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Chapter 7

Robin had been true to his word when he'd said that the Hood-Mills needed their space from Emma and Killian. Henry had even kept his distance, unable to forgive his mum for being so inconsiderate, so naive, so unsupportive. It was these events that had led to the bonding of Robin and Henry over the past month. Regina, now six months pregnant, found herself watching two of her favourite boys out of the kitchen window. Henry had really begun to embrace his relationship with Robin. He knew he made his mother happy and he went out of his way to make sure they were all happy. The pair of them were in the garden with Robin's make shift target, pinned up against a tree thankfully not Regina's beloved Apple and Robin's bow. Henry had gotten quite good, he'd managed to get half of the arrows on the target. As Regina proudly observed from the window, the baby became very active, her hand gently circled her stomach soothingly. Three months. That's all the that was left until the day arrived when they would finally meet their baby. They'd both decided after much persuasion from Regina that it should be a surprise as to whether there would be another little prince or knight of the round table, or maybe even a little princess that would be joining and completing their precious family. It was moments like this that Regina couldn't wait for her due date. As much as it scared her, she longed to watch Robin with their baby. Bonding with their baby. Treasuring, loving and protecting them at all costs. She'd always longed for a family but she'd never once considered it would be like this. This fulfilling. This possible. As Regina lost herself to her daydream, a pair of little of feet ran into the kitchen and dragged a chair up to the window. After all he was the little knight.

"Gina can I go play with Henry and daddy?" Regina hadn't noticed him until that point.

"Oh sweetheart, you know your too little" Roland looked up at her with his big brown eyes and dimpled cheeks.

"Pretty please?"

"Ro, you can't play with the bow and arrow. I don't want you to hurt yourself. If you did, not even your monkey would be able to make it better"

"But I'm a merry man and merry men come in all shapes and sizes"

"They do! And what else do merry men do Roland?" Roland gave her his best thinking face

"They are honest and they are honrle"

"Honourable" Regina replied with a little correction. It was then that Regina had an idea.

"Do you know what else they do, other than bows and arrows?"

"What?" Roland replied with so much intrigue. His big brown eyes remained entirely focused upon Regina.

"They build camps of course and have camp fires" she waited to see if Roland caught on to her idea, but he was too obsessed over learning what else he could do to feel all grown up like Henry.

"What about if we built a camp in the back garden?" Roland gasped with excitement.

"Really?"

"Yes really, just this once. We can't have our littlest merry man feeling all left out" She cupped his cheek before kissing the top of his head.

Roland bounced down and ran out of the back door

"Careful!" Regina called laughing at the little boy's excitement. It only felt like yesterday that she was telling a 5 year old Henry the same thing.

Before Roland had made it properly outside, he was being carried back in again upside down by his daddy whilst Henry tickled his tummy.

"So I caught myself a wannabe outlaw" Robin teased

"No daddy I'm a merry man" Roland demanded. Robin, Regina and Henry all smiled at the innocence of him not realising they were the same thing.

"Of course you are and so you always will be!" Robin set the record straight, placing his little boy down the right way up before he was tickled to death by Henry.

"Gina said we could make a camp in the garden!" Roland bounced up and down. Robin gave a Regina a questioning look. As Roland bounced off for supplies dragging Henry behind him Robin headed over to Regina.

"Now was this really your idea or did that little monkey in there force your hand?"

"He is pretty persuasive and those dimples are pretty hard to say no to. But, this time this was all me. I couldn't deal with his sad little face when he couldn't join in with the target practice. He had to be reminded of his roots" Regina couldn't help but look smugly at Robin.

"So Mr Hood, looks like you're camping out this evening"

"What you mean I may actually be able to sleep this evening without roasting to death because you refuse to open a window?" Robin teased as Regina smacked his chest in response.

"Roast to death? Next time I shall show you one of my fireballs, you won't get confused with roasting again" Regina scoffed, Robin just stared at her almost egging her on.

