Margot sighed to herself as she recleaned the same glass for the tenth time or maybe it was the fourteenth or possibly the sixteenth she wasn't sure as her eyes kept casting over to the clock quietly grinding her teeth as is seemed to tick slower while she waited impatiently for her shift to be over. A wired thing for her considering the bar had just technically closed not ten minutes ago and was slowly starting to empty of the steady stream of late-night customers.

Tilly hadn't been at her job when Margot had stopped by during her lunch hour for her usual order of two banyans that she and Tilly would share as they opened up even more to each other about their days, the places they had been or wanted to go to or they'd spend the time just telling funny stories they'd make up to get the other to laugh and they had a kind of unspoken tradeoff between them on who would bring the drink they would also split between themselves.

She just couldn't understand why just the thought of that cute blonde with the wide infectious smile that really listened to her problems and gave her good advice about how to deal with it or tried anything she could think of to make Margot laugh as they sat close together on that park bench or across from each other on top of the troll where they had first met as they played a round or two of chess but always they seemed to be surrounded in that the warm scent of baking bread had such an effect on her. Margot knew that she shouldn't be thinking so much about the other woman. They were just close friends nothing more, yet she just couldn't get her out of her mind no matter how hard (not very) she tried.

Even reading her favorite book in all the known world brought up images of her blue-eyed, blonde haired and incredibly feisty best friend into her head as she re-read Alice's story for the trillionth time. "Why do I have to have such a soft spot for the odd ones?" She sighed tracing her fingers over the name on the front cover of the book she'd stashed under the bar after her last break with a shake of her head and a whisper of a laugh she tossed the dishcloth over her shoulder and headed into the back room to restock the bar with extra snacks for the next day.

"I have an order here for Targo West." Greeted her as soon as she'd finished heaving the box of peanuts and bar napkins no one really use but they still order by the pound out of the back room.

Margot returned the greeting with a mildly annoyed eye roll while the blonde that had just slipped in when they were just about to officially lock up for the night yet here she was skipping her way over to the bar. "What am I going to do with you 'Almost Runaway' huh?" the bar stocker sighed at the joke setting the boxes down beside her mom and aunt, so they could deal with it.

Tilly just shredded as she slipped onto a bar stool absently swinging her legs against the side of the bar as Margot came closer "How about taking these off my hands?" she answered with a hint of a flirtatious challenge in her tone still holding up the little white bag she'd brought with her.

A flitter of movement out of the corner of her eye made Margot turn her head just in time to see that both Roni and her mom seem to be in a kind of happy yet pained kind of upset at their banter before both turned away to recollect the last of the day's receipts or presenting to be taking a call on an out of order phone as if they hadn't been watching the pair, but she shook it off once the tantalizing smell of baked goods reached her nose.

She had foolishly skipped out on breakfast that morning and had let Alice keep her company during her lunch hour in favor of eating when Tilly hadn't shown up for their "not a date" lunch date. Now it seemed she was paying the price for her negligence as the bag that amazing sent was coming from was slid across the bar top closer to her crossed arms. "I know I'm a lot late, but I was held up at work." Tilly explained her tone extremely apologetic as she met her friend's forest green gaze, "Not that work my other kind of work." She hurried on when Margot raised a challenging eyebrow as her jaw clenched at her words.

"I'm the odd days remember?" Tilly reminded her tilting her head curiously when that comment earned a popcorned round of poorly hidden laughter from the other two women at the bar counting up the day's receipts as they listened in on the conversation. "Look I wanted to make our date but then Weaver wanted me help out on a case he's working, and my phone died, or I would have texted you and told you I wouldn't be able to make it." Tilly continued as if the giggling wasn't making her uneasy at being overheard.

Margot closed her eyes letting out a slow breath as she adjusted her glasses while she thought everything over before she spoke. "So, have you got anymore 'happy accident' shapes for me?" she questioned leaning in over the bar just as Tilly did the same, so they were now nose to nose with each other with neither seeming to be uneasy at the closeness or the possibly considered intimacy of their position while the bag of treats had been momentarily forgotten beside them in favor of staring into each other's eyes.

"Only if you don't turn me in for experimenting." Tilly admitted with another shy smile "Your secrets are safe with me." Margot assured her pushing herself up over the bar rather than walking around the side of it to get to her friend's side faster while ignoring her still staring bosses.

Seriously what was with them right now? She was just talking with someone she considered a close friend, but they were watching them like they were expecting her to just grab Tilly and kiss her senseless at any moment. Or vice versa.

