Hi, so here we are again! Once again I am going back to this wonderful fandom that gave me so much over the course of my writing. I know I have took a bit of a long break from this fandom but I recently watched all the first six series of OUAT and the idea's kept popping into my head left, right and centre starting with this one.

I love Outlaw Queen. I love Regina, I don't why everyone got to be with the person they loved but her. I honestly don't know what the point of that ending for her in Season 7 was but then I don't get the point of Season 7 at all to be honest. So this is my stab at giving her something-eg, a happy ending with Robin with no Marian.

On that note-I have a love/hate relationship with the Charmings, Seasons 1, 3, 5 they are fine, Season 2 ish, 4 okay until we get to the last bit, but Season 6...that bit with Snow, Emma and Belle about Gideon is a scene that makes me so angry I have to stop watching. So yeah...if you are looking for a lovey dovey on the ball happy Charming story this isn't going to be it. To be honest at times Emma gets on my nerves when it comes to Regina so...I will try and keep this as neutral as possible but the Charmings especially Snow are not my favourite characters nor will they ever be.

Disclaimer-Nothing is mine I am just playing with the characters.

I predict this is going to be twenty chapters long. And there will be a few chapters set in the Enchanted Forest.

Please Read and Review and let me know what you think and I will try and update as soon as work and life allows me.

Also I am not great with spelling and grammar. Nor is this story going to be cannon or dialogue compliment. Something to have in mind if that's your thing.

And there will be some swearing in this story so keep that in mind.

As of now I am not taking prompts nor I am answers PMs so please do keep that in mind too. Any questions leave it in a review and I will try and answer it in the notes part of each story.

Storybook Love (Every Version Of You)

Chapter 9-Storm Weathered

Regina is still sick….it takes a helping hand to make her realise what this is. And then she has to process what this means (another chapter set in the Enchanted Forest)

The sickness plaguing her was an odd phenomenon. There was no two ways to describe it Regina DID NOT get sick. She came from a time where medical advancements were primitive no matter what and sickness in a child's younger years often meant death just as much as war meant death to an older one. It was par for the course really but she had never been sick as a child. It might have been because she had grown up with the best of things but more than likely it was the magic. Or maybe it was just because Cora did not allow people to get sick. Any kind of sickness that Regina had, had when she was a child would have been banished away probably taking three village children for the price of her own life.

She was not sure really how much of Zelena's story she believed in but she did have to concede that she would not put it past her mother to believe that one child's life should prioritise the other.

As she sat there breathing through her nose intimately acquainted with her chamber pot she found that she was shaking somewhat. She dragged herself to her bed and wrapped up in the furs. She was tired and aching and alone. Robin had gone back to his men with his usual trademark wink and it took her a moment to realise that she never asked him to stay the night. Maybe he didn't want to but she never asked and he never asked. It was one of those silent things that kept them going throughout their arrangement. If that was what it was.

She was not so sure for her that was what it was anymore.

It had been a long time since she had felt like this.

There was a pause as she shivered with the aftereffects of throwing up and then the vertigo was back increasing the nausea. She sat up and pulled the stack of paperwork at the side of the bed to her looking over her engagements that she had. There was a very little if she was being honest but it was a routine that she had used as wife, as mother, as Mayor and it kept her going now as Queen of a half kingdom that was not her own.

She sighed looking over the dates and then she paused.

She had kept the same thing that she had done in Storybrooke. The same routine and so on the day that her period was due to start like she had done in Storybrooke she had marked it with ink. Now she was staring at the underlined note and she realised dimly that she was over a month late.

A month.

Well…she supposed that it could be stress. If one was to look at this like a rational person then she supposed that she had been to hell and back…quite literally…recently. Netherland must have wreaked havoc on her body and then there had not been a chance to relax between coming home and coming back here. So she was a month late. It wouldn't have bothered her that much if it wasn't for the fact that she knew she had gone straight from the Enchanted Forest to Storybrooke the first time and everything had been running like clockwork. Had carried on running like clockwork despite the fact that she had managed to upend a world and create a new one.

There was a pause as she looked back down at the book and then she frowned.

A month late? That was odd for her she had to admit.

The more she thought about it the more that she came back to the same thing, a month late might be explained away by a fluke or magic or anything else that she might be able to describe but the truth was she was having sex. Actually to hell with that she was having quite a bit of sex. And the one thing that she had never considered was weather or not her contraception worked post realms. She had never really bothered with it, once Henry had been born times for something other than herself were few and far between and even then she had timed it down to a quick ten minutes before her baby had needed her again. With Graham she had used a pill. With Robin…

Oh hell.

With Robin she had not thought to use anything.

She dropped her quill. There would be a huge ink stain on her sheets but she did not care nor did she care that it was going to be a mess to clean out. Suddenly her world had taken her to a place she had not been sure that she could go.

Pregnant?

Pregnant?

The second that thought was in her head she couldn't shake it. It did make sense she had to concede. It made sense that she could be pregnant. Despite what was said about her Regina knew that she was young enough to be get pregnant, clearly she had not bothered to check if protection was being used…which when you thought about what Robin might be walking around with unknowingly was a very stupid thing and now…

Sickness, vertigo, heartburn, the inability to look at chicken or eggs without feeling like she was going to puke. The signs that had been there that she had not looked at.

