'Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.'

Closing her eyes and taking in a deep breath that was supposed to subdue all the crazy ideas that were trying to disrupt the blissful state of nirvana she has managed to acquire over the weekend, Regina Mills recited the words over and over inside her head while she impatiently tapped a pen hard against her lips.

Her intentions were for the meaning of Mark Twain's words to stick into her psyche, for them to drill into her brain so that maybe she could finally understand why it was so important for her to remain calm and act accordingly to her position.

She was the Mayor of Storybrooke, a position that required her to be neutral… graceful to a certain extent and definitely levelheaded. So no, as the top conservator of peace and order in town, she couldn't let her acts to be ruled by emotion. No, she couldn't act on impulses and let alone on personal vendettas.

Doing so would be extremely unprofessional from her part and as a rule, that was something she evaded at all cost and that was why she was trying so desperately hard to keep calm… to be the bigger person.

Besides, it wasn't like harboring so much repressed ire could be good for the baby so the best she could do was to inhale peace, and then slowly exhale the tension.

Inhale, and exhale…

"Did you call for me?"

Blinking her eyes open as the annoyingly high-pitched tone of her new auditor came to disrupt to safe sanctuary she was mentally trying to create inside her mind, Regina watched as the redhead happily entered her office without even knocking and she had to squeeze the pen between her fingers a little tighter to keep herself from snapping at the abrupt interruption.

Yes, she has called for the woman, but that has been out of necessity rather than the desire to see her and well, a knock would have helped her prepare better to be able to bear her presence.

Zelena… she couldn't even begin to count the reasons why she didn't like the woman, but the biggest of them all resided in a personal matter and because of her position as Mayor she just couldn't take it out on her professionally.

What would she say or do anyway? The cliché stay away from my man line? To call Central Government and report her as the sleazy slut that she was?

No, she couldn't do any of that so she better just gear up for battles she could win. Like the one she had under her sleeve; it was a good one she just found out thanks to Belle pointing it out to her a little less than an hour ago and seeing it as her golden ticket, she was sure as hell going to use it.

Putting the pen down over her desk but keeping her eyes set on the redhead, Regina decided to go straight with it, as there was no reason why to sugarcoat things.

"The files you took out this morning, where are they?"

As she sat there, in front of her desk, Zelena Green shifted a little on her chair while a hand went to run nervously through her long hair. The smile on her face never faltered though. "The files?"

Arching both eyebrows as if she couldn't get what was so hard to understand, the brunette leaned back into her executive chair, her hands automatically setting in the small baby bump on her stomach.

"You went to Belle and asked for some files to audit this morning. Did you finish with them? Because I need them, right now."

Clearly uncomfortable and probably knowing she has been caught, Zelena's smile grew a bit wider while she momentarily looked down to her hands. "I don't have them right now… but I can get them to you before my shift is over."

Biting the inside of her cheek, Regina knew she had the woman right where she wanted her, up against a wall and with nowhere to go. "You don't have them. What is that suppose to mean?"

Zelena's eyes were on hers and she saw in them that she knew there was no point in lying. "Mr. Gold came by and he needed to check on them…"

"Gold? You mean to tell me that you gave the documents of an ongoing government contract to Gold?"

"They are public records." Zelena hurried to say.

"So let me see of I get this." She said in a stern voice but trying to keep her calm and poise. "You asked, for those files so you could audit them and then somehow Gold casually went curious about that specific contract and you just gave them to him?"

"He just… he needed…"

Lifting a hand in the air before the woman could keep talking, Regina shook her head no.

Now sure, she would be the first to admit that the contract they were actually talking about was one that was already on the way and that everything went according to law and protocol, so that Gold had the files didn't affect her in the sightless; but the fact that Zelena took the liberty of just give them to him of all people not only irked her, but also increased the dislike and distrust she had in her.

"I'm not sure if you are aware of the duties you are supposed to carry around here but the handling of contracts and deeming what can or will be made known to general public are definitely not among them."

"This is because of Robin, isn't it?" Zelena asked, tilting her head to the side.

Regina didn't even blink at the question. She just wondered how an accent that she seemed to love in her future husband could be so annoying in this woman. But then again, she was sure it wasn't the accent per se but the person who carried it.

"This is about you using your position in this office to mishandle information and creating a huge breech in the reliability invested in you. It is about the mediocrity of how you perform your duties because Ms. Green, a file that you take out of here and goes missing just shows you are doing something wrong."

"It isn't missing, Gold has them."

