A/N Sorry for any confusion about updates, I posted the wrong chapter, so hopefully this is right now :)
Chapter two
"You forgot to breathe?" Ruby asked with a raised eyebrow as she fell into the seat next to the blonde who had quickly become her best friend. The brunette wondered often whether Snow knew that her daughter had took her mantle, but then again, she did have far more in common with Emma than with her mother.
Emma rolled her eyes and sunk further into the couch, "I had a long day, how was I supposed to know that she would decide to come and watch me sleep?"
"Snow does weird things…you should really be used to living with people by now," the wolf shot back.
The blonde shook her head and offered no reply.
After a moment of silence, Ruby asked, "you know that you didn't have to tell them, right? You are pretty…persuasive…"
Emma gave her a disbelieving look and said, "that is sick, Rubes."
"Why?" the other woman laughed, even if she knew far more than anyone else in town, she still didn't fully understand the ins and outs of being a vampire. She had asked Emma a couple of questions since she had admitted it to her, but it was mainly how she had been turned and they had traded stories about times they had lost control, but they hadn't really had a lot of time to learn everything about each other.
"Because…my persuasion is based on being…irrevocably attractive…"
Ruby blinked a couple times and the nodded, "okay…you're right, that would be pretty sick. But…you know…your parents are pretty…gullible."
Emma raised her eyebrow at the brunette, but she didn't seem to be about to take back what she had said, so after a moment, the blonde just huffed and crossed her arms.
"I know that I probably could have convinced them of some kind of lie…but I finally have people who I feel like should know the truth. I know that they're not the most observant of people, but I am pretty sure that they would notice when me and Neal look the same age in twenty years…"
"You really think it would take them twenty years?" Ruby chuckled.
"You know what I mean..." Emma sighed, "I was planning to tell them the truth eventually, I had this whole explanation planned…but my mind completely went blank and mom just ended up fainting."
The brunette took this in for a moment and just shrugged, "that really doesn't surprise me, Snow does not take change well…"
Emma rolled her eyes and asked, "would Belle mind if I stay here for a couple days?"
"Of course she wouldn't, but you really think it would take them a couple days to want you to come back?" Ruby replied doubtfully.
"I know they want me to come back, but I'm guessing that they're going to need some time to think things through, plus I'm sure that they have just so many stupid questions that they want to ask me…I just can't deal with that right now…"
The brunette cringed as she remembered all of the misconceptions about vampires that she had believed before she knew they were real. She could clearly see Emma rolling her eyes when she asked why she was able to go out in the day time, after a short conversation, she discovered that she didn't know much about real vampires.
"Of course you can, Em, but there are a couple more people who you should consider telling…"
The blonde sighed deeply and nodded her agreement, "I think Henry would think it's awesome…"
"And Regina?"
The saviour tensed and Ruby's eyebrows shot up as she could practically feel the nervousness radiating off her and she couldn't help but smirk knowingly.
"What could she possibly do?"
"She could not want a vampire to see her son…" Emma mumbled, refusing to make eye contact with the werewolf as she admitted her deepest worries.
"You know that Henry would never agree with that and Regina wouldn't want to lose him again…if you trust your parents to accept you, then you should definitely trust Regina."
Emma bit her lip as she thought this through and decided that Ruby's logic was flawless. As the former Evil Queen, the mayor of Storybrooke was hardly in a place to condemn her, and the more she thought about it, she realised that the older woman had probably seen much stranger things in her time than a mere vampire. That didn't stop her doubts from creeping into her mind, however, and she just turned to lay her head on the arm of the couch.
"I'll think about it, can I please go back to sleep now?"
"You do realise that it was you who poofed into my bedroom, Swan? I do not enjoy being torn away from my girlfriend," the brunette smirked.
"Suck it up, Lucas, that is what best friends are for," she shot back, already closing her eyes and shifting her legs to not so subtly hint that she wanted the other woman to move.
Ruby rose to her feet and reached over the back of the couch and a moment later, she violently threw a blanket over the sheriff.
Noticing the smirk on the apparently sleeping woman's face, she rolled her eyes and began making her way to her own room.
A moment later, she fell back into bed and snuggled with the librarian who had refused wake up when the saviour had come pleading for help.
"She forgot to breathe?" Belle mumbled with a smirk.
