Poison & Wine

Chapter 48

The sheriff scoffed a laugh as she realized what the mayor was doing. "Oh, I get it. This is a test to see how I really feel about having a baby. Well nice try, babe. I'm cool, calm, and collected."

Regina didn't say a word as she walked over to her closet and dug out the positive pregnancy test she took from the shoebox she put it in. With a deep breath she exited the closet and headed towards her confused lover. She held the stick out. "I took it the same night you got shot." She confessed.

Emma looked into brown eyes before she tentatively took the pregnancy test in her hand and looked at the results. Two pink lines glared back at her, making her brain short circuit. Her jaw dropped open. "I… did I do it?" She questioned, looking back up at the brunette.

A dark eyebrow rose in offense as she crossed her arms. "Are you accusing me of cheating on you?"

The blonde shook her head empathically before the older woman even opened her mouth. That was about the worst thing that could have come out of her mouth. "Nope!" She denied. "No, no, no. Not at all. I just…" She looked back down at the stick. "I can't… I just don't know how." Her stomach was in knots and her eyes went to the flat stomach in front of her, as if looking at it would make the words coming from Regina's mouth all the more real. "You-you told me that I wouldn't be able to… get you pregnant." She felt bizarre just saying it. "You said it was hard to do!"

"It is!" The former queen defended her words.

Emma scoffed and waved the stick in the air. "Apparently not so much!"

"Well it's not my fault you have knack of conceiving children out of wedlock!" After Regina said it, she knew that was the definitely not the right thing to say. "I'm sorry-"

The savior glared at her. "That's a low blow and you know it!" She accused.

Regina stood her ground. "You were the only blaming me for this."

"I wasn't blaming you." The blonde denied. "I'm just… reacting it to. Jeez. It's not like you thought to tell me when you fucking found out so we could react together. You hid it from me since-" Green eyes widened as she recalled her lover's earlier words. "Please to God tell me you didn't fight Zelena when you knew you were pregnant." She stared at the older woman.

The mayor cleared her throat. If she lied, her true love would know, but telling the truth also looked like an awful idea. "I knew."

"Jesus Christ, Regina!" Emma yelled and clenched her jaw in anger. "You knew and you went anyways?" She scoffed in disbelief. "You've known and you kept it from me! What, was the plan to abort the baby and have me never find out?"

"Do you think I'd have told you now if that was the plan?" The brunette asked with a glare. "I wasn't purposely keeping it from you, Emma. I wanted to wait until you were healed and everything was back to normal. I was trying to find the perfect time to tell you." She explained herself.

Emma let out a dry laugh. "So you chose to tell me when I haven't slept for 20 hours? Because that's the perfect time?" She ran a hand through her blonde hair in irritation.

Brown eyes rolled before she went to their bedroom door and opened it wide for the sheriff. "Go." She motioned.

"What?" The blonde asked, confused.

"Look, I get that you're shocked and panicked, or whatever the hell it is you're feeling, but I'm not going to fight with you just to have you storm out like always so let's just skip to the end, shall we?" Regina offered up. "You're pissed. I'm a bitch for keeping this from you. You didn't mean everything you just said to me about your baby fever and you don't want anything to do with us. I get it. So you can leave. Go have a scotch at Granny's and hide out with your pirate friend because honestly, Miss Swan, I don't have the energy to fight with you about this."

Emma glared harshly at her girlfriend. She was pissed; she did think that Regina was a bitch for keeping her in the dark; She was itching to escape through that door and pour herself a scotch at Granny's, but the brunette was wrong about one thing: she meant everything she said about wanting a baby together.

"No." She stormed over to the woman and grabbed the door in her hand before she slammed it closed and locked it. She pointed an accusing finger at the frustrating mayor. "You don't get to accuse me of wanting to abandon you and my baby. I'm not going anywhere. We're going to talk about this like we should have the second you found out."

"You probably woke up Henry and dogs with that childish door slam." The former queen pointed out.

