WARNING: Explicit Content!
Detective Swan was doing just fine on her own. Clean streets, Clean city; all because of her keen detective work. Enter Regina Mills; A well known lawyer and future owner of her family's prestigious law firm. When Regina...
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"Ugh, my head.." Regina said to herself, touching her fingertips to her temples, struggling to wake up, "What the hell was I thinking, drinking all that bourbon.." Exhaling hard, Regina sat up in her bed, still rubbing her face. She swung her legs to the side of the mattress, letting the soft chenille carpet tickle the bottom of her feet. Blinking hard a few times, Regina stretched out her arms above her head, cracking her neck and spine so that everything was aligned. She could feel every joint in her body stretch out with relief.
"God, what time is it..?" She yawned. Helping to wake Regina from her haze, her phone began to ring. Looking around the bed for it and coming up empty handed, her toes rubbed against something cold and hard.
"Ah ha!"
Grabbing for the phone on the floor, she paused; noticing a small bit of paper on the carpet beside it. It seemed to be severely creased, as though it were folded and unfolded, crumpled and uncrumpled, several times. Puzzled, Regina moved her hand away from her phone, ignoring the noise flowing from it, and picked up the paper to examine it.
"A business card? But where did.." Her eyes went wide, gently touching her fingertips to her lips. Holding the small, weathered card in her hand, Regina 's memories of the previous night came flooding back.
"Shit."
The smartphone continued to blare, snapping Regina back to reality. Moving her hand from her mouth, she picked the phone from the floor and refocused her attention to the lit up screen. 'Mother calling...' The screen read. Clearing her throat, Regina answered the call. "Yes? Hello mother, what is.." "Regina!!" Cora yelled into her ear, "where the hell are you?! Do you even know what time it is??" "Please mother, calm down." "I will not calm down!" "...it was worth a try.." "What was worth a try?!" Her mother asked, "You know what? Never mind. I want you in this office, now!" "I am not a child mother! How many times do I need to say it?! Do not talk to me as though I - " "You are MY child, Regina." Cora replied sternly into the phone. Regina could tell by the sheer sound of her mother's voice, that she was talking through her teeth. "I've had to tell two clients this morning that you were locked up in meetings because you were no where to be found! On top of that, Robin has called here for you a dozen times!"
"Yea well, I've had to tell people that about you my entire life..." Regina thought quietly to herself. "Are you listening to me, Regina?!" "Yes mother," she replied, bringing her attention back to the call, "Don't worry, I'll be right in. And never mind about Robin, I'll handle him. Fifteen minutes, ok?" "And not one minute later!"
'Call Ended'.
Clicking out of the call, Regina yawned, rubbing at her temples again with her free hand. "Aspirin." She thought out loud to herself, "lots of aspirin."
Regina stood up, multitasking her search for pain killers and navigating through missed calls and texts on her device.
Seven texts from Robin, and three missed calls, naturally. Regina figured he'd try at least a few times with follow up texts after she blew him off without a response last night...