"I don't care if the Queen of England has them herself, they are supposed to be here in my desk right now. If Gold or anyone needs to check on them then they have to follow the correct channels and those are not through you."

Red faced, Zelena clenched her jaw. "You'll have them back within the hour."

"I definitely hope so."

For a second, the other woman remained silent, but Regina could see the anger building in her eyes and she wasn't going to lie, she liked it.

The corner of her lips even involuntarily curved up in a satisfactory smile and if anything, that made the woman burst.

"You are making this personal, and all because you are jealous that Robin clearly likes me. It must be a breath of fresh air now that I'm here for him, it's like he finally found something he has been missing. I think that's why we bonded immediately."

Unable to help it, Regina scoffed. She knew what the woman was doing and she wasn't going to fall for it. She wanted her to doubt Robin and that was something she couldn't afford.

Yes, she and the father of her unborn child had talked and fixed things over the weekend and in a way she could say that everything was right… but the truth was that all of it has been so recent that there was still certain soreness to the whole thing and doubting him in that moment would be like taking a thousand steps backward.

"Ms. Green, you're embarrassing yourself now so just… go take a walk and retrieve those files."

Getting to her feet before sending her a heated glance, Zelena walked to the door. It was when she was about to open it that Regina called her, almost as an afterthought.

"Two things before you go; first, just so you know, I'll have to inform central government of this. Second, stay away from Robin because trust me, you really don't want me to turn this personal. You wouldn't like it."

Twisting her lips as her face turned a crimson red, the new auditor turned around and left.

Regina just watched her leave, a triumphant grin on her face as her tongue ran smoothly over the edge of her teeth.

"Well that didn't go half as bad as I expected." She said out loud while her hands still rubbed her stomach.

And no it didn't, and she was glad because she hadn't wanted Zelena to ruin such a special day. She was having an ultrasound in less than one hour, an ultrasound where they would hopefully find out the sex of their baby.

Thinking about that, Regina checked her phone to see if she had any message from Robin. They agreed that he was going to pick her up to take her to the appointment and so far she has heard nothing from him.

Yes, it was still early but she was feeling a bit antsy, first because she was excited about the sonogram and also because her talk with Zelena had left her blood pumping and she didn't think she could stay there sitting and doing nothing.

She needed to move and do things and…

Before she could continue with the thought, her phone started to ring and she immediately went to answer it. It was Robin, so skipping a greeting she started to talk.

"You are here? Please tell me you are here."

A raspy chuckle came out of him, the sound waves traveling from her phone directly into her ear. "Define here, because where I'm at is definitely not where you at."

Groaning but grabbing her handbag and heading out the door, Regina rolled her eyes. "Don't talk in riddles. I can't deal with that right now."

"Rough day?"

Walking out of her office and motioning Belle that she was leaving, Regina smiled. "Actually no, it is a good one. The best."

"Why can't I detect sarcasm in your voice, what's going on?"

"Nothing is going on. Are you here, yes or no?"

"I'm parked right in front."

"Good." Hanging up and keeping her chin up as she moved through the lobby of the building, she opened the door that would lead her outside and as she has been expecting, Robin was there.

He was still in the car with the phone still in his ear so before he could climb out and do a demonstration of his chivalry, she hopped in.

"Did you just hang up on me?"

Not bothering to answer and without properly sitting on the passenger seat, Regina reached for him and kissed him full on the lips.

It made Robin hum, probably in surprise as she was usually hesitant when it came to public displays of affection; but when she pushed her tongue into his mouth he received her gladly, one hand going to the back of her head while his face tilted so that the kiss to go even deeper.

On her knees and leaning into him, she swept her tongue against his as her hands settled on his shoulders, that way they kissed for a few consecutive seconds, but then when she deemed it was enough she pulled away, but not before biting lightly his bottom lip.

"Well hello to you." He said huskily as one of his hands settled on her stomach. But then as if it was a misjudgment from his part he slid the hand up so he ended up momentarily grabbing one of her breasts.

Lowering her eyes and following the movement of his fingers tracing the outline of her dress, Regina bit on her lips, but then when he dropped the hand away she looked into his eyes and lowered her own hand into his groin, searching and finding certain part of his anatomy he kept hidden inside his jeans.

"Someone woke up playful today." Robin said with a smile on his lips.

Regina blinked, rubbing her palm against the not so discreet bulge between his legs. "Hmm, seems like someone is not the only one."

