"How do you know that?" Mildred asked very afraid at the moment of what the Dark One could be up to.
"I'm everywhere dearie, so you think you can be the hero and save my monster from her fate?" Rumpel asked.
"You helped turn Regina into what she is today. She can be a good person if you would only stay away and let her have her happy ending." Mildred said.
"Now by happy ending do you happen to mean her little boy?" Rumpel said with a giggle.
"She needs that little boy in her life, he is the one good thing she has." Mildred said.
"I'm not arguing with you but I'm not going to let her have this happy ending." Rumpel said.
"What are you going to do?" Mildred asked, afraid for herself and for Regina.
"Why I'm going to rip out your heart and make you keep your mouth shut." Rumpel said as he made a move to go after her heart.
"Wait, if you are going to do this I have to know. Why did you take her baby and give it to Robin Hood?" Mildred asked as she had to know why.
"Well you should be glad I took her baby and gave him to his father." Rumpel said.
"His father? Robin Hood is Roland's father?" Mildred asked as she then knew that the man who had hurt Regina so badly was in fact Robin Hood.
"Ironic isn't it? The man who fathered Regina's baby is none other than the thief she had in her dungeons at one time." Rumpel said.
"How did you know all of this?" Mildred asked as she saw standing in near a tree behind Rumpel was in fact Robin Hood with an arrow pointed at Rumpel. How long he had been there she did not know but she felt somewhat safer with him being there.
"Like I said I'm everywhere." Rumpel said as he snapped his fingers and transformed into Dreda the chambermaid, then into Cora before finally turning back to himself.
"How did Robin Hood not know that Roland was his and Regina's son?" Mildred asked as she asked some questions she knew Robin would want to know.
"Oh well see that was the best part, I forced him to take a forgetting potion where he would forget all about his night of passion with Regina." Rumpel said.
"You did all of this just to keep Regina evil?" Mildred asked.
"Oh I've done more than just this, you see dearie years ago poor Regina was so sad she was about to end her life when a pesky fairy gave her hope for finding her true love." Rumpel said as Mildred had a look of confusion on her face that matched Robin's as well. "That blasted fairy led her to her soul mate and i'll give you one guess who it was."
"Robin Hood?" Mildred asked.
"Well done dearie. Yes it was him, but before Regina could go in there and find her happy ending she got scared and ran only seeing his tattoo." Rumpel said. "Robin heard the door shut behind him and saw the woman in white run off and he gave chase but I luckily stopped him and wiped his memory."
"So many call Regina a monster, when its been you who is the real monster." Mildred said.
"But dearie I never said I wasn't. Now enough of this." Rumpel said as he made a move to take her heart but was stopped in his tracks by an arrow going through his body. He looked down and turned around to see Robin standing there.
"Ah the hero is here to save the day." Rumpel said.
"You're going to pay for all that you have done imp." Robin said as he had another arrow notched and ready to fire.
"You think you can stop me with little pointy sticks?" Rumpel asked as he waved his hands and the arrow that had been in his body was now gone.
"Well I'm certainly going to try." Robin said. "You took her from me, not once but twice. What gives you the right to interfere in other's lives like this."
"She is my creation, a perfect monster." Rumpel said
"She won't be forever." Robin swore.
"You can't undo all of this, she took a potion to forget all about you. You and little Roland, now what type of mother wants to forget her son much less give it up." Rumpel said knowing it would upset Robin upon hearing how Regina had given up Roland.
"And Marian, why her?" Robin asked wanting to know everything.
"She came to me, you see she could never carry a child to term and was desperate to hold onto her husband as he wanted a family." Rumpel said. "So see your beloved wife lied to you all that time." Rumpel said as he saw the look on Robin's face and quickly snapped his fingers as he moved positions in the forest.
"Temper, temper outlaw. It doesn't matter what you do now because Regina hates you and if you go after her she'll execute you." Rumpel said as he snapped his fingers once more and disappeared.
"Are you alright?" Robin asked Mildred as he walked over to her.
"I'm fine, thank you. So you are Roland's real father?" Mildred said.
"It seems that I am, though I have no memory of it." Robin said still confused on how he could have been with the Queen.
"She was very saddened to give her baby up you need to know this." Mildred said.
"Why, why would she give him up?" Robin asked as he was surprised that she had done so.
"She was afraid she would do to her son what her mother had done to hers in making the child evil." Mildred said defending Regina. "She regretted it instantly and had to take the potion to deal with the pain of his loss."
"And me, why did she want to forget me?" Robin asked.
"She would not talk about the father but I could see there was pain in her eyes." Mildred said.
"I have to find out what happened between us. I have to talk to her." Robin said.
"It won't be easy to get her to listen to you." Mildred said knowing her majesty's wrath.
"Can you help me?" Robin asked.
"Yes, yes of course because I know you and that little boy can help her in ways she has no idea." Mildred said as she finally had hope that everything would work out the way it was meant to.