AN:

Ok Apple Heads, today is what I call double update day!

Don't forget to click over to the second part.

Enjoy.

Twenty

"Well if it isn't Regina Mills. I didn't think I'd ever be seeing you again," Graham said.

Regina smiled politely, keeping an eye on Robin –who she didn't want to burst out of his seat and shout at Graham. It was just suppose to be a lunch outing with just them. But they should have been much more wiser and known that when in old towns, do that of old faces begin to appear.

"Hello Graham, its good to see you," she said.

Robin rolled his eyes at her nice voice, he knew it all to be a front . He knew Regina was only trying to act polite but he could see right through it and noted that she sat on edge and that had to do with him.

"Graham," Robin said, with a nod of acknowledgment.

"Robin," the sheriff said, before putting his attention only on Regina and noticing the little boy. "And you must be Roland, I've heard about you."

Roland had been watching the new stranger, he's never met. He's been meeting a lot of new people.

"Who are you?" he asked.

Regina chuckled. "Roland, honey, this is sheriff Graham. He's your mommy's old friend."

Robin couldn't help but roll his eyes again, scoffing at the old friend. Yeah right. They weren't friends, he thought.

"You're a sheriff!" Roland said in awe.

And that caused Robin all want to slap his forehead. Now he amazed his son. You've got to be kidding, he thought.

"Yup. Here you can hold my badge."

Graham had given Roland his badge, leaving him to stare at it mesmerized, all the while, his attention was not back on Regina.

"Regina, I heard about Henry and am hoping for a speedy recovery. If there's anything you or Cora need, let me know," he said.

Regina nodded politely. "Thank you. My mother will be glad to know many are wishing him well. Roland, why don't you give Graham his badge back, so that he can go. I'm betting he's very busy."

Yeah, go, Robin thought.

Graham took his badge back and went off, leaving the family. Regina couldn't help but finally let out a laugh that she's been holding in for a long time.

"What's so funny?" he asked.

"You," she said. "You and your jealousy. Robin is there no man that can speak to me in friendly terms that you will not challenge to a jousting match?"

Robin grunted, "I am not jealous of every man Regina. But Graham's seen parts of you that I wish for no other man to see of you. And he wasn't being friendly, not by the ogling he did to you."

Regina snorted. "No, correction. He's only seen parts that were in development. Its all very different now. And not to mention, I know what I'm doing," she said, with a wink in Robin's direction.

"Regina Mills are you flirting with me?" he asked in a playful tone.

While she shrugged. "Call it what you will. Now come on Roland, your grandfather will be very happy to see you."

Regina left an unmovable Robin at the table to pay for their lunch, smirking as she walked out of the diner.

"That woman," he hissed.

…

"Regina, where have you been?" Cora let out, once she spotted her daughter and grandson –walking in her direction.

Regina inwardly groaned. Before arriving and before lunch, she had prepared herself for a day with her mother. Giving herself rather stern pep talk. She's not one to talk to herself in the mirror but where her mother is concerned hell, she had no choice but to tell herself over and over how she is not going to kill her but be a nice and calm daughter, no matter how much her mother drove her crazy.

"Hello mother, still not getting the hang of greetings are we," she said, pecking Cora on the cheek.

Cora rolled her eyes. "It is no time for your sass," she said, "your father's been waiting all day to spend time with you and his grandson and I hear you were at the diner with him."

Ah, Regina thought, so she's known all along just where she was. Of course she's not surprised that Cora has her spies all over the place.

"Yes, well now we're here mother. Where is daddy?" she asked not spotting her father in his bed.

Cora shrugged. "Oh they took him for some more test. I tell you that Whale at times I question his abilities as a doctor."

Then yet, you were ready to have me marry him, she thought but did not dare say it. Not wanting to hear the shrieking of her mother. Just before she could say anything, Henry had been rolled in and Roland sprung out of the seat where he'd been sitting quietly and watching his mother and grandmother speak.

"Grandpa!" he shouted.

"Hey, there's my Roly Poly," Henry said.

Regina grinned at the scene and as Roland carefully sat on Henry's bed and began to tell him all about his school and life back in Boston.

"Now Regina, we must speak."

And there goes the moment, she thought.

"Go on mother, what must we speak of."

And Regina just hoped that someone would have the sense to rescue her.

AN:

I just enjoy a jealous Robin, he's too cute.

But what is Cora going to speak of?

Thanks for reading!