Chapter fourteen
Regina held her breath, as she watched from afar as Robin taught the boys how to shoot arrows. Roland was definitely picking it up quicker than she had anticipated; Henry however was clearly still struggling but was trying to learn from Robin. The baby cried as Regina, turned into the buggy to talk to the newest addition to the Mills-Locksley family , a baby girl with curly blonde hair, like her mother's, who safe to say was locked away after what she had caused.
"You alright up here my love… Good morning sunshine." Robin approached followed closely behind by the boys.
"All good, think someone might be getting hungry. Time to be heading back home I think." Regina said as she picked the baby up from the carrier, the little girl curled her into her mom's arms as Regina stood up to kiss Robin on the cheek.
"Can I hold Imogen now please ?" Roland asked as he pulled himself up on where Regina had been sitting.
"Not right now…" Henry told him as they begin to walk back towards the family friendly, Range Rover.
"Later Roland, first little man we need to go and get changed and meet the other's for dinner." Robin tells him as they all descend into the car. Regina strapping Imogen tightly in her car seat, beside Henry, who has proven himself to be a very worthy brother.
They pulled into the driveway and started to unload all the baggage and children. The Mercedes was back on the drive, Regina placed her hand on the bonnet it was still warm. As she went to the front door to unlock it, as the boys rushed in. The shower in the guest room was running and giggles could be heard throughout the house. Regina rushed up to gently knock one the door.
"We are all home." As she walked across to Imogen's room to make sure all the curtains where closed so that she could be put down for a nap, before dinner at Grannies.
" Hi!" A man with dark brown hair appeared in the doorway, he was dressed in jeans, t-shirt and a smart dinner jacket.
"Hey.. you had a good day then?" Regina asked as Robin appeared in the doorway with a sleeping Imogen.
"Gorgeous thank you. We just spent most of the day here, and she took me out for a lunchtime picnic in the forest, overlooking the town. It was lovely thank you. I leave you too it, I will go and play on the game system with the boys while you all get ready, would you like me to take the monitor and keep an ear out for Imi?" The man asked as Regina gladly passed it to him.
"That would be perfect."
In the year that had passed things had changed, Imogen wasn't the only new part of the life in Storybrooke. People who were meant to be gone, had returned when Ella had broken the dark one's curse. Emma and Hook were now living in bliss, in their own house far away from her parents. Henry was doing a week with Regina and a week with Emma but saw them both pretty much every day regardless. Zelena, was currently in her own little house arrest, living next door to Snow and Charming who were her own personal guard. She would get little time with Imogen, but she wasn't particular interested.
"You look lovely Mom" Said the voice as Regina turned to face them. Regina had decided on her favourite blue dress with the zip that Robin loved.
"You don't look to bad yourself" Stood behind her was a younger brunette whose only long locks were flowing down her back. The leather pants were back with the strappy top and the checked blouse, that hung loosely over her upper body, to protect her from the evening chill and then the suede black boots that stopped just above the Knee.
" Ella…. You had a good day?" Ella nodded as she sat down on her mother's bed.
"Yeah was lovely thank you.. best way to spend a Sunday."
Ella had survived stopping the darkness, just. It had taken a lot of Regina's magic and Emma's later on, to fix the darkened heart that Ella know owned. Not only that but it was making attempts to stop Ella from ever embracing the darkness herself, which they had managed to do so far. She had done a lot of good so far, fixing everything that Emma's darkness had caused, the curse on the town line and returning the dwarf she had seen turn into a tree back. Ella removed the curse off the town line completely, but since the whole town felt self no one had left. Storybrooke was content, for now.
" Ella, how's is Jack finding the move?" Regina asked Ella as she sat beside her.
" He loves it, just wished we had done it sooner. You know called each other and realised that it was always meant to be us. Not Elliott, I just wished I had seen it sooner." Ella's college Friend was now the boyfriend, the man who was looking out for her and helping her as she made the transition from hating her mother, to loving her.
" Well at least you're here now. There's always time to find your soulmate. I know that better than anyone." Regina tells her as they both heard the cries of the baby.
" Can I come in?" Henry stood at the door, peering in round the side. Regina nodded as he walked in and perched himself on the other side of her.
" Look dashing as always." Ella told her younger brother as she looked over at Regina, who hadn't moved to rush to Imogen's cries.
"Jack is with Imogen, someone else has fallen in love with him, pretty quickly too." The cries subsided. As Roland walked in, and pulled himself up to sit on Regina's knee.
" Well Hi Roland… You comfy there?" Regina asked as she pulled him closer. Three out of four children sat with her, beside her something that she thought she would never have.
"Yes. Ella , Jack said I could come with you tomorrow after school and set up the children's club." Ella turned to look at Roland, and smiled. Jack had seen a very big gap in the Storybrooke market, there was no were for the children of Storybrooke to go and just hang out. So he decided that his big project was to turn one of the local fields into a hall, with space for sports and of course for archery practice.
" I suppose so, but you do now we are just making ground tomorrow, It won't be built by the time you finish school." Ella tells him, aware of what he is waiting for.
"You could just magically make it appear though. You can't say that look after the wellbeing of Storybrooke's children isn't good." Henry tells her as she looks up at the clock.
"No, because this isn't your sister's project, its Jack's and also if she does that what would be the point of her working with me, on getting the funding for it and more things." Regina tells him as she pulls Roland off her lap.
" She's right about that would be completely pointless, but I could magically make us all go downstairs, where I think Robin, Jack and Imogen are all waiting for us." Ella stands up and they all disappear and appear coated in front of the others.
"Smooth work there. Think you have learnt that from me, sweetheart." Regina tells her as they all head towards the door to walk to Grannies.
Later on Regina and Ella are sitting in a booth as the others are mingling with the rest of the locals.
"Are you really happy here? Is the pull off the big city not happening right now?" Regina asks' Ella as she takes a hold of her hand.
"I am really happy because this is my family. You and me we've been apart for far too long. I wished I had listened to everything that Grandpa had said about you that there are always reasons behind every action. Looking at you now I don't see the Evil Queen anymore, I see Regina the mayor, the friend, the girlfriend, the stepmother and mother. My mother."
The end x x