Chapter 9.
Regina pushed Emma back on the couch climbing on top of her as the kiss got more passionate. Emma's hand went to Regina's sides as she kissed back with vigor. Regina's lips were full and soft against her own, their bodies pressed against each other, hands roaming everywhere in feverant passion. They only pulled apart when breathing became difficult. Both women surveying the other as the panted for breath.
"Sorry I..." Regina started feeling a bit ashamed at how she pounced on the blonde. She made an attempt to move off of her to difuse the tension between them. Emma held the back of her bare thigh in place and reached up to place a tender kiss on Regina's lips pulling back with a dreamy far off look.
"Don't be." She used her other hand to pull on the front of Regina's silk robe until she was barely inches away from her lips. "We do have a few hours until my parents come home."
"Wow, you are full of charm." Regina quipped with a wry smile before staring down at the Emma's lips wanting to kiss her again.
"Charm is my middle name...or part of my surname. I actually don't know if that is my fath-"
"Emma?"
"Yes."
"Shut up." Regina pressed her lips to Emma's kissing her with everything in her.
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They kissed for over an hour both wanting to take it a step further but neither wanting to stop what they were doing. Both wanted to just relish the time they had together, each kiss becoming passionate, loving, tender. Regina didn't want Emma to think that she was just some lay or a play to get back at Snow White. She wanted to show her that she was in this, whatever it was for her. She couldn't articulate it and thought that her lips would tell her one way or another.
Emma's entire body felt like it was vibrating from the kisses, she wanted to rip Regina's clothes off and take her on the couch but that wasn't entirely special and she wanted to be something memorable and the idea of her in "Cookie Monster" underwear was not how she wanted their first time to go. She was kissing Regina's neck, nipping at the skin before lavishing it with her tongue when she heard keys in the front door.
The two women jumped apart from one another not wanting to get caught.
Emma ran her hands through her hair, in an attempt to fix it. Regina fixed her robe and sat up straight with her hands on her lap. She craned her neck back, seeing David tip toe into the room holding his shoes in his hands.
"Did you girls have a good night?" He asked swaying as he did, feeling slightly tipsy from the punch from the ball.
"Yeah uh, we watched 'It's a Wonderful Life' and got talking." Emma lied turning off the TV that was currently playing informercials for hair removal products. She was gratful that Regina wasn't wearing lipstick when they kissed. The last few times under the mistletoe her lips had dark pink smudges around her mouth making her look like she was struck with lightning while she tried to apply a lip color.
Regina gave him a bashul smile feeling slightly guilty.
"That's good. We talked to Eugene, an old prince from our land, he said he has a cabin in the woods he is willing to sell. So we won't be in your hair for long." He spoke to Regina with a grin as a drunk Snow tripped up the stairs making a loud "oomph" sound.
"Your mom may have had a bit too much to drink. But it's good news right?"
"Yeah...it is." Emma frowned as he left to assist Snow up the stairs. She sat there in a small state of shock.
Regina gave her a sad smile at the chance that they would soon no longer get to see each other every day. "That's...great news right." Regina muttered all hope gone from her voice.
"Yeah...I am sure gonna miss this place." She wanted to add and you but didn't want to push a relationship onto the other.
"I should probably get to bed, big day tomorrow, Christmas Eve and all." Regina got up from her seat attempting to walk away, she was stopped when Emma grabbed her hand.
The blonde stood up and kissed the hand in hers. "Night Regina."
The mayor smiled fondly at her. "Thanks, for my present." She picked up her doll holding in to her chest. "It is very sweet." Emma grinned back at her trying to get out an 'I love you.' but her voice caught in her throat. She leaned down to kiss Emma's cheek before ascending the stairs to her room while Emma groaned into a couch cushion.
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"Mom! Mama!" Henry yelled as he got in the door early the next morning. He sprinted up the stairs stopping at Emma's room first. He pushed the door open and yelled inside the room."Wake up!" Once he saw Emma stir he made his way down the hall. He bound into Regina's room leaping onto her bed. "It's Christmas eve!"
