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****Introduction****
"They never did tell you , did they , Princess?"
Maleficent fixed her hair in the mirror , Emma jumped nearly two foot in the air and rushed to grab a towel to cover herself--she had just gotten out of the shower and the Dragon just popped right in the middle of the room
"Who , tell me what? And what the Hell are you doing here?!I'm naked!"
Maleficent rolled her eyes , turning to face the flushing wet blonde.
"Your parents or anybody , really. And repaying a debt. You helped me , when you did not actually have to and you were very good for my little girl ; so I am going to do you a kindness and even us up , Snow White is not your mother--that Snow Queen is. Those Charmings stole you from her and that is why she really lost her mind."
With the news delivered , the Dragon disappeared near as quick as she appeared. Emma stood there , dripping water all over the floor and a look of confusion plastered on her red face.
"I just wanted a shower , I just wanted to wake up a little..."
Emma mumbled , shaking her head and wrapping her towel tighter around her chest. She walked over to the sink and grabbed her hair brush , looking into the mirror as she combed through her damp blonde hair.
While she was brushing through the tangles , she thought about her strange unexpected visit from the Dragon. Why would Maleficent just drop in on her out of the blue and tell her something like that?
Emma would have liked to have just wrote that news off as a Villain being a Villain and just trying to start stuff , but her gut told her not to. That and honestly , Maleficent was surprisingly behaving herself. Maleficent had Lily back , she was happier than anybody else in that entire town and she had absolutely no reason to come in and mess with Emma.
Despite everything anybody could say about Maleficent's past life , Emma would give the Dragon credit ; Maleficent didn't even take on a hateful attitude with the Charmings , she was staying out of trouble and she was working an actual part-time job and she was acting like any normal person.
Maleficent said she wanted to change for her child and Emma would vouch for her any day that she definitely did , Maleficent thought of nothing other than her child the entire *thirty years* she was trapped and once she was able to reunite with it , she went as far as to ride in a damn truck with the very people that took that kid away from her and saved them from attacks aimed by that child because she loved her baby enough to straighten up and keep Lily from going down the same paths she did.
The Dragon put her anger aside and let go of any and all grudges the moment she joined the land of the living once again , her sole focus was Lily and she never once gave Emma any sort of trouble. Even when she was running around with the Queens of Darkness , Maleficent really didn't bother Emma all that much.
Emma honestly very rarely saw much out of Maleficent , other than when Lily went and got into some trouble and Emma had to call her mother to get the little rage monster it gave birth to to calm down and go back to their "cave" or wherever it was that they were staying--the rumor was Regina gave Maleficent a Mansion out of guilt , but Emma never had a reason to go out there and look to see if it could be confirmed as truth because even when Lily caused her mischief ; Maleficent took care of it before that Sheriff's vehicle ever had to make a trip out to their place.
In other words , Emma just could not bring herself to believe that Maleficent dropped into her bathroom randomly just to suddenly come up with dastardly plots to get revenge and ruin her happiness. Emma was the one that found Lily and brought that demon home , Maleficent didn't have a damn thing against her and she just did not see the Dragon up and deciding to just tell her some crap and ruin her day for no reason at all.
How would Maleficent even know any connection Emma had to Ingrid or Sarah or whatever you wanted to call her , anyways? By the time Emma met Sarah and formed that connection with the apparent Snow Queen , Lily was not a part of her life and Emma never did mention that situation to her old friend. So , Maleficent didn't even have that to go off of.
While Emma and Lily had been trying to repair their friendship , they still weren't extremely close and Emma had not reached a point of trust that she was delving into any of that with Lily. Hell , when Emma had been close to Lily , she wasn't sure she would have talked about Sarah/Ingrid to her because that was just a lot of conflicting feelings Lily did not have the emotional capacity to be any sort of support through that.
