It was official. The newest health scare sweeping the word had finally come to their hidden little corner of it. The whole UR was in lockdown. Every portal and kingdom border had been sealed off. All but the most important of shops and businesses were closed.
Every day she watched news coverage reminding her to stay inside to keep away from friends and family for safety.
The world was scared. She was scared.
Why couldn't they see that Alice couldn't just stay inside? That she'd spent the first six thousand two hundred and five days of her life just staying inside. She didn't want to just stay inside anymore.
She had served her time being trapped in a tower. She was done with being a prisoner. She wanted to be free, but the world seemed determined to keep her a prisoner to keep her trapped in this new slightly bigger tower.
"Alice?"
She turns a little toward the voice. Toward her safety yet her hand remained pressed firmly against the icy cold glass of the door that would take her out into the back yard if she could only find the strength to turn the handle and open the door.
But she couldn't turn it. She couldn't just open the door. Not anymore. Regina had said as much during a live streaming new cast proving that she too was enduring this torment of isolation that she needed to stay inside for her own safety. Her own protection against this latest threat that it seemed not even magic could combat.
"It's happening again." her voice breaks "All that time running around having adventures and I'm still ruddy trapped."
Robin was crying. Alice was crying. Her hand dropping from the cool glass of the door to wrap around herself while her archer cautious approaches.
"Baby it will be okay."
"You can't know that." Alice snarls more tears these ones angry slid down her cheeks as she rounds on her lover. Robin immediately stops trying to move toward her, her hands instantly raising in surrender while more tears spill from her eyes. "You're right I can't." she concedes her voice strained but not broken like Alice's was.
Robin's hair was down flowing like golden waves down passed her shoulders and still damp in places from an earlier shower, her clothes rumpled and wrong side out from being pulled on in the dark once she'd noted that Alice hadn't been in bed with her. and despite the tear tracks and the remained moisture falling from her eyes she had never looked more beautiful.
"I'll never be free." Alice sobs holding out her arms toward her golden-haired goddess of a fiancée making Robin quicken her pace when Alice starts to lose her balance and begins to fall.
"Yes, you will," Robin vows her voice so sure and her arms so solid and strong around her waist that Alice begins to cry all over again as she nuzzles her face against the hollow of her savior's throat. "I've got you, Alice." It's a promise whispered by a flesh and blood goddess against the shell of Alice's ear grounding her as sure as the hold at her waist "I promise. I've got you. I'm not going anywhere."
For a moment Alice wishes Robin would use her nickname as she presses her promise into Alice's skin with kiss after calming kiss as she works her way down the back of Alice's neck as they curl up together on the floor of the little alcove between the back door and the doorway that would lead them out into the glass-enclosed garden behind their house. She always felt so loved when she used it, but at the same time, she knew Robin was holding back for good reason.
Calling her 'Tower Girl' right now would only remind her of the trapped feelings that had first driven Alice out of their bed in the middle of the night in the first place.
"Make me forget."
Robin's mouth pauses on its way back up to the back of her neck. "Sorry?"
"Make me forget." Alice repeats tilting her head back enough so she could meet those grey-green eyes she loved so much.
This time Robin doesn't hesitate in asking "How?"
Rather than answer out loud Alice chooses to let actions speak for her as she unlocks one of Robin's arms from around her waist and after bringing it up to press a few dusted kisses against her palm guides the other woman's hand down between them only stopping when Robin's hand was resting completely where she wanted.
Her archer stiffens behind her but Alice's grip on her wrist holds her hand in place while Alice's other arm shoots out behind her keeping Robin spooned up against her back as their eyes lock a second time. "Please."
Alice watches silently pleading while the battle rages behind Robin's eyes as they look into her own. Too bad Robin looks away before she could watch which side won out.
"No here."
The breath Alice forgot she was holding leaves her lungs in a grateful gasp as Robin's lips connect with the tight cords of her neck as she speaks. Of course, Alice wants to protest but Robin is quick to counter before she can do more than open her mouth to start. "Your back will thank me come morning." Alice closes her mouth with a soft snap that bleeds into a shy smile as Robin pulls them both to their feet.
She nodes wetting her dry lips with an agreeing node when Robin's hands paused at the hem of her shirt given her one last chance to back out. But Alice didn't want to back out. This was her idea after all. Robin returns it with a blush and a sigh as she makes fast work of Alice's clothes talking out her own thought on how the rest of the night would play out as she tosses each bit of clothing aside until Alice was naked before her. "Couch first just to start then up to our room for the real thing."
Alice whimpers when her love lets her go even if it is just long enough to shed what few cloths, she'd put on to come find her missing fiancée in the first place.
"Sshh Alice." Robin coos with a teasing chuckle as she tosses her shirt in the direction of the kitchen leaving her top half on full display for Alice's hungry gaze as she steps back within the other woman's reach still cade in her backward running shorts. "We'll make this day good for you." She promises snaking her arms around Alice's hips while her head tilts enough to catch the other woman's lips with her own.
"Us." Alice corrects but Robin shakes her head her arms snaking around Alice's shoulders tugging her closer into the circle of her arms just before they reach their destination of the living room sofa. "Any day I get to spend with you is a good one Tower Girl." Robin tells her tilting her fiancée's chin up to steal the first of the many kisses they'd share before the day was out.
A fresh twist of heat pool low in Alice's belly at the sound of her nickname while Robin's eyes widened in worry as she leaned away once she'd realized what she'd said.
Fears Alice soon puts to rest as she crashes her mouth against that of her love her hands scratching kitten-like from the base of her neck to the small of her back before giving a hard shove on her fiancée's shoulder on the return trip so Robin went stumbling back over the arm of the couch making sure to quickly follow her once she'd safety landed.
