Thanks for the lovely reviews! I am flattered! IIt is currently almost 2 a.m. where I am so I am posting this and reluctantly conceding for the night. Day off tomorrow so updates soon. I promise! Thanks for following and reviewing!
"So this has been going on for how long now?" Officer Ruby asked Emma.
"Honestly, since I met the crazy bitch but this, this is a whole other level." Emma sighed rubbing her temples.
Officer Ruby was particularly fond of animals, especially dogs and she was taking personal offense to this case. She wanted to see the horrible woman behind bars as soon as possible.
"You will need to submit your phone as evidence Ms Swan. Those messages show clear intent and that her actions were pre meditated." Ruby said with a satisfied smile on her face. It was rare to get such a clean cut pre meditated crime. Either this Lily was completely stupid or clinically insane.
Emma paused as she was about to hand over the phone. "I just need to write down a couple of numbers if that's ok."
"Of course. Please take as long as you need. We can give you a replacement phone while you're is in evidence. Just a minute I'll go fetch you one."
Emma sat in the police office relieved. She had been through hell with Lily over the last couple of months and officer Ruby had assured her that Lily would be behind bars until bail was set. However, Emma would also need to press charges for the other crimes her psychotic wife had committed in recent months and request a restraining order. Ruby also believed that Lily would need to be analysed by a shink to determine her mental faculties. Emma had questioned them herself over the years but she hadn't had such a normal life herself so Lily's shit had paled in comparison. Knowing that someone else, an officer of the law, also thought she was nuts just confirmed she was doing the right thing by walking away from this marriage.
"Here you go," Ruby said and handed Emma a Nokia 3210.
"Seriously?" Emma asked wiggling her eyebrows.
"Budgets, you know." Ruby shrugged.
"So, erm, how long until I can upgrade to erm, 1999 models?" Emma laughed.
"You should get your phone back in a few days. It will be copied and all the contents uploaded onto the system." Ruby explained with an apologetic smile.
"Ok. Cool but, erm, just so you know, I have no idea how those naked selfies got on there." Emma half joked, half hoped she had infact deleted them all.
"Only relevant content will be submitted into evidence, don't worry. Trust me, we are a lot worse than naked selfies." Ruby laughed and leaned in a little closer adding, " You wouldn't believe some of the messed up kink your average Joe's are into. Honestly, makes me see Granny types in a totally different light."
Emma visibly shuddered at the thought of what Ruby was referring to. She herself had encountered some weird shit on some of her PI cases.
She added the numbers she needed to the brick and made her way out of the station hoping that her precious Pongo was making a mends.
Regina was washing up after dinner and sipping an appletini. Henry had gone off early to bed. He was exhausted from the days events and so was Regina. She hung up the dish towel and downed the rest of her drink. All she wanted to do was relax in her jaccuzi tub and listen to some Simon Garfunkel. She had found an old record out front on the street on her way into the building and picked it up. She wasn't usually one for picking up discarded items off the street, but The Sound of Silence was one of her all time favorite songs and she was quite upset that someone would dispose of it in such an appalling manner.
While the tub was filling, she plugged in her old record player and placed the perfect, scratch free record on the turnstile. The sweet melody filled her bedroom and she left the door open of her ensuite so she could fully enjoy the music. Slipping out of her pencil skirt and shirt, she climbed into the tub and let the worries of the day fade from memory.
She was lost in the music and the smell of lavender when she felt an urge. She'd had them before but it had been so many years that it caught her off guard. She closed her eyes and tried to concentrate on the lyrics instead of the pulsing between her thighs. She slipped further into the tub but the jets only exasperated her need. She climbed out of the bath and dried herself quickly. She was a strong woman and didn't believe in giving into carnal urges for satisfaction. It would pass and she'd be fine. Regina climbed into bed and forced her mind to imagine the flame of a candle burning in the darkness. It was a meditation technique she had used since she was a young girl that helped her to quiet her mind and drift into a peaceful sleep and soon enough, she was.
Regina awoke the next day feeling flushed and frustrated. It was only six a.m. and her first meeting wasn't until nine so her alarm wasn't due to go off for another hour. Henry didn't have school either so she tossed about trying to get back to sleep. It was useless. She had been having sex dreams all night and not just any old dreams. No, these were starring her newest client, the lovely Emma Swan. Regina had never thought about a woman in that way and the explicit content of her night's escapades had troubled her and raised some questions. Obviously it had been too long since she last had a partner and her body and mind were playing tricks on her.
She finally gave in after 15 minutes of unsuccessfully trying to sleep and lazily reached down under the covers. Just this once, she would listen to her body and give it what it needed. She discovered, surprisingly, that she was completely slick. She mechanically went about satisfying herself with all the patience of a kid at Christmas, which is to say, zero. As she was trying to work out her issues, her phone buzzed and she almost screamed in frustration.
She didn't recognise the number but then again, she never stored any client's numbers in her phone. She was already annoyed that someone would dare to contact her at this hour and even more so due to her current state. She clicked open the message and read.
06:02 Hi Ms. Mills. Sorry to text so early. It's just i thought you should know that Lily is in jail. You said to keep you informed if she did anything else and
The message cut off and Regina was trying to remember who the hell Lily was in her hazy state when it buzzed again.
06:03she did. She tried to kill my dog and threw all my records out the window but mainly she trie
Again the message cut off and Regina remembered who Lily was and suddenly bolted up in the bed, waiting anxiously for the next message.
06:04 d to KILL MY DOG! WTF? Anyhoo he's fine, just a bit groggy from having his stomach pumped bu
Again the message ended. Regina hit the call button, not able to believe the messages she had read and impatient to know exactly what had happened.
"Yellow!" Emma answered chirpily.
"Emma, what happened? Why are your messages cutting off so abruptly and what happened!?" Regina repeated realizing that her message issue really was irrelevant considering the situation.
"Good morning Ms. Mills. Sorry, you didn't need to call I hope I didn't wake you." She said kicking herself for causing her lawyer to worry so early in the morning.
"It's fine, you didn't, I was, err, yeah, you didn't." Regina said but blushed as she realised that Emma Swan had indeed woken her up on more than one occasion that morning.
"Yeah, you know I have that superpower right? And it does work over the phone too." Emma was trying to lighten the mood because she really did feel bad about waking her lawyer up so early with her drama.
"Hmm, well I'm fully awake now so please, explain."
Emma told her all about the events that had taken place the previous night and Regina had not interrupted once. Just listening with her mouth open and trying to process the whole story. Emma must have been talking for at least ten minutes when she said,
"So yeah, he's ok now. I just got him back from the vet and we are going for breakfast, aren't we my lovely!" Emma was obviously directing the last part to Pongo but Regina didn't register and began to respond.
"Well, I would need to get dressed and make arrangements with my son but sure, I can do breakfast. What time and where were you thinking?"
Emma paused and silently giggled to herself. She didn't know what to say.
"Erm , well, yeaaah sure. Do you know Gio's?"
Regina paused too. She did know Gio's. She got her coffee there every morning as it was right in front of her apartment. "Gio's it is. I'll be there in fifteen. Ok. Goodbye Ms. Swan." And she hung up and raced to get dressed.