•~3rd person P.O.V~•
Ellie didn't want to leave Robby at the Cobra Kai dojo that night, but she had no other choice. She made sure to wake up early the next morning, just to rush over to the dojo to see him.
"Ms. Moskowitz." Kreese started, turning away from his punching bag. "Mr. Keene isn't awake yet." Ellie gave him a cautious nod. Ellie wasn't too trusting of Kreese, but she thought she would need to now. She had to trust that he wouldn't tell Eli what she'd done.
"Thank you, for letting him stay here Mr. Kreese," Ellie whispered, shifting the bag on her shoulders. She planned on just taking Robby with her, doing whatever he wanted to do before finding him a hotel to stay at instead of the floor of the dojo.
"It's really no problem." He said, whilst twisting the rings on his fingers. Ellie was beyond nervous, she hated being in a room alone with Kreese. "I'm guessing no one knows about the two of you." Ellie shook her head.
"I love him, but Eli would hate me forever if he knew, and Eli's really important to me." Kreese began to speak again when the two heard the sound of footsteps coming from the place Robby had slept.
"He rises. Sorry, you had to sleep on the floor." Kreese announced, Robby, seeing Ellie standing awkwardly in front of him.
"Slept in rougher places," Robby admitted, standing next to Ellie.
"Likewise. If you want some coffee, it's not great, but it's hot." Robby let out a soft sigh, glancing back at Kreese's office.
"Thanks for letting me crash here. It was just for the night." Robby stuffed his hands into his pockets. Ellie had no idea that Kreese had visited Robby in jail, and that was why she was so confused when he suggested staying at the Cobra Kai dojo.
"You stay as long as you like. Come here. Maybe you'll learn something. This is the Cobra Strike. It consists of two moves, the lunge, and the bite." Ellie watched them happily, she enjoyed seeing Robby bond with someone now that he no longer had Daniel and he still resented Johnny.
"What are you doing here?" Ellie jumped, suddenly hearing her brother's booming voice. She hadn't heard the front doorbell, that sounded whenever someone entered the room. Robby quickly wedged himself between Hawk and Ellie, as his eyes flicked between the two.
"Hold on there. Mr. Keene is our guest." Hawk clenched his jaw, his eyes latching into Ellie's. He quickly gripped her arm and pulled her to the side, his fingers seeming to press into her bones.
"What the hell are you doing with him? Did you forget what happened to Miguel? What he did to Miguel?" Ellie suddenly remembered something Kreese had taught her. To make someone let go of her, and as much as she didn't ever want to use any karate on Eli, she couldn't let him think he was in charge of her any longer. She yanked her arm down, then proceeded to kick him in his chest. Eli stumbled backward, surprise covering his face.
"He's my boyfriend, not that it matters since it's none of your fucking business."
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"That, that was hot," Robby smirked, as the two walked up the hill covered with red and orange leaves.
"You've mentioned it a time or two." Ellie giggled, hearing Robby call her hot was certainly something. "I didn't think standing up to someone would make me hot, but I'll do it more often." She smirked, shoving Robby slightly with her shoulder.
"What makes me so hot, huh? When we first met I didn't know any karate." Ellie shrugged. Robby was attractive simply effortlessly. Robby thought the same about Ellie, but seeing her finally take up for herself, like Robby was trying to push her to do was a great show.
"You're effortlessly cute, Robby." Robby raised an eyebrow, shoving his hands into the pockets of his jacket.
"Cute?" He asked. "Pretty sure you didn't fuck me just for cute." Ellie's eyes grew wide as she smacked his arm. There was no one around them since they showed up later than the other Cobra's but it sounded so vile either way.
"Robby!" She shouted, in a correcting tone. "H-How do you just say that so nonchalantly?!" Robby laughed, the two nearing where the Cobra's told them to meet.
"It'd only be weird to say in front of your brother, but he's not here right now." Ellie felt heat rise to her cheeks, making her face glow bright red.
"Are you sure you can be civil around him? I mean...your gonna spend at least thirty minutes with him, and recently that's been enough for me to want to fight him." Robby chuckled. If he was being honest, he wasn't sure. Sometimes Hawk made him wanna break his probation agreements and other times it was easy to block him out. But after seeing the way he treated Ellie that morning, he felt his hatred for him growing.
He treated Ellie as if she was something for him to control. Nothing more but his sidekick or person he could always lean on. Robby knew that Ellie had done a lot of things for Eli, that she'd sacrificed more than he ever did for her, and a part of him felt bad to admit that Hawk's treatment towards her was partly her fault. But when he saw her, finally, taking up for herself made him feel more than proud. The next person she needed to stick up to was her mom.
"It'll be fine." He assured although she wasn't entirely convinced. Suddenly the two saw the group of Cobra's, Tory, Hawk, Kyler, and a couple of others.
"You two took your sweet ass time," Tory announced as the two finally appeared. Hawk rolled his eyes as he looked at Tory, he wasn't sure what they'd been waiting for but now it was clear.
"We were busy," Robby answered, lying through his teeth. They weren't really doing anything, just watching TV and they'd lost track of time.
"You invited him?" He asked her, annoyance apparent in his voice.
"I did. Got a problem with that?" Tory retorted.
