I can't believe how long this chapter got, one minute I'm on 5,000 words then when I next check 10,500+! Thank you all for your continuing support.
Let's see how they get on with the play.
xx
"Tink I don't know if I can do this." She breathed shaking her head.
"You can, stop being stupid you can do this."
Mary Margaret rushed through the door "Mr King isn't happy, and nobody can get hold of Emma. Regina are you alright?"
"Mmm." She nodded.
Guinevere was next to come up to her. "Um Regina."
"Hey." She smiled "Sorry about yesterday."
"Don't worry about it, we need to see if this will fit you, there's four different costumes."
"They are not going to fit her, she's smaller than Emma." Lacy took it from the girl. "Regina arms up."
"I can dress myself you know." She rolled her eyes, putting her arms up anyway.
"That's too big." Tink shook her head. "One second." She delved into her bag and removed a piece of ribbon, which she swiftly tied around Regina's waist. "There."
"Ooh that could work." Guinevere nodded. "That looks good, Regina?"
Regina moved to look in the mirror, a smile coming onto her face "Oh my." She brushed her hands over the light pink material, that flowed freely.
"Oh wow you look so pretty." Lacy sighed.
"She does." Tink nodded.
"There's more dresses, that's the first one, we can't save them all with ribbon." Guinevere hurriedly passed them the rest of the dresses, pinning them where they would need to be adjusted. She had Regina stood on a podium as she worked "Regina, I'm sorry to bug you, but please can you stay a little bit stiller, I don't want to pin you by accident."
Regina stopped fidgeting "Guiney? Why are you so scared of me?"
Guinevere laughed "you are terrifying."
"Really? I don't mean to be; I guess I'm just rather protective."
"Regina don't lie you try to be scary." Tink chuckled. "But seriously Guinevere don't go near her man, she's possessive, like a momma lioness."
"Don't I know it." Guinevere nodded "I've been on the receiving end of Regina's protective nature a few times. Do you really think that Robin would look twice an any girl other than you? Nobody can compete, trust me, I mean look at you. Plus, that day I bumped into him with the coffee, he was totally dedicated to getting that drink to you."
"He pampers to her every need." Lacy joked, receiving a scowl from Regina.
Ruby came over to them, adjusting her headset she was wearing as her role was stage manager "Hey, we still can't find Emma, Killian said that she had decided she didn't want to do the play anymore."
"Weird, I can't imagine her wanting to just let me have the role." Regina furrowed her eyebrows at the tall brunette stood in front of her.
"Yeah, well that's the way it's gone, King wants to meet with you in ten to make sure you are ready, we go on stage in twenty, so I hope everything's ready."
"Should be." Guinevere nodded, removing a pin from her mouth and sticking it in the dress.
Ruby moved closer to Regina "You look beautiful, breathe."
"Harder than it sounds." She closed her eyes and Ruby took her hand.
"You need to listen to everyone, you know you have it in you." Dropping her hand, Ruby hurried out of the dressing room.
Regina stood with Guinevere adjusting her dress and as the time went on, the nerves built even more, to the point where she was feeling ill. Then she felt it coming and she couldn't stop it, she began to panic, it always happened in situations like this. Her breathing soon became laboured as she closed her eyes and tried not to wheeze.
"Regina?" Tink asked.
"Robin." She breathed.
Tink nodded "Yeah, I'll go and get him."
"Please."
"Okay, one second okay." Tink rushed to the guys changing room, while Lacy still tried to calm Regina down, but it wasn't working.
"Hey, Gins."
Graham appeared at the door and grinned at his girlfriend until he noticed the worried look on her face. "Tink? What is it?"
"Robin, he needs to come."
"Why?"
"Regina may be hyperventilating somewhat, just a tad." She gestured with her hands.
"Rob, get over here." Graham called.
"Tink?" Robin questioned, a confused look on his face, what was so urgent?
"Come on." She grabbed him and pulled him down the corridor.
"I'm pretty sure guys aren't supposed to…"
"Do I look like I give a shit?" she pushed the door open, to reveal Belle helping her sister teach Regina some breathing techniques.
"Gina?"
"Robin." She hopped down off the podium, despite Guinevere's protest. "Robin, I can't go out there, I can't do this, I can't." she shook her head.
"You can, of course you can." He hugged her tight. "You can do whatever you want, you are Regina Mills. You know it Regina, you know the part, the whole play. Everyone in this room believes you can do it." He pulled back and she had her eyes fixed to the ground "Regina look at me, look at me." She looked up at him "You can do this."
She nodded, hesitantly.
"Yes you can." He laughed, brushing his nose against hers, before kissing her lightly. "Come and prove to them who the real Juliet is."
"Okay, yes. Robin, we never practiced the last scene." She stated rather worried.
"Improvise." He shrugged.
"Alright." She leant her forehead against his. "I love you."
"I love you too, shall we amend the ending and run off into the sunset?" He asked chuckling.
"Then it wouldn't be a tragedy would it?" she laughed, how did he know exactly how to calm her down? He managed it each and every time.
"No, I suppose not, but I think I prefer that option to, well, death."
"Yeah, me too." She smiled, brushing her lips briefly over his.
"You feeling better?"
"Yes, at least we are dying together." She sniggered "When I was the nurse I faced a cruel fate, not only had a lost my love to my..." She lowered her voice so only he could hear "bitch of a nemesis, he also dies on me, so all in all I had it pretty shitty."
He laughed. "There you go." He took his iPod out of his pocket and handed it to her. "Listen to this, it's really calming."
She took it from him and glanced at it "Just like Heaven?" she asked.
"Yeah, the Katie Melua cover, not the Cure version."
"Ah okay." She nodded, as if that was supposed to mean anything to her.
"It's great, trust me, so is the film."
"Ooh is that the one with Mark Ruffalo and Reese Witherspoon?" Tink interjected.
"Yeah."
"God Robin, you like soppy romance films?" Lacy laughed.
"It's cute." He shrugged, earning a proper laugh from Regina, which had been his aim. "Okay, I think I have to go now, but listen to this trust me, it will help." He kissed her lightly once more, before leaving the room.
As soon as he was gone, she felt a little uneasy again, not as much as she had previously though, he had certainly helped quell some of the worry.
