A/N: I couldn't find a hotel in Augusta that was as nice as I wanted, so I made one up :) author's prerogative ;)
It was a Tuesday in late September when Regina jolted awake. She lay in bed for long minutes, unsure of what woke her. She glanced over at the alarm clock that lived on her nightstand, as far away from her wife as possible. 6:00 stared back at her. She sighed, probably because she'd taken a nap the day before. She didn't normally but she'd just been so tired, she shifted out of her wife's spooning embrace and rolled onto her back. Chocolate eyes shot open and hands flew to her stomach as it burbled. She was out of bed and in the ensuite in seconds.
The alarm started blaring and Emma awoke with a groan when it wasn't promptly shut off by her wife. Emma stirred further awake when she realized her wife wasn't even in bed. She sat up and looked around, the door to the ensuite was closed and she could hear the sound of retching. Worried she jumped from the bed, flinging magic at the alarm and grimacing as the alarm flew across the room and broke into pieces when it hit the wall. She knocked lightly on the bathroom door, "Babe? You ok?" A groan sounded through the door, "Sound like it?" Emma opened the door and found her wife on the floor, head resting on her arms that hugged the cool porcelain, one hand holding her hair away from her face, "Babe?" She knelt beside her wife and gently eased her hair out of a tight grip, Regina turned her head and gave a smiling grimace at her wife, before turning back into the toilet and heaving with a moan. Emma grimaced at the noises of their dinner hitting the water, "Shh, shh it's ok, love," she soothed, rubbing at the arched back with her free hand.
Regina groaned and sat up, wiping at her mouth with a hand and leaning back against her wife. She blearily looked at Emma before she rested her head against the strong chest behind her, "We are never eating at The Hungry Goat again." Emma smiled and kissed sweaty hair, "You don't know that that's what it is, I ate there too." Regina closed her eyes and shook her head, "You had the lamb, I had the actual goat. Different food, could you conjure some water, please?" Emma concentrated and held a hand out, determined to not screw this up like the alarm clock and in a swirl of white, a tall glass of water appeared in her hand, "Here you go and Henry had the goat also," she handed the glass to her wife and Regina took a few careful sips before wrapping the glass in an arm and holding the cool glass against her silk covered chest between her full breasts, "I had the hummus." Emma sighed, "I just meant that maybe…"
Regina scoffed weakly, "What that I might be pregnant? Don't get your hopes up, dear," another sip and glass was curled back against her again, "I'm sorry, darling. I shouldn't snap. I've had my period since the last cycle, though," she took a larger drink this time and sighed when the cool water slid down her throat with no ill effects. "We may as well face it, my love. It's not going to happen. The magic I used is just acting different here, taunting me with the possibility, before ripping it away," her throat worked twice this time, taking long swallows of water.
Emma still wasn't convinced, "Well, since you have food poisoning," Regina rolled her eyes at the overly emphasised words, "Do you still want to go to Augusta with me this evening?" Regina sighed and set the glass aside, "Yes, I'm feeling better already," she shifted to lean back against the wall and massaged at her own breasts with a pained groan. Emma cleared her throat, "Breasts still tender and sore?" Regina nodded and continued rubbing with a pained furrow to her brow, "And you were tired and took a nap yesterday…" Regina shot a glare at her wife, "Let it go, Emma." The blonde sighed, "Sorry, babe," she kissed a clammy forehead and levered up from the wall. She set the half full glass of water on the counter and held a hand out to her wife. Regina took it and let herself be pulled up onto her feet, she was already feeling better. She'd never had food poisoning and hoped to never have it again, "Go get dressed and see to Henry," she moved to the toilet to relieve her bladder and Emma headed into the bedroom to give her wife some privacy.
