Lips as yours
It was a summer evening and a light breeze came from the half-opened window of the bedroom of the house n.108, Mifflin street. Regina lazed motionless on her bed, an arm behind her head, the other one left on the sheets, her mind free from every thoughts.
She simply enjoyed the presence of the two people who laid on the same bed, both of them on their belly and with their heads over her body, in a very similar posture. Robin and Roland were so much alike.
The little boy was tracking immaginary lines on Regina's womb, with his tiny finger, brushing the fabric of blue top she wore "There is really a baby in here?"
Regina smiled to herself, letting Robin to answer to the question Roland was asking for the third time, like the idea was still too hard to accept to him.
"Yes, but now it is really really tiny so it has to be in here until he will be strong enough to stay out with us.." Robin explained, putting a hand on her girlfriend's belly.
Roland nodded, a little more sure "Is he a boy like me?"
Robin scrolled his shoulders. Truth to be told, he would liked a girl, but he kept it to himself "We don't know yet, we can't know until he or she will be born.."
Roland looked a bit disappointed "So we don't know what his name is!"
This time Regina answered, smiling at the child "We are going to decide that together!"
"The most important thing.." Robin spoke, taking Roland's hand and bringing it on Regina's stomach "is that this baby will be your brother or your sister.."
"Like Henry?"
Regina nodded, thinking about when they had broken the news to Henry that morning "Yes, honey."
"About that, I was thinking.." Robin budged on the bed to face not anymore the Regina's belly, but her face "Will our baby be also Snow's brother or sister?"
Regina tried to hit him with a pillow but he was prepared so he protect himself with his hands "I already told you many, many times that when my marriage with the king ended, so did any biological relationship with that woman." She replied, a little playfully, a little not "So no, it will be not her brother or sister. I'm not her mother, I'm not Emma's granmother and I'm not Henry's great-grandmother. And If you keep calling me old you'll ended to sleep on the couch, Locklesy!"
"I was joking!" He defended himself, putting the pillow in his place. He crawled toward her and spoke near her face "You're the fairest and youngest mommy-to-be of them all!"
She smiled, her features stretched again – Robin was still amazed from how Regina could change in a few moments her expressions, from the most scaring to the most sweet – and she closed her eyes as he kissed the tip of her nose "You always know how to save yourself at the last second!"
"You know.." He kissed her cheek "I learned it after years and years of hard work as outlaw!"
Regina laughed, before getting distracted by Roland's voice, who still stayed with his face over her womb, mulling over whatever was inside "Daddy, how we take him from in here?"
Regina turned over to smother the sound of her laughter, but Robin started to bubbling some "ehm" and "well" with no sense, so she spoke in support of him "A doctor will do a little cut here.." she explained, touching her stomach "It won't hurt honey, I promise, they will give me a medicine who will made me sleep all the time.." she added, when she spotted the child's eyes throwing open from the horror.
She saw Robin turning his nose up and she knew why. Whale and her had told him everything about pregnancy in this world but he still didn't like the idea of her stomach opened with a blade.
On the contrary Roland seemed satisfied by that explaining, but he kept to alternate his look between the two adults. Regina found it cute, Roland at 5 years old had seen a lot of incredibile things like flying monkeys or evil shadows who kindapped children, but still the idea of a new life growing inside her got him confused. But maybe it was normal for a baby raised in a forest with only men.
"Do you know you can see him?" She said reaching out an hand toward the nightstand and taking a black and white picture and giving it to the boy, maybe it could made this stuff real to him, she herself had really realised to expect a baby when she had heard his heartbeat for the first time "It's called sonogram"
Roland held it puzzled, looking at the image for a couple of seconds before shaking his head, disappointed "I can't see him!"
His father reassured him "I had some trouble, too!" Robin didn't believe it was possibile seeing into a person's belly, Regina had tried to explain it to him but he had been skeptical until Whale, with a lot of patience and dedication, was been able to make him see the confused form of a tiny body into a bundle of black and white spots. He had open his mouth for the wonder while Regina had smiled at the scene, and he had spent the rest of the day starring at that image.
"Look, this is the head.." He explained, touching a section of the sonogram with his finger "And here.. here is the body."
Roland observed the movements of his father's finger and nodded not very convinced "It looks a little ugly!"
Regina burst out laughing, thinking that Roland was been the only one to say out loud what both Robin and she had thought when they had seen their baby for the first time. She had got worried when she had seen the baby's form, but the nurse had guessed her feeling and had explained her that the growing of a fetus isn't uniform and that the head develops for first, so it appears bigger at the beginning.