"Here you go, Keene," Kyler said, handing Robby a beer. Robby looked the boy up and down, Ellie had told him that this boy was Kyler.
"Nah, I'm good." He replied.
"What, can't handle a sip of beer?" Hawk laughed, along with some of his followers. Ellie sighed, feeling Robby shift his stance beside her.
"I don't need to drink to pretend to be cool." He retorted. Eli scoffed, his tongue poking into his cheek.
"Yeah, that's funny." He said with a faux laugh. "What were you busy with anyways? Kicking someone else over a flight of stairs?" Ellie glared at Eli, although he was too busy staring at Robby to see.
"I was busy with your sister." Ellie's eyes grew wide, her cheeks growing bright red as she looked at the boy beside her.
"Robby!" She shouted, looking between him and her brother. "Nothing like that happened, I promise," Ellie assured, Eli had grown even angrier now as he stepped closer to Robby.
"You stay the hell away from Ellie." He spat bitterly through gritted teeth.
"I do what the hell I want, and if you don't stop with your controlling shit with Ellie then I'll beat your ass and end up in juvie again. I don't give a shit." Ellie quickly shoved Eli away from Robby, glancing at Tory for help. As much as Tory wanted to separate the two, it was beyond fun to watch.
"C'mon guys, we gotta get going." Tory urged them, the Cobra's quickly following Tory underneath of the gate. Ellie was about to do the same when Robby caught her arm.
"Why don't you stay out here?" Ellie furrowed her eyebrows, confused. "I dunno what they wanna do and I don't want you to get hurt or in trouble." Although Ellie loved that Robby was looking out for her, she wanted to help at least a little bit.
"I don't want you to get in trouble. They'll send you back to juvie and I don't think I can talk to you with police officers swarming the room again." Robby shook his head, placing both of his hands on Ellie's shoulders.
"I won't. I know what'll get me thrown back in juvie, and I'm gonna stay away from anything that will. I just want you to stay out here." Ellie sighed, a defiant look on her face as she looked at Robby. "Please, angel." God Ellie hated Robby sometimes. That name could make her do anything for him, and he knew it.
"Fine." She mumbled, folding her arms. She wasn't happy about staying outside while everyone else got to do fun shit inside of whatever place they were at, but she understood that Robby didn't want her in trouble or hurt. Robby kissed her forehead before hurriedly sliding underneath the gate and running off.
What was Ellie supposed to do now?
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When all of the Cobra's appeared, each one of them looking angry and defeated, without Robby, Ellie began to feel worried. She didn't know what they were supposed to be getting or why, but seeing as Robby wasn't with them wasn't a good sign.
"What the hell, dumbass?" Eli yelled, shoving Kyler.
"At least I brought beer," Kyler smirked, but Eli was pissed.
"We failed the mission 'cause of you!" He shouted again, but Ellie was still confused. What had they failed? How had they failed?
"Who said we failed?" Robby smirked as he appeared from behind the group, holding a beige sack in his hand that began to hiss.
"No way!" Tory exclaimed.
"Nice!"
"You got it? Unreal." Tory said in surprise. How had he gotten the snake without any tools?
"Let's see it." Robby opened the bag, Ellie looking into it hesitantly. "Hey, you the man, dog!" Kyler exclaimed happily, along with the other Cobra's.
"Here, you take it," Robby whispered as he handed the bag to Hawk. Hawk looked almost disgusted as if Robby took pity on him and was going to let him take all the credit for the snake.
"Why?" He asked, his voice filled with disgust and hatred.
"Ellie's afraid of snakes..." Robby said, looking Eli up and down. "I can't be around her with a snake in my hands. You know, I've known her for a fraction of the time you have and you don't seem to know shit about her." Eli gripped the bag, his knuckles turning white, as Robby walked away from them and to Ellie.
"You dumbass! That snake could've bitten you and you could've died! Cobra's are venomous ya know!" Ellie whisper-shouted, shoving him slightly.
"But it didn't, I'm fine." Ellie glared at him, she wasn't necessarily mad at him. She was glad he was safe but she was upset that he'd put himself in danger.
"It was still stupid."
~
The group stood in a line, Tory, Eli, Ellie, Robby, and Kyler, in front of Kreese. Ellie didn't think she deserved Kreese's praise, she hadn't done anything. She hadn't even known that they were stealing a snake.
"Well done. I'm impressed. You showed fearlessness, leadership. And those are the qualities you need to be a champion. Good job. You're what Cobra Kai has been looking for." Kreese smirked as he placed a hand on Robby's shoulder. "Do you see what you can accomplish when you work together? Alliances are important. For us and our enemy. Because you better believe that they are making alliances too." The group looked around at each other, confused.
"What alliances?" Tory asked.
"Oh, you didn't hear? Uh, Diaz and that LaRusso girl, yeah, they're working together. Yeah, they helped save the All Valley. They gave quite a speech. They make a pretty good team. Well, it's getting late. Dismissed." Robby was quick to join Ellie's side and urge her to leave, he knew that Kreese was trying to push the Cobra's to fight the others. He needed to find an excuse to tell Ellie so that she wouldn't join them.
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A/n: guys, i have work tomorrow 😞
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