Sticky Situation

Finishing Touches.

"Mother.." Regina groaned as they walked through the market, the same market Regina and Robin went to on their very first bonding outing. Where they looked up at the stars and talked endlessly. Where her feelings about him changed!

"I refuse to put our baby in that..." She said rubbing her large baby bump and shaking her head.

"What?! It's cute!" Cora held up a huge pink and puffy dress that would surly swallow a new born baby alive. Cora pouted her lip out at Regina and held it up even higher, trying to make a point that Regina just wasn't picking up on. "No mother...and..what makes you so sure I'm carrying a girl? It may very well be a little boy." She nodded, rubbing her stomach mindlessly as she searched for some nutritious foods she could eat that would be good for her as well as the little monkey she was carrying inside of her.

"I don't know..I'm just sort of hoping for a granddaughter.."

"Hmm..I see, and what happens if you get a grandson?" Regina asked not really looking at Cora, to busy looking for good peaches without brown spots on them, but she was listening.

"Well..I will love either just the same! I've just always thought about being a grandma to a girl...but a baby boy would also be nice." She nodded softly and smiled.

"Robin wants a boy.." Regina giggled and rolled her eyes, "he says...I can't wait to meet 'my boy' to my stomach all the time." She smiled at the thought, "I really think he's set on it, personally I feel it's a girl but..I don't want to continue to tell him that..it may get his hopes up!" Regina joked and giggled and bit her bottom lip. She knew Robin would love the child no matter what! She put all the peaches she chose into her basket and moved on to the other produce.

"You do? You feel a baby girl in there?" Cora reached out and gently touched Regina's stomach. Regina giggled and nodded, shrugging her shoulders. "I do actually. I mean...not for sure but it's just a feeling!"

"So..you haven't told me where Robin has gone! You said he left last night?" Regina sighed and nodded. "Yeah he did..."

"Why?"

"He says it's a surprise and I'll know when he gets back home tomorrow night, although I'm not keen on being away from him a whole night more! Especially with me being so close to the due date." Regina bit her lip and ran her thumb over her stomach gently, back and forth. Her one hand resting over her baby bump.

"How much longer exactly?!" Cora asked with a grin and picked up some fresh bread that just came from out of the bakery. "You'll need some bread." Regina nodded, accepting it. "Thank you, mother. And only another three and a half weeks...but I mean the baby is during that time period where really they could be born on any given day. It's just a waiting game now."

Regina was actually quite nervous, she had never giving birth before and from what her mother told her, the stories she's heard, it's pretty scary. Some women even die during the birthing process...Regina just couldn't wait to hold her baby in her arms.

"Well I'm sure you'll do great! I'll be there if you wish." Cora smiled and took Regina's hand gently. She was really making a great effort to be better for Regina, she was trying and that's all Regina could ask for, it made her happy to finally have this relationship with her mother. "Of course! Be there." Regina bit the inside of her cheek. "So...did you two decide on any baby names?"

Regina giggled and rolled her eyes playfully, nodding. "Yes. For a boy we chose...Luca. It's strong and..powerful, like I know our son would be." She smiled brightly just thinking about it, "for a girl..Elleana..it's beautiful, it's strong and elegant..but also has a lot of personality, which is something I can't see our daughter not having!" She laughed and smiled as her and her mother finished shopping, going to the front to pay now.