Regina tried to ignore the tiny niggling of hope that bloomed in her chest when she experienced another bout of nausea and vomiting during her 3 o'clock meeting with a state representative about the new juvenile facility they were about to start building with state funds. She'd had to excuse herself halfway through the meeting and make her way quickly into the tiny bathroom attached to her office. As she'd emptied her stomach of the lunch she'd shared with her wife, her hands had cradled her stomach as the little niggle of hope sparked.
It was 6:00 that evening and Emma was changed into civilian clothes and loading their luggage into the bed of the Frontier as Regina went over the instructions she was leaving for their son. It would be the longest they had been away since their honeymoon and someone needed to care for the multitude of plants the brunette had in the yard and around the house. Henry was staying with his grandparents during the night, but they were allowing him the freedom of being at home during the day, after school as long as he returned to his grandparents by curfew. Emma tossed her duffle in next and was in the process of covering the luggage with a tarp when Regina exited the house. She carried the garment bag that held Emma's two uniforms and a small duffle. She draped the garment bag across the backseat and turned to her wife handing her the small duffle, "Are we sure he'll be fine?" Emma smiled at her wife, while rolling her eyes at the extra piece of luggage. Her wife had already packed 3 suitcases for herself, "He'll be fine, he knows to be at mom and dad's by curfew. Between school and his shifts at the diner, he won't have time to get into trouble," she took the lockbox from her son that contained her sidearm and slid it underneath the driver's seat in the back.
Regina sighed, it was true, their son had thrown himself into his first year of highschool. Studying religiously and preparing himself for his eventual goal to move on into college. He knew he'd need excellent transcripts to move on successfully, "I know you're right. It's just a lot of independence. I worry about him, he's getting older and one day soon he won't even need us." Henry cleared his throat, "You know I can hear you right? I'll be fine, mom. Honest. Go, have fun. Please?" He stepped up to his brunette mother and pulled her into his arms. He'd shot up another two inches in the last couple of months and was even with his blonde mother at 5'8", it was ridiculous but to Regina he seemed to dwarf her 5'4" more so than her wife did. Probably because she could remember holding him in her arms when he was 7lbs 12oz and 21 inches long. She relaxed into the hug and let herself rest against his chest.
She pulled away finally, "I love you, my Little Prince," she stroked his baby smooth cheek. He was only shaving every third week, so twice so far, his second time had been just that morning and it still unsettled her that her little boy was so grownup. She adjusted the collar and smoothed the front of his forest green button down. He'd taken to wearing the dress shirts untucked with jeans, it gave him a more adult look that still made her heart clench. She frowned at the beginnings of pectoral muscle she could feel and made a note to talk to her wife about the amount of time he was spending in their home gym, it wasn't helped that he had made it onto the junior varsity soccer team just that week during tryouts, he was sure to start putting on mr muscle if his David was any indication. She brushed the shaggy bangs off his forehead, frowning when they fell right back down. "I'm fine, honest, mom," a final hug and Regina climbed into the truck as her wife said her goodbyes to their son before climbing into the truck as well.
They were entering the city of Augusta a little after 8 that evening and Regina looked around as they drove through the small metropolis. She'd only been to the city once and she always enjoyed visiting different cities. Emma safely drove them through the city towards their hotel, following her wife's prompts as she read from the GPS screen on her phone, "Turn right up there, on Main and it should be last one the left just before Montgomery, just 2 blocks past the Civic Center." Emma arched an eyebrow, she knew the hotel. She'd walked past it on previous trips to the conference. It was undoubtedly the nicest in the city, usually the blonde just stayed in the Super 8 directly across from the Center.
They pulled up under the awning of the hotel and climbed out. In a whirlwind, two bellboys unloaded their bags onto a luggage dolly and a guy who looked around 12 took the keys from Emma's hands and shoved a valet token into her hand. The blonde watched with a gaping jaw as her truck was driven away. A smirking Regina closed her wife's mouth with a single fingertip and they followed their bags into the hotel and towards the front desk.
