This ended up longer than planned, but here it is Day 2: Fix the Zelena baby problem

The moment Robin stepped over that line Regina felt it, her heart began to hurt and her chest tightened painfully, she brushed it off musing that it was probably just her grief. Now however she wasn't so sure, she was in her office sat at her desk and she felt this unbearable pain rip through her, it felt as though someone were literally stabbing daggers into her chest, she held onto the table with one hand and flung everything off it in an attempt to stabilise herself and think away the agony she was feeling.

There was a knock on the door of her office and she groaned in response, not being able to talk, what the hell was happening to her? "Regina, I just came to… oh my god Regina!" Emma hurried into the room and rounded her desk.

"I…" Regina trembled, "my heart… please…"

"What? What do I do?!"

"Take it out… please!" Regina cried.

"You can't be serious!" Emma yelled shaking her head as she stared at her in shock.

"Emma take out my heart now!"

The blonde winced as she went to do it, ripping the heart from Regina's chest as she screamed in pain, "oh my god, what's wrong with it?" she asked.

Regina turned her head, taking the heart out hadn't done anything to make her feel better, if anything it had made it worse, she stared at her heart that was resting in the palm of Emma's hand and slowly dulling, "it's dying," she breathed.

"How?! Regina, what do we do?"

"There isn't anything we can do," she choked, taking the organ from Emma and feeling just how heavy it was, "it's turning to stone."

"Stone, how is that possible?"

"It can happen when the heart it belongs with leaves," Regina cried. She had heard stories about it happening, about two people with a strong connection being separated, but she never thought that it would happen to her, never thought that she would be suffering like this. Was it happening to Robin too or was it just her? "The further away he gets, the more my heart will deteriorate, it will turn to stone and then crumble to dust."

"What?!" Emma panicked, "well get your ass up and come on, we need to get you to Robin."

"We won't be able to get back into Storybrooke Emma, we can't risk that…"

"So you just want to die then do you?"

"No, of course not, but…" her eyes widened in realisation, "the scroll."

"What?"

"The scroll that Ingrid used to come over the town line, that is the answer, we need to find it Emma, before it's too late."

"Okay come on, we need to get you in a car, they can't have got far yet the bus station is an hours walk from the town line."

Regina nodded as Emma came to her and wrapped an arm around her, helping her up from her seat as she groaned in pain, still holding the slowly beating organ in her hand, "Emma, we don't have much time," Regina choked out seeing that the heart was dulling more and more.

They stumbled outside as Emma struggled to hold Regina up, directing her to her yellow bug, "get in," she instructed.

"You want me to get in there? I thought this whole mission was about saving my life not bringing it to an end faster, you'll kill us both if we get in there," she protested, staring at Emma's car with a distasteful look on her face."

"Regina please just get in the car!" Emma snapped almost pushing her into the passenger seat.

"Mind my heart," Regina glared at her, cradling the source of her life in her hands.

"Sorry," Emma rolled her eyes, "can you magic the scroll to you?"

"I don't think I'll be able to use magic in this precise moment Emma since I can barely even breathe. You have magic why don't you do it," the brunette scoffed, the blonde was always lazy, but now really wasn't the time, she needed to get out of this place and find Robin before it was too late and Emma wanted her, a woman in agony whose heart was literally turning to stone in her hands, to use her magic to bring a scroll to her, she didn't think so somehow.

"Fine," she watched the blonde move around the driver's side and get in before holding her hands out and closing her eyes, clearly trying to activate a summoning spell, within a couple of seconds the scroll in question appeared and she turned to Regina with a smug smile. "Do you think that maybe you should put that thing back in your chest when we go over the town line?" she questioned.

Regina looked down at her heart and frowned, she didn't know what would happen when she went over that line, for all she knew it could be better and the concert like features could disappear, but then again what if having her heart out of her chest meant that she no longer lived, what if she was going to kill herself by not having it inside her. Having it outside eased the pain a lot, she couldn't bear for it to be inside her chest, even for a second longer than it had been, she didn't think she would be able to take it.

"I think that you might have to leave me at the town line," she muttered, she wasn't going to put it in and she hardly wanted to chance going over the line without it in her chest, so the only other option was for Emma to leave her where she was and go find Robin on her own and bring him back to her. "I can't put it back inside me Emma, I just can't do it," she shook her head.

