A/N: I know it's been a long time since I've updated, but school has been crazy! To make up for that, this chapter is longer than the others. Enjoy!


The rest of the carnival was even better. Regina let Robin play more of the carnival games, which led to more prizes that he ended up giving to her. They decided to take a break from the games and ride the Ferris Wheel and the carousel. When they got hungry, Robin decided to introduce Regina to the wonders of fried food. He made her try everything, from funnel cakes to fried butter. She had tried to contain her laughter at his enthusiasm over a small town carnival.

An hour later, they decided to leave.

They spent the short drive to Robin's house talking about what fried food tasted the best. Regina kept saying the fried jalapeños but he was adamant in saying the funnel cake.

"How can you like something over treats? They're addicting!" Robin said once Regina parked in front of his house.

"I didn't really grow up with much sugar," Regina admitted.

"Huh. You know, besides learning about your anger issues that is the only thing I've learned about you all night. I've been talking about myself the entire time."

"You're right. I guess I unintentionally allowed an 'all about you' night."

Robin pondered something for a moment. "You know, it's only fair that since I gave you a day about me that you would give me one about you."

She nodded. "Very well. I'll give you my 'all about me' day on Friday."

"Friday it is then, milady." He smiled as he looked her.

They suddenly found themselves getting lost in each other's eyes. Him in her warm chocolate brown eyes; her in his baby blue. Without her even thinking about it, she found herself gravitating closer to him and him to her. In the back of her mind, she knows that he's a human and she's a vampire and that whatever they are will never work. But right now that's not the part of her that she's listening to. She's going with the part that's telling her to go with what feels right.

For some reason, she's not afraid of hurting him in this moment. She feels that she can somewhat trust herself, trust that for the time being, she's in control. With that comforting thought, she closed the remaining distance and pressed her lips to his. Robin surprised her by grabbing the back of her neck and deepening the kiss.

A moan had surprisingly escaped her lips. He was that good of a kisser. He was gentle yet he was bold enough to remove his lips from hers and latch onto her neck. Instinctively, she tilted to give him better access. As his mouth moved up and down her neck, her pulse started to race. Losing herself in the moment, she didn't notice that her fangs had slid down.

When she could no longer feel his mouth on her neck she opened her eyes. To her horror, she was in a dangerous zone that was Robin Locksley's neck. She instantly jerked away.

"What's wrong?" he asked, looking concerned.

"Nothing," she immediately responded. Looking around for anything but the cold hard truth, she noticed that one of the front windows had moved. Apparently Caroline loved to meddle in every aspect of her son's life. "It's just that your mother isn't being very subtle right now."

Robin looked behind him to see for himself. He turned back around with a groan. "Oh god! I'm never gonna hear the end of this."

"You should probably go and get it over with," she told him.

"Yeah, I should do that. Um…I'll see you tomorrow at school." Robin got out of the car before Regina could say anything.

Once she saw that he was safely inside, she wacked her hands against the steering wheel. "Shit!" She couldn't believe she almost had done that. Shaking her head, she placed her car in drive and went home silently hoping what had almost transpired would never happen again.

The rest of the week passed by in a blur and it was Friday already. Today was the day Regina promised to show Robin everything that she was comfortable with about her. Before she got into the car with her son she made sure to grab the notebook that she had stashed in her bookshelf. The only person she has shown the notebook to was Henry. She didn't know if she should feel afraid that for some strange reason she trusts Robin enough or happy for herself that she's finally opening up after two and a half centuries of being on Earth.

Once she walked down the stairs, she was greeting with an irritated Henry. "What took you so long?"

She shrugged. "I had to double check and make sure I had everything. Did you?"

"More like triple check. And no, I didn't need to. I'm not freakishly OCD like you, mom."

"I am not OCD. Can't a mother like me have some sense of order in her life?" she asked with her arms crossed.

"That sounds like OCD. Or is it a control freak? I can't seem to tell." At his mother's scowl, he decided to give her a hug. "And that's why I love you."

She returned the hug and said, "Uh-huh. Get in the car, we're gonna be late for school."

Luckily Regina was a fast driver as the bell rang to let students know to get to class. She was unlucky by pulled into an available parking lot on the far side of campus. As she got out of the car and started speed-walking with her son, her mind drifted to Robin as it has been lately over the past week. She knows that having any kind of relationship with him was stupid and dangerous. Even if Robin never found out about what she was he was already starting to take a wrecking ball to her life. At first she was this organized, OCD control freak, and now she was constantly forgetting things. Her life is in shambles right now, and oddly she couldn't care less. The rational part of her brain is telling her that she's being stupid, but the other part is telling her to have fun. She hadn't really had fun since Daniel, and that was quite sad.

