Author Note: This part is meant to be a kind of dream mixed with reality scene. Yes, it might be hard to follow but this is the part where Alice/Tilly is remembering who she really is and what Robin/Margot really means to her.

(Alice/Tilly has a fear of thunderstorms and Robin/Margot is a real cuddle archer :) )


"What's this for." Alice mumbled opening one eye curiously at Robin's whispered 'Time to wake up Tower Girl' against her ear to find a little leather bag being suspended in front of her sleepy eyes. "It's for you silly." Robin laughed sliding in beside her resting true love keeping out the chilly morning air seeping into their shared tent."Ment what is it?" Alice grumbled pulling both the blanket and Robin's arms back over wanting to sleep just a little longer despite wanting to know what was in the little bag Robin was literally dangling right in front of her closed eyes.

"It's a present what's it look like?" Her archer laughed as a pair of cold lips were pressed against the back of Alice's neck making her both squeak in annoyance at the cold bit of them but melt at the kiss all the same. "Do you really not remember what today is?" Robin asked pouting against the dip of her neck as her arms snaked around Alice's waist holding her closer under their shared bedroll.

"Oh, so it's just an un-birthday present?" Alice wondered her eyes sparking in a mischievous kind of gleam as she pretended to have completely forgotten the real reason behind the gift. "Aaww love you shouldn't have."

"Is that some weird Wonderland thing?" Robin questioned nibbling along the shell of her ear "Sure let's go with that." Alice shrugged rolling over to face her girlfriend properly holding out her own little pouch in offering. "Like I'd forget something as important the year mark of the day you first held me at arrow point called me a spy while trapping me in that little wooden cage on top of wanting to hunt down my friend all of this on my birthday Nobin."

"Speaking of birthdays." Was groaned against her skin making it even harder for Alice to think let alone open the little gift Robin had brought for her.

"Lucky Arrow?" Alice asked as a joke.

"In a way yeah." Robing nodded twisting Alice's hair around the fingers of her free hand at the back of her neck while she cuddled closer to her protecting embrace at the muffled sounds of rain reached her ears despite the hazy calm of the forest outside the mouth of their tent "Seeing as it's the one I almost shot you with when I thought you were a spy." she explained once Alice's shaking fingers had pulled the drawstring enough to get the thing open. "Aunt Regina had to help me with the shrinking spell." The archer admitted her teeth digging into her lower lip from her nerves while Alice hadn't said a single word since pulling the trinket out.

Alice stalled any of her true love's panicked ramblings over her not liking it with a hard kiss in thanks. "Now you open yours." The blonde ordered leaving a hard bite in her archer's lower lip.

"I got you Tower Girl." Margot promised when a loud crash sounded from somewhere outside their tent opening her arms to the scared other woman as if Alice didn't already trust her completely to keep her safe while her strong arms slid under her legs as she stood up soothing the trembling blond's fear of being caught in yet another cursed storm with her steady heartbeat against Tilly's ear as she carried the giggling blonde with her out of the tent to the edge of the waking camp so they could watch the sunrise like they would every other day they were able.

"Open yours Nobin." Tilly pleaded wanting to see her green-eyed glasses wearing archer's reaction to her present before the rest of the camp woke up and pulled them apart for the day. "So, does this mean you'll be chasing me around more often?" Robin teased her warm forest colored eyes trained on the little rabbit hanging from the necklace's cord as it caught in the first rays of the morning.

"Possibly."

But no, hang on that wasn't right…. she and Robin weren't cuddling together at the edge of her Papa's camp watching the sunrise anymore.

It was darker than then the warm glow of the sun. The ominous storm clouds blacking out the sky over their heads as she and the love of her life stand nose to nose saying they're momentary not last goodbyes to one another before the curse stole the memories of their love from them.

"That way you have mine and I have yours no matter where we are." Robin reasoned helping her slide the other half of their shared yet broken heart around her neck. "Just another way for us to know each other even when we don't." she agreed trying not to completely break down as she pulled her love in tighter as the sound of the newly cast curse pounded against their ears as it closed in around them.

Tilly pulled away from their tearful hug to look one last time into those beautiful green eyes she loved so dearly now she didn't have to look past the glare from those glasses her love had to wear as the sounds of the oncoming curse grew even louder by the second.

It wasn't fair. She couldn't lose the other half of her heart to this storm like she'd lost her to the last one. She just couldn't.

"I'm not going anywhere ever again Tower Girl." Margot soothed when Alice tried to tell her as much. Robin's whispered voice was a welcomed calming anchor while the curse raged on around them. "I've got you." She promised when Tilly only cuddled closer to her little fox of a friend praying that tonight wasn't going to be the night she cuddled all of Locksley's stuffing out wading out the storm while she simultaneously snugged closer into the added warmth of the body spooned in against her back after that last cannon blast of a lightning strike.

Alice shook her clearing head in defiance staying curled up as close as she could to the woman still cuddled wrath like around her quivering form despite the other woman's haste to move away once she realized Alice was awake. "Hey, easy…deep breaths…. it's just a rainstorm Til it can't hurt you." Her love coxed rubbing little circles along her back as Alice's hand reached up to close around the arrow hanging around her neck letting her head fall against the crook of Margot's shoulder breathing in her signature woodsy and cinnamon mixed scent.

"Why do the storm here have to be so loud?" Alice complained not caring one bit that being curled up on the pullout sofa bed in the living room of Roger's apartment meant that she was closer to the window and really only a thin wall away from the raging rainstorm outside the building if she could spend the time cuddled up in her archer's arms. "Honestly they give the ones in Wonderland a run for their money." The realm jumper complained earning a low chuckle from her bedmate and the soft brush of lips against the top of her head. "It's like there's ten roaring Bandersnatch out there all fighting over a last scrap of meat."

"Well you would be the authority on those wouldn't you Tower Girl?" Robin teased as her companion repositioned the tear-stained fox she'd been holding like a lifeline over to the side table where she'd positioned Jonzy the bunny in favor of pulling her in closer. "but aside from having another world crushing heart ripping curse roll in on us this is just on the lighter side of tolerable over some of the storms we had to deal with at the farm." Robin countered as her hold tightened around Alice's shivering form then let out a shaky gasp once she'd realized what she'd had actually said.

"Alice?"

Tilly preened at hearing her real name coming from that voice again. "Nobin?" she answered playfully echoing Robin's nervous questioning tone as she pulled away, so she could peek up at her true love's wide unbelieving eyes. "Can we try that kis…." She started to ask only to find Robin's eager lips crashing down on her own.

"Seems like this really is a lucky arrow." Alice stammered when they had to grudgingly separate to breath. "Or you just really like chasing rabbits." Robin countered with a sly half-smile on her lips as she tucked a stray strand of hair behind Alice's ear and out of her eyes. "Nope, I'll take following you around any day than some random white rabbit." The blonde in her arms corrected threading her fingers through Robin's hair.

"Just shut up and kiss me again Tower Girl." The archer growled leaning into the touch with a hard glare.

"Whatever you say Nobin." Alice grinned just hoping her papa wasn't going to be getting up anytime soon and possibly walk in on the heavy make-out session about to happen right in the middle of his apartment.

And thankfully he didn't.