some more.
The radiant look on Regina's perfect face while she'd quickly informed the blonde of this, had Emma's heart fluttering like crazy.
There was something wildly attractive about this woman's… well, everything really.
But in this case Emma noticed how she felt her insides melt at the honest excitement and pride she'd seen in those dark brown eyes while talking about her son.
It's obvious… she hasn't even seen them together yet but Emma knows for a fact that Regina is a born mother
Today it looks like she won't be meeting the woman's little prince either though…
It's just past lunch but Emma's actually ready cleaning the entire house already.
Between all of yesterday and this morning she'd managed to work her way through the small palace.
After gathering her stuff, she makes a quick round through the house to double check if she really hasn't forgotten anything and then makes her way to Regina.
"Are you alright dear?"
She could nod. She could tell Regina that… yes, she is ready.
That she'll see her on Friday and to say hi to Henry from her…
Regina'd once again chuckle and point out how they haven't met and Emma'd then once again tell her to just tell him she can't wait to meet him instead. Instead, without thinking an entirely different spontaneous sentence leaves her lips.
"Tell me about Henry?" She asks, surprising the brunette greatly.
Emma's mildly embarrassed by her own question. Maybe Regina will be offended by her misplaced curiosity but a part of the girl just knows that the older woman's face has no choice but to lit up at the mention of her little boy…
That's exactly what Emma hopes will happen.
And it does.
"What about him, dear?" Regina indeed smiles wide and places her black fountain pen down,
seemingly completely ready to indulge in stories of the light of her life.
Emma's slightly thrown off by how very right she'd been about the woman. How very eager she is to talk about the kid, as she herself calls him.
She silently tries to control her racing heart, pulls up her shoulders and smiles.
"I don't know… like… how old is he?"
"He's four."
"That's a pretty cool age." Emma nods
"He's a pretty… cool child too."
Those words sound funny, coming from the classy lady in front of Emma but it does nothing but charm the blonde employee.
"What's he like?" Emma asks while unconsciously moving closer to the brunette… now kind of leaning… almost half-sitting on the woman's desk.
"He's got a vivid imagination and is always very curious, smart too." Regina proudly tells the younger woman.
"Like his mother." Emma grins.
"The curious or the smart part?" the brunette raises a questioning eye brow
"The vivid imagination part." Emma rolls her eyes and chuckles.
"You know nothing of my imagination." Regina narrows her eyes and smirks.
"No, you're right… I don't know anything about you, do I?" Emma's eyes narrow too and … damn that face is going to be the death of her.
She can't believe how zoomed in her focus is on those dark chocolate eyes but it's just too hard a task to look away.
She really just can't make herself do that. Not right now. Not while Regina's staring right back at her.
"I suppose you don't." Regina tilts her head and smiles a little but then…
damn… averts her eyes.
The blonde really isn't sure if she's grateful or frustrated by that. Likely both.
After that it's silent a little too long for it to be normal…
Once again… Without thinking, Emma's mouth forms words her brain didn't agree on voicing.
"So, what about Henry's father?"
Thank god it doesn't seem to be a touchy subject for Regina…
that really could have backfired painfully and Emma's inwardly victory dancing dodging her social death. Also, potentially getting fired.
"Non-existent." Regina snorts and shakes her head in silent amusement.
"What?" Emma's face scrunches up in confusion and she really hopes Regina will let her in on the story behind that faint smile on her lips.
"He doesn't have a father so much as a donor." She explains matter of factly.
"Oh" Emma's eyes go wide…before narrowing again.
She swallows thickly but subtle and licks her lips before voicing her next – this time- very well thought out question.
"So, you mean you… and your former partner… conceived Henry with a sperm donor?"
Regina chuckles and shakes her head a little before proudly stating.
"No I mean, I conceived Henry with a sperm donor."
"Oh." Emma's amazement only grows as she's momentarily speechless.
"Is that a problem?" This time the woman's tone carries some threat to it. Her head is slightly tilted and her shoulders squared.
