Poison & Wine

Chapter 47

Regina walked down the stairs into her vault while Emma was right behind her. "Don't touch anything, honey." She told her with complete seriousness.

They reached the floor of the small hallway and the blonde asked, "How am I supposed to learn magic if I can't touch anything?" The hallway opened up to a room full of things the savior had never seen before. She found some weird dehydrated claw thing and picked it up as her girlfriend went further into the room.

"The same way I did with Rumple." With a deep breath, Regina swiped her hair out of her face as she looked over the magical chests she brought over from the Enchanted Forest. "We're going to create a solid foundation first and then build your skills from the ground up." She was turning around in midsentence when she saw the rebellious true love of her life looking curiously at her baby dragon claw. She wasn't even surprised by the disobedience. She took several steps towards the blonde and snatched the claw from her. "I said don't touch." She set the item back where it was.

Emma at least had the decency to look apologetic. "What'd you do with that thing?

Brown eyes rolled in annoyance. "I'm sorry, is this your magic lesson or a history class?"

"Someone is testy today." The sheriff commented in a teasing tone and shoved her hands into her pocket.

Regina went to her magic book chest and opened it. She decided to ignore her lover's comment because they both knew the older woman got into sour moods every so often. "Did you make plans for Henry in case we aren't done by the time his practice is finished?"

The blonde cleared her throat. "Yeah, my parents are taking him. They're on a mission to prove they're fun grandparents."

"What?" The former queen asked as she searched through the bin for the book she was looking for.

Emma chuckled. "When they babysat him a couple weeks ago, my mom filled his brain with pregnancy information."

The mayor huffed a laugh. "I'm sure that went over well."

"About as good as you could expect with a twelve year old boy. He's completely traumatized. I get it though. It's not like pregnancies are fun." The blonde said nonchalantly.

Regina swallowed the displeasure she felt at her lover's words. She reminded herself that the younger woman was oblivious to her pregnancy. Thankfully the conversation could change because she found the silver covered book with a heart in the middle. Before it belonged to her, it belonged to Cora. She grabbed the book and opened it where the bookmark was. "Let's start with roots for incantations." She held the pages on display in front of her true love.

"Yeah, I didn't understand a word of that, baby." The savior bit her lip as she took the book that was handed to her and tried to read it. "Are you kidding me right now? What the fuck kind of language is this? Spanish?"

The mayor rose an eyebrow at the question. "We're not making tapa's, honey." She said in an irked tone. "We're making magic. It's Elvish." She explained as if that made everything clear. "Well, it's half Elvish."

Emma shook her head. "Yeah, see, again I have no idea what that means." She glanced at the book once more, but it was useless. "There's no way I'm going get this. Is this how Gold taught you?"

"No-" The former queen began but was cut off.

"Just think about your training. What other methods did he use?" The blonde questioned.

Regina scoffed. "Rumple was bully, dear. He didn't suffer fools and he certainly didn't coddle his students. If he tried to teach you to swim and you couldn't learn, you drowned." She glanced behind her and tossed the book back into the chest because her girlfriend was right. She'd never learn that way.

"Seems a bit harsh." The savior commented.

An idea shined bright in her mind. The only time Emma had ever successfully accessed her magic was when she was either in extreme pleasure or extreme distress. Her brown eyes glowed with a plan. "That's it."

Emma was quick to notice the gleam in the brunette's eyes. "That's what?" In a blink of an eye the sheriff was on a rather flimsy bridge, clutching the rope railing for dear life. She took in her surroundings and saw her lovely but overdramatic girlfriend standing safely just away from the bridge. "What the hell are you doing?"

The former queen watched with an evil smirk as the savior tightly clung to the bridge. Her hands were politely held in front of her as she calmly said, "Teaching you to swim."

Heights were never a favorite for the former orphan. She was pretty terrified of them actually and the brunette knew that. "Baby, are you out of your mind?"

Regina remained impassive. If worst came to worst then she'd save the younger woman, but she doubted that she'd be needed at all. "Every time you're exhibited your power, it's been spurred by either distress or… in the middle of sex."

"So you're first idea was to put be above a piece of shit bridge? You could have just fucked me in your vault or something?" The sheriff asked, trying not to look down.

The mayor chuckled darkly. "Well, we can do that next. But for now, we're going to push you.

Emma's hands were starting to sweat she looked down at the rocky surface so far beneath her. "Okay, I take it back. I'll read the elf book thing." She offered.

"As soon as you stop me, we can go back to the vault." Regina offered.

Green eyes widened in panic. "Stop you from what?"

"Doing this." She motioned her hand and conjured up an enchantment.

