Hello everybody! It wasn't supposed to take me this long to post this but it has been a rather chaotic time! Enjoy the reunion! :)

"What are you pointing at me?"

"A gun," he answered but didn't lower it as his face creased in confusion.

"A gun? What is a gun? I am feeling free to assume it will bring harm when...fired? Thrown?"

"Both," he shook his head, his face still screwed as he looked down at him, "you can't be here! You are dead!"

"Yes I am not quite certain as to what happened to me exactly. I am afraid I have frightened Regina rather badly..."

"No shit! How the hell can you be here?! And if you can't explain that then you had better give me some damn good evidence to support you being who you say you are and not just some trick!"

"What do you want to know?"

"No, no, no that's not how this works. You need to convince me on your own volition or I shoot you in the knee before I throw you out of this house and make sure you never get close to Regina again."

"Well you have certainly come to care for her a little more than the last time I saw you," he stated and David adjusted his position and kept the black gun pointed directly at him. He wasn't exactly keen to find out what it did, "alright alright, take it easy."

...

She jumped at the sound of someone knocking on the door and stepped away from it as she shot her eyes to it. She had felt so much relief when she had heard David's voice on the other side when he had arrived. Her thoughts were too frayed and panicked to keep her attention on the conversation taking place on the other side of the door however. And then it had been silent for a long time. Until the knock on the door.

"Regina."

She let out a heavy breath that she didn't realize she was holding when she heard David's gentle voice. But she still didn't move from her place on the far side of the room.

"Regina please let me in."

"Just you," she demanded in a shaky voice as she leaned further away from the door.

"Just me."

"You swear?"

"I swear, Regina. Only me. Just me. Please unlock the door," he encouraged tenderly as he leaned his side against the door, one palm laying flat on the white wood and the other hand holding the door handle. After a long pause he opened his mouth to call to her again but heard the soft click of the lock before he said anything. So with a glance over his shoulder to make sure Robin was going to stay put, David slowly opened the door and stepped inside.

Regina stood in the far corner of the room and he had never seen her more scared. Her terrified eyes were filled with tears and her cheeks were stained with tears as well while her red lips were parted to allow for her short panicked breaths to pass. In an attempt to lighten and ease the air in the room, David gave her a lopsided smile and a small shrug of his shoulder, "maybe you'll think twice about the consequences the next time you planning on proclaiming your boredom."

She couldn't help herself and her ragged breaths started to come out in short tense bouts of quiet laughter as more tears rolled down her cheeks, "I am blaming the tea," she bantered quietly and shrugged her shoulders up as she looked up a little higher toward the ceiling with a small smile before looking back to him, "it's awful stuff."

David smiled a little more and a soft laughed breath left his nose. Her smile didn't last very long though and when her tears started to roll down her cheeks he walked toward her. When he was in front of her he moved to hug her and she didn't hesitate to quickly step in to him and wrap her arms around his neck. He held her to him with his arms wrapped around her middle and pushed his head against hers as she buried her face in to his neck, seeking comfort and support.

It was times like these where he found it difficult to draw a line connecting her to the queen he loathed so dearly not that much time ago. Vulnerable and scared. Scared to be hurt. It was all a rather far cry from the reckless bloodthirsty woman he knew back in the Enchanted Forest.

"Is it him?"

Her hopeful and yet terrified whisper had him smiling just a little, "I believe so, yes," he whispered and she began to shake a little.

"How?"

"He's not all that certain. He believes it had something to do with Pan bottling away the rest of his life before it was taken completely by the spear. You preserving his body and healing his wound so no one would have to see it kept him from dying on his return apparently. He claims to have been at your side since he fell. Like a shadow or a ghost. But I can't confirm that considering I don't know what you did when you were alone over there. He woke up in the Enchanted Forest the moment we left that world and entered Storybrooke's," he whispered and loosened his arms around her when she moved back a little to look him in the eye, "he's been looking for a way to you ever since."

