Regina and Robin ended up in Gold's shop both falling on the floor because the portal opened on the ceiling and thanks to the gravity, they ended up on the floor. Regina groaned and stood up.
"Come on, Robin!" She shook him and he opened his eyes. "Everything hurts." He said and also stood up.
"Yep, gravity is a heartless bitch." Regina commented.
Rumple and Belle heard, fist a thud, and then voices. Rumple protectively put his hand on Belle and pulled her behind him. They walked carefully and Rumple let out a sigh of relief when he saw that it was Regina not someone trying to kill them.
"Regina?" He called in order to get her attention.
"Dad!" She said with joy visible on her voice. He went to her and pulled her into a big hug. "I missed you." He whispered gently in her hair.
"I missed you too. Just how long has it been for you on this side?" She asked still not breaking the hug.
"Two months."
"What?! We couldn't... How?... Wh... It was just a day!" She said frustrated.
"Regina?" She heard Robin behind her.
"Go. Go, be with your son." She said to him and he quickly left the shop.
Regina pulled away from the hug and motioned Belle to come closer. Belle did and instantly pulled Regina into a hug, she usually wasn't fan of hugging but it was two months for them, she guessed they needed it. Rumple put his arm around Belle pulling them both into a hug. Regina chuckled lightly when suddenly she remembered.
"Neal! Neal! I need to... Where is he?" She said pulling away from them.
"He's locked in the basement." Rumplestilstkin answered her.
"Wha-? Why?!"
"He has been turned into a flying monkey." Belle explained.
"Then I have just the thing." She said and for the first time since they jumped into the portal opened Henry's backpack.
"What are those?" Rumple asked, pointing at three files in it.
"Files." Regina answered shortly, hoping he won't ask anything more about them, but that wasn't the case.
"Who's files?" He asked, wanting to know more.
"It doesn't matter!" She snapped at him. "I have the potion, lead me to Neal." She said closing the backpack but holding the potion in the palm of her hand. Rumple lead her to the basement, Belle following them closely.
Regina was not prepared to see Neal like that. He was in his monkey shape but he was still him somewhere deep, deep down. The monkey was in a cage, shackles around his wrists and ankles. Regina moved backwards not realising that Belle was behind her causing her to bump into her. Belle put her arm around Regina's shoulders for comfort, security, whatever she needed.
"I'm sorry, I didn't... Were the shackled necessary?" She asked Rumple.
"He'd try to get out and only hurt himself more, I couldn't keep him immobilised forever, so the shackles were the best option so to speak."
"Why didn't you wait for me?"
"We had no contact with you for two months, we had to do something." He explained.
"Do you want me to give him the potion or will you?" Regina asked, showing him the potion.
"You do it."
"Can someone of you two call Henry?" Regina asked and Belle nodded and went upstairs.
"Okay." She said and took a deep breath to calm herself down, she slowly entered the cage. The monkey screeched and fought against the shackles but they were holding it back. Regina carefully went to it, managed to calm it down somehow and got it to drink the potion. The monkey froze and then fell on it's knees.
"The potion's going to need a couple of hours to work, let's go up." Rumple said.
Regina watched the monkey in sorrow but still went after Rumplestilstkin.
"So, what? Do we just sit here and wait?" Regina asked Rumple once they were seated.
"Yes."
Soon, Belle and Henry entered the shop, Henry ran to his mother the moment he saw her. "Mom! I missed you so much!" He said hugging her and moving his head on her chest. She put a hand on his hair and started to stroke it. "I missed you two, my little prince." They just stayed there for awhile until they heard Robin and Roland entering the shop, little Roland hugged her legs, she laughed a little then picked him up and put him on her hip.
"I missed you, Gina." The boy said to her.
"I missed you too." She said and held him a little tighter.
"What happened? How did one day turn into two months?" Robin asked her.
"I don't know, I haven't had a chance to talk with Rumple about it." She said and pulled Henry into a hug once again.
"Let's go home". She said to a smiling Henry.
"Do you want to come with us?" Regina asked Robin, while playing with Roland's hair.
"Yeah, I don't think I'll be able to take away Roland from you."
"Yeah, I'll just go back and tell Rumple to call me when... Neal... Ummm, I will be back in a minute, maybe two." Regina said and handed him Roland, the boy protested and Regina said "I'll be right back." to him.
She went in the back, and found Belle and Rumple curled up together on the couch.
"Hey." She whispered, thinking that Belle was asleep.
"Hi." Rumple answered.
"I'm going to go home, take a shower, eat something... Call me when Neal's...?" Regina said not knowing how to continue.
"Yeah." Rumple answered.
"Take good care of her, you need her." She said to him, motioning to Belle.
"I know." He simply answered.
Regina went back and took Roland from Robin, she let the smoke round all four of them and they disappeared.
"So, what do we do now?" Henry asked when he sat on the couch.
"I am going to take a shower and change and for that time you can play with Roland and keep Robin occupied, and when I come back I'm going to explain how shower works to Robin and then make something to eat." Regina said.
"And after?"
"After I'm going to make a big family dinner, and meet Snow's baby." Regina said and went upstairs.
I'm baaaaaaack... Okay, this was going to be one big chapter but since I'm going on a vacation(YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!) I split it in half, you'll get the second part on Saturday(I have 3/4 of it done)... Thanks for reading!
