Poison & Wine

Chapter 36

"So… he just left?" Henry asked his parents.

It was Wednesday afternoon and after admittedly stalling, both Emma and Regina decided to tell their son about Neal's departure. He hadn't asked about his father since he got grounded the previous week, but word had started to get around about Baelfire's exit and the last thing they needed was Henry finding out from somebody else.

The family was on the couch, the boy in the middle with his mothers on either side of him. Emma gave him a sad look while she nodded. "Yeah, kid."

Regina rubbed his back soothingly. "He left a note with Gold that said he'd be back though."

Henry scoffed. "Screw him!" He exclaimed with anger.

"Henry." The mayor scolded.

The boy rolled his eyes. "No, I'm not apologizing." He said firmly. "He left without letting me know! He left a note for his dad, but he didn't care enough to leave one for me?"

Emma didn't even try to defend the man's actions. She could see past the anger in his son's eyes and saw the hurt there. "He's a piece of shit." When green eyes met brown, the savior could tell her girlfriend wasn't pleased with her but she went on. "You deserve better than him."

Henry felt emotion in his throat. He looked teary eyed at both of his true parents. He loved them both more than anything, but there was a small part of him that wanted a dad around to teach him things like shaving, dating girls, and working out. He felt hot tears in his eyes. "Did he say why he left?"

"His note to Mr. Gold said that he needed some time away." The mayor said and cleared her throat. "I won't lie to you, dear. Mine and Emma's relationship could very likely be one of the reason's he left."

The boy looked down at his lap. He didn't understand why his father was so adamantly against his mothers' relationship. "He left because he didn't want to see you together?"

Emma shrugged. "We don't know, but it's possible."

"Why does it bother him so much?" The brunette boy asked, mostly to him.

Regina decided to answer anyways. "He spent a long time in love with Emma. I imagine it's hard for me to let that feeling go."

A blonde eyebrow rose at the former queen, wondering where she formed that theory. Regardless, she went along with it. "A lot has happened here."

"I don't get why you guys are sticking up for him." Henry told them. "He left me without saying goodbye."

Emma shook her head. "We're not sticking up for that dick. Fuck him." She received a glare from the older woman. "Excuse my language. But he screwed up… again. He proved that we can't trust him. I will never stick up for him after this, but in his note, he told Gold he wasn't gone for good."

The mayor took the opportunity to step in. "We want to be honest with you about this because there's a very real possibility that Neal comes back and wants to rebuild a relationship with you again."

Henry shook his head. "No. I don't want anything to do with someone that abandoned me." He frowned. A father was pointless if he just up and left every time he didn't like something that happened in his life. He still had his grandfather thought and David could teach him manly things. "I don't need my dad." He insisted, tears rimming his eyes.

Regina ran her hand through her son's shaggy hair and kissed his scalp when she heard the slight hitch in his throat. She didn't say anything because she didn't know what to say to make him feel better, so instead she brought him to her chest and hugged him tightly. When a small sob escaped from the boy, she grazed her nails around his back in comfort. Her brown eyes looked up and into green ones. Both wore expressions of pain on their faces. Their son was hurting and they had no way to help.

Henry wrapped his arms around his mother and clutched her sides as several tears ran down his cheeks. He felt like a wimp, but he was sad. His father didn't care enough to be in his life, despite how painful things might be for Neal.

After watching the two brunette's embrace for several beats, Emma scooted closer and kissed her son's hair, moving one hand to wrap around his shoulder. She leaned her forehead against the side of his hair. "We love you, kid. Me and mom, we'll always be here for you." She assured him. "No matter what, you'll always have us."

The family stayed in their hug for solid ten minutes until Henry got himself together and pulled away, wiping his eyes and giving a kiss to both of his moms. "I love you." He told him sniffing away his snotty nose. "Can I go upstairs?"

Regina rubbed his shoulder. "If you'd like. But if you want to talk more we can."

Henry shook his head. "No thanks. I was going to call Nick and talk to him."

