I actually cannot believe how long it has taken me to get around to writing this update, I can't even use the excuse that I needed to think about the story line and had writer's block because I didn't, I just seem to be totally swamped with writing. Anyway, it's finally here and there are about 3 maybe 4 chapters left for this story.
Enjoy and I hope that you haven't lost interest in this story.
Regina had her ankle checked out at the hospital and they had confirmed that it was indeed a sprain and quite a bad one to say the least. She had been told that she needed to keep it elevated and rested, but she had one more final and she knew that wasn't going to be a possibility on that particular day. She and Robin had been chilling out, he had won yet another gold and technically he was finished, he had done what he came here to do and could go home, but he said that he had wanted to stay for the closing ceremony anyway.
She still hadn't found her phone, nor had they found out who had been filming her in order to prove that Marian had been cheating. Currently she was laid on her bed with her foot elevated, Robin was in the bathroom because he had said that he needed to trim his stubble as it was beginning to get a little too long for his liking. Her physio Sydney was coming around in a few minutes to check up on her ankle and help her do some exercises to stop it from seizing up before her next final.
Just at that moment there was a knock on the door and she turned her head towards it, "Robin, could you…"
"I'm on it milady," he grinned coming out of the bathroom and moving to the door, pushing it open to reveal Mr Glass who was holding a medical bag, "hey, the patient is over there," Robin chuckled gesturing to Regina who was dressed simply in grey sweatpants and a blue top.
The man said nothing to Robin and instead moved further into the room towards Regina, "Miss Mills, how have you been coping with your ankle?" Sydney asked, opening his bag and talking out a fresh tubigrip to bandage her foot up with and provide it with more support to stop any swelling.
"Yeah, it's been okay, I have been keeping my weight off it as much as I possibly can," she nodded, Robin hadn't really allowed her to stand up, he had ordered food in and they had literally been living inside her room, she would have liked to have seen more of Rio than she had been able to do, but in order to do that she needed to be able to walk and right now she knew that the best option was to keep her weight off her ankle and only do the exercises that Sydney told her to.
"Good," he smiled at her and she looked to Robin wanting him to come and sit beside her, mainly because Sydney rather creeped her out, she didn't really know what it was about him, but something wasn't right and she didn't like being left with him alone. Tucking her hair behind her ear she cleared her throat, gesturing with her head for him to come over to her, he finally got the message and walked closer to the bed to take her hand. "It was quite the show you put on the other day, I particularly liked the part where Miss French was exposed for the cheat she is."
"Yes and we were very grateful that she was," Robin agreed, his fingers coming to play with the ends of her hair as they both watched Sydney work with her ankle, "but the only thing that concerned us was where that video came from."
Regina looked at him in alarm, she had been trying not to think about it, it scared her to think that someone might have been filming them, then again there was every reason that it could have just been someone in the crowd filming athletes, there didn't necessarily have to be anything sinister about it, although she didn't get that vibe, she felt like she was being watched and she had been feeling slightly off ever since her phone went missing and there were private pictures of her and Robin posted in the newspapers.
The man said nothing and just shrugged, continuing to work on her ankle, Regina furrowed her eyebrows, it was a rather odd response and she didn't really know what it meant. He seemed to be contemplating something as he unwrapped her current bandage, his hands brushing over her skin causing her to shudder and not in a good way. She squeezed Robin's hand and tried to get him to move closer to her, not that it was physically possible, but it didn't stop her from trying.
Once the bandage was off he examined it before looking up at them casting Robin an off look before meeting Regina's eye, "it still looks swollen, so if you can still do the exercises four times a day that would be preferable," Sydney stated, "try to refrain from strenuous activities."
"I have to do my final."
"Carry on with these exercises till then and hopefully you won't do much more damage," he advised, dropping the new bandages on the bed and picking up the old ones before standing from the chair and putting them in his bag. Regina scrunched her nose at that and furrowed her eyebrows, he was just so strange. "I'll catch up with you at a later date Miss Mills, I take it you know how to bandage the injury adequately?"
"Yeah, I can do it for her," Robin spoke up standing and moving to see the other man out, once he was out of the door Robin looked at her, "he is a weird man."
"You got that too then?"
"Like why the hell did he take your old bandages, that's just plain creepy."
"Don't Robin," she buried her head in her hands, "I really feel like someone is watching me wherever I go, witnessing everything I do."
"I don't think they are, I mean we have literally been in your hotel room for a few days, I think that video was nothing more than someone in the crowd filming the goings on of the performance space that's all, we got lucky."
"Maybe," she whispered.
Regina had done her exercises as Sydney had instructed her to and it had come to the time where she needed to perform, she knew she was going to have to go through her routine at least once before she actually went and performed in a final, she could hardly go out there having not practised once since she first thought up the routines before travelling to Brazil.