"...what if it's a trick?"

David shook his head slowly and whispered gently, "then I am sorry you have to lose him again..." He lifted his hand to lift her chin when she dropped her head and waited for her to look him in the eye, "I am ninety seven percent sure that it is the real Robin Hood pacing anxiously in your foyer."

"Only ninety seven?"

"Actually let's drop that to ninety five because I have not seen him without his clothes on," he rocked his head from side to side and smiled when Regina breathed out a quiet laugh. He gave a soft hum as he moved his thumb back and forth along the side of her jaw a couple times before he lowered his hand, "only you will be able to tell if it's really him, Regina," he whispered softly and then twisted his face up and shook his head, "I didn't mean in regards to the naked thing, I meant the whole soulmate thing you two have got going on," he laughed quietly and she laughed with him.

She shook her head as she slowly stepped past him and cautiously approached the door, wringing her hands together in front of her as she did. Her heart was racing in her chest and she felt like she was suffocating. Her head was spinning and her feet felt like lead while her stomach churned. She didn't want to open the door.

But she also really really did want to.

She wanted to fall in to Robin's arms and cling to him and never let him out of her sight. She wanted to feel his heart beat beneath her fingertips, she wanted to hear it pound, she wanted to be overwhelmed in the scent of forest that had never failed to make her cry since she had returned home, she wanted to taste his mouth against her own, she wanted to see him look at her through those stunning green eyes, she wanted to feel his fingers touch her at every chance he got, she wanted him to hold her, she wanted to feel that overwhelming love.

David stood behind her with a smile and waited patiently for her to gather the courage to open the door. When she spun around rather abruptly his smile curled a little more at those wide nervous eyes, "don't go cowering on me now," he teased and she gave half a nervous smile.

"No it's just...how do I look...?"

David's smile softened in adoration for the tender question and felt his heart do the same. "As beautiful as always," he whispered through his smile and watched as a smile graced her lips and creased the corners of her dark eyes. Her smile vanished though and fear replaced it when she reached forward and placed her hand on the door handle and paused.

Robin paced back and forth anxiously with light and quiet feet and a hand rubbing his jaw. His heart was just racing in his chest. He didn't want to wait for David to coax her out, he wanted to go in there and hold his girl and never again let her go. His head snapped toward the door at the soft click that came with the turn of its handle and his breathing stopped as well as he watched the white door slowly open.

He was not ashamed to say he had tears pooling in his eyes when she warily stepped out of the doorway and in to the foyer. He had missed her so much and had worked so hard and had been rewarded with so many dead ends trying to find a way to her. And he had finally succeeded and it was such a relief and such a joy. She was right there.

"Robin?"

He gave a watery smile and a shaky laugh as he nodded his head and then watched a few tears roll down her cheeks, "it's me, Regina," he could only manage a whisper and when her body started shaking and her hands came up and covered her mouth, he couldn't stand it any longer. He ran the last few strides between them and pulled her in to him and held her too tight.

His large heavy arms squished her against him as they wound tight around her middle and he buried his face in to the nook of her neck and cried silently while she cried quietly in to his neck and she held him close around his neck. She was shaking in his arms and he nuzzled his face deeper in to her neck and let out a shuddering breath through his tears. A small cry of relief and heartache made it past his lips and was muffled by her neck as he lifted one hand and pushed it through her soft hair over the back of her head.

He was smothering her but she didn't care. She couldn't get close enough to him. "You smell so good," she whimpered in to his neck as she hugged him tighter and then laughed lightly through her sob when he laughed quietly through his tears.

He lifted his head from her neck and encouraged her to do the same and when she did he rested his forehead against hers and moved his thumb along her tear dampened cheek as she cried through her teeth. Then without wasting another moment he kissed her. His heart twisted at the quiet sob she gave against his mouth and he would be lying if he said a similar sound didn't leave his mouth when they parted for a quick breath of air before they met in another kiss.