Now yes, they had spent the weekend together and after the not so stellar drama Zelena provoked, they even made love, languidly and without hurries, as if trying to get the hang of each other after their emotions went from high to low.

But that has been Saturday morning and it was Monday in the afternoon and her emotions were on an entirely different level right now.

She was hyped, after getting an upper hand on Zelena without completely losing her temper, she felt like her blood was pumping in her ears and she felt full of energy, like she could take on anything.

"That's entirely on you. I came here with the chaste intentions of getting you to the doctor and you just jumped on me."

"I didn't jump on you, I just kissed you." She replied, taking her hand away and sitting properly. "Simple as that."

But she did so with a sly smile, her eyes wandering down his body so she could take a look at his reaction to her. It made her feel good because even if she wasn't doubting him, it reassured her that he wasn't even remotely getting tired of her.

"I'm not complaining, you can kiss me like that whenever you like to. Actually, I'm glad you're in such a good mood because there's something I have to tell you and I have a feeling you won't like it."

Furrowing her brow, Regina tensed her jaw a little.

"Now it's actually not that bad if you come to think about it." He started to say as he drove away. "It's part… just remember it's part of the cycle of life, we all went through it and-"

"For Christ's sake just say it already." She said impatiently, but when he grabbed the steering wheel a bit harder and tried to send her way a smile her eyes squinted and she tried to stare the truth out of him.

"What did you do?"

"Me? I haven't done anything." He chuckled, shaking his head. "Ohh you're going to flip, I know it. Maybe we should do this after the appointment. Even better after I feed you."

"Robin." She said in a warning, her tone serious and her playful mode gone. For some reason she thought about what Zelena said and biting her tongue not to screw up, she sighed loudly.

"It's Henry. He came to me and… okay first of all I have to remind you that he is a good kid and he has never given you trouble and, that he came to me to talk rather than going to Emma so that's has count for something."

"Henry?" She asked almost dumbly as at least a dozen scenarios started to run through her mind. "What is it?"

"He kind of has a girlfriend-"

"A what?" Doing a double take and turning fully to him, Regina saw how he shut his mouth and sucked the inside of his cheeks to keep himself from saying more. "My son has a what?"

"A girlfriend."

Shocked to say the least, Regina scoffed, running a hand through her hair and using the other to search for her phone.

"What are you doing?" Robin said as he leered at her.

"What do you mean with what am I doing? I have to talk to him. He's thirteen, he can't have a girlfriend." She snapped.

Grabbing the phone out of her hands, Robin laughed. "I knew you were going to flip. Listen, he came to me looking for advice because he wants to tell you, but he knows you are most likely than not get a little on the dramatic side and he doesn't want to create a fuss."

"He's thirteen, he's just a kid!"

"He's a teen, and even if you are completely unaware of it, it's perfectly normal for a boy his age to date."

"Oh my God."

She groaned while covering her face with her hands. She wasn't ready for this… not her sweet little boy. Just until last night she has been preparing him chocolate milk before bedtime so how did he went from that to having a girlfriend?

And his room, he still had toys in there and… and he spent his days playing video games or reading comics so how…

"You say Emma doesn't know this?" She asked while dropping her hands to her lap.

Robin shook his head no while keeping his eyes on the road ahead. "He wants to tell you first."

Feeling a small victory over that one and realizing she couldn't be the overbearing mother Cora has been, she swallowed on dry.

"Okay." She breathed in, trying to keep calm. "Okay… it's okay I can, he can talk to me. I won't flip."

"You sure?"

She nodded, looking out the window. She said nothing more after than, and not because she had nothing to add, but just because her mind was speeding.

It wasn't until she was at her doctor's office, laying in the examination chair with her stomach exposed and her skirt riding so low she might as well take it off that she basically snapped out of it.

"That's a lively little baby you have there, won't stop moving."

Wrinkling her nose and thinking that this baby would probably be as hyper as Roland, Regina looked at Robin. "Those are all your genes."

He winked at her, reaching for her hand and interlacing his fingers with hers while the doctor pointed at the monitor to show them all the parts of their baby. The head and how it keep rubbing it's hand in it's face, the little feet that kept kicking at nothing in particular and the little fingers and toes that kept wriggling.

The only thing the baby wasn't showing was the sex and that was because it kept moving so much the doctor couldn't get a clear imagine.

"I think I already know by the small glimpses I got but I don't want to tell until I get a clear shot."

"It's a girl, isn't it?" Robin asked sure of himself and the doctor smiled, but before he could answer the door busted open and a nurse rushed in.

