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A few moments later Robin landed on the soft forest floor in the Enchanted Forest. It took the Queen a second longer but then she landed half on top of Robin who let out an almost silent, 'oompf'.

"I'm sorry."

"Don't worry", Robin said, "I just didn't expect it."

She was getting up then. Smoothing down the leaves from the lower part of her skirt before holding her hand out to Robin which he gladly accepted before pulling himself off of the ground with her help.

"So do you have an idea where to look first?", Robin asked her then standing next to her.

"I'd love to find Roland as soon as possible. But let's find Lucy first. I mean I don't want to risk Roland meeting someone we don't know who might be a threat and I also don't want him to walk so many hours."

Robin nodded, "that's reasonable. So do we know where she is?"

"She seemed to be living in that village not far off the troll bridge. So I'd say probably half an hour from where we are now"

"Well then let's go", Robin said leading her to the path that was just a few meters away from them.

They didn't say much from then on. Every now and then Regina had to shake some memories out of her mind.
A lot had happened here. In this land. On this path in the forest.
Cora had prevented her from leaving Leopold by using magic here.
She had met Belle when the woman was about to run away from Rumple.
Numerous encounters with Snow had happened along the path.
This time though they were looking for Lucy. And she needed to concentrate on that now and not spent any moments on memories past.

After about twenty minutes they had taken a right turn to get a bit deeper in the forest. The village wasn't far now.

She didn't want to meet a lot of people in case someone might recognise her. She didn't know how people would react to her being back in their land. Well hers technically. But she didn't want to find out either. They had to focus on other tasks. Therefore she was really glad that as soon as they could make out the village they saw an old lady sitting on a stone knitting close to them.

"Excuse me", Robin said approaching the woman with the queen on his heels, "we are looking for Miss Harris, do you happen to know where we can find her?"

The old lady just pointed to a small well on the other side of the path, "the one over there".

"Thank you", Robin said smiling. The lady had already turned away from them though. She didn't really seem fond talking about Lucy.

They walked the few meters across the path to the well, "Miss Harris?", Gina asked.

The woman who didn't seem much younger than the queen herself looked up at them, "that depends who's asking."

It was then that Robin noticed the woman wasn't wearing any shoes, "I'm Robin and that's my wife Gina", he said ignoring the slightly shocked look on the queen's face, "a friend of ours asked to look for you."

"I don't have any friends", Lucy laughed dryly before turning back to fetch some more water from the well.

The queen took a step forward then and placed her hand on the other woman's arm.

"Edward, well Henry said you'd say that."

That finally got Lucy's attention, "is he alright? Where is he?"

Robin turned around to see if anyone else was close by before saying, "there's more to the story but he's in a land without magic. Where we just came from. And he's threatening a whole town so Edward is locked up in a cell."

"Looks like they got the situation under control then", Lucy said.

"He asked for you", Gina said.

"Whatever happened to his precious fiancée Lisa?", Lucy snarled.

"To be honest, I don't know", Gina said, "how about this. You come back to our land with us. You can decide what you want to do but maybe you could at least just see what he wants? Looks to me like there isn't much you have here. And we could garantuee you a warm place to stay in our land and I think Belle could use some help in the library these days if that'd be a job you'd like to do."

"And why would I trust two strangers?", Lucy said.

"You won't have to. But I doubt there's much that's worse than your current state of life", the queen said.

"Can we go then?", Lucy asked to Robin's surprise.

"Don't you have anything to pack?", Robin asked her.

Lucy just shook her head.

"Not even shoes?"

"I don't -", she was about the say when her feet were engulfed in a small purple cloud before some brown boots appeared on her feet.

"You have magic?", Lucy asked lowly.

"Scared now?", the queen asked.

"No I've just never seen it in person", Lucy said, "oh and thank you for the shoes."

"You're welcome", Gina said, "we should go though."

The three of them walked the path back a little bit towards where Robin and her majesty had come from. They didn't want to walk through the whole village so they walked a few meters back towards the next turn and chose to take a left this time.

"So are we walking to that new land?", Lucy asked then.

"No, we can't. We have to use a portal", the queen said, "but we need to find our son first."

Robin smiled as she referred to Roland as 'their' son.

"Your son is not with you?", Lucy asked.

"That's a longer story", Robin said not wanting to shock the woman more with all the things that happened to them in the past few weeks. Also as she had pointed out earlier they were complete strangers to each other so why trust her?

They had been walking for a few more hours before they decided to set up camp for the night.
Lucy had already retired to the tent whilst Robin and the queen were sitting on a log next to the small fire they had made so Robin could cook some beans and the rabbit he had caught earlier.

Lucy and him had eaten and it wasn't that bad to be honest but the queen hadn't touched anything.

