Poison & Wine

Chapter 16

Neal stepped closer to her, hand gestured out. "Look, I know you told me to leave you alone, but I heard you were looking for the guy with a lion tattoo on his forearm."

Blonde eyebrows furrowed. "Yeah, I was. So what?"

"So I know who he is." Neal explained. "And I know where to find him."

Emma felt her heart sink.

"What do you mean you know him?" The sheriff asked after a long moment of silence. She felt sick and panicked.

"I was in the Enchanted Forest with him before I went to Neverland." The brunette told her. "He actually helped me get there. Well, his son did."

Emma held up her hand to stop him. "Wait, so he's in the Enchanted Forest? Who is he?"

"Robin Hood." Neal said. "I'm guessing he's still in there, but we could bring him here."

The blonde swallowed the painful lump in her throat. "Are you sure he has a lion tattoo on his forearm?"

Neal nodded. "Yeah. It's the guy you're looking for." He assured her. "I think we can find a way to bring him here." The former lost boy explained.

Emma ran a hand through her messy blonde hair. For the last couple of weeks she had been so sure that she was Regina's true love, but she wasn't so sure anymore. Pixie dust had led Tinkerbelle and Regina to Robin Hood and while Pixie dust had also led Emma to Regina, the dust didn't confirm Regina's true love for her.

She wanted to cry, really. The mayor was so tentative to start anything between them in the beginning. Maybe she felt that way because Emma wasn't Robin Hood, wasn't the former queen's true love like she had thought. Maybe there was such a thing as unrequited true love, despite what Hook told her. She had woken up so unbelievably hopeful and happy, but now she was certain she couldn't feel worse.

"Emma?" Neal questioned after the savior went silent. "Are you all right?"

The blonde snapped out of her pity fest and forced a smile. "I'm fine." She lied through her teeth. "I just… can't believe you know him."

"He's a cool guy." Baelfire went on. "Why were you looking for him?" He asked, wondering if what Belle had told him was true.

"Regina." The sheriff choked out. "He's Regina's true love." Bile rose up in her throat so she cleared it. "Thanks for the information, Neal."

The brunette grinned crookedly. "No problem. I was thinking I could help you get him here. I bet Regina would like him. He's a pretty manly guy. Think that's her type?"

Emma stopped listening. She grabbed her coat and car keys. She wasn't a runner anymore, but she had to get away from all the information Neal had on Robin Hood. "I have to go." She went to walk past him, but he grabbed her arm gently.

"I'll go with you." He offered. "We can get started on figuring out how to get him here."

The sheriff shook her head and stepped out of her ex-boyfriend's grasp. "No Neal!" She said firmly. "I have more important stuff to do. Just do me a favor and leave me the hell alone this time!"

"Emma-" He tried.

She snapped. "I don't want to see you, Neal!" She screamed. "Don't you get that? I don't want to be friends! I certainly don't want to date you! I don't want your help with finding some stupid thief! The only thing I want from you is for you leave to leave me the fuck alone." With that she stormed out of the sheriff's department and into her bug.

Once she was driving in the car, she allowed frustrated tears to fall. She hated Neal at that moment. He ruined her blissful bubble of happiness with the mayor. Her heart was breaking slowly at the knowledge that her true love had a different true love out there that she could be happier with. Her tears became too much. She pulled out of the road and unto a dirt trail in the woods. She got out of the yellow car and slammed the door. She put her hands on the hood and looked down, letting salty tears fall to the ground.

All she thought about was Regina. She thought of every happy smile, every beautiful laughter. She thought about every breathy moan the woman released the other night. The brunette had told her that she wanted to try out their relationship, but Regina was under the misconception Emma was her true love.

Emma nearly laughed humorlessly at the irony of the situation. The girl who never got emotional over anybody was a blubbering mess. And she had caused it, really. She had asked around for Regina's true love. She brought it on herself.

