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"Can you tell me what's going on?" I asked as I walked quickly behind Regina. It was amazing how she walked so fast with high shoes in the woods.
"I don't want to talk about it" she replied without stopping.
"Regina" I took her arm gently and made her stop so that she turned to me "I don't know about you, but I need answers, not only about what has just happened but about everything else... I need to know what happened."
She stared at the ground for a few seconds and then looked into my eyes. Her eyes were as beautiful as ever, of that deep brown that hypnotized me, but I could see something different in them; maybe it was the time, or what she had transformed herself, but that didn't take away her beauty.
"Okay, but we can't talk in the camp."
"I'll start a campfire."
That said, I left my bow and arrows next to a hollow trunk that was nearby and began to gather branches and a little grass to light the fire. Regina walked towards the trunk and sat on it while watching me rub the stones again and again to be able to cause a spark. I glanced at her and smiled a little at seeing her sitting there, her back straight and her hands in her lap with a serious face that would intimidate anyone, but not me, I knew another part of her and I knew it was still inside her.
When the fire finally ignited, I sat next to her on the trunk and stared at her for answers, she took a deep breath and looked at me.
"The night we were going to escape, I ran to our place but you were not there..."
"Wait" I interrupted "I was there, I was waiting for you and suddenly I started feeling dizzy and suddenly fell asleep..."
"I think it was my fault" She said raising an eyebrow "Illusively, I trusted Snow White and told her about us and she told my mother... When I left the palace to look for you, I arrived and there was nobody in the place, minutes later my mother appeared and told me that you had left because she had offered you a large amount of money."
"And seriously, did you think I would exchange you for money?" I asked incredulously.
"I was young, stupid and you weren't there" she answered with a shrug "I was very angry, with my mother for offering you money and with you for accepting it. So, I married Leopold and I became the queen my mother wanted me to be... But no matter how hard I tried, you didn't come out of my head so I hired someone to look for you and they told me you were dead." Her eyes filled with tears and my jaw fell to the ground after that "I didn't have the courage or strength to prove that it was true, I just let everything consume me and all my pain, all my suffering made me the evil queen... I blamed everything to Snow White, and try to destroy it so much that I even throw the curse that took us far from here. My life no longer made sense without you, all I wanted was revenge."
"And now you walk by her side as if you were the best friends, why?
"When we were in Storybrooke, the place of the curse, I felt empty, alone and I realized that no matter how much my revenge was fulfilled, you would never return to me; so I decided to go ahead and adopt Henry and change my life completely. He caused the curse to be broken, bringing his biological mother to Storybrooke, she turned out to be the daughter of Snow White and David, the savior. Again, everything fell apart, but Henry, he believed in me, he made me change" Regina let out a couple of tears accompanied by a small smile "After several things and despite all the evil that is inside me, he believed in me, he had faith on me, and since then I try to be a better person for him... Before another curse brought us here, Snow and I had made peace and Henry had a book, where all our stories are. He showed me some pages in which I was in front of my true love, with the help of Thinkerbelle and that was when I knew that you were not dead."
"How?" I asked confused, it was too much to process but now I understood what had happened with Regina, why she had become the evil queen who tormented the entire enchanted forest.
"I remember that day. I was in the palace overwhelmed by the idea that I would never be appreciated by the King and that I was trapped in that palace; and then, Tinkerbelle appeared and told me that she could take me to my true love, she used pixie dust and took us to a tavern where the dust illuminated a man with a lion tattoo on his arm" Instinctively I looked at my right arm where I had the tattoo of a lion, I had done it when the Merry Man were born. "I knew it was you, I saw you sitting there and I knew... But I didn't have the courage to go in there and face you. And when Henry found those pages and I saw your face in one of them, just confirm what I already suspected, but even so, I knew that I could never be with you anymore."
"Although you knew I was alive, you continued with everything, with the curse...
"I had no choice," she interrupted, staring at the floor. "Everything had become bigger than me, and I was so overcome with hatred that I convinced myself that it was not you in that tavern, and that Snow White was still to blame for everything."
"Why did you pretend that you didn't know me before?" I knew I was asking too many questions, but I needed to know everything.
