One groggy groan and a half-assed attempt to roll over on her side was all Regina offers that morning. Somehow, she'd become tired from sleeping; she is always tired nowadays, though. The little one still growing in her womb seems to suck every ounce of energy out of her, even when she did nothing but work, work, work at her desk.
And since she had been doing nothing but work, work, work at her desk...she and Emma decided to head off for a week on their own. A vacation; the first one Regina had ever taken in her entire life.
She'd flown on a plane for the first time, driven a rental car, checked into a hotel, and fallen asleep in a completely unfamiliar bed, snuggled up against her beloved blonde counterpart. Now, she was waking for the first time in that rented room, one hand held across her stomach, and the other in a laced hand hold with Emma.
" ...sweetheart? You awake? "