Regina sat up smiling at her giddy son while Emma padded into the room still half asleep. "Did Neal give you a bowl of sugar or something for breakfast?"
" only had Bran cereal." He pulled a disgusted face. "It's Christmas eve!"
Emma walked into the room pushing him down onto the big mattress. When he got close Regina tickled his side, grinning at the loud giggles erupting from him.
"Em-em-emma help!" He called out between giggles.
She tickled his side and smirked. He raised his hands in submission. "I think he's surrendering." She told Regina who stopped her attack to avoid having to change the sheets in the event of her son wetting himself if she kept it up.
Emma sat down on the empty side of the Queen sized bed while Henry lay between them. Regina yawned happily.
"Did you have fun last night Kid?" Emma asked wondering what he and Neal got up to.
"Yeah, Dad got me something called 'Dungeons and Dragons'. Mr Gold said it was ridiculous but Belle loved it." He blushed thinking about Belle making his mothers share a look with each other.
"Do you like Belle?" Emma asked him ignoring the look Regina was giving her for actually being so blunt.
"What?...I...she's kinda like my step grandmother..." He blushed darkly as he fiddled with his sleeves.
"So step grandmothers aren't off limits." Emma pointed out not realising what she was saying.
"So you would date mom?" Henry tested her with a smug smirk.
"Actually...I mean you know it's an option." She bit down on her lip avoiding eye contact with the other two in the bed who were staring at her incredulously. "Your mother is very beautiful so yeah..."
Henry looked between his two mothers suspiciously. "Oooookay..."
Emma cleared her throat wanting to shift the attention off of her and back to him, she said. "So you do like Belle?"
"Well Beauty and the Beast was my favourite Disney film." He admitted hoping it would stop there and he wouldn't have to tell his mothers about the embarrassing fact that he was attracted to his grandfather's girlfriend. Regina hugged her son close to her.
"She is a bit old for you and taken. What about Jefferson's little girl?"
"She won't talk to me because you separated her and her 'Papa'." He sighed. Regina smoothed down his hair with her fingers comforting him, feeling guilty for that one.
"What about Ava?" Emma offered thinking about the young girls of Storybrooke.
"Oh not her, she's a theif." Regina stuck her nose up at the idea of her son with the girl who was so mean to her when she offered her a new home and family.
"So, I was one too." Emma pointed out feeling offended.
"Yes and your boyfriend set you up and got you sent to juvie...Not before knocking you up and all before you were eighteen." Regina added grinning with mirth.
"Henry is different than Neal, he's a good egg. Have no clue where you got that from." She said playfully earning a flick against her arm by Regina. "Owh, you obviously got that from your mom. Owh!"
"Watch it Swan."
"No he did." She said sincerely smiling broadly as she looked at his other mother.
"What is up with you guys?" Henry asked slightly freaked out at how casual and playful his two mothers were with each other.
"Uh nothing why Kid?" Emma quickly replied making him more suspicious of their odd behaviour. "Your mom and I have just become f-friends since the whole Neverland thing."
"Yeah, something like that."
"Oh...well it's good you both have friends now and that you are on the same side I guess." He took a hand off both of them in his. "Kinda like a family."
"Kind of yeah." Regina mused.
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The evening becan to roll in before anyone even realised after the food was prepped for the next day everyone in the house sat down in the living room watching vintage Christmas specials on TV.
"More eggnog?" Snow asked topping off Regina's drink with a soft smile.
"Mom! Can I open one of the gifts under tree?" Henry moaned looking at the presents from family members that cluttered the base of the tree.
"You can open one." Regina conceeded edging closer to Emma as they sat on the couch watching him slide on his knees almost hitting the tree in his excitement. Emma bent forward and whispered in the mayor's ear.
