Thanks to your-arms-around-me for beta.
As I promised you, MG, the last part is longer and your prompt is in it. Enjoy! Mwah!
And that is the last thing Emma remembers before waking up. She opened her eyes slowly to adjust the sunlight. There was something different. She looked over to where Regina was and saw her wife's big back. Big. Like bigger than her. She looked up and noticed that the pillows where bigger than her too.
"What the hell?" She thought and was surprised not to hear her voice but a meow.
She looked to the right and saw the clock...big. That...Nope. She couldn't have turned herself into a cat. Hell to the no.
But she did. She was a cat according to her eyes that saw her furry paws.
"I have so much hair. Gone is my shinny pale skin. Oh my...I'm all hair. No. My life just ended. Oh, my God. Fuck my magic," Emma thought disgust by the reality.
Yeah...That was...Just nope. Why she had turned herself? She could never just think of something and to expect it to happen. That wasn't how her magic worked. Magic is emotion. Wait...Hold up. She was turn on to almost impossible level and that was emotion.
"Oh, yeah. I get it now."
She stood up and spent few moments doing all sort of movements with her new body. Jumping, twisting, stretching and all she could think of just to get a sense of her new body. Which sucks, she concluded.
The small kitten walked on the pillows struggling up and down the free space that separated them. Panting it reached its destination. It reached out with its right front paw and pocked Regina's nose. And the again until the woman steered and covered her face to avoid the sunlight.
The inevitable "Fuck," came out of her mouth.
"At least that was right in this world."
Yeah. This is how she remembered the unfortunate night when she turned herself into a kitten. And now she was lying on the floor in the foyer. She got up and walked over the kitchen. She looked around scanning the place for troubles. She found several.
The kitten reached a big bowl just under the kitchen table. It raised itself on its back paws and saw milk in it. "I love milk," Emma thought and jump into the bowl without problem. "These legs are made for jumping."
But the thing she didn't consider was that it was liquid. Once her body was in a lot of the milk was out. She started to laugh internally but then she froze. "Shit, Regina is going to kill me for that mess after she'll kill me for turning myself into a kitten and not being there for her to hold her panties during her pee for the pregnancy test."
She decided that is best for her to get the hell out of there and stop causing any more trouble to her pregnant wife. Easier said than done. She couldn't get out of the bowl. It was too high and the milk wasn't helping at all. All she managed to do was splashing more of the white liquid out of the bowl.
Emma heard the door open and sighed because Regina would find her.
True but the boots weren't Regina's. They were red kneeled-high combined with short skirt. "Ruby," Emma thought.
"Yes, Emma. It's me. Where are you?" The brunette spun oh her heels searching for the kitten.
"Fuck, she can hear me."
"Of course I can hear you. I'm half-animal."
"Okay. Under the table."
Red squatted and saw the kitten for the first time...in a bowl of milk. "Aw, you are cute kitten," she squealed.
"Yeah...Thanks. Would you be so kind to stop stare at me and get me out of here."
"Um...Sorry. I just...It's almost that time of the month for me and I'm horny as fuck and I tend to get weird around animals." The woman explained the best way she could if her aroused state.
Emma saw it in her eyes that were dilated. She sensed it with her magic.
"Define 'weird'."
"Well...Usually during that time of the month we, the shape shifters, mate," she said and grabbed the animal tenderly.
It was soaked with milk. Sweat milk at that. Regina, apparently, is at the top of her game.
"Mate...Like in..."
"Searching for someone to bang, Emma," Red answered irritated by her friend's dumbness. She took the kitten and put in the sink. "Close your eyes and don't breathe. You are taking a bath."
"No," Emma screamed and bolted out of the sink.
The flight was awesome. Even her landing was perfect this time. The only problem that stopped her from running for the hills was the wooden fucking floor. It was slippery.
Emma slid and slid until she hit the wall near the kitchen door.
"Great. Why I can't magic myself back? Okay. Let's try again. Magic is emotion, right? I love Regina. Yeah, the love...Why the fuck it is not working. Come on."
She pushed and pushed but nothing happens.
"You can't do magic when you are a kitten. You have to be in human form to do it," Ruby's voice reached her ears.
"Oh, I forgot. Sorry."
"No need," the brunette said and kneeled next to the animal to pet it. "You know it's kind of racist."
"What?"
"Not being able to use magic in animal form."
"Yeah. I second that, Ruby."
The two of them went silent for a while.
"You have to have a bath. You are sticky," Ruby broke the silence.
