Thank you all for your lovely comments, here's part two. ;)

Her eyes widened in shock as she dropped to the floor in front of him, "Robin?" She reached out, resting her hand on his knee, "are you okay?" Hi head was buried in his lap but she knew who he was, she could recognise him anywhere.

He didn't reply to her, didn't even look up, she moved her hand and found his before holding onto it. When he still didn't move she shuffled closer to him, her other hand running through his hair gently, "talk to me," she whispered calmly.

"Go away Gina," he mumbled.

"No, I'm not going anywhere," she shook her head before moving the hand that was in his hair down to make him look up at her. When he finally did, she let out a shocked gasp, her eyes taking in his face, "who did this?" she asked, feeling tears trying to form in her eyes as she ran her fingers over his cheek gently, hearing him wince as she did so. She wasn't surprised he was in pain, someone had clearly decided to use him as a punch bag and he was all bloody and bruised. "Robin," she breathed biting on her bottom lip, really trying to stop herself from crying.

"I didn't want you to see me like this," he muttered. Everything hurt, he couldn't really move so when the guys had finally decided that they'd hurt him enough, he crawled into the corner and had been there ever since.

"Come on, we need to move you," she stated, "you can't stay here."

"Regina you cant tell anyone about this."

"Robin, they beat you up! We have to tell someone, they can't get away with this, it isn't right!" she protested, she had a feeling she knew exactly who had done this to him and she wasn't going to stand for it any longer, who the fuck did he think he was, he was no one and went around the school thinking he was everything, well someone needed to teach him a lesson. "It was Nottingham wasn't it, he did this to you didn't he."

The lack of answer on Robin's part answered her question and she took a deep breath before moving to help him off the ground, he let out a pained cry and she had to scrunch her eyes shut in order to cope with it. "Come on," she sighed, "I'll take you to my place and patch you up there, my car's in the parking lot, think you can make it that far?"

He nodded reluctantly, he just wanted to go home and sleep, but he had a feeling that Regina wasn't going to go for that, she seemed dead set on playing nurse and if that would make her feel better then maybe he should just let her.

They managed to get out of the main entrance, but Robin's legs felt like jelly, as thought they might collapse at any given moment, his ribs were throbbing and so was his face, in fact his whole body was just aching.

The finally reached her car and she unlocked it before helping him into the passenger seat and hurrying around to her side. Once she was in she looked at him, "maybe I should take you to the hospital instead."

"No, don't bother," he shook his head, "it'd be a waste of their time."

"But what if…"

"Regina trust me, we'd be wasting their time if we went to the hospital, they have bigger things to worry about," Robin knew how his mother was going to react when she saw him, she was going to fly off the handle and demand that the school did something to reprimand the students who hurt him. He really didn't feel like going home to face her looking like he was.

"Okay," she nodded reluctantly before putting the key in the ignition and driving towards home. She couldn't help but think about all the ways she wanted to make Nottingham and his dickhead friends suffer. She had about a hundred different torture methods in mind, which may be slightly sinister, but they would deserve it. Robin wouldn't harm a fly so why the hell would anyone want to hurt him?

It was silent in the car apart from the odd wince and groan from Robin and with each one he let out Regina got more and more concerned. Anger was also increasing as well, along with the need to make Nottingham suffer.

After about ten minutes on the go, Regina pulled up into the drive of her house. She shut off her car before climbing out and moving around to Robin's side.

He was trying to get out and she grabbed a hold of him, "whoa, wait," she shook her head, opening the door further and taking his arm gently, knocking the door shut behind him with her ass. She helped him towards the house and they made their way inside, "right you, let's patch you up."

Robin couldn't believe that she lived in that house, he went past it every day and thought that it was a beautiful place. The large white mansion which stood out the most on the street. He had wondered who lived there and now he knew, that also posed the question as to why Regina was having him as her tutor instead of just paying for an actual teacher. Whatever the reason, he was just glad for her help and they had become close in the time that he had been tutoring her.

Regina sat him down on a seat in the kitchen and grabbed the first aid kit, "so did you say anything to cause this or…"

"They're just jerks who like beating on nerds," he shrugged, tensing up a little as she began to wipe his face with a dampened cloth, dabbing at the injured area, it stung like crazy and he knew that he daren't look in the mirror. "Lucky I was wearing contacts today, wouldn't have wanted the fall out from smashed glasses in my face." In fact, they were feeling increasingly more uncomfortable as his face began to swell, "can you stop for just a second please, I need to take them out."

