So, I forgot I had this one almost complete during Swan Queen week. I'm not sure if anyone is sill following this, but for those who are, here you go! This one is set sometime after Neverland...
Henry came storming through the front door, sending Regina's heart in to an immediate frenzy.
"Henry, what's wrong?" She asked, seeing the distress all over his face.
"It's Emma." He stopped and stared right through her as he began to cry. Regina reached out and brought him in for a hug to calm him down. She wanted to know what happened, but she needed her son to be coherent to do so.
"Ok, ok," she continued to soothe him as she stroked the back of his head, "what happened to Emma?" He glanced up sniffling and Regina's heart stopped. She wasn't expecting to feel so lost and empty at just the thought of Emma not being in her life. Yes, they had become close since they returned from Neverland and defeated Pan. But to feel completely broken with the just the idea of Emma not being around anymore took her by surprise.
"Henry, please, what happened to Emma?" She asked more frantically.
"There was an accident. She was chasing after Pongo again, and when she caught up to him and grabbed his leash, he circled around and tripped her. She fell hard on the pavement and landed on the back of her head."
"Idiot," she let out, not sure if it was directed at Emma, Archie, or the dog. "So she banged her head, why are you so upset then?"
"Because the fall knocked her out, and when she regained consciousness at the hospital she had no idea who I was, she had no idea who anyone was." Regina stared down at her son for another moment before bringing him in for another hug.
"It'll be ok Henry. Your mom is one resilient pain in the ass. If anyone could come back from this, it's her. She's in there somewhere; she just needs someone to help bring it out of her." Henry let out a soft laugh as she broke away from their embrace and snagged her coat and purse.
"Where are you going?" He asked eyeing the things in her hand.
"To get your mom back."
Regina made her way for the door and as she glanced back to check on Henry once more there was an all too familiar smirk on his face.
"If anyone can do it, it's you mom." Regina looked over at him curious at first. He seemed a little too excited for her, but she shook it off as one of the ridiculously annoying positive attitude traits he in got from the Charmings.
When Regina arrived at the hospital she wasted no time and marched straight up to the front desk.
"I need the room number for Emma Swan."
"Are you a family member?" Regina glared down at the young receptionist not entirely believing she was asking her such a thing.
"I'm the mayor." she answered flatly.
"Yes, but are you a family member." It took everything inside Regina to keep herself together and not launch herself at the moronic woman.
"I don't have time for these games. Our son informed me that she was here. Now will you please tell me what room Emma's in?"
"Oh, she's your wife. Sorry, room 228." Regina's mouth fell from her response, but instead of corrected the woman she said thank you and hurried to the second floor to Emma's room where she came face to face with a sobbing Mary Margaret.
"This isn't going to fix anything." She said ignoring the woman and barging into Emma's room where David was talking delicately to his daughter.
"Regina." He said standing up startled by her entrance.
"Charming."
"Regina, I don't think."
"Well I do." She cut him off, not caring about what he had to say. "David, a minute please...alone." He hesitated at first, but finally walked out of the room to sit down and console his wife.
"Um, hi." Emma said still as ridiculous as ever.
"Um, hi." Regina mocked. "What do I have to do, hit you on the head again?"
"I'm sorry; I don't know who you are." She responded innocently.
"Yes, Emma I'm aware. I'm just annoyed with how you got in the position in the first place." Emma laughed, not bothered by her aggravated state.
"Yeah, I heard. A dog huh? Am I always this clumsy?"
"Yes." She replied not missing a beat.
"So, who are you? I met the kid, Henry. And those are my parents out there. They seem a little young to be my parents, but they've made pretty significant advancements in science recently, so I guess that's what happened there. Hey did you call him Charming?"
"I'm not here to discuss your parents. Our son is hysterical about what happened to you."
"Our son? Oh, so are you my wife?" She asked without looking disturbed by the idea. Regina went to say no, but instead she just rolled her eyes.
"Never mind that, who's your doctor? I need to find out what we need to do to get you back to your idiot self."
"Ummm." Regina's eyes rolled again.
"You can't even remember who your doctor is. I'll just ask your parents."
"Wait," Emma said reaching out and taking her arm. "Can you sit with me for a minute? I think just talking to you is helping."
"Really?" Regina asked a little relieved. "Good, that's good, because Henry's all ready been through enough. He really needs both his mother's in the picture, especially now that I can tolerate you."
"Wow," Emma said reaching over to rub the top of Regina's hand. "I guess I messed a few things up before my little fall huh? Tolerate me?" Regina placed her hand on top of hers, not wanting to upset Emma and have her go deeper into her memory lost.
"It wasn't all you dear. In fact, if you ask most people around this town, I was the evil one."
"I don't see that." Emma said staring deeply into her and making Regina a little uneasy.
"Emma," she started, but the blonde woman had all ready leaned in grasping the side of her neck with one hand in the process to keep Regina from moving and placed a soft kiss to her lips. Regina froze, not entirely sure what she should do. But then Emma pulled back, their lips still hovering over each other as Emma hummed.
"Regina," she wasn't sure what is was, but Regina leaned back in, taking in every part of Emma's sensual lips and parting them to discover more. She took her hand and tangled it in Emma's hair, completely losing control as they moaned in each other's mouths. Their tongues dancing to a matching beat as if they had done this before, but then something hit Regina, and she pulled back as if Emma was on fire.
"Wait a minute. How the hell do you know my name?" Emma's face darkened as she heard giggles in the doorway. "Henry?" she spun around to three set of goggling eyes.
"Sorry mom," he said stepping in between Mary Margaret and David for protection. "It was Emma's idea," he added pointing at his other mother.
"My idea, my ass." Emma retaliated. "You're the one that came up with Operation Amnesia."
"Every mission deserves a name." He said and immediately covered his mouth from outing himself.
"What kind of sick joke is this?" Regina said standing up furious. "Do you have any idea how worried I was?"
"Regina, I'm sorry," Emma said jumping out of bed. "But we were running out of options."
"Excuse me?" She shot around almost causing Emma to lose her balance and fall back on the bed.
"I've been trying to ask you out for the last few weeks, but every time I do you bring Henry along. Not that I don't love spending time with the both of you. But come on, you didn't pick up on it when I said I made dinner reservations for two at the Italian place you love down the street. You called them and said I must have misspoken and reserved the place for three." Regina stood there partly embarrassed, but mostly still furious at them.
"And this is how you resolve your little crush problem, by giving me a heart attack." Emma smiled as she took Regina's hand. She went to shake it from her grasp at first, but found that she couldn't and left it.
"I really am sorry, but at least now I know."
"Know what?"
"That you like me too." Regina wanted to slap her across the face for scaring her to death, but she couldn't bring herself to do it with the goofy smirk sprawled from ear to ear, so instead she sighed and shook away her anger.
"How about next time you try using your words to tell me how you feel?"
"I will, from here on out. I promise." Regina gazed at Emma then glanced back at her son.
"With the two of you in my life I have a feeling you should drop that promise." Emma reached for her cheek and turned Regina's face back to her.
"Regina, will you please have dinner with me tonight?" She smirked.
"I probably shouldn't say no to someone in such a delicate state of mind, we don't want your memory to fade again."
"Regina," Emma said in a more earnest tone, taking away her next breath.
"Yes," she finally let out as she rolled her eyes, but Emma stayed serious and Regina couldn't take all the stares and kissed her. When she pulled back she found her eyes still on Emma's lips enjoying the slight swelling she had caused.
"Ok, but if you ever pull something like this again."
"I know, I know," Emma said taking her hand and leading her out of the room. "I'll get a fireball up my ass. Now let's get ready for our date."