"Hey, it's not my fault you'd only ever experienced the wrath of the outdoors before. I'm a queen and I like to be a bit more regal"

"You're certainly a queen alright"

"But i'm your queen"

"You're milday, all mine." Their moment was as always interrupted by the sound of cupboards slamming and squealing children.

"I better go find the sleeping bags for them" Regina tried to pull away from Robin's embrace but he held her in place.

"You'll do no such thing, I know where you've hidden those. Top of the airing cupboard in the basement. You need to look after yourself and squidge. I'll sort out those boys of ours."

"Alright thief, just this once i'm going to let you be all protective daddy. But for the record I'm pregnant and not an invalid"

"Oh I know Mills, you're more than capable of getting up several times in the night to head to the bathroom"

"Oi! Would you like to see how far magic can extend, let you experience what it's like to have a baby pressed down on your bladder?"

"I'm just teasing, but seriously please put your feet up. For me?"

"ok" Regina moaned giving him a deflated look which was still full of the love that sparked within her eyes whenever they were together. Regina tried to sit still for all of 5 minutes, she got as far as reading the first page of the book she'd been meaning to start before she slammed it down on the coffee table and swung her legs round. She'd just about mustered enough momentum to get herself up, which had been proving difficult with the weight of a growing baby that was getting bigger and bigger with each day that passed. She headed for the kitchen where she rummaged the cupboards with sheer frustration, certain they had what she was looking for until there it all was. The ingredients for smores. She popped open the bag of marshmallows and popped one in her mouth.

"I'm not quite sure this equates to resting?" Robin teased her from the door way amused, having found her stuffing the marshmallow in her mouth.

"What will the boys say? You'll spoil your dinner"

"Which I presume you're making" Regina mocked, brushing off her floury hands on a tea towel.

Before Robin could respond, she relieved him of the panic that came with him having to cook.

"These are for dessert, I thought we could make smores"

"smores?" Of course, Robin hadn't had one of this worlds delights yet, though she was pretty sure from the state she had found Roland and Henry in one evening after work that Roland definitely had. Henry had said he'd sort an afternoon snack for Roland because she was finishing late. It would seem Regina and Henry had very different ideas about what afternoon snacks included.

"Why Mr Hood, a smore is possibly the most perfect combination. Biscuits filled with toasted marshmallows and covered in chocolate" Robin's eyes narrowed

"That does all sound rather sweet"

"Don't be a spoil sport. Squidge seems to approve" She comments on her baby's tiny kicks, drawing Robin's hand toward the spot so they could both revel in the moment together.

"You can't learn all of mummy's bad habits just yet squidge, You've barely left the womb and she's already a bad influence"

"Oi you can't turn them against me yet! And I can assure you they get their inability to stay still in their sleep from you!"

Robin gave her his best pouty face before Regina couldn't resist and captured his lips in a seething kiss.

"So did you find the sleeping bags without uprooting the whole cupboard?"

"It's still standing yes" Robin wined back like a teenager. "And the boys have started on the tent"

"Great." Robin's phone beeped, he pulled it out and soon his expression was filled with a watery smile and a gasp.

"Babe? You ok?" Regina asked concerned until Robin flipped the phone round and showed her the video Zelena had just sent him.

"She's crawling!"

"She's a clever little peanut!" Robin exclaimed proudly.

"As if we didn't already need to be watching her every move" Regina laughed, knowing that from here onwards there was no stopping little Robyn.

Robin was suddenly overcome with emotion. Regina didn't speak, she simple reassured him by stroking up and down his arms, knowing how much he hated missing out on his little girls development. Zelena didn't keep anything from them but because he wasn't always with her, he missed the little moments.

"I know it's tough, I know you hate when she learns something new and you aren't there"

"It just reminds me how quickly she's growing up" He took a deep breath, their heads resting against one another.

"But it's going to be different with squidge"

"No don't do that" Regina drew back. Robin worried he may have offended her.

