sorry for the wait on this chapter! i had a hell of a week and zero downtime. as always, I encourage you to let me know what you're thinkin xxx
"Emma," Snow came into the sheriff's station, donning her best concerned expression. It was time she did something about her situation before it got out of hand. She'd actually taken a page out of Regina's book with her latest idea. Who knew keeping a curse intact took so much work?
"What's wrong?" Her daughter immediately sat up in her chair at her expression, her brows drawing down in concern, "Mom, what's going on?" She hated to use Emma like this and lie to her, but it was for everyone's well being. If there was anything she'd learned it was that as a hero, sometimes you had to make the tough decisions.
"I just went to pick up something for dinner at Granny's and she's not there," She frowned, glancing at David's desk empty. Intuition told her that there was something going on between David and the Evil Queen lately and she knew if she were going to keep the curse intact that she had to work fast.
"Where is she?" Emma shrugged, her frown deepening at the direction of the conversation. It was her duty to keep the town safe and it was not something she took lightheartedly. After all, she was the savior. This was her role.
"I don't know, I asked a couple of the dwarves if they'd seen her and they said that when they went in for breakfast and lunch that no one was in there," She swallowed hard to add to the effect, "They said they thought she may have just had to run an errand or something and didn't think twice about it. But she's been gone all day and no one can find her.
"What do you think happened to her?" The sheriff got up from her desk and rounded the corner of it, grabbing her gun belt on the way, "Do you think someone is responsible?"
"I hate to say this but…" Snow looked at her daughter, knowing by her expression she was feeding into the story perfectly, "We all saw the argument between Granny and Regina at the diner the other week. I can't stop thinking about the look in the Evil Queen's eyes when Granny refused to serve her."
Emma's lips pressed into a thin line as she buckled her gun belt around her waist and nodded once, grabbing her keys from the desk top, "Looks like we have our first suspect."
"You better come soon or I won't last if you keep this up," David groaned, watching Regina's bare back flex with the movements of her hips. He forced himself to lean his head back on the pillows of the bed in her vault and stare at the ceiling to regain his control. She looked so fucking good.
"I'm almost there," She moaned her reply, letting her eyes close as she pressed her hands on his thighs, just above his knee. "Don't rush me, Charming," She growled, but it was a lust filled threat as she continued to roll her hips, milking him greedily. Her body dripped around his stiffness, soaking them both with her heightened state of arousal.
He'd come by after work, knowing she'd probably be down here. In all honesty, he'd meant to talk to her about his daughter, but before they both knew it they had stripped each other down and were going at it like they hadn't had sex in months. His appetite for her was insatiable and it didn't help that she was so goddamn good in bed.
David's cock was buried deeply inside of her and he nearly came when he allowed himself to look back down to where she sat backwards on him. Her round ass beckoned him to put his hands on hit, running his fingers over the mounds and squeezing the flesh. She let out an appreciative purr at the fondling of her bottom, digging her nails into his thighs.
"You're so fucking tight, Regina," He groaned at how exquisite her wet heat felt as she ground herself on him faster and more desperately when her muscles started to tense. He was much taller and bigger framed than she was, but where it mattered her body fit him like a glove.
"I'm close," She whined as she closed her eyes and chased the feeling coiling inside of her. The position they were in had his cock hitting just the right spot, prompting her hip movements to speed up. Regina desperately hoped he had it in him to not cum before her because the pressure in her abdomen was deep and tight and the release was going to feel amazing.
"I wish I could watch your face when you do," David breathed heavier at the thought, running one of his hands around her hip between her thighs. He heard her yelp when his fingers found her swollen clit and started to rub fast circles over it. She was so slick.
"Then watch," Regina suggested to him breathlessly, lifting one of her hands from his thigh and flicking her wrist towards the wall in front of the bed. David lifted his gaze beyond her, seeing she'd made a large mirror appear on the wall.
"Fuck," David nearly lost control, watching Regina ride him in the mirror. She was completely naked, chest glistening with a layer of sweat, nipples hard and her short hair mussed. Her eyes were closed as she got lost in the pleasure, brow creasing slightly. "I want you to watch us, too," He ordered, stroking her clit more firmly, "Look."
Regina lifted her head, mewling at the vision of them in the mirror. Her movements never faltered in speed, rolling her hips continuously as she watched his large fingers play with her clit. She could see glimpses of the root of his cock as she rocked her hips backwards and forwards, relishing in how snugly he fit. She couldn't deny that David Nolan had a perfect body.
"Shit...David…oh, fuck," She started rambling when she felt her body rapidly approaching release, her hip rolls becoming jerky and sloppy. Her body started to tense around him, nails digging into his thighs deeper as she ground her hips down forcefully on his when she curled forward on his stiffness one last time.
David watched slack jawed as she screamed and her body convulsed when her orgasm hit her, giving her clit a squeeze and hearing her choke on a cry in response. Her perfectly toned body shuddered on him and her walls clenched around his erection so tightly it made him spill instantly, letting out a throaty groan of his own as his fingertips dug into the crease of her hip and thigh.
