A/N: Hello everyone, I bid you with a new update, a long one too! It's just a day before the winter finale of Once Upon a Time, which just may contain Robin! AHHHH! Who else is excited?! So, it's the December month, an exciting month for me because I absolutely love Christmas, who else does? Anyway, I hope you all like this chapter because it does have some drama in it, however, this chapter will also resolve it – maybe with some smut. Ha-ha, enjoy.

Chapter 13

Two weeks pass by and Regina's health is back to normal. She is her snarky, wholesome self again. Regina herself couldn't be more pleased. That week on bed rest was complete torture, they may have also strapped her down to the bed to make everything else twice as worse. Thank god nobody did.

She had her optimistically friends visit her practically every day. If it was Tink it was Emma, and then if it wasn't either of them it was Mary-Margaret bringing baked goods. She didn't have anything against all three of them, they just annoyed her sometimes when they would consistently check in on her to see how she was doing.

It was a stressful and agonising week.

Nevertheless, that week was over, as well as another week and today she and Robin finally get to see their baby again.

Regina was currently lying comfortably with her legs bent and her feet placed on the ultrasound bed, her lower half covered with a hospital bed sheet holding onto Robin's hand as they waited for Doctor Whale to begin the ultrasound.

She had to go in for another transvaginal ultrasound just for a check up to make sure her bed rest was another. She prayed to god it was.

Doctor Whale began the ultrasound and just waited for an image on the baby to show up on the screen.

Regina was currently eight weeks pregnant and the baby definitely seemed to have developed quickly since the last time they were here. Being six weeks pregnant during the first scan the baby looked like a tiny blob, this time he, or she was much bigger. You could make out a head and little stubs that had to be his or her arms and legs.

"That's bloody amazing," Robin muttered breathlessly. The imagine of his and Regina's baby on the screen stunned him to the point that his breath had been taken away from him.

Regina chuckled. "It is." She then turned her head and planted a loving kiss on his forehead.

"Everything seems to be okay, Regina. You won't have to go on bed rest again but I do suggest being careful up until you pass the first trimester," Doctor Whale said as he finished the ultrasound.

"Okay, I will," Regina replied and gave him a small smile.

"I'll make sure of that," Robin added with a smirk and a wink in her direction.

"So, I won't be seeing you two for a while, well, that is if you take it easy just like I said. If you notice any bleeding or intense tightness or cramps at your lower abdomen don't hesitate to come in. Now that's all said, you two should make an appointment for in about six weeks' time. By then you should be fourteen weeks, a little earlier than a normal ultrasound date, but it's just because I want to do a quick once-over to make sure everything is then okay for when you transfer over into your second trimester."

"Sure, we'll do that on the way out," Regina told him.

-R&R-

When Regina and Robin got home they had decided to go for a walk. Henry was at pre-school so they had the whole day to themselves.

They were strolling hand in hand down New York. The warm sun hitting their faces. It was heading towards the end of May and the weather was picking up quite nicely. However, Regina was looking forward to having a bump in the middle of summer. And considering it was her second pregnancy, she was sure that her stomach would start expanding to carry hers and Robin's baby earlier than the first time around.

Oh, the joys!

At least she would be in her third trimester like the last time. Now that was hell. Having a huge bump in the middle of the hottest month was pure torture. She swears that she could have filled eight buckets full of her sweat in one day.

No, this time around she was sort of glad she would have a huge bump. She had calculated the weeks and had found out she would possibly give birth in December – the winter month. Her huge bump would for sure keep her cosy and warm. It would provide her with her own portable blanket.

Doctor Whale confirmed that this morning and even gave them a due date when they had walked in for the scan – he had looked back at her previous scan and worked it out. The 30th December was the possible date that hers and Robin's bundle of joy would enter the world. A perfect way to enter the New Year.

Regina and Robin came to a halt outside a local Starbucks. They walked in and decided to get something to drink to help cool them down. They were both rather warm now but bearing in mind they were going to be doing a lot more walking they might become even warmer.