The wood started flying off behind the sheriff at a rapid pace. "Baby!" Emma screamed in alarm. "Baby, stop this isn't funny. What're you doing?"

"Making the bridge collapse." Regina stated nonchalantly. "You can either stop it… or die." She said darkly as the wood finally gave out and the fit sheriff was hanging by just the ropes.

Emma's terror of heights was starting to overwhelm her. Did she really think her girlfriend would let her die? Of course not, but that didn't mean she would let her suffer and at least fall for several feet. "Regina, that's enough! Stop this!"

"No! You stop it!" The mayor yelled at her. "You wanted this and you won't get any more handholding from me. You have to do this. Reach into your gut, honey. I know you can do this. It's inside of you, Emma." The blonde looked up at the breaking rope, feeling her stomach leave her. She clenched her eyes shut tightly. "Save the bridge, dear." Her lover told her calmly. "Save yourself."

The rope broke free and as Regina watched her true love fall, she felt outright panic course through her. She took a timid step forward, prepared to save girlfriend and that's when she saw the blonde on floating wreckage from the bridge. The mayor took a relieved breath through her nose as the stunned savior was brought to the ledge.

"I did…" Emma was speechless. "Did I just do that?" She asked the older woman in disbelief.

Regina nodded. "Yes. When all I wanted was for you to re-tie the rope." She motioned to the bridge railing where the rope was no more. She took a step to the side as the sheriff joined her on the ledge.

The green-eyed woman turned around to look at the bundled mess of a platform she made before she looked at her true love again. "Why are you pissed? I did it. Does it matter how?"

"You think I'm mad because you didn't listen to me?" Regina asked. "I'm mad because look at all of this potential inside of you and you've been wasting it." She told her seriously. "And also now thanks to you I have to find it in the budget to rebuild this bridge. If you had just re-tied the rope I wouldn't have to."

Emma scoffed. "Well I'm mad at you for putting me on the bridge in the first place." The younger woman informed with her angry face on. "You know I hate heights."

"And you know I'm impatient." The mayor countered. "Besides, I would have saved you before anything terrible happened." She put a comforting hand on her lover's shoulder.

The savior let out a relieved grin and wrapped her arms around the brunette. "Please never do that to me again."

Regina laughed and hugged the woman back. "You're the one who wanted to do it Rumple's way."

"Well you know me, Regina. You should have told me I didn't really want that." Emma told her as she pulled away from their hug. "But I do believe you promised me hot and sexy vault sex. Unless you'd like to do it right here, right now." She challenged, cocking a blonde eyebrow.

"I don't need hiker's seeing your pale ass reflect the sun as we make love." The mayor teased.

The blonde huffed a laugh. "Sorry I don't tan my ass, Your Majesty."

Regina's eyes lit up. "You want your Queen, dear? I'll give you your Queen." She smirked.

In the blink of an eye Emma felt herself somewhere else with a blindfold on. When she went to pull it off but was stopped by a firm hand on her wrist.

A reprimanding tsk was made. "Don't even think about it, Miss Swan." Regina said, her tone thick with seduction.

The savior smirked and brought her hands back to her sides. Sex was on the horizon and the blonde was pleased about it. "Where'd you bring us?"

"You'll find out later, dear." The former queen assured her lover as those dark red lips of hers curled into an evil smile. She magiced them into the privacy of their bedroom for what she had planned.

Dark eyes slid over and up the blonde's body. Regina found her girlfriend looked rather sexy while standing there with her sight taken away by the black scarf. She also appreciated the lumberjack style the younger woman was sporting. It always titillated her that the savior could look enticing in anything.

Emma swallowed thickly as she started to become aroused. She felt a ghost light touch trail down her neck and it made her skin erupt in goose bumps. "S-so are we done with magic for the day?" A low chuckle made the blonde hair on the back of her neck stand up. She bit her lip as the familiar tingle of arousal started to spread through her.

"Oh, silly little Sheriff." The brunette purred as she gripped the woman's jaw in her strong hand. She turned her head to the side and glided her tongue over Emma's ear. "I'm nowhere near done with you." She sucked the lobe into her mouth before she nibbled on it. She relished in the strangled moan that left her true love. "We've merely just begun your magic lesson. Now sit down." She grabbed her shoulder and forced the blonde to sit down on the bed that was behind her.

"This is sexy as hell, Regina, but how am I supposed to learn magic if I can't see?" The sheriff questioned her teacher.

Gentle fingers moved to the black vest Emma was wearing and took it off of her shoulders before she started to unbutton the plaid shirt. "As I told you at the bridge, dear. You've only been able to conjure your magic in extreme situations, sex being one of those situations." She explained as she reached the bottom of the shirt.

