Dark Hearts | Once Upon A Time

LXVii. Two Families

Storybrooke. Present-day.

A WEEK LATER and Erica's head was still trying to process her date with Jaclyn. The fact that Aphrodite had said she could feel their love. It was seriously messing with her head. However, it also felt really thrilling and exciting to know, but at the same time it terrified her: She knew what happened to people who were proven to be deeply in love with each other, her parents were the shining example of how love wasn't enough to get you through everything 

As much as she loved Jaclyn; she was terrified that one day it might not be enough 

For days she dredged that thought around with her and no matter what Erica did she couldn't get rid of it. It started to affect her every day life and by the end of the week she was tired and crashing and her mom and Emma seemed to notice and so it was declared a girl's night by Mary Margret who said that she missed hanging out with her friends and daughters. 

The six of them found themselves cramped into the loft, buried under a mound of blankets and cinnamon cocoa in their hands as they watched trashy movie after trashy movie until Emma decided to put a movie on. One of Erica's favourites since she was a child Star Wars

Engrossed in the movie, Erica didn't react to much of anything until the screen was promptly shut off in the middle of a fight scene and she let out a little whine as she turns to Mary Margret "Mom! Tell her to turn the TV back on! I was watching it!"

"You can have it back on when you've answered a few of our questions"

"Why...Am I going to die if I don't answer?"

"No, well you might if you don't answer" Keira smirked, head tilted slightly to the left and Erica resisted the urge to roll her eyes. What was this good cop/bad cop routine they had going on? It didn't fit the picture of heroes they had built up, Erica might have expected this from Emma but she didn't expect it from everyone

Even Gemma seemed determined to get answers

"What do you want to know?"

"Well, first how did  you get together?"

"Next question"

"Do you love her?" Mary Margret grinned like a schoolgirl, obviously, the alcohol that she had obviously worked its way through her system, after Keira had encouraged her to have a drink or two so she wouldn't be 'so fucking miserable' as she was missing her baby and so Keira had said she should drink and well Mary Margret was a bit of a lightweight, unlike Erica who could drink cans and cans and bottles of alcohol before feeling its effects unless she was constantly drinking because she was bored (which was handy when she spent most  of her time around pirates) "Look I know we didn't react very well to you being in a relationship with Jaclyn--"

"I'm not in love with her!"

"Why are you two so stubborn? Gemma literally caught you two kissing -- sorry no sucking each other's faces -- and you still can't admit you're in love? You know I always thought your sister was the denser of the two of you but now I beginning to think I was wrong"