Hello everyone! New chapter is here and a lot of things are happening, maybe I should parted it into two but I already made you wait sooo long for it, so just enjoy!

Mistakes are mine, OUAT is not.

Robin watched the dreamcatcher glow with another of Regina's memories.

She is in hospital room full of beds and it is Henry who is lying in one of them and the despair that radiates out of Regina is enormous. She feels terrible, her heart hurts and her soul is torn apart as she holds his hand, her little prince. She failed him, she couldn't protect him. He was dying and it was all her fault. No, it was Emma's fault. If there wasn't for her, none of this would have happened.

"What happened to him?" Robin looked at Regina beside him and took her hand in his, she sighed, still looking at the picture of her and her son in the dreamcatcher.

"A sleeping curse that was meant to be for Emma." Regina said simply, she couldn't find enough strength to look Robin in the eyes, she was just staring at their joined hands as she continued. "I wanted to get rid of her because… I was just scared that she will take Henry away from me and that… that Henry would go. I gave her a poisoned apple turnover but Henry knew." A sad smile appeared on her face. "He always knew and he wanted to prove Emma he was right, so he ate it instead of her." She closed her eyes and shook her head slowly. "I thought I lost him. It was terrible."

When she gets back into the hospital after Gold has stolen the bottled true love from Emma and they tell her that it's over, that her little boy is dead, Regina's heart breaks and her soul crumbles. Henry was the only good thing in her life and now he's gone and she can't do anything. There is no way to bring him back, she is once again powerless.

And then it happens, Emma kisses Henry's forehead and a wave of magic runs through the whole room - the whole town, it seems. Henry breathes in and opens his eyes and the relief Regina feels is enormous, bigger that any mountain of this world.

As the initial surprise fades a realisation hits Regina, her curse… it's broken and the little part of Regina's mind that is still capable of thinking reasonably tells her she has to get out of there. But she can't leave Henry just like that, her Henry who is alive! She steps to his bed and with everything she holds in her heart, she tells him she loves him. And then she leaves.

—O—o—O—o—O—o—O—

The next memory, which appeared in the dreamcatcher, surprised Robin. He was looking at Daniel standing in the stables in Storybrook. "I didn't know he was actually resurrected." He looked at Regina. Well, of course you didn't know, Regina thought, I've never told you.

"When Doctor Whale tried to resurrect Daniel back in the Enchanted Forrest, he didn't try for real. I didn't know back then but the procedure was just pretended. It was one of Rumple's tricks to make me do what he wanted me to do." Her voice sounded oddly bitter and Robin knew how much Regina hated the fact that both Rumpelstiltskin and her mother were always using her to get what they wanted.

"However, after Emma broke the curse, I still had his body under a preservation spell and he did it. He resurrected Daniel. But-" She shook her head, "One cannot bring people back from death." Her eyes dropped back to the picture in Robin's hands, silently telling him to keep watching.

Regina opens the door and here he is, her Daniel standing right in front of her. She needs to touch him to believe that he is real and he steps towards her and grabs her, grabs her hard and thrusts her body against the wall. She knows that something is very, very wrong, the eyes that stare at her aren't those Daniel's loving ones. She struggles to breathe but his grip is too firm. If this is the end then be it, at least she got to see him one more time. She closes her eyes and with the last bit of air in her lungs whispers "I love you".

And he lets her go, the air burns as it finds the way into her lungs again. She looks up at him, her Daniel with his loving eyes, and he says her name in the way like no one did in decades. She doesn't hesitate a split second and throws herself into his arms. He is back, for all what is good and holy in this world, HE IS BACK! She is so relieved and happy that her heart may actually jump out of her chest on its own from this sensation.

But it wouldn't be her life if the happiness lasted. She watches Daniel stepping back from her with a confusion and concern in her mind when a realisation hits her. He is in pain because he doesn't belong in this world. She knows it but she is not willing to admit it, she won't lose him again.

"Without you I'm lost." She says to him because that's what she is, she lost herself with him the day he died. "Daniel, come back to me." She begs.

