Warm. Burning hot. That's how Regina would describe the kiss if someone ever asked her. They had kissed before, but this was different. This was the kiss. She could feel her own blood start to burn in her veins, like Emma's words of love had somehow caused her body to flame up. Regina never wanted the kiss to end. She wanted to live in that feeling that being with Emma caused her. But a human body had been designed to only work with enough air making into the lungs and brain and that was the only reason why they had to separate for a while.
They pressed their foreheads together and just took big gulps of air. Emma pulled back a little to press a kiss to the side of Regina's head.
"How are you feeling?" she whispered.
Regina had an answer waiting. "I feel amazing. I feel so happy." she looked deep into Emma's eyes and could see the similar response in her love's eyes.
"I'm glad but I also wanted to know how you feel physically. I mean you did break your leg Regina, not to mention you hit your head pretty hard." Emma reached to touch the back of Regina's head gently.
If Regina was being completely honest, she wasn't feeling a thing. There was no pain, like everything was like should be. After telling Emma that, she saw her girlfriend - were they girlfriends now? - frown. Emma looked at the machines she was still attached to and the cast that was covering most of her leg.
"That doesn't seem right. You were in immerse pain when I brought you in." Emma wondered out loud, looking deep in thought.
"Maybe it's the painkillers they gave me?" Regina wasn't as worried as Emma was but she tried to come up with a solution that would help the blonde.
"Those painkillers were given you hours ago. I don't think there is a painkiller in you left." Emma was getting more and more worried and confused. "I will go and look for Whale. I want them to run on some more tests and check that everything is okay."
She got up to leave, but stopped when Regina took a hold of her hand and pulled her back. Green eyes met chocolate brown.
"What is it? Are you okay?" Emma worried.
"I don't want you to go." Regina whispered, quite embarrassed of her own neediness.
Emma smiled brightly and pressed a tender kiss to Regina's lips. When she pulled away, it only took a second for her to return for another kiss. And another.
"I'll never get tired of doing that." Emma whispered, a little breathlessly against Regina's lips.
"Good." Regina hummed and pecked the blonde quickly.
With great reluctance Emma got up and headed to the door. When she made it there, she turned around and again, green locked with brown.
"I will be back as soon as possible okay?" after she saw Regina nod, she smiled brightly and left the room.
When Regina could no longer hear the heavy steps of her sheriff she let out a breath. How had things changed in only matter of... hours? She suddenly realised she had no idea how long she had been there. She started to look around wishing to find her phone and as she hoped she found it in the bedside table.
It was very early in the morning, too early for anyone to be up unless they absolutely had to, so she had only slept through the night. She couldn't believe that only yesterday morning she had woken up next to Emma.
Opening her phone she was greeted with her lock screen background which was a family selfie with her two favorite people. It always made her smile and this morning was no exception. Her phone was filled with messaged and missed calls, most from Henry, some from her sister and equally many from Snow.
She decided to send each of them a message, at first a little bit unsure how to respond to their worry. After short deliberation, she decided to wish them good morning, like she would any other day. She assured each of them that she was alive and breathing and in absolutely no pain. Zelena was the one who she wrote a slightly longer message, giving her a quick update on her situation with Emma.
Only few minutes after putting down the phone Emma returned with doctor Whale trying desperately to keep up with her. He stopped at the end of her bed and checked her patient chart at the end of the bed. "Good morning Regina, how are you feeling?"
"I think Emma might have filled you in on that one." Regina smirked. She and Whale had put aside their differences ages ago, but she did enjoy giving the good doctor hard time whenever she had a chance.
Doctor Whale rolled his eyes and came closer. He felt on the back of Regina's head and told her to inform him whenever she started to feel any kind of pain. Doctor Whale's face morphed into the same confusion as Emma's had and he started to slowly peel away the gauze.
Emma had come to the other side of the bed and she laced her fingers with Regina's. Now the brunette was actually worried something was wrong, since she wasn't feeling any sort of pain.
