Regina sped into the school park and checked the dashboard. She realised that there were only five minutes until she was due to start work. She flipped down the drivers mirror and liberally applied her lipstick and ruffled her hands through her hair, trying to make herself look somewhat presentable. She etched the small brush over her face letting the powder foundation loosely touch her pale skin. A small bottom of perfume sat on the floor of the passenger's side which she grabbed and spritzed over herself.

She ran her hands down her blouse trying to decrease any of the imperfections. Regina jumped put of the car and threw her bag over her shoulder while trailing the keys in-between her fingers trying to locate the lock button. She was becoming flustered and when she heard the familiar ringing of the bell she knew she would have to get a move on in order to not be late.

Regina rushed through the double doors of the school and sauntered down the corridor in a hurried manner. As she turned the corner she managed to get to her office just as the clock turned and all the students filed into their classrooms. She sighed in relief and made herself comfortable at the desk.

The sound of the rain pattered against the windows and the wind whistled through the thin material that surrounded the edge of the windows. Her thoughts reverted to last night, she was considering her professionalism and was she taking her role as Emma's counsellor too far? Were her personal feelings clouding her judgement on how she should be treating the young girl?

She was immediately pulled from those thoughts when Cora walked in. Expect this time wasn't for personal reasons but on a professional level. She carefully closed the door behind her and greeted the other woman with a pleasant smile. At first Regina was expecting a less than polite response and she automatically thought that it would have something to do with her and Emma. The younger woman took a deep breath and prepared to explain herself to her boss.

"Hello Regina, I just came in to see how you are getting on with Emma and if you have had any major breakthroughs with her impending recovery?" she lowered her eyes onto the other woman waiting for a comprehensive response.

"Hello Cora, I was meaning to have a meeting with you in order to discuss Emma's progress. She seems happier than she has been over the last couple of weeks and she is most definitely opening up to me, she hasn't completely revealed her whole life story to me but there is definitely progress being made." Regina smiled confidently.

"I'm glad to hear it Regina, your one of the best counsellors we have and it's good to know that Emma is in safe hands and she is making remarkable progress by the sound of it." Cora smiled and made her way out of the office.

Regina let out a deep breath and composed herself. She thanked her stars that Cora didn't suspect anything was happening between the two women.

Emma made her way into class with a smile on her face something she had managed to muster for a long time. Miss Lucas was pleased to see that Emma was more uplifted and she wasn't withdrawing herself as much as what she was used to.

"Hello Emma, come in and take a seat you will be working on your project a little more this lesson." Miss Lucas grinned and took her seat at the desk.

Emma happily made her way to the seat at the front of the class. She blocked out the usual snide comments that were coming from a few people in the class and she tried to focus on her art work.

Miss Lucas gathered the large pieces of card and laid them over her arms making sure that they didn't topple over. She distributed them to the rightful owners and gave the students the freedom to decide how they were going to carry on with their project.

Emma picked out some charcoal from the table in front which was covered in a large array of art materials and grabbed some darker colours in order to give her project the intended effect. As she began sketching out her outline onto the card she thought back to the first evening she had spent with Regina that didn't involve being confined to the office. She wondered how the other woman was feeling about the kiss she gave her and if she felt anything towards her. As much as she knew it was wrong Emma couldn't help the feelings that were developing towards Regina. Everything about her was beautiful and Emma couldn't help but admire how kind hearted she was and how much she understood what she needed.

She pushed those thoughts to the back of her mind as she looked down at her card and noticed that she sketched out a completely different idea to what she intended to do. She quickly rubbed out the outline and began to sketch it out again.

Miss Lucas wondered around the room monitoring what the students were doing and offering assistance to any student that needed it. As she approached Emma she noticed that she was really getting stuck in to what she was doing and she seemed to take more of an interest than previous time.

The dark haired woman leant over the table in order to have a quiet word with the blonde "How are your counselling sessions going with Miss Mills? You seem much happier which indicates that she must be doing a marvellous job as I thought she would." She smiled warmly and kept her eyes focused on Emma.

"Yeah they are going really well thank you, she is really helping me to understand my emotions and she is helping me through a lot." Emma responded politely.

