The huff that escapes her is unqueenly and there is something distinctly childish about the set of her arms as she folds them across her chest. âHonestly, Regina, I can be trusted to be alone with my own grandson.â Alright, so a part of her understands her daughterâs reluctance, but that doesnât make it any less insulting. âYouâll be gone, what, two hours at the most? Just what do you think can happen in that time span?â
"He wants something from me. I can see it in his eyes." for cora!
âNo more than any man would want from his wife.â There were certain expectations that every wife had to fulfill- at least for a little while. She had kicked Henry out of the bedroom once Regina was born and she saw no reason why Regina couldnât do the same to Leopold once an heir was delivered. âYouâll find it isnât difficult. All you have to do is lie there.â
The statement elicits a response that is somewhat tremulous. She knows only that she has to force her hand away from her own throat, away from where her thumb wants desperately to worry at the flesh. She instead covers it with her other hand, and ducks her head in something like a nervous smile.
âYou arenât mine. You canât be,â Alana says softly, though now her thumb is kneading at her wrist, anxious, âYou canât-- be mine because youâre yours. No one can belong to anyone else. But we can-- we can choose to give parts of ourselves to each other.â Someone tried to make me theirs-- everyone has, and itâs been nothing but bad for me, please, understand--
âI mean, if youâre-- if I can have some parts of you, then I admit-- Iâm... yours, and you may have some from me, as well. I just--â her voice drops, and she feels like sheâs disappointed, crystal blue gaze hitting the floor immediately, â--Iâm sorry. Iâm sorry this is so hard for me.â
Send âDonât touch her/himâ to see my museâs reaction to your muse defending them against a physical threat
Baribusâ head lolled, his golden yellow eyes hooded and unfocused. His head felt stuffy and his thoughts hazy as if a fog had rolled into his mind, preventing all but the simplest thoughts. He felt ill and the incense his captor burned didnât help.
The door to his room opened and a tall, blonde haired man stepped inside, flanked by what seemed to be a pair of dingy squires whose filthy frock coat sleeves seemed to stretch long past their arms. He made his way into the room, the air thickening as his blue eyes surveyed the leer through his thin-rimmed spectacles. The man smiled and approached Baribus, glancing down at his ankles and wrists to ensure he was properly secured in his seat.
There was a gentle pulse in the room as if the air itself were a muscle or giant gastrine. Baribus stirred, roused by force and echoing threwd. A faint smile of satisfaction crossed the blonde manâs lips.
âMm, good. Heâs becoming more responsive to the threwd. Very good.â He reached out to touch the leers forehead when the air shuddered and a voice growled from behind him.
âDonât. Touch. Him.â
Blue eyes glinted from behind brass framed glasses as the man they belonged to turned to look at the dark queen before him, surprise written on his face. He hadnât even heard her come in, and only just began to feel her disturbing his Threwd with something dark and wild, like a wicked steed or wretchin.
âShe must belong to the force they call magic,â he thought and smiled as he withdrew his hand from the pale leerâs brow. âIâd best be wary of this one.â
The dingy squires turned as the air shuddered softly with the manâs threwd, their heads and faces obscured by tricorns and neutral opera masks. Their fellow jackstraws would be there soon to deal with this intruder. In the mean time, their master wanted to satiate his curiosity.
âTouch him?â the man crooned with a smile and rose to his feet. âMy lady, the thought had never crossed my mind. Rest assured, I neednât physical contact to accomplish my purposes. Isnât that right Mr. Thatch?â
Baribus lifted his eyes, his face gaunt and sickly as he gazed up at his Queen. Part of him surged at the sound of her voice, filling his muddled mind with a bright mixture of emotions - surprise, relief, hope, and honor - before being brought down by a single wave of unparalleled dread.
âM-majesty,â he murmured, but his voice failed before he could finish his sentence. âYou shouldnât have come,â he thought weakly. âYou shouldnât have come!â
His tormentor looked from him to Regina, his eyebrows rising high behind his golden bangs as he let out a cackle of laughter.
âMajesty? Cudgels man, I knew you were in with the Heraldy girl, but gaining the favor of a queen? You have been busy!â
The leer scowled feebly as his adversary settled down to an amused chuckle.
