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Storybook Love (Every Version Of You)

Chapter 15-A Little Kiss

Back to the Enchanted Forest! Snow makes a decision, David makes a sacrifice, Regina makes a curse. Robin doesn't care all that much—he just wants her to come home.

For a second she was stunned by what she was hearing. It was just…odd…

That was the word for it, the word for what she was hearing. Regina had to concede that it was odd to see Snow and her husband like this, to make the sacrifice. It was not that they didn't do that, Regina was achingly aware that Snow had shoved her baby into a hunk of wood rather than let Regina get to her so there was that but there was also something about Snow and Charming that made them almost…unbreakable, immortal in the sense that though they sacrificed everyone and anything around them they never sacrificed each other. They were the eternal love story, granted it made her sick to her very stomach but it was what it was.

And now David was asking her to rip his heart out so that Snow could cast the very curse that she had once cast.

It was not a happy memory. This was a part of her past that Regina was not looking forward to going down, the baby inside of her was happily wriggling away toes pressing on her bladder and this had not been what she'd had in mind when she had offered to come and help them find Glinda.

They had found Glinda and while Regina tried not to criticize a fellow magical user but Glinda was the biggest crock she had ever seen. Not to mention she was dressed in a way that made Regina look gaudy. When you had a wonderful wardrobe at your fingertips one had to remember to be thrifty.

She bit her bottom lip and turned to stare at the door. She was not sure she could do this.

"You do know what this means for everyone else" she said because there was always a good chance that Snow and Charming didn't see the bigger picture. It was a common thing for them Regina knew, Snow had inherited off that father of hers she was sure of it because her sainted husband had never seen the bigger picture when he had been on the throne either which more than likely explained the shit show that had been his kingdom when she had seen the little black ledger.

"You're taking a year away from people, dragging us to Storybrooke, and I need to point out to both of you that there is no guarantee that this would work. There is no way once we are there that I can see us finding Emma, there is no way that Emma can find us if she doesn't remember."

"Hook will find a way—"

"We have not seen Hook in six months" Regina pointed out through gritted teeth. "There is a very good chance that he is dead or worse scattered halfway through this kingdom. That means that there is just Snow and me trying to keep this together with no memory of what happened and a wicked witch out there just waiting to pounce. I still don't like this plan, we've set up camp here I recommend we stay—"

"Glinda said—"

"If you start trusting strange witches that appear to you through strange doors you will be dead within a month" she said waspishly. "I don't think that you should do this, there is too much at risk and if one of you says even for a second that you have hope I will magic my way out of this and then you can find your own way home"

And just like that she remembered Robin.

Come home Regina he had said this morning when she had allowed him to pull her boots on (because she was too fat to put them on herself) I don't care what happens, I don't care what you have to do, I don't care if you have to leave them but you come home to me and Roland and tonight we will pick out a baby name. Promise me. Promise me that you will come back.

She still wanted to hold herself to the promise.

"You think that we can win the fight here?" David said and his tone was not mocking, more than that it was contrition. There was a pause where she stood there and then she sighed.

"I think that we should go home and figure this out. To do this then Zelena has to cast a curse that gives up the one thing that she loves most and somehow I don't think that there is much that she loves"

"Storybrooke is where we are the strongest"

"Snow I cannot cast that curse, I love two things in the world more than my own life and I am not going to sacrifice either one my children on a Hail Mary that—"

"Your not going to do that"

"Snow I don't want to sacrifice your husband on a Hail Mary. Reversing the curse that brought us here strips us of our memories, it makes us vulnerable, it does not protect my baby which seems to be the one thing that this woman wants and it does not get your child back either. I don't know how this is going to end but I do not think listening to this Glinda on a whim is going to help"

"I think it will"

She was going to shoot this woman with a bolt of something if she kept this up Regina knew. She wanted nothing more than to go back to the castle.

