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[bettaklainerobron]

Day 3: Reunited and it feels so good

[bobbie-robron]

Today is your day so…

Day 5 - Robert’s birthday

[cheek-kisses]

"It's Easter, you're meant to live on sugar."

Day 1, Robron week 2022 - so I went for a picture edit of this iconic scene. Also it's one of my personal all time fave scenes. Put in all my editing skills and hope y'all like it.

[roberts-girl]

Day 3: Reunited and it feels so good

A little late but it’s still the 20th in some time zones. 😉

I had to do this one as it’s my fave hug. Robert is so relieved Aaron’s back and he hugs him so, so tight.

🥲❤️🥲❤️🥲❤️

[no-goodbyes-no-regrets]

Robron week day 1: It’s Easter, you’re meant to live on sugar.

A Special Treat (AO3) Aaron and Robert try to surprise each other at Easter

A/N: This was supposed to be a little fluffy something... but it got a little long - mostly because I couldn't figure out the timeline. In the end I decided it's set a few years into the future, Rob still went to prison but got out summer 2021 and left the village with Aaron and Seb - and now they're back.

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“What are your plans for Easter?” Chas asked Aaron as she let herself into the mill with the spare key, reminding Aaron to have a chat with her about what exactly classed as an emergency.

“I don’t know.” He shrugged, closing his laptop and moving the papers aside. “Nothing really. Have a lie in if Seb will let us.”

Chas gave him a look that sad she wasn’t happy with his answer but didn’t say anything.

“They’re my family, mum. That’s not going to change. I love them. Both of them”

“I didn’t say anything!”

“You didn’t have to.”

“Oh you can read minds now?”

“I don’t have to be a mind reader to know what you’re thinking when I mention Robert or Seb.”

Chas sighed and sat down at the table.

“I don’t have a problem with either of them… I just don’t want you to get hurt, love. Again.”

“I won’t. I’m happy. I’ve got my family back. Life is good.”

“Hmm… I just hope it stays that way.”

Aaron rolled his eyes and sat back in his chair.

“Is that why you came round? To lecture me about Robert? To try to get me to leave him? Because let me just tell you, you’ll be wasting your time and energy on that.”

“No, I wanted to invite you over for family brunch at the pub.”

“Brunch? Since when does this family do brunch?”

“I thought it would be nice! A little classier than uncle Zak and Bear burping their way through whatever is on the telly.” Chas explained. “I thought we could push some tables together outside. The weather is supposed to be nice. What do you think?

Aaron shrugged.

“I don’t know. Are all of us welcome?”

“Of course. I wouldn’t come here to ask you if you weren’t.” Chas insisted. “We’ll get some fresh fruit and some chocolate treats for the kids. We could even have a little Easter egg hunt for them in the beer garden.”

“Alright. Sounds good. But you might want to get more than just some chocolate treats if Robert is invited.” Aaron said, amused.

Chas frowned until the proverbial light switched on.

“Oh right, I forgot about his sweet tooth.” she commented. “What?” She asked when Aaron gave her a surprised look. “I shared a house with him for a long time, I did notice things. It's hard not to notice someone putting that much sugar into their tea and apparently never getting a cavity.”

“He's trying to cut down on the sugar.” Aaron laughed. “He's worried his luck will run out and he hates the dentist.”

“Don't we all.” Chas lamented. “Where is he anyway?”

“Picking Seb up from a friend's house.” Aaron told her. “He got invited to a birthday party. The third one this month. He's got a busier social life than the both of us together.” He smiled and got up from the table. “At least he’s having fun. Do you want a brew?”

“No I should head back to the pub. I left Charity arguing with Mack so I hope the place is still standing when I get back.” She sighed. “I don’t know why I thought things would calm down when she got back with Vanessa.”

Aaron laughed.

“It’s nice not to be at the centre of the family drama for once.”

“Just enjoy the peace and quiet until Seb is a teenager. If he takes after the both of you, you’ll have your hands full with him.” Chas warned him and they both laughed. “So you’ll come to family brunch on Sunday then? I promise you won’t have to help me set up. I’ve got Noah and Samson for that.”

Before Aaron got the chance to reply, his phone buzzed on the table. He quickly grabbed it and swiped and tapped at the screen, the confused frown on his face changing to a smile.

“Good news?” Chas asked, trying to keep her voice neutral even though she was curious as to what or who was making her son smile at his phone like that.

