Hey everyone :) Sorry for the long-ish wait between updates. I finally got home from vacationing on Saturday late at night, then Sunday our wifi went out. The people finally came out today to fix it, but luckily I had this all written last night :)

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I wake the next morning to Robin sitting beside me in the chair. I look over at him tiredly and smile, "Good morning, dear." I coo, still sounding exhausted from everything I had been through the day before.

He moved his hand up and softly pushed my hair back from my face, "Good morning." He says softly. He wore a small smile as his hands continued to stroke through my hair. He directed his attention to the table on the other side of me, I looked over to see what he was staring at.

"Oh Robin…you didn't have to do that." I say. The table had a bowl of dry cereal, a cup of milk and a cup of orange juice, and a small vase with one, lone rose in it. Tears rushed to my eyes. Stupid hormones.

He rose from his seat and walked around my bed to the table. He rolled it closer to me and pushed it over my bed, "I know it's not anything like your favorite, but for cafeteria food I must say it was pretty good." He says with a smirk.

I chuckle softly, almost like a whisper. I put my hands behind me and slowly raise up from the bed, then I moved the back of the bed with the remote to meet my back. I sat up and looked at the food laid out in front of me, "It looks delicious." I say with a glowing smile. He walks back to the other side of the bed again and sits down beside me. I looked at the clock, "That clock cannot be right!" I say, my mouth full of food. I cover it when I realized what I had just done.

He chuckles, "Yes, it really is almost noon. We were starting to get worried about you since you weren't waking up. Dr. Whale kept telling me it's just because your body lost a lot of blood yesterday." He explains, a large amount of concern was still in his tone.

I nod, "I guess that's right." I say after swallowing my food this time. What had gotten into me before? Oh well, it was just Robin and he didn't care.

He suddenly smiles and moves down to my stomach. He lays his left hand on my lower stomach, and his right hand below my breasts. "And they already checked this little one out today, they said she's doing fine. Just like you, of course, tired. But they said she'll gain her energy as you do." He says, ending with a soft kiss to my stomach.

When his lips touched me, it felt like the sun shined warmth through my body. It was so comforting and reassuring just to have him there, more than I ever would have imagined. I hated thinking about the fact that our baby was tired, so I quickly changed the subject, "Where are the boys? They're okay, right?" I ask worriedly, taking a swig of my orange juice.

He nods, "They're both fine. They were with Belle the whole time in the library, safe from anyone and everyone. Rumple had put a protection spell over the building so no one could get in."

I sigh out of regret. I wished they weren't in danger in the first place, but it happened. I shook my head as a smug smile grew across my face, "Rumplestiltskin…still saving my soul day by day." I say quietly, almost embarrassed to say it.

He patted my arm, "I'm glad he does." He teases, feeling lighter and more comfortable that I was awake.

"What is that supposed to mean?" I ask, looking at him and furrowing my brow.

He smiles and shrugs his shoulders, "I'm just glad. He's kind of like that uncle we all eventually need. You know?" He pauses and smiles large, "That uncle that nobody really wants around all that often, the uncle that does crazy things…"

"The uncle that is actually the dark one?" I add jokingly.

We both laughed. We relaxed a few levels now. We could joke and play around for now, just because we knew our family was okay. It may have been a little messed up in the family tree here and there, but no matter what, I still…lo-loved…them. That was harder to say than I thought it would be.

I finished my breakfast and a few minutes later Dr. Whale came in. "Oh Regina! I'm so glad you decided to finally wake." He says sarcastically.

Though I was in the mood to joke with Robin, I was never in the mood to joke with Whale. "Well, when you have a child growing inside of you come back and talk to me after you also lose a large amount of blood through your-" I stop myself. No need to get inappropriate, no need to get angered. I took a deep breath and let it out.

Whale's smile faded and he moved on to what he came for. "Alright, we're going to do an ultrasound on baby girl to check and see how she's doing now that your heart rate has gone back to normal. Now that you're moving around a little and awake, she'll probably be waking soon as well as long as her heartbeat goes back to normal." He says, pulling the ultrasound machine closer to the bed. He moves the table of empty dishes away from the bed and replaces it with the machine, "I see you don't have a problem with appetite…that's good." He says nonchalantly, not trying to make it sound like an insult.

