Writing this had me thinking, what would I do and I can honestly say I wouldn't know. So while I wrote this it could have gone either way and I am not pretending to know which way is the best one.

Chapter 1

Henry stormed into the diner and went straight for Robin who was nursing his coffee. Robin had been drunk for the past few days after Marian had died a second time. Henry didn't hesitate, grabbed a chair and struck Robin with it.

Robin's merry men immediately grabbed Henry before he could strike again but the young boy had used up all his anger.

'you hurt her, you bastard. Don't ever come near my mum again, you sick son of bitch'

Henry left as fast as he had entered. Emma had seen the entire event and although stunned about his behavior she went after Henry.
'What the hell was that, you could have seriously hurt him'
'Nothing, you should ask that sick son of a bitch'
'Henry' Emma became furious. What was going on. She didn't know how to deal with Henry in this kind of a state.
Henry violently shook himself lose and ran off.

The Merry Men gathered around Robin but Little John waved them off with the smallest hand gesture. The big guy just stood there, while Robin got up.

'Thanks for the assistance, Little John' Robin said sarcastically while getting back up.

'I couldn't agree more with young Henry' Little John growled. 'You did hurt her'

'Who' Robin growled back, while he wiped the blood of his face, his head was still hurting from the binge drinking he had been on for more than a week. He had been devastated when Marian had died in the previous realm and again when death had once again reclaimed her in this realm.

'We couldn't find you when you went off on your drinking binge, so I asked for help. The Queen found you'

Slowly Robin looked up at Little John, his face all of a sudden as white as a sheet. Tears were welling up in his eyes.

'Tell me..I didn't...'

'You not only hit her repeatedly but you stabbed her with your sword, when she brought you back into our camp she refused treatment but I made her go and see a doctor.'

'Oh, God...' Robin was desperate. How could he have sunk so low. He had attacked a woman, not only that he attacked the woman he had shared a bed with, it was also the woman who despite everything that had happened, he still loved whit his whole being.

Robin crumbled to the ground. Everyone in the diner had grown silent. Emma grabbed Robin.

'You did what !'

'I didn't know….I didn't know' Robin had broken down, realizing that he had done the worst thing he could think off. He had actually wounded an innocent woman. A woman who had come looking for him in his most desperate hour of need and how had he repaid her. He had beaten her.

Emma stood up quickly and faced Little John.

'Is she alright'

Little John nodded.

'I escorted her to the hospital to see dr. Whale, I don't know what he did but after a few hours she went home. She never said anything during the entire time I was there. I took her home and she thanked me for taking her'

Emma didn't hear much after that, she left the diner with her father in tow. Emma knocked on Regina's door and after a while Henry opened up.

'What' He snarled.

'Henry' Charming started ready to scold his grandson for speaking up this way but was stopped by Emma. 'Dad, let it go'

'How's Regina' Emma asked.

Henry stepped back, indicating to Emma and Charming that they could step in.

'Upstairs, she took a painkiller. She is asleep and I am not going to wake her up and neither are you'

They followed Henry back into the kitchen, he was preparing dinner. Emma felt a surge of pride, when she saw that, she also knew she couldn't take credit for it, this was all Regina's upbringing.

'She has 31 stiches in her shoulder, she can't even look out of her left eye, it's completely swollen shut, she has a concussion and her ribs are killing her'

Emma and Charming remained silent, they hadn't realized it was that bad.

'You tell her that if she wants to press charges she just needs to come down to the station and fill out some reports'

Henry nodded. 'I'll make sure she knows'

Emma and her father entered the police station and found out that Robin had locked himself in.

'What are you doing'

'I am guilty of molesting a woman, I should be in here'

'She hasn't pressed any charges…yet' Emma said softly. She felt guilty about the whole thing, if she hadn't done what she did none of this would have occurred. She knew Robin would never ever hurt a woman the way that he did Regina but he had been overcome with grief after he had to witness Marian die a second time and the booze certainly hadn't done him any good either.

'She doesn't need to. I am charging myself and I am guilty'

'Oh, Robin….'

'No, you cannot convince me otherwise' Robin took up a seat in his cell and remained quiet after that.

Emma informed Henry about what Robin had done and told him Regina didn't need to come in straight away. Emma thought that Regina didn't need to see Robin right now.

Robin was lying down on his cod in his cell, he couldn't sleep when a soft voice could be heard.

'Hi'

TBC…