Five Years Later

by Sparkles21

One night, Robin and Regina meet at a nightclub and have a one night stand. Eight weeks later Regina find's out she's pregnant. Having found out Robin moved back to England, she had no way of telling him. Five years later Regina and Robin come face-to-face again, but this time not at a nightclub, instead they cross paths at work when Robin is hired as Regina's new co-worker. AU.

1. Prologue

A/N: Hi everyone. This is my first Once Upon a Time Fanfiction, I hope you like it. This is just the prologue, so it just contains how Robin and Regina met, Regina finding out she is pregnant and not being able to tell Robin, (you will find out why) then having the baby and naming him etc. Everything apart from the meeting of Robin and Regina is quite short because I wrote quite a lot of the nightclub scene between Robin and Regina. Regina will have a boy in this fanfiction because I have read a lot of fanfiction where Regina is pregnant with Robin's baby, and the baby turns out to be a girl, so I wanted to do the opposite of that. The baby will be Henry, same name, and interests in fairy tales. The only thing that is different about Henry is that he is not adopted in this story and he is four years old. Regina and Robin met nine months before Henry was born, obviously, but they come face-to-face again five years later, hence the title name 'Five Years Later'. I do hope you review, favourite and follow. BTW, if you didn't already guess, chapter one (the next chapter) will be set five years into the future.

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Prologue

Regina was seated on a bar stool in a nightclub in the middle of Times Square, New York, facing the dance floor, which had dozens of people dancing to music, in her tight red dress with a Mojito in her hand. It wasn't her idea to go out to this nightclub, it was her friend Emma's. Emma loved to go out to different nightclub's every Saturday and party until early hours, consume alcohol, meet a hot guy, make out and possibly go home with them for some fun. But Regina was nothing like her best friend, she preferred her Saturday night's alone in her small apartment with a glass of red wine and a Bridget Jones movie on play.

Emma had persuaded Regina to let her hair down for one night, to have a couple of drinks, dance with the hot guys and just have fun. Regina gave into Emma after Emma asked her to go to the nightclub for the seventh time in one day, Regina knew that Emma would never give up asking her, so, of course, Regina said she would go, but only if Emma never asked her again for the rest of the year.

Three men had walked up to Regina within the two hours she had been at the nightclub and they all asked to join her and buy her a drink, but she turned them all down. She wasn't the sort of person to go out, the last time she went to a nightclub was when she was eighteen, and that was when she was with Daniel, her first love. (Regina and Daniel were together for four years before tragedy struck. Daniel was driving back to his and Regina's small apartment in Boston after work when a couple of teenagers had stolen a car and took it for a joyride, they ran a red light and unfortunately smashed into Daniel's car. Daniel was rushed to hospital with serious brain bleeding, but there was nothing they could do. He was pronounced dead twenty minutes after he arrived in the hospital).

A man who had beautiful ocean blue eyes, light brown hair, a bit of stubble on his face walked up to Regina with a friendly smile. Here we go again she thought. As this man approached her the smell of forest brushed her nose, and it became stronger the closer he got. This man got to Regina and leant his right elbow on the bar counter. "Hi," He shouted over the loud music that was playing. "I'm Robin."

British accent. He must be from England she thought.

"And I'm not interested," Regina shouted back turning her face back to the dance floor as she was trying to seek out Emma, who had been asked by a guy an hour ago to join him on the dance floor. Regina obliviously said it was okay, but it wasn't, she had been ditched for some random guy in a nightclub she had never been to before.

Robin chuckled a little, he also leant in closer to Regina so he didn't have to shout as much. "Someone's a little sassy."

Regina furrowed her eyebrows and shot her head around to face Robin when she hears what he said. "Excuse me?!"

"Let me buy you a drink?"

"I already have a drink. And if I didn't, I certainly wouldn't want you to buy me one," Regina said with all the venom she had in her mouth.