âAh, my apologies, your majesty,â the blond man said with a smile, âI havenât introduced myself. My name James Phelandus Hebers, I am the new Petchin of Altgird and Mr. Thatch here, belongs to me.â
     Reginaâs breath catches. Sheâs been soft with Alana, tender, wanting Alana to feel safe; trying to blunt the impact of her want, which would love to be rough with Alana, which right now would love to take, and take, andâŚ
     â Just⌠Tell me if itâs too much. â
     Her words are murmured in a rush of breath against Alanaâs ear before her lips find that pale, lovely neck again, teeth now nipping inside her kisses.
Itâs the way that neck turns obediently aside and she purrs inside the sound, a genuine whine escaping that is almost entirely made up of weakness, of nothing but want. A pawing thing. Very far from the wolf or the lion she is usually.
She can appreciate (want desire adore) little bites, little markings. She likes those. As long as theyâre carefulâ sheâs not much for the depth or the utterly rough ones. (She herself can be ratherâ vicious if sheâs allowed, and she rarely lets herself.) But throat is shown so easily and Alana just murmurs, âYouâre fine,â against an undercurrent of somewhat velvet laughter in her lowest register, âIâm fucked up, not fragile.â
â - My muse writes about yours. Perhaps the first time they met, or an event that was particularly important to our musesâ relationship.
Regina Mills is sort of like a person I donât have words for. Except itâs not that I donât have words, so much as I guess I canât formulate them. For one, vastly fucking up and I didnât meant to but it happened again and it just keeps happening I canât figure out how to keep my mouth shut but all I want to do is help and still being invited over for sandwiches is beyond my understanding. Mostly because a personality type like hers shouldnât be giving me room to repair my own idiocy. Which makes me conclude that evidently Iâm somewhat important in some small way? Iâm not sure. Writing down thoughts make more sense a lot of the time. Even if I never was one for keeping journals, but I never needed to before now. I just wish to some extent I could turn it off. The illogical irrationality that forces me to speak when I donât want to speak, but thereâs just a part of my brain that says but this could probably be helpful and yet there I am, losing the middle-man, human factor totally discounted. Itâs callous, and selfish. Itâs unkind. Thatâs something I never thought Iâd be, but I donât want to be it to her. Not to her. She speaks in the terse but congenial tone of someone who has a particularly guarded heart but she has a son who she must love sincerely. And to be truthful, I have no place in that dynamic. I donât have a place anywhere, really, I guess thatâs why I shifted places this way. Itâs nice to know Iâm forgiven. Iâm grateful for it. I can only try to learn how to keep my mouth shut. But I think I really like her, but my track record for those I really like isnât exactly a winning situation. Everyone I really like winds up ruined by the general nature of my ability to really like them. But I can try? I mean, if I havenât completely demolished everything yet.Â
   Regina, disarmed, didnât even have time to startle. Her breath caught as Alana moved in, then released in a soft sound of surprised pleasure; she lifted a hand, touched Alanaâs cheek as she kissed her back. God â Alanaâs lips were so soft.
    The moment was over too soon, leaving Regina warm, tingly. â Mm⌠â She cupped her cheek more fully, thumb stroking over the line of Alanaâs jaw; a line sheâd love to kiss, if that option was now open to herâŚ
     â No, dear. No â youâre fine. â Regina was already moving in for more. Maybe later, sheâd overanalyze, question, pick apart the moment; for now, she was going to live in it.
Youâre fine. Alanaâs practically humming with it. Youâre fine. Youâre fine. Those two words. No. Three. âDearâ. What a great word. What a wonderful word. Keep it, keep it secret, keep it safe, keep it, keep it.
And Doctor Bloomâs own sound is a soft thingâ kittenish, in its way. Almost a whimper, a wanting thing. And she is never touched, she really isnât, but sheâs made of that sound and those mirror-glass baby blues of hers. The way her mouth quirks in a jut, like a punctuation mark, just when she pulls back to breathe.
"Am I better than fine?" She asks, eyebrow quirked. And this is not the ramble that so often creates Alana. This is the sound of tell me Iâm good. Tell me Iâm right. This is ego, almost.
This is who she very well could have been, maybe forever ago.