Poison & Wine

Chapter 29

Emma was the last of the local police to arrive at the hospital. Hook and David were both sitting in the third floor waiting room. "Morning guys." She greeted casually.

Charming stood up. "How's Regina?" He asked his daughter.

"She's a little tired, but good." The savior informed him, taking the cup of coffee that Killian offered her. "Why are you both here?" She asked.

Hook furrowed his dark eyebrows. "You told me to meet you here."

"I said for someone to meet me here. Not both of you." She corrected. "Someone needs to answer calls at the station and do paperwork. Regina will kill me if I don't finish the paperwork by Monday."

The pirate smirked. "I don't think rough sex qualifies as 'killing' you, Swan."

David blanched. "Excuse me?"

Emma's eyes widened. She quickly recovered and cleared her throat. "Okay, so I'm going to go talk to Neal. Dad, you can come with me. Hook, go open the station." She dug into her pocket for her keys and took the department key off the ring before tossing it to him. "Call David if anything important happens."

"You got it, Sheriff." Killian said after he caught the small piece of metal. "I'll need the cruiser key, of course."

Charming gave him the keys and followed his daughter down the hall. "So, what Hook said back there, that was a joke? Right? You and Regina haven't been together that long and-"

"Dad." Emma cut him off when they stood outside of Neal's door. "We're at work. I'm not going to discuss my sex life with you." She told him firmly.

When she went to open the door, David grabbed her hand. "Just, yes or no? Have you two been intimate?"

Green eyes rolled as she sighed deeply. "Yes." She told him. "I've spent the night with her multiple times. What did you think we were doing?" She asked rhetorically before opening the door to ex-boyfriend's room.

Neal was asleep when they entered, and Gold was nowhere to be found, but Belle was sitting on his bedside. "Hey." She greeted the pair.

"I thought he was awake." The blonde noted, walking slowly to the patient's bed, looking over him.

Belle nodded. "He was. He's in and out mostly."

"Where's Gold?" David questioned.

"He went to see Regina." The auburn brunette informed them.

Emma's ear alerted at the information. "What?"

Belle clarified, "He went to thank her for saving Neal."

The sheriff scoffed. "Yeah right."

"He did. Neal told Rumple what Regina did for him so he went over to her office." The woman informed her.

Charming still wasn't too clear on the events of the previous day and his mind was still slightly fixated on the fact that Regina had taken certain liberties with his pride and joy so he was mostly removed from the situation.

The savior didn't understand. "Why would he go over there though?"

"To thank her." Came the raspy voice of Neal.

Emma's head whirled to him and she smiled softly at seeing his brown eyes again. "Hey dumb ass." She teased, lightheartedly.

The brunette man found it in him to chuckle. "It's nice to see you too, Em."

David cleared his throat. "Belle, would you like to go get some coffee with me?"

Belle nodded and stood up. "Yeah." Charming opened the door for her and followed her out of the room, leaving the exes together.

Emma sat down next to his bed and chewed her lip. "I'm glad you're okay." She said honestly. "How are you feeling?"

The man thought about it. "Sore. Tired."

"I need to get your statement." She declared to him.

Neal licked his dry lips before motioning to the cup of water beside the bed. "Can you?"

Emma nodded. "Sure, yeah." She grabbed the cup and slowly poured him a mouthful.

"Is Ariel pressing charges against me for stealing her bracelet?" He asked.

The blonde shook her head. "No. She's just glad you're okay, but Dr. Whale reported your injuries as a result of an assault so I've got to close the case."

Baelfire nodded his understanding. "Did you get Regina's statement?"

"Yeah. I took it yesterday." She confirmed.

"So she's okay?" He asked.

"She's fine." Emma assured him. "A little tired. I don't think she'll be going for a swim anytime soon." She chuckled softly. "But physically, she's all good."

Neal offered a weak smile. "Good."

"What happened out there, Neal?"

The brunette took a deep breath. "I was almost to the Enchanted Forest when she grabbed me."

"She being Ursula?" Emma asked.

"Yeah. I hadn't ever met her, but she was villain so I figured she'd know who my father was." The man explained.

Blonde eyebrows furrowed. "Did she not know who he was?" She couldn't imagine someone from that place not knowing who the dark one was.

Neal huffed a laugh, feeling a light pain in his stomach. "No, she definitely knew him. It just wasn't good memories. Big surprise, my papa screwed her over for his own personal gain. She planned to kill me for revenge against him."

