A/N: This is just me trying to resolve the devastation of the s3 finale for my OTP. First attempt at ff, and not edited. Robins POV b/c we all know Regina so well, but I'm trying to understand where Robin is coming from. I have no love for Marian, but it has to be dealt with first. These characters are not mine, are property of Adam and Eddy, ABC, etc.
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"Marian," he gasped. This wasnt possible he thought as he strode toward the dark haired woman. He clutched her to his chest holding flesh and blood he thought had been long lost to him. This was real, she was real.
"Mama?" he heard little Roland ask. Robin's mind reeled as he crushed his reunited family to him. Where had she come from? How was this possible?
A tinkling bell pulled him out of his whirling thoughts. Regina. His body went hot and cold all at once. How could he have forgotten her even for a moment?
His body pulled toward the door, but his feet would not move. He looked down at Marians joyful face. He could see past the happiness to the tension lines around her eyes. She looked to out of place in the cozy diner, small and afraid. Before they were lovers they had been friends. He couldn't leave her alone in this foreign place.
His eyes stared at the door, and sent up a silent prayer that Regina would understand.
Unbidden, Robin remembered the first time Regina had kissed him in Storybrook. She burst through the trees like a comet in the night sky, and just as bright. She had grabbed him and the moment their lips met his world crashed down around him. He had pulled back, panting, to look at her face. His chest felt like it was combusting and he had never felt more alive than when he was with this amazing, uncompromising, vulnerable, passionate woman. Their eyes locked and it was a revelation. There was no going back.
And now his wife was back from the dead, ripped from a past he had long moved on from.
He would have to hold on to his faith that Regina understood the man he was and the price that came with loyalty and honor. Even if it cost his own happiness, their happiness, he could not break a vow.
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Let me know what you think. It is OQ endgame, but this was written on my train ride so I haven't figured out how to get there yet. Advice, thoughts, and criticism welcome!