Snow, Charming, and Robin were on their way back to the castle.
The atmosphere between them was light without fear or tension.
Snow was glad that she would finally go back to her daughter, her grandson, and daughter-in-law.
Charming was glad that Snow was happy and calm. He hoped she could sleep now without a lot of waking at night.
Robin was just happy to go back to his love waiting in the castle.
They decided to stop for a rest for the night and set up a camp. Robin was hunting for food while Snow was gathering wood for the fire and Charming had set up the tent.
They were tired after a long walk from the beanstalk to the castle, but they would arrive at the castle tomorrow afternoon.
The evening was pleasant, not too cold, Robin's hunt was excellent and they had enough food until morning.
They decided that tonight they would sleep in shifts as they did every night.
Robin takes the first shift, Snow the second and Charming the third until morning.
While Robin's first shift was successful, Snow started the second shift.
Snow heard noises in the area around them but saw nothing; she went over to her bow and arrow and went to check the surroundings.
After a short turn, the noise stopped and Snow assumed that it was only animals living in the woods.
Charming woke to replace Snow and saw her sitting with the weapon beside her.
"Is something wrong?" He asked Snow and went to stand beside her.
"I heard strange noises an hour ago and did not see anything suspicious but I checked around to make sure everything was all right. So keep your eyes open for any strange noise or movement." She said to Charming and kissed his cheek and wished him a good night and went to the tent.
Charming did exactly what Snow said, he kept his eyes open and listened to every strange noise.
Toward the end of the shift, the sun had not yet rise, but there was a gentle light in the sky.
Charming was sure the shift would be over and others would get up so they could get to the castle as soon as possible.
Charming was about to lay the weapon aside when he heard a noise coming from the trees of the forest.
He immediately took the sword in his hand and went to see where the noise came from. He was about to enter the forest in the direction of the noise when he noticed a sharp movement. He tried to see where the shift was coming from, but he did not have time to look up before a huge troll began running toward him.
Charming immediately ran toward the tent to wake Snow and Robin and warned them against the troll.
He shouted from a distance to the others, "Snow, Robin woke up now we must run."
Robin was the first to wake up he immediately heard Charming and went to wake Snow up. He picked her up from the floor of the tent and told her, "You must wake up. We're in danger. Take the bow and arrow and run."
Snow took charge of herself and began to collect the weapons and ran away with Robin and Charming not much behind them.
They tried to take cover from the troll but they were too exposed.
They decided to split up and try to distract the troll from them. The troll was indeed confused; he did not know who to go after. He decided to continue on the road opposite him, he continued chasing after Charming until they reached the edge of a cliff.
Charming did not know what he was going to do. He could not jump off the cliff because it was a stone pit.
He looked behind him and saw the troll standing in front of him, the troll moving toward him, and Charming was sure that was the end of him.
Suddenly there was a whistle behind the troll, the noise caught the troll's attention and he turned to the source of the whistle.
There Snow stood, bow and arrow aimed at the troll's face and she called, "stay away from my husband" and shot the arrow right between the troll's eyes.
The troll fell in a second on the ground dead.
Snow breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the troll was dead, she wanted to hug Charming and see if he was hurt.
"Are you okay, I was so worried about you, I do not know what I'd do without you." She hugged him tightly and buried her head in his neck. Charming put his hands on her head and said, "I do not know what I would have done without you, you are my world Snow, my hero." He kissed her on the head.
Robin emerged a few moments later, "are you all right? Has anyone been hurt?"
Charming looked at him and said, "It's not all right. The only one we get hurt is the troll. I suppose you should not mess with Snow White." Charming smiled at Robin and continued to embrace Snow as they walking toward the castle with Robin.
"I hope we will not have more surprises on the way, but at least we have Snow to protect us."
The travelers indeed arrive at the castle in the afternoon despite the incident with the troll.
They were happy to see the castle and be safe inside it again.
After fifteen minutes they stood at the gates of the castle and soon returned to the Queen's room.
When the Queen was informed that she had guests, she immediately went to greet them.
When Robin saw Regina he immediately ran to her and hugged her, he swung her around in the air and put her back on the floor.
Regina was glad to see Robin again with her; she did not waste a second and gave him a passionate kiss on her lips.
Robin put his forehead on hers and said, "I missed you and I'm not leaving you any time soon."
Regina only reacted with more little kisses all over his face and said, Good, I missed you too, I can't wait to be just the two of us alone, she said with a wink at the end of the sentence.
Zelena heard her and said to her," ohh Sis, calm down we got company.
Regina just laughed at her sister's reaction.
Snow took the opportunity to tell them the good news, "guess what, we managed to get the magic beans, Zelena we can go back to Storybrooke now and help Emma, Regina and Henry fight The Black Fairy."
Well we've got good news too, we've found a spell that can make a portal for us, so maybe we can leave one magic bean here and Regina and Robin can grow it so we can come visit them whenever we want or if you want to take a short vacation.
"It's a good idea Zelena; I suppose it would be great if Robin and Regina don't mind."
She looked at Robin and Regina's faces.
"Oh no, we won't mind that way we'll have some occupation among the other things we have to do here." Regina said happily to Snow.