The sheriff knew she couldn't keep her newfound information from the older woman, but God did she want to. If she didn't tell her though then Emma would always be worried that fucking Robin Hood would find a way to Storybrooke and sweep the former queen off her feet, leaving the savior alone and broken.

She felt broken at that moment. She was already crying, but she still wanted to cry harder. She wanted to throw up. She wanted to yell and scream at the unfair world. She was happy with Regina. She was starting to- as insane as it was- fall for the mayor and then Neal ruined it all.

Emma hit and punched her bug in a tantrum. She didn't know what to do. All she wanted was to drink her sorrows away. With a quick decision, she pulled out her cellphone and dialed her best friend.

Hook hugged her the second she stepped foot on his ship. His best friend had called him blubbering something about Robin Hood so he told her to come over. The savior fell into his arms and sobbed for several minutes before she gathered herself and told him the story.

Killian shook his head after she was finished. "I don't believe it." He said firmly.

Emma felt too defeated to scoff at him. She drank the pirate's rum as they sat on the plank. "I do."

The brunette had never seen his mate so down. "Swan, Tinkerbelle's pixie dust brought you to Regina."

She nodded. "Exactly. The pixie dust brought me to Regina, but Tinkerbelle's pixie dust also led Regina to Robin Hood."

"You weren't even born yet." The pirate argued. "It's not like the pixie dust could have brought Regina to Snow's empty wound."

Emma rubbed her face, hogging the pirate's flask. "I forgot about him." She admitted. "When Regina kissed me and we decided to explore things between us, I completely forget she already had a true love. I thought maybe he was dead."

"How do you even know Bae is telling the truth?" Killian asked, snatching his flask from her. "Isn't he dead set on getting you back?"

The blonde nodded. "Yeah, but he's telling the truth."

"Oh right." Hook remembered. "The superpower thing."

"I think I'm falling in love with her." She whispered quietly, feeling tears rim her eyes.

Hook handed her his flask and wrapped an arm around her in comfort. "If you're falling in love with her, Swan, then you need to fight for her. To Hell with this Robin Hood fellow. He sounds like a douche anyways with all his stealing from the rich and giving to the poor business."

Emma laughed despite the situation. "I told you that's just the cartoon version. You know how off base they can be."

"Whoever this man is, love, he's no Emma Swan." Killian told her seriously. "Regina couldn't do better than what she's got."

The savior forced a small smile. "Thanks, Hook… but I can't take that choice away from her."

Killian shook his head in disbelief. "You want to tell her." He didn't like that idea at all.

"I have to." She corrected. "And I will. Tomorrow. Today I want to get wasted. Let's go to the Rabbit Hole." Emma suggested and stood up on the plank.

"Swan." Hook stood up and walked after her. "Do you-"

"I want to stop crying, Killian." The savior admitted sadly. "I want to feel like my heart isn't breaking right before my eyes so just be my friend and let me make this stupid choice. Please?" She pleaded, tears ready to fall from her already red-rimmed eyes.

Hook nodded and wiped the tearstains off her cheeks. "I'm buying." He insisted as they walked off the ship.

Regina and Henry were eating a late lunch at Granny's. She was in the middle of eating her salad when Charming walked in, looking around. When he made eye contact with the mayor, he made a beeline for her. "Regina, have you spoken to Emma today?" He asked.

The brunette noticed the panic in his voice. Her heart dropped. "A couple of texts, but not anything recent. Why? What's wrong? Is she okay?"

"I went by the station to bring her gun to her since she left it at the loft, but she wasn't there." The blonde man informed her. "I tried calling her cell, but it's either busy or she turned it off."

Regina relaxed slightly. "Oh. Well she's probably out answering a call or something." She assured him.

Charming shook his head though, obviously not convinced. "I thought that too, but I can't find her anywhere."

The mayor racked her head. "Did you check with Mrs. Gerald?"

"Yeah." He nodded. "She's not there."

"Gold?" She guessed.

"He hasn't seen her."