“Yeah. I got Rob a special Easter egg and I just got an email that it's ready to be picked up.” He turned the screen towards her, showing her a picture of a large chocolate egg with Robert's name on it on one side and I love you on the other. “There's a surprise inside. Like one of those eggs for kids with the little toys inside, you know?”

Chas nodded.

“You loved those when you were little.”

“Yeah. Rob loves them too. He usually shares the chocolate with Seb and then he has to put the toy together.”

“You always made me do it. Some of those toys were so complicated, you had to have an engineering degree to assemble them.”

Aaron laughed.

“Yeah not much has changed since then. But this is different. There’s a ring inside. An engagement ring.” He said, waiting for Chas to catch up to what he was saying.

“You… you’re going to propose with a chocolate egg?”

“Don’t say it like that! This is Robert we’re talking about. He’ll love it when he thinks it’s just a fancy chocolate egg, and then when he opens it and sees the ring… he’ll hopefully say yes when I ask him to marry me. Again.”

“I’m sure he’ll say yes.” Chas said, pulling her son into a hug. “All I’ve ever wanted for you is to be happy… that you’d find someone who would make you smile every single day of your life together. I never thought that person would be Robert Sugden… but after all this time and everything you’ve been through together…even I can see he is that person for you.”

Aaron nodded.

“I’m the happiest I’ve ever been when I’m with him.” he vowed. “And I’ll be even happier when he’s officially my husband again.”

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“Hey leave some room for your tea later.” Robert warned Seb as the boy unwrapped another chocolate egg and stuffed it in his mouth. “And give me one too.” He held his hand out and waited for Seb to give him a little egg.

They’d stopped at Tesco in Hotten to do their weekly food shop on the way home, and when Seb had seen the Easter display, he’d convinced his dad to buy them a little treat. Or treats.

“It’s mine.” Seb replied around a mouth full of chocolate.

“It’s for all of us.” Robert shot back, glancing back at his son in the rear-view mirror of his car. “I said you could have one, not one bag.”

“I only had two!”

“Two in the last five minutes.”

“Did not!”

“Did to. Come on, give me one. We’re almost home and then the bag is going in the cupboard until after tea.”

Seb grumbled but eventually put an egg in Robert’s waiting hand.

“Thank you. Was that so hard?” he glanced at Seb in the mirror again. “And put that bag away now or you’ll be sick by the time we get home.”

The rest of the short drive back to the village, Robert and Seb continued to argue over how many chocolates was too many, until in the end Robert pulled the car over and took the bag from Seb.

“DAD!”

“Don’t dad me. I said put it away and you didn’t. So now it’s mine.” He opened the glove box and put the bag in. “And it’s staying in there until we’re home. You can have another after tea.” He told the now sulking boy.

“It’s not fair! It’s mine!”

“You know what’s not fair? You eating all of the chocolates and then not eating any of the tea your dad is cooking for us now.” Robert said, putting on his best strict dad voice.

Seb considered his words for a moment.

“Are we having chips?” He asked hopeful.

“I don’t know. You’ll see when we get home.” Robert told him and slowed down as he drove into the village and turned the car onto the Mill’s driveway, frowning when he saw Aaron and Chas just walking out the door.

He’d barely parked the car before Aaron opened the door to greet Seb and unbuckle him from his car seat.

“Hey mate, how was the party?”

“Dad took the chocolate.” Seb pouted and Aaron bit his lip trying not to laugh. “He’s your son alright.” He told Robert and kissed him hello when he got out of the car too.

“Oh now he’s my son?” Robert said, rolling his eyes. “I just made sure your son wouldn’t ruin his appetite by stuffing his face with an entire bag of chocolate eggs.”

“So you could have them tonight after he goes to bed?” Aaron teased, earning him a glare from both Robert and Seb.

“I only had one, thank you very much.” He grabbed the bag from the glove box, careful to close it properly right after so Aaron wouldn’t accidentally see the brightly coloured gift bag that was also in there. “You two can put the shopping away, while I go to David’s to get ketchup because there was some kind of ketchup crisis at Tesco and they were out. Consider that your reward.”  He gave Aaron his keys and the bag and made his way over to the shop, only to be stopped halfway down the driveway by Amelia Spencer calling out his name.

“Robert! Do you have a minute?” she jogged a few paces to catch up with him, Charles following a few meters behind.

“Sure. What’s up?” he asked and motioned for her to walk with him.

