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Wow, I'm getting so lazy. I am so sorry, I promise to try to post more frequently. (It's just that I'm that type of person who wants loads of SwanQueen and dislikes conflict, and Snow is one of my favourite characters and I'm making her out to be the bad guy omg) I hope you all enjoy this chapter, and the events that unfold. Let me know what you think?
Chapter 6
As promised, Emma stopped by Regina's office, and that made Regina's bad mood lessen. Emma sat in front of the Mayor, smiling at her, which made Regina blush and smile.
"What?" Emma laughed at Regina's reaction, and just kept smiling and looking at her.
"You looked so grumpy when I came in," the blonde knew that she had some sort of effect on Regina but this really had made her day. Knowing all she had to do was smile at Regina to make her feel better made Emma feel wanted.
"Why did you look so grumpy?" the Sheriff asked without thinking, and instantly worried that Regina might close up at her abrupt question.
The Mayor's face turned temporarily sour, but she should probably tell Emma before Snow did something dumb. "Your mother came by..."
Emma furrowed her brow, confused as to why Snow would come to see Regina, and she thought over the conversation she had earlier with her mother.
"Why would she do that?" The confusion on Emma's face made Regina certain that something both of them were completely unaware of was happening.
"She thinks I'm doing something to you," Emma smiled, the Mayor sure was doing something to her- but then she started to panic, thinking her mother had given her away.
"Wait, what do you mean, doing something to me? Something like what?" Regina noticed Emma's sudden change in mood. She remembered what Snow saying that Emma was in love with her and decided it would be best to just ask the blonde, after all it was absolutely absurd.
"Emma," The woman in front of the Mayor froze. Her moment of bravery vanished and she realized how much it would hurt if the blonde said no, and potentially started laughing and teasing her.
"I have no idea why she came to see me." Regina lied and the phone to her office rang.
Emma visibly relaxed as she watched the Mayor answer the phone, and listened as Regina gave her Mayorly orders.
"Is Henry staying with Snow and David tonight?" Emma asked, since Henry sometimes spent Fridays with them.
"He asked to stay with them even though you're living with us now, I think he likes being around David." Regina said unamused. Emma smiled and remembered their tiny wood swords.
She remembered Regina coming into the station earlier and crying in her arms, and noticed how tired the Mayor looked and sounded. After Regina hung up Emma stood and ordered her to stand.
"Why?" Regina stared at the blonde who stood smiling at her.
"Just come on, please?" Emma begged and the brunette enjoyed listening to her whine more than she expected.
Regina smirked, "I'm not sure if you're aware but I'm the Mayor here, you can't just order me about like this."
Regardless, Regina stood and followed Emma, who held out her hand for her. As Emma led the way out of her office.
"Where are we going Miss Swan?" Emma smiled mischievously back at her as they left the building completely. The two walked together under the stars and Regina started see Emma, really see her. She remembered how back in the Enchanted Forest the stars had a special magical effect on those watching them... but she couldn't quite remember what it was.
They had slowed their pace and walked side by side holding hands. Anyone that walked past would very well think they were together, they walked closely together and stopped in front of the Sheriff station. Emma looked at Regina eagerly as she took her around the back of the building.
They stared at a thin metal ladder that was firmly rooted into the building wall and Regina started shaking her head.
"No, Emma, no." The words left her mouth too late as the blonde was already halfway up,"Emma I'm wearing stilettos."
"So? Take them off," Regina glared at the blonde for a second but still complied.
Emma grinned widely at the brunette who fumbled up the ladder, helping her up to the roof of the building.
"Look! A hole. You'll pay for this Miss Swan." Regina pointed towards a hole in her tights by her knee she'd gotten after scraping her leg against the building.
The Sheriff laughed, because after all Regina was being the most playful she'd ever seen her, after all who yells with a smile on their face?
The two sat at the edge of the building talking into the night, Regina telling Emma stories about Henry growing up, and Emma telling her how Henry came to exist, and what her life was like before Storybrooke.
Regina smiled sadly when Emma finished a story about how her foster parents sent her back into the system after having their own children, feeling like an idiot. She wondered if Emma would have turned out the same person if she had never cursed the Enchanted Forest.
"Are you happy?" Regina asked out of the blue and Emma looked at her curiously.
"I am right now," she said giving Regina a shy smile and the brunette in turn shuffled closer and put an arm around Emma. The blonde blushed at the caring act.
"I mean, happy with who you became? With who you are?" Emma looked up at Regina and saw her worried expression.
"Do you think I'm a good person Regina?" Regina rested her head on Emma's and sighed. "I think you're a great person."
They both looked into each other's eyes and there was that magnetic pull again that brought them closer. Their eyes closed before either of them registered their lips touching, and Regina kept thinking back to what the effect the stars had back in the Enchanted Forest.
Emma's lips were even softer than Regina had dreamed about, they felt the earth beneath them shake and they felt their passion for each other grow. Regina heard the blonde let out a soft whimper and pulled away, and stared at the place her lips had just been.
They sat in comfortable silence, but avoiding each other, and sat until it was too cold to stay still.
Emma drove them back to the mansion in her bug, listening to Regina complain all the way about her old vehicle. The blonde simply smiled and shook her head, trying her hardest to defend her trusty steed.
By the time the two arrived at the mansion they were laughing, both making jokes about the car, yet Emma pretending to be offended. Their actions were done without thought, Emma opened the car door for Regina, and she even opened the door to the mansion.
"I didn't know you were such a gentleman," Regina held back her laughter and Emma held back a smirk.
"What's for dinner then, honey?" Emma joked and Regina blushed. The husband-wife setting was meant as a joke, but then they were both enjoying it far more than expected. In fact as Emma watched Regina whip them up a quick meal, and helped her when called, she often felt the urge to give her a kiss like the one they had shared earlier.
She wondered about that kiss, and stood in the kitchen with a bag of pasta in her hands, until Regina gave her arm a light slap to get her attention.
"Honey, the pasta?" Emma handed her the pasta and went lightheaded. Did Regina just call her honey? Emma shook of the thought, clearly more tired than she expected, but then it was already past midnight.
They were still avoiding each other's gaze, since that incident, and whenever their eyes did accidentally meet they looked away quickly like shy teenagers.
As the pasta finished cooking and the two settled into two chairs next to each other, Regina remembered the kiss, and how Emma hadn't pulled her away. The two had seemed to enjoy it, and the brunette quickly grew desperate for another kiss, another taste of the blonde's lips.
She sighed to herself, it was going to be a long night.
As the to women finished eating and cleaning they both decided to go to bed, clearly afraid of anything that may happen.
"Thank you, for tonight," Regina had thought it a good idea to go to bed and quickly forget the night but she found herself reluctant to leave the blonde.
"Yeah... Goodnight?" Emma seemed to feel the same way yet both women parted ways into their own respective bedrooms.