#beyondthebridge

[thisissirius]

@beyondthebridge and i on our way to Hamilton (ahhhh) and then we have a midnight showing of STAR WARS 😎😎

[findingcasualmagic]

robron blog love!

@beyondthebridge

I miss seeing you on my dash so much. Your posts are wonderful and my dash is lacking without them tbh, but I hope that you’re doing okay and come back to us soon.. the fandom has a little hole in it whilst you’re not here! You were one of the main people on the positivity train with me and I’m missing you </3 You’re lovely though and I absolutely have loved whenever we’ve spoken because you’re just so easy to be friends with! I hope you’re having a lovely day because you deserve all the love and happiness! 💜

send me a URL for some love.

[wellyfullofale]

Didn't the magazine say something about Aaron confronting Rebecca about it, which obviously can't happen if she's in Ibiza. As much as I'd love her to disappear I need her to stay so we can get this whole mess revealed and Robert can finally find out she's been playing him and he is in fact not the father.

Oh yeah good point! So it’s a no to Ibiza then!!

Also, yes - I can totally see a storyline with Chrissie/Rebecca stringing Rob along to get revenge or something when he’s not actually the Dad. Also this sudden Debbie/Rebecca thing happening makes me think of all the drama if Ross and Debbie get back together and then it turns out to be Ross’s kid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[smittenwithsugden]

Secret  Fandom Compliment Letter

Letter to @beyondthebridge

 You can really see the passion for Robron and Emmerdale on your Blog.

I really like your tags under the posts, because you can see how feel about these posts and gifsets.

I really enjoyed the little fic about Robert reading Livs diary.

And I think that we have the same opinion to most of the things that happend lately.

I just read that your are going to the British Soap Awards and I wanted to wish you much fun with meeting all the others who are going and much fun at the show itself. and I'm a little bit jealous because I wish I could go to ;)

Many greetings from your new Follower :)

My Blog: @glitterydreamwombat

My Name. Cassandra ( I don't know if this is even necessary:) )

[beautifulhigh]

Robron + things you said after it was over ;)

A/N I knowyou all submitted separately but... well... I couldn't resist.

 After it was over...

Robert hadbeen there at the gates, along with Chas and Liv.  When Aaron finally stepped out into thesunshine it was his sister who ran into his arms and held on as if they weregoing to drag him back in at any moment. Then Chas hugged and kissed her baby, said that she was never lettinghim out of her sight again.

Aaronplaced the bag at his feet and turned to Robert, his hands shoved into histrouser pockets.  He's back in his suit(minus the tie), partly because it was the only decent thing he had with him,partly because he knew what it would do to Robert.

 He smiled,a half smile, a tentative smile.  Anunsure smile.  Robert returned it andthere was an elbow in his side – Liv, pushing him to properly greet hishusband.

 Robert'sarms around him feel familiar and at the same time there's something elsethere.  Something brewing.  Aaron can feel it vibrating through the softtremors in Robert's body into his own.

 "Imissed you," Aaron said.

 Robertnodded, once, and he licked his lips. "Just... tell me we're done with all this," he said.  "Being apart.  Keeping things from each other, letting thingsget that bad.  Tell me we're done withall of that."

 "Iwant to be," Aaron replied, the honesty a new thing he's trying out.  "I promise I'll try."

 "Metoo," Robert agreed.

 Chasdrives, Liv gets shotgun,  Across thebackseat their hands find each other and Robert's right hand finds Aaron'sleft, the ring back in place.  He holdsit, not the finger, and it's just as he did when they exchanged promises thenight before— before.

Things I wasn't meant to hear

The pub isofficially closed but it feels like half the village is in there to celebratehis homecoming.  Aaron doesn't mind buthe's not used to crowds after so long away, and certainly not groups who aren'tout to break ribs or crack teeth just because of who he is.

 He lies,saying he needs a piss, but walks past the loos and out the back door, leaning againstthe wall by the flower box.  He rememberswhen he stood here with Robert and was told (not for the first time) that hedeserved to be happy.  Maybe, just maybe,he could give it a go now.

