Chapter 4, all ready for you to read. I thought I should spoil you a little today and post this now rather than wait.

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Two days later Regina was stopped by Robin when she was on her way to have lunch with Belle.
"Regina, wait up!" the man shouted after her, making several passerby turn their heads to look at him. Regina scowled but stopped nonetheless. She hated nothing more than a public scene. And, she was still the mayor, maybe he wanted to talk to Regina the mayor, not Regina his ex.

"Robin." She raised an eyebrow at her ex-boyfriend. "What is it? I am rather busy right now, I am supposed to meet Belle at Granny's."

Robin Hood sighed at her expression but fell into step beside her. "I'll walk you there then."

In moments like this, Regina wondered how his old school behavior and courteousness had ever impressed her. She found the character trait rather annoying nowadays. She was not a damsel in distress. She was the Evil Queen and damn well able to walk herself to the diner.
"I can get there alone just fine. Now, either tell me why you feel the need to accompany me or bugger off."

"Regina. Please, you have to see reason. Roland and I miss you. I love you, Regina. We are true loves. Do you remember the story about the lion tattoo? We are supposed to be together! I just want another chance. You can't blame me for mourning my wife." He grabbed her arm right in front of Granny's and turned her around to look at him. "I love you Regina and you love me."

"Robin," Regina huffed in annoyance. "I told you where I stand. We had a… good time together but it is over now. Maybe we were supposed to be back then but time has changed me. The old Regina may have been right for you but I am not. This is not true love and…" Regina suddenly felt bile rise in her throat and brought a hand to her mouth. Her stomach was rumbling with nausea and she started retching. Hastily she hurried into the diner, past the surprised costumers and into the restroom where she locked herself in a cubicle and started vomiting. Once she had thrown up all of her breakfast, she took a moment to catch her breath and wash her face.
"I take it you weren't impressed with meeting your father either?" Regina grinned sheepishly at her belly, rubbing a hand over it to calm her stomach.


When she reemerged from the restroom, everyone in Granny's bed and breakfast was staring at her.
"Must have eaten the wrong thing this morning." She blushed and quickly found the booth her brunette friend was already sitting in.

"Quite the performance, Regina," Belle chuckled before her face morphed into a frown, seeing that her friend was still rather pale around the nose. "Are you alright though?"

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine. Peachy." Regina started fiddling with the menu.

"Regina." Belle drawled and waited until the mayor raised her eyes once again to look at her. The woman raised an eyebrow at Belle, daring her to question her words. Belle was not afraid of her friend though. "Just admit seeing Robin made you sick."

Regina actually broke out in laughter at Belle's explanation. "Well, I suppose it could be the reason, Mrs. Gold, yes."

"I knew it!" Belle grinned at her friend and waved over Ruby so they could order. She was surprised to see Regina order a burger and even a piece of chocolate cake instead of her usual salad. "Hungry, huh?"

The black haired woman blushed at her friend's amused expression. "I DID just lose my breakfast, if I have to remind you."

Soon their lunch came, they started chattering about the newest gossip in town, and Belle told Regina that she and Rumple wanted to buy a house. "You know, I never dared to ask him because he had already lost Baelfire and I thought it would be too painful for him; but yesterday he said he wanted to try for a baby and that we should get a house of our own instead of living in the apartment above his shop. Can you believe it Regina? I might be a mother nine months from now!"

Regina choked at Belle's words and the younger woman hurriedly patted her back. "How… how wonderful," Regina rasped out when she'd calmed down. "This is great news." She walked around the table and hugged Belle. When she let go she peered at the woman's vanilla mousse and couldn't help but moan at the mouthwatering scent that reached her nose.

"Are you still gonna eat that?"

Belle stared at her with her blue eyes wide open. "Regina, if I didn't know any better I'd say you are eating for two. You really are acting weird today." When Regina blushed again, a thing her friend the mayor really didn't do often, the penny dropped. "Oh my god. You ARE pregnant!"

"If you say it any louder the whole town will know," Regina shushed her excited friend and looked around the room. Thankfully, no one seemed to have taken notice of their conversation.

"Robin's?" Belle whispered and Regina nodded.

"Can't be anyone else's."

"Shit!" Belle cursed, finally turning a few heads with her curse. The brunette's cheeks colored before she started whispering again. "Have you told him?"

