"Why can't I just wait for her at the station?"

She hears the grunted grumbling the cop at her side tries to cover as he guides her down the sidewalk. "How am I supposed to know what goes on in that girl's head?" he questions reminding Margot yet again as to why she didn't really like officer Ryce very much.

It had been a full week since the incident with Alex and Margot's eye sight had yet to return. The doctors were at a loss as to just what had been used to blind her while Weaver, Roni, her Mom and Tilly all seemed to know something they did not. Not that any of them opened up about what they knew whenever Margot would ask.

"I promise love we're working on a cure but if we get it wrong it could end up making things worse." Tilly would say pressing a kiss against her hand, and Margot can hear the heartbreak in her voice each time along with something else. She can't put her finger on just what it is but somehow Tilly's voice had changed since she woke up. Like she really is a completely new woman as she'd joked until Margot was attacked.

Rather than give her a straight answer Ryce pulls a little too hard on her arm making Margot trip over a step up in the curb she hadn't know was there "A little warning." She grumbles pushing her sunglasses higher up her nose as they started walking again only for Margot to be the one pulling them to a stop with a scowl once she realizes where they are. "You could have just said she wanted to meet up outside the flower shop on the corner across from the coffee shop I could have gotten here myself."

Since the accident Tilly had hardly left Margot's side. Not that Margot minded too much about the extra time she and her girlfriend spent together and thankfully Sabine was more than willing to let Tilly off on a kind of sick leave so she wouldn't have to worry about her job when or even if she wanted it back but the healing bartender just couldn't shake the feeling that Tilly was keeping something from her.

"Are you going in or are you just going to stand outside the place all afternoon?" Ryce questions sounding very much like a man looking for something better to do with his afternoon.

"Now now officer is that any way to talk to a lady?"

If it hadn't been for the voice, she would have sworn Tilly had just arrived given the calming fragrance of baked bread, and something else that Margot couldn't put her finger on but just seemed to naturally associate with her girlfriend washed over her.

"I see no reason to yell at this poor woman."

Again, the voice seems to pull at her memory despite only hearing it a hand full of times before. Too bad Margot just couldn't remember why she recognized it or why she suddenly felt such blinding hatred toward the owner as a much lighter touch brushed against her arm.

"I think I can manage guiding the young lady the rest of the way."

"Thanks, but I'm just waiting here to meet up with a friend." Margot says taking another breath of those calming scents to keep from lashing out at the much larger man standing beside them while also wishing she still had something of her sight to properly slap what she could guess was a board look from Ryce's face. For the life of her she just couldn't figure out why it always seemed that the cop didn't like how her girlfriend hung around the station and however unintentionally the circumstances he seemed more upset than most when the times when something would happen it turned out in resent outcomes to be because of something Tilly was connected with.

Margot lets out a grateful sigh as soon as the cop decides to take the kind woman up on the offer. "And when you see her remind Tils about our date please?" she added already familiar enough with his stride to know Ryce was about to walk away. "Sure." The desk sargent answers and Margot can picture him shrug her reminder off like it was one of the growing stacks of paperwork she knew was waiting on the cop's desk when he got back to the station.

"You're lucky I stopped by. I'm just about to open the shop as it happens."

"Would it be alright if I waited inside Ms.?" Margot stopped not knowing the woman's name as she rubbed her hand against her arm when for some reason the temperature seemed to drop several degrees since the shop owner arrived.

"You can call me Elie if you like. Now come in before you catch your death." She scolds her hand once going to a loose hold against Margot's arm to be sure she didn't run into anything.

"Margot." The blinded woman answers with a shy smile.

The scents are strong when they cross the door but it's more of the strangely homey kind that washes over the young woman making her pause to take another deeper breath of her surroundings. "Have we somehow stepped into a forest or something?"

"It's more of a grove of sorts but you could call it a forest yes." Elie says leading Margot to what turned out to be a bench, so she could sit down. "Really? I could have sworn this was some kind of minter city forest or something." Margot comments taking another breath of what was at one time the scent of home.

She could picture it to behind her eyes. The trees on all sides of her while she stars up at what she can see of the clouds over head. The forest seems quiet for once, but she kept her bow laying just within easy reach if she'd need it. Now if only Alice were here it would be absolutely perfect.

"You know they say a person's sense of smell is more important than the mind at storing memories." Elie says conversationally braking in to the relaxing scene playing out in Margot's head.

Really, it's the first real actual peace she's had since Alex blinded her and her new friend just had to spoil it.

