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Day 9-Everyone Found Out
(A/U Setting)
Regina Mills thought her life was pretty good. She was a successful professor at a local college, she had great friends, Mary Margaret being one of them, along with Tink, as many called her. She shared an apartment with Mary Margaret, who often had her long time boyfriend David Nolen over. Regina had been single for some time, ever since her long time boyfriend Daniel Colter was killed in an auto accident five years ago. She had dated here or there, but with no one did she ever feel like going out on a second date.
All that had changed last night, when after a few shots with Tink, she had walked up to this cute guy, whom she had caught looking at her a few times during the night, asked him what he was waiting for. He had smiled, a panty dropping smile, and had replied,"I've been enjoying the view."
Regina, just a tad buzzed, had smiled, and said,"Wouldn't you rather have a closer view?"
"Are you asking me to dance with you?" the man had asked.
"And if I am?" Regina had asked.
"Then, who am I to deny such a Queen," the man had said, as he had taken her hand and had pulled her close to him, putting his hand on her waist, as she had put hers around his neck, as they had danced to the up tempo beat.
"The name's Robin, Robin Locksley," Robin had told her his name.
"Regina," Regina said.
"Nice to meet you, Regina no last name," Robin smirked at her.
"Nolan," Regina mumbled.
"Pardon?" Robin asked.
"My name, is Regina Nolan," Regina said, using David's last name.
"Charmed," Robin said.
"Are you British?" Regina asked, catching his accent.
"At times, I also have some Irish in me," Robin replied.
"It suits you," Regina said, smiling.
"I am very grateful my friends brought me out tonight, Regina," Robin said.
"Why's that?" Regina asked.
"Because, I wouldn't have met such a gorgeous woman in all of Maine," Robin said.
"You're an awful flirt," Regina said, her words getting a little sluggish now. She was a lightweight when it came to holding her liquor. She looked to her left and saw Tink at the bar, watching them, she even gave Regina a two thumbs up.
"Is that so? Do you have any tips for me then? There is a certain lady I wish to impress," Robin said.
Regina looked over at Tink, saw her friend giving her a huge nod, and looked at Robin. She took a breath and grabbed him by his shirt and pulled him in for a kiss. At the first meeting of their lips, time stopped, the world stopped spinning. She had been kissed before, many, many times. Daniel's kisses had always made her feel special.
This was different, this was a kiss from the soul.
She could tell he was shocked by her bold moves towards him, and as she was about to pull away, thinking she had made a mistake, his lips had responded to hers. Meeting hers with a demand just like she had made. She was quickly feeling light headed, whether it was the kiss, the lack of oxygen, the booze, or all the above, she needed to break contact with him. She pulled back to look into his eyes, she saw a look of wonder, which quickly turned into a look of wanting more, and then his head was descending again, capturing her lips in a fierce kiss, almost knocking her backwards, if not for his arms that surrounded her back, his hand moved to capture her neck, moving through her hair as he did so.
She pressed her body eagerly against his, so that her soft flexible body was molded against the hard contours of his, and Robin could scarcely breathe, for he was taken aback by the openness with which she offered herself. For a few seconds, he imagined her honeyed warmth and tightness, and the hardness of his body felt too close to torture to be bearable. He felt her hands move down his back, and settle on his jean clad butt, cupping his butt cheeks.
He knew if he didn't put a stop to this, that they would be putting on a show for those surrounding them. With a groan he pulled away from her, her eyes had to match his, in that hers were glazed over with passion.
Regina was dazed by the kiss and could only mumble,"Now what?"
She woke up the next morning, to a extremely dry mouth, and a pounding headache, "Ow," she moaned out, and even that hurt. She pulled the covers over her head, and that's when the scent hit her, the smell of forest. She pushed the covers back, and looked around her room, only it wasn't her room! This was a man's room for sure, with his Guiness's pictures, and the dresser was darker than hers. And that was definitely a man's closet, with what looked like suits hanging in there.
Regina looked down and saw that she had on a tee shirt of something called,'Songs for Amy'. It was a man's shirt, quickly she lifted the covers and saw that she did have on her underwear, with a groan it all came back to her, how she had left the club with...Robin, his name was Robin. They must have came back to his place, she heard the sound of the shower running, and knew this was her chance. She had to get out of here and now. She got out of bed and looked around for her clothes, not seeing them anywhere, she went to his dresser and opened it, she found some sweat pants and quickly put them on. She headed to the door and opened it, and was walking down the hallway towards what she felt like was the front of the apartment. She had her hand on the doorknob and was about to leave when she heard,"In a rush, milady?"
Regina closed her eyes and groaned, she turned around and saw him standing there, his hair was damp, and he had on a pair of grey sweat pants as well. "I need to get home."
"You were just going to run out on me?" Robin asked, as he walked slowly towards her. "after all we shared last night?"
Regina couldn't think, couldn't do anything but the one thing she relied on, she ran. She turned and threw the door opened and headed down the hall, she heard him yell her name behind her, but nothing was stopping her. She turned to the left and saw the elevator. She got on and pressed the down button, as the doors were closing, she caught a glimpse of Robin there saying,"Wait," but the doors shut on him.
