AN: Hey guys! This is my first fic, so please leave reviews! One-shot for now, will continue if anyone is interested. All characters and ideas taken from the show belong to Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Hope you enjoy The Future Is Ours! ~Kate

Today has been one of the worst she's had in a while. Everything just seemed to go wrong, and, as per usual, everyone blamed her as the mayor. There's nothing that she wants more then to go home and go to bed, since she's exhausted. She quickly glances at the clock and realizes it's 5:03 pm, perfect. She almost smiles as she shuts down her computer and puts her files away. She stands, putting on her jacket and grabbing her purse, before walking out of her office, more than ready for the weekend. Regina makes her way down the steps from her office into the lobby of town hall. She walks towards the large main doors, and sees that it's pouring out. Great. "This day gets better and better," she sighs to herself. She doesn't have an umbrella, and was late to work, so she had to park farther away than normal. Regina pushes the doors open and quickly steps out, starting to shiver because it's freezing outside and, of course, raining. She practically runs to her car, unlocks it, and gets inside. She turns the car on and hits the gas, more than ready to get out of there.

Eventually, she's pulling into her driveway. Regina takes a deep breath and turns off the ignition. She rubs her temples, leaning against the steering wheel, trying to relieve some of her stress before she spends the evening with her boys and husband. She opens the car door and steps out, speedily walking up the pathway to get out of the rain. She puts her key into the lock and opens the door, finally getting into her house. Regina places her keys and purse on a table next to the door, then leans against the door frame with one hand, sliding her heels off with the other. As she finally relieves her swollen feet, she decides she should probably stop wearing heels to work in her current state, since they hurt her feet so badly. As she makes that thought, she suddenly feels her husbands arms around her. He leans in and kisses the side of her neck, and with that, she loses it and starts to cry. He quickly turns her around to face him, and lets her cry into his shoulder. Regina lets out a few sobs before pulling away, looking Robin in the eyes. He wipes away her tears, still holding her gaze.
"Love, what's wrong?" He asks gently.
After a moment, Regina tearfully responds, "Everything. Today was awful and she's only making things harder."
Robin knew exactly who "she" was. Their unborn child, a girl as they recently learned, who apparently had caused his wife some kind of distress that day.
"What happened?" Robin asked her, concern written all over his face.
"Well to start the day off, I'm not even sure I slept at all last night." Regina sighs. Their baby had began to move around and kick her more now that she was in the 5th month, but it was always worse at night. Last night, the baby was the worst she's ever been, simply refusing to let her mother sleep.
"I know my love." Robin says, taking her face in his hands and kissing her hairline.
"How did you...oh Robin did I keep you up too? I'm so sorry." She sighs, looking at the floor.
"Don't apologize, she's my daughter too. She should keep us both up." He smiles at her, placing his hand on her growing stomach. At his touch, she places her hand over his, playing with the wedding ring on his left hand.
"What else was troubling you?" He asks her, almost not wanting an answer, knowing the smile will soon disappear from her beautiful face.
"Honestly, I don't even want to talk about it. Just the townspeople constantly blaming me for everything, even things out of my control." Regina replies, then Robin nods his head, silently telling her to continue. "Someone actually called to complain about the lack of snow in December. Like I control the weather. Don't they understand that I'm upset about possibly not having snow on Christmas? Of course I want snow for Roland for his first Christmas in Maine! But it doesn't matter how I feel, I'm just the scapegoat for everyone else's problems." Even though she's still stressed, angry, and tired, Robin can tell she's calming down.
"Regina," Robin starts, "Just don't let them get to you. You're not the ice queen, you can't control the weather. If someone calls again, remind them of that. And I'm sure you had many other idiotic problems to deal with?" He asks her.
"Yes, but they're too ridiculous to mention. I'm not sure why I'm letting them get to me, probably hormones." Regina states, finally owning up to letting her emotions get out of control. At that comment, Robin laughs. Regina lightly slaps his arm, exclaiming, "That's not funny, Robin! I'm an emotional wreck and you're laughing?"
"I'm sorry love, you're just cute when you're hormonal." He adds, earning a glare from his less than pleased wife. "Whatever." She says, rolling her eyes. "I'm going to go change out of this dress, it's really tight." Regina says, beginning to walk up the stairs. Robin is instantly behind her, hand on the small of her back.