She loved Lily , she did and she wished that they could just go back to the way they were and she was trying genuinely to forgive her friend , but she wasn't going to pretend Lily wasn't an apathetic asshole at the worst of times and yes ; she would also say she knew it was technically her fault. But anyways , Emma's hand was getting a cramp and she should probably put some clothes on and get ready to start her day , now.
Emma was supposed to be at the Station over an hour ago , she woke up late because she got to bed late and slept horrible and then , Maleficent decided to drop in on her and nearly scare her half to death.
Maleficent scared Emma , when she was fully clothed and carrying a g!n and a sword on her ; so , one could imagine what seeing the Dragon completely butt naked and without a weapon nearby did for her.
Emma will never be able to look Maleficent in the eye again , her best friend's mother has now seen her nipples and could accurately answer the question of whether or not Emma shaved or went natural. If Maleficent was anything like her daughter--and Lily got that shit from somewhere!--Emma knew that Dragon was probably at home , talking and making fun of those very things right now!
Just as Emma went to grab her clothes , her cell phone started ringing. It didn't take an all knowing magic mirror to tell her who it was , she was over an hour late to work and on a day she was supposed to meet with Regina first thing--she was pretty well positive she knew exactly who was calling her.
"Miss Swan , where are you?"
Regina sounded worried , Emma felt a wave of guilt wash over her. When they went to get Lily , she and Regina talked and sort of worked things out between them. Things weren't perfect , but Regina was really trying to forgive her and she had been leaning on Emma a lot for comfort here lately since finding out Robin knew he was with Zelena and he was happy and willingly carrying on with his life with her.
Emma had originally planned to go into work early that day because she had that meeting and she knew Regina was depending on her , for a lot more than just her take on how she felt about adding another set of monkey bars to the playground and whether or not they should open up a petting zoo for the Flying Monkeys.
Regina had a hard time with being abandoned , when she thought Robin was with his newly resurrected wife. When she found out he was with her sister...that was something indescribable , Emma had only ever seen Regina look so broken one other time and that was when she tried to bring Daniel back two years ago. Emma felt horrible , she should have been able to go to bed sooner and she should have just skipped the shower and gone straight on to work.
"I'm on my way , I'm sorry. I overslept and I had a weird unplanned meeting this morning in my bathroom--"
"A meeting in your bathroom? Emma , if you insist on seeing Captain Guyliner , that is your business and I support you and everything but I do not need to hear about your 'bathroom meetings' and maybe don't admit to your *boss* that you were late because you were having that meeting."
"Hook? No! Again , we are just friends. F-r-i-e-n-d-s and not the kind of friendship he has with Tinkerbell either , we're the kind of friends that don't have meetings in the bathroom.
I had meeting in my bathroom with *Maleficent* , for your information and you are not my boss. I will be there soon and I will bring coffee , to make up for everything. Bye , Gina!"
"MALEFICENT?! EMMA , YOU DIDN---"
Emma hung up , before she could hear the rest of Regina's incredulous rant. She told her she would explain later , she meant it when she said it. What part of she was already late and that was already an issue did Madame Mayor not understand? They were going to see each other in a few minutes and they had actual work to do , that gossip--and that was what it was--could wait until later.
The whole way out the door , all Emma could think about was her time spent with Sarah Fisher. Sarah wanted to adopt her and she had said they could be sisters because Emma was older and Sarah was quite young-looking , but Emma had actually caught her slip and say "daughter" or call herself "Mama" more than a few times.
Sarah had been awake the whole time , Sarah had picked her out while she was looking for a home to go to and Sarah made her way into Storybrooke to find her way back to Emma. That was a lot of dedication. Maybe it was worth it to look into the claims Maleficent made , Emma had always kind of wondered what made her so special to Sarah and that whole episode with Elsa and what went down with the almost dying in the ice castle was just really very weird and kind of off the wall.
"Fucking Dragons , they can't just let me believe the good side is all good and everything is black and white can they?"
Emma grumbled.