"You are handsome, I'll give you that, but I still don't understand what is your relation to my sister. It can't be love, I watched her since she was in her twenties, there was no sign of love in her life. So, thief, what is your story?" Zelena asked as she paced up and down the dungeon, she could see that Regina cared for the man, but how did she get to know him? Zelena was torturing Robin in order to get answers from him, when he wouldn't answer a painful wave would wash over his body, everything would hurt and he would be groaning in pain. She would often have to repeat the action multiple times before Robin would answer, she hoped that he would be more cooperative that time and she was still surprised when the thief answered without any kind of means needed.

"We were 19... That's why you never saw me." Robin said and went back to being quiet.

"Do tell me more."

"No." Robin answered sharply, he didn't want that witch to know any more about Regina's life, she appeared to know too much as it was.

"You know what happens when you say no, don't you? Why put yourself through that torture when you'll end up telling me everything at the end either way?" Zelena asked, honestly curious, the thief didn't seem stupid, he should notice that he was telling her everything after a few rounds of torture.

"Or will I? How do you know I'm not feeding you false information? Telling you what you wanted to hear?" Robin asked the witch, and he was doing exactly that, instead of suffering from all of the pain, he'd lie to her but he made sure that it was intertwined with the truth so that it wouldn't be too obvious. Robin watched as the witch processed that information and then as the anger filled her eyes, she looked absolutely furious.

"I didn't want to kill you before, you were a valuable chess piece, but sometimes sacrifices are needed in order to get to the king, or in this situation - to the queen, and then... Well..." Zelena paused and chuckled "checkmate." Zelena then left the dungeon, leaving Robin to his thoughts. Would the witch kill him? Or did she have far worse ideas in her mind for him?

"I found her!" Regina exclaimed.

"What? Where?" Snow asked when she heard her, the two of them were in the library, Snow was going over some books while Regina had a map in front of her and muttered some spells in order to track the witch.

"My castle."

"This is your castle." Snow said, getting confused.

"Yeah, no, sorry. This is my summer palace, my real castle is up on the hills."

"You used my father's castle as a summer palace?!" Snow said, getting angry.

"Yes? Snow, come on, this castle was full of bad memories for me, I didn't want to spend any more time in here than I had to. I come here, make an appearance, fool people that this is my castle and then go back." Regina explained, the time she spent with the king were bad for her, full of fear and desperation, she didn't want to remember it any more than she had to.

"Fine. I'll call a council meeting in order to discuss our plan, wait for us in the throne room." Snow said and exited the library.

"Like hell I will." Regina said when she was sure the princess couldn't hear her, Regina went into her chambers and stood in front of her full length mirror, the witch wanted an evil queen and she will get one. Regina put her hands up and the purple smoke started to round her, she observed as the smoke started to fade and as it started to reveal her outfit. She wore a black dress with all kinds of gems imbedded in the fabric, the dress was floor length and she had paired it with high heeled boots. Her long hair was pulled up in a high pony tail, her eye makeup had many shades of black while her lipstick was blood red. She looked at her reflection a little more and then she disappeared in the same kind of purple smoke as always.

She appeared at the clearing, maybe two hundred feet away from the castle, at first she was confused and then she noticed magic surrounding the castle, some kind of shield protecting it. Regina lifted both of her hands in the air and got ready to take down the shield, usually she wouldn't even try to do it, but ever since she fought with monkeys, she felt as if she had more power, she focused on taking down the shield and closed her eyes, she kept her eyes close until she felt the earth starting to shake. She saw the shield going down and assumed that it was causing the shaking. After a few moments the shield was completely down and Regina took a tentative step forward, after she found no resistance she continued forward.

"Where is she?" David asked as he paced up and down the room. They were all gathered and were waiting for Regina.

"I don't know, she should have been here by now." Snow said.

"She went alone, that damned woman!" David exclaimed after a few moments of thinking.

"Why would she do that?" Snow asked.

"If it was me in the castle, would you sit here and plan what you were going to do or would you just go and act on impulse and instinct?"

"Okay, so she has gone after him. What do we do?" Snow asked and sat down.

"I say we let her be." Grumpy said but after a glare Granny sent him, he muttered "Or let's not do that."

"Regina does everything on her own because she never had someone to help her, she was alone for the most of her life, I say it's a habit. And I also say that we need to help her, we still don't know everything that green witch is capable of." Red said.

"But it will take us over two hours to get there, she could be already fighting the witch for all we know, we can't get there fast enough." Belle reasoned.

"We go after her, anyone who wants to, we leave in thirty minutes. Regina is capable of taking care of herself, but she might need our help later… we just hope that we get there on time." David said and ended the meeting, the room was soon empty with only David, Snow and Belle left.

"You know that there is no way that we get there on time, right?" The beauty asked.

"I know, Belle, but we have to try." David answered.

"Just don't say I didn't warn you." Belle said and exited the room.

Regina rounded the castle and found a secret passage that would leave her straight to the dungeons, one of her prisoners came up with the idea, only he wanted to dug a tunnel with a wooden spoon and his bare hands, Regina made sure that the passage was done before moving the prisoner in another cell and locking the tunnel for everyone but her.

She walked the dark halls for a while until she finally reached a wooden door, she carefully opened the door and found herself inside her dungeons.

"Robin!" She called his name.

"Regina?" A familiar accented voice answered from the dungeon closest to her. Regina got to the bars and waited for him to come closer. When he finally came into the light, Regina had to stop herself from gasping. He was bleeding from his arm and he had blood on his forehead.

"I have to get you out of here." Regina said and purple sparks appeared on her hand, she put her hand on the bars and watched as the bars started to disappear. Regina offered Robin his hand and he took it with little hesitation. Without thinking Regina teleported them both back into her summer palace as she put it.

They appeared in her bed chambers, but Regina couldn't bring herself to care. She helped him down on the bed and then she focused all of her magic on healing him. She healed him, but the blood still remained.

"Roland…" Robin whispered.

"He is here too, he's been asking for you ever since she took you." Regina explained. "Do you want me to go get him?"

"No, get Little John here first, I don't want Roland to see me like this." He answered and Regina was about to leave but he called for her. "Regina… I'm really glad you're here."

"I wouldn't be anywhere else." Except by my son's side.

"Where do you think you're going?" Regina asked as she got outside the castle and saw a lot of people, mostly Marry Men, getting ready to leave, with Snow and Charming at the front, leading them. Snow and Charming turned around at her voice and stared in shock. "Okay, when you have an answer find me." Regina said and passed them in her search for Little John.

"Little John!" She called when she saw him with little Roland, she got closer to them and took Roland in her arms. "Robin wants to see you."

"Robin?" and "Daddy?" were heard at the same time.

"Yes, he is in my chambers, I rescued him from the witch… She's going to be furious when she finds out."

Little John didn't answer anything, just hugged her and went to find his best friend.

"I wanna see daddy!" Little Roland said.

"I know, sweetie, but daddy's hurt and he needs some time before he can see you… How about we go and play while Little John is with your dad."

"Let's play, Gina." Roland said and waited to be put down, once he was on the ground, he took Regina's hand and started to walk around with her, showing her everything he found interesting.

It looks like Zelena's gonna be trouble, doesn't it? And what do you think is happening with Regina's powers? I know the answer, but I wanna see what you all think, why are they increasing? Leave a review or PM me and tell me what you think.