Hi, new chapter!
Robin woke up after a rather restless night, Regina has been tossing and turning all night, now it was 8 o'clock and he had only had about 5 hours sleep. He had known that she was worried about a lot of things, but she had clearly been worse than he thought. She was laying still asleep in his arms when he woke up and he knew she needed the sleep, so ended up watching her, her breathing shallow and her lips partially open; as usual she took his breath away. He stayed still hoping that she wouldn't wake, he could watch her sleep all day.
Feeling the change in his hold worked to stir her from her sleep, she stretched and noticed that he was looking at her intently. "Robin, what are you doing?" She asked sleepily a smile creeping up on her face.
"Good morning beautiful." He stated causing her to chuckle and turn to face him.
"What time is it?" She questioned with a yawn.
"Just a little past eight."
She groaned a snuggled further into her pillow "we have to meet them at 10." She moaned, really not even wanting to get out of bed.
"Do we have to?" He asked.
She looked at him wide eyed "Now I hadn't expected that from you." She stated grinning as she placed her hand on his chest and pulled the blanket further up over her shoulders. "I am more than willing just to stay here all day."
"Oh, but didn't you promise Henry?" He asked wrapping his arms around her.
"Henry, yes of course. The shirt and the walking shoes."
"No trainers, because you're always making out."
"I can't believe she said that."
"She was right though wasn't she?"
"Robin!" She giggled.
"And you're very good at it."
"I did tell you that I was a good kisser, in fact I think you told me I was a good kisser."
"Oh yeah and you said that I should just wait till you got your heart back."
"That seems a long time ago."
"You were right though."
"Why thank you, you're not so bad yourself." He leant in and was about to kiss her when her hand went to her mouth and he cast her a confused look.
"One minute." She held up her finger and slipped out of the bed rushing to the bathroom. He furrowed his eyebrows, but it didn't take him long to realise what she was doing as he heard the tell-tale sign of her spitting out a mouthful of toothpaste. Shaking his head he chuckled and got up himself to join her in the bathroom, grasping his tooth brush and brushing his own teeth.
Slowly he began to undo the buttons on her pj top as his lips connected with hers. All her worries went out of the window as she helped shrug off her top, beginning to pull him towards the shower.
"Daddy? Gina?" Roland knocked on their bedroom door, when there was no response he opened it and walked in. Where were they? They weren't in their room, then he heard noises coming from the bathroom along with the added sound of running water. "Daddy? Gina?" He shouted a bit louder as this time he knocked on the bathroom door.
Stopping him right in the middle, she gasped "did you hear that?" She asked as he growled in frustration, at her abrupt halting of their encounter.
"What?" He asked kissing her neck.
"I'm sure I heard something."
"Regina, you're hearing things, I didn't hear anything." He stated moving his kisses lower.
"Daddy. Gina."
She gasped and looked at him wide eyed "Please tell me you heard that."
He immediately stopped and looked towards the door "Roland."
"It's fine you locked the door." She stated trying to make herself feel less awkward at being caught at it by their five year old. However at the look on his face she gasped "You didn't lock the door!" She whisper yelled her eyes widening as she moved her hair off her face.
"I wasn't expecting to be interrupted."
"Robin!" She smacked his arm and pulled away. "Ro, I'm coming out give me one minute." She shouted, mortified at the situation. She grabbed a towel from the side "I can't believe you didn't lock the door!" She wrapped the towel around her naked form and stepped out of the shower.
"Neither did you."
"You came in last."
"I was distracted okay."
"What if he had walked in?" she questioned ringing out her hair.
"Gina chill, he didn't."
"Yes but he could have done." She made a mental note to always make sure that the door was locked beforehand.
"We didn't even finish." He moaned still standing under the water as she shook her head and leant past him to turn the water to cold, casting him an annoyed look before walking out to see Roland.
Robin chuckled to himself, he knew how embarrassed she got over private moments and truth be told if Roland had actually walked in he would have been rather worried himself and wouldn't have had the first clue what to tell him they were doing, but he hadn't and everything was fine. He rinsed the soap suds from his hair and remembered her reaction, she still had the shampoo in her own hair and hadn't even noticed.
One minute later he heard the door open as she came back into the bathroom "Are you done?" She asked "because you didn't think to tell me that I had this in my hair."
He opened to door but didn't get out, he just stared at her with a cheeky grin on his face.
She shook her head as a smile crept up on her face "fine, but we are not finishing where we left off, I'm simply rinsing my hair."
"I promise milady that I will keep my hands to myself."
"Good." She locked the door to the bathroom and placed her towel to the side "Robin, I'm serious." She warned "I know you."
He put his hands up as if in surrender as she got back in. As soon as the water hit her she squealed and shot back out "Robin! That's freezing, how are you even in there?"
"You turned it down."
"I know but I hadn't expected you to just stand in it."
"It's calming."
"Calming! I have goose bumps and I was in there for two seconds."
"Would you like me to turn it up?"
"If you wouldn't mind."
He laughed as he turned up the temperature. "Right." He stated when the water got warm enough.
She was stood shivering "come on, you're freezing."
She rolled her eyes and placed her hand under the water just to make sure. He grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him resulting in them both being under the water. She gasped as he pulled her against him, shaking her head she tried so hard to resist him, but when he smiled at her like that it was hard. "Robin, you promised."
"Yes I did." He let go of her and stepped backwards "And I always keep my word." This time it was him who stepped out of the shower leaving her alone.
