Regina, who had just been left out of hospital, was knocking on Henry's door. She wouldn't have been surprised if he didn't answer, but it didn't take long for that door to be opened.

"Roni, you got let out?"

She once again felt guilty talking to her son, as if she was doing something really wrong by not telling him what really happened, and that she'd in fact just used her magic to heal herself quicker. But she knew she had to stay strong and not say a word.

"Yes, it wasn't that major so I didn't have to stay for very long," she said, before walking into his apartment and turning towards him.

Henry was genuinely surprised. After all, it seemed pretty major at first so it didn't make too much sense that she was better this quickly. But that was the least of his worries at the moment.

"Have you.. heard anything about Lucy?", she asked trying to sound as convincing as possible. Henry got nervous thinking about it.

"Well, Jacinda hasn't seen her around anywhere. She's been frantically searching the entire city for her but with no luck. Some of the local investigators seem to think that she's a runaway but.. I just don't think that's something that Lucy would do.", he said miserably.

Regina had no idea how to respond. It was so distressing. Everything that had happened in the past few weeks had hit her like a hurricane and there was nothing she could do about it. She couldn't even properly talk to her son.

"I'm.. I'm sorry about that.", she quietly said, this time without making an effort to sound like somebody else.

Henry looked at her, concerned. It was as if she'd turned into a completely different person within the past minute. "Hey, don't worry about it. I'm sure we'll find her at some point. You should just focus on getting better at the moment."

She shook her head. "No, I'm fine. I'm just a little tired so I might go.". It was at that point that Regina realised that there wasn't really any point in talking to her son at that moment if she couldn't tell him the truth.

And after she quickly walked out of the door, Henry became concerned that she wasn't the person he thought he was anymore.

|PRESENT DAY, 'THE END'|

Robin opened the heavy door leading to the large courtyard, allowing Lucy to follow behind, which was full of people talking and listening. It was the morning after they had slept, and both of them woke up to the noise of the crowd in front of them. So it made sense that Robin felt the need that they both asked everyone what was going on this time.

"Excuse me?"

Everyone kept talking, not being able to hear Robin's shouting over their discussions. But she attempted to raise her voice.

"Excuse me!?"

Their voices slowly faded as they looked in her direction. She generally felt quite awkward with everyone staring at her, but that didn't stop her from talking.

"Hi, my friend and I were just having a pretty long rest and we seemed to be awoken by your pretty loud talking so in case you don't mind, could you maybe tell me what's going on?"

After a few seconds of quiet whispering, someone recognisable walked forward. It was Michael.

"Oh, it seems to be your lucky day, Miss."

"What is it?", she asked in return.

"Some of us are going to see the chief today. Fancy joining us?"

It was obvious what thier response was going to be.

Lucy looked at the forest around her, observing almost every detail. The trees looked almost dead, and the path that the group of them walked on had mud which was almost completely dry – as hard as rock. The place looked practically deserted. But yet, the people who she was surrounded with brought so much life to it.

"Robin?", she asked in a slightly less cheerful voice than usual.
"Yes?"

"Does this mean that we may be able to make it back home?"

Robin honestly didn't really know what to say, but she knew that she had to keep her hopeful. "Of course. Of course we'll find a way."

Lucy put on a small smile.

As the crowd got closer and closer to an entrance to a smaller building, they begun to slow down as if expecting someone.

"Alright everyone. Stay back. Remember, this is the first time some of us have a chance of meeting him and I need to make sure that no one's going to do something stupid."

Robin recognised that voice, and when she leaned to look over the crowd she knew exactly who it was. Robin Hood.

She patted on the back of the person in front of her, who was a woman about 2 inches away from her.

"Excuse me, do you know what's about to happen here?", she asked in the most formal voice possible.

"Have you not heard about what's happening? Today's the day where some of us get to meet the chief for the first time."

Robin rolled her eyes. She'd heard enough about this chief nonsense already. "Okay but, are we all going in at once or what?"

"We all go in once at a time and we can ask up to six questions. Got it?", the woman said in a slightly irate tone.

"Yeah, alright." she said in response. She wasn't sure why she seemed so angry at her for not knowing, and she said it almost as if they'd been preparing for this moment for her entire life.

It was at that moment that she heard the door open and everyone formed a queue as a single person walked through. It became obvious that this was going to take a while. She looked at Lucy, who was standing closely behind her.

"Lucy, if we can't go in together do you want to go on your own?"

She shook her head. "No, I'll just wait for you to go in if that's okay.". She looked down shyly.

Robin smiled again, trying to keep as positive as possible. "Okay then."

|PRESENT DAY, HYPERION HEIGHTS|

It had been over a day since Regina went to visit her son and ever since then she'd been sitting around at home doing practically nothing but figuring out the mess that was currently going on. After all, none of it seemed to make any sense. The fact that they had gone through some sort of hole of nothing. The fact that Belfrey had completely disappeared. The fact that Amelie was so persistent about her remembering Robin.

Robin..

She genuinely got more worried thinking about it. Was there a possibility that he was alive? Despite knowing what Hades had said back then, she still couldn't help but wonder if he was and where he would be at that second. It hurt like hell thinking that he would've been alone and lost for the past six years.

But later on in the morning, she heard a knock at the door. When she opened it, it was the person who she'd least wanted to see.

"Hello, Regina. I do hope you're doing well."

Lady Tremaine.

"What the hell are you doing here?", she said genuinely quite pissed off.

"I was just wondering how you were feeling. You know, after I shot you.". The bony woman smiled in front of her.

Regina looked in anger. "Fine, thank you. Now can you please tell me why you're here and what you did to Robin and Lucy? Because I need answers!"

"Oh, don't be stupid. I didn't do anything to those girls, Robin did. It was all her magic."

She paused. "Robin, can use magic?"

Belfrey laughed. "Well, of course she can stupid! Otherwise she wouldn't have been able to open that portal."

"Portal to where?"

The woman smiled once again, that deviant fowl smile that could send shivers down anyone's spine. "Nowhere that she'll be able to get out of."

Regina's face grew cold. There was no way that could be true.

"Anyway, Regina I actually just came here to request something."

"What?", she said without trying to punch this woman in the face.

"Well, it's quite simple actually.. Don't tell anyone what happened." she said in a threatening tone.

"Why would I not tell anyone that you've supposedly killed my granddaughter and her friend?"

"First of all I didn't kill them, and second of all if you do.. I'll tear everything you know and love apart.", she said in a dark voice.

She just stared blankly at her, not knowing what to do. She legitimately felt like screaming.

"Got it?"

Lady Tremaine slowly walked away from her, before shouting something.

"Oh, and also, you haven't.. well, seen anything yet have you?"

Regina didn't respond. Instead she just looked downwards.

"I'm going to assume that's a no then.. Anyway, it's best you watched out for that. After all, getting shot isn't something you can recover from easily. Even with magic."

She slammed the door closed.