Emma helped shrug the long sleeve shirt off of her. "And while I am all for the sex, should we be fooling around with sex and magic at the same time?" She asked, looking at black into the direction she figured her girlfriend would be.

The mayor snorted a laugh at the question. 'If you hadn't already knocked me up, maybe I'd be worried about that.' She grabbed the dark maroon undershirt the blonde was wearing and slung it across the room. "Trust me, dear, we won't be making a baby today."

"Why not?" The younger woman asked with a smirk. "Think I'm not powerful enough to do it?"

Brown eyes rolled at her girlfriend's rather smug question. She decided not to continue the conversation, because she was already on a slippery slope of lying about it as it was.

So instead of answering she just sunk to her knees before the blonde and unbuttoned her jeans. She slipped her hand inside the tight denim and past cotton panties.

Emma gasped and the mayor licked her lips at the sight of her blindfolded lover tossing her head back a little. "You're wet."

Blonde hair moved as she nodded her head. "Mhm." She fisted the covers under her.

"Do you remember when you said you wanted to see me in my old queen outfits?" The older woman questioned as she palmed the savior's clit.

The sheriff spread her legs as warmth spread through her body. "Yeah." She groaned when the pressure to her core was gone.

Regina tugged the jeans off her true love before she stood up and transformed herself into one of her favorite outfits from back in the Enchanted Forest. "Well, I'm wearing one right now."

A deep moan slowly left the savior. She bit her lip. "Let me see." She requested eagerly.

"You can see me, Miss Swan." Regina smirked and when the blonde made a move to remove the blindfold, she used her magic to keep her hands down. "You didn't let me finish, dear. You can see me if you remove the blindfold with your magic.

Green eyes rolled behind the black scarf. "What's the outfit look like?" She asked the former queen.

Regina laughed darkly and looked over herself. She was wearing her crimson red dress with her gold-jeweled plunge design and its black-feathered collar. It was one of her more revealing dresses from back then and she knew the blonde would appreciate that. "Let's just say that you'll be able to bury your face between my breasts."

"Baby!" Emma whined, her mouth watering at the thought. "This is torture."

The older woman smirked. "You have the ability to end your torture, Swan. Just focus on what you want."

With a growl, the blonde thought about how much she wanted to see the alter ego of the Evil Queen. She was craving it.

"Open your eyes, dear." Regina requested when the scarf disappeared. Her lover had done it.

Emma did as she was told and saw her favorite sight to date. There the mayor was, hair done up in the sexiest mother fucking dress the sheriff had ever seen. "Holy shit." She practically moaned.

"You wanted to see your queen, dear. Well here I am." The older woman motioned to herself. "What are you going to do about it, Savior?"

The blonde licked her lips as she looked over her enticing lover. "What do you want me to do, your Majesty?" She countered with a smirk of her own.

Before Regina could open her mouth, the sheriff's phone rang. She thought about telling her girlfriend not to answer it, but it could be about Henry so they put their game on hold.

"Hello?" Emma growled into the phone with anger.

"Ma! Grandma is in labor." It was Henry.

Regina watched as green eyes went from angry to concerned. "Seriously? Are you sure?" The savior exclaimed.

"Her water broke. Grandpa said to meet us at the hospital."

"Okay. We're on our way."

"Hurry. It's gross." The boy told her.

The blonde hung up and gave a disappointed look to her sexy dressed true love. "My mom yet again is interrupting my sex life with her labor." She grumbled. "But we're definitely going to re-visit this because fuck me are you hot, baby."

Regina wrapped herself in a cloud of smoke to change her clothes. "Perhaps on your next magic lesson, dear. Now come on."

Mary Margaret was taking deep breaths in the hospital bed as Charming held her hand. "How far was that from the last one, Henry?" The deputy asked.

His grandson looked at the stopwatch on his phone. "Four minutes." The poor boy was traumatized after he felt his grandmother's water break over his foot when she was standing next to him.

David rubbed his wife's arm and looked into her eyes. "Deep breaths. You're doing wonderful."

The schoolteacher let out a grimaced smile. She was in pain whenever the contractions started, but when they were gone the pain was bearable. "Let's hope this baby comes as quickly as Emma did."

Charming laughed softly. "Well if my memory serves me correct, Emma was born a tad too quickly."

The room door flew open and revealed the blonde they were speaking about and her girlfriend. Emma let out a relieve sigh. "Good. I didn't miss the birth."

"It won't be for couple more hours." Mary Margaret informed her daughter.

