A/N: Hello there my fellow OUAT fans! After the season finale on Sunday I had too many emotions to deal with, and this story is what came from it. So, if you haven't seen the finale DO NOT read this unless you want spoilers! This story is just a short little one-shot picking up where the finale left off. I'm new to writing for OUAT (this is my first story for this show! Ah!) so be gentle. Constructive criticism and reviews are loved. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own OUAT!

Villains don't get happy endings.

As Regina slammed the door to Granny's shut behind her, that one thought echoed around and around in her mind. She all but ran down the sidewalk to put some distance between herself and everyone else in the god-forsaken town. The town that she had created. Regina tried her damnedest to keep her tears locked in her eyes, but it was hardly worth the effort. The realization of never being happy was too much. It was too hard.

Once again, she had lost everything.

Why was she even surprised? Did she honestly believe that she was going to live happily ever after? She was the Evil Queen. No matter how much she tried to change, no matter how much she really did change, no one cared. It barely made a difference. For the past few weeks, she really thought her life was turning around. She defeated Zelena with good magic, she found someone to truly love her, and she made Henry proud. For the first time in years, Regina had felt her heart lighten and a burden disappear from her shoulders.

Then, it was all taken from her in the blink of an eye.

As the tears slipped down her cheeks, Regina swore she could feel her heart crumbling. Is this how it felt when she ripped the hearts from her victims and squeezed them until they turned to dust? For just a moment, she considered ripping her own heart out and squeezing it until there was no more. That would be easier. It would stop the pain for the first time in her entire life. The moment she considered the idea, she quickly changed her mind. No, this pain was what she deserved. Her destiny was to suffer; after all, she had cursed and killed so many. She had stolen so, so many happy endings for her own personal vendetta and she hadn't thought twice about it. She had been a fool to think that she'd ever be accepted or loved when the only thing she deserved was hatred.

The whole situation was her own stupid fault. She should have never believed that she would get her happy ending. She knew better than that, but she'd let herself get swept away with the blissful idea of true happiness. True love. She set herself up to get disappointed, again. After all, she was the Evil Queen, the villain, and villains don't get happy endings. Every time she opened herself to love, she got hurt. Crushed. Embarrassed. Every single time, it was ripped away from her. Daniel loved her, and what did that get him? Death. Her father had loved her, and what did she do? Rip his own heart out so that she could destroy Snow White's happiness. The irony that she was once again alone and heartbroken while Snow White was surrounded with those whom she loved was not lost.

Regina couldn't even see where she was walking, the tears blurring her vision so badly. She collapsed into the first bench she saw and wrapped her arms around herself, shaking with sobs. Normally she would never allow herself to break down like this where someone could possibly see her, but she knew that wasn't an issue tonight. Everyone in the town was at Granny's celebrating Snow and Charming's new baby.

Once again, Regina was unwanted and alone.

Once again, Regina was broken.

Once again, Regina felt the familiar swell of hatred and anger darkening her heart.

"Regina?"

She heard her name but she didn't look up. She couldn't. She could barely manage to gasp a few breaths between the sobs that forced their way out of her chest. The thought of unwrapping her arms from herself scared Regina, because she was almost positive she would shatter like a piece of discarded glass.

"We have to talk."

His voice was quiet, unsure. Regina felt his weight on the bench beside her as he sat down. God, she just wanted him to go away. His smell infiltrated her senses and her heart gave a painful clench, making her think back to all of the intimate moments they had spent together. Moments that would never happen again because she didn't deserve them.

A warm, calloused, hand rested gently on her shoulder and Regina jerked away quickly. Her head whipped up to shoot him the cruelest glare she could muster with the tears blurring her vision and make-up running down her cheeks. Despite having many years of practice at being the evilest of them all, at this moment Regina felt the weakest and the most powerless she ever had.

"Don't touch me." She hissed. "Don't you ever touch me again."

He looked hurt, but he stayed where he was. His hand fidgeted as he weighed the pros and cons of reaching out to her again. He decided not to, instead just letting her name slip from his lips, "Regina—,"

"Go back to your family!" She yelled. She couldn't be near him any longer. She couldn't take the torture of having him be so close to her, but not want her. She nearly leaped off of the bench, turning on her heel as she moved to flee from the situation.

