|PRESENT DAY, HYPERION HEIGHTS|

Lucy had no idea what to do. How on earth was Henry supposed to break the curse if he couldn't give true love's kiss to her mother? Was there ever going to be a happy ending for her family?

But that was when she heard three knocks at the door, and suddenly everything changed. When she opened it, she was presented with a young woman, possibly even a high school student, with long ginger hair and an interestingly amused smile on her face.

"So, you must be Lucy.." . She spoke quickly, almost as if her sentence was rehearsed.

"I'm sorry, if you're looking for my mother she's not here right now"

"Good."

'Good? What's she talking about?'

"Well, it's obvious you don't know who I am so I may as well introduce myself.", Robin said as she walked through the door despite not being invited in.

"I'm Robin, as in the really hazardous baby from that book you own, and I'm here to help you break the curse."

It was that sentence that made the young girl smile.

Roni spent the rest of the day as she normally would on a week day, serving drinks to the customers that came in. But despite all of it, nothing felt normal.

What made her feel so sad when Rogers asked her that question? She'd never been in love before, so it didn't make sense that she could possibly feel so cold like that.

Perhaps it was just loneliness, or perhaps she was just reminded of some couple from a TV show that got a miserable ending, or something stupid like that. She had to try and push these thoughts out of her head.

|FOUR YEARS AGO, STORYBROOKE|

"Oh, for god's sake!". Zelena began shouting at the counter in front of her. Everything was so stressful and she had no idea how to handle herself. She had so much to do on that day that it literally made her angry just thinking about it.

"You doing ok?"

She turned around, to see no one else but Emma standing in front of her.

"What the hell are you doing in here?", she sighed.

"The door was open. Plus, Regina asked me to come over."

"Why? What does my sister want from me this time?". Zelena rolled her eyes.

"Actually, she doesn't want anything from you, she asked if I could come and babysit Robin for the day."

She looked in surprise. "What? Why would I need you to look after Robin?"

"Well, apparently she seems to think that you've been having a hard time handling a life without magic, and frankly I can definitely see where she's coming from.."

"Oh shut up will you. The last thing I need right now is your help". She turned around and attempted to continue cleaning her daughter's clothes, manually. Emma sighed and walked towards her.

"Look, Zelena I think you might be trying a bit to hard to get used to this and I really wouldn't mind just giving you a hand with your daughter. Plus, it might be useful for me as well"

"Useful for you?", she turned around.

"Yeah, well I mean.. Maybe some day I might have to deal with this whole parenting thing as well."

"..You're pregnant? Again?"

"No.. not yet, but I'm trying."

There was an awkward silence between the two of them.

"Alright, fine. You can get whatever 'experience' you need to get. I may as well go into town anyway.", she finally agreed.

"Thank you Zelena, and I'm sorry I was just trying to he-"

"Oh my god, it's fine! Now get on with it!"

Emma raised her hands, as if surrendering, before walking down the hallway of the farmhouse. But she stopped for one second.

"Um, Zelena?"

"Yes."

Emma paused before asking her question. "Do you think it's too early? For me to try to get pregnant straight after Henry left?"

Zelena paused and thought about her question for a moment, but her mind just came out blank. "Honestly, I'm not the person who should be giving you advice but I wouldn't really think so"

Emma smiled. "Thanks anyway"

|PRESENT DAY, HYPERION HEIGHTS|

Lucy and Robin were sitting on one of the benches near the well. This place had practically become a safe haven for Lucy, as it reminded her of how courageous her mother was when she stopped Belfrey from destroying it. It was the first time, in what seemed like forever, that she'd showed her true colours as a hero.

"So, how did you get to Hyperion Heights?" she asked.

"Well.. let's just say it's a long story.", Robin replied. She wasn't exactly willing to explain everything at that point.

"No, no, no – you have to tell me! It makes no sense that you could be here, and especially not like this. Weren't you only born a few years ago? How are you so old?"

Robin laughed at her response. "I'm not that old, honestly. Only eighteen. And if I were only born a few years ago, then there's no way that you would be ten"

"But we got sent back in time, that's different!", she sighed.

"..Well, it's not actually that different in that case. I got sent back in time as well. Let's just say there were certain.. conditions." Robin looked downwards.

"I see… what conditions?", Lucy asked.

"The funny thing is, I don't even know the full story myself.."

|FOUR YEARS AGO, STORYBROOKE|

After Emma promised to look after her daughter, Zelena walked to the grocery store to go and pick up some products for her day to day use. She wasn't used to this, not being able to use magic for every single thing that she did, and it made her frustrated that everything in life had to be so complicated. But she wasn't willing to give up that easily.

When she got all of her things together, she walked over to the till.

"That'll be $50 please", the cashier responded.

"I'm sorry, what?!", Zelena scoffed. How on earth could all of those things be so much bloody money?

Suddenly, there was a flash of magic in front of her. Not expecting it, she looked up at the cashier in front of her to see a completely different person at the desk.

"I said, that will be $50 please."

Zelena stared at her face. The odd thing was, no matter how hard she thought she couldn't recognise her. But that didn't stop her from being threatened.

"Who the hell are you? What do you want?", she responded. There was no way that there was some sort of forgotten villain at the end of Henry's book, and especially not one that looked like this.

"Well, you see Zelena, the question isn't what I want, it's what you want. And if you want your child to be safe, then you're going to have to listen to me. Very carefully.."

[A/N was that a cliffhanger that I put there?

Really hope you guys are enjoying reading this so far! I think I'm going to write one or two more chapters before I publish this for the first time, but after that I should continue writing chapters right away (I wanted to upload the first few chapters in bulk as kind of a 'taster' first if that makes sense)

Also, I know a lot of you have probably come here for the OutlawQueen and I promise that I'll get to that segment soon! I just wanted to add more to the story before i got to the 'juicy parts' (cringe) , and to basically share what I think would be cool to happen in the show, even though I know it's never going to happen like this .-.

Anyway, read on?]