About A Week Ago...
"Is everything okay?" Regina asked Emma as she entered the bedroom and headed for the bathroom.
"Yeah, he just wanted permission to go out to the movies with some girl and he felt shy to ask in front of you." She heard the blonde call from the bathroom. A minute later she walked out and stood at the bathroom door. "He's growing up. It kind of scares me but it excites me too. When I think of the grilling the poor girls he dates will have to go through...its just hilarious"
"Come to bed, you idiot" Regina laughed.
"Ah, that's one of my favourite come-ons" Emma slid into bed and dramatically took Regina into her arms "It makes me so hot to hear you call me an idiot." She kissed her passionately and then pulled away, laughing.
Emma curled up next to Regina's body and sniffed her breath."I really missed you today. I hate that we both have to even leave this bed, let alone spend the whole day apart. I'm sorry that I had to go to work. But with us being away for the weekend and maybe even longer after that, I just had to leave everything sorted."
"I missed you too. But I understand. I had stuff to do as well. I went to the apartment to get some clothes and stuff I'll need for our trip to Storybrooke." Regina replied. "But now we're here, together and we had dinner with Henry" she was quiet for a moment and then said, "I don't know how I ever survived without touching you. It feels like missing something you never had."
"Yeah. I feel the same way. When you left for Storybrooke, I just...I never thought it was possible to miss someone so much"
"I know. I missed you too. I just couldn't wait to get back here to you and Henry. Did anything happen while I was away?"
"No. Same old stuff. And you were only gone for a day. So nothing important happened."
"You're important" Regina whispered. "You're very important to me."
Emma turned her head, and Regina moved closer, starting to kiss her. For the first time that day, Emma's libido began to awaken from its slumber, and she relished the feelings that coursed through her body. They continued to kiss with Regina giving off signals that she wanted to keep going. Happily, Emma showed her enthusiasm by opening her mouth and suckling on her lover's tongue. "I love you," she whispered, moving to kiss Regina's ever-sensitive neck.
"I love you, too." Regina slipped her hand under Emma's tank top and started to play with her breasts while latching on to her mouth for another heated kiss. The blonde responded enthusiastically, groaning a little while pressing against Regina's hand. "Can I?" Regina asked, her fingers breaching the waistband of Emma's pants.
In a moment, the pants were off, and Emma beamed a happy grin at her lover. "Can you what?"
"Can I kiss you until you're panting for me?"
"Yes. Most definitely. Pretty please." Emma whipped off her top and lay on her back, ready to be ravished. "Take me."
"I love that you're mine. And I love that I finally have you all to myself. I loved feeling like yours tonight."
"Did you feel like mine?"
"Uh-huh. Like when you held my hand when we walked into the restaurant. And the way you looked at me when Henry and I came to pick you up from work. Your eyes lit up like you'd just seen a wishing star."
"You looked so beautiful," Emma whispered, turning onto her side to kiss along Regina's jaw. "Beautiful and sexy and voluptuous. Just, gorgeous. If I had my way, I'd have had you right then and there."
"You didn't have your way," Regina giggled and it was the best voice Emma had ever had the pleasure of hearing. "But I'm gonna have my way with you." She pushed her onto her back and started to play with her lover's body, going over the familiar terrain as if it were new. "I've missed this," she whispered. "I love seeing how responsive you are…how your nipples get so hard so fast. You're such a beautiful woman."
"Your woman," Emma said. "Yours."
"Yeah. My woman." Regina took a breast into her mouth and sucked a ripe-looking nipple between her teeth. After a few moments, she looked up at Emma. "You like that?"
"Do you even have to ask? Other parts of me are already wet."
"I like those parts." She captured the nearby breast again and let her hand slip between Emma's legs, gently urging them apart. Emma's breath caught when Regina's cool fingers touched her, and she shivered all over from the sensation. "Someone's excited," Regina murmured into her ear before nibbling on her earlobe.
"Very excited." Emma's voice was high and a little tremulous.
"Open up for me, darling" Regina whispered.
The soles of Emma's feet were immediately on the bed, and her hands flew to her vulva, giving Regina unimpeded access. Just a few minutes of gentle stroking had the blonde panting and moaning, making Regina smile at her lightning like response. Regina slipped two fingers inside her lover, and Emma automatically took over, stroking her own clitoris until she blew out a whoosh of air, her flesh spasming around Regina's fingers.
"Damn, that felt good! How will I ever survive going without it now that I'm like totally addicted to you?"
"I keep asking myself the same thing. Sometimes we'll be busy and life will get in the way but you reminded me tonight that we have to make time for us and we always will because I love us."
"And I love the 'you' part of 'us' very much." Emma kissed her, lingering on her lower lip.
But Regina didn't respond in kind. She patted Emma's back and tried to roll her onto her back. "Let's sleep now, Love. Aren't you tired?"
"I'm hot. Aren't you?"
"No...Let's just get some sleep"
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah." Regina put her head on Emma's shoulder. "I'm just tired."
