Hey guys it's Luna! I know it's been a while since we updated, I just seem to have been so busy lately! This was requested in my CC's a lot so I thought I'd give you what you wanted! Hope you enjoy and let me know what you think!

Regina had been back in England for a few weeks and in that time, she had seemed to be hanging around with Robin more than she would maybe like to admit to anyone should they ask. They had studied together a few times, Kathryn had been there as well, but Robin had tagged along with them when they went to the library and she didn't really mind all that much, in fact, if she were honest with herself she was growing rather fond of his company.

It was late November, a chill had settled in the air and winter was now in full force, there were Christmas decorations in most of the shops as the country prepared for the festive season, but Regina wasn't really feeling the Christmas spirit, not when at home they were usually getting ready for a different holiday. There was no Thanksgiving in England and she couldn't go home again, not so soon, she couldn't afford to miss out on any more of her studies as her classes would continue for another couple of weeks.

She switched her phone onto silent and slipped it into her pocket before taking her books out of her bag and putting them on the table in front of her and wiring down the title of the lecture, she was so ready for it to just be over already. Glancing up she noticed Robin coming in through the doors, he spotted her and headed up the stairs towards where she was sat.

"What's got you looking all grumpy?" Robin asked as he sat down beside her in the lecture hall, it was one of the last lectures of the year before they broke up for the Christmas holidays and it was safe to say that Robin was looking forward to going home and seeing his friends and family again. Regina, on the other hand, looked extremely moody, even moodier than she did usually.

"Nothing," she sighed, there was no point in opening up to him, it wasn't as though he could do anything about it. She knew that she needed to try and look a little less miserable, but she couldn't help the way she felt, it didn't help to see the social media posts from her friends back home in the States, it just made her miss it even more.

"Forgive me if I don't believe you Buttercup, you have a face like a wet weekend."

"What are you talking about?" she asked, furrowing her eyebrows at him in confusion, she didn't know what that meant and he was often confusing her with English terms that she just didn't understand.

"You look a little bummed out."

"Oh, well you know, I guess I'm just missing home a little."

"I get it, won't you be going home for the Christmas break?"

"No, I don't think so," she whispered, "I blew all chances of that happening when I went to visit my father last month, I missed too much school and mother said that it would be wise for me to catch up on my studies over the holidays."

"What?! But we have three weeks off and you know more about English Lit than even David does," he argued, earning a small smile from her in response.

"Thank you, however, my mother doesn't see it that way and I guess I just resigned to the fact that I will be spending the holidays here. Alone," she breathed out, wiping the tears that began to fall down her cheeks against her will. She pulled her bottom lip between her teeth and tried to pull herself together, she didn't want to show how much it was affecting her in front of him, but the thought of spending Christmas alone in her apartment was thoroughly depressing.

"Well, we can't have that can we, you can come home with me for Christmas."

"Absolutely not," Regina shook her head, there was no way she could impose on him like that and she would feel entirely too awkward, "I'm all for the lonely Christmas, pretty sure they are even throwing a Christmas dinner in the halls so…"

"You're going to go to a University Christmas Dinner?" Robin asked, his eyes widening as he pretended to be shocked, his hand going to his chest, "that won't happen, your majesty will not eat with the commoners. You just wouldn't do that."

"True," she smirked as she shook her head, she had no intention of going along to that dinner, in fact going to Robin's house for Christmas was a better alternative than that. "I'm sure I'll be fine, I guess this is why Skype was invented, at least when it comes to the family arguments I can just turn my laptop off on them," she grinned. She couldn't remember the last time they'd had a Christmas day go by without someone getting into an argument.

"I suppose there is a silver lining in every situation," he chuckled. He could tell that although she was joking about it, she was still sad to not be going home and he vowed that he wasn't going to give up on his attempt to get her to come home with him and spend Christmas with his family. She was someone he could now call somewhat of a friend and he didn't want her to be alone or sad on an occasion that was supposed to be joyous.

"Hey losers," Kathryn grinned as she dropped her stuff down on the other side of Regina, sandwiching her in the middle of them.

"You're cutting it fine," Regina stated glancing up at the clock.

"I just woke up," the blonde groaned as she dropped her head to her hand and rubbed her eyes.

"What? You were sleeping till two fifteen in the afternoon?" Regina scoffed her eyes widening slightly at her friend.

"I didn't say I was sleeping," she smirked.

Regina furrowed her eyebrows as she glanced at Robin and then back to her friend, "please tell me you used protection."