They ordered their drinks. Regina choosing a lime cooler and Robin and iced Frappuccino. In spite of not wanting to get anything coffee related because of Regina not being able to drink it, she insisted he gets what he wants.

He was going to order the same as her but Regina knew how much he loved anything that was related to Frappuccino, so she placed an order for him.

Despite his protests of not wanting coffee and being perfectly content with a cooler, he sure was enjoying his iced Frappuccino from the moans of delight that were coming from his lips.

"Would you stop doing that," Regina said to him with a stern look as another moan slipped from his mouth.

"Stop doing what?" Robin asked, oblivious. Even though he was the one making the moaning noises he was unaware of what he was actually doing.

Idiot.

"Those noises," Regina stated bluntly. "The hmm's and the ooh's," she added in a whisper.

Robin furrowed his forehead but he still managed a smirk. "Ohh… I see. And here I thought you liked my moans and groans," he responded with a whisper directly in her ear.

Regina elbowed him in the ribs. Not so hard to cause excruciating pain, but not so gentle either. "Shh… do you want everyone around us in the streets to hear," she hissed.

He chuckled. "Well, you shouldn't have brought the topic up."

Regina rolled her eyes at him. "How can I not when all I can hear are those noises? Honestly, I've never known a person moan as loud as you over an iced Frap."

He chuckled again as an idea popped into his mind. He took a sip of his iced Frappuccino and moaned straight into her ear.

He shouldn't have done that. He knew it and she certainly knew it.

Being pregnant had its advantages and disadvantages. A disadvantage being that her hormones were all over the place. And unfortunately, her libido had sky-rocketed.

During her first pregnancy, her libido wasn't really a probably. On the odd occasion, it would spike up, nothing too troubling, though. This time around, however, it seemed to have kicked in more.

Maybe it was because her brain knew she had a man that could help her relief the tension so I decided to work over time.

Well, she didn't know exactly what was going on with her body through this pregnancy, she did, however, know one thing, and that was that she was irritated and horny as fuck 24/7.

Not a good combination.

"Stop," she hissed. "Just stop. God, you're fucking annoying today." And now the anger hormones were kicking in. Great. She didn't mean for them too. She was just frustrated all the time, and hungry, and sick, and tired, oh, and let's not forget, horny!

Robin's furrow of his forehead and smirk on his face dropped off. They were replaced with a concerned look. Perhaps he went too far. He had noticed her becoming more frustrated during this week. She told him it was her hormones, and that she never actually meant anything she did and would say.

He gently brought up his free hand to touch her lower back. He didn't bring it to full on touch her, just to hover. He didn't want to overstep a boundary and making her even angrier.

"Babe, I didn't mean to make you mad, I was just teasing," he gently said to her.

Regina took a deep breath in, calming herself down. She didn't want to start an argument in the middle of New York streets. "I just want to go home," she mumbled. This way she couldn't come out in a tone of harshness.

"Okay," he nodded.

-R&R-

They stepped into her apartment after a silent twenty-minute walk. By then she had calmed down and thought about her snippiness. God, she couldn't believe she did that to him. She loved him and the last thing she wanted to do was to be mad at him.

"I should head back to my place," Robin announced after dead silences between them.

He had still been staying with Regina, even after she got the all clear that she no longer needed to be on bed rest. She couldn't quite come to terms with him leaving her, though. She had woken up to him for a week, had shared a bathroom with him for a week, had eaten meals with him for a week, so the idea of him going back to his apartment disappointed her.

He didn't go, though, he stayed. Neither one of them mentioned the fact that he could just back to his, he just simply climbed into bed with her the night Doctor Whale told them that the bullet wound was okay.

So, the thought of Robin leaving her now to go back to his tug at her heart. She didn't want that and she knew he didn't want that either, he just said it because he thought that's what she wanted.

He's wrong, though. Couldn't be more wrong.

"You're leaving me?" Regina croaked out of her dry mouth. The lime cooler had been ditched long ago and the need of something to un-wither her mouth that felt like it was drier than the Sahara Desert.

