Chapter 7.
"Mom, what time does the fair start?" Henry asked excited as he finished his bowl of fruit loops and added more to his bowl.
Regina looked up from her paper. "At five. We can go a bit after school. And save some of them for tomorrow." She pulled the box of cereal across the kitchen island after she witnessed his third bowlful of the morning.
Emma padded in barefoot back in shorts and a shirt from the other day on. Regina took the oppourtunity to gaze at them, thinking about them wrapped around her.
"Hi." Emma said with a shy smile as she looked at the mayor looking at her body with hooded eyes.
"Huh." Regina replied distracted when Emma reached over to get the box of fruit loops by her, her cleavage on show as he top buttons were left unbuttoned.
"Are you coming too?" Henry asked his blonde mother wanting to have both of them with him.
"Coming where?" She looked over at Regina confused.
"The fair. Mom is taking me this evening. You have to come."
"I um, kid, I am not sure. I wouldn't want to impose on..." Emma explained looking up at Regina, not wanting to take away from her and Henry's alone mother/son bonding time.
"You're coming." Regina flat out told her, leaving little room for argument.
"It turns out I'm coming." Emma grinned at her son and then up at his mother who was smiling back at her.
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"So are you coming with me and your mom tonight?" David asked as he adjusted his holster on.
"Uh, I am actually going with Henry." Emma told him filling out paperwork on the latest lost boy incident report.
"That's great that Regina is giving you two time to bond." He mused adjusting the straps.
"Actually Regina's coming too. Gonna be the three of us."
"What?" He scrunched his brow as he sat across from her.
"What?" Emma asked giving him the same confused look he was giving her.
"Nothing it's just Snow and I thought that maybe you'd want to spend it with Neal."
She groaned loudly and dropped her head on the desk in frustration. She was fed up having the same conversation over and over again. "I don't want Neal."
"Maybe if you gave him a chance you would see that-" David started.
"No."
"But Emma -" He sighed but she kept her eyes down at the paper on the desk. She wasn't going to back down on this issue.
"No."
"Think about Henry, if you were him, wouldn't you want your parents together rather than apart." He tried, knowing that she would do anything for her son but Emma felt the low blow and she wasn't taking anymore of it.
"Hence why I am going with him and Regina."
She stuffed the half finished incident report into the file and shoved it in her desk wordlessly while her father just looked at her knowing not to press on. She took her coat off the hook and stormed out of the station. The cold winter air hit her the second she opened the door. She had no idea where to go now. She wanted to punch something or someone.
'Go out with Neal, go out with Neal, Emma. Why don't you date him if you love him so much.'
"You planning on standing there all day my love."
She spun around to see Hook there with a Granny's take out bag attached the his hook. She rolled her eyes, this was just what she needed.
'Fuck off.'
"Yes, now go away." She quipped not wanting to deal with him on top of everything else.
"Feisty. We all know you want me." He purred making her skin crawl.
"I would rather be back in Neverland shacking up Pan, raising lost boys than be with you." She groaned walking away from him. He trailed after her.
"He's a bit young for you, don't you think." She turned to scowl at him. "You need a more mature man."
"I don't need any man."
"You needed me back in Neverland." He raised an eyebrow, smirking as he thought back to the kiss they shared.
"Temporary insanity. I was frustrated and you were there." She explained crossing her arms.
"You seem a bit frustrated now, wanna get crazy?"
"Is he bothering you Emma?" Regina asked appearing behind her matching Emma's stance. She looked Hook up and down. "Beat it pirate."
"Private conversation your majesty." Hook told her causing Regina to move in front of the sheriff, in an effort to shield her from the man leering at her.
"And I said back off." She growled making him take a step back but he kept his smirk on his face.
'Get away from my Swan.'
'She is cute when she get's angry.'
'Quit cockblocking me.'
"Or what?" He challenged. Regina stepped forward invading his personal space and whispered something in his ear and though Emma couldn't hear them she could see the color drain from Hook's face as the mayor whispered. She moved away and he gulped.
"Emma, love, look for me when your guard dog is gone." He scurried off with his take away bag stomping towards the docks. The Sheriff laughed as she watched him leave.
"What did you say to him?" Emma asked impressed.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" She smirked and looked over Emma. "Are you okay?"
"What from Hook? Yeah...hey uh, what are you doing for lunch?"
Regina pointed toward the diner. "I was going to get something from Granny's."
"Mind if I join?"
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"I'm sorry about yesterday." Emma announced halfway through a mostly quiet lunch. Regina looked up at her with her eyebrows raised.
She wiped the corners of her lips with a napkin before replying. "What about yesterday?"
