Smut ahead! Also some heavy Snow and Regina feels which took me while to get just right. I hope that you'll all agree. A big thanks to all of you amazing readers, amazing followers and a huge thank you for all of the AMAZING reviews! This wouldn't be such a fun endeavor without you supporting me! Just for fun how about a one shot for the 500th follower?
Regina couldn't stop the small yelp that escaped when Snow launched herself at her and as two strong arms clamped around her, the salad bowl slipped from her fingers, crashing to the ground.
"Snow get off me!" Regina struggled a little against the hold, her arms trapped down by her sides unable to push the woman away.
David sat frozen at the table, trying to decide if he should interfere or not, his mouth hanging open at the scene in front of him. When Emma came running in from the kitchen she stopped abruptly just inside the doorway, her face mirroring his. She glanced at him, hoping to take a cue from him on how to proceed, but all she received was a blank look and a shrug of his shoulder. As the seconds ticked by, Emma started to shuffle in place hoping that Regina wasn't going to resort to out right violence to release herself.
"Snow! Get off me. This is not how it's supposed to go." Regina growled, the anger and confusion evident on her face.
Snow finally pulled back and released her hold, her arms dropping away from Regina, but she continued to smile brightly, studying the woman's face as though she was seeing her for the first time. "I think it's exactly how its suppose to go." She whispered softly, tears threatening at the corners of her eyes.
Emma finally broke the trance the two women had fallen into and came up beside Regina. "Everything okay here?"
"Yes, everything is just perfect." Snow answered quickly, turning her smile towards her daughter.
"No." Regina said, shaking her head back and forth slowly. "No. You don't get to be like this. You don't get to say that."
Snow's head whipped back towards Regina, her expression shifting from awe to anger instantly. "Yes. Yes I do. David, Emma do you mind giving us a minute?" She turned her glare towards her husband and he quickly jumped out of his seat and grabbed Emma's arm, pulling her towards the doorway.
"Regina?" Emma asked.
Regina nodded her head once and waved her hand, dismissing her worried spouse. She kept her gaze on Snow, trying to decide if she should be the one to strike first, when Snow spoke again.
"Why don't we sit down?" She said, making her way over to the table.
One perfectly sculpted eyebrow lifted, surprised at the audacity of the woman playing hostess in her house.
"Just sit down Regina. Emma will kill us both if I leave you standing there any longer than necessary."
Lips pursed together at the truth of the statement and with a sigh she sat down, taking the seat at the head of the table. Snow sat to her right and it took everything she had to wait the other woman out. She laced her fingers together in front of her, looking every bit the patient listener.
Snow watched Regina take a seat and her mind turned over the different ways to start this conversation. There were things that needed to be said between them and despite the somewhat amicable relationship they'd shared the past few years there would always be varying degrees of hurt feelings left hanging between them. Snow hoped that maybe they could clear some of that away tonight. "What were you expecting me to do Regina?"
"I was expecting shock, maybe tears, disappointment that it's not your precious Emma that's pregnant, anything but happiness. But no, you couldn't give me that satisfaction could you Snow?" Dark eyes shifted to her and Snow sat back in her chair, startled by the emotion swirling in them.
She deflated at Regina's tone and looked down at the table before answering. "No I couldn't." She looked back up, knowing that what she said next was going to anger the brunette even more. "I've wished for you to be pregnant since I was a little girl."
After a slight pause, Regina spoke, the anger evident in her voice. "Of course you did."
"Regina, just let me explain. Please." Snow watched as Regina visibly tried to tamper down her anger at the situation and make an effort to hear her out. "I knew that you didn't love my father and I knew that you were still so very angry at me after Daniel…" Snow shook her head, not wanting to take the conversation down that path. "Anyway I knew you were unhappy, but you took such good care of me anyway. I didn't know exactly where babies came from so when I was younger I started to wish that you'd get pregnant so that you could have someone of your own to take care of, someone you could be a real mother to. It wasn't until much later that I realized how someone actually got pregnant and I was oddly relieved that you hadn't…" She trailed off again, looking at Regina, trying to gauge whether or not she should continue. When she saw an odd curiosity in Regina's eyes she took a breath and started again.
