Chapter Twenty-two

You're my little girl

"What was with the glare?" Ruby asked Regina and Emma as they left to meet with both Antons' and the other Giants.

"Oh, Daddy walked in on me attending to Emma earlier in the week," Regina said. "He hates her now."

"Yup didn't think that man had a hateful bone in his body, in fact I'm now sure that the scary looks were not inherited from Cora, but Henry Sr.," Emma added.

"Wait, but Emma she had a concussion earlier in the week why were you even letting her?" Ruby asked. Emma sighed.

"It was an emergency situation that's all I said to him and that's all I'm going to say to you."

"She was reluctant it really was an emergency," Regina assured. "He's given me a talk about consent and how I can say no at any time and how I should have said no that my feelings trumped Emma's when I'm sick. It's been a nightmare and apparently my counterpart never got a sex talk, he's always regretted that, so he's making sure I've got one now. He learned to use the internet properly now, but apparently, he also stumbled onto fetishes website, I don't know. So, every day he needs to psych himself to tell me something new. And I'm so embarrassed and his face when he's telling me some things, it's so hopeful that I will never do it and I just can't say it."

"Say what now?" Ruby asked.

"That she's a hoe," Emma said. Regina hit Emma in the arm.

"Wasn't the word I was going for, but yeah okay," Regina said with a slight blush.

"I just meant in bed babe, believe me I will be the last person to judge you, and even than I wouldn't be able too because I'd be too busy being a hoe too."

"No, I get it," Ruby said. "Lady in the streets and a freak in the bed."

"Essentially and his face oh boy."

"Poor man would have fainted if he knew you had come back Naked under your slip of a dress," Ruby laughed.

"How could you tell?" Emma asked. Ruby laughed harder.

"Well you just confirmed it for me, but your face when he said barefoot, seemed to make me think that, that wasn't the only thing bare or thrown off in the car."

"Oh, my Car," Emma whined as she drove the bug. She'd had it towed but it was completely trashed, and Regina had been unable to use her magic without being dizzy until that day. Plus, she said her mother had twisted and melded the metal it would take more energy than it would money to buy her a new one. But Emma didn't want her to buy a car, a good chunk of their money did still have to go to Darien's surgery.

"Maybe I should magic Emma a face filter," Regina grumbled. Ruby laughed at them both.

"Maybe her face has no filter at all," Ruby chuckled.

"I resent that I have a baby filter at least."

"No, dear," Regina answered as Emma parked in front of the homes of the giants. Emma huffed. They exited the car and found that a police cruiser was already there, which meant Mulan was inside and presumably had driven David since he had been the one to call them. They knocked on the door in a large tree, it had two doors carved into it, one for humans and one for giants. The human door opened to reveal their original Anton. He gave them big smiles when he saw them.

"Regina, Emma, Ruby welcome!" He greeted. They hugged him as they went by. They were amazed at the beautiful wooden tree home, once inside it was bigger than it looked much like their own house now on Mifflin street. They were led to the living room and Anton helped them sit on giant couches next to Mulan. David was given an actual human sized chair and no tea.

"David's not really welcome here; Widow Granger has taught me about hospitality, but the others won't budge. In their world David was just as cruel in their opinion in a different way. He thought he had right to everything."

"Still does," Regina murmured under her breath. Once they had tea and the other giants had brought in a baked good for them to share as it was so large, they spoke.

"We're sorry to have sent David, we didn't think, as Anton usually knows that as far as David is concerned we're usually in the know, but after the recent going on with specifically him and Snow, I could see how you would be suspicious," Regina told them.

"Thank you, and it's all right, we understand you were injured and just wanted to get something done while you healed," Clarence said. He was the biggest of the Giants. His companion with whom he had arrived was Derek, and then of course the alternate dimension Anton, really was Tiny in comparison they realized.

"Just so there is no confusion, I've decided to keep going by Tiny as this was Anton's world first," Tiny said from above them.

"That's very kind of you," Emma said. He nodded giving her a smile.

"Now Mulan said that you're quite sensitive to portals since you grow magic beans?" Regina asked.

"Yes, as you know we've been at the forefront of sounding the alarm," Clarence said. Regina nodded.