"Could she be dealing with one of the thieving lost boys?"

David rubbed the back of his neck. "I called all of the stores that are open today and no one has had any complaints."

"Maybe she's with Hook." Henry spoke up before taking a bite of his burger.

"No." Regina and David said simultaneously.

They both gave each other a strange look before the mayor cleared her throat. "Emma wouldn't play hooky with the grungy pirate if she's the only one at the station." The brunette explained her reasoning.

David wasn't convinced with Regina's excuse, but he let it go. "All right, well I'm going to go see if I can find her." He said to them and started to walk away.

"David, wait." Regina called and he turned around to look at her. "If you find her, let me know."

Charming nodded and left the diner in search of his daughter.

"Hit me again!" Emma yelled at the bartender even though the bar was nearly empty because it was 2:00pm on a Sunday.

The bartender just handed Hook the bottle and walked to the other side of the bar. Killian could tell the man was irritated with the sheriff. "Pace yourself there, Swan."

Emma scoffed. "I don't need a babysitter, Killian. I need my drinking buddy." She grabbed the bottle of vodka from him and filled her shot glass.

"You're a wreck." The pirate told her as she downed the shot.

The sheriff shook her head fervently. "I'm heartbroken." She corrected.

Killian snatched the bottle from her. "Exactly. You're heartbroken for no apparent reason and drinking isn't for sadness. It's supposed to be for fun. You're ruining the art of drinking." He complained.

Emma rolled her eyes at her friend. "Nobody can ruin the art of drinking. And damn you, there's a reason for my heartache!" She argued. "My true love has a different true love."

"Boo hoo." The pirate mocked. "You're all heartbroken over the possibility that some guy in the Enchanted Forest is," He looked around, "you know who's true love when you don't even know if the guy is alive or dead. Who knows what's been happening in the Enchanted Forest since Neal was there? You're assuming that your happiness is over simply because of something your ex-boyfriend told you."

"You don't get it." The savior pointed out. "I thought we were fated to be together-"

"Maybe you are." Killian cut her off. "You said yourself that things were going swimmingly. Who cares if fate played a hand or not?"

She nodded and managed to take the vodka bottle from him before pouring herself another shot. "Me! I care. I mean- I don't care if fate had its hand in our relationship, but I care if it's playing a hand in her relationship with someone else! I can't compete with true love."

"There's the fighter I know and love." Hook said sarcastically. "If you want her, Swan, you fight for her. I told you this."

His words went in one ear and out the other. "I dry humped her last night." She stated her secret. "It was amazing. Then she looked at me like she couldn't be happier if she tried. She had this sparkle in her eyes that I put there and in that moment I thought about what a lucky bitch I was because only I got to see her like that. If I had known that was the last time I'd be like that with her then I would have appreciated it more… I would have told her I'm falling in love with her…" She rambled before slamming down her shot.

"You're being dramatic!" Hook snapped at her. "If you were a man I'd knock some sense into you. Neal told you something and you haven't even spoken to Regina about it and you're already bowing out." He complained. "I'm going to tell you this because I love you, Swan." He slapped her across the face. It wasn't hard, but it was enough to sting. "Get your shit together and stop acting like a coward."

Emma rubbed her cheek and glared at the pirate. "I'm not a coward."

"Then prove it." He dared. "Go up to your true love and tell her you're falling in love with her before you ruin things."

The blonde nodded and stumbled out of the booth. "You're right." She said. "Even if Robin Hood is her true love, she's mine and damn it I want her!" Her liquor courage was starting to kick in.

Hook laughed happily. "There's my beloved best friend! You go get your girl, Swan!"

"Oh, I don't think either of you are going anywhere but with me." The pair heard Charming behind them. They both cringed.

"I'm not sixteen, dad." Emma pointed out as David locked her in the cell. They had dropped Hook off at his ship before going to the station because unlike Emma, he passed a Breathalyzer test.