"Is he always like this at Christmas."
Regina lolled her head back and whispered. "This is the calmest I have seen him at the holidays."
"Hey Kid why not open the back one from me." Emma told him. "The one in the green box."
Henry picked it up curiously before ripping open the wrapping paper. "You got me a chemistry set?"
"It is an advanced one with over 300 experiments." She pointed out. "You have to do some of the more complex ones with your mom near so she can use her magic to stop it if you make a mistake. Plus you know it looks kinda cool..."
"And you called us nerds?" Regina asked with a smirk making Henry laugh.
"Thanks mom." Henry got up from his position to hug his mother before sitting back down. She hugged him back loving that she was a part of his Christmas. He sat back down and took a sip of his eggnog. "Did you get your secret Santa yet?"
"No not yet." Emma sighed over dramatically leaning closer to Regina resting her head on her shoulder. "They haven't giving it yet."
David rolled his eyes at his daughter's silliness while Snow watched the interaction narrowing her eyes.
'Since when are they so close?'
'She smells really good.'
'I should give her, her gift already.'
'I wonder if I can blow stuff up with this.'
'FELIZ NAVIDAD!'
Regina groaned and stood up swirling her hands making a white box with a green bow appear in her hands after a purple mist disappeared. "Merry Christmas."
Emma took the box and pulled off the lid to reveal a brown leather coat with a large collar reminding Emma of the kind Lauren Lewis wears on Lost Girl. She pulled it out of the box while he parents awhed at it and Regina smiled hopefully. "I noticed you didn't have a brown one. I checked the sizes against your other jackets but you should probably try it on."
Emma held the jacket up still admiring it. And wondering how much Regina spent on it knowing it was expensive. "Huh...Oh yeah." She stood up and put it on, "What do you think?"
"Oh Emma that suits you."
"You look lovely."
"Makes you look badass Mom."
"It looks good." Regina flicked her eyes over Emma's appearance feeling her heart thump loudly in her chest.
"It's getting late kiddo." David told Henry realising how late it had gotten snapping Regina's focus back to her son and away from Emma Swan.
"Come on, I'll read you a Christmas story." Regina got up resting her hands on her son's shoulders.
"Emma come on." He pulled on his other mother's hand.
"You want me to come to?"
"Yes, come on, the sooner I sleep the sooner it's Christmas morning."
She rolled her eyes and her and Regina walked their son upstairs to bed.
"You saw all that right?" Snow asked wringing her hands watching the three leave.
"Saw what?" He asked feeling out of the loop as he waited for his wife to sit back down beside him.
"That!" She gestured to the stairs before biting her nails. "Them."
"What about them?"
"They like each other." She spelled out waiting for her husband to catch up with her train of thought.
"They were bound to become friends some day."
Snow groaned. "I think they more than like each other."
"What?...Oh!"
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"He went to sleep quite easily. I figured he'd be too excited to shut off his brain." Emma whispered as the two women snuck out of their sleeping son's room.
"Storytime always got him to bed." Regina muttered looking down at her feet. "The jacket looks really good on you."
"You said that earlier." Emma told her with a shy smile creeping onto her face.
"It bears repeating." She took a nervous step forward placing a tender kiss on the blonde's lips. "Goodnight Miss Swan."
Emma melted in the spot on the landing from the sweet kiss letting out a content sigh as she watched the sway of the mayor's hips as she sauntered off to her room. She managed to control herself to make it to her own room, taking advantage of the floor lenght mirror she did a small twirl in her new jacket seeing how it sat on her body. She modeled, making small poses to herself. She hooked her thumbs in the pockets and felt something inside one. A folded up piece of paper with Regina's neat elegant handwriting covering one side of the small piece of paper.
"Emma, I love you from your Secret Santa."
She read and reread the message before it finally set in.
She bound from her room down the hall to the larger room, knocking lightly on the door. Regina opened it with a coy smile.
"I found your note."
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