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`What am I going to say to her? 'Hey Regina! Tink just told me the oddest thing…' No, I can't do it like that. But I have to do something. This news just makes sense to me in some strange way.`
Robin had never walked with such a strong sense of purpose before. He could see before him the tower of the Town Hall peeking out above the shops on Main Street. He was hoping she was there yet at the same time, was nervous.
`Why am I nervous? It`s not like I've never talked to a woman before. For gods sakes I`ve been married before! Granted that this is the Evil Queen I'm thinking about.' And with that thought he stopped dead on the sidewalk. 'The Evil Queen. That is what she is. I've heard the stories, the rumours. Were they exaggerated? I somehow doubt that. I think she has done horrible things…should I want to be with someone like that? What about Roland? If she is my soul mate then she would be Roland's mother of sorts and is that the kind of person I would want around my child?'
He shook his head of the negative thoughts which had entered his head, placed there no doubt by the fear and nervousness he was feeling. 'What am I saying? She is not that woman, or at least I haven't seen her acting cruel or evil, bold and audacious maybe, but not evil.' He smiled to himself at the memory of the two of them flirting in the witches' house. 'The past is in the past. I only know the woman I see in front of me and I like what I see. I have a past I'm not particularly proud of, and I hope she sees passed that too.' Hope began to creep back into Robin's thoughts and he resumed his path towards the Town Hall passing a small park. It was there he saw her, alone on a park bench overlooking a small pond.
He approached her slowly, she was focused on the ducks on the water, she tilted her head slightly in order to fully capture the sun's warmth. It was then she saw him approaching her.
"Good Morning, Your Majesty." He greeted her with a smile and an exaggerated flurry of his hand to accentuate the grandeur of her status.
Regina rolled her eyes while a smirk involuntarily formed on her lips. "You don't have to call me that, you know. 'Regina' is fine."
Robin sat down next to her on her right leaving some space between them, he hooked his arm over the bench, his hand close to Regina's shoulder.
"Well I could, I suppose but doesn't your name mean 'queen' in the first place?" He chuckled. Looking deep in her eyes, and beginning to feel the anticipation of what is going to happen. His smile reaches his eyes and she can see the glint in his eye and laughs softly at his response.
"Regina," Robin began, "Can we talk for a minute?"
Regina's forehead creased as she answered in a saucy retort, "Isn't that what we're doing right now?"
"Yes well, what I mean is, that there is something…," he tried to find the right word: 'important', 'urgent', 'pressing' ? "…Something has come up and I need to…find out what you…how…" Robin became frustrated and blew out a puff of air. He was in disbelief at just how quickly he had lost his nerve and forgotten everything he needed to say. This was turning out to become more difficult than he had originally intended.
Regina looked curiously at Robin. 'What is he trying to say? Is it about my heart? The witch?'
It seemed as though Robin lost an inner conflict with himself; defeated, he shut his eyes and pushed up his right sleeve and bared his arm to Regina.
"I know what this means to you"