When they reach the top of the stairs, Robin looks at Regina and asks, "Was that all you wanted to talk about? Did something else happen today?"
"It's all that's worth mentioning," Regina replies, "There's more, but mostly idiotic townspeople just getting on my nerves, stressing me out." She sighs, looking back up at Robin. He grabs both of her hands in his and states worriedly, "Regina, you've really got to stop stressing yourself out, it's bad for you and her." Robin lets go of one of Regina's hands, placing it back over their baby.
"I know," she sighs defeatedly, running her fingers through her hair. "It's just hard to stop and breathe through it, I let everything bother me."
"You know love, maybe it's time to take a little time off, away from the office." He suggests.
"Robin, I'm the mayor, I can't just not show up." Regina says, annoyed.
"But you have to think of the baby, Regina. If you get too stressed, something bad will happen, to her and to you. I don't even want to think about it." Robin says, tears clouding over his eyes at the thought of losing his wife or daughter. That struck a chord with Regina, who placed her hands over her abdomen, tears running down her cheeks.
"Robin, how can you even think that?" She asks, getting defensive at the thought of losing her daughter. "If something happened to her, I don't know if I could live with myself." She cries, walking straight into Robin's open arms, and, once again, crying into his shoulder. Once her tears were slowed to hiccups, she backed away and looked at Robin again.
"Ok, you're right. I'm taking time off until New Years."
"That's great, my love!" Robin says excitedly, happy that he gets to spend the next two weeks with his wife, which included Christmas and New Years. Regina takes a few deep breaths and then starts to talk again.
Although Robin was expecting relief because she was taking time off, what she said next really shocked him. "I'm just so tired of being pregnant." she says, looking at the ground, refusing to meet his gaze. "Regina..." Robin says, not wanting to hear what he thinks she'll say next. "I just want to be able to go to work and not get so emotional and stressed out. I miss my normal clothes, my heels that kill my feet and back now. Robin, this is really hard, and she's not even here yet." Regina states, still looking down, letting a few tears escape her eyes. Robin places his hand gently under her chin, forcing her to look up. She meets his gaze and he wipes her tears away.
"What does this mean, Regina? Do you not want to do this anymore?" He accuses, a disgusted look on his face.
"No Robin! Of course not! Don't get me wrong, I love our baby with my entire being, it's just hard. You asked me what was wrong, so I figured I'd be honest with you. I can't wait to have this baby, and I love you both unconditionally. It's just hard to be pregnant and work a high stress, full time job, while raising two other kids." Regina reassures him, taking both of his hands and placing them on her abdomen, over their kicking baby.
"That's why I'm here Regina," Robin says, "Let me help you. I want to make this as easy on you as I possibly can." He says, leaning forward and gently kissing her lips. She pulled back and smiled, saying,
"I need to calm down, I'm gonna take a bath. Care to join me?" Regina suddenly asks Robin, seductively.
"No can do milady," he says, "I have to pick up the boys from Emma's. But have a great bath, I'll be back soon." He tells her, kissing her and her baby bump before walking back down the stairs. Regina walks down the hall and into their bathroom, drawing a bath, and taking her clothes off. She tied her hair in a bun, and got in. As soon as she was in the warm water, she was instantly calm. She leaned up against the back of the tub, letting the warm water soothe her achy and tired body, as well as her troubles and stresses.

An hour later, Regina stepped out of the bath, and started to dry off. She could hear her boys playing in one of their rooms, and couldn't wait to see them. She quickly changed into burgundy leggings and a white tee shirt, emerging from the bathroom to see her boys. She starts to walk down the hall, and gasps as her 4 year old son, Roland, crashes into her legs, hugging them.
"Mommy, I missed you!" The young boy says into Regina's pants. Regina crouches down to his height and hugs him.
"I missed you too, baby! How was your day?" She asks him, he responds, "Good!" And runs off, undoubtedly going back to his brother. She follows Roland to Henry, who, upon seeing her, got off of the bed he was sitting on and hugged her. "Robin probably told him to be nice to me because I've had a bad day." Regina thought to herself, but was still more than happy to hug her other son.
"Hi mom!" Her 11 year old says, before walking back over to the bed to finish his game with Roland.
"Hi honey," Regina says, smiling at her boys, "Dinners in 30 minutes, ok?"
"Ok." They respond in unison, going back to their game.
Regina walked back down the stairs, one hand on the railing, the other resting on her stomach, and looked for Robin. She found him on the phone, ordering pizza for dinner.
"It's like you can read my mind." she says, laughing.

After they eat dinner, Regina puts Roland to bed, reading to him from Henry's book, tucking him in and kissing his forehead. She walks out of his room and turns out the lights. She passes Henry in the hall, kissing him goodnight. She walks into her room and finds Robin laying in their bed, waiting for her. They kiss and muttered soft good nights, and lay together in their bed, Robin spooning Regina. He rests his hand over her stomach, and she covers his hand with hers, and they fall asleep, completely in love with their growing family.