"You're right, honey.." She said, stroking his curls "But it wil be better!"
"Oh, come on.. it's not so ugly!" Robin replied, lied down next to Regina and looking at the picture "Look, Roland, it has your nose. Yes, it really has the Locksley's features!"
Roland crawled toward his father and put his tiny head between the Robin's arm and the picture, to look better. He tilted his head and after a few second he wrinkled his forehead "I can't see the nose!"
Regina turned to them "Because the nose can't be seen, sweetheart. Don't believe to everything your daddy says.."
Robin stuck his tongue out to her "I can see it. And I know it, it will have my features. I have nice features, don't I?" He turned to Regina who was watching him puzzled and amused "But I hope it will have your lips. I love your lips.." He said a second before catching them in a kiss.
She hid a smile into theirs mouth's meeting, lifted ah hand trough his hair and then nodded "Your features, my lips. It's good for me.."
They both turned to Roland who seemed to have accepted the idea of a baby in Regina's bump and had started to jump on the large bed, crying and laughing. When he let himself heavily falling down just a few centimetres from Regina, Robin took him into his arms, putting an end to that game who risked to become dangerous "Ehi little one, someone turned you into a cricket while we didn't watch?"
"I'm not a cricket, I'm an archer!" He replied, pretending to shoot an arrow toward his father's face.
"Oh, so you are an archer!" Robin laughed, giving him a fake bite on his neck, provoking him just a tickle "Then you will have to teach to your little brother how to archery!"
"Me?"
Robin nodded "Yes! If you're capable, obviously!"
"I am!" He replied entusiastically "But we need to get an arch for him!"
"Well, we can make one, you and me together!"
"Or we can give him mine and make one bigger for me!"
"Oh, of course.. you're sly, aren't you?" Robin laughed hugging him a little more tight, than he turned to watch Regina who had just closed her eyes but had smiled at Roland's last line "What about if we talk about it another time? Now let Regina get some rest, she's a little tired.."
"No!" Regina opened her eyes and grabbed Robin's arm, the tattooed one "Stay, I don't want you to leave. I'm not tired, I'm just.." She stopped for a moment to find the right word. She was at her home, safe from the people's looks that still made her unconfortable – still there was who saw the Evil Queen in her, and even if someone had forgiven her, she yet had a sense of guilt for having done harm to the most of her citiziens – but there, in that bedroom, at her house, she was with the two people who more than anyone made her feel unconditionally loved. She was where she would have be every moment of her life "I'm just peaceful."
"peaceful?"
"yeah.." She nodded, smiling. Probably Robin couldn't really understand it but to her, who never had felt that family resemblance, who never had had a chance to living a normal life, who never felt safe or confortable not even in her own house, to her those normal moments with her normal family were more than she could wish for "I love having you around!" She finished, stroking his cheek.
"Do you?" He asked, kissing her fingers "more than anything?" she nodded "more than your job?"
"yes!" She answered, puzzled "Why are you asking?"
"Because the Marry Men invited us to the camp for lunch tomorrow, to celebrate the happy news, and you're going to take a day off from work and to come because.. well.. you love having us around!"
"Forget it!" She replied, crossing her arm. As usual, he had found the right way to bring her to do something she didn't want to do. How was he so good in getting around here? He knew her so well?
"Come on, Regina.."
"I love having you and Roland around, not the entire gang. Besides, I think some of your friends still has not accepted our relation, starting from that sort of.. closet!"
Robin grinned, the mutual dislike between Regina and Little John was one of the thing who probably would never changed "I think he's starting to tone it down now that he knows you're going to make him uncle!"
"My baby nephew of him? I don't think so!"
"So, you're coming tomorrow?"
"no!"
"Regina.."
"I said no!"
"I know you're coming!"
"We'll see!" They faced each others for a few second and than burst into a sync laughter, they both knew that in the end she would come.
"Robin?
"Yes?"
"Since I'm going to have a very tiresome day in the forest tomorrow, which is not the best for a pregnant woman, I think I need some rest so you should go down to cook dinner. Oh, and than wash dishes.."
Robin gave her a resigned look "Is it the price I have to pay, it isn't?"
She bended her lips in a satisfied smile "Everything comes with a price my dear, not only magic.."
The man simply nodded, he was used to this. Regina Mills always had the last word, but he loved even this side of her "Your luck is that I love you, Your Majesty!"
"And yours that I love you, thief!" She replied, before feeling Robin's smile pushing hard on his mouth.