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I'm super sorry this took so long but I was on vacation and now it's finals week so I've been super busy!
Next semester I won't really have homework so I should be able to update more!
Anyway, this is a short chapter just to hold you all over!
TW: Mentions/implication of rape/abuse.
Disclaimer: I don't own OUAT. Nope.
All mistakes are my own because I'm too scared to ask someone to beta for me. Also, I edited this at 4am so please be extra forgiving. Love you all!
I wish I knew how to do the page/line break thingy but I don't so yeah..Here we go..
Emma couldn't get away fast enough. As soon as she was in the hallway she took off into a full sprint towards her dorm room. Once she was in the stairwell she finally stopped running and leaned against the wall to catch her breath. She slowly slid to the ground letting her head fall back. Her leg still tingled where her teachers hand had been resting just minutes ago. Taking a deep breath and clearing her head Emma pushed herself up off the ground and continued her trek up to her dorm.
Ariel had already made it back and was sitting on her bed brushing her hair when Emma came storming in. She threw her bag down on her desk chair and threw herself down face first on her bed. Burying her face in her pillow she let out a frustrated scream. Ariel had sat silently watching.
After Emma was done screaming into her pillow she finally spoke up "So.." She began. "Anything you want to talk about..?" She asked. After another moment of silence Emma finally sat up ad turned to face Ariel. "I think I have a crush on our Mythology teacher." Emma blurted out. "Well, I mean that's okay it's perfectly normal to be attracted to woman, Emma, I-"
"I have a boyfriend." Emma cut in.
"Oh, well, people can like both sexes.."
"But I don't love him. And the sex is so awful. God it is so awful and uncomfortable. I hate it so much." Emma's voice got quieter until the last part was only a whisper.
"Well then why are you having sex with him, silly?" Ariel asked without thinking about it first but as soon as Emma's eyes hit hers she realized what had been going on.
"Oh, Emma!" Ariel said softly as she hopped off her bed and ran to jump in Emma's to hold the blonde. As soon as Ariel wrapped her arms around Emma's shoulders the blonde lost it and began to cry. Ariel just held her and rubbed soothing circles on her back till the crying stopped. "Do you want to talk about it?" She asked hesitantly. Emma remained quiet for a minute before she took a deep breath and proceeded to explain her situation and problem with Neal and how her father expected them to get married. "Ariel, how am I supposed to marry someone I don't love?" Emma asked on the verge of crying again.
"I think..you need to call Neal and talk to him.." Emma sniffles and nodded.
"Will you help me figure out what to say?" Ariel smiles sadly at her roommate and nodded her head. "Of course, Ems."
Meanwhile, Regina Mills sat at her desk with a certain blonde on her mind. She should be filling out her drop/add forms for students but she couldn't focus. She was drawn out of her thoughts by a loud knock on her door.
"Earth to Regina! Anyone home!?" It was her best friend, Katherine Nolan.
"Sorry, I was..distracted.." Regina said.
"I know that look. Has Regina Mills picked out the first conquest of the semester?" Katherine asked with a smirk.
"Something like that.." Regina replied, her mind wandering back to the blonde.
"Who is she? Maybe I have her in one of my courses?"
"Emma Swan." Regina stated, after a minute of silence unsure she wanted to give Katherine this kind of information.
"Swan..Swan..Emma Swan.." She thought out loud "Hmm, oh! Blonde hair, very thin? Almost sickly looking?" Regina just nodded at Katherines description of the girl. "Ah, yes, I have her first thing in the morning in my American history course. So, what's your plan of attack? Fucking her senseless in your office during office hours? Or maybe tutoring at the mansion turning into drinks and crazy sex in the den?" Katherine began to list a few of Regina's typical techniques for getting a girl into bed.
Regina just rolled her eyes.
"No, neither." She replied simply.
"Hm, got something new? You might need something new she doesn't exactly seem like the hook-up kind." Her friend stated with a laugh.
"That's the thing. I'm not trying to get Ms. Swan into bed. Not right away anyway.." She trailed off.
Her friend just sat there mouth open wide.
"Do close your mouth, Dear. You'll catch flies." Regina said dryly.
"Hold up. Regina Mills. The lesbian vampire sex goddess is not trying to get this girl she is pining after into bed!?" Her friend shrieked out.
Rolling her eyes for the third time since Katherine came by she plastered a smile on her face. "Correct. She's..different..I want to get to know her..learn more about her..it's more than just wanting to bed an attractive woman..it's almost like..like I might want something more with her.." Regina trailed off.
"You better be careful, Ms. Mills. People might start to think you have a heart." Katherine said with a wink. Regina just scoffed.
"No. Seriously. This is quite interesting. I've never seen you act like this. I thought that you had turned off your emotions for long you forgot how to feel.." Katherine spoke with a very serious tone now.
"Don't be ridiculous. Of course I still know how to feel." Regina sneered. "I just learned how to not let it show and got good at keeping my feelings hidden after simply not having any for so long. But this girl..I've only just met her but she makes me want to show them again.." Regina said, refusing to look at her best friend.
"Well then I like her already." Katherine said as she stood up. "I'll see you at the house, darling." She called over her shoulder as she left Regina in her office to mull over all her thoughts.
After much discussion Ariel and Emma decided it would be best if she took a trip home to speak with both Neal and her father in person. Ariel had wanted to go and be there for her but she had swim team tryouts Saturday morning.
The next several days Emma could hardly focus on anything. She had no idea how to go about talking to Neal and her father but she knew it had to be done. She just needed to figure out what to say. It was only the beginning of the semester but Emma was already slacking in the paying attention department with this on her mind.