"Yes, I remember you've been quite helpful in making sure that we have enough time to clear out the right section of town in order to contain any chaos." They nodded.

"Well the portals have stopped, since Cora came through there hasn't been another one. There was this weird hum in the air all the time when we arrived. I can't describe it, as if the magic that would eventually form the portals was all over town. Most heavily at the docks as it is easier to form portals in the water, and then here in this forest."

"So, you're saying I won't get another chance to throw mother through a portal as it's forming?" Regina asked. "Or get my own read on it, she claims she can open one with her magic."

"Perhaps, she has an inkling, if it is so, you must go to our home, there are beans there still hidden away. It may be your only way back if you can't learn enough to create the portals yourself." Regina nodded as she sighed.

"Okay that's good, I suspect Mother's heart is not here with her, but back in her own timeline, which means if she does know she will come back no matter how many times we try to throw her out," Regina said.

"We have one bean left, you can attempt to send her away, but if she comes back, the only portals opening will be what she does." They nodded finished their tea and baked good. Regina wasn't even surprised that Emma had somehow eaten half and was too stuffed to drive. They returned to their home followed by Mulan and David. Once inside they saw that the kids were all outside playing in the dirt with her father just like she had although Henry looked much more serious about helping his Abuelo as he picked weeds.

"Anyone want more tea?" Regina asked. "Or water." They shook their heads and they all sat down. Well Emma was laying down with her head in Regina's lap and a hand on her belly.

"So, what's the plan?" Ruby asked.

"I think we need to take Mother to make sure she can't do any harm in our absence and go to their world to find her heart. Once it's in we can kill her again, but at least this time it will be a choice," Regina said.

"But what if she opens a portal back before we get more beans," David said.

"She won't, she'll have me, or she'll think that she has me. What is important to her is that I have magic, I'm still of childbearing age, and she can continue with her plans."

"So, you're like hell bent on going?" Emma asked.

"Protect the kids to make sure Storybrooke stays safe for them to grow up in, yes," Regina said. "Yes, I will do anything."

"Okay, who is going to watch the kids, because you know you're not going alone to face that woman."

"Granny, Kathryn, Belle, and Henry Sr. will watch them," Ruby chimed in. "No way you're going just the two of you, you'll need me. I'll play your pet wolf, Regina, she doesn't know what I look like in human form so that will make spying easy." Regina nodded.

"If Ruby is with me, then I propose we trick Mother. I'll make her think that I had to fight her to keep you all dumb, but I'm willing to go back with her to rule by her side the way I was meant too not tricked by Rumple into my own personal hell. I will need to earn her trust, so I'll play my role as Evil Queen, but certainly more to her liking. Even as the Evil Queen I never could impress that woman."

"And we follow with the bean?" Emma asked. Regina nodded.

"Our true love will keep us connected so all you have to do is think of me," Regina said.

"Oh, but what if we end up in alternate Storybrooke on the way back?" David asked.

"Valid concern, I second that." Emma said.

"Our children are made from true love, as is Rowan. They will be bright beacons back to our Storybrooke if only we think of them when we cast the bean to get home. Or if David thinks of Snow, his Snow, it doesn't matter how many versions there are of her, she is his Snow."

"Can true love die?" David asked staring off into space sadly.

"No, but people can change and perhaps it is no longer meant to be just like any other love," Regina said. He nodded.

"I understand," He said.

"So, while you're distracting Cora, we'll search wherever you direct us for her heart and for more beans to ensure we can get home?" Mulan asked.

"Yes, exactly that."

"Call them in, we'll need to prepare to get this done as soon as possible," Emma said.

"After you've digested all that food, I am not rolling you through a portal," Regina said. They all chuckled and left to go make plans. Regina called Kathryn and Belle herself before she spoke with her father. He was terrified for her and wanted to come with her.

"Daddy I know it was terrifying what happened to me, but I can protect myself against mother now, and I know exactly what she wants. She won't do anything as long as she believes I am on her side." Henry Sr. let a tear fall.

"I know, but you're my little girl," He said.

"I am, but you know who needs you more?" Regina asked. He shook his head. "Your grandchildren. You've only been here a short while and they already need you so much. They've never taken to anyone so much besides maybe Ruby. I don't want them to lose that, and I don't want to lose you. If you are there Mother will use, you against me. I love you that much Daddy, no I need to protect us all, in the same way you can't lose me, I cannot lose you. We will make it back Daddy." He was all tears, but he turned on Emma and grabbed her by the shirt.

