Six years had past and Emma was no longer the jaded child that she had been in her youth. Instead stood a confident young woman, skilled in many things including politics, sword fighting and best of all she was a well seasoned witch thanks to Zelena. It was it the early hours of the morning but the White Princess couldn't seem to fall asleep, so she slipped out of her bed and sauntered up the mirror that Regina had gifted her with last year and summon the genie.
"Show me the Dark Princess." Emma murmured her voice heavy with exhaustion. Her and Regina had communicated this way since she got the mirror and Emma looked forward to their conversations.
"Your highness, I'm not certain that now is a good time." The genie appeared nervous and Emma fought the urge to smash the mirror.
"I will not ask again!" Emma demanded in a tone only suited for royalty. Zelena had taught her a lot in the past six years and one thing she instilled in Emma was to know her worth.
"As you wish." He replied quickly his face replaced by the image of Regina's bed chambers. The dark Princess however was not alone, as she was in a passionate embrace with one of the Lord's daughters. Brown eyes met emerald as she pushed the girl away.
"Am I interrupting something?" Emma narrowed her gaze to the other girl before her eyes settled back on Regina.
"No, Gretel was just leaving!" Regina looked pointedly as the tanned woman next to her who seemingly got the message as she quickly left.
"Emma is something wrong?" Regina asked finally looking at the blonde.
"You know if you were busy you could have just said so. I wouldn't want to ruin a night of fun for you." Emma replied studying the frustrated appearance of the brunette.
"I've never been too busy for you. Now tell me what troubles you." Regina rolled her eyes.
"I've missed you. Its been nearly a full moon." Emma mumbled looking away from Regina unable to stop staring into those brown eye's she had long since fell for.
"Everything has been extremely hectic in the Dark Kingdom. I hardly have a moment of free time." Regina explained rising from the bed as walking over to the mirror.
"I see!" Emma snapped, her reply coming out harsher than she meant to.
"Jealousy doesn't look good on you, dear." Regina smirked.
"Jealous of what? That you would lower yourself to sleep with a dirty whore?" Emma laughed haughtily
"That or the fact that I won't sleep with you?" Regina asked coldly and immediately regretted it when she saw the hurt reflect in Emma's eyes before she put her mask back on.
"I'm thinking that was more of a blessing in disguise." Emma replied turning away once again from Regina.
"Emma you know they mean nothing to me. I don't understand why you do this to yourself." Regina sighed.
"Atlas the heart wants what the heart wants. Trust me if I had a choice in who I should love it wouldn't be you. I wouldn't chose to love someone who throws themselves at others who seek something from them. I wouldn't chose to love someone who couldn't love me back." Emma gritted out ignoring the pain in her chest.
"Don't! You know I care for you deeply, more than anyone else in this world. So don't discredit my feelings because you are feeling jealous." Regina snapped at the blonde.
"My love, it is not I who discredit your feelings. You have the ability to do that all on your own. Do tell me Princess how would you feel if I were to bed someone now?" Emma glared at the woman who held her heart.
"Are you trying to tell me something, Em-ma?" Regina growled out her name slowly.
"I'm thinking that maybe I should start to play this game your way. Maybe I should find someone who is willing to give just as much as they take from me. I hear that Arendelle is doing wonderful this time of year. Elsa is quite the looker. You know I have a thing for cold bitches." Emma smirked when Regina fist clenched up at the thought.
"I would tear her apart. I'm not sure if this is a game you are really willing to play. I don't lose Princess. And I don't share!" Regina spoke steely.
"You see that's where we are alike. I've never been one to share my...toys" Emma said eyeing down Regina's attire.
"Then it must be at that point where opinions differ vastly. I am not a toy, White!" Regina mocked her.
"I think you said that before when you made it clear that I couldn't be the one to win you. However I do believe you know I am no longer a White. Didn't you hear?" Emma sent her a lazy smile.
"Here what?" Regina cocked an eyebrow.
"Its Black Swan. I was going to go with something cool like a Black Widow but atlas fates thought different." Emma smiled proudly.
"Black Swan? I like it. Its...you." Regina smiled back.
"That's funny. That's the same thing Elsa said before she gave me ….a gift." Emma smirked.
"A gift?" Regina's jaw clenched at the thought of the icy witch once again.
"Yes a gift of sorts. Would you like to know what it was?" Emma asked knowing she was goading her love.
"I'm not sure if that is a good idea." Regina swallowed.
"Ahh but I shall tell you none the less. Her gift was release. She told me all it would take is one night with her. The two of us finding release together and I would forget all about my infatuation with you." Emma teased knowing she succeeded in what she was looking for when Regina practically pressed herself into the mirror.
"You can tell that freezer box slut to find another. You are taken!" Regina growled her eye flowed with purple magic.
"You see Princess I'm not sure if I can actually tell her that. I don't feel taken." Emma purred stalking closer to the mirror.
Regina laughed humorlessly. "Oh we both know your mine!" She replied darkly
"Am I now? I wouldn't know that seeing as there was just another preparing to warm your bed!" Emma spat knowing she won when a blush encased Regina's face.
"Emma they mean nothing..." Regina sighed again.
"Right now I get the feeling that I mean just as much. Until next time my love." Emma waved her hand and Regina disappeared from her sight.