"Not leaving, just giving you your space," he simply stated. He knew Regina had trust issues when it came to loving people. She just didn't want anyone she loved to leave her. So, naturally, it had broken his heart when he heard that she thought he was leaving her. Technically, yes, he was, but not for good. He never thought he would have to, not after she told him of her fear of everything crumbling around her and being alone because everybody she loved left her because of hatred they somehow miraculous conjured up out of know where.

Robin had been looking at her back until now when she had decided to turn around to look at him. Her face was a delicate shade of pink and her lips that were the colour of a rose bud was trembling. He knew why when he looked into her eye.

There he could see unshed tears.

As the golden light from outside shone through the window it caught her eyes. The light captured a hold of the shiny, glazing whisky colour that was tinted with redness.

Gazing upon her magnetic eyes that had the look of unhappiness in them cut through his heart. A small little tease on his behalf turned into a nightmare. And his idea of giving her space wasn't such a good one. Especially not with her hormones being all over the place.

"Everyone leaves so I'm not surprised that you are going too," she spat out. Building walls around her heart. Trying to show him that she isn't weak and vulnerable. That's why the tears are still at bay and not down on her soft pink stained cheeks.

"It was just for space, not for good," he told her, moving slowly forward. "but, I'm staying now."

She scoffed, quickly bringing a hand up to her eye where a tear fell. She hoped Robin didn't see. "You're only saying that because you're pitying me."

"No, I'm not ̶ "

"Yes, you're. You would be ridden with guilt if you had to leave me in this state." She rolled her eyes. "Always the dutiful man. Please," she scoffed again as she stood up. "the only thing you're good at is getting me pregnant."

Okay. That definitely was a blow to his ego. Not that he had a big one anyway.

He looked into her eyes again and saw that the tears had dried up. They were no longer glassy or tinted red. They were just cold. It was like he was staring into two black holes. The sun was no longer shining through the window either. The whole setting around him became icy, as well as Regina.

He knew the words would sting when he said them, but honestly, with how the setting went around them and the fact that she no longer looked sad he didn't hold back.

"And the only thing you're good at is not telling people you had their child," he spat out at her.

Regina's eyes widened at his words and she inhaled deeply in utter shock.

That stung like a motherfucker.

Robin's hand quickly slapped over his mouth at the words he just said to her. He didn't mean it. Of course, he didn't. He never would. It just slipped out in the angrily heated moment.

"Regina, I didn't ̶ "

"Fuck you!" she yelled at him.

He was lucky. Too fucking lucky. If she had been closer to him she would have swung for him and landed a slap right on his face.

Robin started to walk towards her. "Regina. Babe, I'm ̶ "

"No, don't come near me. Just leave," she told him.

"Please, Regina, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say what I said. I was just angry. Please, don't make me leave," Robin begged her with a broken voice. Tears started to form in his eyes when the lump in his throat formed.

She turned away from him because she couldn't dare look at him. The tears she saw had made her feel slightly sympathetic towards him, but she must not feel that, not with what he just said.

"No! Just go Robin."

"Okay, I will," he responded quietly to her. "But I want you to know that I'm only going because you want me to, not because I want to. I love you, Regina, remember that."

A tear rolled down his cheek as he walked towards the front door and exited her apartment.

Inside, Regina fell to the ground with a sob as she heard the door close shut. He was gone.

-R&R-

A week had passed since she last heard and saw Robin. They had both kept their distance from each other. They both didn't know when to comfort the other, they just both held on that the other would come for them. Sadly, that was going to happen anytime soon.

Henry's questions had died down to why they were no longer living together. He soon got over like all kids that are four do.

Regina also went back to work this week. After having three weeks off she knew that work was calling her and she just had to get back into her usual routine.

The first day back was annoying as hell, there were just so many co-workers coming up to her asking if she was alright and how she was. Even some of them being rude enough to ask her why she had the time off for. The cheek of them!

She hadn't managed to come across Robin. Which she was thankful for. Leopold hadn't set up another task that required both, or just them – yet.

It was only a matter of time, though.

