Chapter thirty-two

Hours later, the group were back on the road, this time following a floating piece of material that belonged to Phillip.

Snow and Mulan's horses galloped ahead, with Emma tightly clung to Regina's waist, since she refused to steer the horse from the back, Aurora behind them with her brow furrowed in concentration.

"Did you do something?" Regina asked as she looked at the contemplating princess.

Emma looked back at Sleeping Beauty, and replied, "I found out that Phillip is her brother."

Regina nodded, "so?"

"Oh, Mulan thought they were together and Aurora thinks that Mulan likes Phillip, when they obviously like each other."

"Are you playing matchmaker?" Regina laughed.

"I guess I want everybody to be happy as I am," she smirked.

Regina raised her eyebrow, "if you're going to always be this charming I may need to reconsider."

Emma put on a face of mock hurt, and pouted, "just trying to be a good girlfriend, Gina."

Regina scoffed, "Gina?"

"Too soon?" Emma asked with a sheepish smile.

"No, not at all Em," Regina retorted.

Emma's face contorted into one of hyperbolic disgust, and nodded, "fine you made your point Regina."

Snow looked back, and only slightly rolled her eyes, when she saw the pair clearly having yet another mushy conversation.

"The spell stopped," she shouted.

Aurora looked up in excitement, but furrowed her brow when she noticed that they were back at camp.

Emma shrugged, "he did say that he would be going back to camp."

Mulan rolled her eyes and jumped off her horse, "so this entire endeavour was pointless," she sighed.

"You still get to come back to Storybrooke with us," Emma called as the warrior walked back to her tent.

"Remind why we needed them," Snow said as she rode up next to them.

Emma shrugged, "things didn't go as smoothly last time," which earned her a triumphant smile from the queen, with that the three of them each jumped off their respective horses.

"So now what?" Snow asked.

"Now we just need the water from Lake Nostros," Emma smiled, as she saw Aurora run towards her brother and hug him fiercely, Mulan noticeably less tense than the last time they had been together.

"That's miles from here," Snow sighed, only for purple smoke to bellow next to her.

"Got it," Regina said as she held up the now green bean.

Emma tried to hold back a laugh as her mother just stared blankly at Regina for a few moments.

Emma picked the bean out of the woman's fingers and inspected it, "this is why I voted we use magic," she chuckled.

Snow shook her head as they finally approached the reunion, other than what looked like a broken arm and a few scratches, he looked just fine.

"So you broke your arm after the ogre left?" Aurora laughed.

"I fell," he said in defence, "I survived three ogres and this is what you focus on."

Aurora just shook her head, "I just don't understand how you can be so clumsy."

Phillip sighed audibly, and Emma just smirked, they are definitely siblings.

The prince turned to the three women before him, and he offered them smiles, "Aurora tells me that you have offered to take us somewhere safer."

Snow nodded vigorously and was about to answer before Regina cut in, "you should probably bring anyone that will come, it is much safer."

Again Snow looked blankly at the queen; I don't think I'll ever get used to this.

"They'll need time to decide," Phillip frowned.

Emma nodded in understanding, but she was also very aware of the fact that she hated this place with a passion, "we're kind of on a schedule."

"Can they at least have until morning?"

"Do you have any chimera?" Emma asked eagerly, which earned her curious looks from each of the other women, "what? I liked it," she whispered.

"I think it may be the only thing we have," Phillip chuckled.

"Then they have until morning," Emma said quickly, before she grabbed Regina's arm and went off in search of food.

Mulan smiled, as she sat next to the prince, "hello Phillip, glad to see you're alright."

Phillip nodded in agreement, and a comfortable silence fell over them, as he handed her a chalice of wine, "thank you for protecting my sister."

Mulan sighed, and thought for a moment, before she said, "that's the first time you called her your sister."

Phillip's mouth opened slightly before he realised that she was right "what's your point?"

"I thought that she was your true love," she replied with an exasperated sigh.

Phillip furrowed his brow and shook his head, "my true love was caught up in the dark curse, I was actually going to try and find an away to get to this Storybrooke after I woke up Aurora."

Mulan closed her eyes in frustration. The moment that she had seen the sleeping princess, she had known that she was attracted to her, but she had just felt guilt for her feelings, now it seemed as though there was nothing in the way.

"I just thought that-"

Phillip held up his hand with a small smile, "if you need help talking to her, then I can offer my services."

The warrior smiled broadly at him after a moment, and with a small laugh replied, "I may take you up on that."

"You're worse than Henry," Regina sighed as the blonde bit into a thigh of meat.

"It's good," Emma said around her food.

Regina covered her face in her hands, and looked over to see Snow talking to the various camp members, probably explaining what Storybrooke is, she thought, only slightly wishing that she could be doing that instead of watching this monstrosity.

"Swallow," she said with an exasperated sigh.

Emma rolled her eyes, and audibly swallowed, "want some?" she asked as she waved the meat in front of her face.

"Do you not know me at all?" Regina asked with a raised eyebrow.

"It's just food."

"It's more like food poisoning, and I have never had chimera in my life. I am a queen and a bit more refined," she said firmly.

"You're not a queen anymore, madam mayor," Emma smirked as she continued to wave the food in front of her.

Regina swatted it away with only a half angry sigh and Emma finally put it down with a laugh.

"Stop pouting," Regina laughed at the childish blonde.

"Then try it."

"Why is this so important?" she asked seriously.

"Because it's good," Emma replied as she pulled a bit of it off the bone and handed it to her, "pretty please."

"If will stop acting like a child then fine," she replied as she placed the repugnant meat into her mouth. A few moments of chewing later, and she sighed dramatically, "fine, it is good."

"Yes!" Emma said in triumph, as she placed more in front of her girlfriend.

"If this makes me sick, then you get your own horse," Regina said seriously as she began to dissect the food into smaller pieces.

Emma's face dropped and Regina chuckled.

A/N So this is kind of a fluffy filler chapter haha don't worry some serious stuff is going to happen in the next one, so I thought you may appreciate something happy lol

Also, as a thank you for all of the support I'm starting a competition that will run until the next chapter is posted.

The first two people to PM me (please don't put the answer in a review) with the answer to this question will get a custom one-shot that could become a multi-chapter fic if there's enough plot. The question is quite easy this time, but let me know if you guys want me to make this a regular thing and I would probably make the questions more difficult (but they would always be OUAT trivia)

The question is:

'What does Regina's name mean in Latin?'

Hope you guys like this idea, since I'm always looking for ideas anyway :) and let me know how often you would want me to hold these competitions if I did continue XD