"Didn't need it," she shrugged.

"What?! Kathryn Midas you always need protection!"

"Not when it's with a girl," she chuckled as she looked down at her books.

Regina's cheeks heated up as her head swirled in confusion, Kathryn had clearly stated on their first week at Uni that she was straight so the new revelation baffled Regina somewhat, "but I thought you were…"

"I'm experimenting, that's what you're supposed to do isn't it?"

"Regina wouldn't know," a boy from behind them quipped and they all turned to look at him shocked at the intrusion into their conversation. "Her snooty ass doesn't experiment with anything."

"I wouldn't be so sure about that, she snogged that girl at a party during fresher's week," someone else chirped.

"I think you must have me mistaken with someone else," she glared at him, she didn't want to think about that, she'd tried to block that entire situation out of her mind. She heard Robin clear his throat from where he was sat on her left, "what was that?"

"Nothing," he shrugged feeling extremely awkward, he could tell that she was getting pissed, he had remembered her reaction when she found out what she had done whilst she was drunk, she hadn't been pleased in the slightest.

"We definitely didn't get you mistaken with someone else, this is you isn't it?" the girl sat next to the guy behind her asked showing her the picture she thought had been deleted.

"Just go with it," Robin whispered in her ear, "yep, that was her," he felt her heel dig into his foot and whimpered a little before carrying on, "you see that woman she is kissing is my ex and she forced herself on Regina to try to make me jealous," he felt the pressure of her shoe increase. "So, if you would delete the picture now, that would be great…" he was cut off by the teacher entering the classroom and had to turn around.

"What was that?" Regina hissed.

"Chill out, I was just trying to diffuse the situation."

"Well, thank you very much," she scoffed sarcastically, "you did such a spiffing job."

That night Regina curled up in bed as she watched television, she was trying to distract herself from thinking about the next day and the rather sad looking meal for one sat in her fridge with her name on it. Now that wasn't all she had to worry about, apparently, the photo taken the night of her first freshers party had somehow resurfaced and the rest of her classmates were spreading it around.

Her phone pinged from her nightstand and she sighed before reaching over to pick it up, seeing Zelena's name and rolling her eyes before reading the text message on the screen.

ZM: OMG GINA! YOU DIDN'T TELL ME YOU WERE INTO GIRLS!

Regina's mouth fell open at the message as her hand clasped over her mouth, how the hell had her sister seen that picture?! She unlocked her phone and found Zelena's number pressing the call button, she wasn't in the mood for trying to explain over text message, she would have better look actually talking to the woman. It didn't take long for her sister to answer the call with much excitement in her voice.

"Regina! You kissed a girl!"

"Zelena…"

"You were kissing her Regina; don't lie to me I saw the picture! Don't get me wrong you can kiss who you want, but I thought you were into that guy!"

"I never said that I was into that guy and I am not in the habit of kissing girls; how did you even see that picture?"

"It's on some frat house Instagram, I followed them just in case I saw anything scandalous I could use to make mother regret her decision to send you away."

"Okay, for one mother didn't decide to send me away, I wanted to come here it was my first choice, it was you who didn't want me to leave. And for two, what the hell Lena! Why would you follow random accounts to spy on me?! Is my life really that interesting to you that you have to stalk where I live and the people that I go to school with?!"

"I dunno you tell me, you're the one with some girl's tongue down your throat."

"In my defence I was drunk and I don't even remember that kiss."

"YOU WERE DRUNK! Oh my god! Regina! I'm telling."

"Zelena you wouldn't dare! Plus, drinking is legal here so there isn't anything you can do about it, it's not as though I am breaking the law, but don't you even think about telling mother."

Regina heard her sister laugh through the phone, "don't worry Gina, you're secrets safe with me. We miss you."

"Miss you too," Regina sighed laying down with her phone pressed to her ear, "I wish I could come home for the holidays," she whispered.

"Are you going to be alone?" Zelena asked, her voice sounding serious.

Regina thought about it for a moment, she didn't want her sister to worry about her being lonely, but she didn't want to lie to her either, maybe she could twist the truth just a little, "no actually, Robin invited me to spend Christmas with him at his parent's house so I was thinking that maybe I would go. Nothing is confirmed yet and were just friends, he only invited me because he felt sorry for me, he probably doesn't even want me to…"

"You're going to Robin's for Christmas?"

"I think so."

"And he invited you?"

"Isn't that what I just said?"