The savior didn't even respond to that. "First of all, I meant every word I said to you about children. Unlike you, I'm not a big fan of lying in this relationship! I'm not leaving you, but I'm glad your faith in me is so high. Second, I think I've earned the right to be pissed off at you. You had a million opportunities to tell me and you didn't say shit!" She wasn't raising her voice anymore, but she was stern. "You knew you were pregnant when you fought Zelena and you went anyways! You could have fucking died and then what, huh?" She was starting to get emotional just thinking about it. "You could have lost it." Nervous fingers reached out and stroked the covered torso of her lover as tears formed in her eyes. When she removed her hand she looked down at the stick in her other hand, her eyes wide as she thought about something. "H-have you made sure that you didn't lose it? Since the whole Zelena thing happened? Because you got thrown around like a ragdoll."

Regina nodded. "I had a blood test done. I'm nearly eight weeks along."

"Eight?" The sheriff exclaimed. "That's like two months!" She tried to think back to two months ago. Life was peacefully simple back then, before the Wicked Witch and all that. Neal was gone so they didn't have that drama.

Emma tried to pinpoint when she could have possible impregnated the former queen. Two months ago they were having so much sex. There was office sex, jail cell sex, car sex, shower sex, kitchen sex, and all of it was amazing.

"Nearly two months. Not quite." The older woman corrected her. "It was news to me as well when I found out."

The savior scoffed, still angry. "Exactly. When you found out. You've already had your reaction to all of this. You took away the opportunity for us to find out together- for us to freak out together!"

"I just got the blood test to confirm my pregnancy, Emma. I didn't want to tell you and have you panic about it only to find out later that I lost it. I was thinking of you." Regina told her.

"Bullshit." Emma rolled her eyes. "You were thinking of yourself."

The mayor huffed her displeasure. "Fine. You want the truth? I was stalling to tell you because I knew you'd freak out about it."

Green eyes got wide with rage. "Of course I'm freaking out! We're talking about a baby! Are you saying that when you found out that you weren't freaking out at all? You were just perfectly calm?"

Regina thought back to it. When she found out about the baby she was frightened and unnerved, but a lot of it had to do with the fact that she was worried about how the blonde would react. At least, that's what she would tell herself. "I was in disbelief more than anything else." She decided upon. "But unlike you I at least felt a little bit of happiness about it."

"You think I'm not happy?" The blonde asked gently after a small pause. "You don't think there's a part of me that wants to hold you and never let go? I do, but I'm mad at you! No." She shook her head. "No. I'm not even mad, baby. I'm hurt." She corrected herself. "Because at the end of the day, you didn't trust me enough to tell me."

The mayor shook her head. "I trust you."

Emma was starting to get emotional again. Maybe she was really the pregnant one. "No. You said it yourself, Regina. You predicted my reaction, right? That's why you didn't tell me. You didn't trust me to be there for you. After all this time you still don't trust me."

"Don't make this into something it isn't, Emma." Regina pleaded as she watched the defeated state girlfriend was spiraling into. "I trust you."

"You trust me, but you expected me to leave you, right? You damn near offered it to me a minute ago. You said I wouldn't want anything to do with you or the baby. Is that what you really thought I'd do?" The sheriff wondered. Did her true love really think so little of her?

Regina reached for the blonde's free hand and looked into the hurt green eyes. She caused that look. "No. No it's not."

The younger woman tried to detect a lie, but she didn't find out. She let out a deep sigh and looked down at their tangled fingers. "Then why even say it?" She was still clutching the pregnancy test in her other hand.

"You know why." The former queen said quietly.

And Emma did. She had been in a relationship with the brunette long enough to know that Regina loathed vulnerability. She'd go into defensive mode and start spewing hate and anger at the one closest to her. It was an issue they were working through and one they didn't want to focus on at the moment.

With a deep sigh Emma moved to sit down on the bed. "You should have told me about the baby before you even took this test." She motioned to the stick that she was still clutching.