Not that Margot hadn't thought about doing just that a time or two herself during some of her talks with the bubbly blonde. "What?! We're not open anymore." She pointed out in a standoffish type tone looking at them both over the top of her glasses as she unconsciously interlocked her fingers with Tilly's as the blonde snatched the little snack bag from the bar as she hopped off the stool to follow her.

That had the start of tears forming in her mother's eyes that had her quickly speed walking into the back room leaving only Roni nodding in agreement.

"Oh, Tilly this is my boss and my aunt Roni. Aunt Roni this is Tilly. The one that went to the back for some reason is my mom Kelly and my other boss." Margot introduced gesturing between them with her free hand while the other stayed tightly clasped with Tilly's. Not that the blonde seemed upset with that fact if the calming little circles she was rubbing into the back of her hand was any indication.

"Hello." Tilly smiled suddenly shy as she swung their clasped hands between them biting her lower lip rather than her nails from her nerves.

"H..Hi….Tilly it's nice to meet you." Margot sent her aunt a curious look at the sad break in her voice at the name.

"Well, I should get going seeing as you've closed up for the day." Tilly suggested making Margot tighten her hold around her hand and Roni to quickly shake her head in defiance while blinking away unshed tears at the same time.

"Don't be silly." All three turned to see Zelena rejoin them her eyes still a little red from crying. "It's really late and I don't like the look of those streets at night no matter how tough and street smart anyone is." The mother continued when Tilly started to defend herself. "Besides I already called Rogers and told him you'd be staying the night with us." She added pretending not to notice the wide smile it brought out of her daughter.

The kind of smile that Robin only has when Alice is around or being talked about in her talks with Nook back in the Enchanted Forest when the woman herself was too busy working jobs with Rumple to stay at the camp with them.

"Please, Til." Margot pleaded "It could be like a sleepover. We can make a blanket fort in my room and everything." She offered missing yet another teary-eyed look Regina and Zelena exchanged at the hopeful tone in the young woman's voice.

Tilly's eyes flickered between them as she thought it over. "As long as I'm not imposing." She said at last her eyes still fixed on Margot's, yet her words were directed at the other two. Both Regina and Zelena shook their heads each assuring the young woman that she was more than welcome to stay over while Margot was all but dancing around in happiness at the agreement.

"Are you going to be okay?" Regina asked wrapping a comforting arm around her older sister's shoulder as her niece and her not yet remembered true love headed up the back steps to the overhead apartments. "Take a look." Zelena answered pushing the bag Tilly had brought with her toward her.

Regina just gave her a puzzled expression that soon melted into a softly whispered breath of surprise at the shapes the baked pieces of bread were in as her sister shook them out of the bag and onto the bar top.

One was an actual heart shape, two slightly crispy shaped rabbit looking ones and one that seemed to have been crafted into something that crudely resembled an arrow that had curved into a hook once it had been baked

"Hey, don't even think about stealing our heart."

Both of them turned at the warning to see Robin standing at the bottom of the steps in her light blue and white plaid pajama pants and her well-worn sleep shirt with a picture of a sleeping fox on it with the glare of the overhead light making her gaze like a kind of hazy green fire as she stared them down with Alice two steps behind her dressed in a borrowed pair of plain forest green pajama pants with a 'We're All Mad Here' tank top on.

"Wouldn't dream of it darling." Zelena laughed stepping back to let her daughter drop the pieces of bread back into the bag and carry them back over to her waiting best friend. "Night Mom." Margot answered handing the bag off to go back and give her mother a hug "Night Aunty Roni." She finished giving Regina the same parting hug.

"Night ladies." Zelena told them watching them with a breaking heart as her daughter followed her true love up the steps to the second floor.

"I know letting them be together might mean they share true love's kiss Regina." The former Wicked Witch reasoned once she was sure both of them were out of earshot. "But I've spent enough time when they knew who they were trying to deny that they are meant to be together just because I don't like sharing my little girl. I can't do that to her again Regina I just can't."

Regina nodded in quiet agreement already pulling two glasses from under the bar a sliding one of them over to her rambling sister. "I know and the harder we'd try to keep them apart the more they would find other ways of being together." She pointed out pouring each of them a healthy amount of a drink.

"Even without their memories, they are still happy together and right now that's all that matters to me." Zelena told her over the rim of her glass. Regina sighed in agreement holding out her glass to clink it with her sister's. "That all any mother can hope for." She pointed out draining the rest of her glass before pouring them both another drink.