"What's next?" Robin asked, he and Regina were sitting under her apple tree, her head on his shoulder.
"I'm guessing that you go back." Regina said, lifting her head so that she could look at him.
"What if I don't want to? What if I want to spend the rest of my days with you?"
"Robin... I want you to stay, but you can't. The king is going mad and your father would never allow you to, he needs an heir, his son." Regina explained, she knew he already knew all of that, but she couldn't let him get his hopes up for nothing.
"I have brothers." He said quietly.
"I know, but it'll be years till they become of age... I'm not going to let you ruin your life because of me."
"You wouldn't be ruining it... I don't care about the jewels or ruling, I don't care about any of that things. I care about you."
"Well... I don't care about you! I hate you!" Regina said, hoping that would be enough to convince him to listen to his father.
"You're just saying that to make me leave."
"I'm not... I don't love you." Her eyes started to water. "You ruined my marriage! You're a son of a lord, I'm a queen! I couldn't never love such a person! I despise you with whole of my soul!" She was crying by the time she finished.
"I love you."
"I don't want you here!" Regina yelled.
"Fine, then this is the last you'll see of me... Your Majesty." He said and walked away. Regina fell on the ground and started to sob and cry and scream, it was all her fault, she wanted him to listen to his father to rule his land and now he will. She felt someone putting their arms around her and she tried to push them away.
"Regina, it's okay. It's me." Her father said and knelled next to her, he pulled her in his arms and let her cry. He hated seeing his little girl like that, he cursed whoever made her cry.
"You have to get up, darling. It's almost sun rise." Regina didn't believe his words until she saw the sky, her father was right which means that she and Robin spend almost the entire night by her apple tree. Regina stood up and she took her father's hand as they were going back to the castle.
She never saw Robin of Locksey again... Until...
"Are you ready to go, sire?" The man who was taking him home asked him.
"Yes." Robin said with a sigh. They started the ride and after just a few moments he order the man to change the way they were heading, he had to visit Little John and his Merry Men as Regina called them.
"We're here, sire." The man said and bowed his head. Robin nodded to the man and started to call for little John.
"Little John!" He called and soon a bear of a man appeared, they went a bit further in the forest and they talked about their futures, about a band of noble thieves.
He never saw Regina again... Until...
Enchanted Forest, many years later
"Damn him! He just couldn't stay a life, could he?" Regina ranted.
"Regina, I don't think it's the best time for that." Snow said.
"Nobody asked you." Regina said.
"We just got here after 29 years, aren't you excited to be home?"
"This isn't my home! My home is with Henry, my home is lost."
"I understand that, but these people are frightened, we need to calm them down." Snow said as she motioned to the group of people from Storybrooke.
"Well, that's just great."
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"Regina! Watch out!" Snow yelled but it was too late, the monkey had already grabbed Regina's arm and was lifting her into the air. Snow watched in horror as the beast's claws sunk deeper in Regina's flesh... But then it all changed. The arrow hit the monkey and it dropped Regina to the ground, Snow went closer to her in order to check her wound.
"You looked like you could use the help." Snow heard an accented voice say, she turned around and saw the man who was talking to her.
"Yes." She cleared her throat. "Thank you, we appreciate it." Snow said and turned around again, going back on her task to help Regina.
"Are you okay?" Snow asked.
"What do you think?" Regina snapped and held her wounded arm.
"Can I help?" Regina heard a voice say and was surprised, she couldn't see anyone but Snow.
"Oh, right, yes, sure." Snow said and called the man closer.
"No... No... How?" Regina said as she saw the man, almost immediately tears started to fall down her face.
"Regina." He said and she knew that she was right.
"I'll just give you two a moment." Snow said and went deeper into the forest but still stayed close. She was far away not to hear anything but close enough not to be lost.
"I... I... You can't be..." Regina said between breaths. "I'm imagining things because I suffered a blood loss... You're not real."
"Why?"
"BECAUSE YOU'RE DEAD!" Regina screamed at him.
"I'm right here." Robin said, he had some questions for her, he had things to say to her, but first he had to calm her down.
"No, you're not... My mind is playing with me, it wants to hurt me... Is Henry waiting somewhere behind a tree?"
"Your father?" Robin asked, confused.
"No, my son. You're a figment of my imagination, you're supposed to know that, you're supposed to know that I'll never see him again, that he's lost to me... Like Robin. The last words I said to him were full of hate, I never meant them, not one of them." Regina said.
"How did he die?" Robin asked, he had no idea what had happened that made her this set on believing that he was dead.
"He... umm... He was going back to Sherwood and on his way there, the carriage flipped and killed him." Regina said.
"No, it didn't... Regina, look at me, I'm right here."
"But I watched you die! Rumplestilstkin showed it to me!"
"Rumplestilstkin always wanted me out of your life, he could of had staged it somehow." Robin said.
"Then tell me something... Something only you would now."
"You made a deal to delete Snow memories?"
"Anyone could know that..."
"We loved the gardens, we used to spent a lot of our time there... We'd sit under your tree and you'd put your head on my shoulder and we could stay like that for hours just talking or simply enjoying each other's presence." Robin said.
"That's true... But what the hell are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be in Sherwood?" Regina demanded.
I know this seems sudden, but you will have everything explained, okay? There will be little flashbacks that kinda lead to this ending, you'll see exactly what Rumple showed Regina, you'll see parts Robin's life, everything will be explained. This is the part I've been waiting for since the beginning! Things are going to be very messy between our (not) couple (nouple?). This is basically the season 3, second part... Everything that happened on the show till that moment happened in the story... The difference is that Robin and Regina used to know each other and the season 3B will play out differently... Leave a review or PM me and tell me what you think. There's a link to my Tumblr in my bio so you can go there and ask/talk to me over there! -K
