These scenes turned out longer than initially anticipated! :O
Which is why the new character will have to wait to make their appearance until chapter 22…
But there are mentions of them in this one already…
I feel like I should apologize for the long wait :/
Sorry sorry sorry. It's life's fault, really… not entirely my own.
To all of you who are new and binged the first 20 chapters… R.E.S.P.E.C.T. That is incredibly cool.
Okay okay, I'll cut my rambling short.
Here's what happens next.
CHAPTER 21
Their dinner had been wonderful. Just as expected, of course.
Both Regina and Emma had been rather emotionally drained after the long afternoon with both of their respective best friends
and the drama that had been unveiled between them. And then of course, there had been the extra emotion, though very beautiful…
from sharing the news that Henry's biologically Emma's kid as much as he is Regina's.
Their evening plans had seemed too ambitious beforehand but once they were out with little Henry it had proven to be exactly what both women needed.
Family time… had charged and revived them.
On their way out of the building, down in the hall, they'd noticed how two movers were carrying out a sofa.
The movers were rather short and the sofa extremely ugly.
"Someone must have finally come to their senses."
Regina huffed jokingly while passing by the dusty hideous thing.
"I sure hope so. I hear they were married for over 20 years… Separating after such a long time sure is one hell of a big decision. Hope they won't regret it."
The bulkier one of the two men said into Regina's direction.
"I wouldn't survive a day on my own if my wife left me." The other one grimaced and shook his head.
Both Regina and Emma narrowed their eyes in confusion.
"Separating? Someone in the building is getting a divorce?"
This was very new and unexpected information…
Last time Regina checked there weren't all that many couples residing here.
The guys just shrugged and nodded while carrying the ugly old thing, covered in a tasteless pattern of big sunflowers, out.
The print looked so very ancient that the flowers actually seemed rotten and dead… unless that had been an artistic choice of the manufacturer.
Which it couldn't have been, unless the manufacturer was blind.
"Oh." Emma pulled up her eye brows and sighed, wondering who it could be.
They'd have to ask Kathryn later.
She, after all, owns the entire building… or well, her parents do.
Surely she'd know of any changes concerning its residents.
After they'd exited the building… the movers, the ugly sofa and whoever was moving out, stopped mattering… because all that mattered anymore was Henry. Emma was holding his hand as he skipped his way towards his favorite diner.
Regina walked beside them… and after a couple hundred meters, allowed the boy to sit on her hip as they made the rest of the journey to Granny's.
"Granny's?" Emma had laughed.
"Yes. Is something wrong?" Which had lightly confused the brunette.
She tilted her head and smiled while holding Henry protectively against her as the smallest of raindrops started to fall from the sky.
Emma softly smiled back at the cute sight of Henry and Regina in that cute position while walking alongside them and shaking her head.
"No. Of course not… It's just… well, you know who Granny is right?"
"Granny is the owner of the establishment." Regina shrugged and logically answered.
"Yes. Correct…" Emma confirmed and then continued "Also… Ruby's grandma."
"What?" Which caused for Regina to give her a confused look.
Henry had been curiously looking around at the by passers and the cars and the rain,
all the while listening in on his mother's conversation when he suddenly asked "Granny is Ruby's grandma?"
He turned his little head towards Regina as if silently asking if she knew about this.
She didn't. She too looked at the boy and smiled comically before turning her attention back on Emma.
"I worked a couple of shifts there." She told them while playfully rubbing a hand through her son's messy hairdo and nodding.
"We never saw you there."
Regina knitted her eye brows together, wondering how she could have missed the mesmerizing blonde working in a place she used to very frequently visit. Sometimes to pick up some coffee, sometimes to have a piece of pie after playing in the park
and sometimes for a cosy family night of indulging in burgers and fries.
"Well, you wouldn't have… I did the dishes. Hardly ever left the kitchen." Emma explained… all the while smiling and now holding the door open for her family.
"That's quite remarkable actually… that you have such a close connection to our favorite diner."
Regina smiled warmly, seemingly truly impressed by this newfound piece of information.
"It's only logical that it's your favorite though… Granny makes the best burgers."