"I can't."

"But I love you." She whispers desperately.

"Then love again." He is letting her go, he will always love her but he knows there is no time for the two of them anymore. He doesn't want for her to suffer and be hurt, she deserves much better than that. He knows she deserves more than he can give her so he lets her go.

Regina helplessly watches him struggle with the pain, holding on the reality but then he loses his fight and although there is still Daniel's body standing in front of her she knows he is not inside anymore. No matter how much it hurts her, she cannot let him suffer like this. She lifts her hand, freezing him in mid-motion and disintegrating him with magic.

"Goodbye, Daniel." She is standing there, tears streaming from her eyes, she can still feel Daniel's touch on her skin. She had him back only for the sake of losing him again. Why does it hurt so much? She got her heart broken so many times, she should be used to it by now, she should be immune but that's the last thing she is. She is broken. Again.

Robin didn't realise how tightly he was holding Regina's hand in his but she was squeezing it back with an equal strength. He wrapped his other hand around her back, pulling her closer to him as they were sitting, silent, no need for them to talk this time, they both just knew. He kissed her temple and then she rested her head on his shoulder, letting her body relax against his. The memory still hurt her but now she knew she needed it to happen, she needed to let Daniel go, she needed it to move on, to be better.

—O—o—O—o—O—o—O—

Snow telling Regina her mother can never love her if she doesn't have her heart inside her and Regina doesn't like the idea at first but the only thing she's ever wanted from her mother was love, so she gives in, desperately desiring one of the most basic things in the world – to be loved by your own mother.

So she takes the heart, goes and thrusts it back into her mother's chest. A painful gasp escapes her mother's lips and Regina is looking at her, tears pricking in her eyes as she waits. And Cora smiles at her and laughs happily and Regina's heart jumps in her own chest before it breaks again when Cora collapses into her arms.

She doesn't know what is happening, her mother looked all right just second ago but now… Regina is scared, confused and her heart hurts in strange way when her mother whispers "This would've been enough. You would've been enough."

The last breath leaves Cora's lungs while she is held in arms of her daughter and Regina is desperate, she lost her, she just got her back, fully and truly but she lost her. She lost another person she deeply cares about and her heart cracks again. And, once more she tries to bury her pain with anger and it is so easy when Snow shows up because Regina can blame her for all of this. Again.

Regina was still tucked to Robin's side with her head on his shoulder and their entwined hands rested on Robin's abdomen as he traced little soothing circles with his thumb on her skin. After the memory, silence engulfed them for a minute before Regina spoke up in soft, quiet voice. "She was my weakness. I love her, I've always loved her."

"I know you have." He kissed her temple. Despite not very positive feelings he had towards Cora, he knew how important she was for Regina despite everything she did to her and in some way he could also understand Cora. "She always showed it in the wrong way but she loved you, Regina. You know that now, don't you?"

A deep sigh left Regina's lungs and a nod of her head made the tears collected in her eyes spill. "I was always trying to be good enough for her but I never was. And I never could be. Do you see the irony of her last words?" She let out an unamused laugh as she lifted herself from Robin's body and wiped the tears away from her face.

"I just wish…" she sighed and shook her head, knowing how absurd this was. "I can't help myself but wonder how it would be like to have her in my life with her heart in her chest. To have her here, meeting Henry… and you." She looked at him with sad smile. "Even Zelena… I mean, maybe if the two of them could talk. She never met her and I knew her but I didn't. She had so many secrets and I didn't know the woman I would have been enough for." Her eyes pricked with more tears but she didn't let them fall this time. "I'm being ridiculous." She shook her head on herself again.

"No, Regina. You are not." He took her hand into his. "It is just very unusual and very complicated situation but it is normal to feel the way you do." He wanted to assure her because he knew very well how uneasy she was about expressing her feelings or even feeling them and he always wanted her to know it is all right. She was looking at him and she was grateful for having him and she was grateful that he could understand her like this.

