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CHAPTER 20
"You guys are a thing." Emma dumbfoundedly concludes as her eyes travel back and forth between her best friend and her girlfriend's best friend.
They settle on Ruby who seems to grimace slightly and is shaking her head.
"Oh no don't be mistaken… we are definitely not a thing, are we Ruby?" It's Kathryn who speaks up.
She seems bitter and hurt and also like she really wants for Ruby to feel the same way.
"What do you want me to say?" The tall legged brunette looks up at her and smiles humorlessly
as she's possibly fighting off some tears from welling up and spilling.
"That it's more than just sex?" She huffs, her tone laced with sarcasm. "It's not."
"Yes keep telling yourself that. Perhaps eventually you'll start to believe it."
Kathryn instantly throws back at her and then looks away. Probably having received enough rejection for one day.
"Do you even realize how ridiculous we would be together?" Ruby now coldly chuckles and says as if no one could possibly argue her on that, right?
"And what, pray tell, would be so ridiculous about us being a couple."
Kathryn rolls her eyes before locking them back on the girl… unable to come up with a single reason herself.
"The list is endless." Ruby simply shrugs.
"Well then you better start sharing."
"You're my boss." The girl mentally ticks off her first argument.
If she'd have a quick look at either Emma or Regina in this moment, she'd witness the women looking at her in amusement.
Okay, so from her first argument she's already making it pretty clear that she's making up excuses.
Bad ones at that, since the greatest true life love story she's ever known of started as exactly that;
employee and boss aka The Swan and the Queen or well, Emma and Regina.
"Oh so just fucking your boss seems more appropriate to you?" Kathryn too immediately calls bullshit and snorts sarcastically.
"But okay, if it's such an issue… You're fired."
"Great. Well I was about to quit anyway…" Ruby's finds herself squirming in discomfort upon realizing how she's not really on the winning side of this discussion. Especially because she kind of senses how absolutely everyone is starting to see right through her tough girl exterior.
Even Kathryn, who she's supposed to be able to blind side with either humor or seduction.
"Well that's perfect then."
Kathryn smiles and sassily tilts her head to the side, challenging Ruby to go on and name another reason as to why they can't possibly try to be together.
"You're ancient." Ruby spats and curls up her nose as to make it seem more hurtful.
But it totally misses it's effect as Kathryn merely chuckles and shakes her head. "Oh please, you love our age difference."
She says, raising a suggestive eye brow that both Emma and Regina wish they hadn't noticed.
"Who knows how much longer you'll be fit enough to walk." Ruby murmurs flatly. Not enjoying the course of this conversation at all.
"So you already ran out of arguments?" Kathryn victoriously concludes.
It pisses Ruby off immensely. She bites her tongue to keep herself from shouting profanities, inhales sharply and then lists up a third reason.
"You're straight."
For a moment it looks as if Kathryn's not really sure what to say.
The look in her eyes is a more vulnerable one than before but then she just shakes her head and truthfully admits:
"I'm entirely gay for you, Ruby…"
Anyone with a heart has to just melt from that kind of admission, no? Both Emma and Regina certainly do.
They quickly search each other's eyes and then focus back on the women in front of them while holding their breaths and waiting for Ruby's reply.
The brunette girl too seems to be emotionally taken by Kathryn's words and the way she's said them.
If one were to look closely at her throat they'd notice the trouble she's having with swallowing the lump in there.
Her eyes travel across Kathryn's face at a rapid pace as if she's having a mental breakdown over what to say next.
"I'm straight." She eventually counters.
But there's a clear lack of force behind that statement and all three other women in the room can instantly -and easily so- detect that.
Kathryn just decides to ignore it for now, figuring that pointing out how vulnerable and affected the girl is coming a cross might break her.
So instead, she just comes back at what Ruby had literally said rather than focusing on the subtext by saying
"Which is why you wanna keep sleeping together."
At which Ruby deadpans
"Don't worry, you've made it pretty clear that won't happen again."
"Not if you don't talk."
"What is there to talk about?" Ruby infuriatingly asks…
"Us!" Kathryn sighs, feeling hopelessly defeated.
Arguing with someone as stubborn as the brunette girl is proving to be absolutely pointless.
