Chapter six

The front door opened, and Emma furrowed her brow, "do you ever go to college?"

Zelena just tilted her head in mock offence, "I don't have class on Fridays, is this really the thanks I get for helping your girlfriend get ready?"

"I'm sure your sister is capable of putting on a dress," Emma retorted with a small smirk.

"You would be surprised," Zelena replied while shaking her head.

"She could be wearing a bin bag and I wouldn't care."

Zelena fake gagged, "if you're going to remain this mushy forever, I think I'm going to regret getting you two together."

"Getting us together?" Emma laughed, "how so?" she asked, as she leaned against the stair railing.

"Who do you think helped Mal find that college tour? She doesn't even want to go to college," she laughed.

Emma just shook her head and smiled, "well then thank you, for your interference."

"Interference? You never would have done anything if I hadn't set up the project date."

"I would have," Emma replied.

"Would not."

"Stop bickering," Cora called down the stairs, "she's ready."

Emma turned instantly to see Regina standing at the top of the stairs, in a simple red dress, her hair down and in curls, with only a small touch of makeup.

Regina walked down the steps, and the blonde watched her all the way, "wow," she finally said as the brunette got to the last step.

Regina looked down self-consciously, she hadn't worn anything like this since she had been forced to quit cheerleading and she honestly wasn't used to it anymore.

"Are you sure I look okay?" she asked, with earned her an eye roll from Zelena. Her sister had spent hours trying to find a dress that she would actually wear, she was sure that Zelena was just going to forcibly put her in one of them before they had finally found this one.

Emma nodded, "you look perfect," she smiled.

Regina blushed, and then inspected the blonde, she was wearing a pink dress, Regina was sure that Ruby had picked it, though it was much longer than anything in the waitresses wardrobe. She had her hair down and straight and was only wearing mascara.

"You don't look too bad yourself," she smiled.

Emma held her hand with a smile; she wanted to kiss her, but the entirety of her family being near put her off.

A bright flash made Emma blinked uncontrollably, which only made Regina laugh.

Once she got her vision back, she turned to see Mr Mills holding up a camera.

"Hello Emma," he waved.

Blinking again she waved back.

Cora looked at her watch, "you two need to get going."

Emma nodded, and turned to Regina who hopped of the last step and took her hand.

"Just one thing, Emma," Cora said before they got to the door, she placed a set of keys in her hand, "I think you're a very nice girl, but my daughter is not going in that yellow death trap."

Regina bit her lip, trying not to laugh, but Emma found that she couldn't even registered the insult, after all she had just been handed the keys to a Mercedes.

The gossip about the pair being together seemed to have died down over the last few days. Regina guessed it was because it was because of Ruby's disturbingly violent threats, which frankly she was okay with.

So for this reason, as the couple walked into the gym hand in hand, no one seemed too care, or at least got better at their whisperings.

Regina smiled broadly as no comments made their way towards her, as Emma led her over to Ruby and Belle. Regina had found that she fit surprisingly well into the group, and she couldn't even find it within herself to be angry at Mary Margaret anymore, she actually had considered thanking her a couple times in the last few days.

She spent the night talking to her actual friends, which for once in years was more than just one, though she did still spend a lot of time talking to Mal, while watching Emma and Ruby do some stupid dance.

The best of all was that neither Robin nor Killian seemed to be here. Apparently there were CCTV cameras that caught his attempted attack. He had been expelled, and he seemed to have grassed on Robin as well. She was sure that it had something to do with her mother, though it had taken a few weeks, the school had finally done something about the two of them. She was beginning to realise that neither of them were really that intimidating, especially now that had so many people on her side.

Smiling happily, she walked over to her girlfriend, and began the last dance of the night.

-Ten years later-

"I'm not going," Regina lamented as she checked her E-mails.

"Why?" Mal whined.

"Most of the people that were in our class still live in town," she laughed.

"Not all of them," she smirked.

"Are you really still on this?"

"You haven't seen Emma since college started," Mal replied.

Regina rolled her eyes, she had enjoyed the best relationship of her life in senior year, but they couldn't make long distance work, so they ended it on good terms.

"She won't even go," the mayor replied, as she stood and began looking for a file.

"What makes you so sure?"

"Because..." she began, only to falter. She actually knew for a fact that the blonde had RSVP'd to the event, since the school had asked her to help with arrangements. Looking up at her best friend, she sighed and admitted, "fine she is going. But she probably hasn't thought about me in ages, she could be in a relationship, besides I have a son to think about."

"Zelena can look after Daniel," she replied with an eye roll.

"You expect my sister to drive down here just so I can go to a silly reunion ten minutes from my house?"

"You know she will, she has always thought that you should try and reconnect with Emma. It's not like you've loved any of the one month girlfriend's you've had since," Mal replied.