Regina squeezed the savior's hand. "I told you that it took a while." She said before turning her gaze to her son who was sitting on the window bench with wide eyes. "Darling, are you all right?"

"I've seen things, mom…" He trailed off, standing up and walking towards his parents. "It happened so fast…" Regina wrapped her arms around him with an amused smile.

"What'd you do to him?" The sheriff asked her parents when her mother's contraction ended.

David glanced at his grandson before he made eye contact with his daughter. "We were at the arcade down the road and Snow was standing by him while he played a game when her water broke."

"Ew!" Emma curled her lip in disgust.

The mayor wanted to laugh, but she composed herself and lovingly rubbed circles on her scarred son's back. "You poor thing, dear."

"David! I'm having another one." Mary Margaret groaned loudly.

Emma cleared her throat. "Yeah, We'll just be in the waiting area."

Three hours later it was nearing 10:30pm. Nothing had changed baby wise and Emma was bored as could be. She looked to her left and saw her beautiful true love stroking their son's hair as he dozed off. The blonde took the mayor's free hand in hers and kissed the brought it to her lips for a gentle kiss.

When their eyes met the savior whispered, "You and Henry should go home. Catch some real sleep."

It was Thursday after all. They both had work tomorrow and the kid had school. But Regina shook her head slowly. "No. Henry's aunt or uncle could be here soon." She whispered back.

Green eyes lit up with amusement. "True, but he's got school tomorrow and he already missed a day when I was shot. And you'll need some sleep for those boring fucking meetings you have tomorrow." The blonde pointed out.

The mayor smiled softly. "Honey, we're family. Granted, we're an unconventional one, but we are one nonetheless. And this is big for you. You're getting a little brother or sister. I want to be there for you." She told her honestly. Also, she wanted to see how the savior would react to a newborn. Her time was running out to tell Emma about her pregnancy, that much was clear, but she couldn't very well spring it on her today. Tomorrow. She decided. Regina would tell her tomorrow.

Emma grinned at the older woman. "Fine, you win but at least let the kid get some proper sleep."

"Are you trying to get rid of me, Swan?" The mayor teased with a smirk.

"I'm just trying to be a responsible parent, my dear queen." The blonde corrected her. "One of us has to be."

Regina bust out with a quiet laugh. "Call your pirate. Have him come pick up our son. He can sleep in the guest room. But I'm staying right here with you."

Killian and Tinkerbelle came for Henry around 11:00 and informed the couple when he was sleeping soundly. They were instructed to watch over the dogs and stay at the mansion until Regina called them with news of the baby.

The mayor conjured her laptop earlier so she could get some work done while she waited. Her girlfriend had made Killian bring over some paperwork from the station so they were both engrossed with work for several hours.

When Regina finished her work she glanced at the time on her computer. It wasn't until 2:45am. She looked down at the still working savior who was sprawled out on the floor surrounded by papers. She saw her yawn. "Are you tired, dear?"

It was the first sound either of them made since they started catching up on their paperwork. Emma rubbed her tired eyes and nodded. "A little." She confessed. "Who knew having a baby would take this long."

A dark eyebrow rose. "How long were you in labor with Henry?"

"Not long. Three hours I guess. Maybe four." The sheriff shrugged. "Nothing compared to the ten they've been in there." She complained.

Regina made her laptop disappear and moved seats so she was directly behind her girlfriend. She let out a yawn of her own as she went to massage tense shoulders. "I'm sure it won't be long now."

As if on queue David entered the waiting area in a scrub gown. He looked ten times more exhausted than either of the women. The couple both stood at his presence. "So?" The younger woman questioned him.

Charming cracked a smile as he looked at his daughter. "You have a brother."

Emma grinned widely and hugged him. "It's about time." She teased him.

"Congratulations on your first born son." The mayor told the man as he pulled out of his embrace with her lover.

The former prince moved over to the brunette and wrapped her in a hug as well. "Thank you." He told her.

The affection was unexpected and a tad uncomfortable, but it was brief. When they pulled out of it, her fingers tangled with Emma's. "How was the delivery?"

David huffed a relieved sigh. "Long, but everything went good. They're cleaning him up now while Mary Margaret rests."

"When can we see the baby?" Emma asked in an eager way that Regina found adorable.

"Soon." Charming promised.

Fifteen minutes later David led his daughter and former adversary into the hospital room.

Mary Margaret was on the bed smiling at her sleeping son with tears in her eyes. She looked up to see her husband walking towards her with Emma and Regina behind him. "Hey." She greeted them quietly.

"How the kid doing?" The sheriff questioned her mother as she walked over to see her sibling.

