Margot's eyes kept flickering to the clock then the door and back again. "What's going on with you monkey?" Zelena questioned wincing at the nickname for her still cursed daughter. Thankfully Margot who was still cleaning the same glass for the last five minutes didn't seem to hear the slip. "Fine mom." She says absently her look turning hopeful when the door opened but fell quickly at the random man that came in.
"Hey, little fox."
Zelena smiled at her daughter's eye roll at the nickname very much like she would back home when she still had all her memories. "Phone call." Regina says as if it wasn't obvious shaking her head in honest confusion at her sister questioning look as she handed the phone to their distracted bartender.
"Hell…Oh hey, Rogers is Til….She what?" Her words were said in such rapid succession that the listening pair had trouble keeping up with the short one-sided conversation, but both were prepared to kick everyone out of the bar at the fear passing over Margot's face as she listened to whatever Rogers was telling her toward the end.
"Can I…" she started to say only to breakout a shy smile seconds later. "What the heck were you thinking baby?" Margot greeted the worried anger in her voice making the other two recoil neither liking any of the possibilities of what could have happened regarding the blonde's safety playing out in their minds even without the added threat of easily accessible magic looming over the town as they would have in Storybrooke.
"Alright alright. I'm sorry I snapped but come on today of all days you had to go and get hurt?" She sighed holding the bridge of her nose between her fingers as she stared unseeing out the front window at the snow-dusted scene outside. "True but I wasn't the one that thought chasing down someone in the middle of a Hyptown snowfall was a good idea." The green eyed blonde sighed blinking away the dazed look in her eyes. That perked their interest. Thankfully for her, the front door opened just then ushering in a new stream of shivering thirsty customers giving enough of a distraction that Margot was able to slip away to the safety of the backroom.
The sisters had managed to contain the new wave of customers communicating in glances and shrugged shoulders mostly while they worked both eyeing the door to the back room every chance they got while taking and filling orders.
"Yes, and that's another reason why I like you so much." Margot chuckled coming back out again now holding her cell phone between her ear and her shoulder as she pulled on her jacket with the strap of a familiar backpack now slung over her back pausing just long enough to set the bar phone down beside the registers as she moved back behind the bar to grab the book she always kept close even when she was working. "I'll see you soon il mio amore."
Zelena's head tilited at the Italian phrase. It took her a minute to search Kelly's hazy curse created memories to translate it as Margot pulles the zipper of the backpack closed after tucking Alice away beside Tilly's Robin Hood book. "I know and that makes it all the more fun..." Margot giggled tucking a stray lock of her own hair back behind her ear her grin turning into a pout as her daughter stopped beside the table Zelena was cleaning off mostly to be polite to the new customers coming in when she wanted to go out. "Oh come on that spoils the game if you just look it up."
Zelena and her sister shared a glance from opposite sides of the bar at the playful tone that even Regina could hear with the den of chatting customers. "Okay. Oh, and Tils…Ti amo."
With that, Margot stepped out into the swirling snow ending the phone call with an "I'm taking both my breaks."
"I know we can't let it before we find a way to protect Henry but how is the curse not broken yet?" Zelena sighed dropping her voice as she sets the tub of dirty cups on the bar top tracking her daughter's progress down the sidewalk outside the bar's front window as the snow picks up. "I don't know but they have to be remembering something for them to be this in love again so quickly." Regina answers overfilling a few drinks in her distracted state.
"Nice to see you again Miss West." Weaver greeted having been waiting down in the building's lobby for her. Even holding the door open to let her into the building for her when he noticed the shopping bag she was carrying.
Margot nodded back kicking the access snow from her boots letting the detective take a few of her bags from her with a grateful smile. "How's our girl?"
"Resting," Rumple answered as they headed to the elevator together. "Her ribs are cracked but they hadn't done any more damage other than make it uncomfortable for her to breath when the tests were finished." He went on knowing without her saying anything that the other woman wanted to know everything before they got up to the apartment. "Also, the man she was chasing is in custody, so it wasn't for nothing." He praised but Rumple saw the flash of annoyance the victory caused the woman Robin Mill's loves.
"She's going to hate having to sleep upright for the next few nights." Margot commented hitting the button for her girlfriend's floor shifting the bag against her shoulder as the doors slid closed. "Indeed." Rumple agreed sliding his hands into his jacket pockets readying for the anger he knew was coming.
"Honestly today of all days why would you let her come out into the field with you? Didn't you check the weather reports?" Margot questioned not wanting to have to be alone with her own thoughts on just how much the day could have gone wrong. Rumple knew the unknowing archer was more upset than she let on despite only meeting her a handful of times back before the curse hit. Alice would spend days talking about the woman now standing beside him in the slow-moving elevator telling the Darke One almost everything she could think of about the archer that had stolen her heart while he was at his spinning wheel or when the blonde had talked him into playing a chess game with her in the times she wasn't writing to her father or helping him on one of his side projects.
"What can I say. She is her father's daughter. Not one to back away from a fight no matter what realm she's in." Rumple confessed with a proud half smile. "I would think." He added seeing Margot's puzzled look once he remembered he was supposed to be talking about Tilly and not Alice at this moment.
"Did she take any other hits after she went down?"
Rumple sighed at the question hating that the elevator chose that moment to slow to a crawl making the journey to Roger's floor longer. "She didn't say when Roger's questioned her, but the suspect did imply he did when we got him cuffed and brought down to the car, but I think that was just to make either Rogers or I to do something that would let him call police brutality on us once we were back at the station." The detective confessed, "And with the amount of bruising the doctor's said Tilly had it was all but impossible to tell from looking once we got her to the hospital."
Margot's jaw flexed in repressed anger at his words her hand tightening around the strap of Tilly's backpack were the only signs that the young woman was affected by what he was telling her. She slammed her hand over the already light button for the floor they wanted as if that would make the elevator move faster. "They should call in someone to look at this stupid thing." She grumbled but before Rumple could answer the doors groaned open on the floor they needed.
"The end of the hall, right?" Margot asked having only been to the apartment one single time before. "Then let's go already." She said impatiently at the node from the older man at her side while they stepped out of the elevator.
