Poison & Wine

Chapter 25

Killian pointed to some woman in a girdle who was on her IPhone. "I wasn't aware such cellular devices were around back then." He joked. The woman on his arm chuckled. The pair were both feeling quite buzzed.

"Emma?" Their heads turned in unison to see a brunette woman looking at them.

Hook felt his friend tense up and she straightened her posture. "Lily?" She asked in disbelief.

The woman nodded with a wide smile. "Yeah! Oh my God, come here." She opened her arms and hugged the blonde.

Killian raised an eyebrow at the pair before he saw the Evil Queen on her way towards them. 'Oh no'. He thought. He knew there was no good ending for the poor brunette woman hugging the savior.

Regina reached them just as her girlfriend broke the hug. She put her hand on the younger woman's back and slipped her political smile on. "Hey honey." Her tone was sweet and she didn't dare glance a look at the whore. Her brown eyes gazing into conflicted green ones.

"Hi." Emma greeted and pecked the mayor's lip. She cleared her throat and motioned to Lily. "Baby, this is Lily. Lily, this is my girlfriend. Regina." She saw a look of recognition pass over her lover's features and inwardly groaned. She knew this wouldn't end well.

"Regina, huh?" Lily tested the name out. "How long have you two been together?"

"Me and Killian are going to the gift shop." Tinkerbelle was quick to get out of there, dragging alone her boyfriend. He had wanted to stay.

The sheriff opened her mouth to answer, but the former queen beat her to it. "How long have we been together? Oh, gosh. It's been a while hasn't it, dear?"

Blonde eyes almost furrowed, but she quickly realized to go along with whatever her girlfriend wanted in that moment. This was Regina's script. She'd play. "Yeah. It's been about… two years." She lied easily. She hadn't seen Lily in three, so two seemed appropriate.

It seemed to work because Regina smiled happily at her. "Give or take two years."

"Wow." Lily looked surprised. "I never thought I'd see the day where Emma Swan settled down." She winked.

Emma shrugged simply. "I just… found the right one."

The younger brunette laughed softly. "Am I talking to the same girl who told me that love was just something that idiots thought they felt?"

"I guess changed her mind." Regina spat in a fake nice tone.

Lily slid past the comment and looked at her former friend. "So what have you been up to for the last three years?"

"Geez, a lot actually." Emma chuckled. "Well, I moved to Maine."

"Maine. Wow." Lily commented. "Weren't you born there?"

The savior thought about it. "Sorta." She shrugged. Technically she was born in the Enchanted Forest, but she couldn't tell Lily such things.

"Why Maine?"

Emma glanced at her silent girlfriend before turning back to the younger brunette. "Short story? My son tracked me down. He lives there too."

Lily's eyes widened. "You found him?" She asked. "I thought it was a closed adoption."

The mayor faltered lightly. She had no idea how close her girlfriend seemed to be with the whore. "He found me actually." The blonde chuckled softly.

"Heavy stuff." Lily commented. "What's his adoptive family like?"

"You're looking at her." Regina revealed with confidence.

Lily huffed a laugh. "No way. Huh." She observed her ex-girlfriend's current one. "Now I get it."

The older woman raised a challenging eyebrow. "What is that supposed to mean?"

"The kid." Lily explained. "He's the reason you guys got together."

Emma shook head. "Henry isn't the reason we're together." She told her.

Lily simply nodded. "I'm sorry, I just assumed-"

Regina cut her off. "You didn't assume. You were trying to belittle our relationship." She said, crossing her arms.

The younger brunette's nonchalant behavior wavered slightly. "No I wasn't."

With a disbelieving scoff, Regina spoke, "Please."

"Baby-" Emma started, but her former girlfriend cut her off.

"Do you have a problem with me?" Lily asked, raising her own eyebrow. She never backed down from a fight. "What, are you jealous?"

Regina let out a dry laugh and she rolled her eyes. "Jealous? Of your juvenile relationship? Don't flatter yourself, dear. You're nothing but another one of her common whores from her past. Me, however, well I'm mother of her child. I'm the one she's with and nothing you do or say will change the fact that you mean nothing to her."

Emma gently touched the mayor's arm. "Baby, calm-"

"Really?" Lily interrupted her. "I was nothing? Is that what she told you?"

"You think highly of yourself, don't you? I believe she only mentioned you once." The former queen told her.

