What happened when...

Justice or revenge ?

... Robin let Regina do it.

Robin Hood wasn't a coward.

This was something he knew, for a long time. It didn't mean that he was perfect; of course he made things he wasn't proud of.

But he always tried to act courageously, no matter the situation in which he was.

He was a thief, yeah, but he also had a code, and the things he did was meant to be good. Or, the less bad if he could.

So, the present situation wasn't really good for him, and he really, really didn't like it. Just as Regina herself.

When Isaac proposed to them to do... well... it, that is to say destroy Zelena (he didn't tell this that way, but, well, it was what it meant), he really wanted to say no, at first.

Even though there was a great part of him that wanted this to happen.

He hated Zelena, maybe even more than Regina did, because he was the one who had been manipulated, et she killed his wife. And she made him believe that she was Marian, and she stopped him from being with Regina.

Furthermore, unlike Regina, he didn't really know what it was to be a villain. Because, even though he was a thief, and he used to be an outlaw, he just broke the law as he was in Sherwood. He never did really bad things, just as did Regina or Zelena.

He wanted her to disappear, and the fact that she would have his child made him want it more, in fact.

He didn't want her to be killed, but the way Isaac had the intention to proceed... made this appear less horrible than it actually was.

And she deserved it.

In fact, that was something Robin told to himself, something he really wanted to believe as being true.

And after all, murder someone who never existed, wasn't really a crime, no ?

It was his revenge on her, as it was Regina', even if they tried to convince themselves that it was all about justice.

Justice...

Really ?

Even if they were clearly trying to hide the truth to themselves, there was something they couldn't ignore, just for now.

Justice had nothing to do with this act.

The story would be rewritten, someone would disappear and of course there would have no consequences.

But it didn't change the fact that what was happening was a terrible thing, and a true crime.

A murder.

That was not what they were supposed to do, they were supposed to fight villains with a great courage and during battles, just as Regina did against Zelena.

They were supposed to be courageous, and brave, and most of the time, they were.

But now, it had never been so untrue.

If someone had been there, as the other heroes, maybe things would have been different. Maybe they would have stopped them from killing the witch.

Because, even if there was something untold in this situation, the most important thing, in fact, the disappearance of someone, that was going to happen.

They were going to kill someone, maybe someone who did terrible and monstrous things.

Someone who wasn't innocent.

Someone who hurt people who clearly didn't deserve such a treatment.

But if they did, they would not be better than her. They would be just like her.

It was about that that Robin was just thinking.

And there was something worse.

The child. The little baby that was also Robin's child.

Would die.

It was the only point about all of this where Robin could agree that yes, he may be considered as a coward.

It was not just about Zelena' life, they would erase something else, someone else, that even wasn't still someone.

That wasn't born now. And would never, if they let Isaac act.

They still could lie to themselves, tell that it was about justice, that they would make disappear a person who in the end would not have existed for anyone in the world.

(So, why would they care about it ?)

But the truth was that it had never been about justice, not this time. It could have been, before.

Before Emma' and Killian' time-travel. When Zelena was just Zelena and wasn't as Marian.

When she wasn't pregnant with Robin's child and that she was still saw just as a villain.

But now ? It was too late.

Everything was just about revenge. Their revenge.

Because of what Zelena did to them, because of what she did to take their happy ending from them.

To destroy their life.

So now, they were going to destroy hers.

And Robin was really aware of that.

So yes, Robin Hood may not be a coward, but a hero, and what the three of them were doing would have no consequences.

Which didn't mean that he didn't know that it was not something brave.

It was really, really not.