Mad Archer - One Shots

Knowing You

A/N: Follows the events of episode 7x20 of Once Upon A Time. 

Warning: Implicit but very suggestive display of sexual intercourse. (Discussed it with a fellow writer and we both agreed it is not M rated BUT if you feel triggered for some reason, you can immediately stop reading and write me. I won't mind. I rather have you safe than feel sorry.)

The curse is broken.

Everyone remembers. Remembers who they once were a few years ago, before the curse was cast.

Everyone reunites in the wake of dusk, in the wake of the defeat of the villain who is responsible for their long separation.

Everyone moves back home with their loved ones.

They do it, too.

Withdrawing from the scene of the latest battle, saying goodnight to her aunt Regina and the cheery family of Robin's cousin Henry, Robin and Alice retreat to reconnect. To reminiscent and to simply be.

Robin is not Margot anymore and Alice is not Tilly and yet there is something that lingers.

Lingers as they stick close to each other. Glued together by what was forgotten and is now back.

Both of them never want to part again.

They keep holding hands, caressing each other, leaning onto one another while they follow Alice's father to the hospital. They exchange butterfly kisses and softly bump their noses while Robin calls her mum in the waiting room and tells her that it is not Margot calling but Robin, leaving her mother speechless for once and bringing her to sobbingly promise to fly in the very next day. They share smiles, dry each other tears and stop for breathtaking kisses while Robin walks Alice home, to the apartment she had shared, unknowingly, with her father.

Robin has planned to give Alice some space. To leave her alone, if she wants. Readied herself to leave and return to Roni's bar or rather Regina's bar.

Luckily Alice doesn't and so Robin stays close. Stays with her for the night. Stays as close as she can.

She wants to be closer, though. Is desperate for the contact. Alice seems to share this urgency, for whenever Robin releases her out of one of her tight embraces Alice releases a moan of complaint.

It is not enough. 

Will it ever be enough?

Robin wants to stay close.

Not for a night. She wants to stay forever. To not leave Alice ever again.

They have been apart for too long.

We will always know each other. Even if we don't, Alice had said. And they did. They knew each other from the second they've met in Hyperion Hights, as different people but oddly the same. Had listened to the echo of what was forgotten.

Margot had fallen hard and fast for Tilly. She had been surprised at this feeling. Margot had never felt like this before. Had never been swept of her feet and fallen in the blink of an eye.

Only that it wasn't the truth. She wasn't Margot and her soul and body had known what she could not see. Had been blinded to ignore. Her heart had been singing but she had not been able to understand its melody.

She had already loved the woman in front of her.

The Robin inside of Margot loved the Alice in Tilly.

Now that their masks have fallen off, they can see each other.

Fully. Not shaded or deafened like before.