A very small Dimples Brigade drabble that refused to leave my head until I put it down in writing. I think I'm trying to deal with the fact that canon will likely not touch upon Robin's feelings about the whole Zelena pregnancy storyline mess, so I need to come to terms with it through him.
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Roland carried a little bundle of fur in his hands.
"Look what I found!" he called to his father.
When Robin, noticed the animal, he said. "Roland what did I tell you." striding towards his son, when he reached him, squatted and took the baby from Roland's chubby fingers, "Where did you find it?"
Roland pointed to a nurse log a few feet away, "found it in a hole, under a fern."
"Roland, this bunny is still a baby and needs it's mother, you can't just take it away from it's home."
"I'm sorry daddy."
"It's alright my boy. just be mindful in the future."
"Okay."
You can't just take a baby away from it's mother. Robin's code reminded him of that fact, his daily reminder that his children would never know their mothers. God's cruel trick . No, not the act of God, the act of a witch.
As he placed the rabbit back into the hole Roland had found in, it quickly disappeared back into the burrow, he could faintly see it's little black eyes peering back, a wiggle of it's nose. He made a mental note not to let the men hunt any rabbits, they will have fish, Roland is keen to learn and he's old enough to learn. He headed back to his tent, grabs a line and tackle box and calls for Roland, who is sitting meters away drawing shapes in the dirt with a stick, "C'mon, lets go catch some fish for dinner."
"Alright." Roland pushed himself up from the ground, "Can we ask Henry if he wants to come too?" His boy sounds too excited to say no to him, so Robin concedes, "Let me call Regina and see if they'll join us at the lake in the park."