"I think it's the price of magic." She said then. "It just complicates things. All these impossible situations…" She shook her head slowly and Robin knew she wasn't talking only about her mother anymore, it was also about them and Zelena, without magic their lives wouldn't be such a mess but without magic they wouldn't be probably even there anymore.

For a great part of his life, Robin wasn't a big fan of magic, he knew it always came with a price and he knew how much suffering it may cause. And then with Regina in his life he had learnt also about the good side of magic but the price remained and it seemed like everyone is paying it in some way.

"It does complicates things." Robin confirmed Regina's words. "But imagine how boring life would be if it didn't." He added with mischievous expression on his face, trying to cheer her up a bit and it seemed he succeeded in this task because Regina chuckled. "Yes, yes it would." She responded with a smile that reached also her eyes.

—O—o—O—o—O—o—O—

What came next wasn't a concrete memory like every time before, this time there were flashes and glimpses of pictures, spoken words and raw feelings blended all together.

Robin hugging his formerly death but now very-much-alive wife. "So you made your choice." A tear rolling down Regina's cheek as Robin leaves her alone in her office. Robin asking her to save Marian's life. The pain that tears Regina's soul apart once again when she tries to do the right thing despite Robin telling her about his conflicted heart. Marian gasping after she got her heart back and throwing herself into Robin's arms. Marian collapsing once again. Robin letting go of Regina's hand, crossing the town line. "She's pregnant." Terribly overwhelming helplessness while Robin is bleeding out and there is nothing Regina can do to help him. Fear when Robin is taken by the fury, the mighty resolution to save him at all costs and the willingness to sacrifice her own life for his.

Robin realized all of it were moments when Regina had thought she was losing him, one way or another and after all the pieces of her life he had already seen, he also realized her worst memories were those when she was losing people she cared about. No matter if it was her father, Daniel, Henry, her mother or Robin himself.

He could understand why it was her worst fear, why she was so scared to open herself up to another person. It was something rooted deep inside her with all those experiences of losing and shattering of her heart into pieces. And he felt unworthy of her love because instead of protecting her heart, all he did was just causing her more heartache.

"I'm sorry." Robin whispered and Regina looked at him, her voice was soft but slightly sad when she told him "You have nothing to be sorry about."

"I brought pain into your life."

Regina's lips curled in small smile. "You brought so much more." She lifted her hand and gently brushed her fingertips across his stubble in a caress. "I should be thanking you for that."

"There's no need for that." He shook his head, covered her hand with his, draw it to his lips and peppered her fingers with butterfly kisses. "I love you, Regina."

She replied with kissing his mouth.

—O—o—O—o—O—o—O—

When the next memory came, Robin realised it had to be very recent one. He could tell according to how Regina looked, her hair the same length as now, he recognized her clothes and also the look on her face.

She knocks on the massive oak door, which are opened by a brown man just a minute later.

"Regina." The man says apparently surprised to see her.

"Sidney." Regina answers, "May I come in?"

The man who spent years trapped in a mirror silently steps aside letting her enter. "Honestly, I would never expect that you'll show up in here." He motions for Regina to follow him into the living room.

"I've came to apologize." Her palms brushing slowly against the fabric of her skirt as she speaks. She isn't sure where the two of them are standing anymore. Too much happened in their past.

"Oh." His eyebrows go up but his face doesn't look surprised at all. "I think I may repeat myself but I would never expect that either."

"Oh please." She says with a hint of mockery clear in her voice. She hadn't talked with Sidney in ages until the last time when she wanted to murder Marian once again. And talking with him now - after all those things that changed in her life – it feels quite weird, it brings back something of her old self, just a hint of the great and terrible Evil Queen, but she can feel it there.

"I've heard some things, Regina…" Sidney stepped little bit closer to her, "I mean, neither the queen nor the mayor can really expect there won't be any rumours about her running around this lovely town." He says and Regina rolls her eyes but doesn't respond. "You do look different, Regina." He looks right into her eyes for a moment. "Or is it just another pretending game of yours?" His eyebrows go up suspiciously.

