Poison & Wine
Chapter 50
Emma was looking around the hospital room as Regina changed into the required gown. "Is it weird that I think you look sexy in a hospital gown?" The blonde pondered aloud as she caught a peek of her girlfriend's tight ass in the reflection on the mirror on the wall.
The brunette instinctually covered the drift on her behind and looked at the sheriff through the mirror. She threw her and smirk and said, "I seem to recall I told you not to look, dear."
Emma felt her heart flutter at the seductive gaze. She chuckled as a flush brightened her cheeks and looked down with a smile. "Nothing I haven't seen before." She pointed out.
Regina got up on the exam table and under the thin sheet to lie down. "Nothing you haven't gotten pregnant before." The mayor said in a playful tease. "You can turn around."
The sheriff didn't need to be told twice. She turned around and walked over to the bed. "I still can't believe that part." She confessed with a breathy laugh and took Regina's hand in hers.
Brown eyes took in the happy face of her true love. She beamed felt like crying with joy. She'd always been such an emotional person herself, no matter how hard she fought not to be. Her pregnancy was proving to only intensify her emotions. "I love you, Miss Swan." She told her.
Emma's grin widened before she bent down to kiss her girlfriend. "Not as much as I love you." She promised.
A knock on the door got their attention.
Dr. Whale poked his head through and smiled at the couple. "How are we feeling today?"
"Nervous." Emma said with a laugh.
The doctor gave her a confused look before he pointed his pen at the brunette. "I was talking to Regina."
"I felt a little nauseous earlier this morning, but I'm fine now." The mayor assured the man.
Victor nodded his head and wrote that down. "That's typical morning sickness. Did you vomit?" Regina shook her head. "Have you been taking your prenatal vitamins?"
"No." The brunette said. "Is that… bad?"
Whale shook his head in a reassuring manner. "No. Most women buy over the counter prenatals but I can prescribe you some that will be more beneficial for the baby."
Regina nodded. "That would be great."
"I will get that done then." The man said with a smile before he took a deep breath. "Let's get to the reason we're here. Your baby. By my estimate and your blood work, you'll be eight week in two days. Now we don't usually do transabdominal ultrasounds until the ninth week of your pregnancy, but if you'd prefer an ultrasound to be done today we could do it transvaginally. Whichever you choose we can still try to pick up the heartbeat on the fetal Dobbler today, but there's no guarantee we'll be able to pick up the sound."
The brunette looked at her true love in question. "It's up to you, dear." She decided.
Emma licked her lips. "Are you okay with doing a transvaginal ultrasound?" She questioned.
With an amused chuckle Regina said, "I'll have to be okay with much more when I give birth."
"I want to see the baby today." The savior revealed to the room.
Regina nodded. "I agree."
"All right." Dr. Whale said and walked over to the sink to wash his hands. "If you could put your heels in the stirrups and raise your knees."
The mayor did as she was told and Emma had cared enough to adjust the thin sheet so her girlfriend wouldn't feel too exposed. "You said there's no guarantee we'll see a heartbeat today, but doing this we'll for sure see the baby. Right?"
Victor nodded as he wiped his hands and put gloves on. "Yes. I'll also be giving you a few sonograms." He sat down in a stool with wheels on it and grabbed the long transducer, covered it with a plastic condom-like shield. He moved between the brunette's propped legs and adjusted the monitor on the wall. "You'll be looking here." He instructed before he grabbed the gel and squirted it on the transducer. He looked at Regina and said, "This will be little cold."
The former queen felt uncomfortable the second Whale lifted the blanket from hindering his view. She felt the stick slide inside of her and she fought at gasp at the slow intrusion.
Dr. Whale looked at his patient for any signs of discomfort. "Are you experiencing any pain?" He questioned her.
Regina shook her head and tried not to think about the fact that someone she cursed was currently probing her crotch. She looked to her girlfriend who- if it was even possible- looked more uncomfortable than her. "Are you okay, honey?"