Robin's smile never faded, in fact, it only got wider. He had never met a young woman quite like her. There was something about Regina that made him only want to keep pushing until she gave in and did let him buy her that drink. Robin of course first went up to Regina because of the fact that she was on her own and attractive. He liked the look of her, long dark ebony wispy hair, chocolate colour eyes, beautiful dark plump lips and a dress that was red, tight fitted, showed a lot of leg and the right amount of cleavage. But when he told her his name and she made that smart come back of 'and I'm not interested', it made him become eager to know Regina, her personality was quite something, something that he liked. "Okay. Obliviously we got off on the wrong foot, me calling you sassy-"

Regina cut in. "You got that right."

"But I'm glad I did." Regina turned to face him again but this time with a disgusted look on her face. "It made me see the real you, your personality towards people who don't make a good first impression on you. And I'm sorry if I didn't make a good impression on you." Regina's disgusted facial expression had died down by now, hearing the rest of what Robin had to say. "So, come on, how's about that drink I offered to you?"

Regina turned her face back to the dance floor and see's Emma looking at her with a smile on her face while dancing with that guy she met an hour ago, clenching both of her fists in the air towards Regina with just her thumbs poking out. Regina turned back to Robin and hesitated, she hadn't had a drink with anyone since Daniel, she was too afraid that it would lead to much more and then she would get her heart broken again. But it had been three years since Daniel had passed away, and in those three years Regina had gotten over Daniel's death and it was all thanks to Emma.

Emma had moved to New York after High School and was always calling and texting Regina about how amazing New York was, and Emma being Emma, she was always trying to persuade her and Daniel to move up there. Daniel wasn't really interested in living in the Big Apple, wasn't very keen on New York, but Regina loved New York, still does and whenever she went to visit Emma she would always go clothes shopping with her, the New York fashion was amazing, and Regina love's anything to do with fashion. So, when she finished College, a year after Daniel died, Regina decided to start law school in New York. Nothing was keeping her from New York City now, and she didn't like the fact that everywhere in Boston she went it held memories of her and Daniel.

Regina thought of what Emma had said when they entered the nightclub two hours ago; 'just have fun'.

"Fine. Get me another Mojito," Regina said spinning around on the stool so her body was facing the bar counter.

-R&R-

After Robin brought Regina her third Mojito and him his third beer, Robin started small talk, just simple getting to know you questions. "Are you originally from here, milady?"

"No." Regina decided to skip the Boston part, she didn't want to explain why she moved from Boston to a total stranger. "Where about in England are you from?"

"East London. What about you?" Robin asked pointing the bottle of beer he had in his right hand in Regina's direction. "Which part of America are you from?"

"Boston." And that was all Regina was going to say, no explanation to why she left, and why she chose New York out of all the other forty-eight states she could have chosen from.

"Why Boston?"

And there's the question she thought.

"I'm not really sure I should be discussing that with a total stranger," Regina said taking a sip of her Mojito.

"Well, I'm not a total stranger. You know my name is Robin, I come from England, I moved to New York a year ago, and that I'm twenty-eight." Robin then took a sip of his beer, moistening his mouth.

"Those last two facts I just found out."

"I'm not a total stranger now though am I. You are the total stranger, all I know about you is that you come from Boston and live here," Robin said that with a smirk, and in his mind, he patted himself on the shoulder for being a bit clever. Regina smiled a little, she clearly knew he was being smart. "So, come on, tell me about you. If you don't want to you don't have to, just at least tell me your name."

"My name is Regina and I'm twenty-three."

"You have a beautiful name, Your Majesty," Robin said with a smirk, he couldn't wait for her reaction.

Regina chuckled and grinned. "You're the first person I've met who actually knows what my name means."

-R&R-

An hour and thirty minutes later Emma was making out with that guy she was dancing with and Robin and Regina were still talking but they were also laughing. "And I'm just there shouting, 'little John you won't be able to catch the chicken', but he wouldn't listen. Of course, I was right, he never caught it."

Regina, who was giggling patted her left eye, stopping the laughter filled tear from falling. "Oh, my god. You know it's just so funny imagining someone run around after a chicken."

"If you were there you would have been dying with laughter," Robin said trying to calm his laughter down, seconds later he eventually did and so did Regina. "I saw you come in with a blonde-haired girl. Where is she now?"

Regina took a sip of her now fourth Mojito. "That was Emma, my best friend. And she is probably off somewhere making out with this random guy she befriended here."

"Taking by how calm you are by that situation, I'm guessing she does that a lot."