"Whoa!" Emma exclaimed as he yanked her towards him.

"You make up for what you did to my baby girl. I want her home with no less than a scratch on her, understand?" Henry Sr. asked.

"Yes, sir I understand completely, this is my sole purpose for going," Emma reassured him. He released her.

"Okay then I need to complete your sex education before you go, just in case you end up under your mother's control you know what to expect." Regina cringed and Emma snickered. Henry Sr. donned his signature cringe as they went to her study.

"Where did we leave off last time dear?" Henry Sr. asked.

"Foot fetishes," Regina murmured as she immediately put her gaze on her lap. This made this easier for them both as they sat opposite each other.

"Yes, okay good, I think we got through all the fetishes, but I found something today called tossing the salad." Regina went visibly green; she could check this off her list as never going to happen. Her tongue wasn't touching anyone's literal asshole. She gagged thinking about the possibility of getting feces in her mouth, and it was too much she was hurling in her waste basket.

"Are you all right?" Henry Sr. asked. Regina nodded.

"Yeah, yeah just uh can we skip this one, I promise you tongues, and butts together are off limits and you never have to worry about me even thinking about that," Regina responded.

"I know, but if you're forced darling you won't be the one with the idea." Regina cringed.

"Still what else did you find Daddy, let's not dwell here." Henry Sr. sighed and nodded as he thought. "Wait how did you know it was about putting your tongue into an anal cavity?"

"Pardon?" Regina asked as if she was confused.

"You mentioned tongues and butts, how did you know about that?"

"Daddy you mentioned tongues and butts," Regina told him.

"I bet it was that Emma she corrupted you by bringing it up. It's bad enough she has some phallus fetish and made you do things with your pretty mouth." Regina went red in the face and didn't mentioned she was the one that decided to do anything with her mouth. Emma had been willing to take whatever she would give her. She was just glad she had managed to make it finally go away after forty-eight hours.

"Daddy you were saying before, we don't have a lot of time, I do need to prepare for our success not also my possible enslavement…again." Henry took a deep breath and nodded.

"Yes, yes, I will handle that Emma later, now, where were we?"

"You said we were done with fetishes," Regina said. He nodded.

"Yes, yes well I came across something else, something called BDSM." Regina went redder in the face if that was possible and immediately just focused on her nails in her lap as her father's cringe returned as he thought about BDSM. She was glad he was too focused on trying not to psych himself out with whatever details he'd found. "All right yes, so it's an acronym."

"For what Daddy?" Regina dutifully asked.

"Oh, right uh… the B was uh Bandage, Sí, and the D was for Desvelado, and the S for Sobremesa, and M was Machismo for sure, I know that." Regina looked up at her father curious if he was just playing with her but too afraid to ask directly. Instead she asked.

"Could you maybe individually explain those to me," Regina replied.

"Oh of course darling," He said. "So, first the B, Bandage, I guess people like to wrap you up like you have a wound or something. I think it's actually about the act of caring."

"Uh huh," Regina said at least he understood that there was caring in BDSM.

"Sí y the D, Desvelado, you don't get any sleep, I think there's something about being sleep deprived."

"Uh huh," Regina replied again, because what was she to say, you were sometimes sleep deprived. "And S?"

"S, Sobremesa, you're done eating but you still enjoy each other's company," He replied. Regina couldn't argue again, because just because you were done enjoying the sexual part didn't mean the company of your Dom or Sub was not enjoyed.

"And last Maschismo, but I'm not entirely sure at all why that's in there seeing as it seems all types of couples take part in this. But I suppose it just means someone takes on the manly role."

"Qué pena," Regina moaned.

"What?" Henry Sr. asked. "You have that look on your face that says Emma doesn't know what she's talking about or in this case Daddy. Plus, you did your, you are so wrong, uh huh's early."

"Daddy, I would never," Regina said.

"Now your lying voice," He said holding a finger up. Regina stiffened. How was she going to get out of this? "Don't lie to me, you may be a big girl, but I can still get you for lying." He started to slip his foot out of his chancla. Regina's eyes went wide.