"I didn't want you to worry if there was nothing to worry about." Regina defended her actions.

The savior shook her head. "You should have though, Regina. Regardless of what you did or didn't want, this pregnancy is as much mine as it is yours."

"Would you have been okay with me fighting Zelena if you knew?" A dark eyebrow rose in question. When Emma paused she had her answer. "Exactly. So don't act like you wouldn't have done the exact same thing in my shoes. I had to think of the town. I had to protect you and Henry and if I didn't any of our future children wouldn't have existed because none of us would have existed." She explained.

Emma nodded. "I know and I wouldn't have been okay with it, but I would have understood the instinct at least." She rubbed her face. "You can't treat me like our son and just withhold information from me until you see fit to tell me. Even if you know I'll freak out, or get pissed, or be hurt, you need to tell me. We have to honest with each other."

"I know." Regina said in a slightly irritated tone. "And I understand that I should have told you sooner. I apologize for that."

The savior closed her eyes for a moment and put her elbows on her knees before resting her head in her hands. "I'm exhausted." Murmured into her palms.

She wasn't sure she was really ready to forgive the mayor. She was being petty, she knew. It was basically spilled milk at that point. Regina was pregnant and regardless of how far along she was or how long she knew about the baby before telling Emma, nothing changed the fact that it just didn't matter.

They created a baby. This would be their second baby together, really, but their first to raise together from the start.

Brown eyes moved over the younger woman before Regina tentatively moved over to the bed and sat down beside her girlfriend. She put a comforting hand on her back and scratched over her clothes. "If we sleep now we'll get a good two hours in."

Emma lifted her head and made eye contact with her true love. She moved her head forward until their foreheads were leaning against one another. "I want this baby, Regina." She said earnestly. "Granted I thought I'd at least have a good two year of learning about babies with my brother before I had another one of my own, but it wouldn't be my life is something insanely unplanned didn't happen." A small chuckle escaped the former queen, but she halted when she felt fingers slip under her blouse and stroke over her stomach. "Two months." She huffed out a disbelieved laugh with good attitude.

"Not quite." Regina corrected her lover.

Green eyes rolled playfully. "We should probably make a doctor appointment. Right? When can we hear the heartbeat?"

The older woman shrugged. "I have no idea. I've never done this before."

Emma stroked her thumb up and down the woman's abdomen. "Are you scared?"

"Very." Regina confessed.

The savior cleared her throat. "Me too." She confessed. "But we're gonna do this together." She said firmly.

Regina felt tears burn her eyes as her heart expanded with joy. She nodded against the younger woman's forehead. "I love you."

With a humble grin, Emma moved her hand from under the mayor's shirt and wiped away the three tears that fell from her brown eyes. "I love you too." For a split second she thought about proposing. She quickly dismissed it though. If she popped the question now, Regina might think she was doing it just because she was pregnant and also they wouldn't have time to sleep before they had to get up. So instead of opening a whole new can of worms she leaned forwarded and kissed her girlfriend sweetly. "Let's go to bed before I die."

Emma yawned loudly as she drove the cruiser. It was her day on patrol, her dogs were in the back of said car with their windows rolled down, heads sticking out and Hook was in the passenger seat on the phone with Tinkerbelle.

"You're being dramatic, love!" He yelled into the receiver. By the way he was talking, the sheriff assumed they were fighting. "Don't talk about my ship that way! She's been a loyal vessel! I'm working right now. I can't deal with this." He hung up the flip phone and rubbed his stubble. "Crazy broad." He muttered.

The blonde chuckled. "Trouble in paradise?" She asked.

"Do you and Regina fight a lot?' The pirate asked her.

Emma scoffed with a smile. "Every day pretty much."

Blue eyes widened in disbelief. "You're joking."

"Nope." The savior shook her head. "I mean, we don't literally have it out every single day, but we bicker." She shrugged. "It's a relationship, dude. Do you expect to stay in the honeymoon stage forever?" She asked him and took a huge gulp of her coffee.