"When I was older, even when we were fighting, I still used to wish that maybe you'd find your happy ending and the nightmare would be over. And now? Now I couldn't be more happy that this is happening-happening for you. I know…you're going to get pissed, more pissed, when I say this," Snow laughed a little at the eye roll she received from her statement and continued. "You've raised two kids that weren't yours-and I know-I know Henry's your son and that you couldn't love him any more than you do, that's not what I mean-I'm just so glad that for once you're getting to experience parenting when it wasn't forced on you or when you had to worry about when the other shoe was going to drop. You're so good at being a mom, Regina. Henry turned out to be such a fine young man, so honest and brave and loyal and good."
"I hate that word." Regina said, trying to stymy the flood of emotions pouring out of Snow.
"I know you do, just as much as I hate the word evil. I never should have attached that to you. There is no way someone truly evil could raise such wonderful people."
"People?" Regina asked wryly.
"Yes. I think I turned out alright. I mean not that I ever thought of you as my mother…more as a...I don't really know. You've just always been Regina to me. Anyway, that time I had to run for my life from you and lived in the woods did me some good, grew me a backbone." She smiled fully at Regina, knowing that her words were actually sinking in this time. They had spent so much time fighting each other, she knew Regina never realized she'd truly only ever wished the best for her, regardless of how misguided that was at times.
"Mmm, yes. You were quite the delicate flower before that weren't you?" Regina paused, another question on the tip of her tongue. Throwing caution to the wind, she asked softly, "Do you really think I'm a good mother?" It pained her to ask Snow of all people that question, but out of anyone Snow held the answer she needed. She not only had experienced her caregiving, she watched as Henry grew up and she had known Cora. She also trusted Snow to be honest with her, where Emma would always rally behind her and encourage her and in the best way-never recognize her faults.
"Yes. With out a doubt yes." Snow shook her head adamantly.
"Henry hated me for years…"
"Henry hated the lies. He never hated you. Even before the curse broke he knew something was off, something wasn't quite right here, but that inquisitiveness and that intuitiveness came from you. Because you raised him to be confident, to see beyond the surface. After the curse when he saw you, the honest, true you he never hesitated in loving and protecting you." Snow reached out and squeezed Regina's clasped hands for a moment, both women recognizing the need for a moment of reflection.
"Thank you. I suppose after all that confession I can let you be happy for me, for us." Regina said, hoping to move the conversation away from such heavy topics. She'd had enough emotional bonding for one evening with the woman. "We should probably call our spouses back in before…well before God only knows what with those two. I mean honestly, I didn't know that clumsy, grandiose behavior was hereditary but Emma truly is her father's daughter in that regard."
Snow just beamed at the compliment. She knew that Regina was trying to deflect from their earlier emotions, but she couldn't help hear the truth behind her statement. "Yes, well I think they can be in charge of cleaning up the mess from the salad you dropped. We can go reheat the rest of this, there's no way those two won't be starving by now."
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"Are you…do you want to talk about anything? Like maybe what happened between you and Snow?" Emma asked hesitantly as she closed their bedroom door behind her. She was a little more than baffled that evening when she and David were let back into the dining room to find both woman a little teary eyed. Neither said another word about it though the rest of the evening, instead the topic shifted to baby planning and of all things the baby shower, which Regina put up no fight to Snow volunteering to plan.
"I have more pressing matters to attend to then to rehash the conversation I had with your mother."
"Like what?"
"Like what? I just had to watch you eat a piece of chocolate cheesecake, making it sound very much like you were…well eating me. I think it's only fair you deliver a repeat performance." Regina smirked at her wife, who still stood by the doorway, the debate on what to do playing clearly on her face. "I'm fine Emma. Snow and I simply had to clear the air. Again. You know I wanted her to be horrified by our announcement and when she wasn't…well I was mad. She was surprisingly forth coming though and she made a few good points. Another few old wounds healed up. Now can you ravish me?"
Emma studied her for a few beats before she crossed the room to stand in front of her. "You're really okay?"