A bellboy led them down a hallway on the 8th floor as he wheeled their luggage. They approached a doorway at the end of the hallway and he swiped a card and the door clicked. He pushed it open and unloaded the cart. He accepted the $20 bill Regina handed him and nodded his thanks before leaving the room. As the door clicked shut she turned to smile indulgently at her wife as the blonde took in their extravagant accommodations for the next 6 nights and 5 days.
Regina had truly splurged and the suite was magnificent. Emma appreciated all the different details. The main room was a circular design, with five different doors leading off it, three of them were open and Emma could see a simplistic kitchen and two bedrooms. The location of the fourth door implied that it was a coat closet and fifth was a set of glass sliding doors that led out onto a balcony that she could see a spectacular view of the city through, she narrowed her eyes, "Did you get a room with two beds so we could have sex on one and sleep in the other?" She laughed when her wife blushed, "I learned from the cabin." Emma laughed again, "I love you, babe," she hugged her and they moved towards the balcony doors to get a better look.
The stepped out onto the concrete surface. The large balcony was walled on all sides by solid concrete, providing a sense of privacy from the other balconies. The wall facing out into the city was a half wall, providing an open air view of the city. There were two reclining loungers and a small round table for two with chairs to match. And on the opposite side was a decent sized hot tub, big enough for four people. Augusta wasn't large, the hotel they were in, at 10 stories, was the tallest building in the city. Regina stepped up to the half wall and placed her hands on it as she gazed out over the skyline before them. Emma pressed against her back and wrapped strong arms around her. Regina leaned into the embrace, wrapping her own arms around those of her wife as they watched the sun begin disappear over the horizon, "This is beautiful, babe." Regina smiled and let her eyes close. She slipped out of the 3 inch heels she'd worn and let her head rest back against her wife's chest, "Thank you, darling. I am very much looking forward to the next five days," Regina sighed, "I wanted to apologize for this morning, Emma. I was upset and not feeling well and I just…" Emma cut her off, "It's ok, babe, really. I know it doesn't seem like it, but every time a cycle starts, I get a little sad too," she dropped a hand down and let it rest against the small natural curve of her wife's lower abdomen. Truthfully, she still wasn't convinced that her wife wasn't already pregnant. Regina's lip quivered, she'd been so emotional lately, more so than usual. She blamed it on her growing worry and the stress of not yet conceiving, "I wish you hadn't told me that, it was easier to have faith when I thought you had it too."
Emma turned her in her arms, "Hey, no. I have every bit of faith that this will happen for us. Dr. Hendricks even warned us that it could take even a year. It's only been a few months," she pulled away enough to rest a hand on her wife's stomach, "Even if we have to have keep having crazy hot monkey sex, then we'll just have to bite the bullet and do it," Emma winked and grinned at her wife. Regina smiled softly at her wife and her cheeks pinkened, "You're right, I know you're right," she covered the hand on her stomach with one of her own, "It's a good thing I like having crazy hot monkey sex with you I guess," they both laughed at that and Regina turned in her wife's arms again, lacing both their hands together over her stomach. And they stood together looking out over the city as the last beams of sunlight disappeared.
They headed back into the suite then, Emma starting to move their bags into the bedroom her wife pointed out as the master room while the brunette picked up a room service menu. They had debated eating an early dinner with their son before they left but had decided against it since his grandparents had already promised him Granny's for dinner. So they had agreed that room service in the privacy of their hotel room sounded like a wonderful idea. Regina followed her wife into the bedroom. Emma had stepped into the attached ensuite and exclaimed in delight at what she found. Regina laughed at her wife's reaction and stepped in behind her. The bathroom was luxurious to say the least, it was very nearly as large at the bedroom behind them. Besides the usual amenities of toilet and sink, there was a inset jacuzzi tub larger than theirs at home, the shower however, the shower stole the show. Easily half the size of the room, it was half stonewall and half glass, save for the doorway that was a glass door. The inside was inlaid stonework and the far wall was solid stonework. A looping ring started along the wall of the ceiling and spiraled all the way to the center. It would create a soft waterfall style flow of water when turned on, there was also a detachable shower head hanging on the solid wall. The solid wall had a inset bench in it big enough that could probably have sat 5 and still had some space to spare.