The sheriff nodded. "All right. If you hurry with your homework, we might be able to sneak in some videogame time before mom is finished with dinner."

"Really?" The boy looked to his adoptive mother, knowing she was in charge.

The brunette woman forced a smile. "Yes. You're still grounded from leaving the house, but all of your privileges here are reinstated."

Henry offered them a grateful smile. "Thank you." He told them before he stood up and walked up the stairs towards him room.

When Emma heard the faint sound of the door shutting to his room, she rubbed her girlfriend's back. "Are you okay?"

Unshed tears rimmed the mayor's eyes as she shook her head. "It hurts me to see him hurting."

"Me too, baby." The sheriff agreed and kissed a clothed shoulder. "But there's nothing we can do but love him and be there."

Regina nodded, but a few tears still fell from her lids and her true love was quick to wipe the salty liquid away. "I know. I know you're right." She sighed, leaning her forehead against the younger woman's. "I wish he'd have talked to us more though."

Emma looked into brown eyes. "He knows we're here if he wants to talk, Regina. But Nick is his best friend. He's probably up there cussing Neal as we speak."

The mayor chuckled at the very likely possibility. "I suppose as long as he's talking to somebody I can't be upset."

"Exactly." Emma grinned before she kissed the woman slowly but firmly.

Regina slipped her tongue over the tasty bottom lip of her lover, trying to coax the savior's mouth open. She was pleased when Emma's lips parted and her tongue came out to leisurely tangle with her own. A small moan escaped her as the younger woman's hand curled around her neck, holding her close.

They kissed for several minutes and when things started to heat it up, Emma started to make the move to straddle her true love but the sound of two howling puppies broke them apart. Regina licked her lips and flushed. "Go get your noisy dogs. I'll start dinner."

Emma grumbled as the brunette stood up and walked away from her. She managed to slap the woman's ass and smirked when she heard her squeal in surprise. "We'll be finishing that later."

Regina chuckled darkly as she made her way to the kitchen. "I look forward to it."

Two week quickly past by for both Emma and Regina. Before they knew it, the Charming wedding was the next day and it seemed everyone involved was panicking to make everything perfect so naturally Emma was avoiding it.

It was around 2pm on Friday when Killian and Emma entered the mansion. Unsurprisingly things at the station were slow, so the pair decided to call it an early day and head to the sheriff's house for some video games. That was until they say the plethora of boxes by the front door.

"What's all this?" Killian asked, picking up the smallest of the boxes. It was addressed to Regina Mills.

Emma put her key into the door and opened it before she picked up the two larger boxes. "I ordered some things." She informed the pirate and went into the house, walking into the dining room and putting the packages on table.

Hook was right behind her with the smaller box. "What'd you get?"

The blonde grabbed her pocket knife from her belt loop and carved off the tape of the largest brown box, opening it to reveal the iron pull up bar. "I got some work out stuff for the kid. He said he wanted to build his upper body strength and since Neal isn't here anymore and my dad is too tangled up with the wedding I figured I could teach him. It couldn't hurt to work on my arms too."

Killian picked the iron bar out of the box and the two pieces along with it. "How is this supposed to help your muscles?"

Emma laughed as her best friend treated the bar like a dumbbell. "It goes in a doorway, dumb ass. I'll set it up in a minute and show you." She told him and went to open the other large box. She eyed the smallest rectangular box, not remembering if she ordered a third thing or not online. She spent a couple of hours on Amazon and ended up putting multiple things in her cart. She thought she deleted all the things she didn't want, but maybe he forgot one.

The pirate looked at the other package Emma opened. He raised a dark eyebrow as he looked at the box it came in. It was a wheel with handles on the side. "This world has strange devices." He noted.

"It's an ab building." The savior revealed and smirked slightly. "This is for me mostly." She confessed.

Hook smirked along with her. "The Evil Queen loves a define torso, does she?"

Emma chuckled as she moved that to the side and grabbed the smallest box. "That isn't the only thing she likes." She didn't even look at whom the package was addressed to and just went to open it. Her jaw dropped when she saw what was inside.