She stared at the door, she knew that he was playing with her, shaking her head she rinsed the suds from her hair before adding to conditioner. She wished that she'd been able to continue what they'd started that morning, she knew that that they had to be ready to go to Granny's and they most defiantly didn't have time. Trying to get the thought out of her head, she turned off the tap and got out. After she was dry she grabbed her silk dressing gown and tied it securely around her before sitting in front of her dressing table and flicking on the hairdryer, relishing in the heat it brought, she had never been too fond of the cold.
"Regina." Robin called as he came into the room and opened one of the curtains. "Regina." When he finally guessed that she couldn't hear him he grabbed a brush off the table and began to pull it gently through her hair. She didn't say anything but met his eye in the mirror, her lips were parted which told him that she was feeling somewhat aroused.
She loved it when he brushed her hair, something about it was so intimate and it showed her his more gentle side that he reserved just for her. "I like it when you do this." She almost sighed in pleasure as she carried on waving the hairdryer over the parts that were still damp.
"I know." He grinned at the twinkle in her eyes as she smiled. Truth be told he loved doing it, feeling her silky dark locks run through his fingers, was one of his favourite things.
They continued in silence, Regina had taught Robin once before how to roll the brush at the ends so her hair flicked up and he had replicated it rather well. "Good job." She stated standing up and chuckling.
"Look out of the window."
"Why?"
"Just look."
He pulled the curtain back as she peered out and gasped "What! Oh no."
"You don't like snow?"
"No, I don't." She stated still staring out of the window at the thin layer of white that covered the ground. "I've had bad experiences with the stuff. Don't try walk on it in heels."
"I wasn't planning on it. Why what happens?"
"You sink." She relied "Heels first and then you end up flat on your back, soaking wet in the snow, with broken heels, a bruised coccyx and a six year old stood behind you keeled over in laughter."
"I'm guessing this happened to you then." He dropped the curtain and pulled his shirt on over his head, he had been walking around in just his jeans, he tended to do that, not that Regina minded in the slightest.
"Once or twice."
"Twice?"
"I like my heels okay, I hate feeling small."
"Regina you're not small." He smirked at her before continuing "I mean you're not tall, but you're defiantly not small"
"Robin, without my heels I'm about the size of a toddler."
"Really? I could have sworn you were taller than Roland."
She chuckled and shook her head, before finding her own top and staring at it.
"It's a good job that you don't have to wear heels today then isn't it." He smirked.
All of a sudden their conversation was interrupted by Regina's mobile buzzing on the bedside table. She picked it up and glanced at the caller ID mouthing the name 'Emma' and rolling her eyes before pressing accept. "Emma, how can I help you this fine blustery morning?" She asked in a rather sarcastic tone.
"Save your hate for making snowmen for later, we've got a problem."
"What kind of problem?"
"A no power kinda problem."
"What? That can't be possible, we've still got power over here."
"Well lucky you, everyone else doesn't, which is weird right?"
"Yes, very, I'm guessing we're not going to Granny's."
"No by the sound of it we're all coming to yours."
"Miss Swan if you think the whole town is squishing into my foyer then you have another thought coming."
"Regina, you're the only one with electricity."
She rolled her eyes and flicked the switch, the lights flashing on "Oh, it seems the power has gone off here too." She lied.
"Stop lying."
"Urgh!"
"Regina, you're the mayor, deal with it, I'm going to group everyone up and we'll make our way over."
"Fine! But don't expect to see me."
"Why?"
"I'm going for a walk."
"Suit yourself, it's zero below out here, bye Regina, see you soon."
"Miss Swan wait a minute, Emma don't you dare hang up, Swan!"
"Cya Regina." Emma wittily replied before hanging up chuckling.
"Argh!" Regina flung her phone down on the bed "That woman drives me insane."
"I see that, what's going on?"
"Powers out in town and Emma has decided to bring the rabble here instead of working out how to fix it, she's the sheriff."
"Yes and you're the mayor."
"Exactly." Then something came to her "Exactly, the town hall has backup generators, thank god." She picked up her phone and redialled Emma's number. "Pick up, Swan pick up." When Emma didn't answer she dialled the one person she knew didn't have the heart to block anyone.
"Regina?"
"Mary Margret, are you with your insufferable daughter?"
"Emma yes, why?" Regina could hear Emma grumbling in the background asking her mother why she'd told her that.
"Tell her that the town hall has backup generators and that I'll be there in twenty minutes, we're going to find out whose causing this."
"Regina it's the weather."
"Oh, I don't think so, this weathers not enough to even deter a bee from flight. Someone is doing this."
"Whatever you say."
"What did she say?"
"She said to get to the town hall, it has generators and she thinks that someone's causing the power outages."
"Tell me something I don't know."
"What?"
"Mom, this weather is not bad enough yet to knock out the power supply to the whole town and I don't think it's exactly selective about whose house it keeps in the light."
"Oh yeah, who do you think it was?"
"My money would be on Zelena, but what the hell is she playing at?"
"Right, let's just get everyone over to the town hall. Do you have a key?"
"No, Regina does, we'll have to wait for her to come and unlock it for us."
"So much for a nice peaceful Christmas this year huh."
"Tell me about it. Killian, can you grab the lamps, we don't know how long this is going to last."
"Sure thing love."
"Where are you going? The town halls this way."
"I know, I have something to do."
"Regina there's nothing in that direction."
"Yes there is Robin, something important, I don't think it's safe to leave it there anymore."
"What? What is it?"
"I can't tell you, Robin you're going to have to trust me, take this to Emma and you and Roland need to find Henry for me. Okay? Robin."
"Fine, but I don't like the idea of you going off on your own."
"I can handle myself."
"Please be careful."
"I will." Kissing both him and Roland on the cheek she headed off alone in the direction of the woods.
I'm so busy! Time is a valuable resource and history coursework seems to be highly demanding. Anyway, let me know what you think.