“I’m supposed to organise an event for school, and I thought it would be fun to do an Easter egg hunt in the village.” Amelia told him. “It’s for all of the kids, and the mums and dads can help too. We’ll hide the eggs around the village after dark and then the hunt will start at 10AM or else the chocolate will have melted.”

“We’ll put the names on the big eggs so all of the kids have at least one, and then divide up the rest.” Charles explained. “So we won’t have one or two kids who have everything and the rest of them won’t have anything.”

“So I was wondering if you wanted to sign Seb up? I wanted it to be on Easter Sunday but we’re quite busy in the church that day so we decided to do it on the Monday instead.”

Robert nodded.

“Sounds fun. I’m sure Seb will like it. Sign him up.”

“Great!” Amelia said excitedly. “Should I put him down as Seb or Sebastian? And is it Sugden or Dingle? Or Sugden-Dingle? Did you hyphenate your names?”

“White.” Robert cleared his throat, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. “He has his mum’s name. She really wanted him to have her name and I didn’t really care back then. And now it’s the only thing of hers he has left…”

“Oh. Ok.  Right. Well… I’ll just put him down as Seb then. I’ll know who it is anyway.”

“Alright. Well… we’ll see you Monday morning then.” Charles said as Amelia wrote Seb’s name on the list on her clipboard.

“Yeah. Seb will have a blast I’m sure.” Robert said, looking at Seb who was excitedly telling Aaron and Chas about the birthday party he’d been to, probably after working his magic on Aaron to get his chocolates back. He smiled at the sight and turned back to Amelia. “Can you do me a favour? Can you hide an egg with Aaron’s name on it in the pagoda in the middle of the village? I’ll give you the egg. I got it made especially. It’s a surprise.”

Charles and Amelia shared a look before she plastered a smile back on her face and excitedly agreed.

Family brunch with the Dingles that Sunday was as quiet and relaxed as it could be with half the village in attendance, and both Robert and Aaron enjoyed being back among the madness after their years away.

After everyone had finished their meal, and the kids were tearing through the beer garden looking for chocolates, Robert got talking to Mack, who’d invited himself along mainly to spite Charity, and even though he liked the guy and he was enjoying himself, his mind kept wandering to the chocolate egg with the colourful wrapper in the box with the rest of the eggs in the church, and the question he wanted to ask Aaron to go with it.

“I’m sorry, is my dazzling personality not good enough for you?” Mack asked, snapping Robert out of his thoughts and back to reality.

“What?”

“I was talking to you… but I might as well have a conversation with the flowers outside the shop.”

“Well you know what they say, talking to plants helps them grow. You’d be doing David a favour.” Robert joked and laughed at the look on Mack’s face.

“Yeah, yeah funny man. What’s distracting you? My good looks?”

“Always. But also this.” He pulled his phone out of his pocket, after quickly glancing over his shoulder to make sure Aaron wasn’t paying attention to him. “It’s a surprise for Aaron. I’m going to give it to him tomorrow during the easter egg hunt Amelia set up for the church.”

“Isn’t that for kids only?”

Yes… but I’d already bought this egg to surprise him with, and then Amelia told me about her event… and I just thought it would be nice.” He swiped through the pictures on his phone to show Mack the egg, and its content.

“Is that a ring?”

“Yeah. Not a real one obviously… but it’s chocolate. And they put a note in it too that says will you marry me.”

Mack frowned.

“I thought you were already married? I’m sure I heard Moira mention something about a dress she wore to your wedding.”

“We were… and then we weren’t. It’s a long story… Lots of mistakes were made… but I’m going to fix at least one of them tomorrow.”

The next morning Seb woke his parents up at the crack of dawn, and it took everything they had to make him go back to sleep for a few more hours. Even if that meant he crawled into bed with them.

In the end they were still one of the firsts at the church and Seb was buzzing with excitement.

On the way over he’d tried to spot some of the treats hidden around the village, but Robert and Aaron both tightly holding onto his hands meant he couldn’t get the head start he’d hoped for.

“Alright, if everyone is ready… get set… go!” Amelia announced a few minutes after 10 and the village kids ran past her looking for the hidden treasures.

“Parents don’t help them too much!” Charles called out. “Everything will be divided evenly afterwards!”

Seb and Isaac had taken off the second the word go had left Amelia’s mouth and were running down Main Street towards where Isaac had seen an egg.

“Come on, let’s go make sure they don’t kill each other. Or any of the other kids.” Robert took Aaron’s hand and laced their fingers together as they started walking in the kids’ direction.