Killian released a giddy giggle as he leered into the brown box to the smaller box labeled, 'Strapless pleasure'. "Speaking of strange devices." He joked suggestively.

"I… I didn't order this." The blonde revealed in shock and looked on the outside of the package for the delivery label. She read her girlfriend's name and shook her head in disbelief.

Her eyebrows creased together. Regina and her had thrown out the other toys her first night in the mansion, but they hadn't discussed purchasing replacements. Emma had it in her head that she'd be waiting at least a year- if ever- for her true love to be ready for such a step in their relationship.

The pirate grabbed the purple box the mayor ordered and looked at the picture. "Have you talked about getting one?" He asked, intrigued by the item.

Emma had told him the truth about the box of sex toys in the storage unit, along with the fight it caused between her and Regina. After the brunette sailor spent hours at work cracking jokes about how freaky the former queen must be in the sack, the sheriff informed him of how they got rid of the toys because they weren't ready for that.

At least she thought they weren't ready for it. The purchase in front of her had her second-guessing herself. "No." She told him before snatching the package away. Looking dumbfounded at the packaged strapless dildo, she had to admit she was thoroughly impressed with the mayor's choice.

She wasn't going to open it, but the box had a clear window on it and she could see the dark purple dildo. It was larger than she thought Regina would use for her first time using a toy and it made her wonder if possibly her girlfriend didn't know which size she got.

"I'm-" Emma cleared her throat. "I'm gonna call Regina. Can you go outside and check on the dogs?"

Killian wiggled his eyebrows suggestively at her. "Going to have some phone sex. Are you, love?"

Green eyes rolled. "I wish." She said honestly and shoved him towards out of the dining room.

Hook chuckled, highly amused as she left the room and headed towards outside to check on his Penny girl.

Emma dialed her girlfriend and looked down at the box the whole time the phone rang.

"Hello?" Hearing Regina's voice made her mouth go dry for some reason. She was nervous to speak with her. She didn't know if she should mention the fact that she had opened the brunette's mail. Was that an unacceptable thing to do in relationship? She didn't know and if it was, and technically she didn't know it was Regina's package until she had opened it. "Emma, dear?"

The blonde cleared her throat. "Hey, baby. Sorry… I accidently had you on mute." She lied quickly; looking around even though she knew the room was empty.

"You're fine, honey." The former queen insured her. "What are you doing?"

"I just got home, actually." She told the older woman. "We had a pile of boxes on our front door."

There was a pause on the other side of the line. "Really? H-have you opened them?"

Emma bit her lip as she looked down on the sex toy. She didn't want to deceive her lover, but obviously the Regina didn't want her to know about her purchase or she would have told her. "Well, I got two boxes in for that work-out equipment I told you about."

"Mhm."

She closed her eyes as she just let words fall from her mouth. She didn't plan on what to say or which way to swing with her answer, but when she opened her mouth the truth fell out. "One box was for you, but I didn't read the name beforehand and I… opened it." Emma cringed as she awaited the backlash from the brunette.

To her utter surprise there was no anger in the mayor's voice when she said, "It wasn't supposed to arrive until tomorrow." Regina spoke with a sigh.

Emma could hear the embarrassment in her voice and her smug side started to make itself known. "You picked a good one." She noted with a grin.

"I'd say so. I read up on them." The former queen revealed.

The blonde chuckled softly, leaning against the dining table. "Of course you did." She bit her lip and imagined herself using the toy on her girlfriend. But she feared that maybe Regina had only bought one because it was something Emma wanted and not her. "Baby, I hope you didn't get this for me."

"I bought it for the both of us, Miss Swan. Don't be selfish." Regina teased.

Emma groaned in the back of her throat at the thought. "Oh, you play dirty Madam Mayor." Her sometimes sexually insecure girlfriend was nowhere to be found. Truth be told, it had been that way since the blonde moved in. Their sex life had gotten increasingly more frequent and neither was complaining.