Emma was looking at Whale between her lover's legs. She knew he was a doctor, but she wondered to herself if maybe they should have seen a doctor who actually went to medical school in this world. "Hm? Yeah. I'm okay." She answered the older woman.
"You're sure?" Regina questioned, just to be sure. Victor was using one hand to hold the transducer in the brunette and the other hand to mess with the computer monitor.
The blonde nodded. "I'm just ready to see our baby." She told her and stroked the back of the mayor's hand with her thumb.
Dr. Whale smiled and turned the monitor on before started to lightly move the transducer inside the former queen. "And you will in just a moment." He told the women.
A small flutter was echoed throughout the room and Emma's eyes widened as she recognized the swishing muffled noise. "That's the heart beat." She beamed and looked down at the brunette.
Regina's mouth was open as she listened to the echo of the life inside of her. She felt green eyes gazing at her and made eyes contact with her. The couple shared a sweet kiss before they turned their attention to the sketchy black and grey screen. "I… that's our baby." She whispered in disbelief.
Dr. Whale fiddled on his keyboard and pointed to a little gray bean shaped figure on the screen. "That right there is your baby."
"It's a little peanut." Emma chuckled. Her heart felt full of joy.
"It's out little peanut." The mayor corrected her with a watery smile.
The doctor looked at the happy couple and froze the image on the screen. He removed the transducer from his patient and threw the gel covered cleared wrapper in the trash bin along with his gloves before he wheeled his stool away from them and stood up to wash his hands again.
Emma and Regina were too busy staring at their barely developed baby. The blonde felt her eyes start to water so she cleared her throat and sniffled. "Can you believe we made that?"
The former queen squeezed her girlfriend's hand and brought it up to her for a small kiss. "I go back and forth." She confessed with a laugh.
Dr. Whale dried his hands and looked at the ladies. "So, do you want some pictures?"
"I don't see it." Hook told his friend as they walked into the station. He moved the pictured by the corner, but he still didn't see anything.
Emma rolled her eyes playfully and pointed to the little grey peanut on the screen. "Right there, idiot."
Dark eyebrows furrowed as Killian looked where she pointed. "That's nothing but a blob." He argued.
The sheriff snatched the photo back and protectively put it in her chest pocket. "That's my baby you're talking about."
"I'm kidding." Hook chuckled and wrapped his arm around her shoulder. "Congratulations on knocking up the Evil Queen, Swan."
Emma kissed his cheek. "Thanks, dude. Who knew she'd be so easy?"
The pirate laughed. "So when are you planning to tell the boy?"
"Tonight, more than likely." The savior revealed. "And tomorrow I'm going to ask him to help me plan something special for Regina."
Hook smirked. "You finally going to propose, love?" He asked as they both got water from the cooler.
Emma nodded happily and sipped her water from the flimsy paper cup. "That's the plan."
"A baby on the way and a marriage over the horizon." Killian chuckled and sat down at his desk. "You've settled down, Swan."
The blonde let out a chuckle and sat on top of said desk. "I kinda have, huh?" She asked with a smug expression. "It feels good." She honestly never thought she would. Four years ago she was no more than an orphan with commitment issues. Now she was a mother with one on the way and a live-in girlfriend.
Killian chugged down his cup of water before he asked; "Aren't you nervous about having a baby?" He crumpled the paper container in his fist and tossed it in the bin. He missed.
"Oh, I'm terrified." Emma confessed with a shrug. "I mean I've been a mother all of- what? Two years? I missed all the sleepless nights and diaper changing years. I know next to nothing about babies, but despite all of that I'm excited. I'm having a baby with the woman I love." She summed up. "People go their entire lives without falling in love. I've been lucky enough to find the woman of my dreams and not only do we already have an amazing son together, but we created another baby on top of that."
