"She's engaged now actually." Regina confesses with pride their talk having moved on from the topic of her being elected Queen of the U.R. to what had become of his little girl since his death before remembering that to her newly returned love his 'little daisy' was still supposed to be in diapers and just starting to try out solid foods.

"But to a Jones? I mean honestly Regina. You and Zelena had to let her fall in love with the pirate's daughter?" Robin complained running his hand over his scruffy bearded face.

"Says the outlaw that fell in love with one of the worst Queens in all the Enchanted Forest." Regina answers with a playful smirk while Robin grumbles at the shot the woman at his side made at his ribs during the tease. When she sees that he is about to keep arguing on this line she pulls them to a stop across the street from their destination.

"I know it must be unsettling for you considering that particular pirate's history, but Robin is her own woman, so she can fall in love with whomever she wants," Regina defends in a low voice. There is a fire in her eyes that any other time would have the archer stealing his queen away to the closest bed or a few times during their stay in Camelot the closest dark corner for a less than child-friendly kissing session.

"Sure, I'll admit that Alice may be a little odd at times." Regina keeps venting bringing Robin back from those kinds of thought for the time being as his eyes refocus on his love's face. "but it was clear from the start to not only me but to Zelena as well that Robin loves her just as much as you love me or as much as Snow loves her shepherded prince or how much our resident cape wearing wolf loves that munchkin saving farm girl of hers."

Robin has the same stunned look at the name that Regina has once she realizes what the archer had just said that had started her on her little mini rant. "Zelena actually let you name her daughter after me?" he asks just as Regina says, "How did you know Robin's fiancée was a she or that she was Hook's daughter?" Regina was positive she hadn't told him either of those bits of information just yet.

"Didn't she bring her to see me earlier?" Robin asks searching his hazy memories as if trying to somehow remember something in a newly had dream. "She wanted to even the score because she'd already met Alice's father." He summarized almost positive that although he had never properly met them, he could hear their voices in his head talking not only to him but to one another as well.

"Do you remember anything before that?" Regina wonders remembering more than a few nights she'd gone down to the grave needing some kind of comfort from her rouge when sleep was out of the question.

Robin had stopped in his tracks and at first it was because Regina thought he was remembering something else about his 'life' before he'd come back to her. They had crossed to the start of the outside patio in front of the crowded diner reminding her of that fleeting moment they had together before 'Marion' came back into their lives.

"Is that her?" It takes a few seconds for Regina to see just what he was looking at in the revelry going on in the diner. "Regina is that my daughter?" he helpfully clarifies tilting his chin rather than pointing at her not that Regina needed him to now she knew who had pulled his attention from her.

Her niece had maneuvered her way over to the table the Charming's and Zelena where sitting at just inside the view from the window still twirling a dart between her fingers as she picked up the cup Zelena had just slid over to the end of the table at her approach both mother and daughter now laughing at something Snow had just said.

"Are you ready?" Regina whispered feeling the little start her archer makes in surprise as if he'd forgotten she was beside him the longer he looked over his grown daughter seeming to be arguing with her mother "That's the Jones girl she's promised to?" he asks pointing toward to the giggling woman who's lap his little flower was sitting across as it was her throne nuzzling her face against the other woman's shoulder affectionately while the Jones girl keeps trying to play mediator between the bickering pair when her pirate father joins in on whatever they are talking about. "That's her." Regina nodes rolling her eyes at the childlessness of her sister and her niece in the quick glance she'd thrown at the window before someone moves in front of them blocking their view. "And her name is Alice." She adds checking her phone again for a clock. "seven seconds." She whispers tugging her Robin along with her as she headed to the front door of the unofficial yet official heart of Storybrooke.

Zelena spots them first- well Regina first- Locksley (her Robin) having hung back just outside the door to collect his thoughts before the big meeting with his now grown daughter. "Gina. What kept you?" her sister scolds pulling Regina in for a greeting hug. The green apple martini she'd managed to sneak in slashing just a bit in her other hand. "Come on the gangs been waiting." She says gesturing back to the table.

Mulan and Merida have taken Snow and David's places at the table with the Scottish woman draped across the warrior woman's lap much like Robin was with Alice. "So, seems like those two finally stopped being so thick." Regina notices sending the newly made couple a smile before they returned to talking amongst themselves. "Yeah, but it also means that Alice won the pool." Zelena sighs taking another sip of her drink.

