A/N: Hello everyone! I've been 'a little' absent lately (understatement of the year), life got crazy with university and other stuff. For those of you who follow my other fanfiction (Never Look Back) I'm sorry but I stopped working on it, for now. I might finish it someday, when I have time (if I do) but I can't promise anything.

Now, talking about this story: this is going to be an OQ-centric, multi-chapter fic that picks up at the end of episode 4x19. Don't worry about the length of this chapter, this is merely the prologue and serves to introduce the plot twist of this story. The prologue and chapter one will be pretty similar to the show, with exact quotes and all but with the new element I added, then from chapter 2 I'm gonna go my own way with the story. I'll post chapter 1 tomorrow and, after that, updates will become a little more irregular so, please, bear with me.

Enough talking now, thanks in advance for reading and hope you enjoy! :)

Disclaimer: I don't own Once Upon a Time nor its characters or any quote or scene you might recognize from the show.

Prologue

"Robin?"

Regina called as she knocked on the door of Neal's former apartment. She was trying to keep it together but it was getting harder. Ever since she'd tried to call Robin, only to discover that Zelena had been posing as Marian the whole time, worry had been eating her alive.

It had been six weeks but the thought of Zelena getting her claws on Robin or Roland for even one second was enough to make her sick.

Were they even here? She had given Robin a map and the key to Neal's apartment, had they managed to find it or had they ended up somewhere else? He had never called, never sent her a text, so how was she to know for certain that he and Roland were alright?

When she had dialed his number it was Zelena who picked up, she never got to hear Robin's voice. For all she knew, Zelena might have killed them both the moment they left Storybrooke.

But, if they were fine, why didn't he open the damn door?

"Robin, open up!" She called, louder this time, unable to hide the concern in her voice as she pounded on the door, not caring in the least if she looked or sounded desperate to the women who were standing a few feet away from her.

Then she heard the sound of footsteps coming from the inside of the apartment, some fumbling with the lock and, finally, the doorknob being turned. The door opened to reveal her soulmate standing on the other side. Signs of confusion marked his features, his mouth was slightly open but no sound came from it.

Regina, on the other hand, breathed in relief the moment her eyes met the blue ones she had come to love so much. He was standing right in front of her, apparently unharmed. He was fine. They were going to be fine.

She closed the distance between them and threw her arms around Robin's neck, her eyes filling with tears as she took in the scent of forest that somehow still lingered on his skin.

"I missed you…" Regina whispered, her voice thick with emotion.

She expected some sort of reply, be it verbal of physical, but nothing came from Robin. He didn't utter a word, nor did he hold her close to him as he had done so many times before.

Instead, Regina felt his hands rise to gently grip her arms and push her away in order to put some distance between their bodies.

"Robin?" Dumbfounded, she cupped his face with her hands, staring at him and praying that this wasn't really happening, but Robin removed her hands from his cheeks and took a step back, glancing at Emma and Lily before looking into Regina's dark eyes again.

"I–I'm sorry… Have we met before?"