Snow moved the baby so her first born could see his face better. "He's ready to meet his big sister."

Emma's green eyes lit up as she looked at the little infant with a full head of dark hair. "He's got your hair, mom." She noted.

The schoolteacher chuckled softly. "I guess he does."

"Can I hold him?" The blonde woman requested.

Mary Margaret lifted the baby carefully. "Just make sure you support his head."

Regina watched from the doorway as her true love fawned all over the newborn boy in her arms. Her heart clenched with joy at the sight. She could tell the savior loved her little brother already. "Do you have a name for the royal baby picked out?" She asked the parents.

David and Mary Margaret made eye contact as Emma kissed the baby's forehead sweetly. "Well," the deputy began, "we've gone back in forth-"

"But," Snow cut him off, "we decided to name him after someone brave and honorable."

Emma smirked playfully. "Emma Jr." She nodded and looked towards her girlfriend who rolled her eyes.

The fairytale couple laughed. "Close, actually." Snow told her. "Guys, meet David Jr."

"Or DJ for short." Charming smiled.

Emma grinned at the baby in her arms as he started to wake up. "Hey there, DJ. I'm your sister. Emma."

Regina shut the door to her mansion a tired smile on her face. It had been a long night for everyone and she was ready to crawl up into bed with her equally as exhausted girlfriend and sleep for a good two and half hours before they had to get Henry ready for school and head to work themselves. She ran a hand through her greasy hair as she walked up the entry steps and into the foyer. "Honey?" She called with wonder, not knowing if Emma was upstairs already or not.

A deep and strangely sexy grunt caught her ears. It erupted a soft snicker from the brunette. She walked slowly towards her lover, following the previous sound into the family room. When she took a step inside of the dark room, she saw her girlfriend lying flat on her stomach on the couch with her eyes closed. "Aw, is the new big sister tired?" She teased in an adorable tone that made Emma beam while she was half asleep.

The savior groaned as a warm body plopped down on her, limbs and all poking. "Baby…" She mumbled, not once opening her eyes.

Since Emma moved in, she had discovered one of her favorite traits about her true love. It happened nearly every night of the blonde's life. Regina would get tired and when she got tired, she got snuggly. It made every bad day she ever had better. "Come upstairs with me, dear." Regina requested. "The couch isn't nearly as comfortable as our bed."

Emma grunted. "Bed is too far away."

The brunette laughed and nuzzled her face in the woman's neck. "But your back won't hurt if we go to our room."

"Fine." The sheriff relented.

Regina crawled off of her lover and held her hand out for her. "Hurry up. We don't have long and I'm exhausted."

The younger woman lifted herself off the couch with help from the former queen. She smiled tiredly at her girlfriend and kissed her. "I told you that you could go home."

"And miss you fawning all over your baby brother?" Regina asked with a raised eyebrow. "I couldn't have possibly missed that."

The couple reluctantly climbed the stairs to their bedroom. "Can I say something without totally freaking you out?"

Brown eyes looked over the savior curiously. "If you didn't do anything to betray me then yes."

Emma rolled her eyes as her and Regina reached the second floor and walked into their room. "I didn't. It's about babies. More specifically it's about our babies."

Panic arose in the mayor but she tried to keep it at bay. Both her and Emma were wildly too exhausted to be having a conversation about her pregnancy so she was weary to respond. "Okay…" She trailed off nervously.

"I know what you're thinking." The blonde said while she changed out of her clothes and into a pair of sweat pants and a wife beater. "We're not even engaged, we haven't been together that long, blah, blah, blah. I agree. I know we're not ready to have a baby yet, but seeing my parents today… I don't know… I'm starting to get baby fever a little bit." She huffed a laugh.

Regina swallowed the lump in her throat at the confession. "Really?"

The sheriff nodded. "Yeah. Crazy right? I mean I know nothing about babies, but I don't know. I think that in a couple years we could maybe handle it." She admitted. When she saw the freaked out look on her lover's face she shook her head, ready to backtrack. "You know what? Disregard me. I'm tired… I haven't slept. I don't know what I'm saying. I must be delirious. I-

"I'm pregnant." Regina blurted out.

It was said so quietly that Emma was convinced she didn't hear her right. "You... you're- W-what?"

Brown eyes widened slightly. That wasn't what she planned to say. "I-"

"You're pregnant!?"

Regina slowly nodded.

You know how much I love cliffhangers. Lol. :) Next chapter will deal with the outfall of Regina telling Emma & the town welcomes the Royal baby. Post will be Friday! Review to tell me how you liked it! Until next time!