"That's why I find flowers so soothing….don't you?" the soft laughter after the question remind the listening woman so much of her girlfriend's that for a moment she would have sworn the two where mother and daughter. "Might I ask what happened either your sight?" honestly it was as if Elie could read her mind in her way of picking just the right moment to derail Margot's thoughts with some other ones.

"My girlfriend's ex thought it would be good to blind me to get even for when I recently broke her jaw." Margot shrugs starting to get worried over why Tilly hadn't shown up for their date yet. Maybe she should call her just to check on if she was okay?

"How long have you been without…." Elie seems to be moving around as she asks this "Oh sorry can you hold onto this for me please?" the kind tone asks as what Margot guesses from the scent is some kind of flower

"Almost two weeks." Margot admits bringing the sweet-smelling blossom to her nose for a sniff. Again, her thought strayed to Tilly. She really wishes her girlfriend were here. She really seems to like fresh flowers.

"Mind if I take a shot at getting you your sight back?" Elie muses

"If they really have tried everything then surly nothing I do will matter very much."

Something in at the back of her mind yells at her to say no immediately yet what she says is "Sure worth a shot." Sure, it had only been two weeks without her sight and she seemed to be adjusting alright, but she really missed actually seeing the self-described crazy girl that had stolen her heart in more than a memory of her sweet smiling face or less enjoyable to think about that mask of fear that she'd last seen as she pushed her out of the way.

"Okay I'll have to do this like eye drops if that's alright."

Margot blinked in surprise thinking that whatever Elie wanted to try would have taken longer to make up. "Okay." She answers sliding down in her seat. "Don't you trust me?" the older woman jokes.

That little voice in her head screamed for her to say she'd never trust her after what she'd done. "Of course, I trust you." Margot answers after another calming breath of the forest to settle her nerves.

Whatever she used was cold to say the least but at least the lingering itch from the burning Margot still feels dulls "Okay I need you to blink a few times for me then we need to do this again just to be sure it took."

Margot does as she told blinking slowly three times before another few drops of coldness hit her eyes. "One last time for me."

It started with a stinging from the harsh lights of the shop over their head the scent of the woods replaced with the fragrances of the local flower shop but soon the light dimed into a more manageable state that Margot trusted enough to open her eyes after some gentle coxing from….

"Get the hell away from me witch." Margot snarls moving as far away from the monster woman as possible in the short row of potted flowers of the shop.

Gothel chuckles at the greeting folding her arms over her front as she looks over the angry young woman that stole her daughter's heart. "I'd say calling me a witch if hardly the thank you I deserve seeing as I've just restored your sight for you." She points out seeing the internal battel in the other woman's eyes as they look at one another.

She had to admit using so much magic around the still cursed archer could possibly risk Robin waking up before everything thing was ready yet Gothel couldn't let go of the amusement at seeing the flicker of confusion and anger flickering across Margot's face before settling into a neutral mask as her eyes move around to the shelves of colorful flowers testing out her newly restored sight.

"This isn't just a dream, right?" Margot asks

Gothel shakes her head reaching out to purposely pinch Robin's arm to prove it to her the act succeeding in brining tears to the other woman's eyes.

"Ssshhh. Ssshhh its alright." Elie consoled letting Margot wrap her arms around her as she cried happy tears into the other woman's shoulder in gratitude. "Mother's here." The elder woman promises not that Margot cared very much about the title. At the moment besides thought of how surprised Tilly was going to be all Margot could think of was how any girl would be lucky to have such an amazing healer for a mother.

"Mother's got you." Elie says smoothing down the crying woman's hair just like her own mother would have. "Now." She says when Margot was happy cried out taking a handkerchief out of her pocket to whip away the last of her tears "How about you go tell that lucky young woman of yours the good news?"

Margot nods heading to the door "Actually while I'm here would you…." She asks looking at the closest row of potted plants.

"For something like this I'd suggest a red, orange, and yellow," Elie says already pulling the flowers in question for her when Margot gives her a curious look at the colors she explains "love, passion and a new beginning a good mix if I do say so myself."

Margot grins following her new friend to the checkout counter "No I get that its just you haven't said the price yet." She corrects but Elie shakes her head "How about you pick out a ribbon, so we can wrap them together." Elie says waving to the display behind the register. "light blue please." Margot answers without looking at the options. It wasn't hard to guess the change in her favorite color from green to blue when at the moment the only thing on her mind was a certain blonde who was now late in meeting up for their lunch date.