 "Andyou really think now is the best time?"

 Robert'svoice came from the open window of the kitchen, raised in frustration.  Aaron gravitates towards it because Roberthas been that pull, that reason to survive for so long.  Plus he's curious.

 "Heneeds to know," Victoria said, her voice just as raised and just asfrustrated.

 "Ohyeah, right, 'cause that'll go down well. 'Nice to have you home, Aaron, missed you, and by the way I've beensleeping on the sofa while you're away because I didn't want to be in that bedwithout you—" At that Aaron smiles. "—and there's a part of me that'snot so sure I want to be in that bed now you're back.

 At thatthe smile disappears.

 "Youknow why he said those things, Rob.  Itwasn't him, it was—"

 "Itwas him, that's the thing.  Nothing Hollyever said was a lie, not even when she was going through withdrawal.  She would lie and manipulate for her fix,sure, but Aaron had that."

 "Youcan't really think he meant it?"

 "Idon't know."

 "Thenthis is why you need to talk to him."

 "Whynot?" Vic asked, and Aaron was glad because he wanted to know himself.

 "Because...what if he meant it?"

Things you said when you were crying

They're inthe Mill, partly because Aaron wants them to be able to shout.  Partly because he wants to see what they'vedone with the place.  After thediversionary tour, Aaron takes the proverbial bull and just comes out with it:

"I didn't mean it.  Any of it."

 Robertneeds a moment to catch up, but he does and he deflates for a second.  "Listening at the door?"

 "Window,"Aaron corrects.  "I needed somefresh air and your voice... carries."

 "Isthat why we're here?" Robert asks, catching on to the plan.  "So it can carry?"

 "Soyou don't have to hold back," Aaron said. "I didn't want—"

 "Oh,and now you're thinking of me?" Robert snaps, getting into this muchquicker than Aaron anticipated. "You are the only person, the onlyperson in the whole world who knows everything about me.  I trusted you with some of the most personal,painful things in my life and you throw them at me in public like that.  You know Chas wouldn't stop asking me whatyou meant by it, why I reacted that way."

 "I'ms—"

 "Oh,no, no you don't.  Because when I refusedto tell her she told Diane and Vic and they wouldn't let up.  Not one of them and they went on and on and Iwas so angry and so hurt that I ended up blurting out everything to them in thepub.  In public.  Everyone heard exactly what Dad did to me andI didn't have time to think about what I was saying or what I was doing.  And you put me in that position."

 "Rob—"

 "Youbroke me, Aaron," Robert said, his voice doing the same.  "All that time Paddy was going on aboutme breaking your heart, about me being the one to ruin everything."

 "I'm..."Aaron begins, but stops.  "I knewyou'd find a way to help me, you'd say something or do something and either I'dbe cut off from the supply or you'd make things a million times worse.  I was... barely surviving as it is and I knewyou'd do anything to try and make it better."

 "Sowhy not let me?"

 "Becauseyou wouldn't be able to do anything. You'd not let that stop you of course, but you'd keep fighting andpushing and trying and when it failed it would have broken you."

 "Soyou decide to do the breaking first?"

 "You'rebetter off without me—"

 WhenRobert started moving towards him Aaron's first thought was since when was I in some cheesy romanticmovie but Robert didn't kiss him, he grabbed him by the jacket and slammedhim into the nearest wall.

 "Aftereverything we have been through youare still pushing, still trying to look for how I'm getting out of this.  It doesn't matter to you that I stuck aroundand faced hell from your family and friends. It doesn't matter that I risked jail to try and help you, or that Iwould have died with you  if I couldn'tget you free.  It doesn't matter that Ihave spent weeks keeping our business running while doing this house up andlooking after Liv and trying so hard not to fall apart.

 "Whycan't you just let me be here for you? Why won't you let me fight with you, for you—"

 "Becauseeveryone else leaves!"

 Robert letgo as if Aaron had burned him.  In a wayhe had.  Liv had announced her intentionto go stay with her mum for a while ("They have tutors in Dublin too,Rob.  And besides.  You two need a proper break from me.")and Chas was due to go back to Prague to be with Sarah.  Everyone was leaving.