"Can you carry me to the bathroom? It takes too much time with this body."
"Sure." The woman picked the kitten and headed to the second floor. "How did you manage to turn yourself into a little cat by the way?"
Emma found that she hate Ruby now. Because the reason why is...Dumb.
"Because last night after I played with Regina for almost two hours she was so exhausted that she just turned her back on me leaving me aroused to no end. And when I nudged her she said that I am flexible as cat so I can lick myself. And yeah..."
"So you turned because you had a ladyboner?" Ruby's laugh echoed through the house. She even stopped and leaned on the wall to support herself.
"You know...magic is emotion..."
"Turned herself...into a kitten...cuz she had a boner. That is...Only the Savior could do it." Ruby couldn't stop teasing her friend.
To say the bath was unpleasant was understatement.
Ruby put the animal in the sink and turned on the water. But Emma didn't just stand there like a good cat and enjoy the feeling of not being sticky anymore. Nope. On the contrary, she fudged, jumped and tried to crawl her way out of the sink but without successes. Damn Regina's obsession with huge sink. Who, in their right mind, would want so big sink in their bathroom. Well. Easy answer – the Evil Queen. Who else?
So Emma tried and tried and curse and cursed until...
"Dammit, Swan, you have mind of a sailor. Stop it. I curse too but this is too much," Ruby yelled at the kitten who was so shocked it froze in the middle of the sink and looked up the human with its little green eyes that sparkled with purple.
"Calm down your magic. It's affecting me in a sexual manner. I hate my period. Dammit. It's awful. It's a nightmare. I'm aroused by my best friend who is a little innocent furry kitten...wet kitty. No." The woman shook her head. "Don't you fucking start complaining who hard is for you to live in this small body. Because living in big one ain't fun either."
"I think Regina set us up," Emma said to her friend.
"Oh, you think?" Ruby shot the kitten a mocking glare with her eyebrows raised. She had it figure out since the bowl thing from earlier.
"Yes, I do."
"Very clever, Swan."
Silence fall over the two friends.
"Um, Ruby, could you...Like...Um...Get me out of the water. It's itchy."
"Oh, right. Sorry." Ruby was too invested in trying to control her urges that she had forgotten about Emma.
She took out the animal and wrapped the tiny body in a towel to dry it out. Seconds later the fur was dry. Emma felt good again.
"Why you came here?"
"Regina came into the dinner and told me what happened. Well, she told me that she woke up to a kitten instead of her wife. She got all worried and started to puke. But she knew it was because she was pregnant not of you not being there in the morning. So..." Ruby looked at the kitten with raised brows. "The Savior scored."
"Ha. Yeah, I did. What a score it was. I was soo sore the next morning."
"It was worth it."
"It's always worth with Regina. Every single thing is worth it with her."
"She said she was afraid of you not being there. It was just a damn test but still she needed you."
"I know why that is." Emma said and Ruby threw her a puzzled look. "Ever since the curse and even more so after we were out with our relationship she is afraid of change. She is afraid of me getting scared and running off. She thinks that something might be too pushy for me. Regina thinks I'm some kind of glass that can be broken very easy."
"Because she has lost too much for a life time," Ruby added.
"She has lost too much for two life times. But the thing she can't get it that I am scared as fuck too. I just..." Emma stopped searching for the right way to continue.
"You stay strong." Ruby found it first. "For her."
"Someone needs and I don't mind. I like being the stronger for someone else. I like taking care of her."
"Yeah. Okay. Enough deep talk. How do you plan on turning back?" Ruby changed the subject.
"I wanted to tell her to turn me back but apparently I can't talk to her in this state. Only with you and Snow."
"Your mom reads your mind?" Ruby almost screamed.
"I know. Scary as fuck."
"You want me to tell her?" The brunette offered her services.
"I...I don't know."
"Why?"
"I'm scared that I will fail."
"As a parent? Don't you think she thinks the same? Are you sure she is not on the same page?"
"Yeah, I know but..." Emma started to walk in circle. She hoped this would help her decide. Is she going to be good at parenting? Is she strong enough to be the support during the pregnancy?
"Everyone has doubts, Swan. It's perfectly normal." Brown eyes followed the kitten with admiration and love. Thank God it didn't see it.
"Remember when you doubted being able to date Regina?" The woman wanted to cheer her up.
"Yeah?" The animal stopped all movements and looked over to the brunette sitting on the bed.
"What did you do? You followed your heart because it was screaming at you that this is right."