His hand caught her wrist and stopped her in her tracks, forcing her to turn and look at him. As their eyes met, she thought about burying herself in his embrace and throwing a fireball at his face all at the same time. Her emotions were so conflicted and screwed up that she couldn't tell whether she was sad or angry or everything in between.

"We have to talk about this." Robin Hood said, voice quiet and even. "Please. It can't end this way."

Regina's breathing was labored as she tried to deal with the multitude of emotions flowing through her veins. "I don't want to talk to you about anything." She tried to pull her arm away from him, but his grasp was relentless. "You have one chance to let go of me before I rip your heart out!"

For just a moment, the Evil Queen had taken over. The amount of forcefulness in her voice shocked her because it had been so long since she'd used it. When she saw Robin's eyes, she instantly regretted her words.

"Is that what you were going to do to Marian?" He asked roughly.

Regina froze. As much as she didn't want to admit it, her entire being was aching for him to tell her that he still loved her, that he chose her and not his old wife, but his words ruined what little hope she was clinging too. She should have known it would never happen. How could she compete with the mother of his child? The first woman he truly loved? The woman he would have walked through hell to get back? Especially when she was the reason that woman was supposed to be dead. She hated herself even more for grasping so pathetically to that tiny shred of hope. What was wrong with her? She knew he would never choose her over Marian, but she couldn't resist wishing.

Too bad her wishes never came true.

In that moment, Regina Mills felt something she had never felt in her entire life. It was as if her realization triggered something inside of her that finally decided that it was time to give up. She felt all of her emotion simply drain away. She was empty. Her anger and hatred seemed to evaporate into oblivion as a strange feeling of nothingness took over. Her sadness and heartache simply disappeared. Inside, she felt like there was a huge void. It was worse than when her heart had been stolen; even then, she could feel. Now, there was nothing. As she stared into Robin's eyes, his hurt and betrayed expression washing over her, the only thing she could feel was…hollow.

"No." She replied quietly. The tears pooled in her eyes, but they did not fall. "The guards would have executed her."

"But you would have ordered them too." Robin's grip on her wrist grew tighter, but Regina barely noticed. "And for what reason? For protecting someone innocent?"

As she dropped her gaze from his eyes, she simply murmured, "That's correct."

Robin stood staring at her for one tense moment, but then dropped her wrist. Her arm fell limply to her side and Regina took a small step backward.

"I really thought you had changed." He said, his voice full of hurt and anger. "I knew the stories, Regina. I knew what you'd done in the Enchanted Forest…but when I got to know you I couldn't believe it. I never saw you as evil, just broken and on the mend. I believed in you and I wanted you to believe in yourself. But now," His voice faltered and Regina briefly wondered why he was so emotional over her, but she refused to look at his face. He kept speaking regardless, "Now I see you for what you are. Marian told me everything that you did to her but I still wanted to see you again. I didn't want to believe it was true." His voice was gruff with emotion as he paused to gather himself. "This is a hell of a lot to drop on a guy in one night, and I was confused, Regina, because I think I really could have loved you. I did love you."

The words stung, but Regina still could only feel the emptiness. It was a scary feeling; she'd always held tightly onto her anger to get rid of her sadness. Her thirst for vengeance had always been her way of defending herself from the pain. Anger was safe, anger was controllable. Heartbreak and sadness were not. It was just easier to be angry than it was to be sad. But, right now, she had no quest for vengeance. It was as if she'd suffered so much that she'd finally reached her breaking point and, when she broke, all she was left with was an empty, unfeeling, shell of her former self.

Robin Hood stared at her for another moment, and then took a step away. Before he left her there, he glanced over his shoulder one last time, "I don't want you near Roland. Stay away from him, and Marian, or you'll have to deal with my bow. It never misses its target."

And with that, he took off down the sidewalk and out of her life.

Regina stood there in the dark for a few moments before turning and quietly walking towards her big, lonely, mansion.

She hated Emma Swan for doing this to her but, then again, she didn't. Regina was the villain. Regina was always the bad guy. Regina ruined so, so many lives. It was only fair that she got cheated out of her happiness every single time.

Villains don't get happy endings.

A/N: I'd love to hear what you thought! I've been playing around with the idea of making this into a multi-chap fic (with a happy ending, I promise), so if you'd be interested in reading a continuation let me know. If anyone would like to read it, I would love to write it. Or if you think this would be better left as it is, I'd love to know. Thanks for reading! :)