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150. Regina finding out she's pregnant and she gets scared of Robin's reaction. But he's very sweet about it and gets super happy

Entry Day: Thursday

Day four of #OQPromptParty2018 guys!

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True Love Conquers All

She's sitting on the closed lid of her toilet, hand shaking as it moves up to cover her open mouth.

This can't be true, it has to be a false positive.

Reaching for the box on the sink she rips open another test and repeats the process she's just finished, waits the five minutes to look down at another test that says pregnant.

Both of them can't be wrong, can they?

She runs her fingers back through her hair and rests her hand on the back of her neck with a sigh. It's just… she can't seem to wrap her mind around it.

Pregnant.

How is that possible?

The infertility potion she drank all those years ago worked. She remembers the burn of it sliding through her body and destroying any chance of her ever having a child.

So what happened? What changed?

She hasn't done anything to reverse it, didn't think there was anything that could.

The moment the potion slid down her throat she regretted her decision to drink it, spent a lot of her free time searching for a way to reverse it and continuously failing. The only avenue she was never able to try was true loves kiss. But it sounded so silly back then.

Who's going to love the Evil Queen?

But now she has her true love, her soulmate, the man she was destined to be with. A soulmate level love can certainly reverse an infertility potion if it can break a sleeping curse.

But she has to know for sure. So, she's poofing herself to the one person that can tell her. Mr. Gold.

"Gold?" She yells, and he's appearing from the back room of his shop before she finishes.

"Regina, to what do I owe the pleasure?" he asks casually, in true Rumple fashion.

"I need to ask you something," she says as she walks over to him, "It's important."

Gold looks at her, studies her actually. He appears to be taking in her appearance. But why?

"You're looking a bit under the weather, your Majesty. Dark circles under your eyes," he points to her face, "Pale complexion, and if I'm not mistaken, a bit thinner." He says as he moves his finger to point to her stomach.

"My health is none of your concern. I came here to ask you a question." She says as calmly as she can. He knows exactly how to push her buttons and she won't let him see it's working.

Gold leans in closer to her and looks deeply into her eyes for a moment before a smirk comes across his face and he leans back again. She feels a chill creep up her spine at the look in his eyes.

"You're pregnant." He says simply as he leans back to straighten out.

Regina is frozen at his words. How could he tell immediately when she's only just found out? He knows what she did all those years ago, that she could never… but she is.

She takes a deep breath through her nose to steady herself before speaking, to not get worked up. "You're sure?"

"You, my dear, are with child," he says with a nod. "This must come as quite a shock since you thought it impossible. All the more reason to celebrate, your curse has been lifted."

"That's what I came to ask you. H- how is that possible?" She whispers in a shaky voice.

She is in complete shock.

Pregnant. She really is pregnant.

"You know as well as I, true love can break any curse." He says with a roll of his eyes at the cheesiness of his own statement. "Even a self inflicted one."

Regina can't speak. Her mind is racing with thoughts of Robin, of their time together.

When could they have broken the curse?

How did they do it without her noticing?

Gold gave her another glance up and down before he spoke again. "Seems to be about twelve- no," he stops to look at her a second longer, "fourteen weeks," he settles on.

He stops again and takes in a large sniff, "With a little girl." He pauses and crosses his arms in front of himself. "I'm surprised you hadn't realized before." Holding a hand out towards her he continues, "Though, I can also see why you didn't, you aren't showing at all."

Regina places a hand on her stomach as the other runs through her hair.

Pregnant.

After returning to her bathroom she takes yet another test. No harm in being triply sure. And now she is because it's another positive.

Henry and Roland are more than enough, all hers and perfect in every way… But she has always secretly wanted another child, a child with Robin that comes from both of them.

Robin!

How is she going to tell him?

She doesn't have long to decide, can hear him calling her name from downstairs and she starts to panic a bit.

Should she tell him now?

Should she hide the tests and wait?

There hasn't been time for her to wrap her mind around it and she doesn't know what to do.

What will he think?

Does he even want another child?

They've never really discussed it because they both thought she couldn't have them.

She's told him of what she did, of the potion she drank. It was one of the most difficult things she's had to tell him. It was stupid and one of her greatest mistakes. She is still ashamed of it, but he wasn't. He understood that she did what she thought was best to stop her cold hearted mother.

He is always so wonderful. All the things he learns of her past, the mass killings and tortures, and he still looks at her like she's a good person, a person worthy of redemption. And she is, now, has worked hard to be, but she certainly wasn't back then.

All he asks of her is honesty, he won't judge her as long as she's honest with him. So she will be, even if she's terrified.

She throws the box in the cabinet under the sink and holds the three tests behind her back.

"There you are, babe." He walks into the bathroom and greets her with a kiss. "What are you doing in here?"

"You know I haven't been feeling well lately," she starts, but he interrupts.

He rubs his hands up and down her arms. "Did you get sick again?"

"No," she shakes her head and looks down at her feet. She takes a deep breath to muster up a bit more courage. "I was taking a test that can tell me why I've been feeling sick."

He looks confused as he asks, "And did it give you an answer?"

She knows she's being cryptic, but it's buying her time. But his confusion turns to concern when she's quiet for too long. "Regina? Is everything alright? You're scaring me."

She sighs one last time before she pulls her hands from behind her back and holds the tests between them. Robin takes one from her and inspects it.

She watching his face, waiting for a reaction but he's frozen. "Robin?" He's making her nervous now. He's been standing absolutely still for what feels like an eternity.

When he finally looks up at her his eyes are all misty and he lets out a shaky breath before asking, "You're sure?"

"Yes," she nods. "That's why I took three."

Robin's face breaks into a wide smile before he's bending to pick her up by the waist and spin her around. Once he places her back on the ground he kisses her, deeply and passionately. When the kiss is over she pulls back to search his face. His eyes are bright and sparkling with excitement, and his smile is matching. "So you're happy?"

"So, so happy," he says genuinely, followed by another quick kiss.

Of course he is. She feels silly for thinking he wouldn't be. He has secretly wanted another child, she knows, could see the hurt and loss when she told him she couldn't have them. He never let her see it though, it was as if he made peace with it immediately. It made her a little angry, not with him but with herself because she struggled with it right up until she found out she was pregnant. But none of that matters anymore, because she is pregnant and one of her greatest mistakes has been forgiven.

"It's a girl," she blurts out. A detail that excites her immensely, it appears him as well.

His eyes go wide with his smiling gasp and he squeezes her tighter. "A girl?"

"Yes," she nods with an excited laugh.

"We're having a girl!" He picks her up to spin her around again.

As she's spinning in his hold she thinks, is it possible to be this happy? She's waiting for the other shoe to drop, for the universe to decide that she's been given too much and take something back. But she's made peace with her past and done so much to make up for it. The universe must know that, know how hard she's worked and have finally forgiven her.

She's decided to not dwell on what could go wrong, but focus on how much is going right. Her family, her kids, her soulmate, and now a miracle baby.

Life is good!