They didn't make it easy on her. Robin was about to give up any hope she had on finding them in time when a stroke of pure luck snapped her back on track well that and the act that her younger self slipped in her hast to guide a concentrating young Alice over the uneven terrain close by where the searching archer was standing giving them away.
"It's getting too far I can't." the little blonde was saying her eyes closed tight and her hands humming in magic pressed against one of the young pins beside them.
"They should be far enough by now its okay to stop." Young Robin urged seeing just how much effort Alice was using just to keep the spell going.
"We don't have a lot of time." Margot advised making both of the younger girls start in surprise stepping out from her concealed place among the trees just in time to catch younger Alice before she fell the use of so much magic a strain on her no matter the age. "I've got her you just get that magic bean working before they find us." The archer insisted when her younger self looked ready for an all-out war.
"You have your Alice this one is mine and you want to take her away." Robin pointed out close to tears already as she rounded on the archer.
"Look kid we can stand here arguing about this and let Mom and Regina catch up making this little trip of ours all for nothing or you can so get your big kid pants on get that bean working and save the girl be both love." Margot shot back her anger easing just a little when she felt little Alice's arms hugging tightly around her neck just as her Alice's had held around her waist just minutes before.
Rather than answer Robin leaned forward tucking a loos lock of hair behind Alice's ear as she rested against Margot's chest. "I don't know where to go I just want her safe." The younger Mills confessed "I want that too. All I've ever wanted since I first met her back in my own timeline was to protect her." Margot answered just as quietly watching the younger version of her girlfriend sleep. "I know where to go but you have to trust me." She continued holding out her free hand toward the younger Mills.
"Where did they go?" Zelena yelled skidding to a stop beside the quietly crying blonde. She and Regina had thought Tilly had caught up with them in time given how fast she'd been running ahead of them even after running all over the woods keeping that lion from getting to them stuck as they had been in that forsaken net. "What's that?" Regina tried again noticing the two things the younger woman was holding tightly against her chest.
"Robin's gone." Was all Tilly said pocketing both the note and the arrow as she turned her back on the two witches "And going by the color of the portal they took they could have only gone to one place." She added already pulling away when she felt Zelena's hand closing around her upper arm to stop her.
"What do you mean going by the color of the portal?" Regina asked confused, but her comment was overpowered by her sister demand of "So where in on the bloody realms is my daughter."
"Wonderland."