Her thoughts then drifted to the last time they had been truly alone. She had been very surprised that she nearly lost control. Normally bloodlust doesn't happen when just kissing occurs, only when in a more intimate setting. She despised the fact that she got closer to Robin in a dangerous setting for the first time in half a century. It hurt even more when she couldn't even remember getting close to his neck like that. She barely came to when she was about to bite down into his flesh. She couldn't even fathom the consequences if she hadn't of snapped out of it.

Her son pulled her out of her thoughts. "Can we use our powers and run to class?" At his mother's look he pointed out that it was either that or getting detention.

"Let's just run at a human pace, c'mon." And with that, mother and son ran as fast as humanly possible to their history class on the other side of the school. They just made it through the door when the bell rang to start class.

"Nice to grace us with your presence, Mr. and Miss Mills. Take your seats," Mr. Moretti said with an irritated look on his face. It was no secret that the history teacher had taken a thorough dislike to the two of them and it's barely been a week. All week, Regina's been outsmarting Mr. Moretti at the urging of Robin, which had put a furious look on the teacher's face. It didn't help that Henry was sitting next to his mother silently laughing. After the second day, Robin told her that it didn't matter if Mr. Moretti hated them or not and that he's been on his bad side for years.

Speaking of Robin, looking around the classroom, there was no sign of him. Right next to his usual seat, however, was an annoyed Marian. Ignoring the girl, Regina and Henry went to the back and took their seats. Mother and son had formed a routine over the past week where they would get a pen and notebook out and either pretend to write notes or do other homework. Since they had been to high school at least five times over the past century and lived through most of the history, they felt like they didn't need to take notes, just do the homework.

When she finished a problem on her Calculus homework, Henry had visibly stiffened next to her. Looking up, she was about to ask him what was wrong, when it was plainly obvious. There was a small piece of paper with girly handwriting on it that made its way onto Henry's desk. Regina looked around and noticed that Marian wasn't in the same position she was when class started and it seemed that she was subtly glancing behind her every so often.

Enraged, she grabbed the note so she could read it.

Regina, someone told me something dark about your past. I have to wonder, who's Cora?

Her initial reaction was shock. How would she know anything about Cora? Shock then gave into pure rage. She crumpled up the piece of paper and used it as a temporary stress ball. Marian was getting on her damn last nerve. It was getting to the point where she was thoroughly tempted to lure her into the woods so she could rip her fucking head off. No one would miss her if I did that she decided. It was after that thought that Henry laced his left hand in her right. It calmed her down some, but not enough to ignore the smug look that Marian had planted on her face.

"Ignore her, please Reny?" Henry whispered in her ear.

Taking a deep breath to calm herself, she whispered back, "I'm trying."

She ended up closing her eyes and taking calm, even breaths through the rest of the lesson. When the bell rang, she opened her eyes and let go of Henry's hand. Giving her son a reassuring look, he nodded and grabbed his things and headed to his next class. She looked down the entire time as she put her things in her bag so as not to meet Marian's eyes that she could feel burning into her skull. She was so distracted with not noticing Marian that she barely ran into the body that was standing right in front of her.

Regina looked up and smiled, surprised. "Robin? Where were you at the beginning of class?"

"Well, milady, I had to go pick up my truck." He dangled some keys in front of her face. "Now I can play the full gentleman role and drive you anywhere you would like to go."

"I didn't mind driving, Robin," she said smiling, the Marian problem temporarily placed in the back of her mind. "But if you wish to keep your man card, I will allow it."

"Ugh, you're such a tease, milady, but thank you nonetheless. Now, I'm pretty sure that part of keeping my man card, is to walk the lady to her next class." He stretched his arm out and Regina placed hers inside it.

"Lead the way, Mr. Locksley."

Robin was the perfect gentleman and he even opened the door to her English class. They said a brief goodbye and parted ways.

English went by slower than Regina liked. She would never admit it out loud to anybody, but she was finding herself eager to see Robin again. Occupying herself with math homework wasn't helping the time fly any faster. It was technically her fault that she finished the English paper that they were supposed to be working on in class. She ended up turning it in at the beginning of class. To say that the teacher was surprised was an understatement. After getting home last night, she didn't have anything to do, so she finished the paper that apparently wasn't due for another week. Since she was technically undead, she didn't need as much sleep as everyone else. Miss Blanchard, the teacher, said that she could do something quiet for the duration of class. Once she sat in her seat, she pulled out a piece of paper and started drawing.