"Of course not." Emma immediately and naturally sighs out. "it's fucking admirable and awesome." She softly chuckles and tells the woman.
Regina silently studies Emma's face as if she's some weird species.
"I mean… Henry was really really really wanted. That's incredibly beautiful. Nothing but respect, Regina." She tells the brunette with great conviction.
"Thank you. He was… well, is very wanted." The light blush splayed upon her cheeks is nothing short from gorgeous.
"I really can't wait to meet him."
Regina gloats and softly hums her appreciation.
Emma'd really wanted to stay a little longer. Much longer… but she really did not want to overstay her welcome.
She'd lingered a bit until her eyes kept being drawn to Regina's professional clad body. She didn't mean to… it just… was stronger than herself.
Before risking getting caught Emma'd cleared her thoughts and told Regina the house was clean and that she'd be back to start all over again on Friday.
Regina'd thanked her and told her it was for the better she'd be alone if she wanted to get any work done.
She'd then blushed and stammered something about having an important deadline and needing full concentration,
it had left Emma flustered and hopeful that Regina might be feeling some of the same distracting butterflies she'd come to be so familiar with.
Eventually Emma'd left but she knew… Regina wouldn't once slip her mind.
And at this point… she couldn't be more happy about that.
It's Wednesday and Emma doesn't have to work.
Ruby'd found a small job at the local community center where they'd been happy to hire a young girl willing to work to help them keep the place clean.
It was just a couple of hours, once a week but it was something and she was grateful for it.
When Emma'd heard her friend's alarm go off though the wall, she'd gotten out of bed too.
The excitement from the day before had kept her up for the better part of the night.
She'll have to catch up on some sleep later that day but she wasn't about to pass up the chance of filling Ruby in on her latest accomplishments.
If you can call it that.
She'd wanted to talk to her friend the day before but the brunette had been out late and Emma wasn't going to keep her from getting some rest when she'd gotten home around midnight.
This morning… it had been the first thing on her mind. Her mouth was spilling what her heart – Ruby highly suspected- was full of.
"How did she say it? What were her exact words?" The tall brunette asks while peeling her breakfast banana.
"She… she said… something like." Emma's upside down in the couch, enthusiastically re-telling the conversation she had with Regina the day before.
Practically sweeping the floor with her long blonde hair.
"Literally… what were her exact words…" her brunette friend demands while popping a piece of the yellow fruit into her mouth.
"I'm trying Rubes… shut up and let me think." Emma places her hands over her eyes and wills herself to remember her boss's exact words.
"I… so she mentioned Henry not having a father… but a donor." She tells her friend.
"That could still mean a lot of things…" Ruby says while slumping down on the couch next to her kind of bringing Emma out of balance.
The blonde almost tumbles over onto the ground but quickly recovers and pulls herself up before it's too late.
"I know but… it did kind of open the option that she might… perhaps, possibly be gay… Maybe?"
Hopeful green eyes now look straight into Ruby's and to be quite honest… the latter's not really sure what her friend wants her to tell her.
"Okay…"
"So that's why I asked her… If she did it together with her former partner."
Emma says and bites her lip, still proud of herself for having been brave enough to ask her that.
"If she did IT? That sounds hella weird and sexual." Ruby chuckles and shakes her head at her smitten friend.
"Fuck off. You know what I mean… it didn't sound weird at the moment. She didn't seem to find it a weird question at least."
Emma furrows her eyebrows and pouts while curling up her nose in annoyance. This obviously is a serious conversation.
"So, what did miss fancy pants say?" Ruby turns towards her and awaits her blonde friend's reply expectantly.
"She said that she and she alone got Henry with the help of a sperm donor."
Emma beams with a meaningful glint in her eyes.
"Brave woman." Ruby truthfully states before taking another bite of banana.
"I know but Rubes… don't you see?" Emma's hands are making wild gestures as she's trying for her friend to get the point.