"I didn't want to give explanations" She admitted looking into my eyes "Snow and David are really intrusive."
"You don't want them to know that there was something between us" I looked at the ground feeling disappointment.
"No, is not that. I would never be ashamed of what we had."
"So?"
"I already told you. It's a long story to tell and the truth, it's something I would like just for myself, it was one of the best things I've had in my life, you and Henry. And after everything I did, and all those people who I hurt, good times are something I can count on with the fingers of one of my hands" Regina wiped her tears with her fingertips and gave me a small smile "The bright side of this is that you found someone, you had a child, you are happy."
"I'm not going to lie to you, I live by and for Roland, he's my engine and I'm looking for the best for him."
"He is an adorable child, no doubt you were lucky to have him and your wife."
"Marian rescued me from the darkness I was in and gave me Roland. Unfortunately he died when I was on one of my trips."
"I'm very sorry" She said taking my hand.
"I appreciate her very much, she was good to me but..." I took Regina's hand with mine and I looked into her eyes, my heart was beating hard against my chest and I was so nervous that I felt that my whole body trembled and that was something that only she provoked in me "The only one I've ever loved is you. You were, and you will be the love of my life and that nothing has been able to change. Not even when I knew you were the evil queen; the only thing I could imagined is how you would look angry and sending everyone to look for Snow White."
Regina gave a small laugh. That was not what I thought, but I just wanted to see her smile after all for what she had been through I felt she needed to laugh.
"I missed your smile" I confessed. She looked me in the eye and I got lost in them. I caressed her cheek and she closed her eyes recharging her face in my hand.
"I missed you," she whispered.
I moved a little closer to her and without moving my hand from her cheek I kissed her forehead, then her nose and finally her lips. She remained motionless before my first two kisses, but when our lips joined, she reciprocated and kissed me tenderly.
It had been so many years since we kissed that I had forgotten the taste of her lips, but that kiss had returned me to that boy who was in love with beautiful princess and that love was reciprocated. I always knew that my love for Regina would not vanish into nothing, I would always have it in my heart; and at that moment all that was saved returned to light.
We kissed slowly, recording or rather remembering the taste of our kisses. I deepen the kiss by bringing her body closer to mine as I took her by the waist and she let my tongue get into her mouth. It was an exquisite kiss, the best I had ever had, but I was sure that was because Regina, my Regina, was the one who was giving it to me. That Regina I met years ago and who loved me with all her heart.
We parted slowly in lack of air, her lips were red and swollen, she was shaking and her breathing was agitated. Her hands came down from my neck to my chest and she looked at me with a small smile, she was still shaking and I should have guessed that it was because of the cold that she was beginning to feel. Although she had his cloak on, I took off mine and put it on her legs. Regina smiled at me in return and when I sat down again, she let me wrap her in my arms and rested her head on my chest. I felt that she was breathing deeply and I closed my eyes inhaling her scent.
"Do you think they are wondering about us in the camp?" She asked.
"Probably for you. After all you are the queen... But, we can be a moment more here, just a little more."
"That pleases me" She answered smiling "I need a break from the whole business of the green witch."
"Hey, you never told me what happened to her, why did you change your mind about the sleeping curse?"
"It turns out, that my mother had a little fun before me and my father" I looked at her wrinkling my forehead and I separated a bit from her to look at her "Zelena, that's her name, she's my sister."
"What?! You are playing with me, right?"
"I would like to, but no. The wicked witch is my sister, and she is challenging me... She told me that she had a plan and that she would destroy me."
"Do you think she can do it?"
"I don´t know but, I´m not going to rest until I stop her".
We returned to the camp almost at dawn, we had been talking about Henry and Roland, about what had happened in my life and in hers. Mine hadn't changed much, but I told her about how we protected ourselves from the curse and she told me that it had been her mother's idea, that she had created that space and that I was lucky to have been there. Later I learned that her mother had died in Storybrooke, she told me that she had had a problem with her heart and that it had been a very difficult time.
Regina walked beside me taking my arm to help herself climb small mountains of earth and I could tell she was tired, we had practically not slept, but we needed to be together so much. She told me that her feelings for me had never changed, that there was another man in her life named Graham but that he had not meant anything to her. My feelings for Regina hadn't changed either, and I was not going to lie to her, Marian meant something in my life because of being Roland's mother and the woman who helped me move forward, but I had always been deeply and madly in love with her.