"The whole crying and hugging you thing." Emma admitted looking down at the table not sure if she could get it out if she looked at the other woman. Regina's features softened as she looked at the woman in front of her. She reached out across the table and gave Emma's hand a squeeze.
"Don't be, it was rather sweet."
"Oh Emma there you are." David announced causing Regina to quickly retrieve her hand and clear her throat. Emma rolled her eyes as she looked at her father, wanting some alone time with the mayor.
"David, I am on my break." She moaned wanting to just have this time with Regina but more so wanting to have her hands on her.
The diner door opened once more and Emma saw red when Neal came in. "Hi Emma, hi David." He said cheerfully, he took in the mayor sitting by the window across from Emma, he just gave Regina a curt nod. She ignored him and went back to her meal.
"David if this is another set u-"
"I am actually here to see your father." Neal informed them and dragged David to a booth handing him a gift bag. Emma let out a sigh of relief.
"He is not my secret santa." She said relieved as she peered over her shoulder to see her father hold up a small sheep plushie with a thin smile.
"I am sure yours will get you something better than what appears to be a stuffed animal." Regina quipped drawing Emma's attention back to her. Emma smiled back at her stealing a fry of her plate. "Do that again and you lose your hand."
"Like you would dare." Emma playfully reached across the table but pulled her hand back before taking anything.
"I will give you and the pirate something in common if you try that again." Regina warned again.
"Speaking of him." She pointed to the window behind her. The mayor turned her head to see if he had returned. When she did, Emma stole a fry. "Gotcha."
She chuckled as Regina playfully frowned at her stealing her pickle, licking down the side and putting it back on Emma's plate. "Call that payback."
'I wish I was a pickle, holy crap.'
Emma raised an eyebrow and bit into her pickle. "That all you got?"
"That had my salvia on it."
Emma leaned in closer and stage whispered. "I have kissed you so..." She shrugged smirking. Regina stared at her with wide eyes for a moment that Emma would bring it up. She was about to talk when Tinkerbell came into the diner yelling "NEAL!"
Both women's attention suddenely became focused on the blonde and Neal. "Merry Christmas! From your Secret Santa!" She handed him a thin gift and waited happily for him to open it. He tore the gift wrap off it and looked over what appeared to be several magazines with a shocked look on his face.
"P-porn magazines?" He asked her confused.
"For your job." The fairy explained like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"And, uh, what job is that?" He asked looking at the big busted women on the covers.
"R-regina said you're a sperm doner..."
She turned back to look at Regina and Emma who were laughing with hands over their mouths.
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"Mom, can I have 2 dollars?" Henry asked Regina as he looked at another game he wanted to play.
"What happened to the ten dollars I gave you yesterday?" She asked wondering what he was doing with the money. "I used it for a present...Please." She took out two bills and handed them to him and her and Emma watched him run off to play a fair game.
"So do you play any of these games?" Emma asked curious to get to know more about Regina.
"I am known to play that one where you hit moving targets with a ball." She told her with a smug smile.
"You can play ball?" Emma said in shock not quite believing Regina. "I don't buy that, you have to show me this." She reached into her pocket and pulled out a five dollar bill. She took Regina's hand dragging her to the stand. "Give me a basket of balls." She told the vendor. Regina looked down at their still connected hands not paying attention to what was happening until a small basket was placed in front of her.
"Madam Mayor here is gonna win me and Henry that big panda bear over there." Emma announced teasing Regina knowing that it was an a prize that was un-win-able. She let go of the mayor's hand making her look up to the stall that she was suddenly in front of.
"You need to hit down five batters to get that prize and you only get six balls." The elderly man explained.
"I got it. Start 'em up." Regina told him and watched the wooden pieces move as she gripped a ball in her palms. She narrowed her eyes while she focused and threw her right arm back, winding up.
First one went down.
"You were lucky there." Emma countered. Regina raised an eyebrow picking up another ball. She began arching her arm back and hit the next target down.
"Was that lucky too?" She asked leaning closer to the blonde with a superior smirk making Emma blush and lick her lips wanting to close the gap between their bodies.
"You will never get them all."
The third target crashed down. "You were saying?"
She hit another before Emma could even reply. "Just one more for the panda right?" Regina asked confidently to the vendor and threw the fifth ball. It hit it's target squarly in the centre.
"How...how did...huh?" Emma stood starstruck as Regina threw the last ball and claimed her prizes.
"For you Miss Swan." She passed the huge stuffed animal over to the blonde.
"Okay how did you do that?" Emma asked lugging the stuffed animal in her arms.
