This is my Day One entry for #InspiredByOQ Week on Twitter! Hope you enjoy!
And just like that she was gone, walked straight out `from Granny's and towards her home. She didn't even turn back when Robin called her name, she just kept her head down and carried on walking.
When she got home she went upstairs, still not letting a tear fall from her eyes. She got changed into a pair of leggings, a sports bra, and a jacket, and she sat for a while on the large chair in the corner of her bedroom staring at the wall and lost in her thoughts.
She had been sitting there for a few hours and it was now about 1 am and she was torn away from her thoughts of that night from a knock at the door.
While walking out of her bedroom and down her stairs, she wondered who would be here so late. Maybe it was Snow with a hope speech? Or Emma to give a bad apology and a terrible excuse for what she did. Regina did stop at the bottom of the stairs for a moment trying to make out the figure showing in the doorway.
Oh god. It can't be. Surely not. He's the last person she was expecting to see knocking at her door after his dead wife just returned and he basically chose her over Regina.
She hesitated at first and was trying to decide whether or not to go upstairs and pretend as if she never heard him knock, until he knocked again and made her jump out of her thoughts again.
After a long silence, Robin had now turned his back and was leaning against the front door. He was talking, she couldn't quite tell what he was saying but she could tell that he was cursing and blaming himself for everything that had happened earlier that evening, and that broke her heart a little more. It was never really his fault, it was Emma Swan's fault for bringing back Marian in the first place and ruining Regina's whole life. It was her fault that she now wouldn't be spending her life with the love of her life.
Then she saw him turn back to the door, he knocked again and leaved his forehead against the door.
"Regina, I know you hate me and I know that I'm the last person you want to talk to right now, but I need to explain. Please let me in so that I can talk to you about all of this."
She hesitated at first, but then she slowly walked over to the door, unlocked the door as he heard her and stood up straight, and she opened up the door to a much more depressed Robin. It was clear that he had been drinking, he wasn't drunk, but it was clear he had some alcohol and he was sleep deprived.
"Robin, you should leave. You should be with your family." And every word she said broke her heart.
Her head dropped down and he was now looking at the floor, she couldn't bear to be looking into his beautiful huge blue eyes.
"No, Marian might be my wife, but I want you Regina."
Regina lifted her head a little, but not high enough to make eye contact.
Robin walked in more and closed the door behind him, moving closer to Regina.
"But Robin, it's way too complicated, and poor Roland is going to be so confused of how his dead mother is back and why his father isn't with her so that he can have his whole family together. I would just be the woman in Roland's life who kept his parents apart."
"We will make it work, I can't teach my Son to live a lie. The best example I can set to him is to follow my heart to the woman I love."
"The woman you what?" Regina was looking up at him now, her eyes full of love and confusion.
Robin took her hands in his and stared deep into her eyes.
"I love you Regina. I wish I had told you before Marian returned, before everything got so complicated. But better late than never right?" One of his now neft her hands and cupping her face, stroking her cheek with his thumb.
Regina just stood there, staring deep into his eyes, amazed by the man standing in front of her. Even with his dead wife returned, he still wants her and she just can never seem to work out why.
"But Robin, why choose me when the love of your life is right back out there waiting for you?"
"Because for such a long time before and after Marian died I believed that she was the love of my life because she was my first love, but years have passed and I have grieved and moved on. Then I found you. I will always have feelings for Marian, but I believe that we both deserve a second chance at love and I'm just lucky that I found my true love and soul mate."
"I love you too Robin, and I too am so lucky to have earned a second chance and to have found the most amazing and caring person in the world. It was just even more amazing to find out that you are my true love and that we were always destined to be together from the beginning. I just wish that I had met you sooner so that we maybe didn't have and of this dead wife drama." She rolled her eyes and smirked at her own comment.
"Well, maybe back then the timing just wasn't right and fate wasn't ready for us to fall in love yet. Maybe they needed a little more time to prepare us for the best love story that anyone has ever witnessed."
And hearing that made the tears that had been pricking Regina's eyes for so long finally fall and roll down her face.
And just like that, they were just staring into each others eyes and in that moment they had forgotten everything and there were just staring deep into each other's eyes, completely forgetting what was happening in the world just outside the front door. They just shared each others company and loved every single second.