The shifts can sometimes be a blessing in disguise. The fact she can't communicate with words while she's shapeshifting allows for the other person to talk without her interrupting them with her own imposing opinion. Maybe otherwise she wouldn't really listen.
Maybe otherwise she would have stormed out the door before he got the chance to explain in a way she'd be able to understand.
And she does listen. And she does remember what he's told her, despite the fact he never went into many details. She doesn't want the details, like she's certain he doesn't want hers. His calm explanation manages to soothe the agitation long enough for her to shift back. Considering she was on the edge of the couch, face rubbing against his cheek, her balance was precarious at best.
She falls to the floor next to him with an oomph, blanket twisted around her legs. Nothing like interrupting a serious conversation with shape shifting nakedness. She sighs, since this is not the first time it's happened, but it never fails to frustrate her
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Robin moves back to give her room to shift again. He glances at her, hesitant still, though she seemed rather calm in cat form, other than the cushion being in shreds. Really, it could be much worse. He's surprised that she was even here when he returned and staying to listen.
Maybe they both have changed so much that it makes a difference. Robin is fully aware that if this had happened earlier, she would be reacting much differently. He would too. There would be raised voices. He'd get angry that she was reacting that way. He likely would have punched that stalker.
If it had to happen, maybe it is happening at the best possible time that it could have. Although, it would have been nice if it could have waited a month at least.
Robin reaches over with gentle hands, untangling her legs from the blanket that have them wrapped up. If it weren't for the seriousness of the situation, he would be oggling her in her nakedness. However, he is capable of reigning back the hobag at times like these. She does look gorgeous though... ROBINHe
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She is being surprisingly calm. Rachel is known for keeping her composure during intensely stressful situations, but the narration is honestly surprised she's calm for this one. Particularly if one also considers her raging and intolerant slightly difficult temper (Rachel will replace the cushion
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They are both older, both exhausted from this city. As he said, they've been through so much, and he's happy that the reaction isn't what he'd imagined it to be. He's relived at the calmness that he finds within himself even. There are annoyances and frustrations of his own, but they all center around the stalker who doesn't seem capable of listening.
He'll talk to that guy again before he goes for the restraining order. Robin will tell him what will happen if he continues to stalk, if he continues to not listen to him. He can do that much, but he won't wait any longer than that
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It's not so much that she's too exhausted to react in any other way, so much as...her energy is better spent and better focused on other things. They have lost a lot of time, and they've just begun to make up for it. Her free hand toys with the necklace Robin gave her for his birthday, almost absently
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Rachel ends up nudging his shoulder with her elbow. "Being nearly positive no more stabbing will occur is of course far more reassuring, thank you, Robin," she says dryly, unable to keep the deadpanned delivery away
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Robin only smiles at her at the dryness of that statement and the nudge to his shoulder. "You're quite welcome, Rachel."
He has a feeling that she likes it. He likes it too, which is why he continues to do so and so often lately. It's one of those small details that he didn't realize he loved so much until she wasn't around anymore. It's why he can't help but be more affectionate with her than he's been before.
Robin wants to fill up every possible moment with her, with the things that he missed when she wasn't around, and he missed everything. He thinks that there are many relationships that when they end, the ex goes over all of the things that they're glad to have out of their life. But he loved and missed it all, weeks, months later. There's nothing that he was glad to be rid of, and it's one of those many reasons that he knows that he was meant for her.
It is a miracle that they're as whole as they are. It's more of a miracle that they're this whole and they're together after everything, and there's been so much. There's
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Being openly affectionate comes easily for him when he's with her. It has since practically the day they met, despite how awkward and strange he may have acted in her presence. It has always been easy to reach out to her even when it shouldn't be, when it hasn't ever been easy with anyone else
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I don't know how to hold on to someone that only wants to let themselves go. I don't know how. And you don't want me to. It's still to date one of the most painful things she's ever said to him. She remembers standing in that room, watching him with no will to live, pill bottle in his hand. He wasn't someone that lived for himself, he'd said.
He was someone that kept hanging on by the scrap of his teeth only until the world decided it was done with him.
Back then, she didn't understand in any logical sense why she'd still held on anyway. And now she knows it's so they could one day have this.
You're still here, she'd written to him, disbelief and ache and something else that's become a dead language.
Unfortunately.That's not true anymore. It's a miracle but it isn't, and she kisses him back, the realization of it forcing out a single tear down her cheek with her eyes closed and her body beneath him on this floor of their apartment
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Those were very dark times. They have both said incredibly painful things to each other throughout their journey together and apart in this city.
Every painful moment, every word that slipped out has lead them back to here.
He regrets ever having hurt her, and he knows that he has time and time again, but he wouldn't change it. He wouldn't take it back. Where they are, here next to one another after everything, it's where they are meant to be
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Maybe otherwise she would have stormed out the door before he got the chance to explain in a way she'd be able to understand.
And she does listen. And she does remember what he's told her, despite the fact he never went into many details. She doesn't want the details, like she's certain he doesn't want hers. His calm explanation manages to soothe the agitation long enough for her to shift back. Considering she was on the edge of the couch, face rubbing against his cheek, her balance was precarious at best.
She falls to the floor next to him with an oomph, blanket twisted around her legs. Nothing like interrupting a serious conversation with shape shifting nakedness. She sighs, since this is not the first time it's happened, but it never fails to frustrate her ( ... )
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Maybe they both have changed so much that it makes a difference. Robin is fully aware that if this had happened earlier, she would be reacting much differently. He would too. There would be raised voices. He'd get angry that she was reacting that way. He likely would have punched that stalker.
If it had to happen, maybe it is happening at the best possible time that it could have. Although, it would have been nice if it could have waited a month at least.
Robin reaches over with gentle hands, untangling her legs from the blanket that have them wrapped up. If it weren't for the seriousness of the situation, he would be oggling her in her nakedness. However, he is capable of reigning back the hobag at times like these. She does look gorgeous though... ROBINHe ( ... )
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He'll talk to that guy again before he goes for the restraining order. Robin will tell him what will happen if he continues to stalk, if he continues to not listen to him. He can do that much, but he won't wait any longer than that ( ... )
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He has a feeling that she likes it. He likes it too, which is why he continues to do so and so often lately. It's one of those small details that he didn't realize he loved so much until she wasn't around anymore. It's why he can't help but be more affectionate with her than he's been before.
Robin wants to fill up every possible moment with her, with the things that he missed when she wasn't around, and he missed everything. He thinks that there are many relationships that when they end, the ex goes over all of the things that they're glad to have out of their life. But he loved and missed it all, weeks, months later. There's nothing that he was glad to be rid of, and it's one of those many reasons that he knows that he was meant for her.
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He was someone that kept hanging on by the scrap of his teeth only until the world decided it was done with him.
Back then, she didn't understand in any logical sense why she'd still held on anyway. And now she knows it's so they could one day have this.
You're still here, she'd written to him, disbelief and ache and something else that's become a dead language.
Unfortunately.That's not true anymore. It's a miracle but it isn't, and she kisses him back, the realization of it forcing out a single tear down her cheek with her eyes closed and her body beneath him on this floor of their apartment ( ... )
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Every painful moment, every word that slipped out has lead them back to here.
He regrets ever having hurt her, and he knows that he has time and time again, but he wouldn't change it. He wouldn't take it back. Where they are, here next to one another after everything, it's where they are meant to be ( ... )
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