AN: Thank you all so much for leaving comments and loving the story. It really means a lot to me and motivates me to write more.
I hope you're going to like this new chapter.
Trying my best here.
As I've stated on twitter before I've stopped watching the show after 5x21. So everything I put in here that is frankly related to it or the likes is pure luck or from what I might've recently read on twitter. I did watch one or two sneaks for episodes so far but that's about it.
I don't mind if you keep watching the show. Please do so. I for myself just decided after 5x21 I won't anymore. We'll see how it goes once Sean is back.

Just wanted to point that out so in case you see anything that might not make sense with how the show is currently going along. I know mostly nothing of their plot atm. Sorry about that.

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It took them about ten more minutes until the two of them finally got up.

"So the Enchanted Forest first?", Robin asked.

"Yes, but maybe we should change into some more fitting clothes", the queen answered still dressed in Regina's blue silk pyjamas from the night before. She had pretended to be her after bringing Robin back therefore had not been wearing her regal dresses in his presence.

"Well you could always wear one of these fabulous dresses you wore back in our land", Robin said smugly.

"Ah you'd like that, wouldn't you?", she said, "but as much as I love my clothes we should probably dress a little more like peasants."

"Why do I get the feeling you've done that before?", Robin asked.

"Maybe I have?", the queen said asking.

A few seconds later she was standing in front of Robin wearing some light brown clothing.
It contained a cloak with a hood. Obviously some kind of long dress or skirt and to his surprise a sword. Her hair was messy, similar to that style she had had it in Isaac's alternate world but not braided this time and to him it looked indeed like she had done this before.

His own clothes had changed into something similar to what he was used to wearing in the Enchanted Forest. A little bit more messy but not too far off.

"You look dirtier", she said earning her a laugh from Robin.

"Oh have we met before?", Robin asked jokingly.

"I doubt I'd ever forget meeting you", she said holding his gaze.

Neither said anything after that. And somehow suddenly the air around them felt pretty heavy.

"We should get going", she said facing away from him then.
She had known it would happen. It was too soon though. And there was absolutely no space in her life for someone else than herself to focus on.
Love is weakness, her mother's voice echoing through her mind.

It was what the Dragon had warned her about before sacrificing half of her soul. He had told her it would stay connected to the other part and there was a chance that if it was bound to the body and a few pieces of the remains of someone else's soul that it could attach itself to that person pretty fast and maybe in return change the soul bit as well and because it was still bound to her own soul part it might change her as well.

Her soul had already changed quite a bit recently because it had spent so much time in Regina's body in Storybrooke. It hadn't changed completely but it used to be as dark purple as it could be and as the Dragon had held her soul in his hand to split it it was already one or two shades lighter and had a few pink spots in it.

She hadn't given it much thought then. Her mind focused on more important things. But looking back now she realised that maybe it was Robin who was changing her a little.
And maybe a bit of a change wouldn't be such a bad thing after all.

"There's one more thing I need to do before we go though", she said changing into her royal attire.

"What is it?", Robin asked the queen.

"You wait here. I'll just quickly visit Mr. Hyde."

Robin nodded before she disappeared in a cloud of purple before his eyes.

"Ah your Majesty, I was beginning to wonder when you'd show up", Hyde said as she appeared in his cell.

"Least I can trust my other half on knowing where to put people like you." Hyde was locked up. This was good and she had been right about her assumption.

"Why are you here?", he asked.

"Well well as far as I recall there's something or shall I say someone of yours that you'd like to have back."

His eyes widened, "but why would you? I mean there isn't anything I have that you could possibly want."

"There is. I need to know where he is", the Queen snarled.

"He?"

She rolled her eyes, "Henry of course."

"Last I saw him with this Swan girl in the red jacket."

"Don't be such an imbecile. Not that one. I mean Dr. Jekyll."

Hyde was laughing by now, "ah but why would I tell you that? And why would you need to find him."

"None of your business", said the queen, "as for the why well let's say I could make Lucy's poor miserable life a living hell."

He swallowed before saying, "how can I trust that you even know where she is?"

The queen conjured up a mirror, "well let's just see then", she said before the image of Lucy walking through the forest appeared in front of them. She watched Hyde trying to touch the mirror but as his hand almost reached it she flicked her wrist and the image disappeared, "so desperate, I see. Now where were we?"

"I'll tell you where he is. But let her be."

The queen thought for a moment, "how about this? I'll be generous today. I'll even bring her back to you and you can keep the mirror."

"Why would you do that?"

"Consider it a gift of the house. Oh and whilst we're at it maybe I could remodel this room a bit for you. Believe me with all the upcoming visits in your near future you'll need it.
So where is Henry, Edward?"

It took another ten minutes before she appeared next to Robin in her peasant attire again.

"So are we ready to go now?", Robin asked.