Once the elevator stopped, she got off and headed for the front door of the hotel. She received a few glances as she walked through the obvious expensive lobby of the hotel. She walked out and hailed a cab and headed home. Once she arrived she went to grab her purse, only she didn't have it, nor her cell phone, nothing.
"Please, I live here, and if you'll let me go in, I promise to come back and pay you," Regina pleaded with the cab driver.
"Alright, lady, but hurry," he said, as Regina thanked him and rushed upstairs, she knocked on her apartment door, knowing she would receive looks from Mary Margaret when she opened.
Which she did,"Regina? What happened to you?"
"Not now, I have to pay for my cab," Regina said, as she went to her room and got some money to pay the cab driver. She walked back to find Mary Margaret and David sitting at the kitchen table, having coffee and smiling.
"Great," she mumbled, as she headed down to pay him. She returned minutes later to find them still at the table, obviously waiting on her.
"What?" Regina asked.
"What she says? Regina, you never came home last night, now you are here with someone else's clothes on," Mary Margaret stated,"obviously a man's clothes."
"Your point?" Regina asked.
"You're doing the walk of shame," David said with a chuckle.
"Shut up, Nolan," Regina said.
"Regina, I'm shocked, glad but shocked," Mary Margaret said with a smile.
"You're glad?" Regina asked.
"Well, it's about time you got those cob webs knocked off," Mary Margaret said.
Regina rolled her eyes and started to her room, when she heard Mary Margaret saying,"Don't forget you got a class to teach this afternoon."
Regina put a hand up to signal she got it, she went to her room and laid down on the bed, not believing she had just had a one night stand with a perfect stranger. She, who hadn't had sex, at least not with a person in five years, just went home with a man she met in a club.
So many questions went through her mind. Had he used a condom being the most important one? What if he had some disease? What if she became pregnant? How would she find him again?
Then a few others popped in her head as well, had she enjoyed it? Had he?
"Stop it Mills," Regina said to herself, she would go to her teaching this afternoon, then think of what her next plan would be for the mess she had let herself get into.
An hour later she was arriving into her classroom, she had just finished printing off the tests for her students, when in walked one of the deans of the university she taught at.
"Ah, Ms. Mills, glad you're here already," Dean Monroe spoke, as she entered Regina's classroom.
"Good day, Dean Monroe, how can I help you?" Regina asked, as she walked up to the other woman.
"Well, I just wanted to inform you of our new hire we have here today," Dean Monroe said. "He's just arrived from England, from the University of Cambridge."
A memory flashed through her mind, but as soon as she tried to zero in on it, it was gone. "The new professor came here, well then that was quite fortunate for us all."
"Indeed, and Ms. Mills, let me tell you, if I was twenty years younger, I would give him a run for his money, those blue eyes, those dimples of his," Dean Monroe informed her with a laugh. "Let me go get him, and introduce the two of you."
Regina nodded, as the Dean left the classroom. Something was nagging on her mind, blue eyes, dimples, England. Surely it couldn't be.
"Professor Locksley, I would like you to meet one of your colleagues, this is Professor Mills," Dean Monroe said, as sure enough, in walked Regina's one night stand from the night before, wearing a smirk on his face, as he saw her.
Regina pulled herself together and offered her hand,"It's nice to meet you, Professor Locksley."
"The pleasure is all mine, Professor Mills," Robin said with a wink, as he took her hand and shook it, grazing her knuckles with his thumb. He had emphasized her last name, as it was not the one she had given him.
"Well, I'll leave you two alone," Dean Monroe said, as she could feel the tension between these two.
"It's good to see you again," Robin said as soon as the other woman had left.
"Do you have my phone?" Regina asked.
"That's what you want to know?" Robin asked.
"Look, I know we hooked up last night, just tell me you used a condom," Regina said.
"I didn't use a condom last night," Robin stated matter of fact.
Regina's mouth popped open,"Why would you do such a thing? What if I get pregnant?"
"You won't," Robin said, as he sat on the corner of her desk.
"You don't know that," Regina said. "Are you clean at least?"
"I've had a physical once a year for the last ten years and I'm as clean as can be," Robin said.
"That's a relief at least," Regina said.
"Why did you leave in such a rush this morning?" Robin asked.
"I've never done something like that in my life," Regina said.
"I sense that," Robin said. "I wanted to have breakfast with you."
"And then what? Here's a muffin, thanks for the sex, bye," Regina said.
"Did your room mates give you a hard time?" Robin asked, trying to figure out why she was so upset.
"Just a tad, all of them found out about my one night stand," Regina said.
"Regina, I think I better clear things up with you," Robin said,"we didn't have sex last night."
"What?" Regina asked.
"I told you there was no need for a condom last night, we came back to my hotel, danced some more, then you passed out on my couch," Robin informed her.
"And you put me into your bed?" Regina asked.
"Yes, and I slept on the couch," Robin said.
"Oh," Regina said.
"Now, I do have one question for you," Robin said, as Regina raised her eyebrows at him."Will you have dinner with me?"