Silence

Me

The first few months had proven the most difficult but Henry and Regina had rebounded rather quickly. Nearly every other day their son was having friends over or staying at a friends until time for either mother to pick him up. Regina had started her own accounting firm, became a board member of the Parent Teacher Association and thanks to her beautiful, blonde girlfriend enjoyed a small garden. Slowly, very slowly, Emma had found her own way. Returning to bounty hunting as if she had never left. In Henry finding her he had unknowingly led her to the greatest gift of all, family.

This is not happening.

Emma could not move, could not breathe. Her heart rate on the precipice of cardiac arrest. Demons that had kept her awake many a night were about to cause an aneurism. Spinning on her heel she promptly began walking the opposite direction of home. In fact she was walking along Camby Avenue towards Regina's official business front.

"Emma?!"

*&@#!

She tucked her head down and kept her pace even as if she simply had not heard the pursuer. Thankfully there was a crowd swelling around her that made it easier to duck off into the alleyway and into the backdoor of the small office. Behind her the door locked automatically, something she was grateful for.

Inside the savior shattered.

Outside she slid down the doorway, placing a hand over her mouth. The dam that held it in collapsed as her bottom hit the floor. Emotionally she did not know what to feel or what feelings to avoid first as the mess that seeing Hook stationed outside the entryway to their apartment had left her in. If he had found them who else knew where they were. They could all be in danger.Tears careened down her face while she fought to steady herself. It was fight or flight and she sure as hell was not going down without one. Henry and Regina were her family now.

End of story.

Suddenly she was not alone as the forms of Regina and a client passed at the other end of the hall. Brown eye brows rose sharply sighting the blonde on the floor but she escorted the patron to the door nonetheless. Upon her return she was met with dried eyes but fearfulness from her love. Whatever Emma had mentally been going through seemed to ease up as she lost herself in the familiar embrace. When she did not believe herself to be close enough she removed the brunette's blazer and her own leather jacket and tried again.

"Emma. It's okay. I am right here."

The blonde crushed their lips together melting them into nothing more than the touch, taste, and scent of one another.

Regina moaned into her mouth and Emma stalked her backwards into the private office. Even with her greatest fears coming alive just a few blocks away she could not name one reason why she should refrain. Never had the words, "My next appointment is in forty-five minutes." sounded as sexy as it was purred into her ear. Blood red fingernails held onto her neck and shoulders while Emma sat her on the desk.

"It's okay Regina, I'm right here too." She parroted taking every second she dared to be with the woman she was mad for.

When she came up for air she slid the skirt back into place feeling out Regina's hips in the process. The navy blue dress blouse was tucked in and buttoned up to queenly standards next. Emma used the side of her thumb to fix the smudge of lipstick before she stole just one more kiss, three more times.

She knew what had to happen.