The blonde bit her lip. She couldn't stop the back and forth. She had to get ready to protect her girlfriend in case Lily tried anything. "I find that hard to believe because I was her first." The younger woman revealed and the sheriff cringed at the words, knowing her girlfriend wouldn't take that information well. "First kiss, first time, first love."

Regina was flaring with rage at the admission. She remembered Emma saying that the only person she cared for aside from Neal was this woman Lily, but she had no idea the depth of their relationship.

"Lily, fucking stop!" Emma yelled at her, gathering the attention of people around her. "You ruined my relationships in the past, but you aren't going to do it again."

"I'm not trying to." Lily told her. "I was trying to be nice! But this bitch-"

The mayor cut her off. "Oh, believe me, I haven't even begun to show you bitch yet."

Lily scoffed, squaring her shoulders. "I'm so terrified." She said sarcastically.

"You should be." Regina warned.

The younger woman rolled her eyes. "Instead of making false threats, why don't you go scurry off to your privileged life? We both know you're not capable of harming me. You're nothing but a spoiled princess."

Regina laughed dryly and glared at the whore. "You have no idea what I'm capable of."

"I grew up with people just like you." Lily corrected her. "You think you're above everyone, but really you're nothing."

Emma nearly punched her ex-girlfriend in the face, but her current girlfriend beat her to it. Her mouth dropped as Regina's fist contacted with Lily face, hitting her square.

She was stunned. The only violence she ever saw the mayor inflict involved magic. She had no idea her true love could pack quite a punch. Before she knew it, Lily struck back and then the two women were brawling before her eyes. "Hey, stop! Stop!"

"Who is Lily?" Tinkerbelle asked her boyfriend as her and Hook stood under a canopy with their drinks, watching the scene from a distance.

"Swan's ex." The pirate explained. "She was the only notable relationship Emma had besides Bae."

The blonde grimaced slightly. "That's not good. Regina looks pissed." She observed.

Killian smirked. "The queen is jealous." He told her as they gazed upon the glares the two brunettes were sending each other. "I bet Regina throws the first punch."

Green scoffed. "Doubtful. Regina was royalty. She'll slay the girl with her words."

Hook raised an eyebrow. "Care to make a wager on that, babe?"

Tinkerbelle smirked. "I would."

"All right." The pirate cleared his throat and quietly said, "I win and you go head first tonight." He leered at her.

The fairy rolled her eyes playfully. "And if I win, you go head first tonight."

Killian extended his fake hand. "You've got yourself a wager."

The couple looked back to the three women. "What do you think they're saying?"

Hook shrugged. "Probably, 'Emma love me more.' 'No, she loves me more.'" He joked.

"Lily better watch it. She is dealing with the Evil Queen after all." The blonde pointed out.

Killian nodded. "You're right. We should warn her."

His girlfriend playfully smacked him. "Shut-up."

A fist flew forward and connected harshly with the younger brunette's face. "Oh shit!" Hook yelled, shocked. By the looks of it, his best mate was stunned too.

"Whoa." Tinkerbelle gasped, covering her mouth in astonishment. "No way-" Lily flung her fist and punched the mayor.

The two brunettes started throwing blows and pulling hair. Killian looked around the crowd and saw two police officers walking their way to the scrapping women. "What's Emma doing?" The pirate asked confused. His friend was just frozen there, watching them. He groaned and ran through the crowd to break it up before the security got there.

He watched as the savior jumped out of her shock and got in the middle trying to break it up. Regina threw a punch meant for the other brunette, but Emma moved her face and the mayor's fist collided with her girlfriend's face. Blood ran from the sheriff's nose as the police officers came up and grabbed the two brunette women.

Killian arrived at the scene and grabbed his friend. "What hell was that, Swan?" He lifted his arm and wiped her bloody nose on his sleeve.

The two officers were cuffing Regina and Lily. Emma turned to the one arresting her girlfriend. "What're you doing?"

He didn't answer her. He looked down at the former queen and said, "You're under arrest."

Regina's eyes widened. "What?"

"She didn't do anything!" Emma yelled at the cop behind the window. This situation was bullshit.

"She caused a public disturbance and assaulted a woman." The officer explained.

Green eyes rolled. "Release her into my custody. I'll deal with the possible charges." She had told the man of her current status as Sheriff.

The uniformed man groaned. "We're still processing her, ma'am. We'll release her to you once that's done. Just fill this form out and wait."

Emma grumbled, taking the clipboard with the form on it and sat down next to Hook. Tinkerbelle was on the other side of him. "They're still processing her. I gotta fill out this stupid form."

