I Can't Get you Off my Mind (And Maybe I'm Crazy but it's True)

Chapter Ten: New Gallery Smell

2 years later

"Hurry, or we're going to be late!" Emma urged, rushing around the bedroom and trying to find the matching pair to her diamond earring.

Regina watched with amusement in the doorway. "Emma, you don't need to rush. It's my gallery it's going to be at. I start the show when I want to."

"I know, but it's going to be a big deal today. We're having international investors!" Emma said with mild panic. Regina, already impeccably dressed in her royal purple dress and with her longer hair done up in a bun, approached Emma, gripping her by the elbows and getting her to pause. Brown chocolate eyes searched deep into blue green ones. "Emma, please don't stress. Everything will be okay. And even if we show up late, they'll still wait for us."

Emma huffed out air. "If you're sure..."

"Whenever am I not sure about art related topics?" Regina arched up a brow.

Emma was able to continue dressing up more calmly now. The two of them once ready, took Regina's limo to the opening of the new art gallery in LA that she had opened up. This one contained more grunge pieces- art the style that Emma specialized in. Which was why Emma was an executive director of this art gallery, Regina helping her manage it on the side.

Emma took a deep breath when she got out the limo, walking towards the shiny gallery. Regina followed by her side and inside they found the place packed, people waiting in the lobby for them. Regina was used to such things but Emma wasn't and the brunette squeezed her girlfriend's hand to reassure her everything would be alright.

Emma had never expected to go from starving artist, to successful artist, to now partially owning her own gallery. Regina had told her that soon Emma would own a gallery all on her own. It was a benefit she hadn't foreseen of dating Regina.

It had been two years. Two years since they finally officially got together. It was almost amazing how quickly time had flown by. Not to say the journey was smooth. There had been so many bumps to get over in the beginning but once they had finally accepted each other and this situation, they found it was easy to fall into a steady rhythm.

And the eventual harm that they had caused to Robin and Killian faded away as well. Killian found another woman to date, who turned out to be his true mate. He and Emma were now on good terms, laughing about the time when they had thought they were each others mates. Emma was happy to see him happy. The woman, who turned out to be an artist herself, was named Tink. She had grown up on a farm and was very down to earth and sweet.

Robin, was still looking for his mate, but he was open to Regina visiting him so they could share joint custody of Roland. The little boy was sprouting up to be an intelligent preteen with an interest in nature just like this father. There would always be that small hint of sadness between Regina and Robin but nothing but time could continue to heal it.

Robin still did like to support Regina's work, which was he was here tonight, to see the new exhibit. Killian was here too, with his mate, Tink. As Emma and Regina walked through the lobby, going to cut the red ribbon on the new exhibit, they caught the eye of their past boyfriends.

It was nice to have things end not on a sour note, but on a mutual one.

In this manner, everyone could be happy. But none happier than Emma who finally got the mate bond she had wanted ever since she was a little girl. And now that everything between her and Regina had worked out it was so nice.

Regina was the perfect alpha to her omega, and the brunette never stopped going out of her way to prove that to Emma. To take care of her. To make sure Emma had everything she could ever want. But Emma was fine just having Regina. She didn't need anything more.

"Ready?" Regina asked, holding up the ceremonial scissors and giving them to Emma to cut the ribbon for the new gallery.

"As ready as I'll ever be," Emma responded with a small smile on her face.

The opening party went on for a while, but Regina had a reservation for them afterwards so that they could eat at a nice restaurant afterwards. Both were tired but exhilarated from the high of having a success.

"To us," Regina raised her champagne glass and clinked it with Emma's before the two of them drank down the drink.

"That went better than I thought it would," Emma confessed. "I only tripped in my heels once and stumbled over my words twice."

"We sold a lot of art too. Which means we can afford to finance other artists to start selling their wares," Regina added on. "But speaking of art, there was this one piece there that really stood out to me."

"Which one?" Emma asked as she took a bite of her meat.

"I believe her name is Emma," Regina stated coyly, reaching into her coat jacket pocket and pulling something out. "She has this lovely figure and even lovelier personality and every time I look at her she makes me smile." She opened the cover to the box, a tad nervous.

Emma stared at the jewelry in the box before she swallowed down the bit of meat in a mouth that had suddenly gone dry.

"Are you proposing to me?" Emma gasped, hand coming up to her mouth.

"This time, yes," Regina said, with a soft smile of amusement, thinking back to the last time she had given Emma a ring.

"Why?" Emma couldn't comprehend this right now. She wanted to say yes, but her mouth and mind weren't working right.

"Because I want you to know you're my first choice," Regina said gently and earnestly, holding the ring in the box. "Even when I made you feel like you were my last, you were always my first choice. And from now on, I want you to be able to physically know this every time you look at your hand."

"Yes. I accept," Emma breathed out and Regina took out the ring and slipped it onto Emma's finger, replacing the spot the other ring had taken. Emma took this moment to look the ring over and admire it on her finger.

And then, she surged out of her seat and kissed her fiance hard on the lips.

A/N: This is the end of this series. If you like Alpha Regina fics, check out Won't Someone Save Me From Me?

I will be writing more fics. Hold me Because I'm Scared (of Falling Apart) is going to be the next omegaverse fic coming out.