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Hello again! This update is simple, when planning ideas I immediately came up with one to continue on from two of my other one-shots from the last Swan Queen week. As a result you get more Emma and Regina vampire!AU. So, this can be read as a standalone or you can go and read them too if you're curious (chapters 5 & 7 of my AU sqw contribution). I will warn you though, this is obviously based off of another show so if you wanna watch it there's spoilers in this one. Anyway, enjoy it!

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Day 6 / Act of True Love

"Arghhh!"

Belle raised an eyebrow at Emma's howl of pain, tong in gloved hand holding up a large jagged piece of broken glass she'd just pulled from Emma's leg.

"Careful Belle!"

"Sorry." She replied sarcastically, dropping the piece of glass into the metal pan beside her. "Most of my customers don't complain." It was true, she worked in a morgue, dead people were her speciality.

"Just hurry up I gotta get out of here."

"I'm doing the best I can here. You should be in the hospital." The vampire frowned, sighing as she started to put the first stitch in.

"I already lost two hours when I was unconscious."

"Look, seriously Emma, you're a mess. No wonder Whale thought you were dead."

"Ugh, damn it!" She grunted in pain, Belle starting to stitch up the large wound on her left thigh. "I can't believe I didn't know that guy was a vampire. I should have sensed it the minute he walked in the room!"

Belle looked up at her as she pulled the stitch tight. "Disadvantage of being a human."

"Yeah, that can get my ass kicked. When I was a vampire I would of wiped the floor with this guy. You know, I never thought I'd say this Belle but right now being human sucks."

Belle didn't look up from what she was doing but decided to let her know what she had found. "Look, I made some phone calls. Whale's plastic surgery practice is just a front for his real business – selling blood to vamps looking for rare blood types."

"So he siphons a few pints of blood from his human patients and most them never know." Belle shrugged in response knowing that Emma had just hit the nail right on the head. "Damn it, that's why he took Regina. She has a rare blood type. I don't know why he took detective Glass, maybe to find out what he knows. Where can I find Whale now?"

Belle looked up at the once-vampire and frowned. "No way Emma. This vamp is seriously badass. He won't be alone."

Emma disregarded her warning and frowned right back at her. "Hey, the address."

"Sidney are you alright?"

"Yeah, how long was I out?"

"I don't know, an hour maybe. You probably have a concussion."

Sydney frowned and struggled a little more in the restraints that had him tied up with his back up against Regina's, groaning a little out loud as the blindfold made from a bandage stopped him from seeing where he was.

"I don't think I'll be calling for a doctor."

Regina wanted to laugh at the irony of that statement but her fear was keeping her from doing anything else other than worrying about their current predicament, her own eyes bandaged the same as the detectives. At Sydney's increased wriggling of his hands to try and get free she sighed. "I tried, it's some kind of surgical tube. It won't budge."

"What kind of psycho is this guy?"

Instead of answering Regina said the one thing that came to mind. "Emma will find us. She's good, she's really good."

"Yeah, and most likely really dead." He sighed in frustration.

Regina craned her head backwards in his direction even though they knew they couldn't see each other. "Don't say that, you don't know that!"

"Regina, come on, you've gotta face the facts – no one knows where we are and no one is coming to save us. We're on our own."

Emma rushed back and forth throwing things into the small box. She then moved over to the elaborate book case that made up the entirety of one of the walls in her apartment and pulled the books out of one of the diamond shaped sections, opening the hidden compartment that was behind them and pulling out a small crossbow. She held it up and checked the line of sight before throwing it down on the table next to the box. She then moved over to the same spot on the left side of the wall and did the same, opening up a second compartment and grabbing an elaborate steel blade from inside it.

"What are you doing?"

She spun around with the blade held out, her fear quickly evaporating as soon as she saw who it was. "Don't do that!"

"What? Use my crafty vampire abilities to sneak up on you?"

Emma rolled her eyes and moved back over to the box, placing the blade inside. "Why are you here?" Emma demanded, moving back to the wall and grabbing something else from inside it.

David looked down at the box and it's contents before looking back up at Emma. "Belle called me and said you were about to do something extremely stupid. I said, 'Wait, that can't be the Emma that I know'."

Emma held up a wooden stake. "You should come, you love a challenge."

"No, see, I'm a lover, not a fighter." Emma rolled her eyes. "And besides, I'd just get dead trying to protect you, the human liability."

"I can take care of myself." Emma protested, holding up a stake in either hand.

Before she knew it the stakes were flying out of her hands from expertly placed kicks courtesy of her best friend and she was suddenly flying across the room, her body colliding with the wall at the far end. She had no time to think as David jumped at her quickly making short time of the large gap between them and suddenly grabbing hold of her shirt.

"Is this how you're gonna fight them? This is how you want it to end?!" He yelled, his eyes white and a little blood shot as he bared his fangs inches from her face.

"Get off me. Get off me!"

As Emma yelled back David pulled away, letting go of her shirt as Emma panted loudly in front of him. Emma stepped around him and David turned, watching as she gripped at the back of her head and rubbed it in pain. He hadn't exactly been gentle when he'd thrown her into the wall.

