Chapter 13- Off with her Head
"What are your intentions with my mother?" Emma slightly glared at her best friend, as they all sat around the table to eat breakfast the next morning. Nobody commented when Regina preformed an enchantment and tasted Emma's food before the blonde even brought herself to even touch it. However at her comment, Cora was stifling her own laughter while Elsa and Zelena looked mortified.
"Emma!" Zelena was the first to speak, her cheeks flushed a bright red.
"Oh don't worry, you shall be next. So Elsa, are you going to answer my question?" Emma raised an eyebrow at the stammering blonde while Regina watched on amused.
"Well as you know, I have always been...infatuated with your...mother." Elsa coughed, trying to cover up her own blush.
"Ahh so you two slicking the sheets is just apart of your infatuation?" Emma gripped her knife and fork daring Elsa to continue. The Ice Princess looked up at Emma and then to Zelena's hurt expression before realizing what she had implied.
"What?! No, that isn't what I meant! What I was trying to say is I like Zelena, a lot! If she wishes for the two of us to continue then I am on board. However I feel that is really none of your business!" Elsa huffed.
"Oh contrary, dear friend. As the heir to Oz, I have the right to question when another is pursuing my Queen. My importantly, my mother. You have forgotten that as your best friend I know you, and you have also forgotten that I can kick your ass if you treat her as one of your play things!" Emma waved her fork in Elsa's direction. When she went to speak again, Regina shoved a bit of apple into her mouth to silence her.
"Okay dear, I think she has grasped your point. No need to embarrass her any further." Regina chided as Emma scowled chewing the apple thoughtfully.
"I guess you have spoken." Emma replied sarcastically, ignoring Regina's withering glare.
"Okay Lena, what are you intentions with my best friend?" Emma asked her mother in the same tone that she asked Elsa.
"Emmalyn, do not forget that I can ground you. Take away all of the chocolate cake, and banish Regina from your quarters." Zelena raised an eyebrow, daring her heir to continue.
"Duly noted." Emma squeaked before turning back to her plate, as Cora barked with laughter.
"Do any of you find this weird?" Elsa scrunched up her nose.
"Find what weird?" Emma asked around a bite of hotcakes
"Well the whole family dynamic. The Dark Queen has two daughters, Zelena and Regina but you act as her child also. Yet Zelena is the one who mothered you and you call by that title. To top that off you are courting her sister! Which makes Cora your Mother and Grandmother, Zelena your Mother and Sister, and Regina your Sister, Aunt and Lover. Isn't it weird?" Elsa frowned when she explained it.
"It wasn't weird until you made it so. However I view Zelena as a mother, Cora as both of the titles you stated and Regina as my consort." Emma shrugged as everyone laughed at Regina's appalled expression.
"My love, didn't we discuss that we were Queen's not Consorts?" Regina questioned.
"No...we said I would be a Queen not a Consort. We never discussed you." Emma replied cheekily.
"Yes well..!" Regina struggled for a response as Emma took pity on her.
"Relax, My Queen." Emma smiled at her before turning back to her plate
"Emma do you feel well enough to return back to the Dark Kingdom for Regina's coronation? It occurs in less than a fortnight." Cora reminded everyone at the table.
"I will be fine. Someone is going to need to be there to keep her from killing someone." Emma rolled her eyes, but still rested her hand on the inside of Regina's thigh.
"Oh please, you are just as bad as me in the Dark Kingdom. You have very little patience for the shenanigans that come with the people of my kingdom dear." Now it was Regina who rolled her eyes and placed her hand over Emma's.
"Yes well I find your people a bunch of whiny snotbags." Emma shrugged.
"You are going to have to get used to it darling. Some day they will be your people too." Regina turned to speak softly into Emma's ear.
"Hopefully by then I'll find some really good mead to ease my nerves because wine just does not cut it with those ingrates." Emma snatched a piece of bread off of Regina's plate and tore it between her teeth.
"I could think of several other ways to ease those nerves, dear." Regina smirked before she began to jokingly wag her eyebrows, something she had stolen from the blonde.
"That right there is making number two on my list of things I do not wish to see or hear if your courting my heir, Regina!" Zelena glared at her little sister's antics.
"What is number one?" Regina cocked an eyebrow.
"You two having sex, duh!" Elsa pipped in, causing Zelena to nod.
"Well the same thing applies to you two, also. Seeing as I've already seen number one, I'm afraid I'm going to have to add some things to the list." Cora interjected causing Emma to drop her silverware onto Regina's plate from where she was stealing the girls food.
"You slept with my mom?!" Emma hissed, watching both Zelena and Elsa blush as they stammered for an answer.
"It wasn't planned. We were both feeling emotional and lonely and we just connected." Zelena was the first to speak.
"Had that been Regina and I, or even Elsa and I you would have short circuited." Emma grumbled.
"Emma please understand that-" Elsa finally found her voice
"You don't get to talk right now, Snow Flake!" Emma snapped, pointing her fork in Elsa's direction.
"Emmalyn!" Zelena rose from the table when she saw Elsa's hurt expression.
"When I said slicking the sheets, it was simply a metaphor! I didn't know you two were running around like rabbits!" Emma continued glaring Elsa down. She couldn't even explain why she was so angry right now
"Emmalyn Swan, I swear to you if you do not cease your hurtful words right now..!" Zelena let the threat hang in the balance. Emma looked over to a glassy eyed Elsa and to her mother who was looking worriedly at her ...lover.
"Elsa is your best friend and I am your mother, we both deserve to be treated with respect regardless of anything you are feeling right now." Zelena spoke firmly.
"She was my best friend, and my mother wouldn't be taking the side of some tramp over me." Emma responded through gritted teeth, missing it when her eyes flashed red. Zelena visibly recoiled at the sly jab, and Elsa quickly excused herself from the table.
"I am not taking her side over yours, however you know damn well I will not sit by and allow-" Zelena stop when Emma clasped her hand to her nose and blood started seeping through. Finally red eyes turned green once more and Emma sway slightly when she went to stand.
"My love..." Regina went to help support her but she was thrown back by her mother's magic.
"Don't touch her!" Cora's concerned eyes never left Emma's body.
"What's happening to me..." The hand that was supporting her on the table slipped and she went tumbling to the ground.
"Mother! She needs help!" Zelena protested when she saw that Cora was holding Regina back.
"I did not know the exact components in that curse. This could be shattered sight but it is far too mild. Her body is attempting to bleed out the excess magic." Cora replied.
"Regina!" Emma whined out, as she failed to get off of the floor.
"LET ME GO!" Regina broke through her mother's bond, before rushing over to the blonde. She conjured a cloth and pressed it to her nose, before helping Emma crawl into her lap.
"Everything is going to be okay, my princess. I promise" Regina rocked both of them slightly.
"I'm really tired, R'Gina." Emma coughed .
"Stay here, I want to watch the signature when the magic finally leaves her. Zelena fetch me some herb infused warm sheep's milk and a hot cloth." Cora's tone left no room for objection, so Zelena just poofed herself down to the kitchen.
"Everything burns so badly, my body feels like its on fire. It's so hot!"Emma was breathing heavily now.
"It's almost like she's being trapped in Netherworld while being wide awake." Cora remarked.
"I don't care! Mama just fix it!" Regina begged.
"Her body is doing this on her own, look!" Cora pointed to the reddish green hue that was coming out in a steady stream. She now knew who doctored up that curse, and she knew who she was going to make fix it.
AN: Who do you think made the curse? And what possible side effects will it have? This story will be updated on either Thursdays or Fridays from now on. See ya next week :)