Okay lol sorry for the wait, but I'm a busy 17 year old with a social life so I don't always have time to write and also have big lacks of inspo at times so... sorry if I left it a while, since I promised some people I'd update really frequently. I know it's like kinda late rn but I figured that I better post this before I go to bed.
It's gonna be smooth sailing for a while so expect fluff and smut and a bit of a long chat in the next few chapters... (btw I'm posting another chapter tomorrow and then one more on the weekend)
Other than that, I hope you enjoy this chapter and I apologise for any mistakes :* ((oh yh that's another thing; I'm actually British but I tried to write this in American (that sounds ridiculous) so if I accidentally spell things the British way then lol, sorry)).
Emma is glaring at her hard on Thursday morning. They're having breakfast at the GH, a tradition their friendship group used to have but hasn't kept up with since after Spring Break. They'd all agreed to meet this morning before revision sessions in first period for the math exam next week, and herself and Emma had found themselves the earliest there.
Right away her friend had realized something was different about Regina and began giving her the third degree.
Now she's glaring at Regina, who is blushing into her coffee.
"So it was Robin?" Emma cocks up and eyebrow, pursing her lips in a way that seems intimidating. The blondes hair is up, for a change, and she isn't wearing a jumper under her blazer like normal. LA is getting warmer, the kind of humid warmth that has windows being opened and still not enough breeze passing through, with blazing sunlight on their backs and skies the clearest of blue. A constant reminder that their time in high school is almost over and soon they'll be free for the summer.
Still, that leaves Emma's unanswered question still waiting to be answered. "Yes."
Emma's eyes widen and her mouth gapes open. "Seriously?"
Regina scoffs and rolls her eyes, glancing up at the door impatiently for the arrival of Daniel, Graham and Tink. The sooner they get here the sooner the awkward questions will be over.
"Regina! Are you guys crazy? You've been doing so well-"
"Not really, Emma, and to be honest it isn't really any of your business."
The comment hurts her best friend, she can see the pain in her eyes. She instantly concedes from arguing with Regina and blinks a few times. "If you're gonna be a bitch about it then fine. I don't want it to be my business."
Regina huffs and shakes her head. "Look, I'm sorry. I know we usually share everything but I'm not used to it being this... serious."
"You know I'd never judge you, Regina. I'm just concerned."
"I know, Emma, but me and Robin have talked about it. I'm only at school for a few more weeks and then I'm out."
"When did this even happen?" Emma asks, turning her own head to the door to see where exactly all of their friends are.
"Last night. Something happened between us in school, and then we had another argument, and then I went home and relaxed and he texted me. Kinda went from there. I asked him to come over and we... we had sex. And then we talked over everything. He's determined to be with me, he's sure that if we're careful we won't get caught and he's right. We won't. And then he snuck out around midnight which is why I'm knackered this morning. And not just because it was a late night."
Emma finally cracks a knowing smile. "Wow you guys are really sure about this, huh?"
Regina nods enthusiastically. "I am. We are. This is what I want and what he wants. We're just going to have to be quiet about it."
Just then, loud voices interrupt the quiet of the café, and cool morning air is brushed into the room. Everybody turns to take a disapproving look at the overly rowdy Graham and Daniel, with poor Tink walking quietly behind them.
"Jheeze, guys, it's still morning!" Emma tuts from her seat, her body pivoted so she can see them all. "And there are people trying to eat breakfast."
Graham ignores his girlfriend and scoots into the booth to sit next to her, throwing his arm around her shoulder so he can pull her cheek to his lips. He kisses her with a loud smack.
Daniel climbs in next to Regina as Tink asks both the boys what they're having. Both answer the same, black coffee and a doughnut, before handing Tink some dollar bills so she can go up and order for them. It's something she always does if they all come in together.
"So how are my favorite ladies this morning?" Graham asks, looking to Emma and then Regina. His eyebrows raise when he meets her eyes. "Someone got lucky last night."
