Regina was the first to notice something was up the second she looked up when the bell over the door sounded. Rogers was in the lead looking a strange mix of guilty and worried as he nodded in greeting to the bartender over the rim of his travel coffee cup with Margot and Tilly following their hands fisted together in a way that reminded the former villain all too well of their former lives as the couple finished off the last few bites of a candy apple Margot was twirling between her fingers just like Robin used to do with one of her arrows when she was trying to show off for Alice.

What had Regina doing a double take was when Tilly held the last apple slice between her lips with a rather challenging look in her eyes and Margot rather than being her shy self when it came to such a bold kind of PDA leaned right in to both bite the other end of the apple and pull the smirking blonde in for a rather hungry kiss in what was basically the middle of the filled bar. The action had Zelena batting away the misty start of tears in her eyes obviously thinking along the same lines as her sister despite her attempts in trying to play it off as dust in her eyes as she reached for an empty beer glass.

"I didn't think you drank detective." Regina pointed out when instead of finding a seat out on the floor Rogers took one of the empty stools at the end of the bar. "I don't." the officer answered pulling a half-filled bowl of peanuts toward him, "I'm just here in case." He added ominously as his eyes once again landed on Tilly and Margot. A glance at the clock showed that the detective should be on his way across the street to the station, yet he insisted on staying. That alone had Regina's hands twitching to the baseball bat she kept hidden under the bar.

Five minutes ticked by. Five whole minutes of Rogers munching on bar snacks, Margot and Tilly tag teaming in cleaning and busing tables and filling drinks without one word to either Regina or Zelena other than politely asking them to move out of the way on one or two occasions when one of the working women needed to reach for something on their other side behind the bar.

"Come on you your late." Tilly scolded ten seconds into minute six sliding her arm across Rogers's shoulder in that adorable friendly roommate way that reminded the awake pair all to well the real bond the two shared. Rogers just chuckled shaking his head as he let the bubbly blonde pull him up "Alright but I don't want to go just to get called back again." he joked looping his arm around Tilly's waist in a loose hug as they walked to the door.

"I'll keep her out of trouble detective I promise." Margot vowed resting the bin of dirty cups and saucer plates against her hip as she paused beside the exiting pair resting a hand against Tilly's arm with what seemed to the two bar owners as a reassuring and grounding kind of touch. Rogers debated for a half a second his eyes flickering between the two then over to Regina and her sister and back again before he spoke scratching at his chin with his prosthetic hand much like he would with his hook back in the Enchanted Forest. "I'm leaving her in your care lass." He decided at last with a flash of that fatherly half-smile of his.

Both Regina and Zelena were blinking back tears by this point not knowing from her turned position that Alice was as well as she hides her face against Rogers shoulder leaning more against her father's side as he and Robin shook hands. "I'll see you both at lunch." He reminded them with departing node to the two behind the bar "I'll be back soon." Alice promised in a soft shaking voice just before the door swung closed and she and Rogers set off down the sidewalk in front of the bar toward the station on the corner.

"Everything alright darling?" Zelena wondered finally managing to corner her daughter while Robin had been too distracted in tracking Alice's steps out of sight of the window to notice the closeness. Her hunting skills really had dulled in the two years she'd been running around the world as Margot she decided quietly as she let out a long sigh and sidestepped her mother not wanting to have the confrontation she knew would eventually happen right that moment. Taking a page from Margot's book Robin let her shoulders slouch and her head drop letting the glare from her glasses cover the annoyance in her eyes "Why would something be the matter?" she questioned with only a small bite of her upset in her voice as she pulled the dishcloth from her apron and started cleaning off the table just for something to do.

"Ro…Margot." Zelena sighed not noticing the effect the slip had on her now awakened daughter "Look we're slammed and I have to get back to work alright Mom." Robin growled thanking whoever was listening that just at that moment a new larger wave of customers pushed into the bar giving her an easy out as well as the return of her true love.

"Okay, Targo?" Alice asked skipping back over to her side but slowing once she picked up on her anger at once "yeah I'm fine Tils." Robin nodded with a small half smile at the adorable scowl Alice was sporting. "Want to make a game out of who can fill the most drinks?" she suggested knowing that from time to time when Tilly chose to spend her days off helping out around the bar their cursed selves would make little games out of things around the bar, so the suggestion wouldn't cause any suspicion from her mother or her aunt.

"Loser buys the apples." Alice grinned needing the distraction from the ache in her chest from having to leave her Papa when they could finally touch without him feeling the effects of the poison on his heart. "Take care of those for me?" Robin asked setting the full bin of cups and plates down at her mother's side as she took Alice's hand into her own tugging the blonde in against her side needing the reassurance in her presence.

Zelena nodded and they could see it in her eyes she as still puzzling over the changes in their behaviors making them leave quickly for the safety of the bar as Regina came up to her sister's side wearing the same confused expression.

"Something is different about them Regina." Zelena choked out her fingers digging into the side of the bin Robin had left behind on the table "I know but it's not like they could have woken up or anything cause Henry wouldn't be here." Regina pointed out nodding to the man who'd just slipped into the bar with a tired smile and an agreeing node for a stiff drink his cousin just offered him.