"He is too cute." Belle shook her head.
Regina smiled, running her fingers over the iPod in her hand, she pressed the centre button and a picture of the two of them popped up. She raised her eyebrows, put the ear phones in and pressed play on the song, sitting down, at Emma's… no her dressing table. The calming, floaty, dreamlike music flooded her mind and she closed her eyes.
"Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream" he said
"The one that makes me laugh" he said
And threw his arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"
It was working, she felt the tension drop away, the singer's voice tranquil and calm; the words made her laugh somewhat, she was sure Robin had purposely chosen that song.
"Regina, it's time." Tink's hand on her shoulder brought her out of her daydream.
"Hmm?"
"Time."
Regina took the music out of her ears and sighed.
"Did it help?"
"Mhmm, momentarily." She nodded "but right now? Not so much."
"Come on hun, deep breaths."
She took Tink's hand and stood up, Lacy came over and took her other hand. "Come on beautiful girl, I think she's better than Claire Danes in the film, don't you Tink?"
"Definitely." She nodded in agreement squeezing her hand. "You ready?"
"Ready as I'll ever be." She smiled weakly.
"Right then babe, let's go."
Mr King came on stage and a spotlight shone onto him. Clearing his throat, he moved closer to the microphone and pointlessly adjusted the height of it. "Welcome to Storybrooke high's rendition of Romeo and Juliet. We need to thank Principle Mills for allowing us to put on this performance."
Zelena looked at her mother who was whispering to Henry who was sat beside her. "Something that I wouldn't have done if I knew he was going to rig the cast list."
Zelena then turned to Alex who chuckled, leaning in "he's sweating like a pig."
"Mother seems to think he is a pig," Zelena laughed.
King continued "We've had some last minute problems, the lead Emma Swan will not be playing the role of Juliet, due to unforeseen circumstances."
Zelena grabbed her mom's arm. "Mom Regina?"
"Yes, well she's the understudy."
Caroline reached for Cora's shoulder as they were sat just behind her.
"This means that her understudy, Regina Mills, will be filling in."
"Ooh good!" Nanna Sylvie hollered. "We might have a good show after all."
"Mother!" Caroline gasped. "Shush!"
"What it's true and don't shush your mother young lady."
Zelena and Alex chuckled with one another. "She is right." Zelena stated turning to look at her. "Hello, I'm Zelena, Regina's sister." She extended her hand.
Sylvie shook it and smiled "Oh the lesbian?"
"Yes." Zelena nodded.
"Ooh, hello dear, is this your beautiful girlfriend?" She asked looking at Alex.
"Yes, well fiancé now, but yes."
"Alex." Al smiled.
"Wow you make a lovely couple don't they June."
"Yes." The other old lady smiled.
Mr King cleared his throat again "So anyway, let the show commence." He clapped, eager to get off stage as quick as possible, picking up the microphone stand as he went.
The narrator hopped up onto the stage "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."
King hurried back stage "Where the hell has Emma gone? She begged me for that role, Jones! Jones, get over here right now!"
Killian stood up from where he was sat on the tombstone prop. "What?"
"Where is my granddaughter?"
"She didn't want to do it anymore what can I say?"
"Argh!" King smacked the wall.
"Sir, chill." Killian shook his head. "Regina is going to be great."
"Where is she? Get her here now! She better not screw this up!"
"Hey! Sir don't even think about yelling at her." Robin stated coming up behind him. "She's nervous enough without you making her feel bad."
"Locksley, if you weren't my star." He threatened, pointing at him.
"If I wasn't your star what?" He squared up to him.
"Robin calm down." Killian grabbed his arm.
"She's scared okay, don't yell at her, be calm with her and she'll shine, you'll see."
"She better shine, she better."
"You know she will, don't pretend like you don't know that she should have had the role in the first place."
"Robin, you're on." Ruby stated.
"Right yeah, I'm coming." He flung one last look back at Mr King before jogging up to the side of the stage.
He really hoped that Mr King got the message, if he upset Regina, she was going to lose it, she would freak out and he knew she would.
"Killian! Killian! Someone let me out!" Emma dropped to the floor, banging her head against the door. "Killian, no." She cried. He wasn't coming back, she knew that much, she was stuck in the closet, literally now, and Regina would have taken her role. Why did she do this to herself, live this massive lie and it was a lie, she was in love with Regina, there was no avoiding that. Regina was in love with Robin and there was never any chance of anything happening between them, even if Regina wasn't completely besotted with Robin there was no way they could even be friends after the way she treated her.
"Regina, I'm sorry." She huffed, placing her head in her lap. "I'm so sorry." She shook her head, why did this happen, why did she have to be in love with her? She didn't want to be in love with her, she hadn't asked for this, she wanted it to go back to the way it used to be, with them being friends. "Regina." She cried. "I'm sorry." She wanted to love Killian, and she did, just not in the way she loved Regina, she didn't have butterflies every time she saw him, she didn't have the urge to just, to use Lacy's phrasing 'kiss him silly'; every time she fought with Regina, that was the feeling she got. She was also pretty sure that that was the feeling Regina got towards Robin; Emma wasn't blind, she saw the way they looked at each other.
"Somebody please let me out, please." She sobbed, it was pointless, nobody was coming, nobody was going to let her out. "KILLIAN! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE!" She screamed before going back to crying. Then a thought came to her and she rifled in her pockets for her phone, smashing her fist down when she realised that she had left it on her dressing table; she ran her hands through her hair in frustration.
Regina took a deep breath before entering the room where Mr King was waiting, alone, nobody else was there. "Sir, you wanted to speak to me." She smoothed down the light pink floaty fabric, the white ribbon tied around her waist.
He turned to look at her. "You better not fuck this up Mills."
"Sir?" She gasped, shocked at his language and all of a sudden feeling very awkward about the way he was looking at her, his eyes running across her figure. She was extremely uncomfortable "I won't."
He moved towards her and she recoiled slightly. "Good." He made his way closer. "I did want you to have this role you know."
Oh god, what was happening? She backed off even more, he was making her nervous and she didn't like the way he was looking at her.
