"I'm such a bad daughter" Lily cried, she was spread across her kings sized bed sobbing into the pillow, Snow white, Prince charming and Robin Hood sat around her with no idea what to say. Snow rubbed her temples are she thought about how much better she'd be at this had she'd gone through it with Emma. Charming shuffled over to Lily and started to rub her back,

"You're not a bad daughter" He said sighing a little, she shook her head in the pillow and let out a shaky shy.

"Nobody can blame you for your reaction, seeing what she did to you but she looks like she may be trying to redeem herself" Robin smiled a little before looking down at the white sheets, Lily sat up and looked at them all before wiping under her eyes.

"I'm really sorry, all of you. I shouldn't have dragged you all into mine and my mom's arguments" the girl uttered "I love you all but I should be doing this on my own, my momma is my problem and I should sort it out not you guys" she concluded as she breathed in heavily and ran a hand through her hair, she pushed herself off the bed and started to walk toward the door. Snow jumped off the bed and ran round to Lily softly reaching for her arm, turning her around

"You don't have to feel bad for us, we wouldn't be here if we didn't care and we didn't want to help you" She smiled as she caressed the young girl's cheek, Charming stood up as well and joined the two girls placing a hand on Snow's shoulder and smiling,

"Thank you" Lily said as her previously teary face started to beam, she threw herself into the dip of their bodies and hugged them. Snow and Charming looked at each and smiled as they hugged each other creating a small circle with Lily in the middle,

Snow knew this is what she'd always wanted, someone to look after, and someone to make a priority. Robin coughed a little and smiled as the three emerged, Lily ran too him and hugged him too and she slowly let his arms rest around her and kissed her head,

"Would you like me to talk to her before you?" Robin asked looking down at his 'sister', Lily stared up at him and her eyes gaped,

"You would do that?" She asked, "Yes please..."

"Anything for you, honey" He smiled kissing her cheek and letting go of her. He started to walk and stopped at the door, he looked back and took a large breath with a slight fear, never did he think that he would be talking to the Evil Queen about her daughter that no-one knew existed, he saw Lily standing smiling at him with Snow and Charming now stood behind the girl. As soon as Robin disappeared around the door Lily turned to the couple and smiled,

"I have to admit, this is the happiest I've been in years. Never ever did I think that I was going to be in this castle and knowing more people than my mother, my grandfather and the huntsman" Lily giggled turning around, she walked over to the large glass doors and pushed them open, walking to the balcony and gazing over the lands, "Speaking of the huntsman, where is he? He wasn't the camp and he hasn't been to see me" Lily asked as her hand moved over the cold surface to where her mother's huntsman used to stand.

Snow gasped and looked at Charming before shaking her head,

"Lils… I'm so sorry" Snow muttered as the couple proceeded toward the balcony,

"What should you be sorry about?" She asked turning around smiling, she saw snow's face as the woman began to shake her head Lily mirrored this action,

"No…no! Please, no" Lily said as she began to cry again, she wiped under her eyes not wanting to be crying again,

"He died Lil" Charming added, the girls eyes began to quiver as tears begged to stream from the blue eyes. Lily pressed her lips together and nodded slightly, she wanted to be able to deal with all this sadness, all the crying was never going to get her anywhere. Her fingers started to intertwine as she looked down at them as she bit her lip; she turned back around and looked out at the enchanted forest letting small tears drip onto the marble on the balcony. Snow stepped forward to comfort the girl but Charming grabbed her arm as she looked at him he began to shake his head,

"Leave her" He muttered looking at the distraught Lily then at Snow, he pulled her round and led her from the room giving a last look at the girl on the balcony.

Regina fell onto her bed immediately taking her head into her hands dampening them with tears of sadness. She didn't know what she'd done to Lily, she had no idea how Lily was left in the enchanted forest and she certainly didn't leave her there intentionally. She shook her head as she thought of all the arguments the two used to have, the relationship between the mother and daughter had become so battered, so broken, it was like the woman had no idea who her daughter was. She didn't know what she'd done to push her so far away, she had tried to not be anything like her mother, not push Lily away but her desire for her safety and to keep her daughter away from her enemies had done that anyway.

"I wish I'd put myself to sleep" Regina muttered to herself, Robin walked around the open door and shook his head in sorrow; there was so much sadness in such a little family.