"You are asking too much" she said flatly. "You are asking once again too much of everyone else and quite frankly you are asking too much of me, I am happy here for the first time since Daniel and yes that is still your fault by the way no matter how much you claim to have learnt—I am happy, I have a man who loves me, a family of my own, and before you start on Henry I am not sure that I can get him back from Storybrooke anymore than I know I cannot here. It is too much…this woman will have written a loophole to find a way to remember, God knows I did and she's working off my original recipe. This is a disaster waiting to happen and not to mention that it will kill your husband and that is a thing that despite everything I do not want to do. No. If you want to go back to Storybrooke then I suggest we see what Hook or your son in law is doing. God knows both of them are so head over arse for your daughter one of them will find a way to be with her even If they stumble into it by accident" the baby wiggled a little as if she too agreed. Or he…Regina had decided that she was not going to use magic to figure out this little one's identity.

"What makes you think that we will forget?"

"That's usually how it works"

"Is there a way around that?"

Regina paused. In truth she had not thought of that and they more than likely knew it. She had never considered casting the Dark Curse without the forgetting aspect. She had carbon copied the spell from Maleficent, who had cribbed it from Rumple and she had been the one to add the forgetting aspect of it all…perhaps now that she was the one who had added it she could be the one that made them all remember?

"Cast the Dark Curse without the darkness bit?"

"Well I have to die Regina so I wouldn't say that" David muttered. Regina shot him a look as Snow whimpered. If this was the fucker's way of staying stoic until the end then it was really not needed now.

"I can try" she said casually. "But that doesn't solve how we are going to get Emma and Henry back. If your sure we need Emma to break the curse then—"

"We can fix that in the town as soon as we get back"

She sighed.

Once again she was out voted.

Not listening to her would be the death of these fools…

Well…at least she got to cross killing David off her bucket list.

Watching Snow and Charming say goodbye was strangely more painful than she thought it would be. Watching them tell each other that they loved nothing more than the other, that they were soulmates made her strangely achy. Her and Robin were good, they were in a good place, she was bonding with Roland…the baby was good and strong if the kicking was anything to go by. They had a nursery…

She had never felt sympathy for Snow White, the woman had never shown anything but the base remorse for her actions. She was too much like her mother in that regard and Regina had known enough about Queen Eva to know that mud stuck and it stuck and stank. She had forged a relationship with her stepdaughter out of necessity but had dedicated herself to destroying her and even now there were moments where she would smile if she came out on top. This was a blood feud and despite what everyone thought there was still an awareness between the three of them as times went by.

But now listening to her sobbing, listening to her hold her husband she felt strangely empty. David had been a milk sop in her opinion but only now she was beginning to see that he had more balls than all of Snow's little helpers put together. For all his talk that he was a free thinker Leopold would have never let his only daughter throw her life away on a shepherd and yet Charming had proven them all wrong.

She turned to remind Snow that there was still a curse to catch and then she saw the moon in the distance and something fly over it. To anyone that was not her it would have been a trick of the light but she knew better. She did not believe it was a trick of the light.

It was Zelena.

And Regina knew that they were in the endgame now.

He had been half asleep when the curse had hit, Roland curled up in the bed next to him eyelashes fluttering against the fat skin of his cheeks the baby fat prominent, clutching his stuffed monkey. He had been practising his reading again and he delighted in curling up next to the bump and reading to the new baby. Regina had mentioned in passing that the baby was at the stage where he or she could recognise voices and Roland had thrown himself into the challenge whole heartedly determined that his new little brother or sister was going to recognise him.

If Robin used it as an excuse to get the boy to increase his reading practise and to do his homework then Robin would grab it with open hands and hope the boy learnt something along the way.

There was a pause as Roland slept on and he heard the grumble of something. He looked up to see what looked like dark clouds gathering on the horizon coming towards them at a speed what looked like an odd insidious glitter coming his way. He stared at it for a second before something cold slid down his back. Call him cynical but there was something really, really quite wrong with this. He had missed out of the first curse by an inch and he knew what he was looking at. He did not need the warning bell to tell him that something was wrong.

And there was still no Regina.

Unable to think of what that meant Robin turned to grab his son but the force of the blast suddenly knocked into the window and he had one second of howling wind before everything went black.

Robin Hood woke up in Storybrooke on the floor of the forest his son next to him.

He did not remember a thing.

So yeah, a little different than cannon but here we are nonetheless. Four more to go.

Next Chapter-Back to Storybrooke and Henry and Hook are bonding, until the flying monkey's arrive. And Regina cannot stop herself from telling her son that she loves him...and we all know what happens next.