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First date.
"Can't you just tell me where we're going?" His hands covered her eyes as he was leading her in the right direction. "We're almost there." He chuckled, loving how impatient she is. "It better be good." She muttered. It took a few more steps before Robin stopped her. "Ready?" She just nodded and before she knew it he removed his hands so that she could see her surprise. "Robin.." She breathed.
They were on the beach. Pillows blankets and surrounded by many lights covering the spot right in front of them. "This is perfect." She turned around and kissed him quickly. Something they got used to the last few days but in the same time something they would never grew tired of. Robin took her hand and leaded helped her sit down before he followed her.
"Champagne?" Regina's smile grew bigger before she nodded. She watched him closely as he opened the bottle, he is everything she'd ever dreamed off and now he was sitting right in front of her, handing her a glass of champagne on their first date.
"Come." He stood up from his sitting position after they finished their glasses. Regina put her glass away and took his hand before he lifted her. "We're going for a walk." He said proudly. "I had no idea you were such a romanticus Mr. Locksley." Regina teased him. "Oh shut up and come here." He opened his arm, making her come closer before he wrapped his arm around her.
They walked, feet in the water, bodies pressed close to each other. "What is it like to be you." Regina asked. "It's okay being me." Regina didn't respond, wanting him to tell her more. "Sometimes I feel a little locked up, with the world always watching me." She nodded, now looking at him as they continued their walk. "It gets lonely from time to time, there are a lot of trips I have to make, most of them I attend alone." They walked a little further. "Are you happy right now." She asked seeing his face lit up at her words. "I am." He gave her a quick kiss.
"How about you." Before she could answer he added: "What is it like to be you?" She made sure he couldn't see her face before she answered. "I think it's pretty boring being me." She laughed, hoping they would continue to talk about something else. "I don't believe you." She sighed. "I'm and escort Robin, I'm sure you already have a view on how it is to be me." She snapped, she didn't mean to, but she did. "Hey, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that." He said. Regina already felt guilty.
"It's fine to be me, every day is different, some days better than others." She decided to answer his question after all. She looked at him, she could almost hear him thinking, knowing he wanted to ask a hundred questions. "Just ask me Robin, it's fine. We were going to have this conversation sooner or later." Robin stopped them from walking, took her both hands in his and looked at her. "Only if you want to, nothing you're going to say is gonna chance the way I see you." Regina smiled softly. Robin then took of his jacket, laid it on the sand and invited her to sit on it before he sat down next to her, holding one of her hands.
"Can you just ask questions? I don't really know where to start.." He had never seen her so vulnerable and it made her even more beautiful. "How did you start?" He asked quickly adding. "If there are things you don't want to tell, then don't okay?" She nodded, smiling at how sweet he was for her. "I started to pay for college, I didn't want my parents to pay for me, I wanted to be free of them and well it was an easy way to make a lot of money." She felt how he rubbed his thumb over her hand, making her smile again. "I dropped out of college after two years, studying Law was my dream with Daniel and without him my dream didn't last." She took a deep breath, staring at the ocean in front of her. "I decided to keep the job, it earned me enough money to live a proper life and I sort of enjoy it."
"I mean it totally depends on the client, but yeah most of the times it's enjoyable." She was ashamed, she had never talked so openly about her job. "Did someone ever hurt you?" It was the first time she looked at him. "Robin.." She said, knowing the truth would hurt him. But he wanted his answer. "A few times, but it was before I assigned at Mal's agency. Nothing happened since I'm with her." She saw how angry it made him and tried to calm him down by laying her other hand un top of his. "Look at me." She said, waiting for him to answer. "I'm okay, I'm good now." She saw relief in his eyes. "I know I don't have the right to say this but just promise me you'll stop." She wanted to speak up but he continued. "I'll make sure you have enough money I can help you find a real job.." He didn't mean it like that, he really didn't she heard him and laughed bitterly. "Regina.." She stood up, walking back to where they came from. "Regina wait.." He ran to her. "No Robin, It's fine." She said, obviously hurt but trying to hide it. "It's not fi.." She shut him up by speaking again. "I get it, sleeping with people doesn't count as a real job, basically I'm just a fancy version of a hooker right?" She walked fast, unable to wait to get back, to step in the car and drive back home. "No Regina.." Again she wasn't interested in what he had to say. "No seriously Robin, I get it. I look good, I'm a hooker, you never had one before. The whole situation turns you on. It's fine. I'm used to it." She wanted to speak again but this time it was him who interrupted her.
