Chapter Description: Regina finally sees Roland
Day 8 cont.
She doesn't know what she expected.
Anger. Tears maybe. Nothing good.
He's run through her mind so many times in these past three months, even more in the past eight days. So many nights she laid in her bed, staring up at the ceiling, wondering about him. Where he was. How he was doing. If he still felt Robin's absence as sharply as she did – she couldn't imagine the answer was anything but yes.
She wondered if he ever thought about her. If he longed for their afternoons at the park like she did? Or their bedtime stories and late night cookies?
She wondered… if he was as angry at her as she was at herself? If he still got upset at the fact that she hadn't said goodbye to him. Or if tears welled up in his eyes at the thought of her not fighting for him to stay with her? Tears that mirrored her own feelings on the subject.
Standing in front of that tent waiting for him to come out she wondered if he would even be happy to see her. She didn't know if she would be.
But still she sat and waited. Anxiously, twiddling her fingers for the moment when Roland would come out and see her.
And it came.
She'd been waiting all night and she still wasn't prepared for the moment when she laid eyes on him. It knocked the breath out of her.
He hadn't changed, at least not on the outside. He still had his dark, curly hair and his big brown eyes.
He squinted for a moment, his eyes adjusting to the morning light, but then he saw her. And it was as if everything went still.
She didn't know what she expected.
But it was not for his eyes to light up and his dimples to flare. Or for a grin to flash on his face. And most certainly not for a happy cry to fly from his throat.
"Regina!"
She's still glued to her seat when he runs and launches himself into her arms, nearly knocking her over. Like muscle memory her arms wrap around him, pressing him closer to her chest. She breathes in deep taking in his familiar smell of dirt and leaves.
He squeezes her tightly and she hears him whisper in her ear, "I knew you'd come back for me."
She feels the tears well up in her eyes as she holds him tighter, feeling, for the first time in months, like she's whole again.
"Oh my little knight. I'm sorry it took me so long."
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