She also told me that there was too much darkness in her past, too many deaths caused by her and that she fought every day against that, with all that darkness and that she knew that after all that, it was impossible for me to continue loving her, but she had to tell me..
The truth, at first it took me by surprise everything that Regina had done seeking revenge, but now that I had found her again I wouldn't let her go. I would learn to love the new Regina and love her as much or more than I had before. She was by my side and this time I wouldn't let her go for anything.
"Where were you?" Snow White asked as soon as she saw us arrive "We had been all very worried."
"I removed the spell from the castle" Regina replied "And the witch is gone, so now we can move the camp to the castle."
"The witch left? Just that easy?" Prince David asked approaching his wife.
"No, not that easy" Regina crossed her arms putting them under her chest "To make the story short, It turns out that the witch is my sister."
"What?!" Snow and David asked surprised at the same time.
"It seems that Cora had more secrets than we thought" commented Snow.
"And then, what is the plan?" I asked. Regina looked at me and tried to contain a small smile and I could see how Snow looked at us raising an eyebrow.
"Zelena, the witch, told me that she had prepared a great revenge."
"Do you think it is dangerous enough to achieve it?" David asked.
"She has magic, she's angry and resentful, and wants revenge... Everything can be achieved if you have a reason."
"Then we must face it, we must prepare ourselves for what comes, it is not the first threat we receive" Snow said. Regina rolled her eyes and snorted. "I'm sorry." The princess apologized.
"It doesn't matter, now let's just go to the castle."
We were in the courtyard of the castle raising the whole camp. Regina had offered me a room in the castle for me and for Roland, but it was not right to leave the Merry Man alone. It was already getting dark, the walk to the castle had been short but accommodating the crowd and pleasing most of them had been difficult. In the end, Regina, Snow and David, the dwarves and several others had stayed inside the castle and we had decided to stay outside so as not to bother, we would only go in to eat and wash from time to time.
We made a bonfire, most of the men were tired and had gone to their tents to sleep. Roland was sitting on the ground throwing small twigs to the ground. I approached him and stroked his wavy hair, ruffling him a bit.
"Dad, I don't want to sleep on the floor" He complained "I miss my bed."
"We have to stay here Roland, the castle is already full enough" John told him.
"But if I talk to the queen I know she would let me sleep in the castle" He defended himself "She likes me, she even gave me a toy" Roland smiled and I couldn't help feeling tenderness at his words.
I got up off the floor and shook my pants, I extended my hand to my son and he took it to get up.
"Come on, I'll take you to see the queen so you can sleep in the castle."
My son smiled from ear to ear and we walked together to the gates of the castle. There were enough people in the room, but I couldn't see Regina anywhere.
"She's in her room." Snow White spoke, as if he had read my thoughts. "Upstairs, the hallway to the left is the last door."
I nodded my thanks and Roland and I climbed the stairs looking for the queen's room. It was not difficult to distinguish, it was the largest and most luxurious door in the corridor. When we arrived before her, I knocked on the door and heard her voice saying "Go ahead".
She was there, sitting in front of her dresser. She wore the same dress he had seen her with but her hair was loose, free of that hairstyle she had worn. When she saw me enter she couldn't help but smile and I answered her in the same way. Although I didn't stop smiling, her face was low towards Roland who was beside me and raised an eyebrow.
"Your Majesty" I spoke "My son, Roland, wants to ask you something."
The child walked a couple of steps to her and made a bow that I could not help but smile. Then he took his hands and looked at Regina with a face that would make anyone melt with tenderness.
"Your Majesty" He spoke "I was wondering if you still had a little space for me in your castle... I don't want to bother, but I really miss my bed, I'm also small and don't take much space.
Regina couldn't help smiling with tenderness at the words of my son. She came up to him and bent her knees to keep up with Roland.
"Fortunately, I have a room available" She said "It's the one next door, why don't you go see?"
Roland smiled widely and nodded showing his enthusiasm, he took Regina's hand and gave him a little kiss.
"Thank you, your Majesty," he said before running out of the room.
