(A/N: I am new to writing here so I am rubish at formatting. I'll get it though, I am persistent.)
Regina Mills knee loss, she knew pain. She understood it and knew the best ways to cause it. Death and despair seemed to run like poison in her blood. Henry had been her antidote. Her son, her sweet little prince. The cane Robin with his charming smile and wonderful personality. He and his son had given new meaning to her life when her son was not there. Now, Henry is home and healthy, but her other boys are not. Roland had left. Back with the rest of the Merry Men in the Enchanted Forest. Her heart broke every time she thought of why he wasn't with her.
Robin's death shattered her. He wasn't even dead, really. No, death had been too escapable. Instead, his soul had been obliterated; no after life and no moving on. Just...gone. And to say Regina blamed herself would be an understatement. It was her fault, she knew that. He died to protect her, after all. The saddest thing though, they'd never said I love you.
A shrill cry broke her from her thoughts. That would be the baby. Robyn, she was called. In honor of her hero father, the one who died to save her aunt. The one she'd never know, but who loved her all the same.
"I'm coming honey," Regina murmurs, rushing over to the cribbed looking over at the fussy baby. The child was just over 5 months and Regina could see so much of her father in her already. Her mother, too. Another stab of emotion cut her as she thought of Zelena. She was dead as well. Though, she had chosen to leave, rather than being forced, as Robin was. She couldn't do it anymore, Zelena had told her a month before. Truthfully, Regina understood her sister's decision, she had felt the same. However, she knew she had too much to live for. Henry, Roland, baby Robin and even the Charming's in all their sickly-sweet notions of hope and love. But still, she understood her sister's wish for it all to be over.
Picking up the child, she cradled her small head in the crook of her arm. The day before Zelena had...ended things, she had come to Regina with a screaming Robyn in her arms. Before Regina could say anything, the baby was placed in her arms and Zelena disappeared in a cloud of emerald smoke. Regina never saw her again.
"What's wrong, sweetheart?" She whispered to the child still hiccuping in her arms. "Are we hungry? Or do we need a change?" In answer, Regina sees her niece's face scrunch up. "Change it is then." A small smile graces her tired features as she moves to the changing table.
Once Robyn is changed, she is once more scooped into Regina's embrace. She carries the now clean baby into her room. It's a routine of theirs. One they'd acquired over the past months. In the night, whenever Robyn woke, Regina would tend to her and then she'd take her to bed with her. At first she had done it because it was easier to have the child closer for when she woke again. Now, she just like having her near.
"Mom!"
Regina jolts awake at the sound of her son calling her. That movement jostles Robyn, who was sprawled out on her chest. The infant lets out a whimper but doesn't wake.
"Henry?" She asks quietly, her eyes searching the dim-lit room. "What's wrong?" A small noise alerts her to where he is standing in her doorway. The look on his face has her heart racing and she tightens her hold on Robyn. Henry-much like herself-is not one to beat around the bush, so she knows she won't have to pry to gain answers. As it were, her son speaks.
"The Queen And Robin Hood are going to have a baby."
Regina sucks in her breath. Baby Robyn let's out a loud cry. Regina wants to follow suit.
"How-how do you know, Henry?" She asks instead. Henry doesn't deign a reply.
"Because I told him." The voice sends shivers down Regina's spine as she tries to shush Robyn. With a flick of her wrist, she conjures a warm bottle and presses it into the child's mouth. Once she has settled down, Regina looks up and stares at herself.
"Queenie? What are you doing here? How are you here?" Regina fires questions at her 'twin', but is still unable to ask the one that is on the top of her tongue. "Is it true?" She finally asks, "are you and...Robin pregnant?" Queenie only smiles and Regina knows. Queenie is pregnant. With Robin's baby. Regina could have laughed at the irony of it. Even her other-darker-half could have a baby with Robin. She really couldn't win, could she?
"I'm happy for you. " it takes all her energy not to let her emotions slip or her voice crack when she says this. "For both of you," She adds as an afterthought.
"Thank you, Regina." Regina sharply inhales at the sound of his accented voice.
"You're welcome, Robin"
It hurt. God, seeing him with his arm around Queenie made her want to scream. Or cry. For now, she'd ask them,
"Sorry, no offense, but why are you here?"
TBC...
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