"Are you sure? You've been acting weird since you told us about the trip to Storybrooke. If you're still worried that my feelings for you will change when we get there then you better get over it because nothing will ever change the way I feel about you, Regina. I know this has happened fast but you and Henry are the most important people in my life and I will love and protect you no matter what. That's a promise. Nothing you do will ever make me not want you or love you. Please believe me...please. I need you to believe that, Regina. More than anything." Emma said with tears in her eyes.
Regina stroked her cheek, "Okay."
Present Day
"Hey," Her mother's gentle voice brought her back to the present, "What are you thinking about?"
"Umm...I just remembered a conversation she and I had before we came here, to Storybrooke, she was so scared that my feelings for her would change when we got here and I promised her that that would never happen. I promised her that I'd always love and protect her no matter what because the thought of ever losing her was just so unbearable and now...I fail her and I failed Henry too." a sob forced its way out of the blonde's throat and she didn't bother hiding it. She was in pain like she hadn't even been in before. Her heart was breaking over and over again since that fatal day, two days ago.
"Shh...Its okay, honey" Her mother took her hand in her own, trying to offer some semblance of comfort but nothing was enough, nothing would ever be enough to mend her poor daughter's heart. It was like the sun had set five days ago and never risen again.
"No its not okay. Because she was right about one thing, my feelings for her did change. They grew stronger, I fell more in love with her and I loved her more than I thought it was possible to love another human being. " she hesitated then looked at her mom and then down at their joint hands.
"What is it?" Snow asked.
Emma sighed then returned her gaze to her mother's face, "I asked her to marry me." She said, "That night we went on a date...we wanted to tell you guys the following day at dinner but Henry ran away and then everything else happened..." By the time she was done tears were falling freely down her face.
"I'm sorry we didn't get to celebrate with you Emma. I'm sorry we missed such a special moment in your life...again"
"You're not mad?"
"About what?"
"About me proposing to Regina?"
"Why would I be mad? You two have been in love for years and you have been dating for the past few months. It must have been going somewhere, right?"
"Oh mom!" the blonde threw herself into the brunette's arms, "What am I going to do without her? I don't know if I can go on. It hurts so much I can hardly breathe sometimes."
"I know, sweetheart. But you have to be strong, if not for yourself, for Henry. He blames himself so much and he hasn't stopped crying since that day. You should talk to him. You haven't had a real conversation with him, Emma. He needs you"
"I know. It wasn't his fault."
"Then tell him that. He's outside with your father," she said to the hesitant blonde whose gaze went to the figure lying unconscious on the hospital bed. "Go on, I'll be here the whole time. I won't leave her side."
Emma stood up, walked to where Regina's form laid, she ran her fingers on her soft face and then walked out the door, finding the two sitting in silence. "Hey kid" she said to make her presence known. The boy looked up at her for a moment but didn't respond.
"How are you holding up?" her father asked standing up to make room for her to sit.
"As good as can be expected, I guess."
Her father nodded in understanding then pulled her into a loving embrace, "Hang in there kiddo. It's going to be okay."
"People keep saying that. I just wish I knew when that would be."
David pulled back and placed a soft kiss on his daughter's forehead, it broke his heart to see her in so much pain and anguish without knowing how to help her. His phone started ringing so he excused himself immediately, leaving mother and son alone.
Emma sat next to Henry and they settled in an uncomfortable silence for a while, "Hey, do you remember that day you and your mom came to pick me up from work and we went out to dinner in New York?" she asked, earning herself a simple nod from her son.
"That was my best days ever! Spending the day with you two was one of the best moments of my life. When I walked out and saw the two of you standing there together, so comfortable with each other, talking and laughing, it made me really happy. You looked like mother and son even without your memories and I remember thinking how lucky I was to have been dating someone who loved my son as much as I do. Because it was so clear how much she adored you. I didn't know it then but I felt like we were family and that's what we are. And families do even the impossible to protect each other. We would both give our lives to keep you safe, because we love you more than anything. And I want you to know that this is not your fault kid! It's more ours because we lied to you. We should have told you the truth and I'm sorry we didn't. But now you have to do what family does, they stick together through anything. Your mom needs you in there, to hold her hand. And I need you there because you are the only one who even comes close to understanding how scared I am of losing her." She chocked out a sob, then her son offered her comfort she didn't know she had been missing but needed desperately, he wrapped his arms around her and they held on to each other, crying for the woman whom they both loved beyond words. A woman who had been through so much in her life and who deserved happiness more than anyone. A woman who was trying her best to fight her way out of the limbo she was in to be back with her family. To embrace a son who now remembered her as his mother and to hold into her arms a woman who had brought her so much happiness, more than she'd ever thought was possible and whom she loved ad adored with every fibre of her being. She needed to get back, she had to.
Hi guys. Regards from my end. I know I've been falling behind but I have so much going on and I'm trying to do what I can, I promise to try to do more during the Easter weekend if I can. Hope you enjoyed this short update. Let me know what you think of it and don't forget to drop in your suggestions, comments or anything at all in the reviews, for what you'd like to see happen. I'm almost coming to the end of the story so take advantage .
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