"No." Killian assured her. "But things have been just… dreadful lately on that front." He admitted. "I'm not sure it's supposed to be this hard."

The blonde looked over at him for a moment. "You're not thinking of breaking up with her. Are you?"

A small pause followed the question. "I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about it."

"Whoa." Emma said in surprise. "Seriously?"

"I don't want to end things." The pirate pointed out. "But I just feel like lately we're making each other miserable."

The sheriff felt bad for him and the fairy. Sure her and Regina had their fair share of ugly fights, but they always somehow managed to work through it. "What do you fight about?"

"What don't we fight about?" He exclaimed. "Moving in together, our work schedules, how I don't pick up my dirty socks in her apartment. The list goes on and I'm tired of it." He vented.

Emma laughed. "Dude everything you just mentioned is something I've argued with Regina about multiple times."

"How are you guys still together if you've had all those fights?" The man asked.

A grin overtook the savior's face. "How? Because we worked our asses off to overcome those stupid fights. Look, if being in love were easy everyone would do it. Sometimes it's really hard, and sometimes you'll go through rough patches but you have to fight for your relationship. When I went all self-loathing over Robin Hood you said I had to fight for Regina."

Hook sighed. "I've been fighting, Swan and I'm bloody tired of it."

"Well too bad. You love her, Killian. Do something nice for her. Buy some flowers. Kiss some ass. Apologize, because you're probably in the wrong." Emma told him.

The pirate pondered that for a moment. "And all that sappy romance stuff… that works?" He questioned her.

"Oh yeah. In fact, I gotta go by the flower shop later. We can pick them something out together."

A dark eyebrow rose in question. "What'd you do that was so wrong?"

Emma bit her lip as she contemplated her next move. She wasn't sure if she should tell him or not. "I- Okay." She cleared her throat. "What I'm about to tell you is classified information."

"Okay." Killian said slowly.

"Regina's pregnant." The savior told him.

For all intent and purposes the pirate tried to act surprised. He widened his crystal blue eyes. "What?"

Emma heard the strain in his disbelief. A thought occurred to her and she gasped. "Did you already know?"

Hook shook his head. "No." He insisted.

The sheriff's nifty lie detector went off. "How do you know?" She demanded to know.

"I do-"

"Don't lie to me." The woman growled and hit him in the chest with his fist. "How did you find out? How long have you known? Why didn't you tell me?" She hit him with every question she had.

"Ow!" The pirate grumbled. "Swan, stop it with the fists!" He pleaded.

Emma relented and tossed him a glare. "Tell me how you know."

"It was the Queen." He confessed. "When she ripped her sister's heart out, she told her that she was pregnant."

The savior freaked out. "What?!" Her girlfriend definitely didn't tell her that part. "Who all heard?"

"Me, Belle, Neal, and… your mom." The brunette tallied up.

Green eyes widened. "My mom knows!" She practically screamed. "The woman who spilled a secret to start the path to the curse managed to keep that a secret?" She scoffed. "Unbelievable." She did a quick U-turn.

"What're you doing, Swan?" Killian questioned her.

The sheriff was determined. "I have a few words to say to my girlfriend."

"It's just every day. He does or says something stupid at least once a day and it's completely ridiculous. I don't know how much longer I can do it." The blonde fairy confessed with a frustrated sigh.

Regina was half listening half doing paperwork. Really she was just plain exhausted and not up for trivial conversations. But when Green called her earlier she really needed coffee so she told her to pick up some and they would talk.

"Regina?" Tinkerbelle got the older woman's attention. "Regina, are you listening to me?"

The mayor nodded. "Yes. You and captain eyeliner have hit your first rough patch." She summed up the woman's words.

"I'm not sure if it's a rough patch or if we've just reached the end of our relationship." The fairy explained. "He's just so thoughtless and childish lately."