She screws up her features and presses a hand to her chest. "Ugh, fuck off, Graham!" She mutters over him and Emma's laughter, "how did you even work that out, Sherlock?"
"She's not even denying it!" Graham cries as Daniel shifts uncomfortably next to her. "And your cheeks are redder than a sore arse and your lips are swollen like a motherfucker."
Emma hits her boyfriend hard on the leg.
"Well there's no point denying it to you guys, but under no circumstances am I giving you more than whatever information you have. Which is only that I, and I quote, 'got lucky last night'."
Tink comes back with everyone's orders at that moment, and she scoots in next to Graham and Emma with a frown. "Did I just hear you say you got lucky last night?"
"Yes, she did," Daniel answers, digging into the paper bag containing his doughnut. "She won't shut up about it."
The mood shifts.
"Excuse me?" Regina asks incredulous. Everyone's eyes fix on the pair.
"To be perfectly honest, Regina, I don't really want to know about your sex life."
"Thanks for the input, Daniel, but I don't really want to share my sex life either. It's Graham who implied, I simply confirmed," she spits, "I didn't really want to know about your sex life but I still managed to hear about you kissing that slut whilst we were dating, how funny."
Daniel shoves his doughnut away, muttering, "you're still hung up on that?"
"What, like you're still hung up on me?"
Emma and Tink's eyebrows shoot to their hairline as Graham sucks in a breath and grimaces. Daniel grits his teeth and blows out some air in a long, drawn out sigh. "You can be such a bitch sometimes," he growls eventually.
Regina laughs sarcastically and looks at him. "I'm not the one who cheated, you're the bitch. We broke up months ago, Daniel. Get over it."
"It wasn't me who ended the relationship, though," he retorts, glaring at her, "and you're a little full of yourself to assume I'm not over it."
"Okay, guys, that's enough," Emma steps in, awkwardly looking at the pair of them. When people in the group fall out it's unfair on the rest of them since they can't choose sides. It's exactly why, after their break up, Regina chose to remain civil friends with Daniel. They've been good at the friendly exes thing until recently. Now that she's moving on it's all being brought back.
She doesn't like arguing with him, because despite him being a total asshole most of the time, he does watch out for Regina and everyone in their group. He sticks up for them, backs them in arguments, gives half good advice, and him and Graham are like brothers. It's too late for them to start something petty now.
Regina will be the bigger person, as always. "I apologize, Daniel, if me talking about my sex life offends you. I won't speak about it anymore. I don't even want to speak about it. But what I won't do is apologize for moving on."
The four of them look to Daniel for his response. He simply licks his lips and shrugs. "Whatever."
And then he gets up and storms out, leaving his breakfast in the middle of the table.
"Well I guess he doesn't want a ride to school," Emma muses.
The windows are open, the air con is on, his blazer is off and yet Robin is still sweating.
He's in third period, attempting to teach his eleventh graders in this sweltering heat, whilst also ignoring the fact that Mary Margaret is directly in his eye line.
Don't think about last night with her hot sister. Don't think about last night with her hot sister.
He's in a much better mood, this morning, despite his lack of sleep. He finally feels like this is his first day working at this school that he hasn't dreaded coming here. Nothing hanging over him, no regret or fear or sadness. He's content.
If it wasn't for this damn heat he would probably be able to actually keep the attention of the class and do his job. Instead, they're all bothered and lazy and groaning about how warm it is. This heat thing had never really been a problem in England, and the students in his last school in America were always intolerant of everything anyway, but here the students have always been moderately well behaved and polite. Now they're hot and bothered.
"Okay, class!" He calls out to get their attention once he can see that more than half of them are no longer writing annotations, "stand up, we're going outside!"
They all seem uneasy and confused, most of them hesitating until the students that he can rely on, (Mary Margaret, David and their friends) stand up and do as he says. The rest follow, and soon enough they're out in the west field by the stables, stood in a line.