"By what she tells me, yeah she does."

"What do you mean 'by what she tells me'?" Robin asked curiously.

"I've never really seen Emma go off with a man and dance and make out with them before tonight, but she would always tell me about her Saturday night's after her hangover cured. You see this is my first time being in a nightclub in over three years," Regina said looking down at the counter because she was a little embarrassed that she hadn't been to a nightclub in over three years.

"Are you embarrassed about not going out and partying for three years?" Robin asked placing his hand on Regina's shoulder.

"Kind of," Regina said still looking at the counter.

"Don't be. This is also my first time being in a nightclub in four years."

Regina looked at Robin. "Really?" He nodded. "But I bet you have a different explanation to why you haven't been out for four years."

"I probably do. But I wouldn't mind sharing if you don't."

Regina hesitated. "I'm not sure. I mean my reason is personal."

"So is mine."

Regina hesitated again, she did want to share, for some reason she felt like she could tell Robin anything, but she didn't want to say anything, she didn't want Robin to take pity on her. But what Regina didn't know is that Robin felt the same way, he didn't feel comfortable in sharing because he didn't want Regina to take pity on him as well, but he wanted to share because he felt like he could tell her anything. "Okay. But you go first."

Robin took a deep breath in. "I moved to San Diego when I was seventeen, and that is when I met my ex-girlfriend, Marian. When I was twenty she died, she got shot when she was out one night. I was heartbroken so I went out every night drinking, how much alcohol I consumed I could have died. But one day, I thought to myself that Marian wouldn't want me to be like this, she would want me to carry on trying to achieve my career. So, I applied for law school, and when I was twenty-one I started and I never went out drinking after that day. I got my degree to become a lawyer and that's what I do now. The reason I'm here tonight is because my friends asked me to join them and I thought why not, it's been long enough and I'm finally over Marian's death so I won't do anything stupid."

"I'm sorry about Marian. It seems our stories aren't that different, though." Regina went on to tell the story of her and Daniel, she didn't leave out any details because she knew that if Robin could tell her about Marian then she could tell him about Daniel.

Robin listened very carefully, the way Regina did. He found it strange how they meet in a nightclub and they both have similar past's, both losing someone they loved. "I'm also sorry about Daniel," Robin said.

It's quite for a few minutes, both Robin and Regina were adjusting to what the other said to them. Regina not really liking awkward silences picked up her Mojito and drunk the last bit of it, turned to Robin and said, "Come on, drink the rest of your beer, were doing tequila shot's." Robin followed order's while Regina turned to the bartender and asked for four tequila shots.

-R&R-

Robin and Regina both knocked back their first tequila shot and then when they were about to knock back their second one Emma and a guy, who had messy hair and appeared to be wearing eyeliner walked up to them. "Round of applause everyone," Emma shouted while clapping her hand's. "Regina Mills is finally having fun for once."

"Hello Emma," Regina said putting the shot back on the counter.

"Who's the guy?" Emma asked looking at Robin then back to Regina smirking.

"I could ask you the same thing," Regina said looking back and forth between Emma and the guy she was with.

"Regina, this is Killian," Emma said while she looked at Regina and gestured her hand towards Killian. "And Killian," Emma said as she looked at Killian and gestured her hand towards Regina. "This is Regina Mills."

"It nice to meet you, love," Killian said, then he took a sip of rum from his glass that he was holding, while Regina gave him a small smile.

"Emma, this is Robin," Regina said looking at Emma and gestured her hand towards Robin. Regina then looked at Robin with her hand gestured towards Emma and continued, "Robin, this is Emma."

Emma and Robin both said hello to each other, and then Emma turned back to Regina and said, "I came over to you to say that I'm going to head home with Killian."

"Okay then," Regina said trying to not sound disappointed about her best friend, who's going to ditch her for some random guy she met, just for sex.

"I wasn't going to tell you because I can see your busy," Emma said grinning. "But I thought that it might be rude of me not to say bye." Grinning, even more, Emma added. "So, bye, have a very good night."

-R&R-

Fifteen minutes after Emma and Killian had left, Regina and Robin were still doing tequila shots. They ordered two more after they finished their other two. Robin had just downed his third shot and placed the lemon to his lips and sucked when he asked Regina what she did for a living. "I'm not working at the moment."