“Dad! This one has your name on it!” Seb called out when he and Isaac were climbing all over the pagoda in the middle of the village some time later. He held up an egg Robert didn’t recognise and he wondered who would be leaving Aaron chocolates.

“And this one has yours, Aaron!” Isaac yelled, holding up the egg Robert had given Amelia to hide.

“What? Are you sure?” Aaron asked, confused.

Isaac nodded and climbed down, giving Aaron the egg, while Seb did the same, only giving his egg to Robert.

“Wait, that’s for me?”

“It has your name on it, doesn’t it?” Aaron told him with a grin.

“Is this your doing?”

“Maybe. Can’t I just spoil my husband every now and then?”

“I’m not though, am I? Your husband. Not anymore…”

Aaron shrugged.

“You are in every way that matters. Now open your gift. There’s a surprise inside.”

“A surprise? What kind of surprise? Anything I should be opening behind closed doors?” Robert teased and Aaron laughed.

“No. But who knows…” He lowered his voice. “play your cards right and we can maybe make that happen after Seb goes to bed tonight.”

“Promises, promises.” Robert joked and examined his egg to find a good way to open it. “I don’t want to break it. It looks so nice.”

“Can I help?” Seb asked, craning his neck to get a good look at his dad’s egg.

“No, this one is just for your dad.” Aaron told him. “Especially for him.”

“Wait… is this going to explode in my face? Cover me in sticky goop for the rest of the day?”

“No! I promise it’s nothing bad. At least I hope you won’t think so.”

Robert gave him a questioning look but in the end decided to tap the egg against the bench in the pagoda to break the chocolate and get to his surprise.

He was too focused on getting the little container out that he didn’t notice the small crowd that had formed around them, or Aaron getting down on one knee.

He put the egg down on the bench and got out the container to open it, letting its content drop in his hand.

“I… what… Aaron…You got me an egg with a chocolate ring? Is that… Is this… Are you…”

“Proposing?” Aaron asked, getting up. “Yes, trying to.”

“With an engagement ring… made of chocolate…”

"Well I couldn’t use your actual ring, could I? I wanted it to be a surprise and you’re wearing it! You would have noticed… I thought you’d like it.”

“Yes. No. I do. It’s just… Open yours.”

Aaron frowned but picked his egg up from where he’d put it down on the ground and opened it.

“You didn’t.”

“I did.”

“Just like last time.”

“Yeah. We should have gone for a drive to the lay by.”

The two men just looked at each other and burst out laughing.

“Oh for god’s sake, can either of you just pop the question already?” Charity yelled at them. “Or we’ll still be here this time next year.” She complained, ignoring the elbow to the ribs from both Chas and Vanessa.

“Well…” Aaron turned to Robert and took both his hands in his. “Will you marry me… again?”

Robert smiled.

“Only if you’ll marry me again.” 

[enchantedsugden]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Emmerdale Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Aaron Dingle/Robert Sugden Characters: Robert Sugden, Aaron Dingle, Seb White, Andy Sugden (mentions), Jack Sugden (mentions) Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Self-Doubt, Communication, Supportive Aaron, Discussions about parenthood, reflections, Angst Summary:

as things are changing in robert and aaron’s life, robert has some thoughts he has to process.

 written for robron week day 2: proper little family

[softlass27]

Robron week day 1; "It's Easter, you're meant to live on sugar"

“Ow! You fucking – ”

Aaron walks through the front door to the sound of Robert loudly cursing and sees him sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of the sofa. He’s surrounded by a sea of ribbon and string and tissue paper of all different colours. There's so much chaos on the floor he can barely see the rug.

“What the hell are you doing?”

Robert winces and sucks the tip of one of his fingers in his mouth.

“Stabbed myself with the needle.”

Sure enough, he’s holding a needle and thread. Aaron lets out an amused, slightly baffled huff and sits opposite him on the rug.

“Gonna ask again, what’re you doing? Since when do you sew?”

“I’m not, really,” Robert says, finally removing the finger from between his lips. He carefully picks up a small straw hat that was resting on the floor next to him. “Just trying to make Seb’s Easter bonnet, ‘pparently he needs one for this party Charles is throwing the kids at the church tomorrow. Best bonnet wins an Easter egg.”

The hat is half-covered in blue ribbon, paper flowers and tissuey green tufts that Aaron’s guessing is supposed to represent grass.

“Because we don’t have enough Easter eggs in the house already. Which we have to keep replacing because someone kept eating them all the way through Lent.”