"That's not the only thing I do dirty, dear." Maybe she lied to Hook. Maybe she was going to have phone sex.

"When will you be home?" The sheriff questioned, changing the subject.

Regina laughed through the receiver, knowing exactly what her girlfriend was doing. "I'm afraid I won't be home until five, but both you and Henry have practice this afternoon." She reminded her forgetful lover. Emma had taken on the assistant coach role to help out Marco.

The blonde dropped the toy package on the table and rubbed her forehead with a groan of irritation. "Fuck. So I should probably leave here soon."

"Yes. You also need to pick up your dress and Henry's tux from the fitter."

"Great." She muttered.

"You're a wanted woman, Sheriff." Regina chuckled. "On the bright side, I'll have dinner ready when you and Henry get home because I'll probably beat you back. Speaking of food though before I forget, me and you need to make a trip to the grocery store on Sunday."

Emma nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I figured that was coming up soon. But if we go on Sunday it'll have to be in the afternoon because my dad is taking a few days off work after the wedding tomorrow."

Regina huffed. "Which is ridiculous. They can't even go anywhere for a honeymoon and they agreed this wedding was just a formality yet they're treating it like their first one."

"It's my parents we're talking about, baby. We should count ourselves lucky they aren't inviting the whole damn town tomorrow." She chuckled.

Muffled voices could be heard on the other side of the phone. "I'm afraid I have to go, Emma. I have a meeting. Don't forget to pick up your wedding attire. I'll see you when you get back home."

"Love you, Gina." She smirked, knowing it would piss off the woman.

"I'm breaking up with you." Regina said sarcastically and hung up the phone.

Emma chuckled and pocketed her cellphone before grabbing the sex toy and workout bar. She had to show Killian how the iron bar worked and she really needed to hide the sex toy from prying eyes.

Henry and Emma got back to the house around 5:30. Both were carrying their respective wedding attire and quickly hung them up in the coat closet by the door. "We're home, baby!"

From the kitchen they heard, "Dinner is almost ready!"

The sheriff wrapped her arm around her son's neck and gave him a noogie. "I've got a surprise for you." She beamed happily.

Henry laughed as he struggled out of her grasp. "What is it?" He asked once he was free.

Emma pointed to the iron workout bar hooked around the living room entrance and drilled into the entry casing for extra measure. "I know it's a little high for you, but I figure that once you're up there you can handle the small drop down."

Brown eyes widened in excitement. "Sweet!" He had told her about wanting to become more muscles for football, but he wasn't expecting anything to help him.

"That's not the only thing either." She walked him into the living room and picked up the ab roller from the floor. "If you're not ready for that pull up bar yet, this will help you get there and give you some sick abs too." She informed him.

Her little boy wanted to become his own little pre-teen man. And while he was a little young to be starting such strength workouts, the blonde was willing to do anything to get him to feel better. He really had been down since finding out about his father leaving. And she wanted to prove that he doesn't need a dad to help him be a man. She could help.

Henry hugged her and muttered a thank you before he pulled away and looked at the hanging iron bar. "How do I use it?"

"Let me set an example. Count them for me, all right?"" Emma let out a smug grin before she stood on her tippy toes and grabbed the cool iron, gripping tightly before she lifted her legs and started doing pull-up, making sure to do it properly.

The boy watched and counted with each successful pull-up his birth mother did. He was up to twenty-five when he heard heels behind him, but he didn't stop counting.

Emma's arms were burning in that good muscle building way. She saw her girlfriend exit the kitchen and cross her arms with a raised eyebrow when she spotted her.

The sheriff was wearing a simple white tank top so Regina could clearly see the sexy defined arms of her true love. She licked her lips when her eyes caught a bead of sweat rolling down Emma's neck and plummeting into her cleavage.

"Thirty-one, thirt-" Henry stopped as the savior stopped and swung her arm muscles to shake out the burn. "That was a lot!"

Regina nodded her agreement, feeling her center tingle as she thought back to the concentrated her true love sported as she pulled her body up in the air. "Impressive, dear." She rubbed her son's back. "Go set the table, Henry." She instructed before walking up to the blonde and grabbing the previously flexing muscles.

