A loud clicking noise is what woke Regina from her dream of Robin. Her eyes slowly began to open as she felt a shift on her stomach. Regina's eyes slowly opened to reveal a ball of black hair sleeping soundly on her lap. Her eyes traveled around the room to see feathers covering the floor from their multiple pillow fights. A smiled moved across her lips as she eye's the empty plate of chocolate and treats that they both had devoured. As softly and quietly as she could, Regina moved Snow White from her lap as she got up from the couches where they had both passed out after a laughing fit.

"Good Morning." A voice startled her as she laid Snow's head back on a pillow. Regina whipped around to see the King standing at her door.

"Your majesty." She bowed as hair feel in her face. She could only smile thinking of how ridiculous she most likely looked after last night's shenanigans.

"You don't need to bow every time you seem me Regina. I am your husband." He spoke softly as she raised herself back up. A smile and a nod was all Regina said in response. "I came to ask you if you would accompany me on a ride this morning."

"I would be honored." She smiled before looking down at her outfit. "If I may though, I need to change." Regina added with a smirk, her nightgown surely was not riding material, especially with the King.

"I'll wait in the courtyard." He nodded before leaving giving a smile to his sleeping daughter.

By the time Regina was dressed and ready to go Snow was still passed out on the couch. Regina couldn't help but smile as she pulled the blankets over the young girl, leaving a note so Snow knew where she had gone. With a kiss to the girls forehead Regina was gone from her room towards the courtyard.

"How was your sleepover with Snow?" The King asked as they moved through the forest surrounding the kingdom. A handful of guards accompanied them for protection, though they had never had needed them. Everyone in the kingdom seemed to love their King, well maybe aside from Robin Hood and his men that is.

"I was great. She's an amazing young girl." Regina smiled as their horses walked next to one another.

"That she is. Though there are times she can be overbearing." The King laughed smiling at his wife and queen. "You too seem to get along very well, she looks up to you a great deal."

"It's an honor to get to know her better." Regina smiled adjusting herself on her saddle. She despised ridding side saddle, when she rode alone she never used it, though it was already ready on her horse when she met the King in the courtyard.

"How are you enjoying your new life? I'm sure that you are missing your family." His voice sincere as always when he spoke. Regina had never herd him raise his voice before.

"I am enjoying my life, very much your majesty. I do miss my family, but my life is now here, with you and Snow White." Regina was taught well how to use her words to her advantage, hiding how she truly felt.

"There is no need to hide from me Regina. I want us to be completely honest with one another." Did he know? How could he? Regina thought as her stomach began to turn itself into knots. The King turned to the guards that were around them. "Please give us a moment." He waved them off though they hesitated. "Tell me the truth Regina, please."

"I do enjoy it here. It is any woman's dream to one day be a Queen. It has been a great honor. Though, your majesty not a fault of your own, I feel alone here." Regina hung her head refusing to look at her husband.

"That, my dear Regina is a fault of my own. I do not treat you like a husband should. Because you have been honest with me I will be honest with you. I cannot love you like my first wife. I am sorry for that. I cannot be with you like my first wife. And I feel as though I can say I do not wish to have any more children other than Snow. This may be hard for you but that is what I want. I'm sure that is not what you were expecting, as all young girls dream of becoming a mother. But maybe after I am long gone you may be given that opportunity." Regina could only nod. This was most defiantly not what she had expected. She knew she never wanted children from the King, though he was her husband. She couldn't bear the thought of having another Snow White around. What Regina didn't realize is that the King thought the same, well not necessarily with the same thoughts behind it.

"Thank you your majesty, for being honest with me." Regina smiled sweetly at him.

"I do wish to be friends, and for that Regina you must call me Leopold." His hand grazed hers as he smiled again. "Let is return, I am sure that Snow will be waking up soon." Leopold smiled turning his horse around. "Men lets go." He said waiting for the guards to return. There was no sound outside of that their horses made as their hooves hit the dirt.

"What is going on?" Regina looked around a fear beginning to build within herself.

"Well, if it isn't the King and Queen themselves." A mans voice rung out behind them.

"Who are you?" Leopold demanded reaching for his sword.

"Little John they call me."

"Little John? What have you done with my guards." As Leopold spoke Regina couldn't help but wonder how this man got his name, he was far from Little.

"They refused to pay the toll." The man laughed

"Toll? These aren't your forests." Regina spoke out of turn. Her few months has Queen had given her more confidence than she had before that.

"My Queen you are right, but this is our home. And for that we are taking tolls from visitors to our home to compensate for the damage done here." A few men moved from behind trees.

"You know who I am, therefore you know I will pay. What is it that you want?" Leopold said moving himself between Regina and Little John.

"We have no use for money here, we have more of that than we need. But there is one thing you can give us." A smile moved across the mans lips.

"What do you require?"

"Our men need some kind of a mother."

"Never. You cannot simple take the Queen from the Kingdom. She's….. she's pregnant with my son." Leopold lied though he hoped it would help their current situation. He knew that there were more men there than he himself could take on. He was getting too old to protect Regina with his sword.

"We will be gentle." Another man spoke as darkness engulfed both Leopold and Regina. She could feel herself being pulled from the horse before all sense of feeling left her body as she slipped into unconsciousness.