Prompt - Fluffy Valentine's Day
Regina stepped into the house, it was quiet and dark an anomaly in and of itself but she had hoped to spend time with her family today at least. Flipping the switch on in the hall she was shocked by the sight that met her eyes, rose petals covered the floor. There were pink and white and red petals and even a few deep purple, a specialty rose color from Game of Thorns. A small note rested on the dining room table and she padded softly down the hall, her heels forgotten in the closet by the door.
Lifting the note from the table Regina smiled as she read over the words on the page:
Mom,
I'm with Grandma and Grandpa tonight but Ma's waiting for you. Just follow the rose petals and you'll see what she had planned. I love you, Mom.
Henry
P.S. Say yes!
She shook her head, wondering idly what Henry had meant by his post script but shaking her head and deeming it unimportant she looked down on the flower petals beneath her feet and began to follow them. When she finally reached the end of the trail she was standing just inside the back door looking out into the yard to see lights twinkling in the apple tree. She pulled the door open and stepped outside barefoot, something she would have reprimanded Henry for due to the chill of the late evening.
"What's all this?" she questioned, though she couldn't see anyone to answer the question.
"This," a voice said off to her right, "is your Valentine's present," Emma finished as she appeared by Regina's side. "Well," she said fidgeting slightly, "that's a part of it."
"A part of it?" Regina questioned and stepped into Emma's personal bubble, "And what, may I ask, Sheriff, is the other part?"
Emma fidgeted a bit more and then slipped a hand into the pocket of her red leather jacket, "We didn't start out liking one another," she began, Regina started to interrupt but Emma held up a hand, "Please, please just let me say this." Regina nodded, "We didn't start out liking one another, in fact," she began, "we hated one another when we met. You thought I was going to take Henry from you and I didn't trust you. But when Henry was in the hospital we had to rely on one another and work together. Then your mother came," Regina's face fell at the mention of Cora and Emma reached out for her hand, "and then Greg and Tamara and Neal," she continued, "until we had to go to Neverland and save Henry again. It was on the Jolly Rodger when I realized that I didn't hate you, even if I had suspected it for a while that trip showed me. You were standing on the deck and looking toward the land spread out before us and everything just kinda clicked in my head." She reached out then and stroked Regina's cheek, "I didn't do anything until after we returned though and then I asked you out." A tear trailed down Regina's cheek, "It didn't take long for me to realize that I didn't hate you, I loved you. Now we have a family," she said, "you, Henry and I we're a family. I've always," she said while wiping tears from Regina's cheek, "always wanted a family to call my own." She let her hand drop from Regina's cheek and slowly dropped to the ground on one knee, "I would like to make that family even more permanent than the one we have already formed. Will you marry me?"
Regina cupped Emma's cheek this time and tugged gently, pulling the younger woman up, "I've loved you for far longer than we've been together but before I was trying to fit into a role that people pushed me into. You showed me that I didn't have to live in that role." She pushed a blonde curl behind Emma's ear, "Yes, Emma, yes, my love, I'll marry you."