"So much for date night." Margot sighed looking gloomily out at the yet to stop rainstorm raging on the other side of the glass.
"Come on Targo this might not have turned out as we planned but at least we're together. That has to count for something." Tilly counters as she steps up behind the sulking bartender standing in at the front window her arms sliding in low around Margot's waist as her chin hooked over her girlfriend's shoulder. In some ways, it just seems natural as if her body were acting independently of her mind as she loses herself in the rhythmic drum of the rain for a few seconds. Although some small voice in the back of her head is pointing out it normally it more her on the reserving end of this embrace rather than the giver of it.
At first, Margot seems to stiffen in her embrace and for a few terrifying seconds, Tilly wonders if her dazed mind had once again managed to ruin another of their dates until the slightly taller woman in her arms relaxes against her with a whispered "Next time I'm the protector." against her throat when Margot let her head tip back to pillow against Tilly's shoulder.
"Whatever you say Nobin." Tilly hears herself laugh as she hides her face in Margot's hair as her love snuggles back against her front as if they'd been a couple for a lot longer than a few weeks.
"Oh, so I'm Nobin now huh?" Margot chuckles after a few long seconds of rain watching as the green-eyed blond pivots around in the circle of Tilly's arms.
Zelena's ear pricks up at the nickname that even whispered seemed to carry over to them in the quiet bar while Regina's brows pull together for a few puzzled seconds. "Wasn't that what Robin's…." she started to ask as her sister nodes "You don't think?" the former Wicked Witch began to ask only to be quietly shushed by her sister.
"Got to say Tils I kind of like Targo better." The green-eyed girl confesses sliding her hands into Tilly's drying locks to push them back behind her ear as she leans in pressing her forehead to her girlfriend's.
"Hey since you're going to be here till this clears up mind helping me test out a new drink?" Regina wonders hiding a grin when both women start at her question.
She remembered those days with her Robin. Tuning out the world while just soaking in the warmth of his arms around her. A good thing now considering all she had left where her memories of him.
"Sure thing." Margot nodes after a shy glance toward Tilly who nodded in quiet agreement as the pair stepped back toward their table.
"Great." Regina smiles dropping off the twin shots of emerald green whiskey.
Margot giggles while she like Regina and Zelena watch as Tilly lifts her glass her brow cocked curiously as she examines the shot. "Humm smells like cinnamon." She muses bringing the shot glass to her nose as if checking it wasn't poisoned. "and apples." She adds after another curious sniff.
"I have an idea." Margot says so suddenly Tilly nearly chokes on her first tentative sip of her drink.
"Oh yeah?" Tilly coughs leaning in across the table while her free hand twirls the half-filled glass between her fingers.
Zelena nudges her sister's arm somehow managing to keep up the charade of filling out the books while she inclines her head toward her rather animated daughter now whispering something in her date's ear.
"I haven't seen her that excited about anything since she had that sword sparing session with Nook that ended with Alice kissing her for the first time in front of the whole camp." Her sister narrates in a low murmur as her hand makes a rather believable side down a page of numbers yet Zelena's eyes hadn't moved from her not so covert watching of her daughter's date playing out across the room.
Regina glances up just in time to feel her heart both sour and shatters all at the same time at the current look on her niece's face. "Sometimes I forget just how like her father that girl is." She chokes out remembering a happier time when her own Robin had flashed an identical beaming smile just like the one his daughter was sporting as Alice nodes in eager agreement to whatever it was Robin was proposing.
"I'll be right back." Margot promises not a half a beat later. Its only Tilly's hand closing around the back that keeps Margot's chair from toppling over altogether "I'll be timing you." The pirate's daughter warns with a playful wink in her date's direction.
"Hey, just so I'm sure. The sound system for the stage still works right?" an eager looking Robin questions in one long breath only after she'd skidded to a stop from slamming into her aunt's side.
"Yeah, we just used it last Tuesday for karaoke night." Regina answers in a stammer bringing another of Robin's beaming smiles as she calls a quick. "You're good to go Tils." Over her shoulder before taking off toward the back room and storming loudly up the back steps to the overhead apartment the three shared.
Before either Regina or her sister could think of a good enough question to ask other than 'what are you girls up too?' as they watch Alice's most streetwise persona messing around with the bar's sound system Robin was back with an announcing "Sorry Mom but I needed to borrow a few things from your closet." As she comes back down into the bar. "Yours too Roni." She adds dumping her selections onto one of the tables by the small raised stage in the back corner.
