You guys get too frisky with the last episode.
Let's hear out Regina, people!
Chapter 7: We are in this together
Emma's Mansion
So right now the blonde sat on her large couch, staring at the turned off TV screen while drinking already the third beer, and it was still midday. Things just stopped making sense to her.
"Emma?" A very familiar voice that she thought she wouldn't be able to hear other than on voice-mails.
Emma quickly stood up from the couch as she tried to find where the sound was coming, but there was Regina walking into the large living room.
"What are you doing here?" Emma gasped, wondering who the hell allowed Regina to get in.
"I have my ways." Regina told her as she began to take look at the clumsy, dirty room. There were empty beers on the table, magazines around, even pizza boxes and she's sure some of them still have food in there.
"Get the hell out of here, Regina." Emma frowned as she took a large sip from her beer before put it on the coffee table.
"No, you don't get to shut me off now. I am here to talk." Regina frowned at her.
"Leave a voice-mail."
"So you can ignore? I want to have a face-to-face conversation with you. Emma this went too far."
"Just go back to Europe, Regina." Emma clenched her jaw. She knew Regina went back to Europe to continue her job, even if Emma gave up on soccer, Regina couldn't, so she was manager of another players.
"No." Regina told her as she approached her. "Now sit down."
"What? I am not going to sit down, you better just leave."
"I am tired of you pushing me around, Miss Swan. Now you will listen to me and you will listen to me good." Regina pressed her palms against Emma's shoulders and pushed her, making her fall back and sit on the couch. "Now.."
Before she could say anything else Emma had picked up her beer again to drink it, but Regina quickly snatched it from her grip. "The hell? Give it back."
"How many have you already drank?" Regina asked with a frown as she placed the bottle away.
"None of your damn business, that's how many." Emma barked at her.
Regina just shook her head and sighed out. "What are you doing to your life, Emma? This went too far, maybe you had the right to throw a tantrum on the first months but two years?! It's too much, you can't keep going like this."
"Throw a tantrum? Throw a tantrum?! You really think that was a fucking tantrum?! People wouldn't leave me the fuck alone! I was trying to recover!"
"I understand but you can't snap at a paparazzi like that. Medias quickly picked that up to be constantly after you so they could get more embarrassing moments of you. You do know that some paparazzi were paid to only piss you off to see if you would do the same mistake again, right?" Regina folded her arms in front of her chest.
Emma just groaned and looked away as she leaned back against her couch, with her legs wide open and her hand between them. "Fucking hell, you are not my manager anymore, you don't have to control me. I mean you never had to."
"I didn't? Its clear when I was your manager and when I was "controlling" you; your ways were a lot better and you would never do such thing." Regina lip twitched. "The magazines show everything. Parties every night? Drugs? Alcohol? Hookers? That's not you."
"What do you know about me?!" Emma snapped as she clenched her jaw.
Regina stared at her for a second trying to control herself so she wouldn't be yelling back at the ex-player.
"Exactly, you don't know shit. So don't you dare to come back here and start correcting my freaking ways, when you were never there when I needed you!" Emma shouted now standing up once again, but this time to get the damn beer bottle and drink the rest of you.
Regina now was left kind of speechless at that, but also annoyed that Emma got her beer back and drank it all. "Stop drinking." Regina mumbled; she was just so used on telling Emma what to do that it was hard to focus on what she was here really for.
Emma rolled her eyes and let out a loud completely frustrated groan. "Regina, leave."
"I am not going to leave. You still haven't hear me out."
"I am tired of you telling me what to do when you are here for just ten minutes. So please fucking leave."
Regina frowned and grabbed Emma's arms to push her to the couch again; the ex-player could be strong but when Regina snapped she also had a strength she didn't know.
Emma was surprised at the sudden move and fell back on the couch one more time as she looked up at the brunette.
"And I am tired of you shutting me out! Do you know how many voice-mails I left you? For two years?! I mean do you even listen to them!" Regina wasn't going to let Emma put all the blame on her; she knows she is also to blame but Emma can't put the blame on one person and act like she also doesn't have to change anything about herself.
Emma frowned at her but refused to answer. She was used to delete voice-mails without reading them, because by the end of the day she had a bunch of voice-mails from almost everybody she knew, so she'd never listen to it and just delete. She just wanted people out of her sight.
