Coming Home

by HeartOfOQ

Three months have passed since Robin's death and everyone in Storybrooke is finally starting to move on with their lives. However, when something happens, forcing them all to relive that fateful day, Regina and those closest to her must somehow find a way to accept this chain of events in order to retrieve lost memories and return more than one happy ending, including her own.

1. Prologue

Prologue

Robin's Pov

May 8th 2016

Storybrooke, Maine

"This isn't going to kill you; it's going to end you." Hades wasn't messing around. He was really angry; thinking we were trying to turn Zelena against him, which we were because he couldn't be trusted.

My mind was racing. All I wanted to do was keep my daughter safe, but Zelena didn't want to listen to anything we had to say. She loved him, and I think that he does love her too. He just loves power more.

Hades pointed the Olympian Crystal at Regina. I could tell that he was intent on destroying her, but I couldn't let him. I wouldn't. "This was my idea; to break in here. Just use that on me. You let her go." I was desperate. Not only did I now have to look out for my daughter, but Regina too. They were the two most important women in my life. I love them both so much and I would never forgive myself if anything happened to them.

"Oh sorry. Ladies first." I knew what was happening, and yet without even thinking I stepped in front of Regina; directly in to the path of the lightening bolt jolting from the crystal.

The next few moments are ones that I will never forget. The look on Regina's face, the tears in her eyes, as I reached out to her as I fell to the ground broke my heart. Her face was the last thing I ever saw in that world, an it will stay with me forever.

Then it all went black.

A Few Moments Later

"Hello?" I screamed repeatedly. I was surrounded by an infinity of blackness, feeling alone. I remembered what Hades had said; that the crystal wouldn't just kill me, but end me with no underworld or chance to return.

"This can't be it. It can't be over!" I yelled. I believed it too. Hades had claimed that I would no longer exist, but clearly he was wrong. I was here; wherever here is.

If Hades was wrong, and there is in fact a chance I would ever get back to Regina and my children, I had to have hope and believe that it was possible. That is what would get me through this.