SQW Day 1 - Heartbeats (Celebrity AU)
Hi everybody! I’m so excited about this new Swan Queen Week! Here’s my entry for day 1, in which Emma is in a band and Regina is an actress. As usual, I own nothing and I’m just taking Regina, Emma & co for a spin.
I hope you’ll have as much fun reading it as I did writing it, and I hope all of you have an amazing Swan Queen Week! Stay awesome, Swen!
“And we’re now live from LA for The Mares’ concert! They’re ending their world tour right at home, and we’ll be broadcasting their show live, so stay tuned! They should be starting in about 15 minutes, so not much longer to wait now for the fans who’ve –“
Regina turned the radio off and stood up from where she was seated. She looked around the trailer and smiled happily at her son. Henry was slumped in a comfy armchair and had just looked up from his phone. He raised an eyebrow as he saw his mother had stood up.
“Where are you going? Is it time?”
“Well we should go out soon, if we don’t want to miss the beginning. But I’d like to wait for your mom to go back first. She should be done with makeup soon.” As she was speaking, Regina had crossed over to her son and was ruffling his hair. She quickly glanced at his phone to see what had him staring at his screen in silence for the past 10 minutes.
“Mom!” Henry whined, trying to put the phone back in his pocket before his mom could see the screen. He wasn’t quick enough though, and Regina had time to see he was exchanging texts with a certain Paige. The name sounded familiar to Regina; she probably went to school with Henry.
“Paige is in my English class. We’re paired up on a project” Henry muttered, blushing all the way to his ears. Regina hummed and kissed the top of his head, taking advantage that he was sitting down and thus not taller than her.
“You’re getting too big” she complained softly. “My big boy.”
“Mom, I’m 16, you don’t have to call me that. It makes me feel like I’m five all over again. Besides, you’ll have a very little boy – or girl – again in a few months.” As he said this, Henry gestured to Regina’s baby bump. At four months pregnant, it was still relatively discreet but undeniably there. Regina had made quite the sensation at the Oscars, a couple days back, by walking down the red carpet as a nominee and in a tight dress, while not having made any pregnancy announcement before.
The door of the trailer opened and Henry jumped to his feet. In came Emma Swan, Regina’s girlfriend.
“Well, well, well, if this isn’t Academy Award winner Regina Mills and her son, who’s turning out to be quite the teenage heartthrob!” Emma joked, quoting word for word a press article that’d been released the day before and had caused Regina to roll her eyes and sigh heavily at the word “heartthrob”.
“And here is Emma Swan of the world renowned girl band The Mares!” Henry answered in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic voice. “Mom wanted to see you before we go sit down.”
“I wanted to wish you luck before you went on stage, and to give you this…” Regina stood on the tip of her toes and gave Emma a soft kiss, lingering a couple seconds too long for Henry to be completely comfortable watching them.
“Thanks for coming tonight. I’m sure you’ll love the show” Emma said after their kiss ended.
“Always so modest” Regina commented with a wink. “I know it’ll be great. Well, Henry and I should go take our seats. See you onstage?”
Emma watched her son and girlfriend leave the trailer together, and her three band mates come in right after them. Mary Margaret, Ashley and Ruby were all ready to go, and the four women took a few minutes to go through their pre-concert ritual together.
The concert was already well in its third hour. Regina and Henry were immensely enjoying themselves in the VIP section, and Emma looked just as happy on stage. The band had just finished performing “Heartbeats”, one of their most romantic songs that Emma had written with Regina in mind. Suddenly, Emma started speaking into her microphone.
“I wrote this song with someone very specific in mind: the love of my life. She’s here tonight and I want to dedicate this song, this show, hell, everything good in my life to her, because I owe her every single happy thing that’s been happening to me lately.” Emma turned toward the VIP section and gave Regina the widest of smiles. “Regina, you’re the magic in my life. You’re an exceptional woman, the best mother to our son and overall the greatest person I’ve ever met. I’m proud of you in everything you do, and I’m so thankful for you. But I feel like there’s one last thing missing. So, and please don’t hate me for doing it in front of everyone… Marry me?” There was a moment of silence all over the crowd, and Regina felt like all of her blood was rushing to her feet. She held onto Henry’s shoulder for balance. The teenager had an exceptionally large smile as he looked at his mom and wrapped an arm around her.
“Wait, there’s a ring! Kid, give your mom the ring!” Emma exclaimed, suddenly remembering about it. Emma’s forgetfulness and spontaneity caused the audience to laugh wholeheartedly.
Henry handed his mother the jewelry box. The ring was timeless and sober, and exactly what Regina liked. One of the tech crew members walked over to them with a microphone, and Henry held it to his mom’s mouth.
“Of course I’ll marry you, Emma.”
The entire stadium erupted in cheers, and Mary Margaret, Ashley and Ruby all high fived in the back. Emma blew her now fiancée a kiss, before exclaiming “Awesome! Now, before I can go and really kiss my fiancée, let’s wrap this all up with ‘Number one’!”