"When I agreed to this weekend away, sitting at a precinct waiting for your girlfriend to be released wasn't what I predicted." Killian told his friend.

Tinkerbelle leaned forward and looked at the savior. "Are they charging her?"

The sheriff shrugged. "I don't know yet. They arrested her for public disturbance and assault so we'll see."

Green shook her head in disbelief. "I can't believe she threw the first punch."

Hook chuckled. "I can. She's a feisty one." Her threw a small smirked to his girlfriend.

"This entire thing is bullshit." Emma complained, rubbing her face in frustration. "God, every time I see Lily she finds a way to just screw up my life!"

The pirate gave her a confused look. "Swan, I'd hardly say she ruined this weekend, let alone your life."

The savior shook her head. "You didn't see Regina's face. Lily told her that she was my first time."

"So? I thought you discussed that with her?" Killian questioned.

"I did… sort of. We never really went into details about our past relationships." Emma revealed.

Tinkerbelle raised an eyebrow. "Didn't you think that you should?"

The younger woman shrugged. "We didn't think it mattered. All of her exes are dead and the only one of mine that I thought I'd ever see again is Neal, so bringing up any other ex just seemed pointless."

"I bet it seems pretty point-ful now." The pirate joked.

Emma wasn't amused. "Do you want to walk back home?"

Regina was holding an icepack up to her eyes as she sat in the cell. She was currently glaring at the younger brunette across the cell from her. She watched with a proud look as the woman wiped the blood from her bottom lip.

"Quit staring at me." Lily hissed.

The mayor looked away and out towards the area where all the officers were slacking off. She nearly laughed at the irony of her situation. Nearly two months ago she was the one bailing Emma out of jail for assault and there she was, waiting for her girlfriend to bail her out.

All because she let her jealousy and anger get the best of her. She didn't like the fact that somebody got to love the savior before she did. She didn't like that some whore would forever be apart of her girlfriend's memories. Lily said it herself; she was Emma's first everything. The former queen felt insecure with the younger brunette around and on top of it all, she punched her girlfriend in the face on accident. She felt awful and she wanted to get out of that hellhole and apologize to her true love.

She stood up and walked over to the bars. "When can I leave?" She asked the officers.

"After you're processed." The officer told her before he walked away without another word.

The younger brunette scoffed from her seat in the cell. "Don't expect to leave anytime soon, lady."

Regina glared at her. "You may feel at home in this shithole, but I have a girlfriend and son to get back to."

"How old were you when you adopted him?" Lily asked her curiously.

The mayor sat back down across from the younger woman. "I don't see how that's any of your concern."

Lily shrugged. "It was just a question. How old are you, like thirty-four, thirty-five tops? Emma was eighteen when she had her baby."

The former queen did the math in her head. "I was twenty-five." She said surely.

"That's a little young to adopt." The younger brunette commented.

"I'm sorry, I don't see your point. I wanted a child. Is that a crime?" Regina knew she was getting defensive, but she couldn't help it.

Lily rolled her eyes. "It was just a question." She patted her lip to make sure the bleeding had stopped. "Any plans to get married in the future?"

The mayor looked at her, wondering what her angle was. She punched the woman in the face for God's sake and now she wanted to play nice? Regina didn't buy it. "That's none of your business."

"I know you think I'm a bitch all right, and believe me I know you're one, but we're stuck in here together. Might as well make peace, right?" Lily suggested.

Regina shook her head. "No."

Lily chuckled bitterly. "Wow. You can really hold a grudge, huh? You punched me first and still won't play nice?"

The former Evil Queen shrugged simply. "Being nice was never really my thing."

"Mine either." Her girlfriend's ex said. "I guess Emma has a type."

Regina glared harshly at her. "Don't compare me to you." She growled. "We're nothing alike."

"I beg to differ." The younger woman said softly. "We both fell in love with Emma Swan."

Neither of them said anything after that. On one hand, Regina was glad for the silence and on the other, she was wondering if Lily was still in love with her girlfriend. Eventually she cracked and cleared her throat. "Are you still in love with her? Is that what all of this is about?"

Lily made eye contact with the older brunette. "I've loved her since I was fourteen." She revealed. "But I'm not pathetic enough to still be holding a torch for her."

Regina scoffed. "Today showed otherwise." She challenged.

"Emma was never in love with me." The woman confessed sharply.

Brown eyebrows furrowed. "But earlier, you said that you were her first love." She reminded.

