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Whatever This Is (Once Upon a Time; Regina/Emma)

Aug 31, 2013 12:00

TITLE: Whatever This Is
CHAPTER 19: Conclusions
FANDOM: Once Upon a Time
PAIRING: Swan Queen (Regina/Emma)
SPOILERS: AU from beginning of "The Cricket Game"
RATING: PG-13
SUMMARY: ( She thinks of her eighteen-year-old self, torn up over how much love sucks and how it brings nothing but pain - and how she never wanted to fall victim to it again. Then she thinks of Regina’s head, hitting her shoulder for the first time. She thinks of the first time she grabbed Regina’s hand and how wonderful it felt to connect with someone again. She thinks of the slow-dance and magical levitation and Gold’s speech about true love and before she knows it, she’s in front of Regina’s house. )

character: regina mills, pairing: regina/emma, fandom: once upon a time, genre: au, character: emma swan

Comments 3

g_ww September 1 2013, 18:22:22 UTC

Wooohooo! Finally!

Just as I thought you captured Regina's voice to a T in the last chapter, in this one you have Emma down perfectly.

I enjoyed seeing the other point of view for that diner conversation. When that penny dropped it was like a sledgehammer to the head ("...she wants to make her happy, and oh mother of God she needs to get out of here right now.") and I could definitely see Emma reacting exactly like this.

Thank goodness the got up the guts to finally own up to her feelings. These two are going to be so good together. And as if Regina was going to make Emma stop... (*rolls eyes at the spawn of the Two Idiots...*)

I like the cameos from Gold and Neal - again, nicely in-character, I thought.

And apart from all that, this line just made me laugh out loud: "She’s asked him numerous times if his dad’s going to try anything weird and he just shrugs. So Gold’s probably gonna blow up the town or something soon."

regalish September 4 2013, 23:10:49 UTC

Heee, thank you so much! I know I don't typically back up and re-hash stuff that's already happened in these chapters, but I had so much fun writing the diner scene in the last one that I just had to throw in Emma's POV on it. I had an idea of what would be in her head during that "deer in the headlights" moment. :)

And I just love writing Gold. Neal, meh - but Gold? Is gold. *ba-dum-bum*

So glad you enjoyed this! I ended up extending the story to 22 chapters (because there are a few more ends to tie up), so I'm off to post 20!

fiddlings October 17 2014, 22:55:29 UTC

Holy. Crap. That was intense and awesome, and I'm nearly reduced to keymashing right now because YES. FINALLY.