"I don't care what rumours you've heard. I'm here because what I did wasn't right."

Sidney doesn't say anything, making her continue. "I used you back in the Enchanted Forest and I shouldn't lock you up in here. For everything what I did to you, I'm sorry, Sidney. I truly am."

A sound - something between humming and snorting – escapes Sidney's lungs. "Is it everything what you came here for?" He asks because of course it isn't, he knows her too well to be sure about it.

"I mean what I said, Sidney. I know I have no right to want anything from you anymore." Regina was quite unsure if asking him what she initially planned was a good idea.

"Funny. I still have the feeling you want something anyway."

"Yes." Regina sighed, "I came also to ask you to do me one last favour but I won't blame you if you refuse, you have every right to and I will accept that and you won't heard from me again if you don't want to."

"And what if I do?" He asks and uses Regina's surprise as an opportunity to close the distance between them even more, but his head is slowly shaking. "I was foolish to think I loved you." He brushed the back of his index finger alongside her jaw. "Now I know I didn't. But… I still might be foolish. What can I do for you?"

"I could use my mirror one more time."

Sidney lets out quiet, low and totally not surprised laugh. "Of course you could." He is looking straight into her eyes and Regina know there is something different about him, there isn't as much fear in his eyes as she always saw there. It seems they both have changed a lot and still not enough.

"The question is," Sidney continues, "how can I believe anything what you are saying? How can I know you just don't want to trap me inside the bloody thing again, to get rid of me for good or to wait until I will be useful to you again? How can I trust you after everything what you did?" His face is calm but there is lot of feelings storming in his eyes.

"You can't. And honestly, if the tables were turned I wouldn't trust you."

He lets out a small snort but remains quiet and Regina takes that as a 'no' to her request for a favour. "Thank you anyway." She turns to leave but Sidney's voice stops her. "Wait."

She turns to look at him and there is a long, uncomfortable pause before he asks. "Why this sudden need of your mirror again?"

"I-" Regina starts but stops immediately. She had never problems to voice her opinions about others but being honest about herself with someone else than Robin and Henry is something she is just learning, sometimes she still struggles in these matters even with Emma and Snow so there is no wonder that for a second Regina wants to give answer that is not so personal but there is no point in doing that. After all, if Sidney decides to do what she needs, she will have to tell him eventually.

"I want to leave the past where it belongs." She says.

Sidney tilts his head to the side, searching for something in her expression before replying, "As far as I remember you wanted to change it last time."

"Maybe what needed to change was me." She shrugs her arms.

"So you regret what you did?" He asked her, his eyebrows little furrowed.

Regina lets out a dark half-chuckle, "No, I don't regret it. I am sorry for all who suffered because of me and for all those people that had to die but I don't regret it. I can't because it got me my son. Something good came out of it and it is not only about me adopting Henry. If there was no curse Emma would never met Rumple's son so Henry wouldn't be even born. So no, I don't regret anything."

Sidney is looking at her once again before he reaches his hand towards her, "I guess, the mirror is in your vault?" Regina takes his outstretched hand and with that touch they are surrounded with a purple smoke that takes them to the room under the forest.

"Thank you." Regina says as the smoke of her magic disappears, giving Sidney another chance to change his mind.

His eyes find the mirror almost immediately and he nods without looking at Regina anymore, "Let's get this over with, shall we?"

Regina waves her hand and the man beside her disappears only to reappear inside the mirror just a second later.

"What do you want to see, Regina?" He asks, his voice modified by the magic of the mirror too familiar to Regina and still somehow different. He doesn't call me 'My Queen', Regina realises. He has always called her that, even in Storybrook, even after she held him captive, even after she forgot she was holding him captive. Regina shakes her head. It is a good thing he doesn't call her that anymore.

She walks towards wooden chest in front of the mirror to sit on it and speaks up with calm and quiet but still somehow strong voice. "I want to see every person that suffered because of me. I want to see everyone who died because of me - by my hand or on my order. I want to see all of them. I want to know their names and who they were."