"Why not?"

"Because I'm still in school," Regina said after she downed her third shot and sucked the lemon.

"I thought you said your twenty-three?" Robin questioned with his eyebrows furrowed.

"I am. I'm in law school. Coincidently I want the same career as you."

"Oh. Did you start straight after College or have you just started?"

"Straight after College. I'm almost finished."

"I had to have a part-time job and a student loan to pay for law school. Since you already told me that you don't work did you have to ask for a student loan or are your parent's paying for it?"

"Parents. And before you ask, yes, they are also paying for the apartment I'm staying in, at least they are until I have a job."

"I wasn't going to ask that but nice to know," Robin said, then knocked back his last shot and sucked the lemon.

Regina followed his actions then asked, "Have you got any kids?"

"No. What about you?"

"I'm twenty-three," Regina said raising one eyebrow.

"Twenty-three-year-olds can have children, and you were with Daniel for four years," Robin said. He then looked at the clock on the wall and noticed that it was almost one o'clock in the morning. "I think I should go, it's almost one in the morning."

Regina shot her head towards the clock placed on the wall. "Oh, god is that the time?! Yeah, I should be going as well." Regina got off the stool and stumbled, but Robin quickly got up and held her steady by placing both of his hands on her waist.

Robin chuckled then said, "I think you drank too much."

"No, I'm fine, it's probably these heels." Regina looked down at her waist to where Robin had his hand's, but, she only had a quick glance because he immediately took them off when she looked. Regina then looked back up and smiled at Robin. "Well, it was nice meeting you."

Robin smiled back. "You too."

They both started walking towards the front door of the nightclub when two men, one with brown, long curly hair who was slightly on the heavy side and the other with short, dark and kind of messy hair, who was tall and slim walked up to them. "You going home so soon, Robin?" The tall and slim one asked.

"Yes. It's getting rather late."

"Are you just saying that because you don't want us to know the real reason you're going home?" The tall and slim one asked again, but, this time smirking.

"And what's that?" Robin asked, not understanding.

"Well you're walking out of here with a hottie," The tall and slim one said pointing to Regina.

"Excuse me," Regina cut in as she understood what he was implying. "But I think you're very rude! You do know a man and women can have a drink together without having sex with each other afterwards. And I have a name and it's not 'hottie'!" Regina hissed.

"Okay love calms down, I was just joking! No need to get your knickers in a twist!" The tall and slim one shot back.

When Regina heard what, he said she got upset and took her gaze to the floor. Robin noticed and got upset as well, and said, "Will! Apologies to Regina." Upon hearing Robin step in and ask Will to apologise Regina looked at Robin and smiled. She was very touched that Robin stuck up for her.

"What!" Will shouted, and furrowed his eyebrows.

"You heard me! Apologise."

Will turned his head and looked at Regina, and she looked at him back. "I apologise Regina for my rude behaviour."

Regina just nodded her head and then walked towards the nightclub doors, clearly not wanting to spend another minute around Robin's friends'. Robin follows and when they get outside they both stop and look at each other. "Thank you for what you did back there," Regina thanked.

"It's no big deal. Sometimes Will steps out of line when he is drunk and he doesn't even know it, and that's when I have to step in and put him right."

Regina smiled. "Anyway. I had a really great time tonight, I enjoyed it a lot."

"Me too."

Regina smiled then said, "Bye then." and then she turned and started to walk off. Robin also started to walk off but in the opposite direction. As Regina walked she started to think of how fun her night was, and that she would like to do it again, but she realised she doesn't have Robin's phone number. Regina then turned and shouted, "Robin, wait!"

Robin turned around and saw Regina jogging towards him. Just as she reached Robin she slipped, but he managed to catch her by grabbing hold of her waist and pulling her towards him. Regina hand's grab hold of his shirt when Robin pulled her in. "Thanks. Again," Regina said, as she unwrapped her fists from around his shirt and placed them flat on his chest.

They just stared into each other's eyes for a bit until Robin leant in closer and placed his lips upon hers. The small kiss lasted for ten seconds before Robin started to pull away, but Regina took her right hand and cupped his face and kissed him back deeper.

