Chapter Note: Rated M possibly E chapter that can be skipped if you don't want to read. Just know that skipping this chapter won't mess up any later chapters. This is just a mid-story bonus.
Alice pretended not to notice the way Targo's eyes snapped to her as soon as she stepped into the archway or how they seemed to be drinking her in. "Hello, beautiful."
"I want to check that knife wound of yours again before you turn in for the night if that's alright." Alice explained holding up the supplies while trying to steady her trembling hands. "I know it's kind of cold back here when the weather drops." Robin says apologetically which was a perfectly true answer giving the time of year. "All the more reason for me to take a look at your shoulder." Alice points out talking with that determined air she knew Robin loved in her.
Targo let out a breath of a laugh at the comeback her eyes tracing every line the corset seemed to define along her upper body now Alice was close enough for her to really appreciate the change in her wardrobe. "You really have a thing about getting me out of my shirt don't you Tower Girl?" She joked leaning back against the wall her posture now mirroring how Robin had been sitting moments ago yet instead of bracing herself against the opposite wall this Robin just kicked her legs out against the mattress she was resting on.
Alice knew she'd meant it as a passing tease not any kind of challenge, yet that didn't stop her from stripping out of the caracole colored fabric her hands fumbling only once with the laces keeping it in place before it was tossed across the giggling archer's lap. Robin's posture visibly gulped at the offering despite Alice still wearing both her shirt and her skirt as she folded herself down beside the mattress. "Now do you want to do it yourself or am I going to have to do it?" she asked conversationally again pretending not to notice how now Robin's hands were trembling as she reached down to tug at the fitted over armor of her hunting gear.
"I'll need help." Robin relented after a few seconds of trying to work out the laces and buckles keeping her clothes in place talking in a soft almost bashful whisper while Alice sorting in the supplies she'd brought with her. "Of course you will because you could have gotten an infection or something that I didn't see earlier when I was stitching you up and it you did then it will be my fault and….." Alice rambled yes making quick work of the restraints keeping the sleek armor in place, so Robin was stripped down to one of her more favored lace-up hunting shirts much like the one she'd been wearing when they had met.
"Jones shut up." Robin groaned resting her hand over Alice's mouth to quiet her, but Alice could hear the hint of sarcasm behind the complaint clear enough for her to crawl up onto the bed putting on a little wounded pout when Robin scooted away at the action yet was unable to move more than a few inches back before running into the stone wall behind them.
Alice didn't hesitate in her movements this time kicking her leg over Robin's so she was now straddling the archer's lap the hand not bracing herself against the mattress beside Robin's hip reaching up to let her fingers hook in the laces of Robin's hunting shirt dragging her forward until the hunter's forehead was resting against her own in that tender way that had the stone hardened woman's half-heart racing in her chest.
"How about you make me Mills?" Alice encouraged closing what little distance remained between their lips.
Kissing Robin Mills was always something Alice loved to do, and truth be told she was more than a lot addicted to the task. Even as Tilly she just couldn't get enough of Robin's lips no matter how much lip glosses Margot put on and despite giving it up to her mother before they had met both Alice could always taste the lingering hum of magic in every kiss the two had shared both before and during the curse. Kissing this Robin Mills, however, was a completely new experience. One that for the moment at least Alice wasn't the least bit ashamed to say she was going to savor regardless of the possible damage doing so would cause her love life come morning.
Instead of a gentle hum of magic like she was used to at the start of the night this Robin's body seemed to crackle with it right from the beginning like Alice was used to a little later in the evening the subtle change making her already hazy mind drown even more in the taste of the lips still molded against her own. The tension building the longer their tongues took to map the others mouth so much so that Alice was a tad disappointed that she didn't see sparks coming from her archer's thoroughly kiss-swollen lips when they had to part for oxygen while their hands sought out more contact with bare skin.
Their shirts were quickly tossed as far away as possible both pleased to note the other's lack of a bra before hands were roaming again tracing scars both old and new ones mostly relearning all the places (above the waist) to touch that made the other shudder because of something other than the chilly air around them.