"Now we're all out in the... not really much cooler air, I'd like to quiz you. And hopefully the fact that your brains are now awake from that walk, and now that the sunshine is gleaming down on all of your not-eager-enough-faces, you'll answer these questions correctly."
They all mutter and groan, yet there's a few of them perking up, and David is practically beaming with a smile as bright as the sun. Robin remembers Regina saying something about her step sister and him getting busy last night also, which has probably left the young lad in a better mood.
"They'll start off easier and get harder as we go along. The person with the most correct answers gets a...a..."
"Some quality tutoring with Mr Locksley maybe...?"
He knows he's attractive. He knows students find him attractive (one particular student crosses his mind and takes him back to last night) and he knows that they're quite cheeky about this attraction. But it's inappropriate and he raises his eyebrows at the girls comment. "Okay, enough of that please, Ella," he rolls his eyes, "now let's get to the questions. What is the name of-"
He's cut off by a loud ringing sound which he, and everyone else, recognizes as the school bell. Before he even has a chance to dismiss them, they're racing back to the classroom to collect their things since they have another class next and then lunch. He sighs and follows after them, but at a slower pace because he doesn't have a lesson next.
He expects his room to be empty by the time he reaches it, but he's faced with a much more pleasant sight.
Regina. Regina perched on his desk, one bare leg over the other, biting her lip. Her school skirt is hitched high on her thigh, revealing the lace of what he assumes are her stockings. He licks his lips.
"Anyone could've walked in," he manages to say, locking the door and closing the blinds before striding over to her. He kisses her on the mouth as he stands over her, with her head tilted back so she can reach his lips. He pulls away and rests his head on hers.
"I left the blinds open so that I could see you walking past. Only when I saw you did I sit up here and hitch my skirt," she whispers back, their breath mingling between them. "Do you like your surprise, sir?"
The label doesn't make him grimace like it used to. Now he finds it one of the sexiest things that could come out of her mouth. "I love it," he says, kissing her quickly, "it was hard looking at you all of first period and not being able to say anything. But babe, what class are you skipping right now?"
She shakes her head as best she can while they're this close and quickly pulls him in for another quick kiss. "I have a study period so I was just in the library with Emma," she responds when she pulls away.
"And you want to skip studying for me, huh?" He smirks, attaching their lips for longer this time so they can kiss with more passion, heavy breaths mingling from their noses. She pulls away this time and rubs their noses together. "I'm not trying to be a bad influence by encouraging this skipping of studying, but I can't say I'm not pleased you're here."
Regina sighs softly and plays with his hands between them. "I know but it got so boring."
Robin pulls back a little from her and looks at her seriously. "Come over tonight and I'll make you dinner, but for now we do really need to be extra careful with this. Twice in the past, teachers have tried to get in while that door was locked and you were in here, remember? It's going to look suspicious if they keep coming to talk to me and you're in here."
She pouts at him. "What, teachers like Mal? What's your sudden interest in her anyway? You've been hanging out a lot."
"No we haven't," he chuckles, finding her absolutely adorable when she's pouty, "we almost get along. I'm pretty sure she wants to bite my head off most of the time. Anyway, I only have eyes for this one absolutely drop dead gorgeous woman."
They have a hand roaming kiss, their lips gliding over each others as their hands run over skin and get tangled in hair until they're absolutely breathless. And then he's pulling away and pulling her softly from the desk so she's standing. "Now go do your studying, I'll see you at mine tonight."
Regina leaves his classroom with a smile on her face and butterflies in her stomach. Finally it's going back to normal. This mess which they'd spent too long trying to push away, instead of fixing, is finally being tidied up. She understands the risks and the damage it could cause but that is only if somebody finds out, and nobody apart from Emma knows, and she can trust Emma with her life.
She wanders back into the library where Tink is chewing on some form of granola and writing notes at their messy table, and Emma has her head stuck in some kind of book. Neither acknowledge her arrival, so she takes a seat quietly and opens her own math notes.
