AN/ Now that David is no longer forgotten, let's head back to Regina!

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What if I wanted to break

Laugh it all off in your face

What would you do?

What if I fell to the floor

Couldn't take all this anymore

What would you do, do, do?

~Bury Me (30 Seconds to Mars)


Chapter Ten: Bury Me

"Ow! Careful!" Regina screamed at Robin. He huffed and dabbed once again at her self-inflicted wounds. It stung painfully. "Are you trying to make it worse?!"

Robin took the cloth away and threw it in the bucket of water. "You know, you did this to yourself. I don't have to help you."

"Then, can you pass me the cloth? I can do this myself."

"As you command, you majesty," he said mockingly passing her what she asked for. Robin walked out of the bed area and went to where he kept some fruit and other types he found on his journey back to the cabin.

Generally, Regina would have just used some magic and she would have been cured, but when she tried, the energy needed was lost on her, and it would just tingle. So now, she was left with cleaning it off with an almost-dirty rag and hope she doesn't get an infection from it.

Regina hissed as it touched. "Yeah, it's going to do that," Robin replied, bringing her an apple.

She grabbed it from his hand and examined it, "Do what?"

"Sting," Robin replied, truthful sarcasm biting into the breath it took. "Be lucky you didn't tear up your insides while you were stabbing yourself."

Regina huffed. "Thanks for the reminder."

"I'm just trying to help, you know." Robin sat in a chair in the corner, sinking into it as best as he could.

She swallowed a bit of the apple, and stared down at it, "Why?" It twirled in her hand. "You know who I am, so why are you helping me?"

Robin looked out the window. "Wouldn't you like to know…" he muttered, practically to himself. "Well, you can't stay hidden out here forever. Hopefully, that–" Robin pointed at her wound, "–gets better."

Regina laughed slightly, placing a hand gently on her stomach. "Not a lot of people would say that about me."

"Well," Robin spoke, "I'm not most people. And I can see a soul in distress."

"I'm not in distress!" Regina screamed.

Robin chuckled and nodded. "Of course you're not. You, your majesty, were comatose for almost two weeks, not even reacting to me moving you here, then in a unknowing state, you tried to kill yourself. Not in distress at all, your majesty."

Regina raised her hand as if to summon a fireball, before clenching her fist in. "If I wasn't so weak right now, you'd be charcoal."

Robin stood up, holding a triumphant smile. "Why else do you think I'd talk back to you like that?"

"You better be far away when I am better," and suddenly she began to cough violently, the wounds began to spring back open and blood slowly seeped through the cracks. Robin rushed over to her keeping her body still as she coughed her lungs up. After a few moments, it died down, and sweat was glittering her forehead.

She soon passed out from exhaustion.

(Switch to Robin's mind)

"Or, you might just owe me one for all this," Robin grabbed the rag and began to bat down her forehead, before looking at her stomach. They hadn't reopened as much as he thought, which was – surprisingly – a pleasant sight.

Most people would kill to see the Evil Queen in this position, and there he was, hating it. Hating the sight.

All her sarcasm and sass was just a cover up to not appear weak, but her face told him the truth – she was still broken, and still on the verge of another mental collapse.

It didn't take long for the bleeding to stop, before he cleaned up, and decided go back home. Everyone was still looking for Regina, except Snow-White. She left back for her castle as there was other matters that needed attending to, and she believed that Regina had gone far away from Sherwood Forest by now.

Guilt still waved over him as he thought about protecting the Evil Queen, but it wasn't as big as it would be if he just left her.

He had a code. To protect the less fortunate, and at the moment, the Evil Queen – Regina – was just that.


AN/ Finally! I got to write Regina's sassiness, I've been waiting a long time to do that :) So what'd y'all think of it?

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