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Now it was Tuesday and Robin had rehearsals at lunch time, Regina told him he had to learn to act on his own. "Nooo." He moaned wrapping his arms around her.
She smiled "You have to go Robin."
"Whyyyy?"
"Robin." She chuckled as he kissed her cheek. "You have to practice."
"I don't want to." He huffed, placing her hair behind her ear "I want to stay with you."
"You sound like a two-year-old." She laughed "I'll see you when you're done with rehearsals."
He stuck out his bottom lip "I love you."
She kissed him lightly "I love you too, and I have something I want to talk to you about later, but as for now, you have somewhere to be and so do I."
"Where do you have to go?" he asked furrowing his eyebrows at her.
"Library." She stated.
"Why am I not surprised?"
She cast him a wide smile and shook her head "I guess I'm simply predictable."
"You Regina Mills are far from predictable."
"And you know me so well?"
"I think, that I might yes."
"Okay then, I will see you later." She kissed him once again before she wriggled free from his grasp and began to walk down the corridor. Then he came up behind her, hugging her once more. "Robin!" she laughed, turning her head to look at him "Get going, you're going to be late."
"Yes your majesty." He huffed rolling his eyes, kissing her neck before he grudgingly complied and left to go and rehearse with the devil herself Emma Swan.
"Love you." She called back.
He turned and grinned at her, walking backwards and knocking into Dr Hoper, who dropped his books. She burst out laughing, just about hearing him saying that he was so sorry before he knelt down to help him pick them up.
Regina smiled all the way to the library, she loved the way she felt when she was with him, loved his touch, the feel of his lips on her skin, she loved everything about him, he was perfectly amazing.
Robin approached the door for rehearsals and heard yelling inside "No, I will not calm down!"
"Emma."
Robin furrowed his eyebrows and carefully pushed the door open, seeing them stood on stage he hung in the shadows.
"No, Mary Margaret, it's not fair."
"Why are you so insistent on sabotaging her? You even got your grandfather to give you the role over her" Robin furrowed his eyebrows. Grandfather? Wait a minute, was Emma Swan Mr King's granddaughter! Was she talking about Regina?
"What has she done to you?"
"Nothing and that's precisely my point, she hasn't done anything!"
"I don't follow; why did you do what you did with Daniel?"
Robin's eyes went wide, it was blindly evident that he should not be hearing this conversation, but he couldn't stop, Daniel?
"I wanted to protect her!"
"What so you seduced him? Was that really the best way to protect a girl you said was your friend?"
"Yes! He was trying to push her into something she didn't want!"
"How do you know she didn't want it?"
"Because she's Regina! She hates physical contact; she couldn't deal with it! Every time he touched her, she'd freak out. It scared her so much."
Robin gasped, she didn't seem to hate physical contact with him, yes she didn't want to go all the way, but that hardly meant that she hated him touching her, did it? Had he been making her feel uncomfortable this whole time without even realising it? Surely not, she initiated contact just as much as he did, she had been the one to make the first move. But what if he had been making her feel uncomfortable, he was suddenly feeling very guilty, he hadn't been able to stop himself from reaching out for her. No, it couldn't be true, maybe with Daniel, but not with him, she couldn't feel that way with him. Could she?
"Did you hear that?" Emma asked looking around.
Robin quickly hid behind the seating area and made his way to the back exit, before hurrying out of the door.
"Regina?"
She turned around and smiled "Hi Neal."
"Hey, so my pa is forcing me into this."
She nodded "yeah, I kinda got that."
"He's such a dick."
"No, I think he just wants you to do well." She stated defending Mr Gold.
"Yes, but I would much rather be out boarding with my friends in my lunch hour."
"Gee thanks." She huffed, rolling her eyes.
"Oh no, I didn't mean it like that." He gushed sitting in the seat next to her. "Sorry."
"It's fine, there's a load of other stuff I'd rather be doing as well you know." She flipped open her text book "what do you want to look at first?"
"Weimar? I dunno."
"Probably a good place to start." She smiled. She couldn't help but think of the last time she sat in that seat and revised this topic, it had been the first day she met Robin and he had distracted her so.
"Regina." He waved a hand in front of her face waking her from her daydream.
"Sorry, yes Weimar."