Regina nodded as her hand dropped away and she watched him remove the lenses from his eyes, "do you have solution for those?"

"Yeah, the pot is in the front zip pocket of my bag."

"Okay," she bent down and found the little contact pot before handing it to him so that he could put his lenses inside, "do you need your glasses?"

"I'll be okay, I'm not totally blind," he chuckled, everything was just a little blurred without them, but he knew he would be fine for the time being, "I really appreciate you helping me."

"Well I really appreciate you helping me, what are friends for?" she smiled continuing to dab at his face gently. Once she had managed to wipe away all the blood she headed to the freezer and took out an ice pack. Then she wrapped it in a tea towel before passing it to Robin, "hold this to your face, it should help bring the swelling down a little." She helped him hold it in place, standing between his legs.

All of a sudden, she heard the front door open and close, "Regina?" She turned to see her mother removing her shoes in the doorway and furrowing her eyebrows when she caught sight of them, "you're home, I thought you had revision tonight."

"I did, but I thought we could maybe study here, have a change of scenery," she shrugged, taking a deep breath as her mother came into the kitchen, there was no way that she could possibly miss the mess that Robin was in and that was where the questions would start. She should have thought that her mother might have come home, then she would have been more prepared and been able to take him upstairs where no one would have been able to see him.

"Well then, that sounds like a lovely idea... oh my goodness," Cora stopped just in front of them, her eyes fixed on Robin, "what on earth happened?"

"Some jocks decided to use him as a punching bag," Regina sighed, her hand falling to his knee hopefully comforting him.

"Why on earth would they do that?"

"Because they are disgusting excuses for human beings that's why," Regina seethed.

"I see," her mother nodded coming closer, "I think you need to go to the hospital young man."

Robin looked up at Regina's mother and shook his head, she looked a lot like Regina but just older, "I don't think that's necessary," he protested, "Regina seems to have taken well enough care of me."

"You could have internal bleeding that, although she may want to know about, Regina can't see."

"I don't think so," he sighed, he knew that should he go to the hospital he would probably be made to report the attack and all that would do was rouse trouble.

"Mother he doesn't want to go," Regina huffed, she really wished that he would go because he did need treatment but he was clearly just too stubborn, "I think we're going to go study in my room for a little while."

She grabbed her bag and reached out for Robin's arm, helping him steady himself, once she had him standing she moved to collect more ice packs from the freezer, she had a feeling his face wasn't the only place he was going to be needing them.

They made their way up the stairs slowly, Robin cringing at every step and by the time they were halfway up, Regina wished that she had just said for them to go to den, at least that was downstairs and he wouldn't have had to go through this.

He hated being in pain and showing that he was, right now though he really was and he couldn't help but let out a noise that meant so on every step. He couldn't stop it.

Regina pushed the door to her room open and gestured for him to go inside, something he did looking around at the black and white decor with one wall that had been wallpapered in deep purple roses that served as an almost optical illusion. The room itself was huge with a massive bed in the middle, an elaborate dressing table to the side of that and lots of other furniture scattered around, including two massive bean bags. "Nice room."

"Thanks," she chuckled tucking her hair behind her ear as she closed her door and moved to drop on the bed, "think you need to lay down?" She asked.

"Urm... I..."

"Come on," she reached for his hand gently pulling him to lay on the mattress next to her. Once he was laid down and looking amazingly awkward she sat up and grabbed her bag from where she'd dropped it on the floor. "Okay, so since you can't teach me, I thought that I'd tell you what I learnt last night after I went home."

Robin propped himself up against some pillows and turned to look at her, she was sat on the edge of her bed, one leg underneath her as the other dangled off the bed and she leant over rummaging through her bag for what he could only assume were the notes she had made. When she sat back up again she looked rather flustered but held the notes up in triumph smiling at him, "got them." He grinned at the sight, it was so worth being beaten up for and he would do it all over again...

Earlier that day

Robin was in the locker room changing after sport when they came in, the jocks.

"Yep, she's so easy, like all you have to do is be nice to her and she'll do whatever you want her to, I swear last week I had her in five different positions."

Robin frowned at the crude comment but kept his head down, he knew by now how disgusting these guys were. He wished someone would just shut them up and teach them some manners because they clearly didn't know how to treat women, or anyone for that matter.

