Regina and Robin were sitting in the hospital waiting room; Emma was going to bring Roland and Henry to the hospital soon to meet their little sister. Robin and Regina were figuring out a way to tell Roland about the situation. They didn't have to worry about Henry because Regina had already told him the actual story and he had understood.
Regina looked up after feeling a small nudge on her arm, it was Robin. "Are you alright Regina?" he asked. His soul mate hadn't been looking too good all day.
"I'm fine," lied Regina "Why wouldn't I be fine?" Robin laughed. There were so many reasons why the former evil queen wouldn't be fine.
Robin replied, "Well it's not every day your half-sister gives birth to your soul mate's baby!" He was trying to reduce the tension in the room, but it just wasn't working. He regretted what he just said as he saw Regina frown.
"Do you think this is funny?!" Regina really didn't want to be angry in front of Robin, but she just couldn't hide her anger anymore. "All those feelings I felt when you went back to the fake Marian, when you spent all those weeks in New York away from me as you moved on with the fake Marian, when I finally had a chance get you away from the mess but you got the fake Marian pregnant. I've been through so much pain and you're laughing about it. It's okay for you; you keep going back to the fake Marian and coming back to me when things don't go your way!"
Robin was shocked, he knew Regina used to be the evil queen, but she had never been so angry towards him before.
"Regina calm down!" Robin begged. "I know you're not feeling alright but you don't have to take it out on me."
"Just give me some space," Regina tried to calm herself down, she had never felt anger like this toward her soulmate before. She didn't know what was wrong with her. "I need to go."
Regina got up and walked as fast as she could to the door before she got stopped.
"Where do you think you're going, Madame Mayor?" Emma asked her friend. She had brought Henry and Roland along. For a moment Regina thought about staying, helping Robin to explain the mess of a situation to Roland. She wanted to. But she couldn't. Something within her was stopping her.
"Where I am going is nothing of your concern Miss Swan!" and with that Regina barged past them and walked straight out of the door. Damn, Miss Swan, she hasn't called me that for ages. Emma thought to herself.
"I need to get her." Robin said.
Henry interrupted. "No I have to get her. I know why she's so moody these days." Henry didn't wait for permission from any adult and walked away.
When Henry got outside the hospital doors he looked around. He spotted her mother sitting on a bench with her head in her hands. "Mom!" Henry called to Regina. Regina looked up and Henry immediately realised that she'd been crying.
He sat next to her and wrapped his arm around her shoulder. "Everything is going to be fine mom. You wait and see."
Regina gave him the stop talking nonsense look. "Nothing's going to be fine. The baby has only just been born and already I have lashed out at Robin. I've never felt anger towards him before."
Mood swings Henry thought to himself. "I know why your angry mom, it's just something from within."
"What?"
"Nothing," Henry smiled to himself. "You'll find out eventually, well I hope anyway."
A few weeks ago…
Henry couldn't feel anything but guilt when he accidently overheard Regina's conversation with Robin. He never knew his mother couldn't have children. All memories of those times he ran away from her to be with Emma came rushing back. He felt so bad. He also felt even sorrier for Regina when he realised that her sister was having a baby with Robin that she'll never get to have.
Lake Nostros! Henry remembered reading from his book about Snow White. She had once accidently been given an infertility potion but the water from Lake Nostros had cured her. She now had 2 children.
Shame there's no Lake Nostros here, Henry thought. But he remembered something. Mr Gold's shop! He had many things from the enchanted forest, so why wouldn't he have just a bit of water from Lake Nostros.
Later on in the day Henry made his way into the shop. Mr Gold wasn't there, but even if he was Henry wouldn't be afraid. Mr Gold was no longer the man he was after the darkness had been taken from him. He was more like a grandpa to Henry now.
Henry spent quite a while looking for the water from Lake Nostros. He was having bad feeling about it not even there. He jumped after he had heard a voice from behind him.
"What you looking for, my boy?" Mr Gold asked. He was curious to why Henry didn't go and find him to ask for whatever he wanted.
Henry didn't want to tell his grandpa about what he was trying to find, but he had no choice as he couldn't find it. "Water from Lake Nostros," he told him.
"Why ever would you need that?"
Henry decided to tell Mr Gold the truth. "My mom, Regina, she took this infertility potion all these years ago and I figured the water from Lake Nostros will undo it."
"And has she asked for it?"
Henry heisted, "Well yes. She does want the potion to be undone."
Mr Gold turned around and opened one of his cupboards; he took out exactly what his grandson had been looking for. He handed a small bottle of water from Lake Nostros to Henry. "It's the last of it here in my shop, be careful."
"The price?" Henry asked.
"You know I don't do deals anymore," Mr Gold laughed "And besides your mother deserves this, especially all the damage I cause in her life while I was the dark one"
"Thanks grandpa."
Henry made his way to the town hall; he knew Regina would be having lunch right now. He walked towards her office a knocked on the door.
"Come in!" he heard her say.
Her face lit up when she saw her son walk through the door.
"My day off school and I visit you, aren't you a lucky mom?" Henry joked.
"Indeed I am!" laughed Regina.
"Hot day isn't it mom?"
"Yes, I suppose it is."
Henry grabbed a empty glass on her desk and poured all the water from Lake Nostros into it. He pushed the glass of water towards Regina. "A bit of water will do you good."
Regina drank the whole glass of water and Henry cheered from inside at the fact that his plan had worked.
"Now I'm starving" said Regina.
"Grannies?"
"Yes, grannies."
Thank you everyone for the kind reviews for my previous chapter, and I hope you enjoyed this one.
