Its been almost a full week since Alice had left on her latest assignment for Rumple and she still wasn't back yet. The Dark One assured her that her girlfriend was alright last she talked to him two days ago
Robin misses her girlfriend more and more with each passing day. She's also all the more heartbroken at how much it hurts the woman she loved to be apart from her father. That pain, however, gives her the best idea in the first place after she's had a few sips from the pirate's secret supply of hard liquors.
Robin isn't one for drinking normally but after that last fight with her mother she'd just needed something harder than her aunts Honeycrisp apple cyder to take the edge off and Hook might not touch the bottle anymore since he'd become a parent but that didn't mean he stopped collecting the stuff along his travels to find a way to be with his daughter again.
Robin just hoped that when she did come back Alice was proud of her idea to break into the castle….erm no to break into the abandoned farmhouse the Dark One was calling home to hunt up something to help her and her father be happy again. They deserved to be happy and dammit Robin was going to try her hardest to get them to be happy.
"He has to know something." She reasons to no one as she stumbles her way into the Dark One's small library knocking several books from their shelves as she went. "I'll try you." She says with a giggled smile as she pulls a rather heavy looking volume from the pile and after a few tries to find the right one in the two rotating bags puts it away so she can start back toward camp before nightfall.
The only problem with her plan once she'd slipped her way back into camp much later than she'd thought it was was that besides the liquor in her system making the words even harder to pronounce as she read was the fact that she didn't know what this spell was going to do before she passed out beside the sleeping pirate after she'd finished casting it.
"There you are." Zelena says waking both occupants up as she stormed into the pirate's tent as if she owned it the next morning. "Regina, it's alright I found her." she calls over her shoulder
"Why you hate sleep." Robin asks in a muffled whine pulling the pillow over her head when the glare of the sun hit her eyes. "Gods lasses inside voices." Hook groans in agreement as he like Robin also choosing to drag a pillow off his bedroll beside him with his left hand to muffle the thunderous noise of the yelling women in his tent as he tries to remember just how he could have woken up with this throb in his head when he hadn't touched the bottle since Alice came into his life.
Zelena, however, makes as if neither had spoken as she kneels beside her daughter running her fingers in what she could reach of Robin's tangled hair around the pillow. "Look Monkey just because we argue about it doesn't mean you can just run off into the woods whenever you like just to prove to us that you can take care of yourself."
"I wasn't out all-night Mom. I had to go get something to help Alice then I came right back to camp." Robin defends tugging the meager shield closer against her head. It was only a matter of time before her hangover kicked in and she sure as Underbrooke didn't want anyone yelling at her when it did.
"Robin?" Her mother asks quitter now much to Hook's appreciation as he felt a hand close against his shoulder coxing him to roll over making him groan at the glare of the sun hitting his closed eyes.
True it had been years since he'd been hung over yet half asleep as he was the pirate knew this was going to be a rough one. "Robin?" Zelena asks again as if she's not fully aware of who she's talking to.
"What Mom?" Robin huffed shielding her eyes with her right hand while she sits up to find her mother kneeling beside her holding her hair back for her while she throws up into the bucket her mom had helpfully slid onto her lap.
Talk about an out of body experience. What the hell was in her drink last night?
"Shut up pirate I'm trying to talk to my daughter." Zelena snapped robbing her little girl's back as another wave of nausea hits.
"No, your yelling at your daughter not talking to her." Robin corrects in a yawn as she stretches her arms over her head.
The comment earns a glare from her mother over her own shoulder but anymore conversations stalls when Regina joins them. "Rough night?" she chuckles kneeling on her niece's other side exchanging a nervous look with her sister when her teasing comment is met with more vomiting into the bucket.
"Been better." Hook answers his voice shaky as he lets Regina help him sit up with his head resting against her shoulder. It's only after he's fully standing that he realizes the raven-haired woman is still holding his left hand in her own keeping him balanced.
"What?"
Hook ignores the Queen's question in favor of staring down at the hand Regina was holding in wondrous confusion. "What's wrong Nook chestier cat got your tongue?" Robin laughs moving her hand to itch at the scratchy thing on her face only to find that that particular hand wasn't attached to her body anymore. "What the hell is going on here?" she asks panicked both at the lack of a hand and the fact that her elevated heart rate wasn't waking her up from this strange whiskey included dream.
"I think I know." Zelena pipes up noticing the book Robin or in this case Hook had been laying on top of. "How many times have we said all magic had consequences?" she sighed scanning over the spell the book had been left open on.
"God Robin you're lucky this is the only thing that happened with this one." Regina scolded looking over her sister's arm to get a look keeping her arm around Hook's waist not at all upset when the hung-over pirate rested his head against her shoulder with a low groan.