I huff and roll my eyes, "Again, when you have another human being you're feeding, come talk to me." I snap and throw my head against the bed.

Robin rubs my arm, silently telling me to calm down. I look at him through the corner of my eye, taking his silent command.

Whale pulled the blanket up to my hips and pulled my hospital gown over my breasts. He spread the gel out over my growing stomach, my body winced from the cold sensation. He put the wand down on my skin and turn the monitor on. "Here she is." He says, watching the screen.

I directed my attention to the monitor now, seeing our wonderful baby girl right there. She wasn't moving, and I felt a small twinge of worry. But Dr. Whale said she probably wasn't awake yet, so maybe that's all?

"As you see, she isn't moving, Regina. I'm going to try to disgruntle her to make her move by putting pressure on your stomach. Not enough to hurt her, obviously, just enough to make her irritated with me. After this, you may feel her kicking. It's somewhat of an aftershock, as if she's trying to get back at me." He explains. A soft chuckle rolls off of his lips.

I nod, "Okay." I say nervously.

He takes his hand and lays it on the side of my bare stomach, he applies a small amount of pressure on it. I see the image on the screen move as my stomach does, but the baby doesn't move. He presses his lips together and narrows his eyes at the screen, "Hmmm…"

"What is it? Is she okay?" I ask frantically, looking at Robin who was still staring at the screen with worried eyes.

"She's fine. Her heart's beating just fine…she's just not waking up."

"Is she okay though? Why isn't she waking up?" I ask worriedly.

He looks at me softly, "No need to worry, Regina, she'll be fine. We just need to wake her up to make sure she's moving alright, okay?"

I nod, "How do we do that, then?"

"I need you to talk to her. Sing to her, even. Anything that you do normally when she moves around." He says.

I felt my face get hot. I didn't ever feel comfortable talking to my stomach like this, only in private was I okay with it. Not that I didn't like to, it was just awkward. The Evil Queen doesn't show compassion or love, but in this case she would have to. I looked at Dr. Whale nervously and opened my mouth, putting my left hand on the side of my stomach, "Hello dear…" I say softly. I bit at my lip, "We really need you to move so we know that you're okay. We have to know that…"

"Talk about you." Whale suggests.

I look down at my stomach lovingly, "Mommy loves you a lot. She's so glad you're okay." I say, getting lost in my words. "Mommy is so sorry for what happened to you, so sorry for putting you through all of this." I say softly.

Whale shakes his head in the corner of my eye. I turn to look at him, "It's not working. Try singing."

I look at Robin nervously, he's only heard me sing once and that was on accident when I sang too loud in the shower. He looked at me with reassuring eyes, "Go ahead." He whispers, a small smile gracing his face.

I bite my lip and look down at my stomach. I guess I had to do this. What song was I even going to sing? I had to dig deep into the back of my mind to think of a special song, one that I was sure she would wake to. I took a deep breath as I remembered being stuck in that cell by Ursula, when I sang to her to calm her down. Maybe she'll remember that. Surely they have some memory, "Baby mine, don't you cry," I sang shakily, "Baby mine, dry your eyes, rest your head close to my heart, never to part, baby of mine." I sing softly. I feel a flutter, a movement.

"She's moving, Regina." Whale says, directing his attention back to me.

I smile and I feel Robin's hand lay on my back, "Good job, my love." He says.

Whale smiles smugly at me, "Regina, I must say, I didn't know you had such a beautiful voice." He says.

More embarrassment. I wanted to reach across and slap him across the face, but I probably should take it as a compliment. I just simply smile and nod once, silently thanking him.

He directs his attention to the screen and begins to move the tool across my stomach, "She seems to be fine. Her heartbeat is staying at a normal pace now, she's moving okay. I think you've got a healthy baby, still."

I look over and Robin and smile largely, tears wanted to escape from my eyes but I held them back. He reached down and kiss the top of my stomach, avoiding the gel, "She's a strong one." He says in a low tone.

I nod and look down at my belly, "She is."

Robin was cuddled beside me in the small twin-sized bed. He had me wrapped tightly in his arms as we watched TV together. Roland and Henry had just left to spend the night with Emma again, I knew they were in safe hands since Emma did know some magic. Robin squeezed me in tighter to him and the baby kicked hard against my stomach, "Ooh." I say in response.

