Robron Always....

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Seeing how other soaps are operating on the “pairings” front and how the play mix and match with them. I am glad we have Aaron and Robert as something else. The show made so much so wrongs with them (not forgiving them for shit) but their love for each other is just something else and honestly I don’t think that is up to the producers at all I think it is all down to Danny and Ryan and extending to the fans and their dedication (thank you everyone). Because even when Danny had to professionally sparkle the story of Aaron’s relationships he always maintained that yes Aaron is in a relationship and yes he might love this person but Robert is an entirely different story. Seeing other actors go “well…its a soap and people fall in and out of love so this could be an interesting new relationship” makes me die a little hahahah but we are lucky cos we have deranged Ryan saying Aaron is Robert’s reason to exist like sir can you not my heart or Danny saying that Aaron doesn’t really cheat but you need to understand this is Robert(we have that in writing can you believe it) What I am trying to say is despite my bitching (very much 100% justified) I am grateful and lucky to be part of this amazing history we created together,12 years and counting. I hope we get to have it for many more years to come.I am glad to have it with you and many others who make it worthwhile. Just before everything that may or may not implode I am grateful for what they have given us all these years (no amount of awards will ever do it justice) and for you weirdos on here keeping the love growing. 🫂🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶 12 years people 12 think of that !!! 

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And one more for the road...

Aaron opened the bedroom door and smiled, Robert lying on the bed, fully dressed and snoring softly. Closing the door quietly, Aaron moved over to the bed and leaned over Robert, pressing a light kiss to his lips.

"Mm awake," Robert said.

"Uhuh," Aaron said with a grin. "Early start was it? Five?"

"Four," Robert said, eyes settling on Aaron happily. "But I'm glad to see you. God, I've missed you."

"It was one night, Robert," Aaron said, settling himself between Robert's spread legs, bracketing his weight.

"Don't care," Robert said, his hand threading through Aaron's curls. "I still missed you."

"And you invited a house guest while I was gone," Aaron said with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, I'll get onto that later," Robert said, tugging at Aaron's T shirt. "Right now I want a proper hello."

"Oh, do you?" Aaron said with a wide grin. "I could be up for that."

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"Well?" Robert said, exasperated from around the kitchen table. "You've got the whole story about how I'm marrying Aaron for the third time. So...?"

Serena gave a little shrug. "I've got to say, other than the whole prison thing, it sounds terribly romantic." Her eyes were sparkling with humour and Robert huffed.

"Oh yeah, multiple car pile ups, completely romantic."

"You know what I mean," she said, giving him a nudge. Robert conceded the point.

"Yeah, I guess I do," Robert said. "When I first met him, I wasn't planning on it, you know? I just... he hit me like lightning."

"Metaphorically?"

"And literally sometimes," Robert said, shaking his head at the fondness of the memory. "You'll get it when you meet him."

"I can't wait," she said.

"At least let him have a shower before you pounce on him, he'll be filthy from unloading the scrap, okay?"

"Fine!" she said with wide eyes. "I'll behave."

"Yeah, yeah," Robert said with total disbelief.

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Serena was sitting on the sofa when Robert's phone rang. He grabbed it from the kitchen table instantly, racing to answer it. Ah. Aaron then. Serena took her cup of tea and peered around the door frame, listening in. Yeah, she was eavesdropping, so sue her.

"Hi," Robert said, his voice soft in a way Serena had never heard from him. "You finished driving early?" A pause, presumably Aaron filling in the gaps. Robert sat down at the kitchen table, stretching his legs out in front of him and almost clasping the phone to his ear.

"Should I be worried that you're in a hotel room without me?" Robert said, a teasing note this time. "Well, actually, there is someone here." Serena hid further behind the door frame. "Nothing like that, distant relative." Another pause as Serena took a sip of her tea. "Just keeping you up to date." Robert smiled a distant almost charming smile, and Serena's wish to meet Aaron increased. He looked different, talking to his fiancé like this. "Oh, we got the cows today too. So, things are looking up. Yeah. Yeah. Love you too. Bye." Robert disconnected the phone and sighed.