"Yeah, but I just wanted to check if I had heard you correctly."

"Zelena…"

"That's nice of him, you should definitely go, he clearly wants you there."

Regina furrowed her eyebrows as she thought about it, she'd told him no, so why was she now telling her sister that was what she was doing? Regina had initially thought that she wasn't interested in going, but this brief conversation had already seen her thoughts changing ever so slightly. It wasn't really as though he had properly asked her, he'd brought it up once and never mentioned it again, he probably didn't even mean it. "Do you think?"

"Yeah! Of course, go, Regina, have some fun and stop being such a loner."

"I'll think about it," the brunette chuckled, "anyway, it's late here Lena, so I'm gonna go. Goodnight and happy Thanksgiving for tomorrow, love you."

"Love you too, happy Thanksgiving sis."

With that, the phone line went dead and Regina sighed looking at her phone in contemplation, there was a message from Robin that she had missed whilst she was on the phone to Zelena.

RL: Can I come round? I need to talk to you real quick. :)

She sat up in bed and swallowed nervously, it was late, she could easily get away with pretending that she was asleep and hadn't seen his message, but something about that made her feel mean. Groaning she got out of bed and moved to check her appearance in the mirror, not that it mattered, she didn't care what he thought about her, she couldn't care less if she looked as though she'd just fallen into bed, which wasn't far from the truth.

RM: Yeah, okay. I'm going to sleep soon.

RL: On my way, god forbid her majesty miss her bedtime and lose out on some of her beauty sleep. ;)

Regina couldn't stop the brief smile from playing on her features as she heard the knock on the door and ventured out of her room into the hallway to open it. She undid the lock before pushing down on the handle and swinging the door open, "hey."

"Hi," he grinned looking past her into her apartment, "can I come in, promise it will be a quick visit."

"Hmm," she nodded, pushing the door open further for him to slip past her into the sitting room, "so, what was so urgent you had to rush around here so late?" Regina asked, awkwardly sitting down on the couch and looking at him for answers as to why he was there.

"I just wanted to let you know that I found out where that girl found the picture and had them delete it," he stated, "the frat house thought it would be funny to post it on their insta without asking you first, so I threatened them and they took it down."

She looked at him in shock, feeling rather surprised that he would go to such lengths to help her out, she felt a smile tug at her features and tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear, "thank you, I appreciate that, but my sister already saw the photo, apparently she is a stalker."

"Sorry," he groaned, he'd wanted to sort it before the picture got seen by anyone she didn't want to see it, but seemingly he had been too late, he was just glad that she didn't seem that upset about it, she had certainly been upset when she first saw the photo on Will's phone.

"It doesn't matter, it's deleted now and I doubt my sister will show anyone, not when I asked her not to."

"Good, well I suppose I should be going then, let you catch up on your beauty sleep."

"Thanks, Robin, pleasant dreams," she smiled squeezing his arm briefly as she saw him out of her apartment. He flashed her a smile, showing off his dimples before he disappeared into his own place. Regina bit down on her bottom lip and closed the door behind her, she leant against is for a brief moment before pushing off and heading into her bedroom where she dropped down onto the bed and smiled to herself. He cared about her.

Regina woke up the next morning to someone knocking on her front door, she groaned and rubbed her eyes tiredly trying to bury her head into her pillow, willing the person who was trying to get her to come to the door to go away. Seemingly though they weren't going to give up, she glanced at the clock on her bedside table and noticed that she had accidentally slept in until 11, she was usually a morning person, but seemingly today just wasn't one of those days.

Begrudgingly she slid out of bed, grabbing her robe off the back of her bedroom door before making her way to the main one. She peered through the peephole before opening the door, not even bothering to greet her friend as she made her way into the kitchen, leaving the door open for the blonde to come inside. "Well good morning to you too Regina," Kathryn chuckled, closing the door behind her and moving to lean against the kitchen counter, watching Regina make herself a cup of coffee.

"Want one?" Regina asked, gesturing to the coffee machine as she peered into the fridge for something to eat.

"No thanks, I'm on a caffeine cleanse at the minute."

"Suit yourself," the brunette shrugged as she wiped the sleep from her eyes, "you woke me up."

"Yeah, to get your lazy ass to come jogging with me."

"You woke me up," Regina repeated, looking at the running close her friend was wearing and groaning.

"I was shocked when you didn't come over to drag me out of bed like you usually do at 9 for our Saturday session."