Sidney seems to be genuinely shocked about her request, but it also might be just because or the light reflecting in the mirror, Regina is not sure.

"Let's start then." Sidney's voice comes from the mirror after few seconds. "Your first one, Trish, the oldest of three children of local tailor." And the first girl Regina has killed appears in the mirror."

Regina in present time touched the dream catcher in Robin's hands and the memory stopped. She sat up straight, putting some distance between the two of them and looked at Robin's face.

"It's exactly 268 people I killed personally and 835 who were killed on my command."

Robin was looking at her, his expression calm. "Did you watch all of them?" He motioned his head towards the dreamcatcher.

"I did." She nodded slowly.

"With all their names and things about who they were?"

A nod again. She wasn't looking at Robin anymore, her eyes were fixed on her hands in her lap. Robin put the dreamcatcher down, turned on the sofa, tucking one of his legs under him so he could face Regina properly and lifted his hand, hooking his index finger under Regina's chin but instead of making her lift her head up he just left his hand there waiting for Regina to look up on her own. And when she did, she saw a soft smile on Robin's lips.

"Thank you, Regina." He said, caressing her jaw with his thumb. He knew Regina came far from the person she used to be back in the Enchanted Forest but he didn't expect her to do something like this.

"For what?" she asked frowning with confusion, after everything she told him and what he saw, she was expecting various different reactions but this was definitely not one of them.

"For letting me love you and stand by your side. You are incredible woman, Regina and I am very, very proud of you." Robin was looking at her with that kind of look Regina couldn't even describe, there was so much love in it. She never knew what to say or do when he was looking at her like that. It was just too much.

He saw in her eyes that his words warmed her heart but she still didn't quite get what he meant. He was slowly shaking his head when he asked, "You still don't know what you did there, do you?"

Regina's mouth opened to say something, but she didn't know what it was, so she just closed it again.

"I remember saying to you to let the past in the past and you are doing just that. It's a good thing to not regret the past, as you said it did bring something good but it wasn't only Henry. You brought so much good for everyone. You cursed people to life with indoor plumbing, modern medicine and fancy food we don't have to hunt in the woods first." Robin chuckled, "There were so many worse things you could do if you wanted people to suffer, but you didn't. And what you did that day," Robin's sight fell back on the dreamcatcher for a moment, "You honoured the people whose death made it possible for everyone to be here."

"I just felt I needed to do it, like it was the right thing to do." She finally said, her voice a little bit unsure.

"It was." Robin nodded. "I am so proud of you."

Regina gulped, her throat dry. She wasn't used to people say they were proud of her, she never did anything worth of being proud of, the majority of her life she felt like she wasn't good enough, not good enough daughter for her mother, not good enough wife for her husband, not good enough queen for her people, not good enough mother for her son. She shook her head, she was trying to be good enough for Henry now, and good enough for Robin and a small part deep inside her hoped she was.

Robin noticed the inner struggle which his words brought up in Regina and he reached his hands towards her, pulling her into his embrace. She let him, wrapped her own arms around his chest and rested her forehead against his shoulder.

"So…You are not leaving?" She dared to ask after few seconds.

"Do I look like I am?" Robin returned her question, Regina had come a long way already but she was still carrying a lot of insecurities inside of her.

Regina blinked "No?" It was supposed to be an answer but it sounded like a question. Robin turned his head and kissed her temple. "I told you I won't. And I am not." He pressed her closer to him to emphasise he meant what he said and Regina let out an exhale of relief.

He knew her secrets, he saw her darkest moments and after all of it he was there, right there with her and it felt so freaking amazing. "I love you." She said and loosened the grip just enough for her to turn her head and look into his beautiful blue eyes.

"I know." He said and kissed her. "And you know that I love you." He added when they broke the kiss and he brushed his nose against hers.

"Yes." She smiled. "I know." And she really did, with her whole heart and mind and soul she knew Robin loves her and accepts her with all her flaws, fears and insecurities. He knew her better than she knew herself, he knew her like no one else did and he loved her like no one else could. And she loved him back the same.

