In Camelot, roughly one week after they arrive there.
"Looking for a belly?"
Robin had just returned to their bedchamber from breakfast in the great hall. Regina had been a bit under the weather, and had chosen to stay in bed a bit longer to avoid any questions that were certain to arise if she turned up green and picking her food. It seemed like nobody had questioned the "Saviour's" morning headache Robin had told about, and he was quite confident that nobody but perhaps Snow would be pestering Regina about her health. Right now, however, he stood by the closed door and watched his girlfriend stay naked in front of the full-length mirror, looking at herself from every angle with her brows knitted. No matter how hard he tried, he could still not see a hint of baby belly.
"No," she kept tracing the area below her bellybutton while looking intently in the mirror. "The line has appeared again."
"What line?"
"The pregnancy line I get from my pelvis to my bellybutton"
"You sound sombre; is it not to your liking?"
"Oh yes, I quite like it, actually. It assures me I'm not just imagining…"
"Then what?" He went on to kiss the junction between her shoulder and neck, and she inadvertently giggled and raised her shoulder to her cheek.
"I feel in limbo. Right now, I want to announce it to the world, stand on a hilltop and shout it for everybody to hear. And I know I can't, for an amount of reasons. It's not safe here. We're in a precarious situation." She sighed. "And no matter how optimistic I claim to be, I can't shake the fear that it will end, like the rest. I don't know if I can take it! I don't know how I did before either."
"Love, please try to relax. It's not good for anything to worry about the future. At least this specific future. Does anything indicate that it's not going right?"
"No, but I hardly got any warning before either. Like, one day it was, the next day, mayhem, then nothing."
His heart bled for her, but he couldn't do anything but hug her tightly from behind and kiss her temple.
"I'm so sorry. I'm so, so sorry" he mumbled into her hair.
"I know."