The taller brunette rolled her eyes and brought the other woman closer, "you don't get to listen to our conversation when you're actively choosing to be unhelpful."
"A disadvantage of being a werewolf is not being able to sleep when someone is in the other room talking."
Ruby sighed with a smirk and just shook her head, "it was your decision babe, now can we please try and get some more sleep? I have to open the diner in like one hour."
Snow cracked her eyes open and looked around for a moment, before she scrunched them shut as intense light hit her corneas.
Finally, she found it in herself to fully open her eyes and she sat up, to be met with a tentative smile from her husband, who was feeding their son.
"I wasn't sure how would you feel, so I called in sick for you…" he explained.
Snow nodded and smiled at him gratefully, "I don't think I'm going to be prepared for work for a couple of days," she sighed and ran her hand across her face and then shot David a look to ensure that he knew what she was talking about. She was half hoping that it was all a dream and that there was no way she had seen her daughter protract her fangs. She sighed again when his expression made it clear that he knew exactly what she was talking about and she rose from her bed in search of caffeine.
The blond man watched her go and placed the bottle on the counter as he followed her over to the kitchen, attempting to burp Neal as he walked.
They remained in silence as the brunette checked whether the coffee in the machine was fresh before she grabbed a mug and poured the much needed beverage into it.
"Snow," David sighed after five minutes passed, "don't you think that we should talk about this?"
"What is there to talk about? Our daughter has technically been dead for the past nine years…"
"That doesn't change anything…" the blond frowned, though he felt a slight clench in his stomach at the thought that someone actually killed his little girl.
"You cannot seriously believe that," the brunette shot back in a whisper, very aware that raising her voice would only add to her issues if Neal started crying.
"Of course I don't, but you know that everything will only be made worse if we at least try and talk to her," he sighed.
"And what do we say?"
"I have no idea, maybe we give her a chance to explain? She needs to know that we're still here for her…" David suggested, though his anxiety flared up at seeing Emma again, it wasn't exactly that he was afraid of his daughter as he knew her. It was just the fact that he, like most children in the Enchanted Forest, had grown up with many horror stories about vampires. He was having a difficult time not wondering whether she had committed some of the horrors that he had heard as a child.
He had become used to being completely and utterly blissfully happy once Regina had become one of the heroes. Though he was sure he would never say it out loud, the mayor somehow made everything easier and it made sense that having the Evil Queen on their side could only be a good thing. Finding out that his daughter had been hiding something so big for so long, somehow hurt. It reminded him that she wasn't as close with her parents as she could have been. He also had to wonder who she would have gone to for comfort.
"I…I just don't think I'm ready for that," Snow sighed, staring at the counter with a frown.
David reached across and placed his hand over hers, while skilfully holding Neal with his other arm, "she'll understand, she offered to leave to give us time to think things through. I'll just text her so she knows we're here for her…we can arrange to talk to her whenever we're both ready…"
Snow blew out a breath and said, "I guess I just don't think I'll be ready to talk to her until I understand more, but I can't understand more until we talk…"
The prince was silence for a moment and he bit his lip in thought, "maybe there is someone else who can help us…"
The brunette sighed and nodded, "Belle does seem to know everything and I think she does have some advantage in this area…"
David smiled weakly and said, "we can go and talk to her whenever you're ready."
"Your kind of freaking me out, ma," Henry laughed nervously, looking at the woman who was sat on the coffee table.
Emma nodded, but still didn't say a word and she looked between the two brunette's sat on the couch. When she had showed up at nine on a Thursday night at the mayoral mansion, she had expected to be sent away, in fact, she had hoped that she would be so that she could put off having to tell them.
However, when Regina had opened the door, she must have instantly seen that it was important and had instantly invited the woman into the house. Now, the former Evil Queen was looking at her expectantly, clearly starting to become irritated with being kept waiting, though it was still mixed with concern for what was going on with her friend.
"Ruby said that I should tell you and mom and dad found out, but I just don't know if it's a good idea…you might freak out or hate me for not telling you earlier…"
Regina held up her hand with a small amused smirk tugging at the corner of her lips at the other woman's rambling, not that she would have thought that she would ever say out loud how she found it adorable.