They stayed like that, wrapped in each other's arms for few more minutes, both drawing strength from the love of the other one when Robin kissed Regina's temple once more and then put a little distance between them.

"We've talked about lot of things today but there is still one more we should discuss." He said and saw a curious expression appear on Regina's face. "I am having a child with Zelena." Robin said simply.

"I am aware." Regina used her hands to gesticulate and tilted her head on the side just a little bit.

"I've put you into this strange situation but… You don't have to carry my load, Regina."

"Are you saying…" she was thinking, "that you don't want me involved in your child's life?"

"No, that's not what I'm saying. I would love if you would be, Regina. I just… I don't want you to feel uncomfortable about that. We haven't speak about the future, about us or about Zelena. I don't know what to do with her, how to deal with the custody, I don't even know where I will live when the baby arrives."

Regina flinched at that statement, there it was again, the fear that Robin will leave her. "You live with me." She said quietly with a frown on her face.

Robin noticed the glimpse of fear flashing through Regina's eyes and the expression on his face turned into reassuringly soft smile. "Yeah, but we've never really agreed on that."

Well, that was true, Robin and Regina never talked about him and Roland moving in for real. After they came back from New York, they wanted to make sure Roland will be safe in case of Zelena's escape so they stayed at Regina's, the adults talking almost the whole night and then falling asleep in each other's arms. The same happened the following night, neither one of them willing to let go of the other one after the weeks of separation.

There wasn't exactly much time between being trapped in Isaac's book and their journey to Camelot to make any real living arrangements. In the castle Henry and Roland stayed in a chamber together while Regina and Robin shared a chamber of their own. They got used to live together, so it was somehow natural that they all stayed in the mansion after their return but Regina never told them to move in and Robin never asked if they could. They just did but there was still their tent with few of their things in the camp, they were still spending time in there during the day when Roland visited his uncles and they slept there few times, but most of their nights they spent in Regina's house, Roland sleeping in the big bed in guestroom, Robin next to the woman he so desperately loved.

"So what now?" She asked, she needed to know what Robin wanted to do, what he expected her to do.

"I don't want to push you into anything, I've hurt you with this messy situation and I have no right to ask anything from you. I don't want you to feel forced."

"Robin, you live with me, I love you and I want you to live with me. I supposed you will bring the baby with you, not that you will leave." She sighed and dropped her gaze down for a second but then looked up into his eyes again and put her hand on his thigh. "You know that I love Roland as my own, don't you?"

Robin's eyes softened at her words, of course he knew, his boy had won over the heart of His Majesty long before Robin himself and since the two of them were together Regina became a mom to his son, he could see it in every her touch and every her word for the little boy. There were thousands of reasons why he loved Regina but her love for his son was one of the very important ones. "Yeah, I know that." He said with a soft smile spreading across his features.

"Good." Regina said with a small nod, there was a pregnant pause between them but then Regina continued. "I am not saying there aren't any difficult feelings involved but it is your child we are talking about, Robin." She said and reached for his hand to take it into hers before she continued.

"I know it won't be easy but we said we will deal with this together and I want to do that. I…" she wetted her lover lip before she bite at it but she found the courage to be completely honest. "I might be little worried that every time I look at that child I'll see Zelena and what she did to us but I don't blame you for any of this and I certainly can't blame the baby." She sighed and brushed her thumb across Robin's hand.

"I want a chance, Robin. I want a chance to love this baby as I love Roland and Henry." She whispered and Robin could see tears threatening to fall from her eyes so he brought his palm to her face in soothing caress.

"I have no doubt you will." He kissed her forehead and hugged her close to his chest. Although this whole situation was hard for him, he already loved his child and he knew that regardless how hard it must be for Regina, she will love his child too because if there was one thing that was most extraordinary about Regina, it was her heart, not only the most resilient heart, no, it was the heart with unspeakable ability to love, love truly, deeply and in the way how no other heart could. So no, he didn't doubt for a second she will love that little human being.

