Regina x “What the hell”
Anonymous asked for: Henry is being a jerk to Regina; Emma sees it and does something nice for Regina.
Title: Peace Offering
Author: heartsways
Pairing: Emma/Regina
“You’re not my mom! I hate you and I hate living here!
Moments later, Henry’s bedroom door slammed with such force that it seemed the very house itself shook.
At the foot of the stairs, Regina’s chin sunk to her chest, shoulders bowing under the weight of Henry’s anger. He had returned from dinner with Emma under a reluctant, recalcitrant cloud. Squirming out of her embrace, he had pulled away with disgust tugging at his mouth, his hands pushing at Regina as though she were the very Devil himself.
Sighing, Regina shook her head. Sometimes she thought she was, particularly when viewing herself through Henry’s eyes.
cyberwoolf asked for: An accidental, very public (looots of people) outing of Swan Queen in a precarious position with SQ reaction
Title: Out In The Open
Author: heartsways
Paring: Emma/Regina
“Come to the fair,” Emma grumbled to herself as she stomped across the stage of Storybrooke’s only theater. “It’s your civic duty,” she added in a sing-song mocking tone, throwing up her hands.
Regina had been insistent, first trying to seduce Emma into attending the Storybrooke Summer Fayre and then, when that failed to work, demanding it. She had cited several paragraphs from the town’s city code which, she explained, stated that the Sheriff’s duties weren’t solely restricted to whatever it was Emma did all day in her office.
Morning Light: So, this has just come to my attention… Look at this:When Regina…
So, this has just come to my attention… Look at this:
When Regina throws her ring in Jefferson’s hat, and then when she realises the townspeople of Storybrooke…
This is so painful and horrid if it does happen in the show, though. But I think they’re determined to put Regina through it in order to qualify and quantify her “badness”. Losing a child would surely have driven her half-mad and I can’t help feeling like Henry is a substitute for not just a literal lost child, but also a symbolic representation of everything she never had, or all the things that were taken from her.
I think for an abused child like Regina, they either grow up to never have children, afraid of becoming their own mother and perpetuating that cycle of abuse, or they desperately want to have children so that they can break the cycle by proving their mother wrong and being a loving, nurturing parent.
Poor Regina seems stuck between the two. I wouldn’t be surprised if a past trauma with a lost baby might have been what took her almost 20 years before deciding to adopt Henry. I think she was afraid of losing again.
Interesting theories here though, and definitely a spring lard for further exploration. I love how analytical this fandom can be and how the little things are always the stuff you guys notice. Makes me happy.
Anonymous asked for: Swan Queen locked in a cupboard with Red Snow on the other side
“What the fu- ” Emma’s voice was muffled under Regina’s firm hand as it clamped over her mouth. She’d been unceremoniously bundled into the large closet at the far end of the Sheriff’s office that was woefully crammed full of old chairs and furniture that Emma suspected hadn’t seen the light of day in decades.
She bumped up against something hard and let out an agonized groan against Regina’s hand.
“Be. Quiet.”
Emma glared at Regina as the other woman hissed at her in the gloom of the cramped space. This wasn’t how she’d envisaged their lunch date going at all.