"Well, I didn't feel like it this morning," she whispered as she picked up her coffee and took a large swig, allowing the liquid to slush through her teeth before she swallowed it.

"Okay, what's going on? This isn't like you, you're usually pumped and ready to go."

Regina sighed and put her cup down, Kathryn obviously didn't know what day it was, but then again why should she? It wasn't as though she was American or even knew anyone that was American other than Regina and she hadn't mentioned it to her, so how was she to know that it was Thanksgiving? "Let me just get changed," she stated reluctantly, maybe a jog with her friend would be what she needed to take her mind off the lonely feeling that was engulfing her.

"I thought after we worked out we could hit the shops, its not like we have any tests before the end of term anyway, so what do you think? I'll even treat you to a seasonal muffin and maybe might even be able to stretch to one of those candy cane lattes you like so much."

"Oh how kind of you," Regina chuckled, "sounds good," she agreed.

"Are you sure you're okay though?"

"Just feeling a little homesick that's all, I'll get over it," she shrugged going into her bedroom to grab her work out gear, tight black pants with deep red strips down the sides and a burgundy shirt covered by her running fleece. She was about to change into them when she noticed her phone light up on her bedside table.

RL: Happy Thanksgiving Buttercup. x

She smiled to herself and tried to stop herself from welling up, he remembered.

Robin looked in his fridge at all the food inside, "Will, don't eat anything from the fridge unless you bought it okay?" he instructed before shutting it again and heading to his room.

"Mate I'm off out for a run, wanna join me?"

"Yeah I think I might actually," he needed to shake off some of the pent-up frustration. Ever since he jerked off to the thought of Regina a couple of weeks ago he had been feeling guilty and refused to do it again, but he couldn't not think about her, so he had been rather frustrated. "One sec," he grabbed a pair of blue joggers and a white sports vest. It was November but if he was going to be running anyway he didn't see the point in long sleeves, he'd only get too warm.

He texted Regina before slipping his phone into his pocket and zipping it in there, "Will you ready?" he asked.

"Yep, I'm gonna whip your butt," he grinned as he stretched in the sitting room.

"I thought we were running not seeing who's fastest," Robin rolled his eyes, laughing at his friend, "I need to be back by one at the latest."

"No problem, I don't know why you're doing all this though."

"I just want to," Robin shrugged grabbing an apple from the fruit basket and opening the door just as the woman in the apartment opposite did. "Hey."

"Hiya," Regina grinned allowing her eyes to wash over his form, taking in his muscles, "are you going out like that? You'll catch your death," she chastised.

"I don't plan on staying still, it'll have to catch me," he winked, "seems we came up with the same plan for the day."

"Did you get dragged out of bed by your friend banging on your door too?" she smirked using the hair tie on her wrist to put her long hair up in a high ponytail so that it wouldn't get in her face.

"Not exactly, I don't really sleep in all that often."

"That isn't the impression I got the few times I was in your bed," she whispered so that only the two of them could hear, leaving Will and Kathryn trying to eavesdrop. "Neither do I but my bed was just too comfortable this morning."

"Wanna come running with us?" Will asked, putting his hand on Robin's shoulder as he continued to stretch out his muscles.

"We were going for a jog…"

"What I think she's trying to say is that she won't be able to keep up," Robin smirked, casting her a challenging look, he knew that she liked to play games, she was competitive and winning was her thing, she always had to be the best at everything.

Regina looked at him and rose an eyebrow, she knew that he was playing a game and she didn't know whether to rise to it or not, she was still feeling a little tired, but a competition always managed to wake her up somewhat and she had a feeling that she would be able to beat him. "Okay then, we'll join you on your run."

"What?! No," Kathryn shook her head, "please tell me you aren't making me run Regina! You know I hate running, I can only just manage jogging."

"Sorry Kat, a challenge is a challenge and just think how good it will be for your fitness."

"Urgh, I hate you."

Regina simply smirked at her and leant on Robin's shoulder, the opposite one to Will as she stretched out her legs.

"Yep, that's it, ladies, use me as your resting post," Robin chuckled with a roll of his eyes as Will shoved him playfully, clearly not liking having been called a lady.

"You won't be laughing when your legs are cramping up halfway around the circuit," Regina teased him as she let go of his shoulder and rolled her shoulders a little, trying to loosen herself up. She knew that Robin often went running, sometimes she would see him when she went out for her daily jog, she would run but she could never be bothered, she had been rather sporty back home in California, it also helped that they had warm weather and beaches to work out on. "So, what's the plan for the route?"

