Say it guys...I'm terrible...I know..It's been ages since the last time but I don't have computer so it's difficult for me to write these days. But still I'm here and yeahh I update! Ok the hard part of this story is almost over ...almost. Next chapter will be much much better . ! ;) I want to give huge gredits to my friend Lupineborn who co-write this chapter with me ...If you want to blame someone for the scene ''Regina -Leopold '' you should go ot her haha! Also a huge thank you for her beta skills ! We are both Greek girls so excuse any mistakes

Here it goes...

The following days, things are a bit hard for everyone in the castle. After King Leopold learned that Robin got away, guards and knights are working for too many hours every day and night. The King had yelled and screamed, even punished the guards that had dared to fall asleep on their shifts making it easier for the traitor to escape. The castle has been guarded at every entrance, and at every secret pass. The King wants to make sure that Robin of Locksley won't get anywhere near the castle if he is still alive.

Every guard, every knight and every maid in the castle are terrified by the King's temper in these days. They have never seen their King in this state.

He doesn't allow anyone to see the Queen. Even Carmen isn't allowed to bring her some food in person. Every day, she enters the tower, leaves a disc of food to the guards and returns to keep serving the guards and knights at their places.

Regina feels that she is going crazy, she actually feels that she is. She doesn't think she can feel anything more than emptiness now that the love of her life is dead. She is a prisoner. She hasn't seen or talked to anyone, she can't count the days or hours that have passed. She feels that she is locked up in this tower for weeks, months. Every day, or sometimes twice a day, a guard gets inside and passes her a disc of food. It's a different guard for every day, though. Some of them look at her with pity for a moment before they leave, some of them look at her with disdain and some others offer her a sad smile every time.

The guard that brings her food this time is one of the latter.

He gets inside with quiet steps and leaves the disc of food beside her bed.

Regina doesn't even turn to look at him until she hears his voice.

''You haven't eaten anything for over three days,'' he says, softly placing the disc closer to the bed.

So it's only three days? It seems so much more to her.

''You'll collapse if you don't eat at least one bite,'' he says again when she doesn't answer.

''Why do you care?'' she asks with a cracked voice, turning her gaze away from him.

''Cause he would care.''

Her gaze instantly locks with his as she hears him. She is about to open her mouth and speak when the guard speaks again.

''We were friends years ago and if he was here, he wouldn't stand it, that you aren't taking care of yourself.''

Tears are running down on her cheeks at the thought of him, at the thought of her Robin. ''Doesn't matter anymore,'' she whispers, lowering her gaze again. ''Nothing matters when he is dead,'' she sobs.

The only thing that breaks the silence is Regina's quiet sobs echoing in the room.

''I'm not supposed to tell you this, but Robin escaped that night.''

Regina jumps from the bed as hope rises inside her, as her eyes widen in surprise.

''What?'' she snaps.

''You didn't hear it from me,'' he says and offers her a last smile. ''Now eat something,'' are his lasts words before he locks the door behind him.

''He is alive,'' she whispers to herself, smiling weakly. Tears of relief are running down to her cheeks and she can hardly find the strength to wipe them away. The guard is right, she has to eat something, she has to be strong if he is alive. She can survive knowing that he is breathing somewhere out there, even if he can't be by her side.

Queen Fedra alerts every guard and every knight to make the trip back to their kingdom as fast as possible. She barely lets them have a few hours of sleep at night before she orders her best knight to announce that everyone has to be ready to continue their trip.

Regina can't tell if it has been days or hours since that guard told her about Robin's escape. Her lips curl into a slight smile as she has the slightest hope that the love of her life is still alive. She is lying on the bed as her mind drifts away in thoughts of her seeing his handsome face again, of being able to see those beautiful blue orbs in his eyes. Leopold might have tried his best to put an end to their love but his sick intentions met a dead end. The hours feel like years in that fancy prison but at least, she will be able to see her love again sometime. And that hope can get her through all of it.

She is still lost in her thoughts when the silence is interrupted by the sound of a key turning in the lock of the door. She is so busy daydreaming that she doesn't even bother facing the other way, to see who gets inside.

"You are resting I see."

The voice that she hates deeply steals her attention in an instant and her expression changes from that of pure affection to one of bitterness and disgust. She slightly flinches at the hearing of his voice and turns around to face Leopold, as he approaches her with slow and heavy steps. She glares at him as she gets up from the bed, taking a few steps back while she tries to maintain their distance and be as far as possible from the man who tried to take away the love of her life in the worst way possible.