"This is amazing, babe," Emma was in awe as she turned to her wife. She'd be lying if she said she wasn't picturing them having sex on most of the surfaces she's seen so far in the suite. Regina wrapped arms around her shoulders, the menu dangling from her fingertips, "You're picturing fucking me in that shower aren't you?" Emma blushed bright red and Regina laughed, "It's ok darling, however I've got my eye on the hot tub on the balcony," she winked and pulled away, moving back into the bedroom. Emma followed after her with a laugh. They unpacked a few things, getting the two uniforms she'd brought hanging, before they seriously perused the menu and placed an order. The blonde watched then as her wife stood from the bed and popped the catch on her grey slacks. She slid the tiny zipper down and they fell in a pool around her bare feet. Regina stepped out of the pooled cloth and started to work on the buttons of the red silk shirt she wore, "If we get naked now and put on the robes, we can move straight into the hot tub after dinner," she husked in her deepest register as red silk fell from her shoulders and hit the floor. Emma swallowed and bent to start tugging at her boots.
They were on the couch in the main room, wrapped around each other, mouths fused as their white terry cloth clad bodies moved languidly together, tongues tangled and stroked together. Emma slid a hand inside and cupped a full breast. Regina groaned into her mouth and parted the cloth so she could squeeze the firm ass of her lover as narrow hips slid between her thighs. A single knock at the door broke them apart. They laughed and their foreheads pressed together as their breath mingled harshly. The knock sounded again and Emma slipped off her wife. Straightening her robe and tightening the knot at her waist, she moved to the door and opened it after glancing back to be sure Regina was presentable. The uniform clad young woman rolled a room service trolley in and nodded to them. Emma handed over the $5 bill she'd put in her robe pocket and the woman slipped from the room, the door quietly closing behind her.
Emma slid the deadbolt into place and flipped the safety latch. She turned and groaned at the sight. Regina had slipped from the robe and was sitting on the couch naked now as she lifted stainless domes and inspected the meal of chicken parmigiana they'd ordered. She had a smirk planted on her face, knowing damn well what she was doing to her wife.
Dinner finished and the trolley pushed into the hallway, they made their way out to the balcony. Regina fiddled with some switches and knobs just inside the door and the hot tub gurgled to life and low, blue lighting illuminated the area. The night air was cooling rapidly as it was the end of September in Maine and steam hovered over top of the churning water.
Emma held up a chivalrous hand and helped her wife to climb to steps into the hot water. Regina sank into the swirling water with a sigh and grateful moan. Emma slid in beside her and the brunette immediately climbed into her lap, sitting sideways and wrapping an arm around a strong neck as muscled arms held her tight. The blonde kissed her wife's forehead as the brunette head settled against her shoulder and Regina nuzzled into the soft skin of her neck, "What time do you have to be at the Civic Center?" The question was mumbled into her neck and Emma shivered with pleasure as warm lips nibbled at the flushing skin, "8:15 for sign ins, the first presenter isn't until 9," Emma gasped when sharp teeth nipped at her, she brought a hand up and kneaded a heavy breast.