What Margot just couldn't work out was the reason officer Ryce would have lied to her about Tilly changing the meeting spot without just calling Margot herself to tell her.

If she hadn't been looking in Robin's direction at the time, Gothel would have rolled her eyes at just how easy it was to get the archer to play right into her hands. "How about a trade."

"A trade?"

Elie nodes letting out a rather wicked smile grace her lips as she cuts the ends of the roses while Margot works on tying them together. "I may need someone to run the shop for a while in the next few days so…."

"Deal." Margot agrees holding out her hand to shake on it only for Elie to hand over her flowers instead.

"Perfect."

"Don't you think I'd have tried her phone by now." Tilly was asking seeming to punch the front door out of her way as she led the way back into the bar leaving Roni and Kelly trailing after her both tense at setting the panicked blonde off any more.

Margot bites her lip to hide her smile at the surprise on her girlfriend's face as their eyes met across the bar. "Sorry I got a bit side tracked." She admitted ashamed at being the cause of almost causing of possibly triggering one of Tilly's bad days. "Can I at least try to make it up to you?" she asks hopefully as she gestures to the table she's set up for another chance at their dinner date complete with the three roses Elie gave her in the center between the two food filled plates.

"You got side tracked?" her mother repeats disbelieving as Tilly speeds over to wrap Margot up in a much-welcomed hug and more than a few kisses as well and Roni goes behind the bar for two glasses one for what turns out to be whisky for herself and another for what would be an apple martini for her sister.

"I got my sight back." Margot says keeping her arms tightly wound around Tilly's waist letting her girlfriend snuggle in against her side.

Given the statement anyone else would think she'd just confessed to murder at the reactions it caused the other three yet before any of them could speak another voice interrupted.

"Knock knock."

"Oh, Hey." Margot greets seeming to be the only one to miss the way her aunt grabbed for the baseball bat under the bar while her mother chose a more direct weapon in one of the stake knives they kept in the back room while Alice is too stunned at the sight of her mother to move as the witch lets the door swing closed behind her.

"You left this back at the shop." Gothel says holding out Margot's jacket with a less than believable innocent expression.

"Great now get the hell out of my bar." Roni orders moving around the side of the bar as she and her sister both moved to keep themselves between the witch and the newly reunited couple.

Margot scoffed at the anger in her aunt's voice pressing a tender kiss against Tilly's forehead as she untangled herself temporarily from her girlfriend's hold to go get her jacket. "If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be able to see."

"She was the reason you lost your sight in the first-place monkey." Zelena corrects the heat in her voice almost palpable as the two mothers stared one another down.

"No Mom Alex is the reason for that not Elie." Margot corrected the defensive angry undertone reminding Zelena of the first time she'd had to face when Gothel twisted her daughter against her.

Roni grumbles at that this time going through with pulling out the bat from under the bar. "Last chance. Get out on your own or we make you get out." She threatened swinging the bat around in her hand.

"Alright enough." Margot orders stepping between them once again turning her annoyance on the pair beside the bar. "I don't know what the heck is going on with you two right now but it better stop right now. You can't just go around threatening people for no reason." She points out crossing her arms over her chest "And if you brining up that silly curse stuff I'm going to scream." She adds after seeing a look pass between her mother and her aunt.

"Right now, this has nothing to do with the curse this is purely I don't want that witch in my bar." Regina says honestly.

"Okay, that's it." Margot decides all thought of enjoying a nice if not a little late lunch date with her girlfriend pushed to the back of her mind in favor of protecting her new friend and potential boss. "Let's go get some hot chocolate or something give these two time to remember their manners after you've somehow managed to restore my sight." She suggests looking over toward Gothel with a guilty smile.

Both her mother and Roni started to protest but it was Tilly that quieted them and seemed to remind two of the four that she was still in the bar with them as she spoke.

"Targo."

It brakes Margot's heart to see the heartbroken look on Tilly's face. Although why she was seeing her girlfriend while she stood locked up in the dim lights of a dungeon when they were clearly still in a brightly light bar was a puzzle for another day as she stopped at the door to look back at her. She almost caved as she went back to Tilly's side giving her what was the softest kiss the two had shared to date made even harder to break from when Margot picked up the taste of Tilly's tears on her lips when she pulled away.

"I'm sorry Tils." She wants to say more or at the very least to invite her to come with them but the pain in Tilly's eyes suggests the offer wouldn't go over well.

To say the smile Elie has when Margot reaches her seems triumphantly smug would been an understatement not that she spends too much time pondering that fact as she slides her hands into her coat pockets. "Ready?"