I have an idea of where I want to take this so i guess we will see if/where I get there! It's my first piece of ff so hopefully you like it :)
Disclaimer: I don't own anything and any mistakes are mine.
She wakes up to an empty bed, expecting Robin to be laying there besides her. His side is cold; she sees water droplets on the wall of the shower. He must be in the other room; she thinks to herself. She turns to the right, Robin at least left the blinds closed so she could get some extra sleep. She pulls the thin blanket from her body and starts to walk towards the closed door in front of her, fixes her pajama pants that scrunched up her legs during the night. She opens the door, steps through and sees Robin. His back is turned to her, and is dressed for work already, stirring something that resembles breakfast on the stove.
"Good morning" says Marian, as she walks towards him and wraps her arms around his sturdy build, nuzzling her head in between his shoulder blades. He's too tall for her, but he seemed to never care. He always seemed to soothe her insecurities.
"The same to you, sleepy head" replies Robin, as he turns and kisses the top of her forehead. She smiles in response, leaning further into him. "I have to get going soon, today's my big day" he tells her with a grin.
"Big day?" her eyebrows scrunch in confusion at his words. She slightly pulls away. Was there something she forgot about?
"I wanted to surprise you. I'm getting promoted, love. Now we will have all the time in the world." He glances at his wrist that reads 00:16:23:13, 0 days, 16 hours, 23 minutes and 13 seconds left, just enough to get to work and back, and buy a few things needed for dinner.
"What? Robin congratulations! Why didn't you tell me sooner?" She says with a large smile.
"I thought I would tell you when I came home tonight. I was planning on meeting you at the bus stop and revealing all the time on my arm. Then I would transfer it all to you, my love." he glances at her wrist, just about 10 hours left. It had always been like this since they turned 25, living day by day, getting by with their minimum level jobs. They both never seemed to have enough to settle and get comfortable with their lives.
"Robin I -", her words get cut off when his lips gently press to hers. She can never get enough of him; they have dated for practically 8 years now.
They had been together before their clocks started ticking. The day he turned 25, his wrist started to detract time. The years' worth of stored time that he was so used to seeing was rapidly decreasing. She remembers she had walked into their room, seeing him pressed in front of the mirror. "Am I really going to look like this for the rest of my life? I turned 25 today. My year of time is going out" he said, as he held out his wrist for her to see. Her eyes widened. This was the first wrist she had seen that did not have frozen time on it before. She took hold of his arm and gently ran her fingers across the ink. She then smiled and looked up at him and said "If you mean handsome, then yes, you'll look like the man I've loved for years now. This doesn't change anything between us Robin, it just means we have to be careful now". Two years later she had turned 25 as her wrist started to detract. Then she was the one in front of the mirror while Robin was the one soothing her fears. Now they both had used up their year, and had to depend on working to try and get any extra time to live. Technically he was 29, while she was 27, but age didn't matter anymore in this society, but to them they still quietly celebrated. Society was set up to keep the rich alive and the poor dead. Robin and Marian found themselves lucky to live the extra years that they had gotten.
"But what promotion are you getting? I thought you said you weren't doing as well as you thought you were?"
"Marian it doesn't matter. Do you know what this means?" His eyes light up, his smile from cheek to cheek, as his hands cup her face, "We can finally settle down, move to New Greenwich, get out of this place and start a family! God we will live the live we have always wanted. We won't have to worry about time anymore!" He places his hands on her stomach "we will finally have enough to have children of our own".
"Robin-", again his lips crush to hers. His arms snake around her body, pressing them together. Her arms still around him, the food on the stove being ignored as there are more pressing matters.
"This is the beginning Marian, and the only way we can start is if you marry me"
"What?" Her eyes start to water, as her hands come back around towards her and cover her mouth. Meanwhile Robin stands there, and kisses her cheek.
He whispers in her ear, "Marry me, and let's finally live our life. I know I don't have a ring but -"
"Do you really think a ring matters to me? Yes, of course, I'll marry you Robin" she's the one to kiss him now. She bites his lower lip and kisses him again, her hands on his face, but it ends as he starts to turn off the stove and grabs his bag.
"If we don't stop making out I'll be late to work" he says while chuckling, "I have to go but I'll see you tonight at the bus stop okay? Don't push yourself too hard today at work but tonight we celebrate! Take an hour would you?" He states as he locks wrists with hers and tries to give her an hour of his, but she protests it, saying that "I have enough Robin, don't worry about it. I'll be home around 9:30 okay, I'll be fine".
"Well then you can at least eat what I made for you, love". With a kiss to her lips he grabs his keys and heads out the door.
She turns around, places what he made for breakfast on a disposable plate and starts eating, glances at her arm, realizing how little time she has, maybe she should have taken that extra hour. The seconds winding down, leading towards what everyone fears, where everything revolves around time. Anything you want to buy has a certain chunk of time attached to it. Coffee? 5 minutes. Dinner? 20 minutes, and so the list continues. Everything is bought with time, and everyone seems to never have enough. Marian finishes eating, changes, and heads for the bus stop to head to work, thinking about her fiancé and the life they will start together.
I had to start somewhere and I figured it would be a good place to end here. I'm promising you this is an OQ story, as I try to mend my soul from A&E. Thanks :)