Never will she ever admit to having a weakness. Especially not if said weakness comes in the form of another human being.
"There is no us, Kat." She matter of factly states and raises her voice as she continues.
"The only us there ever was, was the us in us having sex… but you so badly needed to fuck that up by wanting to talk about stupid shit!"
"Rubes, chill." Emma suddenly interferes, having had enough of Ruby's ignorance towards her own and Kathryn's feelings
and certainly more than enough of having to witness the older blonde's repeatedly renewed disappointment.
"Whatever's going on won't get resolved by fighting and cursing like this…" She rightfully reasons.
"Shit Emma… Regina…" Ruby blushes shamefully as she looks over at the couple.
"I'm sorry I don't mean to be so disrespectful in your home…" She tiredly apologizes, for a moment sounding like a reasonable adult again.
"She and I are just not on good terms right now." She finishes explaining, completely down-talking the huge drama she finds herself in with Kat.
"Oh you're not?" Regina softly chuckles, though not maliciously so… She actually receives a chuckle in return, from Ruby of all people.
Kathryn just sighs and goes to stand up. She waves a hand through her hair and turns towards the youngest brunette.
The look in her eyes is dull and entirely void of any emotion. Unless exhaustion is an emotion.
"Ruby, can you please open my door?" She quietly asks. "Then I'll be out of your hair."
"Darling, why don't you stay here with Ruby and I'll go with Kat so we can talk for a bit?" Regina softly suggests, but not too softly for all three of them to hear. She affectionately strokes Emma's lower back and offers her a sweet smile…
her calmness and ease do wonders for the girl's stress levels and so, Emma is able to tenderly return her smile as she nods.
"I was just about to suggest the same thing."
Ruby stands up as well, hands Regina the key to Kat's home and tries to object "Oh but Em, It's fine I think I'll be going h"
But to no avail because the look on Emma's face tells her they are going to sit down and talk.
"Rubes… come on…" Her blonde friend shakes her head and determinately pats the couch seating beside her.
"If I promise that if you talk to me about this, afterwards I tell you some really good news… will you talk to me?"
The moment Kat and Regina have left the loft, Emma kicks off her shoes, turns towards Ruby and pulls her legs up in the couch.
"Really good news?" The brunette softly chuckles and is definitely curious to find out whatever good news her friend has to share.
"Yeah…" Emma pulls up her eye brows and nods enthusiastically.
Ruby's eyes narrow slightly as a smile spreads over the rest of her features.
"Is she pregnant?" She curiously asks, obviously excited.
"Uh-uh." Emma smiles as well and shakes her head. "forget it… first things first… what's really going on, babe?"
The brunette first sighs but then starts speaking.
"What you heard… We've been spending a lot of time together… one thing lead to another and we somehow ended up in bed.
That's been going on for a while, and everything was fine until she started to read into what was happening…
and now she says it can't happen anymore unless I'm willing to talk." She quickly explains and finishes with an annoyed groan.
"Which you're not?" Emma tentatively asks, though she already knows the type of answer she'll get.
"There's nothing to talk about…"
Negative.
Okay, so she'll have to take a detour to get to the core of Ruby's issues.
"How did it happen?" Emma decides on asking
"What?" Her brunette friend looks up at her in fake confusion as if she doesn't already know exactly what Em's asking about.
The latter chooses to ignore Ruby's stalling and instead just smiles and patiently clarifies. "How come the two of you started sleeping together?"
Ruby blows out her cheeks while thinking about that before shrugging.
"I don't know… I was there a lot. First just to clean, then more. And you know how she doesn't work so she's always home… so I guess it just happened."
"Come on…" Emma gently nudges her knee and smiles. "You don't usually dive into bed with women… and as far as I know, neither does Kat."
"Okay well…" Ruby chuckles and shakes her head lightly. "We just have chemistry, I guess."
"Uhu…"
"And I mean…" The brunette girl seems to be struggling to voice some of the thoughts she's having.
Emma just stays silent and gives her the time she needs to figure out whatever it is she hopefully will.
"We have some moments where it feels like what she wants could work but the bigger picture is too messed up, Em."
Rubes says, shaking her head, softly groaning and sporting furrowed eye brows.
