I hope I was accurate toward the end with this. Part of me has read so much fanfiction that I don't know if I dreamed up that Regina stores hearts in the crypt or not anymore. Fact and fiction are beginning to blend! In any case, this is chapter 2, and if I need to make it semi-AU, I will. Please read and review. Thank you!

Chapter 2

Regina sighed as Tink entered her home without knocking. Apparently they had become best buds all of a sudden. "Do you ever knock?" Regina asked, looking up from her desk at the former fairy.

"Come on!" Tink pushed. "We need to get you out of here. You are wallowing!"

"I am not wallowing!" Regina protested. "I am just," she sighed and took off her glasses. "Avoiding a great deal of people at the moment." She smoothed her skirt and looked down at her slight baby bump.

"Are you showing yet?" Tink asked, curiosity in her voice.

"Not much." Regina replied casually, standing up to reveal the little baby bump that was hidden beneath a large navy blue blouse.

"Just a bit," Tink stated, smiling widely. "I am so happy for you. You really do need to show that glow off to the world." Tink told her.

"And what do I say to the Charmings if I bump into them?" Regina asked. "Or heaven forbid Robin and Marian…" She swallowed hard and tried not to think on the issue.

"You nod and walk off." Tink replied honestly. "They all always try to make small talk, and small talk is easy to get out of."

Regina smiled and gave a chuckle. "You always do put a smile on my face Tink." She walked out from behind her desk. "I guess a stroll could do me some good." She reached for her jacket, and she and Tink headed out.

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Marian sat with Robin and Roland at the bar at Grannie's. "So you had no memories of the Enchanted Forest until recently?" She asked Robin.

"None." He replied. "At least none from the last year."

"It all gives me such a headache." She stated. "The last thing I remember, I was going to be executed by the Evil Queen," she paused. "Sorry…Regina…and then…Emma brought me here. Roland was just an infant. He is huge now." She smiled at him. "Time travel is just," she looked thoughtful. "It's a lot to take in that I missed so much of his life and would never have been in it in the first place had things gone…well…as they were supposed to."

"Hey," Robin looked at her seriously. "You were brought back for a purpose. You'll see. We all missed you."

"But you had moved on." Marian stated. "With the woman that was going to kill me." She added. "Clearly you had healed, and clearly you are no longer the man I married."

"What are you saying?" Robin asked her.

"I am saying, I want some space to think. We have been at this for over two months now, and I still don't feel like I am the wife you are supposed to have."

"This is because of Regina. Please, just get it out of your head that-" Robin interrupted, but Marian quickly cut him off.

"This would have been how I would have felt either way. Me dying in the world you were from caused you to heal and to move forward from me. You grew in different ways. You became a different man in many ways than the one I was with. I need to see that and either accept it, or move on too. I need a little space to do that."

"When will I know what you have decided?" Robin asked, a concerned look on his face.

"I will find you." Marian replied. She slowly stood up from the bar, kissed Roland's head, stroked Robin's cheek, and walked off.

"She's a wise one." Grannie said, wiping the counter quickly and walking back into the kitchen.

From across the street, Regina spotted Marian walking toward the forest. She wasn't going to stop her, but the wheels in Regina's head began to turn rapidly.

"If you were Marian, what would you look for in a man?" Regina asked out-loud, both to Tink and herself.

"Someone like the Robin I had met, and not this, somewhat tamed yet charming man you were with." Tink replied.

Regina gave a half grin and a quick nod, not moving from her position. "Yes," she agreed with Tink. "Yes I would." Her lips formed into a full smile.

"That look makes me nervous." Tink raised her eyebrows at Regina.

"To the cemetery." Regina said, pulling Tink along.

"What? Why?" Tink followed hesitantly.

"Because I know how I am going to get Robin back." She stated seriously. "And in order to do so, I need something I have there."

"Is this going to be messy?" Tink asked.

"Nothing you can't handle." Regina replied, as they neared the gates to the resting place for quite a few familiar people. "Wait here." Regina went into her family crypt, were she kept all the hearts, and she looked them over one by one. Her hand trailed along this particular one for a second, then a second longer; she had grown partial to this heart. Finally, she removed it.

Holding it up, she said the spell which commanded its human form to be returned to it. It slept, and while it slept, Regina made sure it never knew exactly how it died in the first place.

"Come on…" She guided the person out of the crypt.

"Brilliant!" Tink exclaimed.

Regina shushed her and locked things up. "I don't know how long I have before the spell wears off…" She whispered.

Tink only nodded and asked what they were going to do about the newly risen from the dead person. "Leave it near the forest." Regina replied. "The right person will find it." She smiled and left, Tink trailing behind her. Yes, Regina had, more than likely, just solved her problem. Or had she?

"Marian, I am sorry I am not the man you married any longer, but I can try harder…" Robin sighed, as he paced in the forest, and Regina stopped Tink from moving so they could spy on him a bit. "Who am I kidding?!" Robin sat down on a stump. "I am not the man she married….Not in least." It took everything in Regina to not run to him right then, even just to hug him. "Do I even want her anymore?" He asked himself, rubbing his forehead. He got up and walked back toward his camp.

Regina headed home and thanked Tink for getting her out. Soon…Soon Marian would have a new interest.

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