Regina looks around spotting her sneaky archer maneuvering passed Ruby and Dorothy and Leroy and Nova both couples seeming to be in worlds of their own making while they talked to their significant other and even in both cases stealing a kiss or two while they talked making both Regina and Locksley smile to see.

"Come on love there is only…." The one the father knows to be Alice sulks as he moves closer nearly hits him with her elbow when she moves to check her phone for the time before returning to pout at his grinning daughter sitting beside her. "two more seconds left. I think that deserves a proper kiss."

"That was a real kiss." His daughter teases pressing another kiss against her fiancée's cheek just to annoy her more.

He has to say that the smile his daughter gives the aggravated woman sitting beside her proves that she is, in fact, his daughter but the taunting glint in her eyes was all from her mother. "You're wicked." Alice grumbles into her drink as if reading the father's thoughts at the moment as she drains her glass.

"Never said I wasn't." his namesake grinned taking the glass out of Alice's hand to finish it off herself while the rest of the diner finishes counting down to the new year around them.

Locksley averted his eyes at the not so innocent yet still sweet kiss the two were now sharing the glass having been abandoned on the counter beside them as their arms snaked around the other's neck or in Alice's case around his daughter's waist pulling her impossibly closer when the kiss started to turn into something more.

"Happy New Year Nobin." Alice murmurs when the pair parted for air their foreheads resting together as they stayed wrapped in the other.

"Happy New Year Tower Girl."

The legend was about to speak up when Alice spoke again this time reaching back behind the counter for two more glasses. True the one she had was smaller to the one that had been used to bring him back, yet it warmed his newly restored heart to see the mix of pain and joy the sight of the bottle she pulled from her jacket pocket brought his daughter "For your Papa." Alice says pouring a generous amount of the smuggled in liquor into each glass then sliding one over toward her fiancée.

It's when she's starting to speak after they have clinked glasses that her eyes find his over Alice's shoulder making her grip loosen on the glass in her surprise causing it to fall from her hand missing the counter entirely to smash onto the floor instead.

The room quiets in seconds every eye turning toward the sound even Alice seems surprised by the slip if her hands flying to his daughter's trembling arm was any indication after hastily setting her own glass on the counter. Not that that meant Robin's eyes ever dropped from her father's.

"Hello, peanut." The greeting is just audible yet seemed to be as loud as cannon fire in the stillness of the diner the longer father and daughter held the others gaze.

"Robin."

The father had reacted on instinct his hand resting briefly against Alice's arm to guide her out of his way so he could be the one to catch his little girl before she could hit the ground in her how unconscious state what he hadn't counted on was just how quick his daughter's chosen bride was simultaneously steadying his little girl with an arm around her waist letting the fainting taller woman fall in against her side while her other arm flew backwards towards his advance causing her elbow to slam into Locksley's face hard enough that he felt his nose brake and start to bleed from the power behind the action.

Regina stepped in only to be sent reeling by her own sister after a painfully asked "How could you?" giving the rest of the diner time to close ranks around the unconscious younger archer and her seething fiancée.

"Zelena." Locksley scolded letting his free arm drape across Regina's shoulders as his right-hand holds his bleeding nose. "I'm alright." His queen soothed cupping the underside of his jaw in her hand ignoring the sting in her own from her sister's slap. "Are you…." Regina starts to ask making her alive again archer chuckle in answer.

A sound all in attendance wasn't all to upset at hearing again even if meant that whatever dark magic used to revive the dead man would inevitably bring something else horrible their way.

"Well, I can say one thing. That daughter of mine can pick them." He confesses wincing as he resets his own nose back into place.

"I'm sorry but are we just going to gloss over the fact you've gone dark again?" Zelena states

"She didn't go dark Zelena. Zeus and our daughter brought me back not Regina."

"That can't be possible Robin doesn't even have her magic anymore." Zelena countered the legend filing that bit of information away for a later discussion "Peanut made a wish about wanting me to be there when she gets married and I guess it was just strong enough to find what was left of my soul so the Gods could send me back to her."

There was a long pause while the information sunk in only to be broken by a shakily whispered "You have to admit Mom it's not the craziest explanation we've had in this town."