Miss Lucas made her way around the rest of the classroom and kept an eye on Emma. The blonde managed to sketch out more than she expected to achieve and she glanced up at the clock realising that it was nearly time for her next counselling session with Regina. Her heart raced at the thought of being able to spend more time with the dark haired woman and no one else would be able to interrupt.

The class gathered their things together and Emma carefully packed her artwork into a large plastic folder that had been supplied by the school. As the bell rang all the students quickly filed their way out of the classroom and Emma wandered down the corridor trying to spot Regina. As she glanced towards the smoking shed that was located by her office she saw her standing there with a cigarette in her mouth leant up against the bench.

The blonde quietly made her way outside to the smoking shed; even though student access was restricted she didn't care and was prepared to take the risk.

As she stepped outside a sudden cold breeze hit her and the rain was pouring down. Luckily there was a shelter which stopped Regina from getting soaked. She slowly made her way over to the shelter and stood next to the other woman.

"I didn't know you were a smoker? Its bad for your health you know." Emma said jokingly.

Regina glared at Emma "I know I don't usually smoke I've just had a bad morning that's all and last time I checked I didn't need a lecture from a student."

Regina folded her arms across her chest and watched as the blonde made her way back inside not taking a second look at her. Regina cursed herself and realised that she should have kept her mouth shut rather than taking it out on someone that is meant to be her client.

The dark haired woman tossed the cigarette on the floor and stomped her heel over it making sure that it was completely stubbed out. She quickly rushed after Emma hoping that she would still be prepared to go to the counselling session.

Emma was stopped in her tracks when she felt a warm hand brush over her shoulder. She reluctantly turned around with tear filled eyes.

"I'm sorry Emma I shouldn't have taken it out on you, please come in my office and I can give you a hand with your homework. Does that sound like a good idea?"

"I guess." Emma shuffled her feet towards Regina's office and begrudgingly made her way in.

She took a seat on the white leather sofa and pulled out the vast amount of homework from her bag.

Regina made her way over to the window and drew the blinds trying to hide the distraction of the terrible weather and to keep them away from peoples prying eyes. She grabbed a pen and a few pieces of paper in order to scribble a few notes down to help assist Emma with her work.

The dark haired woman placed herself close next to Emma and searched through her homework trying to familiarise herself with the task in hand.

"What piece of homework did you want to do first?"

"The maths homework is due in first so I guess that needs to be done before anything else."

Regina smiled at the blonde and made herself comfortable. She crossed one leg over the other allowing one leg to be exposed. Emma swallowed hard and tried to avoid making herself look stupid.

"I had no right to speak to you the way I did I hope we can get over this and move on?"

"No I'm sorry I didn't mean to over react its my fault."

Emma smiled and inhaled the sweet scent of perfume that was drifting off Regina. She also loved the way the blouse was fitted and complimented Regina's frame perfectly.

Both women stared at the homework and tried to decipher what they had to do. Emma felt her stomach doing summersaults as Regina leant in closer and the warmth of her breath sent Goosebumps over her neck.

She pointed down at one of the questions and began to explain how to answer it "For that question you need to find out the area of the shape, there is always a diagram which shows you what you need to do in order to answer the question which means you shouldn't have any trouble with it."

Emma swivelled her body around which meant that she could be in a better proximity of Regina "you must have better things to do with your time than helping me all the time? And Miss Lucas seems to speak quite highly of you is there something going on between you two?"

Regina laughed half heartedly "I don't know what gave you that impression Miss Swan but there is nothing going on between us, if anything I have my eyes set on someone else but its more complicated than I hoped it to be."

"Why who is it?"

"I cant say, anyway I'm meant to be helping you with your homework not you asking me questions about my relationships." Regina smiled and tapped the paper suggesting that Emma should focus on the task.

Emma dropped her shoulders in disappointment by the other woman's refusal to reveal who it was. After an hour of completing homework two of the tasks had been finished and there was still some that needed finishing.

As Emma glanced up at the time she realised that she needed to get home before her parents started to become suspicious. As she made her way to the door Regina placed her hand gently over Emma's wrist.

"I know Its not the typical thing to do but I was wondering if you wanted to come over my house tomorrow? I could cook dinner and we could have an informal chat, there's no pressure so you don't have to feel obligated to come." Regina smiled and hoped that the answer would be yes.

"I would love to come round Regina what time should I come?"

"How about 6?"

"Sounds good to me see you tomorrow."