Online Affair- Part I

Prompt: (SQ)Regina is with RH, Emma & Henry are in New York, Henry visits on weekends. Regina finds herself bored & lonely even with RH. She creates an account on an online chat, not realizing it's a sex chat/or it's actually a regular chat & she meets someone, who just seems to get her. They start an affair.

The door closed and Regina let out a sigh of relief.

She leaned against the door, eyes closed, wondering what was wrong with her. Her 'True Love' had just left to go do… whatever it was he did all day in the forest with his…friends. Friends, yes that was the word, because there was no way Regina would call them that stupid name they liked to be called. But the point was that he just left and just like every other time he did, Regina wasn't sad about it, or missing him already. No, it was quite the opposite…

…She felt relieved.

It made no sense in her mind. He was her soul mate, her second chance at love. So why was it so…

...boring?

Was true love supposed to feel like that? She always thought there should be more passion. Even though her and Daniel had never gone beyond kissing, there had always been that strange sensation inside her she couldn't identify until years later when she was more experienced.

There had been, passion, lust and love even if it had never found relief. It was the only time in her life that Regina had experienced all those feelings at the same time. One would think that if there was one person capable of making her feel that way again, it would be her destined soul mate.

Instead she was bored.

Relieved that he was gone, because as long as he was away from her, she didn't have to pretend she was having the time of her life.

Was she the problem? Had she been to damaged by her past to appreciate love now? Or maybe Fate just gave her a very boring soul mate…

She sighed and made her way to her office to work on some paperwork, maybe it could distract her from her thoughts. She knew it wouldn't work however, it was something she had tried for weeks already. But nothing seemed to work. She considered meeting with Dr. Hopper, as perhaps he could help her find out why she wasn't content with her life, as she should. But the man was working on getting an actual Phd. not a curse fabricated one and Regina didn't want to take away from his time with something she was embarrassed to admit.

She was finally accepted by the town and her son, she had her true love even…and yet it wasn't enough. The only highlight of her life was when Henry and Emma visited from New York on weekends.

They had decided to let Henry finish the school year there. The school system in storybrooke wasn't exactly the best considering it had been created not intending for anyone to age anyway and now that everyone remembered who they were many had abandoned school. Now that going back to the Enchanted Forest would never be an option again, however and the barrier now allowed people to leave town, everyone was starting to accept that they would have to live their lives as part of this world.

Regina had been working on improving the education people received and slowly integrating Storybrooke to this world. It had been slow, but there was progress. As far as the world knew Storybrooke was relatively a new town that as Emma had pointed out, almost excitedly, now appeared on Google maps. That along with the fact the town was running out of magic, had somehow made the savior relax a lot recently. The blonde was obviously on board with making the town a normal place as she called it.

Regina and Henry had rolled their eyes behind her back when she said it. The two Mills had talked about Emma's conflicted feelings of wanting to stay with her family and wanting a life without all the craziness that was Storybrooke sometimes. They had come up with a plan to "normalize" the town one day when Henry had visited Regina in her office and seen some of what she was working on.

Thus Operation Part of your World, had been born.

Apparently Henry had been watching Disney films again. Regina, of course, gave in the moment he gave her his puppy eyes. The year apart had made her vulnerable to that look again, after years of working on her resistance.

By now most of her work had been done, Storybrooke was to an outsider, a small town in Maine that had a tradition of honoring their town name with many fairy tale references and fairy tale themed events.

That meant she was running out of things to do to distract herself with, from her obvious relationship problems. Regina sighed in frustration as she finished with her paperwork and found herself unsure what to do next. She looked at the clock. Henry was probably at that friend's house like he had told her on the phone the day before, he would. She didn't want to call him and interrupt right now, so she figured she'd read some news online.

It was while trying to close one of the articles that the Mayor accidentally clicked on an ad. Her window changed and opened a different site, she was about to close it when something caught her eye.

Are you bored? Lonely? Why not find someone who can make you feel much better?

Create a profile and we will find the right stranger to make you forget all your troubles.

100% Satisfaction guaranteed.

It said a lot about how desperate she was that she didn't realize the kind of site it was while she created a profile. The words bored and lonely echoing in her mind.

She entered the necessary information and stopped when she had to enter her user name. She didn't want to reveal any personal information so she looked around trying to come up with something and her eyes settled on her apples on the table.

AppleRed?

AppleLover?

JuicyApple?

I Like Apples?

ForbbidenFruit?

This was harder than it looked. She swore she was usually more original than that. Honey Crisp? That could work except…people knew she had a Honey Crisp…this site might be worldwide but with her luck someone from town could…but she was being paranoid wasn't she? Even if there was someone there who knew her, they surely wouldn't know from that name…right?

Still….maybe something different? With a sigh she typed her user name.

User Name: RedDelicious