Hi all!
This is the english chapter for all no-german-speakers ;)
German is my mother tongue so I know I make some mistakes in english.
If you have a nice day then please correct me so I could make it better for others! Thank you! ;)
Anyway I hope you enjoy it!
That's him? The man who could love her and make her happy? Regina was very sceptical if she could believe all that pixie stuff! She looks back to Tinkerbelle but the fairy was gone. So she was standing alone and frozen in the dark alley. Regina was frightened. She doesn't know if she truly wants this – or what can happen if she goes in – and what if she refuses. She taught about her mother and her motto that "Love is only weakness." She just got a little glance of what love feels like when she was with Daniel. And this lost love hurts her until today. But her mother was gone so she can't do anything against Regina's chance of new happiness.
Therefore she pulled herself together and walked through the door. The tavern was loud and sticky. She felt like she was out of place with her long foulard dress. She was still a queen and so she goes hesitantly but proud to the table of the special man. As she reached them the guy who sits adverse to him looks up and stared amazed at her. Thereupon he turned too.
Regina smiled. His visage were beautiful with white teethes, short beard and cold intelligent looking blue eyes. He was very tidy but smelled a little bit like forest.
"Can I set me down here?" she asked.
"Yeah, sure!" he replied and the group got tighter to free her seat.
"How we got this honour that a so wonderful looking woman want to sit next to such poor guys like us? And that at a late hour?"
"Muhm….to be honest….I don't know it myself either. I just had the feeling that I need to go out and to meet some others!"
"Really? That's unusual! Aren't you happy were you come live? Pardon me but I see your luxurious dress and don't think that your family have a lack of money. Most people would be jealous of you."
"Yes you are right! But although you have enough money that don't make you truly happy!"
"You pleased me M'lady! So we clink our glasses to this: True happiness don't need money!"
And they do! The whole night long they laughed and telling stories to each other. It became very late and Regina got slowly very tired. Robin noticed her and brought her upstairs in his little chamber. He rented it for the night because his man and he were waiting here for a hold-up on an auspicious caravan. They want to get the money and some stuff of them to sharing it with the poor.
In the first moment as he saw that this rich young girl got asleep he thought about to steal from her too. But in the course of the evening he liked her more and more. He wondered about her courage to go to normal peoples like him and his man and just treat them like they had the same status. After his codex he stole only from selfish and dishonest rich people. So he decided that this woman (almost a girl) was more a prisoner in her own world. So he laid her in his bed and himself on is cape on the hard floor. But that was no problem for him. It was warm and dry so still better than laid on the cold and wet forest ground.
At the next morning Regina woke up with a terrible headache. She was alarmed as she noticed not to lie in her own bed. She looked through the little room and searched for something that seems to be confidential to her. Then her eyes fell on the sleeping man in front of the bed on the floor. An indescribable feeling hit her as she stared at him. Regina was wondering that she had no fear of him – no she felt even very comfortable in this situation!
Suddenly a "good morning!" came from the floor.
She freezes. Now she was a little bit frightened.
"Did you sleep well?" he asked her with tousled hair and a soft smile.
"This question you better ask yourself! I was not the one you have to sleep on the hard ground!" she replied a little bit touchy to dub her fears.
"Ok, ok! Keep calm! Then I treat that like a no! I know that you sleep usual in better beds … but…"
"I'm sorry! I didn't want to insult you! Finally you allocated me your bed!" She smiled at him. "Anyway I have to go now otherwise they will notice that I'm gone!" so she jumped off the bed and rushed next to the door. Just to come away of this man who make her so dizzy.
But she couldn't reach the door. He held her back at her wrist. "Wait! Before you go please reveal me your name! So that I know what beautiful lady slept tonight in my bed? We didn't introduce ourselves yesterday!"
"I'm really, really sorry about it. But I can't tell you my real name. Believe me I have good reasons to hide it!"
"That's very pity because I hoped to see you one time again. But if you change your mind then ask after Robin Hood!" And he let her go.
For one moment they looked deeply in the other's eyes before Regina give herself a start and flew out off the door, on the streets and to the castle.
