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Chapter 3
"Mooommmmmmmm" that's what woke Regina up at 8:30 on a Saturday morning.
She heard her bedroom door open and felt a weight on her bed before a pair of hands shook her shoulders slightly.
"Moooommmmmm" she heard down her ear again and she willed her eyes to open. She loved her son really she did. But she worked till 4 last night and she needed her damn sleep.
"What Henry?" She croaked out.
"Don't forget grace is coming round today okay?"
"You woke me up just to tell me your girlfriend is coming over?!" Regina screamed perhaps a little loudly and picked up her pillow to hit him on the head jokingly.
"I'm sorry, I had to make sure you didn't forget. Now you can sleep in peace." He sprinted out of her bedroom and slammed the door shut. Regina just sighed and collapsed back onto her bed.
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Robin groaned as he rolled around in bed, last night had killed him, his whole body ached. But it didn't stop his mind from wandering into dangerous thoughts. Those of a sassy brunette with caramel eyes and a smoking hot body.
Robin smiled to himself as he pictured her, she was for lack of other words perfect. Everything about her was alluring, and he'd practically spilled his darkest secrets to her without even really knowing her.
But he wanted to get to know her, he wanted to know everything. He saw just by her eyes she was a complicated woman and he wanted to unravel everything.
He tried to think of something else, anything else but it didn't work. So he rolled out of bed and padded downstairs, flicking the TV on and headed to the kitchen to make some breakfast.
It never really occurred to robin just how lonely it was in his apartment, no one to talk to, no one to spend time with and no one to lay down next to every night. He shouldn't miss her, he was over her she was dead and he'd moved on. But did he really miss her? Or did he just miss the feeling of having someone.
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It was 11:30 by the time Regina had dragged herself out of bed, showered and was now in the kitchen. Obviously.
She'd always loved cooking but with the ridiculous hours she worked she was always too tired to do anything. But today she felt determined, work was one thing but she would never give up something she loved so easily.
Adding the different layers then gently placing the dish in the oven she finished her favourite. Lasagna, with red pepper flakes which Henry always told her "gave it some kick" growing up with her father however she had a taste for spicy foods, that must of been one of the many things Henry had inherited from her. After all her mother never really enjoyed spicy foods.
Without meaning her mind wandered to what she was going to do about tonight, she had all of the bar stacked, had the place cleaned spotless and she hoped robin and his band would be just as good as they where the night before.
Robin. She hadn't spoken to someone so honestly in such a while, no one had ever approached her as easily as him and then there was his trust, wether he knowingly or absent mindedly trusted her he'd shared his darkest moments with her and still managed to keep that infuriating smirk on his face.
Since having Henry she hadn't really had boyfriends, one nighters? A few all kept secret of course but with robin she was deffinatly interested. There was something about the way he carried himself, he was down to earth but also the cockiest bastard going, but he made it all fit somehow. He wasn't intimidated by her and that felt good.
She was dragged from her deep thoughts when the doorbell rang and an "I'll get it." Came from upstairs, nethertheless she went to the door, it's nice to be polite.
"Hey grace how are you?" She asked with a huge smile.
"I'm great, how are you?" She was a small girl, with long brown hair and a beautiful smile.
"I'm good, I made lasagna so you guys just come get it when your hungry." Grace nodded and Henry gave her not just a look, The look. The raised eyebrow. The same look Regina would use on him when he was in trouble and it made her laugh although she saw it as a dismissal.
"Well I'll be down here if you need me." She said, going unheard by the teenagers as Henry dragged his girlfriend upstairs raving about the new video game he got.
Regina sighed, grabbing a glass of wine and sitting down to watch some TV.
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"So guys, after I had a long chat with Regina last night she was impressed. Which means we have to do just as good ok?" Robin said with a megawatt smile, his dimples shining clearly.
"We will be. Come on robin it's us right? We'll blow them away. If your not flirting with the boss all night." Killian teased, little john tried hard to cover a snigger but he failed.
"I was not flirting we were just talking plain and simple so zip it jones we need to get practicing got it?" He didn't know why it's not like Killian was insulting her but talking about Regina hit a nerve, he couldn't quite explain it.
"Alright grumpy ass what we playin then?"
"Red. Now before you start I know we havnt rehearsed it a lot but that's what today's for, if we wanna impress mills and want her to keep us on then that's the song that we're going to play." Robin said matter of factly, hooking his guitar up to the amps and counting them in for a long day of rehearsals.
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"Why don't you and my mom sit down and I'll get everything." Henry said giving his girlfriend a small push before going to the kitchen to grab their plates.
"Always a gentleman." Regina said with a smile. He was, nothing like his father. But she was proud how he turned out she had thought he was a bit too young to be dating at 13 but it's an unspoken rule the more parents tell their child not to do something the more they'll want to do it. So she let them be, truth be told she found them both quite sweet, Henry was always looking out for grace.
"Here you go." Henry said placing down everyone's food and plopping down in the seat next to grace to eat his own.
"This is so good mom! Make a thousand of them please so I will never ever have to cook." Henry let out between mouthfulls.
"That could take a while Henry." Regina smiled and returned back to her own food but she couldn't deny the way to her sons heart was through his stomach.