Regina was surprised that she didn't jump out of her seat when the bell rang. Putting her nearly finished artwork in the notebook she grabbed from her bookshelf, she rushed to Psychology.

When she walked through the door, Robin was already in his seat at the front of the room. He was totally engrossed in the psychology textbook that he didn't notice her standing in front of him. She pulled out her drawing notebook and dropped it on top of what he was reading. Regina let out a chuckle when he jumped about a foot in the air.

"Regina? You scared me," he said when he looked up. Before she could apologize, he gestured to the notebook and asked, "What's this?"

"You got a day to talk about yourself at the carnival. I told you that I would repay the favor. Remember?"

"Not really," he said with a smirk. "I was quite distracted."

She rolled her eyes. "Get your mind out of the gutter, Robin." She then sat down next to him. She gestured to the notebook again.

The first thing he saw when he opened it was a drawing of himself. Before he could get a good look at it, it was snatched from his grasp.

When he looked at her with confusion, she said, "It's not finished."

With a look that clearly stated that he wasn't going to press the matter, he went back to the rest of the drawings.

With an awe-inspiring smile, he said, "Wow, Regina. These are good."

"Thank you," she said modestly. Regina knew that if she were still human she'd be blushing right now. Nobody has had that effect on her, not even Daniel she was ashamed to admit. It took Daniel weeks of constant badgering for her to ever open up her emotions and to talk to him about her past. Not even a full week has gone by and Robin is already making her feel emotions she only reserves for her son.

After the bell signaling for class to start rang, Robin asked if he could continue looking at them during lunch which Regina agreed.

XXXXXX

Robin was literally bouncing in his seat waiting impatiently for health class to be over with so he could go to lunch. Ever since Regina had shown a part of herself to him last period, he had been itching to see more of her. From looking at her face during the carnival when she briefly talked about herself, he could immediately tell that she had a lot of pain in her past. He never for one moment had believed what Marian had said about her to be true. He was curious as to why Marian had made that assumption, but his mother had raised him to always believe the best in people. Hopefully by the end of the day, Regina would reveal enough of her past for him to actually get a chance to get to know her.

As soon as the bell rang, Robin threw everything in his bag and ran out of the classroom in the direction of the cafeteria. He was so excited to see her that he ran all the way and directly to the table him and his friends have been sitting at since freshman year. The only person who was exempt from the tradition was Marian for obvious reasons. Graham and John were ecstatic about his decision to say the least. Before the breakup, no one could stand Marian when she wasn't with Robin. After the split, people were more comfortable in sitting at their table.

Once he sat down, he pulled his lunchbox out of his backpack. He normally never brings lunch from home, but since Regina was telling him about herself, he needed to save enough time to learn everything about her.

"Hey Robin! Where's your girlfriend?" John asked as he sat down with his plate of food with Graham right behind him.

Robin gave one of his best friends an annoyed glare. "She's not my girlfriend, John."

"Really?" John asked with a raised brow. "Because I swear you must've mentioned that you had a little make-out session earlier this week. Is that right Graham?"

Ignoring Robin's groan, Graham agreed. "Yes John. I distinctly remember Robin telling us—his best friends—that it was the best make-out session he's ever had."

Graham and John laughed at the color their best friend's face had taken. Robin was too busy being mortified to see that Regina had come up to their table. Banging his head on the table, he practically yelled at his friends. "You guys are the worst!"

"What did your best friends do to warrant self-abuse?" A feminine voice asked from behind.

Robin instantly shot up from his sulking. He ended up going red again from further embarrassment. He was fine with making a fool of himself in front of his guy friends, but he tried to make sure he didn't do it in front of the opposite gender. He groaned again when he realized he just did. Regina's gonna think I'm too awkward for her he thought.

Shaking his head, he exclaimed. "Regina!" He looked at her hands and noticed she didn't have any food with her. It had been that way all week. It made Robin wonder if she didn't eat at all. Looking at her he could tell she wasn't anorexic. She had all the right curves a woman should have and when she wore short-sleeved shirts he could see well-defined muscles. Deciding to bring it up, he commented, "No lunch again?"

She shook her head 'no'. "I usually don't eat lunch. Just breakfast and dinner."

"Hmm. Well, after I eat my home lunch you have my undivided attention for 'All-about-you Day'."

Just as she was about to reply, someone unwanted came up and started talking. "I could give you a crash course on 'Regina Mills 101' if you want, Robin. I can already tell she won't be open to you about things in her past, but I will."

