In Storybrooke, there is a special cottage. It is said that couples who spend a night there at Christmastime will be blessed with happiness and true love for the rest of their lives. Regina Mills doesn't believe in such fairy tales...until she is forced to spend a night there with her ex-boyfriend, Robin Locksley, ahead of their best friends' Christmas wedding. Able to finally find closure for how their relationship ended years earlier, they decide to give their friendship a second chance. Having Robin back in her life as well as being back home makes Regina question if she is happy with her life and if she has the courage to make the decisions she needs to in order to be truly happy.

Once Upon a Time meets Dancing With the Stars. After an injury ends the career of her partner, ballroom champion Regina Mills is convinced to join popular reality show Dancing With the Stars. Her first partner is Robin Locksley, the so-called Outlaw of Pop returning to the spotlight after mysteriously leaving his red hot career a couple years earlier. Now spending several hours together day in and day out, will Regina kill Robin...or fall in love? [Outlaw Queen AU]

After horrible weeks, Robin Locksley and Regina Mills both reach for the last box of mac and cheese at the store. They decide to share it and find it is the start of a beautiful relationship. This relationship is explored in a series of one-shots. Outlaw Queen AU.

Regina Mills is hired to be the nanny for Roland Locksley, the young son of widowed millionaire Robin Locksley. She balances her duties as Roland's nanny with caring for her ailing father all the while fighting her instant attraction to her employer and her own past. Outlaw Queen, modern non-magical AU.

To secure her company's future, Regina Mills needs to convince Leopold Blanchard to sell his company to her. He wants to sell to a family-oriented company and has a very conservative view on what family looks like. In a moment of desperation, she makes up a fiancé. When Leopold wants to meet her family, Regina needs to find one STAT. Enter Robin Locksley, a single father who is unable to move up from his low-paying position. He agrees to play Regina's fiancé for the holiday season so she can convince Leopold to make the deal. Will their fake engagement fool everyone...or might their feelings turn out to be not-so-fake after all?

Regina Mills lives a very mediocre life in the small town of Storybrooke, Maine. An orphan, she has no family to speak of, hasn't had a love life since her high school sweetheart dumped her and her landlord Mr. Gold won't even let her have a pet. She works a menial job in the cannery though she dreams of owning a bakery. Her existence is a lonely and boring one...until a young girl knocks on her door and says she is Regina's daughter. Diana has a book of fairy tales that she claims are real and that everyone in the Storybrooke is cursed. Though she doesn't believe her at first, Regina starts to read the book herself and finds herself slowly starting to believe. She enters a fight to get back her happiness, her friends and her family--even if it means taking on the powerful Mayor of Storybrooke.