The deputy chuckled at her. "Then don't act like one."

Emma lied down on the cot and faced the wall without another word. She was drunk and sad and her father just overheard Killian talking about her going to 'get her girl'.

David leaned against the cell bars as he looked at his defeated daughter. "Emma, you can talk to me." He told her.

The sheriff sniffed away her tears. "No thanks." She just wanted to get sober and go talk to Regina.

"Who's the girl?" Charming asked before he grabbed a chair and placed it in front of the cell.

Emma shook her head, tears falling. For some reason, hearing the concern in her dad's voice just made her cry. "I don't want to talk about it."

"I spoke to Regina today." He spoke, hoping to get her attention. "Before I went to the Rabbit Hole, I stopped by Granny's. She was eating lunch with Henry. I told her I would tell her when I found you." He paused. "She seemed rather concerned."

The sheriff sat up at the information. Her father's tone seemed knowing, and while she could deal with him knowing her sexuality, knowing whom her 'girl' is was a different story. "Well we share a kid." She explained. "I would be concerned if I couldn't get in touch with her. Especially in this town."

Charming nodded as he crossed his arms. "True, but… it seemed deeper than that."

Emma raised an eyebrow. "What're you insinuating?"

"Nothing." The blonde man fibbed, never breaking eye contact with his daughter.

"You're lying." She observed.

David scratched the back of his neck. "You caught me." He leaned forward in his chair. "I think there's something going on with you and Regina."

"Why do you think that?" Emma questioned him, trying not to give away anything.

Charming laughed softly. "I think everybody knows that you take after your dashing father, but you've got your mother's eyes, Emma. She's looked at me for years with those eyes and any time you talk about Regina, your eyes sparkle the same way." He explained.

The savior shrugged. "It's just a crush. She doesn't know-"

"Now who's lying?" David challenged her. "I've known Regina for a long time, and yet I've never truly seen her happy, not until recently. I think you're partially responsible for that."

The sheriff swallowed the nervous lump in her throat. If she confirmed his theory then she'd be breaking terms ones and three. But her father knew more about true love than anybody else she knew, so maybe he could help her. "You know Tinkerbelle got her wings back?"

Her father nodded slowly. "Yeah."

"Did she tell you how she got them back?"

Charming gave her an apprehensive look. "She said that she did a favor for Blue."

"That favor was finding my true love." Emma confessed.

David's eyes widened. "That… was weeks ago."

The sheriff nodded. "Yeah, it was."

"It- Tink's pixie dust?" He asked, slowly putting the pieces together.

His daughter nodded.

"It led you to…"

"Yeah." Emma bit her lip nervously, looking at her perplexed father. "It's Regina." She summed up with a shrug. "My true love… it's Regina."

Charming stood up swiftly and ran a hand through his crew cut hair. "Wow." He breathed out as he began pacing. He thought they were an item, but true love was a powerful thing. True love was every lasting. If what his daughter was telling her was true then Regina and her would be together forever. "I-"

"We're not in love or anything." The savior cut him off. "It's all very new and after what I learned today it might be over."

"Over." David repeated while he paced. "So you have been seeing each other then?"

"We've only been on one date." The woman clarified. Watching her father pace in front of her cell was making her a little nauseous. "But yeah, I guess we have."

The deputy cleared his throat. "Have you... have you had…" He couldn't say it.

"Dad, no!" The blonde exclaimed when she realized what he meant. "And let's not talk about my sex life. Please?"

Charming shook his head, his mind going haywire. He thought he would be all right with Regina dating his daughter, but he didn't suspect that true love was at play. "Believe me I'm not asking because I want to." The man clarified. "But true love is powerful, Emma. You have magic and Regina has magic and-" He stopped himself. "Just be careful."

She rolled her eyes. "It's not like I can get her pregnant." It was a joke, but when she looked at David's uncomfortable face her mouth went dry. "Right?"