Emma raised one blonde brow and grinned wide, unable to hide her excitement over the fact that she's about to dig into one of those babies.
They'd eaten their bellies round. even Regina.
To her total surprise Emma had been the one insisting for Henry to eat some greens before he even started on his portion of the fries.
Eventually Regina had agreed that both of them could have a shake of their own.
Seeing as Emma really wanted the chocolate one and Henry claimed that strawberry was the best and only option to go for.
To all of their disappointments, Granny hadn't been there. Something about an annual karaoke night with the biker girls, their waitress informed them.
It hadn't stopped the night from being an awesome one though.
The waitress had then brought Henry some crayons and a coloring sheet, on which he'd enthusiastically worked all through their dinner.
He'd proven to be quite the multitasker as he perfectly divided his attention between his food and getting the coloring job done.
The boy had also talked and talked and then talked some more.
About the party and about Grace and about how some of the kids at the party hadn't believed he has two mommies.
Two mommies that had made him.
Grace apparently hadn't argued him on it but some of the older kids had, which had initially upset him…
"I told them how momma has a boy baby maker but I don't think they understand. I don't think all of them know where babies come from."
He'd shrugged and munched down some fries, completely unaware of the paralyzed state his blonde mother found herself in.
"Yes, that's very possible sweetheart. I wouldn't worry about it."
Regina smiled gently at him and then turned her attention towards Emma as Henry'd went back to selecting the perfect color
for whatever it was he was about to start on next.
"Are you okay?" She'd softly asked her girlfriend.
Emma nodded in silence, looking at Henry, down at her hands and then into her girlfriend's eyes. "I'm okay… I just, I'm not used to it yet."
She was keeping her voice down… in a way that Henry knew they were having an adult conversation.
Probably boring and not interesting for him.
Which is why he didn't mind, drew a big gulp from his milkshake and happily continued to let his fantasy go wild on paper.
Regina nodded and kept looking at Emma… telling her it's okay to say whatever's on her mind.
"I'm not used to feeling a sense of pride of who I am. But, looking at Hen… I can't not be proud of the part of me that helped make that little miracle."
She spoke.
Regina lovingly smiled and nodded.
"And… a part of me still feels like I should be getting upset because he's, apparently, talking about it…
but I couldn't be more happy that he wants to share his excitement."
Emma was blushing now as she was shaking her head, lightly chuckling before looking back up at the boy in front of them.
Who's still totally engrossed in the colorful masterpiece he's working on.
"He has a very open and beautiful soul." Regina nodded proudly.
"Shouldn't we tell him to be a bit more discrete? I just hope he doesn't scare off some of the kids."
"I don't think he will." The brunette confidently said.
"He's excited but he's not pushy in sharing that excitement.
He tells these things casually, acts normal about them and is just proud and comfortable while doing so… that also rubs off on the kids around him."
"It does?" The left corner of Emma's pink lips tugged upwards as she too couldn't conceal her pride. Not that she was trying.
"It was the same when he discovered I'm a lesbian." Regina explained.
"How did he discover? Were you dating someone?"
"No I've never been on more than one date with the same person since I have Hen… I instantly found them bad matches for Henry.
I might have been a bit too harsh about it…
They probably wouldn't all have been horrible with him but something just kept holding me back from continuing to date any of them."
The brunette softly admitted, a small amused smile splayed upon her lips.
"Yeah, they weren't me." The girl smirked, feeling rather accomplished being in the position she's in.
"Exactly… and well, Henry didn't really discover that I'm a lesbian… I just told him…
One day he asked me about grown ups and how it seems like they all have another person… like a prince has a princess…
I just explained how a prince can also have a prince and a princess can have a"
"Queen." Emma quickly interrupted her and gently squeezed Regina's knee while offering her a beautiful, so very meaningful smile.
"What a day." She's just done putting her hair up in a bun on the top of her head while she gestures for Regina to hurry up and join her in bed.
Ready to snuggle and get comfortable.
"What a day, indeed." Regina turns around, sighs and smiles while slipping out of her slacks.