Before he could get any closer, her hand found the door handle and she pulled down, quickly getting out of the room. Taking a deep breath, she hurried back into the changing room, what the fuck had just happened? She sat down at the dressing table and spotted a phone on the top, after she had steadied her breathing she picked it up and pressed the home button. The screen lit up with a picture of Emma, she shouldn't have been looking at this, she knew she shouldn't, but she just couldn't seem to put it down.
Slowly she swiped the phone and tapped in the password, seemingly Emma hadn't changed her lock code. She clicked on the photos, looking around to make sure nobody was watching, she flicked through them. Then she stopped when she came to some of the two of them together, why did Emma still have these on her phone, she hated her, why would she keep these? Shaking her head, she put the phone back down on the table, she couldn't think about this now, she needed to clear her mind; Robin, that's what she needed. Finding his iPod, she resumed the music and shut her eyes.
"Girl, what are you doing? Come on." Lacy grabbed her arm pulling her up "Thanks for this by the way, now I have to be your bloody nurse, I mean this dress is, I don't even have the words for what this dress is."
"Sorry."
"We are up, come on." She squeezed her hand. "Are you okay?"
"Something happened, I'll tell you later, I need to talk to Robin; but we need to get on stage now." She whispered.
"Alright sweetie, come on." Then she took a proper look at her friend and stopped her. "Hang on a sec. Regina? Look at me, what's happened?"
"Nothing, I think I was just overreacting."
"Why?"
"Mr King, looked at me funny, that's all."
"What do you mean?"
"I'm being stupid okay, let's go."
"Funny? Regina look at me, what you don't mean? Oh my god, Regina! Did he try something?"
"No, he just got a little too close to me and I freaked out, that's all, no biggy."
"Fuck, Robin is going to flip."
"No, no, Lacy, I think it was just me being paranoid, you know after Daniel, any guy that isn't Robin makes me nervous." She fiddled with the ribbon at her waist.
"Yes, but Gins he's your teacher, he shouldn't make you feel uncomfortable like that, how did he look at you?"
"Lace, it's me okay, his eyes just seemed to linger for too long, and then he moved close to me."
"Regina! That's creepy, I know we were joking earlier, but that's weird."
"I'm fine, we need to get on stage." She grabbed her friend's hand.
"Right okay, let's go out there and do this. Forget about everything, apart from being Juliet yeah."
They were stood waiting to go on stage when Robin rushed around the corner. "Babe."
She turned around and hugged him. "How's it going?" She asked kissing him briefly.
"Great, yeah, it was hard not to laugh at J though. You're up now, good luck." He ran his hand over her cheek. "You look beautiful, I'm gonna stand right here okay?"
She nodded "Thanks." She pecked his lip one more time as Ruby gave her cue. She squeezed his hand before going out on stage.
"Ooh look it's little sister." Alex stated to Zelena as she pointed to the stage. "Look at her, she looks so pretty."
"It's Gina, she always looks pretty, even when she tries not to." Zelena scoffed.
"Do you think she looks nervous?"
"Maybe a little." Zelena nodded "Once she gets going she'll be fine."
Alex dropped her hand from her lap and found Zelena's, they looked at each other and grinned.
"Oh I'm so happy for her, she deserved this." Caroline whispered to her husband.
"Mmm, I bet Robins happy about it." He grinned, flashing his dimples that were so much like Robin's.
"I think it's probably safe to say that he is more than happy about this." Caroline quipped.
They were coming near to the end of her first scene and Regina came to her last line "I'll look to like if looking liking move. But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly."
"Do have a clue what they are saying?" Alex asked, shaking her head as she laughed. "Because I don't have a clue."
Zelena nodded "Yeah, well Regina pretty much just said that she will try to like Paris, but she won't fall for him more than her mother allows her to."
"And you got that from, well that."
"Yeah, well studying English Lit tends to allow you to decipher Shakespeare. Juliet is literally saying that she will do as her mother pleases."
"Thanks."
"Yes, I was wondering what she meant also." Nanna Sylvie chuckled. "You young lady are going to have to tell us what everything in this play means."
"I think I can manage that." Zelena grinned. "But as long as you know the general story, it isn't all that hard to follow."
Then the scene was over, the curtains dropped and she rushed off stage. "I did it." Regina hugged him.
"Wasn't so bad was it?" Robin laughed.
"No, you are back on." She kissed his cheek as she let him go.
After getting through the rest of the scenes that they had practiced many times they came to the scene where Juliet and Romeo engage in a secretive marriage. Graham who was playing the Friar Lawrence was on stage with Robin as they talked. Then it was Regina's cue "Here comes the lady. Oh, so light a foot well ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. A lover may bestride the gossamers that idles in the wanton summer air, and yet not fall. So light is vanity."
Regina threw herself in Robin's arms, he hugged her tight, as she nuzzled his neck with her face, before turning to Graham. "Good even to my ghostly confessor."
"Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both." He nodded, trying not to smirk at his clearly loved up friends.
"As much to him, else is his thanks too much." She smiled up at Robin, kissing his shoulder lovingly.
"Zelena?" Sylvie asked, leaning over.
"She says she has as much to thank him for."
"Oh." The elderly lady nodded and leaned back in time to hear something from the people sat behind.
"It's believable isn't it, the little gestures they make towards one another, they make you think they are actually in love."
"Yeah, they are good."
Sylvie smirked and turned around "That's my grandson." She stated proudly.
"Ah." The woman sat behind her couldn't resist asking "Are they?"
"Together? Yes." She nodded "Sweet isn't it?"
"Yeah, real sweet." The woman smiled as Nanna turned back to continue watching the play.
Robin grinned down at her, carefully moving one of the stray strands of hair behind her ear as he brushed her cheek with the back of his hand "Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more to blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath this neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue unfold the imagined happiness that both receive in either by this dear encounter."
"Yeah, didn't get that, Ze?"
"He is asking her, if she is as happy as he is, then to tell him of the happiness he sees them having in their marriage."
"Okay."
"Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance, not of ornament. They are but beggars that can count their worth. But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth."
"She cannot express her love for him, as it is too much to count." Zelena stated before anyone could ask her to translate.
"Come, come with me, and we will make short work. For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone till holy church incorporate two in one." Graham announced as they all headed off stage.