The pirate smiled at his friend's happiness. He wanted to be that happy about his relationship with Tinkerbelle. "Does that mother of yours know that you're aware of Regina's pregnancy?"
Emma shook her head. "We haven't told her yet. I'm pretty sure half the town knows Regina's pregnant though. When we went to the hospital earlier all the nurses were staring at me."
"They're terrible gossips." Hook pointed out before he took a deep sigh. "So, I think I'll be moving out of my boat." He confided.
Green eyes widened slightly at the information. "That's quite a big change for you, Hook."
The man nodded. "Yes. I'm not selling her or anything, but Tink was right. It's not the most livable vessel for a lady."
Emma gave him a sad smile and squeezed his shoulder. "I know it's going to be tough." She knew how much that ship meant to him. He'd lived on it for most of his life and it belonged to his brother before he died. "I'll tell you what though, before you move out of it we'll throw you a moving out party. Rum and pirate games all night long."
Killian laughed. "Sounds like a good time, Swan."
The sheriff slapped his back as she stood up. "Now get to your job." She told him with a smirk before walking into her office and starting on her paperwork.
The doors were left open so she could still communicate with the pirate. After an hour of boring complain reports, she heard Killian hang up his phone and stand up. "We've got to go." He told her seriously.
Blonde eyebrows creased in confusion. She automatically stood up though and followed him to the door. "Why? What happened?"
"Gold is headed to the town line with Leroy." The brunette told her before he tossed her the cruiser keys.
"Call Regina." The savior instructed. "Let her know what's going on, but tell her she's not allowed to come help."
Killian scoffed as they exited the building and headed for the cruiser. The motorcycle sat beside the car, but it was seldom used. "Because that will go over well."
Green eyes rolled as she stepped into the cruiser and shut the door. When the man got into the passenger seat she started the vehicle. "Just call her." As she peeled out of the parking lot she muttered, "I just can't catch a breath these days."
Regina was practically fuming as she drove towards the town line. Who did Emma think she was demanding that the mayor stay put while Gold was obviously up to something. When she saw the cruiser parked on the side of the road and Emma arguing with Gold while Hook, Leroy, and Belle all stood watching she climbed out of the Mercedes and strutted towards the scene, heels clicking with each step.
"What the hell is going on here?" She glared at all the idiots before her.
Emma turned away from Gold and shook her head in disbelief. "I told you to stay at town hall."
Brown eyes rolled as she ignored her girlfriend and looked at the older man. "What could you possibly be trying to do now you little imp?"
Gold smirked at the former queen. "Something you'll appreciate I'm sure."
"What are you talking about?" She questioned him.
Emma spoke up, "He's trying to close the border completely! He was going to use Leroy as his sacrifice. He was planning to practically exile him!"
Regina's eyes widened. "Are you insane?" She demanded to know. "Why would I appreciate that? Why would you even want that?"
A light bulb went off in Emma's head. "Neal." She said aloud, figuring it out. "You're scared Neal will leave again and never come back."
Gold didn't say anything and by that, everybody knew the sheriff had hit the nail on the head.
Belle- who was the one to call the station- walked over to her boyfriend. "Rumple, is this true?"
"I lost my boy twice." The pawnbroker told everybody. "I can't let him escape again."
Emma huffed. "So you're going to hold him prisoner in this town? You're going to hold everybody prisoner?"
"Most everyone already is!" The man argued. "Only a few can leave this place."
Regina cleared her throat. "You'll be shutting down the dock if you do this. All shipments from the outside world will be cut off. Could you imagine the out roar if you do this!"
The dark one scoffed. "I don't care about the out roar it may cause. All I care about is keeping my son."
Emma got close to his face. "If you do this, he'll never forgive you." She told him in a low tone. "He'll hate you for it. You'll be the same monster he spent his whole life trying to get away from."
Rumple glared at the blonde. "I'll show you the monster I use to be." He promised and went to wrap his hand around her neck but was prevented.