Friday Finally came and Emma still had no clue what to do. She was sitting in Ms. Mills class, her last class of the day and she could just not focus. Her mind was on anything but what they were discussing. The lore of werewolves maybe? She leaned over to check what page Ariel was on and spotted a bolded vocab word "Lycanthrope" yeah, werewolves.
"Close your books." Ms. Mills said. "We're having a pop quiz. You can thank your fellow students who think they can sleep through this class and get an easy A." She said as she glared to the back corner of the room where a few guys who looked like they were jocks were sitting.
Emma had taken some notes on the things they discussed this week but she had kept spacing out worrying about this weekend. She glanced over the paper in front of her, it was only a vocab test but she only recognized half the names in the word box. "Shit" she cursed barely above a whisper, however, somehow Ms. Mills' ears caught it. "Ms. Swan, language!? Really, you're not off to a great start. Twice this week and we're only on week one." Regina said with a smirk and a slight hint of teasing to her voice. She noticed the younger girl had seemed rather distracted this week but figured it was just because it was the first week of classes and nothing more. The worry flashing across her face at this very moment, however, suddenly had Regina concerned. "See me after class, Ms. Swan." Ariel looked over at Emma flashing her a cheesy grin and wiggling her eyebrows. Emma just kicked her friend and went back to focus on the quiz in front of her.
The last 30 minutes of the class dragged on as she sat there staring at her quiz unable to fill out half of it. Ms. Mills announced that the class was dismissed and to turn the quizzes in on her desk on their way out the door.
Emma waited till everyone else had gotten up and left before she slowly made her way to her teachers desk. She placed her quiz on the pile and stood there for a moment before clearing her throat to get her teachers attention. Once Ms. Mills looked up Emma quickly looked down, avoiding eye contact.
Regina noticed the quick shift in Emma's gaze and smiled sadly. "Have a seat, Ms. Swan." she said as she grabbed the quizzes to put them in her bag for grading later before she lectured Emma on her language, again. As she was neatening the stack she noticed that Emma's was on top and skimmed it finding it to be half blank.
"You barely answered these." Said Regina.
"Yeah, I, uh, didn't really know too many.." Emma answered.
Regina put the papers down and stood to come round to where Emma was sitting, taking a seat next to her.
"We went over all of those words in class this week.." Regina said softly.
"Yeah, I guess I must have spaced out a bit.." Emma replied, still refusing to look at her teacher.
"Em- Ms. Swan, is everything okay? You've seemed very distracted lately..and it is only week one..I want you to be successful in this class. You seem to have great potential." Regina said trying to give the girl a small smile.
"I-I just..have had a lot on my mind and have been a bit stressed out I guess.." Emma mumbled.
Regina sat there quiet for a moment unsure of what to do.
"I promise I'm a really great listener if you want to talk about it.." Regina finally began.
Suddenly Emma's head shot up and she finally made eye contact. Regina saw that the younger girls eyes were brimming with tears. Dropping the semi-professional teacher act Regina spoke again reaching out to touch Emma's arm.
"Emma, please talk to me. Let me try and help you."
Emma stayed quiet a moment more before finally speaking up. "I think I might be gay" she blurted out.
Regina fought hard to keep a smile from spreading across her face. The girl was finally beginning to realize herself what Regina figured out upon first meeting the girl.
"Sweetheart, that's perfectly oka-" Emma cut her off.
"No! No, it isn't! Because I have a boyfriend! And we've been together for two whole years. And recently everything seemed to be different and I just wasn't really feeling anything towards him and I couldn't understand it till I sa-" Emma stopped herself just before admitting seeing Regina had made her question her sexuality. She cleared her throat and went on.
"Uh, till I finally moved out here and had a bit of a realization moment and now I have to go home this weekend and tell him and I don't know what to do or say or how to do it and I just..I don't know. I don't know what I'm going to do!" By this point the tears had started freely falling from Emma's eyes. Regina reached out and pulled the younger woman close letting her sob into her chest.
"Shh. It'll be alright. Everything will be fine." A few minutes stretched by before Emma finally pulled back looking down sheepishly immediately.
"Where is 'home' for you?" Regina asked.
"R-redland, California.." she mumbled quietly.
"Wow, that's quite the drive. Is Ms. Triton going with you?" Regina asked knowing the two roommates were bonding well.
"No, she has swim tryouts. I'm going myself." Emma said a little louder this time finding some confidence again.
"By yourself?! That's a good 6 hour drive!" Regina said half shouted.
Emma just shrugged. "I drove here by myself. It wasn't too bad.." Emma lied. The drive up here was awful. 6 hours alone in a car had sucked.
Regina sat weighing her options and thinking about how this could go wrong before speaking again.
"No. I'm going with you." She said, matter of factly.
Emmas eyebrows furrowed. "I-I beg your pardon?" Emmas asked. Unsure she heard correctly. Her incredibly attractive teacher who made her question her sexuality in the first place wants to drive with her down to her hometown for the weekend?
"I'm not letting you go alone. You may have driven up by yourself but it's a long drive and as distracted as you've been lately it is not safe for you to be driving by yourself. I'll write down my address for you, I want you to meet me at my house at 10 tomorrow morning."
"A-are you sure..?" Emma asked. Still confused by it all.
"Yes, I'm sure, Emma. I'm your teacher. Looking after your well being is my job." Regina rolled her eye internally at the lie she just told. Sure she wanted Emma to be safe but she really just wanted to spend some time with the blond.
"O-okay.." Emma stuttered out. Of course. She's your teacher. She's just being nice. Emma sighed internally.
With that Regina patted Emma's leg and stood, walking towards her desk. She jotted down her phone number and address and the time Emma was to be there and sent the girl on her way. "Be on time! I hate tardiness!" She called after her. Once Emma was out of sight she couldn't stop the enormous smile from spreading across her face.