"I've always wanted to learn how to cook, but I'm so clumbsy I'd probably burn water." Grace said with a small laugh.
"Babe your not that bad, remember when I went to yours last week and I fell down the stairs, your dad nearly had a heart attack. Jesus I've never seen him look so scared in my life." Henry erupted Into laughter and nearly fell off his chair, gripping the edge of the table to keep his balance.
"Seriously Henry? You where always clumbsy even as a child, you'd trip over thin air. Even if there was no way to hurt yourself Guarenteed you'd find a way." Regina smirked thinking back to when Henry was small and he'd reak all sorts of havoc around the apartment she'd bought upon learning she was pregnant.
"Ah god. We should put you in a marshmallow suit so you can't harm yourself." Grace suggested. Regina couldn't remember when she'd laughed this hard, working nights and sleeping days meant she missed a lot.
"Imagine that. I'd look so cool, just call me marshmallow man. I'll answer all your flumpy an sugary pleads." Henry jumped from his seat and circled the dinner table with one fist in the air making both grace and Regina hunch over in laughter before he sat back down and acted like nothing happened.
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It was 7:30 when Regina finally dropped grace back at her home, stopping for a few minutes to talk to Jefferson.
After that Regina left Henry with his babysitter Mary Margaret and left to get things ready at the club.
She'd had one hell of a day and she was looking forward to finally relaxing and having a few drinks whilst robins band entertained the crowd.
Robin. Maybe she'd get a chance to talk to him again, to laugh and relax and be herself without feeling judged and pressured. Talking to him was easy, almost natural was she ready to let him break her walls? No. And she didn't know if she ever would be. But in the mean time they could laugh and joke, it was harmless right?
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Okay robin thought. We are gonna kill em. And maybe after he could get a drink with Regina? Maybe they could talk again, get to know each other and relax.
Maybe he could learn some new things about her, and if she wasn't willing to open up he'd gain her trust. He'd do all the talking, he would let her in and show her that having a friend wasn't the worst thing In the world, that letting her walls down once in a while might actually make her happier.
It didn't matter if she didn't want to let him in and it didn't matter if it took years upon years for her to let her mask slip. Robins mission from now on was to get to know Regina mills.
And tonight he was going to make progress.
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"Okay then. As long as you are as good as you where yesterday you'll have no problem. Good luck." Regina clapped her hands and left the band to set up, strutting into her office no doubt to sort some paperwork and sign some delivery forms.
"You know what robin. I'm feeling really good about this song. Oh and I see the allure, she is truthfully extremely hot. A bit sassy for my liking but hot nethertheless." Killian commented with a wink.
"Well that's wonderful shall we get set up?" Robin replied through gritted teeth.
"Okay okay." Killian said holding his hands up in surrender.
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"Hey guys, we are the silver tipped arrows and tonight is officially our second time playing. So we hope you like it." Robin announced, he heard the crowd scream and clap but he couldn't see anything beyond the beautiful brunette leaning against the bar watching them with purpose.
"Me and the guys wrote this song not to long ago we hope you like it." Robin breathed out.
Then he stepped back and let john and Killian play the intro.
Was he nervous? Not really he'd never had stage fright but seeing those brown pools staring at him did set him on edge.
"I don't even know your name, but it's crazy what you do. Red dominates my sanity and it's all because of you." Robin sung slowly, closing his eyes and getting lost in the music.
"Your silhouettes perfection, your prescence an allure. Goddess of my illusions and I cannot find a cure." This peaked reginas interest, what was it with this man and cryptic song lyrics. She didn't just want she needed to know more about this, his voice took her to another place entirely a place where only the two of them existed.
"A single tear to end it all, falling from my eye, to stop the violence and leave your hold. It's just too hard to try." Robin stopped abruptly letting little john and Killian play an instrumental.
It felt like hours they had been staring at each other when in fact it had been mere minutes and when the song was over and robin had stopped singing Regina was snapped out of her trance. Her pulse going wild and she told herself repeatedly to calm the fuck down.
He strode towards her with a purposefull smirk on his face. Regina kept herself as calm as possible and kept her mask on.
"So what did you think? I know it's only one song but Guarenteed the rest will blow you away." His confidence soaking through every word.
"I was curious about that song and..." Robin interrupted.
"Nope. That's a secret. But I'll tell you what, you let me take you out tomorrow and I'll tell you whatever you want to know." He smiled widely showing his dimples off.
"Somebody's awfully brave tonight, but I don't do dates." Regina replied shortly taking a sip from her glass of wine.
"So it won't be a date, just two friends hanging out."
"So we're friends now?" She asked with an eyebrow raised.
"I'd like to think so, so why don't you stop denying that you don't wanna go out with me when I can see very clearly in your eyes that you do?" He took a step dangerously close to her, their faces a breath apart.
"Take a leap of faith." He said quietly looking deep into her eyes.
"Fine." She cleared her throat and stepped back abruptly.
"I'll go out with you now tell me, why did you write this song?".
"I'll tell you on our date." He winked and ran upto the stage getting ready to start singing again.
No matter how hard she tried she couldn't stop the smile that spread across her face, because this man made her feel happier than she had been in a while. Not that she'd let him know of course, because admitting that would make her vulnerable and Regina mills would never be vulnerable again.
