A/N: I know I'm late to the Prompt Party but I still wanted to contribute so I'm starting my week now

This is the first thing I've written completely on my own without the help on Amber so I'm hoping it's not too awful :/

I apologise if there are any spelling or grammar errors, I'm trying to get it posted asap so I'm typing quickly and don't have time to look through it!

Anything written in italics will be a flashback

Prompt number 6: Regina finds out her fiancé has been cheating on her with her sister in her wedding day – she runs away to another city or country and meets Robin

How could they do this to her?! This time yesterday she felt like the happiest person in the world and now, well, she didn't know quite what she was supposed to do! All she knew was that she had to get away. Away from them, away from everything!

She finished up packing the rest of her things that she needed, she was only planning on taking a couple of suitcases, she didn't even need half the stuff she owned anyway. Besides, she didn't want to have any reminders of him!

She picked up a picture that was sat on her table in the hallway. A picture of her and her sister, Zelena at Regina's graduation. She scowled at the frame and felt another strong burst of anger tear through her, she threw the picture as hard as she could at the wall opposite her and took several big, deep breaths, trying to calm herself down as she watched the shattered glass fall to the floor.

After she managed to regain control of her breathing, she took her coat from the hook by the door and fastened her scarf around her neck before picking up her bags to leave. She took one last glance around the house, feeling a mixture of sadness and anger. She was sad that she was leaving behind all that she'd built up with Daniel in the past few years, the time and effort she had put into their home. On the other hand, she couldn't help but feel angry. Angry at what she could've had here if Daniel hadn't betrayed her like he had. She always imagined they'd have children one day, miniature versions of herself or Daniel (or maybe even both) running around playing, getting ready for school, but she wouldn't have that now, she never would.

She left the house and locked the door, pushing her keys back through the letterbox, along with a note she'd left for her family, telling them she was leaving and not to worry about her and that her best friend, Emma could have her car.

She made her way to the bottom of the driveway to the taxi that was waiting to take her to the airport. She had no idea where she was going to go, all she knew that it was better than the heartbreak she was leaving behind.

Thirty minutes and an uneventful taxi ride later, Regina found herself stood outside the entrance to the airport. She didn't have a destination in mind, just whatever plane that had a free seat that was next available, she'd wait as long as she had to!

She fought her way through the crowd to join the line of people stood queuing for the ticket desk. When she reached the front of the line, she approached the woman who's station was free. The woman looked as though she'd rather be anywhere but here right now. She wore heavy eye makeup and had half white, half black hair and wore a name tag which read, Ella Deville, Regina thought the name definitely suited her looks. Ella looked up at Regina with a bored expression on her face and asked in a drawl; "Welcome to Storybrooke Airport, how can I help today?"

Regina cleared her throat and presented her passport, "I'd like a ticket for the next available flight out of here. I don't care where it's going, anywhere will do."

Ella's heavily blackened eyebrows shot up un surprise, well this was new! Regina wondered for a brief second how those eyebrows even moved with the amount of makeup that was on and around them!

After a couple of minutes of Ella still sat staring at her in stunned silence, Regina cleared her throat again, "are you going to help me or not? I'd like a ticket for the next available flight," she repeated.

"Yes darling, I heard you the first time," Ella snapped, with a roll of her eyes. It was never a good idea to snap at Regina Mills!

She leaned forward and slapped her hands down on the desk, making Ella jump slightly in her seat, "look! I don't appreciate your tone! I simply asked you to find me the next available flight, not to sit and gawp then snap at me! Clearly you aren't cut out for this job, do as I ask or find someone else to do it who won't waste my time!"

Ella's eyes darkened and she sat up in her seat, ready to respond to Regina's criticisms when another voice appeared, seemingly out of nowhere.

"Is everything alright here? Can I help at all?" the voice belonged to a woman who wore a flowery dress and a buttoned up, pink cardigan and had her dark hair styled in a short pixie cut.

"My name is Mary Margaret, I'm the manager here," she said in a soft, kind, slightly sickly sweet voice.

"Actually yes, you can help me," Regina responded. "Seemingly some of your staff are too incompetent to do their job properly," she threw a glare at Ella, who scowled straight back at her.

"Three times I've asked for a ticket for the next available flight out of here but apparently that seems to be too much trouble!" she scoffed.

"Oh! I do apologise Miss! Why don't you come over to my desk over here and I'm sure I can sort something out for you," Mary Margaret replied, with an understanding smile.

Regina huffed and threw a last glare towards Ella as she followed Mary Margaret over to her desk.

"So," Mary Margaret smiled, "the next available flight that we have a seat available on is to London, England. Would that be alright?"