"Come here you." Green eyes narrow as the young blonde is growing impatient.
She's only wearing her underwear and a tank top anymore and is in dire need of Regina's body heat to help warm her.
"How are you feeling?" The older woman finally lays herself down in the blonde's embrace.
She quickly kisses her cheek and rests her head in the crook of the girl's neck.
"Tired." Emma sighs, tiredly indeed.
"Hmm me too." Regina softly hums.
"But happy." The blonde's fingers trace patterns down her lover's side and hip as she burrows her nose in the woman's hair and savors her entirely.
"I still can't believe I didn't know about Kat and Ruby."
"I know. Do you think they'll be alright?"
"They both deserve it." Regina nods.
More than ever believing that whatever needs to happen will,
especially now both Emma and her know about the situation and they can stand by their friends and support them emotionally.
"Yeah." The younger woman agreeingly whispers.
"So." Regina suddenly says and turns around in Emma's arms to be able to look her in the eyes. "Momma?"
She grins at the girl and watches a beautiful blush rise in pale cheeks.
"Crazy, right? I never even called anyone that myself and now it makes me feel" She pauses, thinking of the right word.
"good?" Regina smilingly offers. Not that it's the most creative of words…
not a superlative either and it most likely doesn't even begin to cover exactly how Emma feels but why even begin to try explaining the unexplainable anyways?
"Bafflingly amazing." Emma nods slowly and grins happily and with twinkling eyes.
"Well, for what it's worth… you're an amazing momma."
The brunette says while leaning forward and rubbing her nose against her girlfriend's affectionately.
"I'll try my best." Said girlfriend whispers.
"You are the best." Regina says while tilting her chin a little… resulting in the connecting of their lips. Just lightly.
Just a small brush but one that ignites electricity so powerful it steals both of their breaths.
Emma quietly gasps before humming and clearing her throat.
"When did you get so sappy?" She softly teases with a sly look in her eyes.
"Sappy?" A dark brown eye brow raises as Regina draws back just a little to lock eyes with the blonde.
"Hmm."
"Am I not always sweet and romantic?" She cutely grins and almost rhetorically asks.
The answer is yes… So Emma chuckles and nods her full agreement, while sweetly stroking one of the woman's cheeks. It's soft.
Both her skin and the touch. Everything is soft.
In their beautiful little bubble… nothing has sharp edges or corners. They can lean on each other in any way possible and be comfortable.
And oh yes, ever since Emma Swan… Regina Mills has turned into a hopeless romantic.
The things she says and the looks and touches she shares with the younger woman are intense and meaningful, always, as she drowns.
Allows herself to do so because she knows it safe and she knows it's healthy… Because this woman charges her.
She charges her with life, wonder, love, giddiness, hope and dreams. The way only one other person truly can.
It's what defines them as a unit. The three of them. They fully complete each other.
Three pieces of a puzzle, ready for a fourth.
"You don't mind that I'm younger, do you?" Emma suddenly surprises her by asking something so unexpected.
"What? Of course not…" She instantly assures her and then narrows her eyes while looking down. They focus in on the outlining of Emma's lower lip.
"Do you mind that I'm older?" She murmurs.
"Not at all… I swear… I never even considered it… I was kinda surprised when Kat and Rubes brought up their age difference today."
Emma truthfully says and sweetly caresses Regina's shoulders and neck as a physical reassurance of her importance.
"I must admit that there's been moments that I was unsure of if I would be appealing to you, because of my age."
The older woman confesses. Her voice is just slightly wavering when she thinks back of just one of the insecurities she'd had before they started dating.
"Seriously?" Emma curiously whispers as their eyes lock once again. "Oh babe, but you now know it's nonsense, right?"
"Yes, I do." The dark haired woman immediately confirms… She definitely knows it's nonsense.
"Good. Because as much as I would love you, regardless of any age…
I love you the most just the way you are… and just the way you'll be tomorrow… and in a couple of years."
The girl matter of factly tells her. Wanting her to hear the truth and then never forget it.
"Now look who's the sappy one." Regina grins, earning a hoarse chuckle from her girlfriend.
