Chapter 27

It took about ten minutes for Belle to open the door to Rory's old apartment. She had yelled just a minute and then the sounds of running around and swearing could be heard.

Regina was behind Emma, and Lorelei was behind Regina. They figured it'd be better if Red and Belle saw Emma firstly. When Belle finally opened the door, the three women couldn't help but bust out laughing at the sight.

The small woman was completely disarrayed. Her hair was mostly in a ponytail, but not very well. Her makeup was rather smeared and her shirt (which was actually one of Lorelei's shirts) was on backwards. She stood, leaning heavily on the door frame and breathing heavily, eyes wide.

"Hey. Hi. What's up?" Belle asked, stammering slightly.

Emma licked her lips and cleared her throat, "ah, yeah we need to ask Red a favor… is she decent?"

Belle snorted a laugh and rolled her eyes, mumbling, "she most certainly is not decent…" Then she shook herself slightly and blushed bright red. "Ah, I mean… hang on."

She then slammed the door and locked it again. Regina sighed and shook her head, "this is going to take all day."

Emma was still giggling and shook her head too, "give them a minute."

Lorelei, ever the idiot, decided to add her opinion, "Red is a beast during wolfstime. She is like a non stop rough love making animal…" She glanced at Regina and her mouth snapped shut with a click of teeth.

Emma winced and moved to whisper in the sirens ear, "it's considered bad form to talk about your past lovers in front of your current one."

Lorelei nodded and stared down at her feet, Regina crossed her arms on her chest and rolled her eyes, "it's not like I didn't know that already. When they first started hooking up, I got almost hourly complaints of them banging in the most inappropriate locations during wolfstime."

Lorelei had the grace to blush a bit and Emma knocked on the door loudly again, "hey! Could you hurry up please?! There's about to be a domestic out here and I'm the fucking sheriff so I'd have to deal with it!"

Finally, Red opened the door and glared at them all in turn. She didn't look as spent as Belle had, only slightly mussed up. "What?"

Emma opened her mouth to speak, but Regina interrupted, "first of all, get out of our apartment. You have homes of your own. Secondly, we need you to do us a favor."

Red huffed a laugh and looked Regina up and down in shock, "are you seriously asking me for a favor? Really Regina?"

Lorelei stepped up, getting between the two as Regina ground her teeth. "Hey, let's remember we rushed to help you, okay? Seriously, we come in peace. I need your help."

Red crossed her arms and looked at Lorelei with a flat expression, "what do you need then? What do you need from me that Regina can't give you?"

"Done." Regina simply said before vanishing in a cloud of purple smoke.

Emma took a deep breath and tried to calm the situation, "Rubes, please just hear me out?" Red nodded and listened as Emma explained the whole situation. "So, I was hoping, you would remove the chain, with the sword, and also not kill her because I could use some help if anything crazy comes around?"

Belle was listening now, having crept closer as Emma spoke. "What do you think will come?"

Emma shrugged, "I have no idea. But, considering I killed a dragon and the evil queen is shaggin a siren and my fucking parents are Snow White and Prince Charming, probably anything could happen."

Red smiled at her and laughed lightly, "okay. I'll do it, but under one condition?" Emma nodded. "You keep Regina away from me… I mean, once I'm out of her apartment."

Lorelei nodded happily, "yeah, no problem. How many times did I keep her away from you all back in the day?"

Red glared at her, "you let her cast a fucking curse to swoop us all off to this place! She could've been killing us and you were just happy to let her!"

Lorelei winced, "okay, sure, let's bring up the one time I let her get you guys…"

Emma took the sword from the siren and handed it to Red. It instantly flared to life with bright silver runes dancing along the blade. Red swung it around a bit, feeling the familiar weight again. Then she gave Lorelei a devious smirk and said, "well? On your knees."

Belle shook her head and walked back in the apartment. Lorelei took a deep breath and finally, slowly got down on her knees, looking up at Red with a glare. Emma held the chain as far away from the woman's neck as she could without choking her and held her breath as Red slowly slid the blade under the chain. She held it there for a bit too long as she seemed to consider her options…

Finally with a muttered 'fuck it', she snapped the chain. Red and Emma were both thrown into the wall opposite the open door. They hit the floor together in a heap with Belle as they stared at the blinding silver light in front of the doorway.

"Can she handle this?!" Emma shouted.

Red shook her head, fear on her face, "no idea!"