It isn't even five minutes later when somebody clears their throat from next to them.
"What?" Regina growls when she looks up to face Mary Margaret stood over her nervously.
Her step sister swivels her eyes around the table and then is bold enough to take a seat. "I need to ask you something."
Well this is interesting.
"About?"
Mary Margaret gnaws on her lip. "It's uhm... private."
Tink and Emma perk up at that moment, looking at the two step sisters. "Pretend we're not here, we'll totally be concentrating on our work," Tink insists.
"And on the off chance that we overhear something interesting, maybe we'll give you some bomb advice," Emma follows on, overly nosy.
Mary Margaret hesitates and then sighs. "It's about last night."
Regina frowns and faces the girl properly, now, since before she was only half listening whilst still writing notes. "What about last night?"
She considers that, yes, she'd been aware that David and Mary Margaret had been up to something, but she still has no confirmation of what that something was. Or, she could be talking about their altercation last night. What if she caught a glimpse of who was laying in Regina's bed?
"Well, as you know, David was over last night. And we've been dating a while and I'm sure he's 'The One'... so we decided to do something."
Regina narrows her eyes. "I really don't want details of you losing your virginity."
Her step sister shakes her head and almost looks annoyed. "Can you take this seriously? I'm asking you a serious question here."
This must be serious if Mary Margaret is willing to actually piss Regina off before getting advice.
"Okay, she'll be serious. Go on," Emma says, nudging Regina and then placing her hand under her chin and looking at Mary Margaret to continue like she'd even been invited into the conversation.
Mary Margaret looks uneasily at Emma and then back to her step sister. "We didn't use protection."
Tink almost chokes on her granola bar. "Holy shit," she splutters, knocking her hands to her chest to try and clear her airways.
Mary Margaret looks to Regina alarmed, and Regina decides that maybe this conversation does need to be taken with a lot more care and consideration. "Tink, please stop with the dramatics," Regina looks to her friend, and then back to her step sister. "So, what? You're worried that he might... have something? Like an STD?"
Mary Margaret is quick to shake her head. "No, no no no, of course not. He's never been with anyone but me, so he says, so I'm not worried about that," she quickly responds, "it's just that he didn't exactly... pull himself out at the end and uhm..."
Emma is next to respond with a grimace on her face, "he came inside you?"
Her step sisters cheeks go bright red at the term, and she bites her lip and nods.
Regina looks over at Emma with an alarmed look on her face because it's not like she was ever expecting to be helping her step sister, who she will always say that she can't stand, with sex advice. Heck, she didn't even expect Mary Margaret to get into a situation like this until Regina was out of the house and off to college. But she can't help but feel slightly honored that the girl feels comfortable enough with her that she is seeking help with something so sensitive.
"Right," Regina starts, looking back to her step sister and mulling over the possibilities. "Well when do you usually come on your period? Is it coming soon?"
Mary Margaret shakes her head. "I just came off last week."
Regina sighs loudly. "That means you're probably in your fertile window, which means it's probably most likely to get pregnant in this time-" she's interrupted by Mary Margaret's soft sob, "don't cry you idiot, I'm just saying that usually it's the easiest time to get pregnant. It doesn't mean you are. And you can probably still take the morning after pill."
The younger girl is still sobbing a little, fresh tears streaming from her eyes. "Where do I even get that?"
Emma stands and rounds to Mary Margaret's other side, putting an arm around her shoulder comfortingly. "Look, kid, I know it's scary but there are plenty of fixes for this kinda thing, okay? You get the pill from the pharmacy, but you can probably get one from the school nurse."
"No! No, I don't want there to be a record of me buying it! Daddy cannot find out!"
Regina rolls her eyes but still places a comforting hand on the girls arm. "Your father won't find out. These are confidential."
