Sweethearts, please read the note in the end!

In the next day, Regina started to prepare eggs for breakfast for herself. Henry stayed with the Charmings in the previous night. As she started to fry the egg she felt her stomach squirm because of the strong smell of the egg. Regina turned off the stove and ran to the bathroom with her hands in her mouth, opening the private cover and putting out everything she had in her stomach.

When she was done she was feeling exhausted and she let her body fall to the floor in a sitting position beside the private. She closed her eyes and started to think in the recent events. Before she got back in her car she turned around and looked at Gold. She asked that if he found a way to get back in Storybrooke, Robin will find a way too. He said that maybe she was right, but he wouldn't be so hopeful if he was in her place. He told her that he was only able to be back because he knew about an old crystal ball which if you spill the right liquid on it, could break any curse.

She understood what he was saying, said goodbye to him and got in her car, driving to her house to leave the things she bought at the supermarket there and then went to the Charming's house. She told them about Gold and the Queens of Darkness and that unsurprisingly she had a history with each one of them. Snow and Charming said they had history with them too. Snow said that she didn't trust Gold, that he most likely came back to Storybrooke with a plan and that wanting it or not, Gold wouldn't leave Regina out of his plan. The older woman said that Gold did come back with a plan which it was finding the author, but they agreed to leave Regina out of it. Snow said that even so she didn't trust Gold, that he always only cared about himself. Emma and Charming agreed with her and Regina rolled her eyes. They talked a little more, and than Regina went back to her house.

Regina came back to the present and felt that she was still feeling queasy. She sighed and she leaned in the private and on the wall to get up. She couldn't keep postponing. She needed to see a doctor. She needed some tips for dealing with the sickness, needed vitamins and needed to know if everything was okay with her baby. She took the paper that was in her bedside table with Giselle's number and called, setting up an appointment later for the same day.

The brunette laid in her bed again, not having the strength to do nothing more. She woke up several hours later, and she realized it was almost time for Henry to get out of school. She called Emma saying the she wanted to pick him up and go to the doctor with him after. The blondie agreed and Regina changed her clothes and tried to eat a bread, succeeding this time. She washed the dishes and drove to Henry's school, getting there just in time to hear the bell ring, indicating that the last class of the day was over. She waited, and it didn't take long for Henry to appear in the middle of the crowd. He saw his mother and said goodbye to Grace and walked fast to his mother with a bright smile on his face.

"Hi mom"" Henry said hugging Regina. "I thought Emma was going to pick me up today."

"She was going to, but I asked her if I could come in her place and she accepted it." She put an arm around him and they walked to her car. "I want you to come to some place with me."

"To where?" Henry asked.

"I need to go to the hospital to make my first prenatal, but I don't want to do this alone." she said stopping right in front of her car and looking at him hesitantly "But I'll understand if you don't want to make me company." she said wanting to give the boy a choice.

"Of course I want to go with you mom, don't be silly. You know I don't really like doctors, but for you I'll face them."

"My little knight." she said with her voice trembling a little with emotion as she put both of her hands in his face, like she's used to do. "Thank you so much, Henry. This means a lot to me."

"I know mom. I would do anything for you." he said looking into her eyes.

"And I would do anything for you too." she said grinning.

She kissed his forehead and they got in her car. As they drove to the hospital, Henry told how his day was. The math test he had to do was easy, the biology teacher started to explain a new subject and he said he talked a lot with Grace. Regina has been noticing for a while now that the way Henry talked about Grace was different from the way he talked about the other girls. My boy is growing up, Regina thought. She parked in the hospital parking lot and she got inside with Henry by her side.

"Hi, I have an appointment with doctor Giselle." she said to the woman behind the counter.

"What's your name?" the woman asked kindly.

"Regina Mills."

They talked about bureaucratic things and them the woman said Regina could seat and wait a little that Giselle would attend her in just a few minutes. As she waited to be called sat with Henry, she noticed a dark-haired man passing fast through them holding a round golden thing in his hands. Regina had never put her eyes on it, but for what Hook and Emma described, it seemed like the object that would open to be a shiny powerful hat. Hook said he had it, but he suddenly lost it.

Regina got up and asked who this man was to the woman behind the counter.

"His name is Yen Sid, but his nickname is Mickey. He's a doctor."

Regina eyes got wider and she decided that she would go after that man later. Not much time later an redhead woman got out of a door and said goodbye to the patient she had just attend.