"What do you want?" She almost snaps with a cold and bitter voice, trying not to make eye contact.

"Oh? That's a bit rude manner to talk to your husband and King, don't you think?" Leopold asks with irony, but the anger is obvious in his voice.

"Well, it is rather rude to lock your wife - the Queen - away like a prisoner, don't you think?" She snaps harder, giving him a hateful glimpse. His face shows clear anger now, as it bears that unpleasantly familiar redness and spiteful expression.

"How dare you talk to me like that? I caught you and your lover boy fucking in my own castle!" He yells furiously, taking a step towards her, almost stomping his foot. Then, he takes a deep breath, trying to calm himself, lips pressed together and eyes closed, as his features seem to gradually return to normal. He speaks again in a lower voice.

"You must be grateful that I didn't execute you too. I am giving you a second chance, Regina, and if you are smart, you shall take it for your own good."

"I don't want anything from you," she says in a stern tone, as her own face features show a building anger, and she turns her back to him, trying to maintain her composure. To her distress, Leopold's ironic laughter fills annoyingly the room, making it even harder. Mocking her, trying to belittle every attempt of hers to defend herself or to keep him away, that was classic Leopold.

"If that were true, you wouldn't find yourself in my castle to cheat on me in the first place," he starts saying in a low tone while slowly walking towards Regina. "Isn't that right, my dear wife?" His voice grows rougher and he grits his teeth in an ironic smile as his hand practically grabs her face by the jaw, and forces her to look at him.

"Don't touch me!" She snaps at him, struggling her way out of his reach and pushing him away, just enough to keep a distance from him again. "I never wanted any of this from you!"

"When will you stop acting like a child, Regina?" He snaps at her furiously, as his voice fills the room again. "Are we going through this again? If you know what's best for you, defy me no more! You're no longer that petty, immature girl, wasting away your days on a horse's back, courting stable boys! YOU ARE A QUEEN! Start acting like one!" He practically spat those words at her.

She can't hold that throbbing rage in her anymore. How dares that arrogant, manipulative, honourless, ugly old man talk to her like this?

"You are just like my mother! You never understood what it means to really be at someone's side! I wanted NOTHING of this, yet I managed just fine for all this time!" As she yells these words, she approaches him, her voice gradually becoming harsher, as tears form in her eyes. "You treated me as if I am your property, both of you! You claim to know what's best for me but you never even asked me ONCE about how I feel about all this!"

The veins in Leopold's face and neck are clear as hell, as a red rage already spreads on his features, making him seem like he is ready to explode. He stands right in front of her and retaliates, furiously yelling at her.

"You said yes!"

"MY MOTHER SAID IT FOR ME!" She snaps in full rage, as her growling voice of anger built for years hit the walls.

For a moment, they face each other exchanging threatening expressions, breathing hard, clenching fists, and the pausing silence after the growling argument feels deafening.

In those long seconds, Leopold just stands frozen, piercing her with shocked and furious eyes, contemplating about the fact that his wife has gone that far at defying him, denying accepting her place and the whole situation.

Regina's mind races to a thousand different scenarios of where that conflict might lead this time, but she isn't afraid to face him now. He can't hurt her anymore. Robin is out there, and she knows Leopold won't touch her now, if he really wanted to hurt her, he would have done it before he kept her locked in this awful place. Aside all that, her hands tremble, her voice is hoarse, but something in all that makes her feel justified. She just crossed swords with him like never before.

Leopold scoffs at first, then gradually breaks in an ugly nervous laughter, facing away from her. Regina never takes her eyes off of him and just watches him with a firm expression, waiting for his next move. Leopold mumbles some things about how he can't believe this, and about how he has never seen such ungratefulness, arrogance and immaturity in his life.

Finally he turns to her again and speaks.

"Your mother is the reason you will never need anything you can't have. She knew what was best for her family, and she made sure you would be secure. She is a bright woman, Regina. She knows how the world runs. Not on silly, childish dreams and flowers and rainbows, but on power and wealth." He stands a breath away from her, towering over her with his imposing, cold look. "Such a shame you deny following her example. You would have been an excellent Queen."

"And a very poor mother for your oh-so-lovely daughter," she replies in a low but firm tone, her eyes piercing his, like another bitter blow.

He scoffs again.

"You want affection, is that what you want? You think that poor excuse of a man - or any man - is going to love you better than I?" He raises his voice, maintaining his composure this time.