"What's messed up about the bigger picture?" The other girl sweetly inquires, her voice low and soft as to not startle the brunette girl back into closing up.
"It just is." Said girl stubbornly breathes out. But that stubbornness of hers seems to be wading slightly, judging by the crack in her voice.
"Do you have romantic feelings for her?" Emma tries for her own voice to sound light and casual. To offer some counterweight to the gravity of her words.
"That's besides the point." Rubes still feels like instantly dismissing the question though.
"Kat…" But Emma gently pushes her to answer.
"Well I'm not gonna deny there's a connection…"
She says it with a sigh and an eye roll but she says it nonetheless and Emma softly smiles to herself,
feeling like they've made at least one step in the right direction.
"But you have been denying that to her, haven't you?" She asks next.
"I don't wanna give her the false hope that we could be more than just two people having sex. Nothing can come out of it anyway."
Ruby somewhat sadly states. And even though seeing that kind of emotion on her friend's face is absolutely heartbreaking to Emma,
it does mean that her friend is allowing it to surface. Even if that's just subconsciously, it matters.
Because… it is yet another step closer to a potential breakthrough that can lead to the girl's happiness.
"Okay… why not?" Emma's tone stays gentle and soft, open and accepting towards whatever her friend's willing to share.
"It's not gonna end well." Ruby curls up her nose while she says that.
"Why would you think that?" The blonde wonders and asks.
"Oh come on… you know me… I'm not like you… I'm not relationship material!" The brunette chuckles darkly and somewhat defeated.
"Ruby!" Emma shakes her head and now for the first time since they've started this talk, raises her voice.
"You're an incredible catch… you're awesome and passionate and gorgeous, funny, smart, sassy.
You're definitely the coolest person I've ever met… and I've met a lot of people Rubes… you're unlike anyone. That's how great you are!"
She passionately praises her friend, really wanting for the girl to believe every word of what she's saying…
"That's sweet of you to say." Ruby smiles, a slight blush gracing her cheeks but her eyes are still not twinkling as they should be
which concerns the blonde immensely. "But Em, I'd screw it up… and I'd lose everything." Rubes continues, shakes her head and sighs.
"What do you mean, you'd lose everything?" Emma's greens narrow as she closely studies her friend's face.
"If I'd try to be with Kat and that would fail… I'd not just lose her… I'd lose you… I'd lose you and I'd lose your family too."
The brunette sadly says and then looks up at Em. Offering her a half smile that holds so much more emotion than she seems to be able to carry on her own.
"What?" The other girl quietly whispers, feeling completely taken aback by that statement. How could she ever think that?
Ruby shakes her head, clears her throat and continues to talk
"But now everything's screwed up because now she won't even let me come over anymore if I'm not willing to talk about my feelings.
What am I supposed to tell her about my feelings? They don't matter because I'm not willing to jeopardize my family
so why should I go through the torture of analyzing them? Nothing good will come of it.
We were just having fun and yeah… it feels good to be with her… but why does it have to be more? I have too much to lose for it to be more."
Even by the end of this she's able to stay calm and composed,
making it incredibly clear to Emma that this is something the girl's been thinking about and rationalizing a lot.
"Rubes… sweetheart." Emma sighs, unable to hide the emotion in her voice any longer.
She also hardly ever calls Ruby anything other than by her name, Rubes or something along the lines of babe.
So Emma calling Ruby sweetheart, is saying a whole lot about the level of comfort she feels the brunette needs right now.
Comfort she's more than willing to provide.
"You can't lose me. You're stuck with me forever. You're the first family I ever had. You're the first person that's ever known me for me, for Emma.
You're the girl that made me see that I can be more than just a freak of nature… That I can be someone's best friend."
Her words are accompanied by a couple of tears and an entirely honest and radiant smile, hopeful too, for Ruby to believe her.
The latter nods and sniffs, feeling very affected by the moment and the overload of emotions as well.
She returns Emma's smile before sighing and licking her lips.
"I know but you have a real family now and I just"
She starts saying but upon hearing her mention the term real family, blonde eye brows furrow immediately and Emma just has to interrupt.
"Babe… you are my real family too. You know that, right? It doesn't get any more real than the bond you and I have."