The cute crack in the blonde's voice is what warms what's left to be warmed inside of Regina to be entirely mushy and needy of one thing only.
"I love you so much too, darling." Regina says and slips her hand down the front of Emma's underwear.
Regardless of the long and emotional day and regardless of how tired she is and of how tired Emma has expressed to be, she wants to make love…
If Emma really is too tired to do much, she doesn't mind at all to do all the work. To get Emma excited and ride her, until they've both reached their release.
Upon realizing Regina's intentions and feeling those soft fingers reach for her cock, Emma softly groans.
She pushes out her chest, only clad in a small tank top and looks up into her girlfriend's eyes.
The brunette smiles tenderly and leans down to brush their lips together once again.
Inside of Emma's underwear she's slowly but steadily jerking the girl's shaft, feeling how it's starting to harden in her palm and grow warmer with the second. She smiles into their sweet kiss and captures them more forcefully,
before slipping her tongue inside of Emma's mouth and drawing another groan from the younger woman.
Regina one-handedly pulls down her own panties before dragging down Emma's boxers.
Her right hand instantly goes back to work as she cups the blonde's balls and softly massages them.
Emma's hands reach out for Regina to get closer. She needily holds the woman's hips, silently telling the brunette to get on top of her.
Regina whimpers quietly and nods against her lips. She first pulls her shirt over her head and then goes to straddle the blonde.
Looking down at the spot where she's sitting on top of her girlfriend… and where Emma's visibly excited.
She pushes her cunt forward against Emma's balls while continuing to stroke Emma's erection up and down
until she's hard enough to really get down to business.
Emma is breathing hard, softly humming and moaning…
She's trying her very best not to groan too loudly in an attempt to be silent enough as to not awake their son who's sleeping down the hall.
Thoroughly enjoying the sight in front and on top of her, Emma decides she wants to be equally naked.
She too quickly pulls her top over her head and throws it to the side, giving Regina a nice view of her chest,
with pink nipples that are matching the erection between her legs.
Regina smiles wide, dark eyes twinkling with love and lust as she stares down at her lover.
"Ready?" She excitedly whispers, raising an eye brow as she, for a couple more seconds, speeds up the movements of her fingers around Emma's sex.
"Definitely." Emma softly chuckles and moves up her hips, making Regina lean back on her heals a little and automatically expose her pussy.
"Are you?" The girl sweetly asks her, while letting her eyes wander up and down the beauty above her.
Regina doesn't reply with words, but rather deeds when she positions herself just right and then lets Emma sink into her heat.
They simultaneously gasp at how amazing it feels and then instantly start moving together.
Regina leans her body down onto Emma's as the girl reaches down to hold her ass and help coordinate their movements.
They softly whine against each other's necks and cheeks. Their sweat mingles as they tire each other out deliciously.
Regina cums first and almost entirely stills her movements.
But that's only an extra motivation for Emma to squeeze the round mounds of flesh between her pale fingers
as she pushes herself as deep as possible inside of the woman. All it takes are a few more thrusts before she too explodes and fills Regina generously.
Coating her deliciously white.
"Fuck fuck fuck that's good Emma. That's so good…" Regina groans directly into her ear.
Normally, Emma would wince but due to the fact that she's currently peeking, nothing else matters but the pleasure that's washing through her and,
if Regina's content shivering is anything to go by, out of her as well, and into Regina's eager, willing and welcoming pussy and womb.
And just the idea that they might actually be creating life that both of them know the other too so desperately wants,
makes it all the more amazing, sexy and intimate.
So damn intimate.
"I can feel it." Regina softly breathes out.
"What?" Emma curiously asks her, pressing the back of her head hard into the pillow as to be able to lock eyes with her girlfriend.
"When you orgasm and you ejaculate… I can feel it inside of me."
Regina somewhat shyly though clearly explains, staring straight into green eyes.
"Good feeling?" Emma blushes a little but manages to ask confidently.
"Wonderful feeling." She confirms with a big smile.
"That counts for two then." Emma grins wide and moves her hands up from Regina's ass towards her shoulders… where she softly caresses her girlfriend.