"I hope I made my point."

Emma breathed heavily, her eyes drifting upwards as she considered her words. "Yeah, you did." She then turned around quickly, David frowning at her demeanor.

"What?" He sighed in frustration.

"You were right." At the frown on his face she decided to elaborate. "I can't save Regina as a human. But I can save her as a vampire." There was a slight pause before she confirmed what David had suspected. "You have to turn me back."

"Woah. Uh uh. You hold on. This is not-"

"You have to turn me back – right now."

"Emma, you're human again. After all you went through to get the cure...you're gonna give it up this easy?"

"You think this is easy for me? This is not easy, okay? I don't have a choice."

"What you're asking me to do-"

"Listen to me, alright?!" She yelled, lunging forwards and grabbing hold of his jacket. "He has Regina." She panted. "He mas my Regina. So please. Please David."

"Emma, forgive me."

Emma knew in that moment that David had made his choice, the blonde seeing the truth in her best friends eyes as she panted heavily knowing what was coming. She angled her head upwards and exposed her neck.

In the blink of an eye David's eyes had turned white again and he was latching his mouth on to her neck, Emma gasping at the pain of his fangs sinking into her flesh. It didn't take long, maybe ten seconds or so, before she passed out, David still sucking heavily on her blood flow as he guided her body down onto the table behind her. As soon as her head touched the wood he pulled away, licking his lips as residual blood poured from the two new puncture marks on Emma's neck and onto the table beneath her. He stood up fully and pulled his jacket off, immediately rolling up his shirt sleeve and biting down onto his wrist. Once he had punctured his own skin he held up his wrist a few inches above her mouth, using his other hand to squeeze the new wound. As he did he missed the lone trickle of a tear that rolled down the side of Emma's face. Blood dripped down onto her mouth, her tongue batting out to take it in, David shaking above her as he squeezed tightly at his wound.

"Come on Emma. Rise and shine."

A moment later Emma was grabbing hold of his wrist, pulling it towards her mouth and sucking on it, taking in his blood fully. After a few moments of steadily sucking on his blood flow she eventually detached her mouth and let her head fall back against the table, her eyes still closed as the change took place. The wound in her leg knitted itself together and the small cut that had still been healing on her face from days before disappeared as if it had never been there in the first place. It was then, after her wounds had healed, that her body rose, coming to sit up. A tear running down her face as she bowed her head, when she reared it seconds later her eyes were the same white as David's, the change complete as she felt her fangs return and protract as she let out a low guttural growl from deep within her. There was no turning back, she'd given up the one thing she'd spent fifty years trying to get back in the matter of a few minutes.

Regina's head flew up at the sound of the door literally being ripped off it's hinges. The massive hunk of steel slid across the room as both David and Emma announced their arrival, the two other immediate vampires in the room hissing as their eyes turned white and their fangs protracted.

"Regina, what's going on?"

Before Regina had time to answer Sidney's question Whale cut in from across the room, his eyes fixated on Emma and her new 'state'. "You're a-"

"Oh yeah." Emma smirked, her own eyes white and her lips void of colour as she looked over at the good doctor who for a minute looked like he truly feared the idea of Emma being one of them.

David grinned along with his best friend, his eyes matching Emma's. "It is so on!"

One of Whale's minions made the first move and David met him halfway, the older vampire easily catching his attack. Emma watched as the other one came directly at her, meeting his kicks and punches as if they were nothing, crushing the bones of his hand in her own like they were just fragile twigs. The fight didn't last long however as David had thrown his attacker across the room and into a steel cabinet, watching as the younger vampire groaned in pain, his hand clutching at the huge piece of broken glass piercing his neck and coming out all the way out the back. Emma's attacker tried to use this distraction to his advantage but the blonde vampire saw it coming, Emma throwing a kick of her own and sending him flying into the wall so hard that he dented the steel wall decoration.

"Regina, you okay?" Sidney asked as they both struggled to get free of their ties.

Regina couldn't respond as she heard a loud snarl, recognizing it as Emma. The newly turned vampire pulled her attacker up by his shirt collar and snarled loudly in his face before pulling up so that she was stood at her full height. She wasted no time and David watched from across the room as she tossed him as if he were nothing more than a rag doll through the pane of glass behind her and against the wall, his body connecting with the fancy blood display that was built into it. He made to attack her again, rolling up and onto his feet but as he lunged at her she met his stomach with one of her wooden stakes, the other vampire stopping dead in his tracks, literally. He didn't put up a fight as expected and Emma watched as he slid out of her grip and down onto the floor lifeless.

Looking back up she watched as Whale's eyes turned white, the doctor sliding into his true vampiric state. Emma snarled at him and he began to run, as if he could make it out without being caught, but she caught him halfway wrapping her arm tightly around his neck in a head lock. It didn't take more than a second before everybody in the room, including a blindfolded Sidney and Regina, heard the familiar sickening crack as she snapped his neck like a twig. Emma let him fall to the floor and he groaned in pain as she finished the job by piercing the center of his chest with her second stake. Emma looked up as David whistled from across the room, the tension of the situation somewhat dissipating a little at his trademark sarcastic and cheery tone.