But then four more days had passed and she had not heard or seen Robin again. No call, no text. She had started to have thoughts that they broke up. Oh, he was she kidding, she knew the day of their argument that they had broken up. In her mind that day she had imagined herself shouting we're over half a dozen times to him. She never got to say it, though.

She had prayed to god that their argument was just all a dream. That and her stupid hormones had gone berserk. She even wished on that bright star in the sky like Geppetto did in that Disney movie Pinocchio.

That wish never came true.

Her nights without him were the worst. Ever since her ordeal, she would wake up in the from a nightmare. She would dream that she was still at the store, trapped with those three men that caused so much heartbreak and pain. Robin would be there for her, though. He would comfort her and make everything better. Knowing that he was there with her had helped ease everything.

She had refused to see a therapist, she said she didn't need one, that everything was getting better day by day. That was kind of true. Just having Robin snuggle up to her had eased the nightmares. Days before their argument she wasn't having them, they had completely gone from invading her dreams.

But then they had the argument and they came back when he never showed up on the night. She wasn't expecting him to, anyway. A part of her did, though, and she was holding onto that when she had calmed down.

A week and four days had been since she last heard and seen him. He never showed up to pick Henry up on the weekend. Out of all the things she thought Robin would show up for it was Henry. Regina had also asked around for him at work but she found out that he hadn't been showing up.

Now, that was something to worry about.

So, she decided that she should swallow her pride and stop being stubborn and phone him.

-R&R-

When she got home from work and called Mary-Margaret asking if she could pick Henry up from pre-school and keep him for the night – which she had no problem with doing – she went to her contacts list in her phone and rung Robin.

She waited with a baited breath for him to pick up.

It rung once. Twice. Three times. A fourth. And then…

It went straight to voicemail.

She tried a couple of more times but he wasn't answering, and that made her mad.

She had decided to suck it up and phone him. To tell him how sorry she was for being angry with him and pushing her away.

But really, shouldn't he be the one to phone her. It was him who said the hurtful stuff.

But it was always her who did start it off.

"Ugh!" she screamed.

She hated this. She hated being apart from him.

She loved him and needed him.

Henry also needed him. He missed his daddy.

Not to mention their new addition. The baby in her stomach. Who just so happened to make her start showing.

Yes, she had a bump. Finally!

Regina had noticed it about two days ago. She was buttoning up her trousers when they wouldn't button. She remembered them fitting her perfectly a week ago but all sudden they would close. That's when she went to her full-length mirror and lifted her blouse to reveal the start of a baby bump.

Yesterday she noticed it had slightly gotten bigger. And today when she looked in the mirror she saw that it yet again got slightly bigger. Her blouses would no longer fit soon and her co-workers would be able to see.

Robin had missed that out. The develop of her baby bump. It tugged at her heart that he wasn't with her to have seen it for the first time.

She couldn't dwell on that for long, though. She needed to speak to him. And if he wasn't going to answer his phone then she was just going to show up at his apartment and demand her way in.

-R&R-

She pounded on the door with her fist. "Robin?!" She pounded again. "Robin, open up!"

The door swung open and there he stood.

A wave of alcohol brushed under her nose. He had been drinking. Drowning his sorrows in beer and whisky. If only she could do that.

Regina looked at him. He was wearing a pair of loose fitted jeans and a dark grey shirt, no doubt the colour of both their hearts at the moment. When her eyes scanned over his face she noticed his usual stubble that he went with was no longer neat and trimmed, instead, he was sporting a much untamed and slightly longer stubble – it wasn't here favourite thing in the world.

Her eyes then moved up until she reached the unmissable dark circles. They were dark and intense. His eyes didn't help them look any better either. They were hollow and empty. His crystal blue eyes that she loved so much had turned darker.

She couldn't believe this was the Robin she loved. He looked nothing like him.

"Robin?" she breathed out in relief as she finished her once over.

"Regina?" he also breathed out, more in shock, though. "What are you doing here?"

Tears had started to gather in her eyes as she whispered: "I missed you."

