Prompt: Snow Queen – Riding a Horse
The horse made a steady pace across the ground, the two riders on the tall stallion's back paid no mind to the woods surrounding them for the feel of their bodies pressed together and the steady beat of the horse's hooves were enough to calm them. Their hearts beat in sync with the beat of the hooves that moved over the hard ground. Nothing could reach the two of them as they moved together, one with each other as well as the beast beneath them. When they reached the top of the clearing they had been steadily moving toward the older of the two women pulled back on the reins, drawing their horse to a stop so that they could see out over the kingdom that lay below them.
"Are you sad to be leaving it behind?" she asked quietly of the young woman sitting in front of her.
"There are things I will miss," the younger said, "but what I really want," she said, "who I really want," a pause, "really need, well she's holding me right now." She turned her head to meet the woman's eyes behind her, "If my father couldn't see that you were what made me happy, my Queen, then he was blind."
"He'll look for you, Snow," the Queen said.
"My father is a great king, Regina," the younger woman said, "but you and I both know that to him you were merely there to provide him a male heir, as my mother never could, and that I," she shook her head, "well I was there because I reminded him of a time long past. He may look for me," she looked into the older woman's eyes again, "but I hope that the woman I love will make sure he never finds me."
Regina tightened her hold on the younger girl, pulling Snow further into her body, "I will never let him find you, my love, if that is how you wish it to be."
Snow turned, "That is more than how I wish it to be." She placed Regina's hand flat against her stomach, "After all our daughter will need her mother's protection."
A small gasp slipped past Regina's lips and then her eyes welled with tears, "Well lets see if we can find the safest place that I know."
"First go and pick up Daddy," Snow said.
Regina smiled and pressed a kiss to the back of her lover's ear, "He is so going to spoil her rotten."
Snow chuckled, "Let him," she said, "as long as our family is together he can spoil his granddaughter as rotten as he wants."
A thought occurred to Regina then, "You shouldn't be riding," she said.
"Regina."
"Don't Regina me, you shouldn't," Regina smirked, "besides I have a faster way now that we're out of your father's kingdom." She slid down from the horse and sent it galloping away then wrapped Snow in her arms, "Picture the farm," she said quietly as Snow's eyes slipped shut, "Picture home."