Regina got up and looked at me surprised and with a smile she had not been able to erase.
"Equally gentlemanly than his father."
I closed the door behind me when I saw that Roland had entered the room. I approached Regina and took her by the waist giving her a small kiss on the lips.
"Are you sure you don't want a room too?" She asked with a small smile "I can make you some space here."
"I think we wouldn't be being discreet" I responded by stroking her cheek and then placing a lock of her dark hair behind her ear.
"To hell with the discretion... I want you here with me."
I smiled at those words and kissed her again. I took her face in my hands and I felt her own sliding down my waist to my lower back. The kisses were so delicious that they intoxicated, as soon as I touched her lips I wanted more and more. Our lips met again and again, devouring with passion.
I slowly parted from Regina's lips with a heavy breathing and I could see that she was looking at me confused.
"I think I have to leave now" I whispered.
"You don't have to do it."
"Are you sure?"
"I have been so long without you" She caressed my cheek and looked me in the eyes "I don't want to waste a second more."
I looked at her, she looked at me. Our eyes spoke for us and the only thing they could say was that we wanted to be together, to love each other as we had never been able to do and after all this time, it was all we wanted.
We kiss with tenderness, but at the same time with need. Our lips wanted more and more. Regina let my tongue enter her mouth and she took me by the collar of my shirt getting closer to her and demanding more.
I took her by the waist and started to run her back trying to get rid of that dress, but it was too complicated. Regina moved away from me and looked at me with a smile and she putted her hands on her back, after a few seconds and several movements of her hands the dress fell to the floor and I gazed at it with my mouth open.
Her skin was beautiful as well as her whole body, her legs turned, her hips, her slim waist that made her figure sculptural, her breasts, her shoulders, and to finish off her beautiful face. I walked towards her and caressed her arms with my hands, looking at her still stunned. She smiled sweetly and I felt her hands slide under my shirt, she took it and I raised my arms so she could take it off. Regina slid her hands delicately around my chest and my abdomen paying attention to the scars that marked me, most of them were of fights or robberies that had not gone well.
My body trembled and my desire for her increased, having her standing in front of me, naked, fragile, beautiful. I took her by the legs and the waist, lifting her off the floor and walked to the bed to place her carefully on it. I straightened up and stood while delicately unbuttoning my pants and I could see her eyes when they fell to the ground. She could see how much I wanted her, and I wasn't going to waste any more time to make her mine.
We lay on the bed and placed myself gently on her, I kiss her lips and down to her neck. My kisses reached her chest and I heard her moan, her hands pressed to the sheets when she felt my lips kissing her breasts and tasting them in my mouth. I traced her abdomen with my lips until I reached her hip and continued kissing her legs and when I deepened the kisses reaching her crotch I felt her tremble before my lips. When I looked up I could see how she bit her lip to avoid screaming and I smiled. I went back to her and gave her a small kiss on the lips; Regina looked at me showing me the desire she felt for me, I felt her hands on my back until they stopped in my ass nearing me to make her mine.
I started with slow movements while looking her in the eyes, every time I went back to her I could see her face being consumed by pleasure and I felt her nails digging into my butt and sliding upwards scratching my back. I felt like electric shocks ran through my body with each movement, I could feel its heat and humidity and that made me moan. Regina took me by the shoulders and spun me around to have her on me. She settled down sitting on me and placed her hands on my chest so that I would stay down. I watched her, the moonlight illuminating her long hair falling on her chest and her eyes closed, enjoying every movement she made. I took her by the hips and she grabbed her hair and threw it back, which made me watch her breast bouncing as she arched backwards squeezing her hands on my legs.
I squeezed my hands tightly on her hips and I could hear her moans getting louder. Regina dropped on my chest without stopping to move and kissed me on the lips and then look me in the eyes. We stayed like this until the total pleasure reached us both and she closed her eyes by hitting her forehead to mine. Our bodies trembled and we could feel the heat of the other, both of us had sweated and we were exhausted. In spite of that, Regina was still on me, and she carefully settled down to rest her head on my chest and I wrapped her arms around her with a long sigh.