Emma didn't need anything more on that front. Gold fucking people over was kind of his thing. "How'd she make the lashes on you?" She asked.

"She had this gold spear thing. Twenty-one lashes." He recalled. "She counted them out loud."

The sheriff wondered if the number meant anything. "Why twenty-one?"

Neal shrugged. "No idea. She just kept slicing until I was too tired to move. My blood, it was all in the water around me." As he recalled the events, Emma could see the fear in his eyes. "After she was done, she grabbed me and threw me out of her little cave. I thought maybe she had let me go until I saw four sharks coming at me." The blonde furrowed her eyebrows. Her girlfriend never mentioned anything about sharks. "The next thing I knew they shrunk into trout and Regina was swimming towards me. Next thing I know I'm waking up here."

Both of them were quiet for several beats until Emma decided to be honest. "Neal, what you did was stupid."

The man scoffed. "That's understatement of the year."

"I'm glad you're safe and everything, but you put yourself in this situation." She told him. "Your pursuit of Robin Hood is ridiculous-"

"I know. All right?" Neal cut her off. "You're with Regina. She's your true love." He didn't sound happy about it, but at least he was acknowledging it.

Emma licked her lips. "Did you know that when you went to find Robin Hood?" The man nodded and his answer caused the savior to stand up. "Damn it, Neal." She gritted out. "If you knew then why the hell would you still go?"

"Because I'm an idiot, okay?" He exclaimed. "I love you and I was willing to try anything- do anything to get you to be with me. I thought that bringing Robin Hood here-"

The sheriff shook her head as she cut him off. "Would make Regina leave me?" She demanded to know. "You're right. You are an idiot because bringing Robin Hood here would have accomplished nothing but bruising my knuckles because I swear to God I would have beat both you and that stupid dude unconscious."

Neal was slightly amused. "You don't even know the guy and you're insulting him."

"I saw the cartoon." She grumbled.

The brunette nodded. "I know. You liked the cartoon." He chuckled.

"Until I found out the guy almost ended up with my girlfriend." She laughed along with him, moving to sit on the edge of his hospital bed.

After their laughter subsided, they made eye contact. Neither of them spoke for a moment, both enjoying the light air between them. "I'm sorry." Neal confessed. "Belle told me that you seemed really worried about Regina. She didn't have to come after me, but I'm grateful she did. Can you thank her for me?"

"I can, but you should really tell her yourself." Emma suggested.

Neal agreed that he should tell her himself. He made a point to do just that when he got released. "Does Henry know I'm here?"

The sheriff shook her head. "No. We wanted to wait until we knew you'd be okay. We plan on telling him about it after school today."

"I'd like to see him." Bae requested.

Emma wasn't on board. "I don't know, Neal. He's still pretty upset with how you reacted to me and Regina."

"Come on." He huffed. "I was shocked."

"You called her a bitch and claimed that she had done something to make me be with her." The savior reminded him. "Look, who the fuck knows where he got it from but Henry's a pretty forgiving kid. He won't be mad forever. He'll probably even want to come see you tonight after we tell him what happened to you. And if he does, we'll stop by, but if he doesn't you'll have to give him time and apologize. He's protective of Regina."

The man hoped his son would want to come see him. "You'll really come by if he wants to?"

"Yeah. And if you're asleep, I'll ever wake you up." The blonde told him. "I don't want to keep him from you, Neal. I just want you to grow up and quit trying to ruin my relationship."

A nurse knocked on the door and entered the room. "It's time to clean your stitches." She informed the man. "I can come back if it would be better you?"

Emma shook her head, answering for her ex. "No, thank you. We were just done."

She went to leave, but turned around when she heard, "Hey Em?" Their eyes met. "I promise I won't interfere anymore."

"I hope you keep that promise." She told him before exiting the room.

Regina was on her laptop ordering a new cellphone for Emma when there was a knock on her door. "Come in." She called and officially added the iPhone to her cart.

Her eyes widened when she saw Rumplestiltskin limp his way into her office. "Good morning, dearie." He greeted.

"Gold." The mayor said formally, closing her computer and folding her hands over the device. "What are you doing here?"

The older man stood before her desk and looked around. His stance seemed uncomfortable and awkward, but Regina said nothing as she waited. "My boy woke up early this morning." He informed her.

She nodded. "Emma told me. What about it?"

"He said you helped him." Gold told her.