"My god, what got into you today, Charming?" Regina gasped for breath when she fell onto her back beside him on the bed, "Your wife not let you take her like that?" He was always easy to get worked up but today he'd gotten stiff just looking at her and she'd been riding him to no end before he even came close to blowing. She wasn't complaining, she'd came multiple times already.
"Can we not talk about my wife right now?" He groaned, instantly missing the contact of her body, goosebumps breaking out of his skin as the cool air hit his wet member. She'd made a mess of both of them.
"Why not? We both know you're here because you're not getting something from her that you want," Regina propped herself up on her elbow and gave him a wicked grin, "Does she not let you cum in her? Or bend her over counter tops and take her from behind?"
"You'd better quit talking like that before you get me hard again," He smirked back at her, rolling onto his side to look at her. She looked playful but he could see the wall coming up like it always did at about this time. It amazed him how they could do what they just had together and she was bold as can be, but to simply have a meaningful conversation made her go inside of her shell.
"You'd better get home to your loving wife, Mayor Nolan," Regina fell onto her back again with a sated smile, letting her eyes close for a moment, "I must say, fucking the enemy made me feel much better than what I thought it would."
"I can't believe I'm having sex with someone who tried to kill me on multiple occasions," David agreed and they both laughed at how ridiculous it all was.
"It makes no sense," She thought out loud, knowing they were equally confused by the jumbled feelings they experienced. "We do need to stop, though."
He frowned instantly at the suggestion, turning his head to look over at her, "What? Why?"
"Because you're married, you idiot," Regina rolled her eyes, keeping her gaze towards the ceiling, "To Snow White, of all people. If anyone ever found out about this, they'd burn me at the stake."
"Why? It's my decision to make."
"Because you're a hero and I'm a villain. They're going to believe that I cast a spell on you or forced you in some way. It will never be your fault in the people's eyes, it will be mine. And I'll be the one who suffers."
David considered her words, hearing a hint of emotion in her tone during the last sentence. The woman beside him had suffered much in her life, he knew this. His wife's betrayal of Regina's secret and having her heart crushed had created the Evil Queen. She was a lonely, broken and sad little creature.
"Regina," He wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her closer despite the warning look on her face when he did, "We both know something is going on here, as much as we try to ignore it and fuck each other out of our systems, it isn't working."
"Must we always go through this?" She was stiff in his arms and avoiding his gaze, averting her eyes towards the open part of the vault, "You're married, you're a hero, you have a family. That's it, end of story. Go back to them."
"That's just it," He bit down on his bottom lip, not knowing how she'd react to what he was about to say, "I think…I think you are my family."
"What in the hell are you talking about?" She snapped her head back his way instantly, turning fully towards him and giving herself away that maybe she'd been thinking something along those same lines. "Honestly, did you hit your head or something?"
"Shutup, Regina," He let out a frustrated breath at her, knowing she was just trying to avoid talking about it, "You and I both saw how Violet reacted to you in the diner…and in my office. She even saw a picture of you on my phone and started squealing."
"You took a picture of me?" Her brows knitted together in irritation, deflecting her emotions about what he was actually saying. She had felt a strange pull towards his daughter, even a rush of love and a heartache to be near the little girl. But just like with everything else, she pushed those emotions down deep inside of her and tried to ignore them.
"Regina, she looks just like you. I know it sounds stupid but…" He sat up, pressing a hand into the bed beside him as he looked down at her, "When I look at her I see you in her. She doesn't want to go to Snow, ever. And she has magic…"
"So does your oldest daughter, if the idiot would ever learn how to use it," Regina rolled her eyes, troubling her bottom lip. "I don't know what you're getting at." That was a lie, but she didn't know how to respond to him.
"I think...I think something is going on here…." He let out a breath at how crazy he sounded, glancing down towards her abdomen. A tiny mark near her right hipbone caught his eye, prompting him to reach out and trace it with the tip of his finger, "I dream about a life I had with you…it feels so real…I see you pregnant, I see us living together," He looked back at her face now, seeing her expression full of vulnerability and he knew she'd had the same dream.
"They're dreams, its probably Gold screwing with us in some way," She glanced down to see his finger gently tracing the tiny stretch mark on her left hip that matched the right one, "I'd figure out what's going on if you'd ever leave me alone."
"Fine, I'll leave you alone on one condition," He tugged his bottom lip in between his teeth, waiting until she turned her head back to look at him, "You let me bring Violet here and you hold her. If you feel nothing, if you can look at me and tell me that you don't think there's anything behind these dreams and this feeling we're having, then I'll leave you alone."
"Is that it?" She raised an eyebrow to hide her anxiety at the thought. Why did the thought of holding a Charming brat frighten her so much? But if it meant David would quit coming around and reducing her to a puddle of longing, she would do it. "Fine."