"Someone's distracted."
"No, I'm fine." She nodded "I think we need to look at President Ebert first."
"Was he that guy with the moustache?"
"He did have a moustache I believe, but I don't think that's what he was remembered for." She stated furrowing her eyebrows.
"No of course he was, it was kinda like this." He touched his top lip.
A hand went to her mouth "Hitler? Seriously?! You got President Ebert mixed up with Hitler?" she asked staring at him in complete shock. How was it even possible to confuse the two?
"They're both German aren't they?" he shrugged.
"No, actually they're not, Hitler was Austrian."
"Really?"
"Yes really." She nodded rather bewildered that anyone who took history didn't know the difference between the two figures. "Let's just say that they are two entirely different people. Gee you are going to need more help than I thought if you stand a chance at passing this."
"You do know I was playing you right?" He laughed leaning back in his seat. "I bet my Pa told you that I was completely dumb didn't he? Just because I can't be bothered when it comes to tests, doesn't mean I don't know what I'm doing"
"Why the hell am I sat here then?" she asked, feeling more and more frustrated by the second. "I thought you needed a tutor."
"My Pa thinks I need a tutor."
"Oh what a jerk." She stated sarcastically "So your father wants you to do well." shook her head "Now, are you actually going to find my assistance helpful?"
"Yeah, like I said it's the essay skills I need help with."
"I see, well that shouldn't be a problem." She removed an essay from her folder and handed it to him "Read." She instructed, before flipping through a question booklet.
"Oh my god, like this is so interesting." He nodded moving her essay further towards his face.
"You are tediously sarcastic." She huffed. Why had she signed up for this again?
"Thank you." He grinned nudging her as she rolled her eyes. "Cheer up."
"Seriously? Let me just set something straight, I am giving up my own time to help you, so if you are intent upon being such an annoyance, I am simply just going to leave." She moved to stand up and he grabbed her arm.
"No Regina wait, I'm sorry." She looked at him wide eyed, before looking down at her arm. "Don't leave, I'm sorry I'm being such a jerk to you."
Robin couldn't believe what he had heard, he needed to talk to her, needed to know if she was comfortable with the physical contact they had. He most certainly wasn't in the mood to talk to Emma Swan, she had seduced Daniel? He was pretty sure that Regina didn't know that, not only that, but she had her grandfather cast her as the lead, Regina had been unfairly deprived of a role that she deserved. Upon reaching the library he took a deep breath before opening the door. What he saw was another guy with his hand on her arm and her looking less than pleased at the situation, she wasn't making eye contact but was staring at her wrist where his hand was.
Robin felt his nostrils flare, why the hell was he touching her? It was clear from the look on her face that she didn't want him to. Was he hurting her? Before he could even think to stop himself he had made his way over to them and punched the guy in the face, causing him to drop her wrist.
"Robin!" She yelled immediately grabbing his hand to stop him from punching him again. "What the hell?!" she dropped his hand before making her way to Neal who had fallen back into his chair and was now bleeding all over her best essay. "Oh my god" She quickly found some tissues and held them to his nose. "What on earth are you doing?" she asked turning to cast Robin an ice cold glare that scared him silly.
"He was grabbing you." He argued.
"Robin, I can handle myself, look what you've done." She stated gesturing towards Neal, as she dabbed the tissue gently and he winced. "Are you okay?"
She was clearly fuming at him, but he was just as angry, he wanted answers. "Why the hell did he have his hand around your wrist?!" He asked, the question aimed more towards Neal than Regina. "Do you think it's okay to just grab someone like that?"
"He wasn't hurting me Robin."
"That doesn't answer my question. And what the hell are you doing in here with some guy anyway?" he was steering off course but he wanted to know what the hell was going on.
"Am I not allowed to socialise with anyone other than you?!" she asked her voice raising.
"Of course you are." He huffed shaking his head "Sorry, of course you are. Are you alright?" He asked her.
"God." Neal whined as he looked at the blood that had soaked the tissue and was dripping onto the table and her neat revision notes that were quickly becoming ruined.
"Regina?"
"Leave Robin!" She yelled, a tear forming in the corner of her eye.
"What? Why?"
"I don't want to talk to you right now."
"Regina."