“Chocolate always tastes better when you win it, though – pass me that bit of pink tissue, will you?”

Aaron picks up a sheet of pastel pink tissue paper from the pile next to him and stretches his arm out, passing it to Robert. He watches in mild fascination as his husband immediately starts folding and twisting the paper into seemingly random shapes, smoothing and arranging it until it transforms into a small flower in his hands.

Satisfied, Robert grabs his needle again and starts attaching the flower to the straw hat, stitching it into place with the ones already on there.

“Where the hell did you learn to do that?”

“Youtube,” Robert says distractedly, tongue sticking out the corner of his mouth as he concentrates on the task at hand. “And I sort of remembered my mum doing it for mine when I was a kid.”

Aaron continues to watch him, distractedly wrapping a piece of ribbon around his fingers. “She made bonnets for you?”

“Oh yeah.” His mouth curls into a small smile as he grabs a handful of tiny yellow decorative chicks and starts slotting them in among the flowers. “She was good at homemade stuff – think she had to be, since Dad would never fork out for anything like that.”

Aaron smiles softly as he watches him, refraining from pointing out that they could – and did – usually fork out for whatever Seb needed. Though he’ll probably never admit it, Robert’s clearly content – in his element, even – doing things the old-school way.

“You know I'm gonna need to see photos of that.”

“No chance.”

“Fine, I'll just ask Vic.” He pushes himself up with a quiet groan. “You want a brew while you work on that?”

“Hm, please.”

“‘Kay, two ticks.”

“Oh,” Robert calls to Aaron’s retreating back. “Can I get a hot cross bun too, while you’re at it?”

“Sure.”

“Thanks. Or, actually, I wouldn’t mind a bit of that Cadbury’s egg that’s in the snack cupboard?”

“For god’s sake, we’re not gonna have any eggs left at this rate! How’re you not sick of them yet?”

Robert’s eyes turn wide and innocent, an expression that Seb had picked up by the time he was a toddler.

“But Aaron, it’s Easter, you’re meant to live – ”

“On sugar, I know,” Aaron sighs, fond despite himself.

“Exactly, Jesus said so.”

“He did not.”

“How d’you know? You’ve never cracked open a bible in your life.”

“Neither have you, you idiot!”

“No,” Robert shoots back, looking at Aaron like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth. “But Charles told me.”

“I don’t care if the Pope himself told you, I’m not buying any more Easter eggs and if we want to put together a half-decent egg hunt for Seb later then we’re not touching the ones we have. You’ll have a hot cross bun and you’ll like it.”

Robert sighs and huffily sticks another chick on the bonnet.

“Fine.”

[karlakattz]

Robron Week, day 5: Happy birthday, Robert

He‘s taking a little break, standing outside with his face turned towards the Spring sun, eyes shut. Robert‘s still moping.

Suddenly hands slip over his closed eyelids and a body presses against his back. He instantly recognised those rock hard pecs that are poking his shoulder blades.

“Knock knock.“ Aaron‘s raspy voice reaches his ear and Robert starts grinning.

“Who‘s there?“

There is a short silence and Robert tries to hold back a snort.

“Woo.“

Okay, no chance, Robert snorts. “Woo who?“

“Woo who, it‘s your birthday!“ Aaron exclaims and the hands disappear from Robert‘s face.

He‘s being spun around and then he blinks to focus on the adorable scruffy face that‘s smiling up at him.

“That joke wasn‘t bad. You know, for a fourth grader,“ Robert smirks and Aaron rolls his eyes.

“What happened to ‘It’s the thought that counts’?“

“Oh that one left this morning with you,“ Robert teases.

Aaron swallows, ducks his head sheepishly, looking stricken. “I‘m sorry.“ Then he looks up, his bright eyes fixing on Robert‘s face. “I‘m here now. Happy birthday.“

Finally, he gets his birthday kiss and it‘s a good one, too. Aaron kisses him slowly and hungry. Longing. Promising.

When the lips are gone Robert‘s chasing the sensation, tries to pull Aaron‘s face back on his.

“Robert! Stop it!“ Aaron laughs and slaps his chest.

“Why?“ he whines, not even embarrassed how needy he sounds.

He’s had a shitty day so far and it‘s his birthday - he deserves a bit of love, alright?

“We gotta go now…“ Aaron says ominously.

“Why?“

“Because otherwise we‘ll be late for your surprise, idiot.“

Read the whole fluff here

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38396761

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