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Graham was sitting at his desk, drawing a stick figure on a piece of paper. He looked up when he heard the tell tale click clack of Regina's stilettos. He immediately crumbled the paper with his right fist and instead opened the file that was lying on the right corner of his desk.
"Madame Mayor. What a surprise." He said with a smile as he laid the file back down on his desk. "What can I help you with?"
Regina shot him a knowing smile as she sat down on the chair by his desk. "I wanted to know if there's any news in the case."
"Actually there is." Graham nodded as he reached for another yellow file. "I've investigated the scene and it seemed like it was a leaking gaspipe that the construction workers must have hit while they were renovating. There wasn't much gas but it was still enough to set off a small explosion just by simply turning on the lights."
Regina sighed in relief as she crossed her legs. "So no intend? It was just an accident?"
"Yep."
"Great. The last thing I needed was a psycho on my back." Regina said sarcastically as she stood up again with the grace a 'normal' pregnant woman couldn't have.
Graham chuckled as he stood up also. "Yes, well I can assure you, there are no assassins out to get you here in Storybrooke."
Regina raised her eyebrows in question. "Here in Storybrooke?" She said with a smug smile.
"Oh, you know what I mean, Regina."
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Emma dropped herself down in the booth with a grunt. Last night had been terrible. She hadn't slept, like at all. She leaned her elbows on the table and let her head fall in her hands. She was just so goddamn tired, but she needed to find an appartment. Preferably today seeing that she was already staying at Granny's for more then a week and they were just not that cheap. Maybe Ruby knows something...
"Ruby?" Emma asked as she made eyecontact with the young brunette who was standing behind the bar, drying off a glass.
Ruby smiled as she came walking towards Emma's table. "What can I do for you, Emma?" She asked as she sat down in the booth too, facing the blonde.
"Ehm, I was wondering if you maybe know an appartment that I can rent around here?"
Ruby looked up in thought but then shook her head. "No, not really. We're a small town so there are no appartment complexes or something around here."
"Great." Emma sighed in defeat. How am I going to solve this problem?
"Sorry, Em. Maybe a free coffee to ease your dissapointment?" Ruby asked with a small smile.
Emma chuckled. "Yeah that would be great."
Ruby stood up again and walked over to the bar to make the coffee. Emma buried her head in her hands again. This was really going bad. She needed a goddamn appartment because living here any longer was going to make her go broke.
"Ehm, I'm sorry, I'm Mary Margaret and I couldn't help but overhear your conversation."
A soft and girly voice broke Emma from her thoughts and she looked up again. There was a small woman with dark pixie cut hair standing in front of her. Before Emma could speak up, the woman sat down and started talking again. "I may be able to help. I have an appartment and there is a spare room, so if you want it, it's yours."
Emma narrowed her eyes, trying to find some sort off creepy undertone, but she found none. The woman in front of her seemed nice and maternal.
"I also ask no rent." The petit woman smiled.
"Are you sure you want me as a roommate?" Emma asked skeptically. "You don't even know me, maybe I'm some sort of psycho or something."
"I doubt that, Emma." Mary Margaret chuckled softly when Emma's eyebrows shot up in surprise. "Rumors of someone new in town spread very fast in such a small community. But anyway, I'm pretty sure you're not a psycho so if you want the room, it's yours." The brunette stood up and smiled again. "Think about it."
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~ Four weeks ago ~
"Regina, honey?" Katherine asked carefully. She was standing in front of the closed door that let to the study. It had been two weeks since Peter had died and Katherine was worried about her friend. Regina hadn't cried since the hospital. Which was strange. It was almost like the brunette was just a hollow shell when Henry wasn't near her. The only time Katherine could recognize her was when she was with Henry. "Are you alright?" She asked but was met by silence once again.
"Regina?" She tried again but there was still no answer. "I'm coming in, alright?" She slowly pushed down the door handle and opened the dark wooden door.
Katherine knew there was a lot to expect when it came to Regina Mills. But this was certainly not something Katherine could've come up with. The brunette was sitting on the floor, surrounded by small trinkets and papers that Katherine could easily assume were Peter's. There was a look of fury on Regina's face, though her cheeks were wet with tears. One thing in particular caught the blonde's attention. There was a small piece of paper that looked like some sort of receipt, that was tightly crumbled in Regina's shaking fist.
"Regina, honey? What happened?" Katherine asked softly as she slowly moved towards the upset woman. Once she had reached Regina she dropped down on her knees and faced the brunette. "Honey?" Katherine slowly reached out and softly stroked Regina's knee in a form of comfort. "Can you tell me what's wrong."
Regina blinked as she seemed to snap out of her angry trance, she looked down at her clenching fists and her eyebrows furrowed in a mix of pain and anger. "He cheated!" She growled.
Katherine's blue eyes widened in surprise when she registered Regina's words. "How do you know that darling?"
Regina held out the receipt and then slowly gripped the chair to push herself off the ground. "The bastard cheated on me!" Regina yelled as more tears gathered in the corners of her eyes only to roll down her cheeks not even a second later.
Katherine looked down at the receipt. It was from some sort of restaurant in Boston and it was for two people. "Maybe he was just with someone from his business? This doesn't have to mean he cheated on you, Regina."
"I thought that too at first, but then I found something on his cellphone." Regina sighed softly as she wiped the tears from her cheeks. It had been hard to search his cellphone seeing that her and Peter's relationship had always been based on trust. But she just had to know if the trust she had always placed in him was being abused.
Turns out it had been.
"There were some pictures... and texts." Regina said as she looked at Peter's phone that was lying on her desk. "I cannot believe he did that to me! I am pregnant with his child! How can he do this to me, Katherine?!"
"Oh honey." Katherine said softly as she stood up and moved to Regina to pull the brunette in a hug. "I don't know why he did it, but I do know it wasn't about you."
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~ Present ~
"Ah, miss Swan, enjoying the view before you're leaving?" Regina asked with a smirk as she sat down on the bench next to the blonde.
Emma didn't even needed to look to know who it was, so she kept staring out over the ocean. "Madame Mayor, you know quite well that I'm not leaving any time soon. So the question is, why are you here?"
"Oh we'll see about that miss Swan. You see." Regina said with her winning smile when Emma finally turned her head to look at her. "I always get what I want."
Emma couldn't help but stare at the brunette's lips for just a moment. She knew that what she was doing was wrong. For gods sake, she was supposed to hate the woman, or at least be severely angry with her. But the thing is, Emma wasn't. Sure she was annoyed with the brunette for toying with her every chance she got, but there was also some sort of attraction between them. And by the way Regina was sometimes staring at her, Emma knew she could feel it too.
Regina caught the way Emma stare lingered at her lips and she couldn't help but shoot the blonde a knowing smile. Who then in her turn blushed slightly, but her face remained as cocky as always.
Game on...
"What is it, Miss Swan? See something you like?" Regina asked as she raised one perfectly manicured eyebrow and purposely bit her bottom lip, exposing her pearly white teeth.
Emma eyes quickly shot up as she mentally groaned. So Regina had noticed? Another thing the brunette could pester her about. Dammit. But if there is one thing about Emma, it's that she hated loosing.
Two can play this game.
"Actually, I do. Madame Mayor."The cocky grin was back up when Emma said the words.
Regina's smile faltered slightly. This was certainly not something she had expected. She had expected Emma to be so ashamed of being caught that she would've stepped into her car and driven off.
But of course, this is Emma Swan we're talking about.
"Well, it was a pleasure as always, miss Swan. But I'm afraid I have to go."
Emma grinned as she watched the brunette push herself off the bench with grace. "Oh, it sure was a pleasure Madame Mayor."
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