"I was thinking maybe head off around campus and back," Robin suggested, knowing that would be a good three mile run once they covered the entire span from their apartment block.

"Sounds good to me."

"Sounds more like torture," Kathryn groaned, "I am not running, I don't care if I have to go alone, I'm not running."

"Aww come on Cat, it'll be fun."

"You're in shape, it might be fun for you, but I can barely manage the jogging as it is, never mind running."

"You're in shape too," Regina chuckled at her friend's hatred for going at any pace faster than a brisk jog, she knew that it was more likely because she wanted to gossip about stuff while they went, she probably didn't even want Robin and Will to join them.

"I hate you right now."

"You know you love me," Regina winked, "right then Locksley, how about we jog to Sainsbury's to warm up and from there we run?"

"Cool," he nodded, finishing off the last of his stretches and glancing at her as she stretched in front of him, his eyes fell to her ass in her tight lycra shorts and he closed his eyes, willing himself to stay focused and not become distracted by her assets.

"Stop looking at her ass mate," Will teased quietly.

"Shut up, I wasn't."

"Sure you weren't," he slapped him on the back before taking off towards the elevator.

"Hey Will, wait up," Kathryn called as she jogged after him.

"We're taking the stairs!" Regina informed them before turning to grin at Robin, "come on, lets beat them," she tugged on his arm playfully biting down on her bottom lip as they hurried towards the staircase at the opposite end of the corridor, she flung the door open as they made their way down.

"Please don't fall and break your ankle," Robin protested as he followed her, he really didn't want her to hurt herself, but he knew just how competitive she was.

"Don't worry, sometimes I run up and down the stairs just to work out," she quipped as she reached the ground floor and swung the door open, arriving in the entrance hall to their apartment block just as the lift doors pinged open. "We beat you!" she laughed, seeing her friend roll her eyes at her.

"It wasn't a competition," Kathryn groaned.

Regina shrugged and glanced at Robin who was grinning at her, she chuckled and raced off out of the door with Robin hot on her heels, "hey I thought you said we were starting off slow."

"This is slow," she winked, slowing her pace and allowing him to jog alongside her, "thank you for the text you sent this morning," Regina stated as they jogged side by side with Will and Kathryn following behind them, "you remembered."

"Of course," he smiled as they stopped at the crossing and waited for the lights to change. He just wanted to make her happy because seeing her smile made his day bright.

They were around halfway through their run and Robin and Regina had managed to lose Will and Kathryn off their backs, they had decided to team up and whoever got back to the apartment last was getting a round of drinks in. Regina glanced at Robin as they ran, she watched the way his muscles rippled as he sprang off the pavement and almost propelled forward, she was having somewhat of a hard time keeping up to his pace. He was distracting her and she found herself struggling to keep her eyes off him.

All of a sudden, the heavens opened and rain began to fall, spilling massive water droplets that bounced off the sidewalk. Regina squealed, not having expected it, whilst Robin laughed at her and reached out for her hand, tugging her towards one of the university buildings for them to take shelter inside, he shook his head, spraying the water that had soaked his hair all over her. "Robin!" she giggled, pushing him away from her and wiping her face, "where did that even come from?"

"The sky."

"Shut up, smart ass," she grinned, "I'm drenched."

"Me too," he chuckled, "but it feels kinda nice to cool down a little."

"Are your arms cold?" she asked looking to his bare muscles that were glistening from the sheen of rainwater that covered him, she couldn't stop herself from licking her lips at the sight as her hands automatically went to his arms and rubbed up and down as if she were trying to warm him up. Seemingly though it was just an excuse for her to touch him.

"No, not really," he stated, wishing somewhat that he'd lied and said that they were so that she might continue with what she was doing and not release him from her hold. He looked at her a little longer, admiring the way that water droplets stuck to her eyelashes, threatening to fall at any given moment. He brought his hands up and carefully wiped them away, stroking her cheek in the process, "you had a little water," Robin breathed moving a little closer to her.

Regina swallowed heavily as she looked up at him, he was staring and she couldn't help but stare right back, when his eyes fell to her lips she shook herself out of it and grabbed his hand, "come on! They are probably beating us! I know a shortcut," she winked as they took off running again, dodging all the other students as they weaved through the corridors. "The library has a back entrance that leads onto the track," she laughed as they hurried through the rows of books hearing the librarian telling them to stop running but paying her no mind.