We stayed like that for a long time and when I noticed that Regina had fallen asleep I slipped it to the side and covered ourselves with the sheets. I hugged her almost as if I didn't want her to escape from me, putting my head in her and closed my eyes with a smile on my lips.
In the morning, I had escaped from Regina's room to the room where Roland was. We had woken up with a smile on our faces, we had kissed and I took a quick bath before leaving. I didn't wanted to leave, but we knew that if someone saw me in her room we would have to give a lot of explanations.
I went to the bed where Roland slept, he looked so small in that big bed. I stroked her hair and I shook it slightly from his shoulder trying to wake him up.
"Roland, wake up son"
He moved under the arms, wrinkling his face and stretching his arms. He opened his eyes and blinked a couple of times.
"I'm hungry," he said after yawning.
"So, get up and go to breakfast."
Roland nodded his head and slowly got out of bed.
We went down to the great hall and saw the whirlpool of people there. Everyone was taking plates and serving whatever they wanted, there was so much food that they could feed the Merry Man for a week.
With the sight, identified John and several of the recharged men in a pillar devouring what was on their plates. Roland and I went over to the food and took a plate to serve some fruit to my son, accompanied by toast and some scrambled eggs. Roland took the plate with both hands and concentrated on the way the plate would not fall. When I saw that he had arrived with John, I took another plate and poured myself some fruit, eggs and something that looked like a kind of muffin. When I looked up to start walking, down the stairs I saw Regina coming down to the living room and when our eyes met we both smiled.
She looked beautiful, she wore a blue dress that stuck to her body, long and with several ruffles in the lack. The top part looked more like a sack decorated with black lace. Her beautiful hair was all for one side and her lips used the typical red color. She was beautiful, but without a doubt, she looked more beautiful without anything on.
I smiled biting my lower lip remembering the night yesterday, and at the look Regina had the same thought as her smile became wider and her eyes went to the floor while her cheeks blushed.
Snow White approached her and I could see her smile disappearing little by little, so I assumed she had bad news. I bite the muffin and walk to John and Roland. I would talk to her later.
I was in the courtyard of the castle making the fire for the men, it was getting dark and they had gone in search of more wood so that it would not run out.
When the fire ignited I sat on a log near the campfire and began to move the trunks a bit with a branch so that the fire would stay alive longer.
I heard a few steps behind me and turned my neck a little to see who it was. I saw Regina approaching with a small smile, I stood up from the trunk and waited for her to come to my side.
"What brings you here? Your majesty" I asked bowing.
She giggled and slid her hands down my chest to my neck to give me a small kiss on the lips.
"The love of my life" she replied with a whisper.
I smiled and helped her sit on the trunk holding her hand and then I sat next to her.
"Bad news?" I said, remembering that I had seen when Snow had talked to her,
"Not at all." She grimaced. "She told me she was pregnant." I gave her a surprised look and she nodded. "Apparently there will be one more member in the Charming's family" I laughed at the nickname and slipped my hand to take hers "There's something else..."
"What thing?" I asked, wrinkling my forehead.
"They know about us" She replied with a small smile "And I'm glad, so I will not have to hide it and I can kiss you whenever I want and wherever I want."
I felt the heat rise to my cheeks as I heard those words and watched as Regina bit her lower lip.
"And how did they find out?" I asked curiously.
"I think we were not so silent last night."
We both smile looking into each other's eyes and I caress the bare skin of her arm delicately.
"Maybe tonight we can be more silent."
She looked at me with those intense eyes that I loved and she bit her lower lip
"I do not think that's possible."
It had been several days and even the wicked witch hadn't returned to fulfill her threats. Apparently she was not as powerful as everyone thought and that's why she had been hidden.
Roland and I were walking through the woods near the castle looking for a good tree where he could practice his archery. Although he was very small, I wanted him to defend himself only if he ever needed it.
Suddenly we heard thunder so loud that it would be heard through the kingdoms. We turned our eyes to an avalanche of green smoke that was making its way to the palace. My first feeling was panic and then I was accompanied by fear. I didn't know what was happening, but we were far from the castle. I took Roland by the hand and we tried to run as fast as we could to the castle. When we first arrived at the courtyard of the palace we were petrified to see how the smoke consumed the palace and my next thought was:
Regina