So, I promised another chapter, and I hope you like it. Sorry for any mistakes.
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"Shall we?" He asked and Regina smirked and nodded, a slight blush creeping up her cheeks. She really was like she was madly in love.
"We shall." And with that they began to walk the corridors of the school until they got to the glass double doors of the entrance and reception desk. Regina un-linked her arm from his and unlocked the door, pushing them open as they both walked out of the building, Regina turning the lights off in the process and then when both were out she locked the doors and made her way to his car. After all it would be nice to not have to drive for once and she could easily get a lift tomorrow.
"So where to M'lady?" Robin asked as he unlocked the door of the driver's seat and gestured for her to get in the one across from him, as Regina got in she thought about all the little cafes that were around the small town, her favourite near instantly coming to mind, Grannies. However, that was too risky, she knew a few students and teachers ate there, after all it was the best and most known café in the whole town. So, Regina thought for a moment longer considering their options on where to eat.
"How about that small one on the edge of town?" Yes, the small one at the edge of town, the one Regina had eaten at before but could not remember the name of. It was a quite but nice little place, more a mini restaurant than a café. It had a nice atmosphere and kind staff, the people were nice and it had delicious food and good wines and champagnes.
Once they were both in his car, Robin nodded and began his engine giving a small "Okay." In reply to her comment, he knew where she was talking about and knew how to get there, so the man made his way to the small restaurant, driving through the dark autumn night. It wasn't that cold yet, but it was beginning to get dark. Regina and Robin sat in a comfortable silence throughout the journey, they didn't need to say anything just being in each other's presence was enough for the two.
They got to the building and Robin parked in one of the free spaces near the front of the place. He got out of the car and made his way over to Regina's side, however before he got there the brunette got out of the car, unknowing to the fact her was going to open the door for her, after all she had never really gone out with a man, and didn't know that it was something gentlemen actually did, thinking it was just something she had seen in movies and read in books. However, when she seen the saddened look on the man's face, Regina gave a small smile, understanding what he was going to do.
"Sorry, I didn't realise." Robin smiled and wrapped one of his arms around her upper body, pulling the woman into his hold once he had locked the car, the two of them walking to the building, him once again opening the door and letting her walk in first. And he really was one of the most kindest men she had ever known.
They walked over to the desk and the person behind them, a brunette with a gentle voice began to speak to them.
"Welcome, how may I help?" She asked, as she looked toward Regina and Robin, a pen in her hand waiting to write in the book, Storybooke wasn't one for technology.
"Hello, we were wondering if you had any spaces available. We haven't booked." Robin said, as he watched the lady look through the book to find out if they could fit them. She looked up at the waiting Regina and Robin before she spoke to them, saying to them whether or not they could eat there.
"We do have some spaces left, if you would just like to wait I will get somebody to take you to your table." Regina and Robin accepted and waited for the brunette to leave them for a minute to get somebody to take them to the table they had been given, within a few seconds she came back and another female, came over and took them to a quiet table near the edge of the restaurant. Robin pulled out a chair for Regina, who this time knew what he was doing and she sat down, Robin walking around and sitting in his own space. The two of them gave a "Thank you." To the lady and she walked off, leaving them to wait for their menus.
"You look gorgeous." Robin complimented when they were alone, a blush creeping over the brunette at his words. She really wasn't with a now crumpled skirt and shirt and messy hair.
"Thanks, but I think you need to take another look." She said, putting herself down, and Regina wasn't trying to, it was just she didn't feel very gorgeous with the fact she had been working all day and now looked a mess as she had been in the same clothes for the whole day and she wasn't as immaculate as she was at the beginning of the say.
"You always look stunning." He said and she gave him a warm smile, the words he was saying melting her, normally, emotionless heart. Or what people thought was emotionless.
"Thank you." Just as she spoke a waiter came over giving them their menus before walking off to give them a moment to read what food and drink they could have. The two giving him a "Thanks."
"What do you think of getting this champagne?" Robin asked pointing to one of the most expensive on the list, and they were only meant to be having dinner, this wasn't suppost to be a date, so they didn't need expensive drinks or loads of money. In fact, she didn't want them spending loads of money on a date, she was there for him and not for a fancy candlelight dinner spending as much as their accounts would let them. Yes, a candlelight dinner would be nice and romantic, but they didn't need to spend loads.
"We don't need that." She said with a small laugh at his pouty face and she rolled her eyes jokingly before stating. "Fine."
Robin smiled before he gave her a wink, and she had to admit that was quite sexy. The painted lip of hers catching between her teeth, something Robin did not miss seeing, and they could tell this dinner was turning into something more, something with a bit of tease. And it felt comfortable, after all wasn't it just the other day Robin had Regina pinned up against the wall in her office as they shared the most passionate kiss she had ever had, her skirt climbing up her thighs as tongues searched mouths for the first time.