They quickly walked to the nearest hotel, stopping every now and then to kiss each other. When they got to the hotel they booked a room and went straight to it. When they got in the room they locked the door shut, then they stripped immediately and landed on the bed kissing each other...

-R&R-

Eight weeks later Regina was seated in a doctor's room in a hospital waiting to hear some important news that could change her life forever. She hadn't seen or heard off Robin since. She woke up the morning after they had sex and he was gone. Regina was so upset she went back to her apartment smashed a couple of plates then rang up Emma and told her what happened. Because of Emma being the caring person she is, she went to Regina's apartment and let her cry in her arms. Normally Regina wouldn't have shown any signs of vulnerability to Emma about a guy she just met, but because she opened up to Robin about Daniel and he was also the first guy she slept with since Daniel, the vulnerability came spilling out of her when she saw Emma.

"I can confirm that you are eight weeks pregnant Miss Mills," The doctor said.

Regina's heart dropped, she has never in her entire life, apart from the time when the hospital called and told her that Daniel was involved in a car accident and died, had Regina ever wanted to crawl into her bed and cry for endless hours and wait for her problems to disappear until this exact moment. She didn't know what she was going to do, how she was going to cope, how her mother would react.

Oh God! My mother, Regina thought.

Cora would probably be disappointed, she wasn't a fan of the idea that she wanted to be with Daniel and have a life with him, which included; marriage and kids. So now that she is pregnant and not marriage, let alone in a relationship, her mother would kill her, or worse, try and force her to marry the man who got her pregnant.

"Miss Mills," The doctor interrupted Regina's thoughts. "By your facial expression and the fact that your speechless, I'm guessing this wasn't planned?"

Regina shook her head. "No, it wasn't."

"You know," The doctor started, interlocking both of his hands together and resting his elbows on his desk. "There are plenty of options for you to choose from regarding you and the baby. You can keep the baby, have an abortion if you don't want the baby or if you don't want to do that but you also don't want to keep the baby you can always consider putting the baby up for adoption."

"I need to think about it."

"Take all the time you need. While you do would you like to take some pamphlets? You can read into your options. Or you can talk to someone about them?"

"I think I would like the pamphlets," Regina said, giving the doctor a small smile.

"Of course," he replied, as he handed over a few pamphlets, which Regina took and placed into her bag.

-R&R-

Four days after Regina went to the hospital to get her results she went to visit Emma to tell her about it and ask her for her opinion and advice. Regina was obliviously having a hard time figuring out what she should do. Of course, she read the pamphlets the doctor gave her, that was the first thing she did when she got back to her apartment, but this was a huge decision she was going to have to make which might change her life forever.

"You're pregnant!" Emma shrieked, as she shot up from the couch and looked down at her best friend who was sitting next to her.

"I know it's a lot to take in," Regina said while she stood up next to Emma.

Emma inhaled a deep breath and exhaled it trying to calm down, she then asked, "How many weeks are you?"

"Well," Regina turned and started to walk towards the window in Emma's apartment. "I am, uh, eight weeks and four days to be specific."

Emma's eyes widened in shock, she would have probably thought that Regina was dating someone but had failed to mention it to her, but thirteen weeks and four days ago, both Regina and Emma had gone to a nightclub, they were both drinking, but only one of them had a conversation with a certain man called Robin which ended in sex. "So, it's Robin's?" Emma asked, already knowing the answering.

Regina nodded and then turned around to face Emma and said, "I'm not sure what to do Emma. The doctor gave me a bunch of pamphlets that include all the possible choices I have."

"You need to tell Robin is what you have to do. He does have a say in what happens. If you might not want to keep the baby, he might."

"I can't."

Emma furrowed her eyebrows and took a couple of steps closer to Regina. "What do you mean you can't Regina. He's the baby's father, he would want to know."

"Of course, I know that Emma, but, I don't know how to get in touch with him."

"Didn't you get his phone number the night you two met?" Regina shook her head and looked to the floor. "Well, what's his last name? Maybe I can give a friend of mine who I work a call and ask them to find out where he lives," Emma said reaching in her back pocket for her phone.