"I got bored after a week in Storybrooke, at the time I thought hobbies would help fill a void...They didn't and then Henry came along. Speaking of." The boy came bounding towards them.
"Who won the panda?" He asked patting the arm watching it bounce back.
"You mom won it for you." Emma explained trying to hand the bear off to him, he moved over to Regina with a playful smile.
"Thanks mom." He hugged her and she squeezed his body close to hers when they separated he pointed at the main ride at the fair. "Can we go on the Ferris Wheel?"
"Sure. But you have to carry this." Emma threw the bear at him, both his mothers laughing as it was almost as tall as him.
They started queuing for the ride when they saw Neal in the line. He let a couple go ahead of him to get back to where they were. "Cool bear buddy. Did you win that?" He asked talking only to Henry not wanting to pressure Emma and still embarrassed over Tink's gift from earlier that day.
"No, mom won it." Henry explained readjusting it as it slipped down his arms.
"Emma? You suck at sports." Neal said impressed that she could ever win it. Emma furrowed her brow.
'I do not suck at sports. Darts is not a sport.'
"No, Regina won it actually." She informed him. Regina looked him over wondering what it was that drew Emma into dating this man, to willingly sleep with him.
"It's two to a seat." The Ferris Wheel operator told the crowd in line.
"Can I go with dad?" Henry asked cautiously not wanting to hurt his moms but wanting to spend some time with his father.
"Uh sure." Regina answered not doing a good job at masking the hurt from her voice.
"You can go with Emma." Henry tried, watching to see that his words made both his moms smile to themselves.
"Sir, you can leave your bear in the shack here, not safe to take it on the ride." The operator told Henry taking his teddy bear in her operation booth. Emma and Regina waited until Neal and Henry took their seats before they could take theirs.
Emma noticed when they sat down that they were couples style seats. She gulped.
"You're not scared of heights, are you?" Regina asked noticing the scared gulp.
"I climbed a like mile high beanstalk, this is nothing." Emma boasted but her bravado was burst when the ride moved causing her to grasp for the handle bar holding her in place.
"Smooth." Regina teased smiling fondly at the Sheriff.
"Okay I may be a little scared of falling out of this." Emma admitted making Regina reach out to hold her hand.
"I will have you, besides I am quick with my magic. I am sure I would stop it before your body smashed against the pavement. I'm kidding. I have your back."
Emma calmed but kept their connection this time. Her breathing hitched as she felt Regina's thumb carress the back of her hand gently.
'She is so cute.'
'She has the softest hands, I wonder how it would feel to have her always touching me like this. Control yourself Emma, you don't want her to know that you love he-'
She felt a spark in her fingers and her thought was cut short when the Ferris Wheel jumped as it stalled. The power went out in the area surrounding them.
"You tapped into my magic, what were you thinking about?" Regina asked looking around at the small power outage as they dangled near the top.
"I, uh, I dunno. I drifted off there. Did I do this?" She peered down at how high up they were and how it was dark surrounding them.
"We did. It's our magic thing."
"I did this but I...How do we fix it?"
Regina blushed and whispered. "Just close your eyes." Emma did as she was told, feeling Regina taking her other hand. She waited nervously feeling a soft pair of lips press against hers in a sweet gentle kiss. Regina pulled away and when the blonde opened her eyes the lights were back on and the ride was starting up again.
"That was, um...a kiss...is what works for uh, magic stuff?" She asked flustered from the small kiss.
"It does when it is shared magic." Regina lied knowing that a simple handhold and spell would do the trick but she missed the soft embrace of kissing Emma.
"MOM! MAMA! WHAT WAS THAT?!" Henry yelled from the seat above them. "WAS THAT MAGIC?"
"It's alright Henry!" Emma called out trying to reassure him.
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"I saw you up there." Ruby whispered in Emma's ear, sneaking up on her causing the blonde to jump.
"Don't do that!" She turned swatting at her friend for scaring her.
"I saw that kiss." Ruby said wrapping her arms around her friend. "So proud of you."
"It was to put the lights back on." Emma explained not wanting to get her hopes up.
"Sure it was. Emma and Regina up a tree."
"Shut up!"
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"Regina, what's does Ruby mean when she says she is a wolf?" Tink asked as the two of them watched the friends get them fries from the concession stand.
Regina grinned at her. "Just that, when the full moon comes out Ruby transforms into a wolf for the nights of it...She comes in handy as a guard dog."
"Have you two ever?"
"No. You should give her a chance though, you deserve some happiness." She patted her friend's shoulder.
"So do you...with Emma."
"Em-Emma and I aren't uh..."
"Don't be afraid this time Regina." Tink beamed at her.