He held her in his arms for a while before he asked, "You really want to do this?"

"I do if you let me." She nodded.

"Of course I let you." Robin looked at her face, "Thank you. You don't even know how much this means to me."

"You don't have to thank me." She said with a soft smile.

"I love you, Regina."

"And I you." She returned and kissed him. When their lips parted Robin leant his back on the sofa, bringing Regina with him as she rested her head on his shoulder. They stayed like that half-sitting half-lying wrapped in each other's arms for few minutes when Regina interrupted the silence.

"Maybe we could move Roland to the other room next to Henry's and make that room truly his. Then the nursery can be right opposite our bedroom."

A 'mhmm' was Robin's only response and despite Regina knew the main thing should be to set up the nursery she didn't feel it was her place to decide about that so she focused on the little boy's room instead. "I think Roland would like some motive with trees on his walls. And we should definitely put a proper desk in his room too, he will go to school soon so he will need that. Some darker shade of furniture would look nice, walnut or maybe cherry." She was thinking out loud and kind of rambling but Robin found it very sweet even he paid attention only partially, his mind wandering to some other thing.

"Regina?" He interrupted her thoughts about interior design. "Hm?" "Could you open the secret room for me?" He asked and she looked at him confused, question in her eyes but she waved her hand and the hidden door in the wall on the far end of the corridor cracked open and the dim light behind it came to life. "What are you going to do?" She asked and shifted her body next to him.

"You'll see soon." He answered with a look that told Regina he was up to something. "Can you just give me five minutes and wait here for me? I'll show you something, I just need you to wait until I call you." He said.

She opened her mouth in some kind of protest and curious questions were about to slip from her tongue but she swallowed them with Robin's "Please" and nodded. Giving him five minutes wouldn't hurt her. Robin kissed her temple, stood up with a "Thank you" grabbed his jacket that he took off after Regina poofed them there and disappeared behind the before-hidden door, which no one without magic could open from outside.

It was definitely a room fit for the Queen, Robin thought. The wallpapers screamed with magnificence, multiple crystal clear mirrors of different shapes and sizes reflecting the fairy lights hanging on the white factitious tree, hand carved furniture and the highest quality silky bed sheets which softens you could literally see.

Being in this room again brought back to Robin a very special memory of the time he shared here with Regina in the day that was not one of those days. And in the night, and the morning. With a smile on his face Robin opened one of the cupboards in the corner where he knew Regina kept some candles and for his pleasure, she had quite a supply in there. Finding a lighter was bit more difficult and Robin started to regret he didn't think about Regina not needing such a thing with her fireballs but just before he could give up and start looking for something he could use along the skills of the man living in the forest to make a little fire, he got lucky enough to find a lighter that had been there probably since the time when Storybrook was just part of the ordinary world without magic.

When he was lighting the candles and putting it all over the place he was thinking about what he was going to do. Robin had known for some time now that Regina is the woman who he wanted to spend the rest of his life with and if it was only up to him he would have already propose. He was sure about his love to Regina but he wanted to give her more time to be sure too, they both needed to figure out all this mess that happened to be their life so Robin just kept carrying that certain little box around, waiting for the right moment.

And yes, this maybe wasn't the most perfect way how to ask her and he maybe wasn't entirely prepared to do it right there and then but after everything they had talk about today he felt that their relationship is stronger than ever and he just couldn't wait any longer.

Once the candles were all around the room, he took the little black velvet box out of the pocket of his jacket and shoved it into the pocket of his pants, hanging the jacket on the chair. Then he looked around and saw that Regina had here a vase of white roses, he took them out, gently pulled off the petals and sprinkled them on the top of the bed sheets. Not perfect, but it was the best what he could muster up in this improvisation. He checked on the most important thing one more time, opened the box to see the ring safe and sound resting there and returned it back into his pocket before he opened the door.

Regina looked at him curious from where she stood, he smiled and reached his hand towards her. She came to him, took his hand and followed him inside the secret room.