"I'm more than okay." Regina leaned forward rubbing her lips across Emma's mouth, an almost kiss. "Your clothes are in the way dear." She murmured, Emma's soft sigh of pleasure causing her stomach to clench with desire. She wanted to go slow, to revel in every little noise Emma made, but she wasn't sure she could do that tonight.
With a wave of her hand Emma made her own clothes disappear. "I've been practicing." She said, the smile on her face triumphant.
"So I see…I should lecture you about the price of magic but…" Regina waved her hand and her clothes disappeared as well. "I'd be a hypocrite right now."
Emma moved forward, her hands landing on Regina's hips guiding her back towards the bed. She slanted her mouth down Regina's throat and sucked at the soft skin. "I love how you taste." She said as she guided them down onto the mattress.
"Better than cheesecake?" Regina quipped, her hands moving all over Emma's back and sides and down to her ass, her fingers digging into the soft flesh.
"Definitely." Emma said, the tip of her tongue skimming the edge of Regina's lips before diving deeper, teasing the inside of her mouth. Regina arched up, groaning and gripped Emma's shoulders, their breasts pushing together. The feel of Emma's hard nipples brushing against her shot a painful wave of desire through her. She couldn't get enough, needed more.
"Emma, I…" She trailed off as Emma's mouth moved down capturing her hard nipple, sucking and biting, her tongue flicking and teasing. "I need you…" She trailed off again, the words feeling foreign in her mouth, but she couldn't deny they were the truth.
Feeling a shift in the mood, Emma pulled her head up and looked into Regina's eyes. "I don't have words for how much I need you…for how much I always want you…I love you."
Tears gathered in the corners of Regina's eyes, the emotions from the evening almost to much to handle. "I love you too." She whispered, her nails scoring Emma's back as she tried to bring them closer, kissing Emma hard and rough and loving all at once. Before Regina could protest Emma had pulled away and moved down in between her legs. She tried to pull her back up, but Emma just kept moving towards her goal.
"You're so close, I can feel you throbbing. Just let me taste you…" Emma hovered over Regina's clit for an excruciating moment before slowly running her tongue the length of her opening, then diving back in exploring all of her with her tongue and her mouth and teasing her with her teeth. She followed the rhythm of Regina's breathing, the quivering of her thighs spurring her on. She sucked her clit into her mouth, not letting up as she slid a single finger inside, pumping it in and out slowly until Regina cried out. She continued to lick and suck, riding out ever last tremor until she felt Regina go limp. She pulled out slowly and crawled her way up Regina's body, kissing her lightly on the way.
When she kissed her lightly on the mouth, Regina's eyes popped open, a mixture of emotions swirling in them. "Just give me one moment and I'll return the favor…"
"I'm not going to argue with you tonight. That was amazing, you're amazing. It's not going to take me much to come…" Emma trailed off as her head hit Regina's shoulder and she curled into her tighter. "I love making you come like that…"
"I love it too…"Regina's smile was evident in her voice, even though Emma's head was still buried in her neck. Regina used Emma's dazed state to flip her over onto her side, her hand sliding over her taunt stomach, grazing her center.
"Regina…don't tease…" Emma gasped as the hand continued to graze over her, teasing lightly. She tried to arch up for more pressure, but was denied when when the had pulled away. "Please…"
"Like this?" Regina pressed down and massaged in slow deep circles, rolling the shaft of Emma's clit beneath her fingertips.
"You're…I'm going to…Reg…" Emma gasped.
Regina's heart swelled when Emma's eyes opened wide and she cried out for more. She continued her pumping, Emma rubbing against her in a steady rhythm. Regina stared in wonder at how beautiful her wife was in that moment, open and vulnerable. She slipped two fingers inside, pumping harder and deeper with every thrust until Emma's cries became louder and she crashed over the edge, screaming Regina's name and clinging to her desperately.
Emma slowly flipped them over, wrapping her arm snuggly around Regina's waist and pulling her close to her. She smile when she heard Regina's mumbled I love you and she snuggled in closer to her as they drifted off to sleep.