He felt the kick against his side and laughed slightly, "It's okay, baby girl, I'm not going to squish you." He teases.

I smile at his fatherly-ness. I reached across my stomach and grabbed his hand into mine and gave it a gentle squeeze, "You know, she can't be called baby girl forever." I coo.

He turns his head to look me in the eyes and gives me a shocked look, "Really? She can't?" He says sarcastically.

I gently slap his stomach playfully. He lets out an "Oomph" from the blow. "No, silly. She can't." I tease.

He smiles and hugs me close, "Do you have any names to suggest?" He asks me.

I shrug my shoulders, "I really hadn't thought much about it. We've been so…busy…lately with fighting everyone off. It's been hard to think much of anything about the baby." I say regretfully, wishing I hadn't gone through this already.

He sees my sad expression and begins to soothingly rub my forearm, "It's okay. We still have plenty of time."

"About twenty more weeks." I say through a smile.

He nods, "Twenty more already. Wow." He says in awe, "It's already gone by so quick."

Just as he said that, she kicked me hard again. "Ouch." I hiss.

"Well, at least it has gone by quick for the person who hasn't been sick, been kicked, and had drastic hormone changes in the past five months." He adds.

I laugh softly, then straighten up and look at him with a furrowed brow, "Hormone changes? Drastic? Excuse me? I have not had drastic hormone changes! I am perfectly level!" I say, sarcastically sounding mad.

He laughs, "My point exactly."

I laugh as well and nuzzle my cheek onto his shoulder. After a short moment of silence, I give him a soft kiss on the cheek, "Regan." I say happily.

"Regan?" He asks.

"I like that name." I say softly, smiling largely now.

He smiles up at the ceiling, "I like that too."

"But I want to think on it longer. I don't want to make a hasty decision." I add.

He nods, "Right." He says. He suddenly starts chuckling softly, making his stomach move up and down and move my arm around.

"What are you laughing about?" I ask, raising a brow.

"Think about this, Regina. We have Robin, Regina, Roland…another 'R'." He looks over at me and smiles, "We'll just be a whole family of R's."

I laugh, "And then we have Henry…" I joke, "Poor guy. I should've named him Robert." I tease and wink.

We both laugh and snuggle into each other again. It seemed like we could never get close enough to one another. I yawned, my hot breath hit his neck. He looked over at me softly and turned onto his side to face me, still wrapping his arms around my waist. "I love you, my queen."

I smile, "I love you too, my thief." I say, leaning into him for a kiss on the lips.

Soon afterwards, we both fell asleep in the small bed. We stayed against each other the whole night, and almost the whole time the baby was moving rapidly. She liked us being close together.

The next morning we were both greeted by two eager boys to check on their mother. They were sitting patiently and quietly in the chair when my eyes fluttered open. "Henry?" I say tiredly before sitting up.

"Mom? Mom!" He shouts, running over to my side. He leans over the bed and gives me a hug, waking Robin up as well. "Mom, I was so worried about you. Roland was too…we…we both were…"

I stroke his hair softly and nuzzle him under my chin, "Shh, it's okay. I'm okay…" I coo in a soothing voice. His words brought tears to my eyes, I hated that they were so worried about me. "And your baby sister is okay too."

He pulls away from me and gives a halfway smile, his face was red from trying not to cry. Roland runs up to me now as well, wrapping me in his little arms and squeezing tighter than I ever thought a six year old could. I chuckle, "Oh, my Roland…I'm so glad you're both okay." I say as I squeeze him back.

Both boys look up at me, "We missed you, Mommy. We thought something was wrong." Roland says sweetly and childishly. He pauses to look down at his feet, "Ms. Belle wouldn't tell us what was going on." He continues.

I smile small, I was glad she didn't. They didn't need to know that their dead grandmother came back alive because their great-aunt that I didn't even know was in the family tree wanted my children dead. It was bad enough that the Wicked Witch was my sister, now Ursula is my aunt, apparently. Even I was still baffled by all of it. "Well, I'm fine." I state simply.

He smiles and looks down at my belly, "When is my baby sister going to come?"

I laugh loudly, maybe too loud. I felt comfortable again, I felt like I was in my own setting. "She won't be here for a while still, Roland."