"I know. But there is no heart to follow here."
"Why? You don't want the child?" The woman asked and the hurt in her voice didn't go unnoticed by Emma.
"No-o. I want it. How could you even think that, Ruby? It's just that...What if I can't always be there for her?"
"You are always there for her. Ever since the curse broke, you've been next to her, never leaving her side. You were the one walking down Main Street yelling at people, 'I know her. I believe her.' You are the one that brought her magic here just by touching her. You have always been her rock."
Emma blinked rapidly. My rock is what Regina called her every time one of them was crying in the other's arms.
"Yeah. You are right. The rock can't turn into something else. It's the strongest."
"Indeed."
Emma shook her head.
Silence filled the air in the room.
The woman was wondering whether she had given herself away. She hoped that Emma didn't sense or notice anything.
The kitten on the other hand wanted to ponder over Ruby's words but remembered that she could read them. So the animal did what it had to do. Run out of the bedroom.
"Emma," was heard from behind but the kitten run through the hallway and got into the small guest room. It looked around and hid itself in the closet.
"No heel clicking sound. I'm good until I hear it." Emma thought and sighed. "What was with the words? Only Regina and I know about the rock thing and then 'indeed'. Something's off here. Is Regina so mad at me that she's making Ruby say these things to me? Or is she Ruby?"
Click. Click.
"Shit. She found me."
"Of course. I have wolf senses." Ruby's voice reached her.
The woman walked into the closet and patted the animal.
"Why are you here?"
"Because...Regina told me to...come here and keep you busy." Ruby answered with shaky voice surprised at the suspicion in the kitten's thoughts.
"Where is Regina?" Emma insisted.
"At the hospital."
"Why?" Emma wasn't buying Ruby's words.
"She told me not to tell you."
"A little bullshitty explanation, don't you think."
"And what do you think is the real one?" Ruby challenged.
"I think..." Emma stepped out of the closet following the woman who took few steps backwards. "For one, you were so mad at me for not being with you when you peed over the pregnancy test that you turned yourself into Ruby. And two, this is the only way you can communicate with me, Regina."
The animal tilted its head to the right.
"And what proof do you have of this theory, Emma?" A quick smirk appeared on the woman's face before she caught herself and put her lips in a thin line.
A beat. Two.
"I know you."
"Yes, you do know me, Emma." The woman admitted with sadness in her voice and exited the room.
The kitten followed with a worry speeding her heart beat.
"Regina, talk to me, please."
"I..." The brunette turned to face the animal when she entered the bedroom. She looked down at the small figure before her. Damn, all she wanted was a hug. And then a kiss. And then something else if it was not too selfish. Was it too much to ask?
"I can't read your thoughts. You can."
"Because I turned into Ruby. After Snow's visit I remember that Ruby can also read animals' minds."
"If you wanted to talk to me you could turn me back," Emma tried to calm her wife who was pacing back and forth in front of the bed. Although it was hard with her tiny body. She missed the facial expressions and body heat that did wonders in calming down her wife.
"How could I do that when I didn't know how you turned yourself? I had to turn myself into Ruby so I could ask you why." Regina, in waitress's body looked like a lost puppy that did things that were not okay in its mind. Because she hated shifting. It was a trademark in Cora's manipulations and it was something she didn't want to be reminded of.
"I know that turning me into human again requires the counter spell. I told you how I turned. Now, please turn me back." Emma started to sound whiny in her mind. She didn't like it.
Regina stopped herself and looked at the kitten at her feet. She sat on the floor, leaned her back on the bed and took the animal in her lap to caress it.
"I kind of like you in this form." She murmured.
"Well, I don't like myself. Turn me back because I am itchy to do something from this morning."
"And what is that?"
The animal stared at the woman for a while.
"I wanna hug you."
"Really?" Regina asked almost not believing. It's not that she didn't believe her wife. It's just...Never mind. She pushed that thought away.
Emma saw the hesitation in brown eyes. "What is it?"
Those green eyes will be the death me, Regina thought. The way they entered her very soul and put her mind at ease. Save haven are the blonde's arms and Regina wanted her wife back too. Probably more than Emma.
"Um..." She bit her lower lip. "I'm still amazed at how much you care for me. That's all."
"You deserve it."
"Thank you." Regina took a deep breath.
The animal released itself from her hands and ran into the bathroom.
"What are you going?" The woman called after the little animal.
"I have to pee. How do I pee in this? Turn me back right now." Emma pleaded.