"You can't even imagine how good she was."

"I didn't know Mills was into you."

"She's into anyone with a cock, or not maybe she's easy either way."

Robin glared at the locker he had been using and if he could set it on fire just by looking at it, it would be up in flames. He grit his teeth together, he just hoped they shut up now before he really did something he would regret.

"God yes she's a little whore and she knows it. She's only good for one thing..."

"What's that then?" Robin asked coming around the corner, what the actual fuck was he doing? He knew he was insane, but he couldn't let them talk about her like that.

"Locksley," Nottingham laughed, "probably the only guy in the school she isn't fucking."

"Do you want to shut up now?" He propositioned, not knowing where the confidence to stand up to them was coming from, "she isn't any of the things you're accusing her of being so shut your fucking mouth before I shut it for you?" He sniped. What the fuck was he doing? He was literally asking them to beat him up.

Nottingham rose an eyebrow, "okay then," he shrugged, "but she'd probably suck you off if you paid her the right amount."

That was it, he wasn't going to put up with this anymore, he pulled his fist back and slammed it with force into Nottingham's jaw. As soon as it made contact he regretted his decision and ran for it, grabbing his bag on the way as he skirted onto the the corridor.

"Catch him you idiots!" ...

"You've gone all red," Robin chuckled as he watched her hands come up to cup her cheeks.

"Blood rush," she half giggled, feeling her face heat up all the more at his comment. She looked to her notes and nodded, "okay so I was looking over my history notes last night and thought I'd look at the Civil Rights movement, I think I might have all the dates memorised."

"Really? Wow Regina that's amazing," he grinned, happy to find that his teaching techniques had been paying off.

"I know right, care to test me?"

"Sure," he nodded wincing as he tried to sit up a little further.

Regina narrowed her eyes at him, "I think we need to assess the damage elsewhere," she stated looking down at his chest, "take your shirt off."

"What?" His eyes widened, "I don't think so."

"Robin, come on, we need to see how bad it is," she murmured, "I have seen guys naked before you know." She saw the way his eyebrows nearly shot off his face and felt the need to clarify, "I've been going to life drawing classes since I was fifteen," she chuckled shaking her head at him, "I've seen quite the range of different bodies."

"Right, urm... yeah, I guess," he reached for the hem of his shirt and pulled it up over his head, tanking his jumper with it before dropping them down beside him and closing his eyes. He wasn't exactly body conscious he was just nervous being that undressed in front of her.

Regina almost gasped as her eyes met his body, seeing terrible bruising all down his right side and across his torso. She reached out and gently ran her fingers around the perimeter of the bruises, hearing his sharp intake of breath, "I'm sorry, did I hurt you?"

"No," he shook his head, she certainly hadn't hurt him, he'd just never been touched like that before and it took him rather by surprise, he wasn't expecting it to feel so nice, so warm. He never imagined in his life that he would be lying in Regina Mills bed, shirtless as she played nurse, but he had to say he was enjoying it, it was slowly making up for going through the beating he endured.

"Okay," she whispered, looking back to her notes before sighing and dropping them onto her bedside table, "I don't really feel all that much like studying tonight. Want to watch something instead? We can watch a movie," she suggested with a shrug. She had been revising none stop for the past two weeks and really felt that they were owed a break, she had a feeling that Robin probably never stopped for a break, but right now in his condition he might as well do, it wasn't as though he could concentrate on facts and figures anyway, she most certainly couldn't.

Regina took another glance down at his chest, it wasn't only the bruising that had surprised her, it was how in shape he was, she definitely hadn't expected him to be so well defined, for him to actually have near to perfect abs. In her eyes though he was exactly how a guy should be, she didn't like too much muscle, but obviously a bit wouldn't hurt. "What type of film buff are you?" she asked with one eyebrow raised. "You're not going to say Star Wars are you," she teased.

"No, actually, I hate to break all typical nerd stereotypes, but I'm not all that keen on Star Wars."

"Me either," Regina chuckled as she laid one of the ice packs against his ribs, "are you cold?"

"Maybe a little actually, you have just shoved ice onto me so…"

"Shut up," she giggled, hopping off the bed and moving to the ottoman at the foot of it, she opened the wooden chest and took out a purple fleece throw before coming back over to him and throwing it in his direction, "do you mind if I go change, I'll be back in a second, you can choose what we watch," she passed him the TV remote before grabbing some other clothes and heading towards the bathroom.

