This is a story about a very different version of Roni, the cursed bartender persona in ouat. I wanted to create a fic based on how I imagined Roni before the 7th season even started. I hope you'll enjoy it!
Trigger Warnings: Violence, Rape, Guns.
I do not own the fictional characters Roni and Emma Swan in this fic.
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Roni, a bartender in her late twenties, works and lives at Mat's, a bar in the outskirts of Seattle. She sleeps on a couch that Mat has offered her and doesn't get along very well with her colleagues, even though they're the only people in her life that she's got. With a rough past and a dark looking future, Roni could never imagine how the pretty blonde in red leather at the end of the bar would change her life so drastically and neither could this customer, whose name is Emma Swan.
Everyone copes differently with the strong feeling of guilt. For the one person, it's drinking. Another might feel better after gambling, and someone else might find joy in sleeping with people and not dealing with the consequences. For Emma Swan, the last one was one that she tended to do a lot. She prefers purely physical contact over emotional bonding, but when she meets someone new and is forced to talk with her, she realizes that it isn't entirely impossible to like people she's slept with.
*This is a SwanQueen fanfiction
*You don't have to have watched Once Upon a Time to understand this story
*This story contains mature + sexual themes, so if you don't like that, don't read it
*These characters don't belong to me, they belong to Disney and ABC