Regina shook her head.

"Well, but you are going to tell him, right? I mean, whatever has happened between the two of you he still needs to know. And you won't be able to keep it from him forever anyway." Belle gestured at Regina's belly. "How far along are you anyway?"

"I don't know. I haven't been to a doctor yet. It must've happened sometime in Camelot," she quietly mumbled. "And I know he will find out soon enough. I just don't – I don't feel like telling him."

Belle took Regina's hands into her own and squeezed. "I am taking you to the doctor's right now, Regina. No protesting!" Then a smile spread on the brunette's face. "I'm going to be the best aunt ever! I am going to be an aunt, right?"

"Of course you will be," Regina felt a smile curl up her own lips. "I wouldn't have it any other way. I want you to be the godmother. I hope you accept?"

Belle had to pull herself together to not start screeching with happiness but she did bounce in her seat a little. "Oh I'd love to! I'm honored!" The two friends embraced again before they paid, gave Ruby a very generous tip, and left the diner, heading to the hospital.


"Madame Mayor," a nurse came to them in the waiting room and motioned for Regina to follow her into an exam room.

"You want me to stay here?" Belle asked her friend, staying in her seat.

"No. You dragged me here. Now you are coming into that room with me," Regina grabbed Belle's hand and pulled her off the chair. "Come on."

Several minutes later Regina had changed into a hospital gown and a young doctor with blond hair entered the room. She had to admit she didn't know who the woman was back in the Enchanted Forest.

"Ms. Mills," the blonde said in greeting, an easy smile on her lips which meant she probably hadn't encountered the Evil Queen back then. "I am Dr. Mary Golding, your gynecologist."

"It is a pleasure to meet you, Dr. Golding," Regina politely said. She wanted to know who the woman was before the curse but she didn't want to seem curious. Anyway, she had always liked a good riddle. She would find out before her child was born. "This is my friend, Belle Gold."

"Ah, Mr. Gold's wife. Nice to meet you." The doctor smiled at Belle before she walked over to a cabinet and put on some gloves.

"Likewise," Belle just answered and stood next to Regina, excitedly grinning at the nervous mayor.

"So, you say you took a pregnancy test, Ms. Mills?" the doctor walked over to Regina and motioned for her to lift the hospital gown for her.

"I did. Several in fact. They all came back positive."

The doctor nodded before she started spreading gel on Regina's abdomen. "This is going to be a little cold. Are you excited to see your little one?"

Regina only nodded, too nervous now to use her voice. Belle placed a supportive hand on her shoulder and together they watched as Dr. Golding moved the ultrasonic device over Regina's belly.

"Huh," the doctor said, looking at the ultrasound with a small grin.

"What is it?" Belle asked for herself and Regina. They both didn't exactly recognize anything on the picture.

"Let me turn on the sound so you can listen to the heartbeat. I think you'll know." The doctor did just that and soon the three of them heard heartbeats sound through the room.

A lone tear of joy slid down Regina's cheek as she heard the wonder that was her baby. She grinned up at Belle who had a big smile on her face. "A strong heartbeat, Regina," Belle smiled at her friend.

"So, ladies, anything catch your eyes – or rather your ears, should I say?" Dr. Golding looked at the two women with a questioning smirk.

Belle and Regina concentrated on the heartbeats again until Regina spoke up. "It is beating way too fast!" she sent a concerned look at the gynecologist who was still grinning. "Or, is this normal?"

"Nah, it is not," Dr. Golding said and both women looked at her with worry on their faces. "Nothing to worry about though. Just… Well, I suppose as the mayor it won't be a problem as you surely have the money and the space for two cribs and everything."

"Why would Regina want two cribs…" Belle started but stopped mid-sentence, bringing a hand to her lips in surprise. "Oh wow, Regina!"

"I am having twins?" Regina sat up a little straighter, trying to spot anything on the monitor.

"You are, Madame Mayor. Congratulations!" Regina beamed at Doctor Golding who paused the ultrasound and pointed to two little blobs to help Regina and Belle see. "These are their little heads. You should be around the end of the first trimester right now. The babies look perfectly healthy so far. I suggest you come in every month until the end of your second trimester. Then I want to see you two to three times, depending on how you are developing."