"See what?" The brunette asks confused with a full mouth.
"I implied that she had a former partner which clearly is code for FEMALE LOVER/ GIRLFRIEND whatever…
and she didn't deny or rectify that that was a wrong assumption for me to make. Just that Henry is hers and hers alone, always has been."
Emma quickly informs her of what she obviously believes is entirely obvious.
Though… it's not.
"Okay… first of all… the word PARTNER is not property of the lesbian community.
To the rest of the world… it is a word that has nothing to do with expressing the sex of your lover and secondly…
Why don't you just ask her if she's gay?" Ruby smiles a little and raises her eye brows high as she asks her friend.
"Oh I don't know why don't I just run under a bus or eat nails for breakfast."
Emma deadpans annoyed and feels kind of frustrated that Ruby can't just see what she so clearly does.
She could really use her friend's confirmation that she can't possibly be wrong on this.
"Okay, well… you keep guessing the sexual orientation of your boss. I gotta leave or I'll be late for my job."
Ruby sweetly pats her on the shoulder and jumps up to get going.
"Ugh. I don't have to guess… I know!" Emma groans and throws herself face down on the couch.
"Mommy."
Regina's still putting her and Henry's coats away when his little feet have taken him across the house and back already.
"Yes honey?" She smiles sweetly.
"There's a lady in your room." He whispers but rather loudly with eyes big in question. His little lips forming a small 'o'.
"So you've met Emma?" His mommy chuckles affectionately while going to pour Henry a glass of milk.
"Who's Emma, mommy?" His face scrunches comically and Regina has to bite back a giggle at how adorable her baby boy can be.
She hands him the glass and gestures for him to take a nice big sip.
"Emma's helping us to keep the house pretty." She tells him while softly stroking a hand through his soft chestnut hair.
"Oh." He sighs after having taken a big gulp, sporting a corner to corner milk mustache on his upper lip.
"Have you introduced yourself?" Regina tilts an expectant eyebrow and asks the boy.
"No." He pouts with guilty eyes.
"Why don't you go do that, darling?" Regina sweetly suggests, encouraging him to be the gentleman she raised him to be.
"I don't know." He shyly worries his little pink lower lip.
"Henry Mills, are you shy?" Regina places a hand on her own chest, playing out how shocked she is with Henry's sudden bashful behavior.
"She's really pretty, mommy." He whispers again, this time cupping a small hand against his mouth.
When Regina chuckles this time… it's not just because of how cute Henry is being…
She swallows back a small lump in her throat at her own reaction to her little boy's very correct observation and remark.
It's her turn to whisper.
"She is, isn't she?" and she smiles.
"Yes." He does too.
"I'll tell you what. Why don't I go with you?" She suggests already feeling how her heart is starting to beat faster.
How come she's so excited for Henry and Emma to finally meet? It was bound to happen… and it's no big deal.
At least, it shouldn't be. But somehow… over the past couple of days… it's become exactly that. A big deal.
Henry nods shyly and smiles.
"Emma?" Of course Emma instantly hits her head on a shelf.
"Crap" she hisses, notices the little boy and panics.
"cakes. Crab cakes" She adds causing for Henry to break out in a fit of giggles. Regina can't help but chuckle along.
Emma's completely flushed and just kind of stands there basking in the embarrassed of the moment.
Although she can't help but also be a little amused by the whole situation.
"Emma dear, there's someone who'd like to introduce himself."
Regina tells her, only chuckling a little anymore and gestures to the little boy to show his manners.
Emma somewhat reluctantly pulls her eyes away from Regina's beautiful smile and grants the kid her full attention.
"Oh? And who might you be?" She curiously asks with an open face and a friendly smile, encouraging the shy boy to talk to her freely.
Wanting for him to trust her. Really trust her.
"It's me! I'm Henry." He chuckles and then bites his lip cutely. His big white mustache still making him look so very cute and classy at the same time.