"When are you going to see that you are the most breathtaking, intelligent, funny, passionate, loving, inspiring woman I've ever seen." She stopped walking, unable to find the words to speak to him. "I don't give a damn, about who you were or what you do, I care about what's in here.." He covered her heart with his hand. "And every day you show me a little bit more of your heart and it makes me fall more and more in love with you." He completely took her breath away.
"But Robin I have slept.." He shut her up with a kiss. "I don't care." He breathed against her lips. "You really should, I have.." Again he kissed her. "I don't care." He breathed again. "Those men they.." He pressed his lips against hers. "I. Don't. Care." She looked into his eyes, he looked into hers.
"I'm scared." She whispered. He smiled at her, stroking a strand of hair behind her ear. "Come." He just said. He pulled his shirt over his head, unbuckled his jeans and stepped out of it. And before Regina could react he ran straight into the ocean.
Regina hesitated, but when she saw him in the water she pulled out her dress. Leaving her in her black matching lingerie. She ran after him, shivering when the cold water touched her body but determined to reach him.
"Now kiss me." He said as she reached him. She smiled, loving how he could break down all of her walls. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him, the skin to skin contact did things to the both of them. Feeling the cold of the water only made them press their bodies closer to each other. Robin let his hands wonder to her hips, lifting her when he got the chance to. Regina immediately responded by wrapping her legs around him.
He felt her hard nipples against his chest, making him want her even more. "Robin.." Regina moaned when his lips wondered off to her neck. "I want you." He whispered, his lips close to her ear. "Than have me." She answered, already out of breath.
He stopped kissing her, put her down on the ground and removed his hands from her lips. Regina looked slightly confused before she spoke: "Or not?" She crossed her arms before her chest, almost as if she was hiding herself from him. "I can't." A wave of insecurity washed over her. "You can't?" She asked, looking away from him. "Not aslong as there's a contract." Regina sighed slightly relieved. "Why not?" She asked, not seeing a reason why they couldn't. "I'm technically paying you.. it just doesn't feel right. And I want our first time together to be something perfect."
Her mind understood what he was saying, but her body just wanted him, she wanted his hands back on her hips, his lips on her neck, she wanted to feel him, taste him, explore him. "Technically you're only paying me for the days, not the nights." She closed the space between them, placing kisses on his chest, letting her hand wonder over his torso. "Regina.." She was so hard to resist. "I mean it, I want to wait until the contract is over." Regina groaned in frustration as she took her distance again. He took both of her hands in his. "I wanna do things right with you." She smiled at him.
"And now we're going home and you're gonna take a bath and after that I thought that maybe I could hold you tonight?" Yep definitely breaking all of her walls down. "I would love that." She answered as they started to walk out of the water.
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"Hmm you smell good." Regina laid on his chest, her hair, still damp from her bath, spread over his arm. "I missed this." She admitted, it had been two lonely weeks falling asleep without him. Those few nights in Paris felt so familiar and sleeping alone after that just felt like torture. "Do you want to tell me about your exes?" Robin chuckled at her question. "Straight to the point ha?" She snuggled closer on his chest, smiling. "You know me."
"Well I only have one serious ex, we knew each other since kinder garden. Always were best friends until we went to high school and we wanted to be more than just that." Regina looked up at him as he told his story. "We were together for five years and then we found out we became friends again instead of lovers, we ended it together and that was it." Regina hummed. "Do you still have contact?" He shook his head. "She moved to Europe a few months after we broke up."
"What about your exes, Regina Mills." He asked with a smirk on his face. "Daniel, he's the only one." Robin placed a soft kiss on her hair. "After him I gave up on love. Promised myself to never to never give away my heart again." She had no idea why she told him this kind of things, but she just did. She trusts him, she likes talking to him, feeling like he understands her.
"Actually it's part of the reason why I became an escort." She had never told anyone this, not even Mal. "I can have men without giving them my heart." She laughed bitterly. "It sounds pathetic." He lifted her chin with his finger. "It doesn't, it sounds like you're protecting yourself from getting hurt." She nodded, knowing he was right. "Do you think you will ever be able to give someone your heart again?" He asked, still looking into her eyes. "I think you already have a little piece of it." She whispered.
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