Zelena kept her eyes fixed on Alice and Gothel as she entered and it took Alice a long second to notice that rather than the jeans, sweater and jacket she had been in the last time the blonde had seen her now Robin's mother was dressed in a nice evening dress similar to the one Robin had been wearing before changing in to her coven hunting clothes.

"You my dear daughter are grounded until the end of time," Zelena says casting a sideways glance over toward the white tree and the woman kneeling beside it. "I wouldn't." the former Wicked Witch says noticing how Robin's hands twitch toward the bow slung across her back making the weapon vanish and reappear in the mother's outstretched hand.

It was Alice that deflected the knife Robin chose to use instead sending it off course, so it embedded in a nearby tree rather than into Zelena's side. Before Gothel could lay another finger on Alice at the show of her magic Zelena was sending her crashing back into the throne giving Alice time to run over into her waiting embrace.

"Thanks for keeping your promise." Alice said her eyes already swimming in tears while Zelena's arms closed around her back cradling her against the taller woman's body in that comforting motherly way the blonde has come to know from the woman some still see as a green-skinned villain. "You honestly thought I wouldn't?" Zelena asked with a wounded expression pulling Alice in for yet another hug. "Silly Alice."

Robin had obediently pulled Gothel up from the broken tree chair by the time the two had finished their back and forth. Her eyes harder than ever as she looked them over. "You took my daughter from me once Zelena. I won't let you take this one as well." Gothel snarled

"I took your daughter from you?" Zelena asked amazed "You did that yourself when you left her alone all those years just so you could wreak havoc on the world." The red-haired sorcerous answered bitterly. "Besides you stole my daughter from me and I'm here to take her back as well so get used to disappointment." She added cursing when she noticed that Robin had somehow gotten her bow and her collection of arrows back while they had been talking.

"Why would I want to go anywhere with you?" Robin spat an arrow notched and ready to fire as she lifted her weapon. Alice couldn't decide what to do not wanting to hurt Robin no matter how cruel she was being at the moment but not wanting to put Zelena in more danger than they already were in by facing Gothel. The red-haired woman may have her magic back but without Alice's powers as the Guardian, they didn't stand that good of a chance.

"And you say I'm a horrible mother." Gothel scoffed resting her hand against Robin's shoulder. "You're right." The archer says her eyes now lingering on Alice's tear-stained face. "See even your own daughter agrees." Gothel laughed

"You're the one that left me alone for nights on end to morn over the man that murdered my father in cold blood." Robin says her eyes moving to Zelena's.

"I made sure Belle was with you or Granny or even Archie. You weren't ever really alone monkey." Zelena defended "But they weren't you." Her daughter snarled her eyes seeming to glow with an all too familiar green fire as they stared into her mother's. "I mean come on the only reason you even had me was to get back at your own sister by sleeping with her true love, so you could have his baby when she couldn't." Robin ranted her eyes sliding back to Alice's while Gothel's grip tightened on her shoulder as Robin's hand closed around the hilt of a deadly looking hunting knife at her belt her bow and the arrow she wanted to use forgotten in favor of a more up close kind of confrontation. One of her father's knives if Zelena remembered correctly.

"You were all that and much much more." Robin whispers taking the blade from its resting place testing the weight of it against her palm. "I've hated you for so long I can't even think of any more reasons there are too many to count." The huntress says her eyes downcast as if she was talking to the weapon in her hand rather than any of them.

"See it's no wonder your daughter came running to me the first chance she got." Gothel goaded her hands caressing Robin's hair as she spoke

"Oh god not more monologuing." Zelena groaned "I could almost take it from Robin but you?" she gagged her arms warping protectively around Alice's waist while she tried to think of an escape. Alice had gone into a kind of trance unable to tell if she was more angry or devastated at the last few moments in time as her eyes refused to drop from Robin's bowed head.

It was Alice that noticed it a bottle much like the one she had brought with her suddenly appearing in Robin's other hand its constance ordinary water to the blonde's eyes but seemingly important to Robin who swiftly coated her blade in the liquid before the bottle vanished just as suddenly as it had appeared.

"Do you know how long I've been searching for you Mother?" Robin asked her tone light and almost conversational as she seemed to rejoin the world around her

"Robin darling what did I just day about the monologue thing?" Zelena groaned while beside her Alice let out a broken breath of a laugh. "six years and twenty-two days." Robin answered for them acting like they hadn't interrupted her taking two steps down from the throne making Zelena and Alice back up two steps at the advance. "And in all that time I was trying to think of what I was going to say when I finally found you again." she tells them spinning the knife in her hand with a bored kind of expression "Something long and drawn out so I could tell you just how royally you've destroyed my life? Or something simple?" she listed taking several more steps toward the retreating pair while Gothel started cackling behind her.

"And what did you choose dear one?" the nymph questioned clapping her hands together as if egging on her own flesh a blood daughter.

"Something simple." Robin answered now standing a breath away from her mother and Alice her dagger raised but not pressed against Zelena's throat. "And what was it you wanted to say to her?" Gothel coaxed.

"Say hi to dad for me you heartless Witch."