Might be a little angsty, anyway, I hope you enjoy!

Regina took a deep breath and closed her eyes, pain was radiating from her ankle up through her leg, she knew that it was damaged, probably sprained, it was definitely sprained, if not worse. She didn't give up, the word quit wasn't even in her vocabulary, so there was no chance that she was just going to hold her hands up and pull out of the competition, it would take a lot worse than a sore ankle to make her give up just like that, she was stronger than that, she was determined and she wasn't going to stop until she could say that she had at least tried.

She attempted to smile at the judges, but it was more of a grimace, at this point as she was trying with all her might to keep her mind off her foot and on her performance, she looked over at Robin and saw that he had already started and seemed to be going strong, she nodded to herself, she could do this, she had to do this.

Glancing over at the crowd, she spotted Zelena West standing with her crew, her eyes were trained on her and she couldn't help the raise of her eyebrows that came in response, was Zelena constantly there? She was sure she was stalking them, was there whenever they were, anyway, now wasn't the time. Noticing Marian casting her a smug smile she took a deep breath and was about to start when Mal came over to her, "Regina, what are you doing?"

"I'm going."

"Okay, bloody hurry up about it."

"I'm going now," she sighed, realising that she had been stood there longer than she thought, just thinking about things. She did some fancy arm movements before taking a running jump at the beam, pulling herself up and landing soundly in position, having to clench her teeth at the sudden jolt that sent a vibration of pain through her body. She closed her eyes and quickly looked towards her mother, seeing her hiding behind her hands as she watched reluctantly, that was the image that had done it for her, something inside her snapped and she leapt into action, damaged foot be damned, she was going to do this.

She performed a pivot jump before completing each one and on every single landing it hurt more, to the point where she was literally in agony, tears streaming down her face and she carried on, pushing herself harder than she ever had before, but she had every reason to push, she needed this more than anyone else. She flipped and glanced over to them high bar, seeing that Robin had finished, closing her eyes she continued, breathing in through her nose and out through her mouth, it hurt so badly she thought that she might even pass out, but she was reaching the last jump and she hadn't even put a foot wrong yet.

She moved into the last jump, spinning in the air and landing back on the beam with more force than she had first thought, jolting her to her core, she needed to get down, she knew she did, she either got down now or fell down. She was shaking and did a little handstand, flipping off the beam and moving into the landing, but she just caught her ankle on the mat and before she knew it she crashed to the floor, landing on her ass. She let out a loud sob and shook her head, she had ruined it, ruined everything; burying her head in her hands, she knew she had to get back up to finish.

Mustering as much strength as she could, she pushed herself from the floor and stood up, the room seemed to spin. She was breathing heavily as she looked around her, people were talking but she didn't know what they were saying, their voices were muffled and she wasn't aware of what was going on, she looked over to her mother who had stood up and that was it, she fell back down again, crashing to the floor, the last thing she heard was the loud gasps off the crowd before she lost consciousness.

She groaned, there was a buzzing in her head and her ankle was throbbing painfully, she squeezed her eyes shut, what the hell happened? Where was she? What was going on?

"Regina!" She heard her mother yell as she felt her shoulder being shaken, "Regina."

"Mom I can hear you," she breathed, opening her eyes, her vision being invaded by the brightness of the overhead lights, she looked to the side seeing her mother and Mal at either side of her. She ran a hand over her eyes and shook her head, "what happened?"

"You fell," Mal stated, "are you okay?"

She rose her eyebrows and scoffed, "fuck no," she muttered, looking around and seeing that she was still on the crash mats under the beam, "I take it I just made a complete and utter idiot out of myself."

"Come on, let's get you over there and a medic can see to you," Mal and Cora both put an arm under hers and helped her over to the team bench, sitting her down.

Regina buried her head in her lap as Mal removed the tuba grip from her ankle, causing her to let out a noise of sheer torture as pain tore through her, she sobbed and bit down hard on her bottom lip, "why did I let you do this?" Cora shook her head, "I shouldn't have let you do this."