"You don't want to know where I went?", the queen asked.

"As I've told you, her. Well actually both of you so very often, I trust you", Robin said smiling, "and I'm sure whatever you just did had to be done."

"I", she said, "thank you. I figured we need Dr. Jekyll's help to merge me and her back together in the end so I visited Hyde and he told me where to find Dr. Jekyll."

"Told you?", Robin just asked.

"Yeah well I might've threatened his girlfriend, wife, whatever she is to him by now."

"Ah", Robin smiled, "I was expecting to see that side of you sooner to be honest."

The queen rolled her eyes, "let's go then, thief".
Truthfully she had expected that side of her sooner as well.
It was weird but somehow she couldn't be mad at Robin or mean to him. It was as if they had known and liked each other for a really long time. And somehow they had.

Whilst she had been with Hyde Robin had put the tent away they had slept in this night and put all their belongings in a backpack that he had found by his old merry men campsite.

"By the way I promised Hyde we'd bring her back with us", she said as they walked a few more meters to where she wanted to create the portal with the magic bean.

"Huh?", Robin said not really understanding why she would do that.

"Love is weakness", she said, "usually people choose the things they love most over anything. Often times that's other people and not things. So quite frankly it's a weakness. According to Greek mythology even the most beautiful man on earth chose the love of the most beautiful woman above anything else he could desire. They didn't even know each other and too bad for him she was already married to a king and they started a war on that.
But the point is, love is weakness."

"So you're planning on killing her then or?", Robin asked.

She shook her head, "no actually I'm planning on letting them have their life together. But of course we'll have to see if he's willing to coorporate with our plans first. If not I'm sure we could think of something."

"I didn't expect you to be so generous."

The queen sighed, "well not only do I know that love is weakness I also know what being alone for a long time feels like. And simply put, it sucks."

"You're not alone anymore", Robin said then squeezing her hand.

"I don't want to waste anymore time though", she said before throwing the bean on the ground a couple of meters in front of them.

"Then let's go", Robin said before pulling her with him through it.

"I will rip your heart out", the words were playing over and over in her head.
She couldn't believe she had really said them. She didn't just say them. She had felt them. In that moment she was angry. And that scared her.
Didn't she split herself to get rid of that part of her? To get rid of all the hatred and anger?
Why was it even possible for her to feel this strong towards these emotions in her current state?
Also she had already crushed the queen's heart. It didn't change anything so what good would doing it again do?

What she knew was that she was losing everything that connected her to Robin. Roland, his daughter, even a part of herself that Robin so freely had accepted.
She was losing herself. What for?

May it be selfish but she wanted them all back. Apart from Henry she was feeling very much alone. Of course they all said they were there for her. But who really cared? And more importantly who did she care about?
She was really glad she had Henry. He was everything to her. Always had been. But she did miss her own little family.

She wanted to be a better person. To be good. And she had been working on that for some time now. She owed that to everyone else and herself. And Robin who had stood by her side trying to make her see the good in herself so very often when she did not even dare look for it.

Robin. She missed him. Of course life went on without him. It always did after she lost someone she loved. But there were moments when she really deeply missed him. Maybe moments wasn't the right word. Maybe it was constant, more like.

He had sacrificed himself for her. He had loved her more than she would probably ever love herself. There had to be a way to make sure that at least his soul would rest where it belonged to. Maybe Hades did lie after all.
She had to find out.

As she had just heard from Snow, hope was a choice. And this time she chose to believe.

Then again she also believed in the fact that no one would ever turn down her lasagna. She had made a plan with Snow and Charming to get Hyde to talk to them. To help them with getting rid of her darker side.

She was still struggling with herself if she really wanted that. But then again she was one of the good ones now. A hero, as Henry had called her. Even Robin had written her that she had become one.
And heroes do the right thing and sacrifice.

So if that was it. If she had to sacrifice herself to save Henry then she would do it again. Even if it was from herself.

She could've conjured up a lasagna with her magic but her love for cooking and her pride stopped her from doing that. Also Henry said that magic always comes with a price. Therefore she had baked this one by herself. As usual.

Snow and her had talked to nurse Ratched earlier to tell them to not give Hyde anything to eat so they had a better chance at convincing him to talk and tell them what he knew.

It was a few minutes later that her jaw should hit the floor whilst entering Hyde's cell.
She should've known that the Queen would be a step ahead of her.
But then a smile crept onto her face as she looked up at Hyde.

Two could play that game and if by all means the queen wanted to play then who was she to refuse her majesty that wish.
"Well Edward, what's the price then? I'm certain there's a way we might pay more than she does", Regina snarled standing right in front of Hyde now.

"Interesting", he said before turning around and walking back around his table to sit down on his chair. Comparing the queen's behaviour from earlier to Regina's now he chuckled. This would indeed become interesting soon.