DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES - KATHERINE/ROBIN

Supermarket Showdown

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Title: “Supermarket Showdown”

Fandom: Desperate Housewives

Pairing: Katherine/Robin

Rating: PG

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Author's Notes: For xraex21 who I have been teasing with this idea for like a week now. Thanks to serenitymeimei for being my beta. Please feel free to friend my writing community darnay for my latest fics and updates.

Summary: Nothing is ever what it seems, even if it happens at the grocery store.

Supermarket Showdown

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“Why did you put that in the cart?” Katherine was pointing to a box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese that Robin had just put into the shopping cart. The last 40 minutes in the grocery store had severely tested the redhead’s patience. She watched time and time again as the younger woman had put TV dinners, processed cheese and other prepackaged foods into the cart and held her tongue until now.

“What? The mac and cheese?” Robin replied, confused by the look on Katherine’s face.

“I can make you macaroni and cheese, if that’s what you want.”

“I know you can,” Robin smiled. “But sometimes a girl just wants a box of Krafty goodness.”

“But mine is better,” Katherine stated matter of factly. She had reached into the cart, took the box of macaroni and cheese into her hand and put it back on the shelf. Robin simply grabbed another one, tossed it back in the cart and continued down the aisle as Katherine stood there incredulously. “I like to cook you know.”

“I know you do,” Robin said without looking back. She seemed annoyed but the tone was lost on Katherine. The older woman couldn’t fathom why someone would want something so cheap especially when she could make something much, much better.

“Then why do you want that box of macaroni and cheese?” Katherine just couldn’t let it go. The kitchen was her domain, it was where she felt the most comfortable during her day no matter came her way.

“You don’t always have to cook for me,” Robin replied, turning and almost colliding with the cart. Katherine barely had time to stop but the blonde had put both hands on the front of the cart to stop it before it hit her. Now, they stood at a standstill in the middle of the grocery store over a little 99 cent box of mac and cheese.

“I like to cook for you,” was Katherine’s defense. She searched for any sign of this potential argument to be some sort of joke but there was none. Robin was holding her ground as she always did.

“And I love when you cook for me, but you always cook for me… Sometimes I just want something nice and easy, something I can do for myself. I may not be the best cook in the world, but I can make that little box of mac and cheese and I assure you, it’s nowhere near as close to yours but it makes me feel good when I do it.”

“Okay.” Katherine just nodded, conceding. Robin smiled, turning back down the aisle and heading towards the deli. Cooking was one of the only ways Katherine had kept everything in control even when the world was falling apart. Even her fantasies in the beginning about Robin revolved around some form of cooking; it was her brain’s way of telling her that as long as she was a good housewife – a good cook – she was making a lasting impression to keep Robin there even if she’d never quite cooked for a woman like this before.

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