She leans up and connects their lips, tenderly kissing Regina and savoring the woman's taste. That taste she adores and has grown addicted to.
That taste that is for her to experience only and forever.
"Next Thursday." Regina suddenly says.
"Last Monday." Emma nods and gives her girlfriend a pointed look.
"What?" Said girlfriend furrows her eye brows curiously.
"I'm sorry. Were we not naming random days?" Emma lamely jokes with a cute grin plastered on her features.
Finding herself incredibly funny, of course.
If Regina agrees she's able to hide it as she just deadpans and shakes her head before rolling her eyes and pointedly informing Emma
"Dinner with Robin and his fiancée."
"Wow. Your brother's in town?"
"Yes, apparently he has been for a while but he's been busy running around for his work."
Regina explains while playing with a couple of strands of blonde hair.
"I didn't know he was engaged."
Emma turns onto her side, causing for the older woman's body to slide off of hers.
She's still holding onto Regina though as she pulls her back closer so they can continue to cuddle.
"Me neither." Regina wraps a leg over the girl's as she settles into the new position.
"Must be very recent. Last time I briefly spoke him on the phone he still was dating another woman even. So, it's a very spontaneous engagement I guess."
She shrugs.
To be honest, she too had been rather surprised about the news when Robin had called her this afternoon.
"Okay." Emma nods while inhaling sharply.
"I'm already getting really nervous…" She, indeed, nervously chuckles.
"Nervous? Why?" Regina squints funnily at her. Not yet understanding where Emma's sudden bashfulness is coming from.
But she really should, shouldn't she? After all… for Emma, this is another first…
"I'm meeting your family." The girl dryly states the obvious.
"No Emma." The brunette smiles reassuringly while rolling her eyes at her girlfriend's silly behavior.
"He's meeting my family." She affectionately corrects her, making Emma blush and melt. "Besides, it's just Robin."
"I still wanna make a good impression." The younger woman nods but still continues to worry her lower lip.
Regina's eyes zoom in on the nervous tick as she reaches up to gently stroke the assaulted flesh with her thumb.
"You will. He'll love you."
Emma offers her a small smile before asking
"I thought you said you two weren't close?"
"We're not. Not really." Dark eye brows meet each other in the middle as Regina pouts a little while thinking of how to describe their situation.
"It's just… We'd be much closer… if it weren't for our parents… You know how I'm the oldest child?"
"Yeah."
"I know my mother was severely disappointed she didn't have a boy right away… so I was never the child she wanted."
Emma's green eyes turn sad before they, momentarily, flutter closed and she inhales slowly, finding it difficult to hear these things about her lover's youth.
She, of course, understands all to well how, even though it's been so long since they've been felt, feelings like that are never forgotten.
"And then when Robin came…" Emma knowingly offers… Her voice is dull but soft. Like a chilly, gray Sunday afternoon towards the end of the fall.
The trees have lost all of their leaves and all of the leaves have lost all of their color but there isn't any snow yet either
so when you realize there's not really anything to look at out there,
your focus shifts and you suddenly notice your own sad reflection in the glass.
Regina nods and sighs before quietly though bitterly telling her
"He was perfect… even though I've always worked 10 times as hard and tried so hard to prove myself… to them, he was always more impressive."
"To your father too?" Emma somewhat hopefully tries.
"My father's not really the meddling type… He's a good man but he's never been strong enough to stand up against my mother.
So he always just went with what she said." The brunette smiles wryly before licking her lips and sighing.
"I'm sorry." Emma quietly soothes while continuously stroking Regina's lower back. Pale fingers trace small circles.
"It's fine…" plump lips form a soft smile. "and Robin is actually a very good man. He's always been much more content with himself."
"He got enough recognition to be." Emma immediately counters.
"It's only logical that you got self-conscious when you didn't."
"I know." Regina nods agreeingly. Finding it so sweet how Emma's able to empathize with her.
The girl doesn't seem to judge her for being so whiny about her misfortunate relationship with her parents, regardless of never even having had any of her own. But that's Emma Swan for you… The girl who'd never judge.
