AN/ Enjoy some more Robin and Rabbit. I can see a good friendship going between these two.


I don't know which me I love,

I got no reflection.

I don't know which me I love,

I got no reflection.

~No Reflection (Marilyn Manson)


Chapter Twenty-Eight: No Reflection

"Quite correct, Rabbit." She turned with piercing eyes to Robin. "And who might you be?"

Robin smiled. "Just someone passing through."

The Red Queen laughed. "And yet, you are so determined to get this. The Toad-Rock. What could you possibly use this for?" He didn't say anything, just stared. "A certain someone is poisoned. A lover, possibly?"

"A friend," Robin quickly defended.

"Right…" Immediately, she looked bored at the way the conversation turned. "Get them. Trespassing on royal grounds is a punishable by death, you know."

"These aren't royal grounds!" The Rabbit complained.

"It became so when I burned it." She smiled with menace.

The guards grabbed them behind their backs and cuffed them with tough metal handcuffs. Very uncomfortable.

Robin began to panic as they dragged them away. "Please, I need that Toad-Rock! A life depends on it, your majesty!"

She snapped back around and looked Robin dead in the eyes, "And what is she to me, that would make me give up the last Toad-Rock, which cures four of the deadliest diseases in all of Wonderland? Nothing. And so, I shall provide nothing."

"You have no heart."

The Red Queen smiled again. "Actually, I do. And that's what makes me dangerous." She walked away again. "Take them back to the castle and out of my sight, now! In fact, knock them out."

And a hard blow hit Robin in the back of the head, and all his senses gave away.

(Scene Change to an hour later)

Robin woke up with a screaming headache and somewhere very ominous. They were in cages that reminded him of birdcages, on the ground in a big open room.

He saw the rabbit in another, smaller cage that barely looked big enough for him to breathe in.

"Rabbit? Rabbit are you alright?" Robin asked.

He grunted, "Yeah. For now."

"What's going on?"

The rabbit didn't say anything for a bit, but swallowed and said, "We'll be executed. The Red Queen took a page out of The Queen of Heart's book. Decapitation."

"Who's the Queen of Hearts?" Robin shook the bars while the rabbit tried to kick his. "Is she a part of this?"

"No. She's gone. Left Wonderland a while ago. Her and the Red Queen both ruled Wonderland, now it's all fallen to the Red Queen."

Robin leaned his head against his cage in defeat. "I'm sorry. I just… I just wanted to save her. This is all my fault."

"Don't beat yourself up," the rabbit said in the same tone as him. "It's mine, too. I knew the state of Wonderland, and I never should have agreed to bring you here."

"Guess it's both our faults."

He was so close. So close to saving Regina. Not many people would be disappointed at that thought, sadly, and yet here he was. Sad that she was dying all alone, but he wondered what that meant?

He thought back to the Red Queen words, "A certain someone is poisoned. A lover, possibly?"

Was he falling for her? She hadn't been anything but annoying and rude and commanding and ungrateful. But, Regina did show moments of worry and curiosity and gratefulness (once or twice out of the how many times…) too.

That side of her. The one he looked so hard to see, he found it briefly and occasionally.

And he fell that part.

Then his mind went to his son. Oh god, he barely thought about him at all since meeting Regina. Any time it was forced.

What kind of a father does that make him? What kind of a father goes on a mission not knowing if he'll return for him?

Roland. I'm sorry.

"What are you thinking about?" The rabbit asked.

Robin began to cry. "Everything. Absolutely everything that matters."

The door opened, and Robin couldn't believe who it was.

"Need a key, mate?" Will asked with a smile. He rushed over and unlocked the rabbit's cage before going over to his. "I followed behind in the portal, sorry about that. Got a bit worried."

"What happened to never again?" Robin asked. "No more Wonderland for you?"

Will looked down. "Yeah, still feeling the same, so get me out of here, too, okay?"

Robin nodded, and they all looked at each other before running out.

They creeped around every corner and avoided all the guards they could by a hair.

"They've escaped!" They heard a man scream from the other end of the hallway. He didn't see them, but he noticed the cages, and now all the guards were on red alert, spears out.

"Run!" Will whispered, and they booked it to the door right in front of them.

Suddenly they were pulled back by magic, and the Red Queen held a very disapproving look on her face. "Hello, Will."

"Anna."

Robin looked at him strangely. "You freed them?" She asked.

"I won't let you hurt them, Anna." Will looked pained at the sight of her. "Let us go."

Was this the woman Will risked their lives for? Was she the one he loved and ran off with?

By the looks they exchanged, that was a yes.

She released them. Something changed in her, and she began to look as pained as Will did.

The Red Queen's eyes went to Robin and she walked over to him. "In the name of my past relationship with Will, I am releasing you, but, if you step another foot, or if one of your pretty hairs comes to Wonderland again, you shall not be so lucky. And no, I will not release my Toad-Rock."

She waved her hands and the three of them vanished and reappeared back to where they arrived.

"Rabbit dig your hole," Will said commandingly, "Before she changes her mind."

Quickly the Rabbit dug his hole, and they appeared back in enchanted forest, near the Merry Men camp, this time around.


AN/ Long long chapter, but one I like. There are a lot of questions an such, and next Robin chapter will have that and many more, so just you wait, but I am going to do one Snow/Charming chapter before I get into that, as they should not be forgotten.

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