"Don't try and make out like you're doing a bad job, you're not. The circumstances will be different but the way in which you love this baby the way in which you love Bobble won't be"

"Bobble?"

"Just another nickname I may or may not have just come up with for Robyn"

"Can I be honest with you?" This conversation was beginning to take a very different approach.

"you know you can"

"I…I just can't…with her name. I thought I could get used to it. I thought I could be flattered. But it just reminds me of everything I almost lost forever. That I was gone. That I abandoned you"

Regina gently stroked his cheek.

"What are you suggesting?"

"I want to change her name" Robin confidently announced.

"I thought initially that it was the fact I didn't get to help name her that bothered me, that I was being stupid and I'm to have another little bundle of joy to name so it couldn't really be that"

"why didn't you say anything before?"

"I didn't want to ruffle anyone's feathers. We've just begun to patch things with Zelena, didn't want to start a family feud once more"

"Oh Robin, if that's honestly how you feel then you need to talk to Zelena"

"But she's 7 months old!"

"She's still little, I'm not going to let you bottle this up. It will destroy the moments you have with her. They'll always be tainted by that memory" Regina understood, she just wanted him to act on it. She wanted him to be happy.

"Why don't you go finish setting up camp for this evening and I shall call her and ask her to come over?"

He kissed her forehead in response before heading out to see what the boys had managed in his absence.

"Z, is there any chance you could come over tonight?"

"You may be a life saver, Robyn won't settle she's really teething and I'm at my wits end"

"well i'm sure daddy will be more than happy to relieve you of the crying baby for a while" Regina laughed grimacing at the use of Robyn now knowing how horrible it made her thief feel.

Zelena arrived more quickly than Regina had expected. She greeted her sister and her niece who really was looking rather sorry for herself.

"Oh that's a very sad face, especially from one clever little girl who can crawl now" Regina bounced her in her arms before she headed towards the back door encouraging Zelena to follow.

"Daddy's outside making camp" Regina tried to talk soothingly to the little girl who did seem to stop grizzling. Robin had noticed the extra presence in the kitchen and left the boys to play.

"Here he is" Robyn's little arms reached out for her daddy who instantly scooped her up and peppered her cheeks with kisses.

"Very proud of you and your crawling peanut!" Robin gently tickled her stomach making her giggle.

"Thank god! I thought she'd forgotten how to" Zelena replied making the rest of them laugh.

"So what was the urgency in coming over?"

Regina and Robin shared a tentative look, Regina tried to give him the courage to explain how he truly felt.

"I want to change her name" Zelena was shocked, concerned and worried.

"But why?"

"Every time I say her name, every time I hear someone call for her, i'm reminded of almost leaving everyone I loved forever. Abandoning them. Abandoning her" Robin cradled his little girl a little closer, kissing the top of her head.

"I understand, but why didn't you say anything?" Zelena's response shocked him a little, though Regina had known exactly what her response would be. She knew she'd understand.

"I didn't want to make things difficult between you and Regina"

"Robin, don't be stupid. I know you're an outlaw but give yourself credit, you have more brains than that. I have no objections to us changing her name." Robin let out a relieved chortle because snuggling his little girl.

Robin and Zelena went to sit down at the kitchen table to discuss a respective name.

"I'm going to go check on the boys" Robin reached out for her wrist with his free hand.

"Stay"

she looked up between Robin and Zelena both with a soft smile gracing their faces.

"You're her favourite auntie you're just as important in this process" Zelena joked

"I'm her only auntie"

"Exactly, she's super lucky!" Zelena had done a good job at reassuring her sister that she deserved to be here in the naming process of her niece.

"She deserves to have a pretty name" Robin expressed his first thoughts

"Before the underworld, had you had any ideas yourself?"

