She didn't recognize herself in the mirror once she saw her reflection, she had matured so much, she wasn't the little scared girl the fell off her horse. Her hair was tangled in that loose side braid, no longer the neat, combed braid she was so accustomed to. She had gained colour from the sun, she wasn't so pale and pure looking any longer, her skin was no longer flawless, she unwraps her side bandages and the one on her arm, her heavily scabbed and scarred skin revealed underneath. Even her eyes changed, now filled with a particular wisdom they never had before, she stared at herself and saw she was someone with a story to tell, not someone to sit and listen to one. She stares until she's used to herself once again, thinking about just how much she had been moulded and altered by her newly found friends, and the wilderness. She would never go back to the life she had before.
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"Oh sorry ladies first," Hades said with delight. He raised the crystal, the menacing blue light encasing the room. Regina could feel arms go around her, but at the same time not. She didn't know what was going to happen. She expected to feel pain, maybe herself dissipating, but it never happened.
"No!" Hades exclaimed in defeat. The crystal hung limply by his side as he gazed at the couple laying on the floor in a heap. They both got up off the floor slowly, instantly grabbing on to each other. "Robin are you alright?" Regina asked as tears welled up in her eyes.
"Yes Regina, perfectly fine," Robin said with that soft smile of his. He cupped her cheek smiling softly, looking into her eyes, completely ignoring the god on the other side of the room who was staring at the crystal in utter defeat.
"No...no, you...you are supposed to be dead."
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Regina searched high and low for happiness all her life and right when she was about to find it. Poof . . . Hades comes and threatens to strip it all away from her in the blink of an eye. What do you think would happen if Robin survived? Would things really be happily ever after?
[Disclaimer I don't own any of the characters of OUAT they were made by the producers of the show, Adam and Eddy.]