CHAPTER 1

'Stay away from my daughter.' Robin says pointing his fingers to Hades, the Lord of the Underworld.

Robin and I were supposed to break into my office and save his daughter from Hades and Zelena, but we didn't have a plan. We broke in very easily, maybe too much easily. When Zelena left to go after Emma and Hades walked out of the office looking for other threats, Robin and I ran toward the baby to make sure she was okay. He took his baby daughter into his arms and cuddled her, until Hades showed up behind us with something in his hand. A weapon, a sort of crystal, I couldn't be able to recognize.

'Believe me, she's not the one who's in danger.' Hades says pointing the weapon toward me. I can see out of the corner of my eye that Robin turned to me fast. He's worried and so am I. I may have learnt everything I know about magic from Rumpelstiltskin and I've been the Evil Queen for most of life but I have no idea how to defeat a God.

'Hades, stop. This isn't worth it. If you kill me, you will lose Zelena forever.' I act impulsively. Henry's love changed me. Robin's love changed me. Maybe his feelings for my sister can change him, or at least it can buy me some more time to think what to do.

Hades raises his left hand and silences me. 'Only if she knows about it. And this..' he shows the crystal to us. 'This isn't going to kill you. It's going to end you. No underworld, no moving on. One minute you exist, and the next? You don't.' He says with a smirk on his face. I'm not that kind of person you can scare very easily, but now I'm scared, like truly scared. 'That's what you get for trying to turn Zelena against me.'

Is this all about? He wants to kill me because I wanted Zelena to open her eyes and see who he really was? I'm sure I'm just the first of the list of people he wants to kill, but I can't let him get anywhere near the people I love.

'This was my idea to break in here. Just use that on me. Let her go.' Robin says taking a step towards him.

What? No! I turn fast to him and place my hand on his arm. I can't let him do that, I won't. He has Roland and a newborn child to look after. Roland already lost his mother, he can't lose his father too. I take a long look at him, speechless. I wish Robin could turn to me to see how scared I am. But he doesn't so I turn to Hades as he speaks up.

'Oh, sorry. Ladies first.' The crystal in his hand lights up and he points it straight to me as a blue lighting is going to hit me.

'No.' I instinctively take a step back like it could change something. My fate is written, but Robin jumps between me and the lighting. 'No!' This time I scream. The lighting hits Robin's chest for a brief moment that, to me, feels infinite. I can't see Hades' face but I can hear the sound of his laugh. He's laughing right in front of the man who just sacrificed himself for me. For me! The woman who killed an unknown number of people to find Snow White, who cursed an entire kingdom to get her own revenge. The same person who would've done anything to get her happy ending, despite other people's feelings.

My eyes are wide open. My office has never been in such a defending silence. Robin turns to me, his blue eyes break me. He's as shocked as I am. I can feel my eyes filling up with tears fast. I'm going to lose a man I love once again, the man who truly believes in me like Henry does. He's going to be erased from existence, just like that, without even have the chance to see his children grow up.

'I – I can't..' A tear drops down, tracing my cheek. I need to do something, and I need to do it fast. The power of the crystal can kill him in any minute. I think but nothing comes up in my head, until I think about my sister. If that worked for her, it could work for Robin too. I'm not sure but I have to try.

I move fast, racing my hand towards Hades and push him against the wall of the office with my powers. The crystal slips from his hand as he falls at the ground. That is going to give us a head start. I grab Robin's arm and we disappear into a cloud of purple smoke.

Stay with me. Stay with me. I keep saying in my head. If this is gonna work, I'd have to make one of the biggest decisions of my life, but I don't care. The only thing that matters now is Robin's life. Stay with me.

In a blink of an eye, we appear in front of the town line. It feels like a huge déjà vu. I'm still in pain but this time Robin is the one who's gonna die and I can't let that happen.

'Regina, w – what are you doing?' he asks as he's unaware of my plan.

'It worked before, it has to work now.' I say taking a step closer to the town line. 'Trust me.'

I regret that choice of words. It's my fault if we ended up in this mess. In the Underworld, I asked Robin to trust Zelena with his baby, because she believed love changed Hades, but I couldn't be more wrong. And Robin died trying to save me.

No! He's not gonna die. I have to believe that.

Every second matter, so I gently pull Robin by his arm. 'Please.' My voice is broken, full of terror. Another tear drops down. Robin nods his head and moves his hands to hold mine. I smile at him, a bitter smile though.

Differently than the last time, we don't have to let each other's hand go and we cross the line together. I let him go once, it won't happen again. I turned to him fast to make sure he's okay. Nothing happens.

'Robin?' I say lowering my voice. He turns to me in silence. 'A – are you..' I'm afraid to ask.

'Alive?' He finishes the question for me. My hand is still holding his, I'm incapable of letting it go. 'I suppose.'

I smile again, no bitter smile this time. An honest and spontaneous smile appeared on my face. I get closer and let my head fall against his chest. Robin wraps him arms around me, holding me tight. Tears start falling down, like a river, but I can't control them.

'I'm here. I'm alive.' He whispers to my hear as his hand slowly caresses my back. 'You saved me.'

I'm sobbing against his grey zip sweatshirt. Robin is alive, it worked. A feel of relief is filling up my heart. He gently pulls me back and raises my head so I can look into his eyes. Those beautiful ocean blue eyes. 'What were you thinking? I could have lost you forever.'

'Do you think I'd have let Hades kill you?' Robin whispers. I can feel the warm of his breath against my skin. 'They need you to defeat him, not me.'

'But your children need you.' I say louder than I wanted to.

'You would've taken care of them.'

'And what about me?'. The tears don't stop from falling down. 'Daniel died in front me, I couldn't handle it again.' I say huskily. 'I – I don't know what I'd have done if I lost you too.' When my fiancée got killed, a part of me died with him. I had finally found happiness, but it has been taken from me after Snow White revealed my secret to my mother. Except my father, Daniel was the only person who didn't want me to become something I wasn't. They could always see the best version of me, even when I couldn't, like Robin. He sees in me a person worth to be loved despite all the terrible things I have done since I lost Daniel.

'Come here.' he says as he pulls me closer into his arms. 'I'm sorry, Regina. I didn't mean to scare you.'

I can feel his heart beating fast against his chest, faster than ever. He was ready to sacrifice his life, his future with his children to protect me, to keep me alive. Nobody has ever done something like that for me.

'J – just.. promise me, you won't do that ever again.' I say raising my head to look at him.

'I promise you.' He smiles at me before to gently press his lips against mine in a sweet kiss. I fall in love with the softness of his lips more and more every time. When our lips break apart he turns to the empty street behind us. Storybrooke is gone. 'But we have a bigger problem now.'

'We'll figure this out. We always do.' I whisper leaning my head against his chest.

CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 2.

A/N

First of all thanks for reading it, it already means a lot to me.

As all of the OQ shippers, I'm not happy with what happen to Robin and to our golden ship. So, I had this idea watching 5x21, because I thought if only Regina brought Robin to the town line in time, she could've saved him,but since A&E had different plans, I decided to write my own version of the story.

I really hope you enjoyed the first chapter, and if you did please let me know by reviewing it.

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Daisy