"There," Regina quipped pointing to a door at the very back of the extravagant library system of what wasn't even the main library on campus. They slipped through the door and found that it was still raining, however it wasn't coming down as heavily so they braved the elements and ran onto the track, taking on the last stretch back to the apartment building,

Robin had been so close to kissing her back there, he'd wanted to, more than anything he had wanted to close the gap between them and press his lips to hers. He longed to know what she tasted like, to know how her lips would feel against his. Who was he kidding? He wanted more than that, wanted to experience everything with her, he'd fallen for her hard and didn't really know exactly how he should go about telling her that, he didn't want to scare her off if she didn't feel the same way, he didn't want to ruin their friendship by telling her that he liked her as more than friends.

He was so immersed in his thoughts that he didn't hear Regina tell him to watch out for the loose flagstone on the pavement, instead he caught his foot on it and went flying, landing on the sidewalk, his hands just about protecting his face.

"Robin!" Regina gasped, stopping running and dropping down beside him, he had gone down with such a thud and her heart shot into her mouth, "are you okay? Oh my god, I told you the paving was loose," she ran her hands over him.

He sat up, feeling the water on the street seep through his pants and looked down to see massive tears in his joggers exposing his bloodied knees, "shit," he groaned seeing the worried expression on her face as she looked at him.

"You're bleeding!" she shrieked, "how hurt are you? I can't tell, there's so much blood," she winced finding the packet of tissue in her pocket and taking a couple to press against the wound, "I think we need to get you back so we can look at it and properly wash the injury. Can you stand?" Regina asked, offering him her hand.

It was then that he realised it wasn't just his knees that were scraped, his palms had also taken a pounding from the pavement and there was yet more blood falling from there. He cringed as she pulled his arm to help him up, he could feel his knees throbbing, but he could handle the pain, luckily, he had a high pain threshold. "I think I'm all god, just a little scraped," Robin stated, watching as she stared at him.

"Did you not hear me tell you that the flag was loose?"

"No, I must have just zoned out for a moment," he sighed feeling her wrap her arm around him, he looked down to see her tucked under his arm holding onto him as if to help him walk, "are you worried about me?" he teased.

"Shut up, I just wanted to make sure you could walk okay, I don't want you to fall again, I feel you need my constant direction and clearly you don't listen to me when I speak, so I guess I will just have to direct you in another way."

"Any excuse to touch me, hey Mills?" Robin grinned, happy to have her so close to him, it made him feel instantly better about having injured himself, having her play nurse more than made up for it.

"Why would I want to touch your sweaty body?" she scoffed rolling her eyes as they turned the corner, their apartment building coming into view.

"You tell me?" he chuckled spotting Kathryn and Will on the other side of the road making their way towards them.

"What happened?! We thought you'd have been back ages," Kathryn called.

"Robin took a little tumble," Regina informed them, "and by little, I mean he has no skin left on his knees or hands," she sighed as they entered the apartment building, finally getting out of the rain. She immediately steered them towards the lifts.

"Not taking the stairs Buttercup?" he smirked.

"Stop it," she warned, pressing the button to their floor as the four of them stood in silence. She could hear Will fiddling with something behind her and had to stop herself from turning around and telling him to stop fidgeting. When the elevator pinged she helped Robin out and they made their way to their apartments. "Will can you open the door please?"

"Well, I could but Robin has the keys so…"

Robin rolled his eyes and found them in his pocket, wincing when the metal scraped his cut palms, he unlocked the door and shook his head, "I think I can handle it from here, thanks for the help," he grinned at her, only for her to push past him, clearly ignoring whatever he was saying to her.

"Where is your first aid kit?" she asked.

"Okay, come right in then your majesty."

"Robin, first aid kit?"

"Above the sink in the bathroom," he informed her, not wanting to test her any more than he already had done, he knew better than anyone else how short her fuse was.

"Thank you, sit," she pushed him towards the stools that surrounded the breakfast bar and he did as he was told, sitting down at the table.

"Regina, I'm gonna go home and shower, what time are we doing drinks tonight?" Kathryn asked as Regina came back out having found the medical supplies she was looking for.

"Is seven okay?"

"No," Robin shook his head, "make it a little later, how about eight thirty?"

"Who said you were invited?" Regina scoffed, scowling at him as she ran the tap and searched the kitchen cupboards for a bowl to put the warm water in.