"Wow. Love the new look, West." Tilly praises looking her girlfriend up and down.
"What this?" Margot lets out a nervous little laugh as she smooths her hand down the front of her newly thrown together outfit. Dark washed pants she'd hastily paired with a hunter green colored soft fabric front lace-up shirt that looked more at home in one of those more Hollywood 'Robin Hood' movies than hanging in Margot's closet.
Tilly nodes licking her lips as her eyes find Margot's "Green really is your color love."
Apparently Zelena's shocked gasp after looking up to catch sight of her daughter again wasn't as in her head as she'd thought while her hand tightened even more on the sleeve of her sister's shirt as the young couple spring apart because of the sound as if just then remembering it wasn't just the two of them in the rained out bar.
Regina's grip was equally as unyielding once she'd spotted the gloves Margot had pulled on once she'd tossed a rather bulky green something toward Tilly with a telling wink that had the blue-eyed blonde blushing a deep shade of pink.
The green leather ones that once upon a time were covering her sister's hands as the pair did witchy battle down main street in full view of nearly everyone in Storybrooke.
"What? Is it sitting crooked or something?" Margot wonders following her mother's gaze rather than her aunts as she hurries over to check her reflection in the rain splattered front window while her now green incased fingers tug on the slanted black hat now sitting on top of her head.
"Sweetheart where did you find those?" Zelena questions her tone more than a little shaky when faced with some of the more glaring reminders of her much more villainous past.
"I told you I needed to borrow a few things." Margot reminds still fussing over the look of the borrowed hat. "Also, I'm going to need both your help to pull this off."
The sisters share a puzzled glance while Tilly holds up one of the other things her girlfriend had brought down with her. "Where did you get this?"
"New York. I picked him up the first time I ever saw the show." Margot shrugged sparing the item in question a glance "A few friends of mine dragged me along cause they had three tickets but the third person decided not to go and I don't know I was bored just standing in line so I swiped two of them while the woman running the souvenirs table rang up the guy ahead of me, but I ended up giving the other one to a little girl sitting along our row when she got scared of the Wizards giant talking head chair thingy." She explained at Tilly's probing grin as she cradles the small beanie toy that had been there for every rainstorm and bus breakdown Margot had been thought since. "Not that I blame her. That thing was creepy."
"You stole a flying monkey?" Tilly asked impressed while her mother's eyes shine with unshed tears.
"Maybe." Margot toys with a grin "I call him Roland."
Again, the sisters shared a look both trying to keep straight faces at the sound of the name.
"So, what is this grand idea of yours monkey?" Zelena prompts taking a seat at the bar beside her sister.
"Oh, that." Margot remembers "Well I just thought that since Tils and I can't go see 'Wicked' thanks to the rain-and you know since I've seen it like a zillion times -" she started to explain her head dropping to stair rather intently at her shoes. "We'd put on our own show."
"With only the four of us?" Reinga wonders.
Margot nodes "I mean we'd play the soundtrack for the songs and for story progression, I'd fill in where needed plot and story-wise, and yeah I know we have to you know improvise a few characters here and there, but I figured I'd primarily be Elphaba and Tilly would play Fiyero, Mom you'd be our Glinda." Regina swears she'd at least bruised a rib or two laughing so hard at the casting choice while here former green-skinned sister tries to incinerate her by a glare alone "And Aunt Roni would be Nessa." The world traveler finishes meeting Tilly's confused look with one of her own at the reaction.
"Sounds like fun darling." Zelena agrees helping her still chuckling sister up from the floor.
"Really?" Margot asks hopefully.
"Absolutely." Zelena nodes as she does one last finishing fix of the very hat that had once struck so much fear into all of Oz now resting on her daughter's head. Regina for her part helps Tilly roll up the too-long sleeves on the 'fake' Oz uniform jacket the blonde was now wearing. The very one she'd once heard her outlaw of a true love wore when facing down her sister back in their world.
"Thanks, Mom." Margot beams throwing her arms around her mother in a tight hug.
"This is going to be absolutely Wicked." Tilly claps excitedly while Regina hits play on her niece's phone starting up the first track of the already cued up playlist.