"Oh, Daddy no, no, please I'm not ly…" He picked it up. "Okay, okay, so I know you're wrong about the acronyms." He paused.

"What do you mean I'm wrong?" He asked.

"Yes, those words aren't right although you made some good points, BDSM stands for Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism, and Masochism, not Machismo," Regina replied.

"Huh that explains a lot of what I saw," Henry Sr. said. "And why do you my baby girl know about that?" Regina did not want to talk about her sex life so her first instinct was to throw Emma under the bus. He was already furious with her anyway it wouldn't change anything.

"Obviously Emma…showed me how to use the internet, you saw how easy it was for you to fall onto these sights," Regina replied.

"Of course, of course, we have to make sure the girls do not use the computer. Oh, poor Rowan could stumble onto something and young Henry as well."

"Don't worry, all their devices have a child safety feature on it to keep them from such things, a great tool to aid parents in today's world," Regina reassured him.

"Good, good then I know they will be safe from the horrors of the internet," He said.

"Uh anything else Daddy?" Regina asked.

"Yes, now sit and listen," He said before launching into urinating on others.

"All done?" Emma asked when Regina entered the room and just sat down on the end of their bed. She fell back with a sigh.

"Emma, hear me when I say that I am thoroughly put off sex for the next like twenty minutes." Emma snickered. "Oh and I threw you under the bus every time he found me not lacking in knowledge because he was too off. Sorry, love you."

"What!" Emma cried. "Regina come on, that man will turn murderous towards me for corrupting his baby girl!"

"I know honey and he's going to glare for a little longer, but I just couldn't tell him what a little hoe I was. And believe me it was hard when he said BDSM was Bandages, Desvelado, Sobremesa, and Machismo, do you understand why I had to throw you under the bus?"

"Yeah because you probably didn't make it through that without your Emma's an idiot uh huh," Emma replied.

"I do not have an Emma's an idiot uh huh," Regina pouted. Emma patted her head.

"You do and that's fine, but even I wouldn't have kept a straight face through that," Emma said.

"Wait until you hear the meanings though," Regina put in. Emma looked at her expectantly. "Sobremesa is time spent talking after a meal is finished." Emma snorted.

"Hahaha the meal was me, I assume."

"In my head when I was trying to make sense of it." Emma laughed. "Do you know what it's like to try not to have your mind in the gutter and double as making the things he said make sense?"

"No, but do go on please."

"Desvelado is being sleep deprived essentially."

"Why because all those bandages have you tied up all night or the orgasms kept you awake?" Emma laughed.

"Both Emma, obviously both come on now, you can do better than that," Regina quipped finding Emma's laughter a bit infectious and beautiful. She did love the sound of that woman's laugh.

"I know, I know you're right too easy. Okay now tell me M."

"I will start with this, it just means manly or masculine."

"Okay," Emma said.

"But the reason he got it wrong is because masochism looks like machismo to him." Emma's laugh burst out that time. She laughed so hard tears ran down her cheeks and her stomach hurt.

"Oh Fuck, I don't even know what's the best mess up here, like what if he had said Bondage, Discipline, Submission, and Machismo?"

"Honestly still tying to figure out how he got Desvelado and Sobremesa into all of this."

"I mean they fit if you word the explanation right,"

"And believe me he did, like I couldn't even argue with his interpretation because they fit in some way, it was a madhouse in there." Emma chuckled again.

"Poor baby I know what will cheer you up," Emma said.

"Not sex please I'm still off it for another…" Regina looked at her watch. "Five minutes." Emma laughed.

"No, that's for later after the kids are in bed, right now we need to go spend some time with them if we are really going to put this crazy plan in motion." Regina nodded.

"You're right, I gotta get over myself, it was horrible, but now I gotta go from his little girl to someone's mom." They heard fighting and crying.

"Duty calls." Emma said. They both went to the children, but by the time they got there Xavieré had a black eye and no one could tell them why.

"Well I guess they learned the first rule of fight club," Emma snickered.

"You literally just posted that on facebook," Regina grumbled before she took Xav to get something for her eye.

"You love my timing," Emma shot back before she convinced the girls that they should all go back outside and enjoy the rest of the day with Henry.

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