Day 6: Teach me
Regina finishes putting dishes into the dishwasher when she hears a familiar, pleasing sound from the living room. It's guitar music, one of her favourite sounds at the moment and it's quite the usual sound in her house these days.
She smiles widely to herself as she puts the last plate into the washer and walks to the living room where, she supposes, her husband is playing (Henry is out with Roland, so who else could play?)
And who would have thought that a thief would like to play a guitar? Well, thanks to Henry and his crazy idea to create a rock band with Killian, David and Robin, and now Robin is playing it almost every single moment he can. And no one can deny it: he's quite a good player and singer as well.
She stops at the doorway and leans against the door frame, closes her eyes for a moment, lets herself drown into these amazing sounds of the guitar. Robin's looking away; he doesn't see her, so she can secretly listen to his sweet voice for a while.
She opens her eyes and watches him, her heart beating faster and faster as she listens to him singing one of those romantic songs he wrote for her (he writes songs too, that's unbelievable but true). But then he suddenly stops and turns around, he felt a presence in the room, so their eyes meet and he gives her a look with a raised eyebrow.
"Are you watching me again?" He asks as she walks closer to him and sits on the couch beside him.
She looks at him for a moment with a small smile but then completely ignoring his question (the answer is obvious), she says, "Teach me,"
Robin frowns a little, confusion written all over his face. When Henry has asked her to join the band and play a guitar with them, she's told that she's too old for that and also it's not her level, a Queen doesn't play in a rock band in the garage but now she realizes that age is just a number and she really wants to play with them in that stupid band because it's funny. Even Emma joined them.
"You mean, play the guitar?" Robin asks confused as he stares at her with wide eyes.
"Yes," She rolls her eyes, a small pout on her face but she's blushing just a little bit because his reaction is not what she expected.
"Oh," He breathes out but then leans over and smirks, "But how will you pay for your lessons?"
She smacks him on the shoulder and shakes her head but then leans over as well and whispers, "Well, I know such a good way to pay," She rests her hand on his thigh making his breath hitch in his throat, "But we will talk about the payment later, now teach me," She moves away from him leaving him with a small pout on his lips but then he nods his head in agreement.
He stands up and tells her to sit down comfortably on the couch and when she settles, he puts his brown guitar on her right thigh and moves her left hand on guitar's neck. He holds her hand with his own and she smiles at him that sweet smile of hers and Robin smiles a little as well but then he becomes serious.
"Okay, so this is a guitar, it's an instrument," Robin says and she rolls her eyes at him shaking her head. He laughs at her and continues, "I will teach you the strings names first, so the first string from the bottom is E, the second one is B, the thirds from the bo-"
But Regina doesn't listen anymore, she just stares at her handsome husband and licks her lips because damn, he looks sexy when he's acting a tutor, even though she has no idea what he's talking about.
Suddenly she feels a gentle squeeze on her hand and she blinks for a few times until she realizes that it's Robin who realized that she isn't listening.
"So you ask me to teach you but you don't listen," He scolds, shaking his head at her.
"I'm a bad student, what can I say," She shrugs and chuckles but when Robin doesn't join her, she becomes serious again and says, "I don't want the theory, show me chords or whatever it is so I can play a real song or something,"
Robin looks at her disapprovingly as if it's impossible to play chords without the basics but then he shakes his head to himself, it's Regina, to her everything is possible. He sits back beside her, moves his left arm around her and puts her hand into the right position. He lines up her ring finger, middle finger and forefinger in a row on the second fret from the second string from the bottom and then puts his right hand on hers and strums it down through the string.
A broken sound comes off but at least it's not a sound that makes you want to close your eyes. Regina smiles widely and moves her wrists up and down for a few times unevenly trying to imitate the way Henry plays but the sound comes off even more broken then before and Robin closes his eyes. Even he wasn't this bad.
"Okay," Robin says grabbing her wrist to stop her. "So now I will show you another chord," He explains and Regina nods her head, eager to continue.
But after a few hours, when her fingertips start to hurt and the chords become harder and harder, when even the easiest chord A doesn't sound the way it should, she decides that she doesn't want to play anymore, it's useless, so she drops her hand and gives guitar back to Robin, giving up.
She lays on the couch then and crosses her arms over her chest with a little pout playing on her lips.
"So, that's it? You're giving up?" Robin asks in disbelief. This woman in front of him learned magic, dark magic, she did it for years, and now she's giving up on a guitar in the first lesson. He can't believe her.
"It's hard," She groans, "I thought it's easy, you learned it so fast,"
"Oh, come on, it took me months to learn and you know how much work I put in there. And now you're giving up on day one," He looks at her with wide eyes but she just shrugs.
"Well, yes," She nods, "And now you better play me something nice because I can quit making food to your band or even throw you out of my garage," She threatens making him laugh because it's a threat worth nothing, she would never do it but he takes the guitar anyway and smiles at her, then starts playing one of her favourite songs, "Can help falling in love" by Elvis Presley.
A huge smile spreads across her face as she closes her eyes. Robin's voice echoes in the house, he's singing every word with so much love and she just can't help that amazing feeling in her stomach, because she feels so loved with him, because after so many years she finally found her happy ending.
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