They continued looking at the menu for a bit longer, the two of them suggesting different things until another waiter came over to ask them if they were ready to make an order.
"Okay I will have the smoked salmon with a side dish of salad and the wonderful lady here will have the Caesar salad. And please could we have this champagne. With the bottle." Regina frowned at him, the bottle why would he need that? Robin seen her look and gave her another wink and now Regina was curious.
The man nodded and walked off to tell the chef their orders as the two of them waited.
"I am guessing you are wondering why I asked for the bottle?" He asked.
"Yes." Regina admitted, not understanding the intentions.
"I was thinking for two reasons, one maybe we could go back to mine after and two." He stopped speaking a moment as he thought about what he was going to say. "I really like you. And we have both admitted we love each other, I guess I see a future between us and I want a souvenir of our first date." Regina smiled, a heart-warming smile, one full of love at his words.
"I see a future too, I would love a souvenir of our first date." She said not realising they had both said 'date' the two too lost in the moment to care, only realising after they both said it. But it kind of was a date, they were talking, having a meal together. And it just seemed right. "Plus, I kind of like the idea of going to yours." She smirked as the waiter came over with their salads and champagne, letting Robin know that his salmon would be there shortly.
"Didn't you want anything other than that?" Robin asked seeing the little food Regina had, Regina shrugged her shoulders before speaking.
"I do not eat a lot." She said and Robin gave a short nod in response, he wasn't going to push her. Regina did have a small frame and he kind of understood why now, but she was healthy and happy with what she was having and that is all that mattered to him. He wasn't going to make her change just to suit him.
Robin followed Regina in eating as the two of them drank the alcoholic drink and talked, getting to know each other.
"So, obviously, I already know a lot about you, but what else could you tell me?" Robin asked, he just felt the need to know everything he could about the amazing woman in front of him. Break down more of the walls she had built around herself, so that he would comfort her in all her demons, help the beauty that was currently facing him. He wanted to know 'Regina Mills.'
Regina shrugged her shoulders as she placed her fork gently on her plate before looking at him. "There isn't a lot to say." She simply said, but Robin wasn't having that. He wanted to know her.
"There is nothing you can say to scare me away. And there is nothing that will make me stop loving you." He said, taking any of her doubts out of her mind, and Regina smiled. She could hear his honesty. Regina sighed, there was something she had to tell him, especially if this or any other date they have any time soon lead any further which she was sure it would.
"There is something but um, I think it is too soon to tell you." She replied nervously, watching Robins reaction, to which he smiled reassuringly and replied to her.
"I am sure, whatever it is you can tell me." Regina nodded before she looked down at her hands that were resting together on the table before looking back at him.
"I have um, I have never slept with anybody." Regina stuttered, trying to find the words to tell him, she was nervous of his reaction and honestly just wanted to hide. But awaited his reply, or something from him. She looked at him fear in her eyes, yet the loving ones she was met with, the assuring ones made the woman calm.
"Regina, how many people or how many times does not matter to me the fact you never have shows you want to be serious with somebody." He reassured.
"Really?" She asked a bit more confident. And Robin nodded.
"It doesn't matter if you have never or a hundred times, I would still want what happens between us special and cherished. And I am more than happy to teach you and help you and take away any worries." He said. And he meant it, he cared so much about this female and if she was scared or unsure or just needed assurance, about anything, he was willing to do that for her.
"Thank you."
Robin shook his head. "Its fine." He smiled at her. "Any way, I have only slept with my ex-wife and we didn't really do a lot. We loved each other more than anything but when it came to sex it didn't feel right." Robin admitted, he and his wife did love each other but they just didn't really do anything until they decided they wanted a child and that happened quick.
"So, you are saying-." Robin knew what she was going to say, she was going to say he had only been with one person, the both not having a lot of experience.
"Yes." And Regina smiled at his reassurances, that they both were new to this and both could learn.
They both finished their meal and continued to sit there for a bit longer, the both having dessert and having their drinks.
"So, what else can you tell me?" Robin asked, Regina shrugged her shoulders before speaking.
"What do you want to know?" The woman asked in reply as she waited for him to tell her what he wanted to know.
"How about your past? Your life before you were a teacher?" Regina sighed, this was going to be a long story.
"Well I lived with my mother, my parents divorced when I was little, and let's just say my mother has… ways and managed to win a custody battle against my father. She wasn't a very nice person." Regina shrugged before continuing. "When I was finally old enough I studied law at college, going to live on campus, however I realised it wasn't something I wanted to do so I went into teaching. Wasting half a year on law. I went to university, studying my subject I wanted to teach after getting my college degrees in it. Then getting my teaching degrees I chose to go back to the school I went to, to teach." The brunette explained as simply as she could, however went into more detail than she realised she had.