"So, that's the story between Robin and I." Regina quietly concludes.
"What's it like when you guys meet up now?" Asks Emma. Sounding both interested and a little cautious.
She wants to learn more about Regina's and Robin's relationship but at the same time,
doesn't want to push Regina into talking about something she might not feel like talking about.
Especially after the long day they've had.
"We don't actually meet up much. It's not that it's not good to see him"
The brunette says while staring at Emma's left cheek before refocusing her eyes back on green ones.
"but we have our separate lives. We might have had a family… But it wasn't exactly a warm one."
She curls up her nose a little at her own words but Emma, of course, understands how the term family is a very broad one.
"Hmm…. I understand… So you just check in with each other from time to time?"
"Exactly." Regina nods and continues. "But, yes, the occasion does occur that we do actually meet up."
"Like now."
"Yes, like now. But neither of us have ever introduced partners to each other before… so this one is a very special occasion."
She excitedly adds while sweetly and enthusiastically squeezing Emma's bicep.
"Oh really?" The latter smirks accomplished with raised eye brows.
"Hmm." Regina chuckles and kisses her cheek before nuzzling her face into the crook of her girlfriend's neck.
"Well I sure feel special." Emma continues to grin while staring at the dark ceiling and wondering about next Thursday.
"I was wondering…" Regina's raspy voice is what pulls her from her thoughts.
"What babe?" She cranes her neck to look down at the head that's now resting on her chest.
Brown eyes look up into hers before Regina sits back up a little and levels their gazes.
"I was thinking that maybe we can tell him about Henry...
of course, he knows about Henry but about you and Henry and the full extent of your role in his life… and also about our plans for expanding the family?"
She slowly and hopefully suggests.
"You wanna tell him." Emma repeats in a voice that sounds rather monotone and is so difficult for Regina to decipher.
"Only if you're okay with it… but… It's something that I think is really hard for me to not share with him…
Regardless of the fact that we're not the closest of siblings… we still care a lot about each other and if the roles were reversed I really hope he'd share something like that with me." The older woman truthfully says.
She doesn't want Emma to feel like she's leaving her no choice but she's still allowed to express exactly how she feels, isn't she?
If Emma doesn't feel ready to be entirely open about herself and about the situation towards the outside world, that's okay…
There's plenty of time ahead of them for Emma to get fully comfortable.
But yes, if it were up to her, Regina would love to gloat with their amazing news and plans.
"Then, of course, we'll tell him." Emma smiles wide at her girlfriend.
Sharing the brunette's feelings and excitement on the matter.
It seems she's come a long way from the often overly bashful girl she used to be.
Regina is both very happy and extremely proud of the younger woman as she too smiles radiantly.
"Thank you." She says.
"Thank you…" Emma repeats after her before clarifying. "You know, for so seamlessly including me in everything."
She's unable to hide a slight blush while her fingers are still drawing away on olive skin. Slower now.
"Emma, this isn't about including you in anything… you're as much part of us as I am, darling."
Regina tenderly argues Emma's need to show gratitude for something so evident and logical. For something so natural and yes, needless to mention.
"I know, though it probably can't always be that simple… cause you raised Henry by yourself for those first five years and you're still his"
Emma is murmuring things Regina doesn't want to hear. Doesn't want for Emma to ever consider.
"Emma." She quickly interrupts the girl. "It is just that simple." She emphasizes every word to make her point as clear as possible.
"I raised Henry alone for the first five years because that's how it was supposed to be."
She says and nods while doing so, making it known that this is how it is and that she's not to be argued on it.
Emma's breathing is slow and deep as her lips form an upward curling fine line and she quietly whispers.
"You believe in fate like that?"
Regina regards her closely as she lets her eyes roam across all of her girlfriend's features.
Stunningly beautiful features… Ones her son inherited at that. Ones she loves so dearly and deeply.
She hums softly before drawing in a deep breath and smiling from ear to ear.
Not just at Emma… yes of course, at Emma… but also… at her life now… at their life now.
"Oh darling, how can I not?"
Isn't Regina just a cutie pie? :3 I'd cuddle the hell out of that woman ^^
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