Regina shrugged. "That's why I went after, Gold- to stop him from getting himself killed. I know your past with Ursula."

The pawnbroker chuckled bitterly with the memory of his past with the sea witch. "Yes. It's a rather colorful one isn't it?"

"You killed her mother." The former queen recalled. "To be honest, I'm surprised she was so traditional with her torture of Neal."

Gold tightened his lips. "She never did have the stomach for killing. She always fed her victims to the sea."

The mayor cleared her throat. "Why are you here Gold?"

He straightened his posture slightly. "I assume your beloved Miss Swan told you about our conversation yesterday."

A brown eyebrow rose. "I can assure you that you aren't a topic of discussion for us."

"Regardless, I've come here to… thank you for helping Bae." The man struggled to get out.

Regina was rather surprised. She crossed her arms, taken aback by his words. "Such rare words to hear from the dark one."

Gold rolled his eyes. "That biting humor doesn't fit you, dearie."

"You don't owe me your thanks." The woman informed him. "I didn't help Neal for you. I did it for my family." She clarified. "He's Henry's biological father and regardless of her protesting, I know Emma cares for him as all."

The older man chuckled darkly. "The Evil Queen is trying to lighten her heart, is she?"

Regina shook her head. "This wasn't about me, Gold. I don't expect you to understand that, because everything you do if solely for your benefit. But I helped Neal for the two people I love in the world, not to appease you." She cleared her throat. "So if that's all you came here for, you can leave now. I'm slammed with paperwork."

Gold thought about saying more, but he had said his peace and that was all he could do, so he simply left.

Emma stopped by the mansion to pick up Chief and Boss. They had spent the better part of the morning outside with a decent amount of water and food to tide them over. The savior and her dad arrived at the station shortly after.

They were greeted by Hook talking on the phone as Penny slept on the cot in the holding cell. The puppies ears perked up when she heard footsteps and when she saw her brothers scamper into the room, she hopped off the bed and greeted them.

Hook saw the sheriff and lit up. "Oh! She just came in. Want to- Yeah, here she is." He held the phone out to the sheriff. "It's the queen."

The blonde woman took it. "Swan." She spoke.

"Honey, you haven't ordered a new phone yet. Have you?"

Her eyebrows furrowed. "Not yet. Why?"

"Well don't. I just ordered one for you."

"Okay. Why'd you do that? I was going to take care of it."

"You're a procrastinator. You'd be without a phone for weeks before you actually did something about it."

Emma wanted to be offended, but her girlfriend was right. "All right. Well thank you. I'll pay you back."

"Don't worry about it, dear." The mayor assured her. "How was Neal?"

The sheriff sat on Killian's desk, getting comfortable for this conversation. "He was all right. Said he's sore. But he also mentioned sharks."

A long pause was echoing on the line. "Well he was in and out. Who knows how much of what he said you can trust."

"Nice try, Regina. He said you turned them into little fish."

"It wasn't a big deal." The older woman told her.

Emma scoffed. "Maybe so but it is a big deal that you didn't tell me. We literally just talked about lying to each other last night."

"Now, I didn't lie." Regina corrected.

"No, you just omitted the truth." The blonde argued.

"Because I knew you'd overreact to the whole thing."

"Do you see me overreacting?" Emma asked. "You're a big girl, baby. A couple sharks are nothing for you. I just wish you'd have told me instead of just assuming I'm some nagging girlfriend."

The mayor sighed. "I don't think you're some nagging girlfriend, Emma."

"You should have told me is all." The savior ended it at that.

"I should have." Regina agreed. "But on another note, Gold stopped by my office today."

"Yeah, I heard something like that. What'd he want?" Emma questioned.

"To thank me." Her tone was surprising.

"Hm. Seems very un-Gold of him." The savior chuckled.

Regina joined in on her laughter. "That's what I thought. He seemed genuine too."

Green eyes widened. "Wow. Are we in an alternative universe?"

"I asked myself the same question."

There was a small pause. "Not that I don't love hearing your beautiful voice, but I imagine you wouldn't be calling me on such a busy day unless it was important and while ordering my phone could be argued as important, surely that's not the only reason you called."

"No, it wasn't. However, the reason I called isn't necessarily important, but this was driving me absolutely crazy; all that stuff you have at your parent's house from your whores, you won't be bringing them when you move in. Right?"

Emma rolled her eyes at her girlfriend. Jealous bitch. "I don't know, baby. Can we discuss this later?"

