Tickletober 2023
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“I am merely wondering if your superpower will work if someone runs a feather all over your terribly ticklish body.”
Emma shrinks back, looking for all the world as though she wishes the mattress would swallow her.
“For example, do you think you can exercise it while someone…say…drags a feather from the very tip of your collarbone down to the creases of your hips?” She glances down at her hand with sudden interest, as though noticing the feather it held for the first time.
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- Part 1 of Tickletober 2023
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“What a delectable sight,” Regina muses as the footsteps behind Emma’s head grow louder. Her heart pounds with the knowledge that she is growing closer, but as the moments tick by, Regina remains stubbornly out of her line of sight. “I was just thinking how dull today has been and then your call arrived to make it ever more interesting.”
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- Part 2 of Tickletober 2023
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“Eeeemmmaaa….”
The voice enters Emma’s subconscious, but cocooned as she is in that blissful limbo between sleep and wakefulness, she barely hears it. It wriggles into the recesses of her brain, gently coaxing her from sleep.
“Eeeemmmaaa….wake up….”
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- Part 3 of Tickletober 2023
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The voice has her head snapping up immediately. It is colder than she remembers; colder even than the practiced indifference she loves to hear in her lover, but it suits the sight that meets her eyes perfectly.
The Queen meets her gaze head on.
“Hello, Savior.”
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- Part 4 of Tickletober 2023
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“Going somewhere?” Regina purrs from behind her.
“Uh…no. No, of course not,” she assures her quickly.
“I am glad to hear it. You know that would displease me.”
“Wouldn’t want that.”
“No,” Regina says quietly. Her gaze is as calm and relentless as ever, but Emma swears she can see something restless in it. “I assure you; you would not wish to displease me today.”
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- Part 5 of Tickletober 2023
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She still cannot answer as she takes in the sight in front of her. The dress is perhaps slightly snugger than it would have been when Emma was in her twenties, but it still fits her like a glove. It hugs every curve and when she crosses her arm self-consciously across her chest, Regina can see the rippling muscles in her biceps that she loves so much. Her curls tumble carelessly down her back and in that moment, Regina wants nothing more than to reach out and tug them.
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- Part 6 of Tickletober 2023
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“You’re late.”
Emma glances at her watch. 5:01. It takes all her willpower not to roll her eyes and cast them downwards instead. “I’m sorry.”
“Don’t apologize. Rest assured, you will pay for it.”
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- Part 7 of Tickletober 2023
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“Yeah, well, I couldn’t get into it. Besides, this is all your fault.”
“Excuse me?” Instantly Regina’s voice lowers dangerously, and her face becomes an expressionless mask. Emma takes an involuntary step backwards. “Would you care to elaborate on that?”
“N-no?”
“No, please, Miss Swan.” Regina takes a step forward, causing Emma to scramble backwards once more until her back hits the wall. “Tell me, how is this my fault?”
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- Part 8 of Tickletober 2023
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“Good. Then drink up.”
“What?” Emma pales, looking down at the tiny hole in the table where the liquid in her beaker had burned straight through it a moment earlier.
“No need to worry. It’s perfectly safe. Assuming you followed my instructions exactly, that is.”
“Right.”
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- Part 9 of Tickletober 2023
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It is just a word.
Just six little letters.
Two syllables.
It should be easy to say. Easy to ask for.
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- Part 10 of Tickletober 2023
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She hears Regina’s voice in the darkness, coaxing her back, grounding her. Slowly, her eyes start to focus, and she sees the relief steal across Regina’s face.
Right there, in front of her.
No swirling darkness. No desperate begging for Emma to save them.
Just Regina.
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- Part 11 of Tickletober 2023
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Zelena looks at her shrewdly. “If you find potions boring, my sister must not be a very good teacher.”
“She is, though. I just have a mental block against potions.”
“Exactly. So I am asking, what do you think that mental block is? Are you distracted by the doe eyes and low cut shirts?”
“Zelena!” Emma blushes furiously and shakes her head in denial, even though the witch is not entirely off base. She is distracted by Regina but not in the way Zelena assumes. She simply wants to impress her and the amount of pressure she feels not to make a mistake somehow always leads to her messing up.
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- Part 12 of Tickletober 2023
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Regina works to make Emma's fantasy a reality.
No excerpt, because none felt quite right.
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- Part 13 of Tickletober 2023
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Day 20: You Have No Idea What I am Capable Of by Nine_Tails99
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
02 Nov 2023
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Emma squirms to try and get out of her chair, but it is no use. She isn’t even sure it is magic that is keeping her there as much as the look on Regina’s face right now. “Whahahat are you even doing here?”
“It’s Tuesday. We always have lunch on Tuesday.”
“Oh yeah.” Emma takes a breath, then slowly maneuvers her way to her feet, noting with relief that it does not appear as though anything was actually holding her back. “Sorry, let me just grab my bag.” She turns to move away from her desk, but Regina is now standing directly behind her and she is once again trapped; this time between the desk and her girlfriend.
“Emmmmmaaaa,” Regina singsongs.
“Uh, yeah?”
She leans in to blow softly in Emma’s ear. “You’re changing the subject.”
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- Part 14 of Tickletober 2023
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It is a slightly different environment than what Emma is used to when she walks into the vault. There are no beakers or bottles on the workbench. No books stacked neatly on the table for them to study.
Instead, she sees candles lit in every corner of the room. Soft music pipes in from somewhere she cannot see. Regina is nowhere to be found.
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- Part 15 of Tickletober 2023
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- Part 16 of Tickletober 2023