He huffed out a disbelieved laugh. "I'm not sure. I've heard of two people who possess magic creating life even when one or both of them were barren. I don't know if it's possible with two women, but true love-"

"Is the most powerful magic of all." Emma finished for him. Then she shook her head. "Yeah, I know. But there's no need to worry about that. We're… not at that stage yet." She told her father and then her mind went to everything that happened today with Neal. She rubbed her face. "And we probably never will be now."

Charming noticed the self-deprecating tone his daughter's voice took so he sat back down in his chair. "What happened?"

"Neal." She summed up. "Actually, it was me, but I'm still blaming Neal."

David shook his head. "I need more than that, honey."

Emma went on to explain everything from her quest to find Regina's true love to thinking she was the mayor's true love, only to have it ripped away by her ex-boyfriend.

David listened intently. When his daughter finished he could only say one thing and he hoped it was comforting. "Emma, I've never heard of an unrequited true love before. I don't think it's possible."

"If it's not then Tinkerbelle's pixie dust was wrong either back when she brought Regina to Robin Hood or it was wrong when it brought me to Regina. I don't- I can't think of any other explanation."

Charming rubbed his face. "Do you want me to talk to Mother Superior for you?"

The sheriff shook her head vehemently. "No. Dad, you can't talk to anyone about this. Not even mom! Especially not mom!" She corrected herself.

"Emma, she's not going to judge you-"

"Dad." The woman interrupted him firmly. "Please."

Charming sighed deeply and leaned back in his chair. "I hate lying."

"It's not lying. It's omitting the truth. Totally different." She assured him. "You know how mom is going to react when she finds out that I like Regina. To be honest I'm surprised you're not freaking out."

The deputy shook his head. "No, I'm freaking out." He disagreed. "I just know that's not what you need right now."

"Thanks." Emma expressed her gratitude.

David gave her a sad smile. "So what're you going to do?"

"I have to tell her about it." The girl sighed. "I'm going to tell her that I want to be with her regardless, but I can't keep this from her."

Charming nodded. "I agree." There was a pause and David took it to say something he thought was important. "You know I don't care about whole liking women thing. Right?"

Emma smiled at her father's awkward sentence. "You can call it gay, dad." She chuckled. "But I know. Thank you for not freaking out." She smiled.

David stood up and unlocked the cell. "Finish your shift and then go get your girl." He smirked.

'She's okay. I found her.' The text was frustratingly vague, but Regina felt relieved nonetheless. She proceeded to send several messages to the sheriff, but all went unanswered. She was starting to worry. David informed her the savior was all right, but she seemed to be ignoring the mayor.

Henry was in his room with Hansel playing video games, so it was just Regina in the living room when the doorbell rang. She straightened out her blouse and stood up before walking to the door and opening it.

Before her stood the sheriff in question. The brunette was prepared to scold her, but when she saw the tortured look on the younger woman's face she stepped into her and swiped blonde hair behind a pierced ear. "Are you all right?"

Emma shook her head. "We need to talk."

While Regina was rather inexperienced with relationships, she was aware of the cliché phrase commonly used to dump someone. "You want to break-up." She said firmly and crossed her arm in defense.

Green eyes widened. "No." She shook her head. "Not at all."

The former queen raised an eyebrow. "You're sure?"

Emma laughed at the older woman with a nod. "I'm positive. If you want us to break-up then you'll have to do it yourself." She said firmly. "But there is something you should know."

"Emma, you're scaring me a little bit." Regina told her, but she allowed the woman inside regardless and shut the door behind them both. "Where did you go earlier today? David said he couldn't find you."

The blonde looked around. "Is Henry here?"

"He's upstairs with Hansel. They're playing video games until Mr. Zimmer comes to get him."

The couple walked into the family room and sat on the couch. Emma looked into those warm chocolate eyes and saw worry in them. "I have a confession to make."

"You cheated on me?" Regina guessed.

"What?" The sheriff asked, slightly offended that was her go to conclusion. "No. I'd never do that."

