Chapter Text
They were in Robbie’s lair. Robbie was sitting contently in his chair watching Sportacus do push ups. Every once in a while, Sportacus would do something a bit more difficult to show off. Robbie would just roll his eyes which got a laugh from Sportacus.
“Mail’s here,” Robbie stated as a few envelopes and a magazine fell into his lap. He sorted through it, throwing some of the envelopes over his shoulder. His face paled when he got to the magazine. It was a copy of Villain’s Monthly. On the cover was a picture of him in Sportacus’s arms with a dopey smile.
“What’s wrong?” Sportacus asked, pushing up hard enough that he went into a standing position. He squeezed into the chair next to Robbie and looked over his shoulder. “That’s a nice photo of us.”
“There’s an article on us. What if they say I’m not a villain anymore?”
“Are you going to read it to find out?” Sportacus questioned. Robbie looked conflicted. He opened the magazine to the page of the article. There was another photo. This one showed them kissing on one of the benches in the park.
“I can’t do. You read it.” Robbie shoved the magazine into Sportacus’s hands. Sportacus rolled his eyes before pulling Robbie to where the villain was in his lap.
“Why don’t we read it together?” Robbie looked at the page before putting his face into the crook of Sportacus’s neck. “That tickles,” Sportacus said, shifting his shoulder a little. He gave Robbie a quick kiss on his forehead before going back to the magazine.
“A villain and a hero in love? Or is this one of Robbie Rotten’s latest schemes? Perhaps instead of getting rid of the hero in his town, he’s turning his hero bad. We’re sure that you thought what we thought when we saw these photos. Robbie Rotten’s gone soft.” Robbie cringed at that. “But we put the other pieces together when one of our reporters talked to the hero.”
“You talked to a reporter and didn’t tell me?” Robbie asked, raising his head.
“I didn’t know that they were a reporter.” Sportacus went back to the article. “We had our reporter go in disguise and talk to the hero about Robbie Rotten. The reporter says that as soon as he said something unflattering about Rotten, Sportacus got a dark look in his eyes and punched him in the chest.”
“You punched somebody?”
“No, I pushed him a little, but I didn’t hit him.”
“To be fair, sometimes you don’t know your own strength.” Robbie ran his hand over Sportacus chest as he said that, feeling the obscene amount of muscle there. Sportacus shrugged before going back to reading.
“Now, we ask you, what’s more dangerous than a hero gone dark? Our answer is a hero wrapped around a villain’s finger. That’s why we’re naming these two our power couple and Robbie Rotten as our number one villain.” At that, Robbie burst out laughing. He had been expecting to not be a villain at all, but he ended up being on top. “You’re number one, Robbie.”
“And all it took was a push from you,” Robbie commented, pushing against Sportacus chest. It didn’t do anything other than making the hero blush. Robbie took the magazine from Sportacus before tossing it away. Afterwards, he pulled Sportacus into a long kiss. Sportacus kissed him back, wrapping his arms around the villain that was still seated in his lap. When he pulled back, he let his head rest on Sportacus’s shoulder.
“I love you,” Robbie said. He still had his arm around Sportacus’s other shoulder, playing with a tuft of hair that stuck out from under his cap. Sportacus felt a warmth in his chest and held Robbie tighter.
“I love you too.”