Before Robin could berate Marian for interrupting their lunch, Regina rounded on her instead. "Yes. How do you know anything about me? It's practically impossible for someone like you to figure any of it out. No one knows me; I'm kind of a loner. So who told you?"

Marian smirked. "Now what would be the fun in telling you now?"

Robin had had enough. His ex-girlfriend was getting on his last nerve. "Marian! Just leave Regina alone. She is no threat to you because you and I have no chance of being together again. It's not gonna bloody happen. So stop being jealous and go away!"

Briefly there was a hint of hurt and anger on Marian's face, but was quickly replaced with a sickeningly sweet smile. "Well, once I tell you Regina's deepest darkest secret, I won't have a reason to be jealous. Let's just say you won't like her very much once I tell you."

Robin turned his gaze from Marian to Regina. On a quick glance one would see a calm and collected individual, but on getting to know her, he found that her emotions are expressed more through the eyes than anyone else. She was scared, probably at what Marian could have to say and she was also angry, most likely that Marian was getting on her nerves. Suddenly, her face turned expressionless faster than it took him to read it.

Regina started to laugh, which attracted some of the nearby students' attention. Once she stopped, she stood and got in Marian's face. That motion surprised her so much she took a couple steps back. Regina got in her face again and whispered, "You're pathetic" before she started to walk past her to get out of the cafeteria.

Robin was proud that Regina didn't do anything to egg Marian on even more. That brought a smile to his face that this girl was nothing like his past girlfriend. That she wasn't the type to pick fights. The smile disappeared when Marian spoke again.

"I'm pathetic? Question, is that what Cora would always say to you?" she asked, making Regina halt in her steps and causing her back to stiffen. Marian smirked at the fact that what she said had gotten to the new girl enough that she still stood rigid. By that time, Robin noticed that now everyone in the cafeteria was now watching in fascination and curiosity. Great he thought. Knowing that Marian will humiliate her, he stood up and walked toward her.

"Marian, please leave her alone," he pleaded.

"No," she simply said with a dark look in her brown eyes. Thinking back to every time he's looked at her, Robin has never seen that look. He has to admit that he has seen her jealous side and her mean girl side, but this seemed to be a lot worse than before. Normally in the past Marian has made fun of people and moved on claiming that she got bored or they weren't worth her constant attention. This new Marian was doing what he never thought she would do. She was going to push and poke at everything in Regina's past and then some.

Pushing past Robin with a strength he didn't know she possessed, she went straight to face Regina whose hands were trembling with what Robin could guess as anger. Looking up at Regina's face, he was surprised to see that it was a mostly pleasant, but stiff smile. He wondered if that was how she controlled her anger issues, with thinking happy thoughts. Marian's voice brought him out of his staring.

"I know a lot about you Regina Mills."

From the angle that Robin was at, he could tell that she was trying very hard not to laugh. "Oh really?" she asked. "What do you know about me besides this Cora person?"

Annoyingly enough, Marian decided to play coy. "What do you think I know about you?"

Regina was starting to get a little irritated, but she didn't let it show. "I'm not in the mood to play games with you." With that, she went to walk away again, but Marian stopped her again.

"I know that you're a bastard." With those words, Regina whipped back around with barely contained rage plastered on her face. She opened her mouth to say something, but Marian stopped her. "That's right. I know that your mother slept with someone else to produce you. As for who that is, I don't know and I also know that you don't know either. I know that both your mother and your supposed father hated you because you were just a reminder of a stupid mistake."

By now Regina is trembling even more. "H-how do you—?"

"I'm not done," Marian said, holding her hand up. "I know that when you were fourteen you met someone that in the end your parents didn't approve of, but that didn't stop you from sneaking behind their backs. I find it funny that both a bastard and a baby out of wedlock has embedded themselves in your family tree. How did your parents react knowing that some sorry excuse for a man deflowered their youngest daughter? Where's the baby now?"

Both the crowd and Robin were speechless. He didn't think that Marian was capable of being this mean. There has to be something wrong with her. Right? The sad part of this interaction is that according to the growing rage on Regina's face is that what Marian has been saying is true. He didn't want to forcefully grab his ex-girlfriend so he decided on more meaningless words in hope that she would stop.

"Marian please stop. Nobody's life is perfect, so stop degrading her based on her past." He decided to move in front of her so she would look at him instead of Regina. "This isn't like you. Why are you doing this, Marian? What in the bloody hell has gotten into you?"

Looking into her eyes, he saw a brief flash of guilt on her face before it was quickly masked with annoyance. "Because, Robin. Like I told you before, I don't want anyone I care about around her. She's bad news, I can feel it. I will do anything to prevent her from wreaking havoc."