Regina stopped Emma by placing her right hand on Emma's shoulder. "I don't know his last name. He never told me. And I have no idea where he lives and works."

Emma slipped her phone back into her pocket and sat back on the couch. "Well did he tell you what he does for a living or is that a hit-and-miss?"

"He told me he was a lawyer," Regina said sitting back on the couch next to Emma.

"Well, that's just great. There are loads of law firms in New York, and I'm pretty sure there isn't just one person in New York City called Robin who has a job as a lawyer."

"Well, what do I do then? I can't ask Robin if he wants the baby, so I want you to tell me if I should have the baby?"

Emma placed one of her hands-on top of Regina's. "Regina it's up to you. It's your body and your baby. But if you do want my opinion I think you should keep it. I know you and if you get rid of this baby you will regret it."

"What about my mother," Regina said trying to hold back tears that were waiting to burst out through her eyes and stream down her face like a flowing river.

"Screw her! You're twenty-three years old. It's your life, you have a say in what happens in it. And if she gives you hell just tell her it's the 21st century and people have kids out of wedlock and/or on their own."

Regina slumped into the couch and huffed. "I wish it was as simple as that."

"It is. Your life is in your hands, not hers."

Regina sighed, she took a minute to think of a life with this child. A small smile does tug at the side of her lip, the imaged of a baby, her baby, crawling around her small apartment, walking around her small apartment, saying 'mommy' in her small apartment, sneaking cookies out of the cookie jar. Tears started to form in Regina's eyes, they aren't sad, despondent tears, they are happy and joyful one's. "I think I want to keep the baby. And I may have a solution of how to find and tell Robin about this," Regina said, pointing to her stomach.

-R&R-

Regina and Emma turned up at the nightclub that they went to eight weeks and four days ago. It wasn't the nightclub's opening hours so they had to bang on the door and ask to talk to someone who usually worked on Saturday nights. They asked five of the staff members who were working that night if they knew Robin also giving a very detailed explanation of what he looked like, but none of them didn't seem to know him.

They began to walk back to the front entrance, their quest to find Robin being over. That is until a tall and slim man, the same man who was rude to Regina that Saturday night, the name, Will popping up in her mind, walked in through the doors.

Regina's eyes widened. "It's you. Robin's friend," Regina said as she came face-to-face with Will.

"Darling I don't really have time for you at the minute, I have a bar to tend to," Will reply, then walked away towards the bar.

"You work here?" Regina asked, following.

"I'm only here for a couple of weeks. So, if you don't mind I have a shift to work."

Emma moved to the front of the bar where Regina was and whispered, "Who is he?"

Regina jumped slightly, startled by Emma. She turned her head and replied, "One of Robin's friends'." Emma Ah's and raised her eyebrows up to show she understood.

Will go behind the bar and started making his way towards a door that had the words ONLY STAFF PERMITTED. "Wait," Regina shouted.

Will sighed and turned around. "What?"

"Have you got Robin's number? I need it."

"I did, but he doesn't have a phone at the moment."

"Why hasn't he?" Regina asked suspiciously.

"He got offered a new job and he took it. The jobs in England, and because there are different phone services over there he had to get rid of his phone."

Regina felt like a massive amount of bricks came crashing on her in a matter of two seconds. He was gone, Robin wasn't here, her baby's dad wasn't going to be in his or her life.

Oh, was all Regina could get out. She didn't know what she was supposed to do. Not the pregnancy thing, she knew what to do about that. What she didn't know what to do was whether to cry, stand there blankly, walk, or possibly run out of the nightclub or just smile.

Regina was never one to share things, and if Robin did want to be a part of her baby's life then she would have had to share her child with him, but now that he isn't here she doesn't have too, that should be a thing to smile about, right? But Regina didn't want to. Her child would grow up without his or her dad, father, daddy, papa, whatever the baby would have called Robin, and that upset her, not to the point that it made her want to cry, but it certainly upset her.

Regina loved and adored her father, and the day she lost him when she was seventeen, just under a year ago, when she first met Daniel she was heartbroken, she shut everyone out. Her baby would never get to have that kind of relationship she had with her father.