It was the all-around as well, which meant that not only would she have to participate in one event, she would have to conquer all of them, she knew that any other competitor would probably have pulled out with an injury like hers, but not her, she couldn't, she needed this, this was the big one, the one that mattered and she wouldn't give up until she got it. She knew that she was stubborn, incredibly so, this could cause her to do more damage to herself, but she needed to do it and no one was going to stop her.
Robin sat beside her mother in the crowd and she could see him biting his nails as they watched her, he had told her that he wasn't happy with her deciding to go ahead with this and she knew he had good reason to feel that way, mainly the fact that he'd had to hold her up in the shower a couple of times to stop her from falling or slipping whist on one foot. Regina had changed some of her choreography, going over it with Mal so that some of her moves could be performed on one foot, showing her balancing skills whilst keeping pressure off her ankle when it wasn't exactly necessary.
She had completed her balance beam and floor exercises and was currently in third, she's had a couple of dodgy landings because of her foot and they had set her back a little, however they were the main events where she would have to actually put a lot of pressure on her feet. Next was the Uneven Bars and that consisted of literally no pressure on her foot, it was all about upper body strength and she hoped to claw back a few points that way.
She was sat by the side massaging her ankle when the red headed news presenter sauntered up to her, "hey," she nodded, dropping to sit beside her.
"Hey," she furrowed her eyebrows, turning her head and looking at Zelena, "did you want something?"
"I just wanted to see how your ankle was holding up."
"I'm dealing with it," she replied curtly, not really feeling in the mood to talk to the press in that exact moment, especially not this woman who seemed to be everywhere she went, it was as though Zelena were her shadow following her, she had come to the conclusion on literally the first day that she didn't really like her, it was probably because all she seemed to do was meddle in other people's business. "Thank you for your concern," she added because it was only polite, she couldn't forget the manners she had been brought up with.
"No problem, by the way did you ever find your phone?"
"How did you know that my phone was missing?" Regina asked with a narrowing of her eyes, she didn't know how Zelena could have found out, she certainly hadn't told her about it.
"Oh all the press were informed to keep a look out if one turned up, I take it you didn't get it back then?"
"No, I didn't," she sighed, she had been in the zone and now Zelena had come along and was distracting her, she needed to do something about it, move away from her. Standing up she brushed her hands over her legs before adjusting her hair, "I'm sorry will you excuse me?" she hobbled over to the warming up area and began to stretch out her muscles, doing the exercises that Sydney had told her to.
Everyone just seemed to be acting strange around her and she didn't trust anyone, no one but Robin, Mal, Emma and her mother, maybe Ruby and Jefferson also, that was it, everyone else was too suspicious, but she had trouble with trust as it was, this just took the biscuit though it made her so on edge all the time. It had been bad enough seeing the images of her private moment with Robin in the paper, then having her phone stolen and getting filmed, it was all just starting to weird her out.
She finished her stretches and looked up at the board, she was next, rolling her eyes she chalked up and fumbled over to Mal who was by the side-lines, "you got this Regina, now go, you need to move up the board at least into second place before you take on the vault."
"I know," she nodded, "has there been any word on my phone?" she asked on the off chance that someone might have found it and handed it to her coach.
"No, I'm sorry dear."
Regina sighed, "I didn't think there would have been, no matter, I'll just have to buy a new one," she whispered, gazing towards Robin and seeing him offer her a little wave, she waved back before taking to the apparatus, she could do this, she had to do this.
Regina curled up in Robin's arms, her head resting on his shoulder as she released the last of her tears, part of her was relieved that it was over and the other part of her felt disappointed, she had given it all, tried her hardest to manage her ankle, but it hadn't been enough and she had come away with the silver, of course she would have much rather come away with three golds but two golds and a silver wasn't too bad, was it?
At least she lost to a friend, Emma received the gold by 0.5 points, it had been a close call, but in the end Emma just beat her to it. The blonde had apologised a dozen times since then, saying that she was sorry that Regina hadn't been able to get the gold because of her, but Regina of course had told her not to be silly and that there was no one else she would rather lose it to. The Americans did a clean sweep, with Ruby coming in third, all three of them standing on the podium; the two girls had even helped her step down and hobble over to Zelena who was waiting with her film crew.
Regina would have gone out for drinks with them, but she decided against it and instead opted for a night in with Robin, they only had a few nights left in Rio and they wanted to spend them together. "Hey, you alright?" Robin whispered, placing a kiss in her hairline as he ran his hands up and down her arms.
"Hmm," she nodded, burrowing herself further into his embrace so that she was literally on top of him.
"He'd be proud of you you know," he stated, "I'm proud of you."
