Hey Guys! I'm sorry for breaking your Hearts yesterday, here is my making up for it. Or at least trying a Little bit. Chapter 6, enjoy!
"Regina," Snow greeted as she opened the door. "Reign had already fallen asleep and Henry and Emma are on the way, so I have made us some coffee while we wait," Snow said as Regina walked into the apartment, greeting David who was playing silently with Neal.
"With sugar or without sugar?" Snow asked as Regina sat down at the bar stool and Snow prepared the coffees.
"No sugar," She said watching David play with Neal in the other room. Snow was lucky, she had gotten everything she wanted. A boy and a girl, a nice husband, a nice apartment, a grandchild and big family. The old Regina would have been so envious and angry she would have tried to take it all away, hurting everyone in the process, but she had changed. She was happy for Snow and as much as she hated to admit it she deserved her happiness after everything she had been through, mostly because of her.
"So how did it go with Robin? Did anything happen?" Snow asked with a low voice so David wouldn't hear it, not that Regina minded, she was sure Snow would tell him anyway as soon as she left the apartment.
"As it always does," She said ironically with an ironic huff and a shake of her head. "Marin came back, just arrived in town," She said with sigh trying not cry again. "Guess Gold really was right when he said villains don't get happy endings," she she said and looked down at the coffee. Surely it was just as black as her heart.
"Regina you are not villain anymore, you are a hero," she said. "Everyone makes bad choices, and I have been the villain too. And look at me, I am happier then ever," She said and looked towards David and Neal.
"Yeah well I guess it's just too late for me, it seems like everytime i get close to having my true love, he walks right out of my life or is taken right out of my arms," She said and sighed again.
"You give him away too easily Regina," Snow said.
"If I don't I am not doing the right thing and that is what heroes do. If I ask him to leave Marian I'm being the villain again," she said with a shake of her head. "I just can't win, because of that stupid book," She said.
"Make him choose. Tell him that it is either you or her. I did that with David and look how that turned out," She said.
"That's different, you were under a curse." She pointed out, but Snow continued.
"Do you tink Mary Margaret was the hero or the villain?" Snow asked. Regina was confused by her question.
"The hero," She said and got Snow's point.
"I was being selfish making David choose, but at the same time I was being reasonable, he couldn't be with to women at once. And the chances where he would choose Cathrine, but that didn't make me a villain," She said.
"But this Robin, he doesn't remember me, he will choose Marian and I will lose him either way," She said.
"You don't know that Regina. Have hope, believe, that is the best thing you can do. That is what has gotten me here today. If I hadn't believed in myself and in Charming, I would never have made it to where I am now. And neither will you if you don't fight for it. As long as you think of others while you do it, you are allowed to be selfish once in a while, after all it is not just your happiness, but Robins too." Snow said. And for the first time ever Snow's hope speech helped her. Regina knew what she had to do, she knew she had to do the exact opposite of what he had been doing. fight.
Regina went home, there were a hundred different thoughts in her mind. She was debating whether to face Robin or to lose him again. She had gotten used to losing him and she was better at doing things she knew, things she could handle. She hadn't really fought for him, and it scared her that maybe her heart break would only be even worse. Or she would be happy and that scared her. She had only been happy for very brief moments in her life and it was always taken away from her within a day.
"Now you sleep tight my princess," She said putting Reign down in her crib. For some reason Reign had been crying all day and Regina hated that she couldn't do anything for her baby girl. "Mama loves you," she whispered making soothing patterns on her head and small hairs. She knew that was the only way to make her fall asleep.
When Reign had finally fallen asleep after half an hour of soothing Regina walked into Henry's bedroom smiling when she found him reading the storybook. Regina walked over and kissed the top of his head before sitting down beside him in the bed.
"Hey sweetheart," She said. "Are you enjoying reading the storybook again?" She asked with a little chuckle, but truth be told she knew full well why he was reading it.
"It's just, I think maybe I found something," He said flipping through some more pages before looking up at his curious mother. "I have never noticed it before now," He said sitting up looking at his mother with a smile.
"What is it Henry?" She asked getting curious seeing the look on her sons face.