"Don't say that, if you'd put yourself to sleep you still wouldn't know that Lils is alive; she'd still not have her mom who she needs to look after her" Robin reasoned as Regina gasped and turned around revealing her tear-stricken face, she wiped under her eyes and sniffed a little containing the rest of her tears,

"She doesn't want me, how can I be her mom and look after her if she can't even be in a room with me for 5 minutes; you should've seen her face! She was so scared, scared of… me" She exclaimed, the realisation that she scared her daughter destroyed her barrier and tears flooded from her eyes,

"She's not scared of you" Robin simply answered as he walked across the room nearer the bed, "She'd scared of the memories, she doesn't want to relive the memories"

Regina looked at him and rubbed away the makeup and tears from under her eyes again, "How do you know this?" she asked,

"When I first found Lily, she just used to cry, when I finally got her to talk she told me all about your relationship with her; she pushed you away after two weeks, if anyone would ask about you her answer would be 'I hate her' but that seems to of changed, I was just with her and she was upset and that quality of daughter she was. She was worried that she was a bad daughter, I think she built up these feelings that were true when you were gone but its changed now your back" Robin explained as he sat on the bed and looked at her, Regina gasped when he expressed her daughters hate for the woman but she didn't stir much more when the man continued,

"Oh" was all that Regina could express, she looked at her hands and sniffed a little, "Why does she hate me?"

"You abandoned her, not only did you abandon her but you did so in a place she was not familiar with, she didn't know how to survive. She was scared" He added as he remembered the first months after he found the girl.

"I'm such an awful mother; I never meant to abandon her. I planned a life for us under the curse, I meant for her to come, I have no idea how she got left behind" Regina sobbed, Robin couldn't help himself but chuckle just a little; he immediately stopped himself by covering his mouth when Regina got up from her place on the bed, "You are really finding this funny?" She growled as she felt the anger boiling up inside of her

"No, no, no" Robin gasped as his waved his hands in a cross motion and shook his head, "I just heard nearly the same thing from Lily not 10 minutes ago" he said pressing his lips together with a slight smile, "She thinks she'd 'such a bad daughter'"

Regina arched her eyebrow, "She said that?" She asked,

"Yes, I reckon you two have just had a problem with miss-communication" Robin added as he nodded to himself and pushed off the bed, he wondered around the large posted bed and hung onto the nearest pole to Regina, "I'll explain to her that you didn't mean to abandon her then the two of you can talk it out" he smiled. Regina nodded in response and smiled a little to herself hoping that soon she'd have one of her children back.

Robin left the room and wondered back down to Lily's bedroom, he smiled to himself as he thought about Regina and Lily's smiles; he realised how similar the girl was to her mother. She swung round the door of the room and smiled as he saw Lily sat on her bed talking to Snow and Charming. He'd never seen her so happy, she'd been happy when with him and his merry men but this was pure happiness, something she'd never expressed to him due to her thought of abandonment.

"She didn't mean to abandon you" Robin expressed causing the three to turn to him, Lily arched her eyebrow, much like her mother

"What?" She asked,

"I just talked to her and she planned a life of you and her under the curse; you were never meant to stay here, she has no idea why you did stay here" Robin explained as he paced over to the bed,

"Where you in the dome?" Snow asked, looking at Lily with wide eyes; she was positive she knew the reason for Lily staying in the enchanted forest,

"What dome?" Lily asked,

"Cora enchanted a small island and created a dome around the island meaning that everyone there was safe from the curse, hence why Robin was here and Aurora" she said looking at Charming, he nodded in response and smiled,

"Were you on that island?" he asked looking at Lily,

"I think so" Lily said, she was now staring at her covers wide eyed, she thought of where the huntsman left her, where she was before the curse. She nodded to herself and bit her lip, "Momma didn't abandon me" she said with a small smile. She pushed herself off the bed and scooted along her room slipping slightly with the marble floor and her frilly socks, she ran around the door and down the corridor leaving the three adults in her room with only smiles to fill the silence. She spun around the door to her mother's room and saw the woman sitting on her bed; she stopped in her tracks and took in the image of her mother.

Regina heard light footsteps quickly progressing closer and closer to her room, when silence took over she stood up off her bed and turned on her heel revealing her Lily standing in the doorway, she looked so much like snow Regina realised but she was beyond caring at the moment. Regina smiled a little before Lily's face lit up and her mouth rose in a bright smile showing her pearl teeth, the girl ran to her mother and threw her arms around her mother. The Queen hugged her daughter and picked the light child up spinning her around slightly, when they slowed down the two women smiled not separating.

"I'm sorry Momma" Lily whispered into her mother's ear "I love you"

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