Regina hissed and pulled away, "Gentle, my love." Emma smothered a grin, "Food Poisoning bothering you still?" Her wife sighed, "I'm telling you, I am not pregnant," Emma gave her a look and she amended, "Yet." In answer Emma softly cupped a full breast and holding eye contact with her wife, she bent her head and very gently kissed a soft nipple. She blew across it afterwards and watched as it sprang into a hardened peak. Regina watched her wife through hooded eyes, a soft moan leaving her lips. Her eyes slid shut as her nipple was covered by a warm mouth and a gentle tongue slowly and softly stroked over her erect flesh. A whimper left plump lips and she sank tanned hands into shaggy blonde hair as Emma slowly started to softly massage the soft flesh of her breast. The blonde helped her lover move to straddle her muscled hips and let her eyes slip shut as she was switching her attentions to her wife's other breast. Regina groaned into the loving attention, letting her head fall back as she melted into the ministrations, "Oh, that feels so good, darling," her hips moved against the defined abdomen in a slow roll. The heat of the water had flushed their skin and sweat sheened the parts of them that were above the surface.
Emma switched back to her wife's other breast and lapped gently at the erect nipple. Her hands slid from curvy hips and palmed her wife's round ass, encouraging the slow, easy grind that Regina had started against her, "Suck a little?" The breathy voice of the brunette made Emma moan as she complied. Adding just a hint of suction to her attentions. Regina whimpered and her hips moved just a little bit faster. The water around them churned with more than the power of the jets.
Regina pulled the hand that had been gripping a hip and drew it between her legs. Emma moaned at the slickness of her, marveled at the swollen flesh of her wife's cunt. She let her fingers play through the arousal coated lips, never stopping her soft and gentle attentions to her wife's breasts. Regina groaned and clutched blonde hair in her hands tighter, whimpering at the soft stimulation to her breasts and the light stroking of her clit, "Oh, darling," the breathy whisper was enough to make Emma groan around the flesh in her mouth, "Slip inside me, baby," Regina barely had the breath to husk the request, lost in the heat thrumming through her body.
Emma let her eyes slid shut as she eased two fingers slowly into her wife, moaning when a breathless moan and deep sigh was brushed across her ear and Regina buried her face in Emma's sweaty neck. When Emma started to curl her fingers and flick at the ribbed urethral sponge inside her without thrusting, Regina whimpered loudly. Her eyes squeezed shut and she sucked on her wife's salty skin, relishing in making her wife groan. It didn't take long, between the tender attention to her breasts and the fingers flicking inside her. She quivered and released a quiet mewl as a thumb twitched over her clit and she came hotly in her wife's lap. Emma groaned aloud, feeling the hot ejaculate explode from her lover's body and become lost in the turbulence of the hot water.
Regina lay against her panting, shivering every few seconds. Emma stroked over her back with strong hands. Still quivering Regina scooted back an inch and slid a hand between them. She groaned when she met slick heat and kissed her wife as she stroked over her clit. Emma jerked into the stroking, her hips moving to meet her wife's talented fingers. She'd already been on edge after slowly working her wife up and into orgasm. It took only a few strokes and she was coming undone, groaning into the kiss as she massaged the fleshy cheeks of her lover's ass.
Regina awoke with a moan, she barely had time to glance at the clock before she bolted from the bed naked for the ensuite and threw the lid to the toilet up as she knelt and emptied the contents of her stomach. It was 6am again and as she vomited into the toilet she tried desperately to push aside the warmth in her chest at what this could mean. Tender hands pulled her hair back and a warm hand rubbed her back as her wife knelt close beside her. She groaned and heaved again, maybe...maybe Emma was right, another heave and she prayed that her wife was right, otherwise she was sick and that wouldn't be a good thing.
Another few minutes and Regina finally relaxed and leaned back against her naked wife. Emma reached up and flushed the toilet, "You want some water?" A weak nod from Regina and she stood and filled a cup with water. The brunette mumbled a thanks and sipped at the water as she settled into her wife's comforting embrace, "Sorry I woke you," she sighed. Emma shook her head emphatically, "It's OK, babe. I want to be here for this...morning sickness or just plain sick, I'm here." Regina nodded against her and took a bigger swallow of water, "I have an appointment with Joanne on Monday for my yearly exam...I'm going to ask for a pregnancy test…" her voice was small and quiet, now that the moment was here she was scared. She felt like she'd waited her whole life for this, what if she wasn't good enough? Tears slid down her face, "I'm scared, Emma," the admission was quiet and Emma wasn't entirely sure she'd heard the whispered words.