Regina thought for a moment, London? She'd been there once before when she was eighteen years old and had one of the best times of her life, although that might have been because she had met a certain someone, but it wasn't to last, not that she'd wanted it to end. She'd had to come back home to Storybrooke to pursue her career at her mother's law firm.

But going back there could be quite the adventure and she did say she'd go wherever the next available flight took her. She looked back at Mary Margaret with a small smile and nodded her head firmly.

"Excellent!" Mary Margaret replied, taking Regina's passport from her, then handing it back a few minutes later, along with her ticket.

"Your flight leaves in thirty minutes Miss Mills, from gate twelve."

Regina thanked her and went to join her fellow passengers at the waiting area by gate twelve.

About an hour later, Regina was leaning back in her seat as she watched the clouds pass by through the window of the plane. She was happy that a window seat was available, she loved to look out at the clouds, she found it relaxing.

She wondered if anyone had received her letter yet. She knew if they had then they would be trying to contact her which was exactly why she had left her phone at home. She didn't need it anyway. She could always buy herself a new one when she got to London. She knew her parents and Emma's numbers by heart, she could contact them as soon as she was settled.

She also knew Daniel's and her sister's numbers by heart, but she had no desire to speak to either one of them ever again!

She let her thoughts wander to the events of yesterday, her wedding day. She and Daniel would've been married now if she hadn't found out that he'd betrayed her.

(FLASHBACK)

She was so excited! Everything was perfect! The dress, the venue, her family, the groom! She couldn't have been happier.

She'd spent the previous night in her rented out motel room with her mother and her bridesmaids, with the exception of her sister, who also happened to be her maid of honour. She had said earlier on in the day that she hadn't been feeling well and had stayed at home in the hope that she would be feeling better in time for her little sister's big day.

The dressmaker was busy adding the finishing touches to her dress as her mother watched, tears adorning her eyes.

Regina looked up when she heard her mother sniffle and smiled softly at her, "Mother don't cry! You'll ruin your makeup!" she joked.

Cora let out a watery chuckle as she dabbed at the corner of her eyes with a tissue. She walked over to her daughter and placed a hand lightly over her cheek.

"You look beautiful sweetheart," she said, with a proud smile.

Regina smiled back as her father appeared in the doorway, "my little Princess, all grown up!" he beamed.

"Stop it both of you!" Regina replied, placing a finger under each eye to try and keep her tears at bay, "you're making me cry now!"

They all let out a small laugh and Henry then held out his arm for Regina to take, "come on then Princess, your carriage awaits."

"Daddy! You can't call me a Princess anymore, I'm getting married, that at least makes me a Queen," she said, holding back a chuckle.

"I do apologise, your majesty," replied Henry, bowing to her, causing Regina and Cora to laugh once more.

"Come on sweetheart," said Cora, walking towards her husband and daughter, "you don't want to be late for your own wedding!"

Regina smiled up at both her parents, this was going to be the best day of her life!

Emma had been at the hotel for the last half an hour, as one of Regina's bridesmaids, of course she had to be there before her, she'd spent the entire time looking for Daniel. Where the hell was he?! Regina would be here any minute and her groom was nowhere to be seen!

She knew Daniel had arrived there at least. His best man, August, had arrived with him, but for the life of her, Emma couldn't find him anywhere.

She leant against the door to her hotel room that she would be spending the night and placed a hand on her forehead, sighing in frustration, she'd have to let Regina know that Daniel was missing, she didn't want to of course, but someone needed to tell her.

She reached into her bag and pulled out her phone, she was just about to press the call button by Regina's name when she heard a noise coming from the room opposite where she was standing, followed by a very familiar voice.

"Mmmmm, Daniel!" the voice moaned. Emma stood, frozen to the spot in shock. No! Surely not?! Neither of them would stoop that low, would they?!

Another moan filled Emma's ears. That was enough! She had to stop this, now!

She marched over to the door and banged her fist against it several times. She heard a yelp and a rustling of clothes before the door opened, revealing Daniel in a wrongly buttoned up shirt and unfastened trousers.

Emma scowled up at him and barged her way past him, into the room. There was another yelp and she saw Zelena, hurrying to cover herself with the duvet.

"Are you fucking serious?!" she screamed at them. "You're supposed to be getting married today! Regina's gonna be here any minute and you're in here fucking her sister?!"

She rounded on Zelena, "and you!" she yelled, "how the hell could you do this to her?! She's your sister! You know how much she loves Daniel, she's told you enough times!"

She took a few seconds to try and regain some control, "so I'm guessing you weren't ill last night then?" Emma snarled at Zelena. "How long has this been happening? And don't give me that bullshit about this being a one off or a mistake, the truth!"

Zelena quickly glanced at Daniel the averted her eyes back to the bed covers, "about three months," she admitted in a whisper.