"Huh?" Robin asks trying to remember what happened the night before "Uh oh." She whispers as understanding dawns on her "Sorry Hook." She mumbles earning a weak node in return which was weird considering it was coming from her own body making a quiet thank you to the stars that at least Alice wasn't here to see this.
"Sorry, Robin you could have killed both of you if you read this drunk which I'm guessing you did." Zelena says helping Regina guide a still woozy Hook over to the bedroll
"Alright yes, I'll admit I was more than a little out of it last night." Robin growled noting that like Alice Hook's voice also took on more if its alluring accent when upset. "But come on with all his magic we are just supposed to accept that Rumpelstiltskin can't break this poison heart curse? That after everything Alice has done for him, he won't even try to help her?"
That telltale giggle from the tent entrance told them that the man in question had decided to make an appearance. "All valid points I will say, dearie." The Dark One nods "But it's like I keep trying to explain to you all all magic comes with a price and I'm afraid this one is just too high to pay at the moment. Even for Alice." He tells them with a surprisingly believable saddened little smile.
"Okay but can you at least tell us how long they are going to be stuck like…." Regina waved a hand between her niece and Hook.
"Freaky Friday-ed?" Robin helps out not that anyone but herself laughs at the reference.
"The spell should wear off on its own but really it's hard to tell." Rumpel says in that cryptic way of his that immediately puts everyone on edge.
"Well, one thing is sure. You, missy, are grounded until further notice." Zelena says after a pause while they each absorbed what had just been said.
Robin scoffs as she tightens the last strap on the wrist brace that holds Killian's hook in place thinking that if she's going to be stuck in the pirate's body for a day or two, she might as well look the part. "Hate to break this to you Mom but you can't ground me anymore I'm an adult." Robin corrects at least bringing a hint of a smile to Killian's lips as she takes a few test swings just to be sure she'd fastened it on right of course.
"Everyone likes the hook." He chuckles looking less green than before as he rolls over onto his back. He was still getting used to his new all be it temporary body but he as angry as he was about his and Robin's current situation, Killian was also deeply touched at the reason behind it all. All Robin had wanted was to help him and his daughter be together again. Hook just prayed this trick of hers worked and didn't end with his curse spreading to the only other person that he'd trust with his daughter's heart.
"Oh, come on Mom that is so not fair." Robin whined bringing the wandering pirate out of his own thought and back to the too loud world around him as Regina replaces the cool rag against his forehead. The crocodile having departed already it seemed leaving only the four of them in the tent once again.
"Want to make it four?" Zelena is asking her arms crossed in front of her while her daughter is left stammering for an answer that ends with her slamming her hook hand into the closest table hard enough to nearly breaking it in half.
"Zelena's going after her time as go-between for you and Alice." Regina helpfully supplies seeing the confusion in Hooks unfocused eyes as she rings out the washcloth she'd been whipping across the resting pirate's forehead. "Says she'll be making the trip the next three times instead."
Killian wasn't ready for the twist like an actual knife to his chest at the news almost grateful that it was immediately followed by what hopefully was the last round of nausea so he doesn't actually see when Robin storms out of his tent in tears with Zelena hot on her heels almost like an exact repeat of the previous night the only change being sadness instead of anger.
It takes several rounds of convincing before Regina believes him enough not to hover over him and to go instead in search of her sister and her niece.
Once she's gone Hook takes a chance with sitting up on his bedroll and when that seems to go smoothly, he pushes his luck in actually standing upright and taking a few practice loops around his tent to test Robin's balance. After he's satisfied the pirate captain heads out toward Robin's tent to drop off her bow and to check on the upset archer while he was there.
Robin isn't there when he reaches the tent however leaving with a bit of a dilemma. Needing to get the lingering taste of vomit out of his mouth Hook reaches for the water skin hanging off the back of the chair Robin had managed to fit into the corner beside a makeshift little table only to find that what little remained of the apple cyder it held was laced with a generous amount of both rum and whiskey. It wasn't enough to spoil the taste of the apples, but it was enough to surprise the pirate with their resident archers mixing skills.
Choosing to avoid backsliding into his former drinking ways despite his current state warranting more than a few hard shots just to wrap his mind around his currently inhabiting the body of the woman his daughter gushed about in her letters Hook refastened the cap choosing instead to head toward a stream he knew of nearby for a drink.
He hadn't made it very far into the surrounding trees outside the camp before he was stopped by a firm hand closing around his arm using his surprise to pull him from the well-traveled path over to the cover of a thick-trunked tree in the surrounding forest. Before he could do more than grunt in surprise at the speed of the action yanking him off course his back is pressed against the tree trunk and an overly eager mouth is fastened against his own in a wet hungry kiss.
"Just when I think you couldn't get any more attractive Nobin." Alice panted using the sword belt Hook had dawned before leaving camp to drag her girlfriend closer "You keep managing to surprise me all over again." she murmured reclaiming Robin's mouth for another more appropriate greeting kiss.