Once Upon A Happy Beginning

Chapter Seventeen: Please?

Okay, so I know I said I'd discontinue this, but I think I left it in a hard place. Gonna try and pick it up, this will either be a major success of a major failure. 

Regina

This house is damn mess! Things have been crazy since Zelena and her daughter moved in with me and Henry. That farmhouse was too far away for them and unfortunately it won't actually be that long until Henry moves out and I'll be alone again. No, don't think about that. But it is true. I wonder if that's how I made the Charmings feel all those years ago, being given the marvel that is a child then having it snatched from you so quickly?

It's been special having my family with me. Zelena is incredible; the feisty big sister I never even knew I needed. It helps, I think, that we grew up apart in a twisted sense, if we'd been together, lets face it she might never have needed Hades (no matter how disturbing that particular true love is) and maybe I'd have never fallen for Daniel, or if I had, maybe he wouldn't have died because I'd choose to share my secrets with a trustworthy sister over and insolent child. Then, who knows what would've become of me. Not The Evil Queen.

Daniel's wife?

But where would that have left me with Robin? 

Could the Charmings be right with the you only ever get one True Love? It makes sense, even as a ten year old Snow was out to destroy me. 

Or would Daniel have been my True Love because there was no need for The Man With The Lion Tattoo?

I can't deal anymore. I can't think of Emma and Captain Guyliner off enjoying some luxury holiday and I'm here. Mourning the loss of Robin. Looking after his daughter because he sacrificed himself for me, meaning that he doesn't get to do it herself. I sit down on the bed and leave the polish and dusters astray on the floor. And I cry. 

I cry in a way I convinced myself I never could when I was the Evil Queen. But I'm not her. I'm not even Regina, abused daughter of Cora and Henry; hopelessly in love with the stable boy. Now, I'm just Giney.

Robin's Giney. 

I chuckle into my sobs; I don't know where that nickname came from. Robin wanted something to call me by. Not Regina, he said, that was too formal. Not babe or darling or love, he said, that was too cliché. Not 'Gina, he said, others called me that. But Giney, he said, that belonged to him. Now it would belong to no one else. 

I pulled a pillow towards my head and screamed into it. The love of my life was dead. Gone. Forever. I couldn't even take time to as much as miss him before because we were always off chasing whatever new evil had followed Emma around town. Now I had to let it all out. I had to feel. I had to. For the first time since losing Daniel, I felt human. 

"I hope that's not the pillow we're meant to use tonight," A voice said from the doorway. Don't Regina. Don't. I attempted to scold myself. I knew the voice, a voice moulded from years of the forest and the evasion of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin's voice. 

I look up anyway. "Robbie?"

"Giney." 

He runs up to me and before I can even register his return, Robin kisses me. Firmly. Passionately. Gently. Lovingly. 

I pull away before I let myself get too carried away, "You can't be real."

"Well, that's a right pain. I was hoping I was, because otherwise I've spent too long trying to get back to this town. I don't know if you've heard of it? It's like a fairytale, you don't know it's there if you don't look. But, you see, I left this woman behind. You see, she's mine and I'm never losing her. Of course people see her as the mayor or the evil queen. I don't. I see her as this truly magnificent woman that I need to be with for the rest of my life. I don't want to have been this happy to see her and find out none of this is real." 

A breath hitches in my throat as Robin – or at least I'm hoping it's him – gets down on one knee. 

"I guess what I'm saying, Regina. Giney. Marry me. 

"Please?

"I know that it's difficult. I know that you've spent so long imagining me dead, and I promise you I will explain it all. But you are the woman I love, Giney. And I've just spent a few days, which I'll explain to you as soon as possible, with Emma and Killian hearing about their wedding and to this other young girl, Elizabeth, whose trying to get home to her love, just as I was trying to get home to mine. And I realised something Regina. I can't survive another day without you.

"So, Regina Cora Mills, will you marry me? Please?"

"Robbie?" I say, holding back a sob, this time of pure relief and happiness, "You really are real?" 

"Real as ever, Giney."

"Then, yes. Yes, I will always marry you."

"Good." He says softly, "Now, this was a bit of a spontaneous, I'm finally with the love of my life kind of thing, so I on't actually have a ring. So," He pulls something small out of a pocket, "A feather from one of my arrows. Until I find something deserved of my fiancée."

I smile at the new title. "The only thing that my fiancé could possibly give me know, is a very special night that we've both been deprived of way too long."

"I couldn't agree more." 

So an Outlaw Queen chapter! Was this any good? Going to try and write more of this alongside my Vampire Diaries fic. 

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