Regina decided to just walk out and not say another word. All the things that went through her mind about her baby not having a caring and devoted dad like she had hit her hard. She just wanted to go home and take a nice relaxing bath.

Emma followed her as soon as she told Will that it doesn't matter why they wanted Robin's phone number, it was nothing that important. But of course, it flipping was! But Emma had no place in telling a total stranger that his friend knocked up her best friend.

Regina walked straight out of the nightclub and started heading home. She knew Emma wasn't behind her, but she didn't care, though, Emma's twenty-four and knows her way around New York, she can get herself back home.

As Emma stepped out of the nightclub, shortly after Regina she jogged a little bit to catch up to Regina. "Have you changed your mind about the baby?"

Regina paused and turned to face Emma. "Why do you think I would change my mind over a man not being here to help?!" Regina hissed

"I don't... I - uh... I didn't-"

Regina cut in before Emma got to finish. "You what?! Didn't mean for it to slip out of your mouth! Listen here Miss Swan! I don't need a man to help me with my baby, I am perfectly capable of doing it on my own! I will never entrust my happing ending in a man ever again, not after Daniel, for now, it will be in my child who I am keeping!" And with that being said Regina stormed off back to her apartment.

-R&R-

Thirty-nine weeks later, the little argument Regina and Emma had outside the nightclub was in the past, they both forgave each other and moved on. But their arguments were still there, of course, they were going to be, Regina was pregnant! Her hormones were all over the place.

Regina did finish law school, she did think with her being pregnant and everything it would slow her down and she might have had to stay another year but she didn't, she graduated. She told her mother that she had a law degree and she was very happy and pleased, but then...

She told her she was pregnant and Cora didn't like it. Cora went on and on about how Regina had ruined her life, not being married, and having a child, and then she also said that it was pointless of a law degree because now she was going to have a baby she won't be able to have a full-time job as a lawyer.

Regina clearly told her mother it was her life and she was going to do whatever she wanted and then stormed out, which at the time wasn't the best thing to do because it made her seem like she was having a tantrum and that she was too weak to hear what her mother was going to snap back, but she was exhausted and the argument wasn't helping. All she had wanted to do was go home and relax.

They did eventually patch up their disagreement, but Cora still wasn't thrilled that Regina was going to have a baby without a husband, but at the end of the day, she was going to have to put up with it because it was Regina's body not hers.

Then the time came when Regina was going to bring her little bundle of joy into the world. She was so excited. For weeks, she had been. She had gotten a full-time job (which would turn part-time after the baby was born,) at a diner called Granny's (which her mother wasn't very happy about,) but it was good money. With what she earned she could turn the little spare room she had in her small apartment into a nursery. Her mother kept of insisting that she pay for what she needs so Regina didn't have to work in that horrible greasy diner, but Regina had wanted to supply for her own child.

"Okay Regina the head is out, next is the baby's shoulder and after they come out so should your baby, so on this next contraption I'm going to need you to push as hard as you can," the midwife calmly said.

Regina nodded, and then she felt the contraption. She squeezed Emma's hand and pushed hard. "Ahhhh..." Regina groaned. "I can't do this," she cried.

"Yes, you can Regina," Emma encouraged. Regina pushed as hard as she could, and then the room was filled with the sounds of a crying baby.

"Congratulations Regina," the midwife said cleaning the fluids off the baby, then wrapping it in a white blanket. "You have a healthy baby boy."

Regina smiled. "A boy?"

Regina had waited to find out if she was having a boy or girl, she thought she would have wanted to know because of her, not liking surprises, but for some reason, she had wanted to wait and be surprised.

The midwife gently placed the baby in Regina's arms after she let go of Emma's hand, and as soon as the baby was in Regina's arms he calmed down.

Regina moved the blanket down a bit so she can get a better looking at his face. As she moved the blanket down a bit, parts of his hair start to show, dark brown and then his eyes flickered open, dark brown as well, both hair and eyes like hers. "He's beautiful."

"He is so adorable," Emma commented with a grin, as she looked over at the baby.

"Do you have a name for him, Regina?" The midwife asked.

Regina looked up happily smiling. "Yes," She then looked back down at the beautiful baby boy that she was holding. "Henry. Henry Daniel Mills.