this is a one shot I wrote for a friend. Poem is mine I didn't take it from anywhere. TW mentions of abuse, so if your sensitive I'd advise you skip this chapter xoxo

robin notices a change in Regina and his suspicions are confirmed when he reads her book.

Who will listen.

"Regina please speak to me."he begged and pleaded but she kept repeating it over and over again "I'm fine".

"You are not fine, I know your not don't you know you can trust me with anything, I CAN help you." He emphasised the last bit, he needed her to know that he was there.

"Look mr lockesly I appreciate the concern but I'm late for Dr hoppers class I'm sorry I have to go." She practically leapt from her seat and ran out the door.

He sighed deeply. How nobody else had noticed the sudden change in her behaviour he didn't know but he was distracted from his thoughts by a small black book that remained on reginas desk.

He walked towards her seat and snatched it up before returning to his desk and sitting back down.

He took a deep breath before opening the book, he knew he shouldn't be doing this but it was the only way to get answers.

"So many dreams, wanting to fly

Shattered in pieces but too strong to cry, Hurting inside and drowning in fears, ignoring the pain and crying no tears, silent screams during the night, living in darkness he's stolen the light."

Robin gasped he couldn't process what he had just read, what it meant he didn't know but he had a clue.

He was in a state of shock but grabbed the phone on his desk and gave Dr hopper a call telling him to send Regina to his classroom straight away.

He was becoming restless, tapping his desk repeatedly and trying desperately to understand just what it was that Regina meant by those words in her book but he couldn't push himself to read anymore what he had already seen had him at a loss for words.

How could nobody else have seen that this girl was not herself lately, she'd changed. The Regina he knew had a sassy attitude and bite in everything she said, the Regina he saw now was timid and jumpy not to mention extremely quiet.

Once again he was pulled out of his thoughts when his classroom door opened slowly revealing long only locks and caramel coloured eyes.

But she became restless quite fast when she saw what robin was holding "why do you have that?!" She shouted before reaching for it and trying to pull it off robin.

"Sit down Regina." His town was soft but demanding and she sat down slowly at the chair robin ha pulled up beside his desk for her earlier.

"Look I told you before I am fine, so please return my property so I can return back to Dr hoppers lesson" robin was inclined to believe her but one look into those Caramel pools and he saw a broken girl trying to find her way out, trying to get someone to listen to her.

"Regina some people say that the eyes are the door to ones soul why you ask? Because when I look into your eyes I see pain, I see a girl who tries so hard to put up a mask when all she really wants is somebody to listen, someone to help. I can be that person but you have to trust me. I'm going to be completely honest with you I looked in here." He gestured to her book and reginas eyes widened.

"I read one page, I couldn't go any further because what I read didn't show me you were fine, it suggested you were in pain over what I don't know but I am a man of my word trust me and I CAN and I WILL help you." He looked into her eyes.

Regina was fidgeting she believed him she did but she wasn't big on trust, it was hard for her to let people in when others had betrayed her.

"I'm not good with talking about my feelings, you don't understand." She sounded so weak and so broken.

"Regina look at me" he placed a hand under her chin and nudged it coaxing her to look at him "I know how hard it is to talk about how your feeling I've been in situations like that, where you feel no one will understand, no one will listen. But I promise you if you let me in I will not let you down." His words were true and she could sense the sincerity in his voice.

"It's daniel" She whispered.

He looked confused but then he remembered Emma swan mentioning him a few weeks ago his was reginas boyfriend.

"Ive been in a relationship with him for two years and it started off so great until it wasn't." Robins mind was swirling full of possibilities but he kept his mouth shut.

"He started to develop a strange idea of what a healthy relationship was. Ive been with him for so long I keep thinking he would change back to the way he used to be but he never did." Regina swallowed the lump in her throat and tried her hardest to hold in the tears.

"He's hurt me so much and in so many different ways, I hid the bruises. My father doesn't know because I know if he did he would want to kill Daniel. He insults me no matter what I do, I dress to "slutty" or I wear too much make up which always leads to him asking me if I'm trying to impress someone else which then leads to so much more and I don't know how much longer I can take it."

Robin jumped up from his chair and pulled the now sobbing teenager into a right embrace and rubbed soothing patterns on her back.

"Regina, this might be invasive but I'm going to ask you anyway. Did Daniel ever force you to do anything." Robin said barely above a whisper.

And he only grew alarmed when he got no response. Sure he was a teacher but how could anyone treat such a lovely girl that way. His body vibrated with anger he had the right mind to rip this boys head off.

"No Regina you have to report this. It's not right." Robin felt so much for this girl he wanted to hold her in his arms forever an make sure no more harm came to her.

"No! I can't, it would not cause more trouble." She pulled her head away from his chest.

"I'm scared." And he could tell by the look on her face that she was.

"I will be by your side the whole way Regina, I'll take care of you."