She itched to touch him. And he itched to touch her. They had missed each other's touch.

Robin gazed at her. Taking her in. It had been so long since he last saw her, and it was all his fault. He had been drinking away his sorrow. He had gone through every emotion there was. Sad, happy, angry, annoyed, and scared. All of them towards both him and Regina.

He couldn't stand there for much longer just looking at her, so he made the decision to hastily move towards her and embrace her is the biggest hug he could give her.

The embrace knocked her back slightly, but it didn't stop her from reciprocating.

She hugged him with all the love she had. If she hadn't felt somewhat shaky then she would have squeezed the life out of him.

"And I you," Robin replied breathlessly from the shock upon seeing her.

She let her tears roll down her face when she heard his voice. It had been so long since she had heard his voice. Oh, god. When she heard it she thought it was like angels had started ringing bells.

She felt wetness on her shoulder. That's when she knew he was also crying. His tears had fallen and seeped through her blouse she was wearing but she didn't care. He cared. He missed her. And he loved her.

Yet, he hadn't talked to her for almost two weeks. He never picked up the phone. He never came and visited her, Henry, and the baby. Instead, he decided to drink his problems in alcohol.

She didn't want to dwell and think about that just yet, though. Right now, she had him in her arms and that's all she wanted.

"I l-love you so mu-much, I'm sorry I-I was a bitch to you," she whispered to him, stuttering along the way from hiccups that her tears had caused.

"No, I love you s-so much and I'm the o-one who should be s-sorry. I said something hurtful to y-you because I'm a… dick! I'm such a dick! You're one of the best things that have ev-ever happened to me and I-I… I ruined that and pushed you away," he whispered just a stutterer back to her.

"It was both our fault's. We did this to ourselves. I started it because of my stupid hormones and us just both then added fuel to the small fire creating a bigger one."

"Let's not talk about it anymore. I've missed you too much."

"Robin…" she pulled out of his hug. "There is still more to talk about. The first thing being that as soon as the door opened there was the smell of alcohol. Drinking is not the answer."

"I know, I know. It was just there and I used it as comfort. Stupid idea."

"Yes, it was. And why didn't you answer my calls?"

He sighed and rubbed his face with his hands. "I broke it. The night I came back here I threw it at the wall. I'm sorry I didn't answer any of your calls. How's Henry? Where is he? I've missed him so much as well."

"He's missed you so much as well, he had all these questions to where you had disappeared off to. But, don't worry, he's fine now, and I asked Mary-Margaret to look after him for the night."

"I've probably let him down. I'll go see him tomorrow. It was not my intention to disappear from him."

She smiled at him. He was such a good dad. "He'll like seeing you. When he see's you he will probably be over the moon. Why didn't you turn up to work?" she asked.

He sighed, hung his head down in shame. "I was a coward and couldn't face you."

"You can say that again. You were a coward and I hate you for that." Some more of her tears had fallen down her cheeks again. "I wanted you to come back to me every single night. The nightmares had started again and you weren't there," she whispered the last part, afraid to say the words. Saying them made the nightmares truly real.

Robin's eye widened at her confession. "Oh, god, Regina. I'm sorry." He pulled her in for another hug and she accepted it.

She pulled her head slightly back and planted her lips to his. She couldn't hold back not kissing him any longer.

She kissed him with everything she had.

It had so much love and passion in it.

She gave it everything she could and Robin sure didn't fail to respond.

He kissed her back with equal the amount of love and passion and definitely didn't disappoint to deepen the kiss.

The both moaned into the kiss. Teeth and tongue clashing together as the raw desire continued to heat up.

"Inside." Was all Regina said before Robin had picked her up underneath her arse and walked them both in his apartment. He shut the door as they got in.

He walked them to his bedroom and placed her back on her feet. He broke the kiss for a second so he could pull her blouse out of her skirt and over her head, revealing her perky breasts to him that was practically spilling out of her bra. He noticed how bigger that had gotten since they were last in this position – and that had to have been about seven weeks.

God, such a long time ago!

"They're so much bigger," he told her as he just stared at her boobs.