Once she was in there, she changed at lightning speed into sweat pants and a baggy hoodie before finding her phone from the pocket of her jeans and dialling a number, she waited for them to pick up, she didn't know what she was going to say, but she was most certainly going to show him a piece of her mind, "Daniel?"

"Hey Gina, what's up?"

"What's up is your team mates beat up my study partner!" she snapped, "you promised me you would look out for him that you would make sure that they didn't get to him and then I find him in the worst state, on the corridor, bruised to high heaven. Why did that happen Daniel?!"

"Wait hold up, what happened?"

"Fucking Nottingham happened! He used Robin as a living punchbag, we can't let him get away with this Daniel," she tailed off, she just hoped that he would come up with some sort of solution that would help them get justice without having to involve anyone official. She knew that wasn't what Robin wanted and she would respect his wishes, but there was no way that she wasn't getting revenge against this bastard, he couldn't just get away with what he had done. It was just too much for her to forgive and forget.

"Okay, okay," she heard him take a deep breath before continuing, "what do you want me to do about it Regina?"

"Get him kicked off the team! You're the captain, surely you can do that right? You can get rid of him, right?"

"He's a good player and…"

"He's a good player?" she seethed, "he's a scum bag who doesn't deserve shit! You need to do something Daniel, I don't care what it is, but he has to have some sort of punishment for what he has done, he has to learn his lesson." With that she cut off the phone and shoved it into her pocket trying to calm her anger down before she went back into her room and hung out with Robin, it was strange because most of the time they had spent together so far was solely for academic purposes, but now it was almost as though they were two friends spending time together and that was something she liked quite a lot.

Taking a deep breath she ran her hands over her face before venturing out of the bathroom and heading back to her bedroom, she pushed open the door to see Robin still laid on her bed, looking around the room. She smiled and leant against the doorway. "so then, have you chosen something?"

"I think so," he nodded, his head turning to look at her, she had been gone longer than he expected, but he guessed she had things to take care of, not that it was any of his business.

"Cool, so do you want something to drink or eat?"

"A water would be great thanks."

"No problem," she grinned, heading off downstairs to grab them some drinks, deciding to open a bag of popcorn to go with them, "mom?"

"In my office darling," her mother called back.

Regina straightened her clothes a little and moved towards her mother's study, knocking lightly before pushing the door open, "hello, is it okay if Robin stays for dinner?"

"Yes of course," the woman nodded, not looking up from the papers that were on her desk.

"Thank you," Regina muttered. Just as she was about to leave the room her mother glanced in her direction and offered her a smug smirk.

"You like this boy don't you," she chuckled with one eyebrow raised.

"Yes, he's lovely, he's a really great teacher and friend…"

"More than a friend?" Her mother hinted. Regina could see that her mother was only trying to tease her, she kept on at her about when she was going to find herself someone and she just hit back with that all the guys at school were totally immature and just altogether wrong for her. Seemingly the inquisition over Robin wasn't going to stop. "I mean, you've never brought a boy home before, I know that I've met Daniel and Graham but I have a feeling they are just friends."

"Yes," she nodded, "as is Robin."

"We'll see," he mother grinned at her before looking back to her papers, hinting that their conversation was now over.

Regina shook her head as she made her way back upstairs, she hadn't thought about it all that much, all she knew was she liked Robin. She just wasn't sure where to take that yet she wasn't sure what she wanted and that was scary. Reaching her room, she pushed the door open and put the drinks down before shuffling under the covers of her bed, urging him to do the same, something he reluctantly complied with.

He felt weird enough just lying on the top of her bed, but now he was actually in bed with her, under the covers and everything, not that anything was happening between them, but still, it was a nice feeling. He felt her shuffle a little closer and place the bowl of popcorn in between them, "so then, what are we watching?"

"Have you seen Outlander?"

"No, I've heard of it but haven't had the chance to watch it yet."

"I know it's a series, but maybe we should watch the first one and see what we think."

"I think that sounds like a wonderful idea," she nodded, pulling her bottom lip between her teeth as he pressed play and the program began. She was actually beginning a box set with him which ultimately meant that they were going to be having more dates like this in the future. She could only hope that would be the case.