His arm wound tighter around her middle as both of hers did the same around his neck and he tangled his other hand a little further in to her hair. He felt so good and all of her doubt regarding his true presence was erased as his mouth moved against hers. He swivelled his head to the other side and more tears escaped her closed eyes just because he was there. It was hard and slow but the desperation didn't go unnoticed.

She could feel his tears beneath her thumbs when she moved her hands to hold his face and the sensation had her face twisting with a whole mess of emotions and had her letting out another small whimper during a quick breath of air. His stubble was such a welcome feel beneath her hands as was him holding her firmly against him and being surrounded once again by his warmth and undeniable love.

Mutually they brought their kiss to a stop and Regina hardly tried to swallow back a new set of sobs and pushed her forehead to his. She took a deep breath through her nose and felt more tears roll down her cheeks as that scent of hard work and forest filled her senses.

Her thumbs moved slowly over his cheeks and the soft touch had his heart lurching in his chest, "I have missed you so much."

His voice was tight with his silent tears and hushed to a whisper for the distance between them was so small. Just the sound of his voice reaching her ears after so long was enough to make her expression crease with the pain of loneliness and old heartache as she whimpered back, "I lost you."

"I am back now," he assured and felt her shaky breath against his lips, "I promise you I am not going anywhere without you."

"I don't understand," she cried quietly and his fingers combed through her hair as another one of his tears met her thumb.

"And I will explain but right now I just want to hold you," he whispered and felt her try to get even closer to him as she gave a single subtle nod.

"I love you," she whispered and smiled when she felt his cheeks lift beneath her hands with a smile of his own.

"I love you, your majesty," he smiled and the sound of her soft teary laughter had him smiling all the more.

"Thief," she whispered in an affectionate retort through her tears and nuzzled her nose in against the side of his. The hand playing in her hair moved across her shoulders and his arm hugged her around her shoulders as well as around her lower back. When she felt another presence watching her she remembered that Charming was still there and when she opened one eye she found him smiling with his phone pointed at her and Robin.

"Charming," she whined out with a small laugh as she closed her eye again and reached out and pushed the phone away before nuzzling further in to Robin as she hugged him back around his neck and felt his throat vibrate with his quiet laughter.

"Come on, Regina," he laughed softly and looked back at his phone, "it's not everyday people come back from the dead."

"If you send that to Snow-!"

"Too late," he laughed.

...

"You got a text," Henry notified when the phone vibrated on the table as Snow returned with their drinks.

"Who's it from?"

"David. Sent you a picture of...wait what?"

Snow sat down in the booth and pushed Henry's pop across the table to him before picking up her phone from the table as Henry squinted his eyes and leaned forward to try and get a better look.

"Is that my mom?"

"What?" Snow chuckled with a shake of her head as she slid her finger across the screen of her phone to open the message without really looking at the thumbnail photo on the screen. She lifted her cup and sat back in her booth as she brought her straw to her mouth and sipped at her water with a pleasant and happy smile. A smile that vanished in to shock when she tapped open the photo.

Her eyes widened at the sight of Regina kissing the man dressed in Enchanted Forest attire with a bow and quiver full of arrows slung across his back. Her heart couldn't decide if it should stop or beat out of her chest and her lungs simply refused to function at all.

"Grandma?" Henry called curiously but she didn't so much as blink, "Snow?" He drew out and waved his hand at her but still nothing, "hello?"

Her eyes flicked up to the top of her screen when her phone vibrated in her hand and a second message dropped down that read 'hush ;)' and at that she let out a small startled vocal and covered her mouth with her hand.

"Grandma? What's going on?" Henry asked in concern as Snow was suddenly on the verge of tears.

A third message vibrated her phone in her hand and she went back and tapped the sent video and while she could not hear over the sounds in the diner she could see their mouths moving in quiet conversation, the pair laughing and smiling just a little through their tears.

"Seriously grandma, what is going on? Is everything okay?"

