Chapter 1

It felt like falling into a deep abyss. Seeing the man who she felt so deeply for hugging and kissing an other woman, no not only an other woman but his wife, felt as if her dark heart would break into millions of pieces.

Emma! Yet again someone from this family accidentally destroyed everything she ever wanted in just seconds. Regina couldn't be in that room anymore. She felt the waves of darkness of anger on deep desperation swept over her. Her feet started to move without her ever actively telling them to do so. She ran out of Granny's dinner out on the street towards her house. Regina heard her name being yelled but she couldn't even tell by whom.

Regina knew, if she wouldn't get out of that situation she might hurt someone since she was hurting so much herself. When she finally reached her home and closed the door behind her, she put a protection spell over it so no one could enter. She just couldn't bare talking to anyone. Not even Henry. She had to be left alone and wonder why her life always feels like a constant ending.

Back in the diner after the first few seconds of being overwhelmed by his wife's return Robin suddenly finds all eyes on him. But there's one specific pair of eyes missing. Regina! She's gone. That whole situation was too much for her, as it was for him. He looks at his little boy and his wife, who he spent so much time on dealing with her death, that even though she's back he only feels half relieved.

He sees Henry leaving assuming he'd go after his mother when Emma stops him.

"Henry I don't think it's a good idea. She's very upset, we don't know what she might do."

Robin almost got a bit angry at Emma for saying that. Hasn't she seen how Regina has changed? Without thinking about what he's doing he leaves Granny's and runs to Regina's house. He doesn't knock doesn't ring but goes right for the door. But it's locked. He takes his spare key and tries to unlock it but it won't open. The. He realizes she put a spell on it.

"REGINA" he shouts "PLEASE LET ME TALK TO YOU!"

Regina is leaned against the door, just inches away from her soulmate.

"I can't" she whispers before she breaks into tears. She hears Robin leave after a while. It all seems so unreal. Only moments ago she felt such happiness now it's all gone. She slowly dragged herself upstairs but couldn't go to her room. There were too many memories of the last few weeks. She went straight for her sons room and lay down on his bed cuddling his pillow.

It wasn't just Robin she was loosing. It was Roland too. In the year in the Enchanted Forest when she gave Roland that little plush monkey after saving the boy he walked up to her from time to time to play. That was one more reason she tried to get rid of Robin back then. She feared she'd get too close to him as well. After loosing Daniel, Henry and her Mother she didn't feel like she could survive someone to be taken again. This is what was happening right now. This thought left her almost unable to breath.

Robin was unable to sleep. His thoughts were all over the place. What was he supposed to do. The whole situation was unbearable. He wished he could talk to Regina but he also understood how right now that wasn't possible. Hell even he didn't know how he felt about everything. Marian was sleeping at Granny's bed and breakfast. He didn't tell her anything concrete. Just that she first of all has to understand that he thought for 5 years that she was dead and now had to think about everything. After some discussion she agreed to stay in the Hotel, while he and Roland went to sleep in their tents in the forest. He sat on the exact tree where he and Regina talked about Coras letter. Marian was back but he missed Regina already. They've spent the last two weeks together almost never separated from each other and now it's been less than 10 hours and he misses her. That's what it probably means to have met their soulmate, was his conclusion. Marian was suppose to die 2 times already and she always got a second chance. Was that just a coincidence? Maybe it was time for him to get the second chance? Now he was the one feeling very selfish. He buried his head in his hands and stayed like that for a while. Slowly he started to feel cold and within seconds he was freezing. He ran back to his tent to get Roland. He took all the blankets they had and throw them over his boy. "Daddy, why is it so cold?"

"I don't know my boy but we have to find out!"

When he arrived downtown many people were out on the streets wearing warm clothes wondering what was happening.

Grumpy the charming dwarf he always is went right up to him.

"Hey I bet this is happening cuz you froze the queens heart now she's freezing us!"

"I can assure you this is not Regina!"

"Yes Grumpy let's not jump to any conclusions will you!" Said Snow White who now was standing besides him. "I'll go find her, wait here!" She continued.

"I'm coming!"

"No Robin, I'm not sure she'll open the door if you are with me right now! He had to agree even if he didn't like it.

Snow White knocked on Regina's door. Nothing as she expected.

"Regina it's me! Please open the door! I know you're not up for it right now but there's an other crisis in town and we need your Help! Please." Snow was almost surprised when the door opened almost instantly. Regina was still dressed in yesterdays clothes and you could see that she didn't sleep a lot last night. There was so much hurt in her eyes, which were red from crying all night probably.

"How the hell is there already an other crisis in town?"

- tbc -