"What's happening?" She said slightly confused and surprised when she saw all the candles but he led her in the middle of the room and then turned to face her, slowly shaking his head. "Let me talk, please."

Her eyebrows went up as she waited for his words to come. He took also her other hand into his and smiled at her with a look, well there weren't really any words to describe it. His whole face just radiated with so much love and every time he looked at her like that she didn't know what to say or what to do, her knees just became weak and her hear ached in her chest with her own love for this man.

"Regina," he said her name like the most precious prayer in the world, "not many people can say they met someone twice for the first time. We did, three times actually." he chuckled. "And every first time I met you I knew you were special. I've always seen you, no matter what mask you have been trying to wear and I am incredibly lucky that you let me know you, be with you and love you." Regina felt still a little confusion but her heart melted at his words and a warm smile spread across her face. He caressed her hand with his thumb and continued.

"You made my life so much brighter. When I look at you I feel like I found a piece of me I didn't even know I was looking for, you made me whole and you made me happier then I have ever been and any life you are not in, is the life I don't want to live. I love you Regina and I… " He tilted his head a little on the side, "Despite I wanted to do this differently," Do what? Regina had no idea what he was talking about. "I wanted it to be perfect but I'm afraid I can't wait any longer." He brought their joined hands to his lips and put the slightest kiss on her knuckles, then he let go of her other hand. "Regina," he said her name again and got down on one knee in front of her.

Her free hand went instinctively to her mouth. What is he doing? He is not about to… Is he? She watched him to pull little black velvet box out of his pocket. Oh god, he is. She thought, looking at him and her mind went blank.

"Will you do me the great honour of becoming my wife?" He opened the velvet box and a ring sparkled in the light of all the candles around them. "Will you marry me, Regina?"

She opened her mouth but no words came out and she tried to hold her tears but that battle was already lost. Was she dreaming? Did he really proposed to her? Did he really wanted to spend the rest of his life with her? He? The man she loved so much it physically hurt, her true love, her soulmate?

"I-" she finally managed to say, "Yes." She took the one step that was left between them, cupped his cheeks in her palms. "Yes, I will marry you." She said, leaning down and kissing him.

Regina's heart ached and she knew it was because it wasn't used to so much happiness as she felt right now. When they broke the kiss, Robin took the ring out of the box and slipped it on Regina's finger. It was a perfect fit. Then he stood up and took her into his embrace.

She wrapped her arms around his neck and her feet suddenly left the floor as Robin lifted her up, spinning them around once before setting her back down. Then he kissed her softly again and Regina couldn't help herself but smiled against his lips, with a smile so wide the corners of her lips almost ached.

"Dou you like it? The ring?" He asked, his eyes all sparkly. Regina brought her left hand on his chest so she could look at the ring because honestly she hadn't pay much attention to it yet, too overwhelmed with all the amazing feelings that boiled in her. It was quite big, round diamond on a simple silver band with tiny black crystals on the sides of the diamond.

"It's amazing. All of this is." She looked again at the candles around them, "You are amazing." She whispered before kissing him.

"Well thank you but as much as I would love to keep all the merits to myself I must admit I did have a help with choosing the ring." Regina raised her eyebrows curiously on that so Robin explain with a smile "Henry thought you will like this one."

"Henry knew about this?" She asked surprised and now it was Robin's turn to rise his eyebrows. "Do you really think I would propose to you without asking for your son's blessing first?"

Regina didn't know how it was still possible but her smile grew even bigger at that words, knowing that Henry knew and that he agreed and actually helped Robin warmed her heart like nothing else could. They were family, her, Robin, Henry, Roland they were all family and that was all what she ever wanted. She kissed him deeply, with soft lips, nimble tongue and sharp teeth, pouring every ounce of the infinite love and radiating happiness she felt into him. And he was kissing her back all the same.

"Now," Robin breathed out when they finally parted both slightly out of breath and moved his mouth to Regina's ear, whispering seductively "I'd like to make love to my fiancé."

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