"So, your relationship with your mother was-?" He convinced her to go on, wanting to know, listening to everything she said.
"It wasn't a good one. I mean she always had my welfare at heart, but she wanted me to live a life I did not want and she didn't understand I didn't want that life." She explained. "She wanted me to take law, that is why I did. And then when she found out I was going to go into teaching, well let's just say she was not happy." Regina looked down, and Robin felt the guild wash over him, how he got her to reveal to him, completely unaware of her past. The reason why she was so closed off. That must be why she never let anybody in. Why she wanted to be by herself.
After a moment, Regina looked up at him, having calmed down at the painful memories. "How about you?" She asked. And as much as Robin wanted to comfort her, he felt it was only fair he tell her about himself, after all she had told him so much and it wasn't one way. They both had to tell each other about their past.
"How about I take you to mine? I promise I will tell you everything you want to know." He asked and Regina nodded.
Robin stood and made his way over to her chair, holding out his hand for her to take. The brunette willingly took it and he grabbed the bottle of champagne, they had already left the money on the table. And he led her out of the building and to the car, thanking the staff for the lovely evening. They had to leave anyway as it was getting close to 10pm and the place would be closing soon, them being some of the only people left. The night had caught up a bit since earlier, the cold now getting to the two as they walked to the car. He unlocked the car, Regina getting in.
He drove them to his house, parking in his driveway.
He got out of the car, this time walking over to the other side, Regina waiting this time for him to open the door, and she got out of the car, the two of them walking to the front door, champagne bottle in Regina's hand. She looked up at the sky as she waited for him to unlock the door. The sky was full of stars, suns billions of lightyears away, potentially being the source of planets holding life. She smiled gently as she looked at the sky, she loved the night sky.
Robin turned around about to introduce her to the house, when he realised she was looking up at the sky, and that is when he had an idea.
"Why don't you make your way to the back of the house, the back garden and I will meet you there." Regina turned her head toward him in confusion before he continued with just a few words. "Trust me." And with that the female nodded and made her way around the back of the house, into the garden as she waited for Robin.
Soon he joined her, a blanket and two glasses in hand. Regina smiled and sat down on the dry grass. Despite the autumn, it hadn't really rained, so she sat down and he joined her.
He took the bottle that was now resting on the ground and filled the two glasses, handing one to her, Regina took it and smiled a thanks to him placing it on the level ground as he wrapped the blanket around them both. Snuggling the both of them under the warmth, letting them both feel the heat of them.
"I seen how you were looking at the stars." He explained, the both of them looking up at the sky, before he looked back at her. "So, I thought we could spend some time out here."
"When I was a little girl, I use to look up at the sky on a bad day. And it use to always make me feel like everything was going to be fine." She said looking up at the sky. The glow of the moon and stars illuminating her skin in the most beautiful of ways, she was stunning, gorgeous. And Robin knew this was the female he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, Regina was the most amazing woman, inside and out. And he felt like the luckiest man on the planet that this female, could of picked anybody but she picked him, and that he was the only one she felt safe to let her walls go down for. That she had such a horrible past, and why should she let anybody in? But she had let him. She had allowed him to have knowledge of her life.
Robin wasn't going to let her down either. He was not going to hurt her, make her feel like she could not trust him. Because now she was also telling him about her, without him even asking. He had her trust and he wasn't going to make her regret it. He did not want to be the reason for her sadness, for her heartbreak.
"I'm sorry about your past." Regina shook her head. Looking at him.
"At least I have a wonderful future to look forward to." And with that she smiled before looking back at the stars. "I did astronomy… the study of the universe as a hobby." She explained. "It was when I was a teenager, before my studies, I had enough time so I thought I would." Robin just listened as she told him, taking in every word.
"See those stars there?" She pointed to a pattern of stars, drawing it with her finger, Robin looked up and nodded. "I am guessing you already know but that is Orion. And the star there that is Beetlejuice, a star that might no longer be existent. Because it is so far away we do not know if it has died or not." She told him, Robin looking up, amazed by the new information she had told him. He didn't know a lot about the universe, only that there was planets, stars and other stuff. Just the amount he needed to know.
But now listening to her, he didn't mind knowing more than he needed, in the sense of the galaxies.
Regina turned her head to look at him, his gaze going from the sky to her as she asked him a question.
"You were going to tell me about you?" She asked, remembering they had agreed that in the restaurant, Robin nodded.
