hello there ;) this is propably the last chapter and I'm really thanking you for the nice reviews :3 since this is the first story I've written here, I'm honestly positively surprised that so many of you like it. As I said it's gonna end with this chapter and I'm already working on a new fic. Have fun with chapter 12 :)
Cold is the first feeling that takes over her when she wakes up. Just to be sure she takes out the little box she hides under her bed. Opening it, she's faced with a black -deep black beating heart belonging to no one else than herself.
She sits on her bed while taking it out carefully. Not that the colour is surprising her -she's used to it- but she looks at it and the expected pride doesn't want to be felt. A cold shower runs down hr spine and the usual feeling of emptiness hits her.
An angry Henry sitting in his chambers tries to figure out a way to convince his daughter to stop being that stubborn. Another problem of course that she still doesn't remember a certain old friend of his. Robin Hood has always been a very loyal but amusingly cheeky man. Though the queen's father was very surprised to see that his daughter seems to like exactly this cheekiness even if she decided to hide and reject it.
Robin meanwhile wakes up with a headache. He checks his surroundings to find out that he's been put in a cell. He groans as confusion hits him and he tries to remember what happened which just confuses him even more. After a few minutes trying to get his thoughts in the right order, he suddenly hears footsteps coming closer. Slowly standing up he looks into two grey eyes belonging to a familiar old man who stops right iin front of him.
"Robin."
"Henry..what -what are you doing here ?"
"There's no time to talk. You need to go before the guards see us." He answers while unlocking the young thief's cell.
"Now leave." He adds and Robin thanks him with a nod and passes the older man.
The plan is to find his son and his men and find out what is going on and why he had been locked up.
"Robin !" He hears someone call him and turns to see his friend John pulling him outside to the royal gardens. "How the hell did you escape ? She's gonna decapitate you if she sees you !" he warns him while giving his leader a confused look. "What..who ? John I don't even know why I was locked up." John's expression changes as if he knows something. Before Robin can ask him about it his friend shakes his head and lookks down. "It's the queen. We talked to her father and he told us that she gave you a potion..to forget.."
Robin tilts his head while listening to the other man before asking "Forget what ?"
"Ahhhmm..I...you should find out yourself I'd say..talk to her. But you should hope that she won't kill you before you can say a word." He says and pats his friend's shoulder before turning to go after gesturing him to follow.
Her door is pushed open and she's ripped out of her thoughts and looks towards it with shock and anger. But the anger vanshes when she sees who made his way to her chamber. Before she can say something the tiny boy enters her room after closing the door behind himself and sits next to her on her bed. She can see pain and sadness in his eyes. "Why did you lock my daddy up in your dungeon ?" He asks, his sweet locks hanging into his face and a single tear runs down his cheek as he looks up at her which causes to water her own eyes instantly as well. She does know who his dad is and that she let her guards take him and lock him into a cell. But she cannot remember why and how he actually looks like. It kind of confuses her at the moment as she thinks about it. Before she can answer her own questions she feels little Roland slightly pull at her arm and automatically looks down at him.
"You know..your daddy did things he shouldn't have. He stole from many people and that's why he's down there." How softly she wanted to say it, it still sounded cruel and unfair to the boy.
"You need to let him out ! Please ! My daddy is a nice man!" he defends his father in a still weak voice which surprised her though. He's very brave and so sweet while trying despertely to convince her to let his dad go. Only the look in his eyes causes a feeling inside her heart (that she put back a few minutes before) like it's shot by an arrow. Regina notices a tear escaping her eye as she slowly takes his hand.
"Roland. Listen to me..I think your father misses you too and he's been long enough in the dungeon so I think his actions are forgiven for now..he won't be down there any longer alright ? We both will..." a knock at her door stopped her from ending her sentence and she looks at it with a "Yes ?"
"Papa !" she hears and Roland jumps down her bed from beside her and run towards the man standing in the door frame. He picks the little boy up and hugs him tightly. The man's eyes were full of confusion after finding his son in the queen's chambers.
"John can you..take care of him please ?" he asks his friend who nods and winks at the little one who takes his hand and follows him. With that Robin turns back towards the queen who still sits on her bed with a confused expression mixed with surprise.
Without words the young thief closes the door without taking his eyes off her. He tilts his head and notices the trace of a tear on her cheek.
"I wanted to know why I woke up in a cell today but..I don't want to snap at you after you've obviously been crying..." he says softly and gives her a kind and compassionate smile fully forgetting her reputation.
Regina looks at him and that smile of his does something to her which leaves her speechless.
The End
