FATE

Daniel was gone and she felt that part of her soul was gone too. They've been together for almost seven years, he was her whole world and in one moment it was ruined. All because of the stupid drunk driver. There was no chance for Daniel to make it.
They planned their future together, house, children and in one moment it all shattered. They even started trying for a child, but it seemed the fate didn't want her to be left even with the smallest part of her only love.
The past half year they spent on giving up on the contraception and trying really hard. Their relationship was on the stage when they were sure they wanted to be with each other for the rest of their lives and it was the best moment to have a child. Her carrier wasn't threatened so she could get pregnant without worrying about her job. But she didn't.

And now here she was. Sitting in the waiting room of the sperm bank waiting for her appointment. Daniel was dead, true, and because of that she needed someone to love in her live, someone to be with her in her loneliness.
When she finally entered the room and started looking through the pages of donors' catalogue not exactly knowing what or rather who she was looking for. All the pages looked the same :
Height, eye color, hair color, ethnicity.
All besides one. Caucasian, 5'11, blue eyes and light brown hair man. There was no picture of him but she knew that those were the features she wanted her potential child to have. Perhaps because the mix of them and her own look made what Daniel looked like. And she more than anything crawled for him back in her life.
She still had some time to decide whether she was sure to do this, after all it was going to change her forever. But she already knew, the moment she imagined her beautiful baby, it didn't matter the child would never be Daniel's, she knew she was going to love it unconditionally even of the child is never going to meet it's father.
She was going to do it.

Five years later

"Rose, don't run so fast" she shouted trying to catch her daughter. Her four-year-old was overly active. But she wasn't mad at her at all, because she was the most precious little human being. As for her age her little girl was really smart and Regina could admit she was the cutest child she'd ever seen and it wasn't because she was hers. Her shoulder-length black curls perfectly framed the chubby rosy cheeks on which, every time she laughed, formed adorable dimples. But the thing she adored the most were her daughter's eyes. They had the color of the bluest of oceans so deep and so blue that every single person that passed them on the street looked at her little girl with awe. And those few things, the dimples and eyes made Regina wonder how handsome must her father be.
"But mommy, we're going to be late!" tried to explain the girl with her adorable voice. They were going to zoo, it was Saturday noon, there was no chance they were going to be late anywhere, but still, she couldn't say no to those blue orbs.

"Could you just slow down a little? I'm sure there won't close the zoo until we get there" she said with a smile to which her daughter answered with her dimpled one. So she took Rose's little hand in her own.

She loved all the Saturdays, because those were the days she didn't work and she could spend them with her daughter. They always went to the cinema or just sit at home playing games, reading stories or just telling about the previous week's events, but that day was special, because it was going to be her daughter's first time at the zoo. So when they entered the facility the girl's already big eyes became even bigger. She looked with awe at every animal trying to capture theirs every feature.

"Is she a queen, mommy?" asked Rose pointing at the lioness.
"What do you mean honey?"
"Ms Blanchard said that lion is the king of the animals, is she the queen then?"
'She's definitely too smart' thought Regina with pride.
"I guess so" she answered "Maybe we should find her the whole court then?" she proposed and immediately saw the sparkle in her daughter eyes.
So they started looking. Rose was overly excited trying to make up the function for every animal in their kingdom. She run from one place to another and Regina couldn't keep up with her. While going from giraffes to rhinos her daughter ran onto a man.
He was wandering alone amongst families with children and school trips, visibly daydreaming. Regina approached him but suddenly she realised something. He was Caucasian, around 5'11, had blue eyes and light brown hair. He was really handsome. What was more when her daughter started talking to him he smiled and it was very clear he had dimples.
'Stop it' she reprimanded herself 'There are many men that match that description.'

"I'm sorry for my daughter" she started apologising "I should have kept her from running onto strangers" she said with shy smile.

"So she's yours?"

"Yes, she's" Regina answered with pride.

"Robin isn't stranger mommy" said Rose making both adults laugh.

"Of course he isn't" said Regina still with smile on her face "You know him for the whole five minutes."

"You see, it's a long time" admitted girl not understanding her mother's sarcasm "Do you want to be my friend?" she asked visibly amused man.

Rose was so friendly and easygoing with others and it really made Regina think what an amazing man her father must be.

"I'm looking forward to it m'lady" he said with gentleman's tone.

"You heard, mommy?" said excited girl "I'm m'lady!" she was at the moment probably the most excited four year old on the area.

"But I think I won't disturb your time together, I'm sure your daddy is waiting for both of you" he said but the answer wasn't the one he was waiting for.

"There is no father" said simply Regina not wanting to talk about that with the mam she just met.

"I'm sorry" said Robin visibly abashed.

"Oh. He's not dead... I think, we actually don't know him.."

When she said that Robin's mind went crazy. He reminded himself about the time five years earlier when after losing the love of his life he decided to make more sense for someone, to make someone's life happier by giving that someone something the most valuable in the whole world - a child.
And right there looking at that little girl with blue eyes and dimples, which were his blue eyes and his dimples he just couldn't help himself from thinking that fate wanted them to meet.

"Do you believe in destiny Regina?" he asked realising that he sounded really cheesy. But he didn't care because before him stood beautiful woman with a little girl which was probably his daughter, so he decided to take the risk and leaned closer to kiss her