The Good Queen's archer

A/N: I know I shouldn't be writing another OutLawQueen oneshot with all my books I need to read and current stories that I need to write but I can't help it. I hope you Angels enjoy this one.

Regina can't believe she's now the Good Queen of the newly United Realms, she's gotten everything she's ever wanted: a family and is now a true Queen, but something keeps preventing from being truly happy with her new life and she knows exactly what it is: a certain archer with blue eyes who has been dead for at least 15 years, maybe 20, she's not completely with timeline and the curse, even so, he's dead. Of that she's completely sure of, she witnessed it before she could stop it. Before she could die instead of him. Before she could stop him, he got in her way, again and this time it ended with his demise like it almost did in Camelot.

Her archer who sacrificed himself to save her is dead, no amount of magic will bring him back and it doesn't help that the Wish Realm version of her true love is with her other half. Tears are in her eyes as she thinks about him and she summons the last thing she has of him.

She holds the arrow the Wish Realm version of him gave her before he left for that realm. While it wasn't her Robin that gave her the arrow, a version of her true love held the arrow out to her.

"I might not be him, Regina, but it doesn't mean we didn't use the same arrows. I know it's not the same thing as him giving you this but I hope it helps." The darker version of her true love says before dropping the arrow into her gloved hand, smiling at her with that same smile her Robin gave her.

Her fingers curl around the arrow shaft and she sighs as she remembers how her true love tried to teach her how to shoot an arrow in the forest which ended up with her on top of him on the forest floor before she kissed him.

She wishes that he was here today, watching as she was crowned The Good Queen, he always knew she was good and would have been proud that she's now finally recognised as such by everyone in all the realms and is no longer called a monster or the Evil Queen.

She leans against the railing on the balcony of her new palace, one that isn't coated in darkness, and sighs deeply, the arrow still in her hand. She looks up at the sky.

"I miss you, Robin." She whispers to the sky. Yes, she saw him again, in a dream, felt his hand press against her chest where her heart lay, like he did all those years ago at Granny's, "Use mine for the both of us." He had said to her with that smile she was already in love with, felt the warmth of his hand, saw him smile at her, felt his lips against her own when they kissed, one final time.

Voices come from the ballroom where her coronation party is being held and Emma and their grown up son both come out to the balcony, both wearing shocked and disbelieving looks on their faces.

"What's wrong? Is it Hope? Lucy?" She asks them, fearing for her goddaughter and granddaughter, the first people she can think of if the two of them are out here at the same time with matching looks on their faces, they shake their heads before Henry smiles at her.

"You've got to see this, Mom." He takes the hand that isn't clenched around Wish Realm Robin's arrow and practically drags her inside to the ballroom, a strange feeling in her chest where she now uses her heart for both of them.

She notices the shift instantly and it brings back old feelings of when she was still evil before the scent hits her: the scent of forest, the scent of her thief, her archer.

He's here, standing in the middle of the ballroom in her new palace, dressed in what he was wearing for the ball in Camelot, before he got stabbed, before he got in her way.

He has the smile he wore in her dream, in the tavern that she didn't go into like she was meant to when she was a young queen. 

 She's frozen in shock, she can't move, can't speak, can't even reach out to touch him in case he fades away in front of her again.

"Prove to me that it's really my Robin and not another version of you." She finally gets out, his smile widens as he steps towards her.

"You knew I was a thief when you met me. Use mine for the both of us. Can't steal something that's been given to you. There it is, there's that elusive yet satisfying smile I think about every time I close my eyes. Of course I am. I've got your heart." He's quoting things that only the two of them

Tears are running down her face as she meets him in the middle of the room. His arms lock around her waist and he kisses her deeply, so deeply that if he didn't have his arms around her waist, they would've ended up on the floor.

Cheers and applause are going off around them but she doesn't care she keeps kissing her archer. Finally she has to pull away when air becomes a necessity for the both of them. Robin suddenly grabs her hand and places it over his chest, she feels his heart thumping underneath her fingertips.

"So don't. Use mine for the both of us." He says, wearing that same smile he wore that day.

She only kisses him harder as tears continue to fall down her face.

"I love you, Robin Hood." She finally says against his lips, she feels him smiling against her before he once again pulls away and cups her face, she leans into his touch.

"I love you too, Your Majesty." Her archer says.

"How are you here? You're meant to be dead." She's saying her head is spinning. It's almost as if she's drunk too much whiskey.

"I honestly have no idea how it's even possible for me to be here, but I'm here, and I am forever." He says. Regina simply stares at her thief.

"Okay thief." Is all she gets to say before she finds her lips captured one more by a thief who is also an archer.

The Good Queen's archer.

A\N: Another OutLawQueen 'what should have happened' oneshot that should have been published yesterday but I got distracted by reading my new books. The ending is crappy but I don't care. I've had a crappy week. I'll try to have more oneshots up tomorrow but with the amount of reading I've got to do, I can't guarantee anything. I hope you Angels enjoyed this season 7 finale AU oneshot.