She smiled, she knew he was right, she didn't know why she had worked herself up so much when deep down she had known all along that Daniel would have been proud of her no matter what she came away with. To say she had two golds and silver in one Olympic year was quite the achievement and she was proud of herself, trying to push down the disappointment and be happy with what she did.
"I mean name another gymnast who can boast that she achieved a gold and a silver medal with a sprained ankle?"
"You have a good point," she grinned kissing his chest, her fingers running over his abs, after a little while of saying nothing as Robin looked through movie choices on his laptop Regina let out a loud sigh and glanced up at him, "are you worried about what will happen now?"
"What do you mean?" he questioned, tucking some of her hair behind her ear as he moved the laptop to the side and looked at her properly.
"I mean now that we are done, that we did what we came here to do, aren't you worried about what might happen… with us?"
"No, I'm not worried, because I know that whatever happens we will work through it, we'll find a way, there is not a chance that I am letting go of what we have."
"Me either," she breathed, "I love you and I don't want to lose you."
"You won't have to," he shook his head, holding her closely as he stroked his hands across her arms, "I'm not going to leave you, I promise, not permanently anyway."
"You have to go back to England Robin and I have to go back to America, that's just the way these things work, how are we going to survive that?"
"People manage long distance relationships all the time, why should we be any different?"
She closed her eyes and tightened her grip on him, "we need to make the most of this time then don't we."
"We definitely do," he agreed pressing a kiss to her lips as he moved her carefully to lay on her back, "now will you relax and let me worship your body?"
"I think I can do that, just mind my ankle," she muttered consciously looking down to her foot which had been newly strapped so she could heal it properly which meant taking a break from gymnastics for a while, something she wasn't complaining about, it had been all she was doing 24/7, she just needed to be able to relax and think of things other than gymnastics.
"Of course," he winked at her before pressing his lips across her jaw line and then moving down further and further, kissing every inch of her skin as her went. His hands found the hem of her shirt and he pulled it up over her head, dropping it to the ground giving him access to her breasts, he kneaded one as he took the nipple of her other in his mouth and worked it with his tongue, stroking over the perked flesh, sucking on it and earning a low moan from her.
"Oh Robin," she breathed, opening her legs and accommodating him between them, her hands skimming over his shoulders, "what are you doing?" she whispered, watching him move further down, his lips still touching every part of her that he could. His fingers hooked around the hem of her sweatpants as he pulled them down along with her panties, throwing them to the ground.
"Something I wanted to do again since our first time together," he was now fully between her thighs and she could feel his breath ghosting over her core. His hands rubbed up and down her legs as he lowered his head down to her, running his tongue through her folds and landing at her clit. Her breath hitched and she pushed her hips towards his face, her hand coming to run through his hair as she hummed in pleasure.
"You are so good at this," she complimented and he was, he was so amazing with his tongue, he made her feel as though she were floating on air, her body hummed in pleasure as his mouth vibrated against her core, "can I have your fingers?"
"You can have anything you want baby," he smirked, complying with her request and bringing them to her entrance playing with her wetness for a brief minute before pushing two inside her heat and folding them against her front wall, trying to find that spot that made her see stars. He managed to and continued to rub against her g-spot whilst applying the perfect amount of pressure on her clit with his mouth, he sucked on her bundle of nerves alternating between running his tongue over her and grazing his teeth across her sensitive spot.
"Mmm yes, that feels so good Robin," she closed her eyes, the hand that wasn't playing with his hair holding on tightly to the bedding, her back arching against him, "yesss, there! There!" she squealed bucking her hips against him, making him increase the pressure, "faster please!" he did as she asked, increasing the speed and sending her crazy moving her closer and closer to her peak. She needed to come so badly, needed him to make her come, he did as she asked and she could feel it creeping up on her.
One strong suck and curl of his fingers later and she was coming, she screwed her eyes shut letting out a loud cry of pleasure, pulling his hair a little as she pushed her hips up meeting his strokes. When the pleasure became too much she had to push him away in order to catch her breath, she knew she had a relaxed smile on her face as she basked in the hazy afterglow of her orgasm.
Regina felt Robin's fingers slip out from inside her and she opened her eyes just in time to watch him bring them to his mouth and suck on them, licking her arousal from his skin and humming as he nodded at her, "delicious."
She sniggered and shook her head, "amazing."
"So that was good then?" he smirked moving up to lay beside her.
"Yes, very, but now I think it might be your turn."
Whilst Robin and Regina were enjoying themselves and celebrating their success, a certain someone was sat in their own room, pinning yet another picture of Regina to the wall, stroking a finger across her face as they glanced at the phone on the bedside table before back at the photo, "you really are the fairest of them all."
Any guesses as to who the stalker is? Let me know what you think. ;) xoxoxox