"He wouldn't do anything to hurt me, Leopold," she speaks lowly, as her voice cracks a little, "but look where you have brought me. If you loved me half as deeply as he does, we might never reach this place."

"Don't you DARE comparing me to that pest!" He momentarily snaps, then takes a deep breath again and a step back before continuing. "I am not a cold man, Regina. I love my daughter, you have seen it."

"But you never loved me, and I never loved you, Leopold. What we live is a lie," she responded as new tears attempt to form in her eyes and she tries hard to hold them back. She takes a deep breath and speaks bitterly. "You will see that too."

Leopold contemplates again. This has gone much farther than he thought. The damage is much greater than it seemed. She has been ungrateful to him, she cheated on him with one of his knights, in his own castle. He's been merciful enough to let her live but she still talks back, she still disrespects him in all ways possible. These thoughts light a new fire in his already upset mind and he takes a deep breath. Regina is still young and needs to be taught a lesson about what such actions against him may bring. That knight's company has affected her in dangerous ways, she had never talked to him like that before. He needs to break her. He needs to take away the strength that fuels her audacity.

"Well, it is a good thing that pathetic scum is no longer going to be a problem, whisking you away from any reason and order, which you ought to follow as a Queen," he says in a confident tone, his lips breaking to that ill intended smirk.

"Robin is safe now," Regina responds, looking in his eyes with hints of relief.

"I'm afraid that's not the case, my Queen," he responds as his lips now fully form one of his disgusting evil smiles, as they do every time he is about to prove once again just how cruel he is.

Regina's blood freezes in her veins, as does her expression. "What are you talking about? He escaped!"

"Well," he talks in a normal tone, slowly walking on the other side of the room, "with that presumptuous attitude of yours, I missed informing you why I came here in the first place. You see, I had my men scourge the land and, not two hours ago, I took care of that filthy pest myself," he says, overflowing with pride as he sees Regina's composure crumbling down while her face shows clear denial.

"No! You are lying! We were just talking about him and you said nothing! You're making things up," her voice cracks more and more as new tears eagerly form in her eyes and she grits her teeth, trying to remain strong.

"I am many things, Regina, but I am not a liar. But of course, you would assume that for your King, you ungrateful child," he says as his tone grows louder and more fierce. "Some lessons in life have to be taught the hard way, Regina, and I will not have my wife humiliate me like this again!" He yells at her. "You will never see him again!"

Regina completely breaks, a bitter anger completely takes over her and she rushes towards Leopold, yelling and crying, weekly trying to hurt him as he catches both of her arms.

"You filthy monster! You filthy, heartless, awful monster, what did you do to him? WHAT DID YOU DO?"

He grits his teeth, his face red because of the struggle and the anger that flows in him, as he holds fiercely Regina's arms, while she struggles to hit him but never manages to.

"I gave that betraying dog the death that he deserved, like the miserable fool he was!" He laughs ironically. "That petty excuse of a knight cried like a girl and pleaded for his life in the most pathetic way, oh you had to be there!"

"YOU ARE THE MISERABLE DOG, YOU PATHETIC EXCUSE OF A KING!" She screams at his face, managing a kick at his side. The pain causes him to flinch and weaken for a second, but new rage explodes in him and he shoves her away, causing her to fall on the bed.

She buries her face in the mattress, tightly clenching the sheets and smothering her cries as best as she can, though the pain - the emotional rather than the physical - is unbearable and she can only do so much. She rises from the mattress, fists still clenching the sheets, and she cries Robin's name out loud, releasing rivers of hot tears on her cheeks. Between her sobs, she mumbles things about her love for him, how she never got to tell him that he was the best thing that ever happened to her, how she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him.

Leopold just stands there, panting hard because of the exertion, watching her as he tries to build his composure again. He fixes his clothes and clears his voice before speaking.

"That's what happens when someone disrespects their King, Regina."

"You cruel, heartless old man," Regina mumbles between sobs, "you are the one who deserves to die...! You and people like my mother, taking away from me everything I ever loved, you deserve to die!" She takes a deep breath and snaps at him between sobs. "You'd wish you were half the man he was, but you will never be! And you will never be loved, Leopold, for only I know who you really are! AND I HATE YOU!"

"Shut your mouth, Regina!" He snaps at her, but she returns to her sobbing and cries in the mattress, her only response being repeating mumbles of "I hate you..."

Leopold quietly heads to the door and opens it. Before leaving, he gives a bitter glance at her, who doesn't even bother facing him for a last time.

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