Prompt: Hello. For a while now, I've been looking for someone to write this for me but either they do it 'wrong' or they don't write it at all, so I'm gonna just leave here the prompt and then is yours to decide what to do with it: Regina and Robin have been married for years and they still love each other but the marriage isn't as 'bright' as the first years. I want an encounter of some sort were they re-discover their love. AU or not AU.


Robin and Regina have been married 15 years. They have 4 kids: Henry, Lily, Roland and Hope. Henry is 14 and a freshman in high school, Lily is 12 and in 7th grade, Roland is 6 and in 1st grade, and Hope is a year old and stays at home with mom. Things have not been going so well for the past few years. Robin is an ER doctor and works crazy hours. Regina is a stay at home mom. Regina wants Robin's attention when he gets home, but he is often tired from working his crazy shifts. To add to this, Regina wants to work. Before Henry was born, she was a doctor too. Robin wanted her home with the kids, especially Lily who has special needs. Regina agreed, but now argues that Lily is in 7th grade as is doing fine in school, and that if Robin wants a parent to stay home, he should stay home and let her work. Robin insists that he's a man, and he has to take care of his family. Regina will then argue that if he really feels that way then he should spend more time with his wife and kids. These issues are constant arguments for them. Things got a little better when Hope was born, but recently its been more of the same fight. Regina feels that she has had enough and wants out. Here is what happens…

"You can't do this!" Robin yelled louder than he intended to when he heard Regina's words. I'm leaving you, she had said, and it broke his heart to hear.

"Why not? I'm raising 4 kids without a husband. If I leave you, I will still be raising 4 kids without a husband, but at least I will have my career that I spent so much time and money going to school for." Regina walked to their closet and removed a duffel bag.

"Oh back to this again." Robin scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"Why can't you stay home?" Regina snapped and threw the duffel bag at him.

"I'm a man!" He picked up the bag that had just hit him and slammed it on their king sized bed.

"This isn't the '50s!" Regina, infuriated, paced back and forth while she cracked her knuckles.

"Regina, we've been over this. I can't stay home and have you provide for me, and still look at myself in the mirror everyday. If I do that I've failed as a father and as husband." Robin explained, exasperated, but trying to calm himself down.

Regina wanted to ring his neck, "You're failing as father and husband when you completely ignore us when you get home."

"I don't completely ignore you." Robin threw his hands in the air, then ran a hand through his hair.

"You don't ignore us?" Regina stopped her pacing, placed a hand on her hip and looked him dead in the eyes."How about when Henry asked you to help him with his biology report—"

Robin crossed his arms across his chest and looked right back at his wife, "I had just come home."

"Or when Lily wanted you to play outside with her—"

"I was exhausted."

"When Roland just wanted his father to read him a bed time story—"

"I had to be at work at 4 am!"

"I'm not even sure if Hope knows what you look like—"

"Don't be ridiculous."

"Lets not even talk about us, because I can't remember the last time we spent any quality time together. We never go out to dinner anymore, we never see our friends, we never go anywhere," Regina paused then whispered, "We have no sex life."

Regina's final comment struck him hard, but he continued to deny they had a problem, "Clearly we have a sex life, Regina, you just had a baby."

"I just had a baby a year ago, Robin. Over a year ago. Don't you remember the party we had? What did you think all those balloons and cake were for? Maybe if you weren't upstairs sleeping through most of it —"

Robin rolled his eyes.

Regina rolled her eyes right back,"I think the last time we had sex was nine months before that when I got pregnant. Doing it once every 2 years is not what I call a sex life, Robin."

Robin just stayed quiet after that. Regina scoffed at his silence and walked to the closet and pulled out a bunch of clothes, still on the hangers, and threw them on their bed.

"What are you doing?" He asked when he saw her begin to fold and pack all of his clothes.

"I am packing for you, so you can leave." She moved quickly, removing everything from hangers, folding them neatly, placing them in the duffel bag.

"You want to leave me, but want me to be the one who leaves?" She couldn't be serious he thought to himself.

"I think it would be a little easier if you left, rather than having me and the kids leave." Regina broke up a little in the end, tears fell from her eyes and streaked down her cheeks.

When Robin saw the tears, he knew that this wasn't what she really wanted. She wants things to change, but she has had it with their current living and working arrangement."I think it would be easiest if neither of us leaves." Robin reached Regina and stilled her hands to stop her from folding his shirts, "I love you."

"Robin," Regina tried to pull away, but her husband held on tight to her hands.

" I. Love. You," He said slowly and drew her hands up so they went around his neck and he loosely held her around the waist, "Do you love me?"

Regina scoffed and looked down, but Robin waited quietly for her answer, "Yes," she said finally. "I love you a lot. I don't want a divorce, but Robin, I can't go on like this either."

"You won't have too. We can make this work," He vowed and pressed his lips to hers, "We've had 15 years, and I want 15 thousand more."

"How are things going to change?" Regina asked, deadly serious. She didn't want empty words that would only serve to stop her from leaving.

"To start, I think we need to work on quality time. Are the kids staying the night with your sister?" He pressed a kiss to her forehead.

"Yes…" She answered, a little confused at his meaning.

"Fantastic!" Robin scooped his wife up in his arms and tossed her on the side of the bed that didn't have the pile of his clothes on it. He pushed his clothes off and lied down next to her.

Regina, horrified, climbed over her husband, Her stomach flush with his as she eyed the mess on the floor. "They're going get wrinkled, we should really hang everything back up in the closet."

Robin chuckled, his wife was very much a neat freak, "I'm not worried about my clothes right now, Regina," He drew her attention back to him. He was on his back and she was still on top lying across his stomach, and he wanted to take perfect advantage of the situation, "Come here, baby, I want to kiss you into oblivion."


One Year Later

"I am so glad you guys could join us on vacation," Robin's good friend, David Nolan said.

"The kids have been really looking forward to it," David's wife, Mary Margaret added.

David Nolan was a really good friend of Robin and Regina in med school, and Regina introduced David to Mary Margaret, who was Henry's kindergarten teacher. The couple has two kids, Emma and Neal who were 7 and 2, the exact ages of Roland and Hope.

"Ours have been looking forward to it too. What kid doesn't look forward to Disneyland?" Regina said and the adults laughed.

David and Mary Margaret had planned to take their kids to Disneyland, and were driving. David ran into Robin while he and Mary Margaret were still making plans, and asked if Robin and his family wanted to come too. When the Lockleys had agreed, they decided to rent a big van, and Robin and David took turns driving it. Mary Margaret and Regina sat in the middle seats closest to the front and all of the kids were in the back.

"When we get there, can we make sure my room is no where near you and Dad?" Henry pleaded and shuddered.

Robin snickered in the front seat as Regina explained," He walked in on us last week." The adults all laughed.

"It happens," David said from the driver's seat.

"And they were naked. It was so gross." Henry yelled and shuddered again.

Regina's eyes widened, "We are not gross."

"I've been having nightmares." Henry insisted.

"Let's talk about something else," Robin interjected from the front passenger seat.

"Tell me, Locksley, how is your private practice going?" David asked.

"It's great." Robin explained, "We are open from 8 to 6, Monday through Friday. We have hired nurses, assistants, and a clerk to check people in. Regina and I alternate, so we both work and we are both home with kids. Weekends off is wonderful too. Isn't that right, Love?"

"Yes, it's wonderful." Regina agreed as the adults continued to chatter and the kids played games in the back.

The group prepared to make their way to the Magic Kingdom.