"Fuck, Regina what happens if this goes wrong, what happens if we can't get him back here in time and you…"

"I can't leave this town Emma," Regina chocked, feeling something heavy in her chest which was strange because she didn't even have a heart, she coughed and wheezed, causing a small pebble to fall from her mouth.

"What the hell is that?!" Emma asked her eyes widening in shock, the look on her face matching Regina's. She didn't have a clue, not really, how the hell could she possibly be coughing up stones? It was insane, it was just…

"It isn't just my heart," she uttered staring straight ahead, "my whole body is turning to stone and there is nothing I can do about it."

"Fuck me," the blonde gasped, putting her foot down on the accelerator, speeding towards the town line and screeching to a halt when she reached it, "are you sure you can't put it back in?"

"Yes, please, just find Robin," she breathed, stepping out of the car and trying to stumble, her limbs felt hard as though they were solidifying, making it hard for her to walk. Emma jumped out of the car and grabbed a blanket before walking her to the side of the road and sitting her under a tree.

"Will you be okay here?" she asked, a clearly worried expression written on her face as she looked her over.

"Go Emma!" Regina yelled as she carefully held onto her heart that had once been glowing so brightly and now was dull and barely even lit at all.

"I'm gone!" With that she watched as Emma jumped back into her car and took off over the town line disappearing out of sight and leaving Regina alone as her body slowly began to turn to stone.

Robin felt a pang in his chest the moment he stepped over the line, he was barely holding it together as he walked with his "family," further and further away from Storybrooke, leaving behind one of the most important people in his life. Leaving behind the woman he loved with all that he was, with his heart and soul, he felt lost without her and already, not even ten meters down the road he felt this incredible sadness fall over him. He was going to lose her forever and never see her beautiful face ever again.

He sensed the woman who's fault this was looking at him and he chanced a look back at her, he knew he shouldn't feel this way, she was his wife, but the thing was it wasn't the same, not in the slightest, he didn't feel anything for her anymore. In fact, he blamed her for tearing him away from the woman that he had come to love so much, for tearing him away from Regina. He resented Marian and as much as he might like to deny it, it was the truth. There was a part of him, deep, deep down that wished she had never returned, wished that he had been allowed to just get on with his life and live it with Regina, Roland and Henry.

He shouldn't feel that way, he should be glad, she was the mother of his child, yet something about her was off, she didn't seem the same and it didn't feel the same, merely being around her felt strange. He just couldn't put his finger on it, it was as though he couldn't trust her and he didn't know why that was because surely you should be able to trust the woman who is your wife, shouldn't you? He should be able to trust the mother of his child, but he didn't, there was a change in her, something dark, something he didn't like, even if she had given her consent for him to be with Regina, something had soon happened to make sure that wasn't a reality and part of him doubted that it was just a coincidence, he was suspicious.

He held on tighter to his son's hand as they carried on walking towards their destination, somewhere he really didn't want to go, he wanted to be back there with everything he knew, not heading off out into the large, unfamiliar world. Regina had showed him pictures and told him what New York was like, but he didn't really see it as his kind of place. It was tall and built up, lacking in nature and forests, the only thing green being a park that stood in the middle, Regina had said that it was called the central park. He doubted that it would be the same, in fact he had already decided that he hated New York intensely. It was keeping him from her, the woman he really wanted to be with, the woman he fought for and would still fight for if it came down to it.

With a sigh he slipped the device Regina had given him out from his pocket and unlocked it, finding a picture of her immediately, her dark hair and bright red lips drawing him in and captivating his very being. Was is possible to miss someone so terribly that your whole body ached for them, ached to be with them. He found himself halting in his tracks. He couldn't do it, he thought he was strong enough to walk away, but he wasn't, he couldn't live without seeing her beautiful smile and hearing her captivating laugh, he just couldn't do it, he needed her in his life every day.

"Robin?" Marian's voice broke through his trance and he looked up at her, meeting her eyes for a moment before looking down, "Robin you chose me, it's over. You can't go back, she told you as much."

"Marian, I can't just turn off my feelings."

"Then try," she snapped harshly, "Robin, if we are going to be together, if we are going to make this work you are going to have to forget about Regina, you can't dwell on her memory."

"I don't want to forget her though, don't you understand Marian, I love her, I'm in love with her and I can't just forget she ever existed, as though she were nothing, because she is something, she is the woman I love and I can't just erase her from my life completely," he flung back. He wasn't in the mood for this, he had left everything for Marian, his friends, his love, a boy who had practically been like a second son and this was how she repaid him? By telling him that he needed to forget about Regina? He couldn't ever forget about her, she wasn't someone you forgot.

