This is a collection of one-shots and missing scenes to accompany An Unexpected Journey and its sequels. If you feel like something is missing from the original story, please send me a message on my Tumblr (doorinthegrove) and I'll try to write something as soon as possible :)

#1: Given To You (rating: T)

Missing EF-scene based on Robin's déjà vu feeling regarding Regina saying "You can't steal something that's been given to you" in Storybrooke (AUJ chapter 29).

7 months prior

Dark Palace, Enchanted Forest

She was pacing in front of her desk when he entered and glared at him when he did not bother to knock. He infuriated her to no end and yet she always found her gaze drawn to him when they met. And every time he noticed he would have that infuriatingly annoying grin tugging at his lips and she would have to fight back an equally infuriating blush, which would also keep her from concentrating on what she had intended to do in the first place.

In short; Robin Hood was an infuriating distraction and, back when Regina had been the Evil Queen, she would have dealt with him as she always had dealt with infuriating distractions.

But now she was not the Evil Queen anymore. At least not like she had been back then; she was still boiling with hatred, though this time for her newfound sister, Zelena, instead of Snow White, but she felt no hatred towards the man that now, while smirking, closed the door to the room she referred to as her office. It was not like the office she had had as Mayor back in Storybrooke, but it was better to meet him here than in her private chambers. This felt safer. A lot safer.

"You wished to see me, your majesty?" Robin said, still smirking at her. It was warm out today and he had shed his outer layers of clothing, leaving him in an old, yellowing shirt and a leather vest on his upper body. His shirt was unbuttoned at the top, revealing a patch of tanned skin. Regina quickly averted her gaze and put on her best queenly mask, waving her hand at the set of gold-tipped arrows resting on her desk.

"A reward", she said, "for helping me break into my own castle."

Robin's eyebrows shot up in surprise and Regina felt at least some satisfaction at the fact that she had done something he had not expected of her.

"Payment for breaking in?" he asked in his accented voice.

"Yes", Regina responded and walked around her desk, sitting down on her chair. "That'd be all."

Robin stepped forward and she purposely kept her gaze lowered. It did not, however, keep her from smelling that all-too familiar smell coming off of him as he moved. Forest. Pine trees. Even after spending all these months in the castle that smell clung to him.

"Forgive me, your majesty", Robin said and stopped in front of the desk, "but I think you have me wrong."

"I'm sorry?" she responded, her gaze shooting up and an insulted tone lingering in her voice. He huffed and crossed his arms over his chest.

"I do not demand payment", he said. "That's not why I've stayed here during these months."

"Of course it is", she scoffed. To her surprise he then leaned forward, resting his hands on the desk and bringing his face down to her level. She unwillingly pulled back.

"I do not want payment", he said, his voice low. "At least not like this."

She inhaled sharply and rose.

"How dare you?" she spat out. "This is the payment I'm giving you, thief, nothing else. At least you can't steal something that's been given to you."

"And what is that supposed to mean?" Robin asked and straightened, still remaining far too close for her liking. She was very tempted to throw a fireball at him.

"Do you think I'll steal something else if I remain here, your majesty?" he clarified. Yes, she thought. Deep inside she was afraid of exactly that, though it was not a trinket or some old treasure chest being stolen that worried her. It was something entirely different.

"Take them", she spat out and turned around, "and leave."

For a few moments there was nothing but silence and her frantically beating heart. Then she heard how he picked the arrows up off the table and turned, his boots hitting the marble at a steady beat.

"Regina", he said and she stiffened. He had called her that when they had broken into her castle, this castle, all those months ago, but since then he had stuck to calling her majesty. Hearing him call her by her first name left her vulnerable.

"I have two reasons for remaining here, Regina", he now said, "and neither of them is payment."

Then he slipped back out into the corridor and she let out a shuddering breath. She could not let him get this close to her. Every time she had those people had suffered and, when she was alone, Regina could admit that she did not want Robin Hood to suffer. Not more than he already had.