"Well, they owe us drinks so I assumed that we would also be in attendance and you know better than anyone else milady that you would be bored without us," he grinned cheekily, the expression wiping clean off his face as she pressed a wet flannel to his bloody knee, "shit," he winced, seeing the wicked little smile that graced her face, "little sadist."

"Oi! I am not," she glared at him pressing harder onto his wound without even thinking.

"Ah, Gina!"

"What?"

"Stop pressing so hard," he complained, his fingers wrapping around her wrist.

"What did you just call me as well?"

"A sadist."

"No, after that," she bit down on her bottom lip as he let go of her and she gently dabbed the graze.

"What? Gina?"

"Hmm, you never called me that before," she stated, looking up at him, her eyes landing on his blues as she swallowed heavily.

"I'm pretty sure I have."

"No, you haven't."

"I have."

"Well, I must have been asleep or intoxicated when you did because I can't for the life of me remember that," she breathed. She didn't know how she felt about it, it was only her family and close friends that had ever called her Gina, she usually didn't like people calling her it, but she supposed that it beat being called Buttercup all the time.

"Do you not want me to call you it?" he asked, wondering if he had offended her by using the nickname.

"I don't mind," she smiled shyly as she dunked the flannel into the water before wiping the knee she hadn't yet seen to. "I don't think you've done any major damage, just a few cuts and bruises."

"Thank you, doctor," he grinned playfully.

"Oh and fyi I am totally not a sadist," Regina huffed standing up from where she was kneeling and taking his hands in hers so that she could take care of his palms.

"I was just messing with you, I know you're not," Robin winked, "you're no Christian Grey."

"Certainly not," she giggled, pulling back from him and looking in the first aid kit for something to put around his hands.

Once she was done patching him up she tucked her hair behind her ear nervously, she was only just realising how cold she was, her hair was soaking wet and sticking to her neck and she really needed to get out of the damp clothes she was wearing. "Well, I guess I'll be heading back to my place, I'll see you around eight thirty for drinks with the others?"

"Yeah sure," he grinned standing up and seeing her to the door, see you tonight Regina."

"Bye," she waved before leaving the room and unlocking the door to her apartment, she took a deep breath and headed towards the bathroom, she wanted to take a nice warm bath and relax before she went out later that night.

As soon as she was gone Robin hurried into the shower, washing himself quickly before hurrying back out into the kitchen, they had been longer than he thought and now he didn't have much time to go ahead with his surprise for Regina. He opened the fridge and got out all the things he would need to make her special dessert.

After she had told him about her sadness at missing Thanksgiving with her family, he figured why not give her a Thanksgiving dinner all of her own. He'd googled everything that people tended to eat on Thanksgiving and gone to the store to get all the ingredients he would need to make it perfect for her.

The thing was though, he didn't have the first clue about how to make pumpkin pie or candied yams, which were apparently just sweet potatoes. Nevertheless, he had bought everything he would need to make them because unfortunately Sainsbury's, or any other shop for that matter, didn't sell ready-made pumpkin pie and he would have to make it himself.

He glanced at the recipe and nodded, how hard could it be?

Apparently it was harder than he first thought, the first batch of filling had gone incredibly lumpy so he tried again and this time it ended up runny, he was so close to just throwing it all in the bin and giving up. He ran his flour covered hands over his face as he cleaned his bowl out and prepared for the final attempt. Luckily that one looked somewhat like the picture so he left it on side and went to find the paper recipe for the stuffing which he left in his room.

However he got distracted and hadn't realised he'd forgotten about the pastry crust which was blind baking in the oven and a loud noise blared through the apartment as smoke poured out of the kitchen, "shit!" he grabbed a tea towel fanning the oven as he whipped on the oven gloves and took the now charred pastry out of the oven. What was blind baking even for? Because it clearly didn't work.

There was frantic knocking on the door and he pressed the button on the smoke detector before opening it coming face to face with Regina who was coughing as the smoke poured into the corridor.

"Oh my god!" she gasped, her eyes widening as she peered past him into the smoke-filled apartment, "what did you do?"

"I just burnt some toast that's all," he shrugged, "everything's fine in here," he stated skittishly, he didn't want her to suspect anything and from the way she was narrowing her eyes at him she did. "Anyway you should…" he stopped talking when he properly looked at her and realised that she was only wearing her towel.

Regina furrowed her eyebrows at the way he had just stopped speaking and followed the direction of his eyes, realising that she had been so stupid as to come out into the corridor wearing only a towel. "Well, I would have put clothes on but I didn't know if you were dying or not so I need to check on you and make sure that everything was okay, But clearly you are fine and you're still alive, so I will see you later tonight. You might want to air out your apartment, that toast has made quite the smoke bomb."