"Stop!" Neal demanded as held the dagger in his hand. "Don't you touch her."
The dark one looked at his son like a kid with his hand in the cookie jar. "Bae-"
"No, papa." Neal shook his head and slowly walked towards them. "You've hurt enough people. You won't hurt anybody else."
Rumple shook his head. "I'm not trying to hurt anybody, Bae."
His son scoffed. "You were ready to wring Emma's neck." He reminded him. "Why, papa? Why do you always do this? Why do you always need to be in control?"
Regina slowly gravitated towards her true love and grabbed her hand to pull her away from the dark one. "I'm mad at you." Emma muttered as they moved away from the family drama.
"What did I do?" The mayor scoffed.
Green eyes searched her girlfriend to make sure she wasn't just playing dumb. "Two things, baby. One: I told you to stay at your office because I could handle this-"
"Please." Regina huffed. "You nearly got killed over there."
Emma rolled her eyes. "Who do you think called Neal and told him to find the dagger? I had it under control." She licked her lips. "But back to another reason I'm mad at you; you gave Gold a piece of your hair? And you didn't even tell me."
The mayor cringed. "I had no choice but to give it to him." She defended herself.
A blonde eyebrow rose. "You mean because he knew you were pregnant before I did and he threatened to tell me?" She questioned the older woman. "Belle told me all about it when I arrived."
Regina grumbled and glared at the auburn brunette. "Apparently you can't trust anybody to keep quiet about anything."
"Baby, I asked you to tell me everything." Emma fussed. She was frustrated. She was tired of being blindsided by everybody. "I asked you if there was anything else I needed to know about your pregnancy and you didn't think to tell me that the reason Gold knew was because he fucking threatened you?"
The mayor let out a legit whine. "I wasn't thinking. Okay? There's been a lot going on lately and it slipped my mind."
"That's a pretty big thing to slip your mind." The savior argued.
"Are you really going to scold the mother of your children while we have an actual threat on our hands?" Regina wondered with a raised eyebrow of her own.
The sheriff groaned and pointed a finger. "That's an unfair card to play."
As the blonde walked away Regina said, "If you can use the pregnancy card in your favor, so can I."
Emma stormed back over to where Gold was and looked at Neal. "Make him give me the potion." She requested.
The dark one looked at his son. "Don't listen to her. She wants you to leave town so she can live happily ever after with her true love and their children."
Neal looked at the blonde sheriff for a moment before he shook his head. "That doesn't matter. You can't close the whole border, papa."
"It's for us, Bae. We'll never be able to leave one another." Gold pleaded with his boy.
"That's the thing though, papa." Neal began. "We should be able to." He held the dagger tighter in his grip. "Give the potion to Emma."
Without his will, Rumple's hand rose to the savior and opened his palm. "I don't want you to leave, Bae."
Neal watched Emma take the vial and look at it. "I don't want to leave." He assured his father. "But if I do want to, I should be able to."
Emma gripped the vial in her hand before chunking it past the town line. She watched as the bottle broke and the previously shiny liquid transformed into pink liquid that spilt over the concrete road. The sheriff took the dagger from Neal and turned to look at the dark one. "Fuck with this town again and I swear on my unborn child that I'll take you past that line and stab you with this until you're dead." She walked over to where Belle, Hook, and Leroy were and handed the dagger to her. "This is for the good of the town." She explained. "Keep this away from him and hide it somewhere only you know."
"I must say that watching you go off on Gold like that was extremely sexy." Regina smirked as she straddled the blonde on the couch later that night while kisses descended down her neck.
Emma chuckled against heated skin. "That turned you on, baby?" She teased and nipped on the woman's pulse point.
The mayor gasped and dug her nails into her lover's shoulders. "I must say it did, Miss Swan."
"Did what?" Henry asked as he turned the corner. When he saw his mother's he covered his eyes. "Oh! Gross!"