 Robertstepped back, his hands wiping at his face. "I won't—"

 "Youdid," Aaron cut across.  "Once.  You did. You left me and you went back to her every single time.  I begged you to stay with me and you went andgot married anyway.  You moved me in butI was out as soon as they were on their way home.  You left me, over and over and over and—"

 "Ialways came back.  I came back and I'mhere and I am not leaving you again." Robert's voice is small, quiet, wet with tears.  "So please don't make me leave."

 Aaronwants to go over to him, to hold him and kiss him and never let him go.  But this needs more than a movie scene.

 He holdsout his hand.

 "Staywith me?" he asks.

 Robertlooks at the hand first, then at Aaron with the same expression on his face:he's pretty sure his husband has gone mad.

 "Just...hold on and don't let go, no matter how much we get pulled about."

 Robertsteps forward enough to be within reach but he still doesn't do anything.  "I don't want to go, Aaron, and Iwon't... but if you keep pushing..." He stops.  Looks at the handagain.  His is halfway up to meetit.  "I need you to hold ontoo."

 Aaronnods, smiles the same nervous smile he had on that morning outside the prison,and Robert takes his hand.

Things you said after you kissed me

They talkfirst, curled up on the sofa that was delivered the day before.  The dust sheet is on the floor and theirshoes are next to it so they can tuck their feet under them.  It feels oddly domesticated in the middle ofa building site.

 It feelslike them.

 Aaronhears all about Robert's impromptu confession and how his relationships withhis sister and step-mum are still in the process of adjustment.  How it had been Cain of all people who'dbought him a drink and said that it wasn't right what happened to him, and thatit hadn't been his fault.  Glanced overat Kyle and said that no matter who his boy ended up loving, he just wanted himto be happy.

 Roberthad, of course, made the obligatory comment about how Cain's nephew made himhappy and he would always try to make Aaron happy, to which Cain had smiled andsaid: "Right answer."

 Aarontalked about the truth of prison: the loneliness, the isolation (turns outthey're too different things – who knew?), the beatings and Gordon's cell.  Of how much it hurt to have to say goodbye tohim and Chas and how six o'clock was always too far away and over toosoon.  How it hurt in a way he'd neverthought he could feel and how he longed for a blade.

 But therewere none so he lit up instead.

 How the wordstasted bitter in his mouth and he hated them but he meant them too and he can'tforget that.  He can't forget that heknew where to strike and he did and that he could do it again, a thousand timesover.  He swears he won't, not again,never again.  He won't ever abuse thattrust between them like that again.

 Roberttalked about school and head teachers and tutors, of a too-short sofa("Which is why this one is as big as it is.") and the butterfliesthat weirdly made him think of Aaron.  Becausethey're beautiful and fragile even though some are dangerous.  How they change who they are and grow intosomething more than they were.

 Aarontalked about changing his name but he's still who he was and he's not sure howhe feels about that.  He's not sure whatthat makes him because even a butterfly is still that caterpillar in a way.

 Robertsays nothing, he leans over and presses his lips to Aaron's.  Just once, just briefly.

 "You'remy husband.  That good enough?" heasks.

 Aaronsmiles like it's everything.  Because itis.

[vicbartons]

102 for the drabble prompts please?

Youhear that? That’s the sound of my awesomeness.

Robertsmirked and held his hand out to his husband. “Trafalgar Square…that´sgonna cost ya, mate.”

“Thisis getting ridiculous…” Liv growled under her breath, wondering more and more why she hadn´t taken Gabby up on her offer to go into town. Aaron only let out a small moan, sounding miffed.

“Stopwhining and pay up, Dingle,” the older man demanded with a smirk, “That´ll be 2200 quid, thank you verymuch.”

“You´re joking, that can´t be right.” Aaron shook his head lightly, squinting at the board in front of him. He was getting annoyed and the self-satisfied grin on his husband´s face wasn´t helping.