"It would be easier for us to understand if you just tell us rather than rambling confusingly," she said, trying not to laugh, especially considering how nervous the sheriff looked to be.
"Trust me Regina, this is not the kind of thing that you just blurt out," the blonde sighed, her head fell into her hands. She had spent much of the day in Ruby's apartment thinking about what she could possibly say, though nothing seemed good enough. Her wolfish friend had suggested getting them to watch Dracula to warm them up to the idea and then the brunette had walked away under the blonde's unimpressed glare to go and serve another customer. Unfortunately, that had lost her someone to talk to about it and it wasn't as if she had any idea what she could possibly say. That was part of the reason that she had yet to tell her parents about everything, there was just no way to lead naturally into the conversation.
"Perhaps that is exactly why you should just say it," Regina suggested.
Emma bit her lip and nodded, she figured that probably would be the best way to do that, but the fact still remained that she hadn't planned to do this in the first place.
"Er…"
"Ma, just say it," Henry insisted.
"I'm a vampire," she replied instantly before she could stop herself.
Silence fell over the room and the two brunettes exchanged a look, before the younger of the two started laughing, but he stopped when he realised that his blonde mother was frowning at him.
"You're not kidding?" he asked, disbelief in his voice.
Emma shook her head and said, "I was twenty-two when…when it happened…"
The brunette blinked a couple of time and looked to his other mother for some kind of reaction, though he couldn't quite seem to gauge what the mayor was thinking.
"Are you seriously not kidding?" he asked with a little squeak in his voice.
The blonde shook her head and Henry's mouth fell open.
"But you go outside in the day all of the time," Henry argued.
"That's a common misconception about vampires," Regina supplied before Emma could even think about sighing.
The saviour blinked a couple of times and she tilted her head, "I thought that vampires weren't a thing in the Enchanted Forest…Mom and dad didn't seem to know anything about them…"
"They were legends, in the Enchanted forest…I learnt more about this world's version of them during the curse…though I never believed that they could be real," the older woman explained.
She knew that she should be asking more questions, but honestly, she was working on believing that this wasn't some kind of joke. Of course, she was wasn't convinced that the sheriff hadn't somehow gotten better at lying and thought that it would be hilarious.
"Do you believe now?" Emma asked hopefully.
Regina bit her lip and thought about this for a moment, she was tempted to say yes just because the sheriff looked so cute when she was happy, but she knew that the woman would be able to use her superpower.
"I…" she began, looking to Henry to see how he felt about it, she could tell that he hadn't processed the information just yet, "I don't…know…"
The blonde sighed and her shoulders slumped, she thought that they would believe her, but then she realised that she probably wouldn't have believed it if she had never met Talia.
"I guess you want proof," she sighed and before either of them could ask what she meant, she opened her mouth and easily protracted her fangs.
Regina and Henry stared blankly for a moment, before the younger of the two jumped up off the couch and threw his arms around her, "that is so awesome!"
Emma's eyes widened, before she allowed a smile to come over her face as she brought her hands up to place on his back.
She sheathed her extra teeth and then said, "awesome?"
Henry pulled back and smiled at her, "of course it's awesome…"
The blonde sighed in relief and brought him back in for a hug, in her nerves, she completely forgot about the whole Truest Believer thing, though that didn't really cover her nerves about Regina.
"But if you're…supernatural…why did it take you so long to believe in the curse?" he pulled back and asked with a furrowed brow.
The blonde shrugged and said, "just because one thing is true, it doesn't convince me that fairy tales are true…"
The younger brunette nodded his understanding, he supposed that there was quite the leap from vampirism to every single fairy tale being completely true, plus there was the fact that she had to deal with his claims that her parents were Snow White and Prince Charming.
"Why did you take so long to tell us?"
"Err…well I didn't plan on staying this long originally and then the longer I waited, the more nervous about it I got…but then Snow decided to watch me sleep…"
Henry grimaced and looked over at Regina and said, "you don't do that do you?"
"All the time," she replied with a wave of her hand.
"Even I knew that," Emma laughed.
The brunette huffed and shook his head, before he continued, "what does that have to do with them finding out?"
"I had a really long day and…I couldn't be bothered to pretend to breathe…"
Henry opened his mouth to reply, but he quickly closed it and furrowed his brow as he considered how strange her words were.