"Uh." Emma grumbled and threw her head to rest on the back of the couch as the brunette crawled off of her. "I thought we talked about knocking, kid."
Regina licked her dry lips and took a seat next to her girlfriend as their son entered the room. "That was for when you're in your room. This is the family room." He pointed out and sat beside his adoptive mother.
"Actually, we have something we'd like to talk with you about." The former queen spoke up and swiped her son's lengthy hair out of his eyes. "You're getting a haircut tomorrow."
Henry gave them both a confused look. "That's what you wanted to talk to me about?" He asked.
Emma chuckled and shook her head. "No." She assured him. "Although mom is right. I'll take you to get one tomorrow after practice, but this is about something else. It's kind of big news."
The boy's brown eyes got wide with excitement. "You're getting married?"
Both women shook their heads. "No, dear." Regina deflated his enthusiasm. "Not yet." She added as an afterthought.
"So what is it?" He questioned them.
Emma cleared her throat. "Well you remember how we had the birds and bee's talk?"
Henry looked at his brunette mother before he nodded at the blonde. "Yeah…"
"I told you that men get women pregnant with babies and that's how I got you." The savior smiled.
"I remember." The boy grinned.
When the sheriff started to struggle on what to say, Regina put a hand over hers and smiled at their son. "Well, that's how it works in this world. Where I come from, sometimes two women who possess magic can conceive children."
The couple waited for him to put it together.
"So you guys can have a baby one day?" Henry asked, baffled. He didn't even want to think about the logistics of that conception.
Regina cleared her throat. "We both possess magic so-"
"Your mom's pregnant, kid." Emma interrupted her and ripped the Band-Aid off. "We went to the doctor today."
Henry beamed and stood up to look at both of them. "Really?" He yelled happily. "I'm going to get a brother or sister?"
The couple caught eyes for a split second as they both broke out with smiles of their own. "Yeah, dude. You get to be a big brother."
Regina's heart expanded with joy. "Would you like to see a picture?"
The boy nodded eagerly and moved to sit between his two mothers. "Yeah!"
"Now go easy on the kid, 'cause it doesn't really look like a baby right now." Emma explained as her girlfriend stood up to fetch a sonogram photo.
Henry rolled his eyes at his blonde mother. "Well, duh. It has to develop."
"You two need to quit calling the baby an 'it'." Regina told them as she came back with the photo and handed it to her son. She sat next to him and rubbed his back as he looked at the picture.
"Whoa." The boy laughed. "It looks like Flubber."
Emma bust out with a laugh of her own. She loved that movie. "Yeah, it kinda does."
Henry smiled at the photo before he looked at his adoptive mother. "Is it going to be a boy or a girl?"
The mayor smiled at him and shrugged. "We don't know yet, darling. But as soon as we do, you'll be the first to know."
"After you have the baby will you be getting married?" He asked them.
Both women looked at each other for the answer, but when Emma saw a slight hint of apprehension in her lover's eyes she nodded. "Yeah, kid."
Henry beamed and looked down at the little blob. "Until we know if the baby is a boy or a girl, can I call it Flubber?" He laughed.
Regina felt tears of happiness rim her eyes. "You can call him or her whatever you'd like." She promised and kissed his hair.
The couple made eye contact as their son fawned all over the photo like they had done all day themselves. 'I love you.' Emma mouthed.
'I love you too.' Regina mouthed right back.
I love Swan-Mills Family Fluff :). Lol. The end is next chapter! I'm sorta sad, but then I think about the sequel and everything gets better because I'm nowhere near done telling this story. You guys are amazing & so supportive of this. It's awesome. I appreciate all of your input & criticism & praise.
Next chapter is Operation Proposal, the town finds out about the Evil Queen being pregnant, & then the end. It will be posted either Thursday or Friday. I work a double on Thursday so that's why I may not get it posted by then.
Until then, my loves! :*