When Robin got a call that afternoon from the police station telling him that there had been a murder in his house a few hours ago and that now he needs to take his son from the police station, he had laughed and hung up, thought it was a very cruel joke.
But he didn't even have time to put the phone down and it was ringing again. The same number, the same voice, the same words. Robin's head started to spin when someone from the other end of the line told him a middle age man was killed by Regina Mills who's arrested now and his son is alone, waiting for him.
That moment Robin felt as if his whole life had collapsed.
He recovered from the shock rather quickly, dropped everything he was doing and rushed out of his cabinet. He didn't stop to respond to the secretary who was shouting from behind him, asking what to do about the meeting. Who cared about that stupid meeting when his son was in the police station and his fiancée had killed someone in every sense of word?
Robin reached the police station in record time only to find his son sobbing, eyes bloodshot, a long red mark on his neck. Robin cannot understand what'd happened because Roland is not able to say a single word, all he can do is collapse in his father's embrace and sob and shake.
Robin doesn't know what to do or what to think, he has no idea how to comfort the boy while he doesn't know what really has happened to him, he doesn't know what Roland has seen or what was done to him and it drives Robin insane.
So he just holds his son tightly, whispers that everything will be alright now, that he's safe.
It takes hours for Roland's sobbing to stop, and then it takes hours for Robin to fill in all the papers, answering all the stupid questions. He writes that yes, Regina Mills in his fiancée, and no, he had never heard about Leopold Blanchard before, and then, when he finishes writing, officer asks a few more questions and Robin grits his teeth but answers it nonetheless, all the while rocking his still silently crying son with his small hands fisted in Robin's t-shirt which is now soaked with tears.
When the survey is over, Robin asks what had happened but the information is not given, not until they have something figured out and he's desperate, his child crying, the woman he loves with this whole heart locked up somewhere and he doesn't even know if she's injured, if she's okay.
Damn it. Robin feels like crying himself.
He asks to see Regina, just for a moment, just to be sure that she's okay, but the officer named Graham tells him that it's not possible and he's sent home with a promise that tomorrow he'll get more information. With a breaking heart, Robin nods his head and leaves the station.
They go to Killian's place that night since their own house is full of blood and he's been told that it's the crime scene so he won't be able to step into the house for a few weeks (not that Robin wants to come back there now).
When Robin arrives, he finds Killian's girlfriend Emma crying on the couch and she's Regina best friend and she should know what that man was but Emma doesn't answer any of his questions, tells him that it's not her story to tell.
That night Robin cannot find sleep, every time he closes his eyes he sees a picture of a man holding a knife against his son's throat (Roland had managed to told him that between sobs and shakes), and it's an unbearable thing so instead he lies there on the bed and thinks.
He thinks that maybe he should have pushed Regina more to open up to him because they may have been together for three years and he may know a lot of things about her, the present her, but he knows nothing about her past, about her parents. He knew she had a lot of secrets, her body language had given that away because a simple word made her tense, a simple touch made her angry. And her nightmares, the nightmares where she shouted different names and shook and cried, those nightmares made him understand that something awful must have happened to her, something that made her like this, like an iceberg, unbreakable and strong but so broken inside no matter how hard she tried to hide it.
The next morning he's in the police station before the sun is up and he waits patiently and sometimes not so patiently for any news, and finally officer Graham tells him that she'll be released on bail and Robin pays it immediately and then she's finally free.
As soon as he sees her, his knees start to shake because her clothes are covered in blood, her eyes are red from crying, there's a huge bruise over her lip, and her forehead is cut as well, her hand is bandaged up and she looks so tired, so hurt, Robin cannot help himself but pull her into a tight hug.
She doesn't hug him back, only stands in his arms emotionless, and he thinks that it's shook, so he tells her that it's going to be okay, that it's not her fault, that they will figure it all out together and all the other comforting things that come to his mind.
All she says in response is, "I'm tired."
He doesn't say anything else then, just takes her hand and leads her to the car, drives her to Killian's home. As soon as they walk in, Regina is hugged by Emma, and Emma whispers something that sounds very much like 'it's over' but Robin is not sure, he just looks at Killian with an arched eyebrow and his friend shrugs in response.
She asks Robin to let her see Roland and Robin nods his head immediately, takes her hand and leads her upstairs to the room where Roland was sleeping. They find him still asleep, the sedatives must be still working (without them Roland couldn't stop crying) and Regina sits down on the edge of the bed, takes his little hand in hers.
She stays there for hours, and Robin does the same, and her stomach growls every ten minutes but every time she assures him that no, she's not hungry, she just wants to be with Roland. Robin is worried but he can do nothing to make her change her mind.
When Roland finally wakes up and sees Regina, he throws himself into her arms and cries, and Regina keeps whispering comforting words into his ear, her hands stroking his back, as a few tears run down her cheeks for the first time that day.
Later that night Robin finally asks her to please, tell him what had really happened and what was that man, he asks if she knows that Leopold Blanchard or if it's been a random robbery or something, he asks if she's been hurt but all she tells him in response is that it doesn't matter anymore, the moron is dead and they're safe now.
And Robin doesn't get any answers.
Not until the day Regina is sent to jail.