"That's what I thought, because if you did, you would know that during all this time I have been deeply concerned about you. This isn't how your life is suppose to go! Do you know how shocked I was when I grabbed a magazine and all the time I'd see a new stunt you pulled out? When you quit soccer?!" Regina took a deep breath, trying to control her anger. "Just because you decided to stop with your life, doesn't mean I should do the same. You don't expect me to be the manager of a former football player. However, I might not be your manager anymore but you can't continue like this."
Emma looked away and basically tried to take off small pieces of skin from her lower lip with her fingers, she was getting frustrated and anxious, and hearing Regina, was only making her doubt more about her own actions; but she had to ask why the brunette wasn't there on the crucial moment. "Why weren't you there?" The blonde mumbled.
"Huh?" Regina perked up an eyebrow not hearing her clearly.
Emma frowned and stopped messing up with her lower lip as she looked back up at Regina. "I said, why weren't you there? At the stadium? When I got hit. Or at least at the freaking hospital, you never showed."
"I was at the stadium."
Emma doubt it but she could tell that Regina wasn't lying.
"I did tried to see you right away, but you had some kind of body-guard refusing to let me in. He said something about being too many people would only confuse you. He was very stubborn." Regina said as she still remembered that moment.
"Well.." Emma cleared her throat. "What about the hospital? For sure there's no excuse for that."
"To be honest.." Regina sighed out and slid her hands in the pockets of her jacket feeling uncomfortable. "There's not. I did visited you on the same night, but you were asleep, yet I decided to stay in case you woke up and I could talk to you. Your girlfriend showed up an hour later, and..well let's just say we didn't got along that well."
Emma frowned slightly. "Why's that?"
"Something about who you belonged to." Regina mumbled as she looked away for a moment. She remembers that time with Karlie, the model wasn't dumb and saw everything Regina felt the very moment she stepped in the room. The brunette was vulnerable, she wanted Emma awake and make sure she was fine, so obviously her emotions were getting the best of her, too bad Karlie caught her just on that moment.
Emma perked up an eyebrow and snorted sarcastic at that. "I am not a thing people can just own."
"Not on that way." Regina chewed the inside of her cheek as she looked back at Emma, clearly showing how embarrassed she felt now.
Emma took a better look at Regina and then it hit her what Regina actually meant. "Oh.."
"Yes." Regina nodded before lick her lips. "We argued for a bit, in a civil way, then I left. I was angry, I was hurt, frustrated even..so I refused to let myself visit you again in the hospital. I tried to contact you through calls and messages, but every time you picked it up you always sounded so moody, and I basically got angry at you because I felt like you didn't want me to care."
Emma folded her arms in front of her chest and eyed the brunette.
"I am weak, Emma." Regina was completely honest. "I don't know how to deal with my feelings that well, so I take the wrong path most of the times, but its a safe path at the same time. I should have insisted more with you, I should have be there 24/7, I know I should, but I just couldn't." And with that Regina's eyes were getting filled with tears but the brunette blinked them and took a deep shaky breath.
"You could have still tried." Emma mumbled with a frown.
"I know, and I am sorry if I didn't."
There was silent for awhile, and then Emma just took a deep breath as she tilted her head down and placed her elbow over the arm of the couch to cover her eyes with her fingers as she rubbed them. "It's not fair, Regina." The blonde said between sobs.
Regina frowned slightly and approached the blonde, still not sure if she should touch her or not. "I am sorry.." Then she finally touched Emma's shoulder. "Let's fix this, it has been two years but you can fix this."
Emma shook her head as she cried and used her fingers to brush off the tears. "I can't.." She mumbled and then grabbed onto Regina's long coat to push her closer and just press her face against the brunette's tummy while crying against her blouse and tightening her grip on the fabric of the coat. "I can't do this alone.." She mumbled between her sobbing.
Regina was a bit taken back at how Emma basically clanged to her for support, and this time the brunette would be there. "You won't do this alone." Regina mumbled as she placed her palms on Emma's head, playing slightly with her hair. "I am here now, I will help you out. You won't do this alone." Regina bent down slightly to peck Emma's head. "We are in this together."
Emma just cried against Regina; she needed this moment, she needed to let out every tear she had in her, she needed to feel Regina close because she was the only person she ever trusted enough to see her in this state. She just needed the brunette to make things better with her like it always have happen.
There just some touchy stuff, and next chapters will be Emma's recovery and more touchy stuff.
xoxo