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Regina ran through the hospital corridors as fast as she could, but to her it seemed she was doing it in slow motion.

As soon as Emma had told her that Robin was awake, she didn't hesitate for a second to run. She had messy hair, wore jeans and a white shirt with a black jacket. Her eyes were swollen and tired and her heart was beating as if it wanted to get out of her chest.

She entered Robin's room and got into all the medical equipment in the room. She didn't realize that Emma was there, she could only think about coming with her fiancé and taking his hand.

Regina greeted Robin with a smile and sat down beside him.

"Hi. How do you feel?"

Robin stroked his fiancée's cheek and placed a lock of her dark hair behind her small ear.

"Much better now."

Regina felt immense joy when she heard his voice after so long, she saw again her blue eyes and that smile that had conquered her.

Robin couldn't take the smile off of his face. To see Regina again, as beautiful as he remembered her. It felt like an eternity since the last time he had seen those brown eyes.

"You don't know how glad I am to see you again" he said, stroking the outline of her face.

Regina smiled and stroked her fiancé's cheek, coming up to kiss him on the lips.

It was a tender kiss, but deep. A kiss that brought many good memories to the mind of both.

"Sorry to interrupt" Killian said. "We have to go through the medical checkup."

"Of course." Regina got up from the bed, smiling at her fiancé. "Sorry." She apologized.

It was then, when she stood in a corner of the room when she realized that Emma was there. The blonde looked at her with a mixture of sadness and melancholy and although she had a small smile on her face she knew that everything was over.

The brunette turned her gaze to Killian who was doing Robin's checkup.

"Very well, Mr. Hood ... I'm going to test you on the soles of your feet and you're going to tell me what you feel."

Robin nodded, and he caught her feet. Killian put a pen down the soles of his feet and watched Robin.

"Can you feel that?"

"No" Robin replied, trying to look at his feet.

Killian repeated the process on the other foot and again asked the same question to which Robin replied the same.

"What is it, Doctor?" Regina asked, approaching Robin.

"Why I can´t feel my legs?" Robin tried to sit up trying to move his legs. It could see how frightened he was in her face and the tone of her voice. "What's the matter?"

"We need to do an X-ray so I can tell you what's affecting the mobility of your legs" Killiand replied, putting his pen in the pocket of his robe.

"I cannot feel them! I can't!"

Regina sat on her fiance's bed and puted her hands on Robin's shoulders, trying not to let him got up.

"Take it easy" she whispered. "Calm down ... Look at me." The brunette took her fiancé's face in her hands and looked him in the eye. "Everything's going to be all right."

Robin's breathing was agitated, and in his eyes one could see how worried he was about his situation. Regina gave him a small smile and caressed his cheek.

"If I lay here" She started to sing almost in a whisper as she made Robin look into her eyes. "If I just lay here. Would you lie with me? And just forget the world? ... All that I am, all that I was, is here in your perfect eyes; they're all I can see."

Robin's breathing began to normalize, and his features softened.

Regina had sung the song, their song and simply all his worry had disappeared.

The brunette smiled and got up of the bed taking her fiancé's hand.

"Let's get him to do those studies to see what the problem is." This time Emma talked approaching Robin and trying not to look at Regina. "But now the most important thing is her heart. We need to place a pacemaker as fast as possible."

"Dr. Swan is right" said Killian. "Right now your heart is our priority and if you agree, the surgery will be done tomorrow."

Robin only nodded and squeezed Regina's hand.

The doctors left the room and the brunette watched Emma left without saying anything and without looking at her. She looked back at her fiancé and sat down next to him with a smile.

"It's going to be all right, you'll see."

"While you're by my side, that's for sure." Regina smiled and her fiancé and putted her hand on his cheek. "You don't know how much I missed seeing your face".


For Emma it had been a bucket of cold water to see Regina and Robin act like they were a couple. She felt so jealous that he could have her by his side and enjoy her lips as she had done the night before.

It was clear that the return of Robin into Regina´s life marked their destiny in a not very favorable way. She had lost her without having her and all because of her insecurity.

"Are you ok?" Ruby asked, approaching Emma.

"I would lie to you if I told you so."

"Is about Regina´s fiancé?"

"I'm glad he woke up" the blonde said quickly. "But this changes everything ..."

"Have you talked to Regina yet?"

"No ... and I don't want to, I can't."

"Emma, you have to. Sooner or later you have to talk to her."

Emma looked at her friend with tears in her eyes and Ruby simply hugged her. The blonde closed her eyes trying to hold back the tears.


"Everything goes on as usual." Regina had updated Robin. She had told him about the theater and about how Emma had been a great help. "I'm sure Tink and the others will be delighted to see you again."

"I'd love to get back on the stage" he said wistfully.