Was she…could she be?

Pregnant?

The word was sacred. She had never thought it could apply to her. Mother yes but…but pregnant?

She had been unable to conceive with Leopold…hell the poor sod had been barely able to get it up on those humiliating times that he paid a visit to her bedchamber, Daniel and her had never gotten that far though there had been times when she wished that she could. Graham had been nothing but cold, calculated fun but now…she had adopted Henry because she had not wanted to get pregnant, because the one man she had envisioned having children with had, had his heart ripped out in front of her by her own mother.

And now she was what? Pregnant?

Well…she thought pushing back the covers and snapping her fingers for her clothes.

There was one way to find out.

"What on earth?"

"Snow if you are coming in shut the door this is not for public consumption"

Snow White her face mused with sleep in her angelic snow white gown her hair long down her back came into the room where Regina was mixing together her potion with all the fever of a meth dealer in that programme she had ended up binge watching back in Storybrooke. The one with the teacher and the cancer and the meth lab. Snow shut the door and came and stood by her side.

"What are you making?"

"A potion"

Snow rolled her eyes in the way that only a teenager in an adult body could do with their stepmother.

"A potion for what?"

"Nothing"

"Regina if this is about the Wicked Witch then I really do think—"

"I might be pregnant."

It would be comical to see Snow White's face look like that if this was any other situation other than the one that they were in. She looked stunned her face wiped clean off any kind of emotion. It took quite a bit to make her stepdaughter speechless Regina thought thinking quite nastily of Daniel. The woman seemed to have an art for speaking even when everyone around her just wanted to shut up. The reality was that she was speechless now and for once Regina felt sorry for her.

It was always complicated her relationship with Snow. There was years of intertwining bitter rivalries, blood on both their hands though Snow preferred not to see hers if she didn't have too. There was hated mixed in on both sides, a need to see the other dead, families and loved ones and children caught in the tide and all of it coming down to the fact that the eighteen year old had trusted the ten year old because they were both lonely in the world and had wanted someone to talk to. That was what it came down to all along.

And along the way there were good memories. An uneasy alliance forged out of fighting for Henry and the people that they cared about and even before that there had been times when she had been Queen she had genuinely found herself enjoying time with Snow. Had Snow not been the person who had betrayed her trust, had Daniel died some other way and had she been forced to marry Leopold then she might have come to like Snow, to advise her and be a good Queen. They might have been good friends…certainly Snow would not have been one of those rulers where she would have insisted that she marry again or stay unmarried to preserve the dignity of the Kingdom or whatever bullshit King George had gone to his prison cell spewing. It was a whole other life, a whole other world, a whole other thing.

But it all came down to that moment.

And there was no looking back.

"Pregnant" Snow whispered as if it was a dirty word. "Pregnant are you sure?"

"No I am not sure" she said testily. "Hence why I am making a potion to check weather I am or not." she sighed adding the black bat eyes and watching as the thing frothed and bubbled.

"Robin?"

"No your husband, yes of course Robin!"

"Does he know?"

Seriously what was this twenty questions?

"No he doesn't know, right now I don't know."

Snow sat down and then.

"Wow"

"I know this is hard for you"

"For me?"

"Snow other than Henry children are not part of the plan for me. I don't even know if I will keep this one I don't know how I feel or what I will be feeling and that's before we get to the complicated problems like Robin and the thing that claims she is my half sister. I don't know what is going to happen when I add my blood to this potion but I do know that you want a child more than you want the air to breathe and while once upon a time it might have amused me to see you in pain it really doesn't this time"

There was a pause as Snow took that in.

"That might be the nicest thing you've ever said to me" she said quietly. "And for the record I think if you are pregnant you would be a good Mom."

Regina paused turning around.

"You think?"

It was pathetic how much she wanted Snow to be right.

Snow smiled. "Henry turned out alright didn't he…and no I don't mean at the end…for ten years before Emma arrived you were his Mom I was his teacher remember, I know you were a good Mom until that book arrived in his lap. I know that you loved him more than your own life. Know that you love him now enough to do what was best for him then. That's motherhood Regina, you'd be a good Mom and you deserve some happiness"

There was a pause and then.

"Why do you have to be nice to me? It throws my whole being out of whack"

"Oh believe me" Snow said with that teasing smirk. "Knowing that you will be going through the trails of labour will be enough"

Regina smiled and then she cut her wrist. The blood flowed into the potion and Snow took a goblet down from the high shelf with a glass of wine. It was either going to be for her or for Regina. Regina who still did not know whether or not she was going to keep this baby.

But what she wanted and what she was likely to get were two entirely different things.

The potion bubbled and frothed and Regina thought it must have been the greatest ironies of life that she was sat here in her nightdress clutching the hand of the woman she had tried to kill many times as they watched.

"It still purple for pregnancy?"

"And orange for not"

Snow nodded and then.

"Well…you can't get more clearer than that"

Regina looked at the royal purple potion and she sat down heavily on the bench.

There was no doubt about it then.

She was pregnant.

With Robin Hood's baby.

It seemed that there was always another storm to weather.

And there you go, see you next time.

Next Chapter-In which Regina must make a decision and in doing so tells Robin...and then Zelena strikes. Final (ish) chapter set in the Enchanted Forest for a while if not ever.