Twins. Regina couldn't believe it. It had been hard to believe in one child growing inside of her and now they were two? She was over the moon, ecstatic even about the news but she couldn't help but think that she'd have to tell Robin even earlier now. She would probably start to show soon.


Emma Swan was speechless.
She had eaten her lunch at Granny's – disguised with a useful little spell of course – because she couldn't bear the loneliness of her own four walls any longer. The other customers didn't perceive her because of the spell but just sitting here and listening to them talk was enough for her. Then Regina had entered the diner in the unqueenliest way she had ever seen her do it. Her soul may be darkened but she still loved the woman more than her own life, even more than the Dark One's dagger, which was why she had followed her into the restroom and heard her retch into the toilet. She'd opened the door to Regina's stall with a simple flick of her wrist – Regina hadn't noticed her – and held back her hair for her. Emma had accidently touched Regina's neck when she did it but thankfully, the woman didn't notice. She had felt the skin under her hand tense though. She stayed until Regina left the restroom and followed her out, taking a seat in the both next to her and Belle's.
Now Emma was back at her house, staring at the wall. Regina had admitted to Belle that she was pregnant and that it was Robin's child she was carrying. It made Emma's heart clench in pain and bile rise in her own throat. The man got everything she'd always wanted since first laying eyes on the mayor of Storybrooke. Her darkened soul called out to her. It tried to seduce her, tried to make her get rid of the thief that had stolen her girl from her. And it would be so easy to give in to temptation, to end his life. She felt her fingers twitch with rage at the wood gnome. She was about to snap with her fingers and teleport herself to his side when she remembered little Roland. Emma had grown up in the foster system, had experienced all the sides of the coin to be an orphan. She would not take his last parent from the boy. Then she remembered something she had overheard at Granny's. Regina and Belle had joked about him being the reason for Regina's sickness and Regina didn't want to tell him about the pregnancy. Could it be?

Snapping her fingers, Emma teleported herself to the mayor's mansion on the outskirts of town.

Regina was lying on her sofa, reading 'What to expect when you're expecting' when a cloud of silvery smoke appeared in front of her and revealed none other than Emma Swan. Hastily she tried to place the book under a pillow but Emma's gaze had already landed on its cover.

"Expecting something, huh, Regina?" Emma coldly smirked at the woman she loved, raising one of her almost white eyebrows. "Don't bother hiding the book. I already knew about it from your little confession at Granny's earlier today. I gotta say it came as quite the shock. Still, I wanted to come and see for myself."

The blonde sat down in front of Regina, her back touching the mayor's thighs. She reached out and stroked a strand of black hair behind the woman's ear, feeling her shiver under her touch.
"Emma, I…" Regina started to explain but halted. Why would she even feel the need to explain this to Emma? She wasn't her unfaithful little housewife or anything else that would justify the anger she clearly saw in Emma's green eyes.

The Dark Swan smirked and gently placed both hands on Regina's stomach, breathing out harshly. She hadn't even wanted to do it but she had felt an unexplainable need to touch the barely there baby bump. The women both gasped in surprise when a strand of silver magic left Emma's fingertips and settled into Regina's belly.

"What did you just do?" Regina glared at Emma, demanding an answer. She felt her stomach tingle where her magic had touched it and wondered what little spell it was the blonde had just enacted. Surely, Emma wouldn't harm her unborn children?

Emma didn't answer though. She found it hard to breathe and focused solely on exhaling and inhaling air into her lungs. It was proving to be very difficult though with the revelation she'd just had. The magic hadn't left her of her own free will but had been drawn out and into Regina's womb. And now, she knew. She knew that Regina was carrying twins – both girls. But she knew even more than that. She knew that the babies weren't Robin's. Emma knew that she was in fact their 'father'. The children had been sired during the one night she'd shared with Regina back in Camelot. It had happened after the welcoming ball in Arthur's palace.

"Emma, what the hell did you do?"


AN: I bet you all are doing happy dances right now ;) Didn't think I would let poor Regina carry out Robin's pine cone spawn, did you? Any idea on Dr. Golding's fairytale persona? Also, beware, the next chapter will be very smutty - it'll take us back to Camelot and the night of SwanQueen's lovemaking.

Stay tuned!