“Ohmy, here we go again… “ Liv rolled her eyes, cupping her facewith her hands while her elbows were resting on their kitchen table.“Why did I let ya drag me into a game of Monopoly with the two ofyou again?” 

But her brothers were staring intently at eachother,ignoring her comment. 

As if the pair didn´t have enough barneys tobegin with, Robert seemed determined to ruin their family for goodover a board game, if the smug smile on his face and the pile of playmoney he had accumulated on the tabletop in front of him over thelast hour were anything to go by.

“Whyon earth would I owe you muppet 2200 quid for that move, when you´ve only got one stupid house sitting on there? Which means you get ahundred pounds in rent and not a penny more,” Aaron argued. “Don´t try to rip me off, Sugden. It´s not a good look on ya.”

“You owe me 2200, becausethis ´muppet´ owns not just the street you´re standing on right now, but all those other red properties around it as well. And I didn´t just built a house on there, but a hotel. So, 1100 in rent times two, that makes what, huh?”

Aaron only huffed. “Doyou have any idea how close I am to wiping that smug smile off yourface right now, mate?” 

“It makes 2200. Great job, Robert. Now can we just get on with it?” Liv groaned, having had enough of the pair of them. 

She loved them dearly, but she had never seen two people get so competitive over nothing. Especially Robert, who seemed to take a loss in any game that involved money as a personal affront to his business acumen. Like last christmas, when he had ended up losing a game of “Life” to Cain and had subsequently spent the rest of the evening sulking in a corner patting Alfie, once he´d realised that arguing with the older Dingle over his last moves would only end with him stuck in the boot of a car for the rest of the night.

“Thanks, Liv.” Robert gave her an appreciative nod, paying no attention to the clear annoyance in her voice. “You hear that, Aaron? That’s the sound of my awesomeness.” There were few things in life the blond enjoyed more than riling up his husband and it was obvious from his tone.

“Ohwow, just when I thought your massive ego couldn´t get anybigger,”Aaron said, his eyebrows raised, his hand moving to the left under the table reaching the ticklish spot on his husband´s hip, before Robert had a chance to move away. 

Robert tried to squirm free, but Aaron was already standing behind him, arms over his shoulders, hands on his hips, holding him in place. Robert couldn´t hold it in any longer and started to giggle, still trying to wiggle his way out of his husband´s tight grasp. He didn´t stand a chance though, because Aaron was by far the stonger of the two and his hands were moving under Robert´s shirt, tickling him mercilessly.

“Reign your ego in now, will ya?” the brunet asked affectionately once his better half was bent over, holding his stomach laughing.

Robert tried to catch his breath. “Come on, you were well aware of the size of my ego when ya married me. Don´t pretend you don´t love it,” he said and of course he was right, Aaron did, which was why he leaned down then and pressed a kiss against Robert´s neck.

“My god, get a room, you two. You´re gonna scar me for life,” Liv interrupted, pretending to be disgusted by the display of affection, but the grin on her face betrayed her.

Robert pulled Aaron from behind the chair to his side, an arm wrapped around his waist, drawing the younger man closer until he was almost sitting on his lap. He gave him a loving smile before he turned over to look at Liv, eyebrows raised.

“Right then. Weren´t you about to go to jail for a bit? Pretty sure I saw you roll a six there. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 pounds and all that?”

[bibibibuckleykinard]

Someone has spoiler pics for week 16? I think. They said that one of the pics resembles art done by @scrapyardboyfriends​ and then it was mentioned that it was a picnic. Don’t know where the swapping clothes thing is coming from. I haven’t seen that

Ooh okay, lol! Though…. please let there be a robron picnic please soap gods! PLEASE!

[isabellaofparma]

You're not a fake fan!! There is no such thing imo. Just because you feel that this is the end for you does not mean that everything that came before it was any less for you than the rest of us.Take some time, step away and maybe you'll feel better. But if not, please don't hate yourself for not being able to get past this *hugs*

<33 This is such a lovely thing to say, thank you so much. I’m having difficulties with the stepping away but um. I’m trying my best.

Thank you for sending this!!💕