"Ooh. Very dramatic. I like it."

As Emma stood back up she took one last look at Whale's now-dead body and spun on her heels, rushing over to where Regina was struggling to get free.

"I'm here." She simply said, her hand resting on Regina's upper arm.

"Emma!"

"It's ok."

"Oh God."

"Wait, who's there? Swan? What's going on?"

Emma didn't reply to the detective, her only focus on Regina. As soon as she had the reporters hands free she reached up, her hands fumbling as she pushed up on the bandage covering Regina's eyes. The brunette was relieved when she got her sight back again but when she looked up and saw Emma's face she knew something was wrong, a frown now clear as day to Emma as the human reached up and cupped her cold cheek.

"Your face. What happened?"

Emma's eyes flickered back and forth as if they were twitching, a common and familiar motion in her current 'true' state. "Like they say, life is short."

Emma pulled away and grabbed hold of both of Regina's hands pulling her up to her feet. Wrapping a supportive arm around the other woman's waist she turned to David who had pulled Sidney up. "Keep the blindfold on him."

As Emma started to walk away with Regina Sidney started to panic. "What the hell's going on?"

David gritted his fangs together as he started to pull the detective in the direction Emma was walking in. "We're saving your ass."

"Sidney took a bunch of cops around to Whale's. The place was immaculate."

Emma nodded, enjoying the breeze that washed over her as they sat on the roof of her building, the city below merely background noise as she focused on Regina. "Yeah, well, the Cleaner is very good at what she does. No one will ever find any evidence of what happened there."

Regina frowned. The Cleaner was the person the vampires called in to clean up a mess, hence her name. "He had a lot of questions. I told him I was unconscious most of the time and I don't remember much."

Emma sighed, swirling the dark red liquid around in her wine glass, the smell of the blood welcome but unwelcome both at the same time. "He should just be happy he's alive." She replied, taking a sip from it.

"He doesn't strike me as someone who likes unanswered questions."

Emma watched as Regina took a bite from a strawberry. "How is everything?"

Regina smiled as she chewed, throwing a thumbs up to Emma. "Delicious."

The vampire grinned. "Good. I was worried about the seasoning." She laughed, the joke not missed on Regina. She couldn't taste anything being what she once was again but the joke didn't last long.

There was at least a moment of happy silence as Regina smiled back at her before a frown took over her features and they were both reminded of the truth behind this situation. "I don't know what to say about what you did for me, what you gave up. Part of you must hate me."

Emma's gaze immediately snapped up at the brunette's words. "I could never hate you."

"But you're back to being a vampire."

Emma put her glass down on the blanket they were both sat on. "I don't have any regrets, okay?"

"None?" There was a pregnant pause between them, Emma's silence speaking volumes to the human woman. "Yes, this isn't exactly how I pictured our date either."

"What do you mean?"

"You know what I mean." Regina husked, Emma hearing the underlying meaning in her voice. "I'm human, you're a vampire. We're right back where we started."

Emma bowed her head, tearing her eyes away from Regina's knowing she was right. "I just – I don't want you to get hurt."

"Maybe you're afraid of getting hurt." Emma lifted her head and met her gaze once again. "I know what it's like to lose people you love, but it's part of life."

"Relationships between humans and vampires-"

"Are difficult, dangerous and complicated. I know, you told me." She huffed, Emma watching as she stood up. "If you hadn't been a vampire, I would have died today. I would have died 23 years ago." Having Regina mention the night she saved her as a little girl made the vampire stand up so that they were face to face. "Being a vampire isn't all you are. It's not what's keeping us apart. It's just you."

Emma swallowed thickly as she yet again avoided Regina's knowing gaze, the other woman making to walk away. She didn't have chance to however as Emma had grabbed her by the waist swinging her around and crashing their lips together. Regina happily kissed her back, soon melting into the action as she steadied herself with her hands on Emma's jacket-clad arms, the vampire showing her that she did indeed have much more than simple feelings for her as she passionately kissed her. One of her hands came up to cup the vampire's face, ignoring how cool it was to the touch, and allowed herself to melt into the kiss more than before despite knowing the real truth about their circumstances.

When Emma pulled away, her hand lightly gripping the back of Regina's head and weaving her fingers through her shoulder length dark brown hair, she watched as the human woman's eyes slowly fluttered open after her own. "Maybe you're right, I don't know. Just give me a chance to figure it out, okay?"

The last word Emma whispered, Regina's voice following suit and dropping down to a similar volume. "Just don't take too long. You may have forever, but I don't."

Regina placed a kiss to Emma's wrist and let her hands drop, Emma's slowly sliding out of her own as she pulled away. She watched as Regina turned to leave and turning back she took in a deep breath of city night air, jumping over to the wall on the edge of the building. As she stood upon it she let the wind rush through her hair as she considered what the other woman had said. It was true, she may have forever back again but Regina never had it in the first place. She had a decision to make and it wouldn't be an easy one.