"I lived with my parents, although my dad was away a lot, he worked in the forest. However, a few times a year he would take me, only me, to the forest and we would camp. It was some of the best times of my life." Regina listened to him as she placed her head on his shoulder. Content at listening to his childhood, his past. "When I was, older I went to college and studied English, then I went to university. I guess I always knew I wanted to be a teacher. My family supported me and then I taught at a few schools before coming here, just after me and my wife finalised the divorce, she couldn't cope with Roland so I took him and she sometimes video chats him." Robin said, saying the last bit with a bit of hurt, over the fact his son did not have his mother about.
Regina got off his shoulder and looked into Robins eyes, she gave a gentle, sad smile before saying. "I am sorry about Roland, and what happened with you and your ex-wife." Robin shook his head.
"Like I said, we loved each other but there was not that connection." He told her truthfully before admitting. "Not like what I feel between us." Regina smiled, she really did feel the same about him, it was like they were perfect together, like they were meant to be. She stared into his deep blue oceans as they stayed there in silence for a moment, just enjoying this silent time together, it was nice seeing each other out side of school. where they could be true to each other. Admit their feelings. And just be able to be together.
"I feel it too." She said after a moment, and that is when Robin smiled back. He was so happy she felt it too, although he kind of guessed she did. Well he knew she loved him, she had told him. And the fact they could tell each other that, they could tell each other their feelings, express true love to one another. Because that is what it was. True love.
It was too strong to not be.
"I'm glad." He said before adding. "I know you have told me so much about your past, and I wish I could take all that away-." Regina cut in.
"I don't care about my past. I care about my future, and I want you to be my future." She said, her honesty showing by the way she looked deep into his eyes, showing she meant it, showing she wanted to be with him and that she loves him. She smiled lovingly at him before she placed her hand on his arm, gently running up and down the muscles that were there.
"And I want you to be my future." He said back, the honesty she had just gave to him, returned to her as he told her what she had just told him.
He took her hand off his arm and placed them into his, gently circling his thumbs over them before he moved them down to rest on the blanket. He then looked back at her, she was so gorgeous, so warm hearted, and the fact he only got to see this side of her just made him feel so lucky. He just knew she was the one he wanted to be with his whole love.
"I am with you, always." She said, refusing to leave her hands where he placed them, she moved her hand toward his chest, her right hand resting softly against the toned muscles where his heart lied. Small tears leaving her dark orbs. A smile creeping, one full of love. Against her lips. And it was so strange this connection, when only hours ago, they had admitted their feelings to one another, but it was there. It was undeniable.
Robin couldn't help the tears that fell from his own eyes, at the brunette's words and then with that he changed the words he just said, the ones about him wanting her to be her future to. "Regina, you are my future." And with that he leaned forward his right copying her own right as he placed it over her heart and then his left went onto her cheek.
And then he was leaning forward, Regina following his moves and their lips joined in a gentle, soft, loving kiss. Their eyes closing as they felt each other's heart beat a little faster.
They kissed under the stars, under the moon, the world peaceful around them. Like they were the only two in the world, just two people that even in a world where there was no magic, no fairy tales, still managed to be soul mates. Two people who were meant to be together. Been hurt by their past and awaiting an amazing future.
Not knowing that a kiss that seemed so simple and easy, yet so loving. Was the beginning of something.
After a few moments, when the need for air was strong, the two pulled away, their foreheads resting against each other, Robins hand that was on her chest now moving up to cup her other cheek as they stared into each other's eyes, there was so much love between them and it just felt so right and it just felt so wonderful.
"Why don't we go inside?" Robin asked, quietly, not wanting to break the moment. Regina nodded against his forehead and the two of them pulled away. Once more, before standing the two looked up at the sky just as a shooting star went by, sparkling the night sky with its brightness and beauty. Regina looked toward Robin.
"You know when you see a shooting star you make a wish." She said. "But you cannot tell anybody." Robin nodded as he looked at her then back at the sky, making the wish that he and Regina would always be together and that nothing could split them apart. But he already knew nothing could, he could tell just by the fact that the first obstacle, the people they knew was not going to stop them. He turned to Regina.
"Have you made yours?" Regina simply nodded as she looked at the sky, before she turned her head to him, a gentle smile on her lips.
He stood up and took her hand helping her off the ground. She stood and he grabbed the blanket and bottle before she took his and her glass and they walked to the house. He opened the door for her and she walked inside, noticing the time on the clock. 10 to 12.
"Robin I need to go, it is getting late." She said looking to him. "and I need to sleep for work tomorrow." Robin nodded she had no clothes here, or else he would let her stay.
"I will drive you home." Regina agreed and they put everything away before he opened the front door, Regina following him. However, before she could walk to the car, when he had locked the door, Robin placed another kiss to her lips, she could smell forest on him, she knew he liked camping and she had found out why. And she loved the smell, melting in his arms. They finally broke and after a few quick kisses onto each other's lips they made their way to his car and took Regina home.