"No." she shook her head "Go."
"No."
"Fine, then I'll go." She picked up her bag, leaving the bloodstained notes, before storming out of the room.
What the hell had gotten into him? That wasn't the kind and caring Robin she knew, he was jealous and horribly so, he had no reason to be jealous, didn't he trust her? After everything she had told him, didn't he believe her? She swiped at her eyes before carrying on down the corridor, until she found herself walking out of the front entrance and then just down the street going nowhere in particular. Trying to get away, she needed to think, she didn't like this one bit. She felt as though he had been accusing her, how could he even contemplate that she would do something like that to him, she would never cheat on him. Was it that though? Was that the reason behind him punching Neal? Everything had gone by so quickly that she had barely had time to register it, what had he even said to her afterwards? She had just seen his action as one of jealously, when maybe it wasn't, maybe he saw something she didn't. She had been uncomfortable with Neal holding her wrist, but how would he have known that?
"Oh shit mate." Neal laughed as he looked up at Robin who had his head in his hands "I'm guessing you're the boyfriend." He pinched the bridge of his nose still trying to stem the bleeding.
"Was the boyfriend if that was anything to go by." He sighed shaking his head. "I am such an idiot, what the hell was I thinking?"
"I dunno mate, but you got one hell of a right hook, you've broken my nose for sure."
"I am so sorry by the way. I thought you were hurting her, I don't know why, she just looked concerned."
"I may have got on her nerves a little, she was a bit annoyed with me, so I grabbed her arm to make her stay and apologise."
"Shit." Robin sat down in her empty chair "Shit!" He put his head in his hands "What have I done?"
"She's one complex chick, maybe you're better off without her."
"No, never." He shook his head "I can't lose her, I just can't."
"Why the hell are you still sat here talking to me then? Get after her."
"One question, why were you together?"
"She's tutoring me in History."
"Double shit."
"Run." Robin collected all her notes and stuffed them into his bag before heading out of the classroom on a mission, however he was stopped by Mr King "Robin, aren't you supposed to be somewhere?"
"Yes sir, but I have to go and find someone."
"This play is extremely important Mr Locksley."
"Stuff your dumb play, my girlfriend is more important than a silly role opposite some bitch that I despise." With that he ran off down the corridor, leaving Mr King looking rather bewildered.
Robin shook his head, he was in so much trouble and had undoubtedly lost his role in the play, but as he said Regina was more important, he couldn't lose her, she made his life better, made him feel like he was whole, without her he felt as though he were missing his other half. This had been their first fully blown argument and it was all because of him, she hadn't done anything and he felt awful. Coming to her next class he waited outside, she didn't turn up and he was becoming increasingly worried, this was Regina, she didn't skip lessons, it just wasn't her thing.
Tink appeared and furrowed her eyebrows at him "What are you doing?" she chuckled. When he didn't smile back she dropped the cheer and frowned "Robin, what's going on?"
"I just completely messed up Tink."
"What? What are you talking about? Where's Regina?"
"I have no idea."
"Robin, what did you do?"
"I may have punched someone."
"What who?" she asked, staring at him wide eyed.
"Neal, I don't know his last name."
"What Mr Gold's kid, the one she was tutoring?"
"He's Mr Gold's son?"
"Afraid so."
"Darn, have you seen her?"
"No, I haven't heard from her all day."
"Shit Tink, what do I do?"
"I'm bunking off, let's go find her."
"Thanks."
She shook her head "you dope." Then she looked down at his hand "Robin you're bleeding! How hard did you hit him?"
"I broke his nose."
"Oh my god. No wonder Regina was pissed. Why did you hit him?"
"He was grabbing her."
"Grabbing her?!" Tink asked in alarm.
"I thought he was hurting her, but he wasn't, he was trying to apologise or something."
"Oh dear, well let's split up."
Robin and Tink had searched the whole of the school from top to bottom and she was nowhere to be found. "Tink where the hell is she?"
"You're gonna have to go tell Mrs Mills."
"Are you insane? No way!"
"Robin, she's gone, she's not in school."
"I think I know where she is." Robin stated as something came to him and he ran for the door "thanks for your help Tink."
"Robin where are you going?" She called down the corridor, but he was already gone.