She's taken a hold of Ruby's shoulders as she says that… looking straight into her friend's eyes, pleading for her to understand and accept what she's saying.
Believe it entirely and never forget it.
"Shit" Emma scolds herself and lets her own hands slide down her friend's arms to take a hold of hers.
"I haven't spent very much time with you, have I?" She says while squeezing Ruby's fingers affectionately.
"Hey don't worry about that…" The brunette shakes her head and smiles reassuringly.
Squeezing Emma's fingers in return and genuinely looking like she's not blaming the blonde at all. "I've been pretty busy too…"
She jokingly smirks a little… and, of course, Emma gets the hint of what exactly it is she means when she says she's been busy.
She chuckles, feeling relieved to see how Ruby hasn't lost her ability to be borderline inappropriate.
"So, who kissed who first?" She asks next.
"Seriously?" Ruby seems to be surprised by that.
Not expecting for the fluffy side of their story to really get addressed, considering the drama that's going on between Kat and her.
"Of course." But Emma seems to really be interested and Ruby decides that there's not really any harm in talking about it, is there?
"Our first kiss was pretty random…" She starts off and Emma wonders if she's aware of the fact that she's smiling and starting to blush.
"It actually happened super organically. We were just having a glass of wine, I believe… talking and laughing, probably at each other,
and all of the sudden I realized we were making out and we both pulled back and were kind of shocked over what we'd done.
You know, neither of us is very shy so after that initial shock we both pretty easily admitted that we were interested in doing more…
and well, the rest is history."
Ruby rushes through explaining, uncertain as to why it makes her feel a little uncomfortable to talk about this
and why it's hard to look Emma in the eye while doing so.
Emma, who's smiling tight lipped and eye-twinkling at Ruby's sudden self-consciousness,
quickly schools her features to get Ruby to continue sharing more about this with her as she casually asks
"And it kept happening?"
"Yeah well it didn't happen every time I was there, very often yes… but it wasn't as if I only went over to sleep with her."
Ruby warily clarifies… as if wanting to make sure that Emma doesn't get the wrong idea out of all of this…
as if all they do is have sex and then have some more sex.
Yes, she seems to be momentarily forgetting that that's exactly what she's been trying to convince everyone -including herself-of.
Meanwhile, Emma is inwardly celebrating the progress they've made but realizes that Ruby hasn't noticed her own slip up yet.
That's why she continues to try and sound calm and simply interested in the situation.
"So what did you do when you weren't… doing each other…" She offers her friend a quick smirk and an encouraging smile.
"Well, we sometimes just sat and talked or, of course, argued about stuff and there was that time I tried to cook.
Obviously the times Hen came over we would play or watch TV with him." Ruby easily lists off a couple of shared moments before turning quiet.
Emma's afraid there might be a certain thought process going on in Ruby's head that's freaking the girl out and is going to cause for her to close up.
She quickly thinks of a next question.
"You both babysat him last night, right?" She pulls Ruby's attention back on her and then tilts her head, hoping to keep it there.
Her friend seems to fall for it as she softly smiles.
"Yeah and we actually had a good time. You know I love spending time with the kid." She nods
"But then when he was off to bed and it was just her and me… I expected a good fuck."
and lets out a sigh while rolling her eyes as she thinks back of how wrong she'd been in that assumption.
Emma purses her lips, feeling slightly uncomfortable with her friend's bluntness.
When Ruby notices the look on Em's face, she laughs. "You wanted me to be honest."
Emma snorts and shakes her head in amusement… this is better than Ruby shutting her out, yes.
"Yeah I know… go on." She nods encouragingly.
"But she wasn't putting out and wanted to talk instead." The brunette somberly shrugs.
"Was that the first time she suggested for you guys to talk about it?" Emma carefully inquires.
"No" The brunette raises her eye brows as she shakes her head determinately.
"She'd tried to initiate a 'big talk' a couple of times before, but I always persuaded her that we should just have fun instead…" and easily admits.
"Okay…" Emma nods while continuing to look at her friend, hoping for her to continue.
"Yeah well, but this time she wasn't budging and I… obviously wasn't getting any…" Rubes huffs, thinking back of that disappointing turn of events.
Something suddenly hits Emma. Not literally but figuratively speaking.