Zelena was about to say something when Sylvie touched her shoulder "I think I understood that one." She laughed. "He doesn't want to leave them alone in case they decide to have..."
"Mother!" Caroline gasped.
"They need a chaperone." She amended. Just as they thought she was about to finish she stated "just in case they decide to get jiggy."
"Mother!" Caroline shook her head. "Sorry girls."
"Do the dance."
"Mother!"
"Oh it's fine." Alex laughed. "It's the halfway break, you want anything?" She asked turning back to Zelena.
"Mmm, I'll have a lemonade please."
"Okay sweets." Alex kissed her cheek before hopping up and asking Cora if she wanted anything, Cora was standing to backstage and see how Regina was fairing.
"Mother I cannot believe you." Caroline shook her head.
"What, you think the two of them aren't doing it?"
"Who?"
"Regina and Robin, of course they are Caroline, I overheard…"
"What? Oh god mother what did you hear?"
"Well, they were in the bathroom yesterday, together."
"That doesn't mean anything." She shook her head.
"Mmm whatever you say Caroline, but she was wearing different tights and he was wearing different jeans."
"What?"
"Yes, and I head, noises."
"Oh god, do not mention this to them, whatever you do. I'd have thought Robin would have told me if they had."
"Why would he tell you?" June interjected "He's an eighteen-year-old boy, he won't be telling his mother that he just had sex."
It was James's turn to gasp "Mum."
"You didn't tell me and your father when you and Caroline had…"
"Okay mum we get it."
"You were great." Robin laughed spinning her around.
"So were you, but we still have the death scene to go and you still have to kill J." she rose her eyebrows her arms securely around his neck.
"It'll be fine, we are halfway." He kissed her lightly, placing her back on the ground, he lovingly brushed her cheek with his fingertips.
Her smile faltered as she caught sight of Mr King stood behind Robin, she hugged him tighter. "Robin, he's staring." She whispered, burying her head in his shoulder, anything that would stop her having to look at the teacher.
"Who?" He asked. "Gina? Who's staring at us?"
"Mr King." She murmured. "It makes me uncomfortable."
"What? Gina, has something happened?" he threaded his hands through her hair.
"I just feel like he's constantly looking at me, he moved towards me earlier and I had to rush out of the room, I'm so paranoid and I hate it, I think it's because of Daniel, Robin, it scares me so much."
"I've got you okay, you're safe."
"I was alone with him earlier."
"We'll make sure that doesn't happen, Regina, look at me, if he makes you feel like that again, tell your mother straight away."
"Tell me what?" Cora asked coming up behind them. "Regina, you were perfect out there, Robin, great as always."
Regina disengaged from Robin's arms and hugged her mother. "We still have half of the play to go." She chuckled.
"I know, where did Emma go?"
"I have no idea." Regina shook her head. "Strange this actually, she left her phone in the dressing room, which is odd don't you think?"
"Weird." Robin nodded "Why would she do that?"
"I don't know; it doesn't make all that much sense does it?"
"No, I'm sure Mr King can take it for her." Cora reasoned.
"Yes, I'm sure he can. Now if you excuse me, I have to go and use the restroom." Regina stated.
"Good luck with that they are packed." Jefferson stated, walking up to them. "Wanna go use the ones in the music block?"
"Why not." She nodded, kissing Robin on the cheek.
Regina and Jefferson wandered hand in hand through the empty and dark corridor. "Okay, I officially hate school at night." J admitted, shuddering slightly.
"Yeah, me too, it's not great is it." She shook her head, squeezing his hand.
"What the fuck?" Jefferson looked at her wide eyed, pulling her tighter to his side. He was sure he had heard someone faintly asking to be let out.
"What?" She asked, completely confused.
"Nothing, I just swear I heard something that's all."
"I'm sure you're just imagining it." She shook her head "The paranoia is setting in." She taunted, nudging him. She was laughing when she heard a sob and froze. "What the?"
"Please tell me you heard that."
"I heard that." She nodded. "Okay, now I'm creeped out, come on let's get to the bathroom and the hell out of here."
"Mmm, do you think it matters if I use the ladies?" J asked. "I'm not going in there alone."
"Sure, there's no one else around."
"Regina I'm sorry." The voice whispered.
"Holy shit." She looked at him wide eyed.
"Oh my god, run." They ran down the corridor quicker, away from the source of the voice. "Did you just hear your name."
"Yes, it's someone messing with us isn't it." Regina rolled her eyes, pushing the door to the ladies' room open.
"Yes." He nodded, trying to reassure not only her but himself as well.
"Some people." She scoffed.
"Tell me about it." He rolled his eyes. "It wasn't even scary."
"No." She came back out of the stall, washing her hands. "They're gonna have to do a lot more than that to scare me." She was meant to be the hard one, while J was the wuss and she wasn't going to break that pattern now, she knew that it would just be people messing with them.
"Yeah." He agreed. "It's not as if we are in the middle of school, with the corridors pitch black and no one to hear us scream."
"Shut up J." She shoved him. "This isn't a slasher movie. Plus, you're still a virgin, you've seen scream, they never die remember."
"True." He nodded. "I love how you needed to point that out, thanks a bunch it made me feel a whole lot better." He stated sarcastically. "How about you then? You toast?"
"J, you know I'd tell you if I had right?"
"I should hope so."
"Best friends tell each other things like that." She smiled, bumping her hip against his as they walked side by side.
"Good, because, I want to know everything."
"You little creep." She chuckled.
"Don't I know it." He laughed. "But seriously though I need to know like the minute it happens."
"What that very second?" She asked raising her eyebrows at him.
"Well no, I'll give you about an hour. I mean you're gonna want to enjoy him being inside..."
"Fuck you." She shook her head jokingly. "I'm afraid to say calling you will be the last thing on my mind, except from maybe calling my mother." She laughed.
"Someone let me out."
"Damn it that bloody voice again." Jefferson shuddered.
"One minute, you don't think that, you don't think someone is actually locked in one of the rooms do you?"
"Nah, it's a prank."
She nodded "It's a prank, yes, you are very right." They continued back to the dressing rooms, without checking out the noise. Regina had been pranked one too many times for her to ever believe a stunt like that; had she looked into it, she knew that some punk ass kid would probably have jumped out of the closet at her in an attempt to scare her half to death, but this time she just wasn't falling for it.