The light grew in intensity as a low rumble filled the area. Just when Emma thought they were gonna be toast, a wave of purple smoke appeared and Regina lunged towards the silver supernova. Emma shielded her eyes and tried to see, but it was too bright.

Regina had felt the instant Lorelei's magic came back to her, her own magic went to war with the mark on her chest as it flared to bright silver light. The moment she had herself under control, she poofed to Lorelei. She saw Red, Emma and Belle trying to climb thru a wall, but she didn't think twice before jumping at her siren. The magic coming off of her was intense and it made Regina's skin feel like it was burning, but she knew the siren needed her touch.

She wrapped her burning arms around her and held on thru the pain. Immediately, as she touched her skin to Lorelei's, the light and heat started to ease downwards. When finally, the siren got herself under control, she caught Regina as she fell. She put her hand on her own name on the woman's chest and poured her love and magic in to it.

Regina opened her eyes to stare into the silver ones she had missed seeing. She smiled weakly and put her hand over the sirens on her chest. "Hi…"

Lorelei smiled brightly, "hi there. You feel better?"

Nodding slowly, Regina pressed herself closer to the other woman, "of course. You have that effect on me."

Lorelei smiled and the pair vanished in a flash of light, leaving the other three women to stare at the spot they had been in.

"Wow…" Red sighed out.

Belle frowned at her, "what?"

Red shook her head, a few tears escaping her eyes, "Regina… she didn't even hesitate. She just grabbed her…" She swallowed thickly, "I think I owe them an apology…"

Emma stood on shaky legs and looked at the woman, "for what?"

Red looked back up at her, "I've never seen that kind of love and loyalty… I wouldn't have done what Regina did…"

Belle took her hand and smiled at her, "I think that's a pretty healthy thing for you to admit."

Emma shook her head and started to leave, "yeah well, it looked like a load of suicide crazy shit, but yeah, love and loyalty too. Whatever."

….

Regina smiled as she snuggled in closer to her siren. She traced the shining silver runes on her body, memorizing all the new ones. Before she went to Wonderland, Regina knew them all. She hadn't bothered remembering the black tattoo versions, they weren't right to her. But now, now they were happily shining and she wanted to remember them.

She gently traced the woman's silver marked ears and asked quietly, "when did you get these?"

Lorelei was smiling at her, letting her explore and answering the questions. "Wonderland, not everything speaks the same language there. Every time I heard a new one, it took a few seconds to learn it completely. After two or three, I got the marks on my ears."

"So you can understand every language after you hear it a bit?"

"Yep."

"So, when I was learning Spanish and French here?"

"I learned it in minutes when it took you months." Lorelei said with a smile.

Regina huffed in annoyance, "well, we don't all have magic ears dear." She finally made her way down to the sirens throat. There was a thick silver line all the way around. "How did this happen?"

Lorelei sighed and looked around, as if digging up the memory, "the red queen. She's a total bitch, just so you know. She chased me and Jefferson all over that horror they call a home. Eventually, she caught us and had us beheaded."

"Your magic couldn't help you?" Regina sked, suddenly very much angry at whoever the red queen is.

"Not always. Wonderland sucks babe. Sometimes I could do anything, other times, I couldn't have lit a candle." She chuckled a bit, "sometimes, I'd go to light a candle and accidentally summon the bandersnatch."

Regina frowned, "I'm sorry you went there…"

Lorelei immediately had a stern face and held Regina's face to look her in the eyes, "no. Do not be sorry. It made me stronger and I got what I needed to force Riddledinkhumptydump to pull you out of Maleficents grip."

Regina bit her lip a little, trying not to look like she was hiding something. Lorelei caught on and after a few minutes of badgering, Regina told her everything that had happened at Mal's castle. She expected maybe anger or jealousy, but Lorelei just nodded, "I'm glad she could help you. You wouldn't let me in your head. Of course, I was still bangin Red…"

Regina poked her roughly in the ribs, making the siren grunt painfully, "bad form, asshole."

Nodding and rubbing her side, Lorelei smiled at her, "right. Forgot."

Regina smirked and quickly found her way on top of the other woman, straddling her hips and leaning down to talk against her lips, "I know something you won't forget…"

Lorelei shivered, not from the cold and ran her hands down Regina's back, landing on her ass and gripping suddenly, making the brunette groan in a delicious way, "show me."

….

Emma was considering calling Regina or Lorelei, checking on them, but she was distracted by a strange ship drifting into the harbor. She frowned as she examined it from the docks. It almost looked like a pirate ship, of all things…