The light glared through the window as Robin opened her eyes and woke up. It had only been a few months, but yet she'd already become used to being woken by that sun each morning. She was living with her mother, Zelena, who had gone from being constantly worried about her daughter each day for the past handful of years to being content and happy with where she was. It made sense, after all. Between the two of them, things were still almost exactly the same. Robin was still preparing to go off to University, her mother still became irritated with the inability to use magic to do something as simple as switching a light on and Robin still hadn't found herself finding a boy attractive yet. But at the same time, they knew that almost everything was different.

They now lived in the incredibly infamous town in Maine known as Storybrooke, which was where the rest of their family was. And despite the fact that you could still buy overly salted fries for about $1 like you could in Florida, there were still more things unusual about the town than 'normal'. Just like that loud shouting she'd heard after waking up.

Sighing with annoyance, she got dressed, grabbed her backpack and quickly walked outside of her apartment, making her way to the docks. Once she got there, she saw Lucy looking out into the distance at the ocean.

"What is it?", Robin asked.

"Well..", Lucy looked down guiltily, "I may or may not have gotten Neal stuck on that ship which is now about 3 metres away from the shore."

Robin looked towards the ocean and held her hand above her eyes to see under the blaring sun. And yes, Neal was in fact on the Jolly Roger in the ocean, obviously struggling to come back in.

"Again? Seriously?", she rhetorically asked Lucy before grabbing her backpack and opening it.

"I'm sorry.. it was an accident I swear! He wanted to play on it and it kind of just.. left."

"Right…", Robin said before taking a bow and arrow out of her backpack. She then tied what seemed to be a very long rope to the end of the arrow, and begun tying the rope around the tree.

"You're going to try and pull it in like that again?", Lucy asked. "You know that broke part of the ship the last time."

"Well, despite the amount of 'enjoyment' I seem to be projecting right now, Neal over there is in danger and frankly this is the quickest option for someone who knows nothing about ships.", she said before picking up her bow. She then shot the arrow into the front of the boat before pulling the rope strongly.

"Oh hey, it's actually working a lot better this time.", Lucy pointed out. But that was just before a small bend appeared on a plank of wood.. and then that plank just so happened to break in two.

"Yeah, of course it is.", Robin replied.

Luckily it was close enough to the dock for Neal to jump up on to the ledge and he ended up running and screaming into the woods, following with the two girls giving off comedically confused looks before attempting a high five. Although, it was only an attempt, seeing as they heard someone shouting in their direction not long afterwards.

"Again? You broke my ship again?"

Lucy sighed. "Sorry, Hook. It was my idea.". Hook glared frustratingly at the two of them before looking at the Jolly Roger in utter disappointment.

"Can't you just get Emma to use magic to fix it?", Robin asked.

"I could do that, if it weren't for the fact that I would have to wait about an hour to do so."

"And.. is there a problem with that?", she said back

"Yes! Yes there is a problem with that!"

Both Robin and Lucy had absolutely no idea what to say.

"You two need to go.", Hook said back before the two of them quickly walked away.

That was an average morning for the two of them nowadays. Nothing too exciting, but nothing too dull either.

Lucy was just as positive as she always was. She had finally gotten the chance to live with both of her parents, and with it, she finally felt like everything was in the right place.

Nobody really knew where Ivy or her mother were at that stage. It was obvious that Ivy had learnt from the mistakes she had made, and had decided to remain in Hyperion Heights whilst she attempted to amend things with her mother. They could only hope that their lives would have eventually been sorted out.

Along with that, no one had seemed to have found Hades yet, nor found a way to see him. Robin's magic didn't work anymore, and nobody had really known whether everyone else in that realm had made their way back home safely. It wasn't the most reassuring thing knowing that he had once again taken tyrannous control over a realm and they could only hope that he'd learnt from his repetitive actions and stopped.

But, the positives definitely outweighed the negatives. Robin Hood was back, and Robin was finally able to spend time with him after a life of not knowing a single thing about him. Whilst it could be awkward and complicated, it was amazing for the both of them.

And of course, when it came to Regina's situation, she felt as if nothing could have been better. She had finally gotten the life she deserved after all of those years and was confident enough to think that despite all of the horrible things that had happened, at that point she would have never wanted to be a different person.

Everyone was happy with where they were and they wouldn't have wanted anything to change, and whilst there was never going to be a clear ending, they all knew that when things seemed hopeless, there was always another way round.

[a/n: It is done!

Thank you so much for reading my incredibly cringy and poorly written fanfiction haha. I was originally planning on doing a sequel to this but really I don't think there's too much I could add anymore.

I think it's pretty obvious by now that my ultimate goal with this fanfic was basically just to fix the awful mishap of Season 5, and the way that they basically just killed off Robin Hood for like no reason. OutlawQueen is probably my favourite ship from this show despite the ups and downs, and that scene really really annoyed me ;/ .

Either way It's probably convenient that I'm ending this fanfic right before the rest of Season 7 starts airing, considering the fact that there are a lot of rumours of Regina getting a new love interest. I'm still not too sure how to take that, but I'd rather let this story be finished before another canon ship is introduced, just in case I don't end up minding the new ship (which is unlikely but of course I'll still prefer outlawqueen I mean cmon)

Finally, thanks for all of the support this has gotten on both and wattpad! I really appreciate it! may also be posting this to Ao3 now that it's done.

That's it for this fanfic, thank you for reading.

p.s. it was totally unintentional that this fanfic had 23 chapters but frankly I'm pretty satisfied.. I mean, page 23? no? ok I'll stop]