Call it a revelation or whatever… but she feels like she might have just thought of something to point out that might make Ruby see things more clearly.
Not that she believes that Rubes is completely blind for what's going on but she is trying really hard to ignore her feelings, isn't she?
She can definitely use some help to get her to full on face the facts and acknowledge them.
"You could have just gone to anyone else though." She tentatively states. Her eyes locked onto Ruby's.
"What do you mean?" The latter's narrow in question.
"Rubes your phone is full of people that want to sleep with you." Emma pulls up her shoulders, eye brows and the corners of her lips.
"So what?" The brunette softly argues.
"You could have called any of them." Em gently tells her. Holding Ruby's right knee and squeezing it slightly.
The taller girl's features momentarily falter as she seems to be annoyed with her own inability to quickly offer Emma a straight forward answer,
explanation or come back.
"But" She winces at her own lack of word-flow.
"But what?" Her friend sweetly and softly encourages her.
Rubes bites her tongue and feels some things that are too hard to describe.
It's kind of like inside of her there's a tight, uncomfortable knot that hasn't been loose in forever and is now finally untied.
But it seems like the knot was holding together parts of her that are now frantically swimming, flying or just floating all over the place…
making her feel uncomfortable in a whole new way.
Like I said… Too hard to describe.
"I didn't want them." She finally utters in a strained voice.
"Hmm" Emma just nods and rubs the girl's knee softly as she can now read a whole new set of emotions in her eyes.
"Fuck." Ruby groans and scratches the back of her neck.
This isn't something she can continue to run away from, is it?
"Do you want anything to drink?" Kathryn casually suggests once they've entered her loft. Too casual for Regina not to see right through her.
It is why the brunette woman just shakes her head and smiles.
"No dear, let's just sit down and talk."
"Okay." Kat sighs and rubs her forehead as she takes a seat next to her friend who seems to be ready to dive right into this conversation.
Although that's not what happens. Not right away. Instead, Regina reaches out towards her and pulls the blonde into her arms.
"Come here." She whispers as Kat lays her head on her shoulder and returns the embrace.
She starts to quietly cry and lets her body slump down against Regina's.
"This seriously sucks, you know."
Kat's murmuring is hard to understand as her voice is muffled by both Regina's shoulder and her own crying but the brunette gets the message
and just continues to hold and comfort her.
"I know…" She softly sighs and then gently pulls back so they can look at each other.
"I mean, I don't know know…Since I'm not entirely sure of what's going on but I'm sensing that Ruby is shutting you out?"
She gently asks, still holding the other woman's hands to offer her some physical comfort as they get into this undoubtedly emotional talk.
"Exactly!" Kat nods in confirmation before continuing.
"And she keeps blaming me for shutting her out because I don't want to just continue having sex with no string attached."
"Yes, how did that happen?" I didn't know you were attracted to women." Regina curiously smiles at her… Wondering how she could have missed that.
"I'm still not really attracted to women. I mean, I can appreciate a beautiful woman but it's mainly just a click I have with her."
Kathryn shakes her head and lays out the facts.
"That's quite something…" Regina's eyes widen at hearing the information…
She can't really imagine what that must be like since she's never experienced having feelings for a man.
But she can imagine how that click would have to be extremely strong.
"Yeah… that's what I thought. But she just keeps denying that we really do make a connection. But I swear Gina, it's pretty intense.
When we end up in bed together, it's not just because we're both horny it's because there's something between us that's too intense to ignore, you know?" Kathryn passionately explains. Sharing the words as they come to her. It doesn't get more honest than that.
"This probably doesn't make much sense, does it?" She suddenly stops herself and grimaces apologetically at Regina.
"It actually makes total sense…" The brunette smiles effortlessly. If there's one thing she loves about this woman it is definitely her openness.
Not that she doesn't love a million other things about her as well. Because she does.
"So, yesterday when she was coming on to me I just told her flat out that if she wanted sex, she was going to have to ask me out on a date…
I thought it would make as much sense to her as it does to me, but she just completely laughed in my face and then started to get angry
because apparently I'm ruining everything by saying stuff like that." Kat now rolls her eyes and is visibly getting angry when she thinks and talks about this.
"She's afraid of commitment?" Regina half asks, half states because it's pretty obvious that that's exactly what is going on here.
