AN: I am so sorry if you all got updates... I haven't been getting notifications, so I took the chapter down. But here it is once more and I hope you enjoy!
Emma forgot her keys sitting on her office desk. After grabbing them and flipping her hair from her coat, she turned and headed for the main exit of the station. She only got to her office door when the clacking of stilettos stopped her. She folded her arms and leaned against the wall of her office facing the door, waiting for the other woman.
"Madam Mayor." Emma greeted when Regina was too surprised to find Emma waiting on her.
"Sheriff Swan…" Regina narrowed her brows, "What are you doing?"
Emma shrugged, "Waiting to see what I'm in trouble for now." She pushed from the wall and took a step, "I mean, I was about to leave to work on a case, but…" She looked at her watch, "I guess I can wait until you're done yelling."
Regina narrowed her brows, "Who said I was going to yell?"
Emma gave the woman an amused look, "The staccato of your stylish stilettos…"
The Mayor pursed her lips, "While your alliteration amuses me, I have something that I'd actually like to talk to you about, if you don't mind…"
Emma knit her brows and tilted her head, staring the Mayor down, "I'm intrigued…" She gestured for the brunette to follow her into her office. She shrugged out of her coat and threw it on her chair. She turned and popped up onto the front of the desk as Regina shut the door and sat in one of the chairs in front of Emma. The blonde tried to be patient, but there was like 30 seconds of silence and she couldn't handle it, "So, what do you want to talk about?"
"Yesterday at the diner you asked me if I was into women, into you…" The mayor stood and put her purse in her chair, then shrugged her coat off.
Emma was staring hard as the brunette shook out her hair, showing bare arms from the tight, sleeveless dress she was wearing. "Yeah…uh huh…" She knew her jaw was dropped a little and that there was nothing she could do about it.
"But that's absurd because I could never be into you, which begs the question…" She turned to the blonde and stared her down, "Are you projecting your own feelings? Are you into women? Into me? Do you want to hug me and love me and marry me?"
Emma froze. At first it was because she had been found out, but as she replayed the Mayor's words in her head, she realized, "I was right."
Regina knit her brows in question, "You were right? What about?"
A smiled grew on the Sheriff's face, "You're into women." When Regina said nothing and her eyes grew wide, Emma pointed at the woman, "You are so into women!"
"I beg your pardon?" The mayor tried to cover it up.
"You lerve them!" Emma clapped her hands together and smirked, "You. Like. Boobies."
"I do not!"
"Oh you know what? You're right! You love them! You love boobies."
"Sheriff Swan!" Regina yelled, startling the blonde into silence. She then strutted over to the sheriff so she was standing between the blonde's knees, invading her space, "Whether or not I like women is none of your business." Emma swallowed audibly, which caused Regina to smirk before continuing, "You may think that it's your business because you have some sort of… schoolgirl crush, but let me make it quite clear: My life, who's in it, who I'm interested in, what I'm interested in? None of it is your concern."
"I think knowing who my kid is and isn't around is my concern."
"And I think you know very well that I don't associate bedroom partners with my son."
"Are you incapable of love?" Emma paused and stared at the woman, still in her space, "Is that why you're pushing your attraction for me away? Because you think you might just want to love me and you can't?"
Regina shook her head, "Go to hell."
"Excuse me?"
"I said, 'Go to hell.' You have no right asking if I can love. I can love. I do love. I love Henry each and every damn day—"
"Love for a child and love for a partner are two completely different things." Emma scooted off the desk, causing her and Regina's bodies to touch, "And like I told you yesterday, I'm not that low a person. I know you love him and I know you're a good mom. My question wasn't regarding that. I was asking why you didn't think you could ever be attracted to me."
"You're stubborn—"
"Try 'stimulating.'"
Regina rolled her eyes at Emma's 'correction' and still refused to back off the blonde, "Annoying."
"'Adorable.'"
"You never listen when I speak to you."
"I do listen; I usually choose not to follow orders—"
"You don't follow orders."
"You're not my boss."
"I am."
"The town is my boss."
"The town listens to me and you should too."
"No."
"Why?!"
"Because you like it when I defy you. You think it's sexy that someone aside from Mr. Golden Jackass can say 'no' to you."
"I think it's irritating."
"You think it's arousing."
"No, I don't."
"Prove it."
Regina narrowed her eyes, "How?"
"Kiss me."
The mayor now rolled her eyes and finally pushed from the blonde, "Please."
"Seriously." Emma grasped Regina's wrist to silently ask her to listen, "Kiss me—really kiss me and tell me that you feel nothing afterwards… I'll back off, I'll tell you everything that goes on in my station."
Regina considered this for approximately 4 seconds before she turned back to the blonde, took her face and kissed her. Hard. Like 'you can do it all night long' hard. And Emma gave as good as she got.
After Regina pushed from her and turned completely from her, Emma pursed her lips knowingly, "Anything?"
The brunette turned back to the blonde and stared her down. Her eyes were narrowed, her brows were knit, and her lips were pursed. Finally, she charged the blonde, crashing into her and mashing their lips back together. She pushed the blonde back onto the desk and crawled on top of her.
Neither Emma nor Regina needed to admit their attraction for each other.
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A few weeks later, Emma was sitting in the diner with Regina cuddling her side drinking hot cocoa. Regina stood and kissed her before making her way to the restroom, and Ruby was quick to walk over.
"Is that what you did a few weeks ago when she got all angry and huffy and left?"
Emma waggled her brows, "I do what I can."