Snow started laughing in to her hand as tears pooled in her eyes and when Regina pushed the camera away and the video ended, she looked to Henry who was watching her in concern and she laughed a little more.

"You're being really weird..."

Snow simply laughed a little more and then leapt up from her seat and moved to run off but turned back around and gripped Henry's hand in hers and pulled him from the booth, "come on!"

"Whoa okay!" He huffed as he ran to catch his balance and tried to fall in stride with his rather spry grandmother.

...

At the sound of her daughter crying quietly to announce to the world she was awake, Regina laughed and new tears of joy pooled in her eyes. As Robin connected the sound with the being it came from he lifted his head and looked up over his shoulder curiously toward the stairs. She kissed his neck and he looked back down to her and she caught his mouth in a kiss before pulling away and taking his hand in hers and leading him up the stairs.

His hand was large and warm as it enveloped hers and it brought an even wider smile to her face as she began climbing the stairs faster and he followed happily with his eyes focused toward the sound of the baby. After climbing the stairs she walked to her daughter's room and opened the door, squeezing Robin's hand before she let go and walked toward the crib and cooed, "quiet, my darling."

Robin stood dead still in the centre of the room and only glanced away from Regina's back and to his side when David stopped there with a smile at him. He looked back at Regina and watched her lift a little girl in to her arms and felt his heart jump in to his throat as she walked toward him after the child quickly quieted, "is she mine?"

Regina smiled up at him and nodded with tears in her dark eyes and he choked a little on his breath as he placed a hand over his mouth and his teary green eyes focused on the baby, "would you like to hold her?"

"Yes," he breathed out with a happy laugh and nodded, "yes I would love to," he hesitantly opened his arms and Regina stepped forward and placed the little girl in his arms. He laughed through tears of joy as the baby looked up at him and waved her grabbing hands around as she pursed her little lips and played with her tongue. "You darling, brave woman," he laughed to Regina and she smiled back at him before his attention was brought back to his daughter, "look at what you have made!"

"I am just happy you get to see her grow up," she smiled and laughed with teary eyes when the baby took hold of his larger finger which had Robin leaning down and softly kissing the baby's forehead.

"She is beautiful," he laughed and studied the tiny girl staring up at him. When she smiled up at him he was ecstatic and that toothless grin had him smiling even more and laughing a little louder.

"Are you going to tell me what is going on yet? Why is there glass on the flo-"

"Hurry up!"

"Why didn't we drive here?!"

"Because running through people's yards is faster!"

"Yeah if you're a freakin' gazelle! Seriously how were you jumping those fences?!"

Everyone's heads turned to the door at the sound of two familiar voices entering the home, one excited and the other confused. Then the next thing she knew Regina was being tackled by Snow who was laughing quietly as Regina hugged her back after catching her balance.

"Who are you?" Henry questioned curiously as he panted and looked over the man holding his baby sister. At first glance and with the knowledge that this was a town full of fairytale characters he would guess he was Robin Hood based on the bow and arrows but he knew that Robin Hood was dead.

"My name is Robin Hood," he answered with a smile and outstretched one hand and the boy took it with a confused cock of his head and shook it, "you must be Henry?"

"...yes...but aren't you supposed to be, well, dead?"

"Well Peter Pan was one to play games and he played a rather cruel one with your mother. My life wasn't permitted to enter my body again until Regina stepped foot back here in Storybrooke."

"Well it's a good thing Regina pitched an absolute fit when we tried to get her to stay and watch them bury you!" Snow laughed as she let go of Regina.

"Yes indeed!" He laughed and raised his eyebrows. He smiled happily when Regina snuck closer to him and nuzzled herself in to his side as she wrapped her arms around his middle. He looped one arm around her waist in return and happily continued holding his joyously kicking daughter in the other as he kissed the top of Regina's head.

"Where is Roland?"