After a moment, he decided to think more about it later since he had a more important question, "how did they react?"
"They didn't think it was awesome…"
He sighed and nodded, he assumed that they wouldn't react well considering how opposed to change the pair were.
"I guess it is a lot to take in," Regina said as she rose from the couch and came over to place both of her hands on their son's shoulders, "you should be in bed though, Henry…"
The boy looked up at his mother apprehensively, he was sure that he would see some disapproval and he would have to spend the next month or so convincing her that she shouldn't stop him from seeing Emma just because of this. To his surprise, however, she seemed to be relatively fine with it, though she did have a look on her face that he couldn't quite decipher.
"But…I want to hear more," he almost whined.
"You have school tomorrow, but I'm sure Emma would be willing to have dinner with us tomorrow and talk more about it," the brunette replied, looking over at the other woman to receive a nod of agreement.
"But I won't be able to sleep," he pouted, looking between each of his mothers.
"You can try," Emma laughed, "and remember that I will come and take your laptop if I think you're going to spend all night googling vampire lore."
Henry's shoulders slumped in mock defeat, but he still gave each woman a hug, "I guess I can try and sleep," he mumbled as he pulled away from his blonde mother, though she noticed that his eyes lingered on her a moment longer than usual.
Once the boy had walked away and they heard him run upstairs, each woman realised that they were standing awkwardly close together.
Emma swallowed hard, trying to stop herself from allowing her senses to remind of what she already knew.
Since her first argument with Regina, she had known that the brunette was physically attracted to her. It was only confirmed when Ruby mentioned having had smelled the pheromones after they talked.
Her best friend had tried to convince her that she should ask the older woman out since they were both so obviously attract to one another, but Emma just told her that physical attraction didn't mean anything. She didn't see the point in ruining the tenuous relationship they had built for what would admittedly be a pretty amazing night.
Now, however, she couldn't help but feel something other than raw attraction coming off the other woman.
"A vampire, Miss Swan?" the brunette finally said.
"I wasn't joking, Regina," the blonde shot back, even though she got the distinct feeling that she had only said it because she was registering, not because she didn't actually believe her.
"You already proved that…" the older woman sighed and turned to sit regally back on the couch, "I just find it hard to believe that I didn't notice…"
"If you're worried about Henry, I only feed on animal blood now..."
Regina just nodded and replied, "I would be a fool to doubt your ability to keep Henry safe after all of this time, I just wish that I had noticed sooner…"
"What would have been different though?" Emma asked with a furrowed brow as she fell into the seat next to her.
"Well, for one, I know the toll that lying can take and, for two, I just think that it would have been nice to have been told," the mayor replied, refusing to make eye contact as she omitted the real reason behind it.
The saviour was no longer able to resist as she covertly took in a breath through her nose and was met with an almost dizzying intensity of hormones and she just about managed to hide her dopey smile as she said, "I guess you want to know everything…"
"I can wait for when you tell Henry."
The blonde nodded slowly and they fell into silence for a moment, before the younger of the two said, "I should probably go…"
Just as the saviour was half way to standing, Regina grabbed her arm and pulled her back onto the couch, "I assume that Snow would be too freaked out if you were to return home…"
"Yeah…I'm kind of living on Ruby's couch until they call," the blonde sighed, desperately trying not to think about the fact that they hadn't called yet. She just tried to think what she would do if she randomly found out that Henry was some kind of supernatural creature, she could admit that she would need more than one day before she could have a rational conversation about it.
Regina bit her lip and silently called Snow and David 'idiots' in her mind, before she said, "perhaps it would be simpler if you just slept in one of my spare rooms…Henry would probably be happier if you were to be here in the morning and it's already late…"
Emma nodded slowly, trying to hide a smile at how far the two of them had come, and she replied, "that would be more comfortable, Ruby really needs a new couch."
The brunette let out a little laugh and the pair of them fell into silence, and for a full two minutes, neither of them had any idea what they could possibly say.
The blonde was still trying to work through the fact that she had told everyone she cared about her deepest secret. Though it could have gone better with her parents, she couldn't quite believe how well it had gone with her son and with whatever Regina was to her.