"Henry? Henry Mills? The Henry Mills?" Her green eyes go wide in recognition.
She plays her great surprise at finally meeting the man of the house so perfectly Henry instantly buys into it he gasps in shock and turns towards his mommy.
"She knows me?" His dancing hands and jumpy feet betray his excitement.
Not only his but Regina's eyes too light up at how well this first encounter is going.
"I've heard so much about you! It really is a pleasure to meet you Henry."
Emma smiles and sticks out her hand for Henry to shake.
The boy takes a brave step forward, blushes and then happily puts his little hand into Emma's.
Her breath hitches the moment his fingers find her palm and when he squeezes her skin tightly she beams at his confidence and clear approval.
Her smile and eyes are wide and mirrored by his little features.
"I haven't heard anything about you but it's nice to meet you, Emma."
He truthfully tells her in a serious tone putting extra emphasis on her name as if to tell her he won't forget.
Regina's skin is tingling strangely as she takes in the scene in front of her.
She now has a lump in her throat she doesn't want gone, kind of reveling in this strange feeling.
It's silly really… for her to have looked forward to this moment. For this moment to be better than she could have hoped.
For that to mean so much to her. Mean anything at all. But this is so much about Henry… and Henry means the world. So, in a way… this is only natural, no?
She pulls herself from her thoughts by shaking her head, takes a step forward and places a soft hand onto Henry's little shoulder.
"We should let Emma get back to work, darling." She sweetly tells her little boy.
He pouts so damn cutely but Emma's encouraging nod makes him draw his hand back from the blonde's before he turns towards his mother.
"Can she stay for the waffles later, mommy?" He firmly asks without missing a beat. His eyes… big, pleading and impossible to deny anything.
"I don't know, Hen. I'm sure Emma has things to do." She tells him softly accompanied by an apologetic smile.
"Actually." Emma then draws their attention back to her making Henry's go wide with hope and anticipation.
"I mean… I don't have anywhere to be. I could stay a little longer… but I don't have to.. I don't want to intrude."
She stammers unsure if Regina's even okay with this. Perhaps she shouldn't have said anything.
Regina sure is startled. Mainly because Emma seemed so nervous when she proposed that she could actually stay a little longer.
But also because the girl sounds like she actually wants to stay a little longer… with them.
Emma's current shy demeanor is kind of heart breaking though. That's why she quickly offers her a reassuring smile.
"You wouldn't be intruding. We're always making too much anyway… it would be nice if we had an extra person to share them with. "
She warmly smiles.
Emma sighs softly, smiles at Regina thanking her wordlessly and then looks from the woman to the little boy next to her.
"I'll tell you what, kid. I'll try to work fast" her eyes shift towards Regina and in
a sudden burst of confidence a small grin forms upon her lips
"but thoroughly of course."
The brunette's breath hitches but thank god she manages to cover it with a small cough, followed by a polite smile and nod.
Emma still might have noticed how she'd affected her though because –Regina's not entirely sure, but- that smile might actually be a grin
"and then you can teach me how to make those scrumptious Mills' waffles. Okay?"
Her big greens are back on the little boy as she enthusiastically lays out the plan.
Henry's smile is wide and infectious. He lunges forward, wrapping his chubby arms around Emma's neck.
This time, there's no doubt at all.. Emma gasps. Her eyes are wide and quickly search Regina's, who she really hopes won't be upset by any of this.
Of course she's not.
The woman bites her lip at the sight in front of her.
It's so incredibly endearing seeing the two interact.
Oh yes, Someone seems to really really like the blonde.
Okay... so with Henry officially being introduced the exposition scenes are now behind us... time for something to happen, right? :)
So, yes... Emma has a penis in this one. Don't worry... you'll gradually learn all about her.
I'm curious to hear what you think about it so far :) So don't hold back and review all you want ;)
Oh and I really hope I didn't disappoint too many of you... :O
NEXT UP: A brand new chapter including the first out of a lot of NSFW scenes of this tale ;)