Emma scoffed and shook her head, "you tell Regina about this right now, or I will!" she stormed out of the room, leaving behind a surprised looking Daniel and an embarrassed looking Zelena.

Regina felt as though she was walking on air, she was finally about to marry the man she loved, surrounded by all the people she loved, in the most beautiful hotel, she couldn't be happier.

Her smile disappeared somewhat as she saw Emma and Tink come marching towards her, a mixture of anger and pity on both their faces.

"What's going on?" Regina asked, concerned.

"Emma's just found out something you really need to know," Tink answered, with a glance at Emma.

"Emma, what's wrong? What happened?" Cora asked, coming up behind her daughter, placing her hands on her shoulders.

Just as Emma went to open her mouth to answer, Zelena came rushing out of the hotel towards them.

"Emma wait!" she yelled in their direction, "it should be me who tells her!"

Emma and Tink scowled at her as she approached them, Regina noticed the strange interaction between her two friends and her sister, that was odd, they always got on really well before now.

"Can someone please tell me what the god damn hell is going on?! Ze, what did you need to tell me? Is it so important that it can't wait til after the wedding?"

Zelena nodded, tears forming in her eyes, "I'm so sorry Regina!" she cried, holding her head in her hands. She took a deep breath and raised her head to look at her sister, "me and Daniel have been having an affair," she sniffed and continued to cry, trying not to look at her sister and her parents and their reactions to what she had just admitted.

Cora gasped and Henry glared at his eldest daughter disapprovingly, both at a loss for words.

Regina felt as though someone had just torn her heart out and punched her in the gut. She strode over to her sister and pulled on the back of her hair to bring her head back up, then slapped her against her cheek.

"How could you?!" she screamed, tears forming in the corners of her eyes. "So all the times I told you I loved him, you were screwing him behind my back?! How long?!"

Zelena held a hand against her cheek where her sister had just slapped her, and admitted in a quiet voice, "about three months."

Regina scoffed and shoved her sister up against the car, her hands around her neck, "give me one good reason why I shouldn't flatten you right now!"

Zelena tried to move her sister's hands away from her neck, as she choked out, "I'm pregnant."

Regina moved her hands away from her as though she'd just been burnt. She opened her mouth to respond to Zelena's second revelation, but the shock of what she had just said prevented her from doing so.

She turned and ran into the hotel, leaving her stunned family and friends and her still sobbing sister behind her.

Henry stepped forward, "girls, maybe you should go after her," he addressed Emma and Tink, "I think me and Cora need to have a word with Zelena." Emma and Tink nodded and hurried back up to the hotel to find Regina.

Regina turned out not to be too difficult to find, a scream of "you bastard!" and the sound of people gasping and muttering alerted them to her whereabouts.

They entered the room in time to see Regina administer a very hard slap across Daniel's face, followed by more gasps from family and friends who'd been invited to the wedding.

"How could you do this to me?! And with her?! I trusted you! I loved you!" she was openly sobbing now, not caring who saw her in this state at this precise moment.

"Regina, I..." Daniel started.

"Save it!" Regina exclaimed, "I don't want to hear your pathetic excuses! Nothing you say will excuse the fact that you've been sleeping with my sister for three months or that you got her pregnant!"

More gasps filled the room and the guests began muttering to each other about what they had just heard.

Regina scowled at Daniel, tears still rolling off her cheeks, and removed her engagement ring from her finger before throwing it at his face. "I hate you!"

She turned and stormed out of the room, turning back once to throw one last glare at Daniel. She threw her bouquet to the ground and walked away, hearing the sound of her guests, once again, muttering amongst themselves over what they had just witnessed and the shattering of her heart.

(END OF FLASHBACK)

Regina was brought out of her thoughts by the flight attendant, asking her if she'd like something to drink. She discreetly wiped the tears from her eyes and politely declined.

She leaned back in her seat and sighed, maybe she should try and get some sleep? Evidently not being able to sleep because of crying all night wasn't good for her.

She awoke a couple of hours later at the sound of the pilot, informing them that they were about to land in London. She sat up and ran a hand through her hair before fastening her seatbelt, like the sign had told her to.

An hour or so later, after she had collected her luggage, she found herself wandering around, trying to find herself a decent hotel to spend the night in.

She turned a corner and spotted a moderately sized hotel she liked the look of on the opposite side of the road. She strode across the road and into the hotel, before making her way to the reception desk.

"Hello," she said, busy rummaging around in her bag for her purse and not looking up at the man who was working behind the reception desk. "I'd like a room, a single one will be fine, I don't care which floor but I'd like to stay here at least a month with the option of extending that, if you please."

She finally looked up and took notice of the man for the first time and her eyes widened in shock, she'd recognise that face and those dimples anywhere!

