"I love Regina" Emma repeats for the second time. She glances around the table to everyone who is silent. I look around as well. Hook looks annoyed, David looks pissed, Snow looks like she's about to cry, Henry looks...I can't really read his expression that well, I don't know if he's happy or sad about our relationship. I look towards Emma once I feel her hand touching mine.
"Regina, I love you" She say to me. I smile at her and link our fingers together, I'm about to say something before I hear Snow shout.
"No Emma, this isn't right, what are you doing?" She asks Emma.
"Wha-" Emma starts but Snow cuts her off soon after.
"Regina's...she's a girl Emma, she can't possibly be your true love. Not only that, but she's...the dark one" Snow states, whispering the last part. I can't help but roll my eyes.
"Mom, I'm an adult. I can love who I want, I don't care that Regina's a woman as well. When I fell in love with her, I didn't take her gender into account, I just knew that she was the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, I love when she's around me, I love when-" Emma rambles on, but once again, Snow interrupts her.
"Emma, if the fact that Regina is a woman doesn't bother you, or the fact that she's the dark one...also doesn't bother you, need I remind you that Regina is over twice your age, and technically, she's your step Grandmother" She argues with Emma and David nods alone.
Hook immediately picks up when Snow stops speaking. "Swan is just doing this because she's jealous that I've moved on. I bet if I hadn't announced that I was with Mich- Beth, she and Regina wouldn't have started this ridiculous mess" He states as he shook his head.
"Oh, thank God" Snow sighs and places her hand over her heart while leaning back in her seat. I'm livid at this blank disrespect directed towards myself and Emma.
"This isn't some trick, this is serious. Regina's my girlfriend" I hear Emma say.
"No" States Snow. "Emma, I'm your mother, and I don't care if this is a joke, it's not funny...and...I'm not going to allow this" Snow shakes her head.
Emma gasps. "You can't...do that...you can't tell me who I can and can not date Mom!" Emma's yelling at her mother now.
"Emma!" David scolds. "Don't yell at your mother, I know everyone is upset, but...let's just calm down" He says holding his hands out.
"Enough" I yell. This is clearly not working. "Emma, is an adult, no one is making decisions for her" I state, feeling the need to back Emma up. 'Except me' I add in my head.
"You stay out of this Regina, I think you've done enough" The pirate say.
He rolls his eyes, and it's unbecoming of a man to do that. I can't help but roll mine. "Why are you even here. Leave" I tell him. He needs to leave. I can feel the darkness surfacing again, and I don't want to kill him here, I don't want the darkness to win.
"Are you going to let her speak to me like that Swan?" He questions Emma glaring at her.
"Emma, don't answer him, don't even acknowledge him anymore" I tell her, while glaring at him.
"She doesn't have to listen to you" Hook say. "You're the reason Emma and I didn't work out, aren't you? It's always, Regina this, Regina that. I'm so sick of it" He yells at me.
"Hook, I'm warning you" I growl. I feel Emma slide closer to me and place her arm around my waist. She knows I'm becoming upset, well, that I am upset, I don't know how much longer I can go without hurting someone.
"Swan!" He yells at Emma.
That's it. I stand up. "Henry, your mother and I will talk to you more about this later. Will you like to stay with your grandparents tonight, or come home with me?" I ask him.
He just looks at me for a moment before quietly responding. "Um...I think that I will go with them and play with Neal" He states.
"Very well" I state. "I love you, have fun" I give him a quick hug goodbye. "Emma, let's go" I turn away from the table and heads towards the door.
"But Regina, I-" Emma starts. She stops when I turn around and look down at her. She's still sitting in her seat. I ignore the glares that are being sent my way. After I see her swallow and break eye contact with me, I turn and head for the door, Now that I know she will follow me, I can take my leave.
I'm proven right when I place my hand on the diner door, I hear Snow behind me telling Emma that she doesn't have to listen to me. I smirk, she just lost. It's not even about hurting her, it's about Emma's happiness, and Emma's happy with me.
I wait for Emma outside the door. When it's shut, I glare at her. "Emma, why didn't you come with me when I told you to?" I question her accusingly.
"Regina, what's your problem? I'm here now. I just...I wanted to convince my mom that we make a good couple, I wanted to know what Henry thought about us being together" She rapidly explain.
Just like before the darkness consumed me, I feel my rage growing because Emma didn't do what I said when I said it. Now, I'm pretty sure I'm glowing with it. Without thinking I grab her arm tightly and pull her closer to me. "Emma, please listen to me next time, I told you let's go, now lets go"
"Regina. No" She states.
I stare at her with widened eyes. Did she just tell me No, again. I let her go and begin walking to my car, I know that she will follow me. She always does. I'm pissed off right now. She makes it to the passengers side when I crank up the car. She doesn't say a word, I don't say a word.
It's like that the whole ride back to the manor. I pull into the drive way, get out and make my way up to the door. I unlock the door and allow Emma in first. She immediately runs up the stairs to my bed room.
I decide to give her a moment, I need to calm down before I face her. I don't want to hurt her, my rage is to great, the darkness is awakened inside of me. An hour later, about 4 apple ciders later, I slowly make my way up the stairs, I find her in my bed. She's just laying there, but I know she's not asleep. When I sit down on the bed next to her and turn the lamp on, she sits up and turns to look at me.
"Regina" She states.
"Emma" I sigh.
She moves closer to me so that her body is right behind mines. A feel her head softly resting on my shoulder. "Are you alright now?" She questions. She knows sometimes I need my space, I need a moment to just calm down. Just another reason why I can't let her go, why I love her, why I need her, she's the only one who understands me, as Regina, and as the dark one.
"I'm fine dear, I didn't mean to-" I start but she interrupts me.
"Be a bitch" She mutters as she runs her fingers through my hair. She knows I love that, how can I even be angry that she called me a bitch when she's massaging my scalp. I moan from the sensation. Then laugh.
"Fair enough, it's just that, your mother, and that pirate, sometimes, I just...want to rip their hearts out, and just squeeze them until they fall to the ground looking up at me as they take their last-"
"Shhhhh" Emma interrupts again. Her lips finds their way to my neck and her hands move down reaching into my shirt. "Now, I don't really care about Hook, but could you please try to re-frame from killing my mother...I kind of like her" Emma nips at my earlobe .
"Fine..." I mutter. "I just wanted to...apologize for earlier" I say to her.
"You don't have to Regina, I know that wasn't you, it was the darkness, I'm sorry you have to go through this" Emma tells me. "If I was there, when it happened, I wouldn't have let you be consumed by darkness, you don't deserve it, you've work to hard to be happy Regina" Emma tells me, she's just leaning on my shoulder now. I've heard this speech many times before.
"But you don't understand Emma, I am happy, I have you" I explain. I take her her hand in mine and pull her so that she is sitting beside me, and not behind me. I glance down at our hands and notice a purple bruise on her arm. "Does it hurt?" I question her. I know how it got there, I don't even have to ask. It's when I pulled her roughly at the diner, she bruises so easily.
"Yeah" She states honestly. "Only when I move my arm a certain way" She adds before running her hand over her arm and a flow of white light flows out of her hand to her arm causing the bruise to disappear completely. "See, brand new" She states with a smile.
I can't help but smile back. "I didn't get to tell you at the diner Emma, but I love you too"
"Oh do you?" Emma questioned. "Show me" She challenges me "Show you're girlfriend just how much you love her"