Regina looked at her reflection in the mirror as she swallowed harshly. She had been struggling with her feelings for the White Princess for the past year, which was partially why she gifted Emma with the mirror in the first place. She had only recently admitted to caring about her and she knew how much it hurt Emma to see her with others. Emma had expressed her feelings for Regina long before the brunette ever came close to figuring out hers. The night when Emma approached her intending to give herself to the Dark Princess, Regina had been scared so she lashed out. She regretted being cruel to Emma and even though the blonde assured her that she was forgiven, she could still see the pain her words caused.
Regina sighed, walking back over to her bed she slid in pondering her next move. She would visit the White Princess, to make it up to her and to also end whatever it is that's going on with her and the Princess of Arendelle.
Regina was up the next morning long before her lesson's were to begin. She walked purposely to her mothers chambers and strolled in without knocking.
"Well the only one who would dare run the risk of death by storming the Queens chambers without knocking would be my darling daughter." Cora said dryly, not looking up from her quill and parchment.
"Good Morning Mother, I have come to let you know I shall be going to visit Zelena today." Regina sat down heavily in the chair across from her mother you looked at her amused.
"Judging by your expression I highly doubt it's Zelena you wish you see. So tell me what has the White Princess done now to warrant this impromptu visit." Cora knew of the emotional struggles that Regina faced when dealing with the blonde princess, she also knew her daughter was incredible stubborn.
"She doubts me...and I fear there is another." Regina tugged lightly on her hair hoping to relieve some stress.
"She doubts you? Is this after she expressed her feelings for you and then you embarrassed her? Or after you expressed your feelings, then denied her and went and bedded a Royal Knight?" Cora raised an eyebrow at her daughter who flushed a dusky red.
"She might have saw me with Gretel last night. Nothing happened, it was just light petting. I get lonely and I need a companion but I never go that far...not anymore." Regina sighed.
"How would you feel if she mirrored you last night when you went to see her?" Cora asked her daughter pointedly.
"I would end anyone who even thinks to look at whats mine!" Regina growled
"Exactly. Now tell your mother about this other person." Cora patted her daughters hand lightly.
"Princess Elsa pf Arendelle has quite the wandering eye. I fear that she is infatuated with Emma. Her reputation rivals mine." Regina gritted out.
"You are permitted to visit your sister and the Princess. However I expect you back in three night falls and you are not to start something with Elsa or anyone else. Be off if you wish to surprise your Princess." Cora dismissed her daughter before turning back to her parchment. Regina stood up and let her magic encase as she picture Oz. She ended of in the bedroom of the woman who plagued her dreams, she watched as the blonde slept peacefully. Gliding into the massive bed and behind Emma, she began to stroke the Princess's bare leg nearly cackling when the Princess froze up and poofed out of the bed.
"What the hell Regina?" Emma voice was husky as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes.
"Good morning, my love." Regina smiled cheekily when all she received was a glare.
"How'd you get here?" Emma asked pulling on her robe that was hanging from the beds posters.
"Transportation." Regina shrugged deeper down into the bed.
"Why the hell would you do that? We both know how draining the journey is from Oz to the dark palace. Its why you got the mirror in the first place! I bet you didn't even eat anything." Emma hissed at the brunette.
"I wouldn't have had to transport if you didn't end the conversation yesterday and then tell the Genie not to let me in this morning. Honestly Emma that was a bit childish!" Regina shot back.
"You have this natural ability Princess to turn everything around. I wasn't the one with my tongue down a whore's throat this morning!" Emma spat before going to her closet to pick out an outfit.
"I did not come all this way for you to walk away from me!" Regina snapped appearing in front of Emma. They both stared at one another until Regina closed the distance between them.
"What did you come for then?" Emma asked tiredly, not in the mood to play the back and forth game that Regina always seemed to play.
"You." Regina brushed her lips softly against Emma's before pulling away.
"Gina...I don't know how long I can keep doing this." Emma said dejectedly
"Doing what exactly ?" Regina hissed pressing her chest against the smaller girls.
"Loving you, only for you to turn around and choose another." Emma swallowed getting lost in a set of brown eyes.
"I will always choose you!" Regina whispered harshly, her heart clenching when a lone tear fell from Emma's face. Choosing to let her actions speak louder than her words, she forcefully pressed her lips to Emma's pale one's, loving the way the Princess immediately reacted to her. It last all of twenty seconds before Emma pushed her away.
"Did you even wash out your mouth?" She scrunched up her face.
"You are such a Princess." Regina sighed before turning back towards the bed.
"Be that as it may, you have to get dressed. We are expecting visitors." Emma smirked as she pulled a pale blue and gold dress from her closet. It was very gaudy and revealing but it was also a gift from Cora so she expected nothing less.,
"Visitors?" Regina furrowed her eyebrows in confusion.
"Stop that you'll get wrinkles." Emma teased before she strutted back over to the bed to sit beside Regina.
"Who are these visitors?" Regina asked again.
"Anna, Elsa and Red." Emma nearly laughed out loud at the look on Regina's face.
"Why is the ice cube visiting you?" Regina snarled.
"I think we've already had this conversation." Emma laughed when Regina let loose a growl.
"I think you should let her know, not to touch what isn't hers. I don't want to have to hurt anyone." Regina said straddling the smaller Princess who just sent her an impish grin.
"I suppose this is my punishment for dealing with a little girl." Regina mocked knowing it would make Emma angry.
"Your only twenty-two summers. I would hardly call me a little girl!" Emma seethed bucking Regina off of her. The dark princess tumbled back in the bed in a fit of giggles.
"Laugh all you want now. We shall see who is on the other side of the joke by the end of the night!" Emma gritted out transporting Regina to her own wing of the castle .