"She really never told you about us?" The younger woman asked.

Regina shook her head slowly. "We decided to leave the past in the past."

Lily ran a hand through her hair. "She told me back when we were teenagers that I was the first person she ever loved." Regina was saddened by the information, but she realized that her girlfriend did grow up being tossed from foster home to foster home, so it was very likely true that Emma didn't love until she met Lily. "We met back up when we were twenty-four. Dated for a while. I told her that I loved her, but she didn't say it back. A couple of weeks later she had a letter dropped off at my work. She had moved to Seattle."

The mayor took pity on the younger woman before her. Emma had up and left her. "She has always been a runner." She commented.

"It's just… seeing her with someone that she loves, it hurts. It brought back bad memories." Lily confessed. "I shouldn't have acted like a jealous mistress."

Regina chuckled softly. "I shouldn't have punched you." There was a pause. "Do you think she was in love with you back then?"

Lily shrugged. "I don't know, but it doesn't matter. You two seem… really happy together." She hated the words coming out of her mouth, but they were true and she had to accept that.

"We are." The older woman answered honestly. "Having Henry in her life has really allowed her set roots down."

"It's quite the fairytale you two have going." Lily chuckled.

Regina laughed along with her. "Oh, you don't know the half of it."

An officer came up to the jail cell. "Regina Mills?"

She stood up. "That's me."

"You're being transferred into Sheriff Swan's custody." He told her as he opened the jail cell.

The mayor smirked softly. It seemed as if her girlfriend had used her position to retrieve her. The officer escorted her out of the holding room and down a hallway towards double doors.

When the doors opened in front of her Regina's brown eyes landed on the green ones belonging to her girlfriend. She fell into strong arms and held her tight. A sigh of relief left her. She didn't enjoy being on the other side of jail cell and didn't plan to be again.

Emma pulled out of the hug and held her face in both of her hands. She observed the blackening left eye. "Are you okay?"

The mayor nodded. "I'm fine." She gently grazed her fingertips over the younger woman's swollen cheek where she had punched her. "I'm sorry."

"What? This?" She pointed to her cheek with a grin. "I've had worse." She assured her love before kissing her. "I was worried about you."

Hook rolled his eyes as him and Tinkerbelle stood up. "She was in a holding cell, Swan. Not prison. If we leave now we can catch the tail end of the reenactment." He suggested.

The sheriff shook her head. "You guys can go. Just drop me and Regina off at the hotel."

Regina rubbed the blonde's shoulder. "No. You've been looking forward to this for a while."

"There's always next year." Emma told her, stroking her thumb over her girlfriend's cheek. "Right now I just want to lie down and order room service."

"You sure?" The older woman questioned.

Killian shoved them forward towards the exit. "She said she's sure. Let's go or I'll miss the whole thing and this trip was pointless."

When the couple was dropped off at the hotel, Emma changed into more comfortable clothes while Regina opted to take a shower to get the scent of jail off of her. After the mayor finished her hot steam shower, she stepped out of the room and saw her true love lounging on the large bed. She was sporting a white tank top and yellow boy shorts. The sight made the older woman smile. She loved the blonde on that bed.

"I ordered room service." Emma said when her lover's gaze stayed on her longer than necessary.

The former queen walked over to her array of suitcases. "What'd you order?" She pulled out a white silk gown and slipped it on before running the towel through her soaked hair. Her girlfriend wasn't replying to her so she turned around and saw a rather aroused expression in darkening green eyes. "Honey?"

Emma swallowed thickly and cleared her throat. She met brown eyes and smirked. "You're just foregoing that underwear. Huh?"

Ignoring her, Regina tossed her towel into the hamper and asked again, "What'd you order for us?"

"Chicken Alfredo pasta, champagne, and chocolate covered strawberries." She informed.

A brown eyebrow rose. "Sounds expensive."

The sheriff grinned. "I figured you would say that, but since I bailed you out of the slammer today I thought you'd cut me a little slack."

Regina rolled her eyes. "Need a remind you that I bailed you out of jail?"

"So, should we tell Henry that both of his mother's are jail birds?" Emma chuckled as the older woman moved to sit beside her on the large bed.

The mayor didn't laugh at her joke. She began applying lotion to her freshly shaved legs. "I don't appreciate your jokes. We won't be telling Henry at all."

Emma faked a disapproving gasp. "You want me to lie to our loving son?"