"Doctor, he have an emergency."

"I'll be there in a minute. Madame Mayor, if you excuse me, I know you probably have more pressing things to do other than just waiting here so if you have to go that would be all."

"Oh, I can't get out of here without knowing the sex. We can wait."

"Sure." Robin said and after apologizing, the Doctor hurried out.

"You really think it's a girl?" She asked because that was low key what she has been hoping for. Not that she wouldn't like a boy but she needed a balance. She couldn't be the only woman in the house.

"Yes." He said, getting to his feet as she changed positions so she could sit. "So… how long would you think this emergency would take?"

Her eyebrow rose as she set her eyes on his. "Why, you have more important business to attend to than being here?"

Walking around so that he could stand in front of her, Robin pressed the button that made the adjustable part of the examination chair retreat underneath it so that it would remain a simple chair instead of the extended one where she has been laying. Once he did that he reached for the foot rests and pulled them forward.

"Not precisely… I was just wondering if you were still feeling playful… you know, while we wait."

She scoffed, but when he grabbed her hips to drag her almost to the edge of the chair she gasped.

"What do you think you are doing?" She asked, but when he grabbed her left foot first and placed it on the leg rest before doing the same with the right one, she did nothing to stop him, and when he slid his hands underneath her skirt to run them all the way to her hips, she just bit her lips.

With those few movements she ended up with her legs spread, her underwear in full display and Robin conveniently standing between her thighs.

"Nothing, just taking a look at this chair thing. For scientific reasons, obviously." But as he said that, he moved his hands to her inner thighs, giving them a squeeze before going a bit farther up until his knuckles could brush against the crotch of her panties.

The touch sent a shiver up her spine, but still she cleared her throat and arched an eyebrow. "Are you aware that we are not home?"

"I'm aware that you look very appealing to all my senses right now." As if to show her, he pushed his own hips forward, grinding his groin against her and making her feel that he was indeed enjoying himself.

He has hard, very much so, and the roughness of his jeans against the sensitive part her panties were barely concealing made her gasp.

She parted her lips as if to tell him to stop acting like a horny teen, but when he sat on the low stool the doctor kept around so that he could perform his examinations, she closed her eyes for a second to see what he would do.

Not like she really didn't know, but when she felt the way he pushed her panties a little to the side so that he could fully expose her, she shook her head no.

"Robin, the doctor is going to walk right in and how would this look?"

"I don't know, but what I'm looking at right now looks just perfect." He used his fingers to part her folds, then once in she felt how the pad of one of his digit ran from her perineum and slowly up, brushing over her slit, gathering the wetness in her and then moving up to her clit.

"You're crazy." She whispered when he repeated the motion, going down, and then back up.

"It looks good, it feels good… now I just need to check if it is as appetizing as it looks." With that said, he replaced his fingers with his tongue and ever so slowly, he dragged it all over her sex.

Placing a hand over her mouth to cover the moan that almost escaped her, Regina shivered, and while her mind was screaming at her that she shouldn't be letting him do that in the doctor's office, she just couldn't help but to want a little bit more.

It was just that what he was doing felt so damn good, the combination of his tongue teasing at her flesh as his mouth covered all there was of her was insane. It made her back arch and the small hairs along her arms stand on edge.

"Robin, we can't… do this here." She panted when he swirled his tongue over the nub she usually kept hidden between her legs.

"Hmm." He hummed, the vibration of the act making her hips buck forward and against his mouth.

He took that moment to push his tongue right into her and she almost lost in right there, but before the sensation could fully get a hold of her he pulled away and lifted from the chair.

"It tastes even better than what it looks." To show her, he leaned into her and kissed her, letting her taste herself out of his tongue.

"You lost your mind." She said against his mouth, but as soon as the words were out she kissed him harder, wrapping her arms around his neck so that she could make the kiss go deeper and longer.

He provided, exploring the cave of her mouth as if he has never done it before. His tongue dancing along with hers, tangling together in that sensuous way she loved of his kisses.

It was as they kissed that she felt that he has somehow liberated himself from his jeans and now his erection was wild and free against her.

"No." She said. "Not here."

"I'll put it in just once, just to feel you. I'll behave after that, promise."

Closing her eyes and trying to use her ear to detect if there was someone approaching, Regina chewed on her lips. "Okay but just once."

With her approval, Robin slowly started to slide in. He did it extremely slow, making the delicious stretch of his erection parting a way into her very core feel like sweet torture.