Mary Margaret scoffs through her tears. "You honestly believe he won't have some form of inside person that will read my name and then run to tell him? He's powerful. And your mother is on the board, Regina. They'll find out somehow."
She's right. Leo and Cora could probably find out just about anything if they were interested enough. If Mary Margaret's name is on a computer system that links her to taking the pill, Leo could find out somehow. So could Cora.
"I... I can get it for you," Emma suggests, and for a moment Regina feels a pang of intense gratitude to her best friend for making her step sisters situation easier.
"I can't ask you to do that-"
"Hey, I'd do just about anything for Regina, and despite the fact that you guys are at each others throats all the time I know she cares about you. So I'll help you, okay?"
Regina smiles at Emma and then rubs a hand over Mary Margaret's arm. "And then next time promise me you'll be more careful?" Regina says seriously.
Her step sister nods and then cries a little harder for a few moments. "I'm sorry, guys. I'm sorry that I've gotten myself in this mess."
Tink finally speaks up from her place opposite the table. "Hey, there's no mess, yet. It's just a tiny little possibility that needs to be taken care of. The real mess will be if you don't take that pill and you do end up being pregnant."
Mary Margaret's eyes widen at Tink and then she snaps her head in Emma's direction. "Okay, will you get this pill for me?"
Emma nods, smiles, and stands from her place. "Of course."
His doorbell rings a little earlier than he expected. It's just after five, and he'd only gotten home around half an hour before since he'd been doing marking at the school.
Still, he stretches and hauls himself off of the sofa, before walking to his front door to let who he assumes is Regina, in.
It's her, and she smiles when she sees him, big and pretty with her perfect teeth showing. "Hey," she chirps, stepping into his house.
Robin closes the door and turns to greet her properly, sliding his arms around her waist and pulling her flush to his chest. "Hey," he replies crashing his lips to hers. They stay close and kissing for over a minute, and even after their kiss finishes they don't step away from each other. Regina rests her head on his shoulder and he sways them lightly. "How was your day?"
He feels her sigh against him. "Long. A little tiring. And my step sister had a problem that we needed to see to. Other than that, I've just been looking forward to seeing you."
He smiles and squeezes her a little, before finally separating their bodies and looking at her. He brushes some hair behind her ear and cups her cheek. "I couldn't wait to see you either, beautiful," he says. "I haven't started cooking yet... I'd ask you to help out but I seem to recall returning home to a smoking house at one point."
Regina hits him on the arm as they walk hand in hand to the kitchen. "One time. It was one time."
He chuckles and kisses the side of her head before detaching their hands and walking to the fridge. "I was thinking of cooking some chicken breast and asparagus or something light like that."
She hums in response and joins him in looking in the fridge. "That sounds nice. Will there also be dessert after this dinner?"
Robin acts like he's mulling over it and then whispers, "there most certainly will be," suggestively.
He gets to making their dinner whilst she sits on the sofa and goes over some of her notes and watches bits and pieces on TV. He can't help but feel this constant bubble of happiness that they've given it another shot, that she's here in his house like they used to be. He regrets pushing her away before. He regrets not even considering that maybe she's worth more to him than the minuscule possibility that they get found out. Everything they did was legal until he became her teacher, but he won't be for much longer. They just have to wait a while.
"That looks delicious," she makes him jump by coming up behind him and circling his waist with her arms. He smiles and continues to fry the asparagus.
"I should hope so, otherwise we'll be starving after."
Regina chuckles. "I wasn't talking about the food, but that does smell good too." She unwraps her arms from around him and walks to the cupboard to get some plates. She sets them by him so he can plate their food, which he does as she pours the drinks.
Robin brings the plates to the table and Regina brings their drinks, setting them in front of each place before taking a seat. She waits for Robin to turn off the oven and then he joins her at the table, waiting for her to take the first bite so she can give him her opinion.
She scoops a mouthful into her mouth and chews, before smiling at him. "Damn, this is delicious."