"Hi, are you Regina Mills?" the redhead asked with a warm smile when she got close to Regina.

"Yes, I am." Regina replied. "And you're Giselle?"

"Yes. And who is this handsome at your side?" she said looking at Henry.

"He's my son and I would like him to accompany me during the consultation."

"Alright, let's go."

When they got inside the doctor asked Regina to step on the scale and after that she measured her pressure. Then she asked Regina to lay in the bed so they could start the ultrasound. She spent the cold gel on Regina's belly and pressed the appliance there. The doctor said Regina was with one months and three weeks of gestation and the baby looked very healthily. The weight and the baby's size were ideal and she started to show the baby's head, arms and legs through the monitor and Henry got really excited.

"Ok, now let's hear the baby's heart."

She pressed a button and they started to hear a loud heart beating in the room.

"That's it! The baby's heartbeat looks good. It not too fast but not too slow. That's exactly the way it should be."

After Giselle said that, Regina felt tears running down her cheeks. Tears of joy and tears of sadness. Joy because her baby was completely fine. And sadness because Robin wasn't there. It was unbelievable how much she was missing him. She could imagine how happy he would be, his reaction. That smile she loves surely would be quite large, showing all his dimples. Henry took Regina's hands in his and squeezed it, noticing what was going on in her mind. She smiled softly, wiped the tears and squeezed his hands too. Giselle was quietly, letting them have their moment. After a while Giselle said that was done, and Regina got up.

"Do you have any doubts?" Giselle asked as she sat in front of her desk.

"No doubts, but I'm having a lot of morning sickness and I wanted to know for how long this will last." Regina asked as she sat in front of the doctor.

"I could lie to you and tell they'll be over soon, but I won't do that. What will happen is that you'll learn do deal better with it."

"I really hope so. Fruits and breads seems all I have been able to eat."

"Orange juice seems to help with the morning sickness too. I'll prescribe some vitamins and I'll send you to make a few tests and I'll want the results in our next consult next month, ok?" Giselle asked as she wrote in a paper.

"Ok."

Giselle explained to them what kind of vitamin she would have to take and what kind of exams she would have to do. They marked Regina's appointment for the next month and said goodbye and Regina left with Henry.

In the next day, Gold called her in the middle of the afternoon, asking to her to meet him and the Queens of Darkness in the library in 1 hour. His voice seemed weird, and Regina almost said she wouldn't go to the meeting, but her curiosity got the best of her. Regina took a quick shower and she stopped in front in the full length mirror she had in her bedroom, staring at her naked belly. She clearly wasn't showing yet, it was still soon, but she could see that her belly gave a small rounded. She turned her body a little and looked to the mirror, her belly showing even more with this position. She brought both of her hands to her belly, stroking it.

"Do you remember the promise I made that I would keep you safe no matter what? I don't break my promises."

She smiled slightly and went to her wardrobe to pick some clothes to wear. Her eyes wandered inside it and when she put her eyes in the blouse she used when she and Robin got together in her vault she knew what she would wear. She desperately wanted a way to feel close to him. She picked the blouse and the same black bra too. Since it was too cold outside, she didn't put the same skirt, instead she chose a black pant and a black coat with a rose scarf.

She brushed her hair, that with time was getting longer and she was actually liking it the way it was. She went to the kitchen and ate a tasty fruit, when she finished there were still thirty minutes to her meeting with Gold. But she didn't want to wait anymore so she decided she would go and wait inside her car. She was about to leave her house when she heard her phone ring.

"Hi" she answered the call without seeing who it was.

"Hi Regina." Snow said in the other side of the line.

"Snow, if you don't mind, I'm with a bit of a rush right now." Regina said picking up her house key from the table.

"Oh, you're going to where?" Snow asked with a hint of worry.

"Snow, I don't have to tell you every step I take."

"I'm sorry, I'm just curious." Snow said and Regina noticed that the woman got hurt with her words.

"Your curiosity has already damaged the lives of many people."

Regina was in fact really glad by her concern. But Regina knew that if she told Snow the truth, Snow was going to try to make her not to go to the meeting. She knew she would be afraid. So she was trying to push her away and avoid her.

"Regina, I know that's not really you speaking. You're just trying to push me away. What's going on?"

"Ok, fine." Regina sighed, giving up. "Gold asked me to meet him and the Queens of Darkness in front of the library."

"And you're going? Are you crazy?" Snow asked her voice rising a little.

"I know you don't trust Gold but I don't think he'll try to harm me. Don't worry."