It made her purr despite herself and when he was as deep as he could go, she wrapped her legs around him and held him in place for a few seconds.

Her heart was beating hard, her skin felt on fire and she wasn't sure if she wanted to leg go of him.

"You feel so good." He whispered and he felt alive inside of her, his girth and the friction of the pants he still have on making her skin feel hypersensitive.

"Let's go the bathroom." She said, knowing that if the doctor came back it would be easier to explain they went to stretch for a little while.

Not having to be told twice, Robin pulled out of her and before helping her accommodate her clothes, he kissed her once more.

Then, when he himself was as presentable as he could get they sneaked out of the office and headed into the bathroom down the hallway.

"I can't believe I'm letting you do this." She started to say but before she could say more, he made her walk towards the sink and positioning himself behind her, he lifted her skirt all the way to her back.

"I haven't done anything yet, love." And apparently he haven't yet but he planned to, because before sliding her panties down her legs and putting them somewhere safe, he made her bent a little so that her ass was upturned towards him, then he drove right back into her sex.

Gasping at the friction the new position provoked, Regina watched her reflection through the mirror, noticing that her cheeks were tinged with red, that her lips were parted so that she could breath through her mouth and that her eyes were dark and wild.

She looked as if she was in a complete bliss and in a way, she couldn't keep her eyes away.

"See how stunning you are? Could look at you all day like that."

Pressing the tip of her tongue to the corner of her lips, Regina moved her eyes to his reflection. She couldn't see him so well since he was behind her, but of what she could see his eyes were as wild looking as her own.

"That feels good." She managed to say as his thrusts keep coming harder and deeper. He was holding hard on her hips as he slammed into her and she had to keep her own hands firm against the sink not to lose her balance.

He wasn't tender about what he was doing but he wasn't being too harsh either, just keeping a pace that was apt to make her come undone very soon.

It made her feel all sorts of things, on the brim of loosing it, excited about how they were not supposed to be there having sex and delirious as each thrust send all sort of pleasure all over her body.

"You're so wet and hot."

"That's for you." She moaned. "That's what you do to me."

"Fuck, Regina." He hissed as he pulled out.

For a second she though he was finished and that for that time, he decided to finish outside of her, but her confusion was cleared when he made her turn around so that she could face him.

Once like that, he lifted her up against the sink and kissing her hard, he penetrated her sex, his engorged erection finding its way back home.

Moaning into his mouth and liking the way his hands settled on her ass to grind himself to her, Regina kissed him back, almost desperately. She kissed him until she couldn't breathe or think and until the pressure was too much and her womb exploded in all directions.

Holding to him, she moaned and shivered all over, and sensing how he was following her in her release, she spread her legs a bit more and received all he had to give.

"Shit." He groaned into her mouth, his hips pushing so hard into her she though he was going to become one with her.

When he was finished, he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her shoulder.

"I think I ruined my own bloody pants."

Chuckling and glad he at least saved her underwear, Regina saw how he slid out of her and opened the faucet, cleaning himself as best as he could. He did the same with her, helping the essence of his desire pour out of her until he believed there was no more of it.

Once done he helped her down and kissed her. "You're amazing."

"And crazy, Robin… this was…"

"It was amazing, let's leave it at that."

She agreed, because now that it was done she couldn't go around regretting it. She just hoped nobody noticed.

When they were presentable, they walked out the same way they came in, only that when they went back to the office the doctor was still nowhere to be found.

"See, we could have finished here and no harm would have come."

"Sorry I took so long." Came the voice of the doctor all of a sudden and both Robin and Regina startled. "Believe it or not I just delivered a baby in the lobby. It's amazing the things that can come out of nowhere."

"Indeed they are."

"Wow." Regina said, widening her eyes and refusing to look at Robin. Somehow, she felt like laughing and she knew that if she looked at him she was just going to do it.

"Well back to business."

Already in position, Regina laid down and after pouring the cold gel on her stomach once more, the doctor went back at doing the sonogram.

"What did you do to this baby, it's totally passed out now. Look at that, it even has a thumb on its mouth."

Robin coughed and Regina had to bit hard on her lips and close her eyes for a second. "I think it got tired out."

"Seems so… well there it is, you see that over there?"

Blinking her eyes open but not really getting what she was looking at, Regina shook her head. "What is it?"

"That's the sex of your baby."

"It doesn't look like a… thing, so it a girl?" Robin asked and much as he did before, he reached for her hand.

"It is a girl, so congratulations, now you can go planning for this baby…"