"He is back in the Enchanted Forest with the Merry Men. I put faith in the mention of a magic bean crop you had all been working to reestablish here in your world while we were back in Neverland. My found transport here could only take one and it was a rather...unpredictable and...life endangering...so I made sure Roland was as far away from me as possible while I went to obtain it."

"And what was this unpredictable and life threatening method?" Regina questioned curiously as she kissed his chest.

"They are in my satchel. I was going off of rumours and writings alone and it was more so the actual retrieval that was life threatening," he nodded as Snow flipped open his satchel, "I was running low on hope when the Enchanted Forest obtained a new guest. A powerful witch with quite an olive complexion..."

Snow furrowed her brow and hooked her fingers in to the heels of a pair of silver women's shoes and lifted them out with an eyebrow raised.

"How did you-" Regina lifted her head from his chest and stared wide eyed at the slippers and pointed her finger at them.

"I'm a thief. I stole them," he stated simply and then laughed a little, "and then ran like hell until I was somewhere I could use them."

Slowly, so slowly, a smirk pulled at Regina's mouth and she looked back up at Robin with her chin resting on his chest, "you wore those?"

"Click, click, click," he grinned as he rocked on to his toes and knocked his heels together in time with his words. Regina quickly burst in to laughter and Snow and David joined in a little quieter, "I was prepared to use any method to get back to you no matter how ridiculous. They were a rather tight fit though," he chuckled and Regina took his head between her soft hands and kissed him through her laughter.

Henry smiled and laughed happily as he watched his mother kiss Robin with a smile. He rather liked Robin so far. And not just because he was Robin Hood. Not that that hurt. Figuring she wasn't exactly going to stop kissing him anytime soon, Henry looked to Snow and David and snagged their attention from his mother and Robin, "I thought the slippers were supposed to be ruby?"

"Hmm?" Snow raised her eyebrows and looked to Henry.

"An evil green witch? Magic slippers? Totally the Wizard of Oz! Only the slippers were ruby not silver."

"Probably had something to do with copyright infringement," Regina teased in her exhale with her smile hardly an inch from Robin's as her nose pressed against his cheek.

"Hilarious, mom," Henry rolled his eyes and she chuckled through her teeth before Robin kissed her again.

"The books and movies can't get it all right," Snow shrugged with a laugh and Henry cocked his head and nodded, "I mean you really think Regina hunted me down because she was jealous that people called me the fairest of them all?"

"Ah but you see there is a difference between fair and superlative."

"Wow why not tell us what you really think, Charming?" Snow teased with a laughed and stuck the tip of her tongue between her teeth and David shook his head with a laugh as Henry laughed quietly under his breath and Regina and Robin's laughter was heard as well.

"What I believe he meant to say was that there are different kinds of perfection and Regina is of the highest caliber of her own just as you are of yours," Robin nodded once with a smile and Snow raised her eyebrows with a bit back smile, impressed by his words.

"Yes that! He read my mind," David motioned to him with a laugh and Snow swatted his chest with the back of her hand that had him laughing more.

"You have a smooth tongue, sir," Snow smirked and Robin gave a playful bow of his head.

"Mmm yes he does," Regina purred with an unintentionally blatant double entendre as she grinned at his mouth.

"Mo-om!" Henry whined out with his face scrunched up in disgust.

"Sorry, Henry," she quickly apologized and snapped her head to him with her fingertips over her mouth as David gave a good hearty laugh and Snow smacked his chest again but was laughing quietly herself. She was pretty sure Robin was biting his tongue as well.

"That's gross!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," she apologized again but was quickly finding it hard to keep her laughter unheard and unseen.

"You're laughing."

"I am not."

Henry raised an eyebrow when the corners of her mouth curled upward for a split second but she could not hide the glint of amusement dancing in those dark eyes he loved so much. "No!" He gasped and tried to get away but she was quicker and her fingers took hold of his sides and started tickling him relentlessly, "mom! No! Stop!" He laughed and tried to push her off him but it did nothing.