"Robin?" she breathed. What a coincidence, the very person she thought when she decided to take the flight to London was now here, right in front of her, was it fate?

"Regina," Robin smiled back, showing off his gorgeous dimples completely.

"What brings you back to England?" he asked, still flashing his dimples at her.

Regina flinched slightly, not wanting to think about what had happened over the last couple of days anymore, "personal issues, ones which I don't wish to discuss right now, so, about that room?"

Robin's smile dropped and a look of concern took it's place. He wanted to ask her what was wrong, but if she was the same Regina he knew before, he knew she didn't like people to pry.

"Right," he said, clearing his throat, "room twenty three is available and you'll have to make the first payment today, if that's alright?"

Regina sent a grateful smile in his direction, and nodded. She could tell he wanted to ask what happened, but she was grateful he didn't. Seemingly he still knew her just as well as she still knew him.

A little while later, after a couple more hours of sleep, she decided she needed something to help her de-stress. The hotel bar sounded like the perfect place to do just that.

Robin had just finished his shift and decided on having a drink before heading home to his quiet, empty house. As he wandered to the hotel's bar, he noticed her sat on a stool, nursing a cocktail.

He smiled and went to sit next to her, "mind if I join you, Milady?" he asked.

Regina looked up from her drink and flashed him a small smile and nodded.

"Jet lag?" he asked.

Regina chuckled and shook her head, "jet lag is the least of my problems," she replied with a sigh.

Robin furrowed his eyebrows and reached out to place his hand on top of hers. She looked up at him, a look of confusion on her face.

"It must have been bad for you to have left your home and come over here by yourself, but, I can tell you don't want to talk about that. How about shots?" he asked playfully.

"Don't you have a wife or a girlfriend to get home to?" she replied.

He sighed and shook his head, "no, not anymore. She became my ex-wife when she started cheating on me with someone I thought was a friend."

Regina looked at him with a mix of surprise and sadness on her face. It seemed as though their stories were pretty similar, but at least she'd found out before she'd married Daniel and not had to go through a divorce like Robin had.

They spent the next couple of hours knocking back shots, Regina actually found herself having a good time. She didn't think that it would have been possible after the events of the last couple of days, but Robin seemed to make it easy.

They ended the night on a friendly hug and a promise to meet up again sometime soon.

It wasn't until a few weeks later that Regina had felt brave enough to confide in Robin about what had brought her to England.

"So let me get this straight," he said, waving around the shot he'd been about to drink when Regina had started her story and had since forgotten about, "the bastard had been cheating on you for three months with your sister and ended up knocking her up?!"

Regina nodded sadly, "I thought he loved me, clearly not!" she said with a scoff.

"Fucking prick!" he shouted, finally knocking back his shot in anger.

Regina couldn't help but smile, it was nice that Robin still cared about her, she hadn't realised until now, but she'd missed him. He'd also made these last few weeks so much easier for her, just by being there for her, even though he hadn't known what had happened, until now.

Regina placed her hand over his and he quickly glanced down at their joined hands before looking up to her face.

He leaned forward, slowly. He'd not known how much he had missed being with her, until he saw her again a few weeks ago, when she had first walked over to him at the reception desk.

He closed his eyes and moved to kiss her, a few seconds later, he felt his lips come into contact with her cheek.

Regina looked away from him as he opened his eyes again, and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, "I'm sorry Robin, I just don't think I'm ready for another relationship so soon after Daniel," she said, sadly.

Robin smiled at her and cupped her cheek with his hand, "that's alright,"

They spent the next few weeks doing the same thing again, meeting up for a drink at the hotel bar after Robin had finished his shift and talking through the majority of the night.

A couple of months after Regina's extended stay at the hotel, Robin decided that tonight was the night. He was going to ask Regina out on a date. God, he hoped she said yes! He'd look like such an idiot if she didn't!

He found her at their usual spot at the bar, holding out a shot glass when she saw him approach her. He smiled and thanked her, before sitting down on the stool next to her.

Regina looked at him in confusion, "what's wrong?" she asked. "Usually that shot's vanished before you've even sat down!" she giggled.

Robin let out a small laugh before looking at the shot in his hand and took a deep breath.

"Actually, there was something I wanted to ask you. I mean, you don't have to say yes or anything, although I really hope you do, and I know it might be too soon after Daniel for you even to consider this, but Regina, would you... you know what, never mind, ignore my babbling, you probably don't even want..."

He was cut off from his rambling by Regina, who had cupped his face with her hand and placed a kiss on his lips.

The kiss was slow and soft and... perfect!

She pulled away and stroked his cheek with her thumb, "yes," she answered. "I'd love to go on a date with you."

The smiles that appeared on both their faces could've lit up the entire hotel. This was where they were both meant to be, here. Together.