Regina Mills had spent her whole life fighting Love, or Evil. When she was younger she fought for the love she had for Daniel, and tried her hardest to fight her mother's evil, ultimately ending in losing Daniel. For a while, she tried to fight the evil that began festering inside after the loss, and she lost that battle too. Then, for years she fought the love that Snow White and Prince Charming had for eachother, doing everything in her incredibly vast power to try and ruin it for them. Everything she did fought off love, deep down she felt unworthy of it, even from her own son who she truly loved but still kept at arm's length. When she met Emma Swan, it was different. Emma didn't even try to suck up to the mayor, she didn't care about Henry's stories of her evil-doing, though she did believe him. She wasn't scared of Regina, so she had no love to fight.
It felt wrong, but for that very reason, Regina found herself with fondness for Emma. How odd, that the younger woman's lack of love caused the older woman to become fascinated.
It felt wrong, and it felt scary, and Regina Mills didn't like feeling scared.
"What's making you so anxious?"
I swallowed thickly and straightened my posture. "I want to ask you a question," I said, softly, making sure no one could hear me.
"What is it?" She spoke loudly and clearly didn't take a hint.
"It's quite personal," I said. "It's about.. sex." I almost mouthed the last word, afraid that someone would hear me. I didn't need to have everyone in town know the mayor asked her friends filthy questions.
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Emma has just opened up a new shop, one that doesn't meet Regina's principles, so when the latter decides to meet with this woman, she finds out Emma isn't as awful as she'd figured at first.
*You don't have to have watched Once Upon a Time to understand this story
*I don't own any of the characters, they belong to ABC and Disney
* This story contains mature content