She heard a noise from the corridor just outside the room. Emma looked up, her eyes straining through the dark in the janitor's closet, she was at this point relying on the faint light shining through the tiny window, caused by the streetlights beyond. Shaking her head, she pushed herself up off the ground and moved towards the door, she lowered her head and peered through the keyhole; the corridor was pitch black, there was nobody there, she must have been imagining hearing someone.
She rubbed her eyes and sniffled, she had been in there about two hours now and for about half of that time she had spent crying over Regina, the other half she had been yelling, trying to get someone, anyone to hear her, of course to no success. Now her throat was incredibly sore from shouting and unbeknownst to her, her eyes were puffy and her mascara was staining her cheeks.
She was about to sit down again when she heard another noise, looking back through the hole, she spotted a light shining from a flashlight and the ever so familiar voice; she shook her head, of all the people in this bloody place that could find her, Regina was the one to come down this corridor. She figured if getting out of there were an option, she wasn't going to turn it down based on the person who was going to let her out.
She tried to shout, tried to yell, but her voice was almost non-existent at this point and it hurt like hell; why had she wasted it on shouting when there wasn't anyone to hear her? She dropped to the floor, her back sliding down the door, hand going to her throat; she mused that she couldn't have any more tears to shed, yet they still came, they still flowed freely, stinging her already sore eyes.
Why had Killian done this to her? Why torture her like this? Secretly, she knew why, he was pissed and rightly so, she would have been too if she had heard him say what she had; she didn't blame him from doing this, it was her, it was all on her. "Regina I'm sorry." She cried again, dropping her head to her knees.
There was her voice again, the voice that was torture for her, deep and utterly sexy; then there was another voice, not the British one she had been expecting, but one that was equally annoying. No, that was unfair, she liked Jefferson, she had always liked him, despite her envy for his closeness to Regina; he had always been one step closer to Regina than she had, he was her best friend and there was no questioning that.
"Someone let me out." She tried, one last time, but the torch light through the keyhole disappeared and Regina was gone. She would have to sit it out, wait for Killian to come and let her go; she didn't know how he would have managed to persuade people that she didn't want the role anymore, she thought it would have been a given that she did. But obviously the show must go on, with or without her.
"Okay then Tybalt, good luck dying." Regina laughed, squeezing Jefferson's hands. "I'm sure you have perfected it."
"Mmm, I have, thank you." He nodded, grinning at her.
"And you." She turned to Robin. "You're killing my best friend."
He laughed and shook his head "Um, sorry."
"Okay." She chuckled, shrugging.
"I can't believe you." Jefferson scoffed, continuing with their playful conversation. "You'd just let your boyfriend kill me?"
"Um what am I supposed to do? I'm not in that scene."
"Hijack it."
"Yeah, totally, because that would go down so well. Plus, as much as we talk about it, we can't change Shakespeare. Tybalt has to die, otherwise there would have been no reason for Romeo to go into exile, therefore no reason for Juliet to take the sleeping potion, meaning, they don't die. See, tragic conventions."
"Urgh, you know too much about this stuff." Jefferson rolled his eyes. "Just give me the role, I don't need to know about tragic conventions, or any of that other shit."
Regina rose her eyebrow at him "Okay JJ."
"JJ? Why two J's?"
She just stuck her tongue out at him, to which he responded in the same way. "Come on children." Robin laughed. "How old are you?"
"Last time I checked I think it was about eighteen."
"Speak for yourself." J scoffed.
"Oh, sorry J, I forgot that you hadn't had your birthday yet." She stated patronisingly patting him on the back. "Little baby."
"Yes, well, I'm having a better party than you."
"Wouldn't be hard since I didn't have one." She reminded him.
Robin looked at her wide eyed "You didn't have a birthday party?" He was shocked, he had thought that any excuse Jefferson had to throw a party he would have used, especially for his best friend's birthday.
"No." she shrugged. "I didn't feel like celebrating."
"Oh." He frowned.
"I didn't mind, we had pizza right." She grinned at Jefferson.
"Oh yeah, they loaded mine with peppers and stupid fungus." He shook his head, turning up his nose.
"Mushrooms?" Robin struggled not to laugh at his friend.
"Yeah, well I order vegetarian, should have thought that I meant just margarita."
"Ah."
"Next month, major birthday party for me." Jefferson nodded "I want everything."
"Of course, well, maybe I'll just have to get my party planning stuff out of hiding." She quipped. It had been a while since she had the chance to throw a party, that had been her thing before Daniel left, she would organise every party. She had even helped with senior prom in her freshman year, although it had been mainly because Zelena was a senior and hadn't been bothered with her role, so literally allowed Regina to do everything for her.
"Yay! Goodie, we'll have to talk some more about this later, because it seems to be time to go out there and die." Jefferson stated a clearly fake smile coming up onto his face. "I'll never forgive you for this." He taunted Robin.
"Sorry mate." He shrugged as they made their way back onto the stage.
Killian's character, Mercutio was dead at the hands of Tybalt and his acting part was done, he decided that he needed to go and check on Emma, she'd been locked in there verging on three and a half hours, something that he hadn't taken into account when enacting his plot. Ridding himself of the belt that held the sword in place on his hip, he jogged down the corridor. "Emma?" Was he making a mistake letting her out before the end of the play? Surely she would have just accepted by know that Regina was doing the part and she would have learnt not to speak out against this.
Upon reaching the closet he unlocked the door and was immediately barrelled into by Emma, causing him to fall to the ground with her on top of him. "You bastard, I hate you!" She cried hitting him. "How could you?! How could you do this to me?!" She croaked, her throat still sore. "I hate you! I hate you!"
"Emma, would you quit hitting me already." He grabbed her wrists, lightly, just hard enough to make her stop "Stop." He looked up at her and gasped, she looked awful, absolutely dreadful, worse than she had ever looked. Her eyes were red and swollen, her cheeks stained from both salty tears and mascara. "Shit."
"Why?" She cried, she had given up trying to fight him and simply laid over him.
"I'm sorry." He shook his head. "Regina…"
"Fucking Regina, it's always about her, always about perfect fucking beautiful Regina! With her smart arse and perfect body, perfect hair, perfect fucking everything." Emma spat.
