Swan Queen Week Day 3: Hostages.

Hey, so I know that this is really late but apparently I'm doomed to submit every thing a day late for this week. It took me forever to figure out where I wanted to go with this prompt but here it is. I hope you like the direction I decided to take with it.

Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Once Upon a Time or it's characters. *Sigh*

"Mom, I need you to go to your study, I have to uh show you something. Yeah, I have to show you something." Henry said timidly to his brunette mother, as he nervously rubbed at the back of his neck. His mothers had been dancing around the fact that they are totally in love with each other lately and frankly he's sick of it so he's doing something about it.

Regina can sense that her son is hiding something but she went to the office anyway to please him. When she made her way through the door she noticed a blonde head with a red leather jacket and jeans staring out the window. She immediately spun back around to her son, "Henry, what-" but her question was cut off by the sound of the door closing and some scuffling behind it.

Henry looked at the door with a sly grin, that was a lot less hard than he thought it would be. "Sorry moms, but you two are hiding how you really feel for each other and it's really annoying so I'm holding you hostage in the study until you figure it out. I'll be upstairs in my room, there's a walkie-talkie in there so you can tell me when you figure it all out." and with that he turned and went up the stairs to his room to read some comics while he waited.

"Kids smart, gotta give him that. Told me that you were in crying in the study to get me in here." The blonde figure of Emma Swan finally speaks while turning around to face the other woman.

"And why would you come if I was crying Miss Swan?" Regina asked, taking a seat in her desk chair while Emma took the liberty of perching herself on the actual desk. The brunette just rolled her eyes at this, she was used to the blondes lack of tact and for some odd reason she found it incredibly endearing. She was clearly going insane.

"Well I am the savior slash white knight so it's just in my nature to save the damsel in distress." Regina tried to school her features, but a small smile slipped out. She liked that about Emma, the fact that she's always willing to save her, no matter what she's done in the past. But she can't let the blonde know that, so she clears her throat to regain composure.

"I assure you Miss Swan, I'm no damsel and if I was I would not need help from the likes of you."

"Hm that may be true but you sure seemed to like my particular brand of help last night, when you were moaning my name." She says with a wink, and Regina blushes.

For two months they had been having sex. No one else knows, well except Ruby but that was only because the wolf had forgotten her keys at the sheriff station and gone back to get then just after Regina had teleported there in nothing but her heels, but that was neither here nor there. Anyway, no one knows, it was their little secret, and a glorious one at that. But in the past few weeks they had both noticed a shift in their relationship. They craved to be near each other more often, and not just in the hot and sweaty way either, the blonde would make excuses to go over to the mayors mansion to eat dinner with Henry and herself and proceed to stay long after they had finished their meal and their son had gone to bed. And Regina would draw up more paperwork so she could go to the station to personally deliver them to the sheriff.

They were in love. They just didn't want to admit it out of fear of ruining everything. They hardly ever fought now, mostly it was just playful jests at the others expense. Nothing truly argumentative, and at the end of their little tifts they always ended up in bed, or on the floor, or the desk... but anyway Emma didn't say anything for fear of the queen becoming truly angry for the first time in months and calling her delusional before doing something magical and dangerous to the blonde.

Regina wouldn't say anything out of fear of humiliation, she was so scared that if she were to say anything the savior would promptly laugh in her face and spew something about her being incapable of love. Deep down she knew the blonde would never do that but fear is irrational. But right now, knowing that Henry inferred that there was something between them and that Miss Swan had cared when their son told her she was crying, she decided to throw caution into the wind.

"Emma." It was almost inaudible but the blonde heard it all the same from her perch on the desk and knew what it meant. It meant Regina was preparing to say something very meaningful and she needed to listen. God, she hoped this gorgeous woman was about to say what she thinks shes about to say.

