Hello my lovely readers! I have updated Chapter 7 so it now contains the full length. Apologies for repeating..I thought you guys deserved a bit more than what I left you with. Please keep an eye out on my Youtube channel (I have now put my channel link on my profile). Bear with me, I will do my best to give you new chapters, but at the moment life has me pretty tied up with things...same goes for my youtube videos. I don't do them often, but recently have had some inspiration, so hopefully when I get a break I can deliver another nice long chapter and a video or two. Until next time, enjoy!

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Granny was waiting when Robin came into the diner with Roland. She smiled as she offered the little boy a jam croissant, and Robin thanked her as he directed his son over to a booth by the window.

"How has Regina been doing? She had those tests done yet?" Granny asked as she sat down opposite Robin, a mug of coffee in her hands.

Robin frowned in frustration, letting out a sigh. "She has been better. She's just tired of having complicated things thrown at her. The doctor said she'll have to go back to get the tests in another few weeks. This whole thing I had planned for her is going to have to wait until her stress levels go down again, and she won't relax until she knows if she is healthy."

Granny reached a comforting hand across to Robin. "Regina will be fine Robin. Even if, when she gets those tests back and it isn't what she wants to hear, she'll make damn sure that her baby is okay. I've seen how hard she fought for Henry when she adopted him. A little setback won't stop her. Why don't you just go ahead and enjoy this time with her? The both of you are gunna be exhausted once that baby arrives." Granny said, wisely.

Robin took a bite out of the bagel on his plate, and smiled appreciatively at Granny. "I certainly hope to see her happy, Granny. Regina means the world to me, and to Roland. And now, with our baby…the time I spend with her has become a collection of precious moments." Robin replied.

Granny patted his hand, smiling warmly at him as she got back up to attend to the kitchen. "You know Robin, I think that little baby is going to be luckier than even the Charmings' kid…but don't tell them I said that", she said with a wink as she walked away from the table.


Maria had been fighting against Zelena's control ever since she had discovered the full truth of Zelena's plan. There was no way, in Oz or Storybrooke, nor the Enchanted Forest, that Maria would let Zelena trick Regina and take her life in such a cruel way. And certainly not when Regina had just become a mother. To take a mother from her child…well, if Maria was honest with herself, she knew Regina had done such cruel things in her madness, trying to punish Snow White for the pain she had caused. It was not something Maria wanted, for Regina, obviously, or her child. There had to be some way to prevent Zelena gaining full control of her body, a way to stop her from enacting the dark and wicked magic that would set her free from Maria's body and create a new life.

Maria's thinking was interrupted by Chistery's screeches. She hated the beast, but there was something different in his baboon noises that made Maria turn to where he sat tearing pages from the old Wizard's books. She noticed one he had tossed aside, its pages well-worn, but he had been careful not to ruin this particular book. Maria bent to pick up the book, and just as she did so, her hand was met by Chistery's paw, and she looked him in the eyes.

For a good minute, they stared deep into each other's eyes, and Maria could see what Chistery was trying to tell her. The book contained her answers. Chistery, it seemed, was trying to help Maria. Whatever his reason, Maria took the book graciously from the monkey, and petted him gently.

"Thankyou Chistery."


Zelena was growing impatient. She was well aware of how long a pregnancy was, she'd be somewhat of an imbecile if she didn't, especially after posing as Snow White's midwife when she'd been in Storybrooke. She smiled to herself, thinking it how clever to task Chistery with tricking Maria. The old woman thought he was on her side, trying to help her fight back at Zelena. The book Zelena had had him give the woman contained an enchantment. Maria would be the one to read it, and once the words left her lips…Zelena smirked, looking at the reflection of the old woman's body with Zelena's eyes looking back in the mirror.

"I really am wicked aren't I?" She said to herself, before turning to glimpse the view of the Emerald City below the window.

Unlike Maria, who couldn't tell how much time had passed in Oz without stealing glimpses of Regina's progressing pregnancy in the Great Hall, Zelena knew how long they had been in Oz. She knew that it had been around five months, and she had absorbed all the power she could possibly gain from the magic contained in the Emerald Palace.

Outside, the streets in the Emerald City had begun to grow quieter as the season changed. It was fall, soon it would be winter, and it was then that Zelena expected to return to Storybrooke. She needed to get out of the Emerald City, disappear again so the blinding beam of light that would be ignited when the portal opened would not cause attention in the City. They thought she was gone after the brat in the blue dress had heroically 'killed' her. Dead like the Wizard.

She knew where to go though, back to the castle in the Vinkus. Kiamo Ko. After she'd banished Glinda, that was where Zelena had gone. Until she had managed passage to the Enchanted Forest, Kiamo Ko was her home, a place where no-one dared go. A place full of dreadful dark and wickedness.


Regina woke up with a start, also waking Robin up in the process. Something wicked was coming.