"You regret what happened between us last night?" The brunette guessed again. "I told you that I would try to reciprocate but you-"

"Regina no." Emma cut her off. "I freaking loved what we did last night. I pray for many repeat performances."

"Then what is your confession?" The woman wondered.

Emma sighed, becoming annoyed with the mayor. "If you stopped interrupting then you'd know by now."

Regina nodded her head and cleared her throat. "You're right. I'm sorry. Patience isn't my virtue. My mind always goes to the worst possible scenario."

"In order to tell you this I have to break a pre-relationship term." The blonde informed her true love before clearing her throat. Regina wasn't speaking so she decided to move on. "Before I found out that you were my true love, I was looking for yours."

The older woman figured that she must have heard that wrong. "Excuse me?"

"I know that it was a complete invasion of privacy and that I had no right to meddle in your love life, but at the time I thought I was doing it for you. Although I later realized that I was only doing it for me because I thought that you would never want me that way so I thought that if I found your soul mate that I could be able to realize how ridiculous I was being about you because I was convinced that you would never want me like that. So I went asking around town for anybody who knew a guy with a lion tattoo and then no luck. So I went to Tinkerbelle-"

"Tinkerbelle?" Regina asked, baffled by all the information.

"Yeah. I was trying to get her to find your true love again, but instead she had already made a deal with Mother Superior to find my true love, so I took it." She took a deep breath. "Obviously you know it led to you and we're us and I'm so happy where we are in our relationship, but today Neal-"

"Emma-" Regina tried to cut her off. She had her own confessions to make, but the blonde wouldn't allow it.

The sheriff shook her head. "No. I have to tell you now or I'm afraid I never will." She took a deep breathe. "Neal told me that he knew the guy with the lion tattoo. He said his name is Robin Hood and that he's in the Enchanted Forest. He just kept going on and on about how great the guy was, how he helped him get to Neverland, and all these other great things and I know I that you didn't meet him back in the day because you were afraid to be happy and let go of your anger, but you're not that girl anymore, Regina. You're so beautiful and strong and you could be happy. Not that I don't want you to be with me, because I do, Regina. More than anything do I want to be with you, but if you-" She stopped when the brunette grabbed her face between her hands and flashed a closed lipped smile.

Regina looked into the emotional green orbs. "Honey, you need to calm down and breathe. Okay?"

"But-" Emma attempted.

The mayor shook her head, still smiling. She stroked the younger woman's face lovingly. "Is this the reason you went AWOL earlier today?" The blonde nodded while Regina held her face. "I need you to listen to me now. All right?" She received another slow nod. "You are my true love, Emma. You. No one else."

Emma tried to shake her head, but the brunette wasn't allowing such things. "But Robin Hood-"

"Is irrelevant." The older woman finished. "He's not my true love. He never was. It's all a long story and Blue will have to explain it further to you, but my true love, dear, is you."

"Really?" She asked quietly.

Regina nodded. "Really. Even if he was my true love, he's not you and I want you. True love or not."

The sheriff was speechless. She had spent the whole day mourning her relationship with Regina and there the mayor was, saying everything Emma thought couldn't be true. She was relieved beyond belief. Her heart felt so much lighter. She couldn't say anything so she did what she wanted to do. She leaned forward and kissed her true love sweetly. She conveyed all her relief into the gentle kiss.

Regina smiled against her lips but then pulled back when she tasted something. "Have you been drinking?" She asked, taking her hands off of the younger girl's face and placed them in her lap.

"Earlier." Emma confessed. She swallowed and looked down at the mayor's lap. "With Hook."

Brown eyes rolled. "You and that ridiculous pirate make awful decisions together."