Robin chuckles and digs in to his own dinner. "Well your opinion means a lot to me, and I know you have good taste since you're totally into me, so thanks."
Regina kicks him under the table. "You're so full of yourself."
"I'm kidding, I'm just glad it isn't a take out for once, and it certainly isn't burnt food provided by you."
She drops her fork and folds her arms. "Fine, I refuse to feed your ego. I won't eat it."
Robin raises an eyebrow. "Well I guess you won't be getting dessert either then," he smirks. She narrows her eyes at him for a moment but he refuses to rise to it, and then picks up her fork.
"Fine, you win."
He laughs and leans in for a kiss. She meets him half way and gives him a peck. "So what was up with your sister then? You said she had a problem."
"Step sister! And she was just stupid and got herself into something that could've changed her whole life," she sighs.
"Wow, I can't imagine her doing anything that bad. She's such a..."
"I get what you mean," Regina nods, "trust me, I was even surprised."
"What happened?"
"I... well she uhm... you can't tell anybody this, but she slept with David and they didn't use protection. We went to get her the morning after pill and Emma did it for her since our parents are rather... intuitive and thorough."
Robin's eyebrows shoot up and he swallows his food in one big gulp. "What!? I was definitely not expecting that. Isn't she on the contraceptive pill or anything?"
Regina shakes her head. "I mean she's never been sexually active before so I guess she didn't really think about it. They probably didn't even plan it, it just felt right and they trusted each other."
"Well at least it's sorted. I can't imagine how that would've affected her future," he muses. It doesn't escape him that he and Regina could've easily found themselves in a similar situation had she not been on the pill. It also doesn't escape him that he feels a small sense of fear at the idea...
Maybe they should be more careful, too.
"Did you and your wife ever try for a baby?" She asks suddenly, and he only just about survives the choking match he has with his food due to the question. "Sorry. You don't have to answer."
Robin shakes his head and coughs a few more times to clear his airways. He quickly grabs his drink and takes a few sips. "No it's fine," he rasps, "I mean it was a long time ago."
Regina smiles and looks at him, urging him to continue. "Yes. We did try. It was just after we got married and that was the next step... a baby. At the time, a baby with Marian was everything I could've wanted. It's why we bought this house, so we could prepare."
He notices that her smile doesn't fade, but it grows sad behind the eyes. "But when we moved here and she became a qualified nurse, her hours were much longer than she assumed they would be. Any talk of a child after that just kind of... strained us."
Robin watches her nod and then look back down at her plate, before taking another bite of food.
"I see," is all she says.
"What is it?" He asks, putting down his cutlery and giving her his full attention.
She doesn't look up. "Nothing I just... I don't know," she drops her fork and meets his eyes, "I just never really pictured you guys happy."
He furrows his brows. "I don't understand?"
"Like, I know you were in love with her. Of course you were, that's why you were so devastated after the divorce. It's just I never... don't worry. It's nothing."
He reaches a hand over to her and places it over hers. "Talk to me, Regina."
Her eyes move to watching their hands, and she sighs softly. "I never really pictured your life together. I figured you must've loved her but I always painted her as this... awful woman. And I always pictured your marriage as this thing that was super unhappy. That's what you told me it was."
"I was angry, back then. I was angry that my marriage had ended and I missed having someone. I needed to get wrapped up in something and it was you. You were somebody to have and to talk to so I let my anger out and yes, I painted a bad picture. Being with Marian wasn't all bad, but towards the end it really was unhappy."
Regina doesn't say anything, and he thinks he's really upset her, but then she meets his eye with a shy smile. "I'm sorry if I dulled the mood."
He smiles back. "You didn't, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that you can always tell me what's bothering you. I know we haven't really spoken about... many serious things. But to be honest I didn't ever expect this to get serious. You were only supposed to be..." he trails off, and she squeezes his hand.
"Robin, it's okay. I know I was a rebound. A one night stand. But it's more than that now."