Robin sits up now and lays his hand on my back gently. Roland makes a sad expression, "Aw. I was hoping that's why you were here."

I chuckle and shake my head, "No, sweetie. We'll let you know when she comes, okay?" I say as though I'm making a deal with him.

He nods happily, "Okay." He says with a smile.

After a few moments of small conversation with the boys, them asking what all had happened and Robin and I dodging a lot of their questions, Dr. Whale came in to check on me. "Hello, Regina. How are you feeling today?"

I took a deep breath and sighed, "Much better. I finally feel like I have most of my energy back." I put my hand up to my head, shaking my head back and forth with a smile, "Of course, I still feel tired."

He smiled, "Well, that all comes with being pregnant. You're building another human being, don't you think you'd be pretty tired?" He teases.

I nod, "I guess." I say sarcastically rude.

He walks over to my bedside and checks my heartbeat with his stethoscope. He did a few other things before turning the monitor on, "Boys, this is your first time seeing your little sister, isn't it?"

They both nod eagerly. I look over at them and smile widely at their excitement.

He turns the screen on and prepares my stomach, then the image showed up. She was moving around a lot anyway, I could feel her. She was being a show-off for her brothers, apparently, and was moving even more. She was a strong baby already, just at twenty weeks her movements were strong.

"Baby girl looks happy and healthy." Dr. Whale announces after reading all the stats on the screen. I smile and look at Robin in the chair beside me, he smiles wider than my smile and nods approvingly. "You should be able to go home later today, Regina, if everything keeps going okay. Your blood is level is surprisingly back to normal, and the baby is doing just fine. I'll get the papers ready for you to be discharged." He states.

I nod, "Thank you." I say, kinder than normal. I don't know what was wrong with me, I was never this kind to Whale. Maybe it was because he saved my life? Possibly. But more importantly he saved my daughter's life, and that's the life I would choose to keep alive over my own.

He wipes the gel from my stomach and puts my gown back over it, "I'm glad the boys were here to see this, too." He states softly before leaving the room.

Henry smiles at me, "Have you guys named her yet?" He asks excitedly.

I shake my head and stick my bottom lip out, "Not yet. We do have some ideas, though."

He suddenly gets even more excited. "Really? Like what?"

I look over at Robin and smirk, "Should we tell them? I personally think it should be a surprise to them both, don't you?"

He nods and smiles, then looks over at the two excited boys, "I think so as well. It'll be a surprise when they hear her name for the first time."

"When will that be?" Henry asks.

I smile at him and motion him closer. He comes and stands near me, I stretch my arm out and wrap it around him, "In about four months when you're holding your brand new, baby sister in your arms for the first time ever. She'll be just born, and you'll probably hear me or your father say it first." I explain softly.

Roland looks at me from Robin's lap where he had been sitting, "Why do we have to wait so long?"

"For what, son?" Robin asks.

"For her to come! I wanna meet her." He replies.

I chuckle and lay my free hand on my stomach, "She needs time to prepare for this crazy family. That's why." I say.

His eyes wander around the room, I could see his mind was working. "Oh." He simply states.

After a few hours, we all got to go home. Whale signed the papers and we got our things, and they wheeled me out to the car that Robin brought over. He grabbed my arm gently and lifted me out of the chair, helping me out of it. Though I felt fine, my body was still weak. Dr. Whale said it would be for a little while, because now the baby was going to be taking more energy to feel better than I was.

When we arrived at the house, the two boys got out first and ran inside. They were happy to be home, and I was too. Robin came around quickly and opened the door for me. He reached in and scooped me out of the car, somehow. "My gosh, Robin! I'm like carrying a ton of bricks right now, aren't I?"

He grunts, "Not yet." He says, kicking the passenger's door shut. I laugh and put my arms around his neck as he carries me inside the house. He walks us to the couch, then gently lays me down. "Now, please…whenever you want something or need something, just tell me. I know that's hard for you to do – being dependent on someone else, but you need to. You have to rest, okay?"

I raise my brow and smile sarcastically large, "Yes, daddy Robin."

He huffs a laugh and reaches down to kiss me on the forehead, "Good."

Awwww. Just a bunch of fluff :') So cute. I think we need some fluff after the last few chapters, am I right? Whew. It's been a rollercoaster...

Much love, and don't forget to review! MWAH!

G.