Regina chuckled at him. She had noticed them getting bigger over the last few days. If they will be anything like they were when she was pregnant with Henry, then Robin's in for a shock because they will become much bigger. She should remind herself to get some new bras to fit her new size.

"They will probably get even bigger." He moaned. She was torturing him. "That's not the only thing that has gotten bigger," she told him as she bit her lip and looked down to her stomach.

His eyebrows furrowed as he became muddled. Well, that was until he looked down to where she was looking and saw the small bump that had formed, taking over her flat and toned stomach.

"Oh, my…" he gasped, his hand immediately reaching between them and putting it over her small bump. "You've got a bump."

"Yeah." Regina giggled at his reaction.

He looked back up to her, keeping his hand placed on her bump. "I love you ever so much."

She placed one of her hands on his cheek and caressed with her thumb. "I know. And I love you just as much." She then leant in and placed a kiss to his lips, which soon took a drastic turn and turned heated, getting back on track to what they had been previously been doing.

It wasn't long before they were both naked and comfortably lying on his bed. Regina on her back with her legs speed open and Robin happily between those legs gently on top of her – being careful as to not squish her little bump.

They were still kissing intensely, their hips grinding into each other.

The kisses and the movements made Regina's sex ooze with wetness and Robin's length harden to the point that his tip was brushing against her clit.

"Oh…" she moaned into the kiss. "Please, Robin."

He nodded then dropped his lips to her neck and brought a hand to her thigh and caressed it downwards until he reached her knee and cocked it on his hip.

Regina tilted her head to the side to give Robin better access to his neck. She did love his kisses there.

He nibbled on her earlobe and then slipped inside of her, causing her to let out a gasp of pleasure and bring her other leg up around his waist.

"Jesus, Regina," Robin groaned into her neck.

"I know, it feels amazing." She then started moving her hips, telling him she wanted this.

Robin's movements started off slow first. They were soft thrusting actions. Sweet and intense at the same time. She loved it and so did he. They could feel the pull, push, and squeeze or both their movements combined.

Their foreheads were pressed together and moans were being drawn out. I love you's were being exchanged. It was a perfect moment they were both experiencing.

They were in sync.

Everything they did was.

The motion of their hips.

Their moans that were whimpering out from their swollen and bruised lips.

One of Robin's hand grabbed onto Regina's and he entwined them, pinning them above her head. His other hand keeping was against the bed, keeping him hovered over her to protect their baby inside of her. Her other hand one was clawing at his back. Her nails didn't scratch too hard that the marks left would be there for days, and they certainly didn't get embedded into his skin to the point of blood being drawn. No, it was just soft, gentle and pleasurable clawing.

His length would enter her slowly, making sure she could feel all of him. It then exited almost all of the way the same.

When he entered her she could feel her inner muscles clinging onto him, squeezing him tightly. He would reach the hilt and draw a gasp or moan from her, then when he started to descend she would again squeeze him.

She hadn't had an orgasm in weeks – thanks to being in hospital and bed rest recovering from the bullet wound. So, she knew that she had been craving one, even more, because of her pregnancy that caused her hormones to spike – and right now because of that it wasn't going to take her any longer to reach her peak.

Robin had just thrust into her once again, and with him sliding in her up until he touched the hilt had her exploding around him.

A breathy Robin had fallen from her rosy plump lips and her eyes scrunched up, seeing stars behind them. Her legs had tightened around his hips and her nails scratched even harder while her hand squeezed his.

His forehead was still pressed against hers so he could feel the intense pleasure radiating off her. He had also managed to capture her face when in pleasure that he loved watching so much.

Feeling her squeeze him so much because of her peak it didn't take him long before he reached his orgasm and feel just after her. Groaning her name out of clenched teeth. Letting his seed spill out inside of her.

When everything had died down he pulled out of her and rolled onto his back. He pulled her closer to him. When he did Regina draped one of her legs over his and wrapped an arm around his waist. Robin then placed a long kiss on her forehead.

Make-up sex was definitely amazing.