"I'm falling in love with you." The younger woman blurted out. Regina stared at her, stunned. "I… know that it's insanely fast and I don't expect anything back, but I had to tell you. When Neal told me about Robin Hood, I felt sick. I thought that things were over between us and that killed me. It made me realize how much I care about you which-"

Regina moved her hand up to cover the blonde's mouth. "While this rambling of yours is charming, I need you to stop." She laughed softly. "I'm falling in with you as well, dear." She admitted and felt the savior's lips tug into a smile beneath her hand. "But I have a confession to make."

When she let her hand off the younger woman's face Emma spoke, "You cheated on me?"

The mayor wasn't amused. "No and stop interrupting." She warned her. "I'm, well I'm the reason that Tinkerbelle and Blue were trying to find your true love." She admitted with an embarrassed flush.

Emma's jaw literally dropped. "Wha…"

"You told me that you were a lesbian and then I started to find myself thinking of you in a romantic sense. I thought the only way to stop that was to-"

"Find my true love." The sheriff finished for her and grinned wildly. "So we both did the same thing." Regina nodded and Emma laughed at the situation. "Now let's get back to this you're falling in love with me thing." She smirked.

Regina rolled her eyes and shook her head. "Oh no. Consider that term seven. We have to officially be dating for the L word to be brought up. This was a special circumstance." The sheriff chuckled until she realized that she had broken the very first term. Her face morphed into a cringe. "What?" The mayor asked, worried.

"You're going to break-up with me." Emma predicted.

The older woman scoffed. "After what I just confessed to you? You think I'd-"

"My dad knows about us." The blonde rushed out.

After a beat of silence Regina calmly patted the younger woman's shoulder and stood up. "We're over."

Emma laughed and stood up, following her. "Baby-"

"Why on earth would you tell that shepherd father of yours about us?" The mayor turned around to ask. "You've broken half the terms we set for our pre-relationship. You mentioned the true love thing, you've told your father about us- out of all the people in Storybrooke you told your father- and you tried to get me to lift term six."

Thinking it would change the subject Emma said, "Actually I counted the terms and there's only five." She'd been meaning to correct her for a while now.

"No, no, no." Regina shook her head in reprimand. "Don't try to change the subject, Miss Swan. There are six terms, but one isn't for you-"

"One isn't for me?" Emma asked, raising an eyebrow.

"No!" The mayor said firmly. "Another conversation for another time. Now, tell me your excuse for why you just had to tell your idiot father about us."

The sheriff scoffed. "I'm not making excuses. He said that he already knew-"

"How? Was it Hook because I will castrate-"

Emma cut her off. "No. He said it was me. He said that when I talked about you I got this look in my eye. He also said that you seemed happier lately."

Regina crossed her arms. "Not that you deserve to hear it, but I am." She confirmed. "Happy that is."

"Good to know." She smiled. "And I know that this is yet another person who knows about us prematurely, but if it makes you feel any better he swore he wouldn't tell my mom."

"Hah." The mayor scoffed. "Like I believe that."

The sheriff rolled her eyes. "Regina, trust me. He knows this is important to me. He won't say anything."

"You're asking me to trust you a lot lately." The older woman mused.

Emma smiled softly. "It worked out well with Hook didn't it?"

Brown eyes rolled. "While he hasn't told anyone about us yet, there's still time."

The blonde stepped close to the mayor and wrapped her arms around her waist. "Are we good?"

Regina took a deep breath. "I reluctantly say yes." She said as she wrapped her own arms around the younger woman's neck.

Emma smiled and kissed her. "I can't believe you looked for my true love." She teased.

"I can't believe I ended up being that true love." The brunette countered.

The savior gasped, scandalized. "Madam Mayor, I believe you just broke a pre-relationship term." Regina just rolled her eyes and kissed her true love.

I hope that wasn't too bad for you guys! You know I can't keep them apart for too long though. Lol. Next chapter will be a fun one and soon it will be time to tell Snow White. I don't know how I want her to take the news yet so you guys can weigh in on it for me. :) A new post will be up by Tuesday and get ready for Swan Queen to step it up in the love department. ;) Review & Favorite! Love you guys!