Chapter 36
Everyone stands in complete silence, some looking at Regina and some looking at the sonogram photo that now lays on the ground. Emma immediately tries to go to her friend, to provide some comfort. She reaches out to grab the brunette's hand, but Regina rips it from her grasp.
"Don't touch me!" she insists.
"Regina, don't believe what she said, she probably just made the whole thing up to piss you off…"
But, the real-estate agent doesn't seem to hear her friend as her brown eyes continue to stare at the ground, at the picture of the child inside her sister. In her mind, she's doing the math. It'd been almost two months since the whole fiasco with Zelena had happened and that she'd been forced to break up with Robin. Her stomach turns violently, thinking about why Zelena wanted her away from Robin. The half-sister could've asked for money or something expensive as a bribe, but instead insisted on separation and why…
Her heart rams against her chest in fear and anger. That can't mean… there were several hours, close to a day where she'd lost track of Robin, could that mean? Why didn't he tell her?!
"It's real, Emma, she's not stick skinny anymore," Mary Margret says quietly. "You and I should both know."
Aurora nods in agreement. Everyone looks at Regina, who has tears dancing on the edge of her eyes.
"But it can't be Robin's!" Elsa insists. "You two only broke up for a couple of hours…"
"A couple of hours is all she'd need Elsa," Ruby swallows, regretting her words immediately.
Regina looks very hurt and confused. Emma again tries to offer comfort, but this causes the brunette to snap.
"Stay away from me!" she snarls.
"Regina, calm down," Mary Margret says firmly. "This is exactly what Zelena wants, to get under your skin."
"Well, she succeeded. All she's done is try to ruin my life and I think at this point she's done the one thing I can't…"
"Regina, we know you're upset, but…" Emma begins.
"But nothing! At least you get to carry a baby, while I can't even give my boyfriend that…"
"He doesn't want another baby though…" Mary Margret insists.
"How the hell would you know that?!" Regina barks. She grabs the sonogram photo from the ground and storms out of the house, slamming the door in the same way that her sister did a few minutes earlier. She leaves her friends stunned and heartbroken for her. What a way to end a baby shower.
…
Regina pulls up in front of his apartment complex and gets out, leaving her car running because she knows this will not take very long. She fumes up the stairs and pounds on the apartment door.
Will opens the door, standing with a Coke bottle in one hand and wearing only boxer shorts. He looks very surprised and then scared when he sees how angry she looks.
"Wow, an angry woman at the door is usually what happens to me…"
"CUT THE CLOWNING, where's your roommate?!"
Will swallows and takes a step back.
"Uh… Rob…"
"What now Will?"
"Your girlfriend is here and she's pissed to high hell,"
Robin comes around the corner into her view and he becomes very uncomfortable. Regina pushes past the roommate, right into the apartment without a second thought. She walks right up to him and slaps him across the face. He steps back in shock, holding his face.
"You son of a bitch," she screeches.
This is when the tears begin to fall down her face. Regina looks at the handsome man she'd been lucky enough to meet, his blue eyes and chiselled chin… his humble demeanour and sweet personality. Everything that she loved about him has just come crashing down, burying her in a pile of pain and anger.
Will looks absolutely embarrassed and afraid. He takes the moment to escape.
"Well, this is clearly your problem, I'm just gonna… yeah…" he slips out the front door of the apartment, not even caring that he's in his boxer shorts.
"Regina, what happened? What's wrong?"
"Don't ask me what's wrong…! This is what's wrong…" she holds up the sonogram picture.
"What is that?"
"A picture of your unborn child."
"What?! Marian isn't pregnant again…"
"Not Marian…" Regina swallows hard before continuing to look at her traitorous boyfriend. "My slut of a sister!"
"Zelena?"
"YES ZELENA! UNLESS YOU'VE BEEN SLEEPING WITH OTHER WOMEN AS WELL?"
"What? N-No I… how?"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HOW?! HOW DO YOU THINK BABIES ARE CONCEIVED?"
"We didn't even…"
"Have sex, well she seems to think you did, so unless she's lying… Is she lying Robin?"
Robin becomes very afraid and his stomach turns in guilt. He knew that night would come back to bite him in the ass, and it did in the worst way possible. His eyes fill with tears and he scratches the back of his neck, looking into his beloved's eyes.
"She…she's not lying," he admits.
Regina's face turns a very bright red and more tears stream down her face. She finds the nearest pile of stuff and kicks it with all her might. She then grabs the closest thing she can find as a weapon, an umbrella and basically attacks him with it. She hits him as many times as she can, to make him feel the kind of pain she's in. She shouts obscenities at him as she strikes.
"R-Regina…" he gasps, trying to avoid being stabbed by the umbrella or hurt any further.
He grabs the makeshift weapon and tries to wrestle it from her.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" she cries out, still fighting for control of her weapon.
"Regina please, I was so drunk and she must've tricked me."
"Right because intoxication always helps with that."
"I don't even remember what happened. I…I…"
"You what?! Thought she was better than me?"
"NO! Of course not, she… she set me up…"
"And obviously you didn't use protection!"
"I wasn't thinking clearly."
"But you must've been when I came back to you, saying to forget everything and that we could be together again!"
Robin's stomach lurches again, he knew he should've told her the truth at once after they got back together. He'd made the promise of no secrets between them and yet he'd kept this one. He assumed that if he never saw the wretched woman again, it would fade away into obscurity. Just a drunken mistake, but clearly this was not going to go away so easily.
"I-I know I should've told you… I'm so sorry Regina…"
"Sorry can't do anything now," she spits angrily. Her heart is literally breaking in two. The pain she felt was unlike anything she'd felt before, even during her divorces and after the death of Daniel. She really thought that he was the one for her, that he could make her forget everything that transpired in her life, the failed relationships, and the reality of never having a family. But, he's as treacherous as her sister. She can't stand to look at him any longer. She was destined to be alone. She turns to leave.
"Regina, please… It was a mistake," Robin says. He literally goes on his knees, grabbing her hand. "I'm so sorry. I love you."
At the proclamation of love, she stops for just a moment. She loved him too, it was clear, which is why it hurt so much from this betrayal. She looks into his eyes, becoming lost in them again. She wants nothing more than to pull him into her arms and never let go. But then she feels the picture in her hand. The sonogram photo of his and Zelena's baby
"Well, this mistake is a lot bigger now. Two months bigger." She tosses the picture onto the floor, pulls her hand from his grasp. "I never want to see you again!" she says before slamming the apartment door.
She goes down to her car and drives away as fast as she can, so he won't try and follow her.
Robin remains on the floor of the apartment, his own heart breaking. He stares at the photo of the tiny baby in front of him. His tears sting his eyes.
"What have I done?" he moans.
He picks up the photo for a moment and then tries to go pursue Regina. He goes past Will, who's passed out on the hall floor, clearly trying to listen to their conversation and also clearly drunk. He races down the stairs and goes out to the parking lot, only to see her car pull away. He runs his hand through his hair and kneels on the pavement again, wanting more than anything to turn back the clock.
A/N; A heartbreaking chapter. Some parts of the breakup are reminiscent of Ross and Rachel's breakup, where a friend is caught in an awkward situation and the female attacking the male in anger.