"I hadn't chosen something yet, no. Nothing quite fitted and then we were alone in the woods for some daddy daughter bonding and it became even harder"

"What about… Poppy. Reminder of your time together in the woods, your life in the woods" Zelena suggested rather sweetly

"Of the poppy fields your ruled in…" Regina commented demonstrating the unhealthy and not so positive reflection it would have on a little girl, the reminder she's the daughter of the wicked witch of the west.

"Daisy" Robin voiced subtly, not quite sure of it himself.

"Maybe there are too many flowery names in Storybrooke, Lily…Violet…." Zelena mused.

"What about Hazel?" Robin thought, it would still have his beloved fondness of the woods.

"I don't dislike it but I don't love it"

"Charlotte?" Zelena suggested

"Sounds too much like she's destined to be queen. She doesn't need that kind of expectation on her head, believe me" Zelena appreciated her sisters input.

Regina didn't want to suggest anything but simply support Robin and ensure that whatever they chose he loved it and was happy.

"Scarlett?" Robin's face lit up and Zelena mused the name over in her head whilst looking over at her little girl in Robin's arms.

"Scarlett"

"That's perfect" Regina commented, gently brushing the little girls cheek.

"Scarlett Hazel Locksley- Mills" Zelena announced, to which Robin beamed and raised his little girl up in the air so he could properly take in every ounce of beauty.

"Dadddddddyyyy, we've been waiting for aaaggggesss!" Roland burst into the kitchen from the garden.

"I won't be long"

"come here my little knight" Regina managed, just about to pick him up on to her lap and wrap her arms around him.

"Bobbins is here!" he exclaimed, Regina could sense Ronin's discomfort and decided she'd lead the way to explaining the situation as best as she could to a 5 year old.

"Well Roland, Bobbins isn't her name anymore" Roland looked up at her all wide eyed and clueless.

"Well it's pretty silly having the same name as daddy"

"and very confusing" Great, he was understanding, even if his responses were slightly on the honest side.

"Well daddy and Zelena have chosen something all the better" Henry had caught up with Roland at this point and was sitting in on the explanation.

"So what have we chosen for little peanut. Which by the way she'll always be!" Henry commented sharing a smile with Robin, who understood him entirely.

"Well you boys, meet Scarlett Hazel Locksley-Mills." Roland accepted it. He didn't ask questions. He didn't bat an eyelid. He slid off of Regina's lap and went over to play with his little sister Scarlett. The rest of the evening flew by, the boy's were all set to camp in the garden with Robin, Regina was choosing her warm supportive bed, after all she was pregnant and that was bad enough on her back. Before it was finally time to sleep though the four of them were sat outside toasting marshmallows and eating smores. Roland had decorated his face in chocolate.

"I'm not sure that one is quite big enough" Robin commented making them all laugh at Roland shoving a giant smore into his mouth. Roland looked up innocently, his cheeky smile and dimples all aglow amongst the chocolate and sticky remnants.

"Thanks for this mum, we've never done this before"

"well there can always be a first" Regina smiled

"Right Ro, I think it's time you went and washed your face, brushed your teeth and got into bed" Roland huffed out in response to his daddy before going in to do as he was told.

"Don't forget to come and say goodnight to me monkey"

"Wait! You're not sleeping with us" Roland's whole face a wash with sadness.

"I can't sweetheart, it won't be good for your little brother or sister"

"But I will give you an extra big hug and a kiss"

"And I shall read you one of my comics before bed" Henry suggested trying to save the day.

Roland obliged and the evening ended as it was intended.

Robin stole a few minutes with his lady before they parted for their first night in a long time.

"We'll miss you"

"I'll miss you both too" he commented, his hands gently circling her belly.

"Thank you for today, Scarlett is perfect" he smiled, more than she'd seen for a while now. She hadn't realised quite how troubled he'd been.

"I love you and I just want you to be happy" they shared a warm kiss before parting.

"Now you better go back to the boys before Henry starts telling scary stories. If you're lucky I may have waffles on the go for breakfast"

Robin smiled before capturing her lips once more.

"Sweet Dreams."