"Okay then it's settled, Robin and Regina will take one magic bean and grow it so we have more so we can come visit."
Charming asked "How soon we could make the spell work, so we could be at Storybrooke as soon as possible."
"Well, it will take me a while. Maybe for a few days, but I'm sure you're tired after this whole trip. Has everything gone well and you haven't encountered any problems?"
"This morning we had a problem, a troll attacked us in the early morning hours, it happened on Charming's shift while Snow and I slept.
But Charming worked quickly and made sure to wake us up quickly. In the end we split up to confuse the troll and he almost ate Charming here. Fortunately for him, Snow saved the situation; she managed to kill the troll with one arrow."
Regina looked impressed by Robin's story and was glad that it all ended at the happy end.
"Well, it does not surprise me that Snow saved you; she's quite good with a bow and arrow.
Now if you want, I can ask the servant to ask the cook to prepare food for us and maybe you can go to sleep in a normal bed afterwards."
"Thank you Regina, it would be wonderful, we're pretty much hungry even though Robin here is a successful hunter."
"It's quite all right; I'll go and make a room for you while the cook prepares food."
Regina went along with the servants to prepare rooms for her guests and at that time the Charming's told Zelena what had happened to them in the giant's castle.
"So, Robin had to take you out with a huge sausage, it's pretty creative, it sounds like you had fun."
"Yes, No I do not like closed places I go into panic quickly, but luckily Robin managed to calm me down before the fear took over."
Regina returned to the room a few minutes later and announced, "So the food is ready. Would you like to join me?"
They sat at a big table in the main dining room, telling more experiences from their home in Storybrooke, the dinner was good and the conversation where light.
The evening quickly descended on the Enchanted Forest and everyone left for their room for the evening.
Snow had managed to fall asleep that night properly and Charming had snuggled up with Snow all night.
Zelena was quite tired herself, after a few days of searching almost every magical book in the castle.
Robin was tired of the long journey, but he did not give up the opportunity to see his Queen naked.
They had a fun night; Robin felt his energy grow stronger after a couple of times of fun with his queen.
They lay on the bed, looked at each other, Robin went to give her a kiss on the mouth and said, "I do not know what I did right to deserve you, you are my happy ending and there is nothing in the world that I will not do for you my queen."
Regina looked at him with tears in her eyes. She had waited all her life to hear these words, to have a partner who really loved her the way she loved him.
"I love you Regina, now and forever."
Regina gave a little cry before she said "I love you too, you're the only thief who managed to steal my heart and I would not want it any other way."
They kissed again and curled up together until sleep took them.
SQ
Fiona returned to the house it was quiet, she was sure Henry had gone to sleep, she came back late after 11 pm.
She felt relieved that she did not have to deal with Henry and walked over to the kitchen to make herself a nightly dinner.
She sat in the living room looking around, she could imagine herself sitting in this living room forever, she thought that after she would made sure that the curse never broke she could live as quietly and peacefully as she had wanted all her life.
She sat with a glass of wine in her hands and took a sip of it.
The silence gave her a chance to think about how she could get her plan out and what she needed to do.
But for her the house was too quiet, she got up from the sofa and started up the stairs to Henry's room.
She thought she would just glance to see that Henry was sleeping in bed and not walking in the street.
She reached Henry's room, the door was closed, she put her ear on the door to try to hear noises from inside the room.
She heard nothing and went to open the door, when Fiona came into Henry's bedroom; the bed was made as though no one slept in it.
Fiona was immediately nervous. She did not understand where Henry could be, the only place Henry could be is in the hospital with Emma, but she did not believe Emma would agree for Henry to stay with her and anyway the hospital would not let Henry stay with Emma even if she wanted him to be together With her.
Fiona immediately decided that she needed help and went back to the living room. She went to her bag and took out her cell phone to make a call for help.
"Sydney, how are you, I need your help, and I promise it'll pay off, I can give you anything you want."
"Fiona, I'm fine, thank you, I'd love to help you, what do you need me to do?"
Fiona smiled to herself and said to Sydney, "I need you to be the nosy journalist and get me some important information."
"What's the subject?" Sydney asked, waiting for an answer.
"Not what, but who's your follow-up, I need you to keep an eye on Henry and see what he's doing, who he's talking to, whom he's meeting, everything Henry does I want to know." Fiona told Sydney "You have all the means you will need use them wisely, I expect results."
Fiona told him and did not wait for a response from Sidney and hung up.
"This nonsense ends today, there is no more escape, hiding and walking behind my back, I will know exactly what Henry does every hour, minute and second, this is the last time I lose him."
Fiona decided that tomorrow she would talk to Emma about Henry, she was sure Emma would not like the fact that Henry was not home early.
She'll wait to see when Henry comes back and talk to him about his behavior, not that she cares but she cannot let Henry go outside and try to find ways to break her curse before she has a chance to complete her mission.
She had thought to herself many times why she simply did not lock him in his room or in one of the cells near Regina, but she thought it would cause suspicion that no one would see Henry around; she should not draw attention to herself any more than she now had.
Tomorrow morning she'll know what to do after a good sleep.