I love all the things you write. You have a way to put in all the little details and the emotional, it really leaves a powerful image when you tie all these little details see the bigger pictures (your writing is beautiful). it is so like Regina, thinking of pulling out her emotional and hide it somewhere safe afterwards. Robin was gentle and patient with her, and that is so like him. I never really read one shots before, but your fics hit me and left me feeling amazed.

Wow. This was awesome! I love OutlawQueen missing year stories, and this one didn’t disappoint!

Your writing is beyond amazing. It felt almost like reading Dickens or Twain.. Your write with eloquence and class as though you were a hundred years old. Very rarely do i read freelance writing as poetic that this.. Brovo.. I was entranced !

Sorry for the half-finished review, I accidentally clicked on the post button... This embarrassing. Here's the rest of my review!

“You may share a wardrobe, and a throne, and perhaps the occasional temper, but that’s…I’ve never once seen her, when I look at you.” - THIS SENTENCE HAD ME ON THE FLOOR. Robin, you precious wonderful man! “Haven’t the faintest idea what’s gotten into him, honestly. Dreadful taste in women, I suppose, though he’s bound to have inherited a thing or two from his father.” - Please, make him stop saying all these wonderful things (don't ever stop). My heart can't handle any of this!

“Her hand slides over the sheets, searching, and his fingers twine into hers upon contact, with painstaking care, as if feeling them come together for the first time like this.” - Physical touches between Regina and Robin are one of my favourite things about them so I loved all the touching here. “Trying to kiss a porcupine.” - Oh, Robin... you adorable thief. When she said his name, I died and when she freaking kissed his tattoo I died again! I actually believe that Robin's reaction to Regina's tale about the man in the tavern would be exactly as she imagined. He would not be surprised at all.

‘“I’m here,” she tells him, voice gravel-filled. “With you.” Always, she thinks.’ - HOW DARE YOU USE THIS PHRASE? *sobs* Seriously, this was an emotional punch to my already fragile heart!

The difference between Regina's reactions at Robin's touches at the beginning and her reactions after their sort of heart-to-heart conversation was just so telling! Like at the beginning, she didn't want tenderness - she wanted his raw intensity and blind fervor but now she's slowing him down and I'm in a puddle of feels because of it. “fingers spreading wildfire as a lion roams free across her skin” - everything about Robin's lion tattoo gives me the feels and this imagery was fantastic!

THE ENDING WAS EVERYTHING! THE BEST ENDING ACTUALLY!

This is hands down one of your best works so far! I was hooked into the story from the very first sentence. Just when I thought I couldn't be more in awe of your writing, you managed to surprise me! I hope you don't mind my long and rambling review!

“but the longer he stood there, refusing to be bent by her anger, the more uncertain she grew, until even she was confused about what he’d done to set her off so.” - the image of Robin standing there solidly while Regina lashes out at him just sums up their relationship during the Missing Year perfectly. “He was always intended to be hers, once upon a time.” - I don't know how you do it but a simple sentence like this managed to disarm me and make me very emotional. Robin, upon waking, showering Regina with affections and soft touches while Regina struggles internally with her conflicting emotions just gets to me. “I saw it on your face, the moment I walked through the door.” “That’s my face every time I see you.” - I knew that Regina meant it as an insult but it came out more of an endearing banter and my heart just can't take it.

“The queen in her had been bred on a battlefield, a place of bitterness and sometimes-actual-bloodshed, and it takes too little effort, these days, to slip back into those belligerent old habits.” - this sentence gave me the freaking chills! Also the way Regina doesn't know how to handle Robin and all his tenderness for her broke my heart. I loved the way you wrote their relationship here. The way they don't know how to navigate this complicated thing that they have so they slipped up and say the wrong things. “You may share a wardrobe, and a throne, and perhaps the occasional temper, but that’s…I’ve never once seen her, when I look at you.”

I think of myself as a bad reviewer, but I like to give feedback of the fics I read as gratitude to the authors who spend their time in giving us wonderful stories with our favorites characters for free. It's a labor of love. I say this because I really don't know how to review this fic, I think that my words won't give any justice of what I just read. I can only say thank you. Thank you for sharing with us your talent. Thank you for exploring and sharing your views of these characters that we love so much. I'm glad to be alive in the here and now to be a witness of your work. :)

I am in awe of the way you write... your words, so beautiful and fitting! Every emotion was so masterfully painted and true to the characters. This was so... INTIMATE, is the word that springs to mind and not just because of the glorious sex (which was so amazing and the contrast between the night before and now, the slow and sensual movements, i just... it was so perfect and so unusual for regina during the missing year but so RIGHT) but also because of how honest regina allowed herself to be at the end and brave for accepting what she wants, needs, feels, and taking the leap! It was just so very beautiful and makes me want to read it again, and again, always!

It gives me such an unexplicable joy when I find a story that does Regina's character justice; I never really go as far as to expect one could get Robin's (already built precariously canon-wise) right as well.
It's a whole other story when a gifted mind - also dedicated, I bet - FUCKING NAILS THEM, SPOT-MOTHERFUCKING-ON, while setting a tragically beautiful athmosphere, giving it a poetic rhythm that's not melodramatic at all. Throughout, an amazing, realistic style of writing.
And the dialogues... Oh man. And THAT ENDING.
Praise you.
(I do)

I want to go back through and find my favorite sentences, because there were several, moments, phrases, sentences, that I had to stop and reread and wanted to write down because they were so perfect and elegant and them.
My overall thought, is how uniquely perfect this is for them. I think we're all so used to writing a missing year relationship where they're one extreme or another...in a secret relationship that they both more or less acknowledge, or on the other hand, passing like ships in the night, both knowing what they want, but either one or both not admitting it. That's become easy, the obvious way to write them.
I think this is something infinitely more delicate and true. Robin stepping closer forcefully but with grace, and Regina just barely trying to convince herself she hasn't already given in.
Some favorite moments: When she says his name (perfect), the moment when she admits she's never really wanted to push him away, the moment when he corrects her on being the evil queen, and the "I'm here. with you" and the thought that he wouldn't care that much about the tavern thing, that his response would be "yes, and?"
Just generally a beautiful job of making the sex...not really about sex at all, if that makes sense.
Also I often hate parentheses, but those at the end are just perfect.

I'm sorry but OMG, I'M A MESS RIGHT NOW! Bless your heart for writing this, it was exceptional! The way you write, the feels you caused... I NEED HELP!
And that final part "She could let him love her... She does"... I FEEL LIKE CRYING A RIVER OF NEVERENDING TEARS! Thank you for sharing this story with us, it shot arrows through my heart! Thank you!

this is beautiful, and everything I've ever wanted to read

And this, my friends, is art. Pure art. A chef-d'oeuvre. Jesus H Roosevelt Christ, I don't even know what to... They say that every every generation a slayer is born; well, let me tell you something, i may not be a vampire, but you slay me every damn time! (Boom! That's right, I went there ). Thank you !

Oh my god this was amazing! All of Regina's inner monologue was perfect and they way Robin was able to put her at ease - I have no coherent words for how much I loved it. And it was hot as well!

Such a great oneshot.

I have no words. This is beautiful. And I loved every word, every sentence. This is magic. Thank you! 3