She's disoriented the next time her eyes opened. The last thing she remembered she was drugged by that horrible man and him coming closer to her while the heat around her wrist grew hotter. Now the sunlight was nearly blinding her, and she was in a bed that most defiantly wasn't the one she and Robin share in Storybrooke or the one they have in Hyperion Heights. Worst still was her most prized position besides her engagement ring and Mr. Rabbit was missing.
"I promise you, Mills, when I get my hands on you you're going to regret ever upsetting a pirate's daughter." Alice growled to the ceiling cradling her bare arm as if her wrist had been slit and letting go meant bleeding to death.
Her threat was met with a husky chuckle from the other side of the room. "So, not only do I save your life twice, I bring you to my home to recover from nearly being assaulted and so you could sleep off that awful drug Clayton slipped you, spend the night over here in a dark corner sleeping on a back killing sofa so you can take my bed and go out early to hunt us up some lunch because you slept in during breakfast but I'm still getting death threats."
"Tell me where my bracelet is then maybe I'll thank you for saving me.
The Robin across from her didn't bother looking up as she answered, "Well I had to get it off of you before it burned your hand off, didn't I?" she questioned continuing in salvaging parts from the destroyed bow on the table beside the sun seat she was laying on like she hadn't a care in the world
Alice blinked in confusion her heart sinking at the very idea of what her words could mean. "Please tell me you didn't." she begged "I didn't do anything except take the damned thing off you. It's not my fault the stupid thing burnt up as soon as I finished cutting it off. Otherwise, I'd give it back to you but even you should know that the magic here is majorly unstable." Robin said as if it didn't mean anything to her at the lose like it affected Alice.
"First you killed that man in cold blood and now you're telling me you've destroyed the first thing the love of my life ever gave me?" Alice asked her voice cracking as she decided she really was going to murder the author when she got back home or at the very least seriously maim him for putting her in this horrible story she hadn't really completely decided what to do yet.
"So, what your saying is you would rather I'd have let that jerk wad possibly defile and robe you of your magic then leave you in unconscious the streets like you were nothing?" the dark archer questioned almost as angry as Alice was as she swung her legs down from their stretched out position on the couch letting out a low hiss when moving her arm from the back of the couch seemed to hurt her.
Alice looked up from the search of her stolen satchel breathing a quiet sigh of relief that at least the other things she'd brought with her were still in tacked momentarily forgetting her anger at the show of pain. "What hurts?" the question confused the other woman still working on her bow, yet the pain hadn't left her eyes. "My feelings for one." She answered the sarcasm in her voice making Alice roll her eyes.
"Cut the tough talk Mills where are you hurt, how bad it your injury and should I be expecting blood?" the fiery-eyed blonde questioned getting up from the bed to the washstand in the corner of the room.
"Jeez you've never been this angry so early in the morning before." She sighed giving in sooner than Alice had expected and voluntarily yet gingerly tugging off her clothes until she was just in her hunting pants and a thin striped tank top turning just enough to show Alice the deep looking knife wound in her shoulder. "Some idiots thought they could jump me on the way back from hunting up our lunch." The injured woman explained at Alice's worried gasp seeing as even from her place still sitting on the bed and across the room from the double of her true love Alice could tell it was a nasty one, yet Robin didn't seem to be more than a little dazed by it. "Your worrying over nothing Tower Girl. I've had a lot worse since you…Well, I've just had worse than a knife to the shoulder let's just leave it at that." Robin hurried on grudgingly taking a seat between Alice's legs at the foot of the bed.
"I'm worrying over nothing. Robin, you let some random person get in a cut this deep to your shooting shoulder and by the look of it they turned your bow into kindling once you were down. How can I do anything but worry when I know how much your bow means to you Nobin?" Alice questioned disbelieving giving the needle she'd found to Robin to sterilize while she worked on ripping some clean towels into bandages
"I wouldn't say I let them." Robin answered threw gritted teeth leaning back against the warm body of Alice sitting behind her when the needle first pierces her skin "and it's not like I only have just the one bow. I mean come on Jones I think you know me better than that." Robin pointed out glancing back over her shoulder at the woman sitting behind her. "But they outnumbered me okay let's just leave it at that and finish stitching me up…..Please?"
Alice scoffed at the excuse but finished carefully stitching up the injury all the same. Even-after a long hesitation-leaning in to press her lips to it just like she would for her own Robin back home. She chose not to hear the surprised purr or to feel the not so subtle shiver under her lips that the action caused the woman sitting in front of her as she cleaned up the rest of the blood from around the newly stitched wound giving it another kiss before she started wrapping Robin's shoulder in a bandage.
"Thanks." Robin says gingerly testing the circulation in her shoulder once Alice was finished.
The long string of curses that followed would have made even the great Captain Hook blush when Alice reeled back to punch the same shoulder she'd just sewn up as hard as she could and thanks to her two years as Tilly that had greatly improved her punching power. "That's for destroying my bracelet," Alice explained grinning when her attack hadn't broken her stitch work while at least reaching out to steady Robin before she could fall. "And this." Alice continued spinning the still stunned woman around to face her grabbing a fist full of Robin's tank top shirt bringing them close enough to breathe in the other's air. "This is because despite the fact your well…. that you're you at the moment I still love you like crazy so…" The blonde finished in a rush closing the last few inches between them for a rather hungry kiss.
"I guess this is as good a time as any to ask you out huh?" Robin laughed after they'd parted when breathing became essential again. "What do you mean?" Alice asked nuzzling against the hollow of the other woman's throat yet quietly seething about what this other Robin had done to her bracelet. "I mean I want you to come with me to this fancy dinner party I'm crashing tonight, so I can steal back a few things this deranged woman stole from me a long time ago and maybe if we're really lucky we can steal enough magic from her that I can fix that bracelet for you, so you lose this chip on your shoulder." Robin answered her fingers twisting in the curls at the back of Alice's neck as she talked.
"You destroyed something incredibly important to me and you just expect me to come with you on a thieving raid just like that?" Alice clarified without breaking from the other woman's hold around her waist.
"That's the jist of it yeah." Robin agreed with a crooked smile on her lips "Come on, please. If you don't come, I'll just be wasting a who lot of lip gloss and wearing a fancy dress for nothing."
It was eerily quiet while Alice debated but, in the end, her heart won out over that little voice in her head telling her this could be a trap. "Alright. I'll go."
Robin gave a little happy squeal picking Alice up and spinning her around in her excitement. "It's a date then." She grinned leaning in to steal another fast kiss from Alice's lips before untangling herself from the blonde. "The carriage should be here to pick us up around 8:30. Dresses are over in that closet over there and I'll see you again at 7:15 ish for lunch." Her giggling dark archer listed stealing yet another kiss before departing.