He narrowed his eyes at her, he had no idea what was racing through her head. This mood was unbearable, he needed to lighten it, do anything to try and lighten it "Well, that's a lot of effin's there Em." He laughed.
"It's not funny Killian, do I look like I am laughing in the slightest?" She moved off of him, she had had it up to here with his stupid jokes and idle attempts at lightening the mood, something at which he was failing, miserably. "Do you know how it feels to be locked in a pitch black closet for over three hours? Huh? It's horrid Killian, you locked me in there." She knew that he had thought he had been doing what was best, it wasn't his fault that he was too stupid to turn the light on at least.
"Emma, listen to me, I did it to help you, trust me, you need to drop this spoilt bitch act, it doesn't suit you. If you think you ever have a chance of seducing Robin away from Regina, you are delusional…"
"I get it okay, he loves her and she loves him, thats it, it's not hard to understand." She sniffed. Oh god, she couldn't let the tears flow in front of him, that would be totally humiliating, but she was struggling to keep them back, she was trying so hard, so hard, but it didn't work, fresh tears poured down her cheeks. He reached out for her, but she pulled away from him "Leave me alone Killian."
"Let me help you, Emma I want to help you, how can I? Please, just tell me what I can do to make you feel better."
"There's nothing you can do." She shook her head.
He wasn't giving up that easily, what she had provided him with wasn't a good enough answer, how was he supposed to help her when she wouldn't tell him what was wrong with her? "There must be something, anything I can do to take your pain away, Emma please, please Em."
"You can't make her love with me!" She snapped, before she'd had time to think about what she was saying she had as good as told him. Oh god, this wasn't what she had planned, no one could know, only she and Daniel knew. He had used it against her, used it to blackmail her into sex, what if Killian did the same thing, what if he used it to torture her day in day out? "No." She shook her head, she had just confessed to Killian her biggest secret; she could cover this, it wouldn't be hard, she hadn't told him her name, he didn't know the her that she was referring to was Regina.
"Who Emma? Who is she?"
"My mother." She sighed, knowing it was part truth anyway.
"But your mom does love you."
"She's not my real mom Killian, you know that." Wow, she was really playing him here, but she reminded herself that it was necessary, necessary to protect herself, protect her secret. "My real mom abandoned me."
"What, so this is all because you are adopted?" He supposed there could be some truth to it, she had always said how she would have loved to have known her real parents, find out the reason for them abandoning her. "Em, your mom loves you right? She took you in, she showed you love."
"Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that someone gave me up Killian." She didn't know how long she could carry this on, she had gotten over all this and come to realise that her adopted family were much better than any real family she could ever ask for.
"Okay, I'm gonna help you."
"What?"
"Let's find your mother."
Shit.
The audience was silent, their full focus on the stage as Regina lay in a deathlike stillness on one of the stone slabs. The prior scene had seen Romeo fighting to get inside the tomb, in order for him to die beside his love, whom he presumed already dead. Robin rushed onto stage and to Regina, for a minute his own breathing faltered, they were acting but for a slight moment his heart clenched, seeing her laid still like that. "O my love, my wife! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer'd. Beauty's ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, and death's pale flag is not advancèd there."
Zelena and Alex had tears streaming down their cheeks "Holy crap." Alex whispered, wiping her face. "Already."
Robin moved to sit next to her, he knew he had to pretend she was dead, but it brought him comfort to see her breathing steadily. He pulled her into his arms and cried "From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last. Arms, take your last embrace. And, lips, O you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death." He scrambled for the potion, kissing Regina, she didn't kiss him back, but he felt her lips twitch under his, she was fighting it, fighting the urge to kiss him back.
"Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide. Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy seasick, weary bark. Here's to my love!" He kissed her again, hugging her tightly, before drinking the potion, which was literally water in a tiny glass bottle. "O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die." He quickly kissed her again before he closed his eyes and slowly laid back, with her still in his arms.
"Look at me." Caroline whispered to her husband.
"Oh dear." He shook his head, passing his wife a packet of tissues.
Graham and another boy came onto the stage, with Regina and Robin still lying still on the block, after a brief conversation Regina began to stir. Sitting up a little, she looked around her "O comfortable Friar! Where is my lord? I do remember well where I should be, and there I am. Where is my Romeo?" She asked, her voice seeming faltered as if she had actually been asleep, she rubbed her eyes, meeting Graham's.
"Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead, and Paris too." He croaked.
She looked down and to the audience, she was physically shaking "Romeo." She whispered "No, no no." She held him, brushing her fingers over his cheek "Romeo, please, Romeo." Tears streamed down her face, real tears that dripped onto Robin.
Graham frowned, that wasn't in the script, was it? "Come, go, good Juliet. I dare no longer stay." He moved to take her hand.
"Go, get thee hence, for I will not away." She pulled away and rocked Robin in her arms, Graham sighed and left the stage. "No." She cried her voice was now a whisper "Romeo, please don't leave me, Robin." The last word was barely audible and to any other members of the audience it could have easily been Romeo. "Robin, please don't leave me, please." Her words were muffled by her crying. "Please, please."
"Did she just say Robin?" Alex whispered.
"Yep, and now I'm in tears again." Zelena breathed, pinching the bridge of her nose, her sister looked like she was in agony, completely heartbroken and it messed with her head, even if it was just acting.
Regina placed kisses on his face, every inch of it, every space of skin she could reach. Her hand moving to his and coming into contact with the vial "What's here? A cup, closed in my true love's hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end." She took it from him and took a shuddery breath. "O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after?"She hurled the glass bottle which shattered on the floor, also added to the play by her. "I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, to make me die with a restorative." She kissed him, cupping his face with her hand, before leaning her forehead against his. "Thy lips are warm." She cried, her arms surrounding him as she sobbed into his costume, burying her head in his chest..
This was crazy, Robin felt his shirt dampen and he could feel her shaking, how did she do it? His heart tightened, she sounded distraught just above him and he hoped that he never saw her this way, never heard her voice with as much sadness ever again.