Emma was smirking when she saw the dark familiar look in her lover's eyes. "See something you like, my queen?" She teased.

"I see something I'd like to devour." Regina said in that sultry voice that always made the sheriff go weak in the knees. She squeezed the biceps in her hands and admired the look of them.

"I got an ab builder too." The blonde revealed. "So I can tone up for you." She winked.

Regina wanted to pounce on her then and there. She growled deep in her throat as her hands moved to her girlfriend's abdomen. "I'm so turned on by that I'm not even going to yell at you for drilling a hole into the living room wall and making our house look like a gym."

Emma laughed and grabbed the older woman's hips. She scattered kisses along the column of her neck and moved to suck on the sensitive part behind the mayor's ear. "You'll sure as hell be yelling when I drill into you later."

Brown eyes rolled at the horrible joke, but she still allowed the assault on her skin. Her own fingers slipped under the savior's white tank top and exploded the hot, slightly sweaty, skin.

The doorbell rang, breaking them apart. "Oh come on!" Emma complained with an angry face. When she looked into the amused eyes of her girlfriend, she raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"I'm afraid you won't be drilling anything tonight and neither will I." The mayor revealed as she stepped to the door.

Emma shook her head slowly, not liking the woman's words. "No. Don't answer that door!" She demanded. She didn't know who was behind it, but she knew that whoever was behind it wasn't good for her sex life.

The mayor ignored her girlfriend and opened the front door, smiling at Snow White on the other side of door. "Mary Margaret. Come in. You're just in time for dinner."

Emma inwardly groaned when she saw the overnight bag. She had completely forgotten they said that her mother could stay at the mansion the night before the wedding. "Hey mom." She forced out a grin. There was no chance she would be getting laid with the pixie haired woman in the mansion.

Regina arrived to the wedding area near toll bridge thirty minutes before the ceremony was scheduled to start. She reluctantly had to admit that the two idiots did a lovely job with the set up. The wedding arch was filled with light baby blue and white roses and the aisle carpet was white and smoothed out over an area of rocks. The white chairs had baby blue bows tied to the backs and on either side of the chairs; several feet away were white enclosed tents.

The mayor assumed one was for the bride and the other for the groom. A few guests were already sitting in seats, but Regina wasn't ready to sit down just yet. She was anxious to see her girlfriend in that sinfully tight grey dress she had seen in the coat closet that morning.

"That's a sexy ass you got there, Mayor." Emma whispered hotly into her lover's ear from behind. She gripped the older woman's sides and slid them down to cup her ass, but Regina squirmed away and gasped.

Her brown eyes were wide as she said, "That's no way for a minister to touch a lady."

Emma laughed with a shrug and pulled the older woman back into her embrace. "Well can a minister say how gorgeous you look in this dress?"

The mayor was wearing an elegant sleeveless light yellow dress and white heels. She wanted to look nice, but not stand out at the same time. "Not any minister, but the one in front of me sure can." She smiled.

Regina took in the light grey v cut pinup dress her girlfriend was in and her fingers went to the loose baby blue tie around her neck that made no sense to be there, but it was somehow sexy in it's own right. "Can I tell a member of clergy how sexy she is?"

The sheriff nodded. "You can do more than tell her." She dared suggestively.

Brown eyes were glowing with joy, but she shook her head. "We'll have all the fun we want after the wedding, so the quicker you marry your parents, the quicker we can get home and do whatever we please."

Emma smiled, but she disagreed. "We have Henry."

Regina smirked widely as she shook her head. "He's going to Nick's house."

The blonde kissed her lover firmly. "I love you." She reminded and started a quick walk to her father's tent. "Dad! You better get down the aisle. Wedding starts in ten!"

The wedding ceremony and reception is up next as well as naughty Swan Queen ;) So be prepared! A time jump is coming soon. Not in the next chapter but probably the one after that. Next post will be Sunday! Happy early 4th of July everybody!