"No," Regina refused in her Queen's voice. Low and seductive. She entered the bathroom and leaned on the door frame.
The kitten was circling around the toilet.
"Regina." Emma yelled in her thoughts.
"No."
"Please."
"No."
"I love you."
"I love you too."
"Don't change the subject."
"You changed it."
"Why are you stubborn?"
"I want to see you squirm for the last time." Regina stated with a smirk on her face...Ruby's face.
"Dammit, woman." The kitten turned around and eyed her wife. "I'm going..."
"Yes, dear?" The woman challenged.
"I'm gonna pee in your closet."
"Don't you dare." The raised a finger at the animal.
"Watch me."
And with that the animal bolted out of the bathroom and headed to the closet followed closely by Regina.
"Don't dare do that, Emma Swan-Mills."
The kitten disappeared in the big walking closet.
"One week of you sleeping on the couch for every minute you stay there," the woman said from the doorstep.
Silence.
What if she really did it? What if she peed on her clothes? Emma is not suicidal. Right? Of course not. Regina kicked that thought away. She sighed deeply and stepped into the closet with caution.
"Here, Kitty-Kitty. Come here, you little kitten." Regina lowered herself down and started looking around to find the furry animal. No sign of it. "Here, Kitty-Kitty." She reached out with her hands behind her knee-high boots. No kitten there.
She kneeled and folded her arms in her lap.
"It's not fun anymore, Emma." Regina shook her head. She sounded so whiny. God, how much she has changed since she fell for this woman.
"I know." She heard Emma's thoughts from deep into the closet.
"Then get out," the woman spoke with soft voice as her hormones started to rage inside of her. She was sad again. These mood changes are the worst.
A tender pat on her knee pulled her out of her thoughts. The kitten was in front of her caressing her.
"Let's go back to turning back to our bodies?" Even in her thoughts Emma sounded loving.
"With pleasure," the woman said with a smile on her face.
The woman stood up and placed the kitten next to her. She waved her hand and purple smoke enveloped Ruby's body. When the cloud cleared Regina appeared. She took a deep breath and looked at her body, happy that it was back. Her hands roamed over every inch teasing not just herself but her wife as well.
"Hate to break the self-loving moment but what about me?" Emma was getting more impatient and aroused by the second.
"Okay. But you have to promise me something." Regina looked down at the kitten.
"Anything." The answer came out too quickly and she regretted it.
"You will buy me a kitten." Came from the former Queen.
"That's it?" She had expected something very dangerous for her health. Definitely not cat.
"No."
"Figured."
"I want a big kitten." Regina separated her hand showing how big exactly. "This big so you can play with it."
She arched eyebrow and smirked.
"Whyyy? What are you gonna do?"
"I'm having a child if you must know."
"You want me to buy you a kitten so I can play with it?"
"I forget how slow you are sometimes. Yes. You are going to take care of Henry and the cat. That should keep you busy enough. I don't want you on my tail 24/7 during the pregnancy and after the birth." Regina explained calmly. Well, let's be honest, it was more like stating a fact.
"No. I am taking care of you." Emma couldn't agree to this crazy idea.
"Then you are staying a kitten until further notice." The Evil Queen's voice filled the space as the woman stormed out room putting extra swag. The good old Queen habits weren't completely gone.
"No, no, no. Regina, please. I'll buy you a cat just turn me back. I don't want this body. Please..."
Regina stopped abruptly and waved her hand backwards.
The kitten was enveloped in purple smoke and seconds later Emma was back in the middle of the bedroom.
"Holy fuck, I've missed you." The blonde squealed from happiness.
Regina spun on her heels expecting her wife to throw herself on her. And she did.
Emma launched her body so quickly that she almost knocked down the other woman. She wrapped her pale arms around her wife's waist and buried her face in the brunette's neck.
"Iloveyou," she mumbled against the skin as Regina hugged her back.
"I love you, too."
Emma pulled away slightly, separating their upper bodies. "We are gonna have a baby," she said with the goofiest grin on her face looking at brown eyes.
"We are," Regina chuckled at her wife's expression.
Emma kneeled before her wife and pulled her shirt out of the skirt. She placed several kisses under the belly and then looked up. "Our baby." She sounded, looked, and felt like the luckiest woman on the Earth.
"Our baby." Regina sounded, looked and felt the same.
So this is it. The end of this amazing story. Many kisses and hugs for every one of you who followed, favorite and reviewed the story. I love you and I would finish this without your support.
One last question: should I start a new story with these two and the kitten that Emma promised?