"Mom!" Regina yelled frantically as she entered the mansion. Roland following closely behind his mother.

"Go upstairs sweetie. I'll be there in a little while."

"Okay." Roland complied without a second thought. He knew exactly what toys he was going to play with until his mommy came up.

"What is it Regina?" Cora asked as Regina entered the living room.

"He's back." Regina said.

"You're going to have to be a little more specific dear." Cora said with a quick roll of her eyes.

"Robin." Regina clarified and frowned when Cora chuckled, clearly humored. "Is something funny?" Regina asked, her temper rising.

"That's impossible. If that good for nothing boy was back in my town I would know about it." Cora said, unfazed.

"I saw him in the grocery store." Regina insisted. Her face fell as the night's earlier events replayed in her head. "And he knows."

"What do you mean he knows?" Cora stiffened. "How could he possibly know?"

"He saw him and he put two and two together." Regina explained exasperated as she took a seat next to her mother.

"Well it really doesn't matter." Cora waved it off.

"Of course it matters!" How could her mother be so calm about this?

"Regina." Cora explained. "Roland is your son. You have sole custody of him. Robin has no rights to that child."

"He could sue for rights to him." Regina reminded.

"He can't do anything that I don't allow him to do." Regina raised her eyebrows in confusion at this. "You forget darling, that I am the mayor of this town. Small as it may be, I control everything and everyone in it. You are not going to have to worry about anything. Just leave everything to me and go put Roland to bed." Regina didn't argue. She just nodded and headed up the stairs. She smiled as she entered Roland's bedroom and saw him playing with his toy cars.

"Time for your bath baby." Regina said as she walked over and scoped him up.

"But I'm not tired." Roland whined as Regina carried him to his bathroom. He knew that bed always came after his bath.

"It's 7:30 sweetheart. You know it's time to get ready for bed." Roland huffed knowing that this wasn't a fight he was going to win. Soon enough, the pout on Roland's face turned into fits of giggles and laughter. Regina smiled at her baby as he played with his bath toys in the tub. He was her pride and joy and Robin was not going to interfere with that. Had she listened to him five years ago, her son wouldn't even be here. After Roland was squeaky clean she lifted him out of the tub and wrapped him in his favorite fluffy blue towel because it had memo on it. Roland had developed an obsession with Finding Nemo over the past few months.

"There you go." Regina cooed as she picked Roland up and carried him back to his bedroom.

"Mommy, what story tonight?" Roland asked as Regina put him into his Buzz Lightyear pajamas.

"Whatever you want sweetheart." Regina said as she ruffed his hair.

"Robin Hood!" Roland decided as he bounced in his mother's arms. "Robin Hood and the Merry Men again?" Regina had read that story to him twice already this week.

"You said whatever I want." Roland reminded his mother.

"I did say that, didn't I?" Regina went over to Roland's book shelf and picked out his favorite book. Regina laid back in the small toddler bed and Roland immediately cuddled into her side. Regina was only half way through the story when she noticed that Roland was fast asleep against her chest. She sighed and put the book on the night stand and kissed his little head. What was she going to do? Robin was back but why? She couldn't have her son taken away from her but she supposed she didn't have to worry about it. After all, her mother said she would handle it and she knew her mother well enough to know that she always got what she wanted.


"Did you get it?" Marian asked as Robin entered the small bedroom. Marian waited but she didn't get an answer. "Robin?" She asked as she watched him shrug off his coat. He seemed to be mumbling something to himself. Marian could feel her blood pressure begin to rise. She didn't like being ignored. "Robin!" She shouted, finally snapping him out of his trance.

"What?" Robin snapped his head up. "Oh." He said, realizing it was just Marian having one of her usual tantrums.

"Did you get it?" She asked, holding out her hand for the small box she was expecting.

"Get what?" Robin asked, his mind clearly somewhere else.

"The pregnancy test." Marian said, clearly irritated by this point.

"Oh." Robin remembered and he handed her the plastic bag. She snatched it from him and Robin was taken aback by this.

"What's the matter with you?" He asked a bit harshly. He really wasn't in the mood for her attitude right now.

"What's the matter is I'm pregnant and you don't even seem to give a damn." Robin sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Marian, you haven't even taken the test yet."

"It doesn't matter." She retorted as she exited the room and headed towards the bathroom in the hall. "I already know what it's going to say." Robin sat down to the edge of the bed and put his face in his hands.

"What am I going to do?"


"Mom." Regina called as she entered her mother's study.

"Regina, what have I told you about bothering me while I'm working?" Cora asked, not lifting her head from her paper work. Regina ignored her mother's question and replaced it with her own.

"What did you mean when you said Robin can't do anything you don't allow him to do?"

"I think you know exactly what it means." Cora answered, looking up at her now.

"I know what you mean, but what are you going to do?"

"Don't worry about it." Cora said flatly. She didn't like dragging Regina into her dirty work.

"But..." Regina started but was quickly interrupted.

"Do you want to keep your son or not Regina?" Cora asked angrily as she slammed her folder down. Regina jumped at the sudden burst of anger. "Well?" Cora asked impatiently.

"Of course i do." Regina said lowly.

"Then stop pestering me and let me do what I need to do. Goodnight Regina." Regina knew that was her cue to leave so she did in fear of making her mother angrier. She didn't like when her mother blackmailed people and she had a feeling that was what her mother had in mind.


"Mom." Robin said as he entered his mother's small bedroom.

"What is it darling." Claire smiled.

"You know Regina right?" Robin started.

"Mayor Mills' daughter?" Claire asked and Robin nodded.

"You remember I used to date her before I left." Robin continued.

"Of course I do. You two were inseparable." Claire answered. "But why are you bringing her up now?"

"Why didn't you tell me she had a son?" Robin asked and Claire was clearly caught off guard.

"Well, what does it matter?" Claire asked confused. "Are you jealous? Because there's..."

"That's not it mom." Robin cut her off.

"Well what is it?"

"I think..." Robin stopped to take a breath. "I think he's mine."

"That's nonsense. How could he be yours?" Nothing was making sense to her. "You've been gone for five years."

"There's something I never told you." Robin admitted, shame washing over him. Claire didn't say anything, she just listened.

"Before I left for college... I... Regina was pregnant."

"What?" Claire asked in shock and disbelief. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"There was no reason to. We both agreed that she would get an abortion. Now five years later I see her here with a toddler who looks just like me."

"Oh Robin." Claire groaned as she rubbed her temples. She felt partially responsible for this. Her possible grandson had been right under her nose the entire. "I just assumed... It never even crossed my mind that he could be yours."

"He is mine and they kept him from me." Robin said getting up. "And I'm going to comfort them right now."

"Now wait a second Robin. We don't know anything for sure."

"Mom he's mine and I know it."

"Robin you can't just go over to the Mills estate, much less at this hour. Do you have any idea what kind of hell that would raise for me?"

"Like what?" Robin challenged, underestimating Cora's power in town.

"Cora Mills holds a lot over my head Robin. At least wait until the morning and then you can go over to her office."It took everything inside of Robin but seeing the frightened look on his mother's face made him comply.

"Fine. I'll wait until the morning." Robin went back to his room and found Marian sitting on the bed waiting for him. "Well?" He asked.

"I'm pregnant."