"You need to eat something. You havent't eaten anything since yesterday", Robin said. Truthfully she had eaten something the day before and even then it hadn't been much.

"I'm not hungry", she said but her stomach seemed to betray her as it chose that moment to groan loudly.

"Gina", Robin said more like a question.

She didn't want to tell anyone but she knew Robin wouldn't give up until he knew the truth, "I've been feeling fat recently."

"You're not fat", Robin said turning completely towards her now touching her cheek with his hand.

"I feel like it though also it smells weird", she said, "the food."

"It doesn't smell weird", Robin said putting his other hand on her hips, "and you aren't fat."

"Because you can see that with all the layers of clothing I'm wearing", she rolled her eyes at him.

"Well", Robin said quietly letting his gaze wander all the way down to her stomach and back up, "if you'd let me I could prove that I'm right."

"More like that I'm right", she said, "but go ahead."

Robin hadn't really expected her to accept his offer but he wouldn't back down now. And it wasn't like he hadn't seen her half naked before. But it had been quite a while and for some reason there was a strange feeling like butterflies in his stomach currently.
He let his other hand glide down over her body until both his hands met in front of her stomach. She was wearing a scarf so he carefully removed that first before unbottoning her cloak like coat which he pushed down her shoulders.
It was only her shirt that separated his view from her body then. He pushed it upwards with his thumbs just until under her breasts so he could see her stomach fully.
His gaze wandered back to her face then, "I don't see any difference, Milady."

"Just be honest", she said.

He smiled, "I am. There isn't a gram difference to when I saw your body last." One of his thumbs was drawing circles on her skin now.

"Hmmmm", the Queen said, almost closing her eyes.

"You should eat something", Robin said, "and we should put your coat back on before getting you to bed after dinner so you won't turn cold.

"I", she tried to say but stopped then. Robin was helping her with putting her coat back on and she let him. He even placed her scarf back in place.
Never aside him did anyone care for her. She didn't want to give in to being vulnerable. But she had to admit that it felt good.
It almost felt like it did in recent years when she was still inside Regina's body and he was there. There had been a lot of moments when he had seen this side of her. The side of her that everyone else declared as 'evil.'

The food didn't taste as bad as it smelled. It was quite decent actually. Therefore that they were in the woods, not even having any seasoning with them.
So they sat by the fire for about half an hour longer before retiring as well. They hadn't said much more. She had eaten her food which had earned her a dimpled smile from Robin and then they had enjoyed the silence whilst her head was resting on his shoulder.

Tomorrow would be an exiting day. They would see the merry men again and Roland and well she didn't have a clue how that would turn out.

Regina, Snow and Charming had just sat down at a table at Granny's after their disaster meeting with Hyde in his cell.
They had to make a new plan and also Regina needed to sit down for a moment.
She was wondering what her 'evil' self wanted from Hyde.

"There has to be something that we have on him", Regina said.

"Yeah", Snow said, "so far we haven't found it yet though."

"Are you sure you haven't crossed his path before?", Charming asked. Always assuming that Regina had personal problems with whomever they had to deal with. Mostly he was right about that though.

"Not that I can recall", Regina said, "I've met thousands of people though."

Granny approached their table then, "can I get you anything?"

"Some hot cocoa for me", Snow said.

"Me too", David agreed.

"I'll take a whiskey", Regina said, "and some fries."

Now that had Snow worried a bit, "are you alright, Regina?"

"Would you just stop asking me if I'm fine every five minutes?", Regina said. No, she wasn't fine. But asking her if she were a thousand times over didn't make things any better.
Roland loved this land's fries. And sweets. And ice cream and every other unhealthy thing that kids loved to eat.
She missed him. Them. Her little knight and her prince of thieves. And when all this was over she swore to herself that she'd go back to the Enchanted Forest to see how Roland was doing. Maybe even get him back. She didn't know yet how she'd do it. And it may be selfish but at least then she'd have a part of Robin with her for the rest of her life.
Maybe then things would hurt less.

Their table had become silent for a few minutes. No one knowing what do say next and Snow didn't seem to want to upset Regina more.

Eventually Granny brought their orders.
Regina wasn't paying much attention to her drink she would drink it later. She was wolfing down her fries now. Not that they were particularly good but they reminded her of Roland. And for some reason she was very hungry.

Snow didn't say much just looked skeptically at Regina every now and then.
Regina had just half eaten her plate of fries as she wordlessly got up from the booth and made a mad dash towards the restrooms.

"She kind of reminds me of you", David said then to his wife.

"What?", Snow asked.

"I'm just saying. I mean. You weren't really picky either and when did you last see Regina eat fries?", David said taking his untouched mug of cocoa and swapping it with Regina's glass of whiskey.

"You think she's pregnant?", Snow asked him.