"Well, you're going to have to try Robin, because clearly you can't be with her anymore," Marian scoffed, "you're going to have to deal with that."

Robin simply glared in response, she was so selfish and it was frustrating, "you knew how much I loved her, why would you want to be second best?" He knew that might have been harsh, but he didn't feel the need to be nice to her in that moment.

"I thought you'd maybe care about your wife and the woman who came back from the past more than the monster who tried to kill her, but clearly you aren't the man I knew and fell in love with."

"Clearly not," he snapped, "you certainly aren't the woman I fell in love with." He looked down at Roland who had his eyes trained to the ground and he suddenly felt guilty for arguing with his mother in front of him, "Roland, I'm sorry that we're fighting," Robin sighed and his son looked up to him before pulling his hand away from Marian and gesturing for his father to pick him up.

"I don't want to go," he cried, his face burying into Robin's jacket as tears began pouring down his little chubby cheeks, "I want Regina," Roland sobbed. Robin couldn't blame him, he had spent more time with Regina and getting used to her than he had with his own mother and Robin knew that Roland loved Regina very much, nearly as much as he did. "Why do we have to leave daddy? I want Gina."

Marian scoffed, "Roland, come on, we're a family now, Regina isn't…"

"No!" he shouted, looking towards the woman, "I don't like you! I want Regina!"

"Roland!" Marian yelled, "I am your mother! How dare you yell at me like that!"

"You're not my mother! Regina is!"

Robin's eyes widened as he looked from his son to Marian in complete shock at his outburst, but he had to say that in his mind he was thinking the exact same thing.

"Why you little shit! You're disrespectful and I think it's about time that I showed you how to respect," she rose her arm as if to hit him, but Robin grabbed her wrist, squeezing, probably tighter than necessary.

"Don't you ever, ever try and hurt my son again, do you understand," he gritted out, this wasn't the woman he knew, he didn't recognise her, if he hadn't been suspicious before, he certainly was now, "we aren't going anywhere with you, you're on your own Marian," he spat, holding onto his boy as he turned on his heel and began to walk back in the direction of the town line. "Don't worry, she won't hurt you," he told Roland, clutching onto him.

"So what?! You're just going to leave me here alone in the middle of nowhere?!"

"Yes, that's exactly what I'm going to do, because you're not Marian," he spat whirling around and glaring at her, "you can't be, she wouldn't have done any of the vile things you have!" he moved closer to her and that was when he spotted it, the chain around her neck, Marian didn't like jewellery, she had told him time and time again that she thought it was pointless. Narrowing his eyes he reached out and grabbed the necklace before pulling it from her neck, the little leaf inside glowed in his palm and when he looked up he shot backwards in shock. "Zelena!"

"You blundering idiot!" she yelled, "you ruined everything! You and your true love, but I will get my revenge, you still can't get back across the town line, so even if you wanted to return to your precious Regina, you wouldn't be able to."

"You tricked us," he seethed, "were you really just going to pretend to be Marian? Pretend to play happy families?"

"Of course."

"You're so twisted," Robin shook his head and carried on back towards the town line, finding the phone Regina had given him once again and this time dialling her number, it rang for three tones before she picked up, "Regina!"

"Ro…Robin," she breathed out.

His eyebrows furrowed, there was something wrong with her, she didn't sound like herself, "Regina, are you okay?" he asked, picking up the pace in which he walking back towards Storybrooke, leaving Zelena behind him.

"I… Rob…"

Suddenly he heard a rustle and a smash as though she dropped her phone, if he hadn't been worried before he certainly was now, "Regina?!" there was no answer, something was going on, something was happening to her, "Regina!"

He knew it was going to take him too long to get back to town, what if whatever was happening to Regina was really serious, what if he didn't get there in time, get to her in time? Just then though, he saw something hurtling towards them down the road, Emma's yellow bug, he knew that something was wrong, really wrong. She slammed on the breaks and stopped beside him, "Robin it's…"

"Regina," he nodded, opening the back door and making sure his son was buckled up properly before climbing into the front.

"Is that Zelena?" Emma asked, looking at the red head that was running to catch up with them.

"Yes, seems that dear Marian wasn't who she seemed," he spat, "what's happening to Regina?"

