Regina sighed as she looked over the entire kingdom from her window. Everything where back to where it started. She was once again back in the enchanted forest, more unhappy then ever looking out at the kingdom she ruled over. It was so big that she couldn't even see the edge. But still it felt so small. So unreal almoust. Being back here. Back in the place she hated most in the hole world. Her castle. The only thing that had changed about this place was the scent of her sister.
"Zelena," The queen mumbled at the thought. Well it was not the only thing that had changed. Last time she was here, the only thing she was doing was planning how to kill Snow white. This time she was fighting side by side with her. So much had changed, yet the same sad feeling was still inside of her. She had once again lost the only person she loved. Henry. She was once again a prisoner in her own castle, forced to just be unhappy till the day she died. Villains don't get happy endings, and she would never see her son again. And the worse thing was that she had caused this on herself.
Regina sighed again. If it hadn't been for Zelena, she would have been in a sleeping curse days ago. Just waiting and hoping for the day, her true love Henry would wake her.
"I should just have done it, when I had the chance," She said out loud, she was so far off in her thoughts that she hadn't even noticed, someone had walked in.
"Have done what, your majesty?" Her heart skipped a beat as she heard the sound off his voice. The one person in all realms she wanted to see the least. Well accept from maybe Snow.
"Have you ever heard off knocking?" Regina asked in a hard tone as she turned around to see Robin with smirk smile on his face. Regina didn't understand what he's problem was. Ever since they had arrived in these lands, he had been like this.
"I have indeed. Though the queen was so far off, she most have not heard me," He said. Regina found Robin's way off talking annoying, but slightly noble and even though she would never admit it- sexy.
"So you just decided to walk in, unannounced," Regina said annoyed and looked at the view again. Trying to tell Robin that she didn't want his company.
"Well that was my first thought… But then I saw the queen where looking a bit… Away… So I thought I'd just see if everything was okay?" He said. Still not getting her attention. Robin god a bit impatience and walked over to stand beside her. Though she still didn't look at him.
"What's troubling you milady?" he asked. Regina sighed. She didn't want to talk to anyone about it and especially not with Robin Hood off all people in all the realms.
"A queen can look at her kingdom, without being troubeld." She pointed out trying to get him to believe he had miss read her. Though Robin didn't give up that fast.
"That she can. Though given the queens history, I doubt she'd just be gazing upon it, with no feelings" He pointed out. And Regina tried to hold a smile back. That was true. She bit her smile back not wanting to give into to Robin. Instead she turned and looked at him.
"You must have had a reason to be here or did you just come to bother me at this late hour?" She said with a flat voice as if she was accusing him not asking. Robin had almoust forgotten why he was there.
"I certainly do," he said and his smirk smile slowly started to appear upon his lips again. "I most have gotten distracted by the breath taking view," he said looking deeply at her. Her black wavy hair was left down. She was wearing a sliver nightgown and the moonlight made her skin seem pale, but soft at the same time. Regina's heart skipped a beat as he took a step closer to her. She could feel how it started to raise. Robin smiled and then looked at her actual view. Regina sighed.
"So? Why did you come?" She reminded him again, trying to get rid of him as fast as she could. He smiled.
"I brought you a gift to properly thank you for saving my son," He said and reached his hand out. He had a box in it. Regina was a bit shocked as she realized he actually brought a gift. No one had given her a gift that weren't because off her birthday or because she had made them.
"I…" She started, Robin smiled took her hand and placed the gift in it. Not sure if she would take it if he hadn't. As his hand touched hers, her heart once again beaded faster in her chest and she felt her knees getting a bit weaker as if they were having a hard time holding her up. She didn't understand why. She looked at their still joined hands as she noticed something else. Right there on his arm. A tattoo. No not just any tattoo, the lion tattoo.
"I can help you find what you need Regina," Tinkerbelle said and smiled.
"And what do I need?" Regina asked not understanding what she was talking about.
"You don't know? How sad… Regina love… You need love," She said. Regina sighed with a smile.
"Your are going to help me find another soul mate?" She said. She didn't believe it.
"Their he is…. The guy with the Lion tattoo. He's your soul mate." Tinkerbelle said.
Regina snapped out of her flashback. There he was the guy she had run from all those years ago. The guy she was destined to be with, right in front of her. Regina could feel how her breath was taken away like someone had hit her right in the stomach. Maybe there were more people with that tattoo, then just him. She said to her self-trying to snap out of it.
"Regina are you sure you are alright?" Robin asked concerned. Her eyes widened. He never used her name. Why did she like the tone off it coming from him? Finally she nodded. She wasn't. She wanted to run away again. Be as far away from him as she possible could.
"Thank you," She said. Her voice where shaky and icy at the same time. And Robin took it as a cue to leave.
"Well I should go check on Roland, goodnight your majesty," He said a bowed with yet again a smirk smile came to light. He walked over towards the door. Regina followed him inside to her room. Relieved that he was leaving.
"Oh by the way your majesty. I do hope you'll join us for breakfast some time. Roland keeps asking why the queen is always in her room eating alone." He smiled. That was nothing she wanted less than to join the charming and the rest of the castle for break feast. It was enough that she was living with them, but to be the first thing to see every morning would be just too much.
"Well you tell Roland that I like being alone," She said as if she didn't believe that Roland was the one asking. Robin turned around and looked at her.
"Well maybe if the queen would stop being so denying and rejecting, she would come to learn that we aren't all that bad," Robin said trying to push her buttons. He loved the reaction he'd get in return. Regina on the other hand was shocked by the nerve of talking to her like that. She was a queen not just some small girl from the villages.
"I am neither in denial or rejecting, thief" she snapped at him. He laughed making her realize that she just where both of them.
"I see," He said and smirked. Regina wanted to hit him for being so smirk and annoying. Talking to her like that. Yet at the same she found it really charming and she liked the fact that someone was giving her back for once. Besides Emma who she did not enjoy fighting with at all. She had just wanted her gone. Seemed she had gotten her wish, even though the outcome wasn't as she has wished for.
"Why do you have to always be so annoying," She said. Again it was more an accusation than a question.
"Seems to me that the queen finds it, rather amusing," Not even realizing it she smiled. Robin couldn't help him-self, but to find her so beautiful when she smiled.
"I do not fi…"She started to say defensively, but she was cut off by him leaving. Just before he reached the door he once again turned around.
"Goodnight milady," He said and then he was gone. Leaving Regina with her mouth open. No one had ever dared to just leave while she was talking. Or dared to talk to her like she was… Human. Was she falling for him? The man with the lion tattoo? It really wasn't fair if he was indeed her soul mate.
"Get yourself together, he's a thief." She mumbled and went over and shot the door behind him. She went over to lay on her bed. Why did Robin leave her which such longing? A part of her wanted so desperately to explore what was happening inside of her. But an even bigger part wanted him gone.