"If you do bring them, I hope you don't think that they'll be brought into our room. I won't have trophies from your previous conquests sitting on my dresser mocking me."

The blonde laughed into the receiver. "As fun as this jealousy of yours is, I'm going to postpone this conversation. I have a huge pile of paperwork that I have to do and my boss is such a bitch when I don't get it all done by the deadline."

Regina ignored that. "I won't do it, Swan. They can come in the house, but not the bedroom."

"I love you, Regina. I'll talk to you later." She hung up before she even heard a reply.

Killian was smirking at her when she put the phone down. "She was jealous, was she? Neal kiss you at the hospital?"

Emma pushed his face away and walked towards her office. "No, dick face. Watch the puppies for me. Any accidents they have are for you to clean up."

Henry and his birth mother were playing video games at the loft when David walked in, causing the two previously sleeping puppies to stand up and bark him as he carried groceries in.

"Calm it down!" Emma commanded and both of the boys lied back down by her feet, ceasing their barking.

Charming was rather impressed. "They seem well behaved." He noted as he placed the bag on the counter and opened the fridge to put them away.

The sheriff nodded as she completed a pass against her son on the game. "I work on their pack mentality and behavior during lunch." She informs him. "Where's mom?"

"She's picking up her prescribed prenatals." He grumbled.

Emma furrowed her eyebrows. "You don't sound too happy about that."

"Well I went there earlier to pick them up, but apparently I wasn't allowed to even though I'm her husband." David ranted.

Henry intercepted his mom's pass and laughed. "You're gonna have to do better than that mom."

"Isn't Regina supposed to be coming over?" The blonde man asked his daughter. He knew the couple was supposed to tell the boy the events of yesterday.

"Yeah." Henry answered for her. "She's on her way over."

Mary Margaret stormed into the loft and slammed the door behind her. "So guess what I just found out!" She yelled to the room, causing the savior to pause the video game she was playing.

Emma, Henry, and the two wolf hybrid dogs didn't move. David walked over to his wife and bravely asked, "What?"

"You weren't able to pick up my prescription today because we aren't legally married." Snow revealed.

Charming was confused. "H- We're married." He disagreed. "I vividly remember out wedding day. Regina interrupted and declared our eternal misery."

"You're welcome for fixing that by the way." Emma winked at them, finding humor in the situation.

Henry huffed a laugh. "You're welcoming for bringing you here."

The sheriff scoffed. "You're welcome too for getting people to believe you weren't crazy."

Mary Margaret ignored the pair sitting on the couch. "We were married in the Enchanted Forest, David. Not here which means we don't have any spousal privileges."

"Does that make me a bastard child?" Emma asked.

Blue eyes glared at her. "This isn't funny, Emma." Charming told her before turning back to the pixie haired woman. "So, if we're not legally married then what does that mean for the baby?"

"I don't know!" Snow exclaimed, rubbing her forehead. "I'm not sure how everything works in this world."

Emma decided to throw them a bone and stood up. She walked over to them and rubbed her mom's back. "Calm down. In regards to the baby, it won't be affected too much as long as you name dad as the father on the birth certificate. If you want spousal privilege though, you can just get married again, legally."

"Yeah." David nodded in agreement. "We can just get married again."

"Great!" The savior grinned. "You can go tomorrow."

"Woah!" Mary Margaret shook her head.

David was in agreement with his wife. "No way."

The younger woman furrowed her eyebrows. "What?"

The couple looked at one another, smiling like two love struck teenagers. "If we're going to get married again, let's do it right." Snow suggested, beaming.

"Maybe this time Regina won't threaten our happiness." The deputy chuckled.

Emma rolled her eyes. "Well maybe this time you'll invite her to the wedding."

Charming held his true love's hands in his own. "What do you say? Will you marry me one more time?"

The dark haired woman nodded enthusiastically. "I'd marry you every day." They kissed sweetly until a knock on the door interrupted them.

Emma was smirking as she went to answer the door. Having her girlfriend there was going to be absolutely hilarious. She opened the door and let her girlfriend in. "Baby, you're just in time. Guess what my parents are going to do?"

So Neal won't interfere anymore. Let's hope it lasts. Next chapter our ladies will reveal their plans to move in & you'll get to see how everybody reacts to that. Also, there's going to be a great section with Henry totally giving it to his dad. Lol. I found it rather enjoyable. New post will be Sunday!