"I don't think that I asked for your permission," Regina quipped through gritted teeth as the doctor took hold of her ankle, "so how bad was it?"

"I don't know, he's about to tell us now."

"I mean the performance, how bad was it?"

"It wasn't bad, it was good Regina, really good," Mal nodded, "except from that landing it was perfect."

"Oh," she whispered, "do you think that I did enough? That I didn't mess up my chances with that landing?"

"I'm not sure honey, I mean people have fucked up the landing and won before, so I don't see why not, you had a high difficulty routine, the judges will take that into consideration when giving you your scores."

"I can't bear it," she shook her head, it was the waiting that was the worst part, she was the last competitor, so as soon as she got her results everyone would know and she had a feeling she was going to find out what it was like to fall from grace really quickly, find out what it was like to win gold one minute and not win anything the next, had her ankle not have been hurt she would have perfected that routine, she knew she would, she had refined it in rehearsals, it was sharp and polished and she'd had a great chance at the gold, now she felt like that had all been torn from her and by Marian of all people, she was currently at the top of the leader board with a pretty high score.

Suddenly she became aware of someone, more to the point the absence of someone, "where's Robin?" she asked, looking around, trying to see if she could spot him and failing, "did he win? Mal, do you know?"

"I'm not sure," she shook her head, not even looking away from the score board that would reveal Regina's fate.

Regina turned to her mom and frowned, "do you know where he is mom?"

"No baby, I don't," she shook her head, her hands moving to Regina's hair as she undid it, freeing it from it restrictive bun.

Regina sighed and simply directed her gaze to the score board, she was sure that Robin would be around somewhere, he had his own competition, she couldn't be his main priority, he had to focus on himself, winning his own medal. The medic was still looking at her foot, but she had almost forgotten about him being there, she was too focused on the board.

"Sydney? How is my daughter's ankle?" Cora asked.

"Well, it's a sprain for sure, but I think that with time she will be up and running again, performing her wonderful routines," he grinned, Regina turned to look down at him, noticing that he was half stroking her foot.

"Okay, thanks, are you done?" she snapped, narrowing her eyes at him, what a creep, she was pretty sure that wasn't a part of his medical examination.

"Yes," he dropped her foot suddenly and without warning, causing it to thud on the floor, resulting in a fresh wave of agony, "Miss Mills I do hope you are feeling better soon."

She scoffed and shook her head, she'd feel better when that weirdo left her alone, he did just that, looking back at her as he went, she let out a huff and looked back at the board, "why is it taking so long?" she asked, going to tap her feet and remembering that it probably wasn't a good idea.

Just then her mother's phone began ringing and she scrambled for it, but Regina wasn't looking away again, there was a flash of numbers and she moved up the leader board, landing in second place, just below Marian, "no," she whispered, tears brimming in her eyes, "no, no! There's no way that cheating bitch can win!" Regina stood up and looked at Marian who was celebrating with her team, "she tripped me, she tripped me Mal," Regina cried, letting the tears fall, "she cheated."

"Regina?" She looked behind her, seeing Robin stood there with his country's flag wrapped around his shoulders, that meant he had won a medal of some description.

"She won and she cheated," Regina whimpered, falling into Robin's arms and sobbing against his shoulder as he rubbed her back soothingly. She knew that her tears were soaking his shirt, but she couldn't care less, she just needed to cry on him, needed him to hold her and tell her that everything was going to be alright.

"I know," he nodded, burying his head in her hair as he held her tightly against him.

"It's not fair, it's not fair," she whined, the tears still streaming.

"Are you okay?" he asked, playing with the ends of her hair, "is your ankle okay?"

"I fell," she whispered, sniffling as she pulled back and wiped her nose on the back of her hand, "on the landing, I fell."

Robin cupped her cheek gently, running his fingertips across her skin, "I'm sorry sweetheart, I really am."