"Ummm, Emma? Take a look at this." doctor Whale requested and puzzled Emma reached to look the back of Regina's head.
"What is it, what's wrong?" slight panic in Regina's tone was easy to detect and Emma jumped to calm her.
"So it seems like... There is nothing there." Emma tried to make sense out of the peculiar situation she was faced with.
"Nothing there? What does that even mean?!" Regina was now panicking hard core unable to even begin to understand what was happening.
"What she means, is that there is nothing on the back of your head. When you arrived here, you had a huge gash that was bleeding so much we had to give you extra blood to replace the amount you had lost. But not there is nothing there; no gash, not even a sign of anything happening. And I think that is the reason why you are feeling no pain." doctor Whale explained with his professional voice that he often used with patients to make them feel calmer.
But Regina was not feeling calmer, actually quite the opposite. It was hard for her to wrap her head around that because she had no idea what could have caused her miracle healing.
"What about her leg? Do you think the situation is same with that?" Emma asked with her green eyes blown wide.
"Only one way to find out. Regina I will have to take you to get scanned okay?" Whale was already paging a team to come and help him to move the bed.
"Can you come with me?" Regina had a slight waver in her voice that Emma picked on right away. She leaned down to look Regina in the eyes.
"You know I cannot come all the way, but I will walk with you as far as they'll allow me okay babe?"
The nickname warmed Regina's heart in completely new way and she was sure the love she felt for the other woman was shining brightly from her face. In no time she was rushed to get her leg scanned. Emma could only come through few hallways when Whale stopped her and told her to wait in the patient room.
Emma felt uneasiness unlike no other when she could no longer see Regina. After the kisses and the 'i love yous' it was difficult to not be by her side. She walked towards the patient room, deep in thought. What could be the cause of Regina's miracle healing? Obviously neither she or Zelena had used any magic. They would never do that without Regina's permission. But magic had to be the answer, right?
Before Emma could finish her thought a body collided into her own and wrapped her in a bone crushing hug. When she recovered from her initial shock, Emma realised her son was holding onto her for dear life.
"Kid? What are you doing here at this hour?" Emma pushed Henry back from his shoulders to look him in the eyes.
Henry was looking teary eyed back and when Emma loosened her hold a bit he snuggled right back to her. "Henry? What's going on?" Emma combed her fingers through Henry's hair to calm him down like she had seen Regina do a million times.
Small voice could be heard somewhere near Emma's ear. "I got a text from mom."
"Regina texted you? What did she say?" Emma whispered with her most calming tone.
"She told me she was okay, that she had woken up and she wasn't feeling any pain. I was so worried, Ma. I had to come and see her." Henry pulled back enough to answer his mothers question.
"Where are your grandparents? And your aunt?" Emma just now noticed that no one had followed Henry down the hall at any point.
Henry pulled completely away and cast his eyes guiltily at the floor. "I might have left without telling anyone..."
"Henry." Emma sighed. "We have to let them know. Imagine your grandmother waking up and realizing you are gone. Not to mention your aunt who will burn the entire Storybrooke to the ground in order to find you."
"I know I know. But..."
"But what?" Emma asked while typing a message for her parents and Zelena.
"Where is mom? I went to her room but she wasn't there. Did something happen?" the heartbreaking worry was so evident to see on Henry's face and Emma wanted nothing more than to reassure the boy that his mother was gonna be okay.
It hadn't really occurred to Emma that Henry had been in this situation with both of them before. No child should had to see their parent in the situation like this and the fact that Henry had needed to go through it several times, made Emma's heart ache. She was more often the buddy mother, who threw high fives and joined Henry in video games, so hugging each other constantly was not really something they did. But today, she couldn't help but to pull Henry into yet another hug.
"Your mother is... Okay. It's a complicated situation, but I know your mother is not in any kind of pain. They just took her to a scan to see how her leg is holding up." Emma explained.
"So she will be back soon?" Henry asked.
"Sooner than you know." Emma said and started to walk back towards Regina's patient room with her arm still wrapped tightly around Henry's shoulders.