Regina laughed and put her pen down. "He's been that since I've known him, Tink. I hope that when you entered your relationship with him you weren't hoping to change him. Because while I don't see the appeal, my girlfriend seems to have found a good friend with him."

"Well he's an amazing friend." The blonde gave it to him. "But as a boyfriend he's just… immature. How do you and Emma do it?"

Dark eyebrows furrowed. "What do you mean?"

"You're just both so different. How do you not fight?"

Regina scoffed. "Oh, we fight plenty." She corrected the woman. "We also make-up plenty as well." There was a small smirk on her face at the thought.

Tinkerbelle rose a blonde eyebrow. "You mean sex?"

The former queen nodded. "Yes. Hook will always be immature and irresponsible but if you have sex with him a lot, chances are you won't be annoyed by those traits." She rolled her eyes. "Obviously you were able to deal with them before. Just learn how to do it again."

"Do you-" The fairy was interrupted Emma and Killian storming in.

Regina cleared her throat. "Speak of the devil." She smirked up until she saw the peeved look on her lover's face. "What's-"

The sheriff cut her off. "My mother knows that you're pregnant?"

"You're pregnant?" Tinkerbelle gasped.

The mayor glared at Hook before she turned to her girlfriend. "I was going to tell you when we got home."

Emma took a deep breath and walked over to the marble desk. "I can't believe you told my mother."

"Just to be clear, Swan, she didn't just tell Snow. She told a whole room full of people." Killian reminded her.

"Stay out of their conversation." Green instructed her boyfriend.

The savior looked at her true love. "That's right. You told Belle and Neal too. Whale knows. Is there anybody else that's aware or am I going to find out that the whole town knew?"

Regina licked her red lips. "If we're keeping a tally, Rumple knows as well."

"Am I going to get anymore surprises about this?" Emma needed to know. She was sick of being blindsided. "Lay it all out on the table for me now, baby."

The mayor shook her head. "That's everything, dear. I promise you. No one else knows aside from some nurses who handled my blood work at the hospital."

The blonde woman nodded and looked around the desk at the large cup of to-go coffee on it. "What's this?" She asked, picking the nearly empty container.

"Coffee." Regina said with a shrug.

"You can't have coffee." The savior told her in a casual tone.

Regina scoffed. "Says who?"

"It's actually thing." Tinkerbelle butted in. "It stunts the baby's growth and development."

Brown eyes widened slightly as she looked up at her girlfriend. "Really? I didn't know that."

Emma nodded. "Yeah. You can't have coffee either. Or take any medicine aside from Tylenol."

"That seems rather extensive." The older woman said.

"At least you're not forced to eat prison food while you're pregnant." The sheriff joked and tossed the coffee in the trash bin.

"I can't believe you're pregnant!" Tinkerbelle fawned, eyes glowing. "How far along are you?"

Regina was smiling but she quickly shook her head. "No. Enough. I can't have this conversation while I'm working. If you'd like to talk about this we can go to our house after the coronation ceremony tonight and discuss it."

All three of the people in her office looked at her in confusion. Emma spoke up, "The what?"

"You didn't read the E-mail Mary Margaret sent out?" She asked the group. They all shook their heads. "They're having a ceremony to welcome their son to town and give him some pointless title as prince or something." She waved off. "It's all very ridiculous, but I assumed you'd want to go, dear."

Emma groaned. "Well I kinda have to go. God, I'm so tired though." She complained.

"That makes two of us, honey." Regina told her.

"Sometimes I hate my parents." The savior said with no real malice at all.

The mayor chuckled. "Again: that makes two of us."

So Emma knows! We have roughly two more chapters until this story is complete & it's bittersweet for me. There will be a sequel though so that makes it better :) Next chapter is the coronation for David Jr. & some more pregnancy stuff as well as Henry finding out not only about the baby but about Emma's plans to propose.

Review & let me know how you liked it! New post will be up Sunday. Until next time!