Emma kissed a clammy forehead and wrapped her tighter in her arms, "We'll face it together, babe. Would you like me to run out now and pick up a test?" She offered tentatively. Regina bit her lip and thought about it. She'd had three bouts of unexplained nausea, she'd been tired more than usual, their time in the hot tub came to mind as she thought about her tender breasts, "Yes," she breathed out the answer wetly, wiping at her face and brushing away tears. Emma nodded against her, "Want me to go right now, or stay with you for a little while?" Feeling infinitely better, Regina stood and moved towards the sink, she took a deep breath as she washed her hands, "Go now," she glanced into the mirror and met her wife's eyes, "Oh, Emma. Do you really think?..."
Emma was up off the floor and wrapping her arms around her her wife, "I think I can't wait to find out," she laced their hands together and pulled them to rest against Regina's lower stomach. Regina smiled at their reflection, "Go and come back to me, my love," a kiss to her temple. Emma pulled away and headed into the bedroom to pull on clothes and find the nearest drug store. Regina stared at her reflection for long seconds before finally grabbing her toothbrush and squeezing paste onto it, "Can you grab some rocky road and mint chip too?" She called into the darkened bedroom. An affirmative answer filtered through the open door and Regina smiled at her reflection as she brushed her teeth.
30 minutes later Emma returned to find her wife curled up on the couch, staring out over the skyline of the city through the balcony doors. She had pulled on one of her wife's red flannel shirts and was playing with a strand of hair, twirling it around her finger and repeating the nervous tick. Warm, chocolate eyes met hazel and Regina stood, hands plucking at the hem of the button down that came to mid thigh on her, she looked impossibly young and vulnerable, "You have it?" Emma nodded and held the bag out to her. Regina put the two pints of ice cream into the freezer section of the small refrigerator in the kitchen and met her wife in the bedroom. "Do you want me to go in with you?" Emma nervously asked, "Let me go in first, I'll call you and we can wait together?" The blonde nodded and Regina moved into the bathroom, closing the door behind her.
A full minute passed as Emma paced in front of the door before the husky voice of her wife called out. She opened the door and joined her wife on the floor beside the toilet. The brunette had the pregnancy test clutched in one hand and her phone in the other, a timer counting down on the screen ticking down the seconds from 3 minutes.
2:38
"What if it's negative?" Regina whispered, leaning into the embrace her wife pulled her into.
2:20
"What if it's not?" Emma kissed her forehead.
2:12
"I want it to be, I'm just scared to hope," Regina watched the milliseconds fly by.
2:04
"Our future is not dependant on this, you know that right? We can keep trying. Nothing is dependant on this one thing," Emma raised her wife's head with a finger beneath her chin and kissed her sweetly on the lips.
1:47
"I know. This is just something that I have dreamed about since I was barely a woman," Regina sighed and rested her head against her wife's muscled upper chest.
1:33
"Now and always, I will forever be at your side, even through death I will follow you. My fealty I swear to you, my Queen, my Wife, my Love... my Forever," Emma whispered the words and cupped her wife's cheek as their eyes met, tears misting in them both.
1:14
"And I will always receive and return that love with everything that I am," Regina pulled her into a kiss then, that robbed them of breath as their tongues tangled and stroked together.
0:23
"I'm scared to hope," Regina whispered as they pulled away.
0:17
"No matter what, I'm here. If that means we keep trying, or start preparing to welcome a baby, I am here," Emma took the test in her hand and laced their free hand together.
0:06
"I know."
0:00
The phone dinged and chocolate eyes bore into hazel. They took deep breaths and as one they looked down at the test clutched tightly in Emma's hand.
A/N: I'm evil I know :) See you next week xoxo