"And you're going to do it, I'm sure." Robin smiled and stared at the floor biting his lip. "Is something wrong?"

"Do you remember what I told you the night of the accident?" About your parents."

"What's with that?"

"The reason I wanted you to talk to your parents was not just about the wedding ... Days before I had been offered a role in a play in New York and there was also an opportunity for you" Regina looked at her fiancé confused and with the eyes wide open "I was going to propose to you to live in New York ... It was a good opportunity, a good job for both of us."

"If you has told me that from the beginning maybe we had avoided all that discussion."

"I didn't knew if you wanted to get out of here. You like London so much and you came here to escape your parents..."

"I would have gone wherever you went" Regina interrupted. "It doesn't matter if I had to face my parents again, it doesn't matter."

Robin smiled and took her fiancée's hand.

"We can still try."

"A new beginning."

Robin nodded and Regina smiled wistfully.

Leave London, stop seeing Emma. It was giving up many things but she knew it could be the best thing for everyone. Starting a new life with her fiancé, a new job opportunity and arranging things with her family, giving Emma a chance to be happy without her being tormented.


Regina didn't moved all night from Robin's room. She had slept on the small couch very close to the bed and kept his fiancé's hand.

Very early a team of nurses had arrived to prepare Robin for the surgery. Emma had come and listened to Robin's heartbeat with her stethoscope.

"Everything looks perfect" the blonde informs. "We'll be ready for surgery in a few minutes."

Emma was hanging her stethoscope on her neck, preparing to leave when Robin stopped her.

"Doctor Swan…" Emma turned to Robin "Thank you for helping Regina. She told me that you were always on the lookout for me and her... And I thank you for that."

"You don't have to thank me for anything" the blonde replied and looked at Regina out of the corner of her eye. "I only did what was right."

Emma left the room and Regina stared at the door for a moment.

She had to talk to Emma and clear things up. They couldn't continue to look like two strangers when they were not.


After several hours, Robin was back in his room with a wound in his chest and his eyes closed by anesthesia.

Regina sat down beside him and waited for her fiancé to open her eyes.

His blue eyes began to open slowly, and a smile escaped Robin when he saw Regina.

"Hello." She greet him.

"Hi" she answered with a smile. "How are you feeling?"

"As if a truck had run over me" he joked.

"I'm glad you didn't lose your sense of humor."

"Never."

Regina looked at him and the smile on her face slowly disappeared.

"What's up?"

"You still think New York is a good idea?" Asked the brunette curiously.

"Why?"

"I need to know."

"Nothing has changed for me, my love" Robin replied tenderly. "I would go to the end of the world if you asked me to. What do you think?"

Regina was about to give her answer, about to say yes to everything that Robin asked, but then Emma walked in.

"Sorry to interrupt ... I just came to check the wound."

The blonde approached Robin, removed the dressing and gave a quick check to the wound. She putted the bandage back on and putted her stethoscope on Robin's heart.

"The wound is in good condition. In less than three days it will be heal."

"What about the matter of my legs?" Robin asked.

"The x-rays show inflammation around some vertebrae and that's what's stopping the mobility ... You'll have to wait for the inflammation to subside and do some physical therapy. I'm telling you that you won't be able to walk for at least six months" Emma said.

"Six months?" Robin's voice sounded worried and desperate at the same time.

"That's right ... But you will not have to stay in the hospital. You'll need to use a wheelchair and go to therapies. But see it on the friendly side, you have hopes of walking again."

"That's good news" Commented Regina, looking at Robin. "Plus, six months fly by."

Emma said good-bye and left the room trying to suppress her feelings in front of Robin.

Regina stepped out behind her and took her arm in the hall.

"Can we talk?" She asked in a low voice.

"Does it have to be now?" Emma tried to swallow the knot in her throat.

"Yes, now."

On the way to the Park, Regina didn't want to talk about anything. She and Emma walked in silence with a distance between them that looked like an abysm.

They walked in the park toward the usual bench, but instead of sitting they stood facing each other.

"New York?" Emma asked confused.

Regina had told her the whole story and the plans of Robin and that only made her feel more unhappy than she already felt.

"Yes."

"And when would you leave?"

"As soon as they discharge Robin, unless..." Regina took another step toward Emma and looked into her eyes hopefully. "Unless there's any reason to stay."

The blonde looked at the woman who had become the owner of her thoughts. She was asking for a reason to stay and knew that if she told her that she loved her she would stay. But she couldn't do that.

Emma approached Regina and hugged her tightly as if that would keep her forever at her side.

"Don't forget me" she whispered.

"I won't remember anything else."

Regina sighed and closed her eyes to hold back the tears, she let go of Emma's embrace and watched her hoping that her face would never fade from her mind.

The brunette let go of Emma's hand slowly and walked away from her.

That was all, there was no turning back.

It was the end.