"I know you're there," he said as Serena popped up. "Had a good listen did you?"

"I'm just curious," Serena said. "About this man you're trying to marry for the second time."

"Third," Robert said out of instinct, then flushed.

"That's a story I wanna hear."

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Aaron was opening the beers in the kitchen when Robert came home, passing him one with a half smile. "Thanks," Robert said.

"How're you?"

"Hot," Robert said, the recent heat wave having started to bite.

"I'm not spying on you..." Aaron said. "I was visiting my mum and I saw you... hugging a woman?"

"Ah," Robert said, a mixture of amusement and fear that Aaron would go down the jealousy route of years before. "That'd be Serena." Aaron looked at him blankly. "Don't be worried."

"I'm not," Aaron said honestly, their eyes hooking for a moment. "I'm curious though."

Robert couldn't look away from him. "You're really not worried, are you?"

"No," Aaron said. "I know I've got you. I do want to know who she is though."

"Her last name's Sugden," Robert said. "She's a distant cousin, I haven't seen her in years. It was good to see her. I think she wants to meet you by the way."

Aaron's eyebrows flicked up in surprise when he'd said "cousin" for a moment before taking a drink of his beer. "I've got so much family around here," Aaron said. "It's good for you to have someone."

"Thank you."

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Robert nudged his hips forward in bed suggestively, pressing against Aaron's body. Aaron smirked into the pillow and said "no" but his voice was filled with humour.

"Oh, come on," Robert said. "You're not listening to that bloody woman, are you?"

"What, you mean your therapist?" Aaron said. "She said no sex after your sessions, you know that."

"Stupid bloody rule," Robert grumbled, his arms winding around Aaron's waist and spooning behind him. "I don't see why an orgasm or two is a problem."

Aaron sighed. "Apparently you bury your trauma with sex," he said. "Remember last August?" Aaron shifted uncomfortably. "I didn't exactly help that."

"Yeah, yeah," Robert said dismissively. "You're not telling me that wasn't fun."

"Maybe," Aaron said with a half smile. "The answer's still no."

"Fine," Robert grumbled, pressing a kiss to Aaron's jaw anyway. "Spoil sport."

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Robert had the football match on his phone, sitting outside in the garden as the midsummer darkness grew around him. With a beer in hand, legs stretched out in front of him, the coolness of the night finally breaking through the scorching sun, this was the reality he could only have dreamed of a little more than a year ago.

He'd left Aaron in bed. He'd been working hard lately, he didn't want to wake him for the time difference for the match. But he should have known better as soft footsteps came behind him, Aaron woken by the empty bed next to him.

"What're you doing?" Aaron asked.

"Watching the football," Robert said like it was obvious.

"You didn't wake me?"

"No," Robert said, putting the phone down and looking at Aaron, smiling at him. His hair always looked good, sleep ruffled and curly.

"What's the score?"

"Nil nil," Robert said. He reached to the ground and picked up a beer, handing it to Aaron who sat next to him in the quiet of the night. Robert couldn't help but feel incredibly lucky to have him by his side.

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Robert was bone tired, aching from the relentless farm work and he couldn't move. Not that he wanted to exactly, lying in bed with Aaron pressed against him. He found himself with his head against Aaron's bare chest, breathing him in. He smelt masculine, a little sweaty and the distant tang of oil or metal. Robert felt the familiar roll of lust and desire go through him, though he felt too tired to do much about it.

"What, you hunting for truffles?" Aaron teased, his hand coming to find Robert's hair, giving a light tug. Robert settled closer to Aaron's skin, if he could manage it.

"No," Robert whispered. "Just breathing you in." Aaron's hand was soothing on his scalp as he drifted off to a pleasant sleep.