"Romeo." She sniffled, breaking out of her sobs; then there was a noise from off stage and she sat up somewhat, allowing the audience to see her shaking hands as she found the dagger on his belt, fake of course. "Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief." She rose it, shaking, sobbing "O happy dagger, this is thy sheath." She kissed Robin once more, not in the script, but what the hell, he told her to improvise and Shakespeare most certainly underestimated the amount of sobbing and kissing that should take place in the final scene. Drawing back, she turned her attention to the dagger that was hovering above her, placing another hand on it, attempting to steady it, she took a deep breath. "There rust and let me die." She plunged it down, the blade going back into the handle and puncturing a sack of red food colouring, which seeped through the white floaty dress she was wearing, causing it to stick to her. She slowly dropped back to lie next to Robin. "I love thee." Definitely not in the script, she thought to herself. She closed her eyes and her hand fell to the side, retracting the dagger and dropping it to the ground with a clang.
They had to lay there completely still, while people rushed onto stage around them, signifying the final of the scene.
Then the last lines "A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punishèd. For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo." They had done it, that was the end the curtains closed and Tink rushed to them.
"Oh god, what have you don't to me? Look at me guys." She gestured to her face.
Regina opened her eyes and looked down at Robin, grinning at him. "Hey." She kissed his lips and he opened his own eyes.
"Is it over?" He asked with a yawn.
"Did you just fall asleep?" She asked.
"I was supposed to be dead."
She laughed, kissing him again.
He looked up at her grinning "Shit." He shook his head "You said Robin."
"Oops." She chuckled "I got a little carried away."
"No you were amazing." Lacy ran onto stage "Holy shit, you made me cry so hard."
"Curtain call." Ruby reminded. "In ten, nine, eight…"
Robin slid off the slab and helped her down "Nice dress."
"Eww." She looked down.
Guinevere chuckled a clean dress at her "Quick!"
Regina hurriedly pulled it over her head, chucking the fake bloodied garment back at her before Robin helped her into the next one. "Better?" she asked.
"Beautiful, you were beautiful no matter what you were wearing."
The curtain went up and the crowd were on their feet, Regina looked at Robin wide eyed. "Wow." She whispered, holding his hand tighter.
"That's for you." He nodded.
Separately, the cast made their way to the front of the stage, when it came to their turn the audience whooped and yelled. Then there heard Nanna Sylvie shout above the rest "Kiss her!"
Then she was joined by Alex and everyone joined in, chanting for them to kiss. Regina blushed madly, turning to look up at Robin, who shrugged. "I think; we should indulge them." He smirked, turning to face her, dropping her hand, his coming to rest on her waist.
"Oh you do?" She questioned, biting her bottom lip.
"Mmm." He nodded, dipping his head to lightly brush his nose against hers. "I do milady."
"Okay then." She smiled, her hands coming to his upper arms as he closed the distance between them and touched their lips.
He smiled against her lips as her tongue licked his bottom lip, teasingly. Breaking the kiss and ignoring the loud cheering, he leant his forehead against hers. "I love you."
"Love you too." She chuckled, remembering that they had an audience, she turned to look at them. Meeting her mother's eyes, she smiled, yes, her mother Cora Mills was in floods of tears and that made her cry as she laughed, her mother was proud of her.
"Hey." Robin chuckled hugging her. "We did it." He picked her up and spun her around, they bowed once more before leaving the stage.
"Well, I must say, I was very impressed, good work everyone." Mr King nodded.
Everyone was in the room, sat around except from Regina, she had gone to clean herself up as the fake blood had soaked through the dress and was sticky and horrid.
"Told you she'd be good." Robin nodded smugly. "And you doubted her."
"No, I didn't doubt her." He shook his head in objection.
"You totally did!" J nodded. "She stole the show and you know it, the audience were completely caught up in the chemistry, something you wouldn't have had if Emma had been Juliet."
"I'm gonna go and see that she's alright." Robin walked back down the corridor and knocked on the door to the changing room. "Gina?"
"Robin? Come in." She called from behind the door.
He entered the room and he stopped in his tracks, she was stood wearing some underwear that he had never seen before, this must have been the underwear that she said she had under her dress, the black suspenders going up into lace panties and a matching black, delicate bra. He couldn't help but stare at her.
"Robin?" She chuckled.
"Mmm?"
"This was supposed to be a surprise for later, but now you've gone and ruined it." She tutted, her voice seductively low. Slowly she made her way closer to him, her hand coming into contact with the top button on his shirt.
He met her eyes as his hands went to her bare waist, his thumbs caressing her gently. "I am very fond of this surprise."
"I thought you would be." She smiled. "I was looking through your playlist." She stated.
"You were?"
"Mmm, very, interesting." She rose her eyebrows, slipping her hands under his shirt to run them over his chest.
"How so?" He asked as she placed her lips on his neck, and started to kiss and nuzzle him. She was totally in control of him at that moment, he could barely think straight, just thinking about the tightening she was causing in his already tight costume pants.
"No reason." She stated, her lips ghosting over his skin as she spoke. "Just, unexpected."
"In a good way?"
"Yes a very good way." Slowly she moved back so she was leaning against Emma's dressing table, a seductive look on her face, that was it, he closed the distance, claiming her lips with his. He moved her up so she was sat on the table, her legs either side of him as he pressed into her, she moaned into his mouth as they kissed hungrily. Their hands ran over each other as she tried to undo the buttons on his shirt, she remembered that there were only three at the top, then he helped her pull it over his head, throwing it to the floor. "We shouldn't do this here…"
She gasped as his hand slipped under her bra, fuck it, he felt too good, this felt too good to stop.
He ground into her, trying to relieve some of the built up pressure, he knew they shouldn't be doing this at school, in the girls changing room; but the moan she let out caused him to pulled her tighter against him. One hand kneaded her breast, while the other was wrapped around her. Their lips found each other once again, she licked his bottom lip and he immediately granted her entrance.
"Regina?" The door flung open and they flung apart, looking towards the door. "Oh." Alex laughed "Sorry."
Nanna Sylvie came to stand behind her and her mouth dropped open "I was not expecting that dear." She chuckled.
"Nanna!" Robin stared at them wide eyed, so his grandmother had just caught them in an intense make out session.
Regina shot off the table and grabbed her dress, covering herself, trying to ignore the pulsing wetness in between her legs.