"Knowing she cheated and won, it's just not fair, it isn't."

"I know." He sighed, pressing his forehead against hers and taking a deep breath.

"Hello losers," they heard a voice laugh.

Regina looked up at Marian and her eyes narrowed, "go away," she spat.

"It's not nice to be such a sore loser Regina, really, just because your balance is terrible, doesn't mean that you can blame me for your failures."

"Just leave me alone you cheating bitch," Regina growled, hopping so that she was facing her opponent, Robin's hand took hold of her arm gently. She really just wanted to knock the woman out for what she had done, what she had cost her.

"Anyone would think that you came last place and not second, you got silver, to be honest I am pretty surprised about that."

"The gold should have been mine and you know it!"

She cast her a sickly-sweet smile before shrugging, "I don't know anything, all I know is that right now, you look like a sore loser who isn't grateful with silver and is taking it out on the winner, to the whole world, you look like a spoilt little bitch who is just jealous."

"Why would she be jealous of you?" Robin scoffed, "she has nothing to be jealous of, she's perfect, beautiful, talented and she doesn't have to cheat and hurt people to win, unlike you, Marian you are just a spoilt little bitch who is just jealous because no matter what you do, you'll never be better than Regina and you will never have me. Go get your fucking gold, but just remember that you stole it from someone who actually deserved it, I hope that every time you look at that medal you remember that you had to cheat to get it and that you weren't good enough to get it on your own."

Robin finished with a deep breath and Regina turned to look at him with raised eyebrows, well that was interesting and it made her heart flutter a little, he clearly loved her a lot to stick up for her like that, but that was what people in love did, they were on each other's sides no matter what, always there for one another. Glancing back to Marian she saw that it had affected her more than she had expected.

"Why do you think I want you?" Marian rolled her eyes, looking at Robin and the way he was holding Regina, his arms wrapped around her waist, keeping her up and allowing her to lean against him for support.

Regina groaned and shook her head, as if that was the only thing she picked up from that conversation, she was so infuriating, "it's so obvious," Regina scoffed.

"Is it really?"

"Yes it is."

Suddenly the air was filled with a familiar conversation, "Wasn't jealous," Robin's voice sounded through the overhead speakers.

"Hmm, whatever you say," They looked up to see all the screens in the hall filled with a video of them. Regina gasped, her hands coming to her cover her mouth, as she saw the events unfold, she was walking backwards, taunting Robin and then there was Marian, coming up behind her and sticking her foot out so that it hooked around her ankle and sent her flying backwards. The whole crowd gasped and Regina looked up to Robin.

"Oh my god," she whispered.

"Regina!"

"Oops," Marian sniggered, "you really should watch where you're going."

"You tripped me, you tripped me!".

"Regina," Robin came to kneel beside her, "are you okay?"

"She sabotaged me!"

"Me?" Marian pointed to herself, her mouth open in mock shock, "now why would I want to do that?"

"Because you want to win and Regina is your biggest competition," Robin growled, "are you okay, is your ankle okay? Shit, Marian, you do know that you could be disqualified for this right? Tripping up another competitor is totally against every rule in the book."

"I didn't trip her, she tried to trip me."

"If that were so, why am I the one on the floor and not you, you manipulative…" the screen went blank and the whole hall was abuzz with conversation.

Regina looked towards Marian who had turned as white as a sheet, "oh dear, looks as though you might have just been exposed for what you really are, a cheat." She laughed, shaking her head as she felt Robin's hold on her tighten and they watched Marian run off as quick as she could, scurrying away.

"She'll be disqualified, I'm sure of it," Robin stated, looking down at Regina, before picking her up and spinning her around, "you really are an incredible woman. I think you just won a gold on a sprained ankle."

"I think I might have," she nodded, pressing her lips to his cheek as she clung to him, a massive smile on her face as relief instead of pain flooded through her. Before another thought pushed down all the joy she felt, "Robin, where did that video come from?"