It took all his will not to pull out his phone just to check that his Starfish hadn't called him while he was out walking the carnival just as a precaution that she and Robin were either on their way or already there. "I'm sure the girls are alright detective." Zelena soothed seeing the father's nerves while holding out her arms for a greeting hug that the one-handed man gave her with a bashful smile. "Luc took off to the games almost as soon as we arrived." She explained when Hook's eyes lifted obviously looking around for Regina and the others.
"She's more like Alice then we originally thought." Hook laughed holding out his arm toward the smirking woman at his side. An invitation Zelena accepted rolling her eyes at the comment. "More like she's more like Robin when she was that age." She corrected feeling a twinge of guilt again at saying her daughter's name without needing to hastily change it to her cursed one like she had to the last time she was in the Hight's.
Killian just shook his head with another softer smile with only the hint of the sadness he felt about once again being separated from his daughter. "Hey, we'll find a way to cure you and Alice without taking your memories this time." Zelena promised recognizing the look on the pirates face instantly having seen it more times than she'd like back home. "Aye." The old pirate agreed as they walked having forgotten the last time he and Zelena had talked together just the two of them when Zelena wasn't being stalked by a witch killer.
"Speaking of." Zelena said after a look around at all the faces around them. "Have you seen-?" she asked but Hook was already shaking his head "the last contact I had was Robin calling me earlier to ask me to come. Said she and Alice didn't want me sulking at the apartment on such a nice day."
Zelena nodded in agreement with her daughter's argument already spotting her sister weaving in and out of the crowd toward them beaten only by a flash of creamy white and a rather triumphant bark as the dog jumped up pawing at Kilian's pant leg wanting attention.
"Come back here you little nave or you'll be needing another bath when we get home." The laughing command told them that at last one of the two missing women had been found as Alice tripped over her own feet once she saw how close she was to her Papa.
"No offense Alice but what is it with you chasing white-furred animals?" Regina questioned taking her place on Kilian's other side just as a precaution. "Because a majority of them are adorable cuddly animals that don't want to kill me once I've caught them unless its killing me with cuteness." The blonde answered fiddling with the zipper of Tilly's oversized green jacket keeping her distance with a small pleased smile on her lips as she watched her father kneeling down to let the eager creamy white colored dog lick at the underside of his jaw in greeting.
"Where…?" Zelena started to say but Alice was already giving her a one-shoulder shrug as she crouched down the action sending the pup that had once been getting tenderly scratch behind his ears from Rogers running back to her with a happy bark as it half jumped half skidded into Alice's arms "We split up once this little ball of energy took off." She explained getting back to her feet with the happily squirming mutt cradled in her arms nuzzling its muzzle against her shoulder affectionately.
"Just so we know for sure the apartment takes dogs, right?" Alice asked her eyes flickering from her Papa to Regina and back again. "I think I can be talked into letting this cute little one stay." Zelena smiled answering for herself as well as her sister reaching out to let the pup sniff at her hand before allowing her to pet it while Rogers just nodded in answer. "Perfect." Alice sighed shifting the dog in her arms into a more comfortable position "Robin and I vaguely remember having that talk when Margot and Tilly were thinking of adopting him together but so much has happened since then." She rambled pressing her lips against the pup's head the gesture only bringing out more happy barks from the animal as he snuggled closer. "As long as its alright with you Papa." She added her expression hopeful as she met Killian's eyes. "Of course, it is Starfish." He smiles knowing how much Alice had always wanted a pet.
They could all tell just by the way Alice was now hugging onto the dog in her arms that she wanted to be hugging her father, yet her eyes looked everywhere but at the man himself. Regina wrapped her arm around Killian in a by-proxy hug for her earning the ghost of a smile and a mouthed 'thanks' from Alice.
"Oh, sorry everyone this is Casper." Alice introduced turning so the other three could have a better view of the dog in her arms. "He's our rescue."
"Oh, so this is the little guy on Margot's lock screen." Regina recognized when the pup gave her a kind of upside-down smile from the security of Alice's arms "Least that was the picture last I saw her phone and yes you're in the picture too don't worry." She joked earning a blushing half smile from Alice as the former villain threaded her fingers in the fur of the dog's chest rubbing little circles to help calm him down. "He's even cuter in person." she gushed making the other three smile at the comment.
"Well how about I go get our newest family member some water." Zelena offered both wanting to be helpful as well as wanting to slip away just in case Robin was around and still trying to avoid her or at least guessing that was the reason her daughter wasn't standing beside the woman she loved.
"Thank you, Zelena." Alice nodded shifting the pup to set him back at her side ruffling the fur around his new collar checking yet again that they hadn't put it on too tightly before this time clicking on the leash they'd gotten him so avoid another runaway. "Course darling," Zelena says waving her off but stepping into the one-armed hug Alice offered.
"Watch it." Zelena growled without really looking up she'd only made it two rows over from her family and already people were running into her. The hit wasn't a hard one, but it was enough to jolt the red-haired woman out of her own mind. Not that she even knew where she was going anyway just that whoever had run into her should at least watch where they were going even when she wasn't. Whoever it was had melted into the crowed when Zelena had regained her scenes enough to look around. Rather than dwell on it anymore she scoffed under her breath fisting her hands deeper into her pockets and headed down another row of game and little shop tents toward where she guessed the food ones would be.
The walk seemed to calm her racing thoughts as she zigzagged between happy kids and the parents trying to corral them reminded her a lot of times like these back in Storybrooke but then again those thoughts reminded her of just how much she'd messed up her relationship with her daughter by keeping her in the dark about who she really was.
"Um…two candied apples and a bottle of water please." Zelena ordered after only a fleeting glance at a menu.
"Six dollars even." The woman running the register answered ringing everything up.
It was that moment that Zelena Mills realized she was walking around without her wallet. "I um…." She started to say patting at her pockets. She could have sworn she had it when she and the others had arrived seeing as she'd argued until Henry and Ella had let her pay for the tickets, so Lucy could go on as many rides as she could stand in the 'gaming zone' part of the carnival so long as Henry and Ella covered dinner later on in the night and Regina covered the ice creams her sister had promised Lucy as well.
"Zelena? Everything alright?" Rogers questioned just as the woman repeated her now annoyed sigh of "Six dollars even please." Hook quickly hands over the money rather expertly juggling the apples and the water bottles the woman hands over in return while Zelena continues to hunt in her coat pocket for her wallet.
"Can we have a Kelly West please come to the admission tent please." A monotone voice said before Zelena could answer him. "Kelly West to the admission tent please." The man says over the wheezing sound system set up around the square.
Hook and Zelena exchanged a puzzled glance at the name. "I'll go deal with that you get those back to Alice please." She asks taking one of the apple treats for herself. "I'll deliver them." The pirate detective nodded walking with the former Wicked Witch until the cross in the rows of tents.