Suddenly he feels overwhelmingly awful.
He remembers being in the classroom the day he told Regina he didn't love her, a lie to get her off of his back. A lie he now realizes was so much worse than he thought. 'I know a was a rebound.'
It echoes in his head. She was a rebound but then they became so much more, and instead of admitting that at first he told her she was exactly that. Told her that he didn't love her and that she was just somebody to mess around with to get over his wife.
No wonder she'd been so upset.
"I'm so sorry, Regina."
Regina looks surprised by his apology. She tilts her head to the side and frowns at him prettily. "Sorry? Robin you don't need to apologize for anything."
"No, I do. I do, I really, really do. You told me you loved me and I pushed you away. I've never been so stupid," he looks at her, really looks at her so she knows he's serious. "I will never be able to make up for that."
"You needed to do something. You were panicking. I get it, I understand," she says with a wobble in her voice. "And you admitted it afterwards anyway."
He shakes his head again. "I only admitted it to get you off my back. You told me to admit my feelings and you'd go away and that's why I said it. I meant it, but it was still for my benefit."
"Robin you're getting worked up over things you don't need to. I'm okay, I understand."
She doesn't understand. He needs to get this off of his chest. He treated her so badly, and she just took it. She accepted that he was pushing her away and then she tried to sort herself out, and then he came along begging for her back. He's selfish. He's so selfish.
"Robin are-"
He detaches their hands. "I can't believe how stupid I was, Regina. You deserve better, so much better-"
"Stop it, Robin-"
"No, you were right the whole time. I was so worried about everything else that I didn't even think about what I was doing to you. And then I changed my mind and asked for you back and you were right to reject me. You were so right."
He watches her close her eyes and reign in her emotions, breathing softly but deeply. "Robin, I do know all of this. You don't have to recap the last few weeks to me. I'm not an idiot, I didn't get back with you because you manipulated me into it. I want to be with you, mistakes and all."
He sucks in a breath and lets it gush out. "I know. I know you're not an idiot. I'm not repeating it as if you don't already know it, I'm repeating it because I've only just realized how damaging everything I did was."
"Okay," she nods in understanding, "okay if you feel like you need to say this then do it, but don't get worked up over it. It's done, and guess what? We've come out stronger than ever."
"I just wish I hadn't been such an idiot. If we don't acknowledge this it's going to build up between us and you'll end up resenting me and I'll end up regretting every word I've ever said."
"That's not true," she insists.
"No, it is. We can't just push the last few weeks out of our minds. It's a huge... huge thing. And I just want you to know that I'm sorry and I was such an idiot. Don't pretend that I wasn't."
"Fine, you were an idiot. You did wrong, but so did I. I wasn't honest with you when we first met and that's what caused all of this in the first place. Robin, I forgive you. I forgive you and I love you. Do you forgive me for everything I did?"
She's so smart. This gorgeous, complicated, marvel of a woman is so damn smart that it kills him. She knows just what to say, just how to word things to highlight that it's not all bad. Regina could turn the sky pink just by whispering a few words to him and that is truly how clever her pretty brain is. She's turned his burst of insecurity and self loathing into something they can both share. She's forgiven him and asked him to forgive her, by also highlighting her mistakes.
Robin doesn't think he could love another woman more.
"Of course. Of course I can. I love you," he forgets his dinner and leans over and kisses her unexpectedly. "I love you, and I'm sorry and I forgive you."
"Do you feel better now?" She whispers into the space between them. He nods and pulls back from her.
"I do. Thank you... And I'm sorry for putting a downer on dinner."
Regina shakes her head. "No problem, because just like you said I can always talk to you, you can always talk to me. I'm not saying it didn't hurt, but not everything you did was unreasonable. We've both been selfish but at least we can acknowledge our mistakes, and move on."
"Now that we've spoken about it, I'd like nothing more."
Stay tuned for tomorrow's update ;). Thank you for reading x