a/n: it's short but i'm actually proud of myself bc i got over half of my "i'll never be able to write an outlaw queen or rumbelle fanfic" writer's block (some day i will write a rumbelle fic though... some day)
my best friend is a motavator and she loves need you right now by bethany mota and it's stuck in my head at three in the morning
thats basically how i came up with this fanfic
but i have no ideas so please prompt me if you have any? remember my first language isn't english and perhaps i will not be able to write the one-shot you requested. i find writing rumbelle stories quite difficult (maybe its bc i never did it before? i don't feel like trying rn anyway) and i tend to stick to narrating and almost no dialogue
thanks for the positive feedback in my other stories if you read them!
They say you never really know what you have until it's gone.
But Regina knew what she had too damn well (perhaps because she'd lost love once before). As a matter of fact, not a day went by that she didn't regret not going after the man with the lion tattoo when she had the chance. Maybe she would have spared everyone (including herself) all the suffering she caused with the curse she cast. As Regina looked back to when she was the Evil Queen and he was the Thief, the outlaw, the man who was —apparently— her soulmate, the fear she had felt seemed too unreal now that she realized how good it was to love someone. She was stronger than ever with a well-deserved second chance and Robin Hood by her side.
It seemed too good to be true. Like a beautiful dream one would eventually wake up from, and even if they were woken at three in the morning and desperately wanted to go back to sleep, they wouldn't dream of the same thing ever again. Now it was just a memory —one that would gradually become less important and harder to remember over the years— among many others. Karma had to come back to crush her heart like it had done so many times, because she used to be the Evil Queen, who had been called Evil for a reason. Regina had been evil. A villain. And everybody knows villains don't get happy endings.
She had been blinded by the joy of finally loving someone again. After Daniel, it had" seemed almost impossible (after all, she still had Henry), but there she was, at Granny's Diner with the love of her life and people who finally believed in her. Which meant that people could change, and therefore she could have the life she'd always dreamt of, one in which her days were full of bliss and nor revenge or a crown were worth the loss of her happiness.
"Marian?"
Yet she would lose it anyway, because in the end Regina would never get a happy ending.