"Extremely… Which is okay, I can give her space and time but she doesn't even admit that that's what's going on.
She just says that I'm delusional for thinking that there's more between us."
Kathryn continues to become more and more upset so Regina wisely decides that perhaps it's time to divert her focus a little.
"You remember when Emma and I started dating, right?" She asks.
"Of course."
"And how we used to talk for hours, spend so much time together watching movies, playing with Henry, her staying over for dinner, making out…
but despite how badly I wanted it, we didn't have sex?" She continues and offers her friend a smile as she sees a teasing one appear on the blonde's features.
"I remember you being very frustrated about that yes." Kat softly chuckles.
"Yes… But eventually it turned out that Emma was just afraid of sharing a part of herself with me that she'd thought would make me push her away."
Regina explains, all too well remembering Emma's fear and reluctance to physically open up to her. Back then it'd hurt…
but upon learning Emma's secret, she had understood and after that everything had gotten better.
"Her penis…" Kathryn concludes and can't help but smirk a little.
To her, that's still new information and something - at some point- she'll want to hear more about from her friend.
"Exactly…" Regina chuckles when she notices Kat's slight giddiness and rolls her eyes.
"Ruby doesn't have a penis…"
"Well no, Ruby doesn't lack any confidence when it comes to her body, I reckon?"
The brunette says questioningly, not necessarily wanting to make assumptions but suspecting that she might be right on this one.
"No, she's pretty proud of herself…"
The blonde quickly confirms before slyly adding. "and for good reason."
Regina can't help but break out into a huge smile.
It's refreshing to see some of her friend's sassy confidence re-surface after the dull look she's been sporting during the last hour.
"Your gay is definitely showing, dear." She playfully teases.
"That's not something I can deny." Chuckles Kat.
"But I think it's possible that, even though it's not something physical, Ruby too might have a part of herself that she's afraid of sharing."
Regina's voice takes on a more serious tone again.
"Like what?" Kat pulls up her shoulders, desperate to find a way out of the situation she finds herself stuck in with Ruby.
"Her heart?" The brunette woman suggests as a plausible possibility.
Kathryn sighs, believing that her friend might be right.
Finding the woman thinking out loud for her to be quite helpful to get to the core of this she asks Regina "Why?"
"Because it can get broken?" Her friend guesses and is probably correct once again.
Kathryn looks down at their hands and worries her lower lip while nodding.
"So how did you convince Emma to… reveal herself…" She curiously asks Regina.
At the time, when Emma wasn't putting out, she'd had conversations about it with her brunette friend… but she'd never actually known the entire situation…
"It involved a lot of patience, encouragement and, of course, openness from my side as well." Regina honestly says.
Thinking back of how, at one point, she'd honestly thought that it -sex with Emma- was never going to happen.
But then life proved her wrong and she'd learned a whole lot out of the situation…
That the only walls there are, are the ones you build yourself.
That the walls you think you stumble upon in life are actually crossroads…
and that the only way to move forward is to pick a course and keep moving. Slowly, if necessary, but always forward.
"I can do that." Kat softly says, in deep thoughts of her own.
"And I had you supporting me through all of it, of course." Regina gratefully smiles at her friend.
The blonde looks up and returns it beautifully. "You'll always have me."
"I'm here for you too, you know that right? You can tell me these kinds of things…"
"I know, trust me… I wanted to, but Ruby always wanted to just keep what was going on quiet." Kat sighs and tells her.
Of course she'd wanted to tell her best friend about what was happening.
"I understand." Regina reassures her.
"Hmm"
"So do you want to know something big?" The dark haired woman's sudden enthusiastic tone and excited energy momentarily startle Kat.
Blonde eye brows arch in surprise as she inhales deeply, smirks and then suggestively jokes. "Emma?"
Her friend chuckles lowly.
"Emma's pretty decent." She admits.
"She's bigger than most of my ex boyfriends." Kathryn shrugs.
"Really?" That does kind of surprises Regina. After all, Emma's just about as big as her dildo, of which the packaging had said medium.
"Well, yeah… Seriously Reggie, porn dicks aren't really the norm of what you come across with in the dating scene…"
The blonde snorts amused to be having this conversation with the brunette. It's definitely something she'd never expected to be informing Regina of.