He scoffed. "Unbelievable." He was finished with all of Marian's bullshit, so he planned on taking Regina away from this mess. Seeing that she hadn't moved from her spot, he was surprised to see the look on her face.

With confusion plastered all over she asked, "What the hell is wrong with you? Why are you doing this?"

Surprisingly, Marian got in her face and answered, "Someone told me about the real you. They told me what happened to your parents." She walked back to where she was and turned to face Regina again with a crazed smile on her face. "Your parents were murdered and you know who did it."

"Stop…" Regina warned, her angry expression returning.

"Why? Everyone in this room deserves to know who you really are! Everyone deserves to know that they share the same air as the person—"

"Stop!" Regina yelled with full force. Robin didn't think that her voice could carry that much volume.

"Make me," Marian taunted. "I mean, what will you do? Kill me like you did your parents?"

Robin was appalled. Killing anyone is a serious accusation to be making even if it could be true. He somehow knew that the only way that he'll get the full story is if he asked. The expression that Regina was now sporting was one full of pain and guilt. Once he saw the anguish, he felt like he should be respectful of her despite what people may think of her now after today.

"That was a serious accusation," Regina commented, trying to keep any emotion she was feeling at bay.

"It's only an accusation if it's not true," Marian pointed out.

"I didn't kill them." She said with a straight face, enunciating the word 'I'.

If Robin was any of the other students in the room who looked like they were encouraging Marian and her bullying, he would've commented that the one second he took looking at her eyes, he knew she was somewhat lying. Oddly enough, that still didn't change his opinion of her. He still viewed her as the bold and audacious woman he's been getting to know all week. He had to believe that there was another side—her side—to the story. His mother had taught him that nothing was as simple as black and white.

Marian got in her face further with a sly smirk. "Sure you didn't. Now my source briefly mentioned a name. Now tell me, who's Daniel?"

The brief shock of what Marian said disappeared from Regina's in place of pure rage. Robin was honestly shocked at that. He racked his brain and couldn't find a single person that has come into his life that showed that much rage.

Consumed by her rage, Regina literally went for Marian's throat. Robin was kind of smug about the surprise on Marian's face when Regina did that.

Noise had erupted around them almost immediately following Regina's reaction to Marian's taunts. Robin saw a few students run out of the cafeteria with fear in their eyes, either to get away or to notify a teacher. Robin diverted his attention back to the two girls when Regina spoke again in a voice that didn't seem to suit her. It was cold and dark, the complete opposite of what he was used to, and he didn't like it one bit.

"I think you and I both know that you know exactly who Daniel is. Now, I'm only gonna say this once so you'd better listen to me. Are you listening?" she asked, which prompted Marian to nod her head up and down with fear still in her eyes. "Good. I only want one thing and that is you to leave me alone. Got it?"

Regina didn't even wait for an answer, she just roughly let her throat go. She closed her eyes and took a couple steps back. Robin thought she was controlling her anger, but he wasn't entirely sure. A few seconds later, she opened her eyes and ran out of the cafeteria.

Now that he knew Regina was out of harm's way, he immediately rounded on Marian. "What the bloody hell were you thinking, Marian?! What the hell did she to do you?!"

For once in her life, it seemed that Marian was speechless. "I-I-I d-don't k-k-know w-what h-happened. I-I d-d-don't know w-why I d-did that."

Looking at her Robin was baffled that it seemed that what she was saying was the truth, or at least she might believe she's telling the truth. Despite the fear and confusion in her eyes while she was babbling, he was still being skeptical. Knowing Marian, it could all just be some elaborate scheme to get him to go back to her.

Marian must've seen the skeptical look on his face, so she immediately grabbed his arm. "Please believe me, Robin. I don't even know why I did that."

Robin hesitated before he answered. "I can't."

Before she could open her mouth, Robin turned around and left the cafeteria without a word, presumably to find Regina.

Looking back to the past few days, she still couldn't remember certain things and the things she did remember were a bit muffled. Like Robin, she was equally as confused as to her behavior. It felt like she didn't even know the information that she was spitting out. The look on Regina's face when she spouted it all out made her feel a little bit guilty. She still wants Robin to herself but the new girl didn't deserve what she did. Before she walked out of the cafeteria, but in the opposite direction, she felt that she should apologize for her behavior the next time she saw her.


A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I didn't want to make Marian an evil bitch, so now you know the reason behind her rudeness. I wonder who "convinced" her to do that huh?