This ended up being a two parter! Hope you enjoy!
Disclamer: Dude if this was mine Regina would have been happy a looooong time ago. But grammer and spelling are my fault...
Prompt from OutlawQueenLuvr: Right after S3 finale. Regina is arguing with Emma in the street outside Granny's when she faints. Robin rushes to catch her and finds out she's pregnant.
"I don't know. She just collapsed." Emma's face was contorted with concern and a hint of fear.
The look of betrayal on Regina's face killed Emma. She felt very small under the Queen's gaze. At first the Savior was just going to let her go. Let the woman blame her for ruining the happy ending, just like her mother. But her mind had other plans. She was not supposed to ruin happy endings, she was supposed to make them happen. With this resolve Emma followed the Queen into the night. "Regina wait!" She reached out and stopped the other woman.
After her comment about Emma not bringing anything else back, Regina had to leave. The diner became very crowded. Not really. It merely felt that way with everyone happy and smiling while her heart was being ripped from its place. Again, not literally. She couldn't understand why this kept happening. She was a hero now, her happy ending was supposed to come with it. One good thing had happened through this. She had yet to tell Robin about her visit with Whale. Now she never would. Who was she to break up more happy endings? No. She had moved on from that person. He had helped her move on. Fresh tears came down her face when she felt someone grab her arm. For a moment she hoped it would be him, but was not overly surprised when it wasn't. "What do you want Miss Swan? Haven't you already caused me enough damage for one night?" Her breathing was becoming ragged. An effect of her crying she assumed.
"Regina it's not my fault." Emma defiantly said. There were many things that she could be blamed for. But not this. Regina was the one who started it. She killed Marion in the first place. If the former hadn't been in that cell, there would be no reason to bring her back.
That caught the Queen off guard. "Not your fault? How in the hell could you think my world being ripped apart is not your fault?" This was just too much. The audacity of this woman to think she was above blame. Just because she was the supposed savior didn't mean she couldn't cause destruction. "You brought her back! You had to go and be the savior! Why couldn't you just leave the past in the past? And -an.." Regina tried to continue her tirade but was finding breath an impossible thing to acquire. As she looked at Emma, her vision began to cloud. She started to lose the feeling of her body and knew that soon she would be on the ground. Her final thought was of the unborn child she was carrying.
Emma started to give a rebuttal when she saw the distant look in the Queen's eyes. There was something wrong. As she watched the Queen fall all her anger dissipated. There may have been animosity between the two, but they did share a son. He would be devastated if there was really something wrong. "Regina!" Emma reached out and caught the other woman right before her head hit the pavement. "Regina wake up!" The shock of the Queen falling kept Emma from hearing others come out of the diner.
Tink watched everything happen. She watched her best friend lose everything she had worked so hard for. Watched Robin make one of the biggest mistakes of his life. So it made sense for her to follow when the brunette fled from the diner. Tinkerbell knew she should not be alone. Especially after what they had talked about today. When she managed to get through the crowd and out the door the Queen was already on the ground. "What happened?" The fairy exclaimed as she knelt next to her unconscious friend.
"I don't know. She just collapsed." Emma's face was contorted with concern and a hint of fear.
Tink processed the information as quickly as she could. "We need to get her to the hospital. NOW." Already she was trying to lift the woman when Emma put a hand on her wrist.
She may not be a doctor, but Emma knew better than to just move someone without knowing what was going on. "Wait. If we move her we could do more damage than good. I've already caused enough problems tonight. Whale is inside. I'll get him." The blond jumped to her feet. She was not accepting the blame for destroying happiness. But she did bring back someone who didn't belong here. Maybe there was some blame to be shared.
It was a secret, but one that was too precious to keep at this point. "Emma hurry. She..." Tink trailed off. This would betray her best friend. There was a chance Regina would never talk to her again. However, she would probably thank the fairy when she thought about the situation. "She's pregnant."
There was a gasp and both women turned. He had come out to find her. To tell her that there was just some feelings to sort out with Marion and he would be with her. He choose her. His Queen. Her Outlaw. When Robin saw her on the ground his heart jumped into his throat. This was his fault, and now to hear the fairy speak those two words. He couldn't breathe. "What?"
There was no time for Emma to deal with that one. Truth be told she really didn't want to. With no answer the savior pushed past the stunned man into the diner. She needed to get help.
Robin paced. It was the only thing he could do because they wouldn't let him back into the room. And by they, he meant a pissed off princess, fairy, and prince. Snow, Tinkerbell, and Henry had taken turns standing by the door making sure he could not go in. They wouldn't even tell him how Regina was doing. He assumed that she was awake now because they just kept repeating that she did not want him anywhere near.
She had been reassured that the baby was fine. Regina's hand still refused to leave her lower stomach where her child was growing. Whale had explained that the fainting spell was probably just a mix of over stimulation and a lot of hormones surging through her body at once. Her body had overcompensated and she fainted. The doctor still wanted to keep her overnight just to be sure nothing was really wrong. That didn't bother her. If anything, it bought her some time. She was terrified of the man who was pacing outside her door. He knew. Tinkerbell told her over and over how sorry she was that he found out. Regina couldn't care less about how he found out. She knew that the fairy only had her best interest, and the interest of her child, at heart. The point still was that he found out. She was pregnant and the father of her child would not leave the hospital. She could feel him there. The Queen looked up as her stepdaughter entered the room.
"He is still out there. Asked if you were alright again." Snow threw a reassuring smile to the older woman. She felt bad for the thief. She had been there. Made a mistake with the woman lying in the hospital bed and had to fight to get back into her good graces. Hell, she even offered her life to the Queen. "Maybe you should hear what he has to say Regina. It might not be what you think." The princess knew exactly where Regina's mind was. She also knew where Robin's was. She watched him realize what he had done the second he embraced Marian. The conflict on his face when he looked around for his queen and didn't find her was heartbreaking.
Regina shook her head. She couldn't let him into this room. Let him into her life, into their child's life. If she did it would never end. They would be connected and she would have to share her child all over again. He made his choice and it wasn't her. "No. He doesn't want me and there is no way he wants this child."
A frown crossed Snow White's face. "Alright. If that is what you want." She left the room. What she was about to do was going against everything she knew she should do. She should honor Regina's wishes. She should keep her company or keep the thief out. She should make sure Henry and Tink were there when she wasn't. But what one should do and what they actually do can be two very different things. As she rounded the corner she saw Robin pacing and Henry standing brooding. Tink had gone to get something to eat. "Henry why don't you go home and get some sleep? I will stay here tonight."
He gave another glare to the thief and a hug to his grandmother. As much as he didn't want to leave his mom alone he did have school the next day. "Okay. Just make sure he doesn't get anywhere near her."
Snow nodded her head in assurance while watching him leave. As soon as she was sure he was gone she approached the worried man. "You have ten minutes. Make it good."
Part two will be posted shortly.