"This book doesn't write you as a villain," Regina raised her eyebrows not understanding why he said that. She knew it did, she has read the book a thousand times over looking for clues.
"I don't understand Henry of course i does," She said, but Henry just shaked his head and flipped backwards to some of the pages.
"No mom. You see this, it's you when you were younger right?" He asked her, Regina nodded but still didn't understand what he was saying. "It shows how you had your Heart broken, and all the things that built up against you to become the evil queen, like meeting gold or grandmother or Cora," He said and sighed when Regina still didn't understand. "It show's that once you were not a villain mom, that you were pushed into making the choices you made and that mom that makes you a victim, not a villain. You were young and you were pushed around with a broken heart and you made the choice you thought was right. You looked for your happy ending and you thought destroying Snow was how. But you didn't kill her and you changed, and the book might not show that, but it show's that you were a victim, not just a villain," Henry finished looking at his mother who had watery eyes and a little smile.
"I can't believe my little prince has gotten so big that he figured that out all on his own," She said hugging him. She knew that it didn't change much, but it still gave her a new kind of hope.
"But even smart grown boys has to get some sleep," She said taking the book and laying it on the night stand. "I love you sweetheart," She said kissing his head and putting the blanket over him.
"I love you too mom," He said before Regina turned his nightstand light off and closed the door to her bedroom. She was always happy whenever her and Henry talked. It could be about anything, she just loved spending time with him. He was growing way too fast and she just wanted him to be little forever, so he never had to move out or have kids or get married and don't have time for her. Of course she wanted that, she was just not ready yet.
Regina walked home from work feeling a bit sick a headache pressing on. She had promised to have a movie night with Henry and Reign so she had to go to Granny's and pick the food up she had ordered earlier.
"I have your order ready in a few minutes," Granny said when Regina walked in. "Take a seat," She said pointing towards the barstool. Regina nodded and sat down enjoying the quiet smalltalks all around. At least for a few minutes she did.
"Regina," She closed her eyes when she heard his voice. She has been doing everything she could to avoid speaking to him, she had listened to Snow that night, and she had been on the edge of confronting him, but she knew that Robin was happy, he didn't have to be confused when he didn't know her. "It's nice to see you," He said sitting down beside her. At the same time Granny came out and laid the food out.
"Thank you," Regina said standing up grabbing the bag of food. "Robin," She said about to walk away when Robin reached out and stopped her by holding her wrist.
"Regina I'm sorry, but she is my wife. And I know that from what you are saying I apparently cheated on her, but I still have to think about her." He said and Regina nodded it wasn't a surprise to her.
"I know," She said. Robin looked surprised. "And I won't get in the way of you and your wife," She said and left as soon a he let go of her wrist.
She went home to Henry and Reign. Henry had decided to watch frozen because he hadn't gotten to see it before and he already knew the people in it and their story. Reign didn't understand anything, she wasn't really watching either. Just enjoying being in a room with her mother and her big brother. And after a short hour Reign had fallen asleep and Regina had laid her down for bed.
"I think it's time for bed for you too sweetheart, you have school tomorrow," She said when she came Down.
"I wanna say hey to grandma," Henry said trying to use that as an excuse to stay up longer reading comicbooks.
"Henry Mills, you are going to bed because you have school tomorrow," She said and smiled when he obeyed with sigh. "Thank you… Now good night sweetheart and sleep tight," She added when Henry made a leave for his bed room.
"I love you mom," He said. It was something he had done ever since he had gotten her back in his life. He was making sure she knew all the time. "And say hey to Grandma for me," He said with a smirk. Regina knew that he found it funny that Snow white and the evil queen was spending so much time together. Truly he knew it was because they had some town business to take care of and since they both had small kids they needed to take of them in the day time.
"I will honey, now go to sleep," She said with a warm smile watching as Henry walked up stairs.
She decided to clean when she heard a light knock on the door and thinking it was Snow she opened the door, gasping when she realized it was Robin.
"Robin… Where is your family?" She asked confused looking around. Had it been the old Robin she would have been less surprised, but this Robin he only knew his family, he had told her that he needed to be with his wife.
"Right in front of me," He said before he crashed his lips on hers.
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