"Where have you been?" Snow accosted David as soon as he came into their home, startling him with her presence. She'd told him that she was picking up dinner at Granny's tonight and going to Emma's for a movie night, so he'd fully taken advantage of the chance to go see Regina. He hadn't expected Snow to be greeting him when he got home, disheveled and most likely still smelling like Regina's perfume.
"Uh, just making some rounds," He shrugged, avoiding looking at her as he took off his jacket and hung it up, "The kids in bed?"
"Yes," His wife crossed her arms and leaved her back against the kitchen island. David was trying to ignore her, making his way over to the fridge to get a beer out of it. It wasn't going to work, but he didn't have the energy for another argument with her.
"Is there something you need to say, Snow?" David frowned, feeling her eyes nearly staring holes in the back of his head as he turned around and opened his bottle.
"Oh, there's a lot I'd like to say, it's just figuring out where to start," She glared at him now and he knew she must've sensed what he'd been up to lately. Her next statement took him by surprise, though, "Granny is missing."
"What? For how long?" David frowned quickly, setting his beer down on the counter.
"For almost 24 hours now, Emma is going to declare her missing tomorrow," She frowned in a disapproving manner, "And yet you've been nowhere to be found when you should've been protecting this town from whatever it is that happened to Granny."
"I didn't know," He frowned down at Snow, his concern actually growing for the older woman, "Does Emma have any leads?"
"She's going to question Regina tomorrow," Snow replied and he swore he saw a hint of a vindictive smirk on her face when she told him. What had happened to his wife? She wasn't the same woman he fell in love with.
He did his best to try to appear nonchalant with his response, knowing Snow was prodding him for a reaction, "Regina? What for?"
"Because we all saw what happened between she and Granny the other week. It's not that hard to put two and two together."
"Look she hasn't hurt anyone for as long as we've been here, why would she start now?" David tried to reason with her but he knew Snow already had her mind made up on the matter. She'd practically already sentenced Regina for Granny's murder in her mind. It would be like talking to a brick wall to argue with her at this point.
"Old habits die hard," Snow shrugged, tilting her head to the side as she caught him glance towards the door, "What's the matter, David? You have somewhere you need to go?"
"What? No," He frowned, letting out a sigh as he grabbed his beer and tried to appear like he wasn't worried, "I'm gonna go call Emma and see what time we're going to get Regina for questioning."
The look on his wife's face told him she had a hand in whatever happened, but she had him backed into a corner. She was trying to pin Regina for a crime to keep them apart, but if he fought for Regina's freedom, he'd be all but admitting to the affair. If that happened, he wouldn't be able to prove the Queen's innocence. For now he had to act like he wasn't at all invested in Regina's well being. He'd be able to help her more without Snow breathing down his back.
Regina pulled her sweater tighter in the drafty air of her apartment as she made her way into the kitchen area. She let out a small chuckle, picking up a utensil holder that had been knocked over by she and David's last escapade in here. Cleaning wouldn't be a bad idea today.
She found herself smiling at the thought of David Nolan and it made anxiety rise in her chest. Why did having him around feel so right? It was part of the reason she always ordered him to leave after they finished having sex. The longer she let him stay around the more used to it she got, and the loneliness stung even harder when he left to go home to his family.
It needed to end before it completely ruined her already fragile emotions. For years she hadn't allowed herself to even entertain the thought of love or affection, but those dreams had her longing for it again. To be held, to see the look of love in someone's eyes, to have a family. The old desires she'd long since snuffed out came roaring back inside of her, leaving her in a constant state of conflict.
A knock sounded on her door and the thoughts of breaking everything off with David quickly dissolved at the idea of him being on the other side of that door. She wasn't strong enough to refuse him right now. Soon enough she'd force herself to, but right now she just wanted to pretend she had what she never would. He'd never be hers, she'd never have a family.
"It's-" Regina started to speak when she opened the door and saw David, before glancing to his right to see Emma Swan with her hands on her hips and an arrogant look on her face, "What do you two idiots want?" He may have gotten a much nicer greeting had he come alone.
"Morning, Regina," Emma pressed a hand on the frame of the door, "We'd like you to come down the station and talk with us for a little bit."
"About what?" Regina gave an incredulous laugh, glancing at both of them. David's expression was stoic, not giving away anything to how he was feeling. Had he double crossed her? Her mind instantly reeled, trying to recall if she'd said anything that could be considered a threat towards his family that could be used against her.
"Granny's missing," He spoke then, crossing his arms as he stood beside his infuriating daughter.
"And what do I have to do with that?" She asked through gritted teeth, glaring at him now. How dare he come in here with his daughter, accusing her of god knows what?
"That's what we're going to find out," Emma glanced at David, giving a nod towards Regina in a motion to have him escort her before looking back at her, "Come on, Your Majesty."
"I can walk myself, thank you," Regina hissed, jerking her arm from David's grasp when he stepped forward and reached for her arm, "I don't need a police escort," She threw daggers up at him as he gazed down at her, noticing the conflict in his eyes. Who's side was he on?
His adams apple bobbed once, but no sound came out for a moment before he finally found his voice, "Let's go, Regina."