"We need to hurry," Emma shook her head, turning the car and putting her foot down as they sped back towards Storybrooke.

"How are we going to get back over the line?" Robin asked, Regina had sad that there wasn't a way, that it wasn't possible, she wouldn't lie to him, surely she wouldn't.

"She found a way, she had to… she's… something is happening to her Robin, something bad and it started when you went over the line."

"I was just on the phone to her, one minute she was talking and the next she just stopped," he uttered, looking out of the window as they edged their way closer to where they needed to be.

"Shit," Emma groaned, the speed of the car accelerating way over the speed limit of the road, as they came closer to their destination she reached over and opened the glove box, "there's a scroll in there, take it out and open it," she instructed.

Robin did as he was told, pushing his way past Twinkie wrappers to find what he was looking for, he unravelled it and watched as the magical boarder appeared in front of them and Emma's car smashed through it before she slammed on the breaks yet again, giving them all a little whiplash, "where is she?" Robin asked in panic.

"I left her there, she couldn't go over the border, she was by the tree."

Robin undid his seat belt and hurried out of the car, finding Regina laid on the ground, her face pale and her eyes open, glazed over, in her hand was a smooth stone in the shape of a heart. "Regina!" he reached out touching her face gently, she was cold and unresponsive, what had he done? "Regina, I'm here now, baby," he pulled her into his arms, but she was hard, "Regina!" He lowered his lips to hers, kissing them softly as he cupped her cheek, "please Regina, you have to be okay, you have to survive," he murmured against her lips, feeling them soften under his and her body seemed to settle somewhat into his arms, but he couldn't feel a pulse, there was nothing beating in her chest.

Emma came over to him and he wiped the tears from his face, "I don't think she's breathing," he stated, trying not to break down completely in front of the blonde, his voice was shaky though as he refused to let go of his love.

"She didn't have her heart in her chest," Emma sighed, "it was turning to stone and she took it out," Emma found the stone that had been in Regina's hand and held it up, "oh god."

"What? No," he shook his head, holding onto Regina tighter, "no I refuse to let her die, she can't! This is all my fault, I did this, I left her and this is what happened," he cried, cradling her in his arms, "there has to be something we can do Emma, has to be some way we can save her."

The blonde looked down at Regina, surveying her for a moment, Robin looked at her and watched as the wheels turned in her brain, he could tell that she was trying to come up with something, anything that might save Regina, "my parents," she muttered. "Something similar happened to them during the missing year, Regina was able to pull out my mother's heart and split it so that they shared one heart, maybe that would work."

"Try it! Try anything, just save her, we have to save her," he nodded, carefully lying Regina on the ground and turning to Emma for her to rip his heart out, Regina had told him before how painful it could be, but he was willing to go through any amount of pain if it meant that Regina lived, if it meant that the woman he loved could be alive.

Emma took a deep breath and before he knew it she was plunging her hand into his chest and pulling his heart out. It was red and glowing, beating steadily in her palm as they both looked at it, "I think we should try something else first before we start breaking it in two," she found Regina's heart with her other hand and held them together.

Robin watched in confusion wondering what she was doing and then it happened, light shone from his heart and wrapped itself around Regina's engulfing the organ in brightness, it was that bright Robin and Emma had to look away, by the time they looked back they realised that Regina's heart was rapidly gaining colour, the stone like features disappearing until the heart shone bright red and began to beat in her hand. Emma smiled and turned to Robin before pressing his heart back inside his chest and then doing the same to Regina.

The brunette's eyes snapped open and she gasped for breath, drawing all the air she possibly could into her lungs. She had no idea what happened as she looked around frantically, spotting Robin sat beside her, she smiled and reached out grabbing him, holding his hand as tightly as she possibly could, "you came," she whispered.

"Of course, I came," he smiled, reaching out for her and pulling her into his arms once again, holding her against him, before pulling back a little so he could kiss her lips, happy to gain a response this time as her lips moved with him, kissing him back. When they parted his pressed his hand against her cheek, "I'm never going to leave your side again," he sighed resting his forehead against hers, "I love you Regina Mills."

She sniffled and nuzzled her nose against his, bringing her lips up to kiss the tip of it, "I love you too, so, so much and nothing is ever going to take you from me again."

"I know, I'm with you, always."

"Always," she repeated happily, knowing that she had her family back and anyone who tried to break them apart better damn be ready to go up against her, because she was going to give up without one hell of a fight.