"Emma doesn't have a porn dick." Regina grimaces and says defensively, not that she'd really know.
She's never spent much time watching that kind of cinema.
"No, but still more so than a lot of guys… people… whatever." Kat shrugs matter of factly.
"Well, I'm certainly not complaining." The brunette then simply says.
About ready to finish talking about Emma's privates with anyone other than the blonde girl herself.
"I bet you're not." Kat teasingly smirks but then also turns a little more serious again as she says
"But that probably wasn't what you were about to tell me, was it?"
"No it wasn't." Her friend smiles once again. Excitedly and anxiously so.
"So spill…" Kat nods encouragingly.
It's all Regina needs to just say it like it is. No beating around the bush, building up suspense… just sharing some amazing news with her friend.
News that never ceases to make her heart beat faster by thinking of it.
"Yesterday we found out that Emma is Henry's donor."
"Excuse me, what?" Kathryn's facial expression is golden. She looks completely dumbfounded. Surely, she must have misunderstood.
"Emma is Henry's donor." Regina slowly repeats. Her voice is smiling as brightly as her eyes are.
The blonde woman gapes at her in disbelief.
Stunned and shocked by the news before she starts laughing and gasping and leveling her gaze with Regina's once more… just to make sure…
"You're not kidding me, are you?"
"No." The dark haired woman shakes her head and confirms again…
The look in her eyes one of a woman madly in love.
"Regina that's fucking incredible! What the actual fuck?" Kathryn can't help but break out in laughter once more. Laughter combined with tears.
A lot of pent of emotion is just flowing out of her as this time, she is the one to pull her friend against her in a warm embrace.
"Yes, it's like some insane coincidence!" Regina too finds herself with watery eyes. She pinches them closed as she allows her friend to squeeze her tightly.
"Oh no." Kat sweetly argues the brunette's statement. "That's fate at work, is what that is."
"So, how about that good news?"
Ruby hopefully asks her friend. Ready for a change in topic. She's not used to crying at all… which is kinda what she's been doing the entire last half hour.
In her friend's arms yes… that had helped but still… Keeping herself from crying for so long and then actually crying for so long,
had resulted in a massive head ache… So, yes if Emma does indeed have some really good news, she's entirely ready to receive it.
"Right." The blonde's excitement is triggered instantly.
"Because I feel like I've definitely deserved it." Rubes smiles.
"You have…" Emma confirms and nods warmly. Feeling genuinely proud of her friend and how she'd been able to open up to her.
"You remember how I told you that Henry was conceived with the help of a sperm donor?" She begins.
"Sure." Of course she remembers.
"and Regina was looking for the donor because she's been wanting to get pregnant again…"
Ruby's rather confused where Emma is taking this conversation…
She's fairly certain that the mere thought of that sperm donor used to make her friend feel rather depressed.
Which is why she clears her throat and says
"Yeah but I thought you told me"
"Hold on a second Rubes…" Emma interrupts her and smiles knowingly.
"Okay, sorry… go on." Yes, Ruby is definitely intrigued to hear the rest of this.
Emma takes a big girl breath, nods and says "She's found the donor."
The brunette's eyes widen before they narrow and she carefully asks her friend "Something you're happy about?"
At which all Emma does is nod affirmatively.
"That doesn't make sense babe…" Rubes chuckles softly in confusion. Desperately hoping that her friend isn't just putting up an act to hide how she really feels.
That worry completely vanishes when Emma utters her next words.
"Rubes, I'm Henry's donor." She breathes out.
Excitement and wonder, as if even she still can hardly believe it herself, lace her voice.
"Henry's yours?" Ruby gasps, completely shocked and visibly overwhelmed by the news as well.
Emma chuckles, with watery eyes, shakes her head lightly and shrugs.
"I'm Henry's."
I'm very happy to be able to reply to all of your reviews again ^^ As you know they mean a lot to me!
Not all of you love these Ruby/Kathryn scenes and I realize the last two chapters have been pretty heavy on them
but I'm not planning on making this about them, don't worry :O
I just needed to install something that will help me tell the story in the future.
That being said… In the next chapter we're welcoming a new character… :)