"Yeah, I'll do that. Nice to see you're so concerned about me," he winked playfully, watching her roll her eyes as she headed back to her place, he couldn't help but watch her as she went, his eyes dropping to her ass and then to her beautiful thighs which were left somewhat exposed by the short towel covering her.

"Bye Robin."

"Bye Gina."

He could almost sense that she had rolled her eyes at him again, he knew what she was like and how she barely found him tolerable sometimes. He grinned and took a deep breath before going back inside to finish off making the dinner, he just hoped that it didn't turn out to be a total disaster

It was around seven when her phone went off, she had been just about to put her ready meal in the microwave but stopped what she was doing to check her messages. She saw that it was from Robin and furrowed her eyebrows.

RL: Come round to mine, I have something for you. :)

With a sigh she put her dinner back in the fridge and headed out the front door, going to knock on Robin's only for the door to creek open. She pulled back a little, cautious of the fact that he just left the door open, she remembered the countless horror films she had watched where the main character would be invited around to someone's house only to find that their friend was dead and it was the murderer messaging them from their friend's phone.

"Robin?" she called out cautiously, pushing the door further open and peering inside, seeing that the whole of the dining room was lit up with fairy lights, the table was scattered with food and she couldn't quite believe her eyes, "Robin?"

"Hey," he grinned, appearing from the kitchen with a bottle of wine in his hands, "dinners ready."

"What is this?" she asked, her bottom lip finding its way between her teeth as she looked at the spread that he had put together.

"It's your thanksgiving feast," he smirked, "I figured you might be missing home and I wanted to surprise you."

"This is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me," she whispered, trying to stop herself from crying at the lovely gesture, the dopey smile on his face made her chuckle as she moved over to him and pressed a kiss to his cheek, "thank you so much."

"You're welcome, now shall we eat?"

"Yes," she laughed as he pulled a chair out for her to sit down. There was niggling feeling in the back of her mind telling her that this was a date, it was just the two of them eating dinner together, but she was going to ignore that for now and enjoy the special meal Robin had cooked for her.

"I still can't believe you made all this for me," she stated, putting her knife and fork down after finishing the roast dinner he had made

"You're my friend, this is what friends do for one another. I just wanted to make you happy."

"Well you succeeded," she laughed, biting down on her bottom lip, "I don't think I could eat another bite, I'm stuffed."

"Ah but you would be missing out on traditional Thanksgiving dessert," he grinned, standing from his chair and moving into the kitchen, well aware that her eyes were on him, he just hoped that he had made it right and that she actually liked it.

She watched him in awe, she was just so happy that he was thinking about her, she didn't think anyone had ever done something so nice for her in her entire life.

"So I made this, it might be gross and if it is please just spit it out and don't eat it," he chuckled placing a plate with a slice of the pie on in front of her.

"You made this!" she gasped, looking down at the traditional thanksgiving dessert.

"Yeah, weirdly nowhere actually sells it, so I had to make it instead, it's probably gross."

Regina picked up her fork and tucked into the pie, eating a large mouthful and savouring the taste, "mmm, it's good!" she moaned, quickly covering her mouth as she realised she was talking with her mouth full.

"Is it gross? Are you just pretending?" he cringed watching her as she shook her head violently.

"No! I love it! Thank you!" she leant in and was so close to kissing his lips but caught herself before she did and kissed his cheek again, her lips just brushing over the corner of his, "I think the wine might have gone to my head a little," she excused, not thinking of any other excuse for her behaviour.

"Oh god you're not going to be drunk on me, again are you?" he chuckled, sampling some of his own piece of the pie surprised that it was actually edible and she wasn't just lying to him.

"No," Regina shook her head as she finished off the rest of her dessert before standing up, "now, I'm going to do all the washing up whilst you just chill out," she quipped, standing from her chair and taking her plate into the kitchen.

"You wash I'll dry," Robin propositioned.

"Deal," she grinned as they squeezed into the little sink area, working together to tidy away all the cooking utensils and crockery. Regina was seeing him in a new light, all of a sudden, he wasn't just her annoying, yet somewhat hot neighbour, he was her caring and thoughtful friend who was coming to mean more and more to her as the days went on. She found herself falling for him and she wasn't so sure that she wanted to stop herself.