Emma, My Love: Book 1- SwanFire (OUAT fanfic)

The Wubbulous

Emma POV
"What do we need?" Neal restates Regina's question, "To start, some breakfast would be nice."
Regina smirks, "Here's some beef jerky."
"I will not eat that." Neal says.
"Really? You don't like beef jerky."
"I am what I am." Neal states.
"Alright Sam I Am, would you like some green eggs and ham."
"Sure." Neal says jokingly.
Regina hands me some beef jerky, finds some eggs, cooks them with bacon and throws it on some moss.
"Bon appitete." she says.
Grumpy and starving, Neal picks up a piece of bacon and vigorously bites it.
"Which way?" I ask.
"North." Neal says pointing to the mountain.

"So Regina, where do you hear of that book? With Sam-I-Am, Green Eggs and Ham, and the um......." I ask.
"Wubbulous." Regina pitches in.
"Yes, that book." I say.
"I'm not sure, it think from my past." Regina says.
"Or your future." Neal states.
"Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss. Is from the future. You read it to Henry in Storybrooke." Neal explains.
"Henry?" Regina questions.
"Our son." I say.
Regina looks at me.
"I'm not a lesbian." she states.
"Neither am I. Neal is his dad, but he left me before Henry was born, in prison. Anyways, I put him up for adoption, and you adopted him. Then he found me." I explain.

There was an awkward silence as we continued towards the mountain. Because I was new to this land, Neal leaded the way, and Regina was behind me.

"Be careful at the ditch." Neal yells.
He jumps over the ditch that's approximately 3 feet in diameter.
It was now my turn, I back up for a running start and leap over the hole.
Then Regina hops over like it was nothing.

We continued to walk without any obstacles.
"We've been walking for hours." I complain.
"And you've been saying that for hours." Regina says mimicking me.
"Alright, let's stop here for the night. Regina hunt for some food, I'm not eating beef jerky. Emma, help me sent up tent. It will be sundown soon." Neal commands.

Regina tosses some of the tent supplies at me and sets off for dinner. Neal tries to teach me how to set up tent. But by the time he finished, I was already half-way done.
"I know how to set up a tent Neal." I say.
He drops the manual and grabs a hammer to help finish it.

"Okay, now that that's done, let's find some wood to build a fire for dinner." I say.
"Alright, but how will we light it, miss. I-know-the-woods-so-well?" Neal asks, trying to keep his masculinity.

I reach into my pocket to grab a box of matches.
"Stole it from Robin's pub."

"Back to our old tricks, huh?" Neal says.
I smirk at his comment. We gather leaves, twigs, sticks, and logs.

Finally Regina returns. "Rabbit anyone?" she asks.
I start to light some leaves and place them inside the typee of logs, where the twigs and other "fire starters." We eat rabbit, and go inside the tent to sleep.

The next morning I wake up, I look over to my right to see Neal still asleep, hidden in his sleeping bag. I wake him up. We travel over to the other side of the tent to see that Regina is missing.