"Oh calm down Robin, you're young and in love." She waved her hand at him. "You have a very pretty girl who loves you, I'm not going to tell anyone. But I'd get your shirts on if I were you, your mother is coming."
Regina pulled her red dress over her head and found his shirt, chucking it at him.
"Darling." Cora came in and hugged her daughter. "You were perfect."
"Thanks."
"Amazing Regina." Henry nodded. "The two of you were just great."
"Yes you were." Robin's parents and the rest of his grandparents joined them.
"We have an after party, is that okay?" Regina asked.
"Where?" Cora asked.
"Tink's."
"Well then, I don't see why not. Robin I trust you will be staying over again?"
"Yeah, if that's no trouble." He stated awkwardly running his hand through his hair, not wanting to meet his Nanna's eyes as she was staring at him.
"Of course not; please don't be too late, you do have Rocinante tomorrow."
"Oh yeah." Regina nodded, smiling. "I can't believe I didn't see him today."
"Al went down for you."
"Thank you." She grinned at her sister-in-law to be.
"No problem." Alex winked at her.
"So are you going straight to Tink's?"
"Yeah, we are getting Pizza." Robin chuckled.
"Good, well you were both brilliant."
"Thanks." They nodded.
"Robin, we will see you tomorrow won't we?" Grandma June questioned.
"Should do, I might go riding with Gina, but after that, you will have my undivided attention."
"I don't think that's possible dear." Nanna Sylvie laughed.
"Okay then, you will have some of my attention, I can't help it." He shrugged.
"No, she deserves your attentions, but like I told you, grandparents don't last forever." Grandpa Roland joked. "They have a tendency to die at unexpected intervals."
Robin was telling his grandpa not to be stupid, when there was another knock on the door, Regina snuck past them, to open it "Grandfather?" She asked a smile forming on her lips.
"Hello pumpkin, they told me that I would find you back here."
She laughed and threw her arms around him "I thought you couldn't come, you said…"
"Your Grandmother said, I wasn't going to miss the opportunity to watch my little granddaughter's play, even if she was only supposed to be the nurse."
"Oh thank you for coming, it's a lovely surprise." She pulled back. "You need to meet Robin. Robin!" She beckoned him over to her. "Robin this is my grandfather, grandfather Robin."
"Nice to meet you lad." He shook his hand.
"You too sir."
"Come in." Regina pulled on his arm.
"I'm afraid I need to get back to your grandmother, she doesn't like to be left waiting, I just wanted to come and congratulate you."
"Wait, she's here? She came?"
"She's waiting in the car."
"What why? Why didn't she come and see me?"
"She thought that you wouldn't want her here."
Regina's face dropped, her grandmother had been horrid the last time she had seen her, but she was here, she had come to watch her play, even when she thought she was just the nurse, that must count for something. She moved back into the dressing room and grabbed her coat, why was she getting a sense of deja vu, going out to her grandmother in the car. She ran through the corridor accidently bumping into Emma.
"Emma?"
She blanked her and carried on walking, alone.
"Emma!" She hurried after her. "What the hell happened to you?"
"Nothing, I'm getting my phone." She whispered.
"You look terrible."
"Thank you, thank you very much." She scoffed.
"Emma? Stop, have you been crying?" she reached for her arm, heaven knows why; she felt bad for her and was rather concerned at Emma's appearance.
"No, I'm fine okay, leave me the fuck alone." She shrugged her off violently.
"Fine, I will then." She backed off and continued with her quest. What was wrong with Emma, had something happened, the last time she had seen her, she had been cocky and big headed, now, she was none of those things, she seemed broken, maybe she hadn't wanted to lose the role, maybe she had been stopped from taking it. Finding the car she was looking for, she slipped into the passenger seat. "Hi." She smiled. "Thanks for coming."
The elderly woman looked straight ahead and nodded.
"It means a lot to me." Regina tried.
"You were beautiful up there." She stated quietly, turning to look at her granddaughter.
Regina looked at her wide eyed, she had expected mild compliments or even a suggestion of how it could have been better, but never had she imagined something so, so nice. "Thank you."
"Is that the young man you were talking about at Christmas?" she asked.
Regina nodded "Robin, yes." She grinned thinking about him.
Grandmother Elizabeth said nothing, just sighed heavily. "Regina, I owe you an apology, I made a terrible mistake at Christmas and I was horrid towards you and your sister."
"Yes." Regina sighed, looking down at her hands in her lap. "And Al."
"Yes, her as well, I truly regret what I said."
"You do?"
"The way I shoved you out of the car was unforgivable, you were trying to help."
"Yes."
"Regina, I am proud of you."
She looked at her wide eyed, what was happening, where was her grandmother and who was this woman posing as her? "Really?" She asked, tears in her eyes.
"Yes, very proud."
Regina sniffled "Wow."
"I don't tell you that enough, I know I am cold and you probably hate me…"
"No, I don't, but sometimes I just wish that you would talk to me."
The old lady looked back to the window "I suppose I am not very good at showing affection and I am afraid that I passed it on to my daughter."
"You did, but mom changed, you can too, mom learnt that being sour and completely unreasonable got her nowhere." Regina stated slowly reaching for her grandmother's arm. "Thank you for coming tonight I really, truly appreciate it."
Elizabeth nodded, but said nothing.
Regina lightly squeezed her arm "I'm going to have to go, Robins waiting for me, we are going to the after party."
"Goodbye dear."
"Goodnight Grandmother." She left the car. It was a start, she had accepted that she was in the wrong, recognised that it was her fault that the majority of her family hated her, it was down to her own actions.
"You ready?" She asked coming back into the dressing room, everyone else had gone and Robin was sat alone waiting for her.
"Yes, how did it go? With your grandmother?"
"Better than I expected." She nodded, coming to sit on his knee.
"Good." He kissed her cheek, his arms surrounding her.
"She said she was proud of me." She smiled, placing her arms around his neck.
"Well, she isn't as proud as I am, I can assure you." He laughed. "Because I couldn't be prouder of you."
"You are the most amazing person ever." She shook her head. "And I'm just as proud of you."
She leant in and kissed him lightly.
"Wanna get off to the party?" He asked, brushing her hair behind her ear.
"Sure Romeo."
"Okay then, after you Juliet."
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