"And you don't think that the fact I adopted a child will freak her out."

Mal looked at her with raised eyebrows, "I think she'll love you more for it."

Regina put her head in her hands, "fine, call Zelena then."

Regina spent much of the event helping out with the little details, and saying hello to the very few people that had left the town.

About an hour in, she lost hope that the blonde would turn up, so she offered to take Mary Margaret's place at the sign in counter.

She vaguely recognised footsteps approaching, and asked despondently, "name?"

"I would be very hurt if you don't remember my name, Regina," came the reply.

Regina looked up instantly, and dropped the clip board she had been reading to pass the time.

"Emma, you came," she choked out.

She was met with the familiar smirk, and she simply rolled her eyes.

"Traffic was pretty bad," Emma looked out into the gathering, and then back at the brunette, "did many people show up?"

"It's not far to travel for most of us," Regina chuckled.

Emma furrowed her brow, "you still live here?"

Regina nodded, "the townspeople decided that they wanted to keep a Mills in office as soon as my mother retired, I moved back."

"I thought you hate it here."

Regina shook her head, "it's a nice town and Daniel likes it here."

"Daniel?"

"My son," she replied.

Emma nodded awkwardly, though internally she was screaming, "so your married?"

Regina felt rather satisfied with the blonde's reaction, "no, I adopted as a single mother."

A huge smile spread across the blonde's face, "you adopted?"

"Well...yeah," Regina replied with a small smile. The pair had actually spent a bit of time talking about how they would possibly adopt, of course then they never thought they would break up.

Emma frowned, "you named him after your ex-girlfriend."

Regina smirked, "Daniel was my grandfather's name," she reminded her.

The other woman visibly relaxed, feeling somewhat stupid for not remembering that.

"So...are you going to sign me in?" she laughed.

Regina blushed slightly as she handed her the name tag. Emma looked at it for a moment, before she asked, "do you want to get a drink after?"

"I would love to," Regina replied instantly.

-15 years later-

"Mom," Daniel shouted.

"What?" Regina called as the eighteen year old ran down the stairs.

"I lost my tie, Melissa is going to kill me if I don't have a tie for prom," he replied dramatically.

Regina rolled her eyes, and then let a small smile grace her lips at the sight of her little boy in a suit.

"You know if you cleaned your room you wouldn't lose your things," she answered.

"This really isn't the time," he said with an exasperated sigh.

"Okay, where did you have it last?"

He shook his head, and Regina tried not to laugh at how genuinely worried he looked.

"Mom, this is important."

"Calm down, kid," another voice called.

"Ma, have you seen my tie?" he turned around as his blonde mother walked down the stairs.

Emma saw her wife trying not to laugh as she noticed what the blonde had noticed a moment ago.

His other mother turned him around and pulled the tie that seemed to be stuck to his back, "you mean this."

He let out a sigh of relief, before he quickly looked down at his watch, "I'm late," he groaned as Regina began putting on the tie for him, knowing full well that the teenager would do it wrong.

"Can I borrow the sheriff cruiser?" he asked hopefully.

"Nice try kid, you can't use the sirens," Emma laughed, as she put her arm around his shoulder and began walking him to the door. "Melissa probably isn't even ready anyway," she chuckled.

Daniel nodded, and began to open the door, before he thought better of it and turned to hug both of his mothers at the same time.

Regina laughed as he pulled away, "what was that for?" she asked.

"I'm nervous, I thought it would help," he explained.

"Awww," Emma and Regina said at the same time.

Daniel grimaced, "it didn't," he said sardonically though a small smile was forming.

"Go," Emma laughed, "and ask Melissa's parents to send us the pictures."

He nodded, and quickly ran out of the door.

Regina sighed, "I can't believe his going to go to college."

Emma brought her arm around her shoulder and brought her closer, "I know," she replied.

A smashing sound interrupted their moment, causing both women to smile, "I think one less kid in the house may be a good thing," she commented.

At that moment two girls came thundering down the stairs, once they were married they had decided to adopt again.

The ten year old twins, Alex and Becky seemed to be bickering about something, "mom she took my laptop," Alex pouted.

"Mine isn't working," Becky defended.

"You broke your laptop?" Emma asked with a semi-serious face.

"I was trying to use hers to look up how to fix it."

Emma nodded, and looked at Regina who just mouthed 'it's your turn.'

Quickly pecking her wife on the lips, she whispered, "I'll be right back."

Emma raced the twins up stairs to see what the damage was, and Regina just went to make dinner with a huge smile on her face.

A/N So this turned out really fluffy haha

Hope you guys enjoyed this story, and reviews would be much appreciated :)

As always I need to thank my beta QueenApples XD