"Emma. I-I. Emma I." She paused for a breath, this was already far harder than she had at first thought, but the blonde woman took a tan hand between her pale ones and delivered a gentle kiss upon the knuckle. That was all it took to work up her courage. That and looking into those endless pools of green. "Emma Swan, for two months we have been sneaking around behind everyone's back to sleep together and nothing more." She sees a little flicker of disappointment in those green eyes and lightly squeezes one of the blondes hands, "but in that time it seems that I have fallen so very completely in love with you." She sees the hope return and swears she has never seen a more beautiful sight. "you are insufferable at times and a complete idiot, perhaps a bit crass, but you are also the most kind hearted person I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. You are a great mother to Henry despite the fact that you think you're not good enough. I love absolutely everything about you, but the thing I love most is that no matter what your parents or anyone else told you about what I was once like in the Enchanted Forest you always held tight to what you knew of the woman you met here. To you I was Regina and just that. Just Regina, and that is all I've ever wanted. You are all I've ever wanted."

She has tears in her eyes when she finally finishes, as does Emma. The blonde had never seen the mayor so raw and vulnerable, and all it made her want to do was wrap the small woman in her arms. Which is exactly what she did as she jumped off the desk pulling the woman she loves out of her chair. They embraced in silence for a moment until Emma pulled back slightly to gaze into tear filled brown eyes. She brought her hand up to the brunettes face, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear and resting her hand upon the woman's cheek while wiping away tears with her thumb.

"Regina Mills, I'm pretty sure I fell a little in love you since the moment you asked me if I wanted to try the best apple cider I would ever taste." This earns a chuckle from both woman as they remember Emma's response of 'got anything stronger', " I just remember thinking about how beautiful you were and how you showed so much power in just the way you walked. I had trouble believing you were real, actually. And then I stuck around and saw how you were with Henry verses how you were with the rest of the town, saw how you loved him with everything you had and how much it hurt you when he called you the evil queen or said something else that was entirely rude. I saw you. I saw the woman who just wanted someone to care but was still entirely independent and powerful. And I fell in love with you then because you loved so deeply and I craved to be loved by you. When the curse broke and I knew you were the evil queen I just wanted to put my arms around you because you never were evil just got thrown some awful shit in your life, but no one else could see it. I didn't believe you could have killed Archie, but seeing it with the dream catcher I didn't have any other explanation. I'm still so sorry about that by the way." This just earned her a dismissive wave of a hand. "I love you. All of you. Yeah you're the evil queen to everyone else but to me you're just Regina who happens to have been the evil queen, and you always will be. And I will always love that about you."

Emma took a deep breath before pulling the brunette in for a deep and passionate kiss. They could feel the tears on their cheeks but couldn't bring themselves to care. They had laid themselves bare and with good outcome. They were happy.

They pulled apart when they realized why they were in this room in the first place, they were Henry's hostages. The savior picked up the walkie-talkie that was once the only source of communication between her and her son. "Hey kid, you can let us out now."

"Did you tell each other?"

"Yeah kid your mom and I love each other. Hurry up and let us out so we can go to Granny's to celebrate or something."

"Oh, the door was never locked. You could have walked out at any time really."

Unbelievable. Leave it their kid to know that her and Regina wouldn't even check the door to get out of here. Little smartass, yeah he was definitely her kid. As she opened the door with a satisfactory pop she ushered Regina through first but the brunette turned to her quickly with wide eyes.

"What?" Emma said, her eyes also going wide as well in surprise at the woman's sudden stop.

The brunette looked down at the floor nervously "There may be something that I need to tell you. I was going to tell you today anyway when you came over later but then this happened and it may have slipped my mind for a second."

"What is it?"

"Well as you are aware we both have magic and with magic anything is possible."

Emma was totally confused about where this conversation could be going, "Uh okay. Yeah sure." She said unconvincingly.

"Well it seems that our magic has created life. I'm pregnant Miss Swan, and before you ask yes it is absolutely yours."

"WHAT?"

How was that? Hopefully not too bad. Have a great day everyone!