Finding You

Chapter Eight

Regina storms into Snow's castle and heads to the one place she knows he'll be. She burst through the door of her old bed chambers and sees Snow with a wicked smile on her face. Regina sends a glare his way as she sits down.

"What did you do with Snow White?" Regina growls as she looks at the woman.

"Took you long enough dearie." Snow says as she turns into her true form, Rumplestiltskin.

"What did you do to her and why are impersonating her?" Regina asks carefully.

"I need you to do something and it had to be this way. I needed to set things in place." He says with his demented cackle.

"Spit it out imp! What the hell do you want?" Regina says as she clutches the arms of the chair she is sitting in.

"I need your child." Rumple says and Regina lets out a laugh.

"If you think I'll just hand over Riley then you really must have gone mad!" Regina yells at him and he smiles his crooked smile.

"That's not your child. No matter how much you pretend that little girl can't be yours." Rumple says as he stands up. "What I want dearie is right there." Rumple says pointing to Regina's stomach.

*****

After Regina left it took seconds for Robin to bolt out of bed. He groans from his recovering wound but gets up anyways. He places Riley on his hip and walks through the castle. He bangs on a door and impatiently waits for an answer.

"What do you want mate?" Will says as he opens the door.

"Watch Riley. I have to go save Regina." Robin says as he sets Riley down.

"Bloody hell mate you've gone completely mad." Will mumbles as he takes the girl under his care.

Now that Riley was safe with her uncle Robin goes to the castle armory. He picks up the only weapon he knows how to use and a knife that he slips in his pants pocket. Robin slips out of the castle and makes his way through the forest. Running towards his soulmate.

*****

"I'm not pregnant!" Regina yells at him.

"Dearie, you are and the more you keep denying it the more you'll realize." Rumple says with his signature laugh. "And whenever you pop the child is mine!" He says with a high pitched chuckle.

"Even if I was pregnant why would I give you my child?" Regina asks calmly from her chair.

"Because dearie what about your dear pretend daughter?" Rumple says and Regina frowns.

"What the hell are you doing to her?" Regina says as she bolts out of her chair.

"Oh nothing really. She's just locked up somewhere far, far away. Her location is so secret that even the prince of thieves hasn't found her yet." Rumple says as he sits down.

"Why are you doing this? Why do you want my child?" Regina says as she places a hand on her stomach.

"The product of soulmates. It's even more powerful than true love. I need the baby to cast a spell and yours will do." Rumple says as he conjures up a contract.

"I'm not going to sign it." Regina says sternly.

"If you don't I'll kill everyone you love. That thief and that rotten kid and the pretend bandit Snow will all be gone." He says as he holds out the long piece of paper. "Sign on the line dearie!"

"Fine." Regina says through gritted teeth as she signs the form.

This was all an act. Regina had no problem signing the contract because she can't get pregnant. She took a potion long ago to ensure she didn't have any children. The Evil Queen can't have children. It would be too happy of an ending for a villain.