"Say it again."
Robin hesitates despite seeing the darkening evidence that Alice was at least somewhat enjoying this as more of the blue she loves was lost to lust blown black. Instead, she sits up as best she can while keeping a now grumpy looking Alice firmly seated across her clothed lap. Alice lets out a soft sigh as she draws her arms back across Robin's shoulders to steady herself twisting a few of the baby curls at the nip of her love's neck while Robin's hands trace lazy patterns up and down the naked skin of the other woman's back.
"I love you, Alice."
"I love you too…..Nobin."
Alice giggles at the groan her love lets out at the sound of her own nickname.
"Just for that, you don't get to touch this time around."
Alice pouts at that but Robin doesn't seem in the mood to budge on the point as she guides the other woman's hands over her head. "Nope now be a good girl and keep them right there okay?"
If she was being honest this was the Alice, she loved the most.
Sprawled out in their bed or in this case on the couch in the middle of the living room quietly allowing Robin access to any part of her the outlaw desired. A good thing too considering Robin wanted all of her.
She was greedy like that when it came to the woman she loved. Humm oh how she was going to enjoy making her adventuress come undone under her touch.
She takes her time marking every inch of her lover alternating between using her lips or the soft scrape of her teeth making Alice's body tremble under her touch yet keeping well away from the space she knew Alice wanted, needed, longed for her to be. Too soon for her liking Alice's hips are snap off the sofa cushions while her head turns enough for her to bite down into the armrest.
All this teasing all this love. But it wasn't enough. It wasn't what she craved.
"Nooobiiinnn."
The raw need in that single drawn-out whine of her name has the watching huntress's eyes darkening even more as they return to gazing into the blow black blue she hungered for.
"You don't touch me soon, I'm taking care…."
Robin silences her with a rough kiss. "The Underworld you are." She corrects catching Alice's lower lip between her teeth in a playful nip that beings a full-body shudder from the fully flushed body under her. "Hu-uh." She tisks "What did I say about touching love?" she adds grinning in amusement when Alice tries to chase her lips for another kiss while she pulls away.
Alice stops her heart beating triple time against her ribs while she obediently all be it rather slowly at least beings to return her shaking hands to their resting place over the back of the armrest.
Had her plan worked?
Normally Robin was so gentle with her but tonight Alice didn't want their lovemaking to be sweet and gentle. Far from it in fact. No tonight she wanted the other side of her love. The one Robin kept under tight control even now.
"You wanted the outlaw." The green-eyed rouge looming over her reminded in a low mew that had another full-body shudder dancing up Alice's spine. She licks her lips but otherwise stayed quiet. Because she does. Of course, she does.
Her plan had worked after all.
"I'd hate to have to tie them." Robin sighed catching sight of Alice's moving arms again out of her peripheral vision but as soon as her eyes meet Alice's again, she can see it. The unspoken question burning behind those stormy gray orbs. 'It this okay? Should I stop?'
Alice soothes those worries with a flash of her best mischievous smiles. "I don't know, pirates like me aren't known for following rules." Her words are punctuated by the deliberate movement of her hands, so they rested over her love's yet to be unclothed hips.
Robin breaks from there little game for a half of a second to let out a slow breath tugging on Alice's hand until she sits up as well so they can look at one another properly. The hand not resting against Alice's hip moves to push her hair out of her eyes and back behind her ear as she leans in resting their foreheads together before asking. "You're sure?"
Alice hums a little before nodding tugging the spare handcuffs, they'd never gotten around to returning to her Papa out of the side table. "Just as long as you don't leave me this time."
Robin shakes her head stilling Alice's trembling hand as she starts to fix one of the cuffs around her own wrist. "You know where I sleep babe, I'm not taking that chance."
Her attempt to lighten the mood had Alice rolling her eyes as her arms slid back around Robin's shoulders the single cuff she had on cold against the back of Robin's neck while the empty one sends shivers up her back as it dangles between her shoulder blades. "I also know where all your hunting gear is kept love." She reminds her hot breath tickling her archer's ear as she snuggles into Robin's returned embrace.
Robin's hand catches Alice's when she moves to fix the second cuff to her own wrist. "Try again Tils." She coaxes holding out the wrist not decorated with Margot's bracelets.
"Hummm does the lady have a taste for being restrained I'm just now learning about?"
Her love blushes a deep and rather lovely shade of red at the question but doesn't answer with anything other than a rasped "If you're getting a shiny new bracelet out of this deal, I don't care if it is only temporary, I want one too." Although her puppy eyes have Alice giggling against her collarbone for several long seconds before she can comply with the request.
Oh yeah, Robin defiantly has a thing about restraints.
"What?" Robin asks acted confusion in her voice while she brushes her lips more than a few times against Alice's lips as there now handcuffed hands fist together in her lap.
"You're an escape artist love, you can have these off in seconds."
Robin grins inclining her head in a bow. "Thanks for remembering." Alice scoffs taking a swatting hand to her archer's arm while they sit together letting there earlier lustful feelings cool somewhat. "But police cuffs are rather tricky and we both know distracted I can get with the right motivation, so I think you're safe on me finding a way out before we're finished with them."
Alice gasps when Robin moves them tugs her completely into her clever archer's lap then uses their bound together left arms to brace her there. Laying out over Robin's body while the other women giggles happily against the back of her shoulder. "And trust me when I say." She growls making Alice shudder against her "I am defiantly motivated to keep them on."
Needless to say. They didn't make it passed the sofa for a very long and considerably pleasurable amount of time.