"If you want to have sex with me ever again you will." The brunette teased playfully.

The savior laughed, watching intently as her girlfriend coated those smooth legs she loved so much. "Fine. I'll go along with your deception. But what are you going to tell him about your eye? It's gotten progressively darker since we left the station."

"I can cover it with make-up." Regina told her as she finished with her legs and began lathering her arms.

Emma bit her lip as she looked over her lover's face. "Do you want to talk about it?" She asked her.

Brown eyebrows furrowed together. "Talk about what?"

"Lily. About what happened today. About the things she said." The sheriff elaborated.

"Oh." The former queen realized. "Nothing to say, really dear." She said with a shrug.

The blonde wasn't buying it. "You can tell me if you were bothered by what she said."

Regina sighed, frustrated. "Why are you picking a fight right now?" She demanded to know.

"I'm not picking a fight." The sheriff insisted. "But she brought things up today that I think got to you."

"What do you think got to me?" She was curious.

Emma decided to lay it out there. "Her being my first kiss and first time."

The mayor raised a knowing eyebrow. "Don't forget first love, dear."

Green eyes rolled. "She wasn't my first love?"

"Are you sure about that? Because she told me that you said she was first person you ever loved." The older woman informed her.

Blonde eyebrows creased as she thought back. "I- I said that when I was fourteen. That doesn't hold any vitality."

"You also dated when you were older. She said you ran from her when she said that she loved you." Regina revealed.

Emma nodded her head in understanding. "And you're worried I'll do the same thing to you."

The brunette scoffed, despite the small nagging voice of doubt in the back of her mind. "We're in a committed relationship. We share a child."

Emma wasn't hearing her lover deny it so she sat Indian style on the bed and faced her girlfriend. "Lily told you her side of the story. Can I tell you mine before you think so little of me?" Regina nodded, wondering what her side could be. "I was dating this woman when Lily found me again. I decided to be a good friend and let her stay in my apartment while she looked for a place. She eventually drove my girlfriend away with all her stories about how close we were. My girlfriend was so convinced that something was going on. It wasn't, but that didn't matter. She didn't want to be second choice in my life so she broke up with me."

The mayor certainly didn't hear this from the brunette. "That's why you said that she ruined your relationships in the past." She realized.

Her lover nodded and went on with her story. "After a couple of months, I decided to give Lily a chance. We dated for three weeks and she told me she was in love with me. It never felt right to me though. We never… I never had that moment of clarity with her where I said to myself, 'I love this girl'. I got a job offer in Seattle so I took off. I left."

Regina cleared her throat. "So you never loved her?"

"No, I loved her." The savior admitted. "But I was never love with her." She explained. Green eyes met brown and she took a deep breath. "I've never been in love…not until you."

Regina froze for what felt like a solid minute. Her mouth gaped open and she was lost for words. "Y-"

Emma cut her off, grabbing her face roughly and leaning in close. Their eyes were locked together, affection and adoration written all over them. "I'm in love with you, baby." She confessed, flashing a nervous grin her lover's way.

The older woman open and closed her mouth several times. "I…"

"Hate me?" The savior joked.

Regina glared at her playfully before colliding their lips together in a passionate encounter. She wrapped her arms around the blonde's neck and poured every single emotion she had into the kiss. She licked her bottom lip and was granted entrance. Their tongues tangled for several minutes until the need for air became too strong. When they pulled away, they made sure to stay close. She looked into dark green eyes and beamed happily. "I love you too, Miss Swan."

Emma was sure she had never grinned so wide in her entire life. She rolled her eyes playfully. "Really? With the Miss Swan?" She teased before connecting their lips together once again. She mumbled against the plump flesh, "I'm going to make love to you all night long, if it's the last thing I do."

The mayor giggled softly into their kiss and happily nodded the best she could without breaking the kiss.

Four rapid knocks on their hotel door broke them apart. "Room service." The voice called.

The blonde pulled away. "After we eat, it's on, Madam Mayor." She vowed with a wink.

Regina watched her true love walk to answer the door, her wide smile going nowhere. Her and Emma were in love and she made her own vow that she would keep it that way forever.

They finally said it! :D I must say I had fun writing this chapter. I adored all the feedback I got from last chapter! You guys are awesome! Next post will be Saturday & smut will be in the beginning. Also, I'm so glad you guys like Chief, Boss, & Penny. I, too, think they're adorable so no worries, they aren't going anywhere. ;) Review & let me know how you liked Lily :P Until next time!