Finally, the blonde couldn't take it anymore and she turned to the other woman, "we could watch a movie or something…"
For a moment, Regina considered saying yes, she, Emma and Henry had many movie nights together and she would often spend time with the blonde afterwards when Henry had gone to bed. During that time, she was able to ignore her attraction to the woman who she believed to be with Hook, but right now, she was having difficulty thinking of anything else.
"Actually…I have had a rather long day; I think it would be best if we both went to bed," the brunette took in a sharp breath and she considered adding 'separately' but she quickly thought better of it.
Emma smirked at the woman, she didn't have to be a mind reader to know what was making the normally composed mayor blush slightly. Of course, she probably wouldn't have noticed the blush if her senses weren't stronger than those of anyone else in town.
"Are you sure you're tired?" she asked with a tilted head.
Regina took a breath and nodded unconvincingly as she continued to stare at the blonde, "it was a long day…" she repeated.
The blonde shifted closer and a satisfied smile spread across her face when the older woman didn't move away from her, "I always know when you're lying Regina."
"I wasn't aware that I had to justify the time I choose to go to…"
"How long have you had a thing for vampires?" Emma interrupted and laughed when the blush on the other woman's cheeks deepened.
The brunette's breath hitched and she just about managed to say, "I have no idea what you're talking about, Miss Swan."
The younger woman leaned in and whispered mere inches from her face, "I always know when you're lying."
The former queen's eyes flicked down to the saviour's lips and she licked her own, before she shook her head, "I believe that your 'superpower' may not be as reliable as you think."
"Prove it," the blonde shot back.
Regina swallowed hard and tried to think of the reasons why she should resist the woman, she couldn't exactly say that the sheriff wasn't attracted to her, but she did come up with a list of other reasons why they wouldn't make sense while she thought over her 'crush'. However, with the intoxicating woman invading her personal space, she could hardly think of a single protest.
"H-how?" she stuttered, silently berating herself for not being able to keep up her façade.
Emma smiled at the effect she was having on the queen, and allowed her lips to spread further, before she could even consider her next move, she protracted her fangs for the second time that night.
The brunette stared at her for a second, taking deep breaths, she had never really considered the reasons for it before, but now she couldn't even try and deny that she found the idea of vampires incredibly attractive. Not least because the first vampire she happened to meet was the woman she had been attracted to for four years now.
"Tell me this doesn't turn you on and I'll leave and go back to Ruby's," Emma whispered, though she was already leaning in closer, her lips were now mere centimetres away from Regina's.
The mayor sighed as she felt the vampire's forced breaths touch her face and she knew that she would only regret it if she passed up this opportunity to fulfil more than one of her fantasies.
She surged forward and met the saviour's lips in a searing kiss, moaning as she felt the other woman's extra teeth return into place to make the kiss easier.
Leaning back, she pulled Emma with her, the blonde shifted so that she was straddling her partner's hips and they continued to make out fiercely. It didn't take long for their tongues to start exploring each other's mouths and begin fighting for dominance.
Eventually air became an issue, for Regina at least, and she lightly pushed the blond woman away, though they still remained inches away from each other.
"Wow," the saviour sighed heavily.
"Wow, indeed," Regina swallowed as her senses came back to her and she looked over the back over the couch, praying that Henry hadn't come down to spy on their conversation.
Emma seemed to understand what was worrying the brunette and leaned back so that she wasn't completely pinning her down, "he's in his room."
"How do you know?"
"I heard him shut his door," she replied with a smile, "all of my senses are enhanced."
"Okay…" Regina said with a hint of confusion in her voice, she knew that she would have to find out more about exactly what the other woman was capable of, but right now she had more important things to do.
Propping herself up, she leaned back up to connect their lips, this time in a sweeter kiss, the kind that they would pretend was their first kiss if anyone ever asked.
However, it didn't take long before it got heated again and the human of the two eventually had to fall back onto the couch, out of breath.
"I guess I got the proof I wanted," the blonde laughed.
The brunette rolled her eyes and said, "you have an unfair advantage, Miss Swan."
"Do you mean these?" Emma asked with a laugh as she unsheathed her fangs.
Regina moaned at the sight and leaned up to steal another kiss, before she whispered, "completely unfair."
Before the other woman could say anything, purple smoke engulfed them, taking the pair to the mayor's bedroom.
A/N Hope you guys enjoyed, reviews are a great motivator ;)