For OQ prompt party day 4, prompt 21: Robin's soul doesn't get obliterated but it gets trapped in Regina's mirror.

It's like watching a scene from a movie. The most beautiful scene out of your favorite movie. Robin didn't even know what movies were, back in the Enchanted Forest. Of course he didn't, he saw one of those talking, colourful boxes, which people in this realm call television, only in Storybrooke. He remembered how she burst into a laugh, when he asked her if those people moving on that flat screen were actually real, tiny humans trapped in that magic box, when he first saw one in her mansion. So she sat down with him and actually explained him a television's function, and what a movie was. They watched his first movie together that very same day, and Robin loved it so much that Regina had actually to force him to switch off the television, cause there were more important things needed to be done, with Emma out there as the Dark One.

That was a memorable afternoon for Robin, a little island of peace in the storm of the events happened before and after that period.

So, now, he remembers it often, cause what takes place in front of his eyes almost everyday is just like a scene from a movie, except that it's not. It's all real. She's real, from the very first day she looked in the mirror he is trapped in.

He didn't realize it at first. It took him time to figure out that it wasn't a dream, or a nightmare, to process that his body was dead but his soul was not. He was not. He was still there, not dead, but neither fully alive. It was some kind of way in between, trapped in this sort of spaceless, dark place with a window to the real world, the one he was obliterated from.

The first times he saw Regina in her vault, looking at the mirror, looking athim,he tried to reach out. He called her, he screamed her name until his lungs had no air left, he tried to tell her that she was not alone, that he was still there, but he soon realized it was all useless. She couldn't hear him, no matter how many times he tried to call her. So he just gave up, and watched her, everyday, from the day of his death. He often saw her eyes filled with tears, back then. He listened to her grief for him, sometimes whispered into words. He felt her loneliness and her pain as his own, doubled by the fact that he couldn't do anything, literally nothing, to comfort her, to hold her into his arms, to tell her that he wasn't completely gone.

She blamed him, once.

"You said I was your future... Why did you leave?", she whispered, in a trembling voice, tears coming down her face, and then she just fell down on the ground. Robin couldn't see her, but he could hear her suffocated sobs, her crying, her tears, which were the reflection of his own. They filled his blue eyes, and dropped down, or didn't drop down, he couldn't tell. What he was aware of was this pain, this overwhelming sorrow he could sense surrounding her, reflecting into him just like a mirror. He knew he was the only one to see it. He knew out of that vault, she was the Regina Mills everyone expected her to be. And knowing it and not being able to do anything about it was what killed his soul everyday.

As time passed by, as days became months and months became years, among other weird things and characters randomly appearing in that vault, like the Evil Queen and even this sort of a less charming doppelganger of himself, he watched her elaborating her pain, all by her own, making him proud without knowing it. She started to smile a little more, and even if her visits to the vault became rarer, everytime she was there he could see this peace into her eyes brighting up her whole face.

Now it's been years, since he last saw her. She was accompanied by Hook, that time, and they were both in a hurry, rushing through the spell books and the potions, telling something about how Henry needed their help and they had to leave Storybrooke immediately. When the pirate left, he caught her looking at the mirror, at him, for a brief moment, one last time. She softly whispered "I'll be back", as if she could sense something, his presence, as if she knew, before leaving.

And that's the picture of her Robin keeps replying in his mind, waiting for her to return. That's what kept him going. She's been, for all these years, just like his favorite scene from "Casablanca".