"Do you have a name yet?" a woman's voice asked. Lena looked up and saw a pair of green eyes look at her with a smile.
"Hey Emma" Lena greeted. She was sitting under the apple tree in the garden enjoying the afternoon sun.
"Don't you need to keep it warm or something?" Emma asked while she sat herself down next to the young girl. Lena reached out the egg for Emma to touch. The blonde looked questionable at Lena but slowly laid her hand on the egg. "It's warm…" Emma said surprised: "That's not just from the sunlight, is it?"
"No, it kinda keeps itself warm" Lena explained: "Apparently this dragon species keep themselves warm when they are in their egg…The sunlight helps or my body warmth but it isn't necessary. I read it in Belle's book."
Emma nodded amazed then she recalled the question she had asked before but hadn't gotten an answer to: "So, do you have a name yet?"
"I can't choose its name…" Lena stated: "It already has been given a name by Elliot."
"How do you know?"
"He told me."
"Elliot?"
Lena shook her head, then looked at the emerald green egg in her lap: "He did."
"The dragon inside that egg?" Emma asked with big eyes.
Lena nodded.
"How?" Both Emma and Lena looked up startled when they heard the question come from behind them. It was Regina. She had quietly walked up to her daughter and girlfriend.
"Wow, we didn't hear you" Emma stated.
Regina smirked but quickly turned back to her daughter and knelt down beside her. "How did the dragon in the egg tell you its name?"
"Telepathy" Lena said: "I didn't realize it until now but Elliot could use telepathy too."
"He did?" Emma asked.
Lena nodded and then turned back to her mother: "Remember in the enchanted forest you once said Elliot and me were so close that it seemed I could tell what he was thinking?"
It was Regina's time to nod.
"He was talking to me with telepathy."
"So, can you tell me now what its name is?" Emma asked for the third time.
Lena laughed at Emma's impatience. "Let me show you something" Lena said smiling: "Give me your hand…you too mom." Both women gave Lena one of their hands. Lena carefully laid them on top of the egg. Then she laid one of her own hands on the stack. She closed her eyes and concentrated on her breathing. Deep breath in…Slowly breathing out. Repeat.
Regina and Emma's eyes grew twice as big when they saw what happened to the egg. The shell seemed to become transparent. A soft deep yellowish glow inside the egg was visible with a dark silhouette of a baby dragon. The woman gasped.
"Hey little one" Lena spoke softly: "I want to introduce you to my mom Regina and her girlfriend Emma."
"Hi, Regina. Hi, Emma…I am Aero."
"Aero? Where are you?" Lena called out to her newly hatched dragon. After three weeks of caring for the emerald green egg the first cracks had appeared in the shell. Regina quickly decided that keeping the dragon inside wasn't an option. So Lena had made a beautiful den for her new friend in the garden. Again Lena called out for Aero. The little dragon loved playing hide and seek. Then a small roar sounded. Lena looked up at the top of the apple tree. "There you are" Lena smiled: "You better come down from there. You know mom doesn't like it when you're in her apple tree."
Aero spread its wings and glided down, making a couple circles to make the drop less steep and landed on Lena's shoulder. One of his favorite places. He was still small enough to fit. With her emerald green friend on her shoulder, Lena walked inside through the kitchen door. In the kitchen she found Emma preparing dinner. She was cutting some vegetable for her spaghetti sauce.
"Doesn't your mom want Aero outside" Emma smirked.
"Mom's not home" Lena smirked back.
"Well, she will be soon…Ow damn it!" Emma had to swallow any curse words that would follow and put her finger in her mouth.
"What's wrong?" Lena asked startled.
"I cut my finger."
"Again?"
It hadn't been a good day for Emma to make dinner. She had cut in her finger twice already, well three times now. Lena moved to the cabinet where the bandages were already laying on top from before. She gave a new bandage to Emma to put around her finger.
"Nice. Are you starting a collection?" Lena had to hold her laugh.
Emma smirked.
"Are you still gonna be able to put that ring on Regina's finger?" Elliot asked. Both Emma and Lena heard him speak.
"Ring?...What ring?" Lena asked confused. She didn't see Emma's face freeze in shock when the dragon had asked that question.
"The one she bought to propose."
Lena turned to look at Emma. "You're proposing?" Lena asked awestruck.
Emma was still wearing the same face frozen in shock. Slowly she nodded and was able to put a sheepish smile on her face.
"Awesome!" Henry almost shouted. He had been up in his room but had come down for a snack.
Emma smiled at her son and asked to both Henry and Lena: "Are you really okay with it?"
"Of course" was Henry's response. Then they looked at Lena, who was already smiling from ear to ear, not being able to hide her happiness. Emma sighed relieved.
"So when are you gonna propose?" Henry asked curious.
"If all goes well…Tonight."
"Do you think she asked her already?" Lena whispered.
Henry shook his head: "Or mom is gonna shout because she doesn't want to marry or she's gonna cry out of happiness…but she will definitively react loudly."
They were hiding on the top of the stairs behind the corner so they wouldn't be spotted if one of the woman would suddenly come into the hallway. It also gave them some time to run off if someone would come up the stairs.
"Are you serious!" Regina's voice sounded.
"She's asked her" Henry mouthed, a bit worried.
"She doesn't sound that excited" Lena whispered.
"Of course I will marry you!"
Relieve fell upon them and with broad smiles they ran down stairs. Henry was first. When he turned the corner he immediately turned around and held his sister back, blocking her view.
"Hey, what's the matter with you?" Lena asked confused.
"Oh believe me. You don't wanna see that" Henry said and then announced: "Kids in the room."
Chuckles were heard from behind Henry.
"It's clear" Emma said smirking.
"Weren't you two supposed to be in bed?" Regina said, trying to be stern but couldn't hide her smirk.
"How could we when we knew Mom was proposing to you tonight" Henry simply stated.
"You knew?" Regina asked. She turned her eyes to her newly fiancée.
"Yeah well…Aero isn't really good at keeping secrets, it seems" Emma answered sheepishly. They all had to laugh. Hugs and kisses followed soon after.
Next chapter coming soon.