"There's no point on arguing with you, right?" Snow sighed. "When are you going to meet him?"

"Right now, I was leaving my house when you called. Why?" Regina asked.

"Nothing."

It was really easy for Regina to know when Snow was up to something and this time was no different, Snow's voice gave her away.

"Snow…"

"Bye, Regina."

Snow ended the call and Regina huffed. She was certain the younger woman was going to sneaking up. But there was nothing Regina could do. She got in her car and went to the meeting, she parked near the library and waited inside her car.

Few minutes later she glanced Cruella coming in her car, and Maleficent getting out of Gold's shop alongside him. He waited in front of his shop as Maleficent went closer to Cruella's car. Her old friend had a page in her hand and showed it to Cruella and Regina's eyes widened realizing it was probably from the author's magic books. The picture on the page seemed like a door to other worlds, like in Jefferson's hat. What the hell?! She thought. They talked a little, and Regina was too far to listen but she paid attention in the interaction between them. The dog's woman got out of her car and she and Maleficent gathered with Gold in front of his shop. Regina opened her car's door and walked towards them.

"Hi" Regina said when she got close. "What is this?" she asked pointing to the page after they greeted her.

"This, is how I believe we'll get our happy endings." Gold answered. "We found this book under a mobile in the author's house. This page gave me an idea. I have another way to get back in the past. But I don't wanna go, neither Maleficent nor Cruella nor Ursula. So that leaves you. Plus, you know the rules of time travel better than them." He said looking at Regina.

"But why would you want to go back in the past?" Regina asked frowning.

"To change it and to make it sure we'll get our happy endings. You'll go back and you'll try to make things better for all of us." Gold said knowingly.

"Gold, this is stupid and too risky! I'm not willing to risk my life, and the life of the people I love for this. If I make one tiny mistake, someone may not be born when they should." Regina said, trying to convince them.

"I told ya she wouldn't like this idea." Maleficent said snorting.

"Well, let me tell you one thing, darling." Cruella said getting closer to Regina. "We are not asking you, we're telling you you'll get back in the past. We need this. Or did you forget what I'm able to do when people don't do what I want?"

Cruella flipped her hands and a dalmatian came running from the woods and he stopped right in front of Regina, growling. She gave a step back but the dog approached her again and this time he raised his sharp paws and scratched her right leg, destroying the fabric of her pants and making her leg bleed. She winced in pain and bit her bottom lip hard to hold back a sob.

Cruella flipped her hands again and the dog stopped.

"I have the power to control the dogs. If you don't cooperate with us, I'll make him hurt you more than that." Cruella said.

"I'm not afraid."

Regina was shaking in fear inside, but she was determined to not to surrender. She was tired of letting someone else have the control over her life. First was Cora, then Rumple, then the author and now this Queens of Darkness. Well, the author was someone she still had to find a way to fight with, but this fight that she was having in that moment, was a fight she thought she could fight.

"We have to show him to her. That's the only way she will help us." Maleficent said.

"It was a good thing I had the idea to kidnap him before we came to Storybrooke after all." Cruella said with a mischievous smile.

Regina look at them confused, trying to understand what they're saying. They kidnapped someone to maybe blackmail her after? She knew there was only one person outside of Storybrooke that they could use to compel her to do what they wanted. Robin. Wait. Robin is... here? She thought as she felt her heart flutter faster. She felt heart palpitations in her throat and she looked back at Maleficent and Gold, hoping they would explain. But Maleficent just swung her hands and Gold's sad look is the last thing Regina saw before she fell to the ground, unconscious.

She opened her eyes for what seemed like a long time after, all her senses in alert. The place she was in was really, really dark. She was sat in a wooden chair, and her hands were tied on a chain in her back. Her vision was getting more and more used to the darkness, and she realized there was someone else with her in that place. From the little she could see, it was a man with a blonde hair with a scratch on his face and beard to do.

"Robin?" she asked nervously.

I'm really sorry for ending the chapter there. You know I had too. I'm also really sorry for taking so long to update. Life has been really busy and I have been a little disheartened. I hope each one of you are still liking this story. And yes, the next chapter you'll see Regina/Robin reunion! Please tell me your thoughts and tell me if anything in the story makes no sense. Constructive criticism are always welcome. Also, sorry if my english is bad sometimes, english is not my first language. Well, I think that's it haha. I promise the next update won't take too long, I'll update again really soon. Please leave a review ❤️