"You know I love a good challenge." Robin purred reminding Alice of the challenge she'd given a few moments ago making Alice whimper as her archer's nails scrap lightly down her back leaving little shocks of pain behind until the pirate captain's daughter pulled her smirking outlaw in for another rougher kiss than the last then giving one final tug on the annoying band keeping Robin's hair in its braid away letting Robin's hair drape down her back and slightly over one shoulder reminding Alice a little of how Margot had it when she'd finally asked Tilly on their second first first date.
"Come get me." Alice murmured braiding her fingers in Robin's hair moving up, so she was sitting directly on Robin's lap rolling her hips forward coaxing out a pleading whimper from her archer while Alice rememorizing the alluring aroma of strawberry shampoo and the deep woods along with that special something that was only ever Robin (or Margot when she was still Tilly) that never ceased to drive the adventuress woman mad in want while branding Robin's throat with little love bites and wet kisses that had her love moaning in unneeded encouragement.
"Alice?" Robin whispered her eyes closed head tilted toward the hallway leading to the rest of the vault yet with the same need Alice felt singing in her own veins captured in the breathy timbre of her archer's voice making Alice's hips grind even harder into Robin's lap earning a hard buck upwards in return. "Alice." Robin repeated in a low moan her eyes opening when the claiming mouth reached the valley between her breasts. One of Robin's hands moving cupping the back of Alice's head her fingers twisting into her hair while her other hand moved fisting with Alice's against the mattress as if anchoring herself in the moment as their hips rocked against one another harder both quietly cursing the only remaining layer of clothes keeping them from the real friction they craved.
Alice just prayed someone out there had listened to her about the soundproofing and that the thing was still working so only Robin would hear her rather un-lady like squeak of a moan when her lover's calloused fingers skimmed up even higher along her inner thigh under her skirt toward the heat pooling between her legs. "Jesus Alice." Robin purred letting her fingers slide along the wetness she found quietly marveling at just how wet Alice already was for her bringing another pleading whimper from the woman in her arms.
"Sshh I've got you, baby." Robin promised pressing a soft kiss against Alice's lips circling the pads of her fingers against the source of the heat between her girlfriend's legs every flick of her fingers making Alice's nails dig a bit deeper into the skin of her uninjured shoulder.
How she'd managed it Robin wasn't about to ask just that it not stop when she felt an equally skilled touch against her own growing wetness. "You were saying love?" Alice giggled that ended in a panting moan on the next thrusting brush of Robin's touch against her inner walls. "God Robin get these clothes off now." Alice demanded in a broken whine her pelvis moving in time with Robin's stroking fingers the added pulse of low simmering magic adding even more delicious vibrations making it all but a pure miracle Alice remembered speech while Robin herself was having an equally hard time trying to remember words other than begging moans for more from only the mildest brush of pressure stroking against her own core.
"We've got all night for this Tower Girl." Robin moaned her free hand pushing the long-forgotten medical supplies off the bed giving them more room as Alice guided her down to lay back against the mattress mercifully without the need to remove her hand or slow her teasing movements as she did so.
"Clothes off Mills." Alice says again Robin almost breaking just from the sinful hum brushing against the shell of her ear while her legs hooked around Alice's hips in a shuddering vice when Alice's rhythm set against her drenched center sped up only to slow to a crawl the next second ripping a strangled scream of pleading curses most of which Alice had taught her clawing their way from between Robin's lips. "Hummm. Love when you talk pirate." Alice praised burying her nose against Robin's hair for another deep breath of strawberries and the earth musk of forest, but Robin could tell even after only being able to share one brief time with her true love like this that Alice was just as close to the edge as she was.
"Get my clothes off and I'll talk even more." Robin bargained feeling Alice's hips girding around her fingers in her own quiet begging plea.
"I hate you Nobin."
"No, you don't Tower Girl." Robin laughed swallowing Alice's gasping moan in another kiss as they both chased the other over the edge for the first time that night.