Somehow Casper was waiting for her when she'd navigated the maze of tents and shopping booths to find the one she wanted. "Hello, you." She greets when the pup paws at her leg his tail wagging happily at the sight of someone he knew, or it also could have been that she was still holding the second candy apple, but she hoped for the first one. "Shouldn't you be with Alice and the others?" she scolds yet that didn't change the beat of the dog's tail, so she tried another tack. "Go find Margot." That got his attention at least making him take two steps away but then he seemed to shake his head and turns back toward her making Zelena knelt down to his level earning more than a few wet puppy kisses for her troubles.

"Well, at least you like me." The mother sighs scratching along his back.

"Guess this thing belongs to you huh?"

Zelena's jaw flexed as she stands this time juggling holding the candy apple and cradling Casper in her arms "This thing has a name you know." She says but let out a guilty breath of a laugh when she turned enough to find the young woman around Margot's age who was manning the tent holding out her lost wallet with a puzzled expression.

"Cute pup." Is all she says while Zelena let out a smile when Casper grabs the stick of the half-eaten apple out of her grip giving her a free hand to take her wallet back "He's my daughter's." she answers shaking her head at the playful puppy growls Casper gives when she tries to take her treat back. "Well, I'd say he's a pretty smart one. He's the one that brought that here." The green-eyed woman says reaching out to scratch Casper behind his ear gesturing to the wallet on Zelena's other hand.

"Sure, let him take all the credit."

Zelena stilled at the laughing comment while the woman beside her rolled her eyes. "Well if you'd been here when she came in and not out getting all mushy with that adorable crazy girl of yours then you could have gotten the glory."

She'd put Margot's glasses back on but the obvious annoyance in her eyes when she glanced in Zelena's direction told the mother her little girl was still just as upset with her as she had been back at the bar. Robin laughed harder at something the other woman had said the pair continuing in trading mock punches while Zelena could only smile in pride when her daughter soon had the other woman in a headlock. "Just for that you're paying next time Lex and I want to double." The trapped woman grumbles when Robin lets her up.

"Whatever you say Grif." Robin smiles draping her arm across her mother's shoulders as if she wasn't still upset with her. "We need to talk." Robin whispers against her mother's ear leading the way back out under the safety of the tent into the steady drizzle of rain with only a called "Hey and tell Tils she still owes me for that froyo."

Zelena lets out the breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding as she sets Casper back on his feet only to have Robin kneel beside the dog coxing him to give up the apple he still held between his teeth. "Yeah Al's right you are going to need another bath." She sighs when the pup rolled over for a belly rub in a newly dampened dirt pail so now his white coat was stained in fresh mud. "Gaahh Casper." Robin grumbles when the pup shakes out his coat sending bits of water and mud flying.

Zelena can't hold back the sharp intake in her breathing when her little girl looks up at her this time without her glasses. "So, since you and aunt Regina have been awake all this time have you thought of how to fix this?" Robin asks holding up Margot's glasses while she rubs at her eyes with her other hand having already passed the apple back to her mother. "Regina thinks it's a simple enough fix." Her mother nodes puzzled as to why Robin put the glasses back on again after wiping them as clear as she could of both water and mud.

"Good I hate when Alice's beautiful smile goes blurry every time I take them off." The young archer complains then when she sees the bemused look on her mother face she confesses. "Don't tell Alice alright she has enough to worry about with the curse coming back on her and Hook, but I can't really see without them even with the curse broken."

Zelena pulls them to a stop or tried to seeing as soon as her hand closed around Robin's wrist Casper was growling in warning at their feet pulling on the bottom of Zelena's right pant leg in a rather adorable attempt to intimidate her. "Cas come on buddy." Robin grins crouching down once again to tug the unruly pup back with a half scolding. "No biting the good guys." That resulted in another round of belly rubs in the mud.

"Much more of that and Casper won't be the only one needing a bath later." Zelena jokes succeeding in getting her daughter to stick her tongue out at her then went back to rolling around in the mud with her more than happy dog.

The humor was gone by the time Robin had straightened up fixing the glasses on her nose as she met her mother's eyes.

This was it.

The talk she'd been dreading ever since she found the curse had been broken and her little girl didn't disappoint once she was sure she had a tight hold on Casper's leash as the three started walking aimlessly down a row of shopping tents. "How long were you awake before I came back?"

"Regina woke me up two or so days before three at the most. That was why I kept calling. I needed to know you even cursed you were alright." Robin could understand that at least. "and Ivy woke Genia up before that."

Robin knew her mother had deliberately left out how long she and her aunt thought Rumple had been awake after Tilly had accidentally shot him, even Margot had notice at least that much of a subtle change in the older man's demeanor in the few times he'd stopped in at the bar mostly looking for Tilly but she wasn't about to let her mother off the hook so easily.

"What about Alice Mom? Why didn't you try to help her those few days it took for me to come back when you could see what those pills were doing to her? What Lady Tremaine was doing to her?" Yet before Zelena could start to defend herself on that point Robin kept talking "She thought she was invisible Mom. That no one saw her. That no one cared about her." They had stopped yet again the rain making it difficult for Zelena to tell which were raindrops and what was real tears sliding down Robin's cheeks as mother and daughter looked at one another Casper choosing to wrap himself around Robin's legs hoping to comfort her when nuzzling at her hand didn't seem to work.

Zelena pulled her shivering daughter into her arms letting out a shaking breath when instead of pushing her away Robin's hands fisted against the back of her shirt her head pressing against the mother's shoulder as she let out all the remainder of her tears over and not just about remembering both the good and the bad times about the curse but happy tears as well at getting her Mom back in her life making her cling to Zelena even harder than before.

"How could you do it, Mom?" Zelena heard being asked in a muffled breath against her shoulder "How could you and aunt Regina let her think that way about herself when you knew how much I love her?"

Her mother let out a defeated breath before answering. "I thought it would keep her safer to let her think like that rather than risk her waking up and ending up like Regina and me in needing to have to lie to you about who you really were and what you two were to one another."

Robin gives in with a weak node her hand moving up to fidget with her glasses as she lets the last of her anger toward her mother go.

"How about a peace offering cinnamon roll? You used to love those." Zelena offers spying the notice on the menu of a nearby food truck but also knowing that it's a far cry from the list of things she needs to make right with not only her daughter but Alice as well.

Robin scoffs wiping her eyes under her glasses with the heel of her hand putting on a much more theatrically wounded expression as her arm linked with her mother's pulling her toward the truck they needed. "What do you mean used to? I still love those Mom."

"Of course, you'd be the first caller we had as soon as I get on shift." The brunette working the front sighed throwing the dishtowel over her shoulder "Yeah yeah save the sweet talking for your real girlfriend Lex." The banter reminded Zelena of her daughter's more playful jabs with Ruby back in Storybrooke.

An elbow into her side brought the mother out of her own head. "I'm sorry what was that?" Zelena asks earning a shy smile from the woman in the truck. "haha are you sure she's not somehow Tils's Mom?" 'Lex' teased passing over an order Zelena hadn't realized had been placed lost as she was in her own thoughts "Nope she's mine and I wouldn't have it any other way." Hearing it out loud made Zelena's heart warm even more catching Robin's playful wink that reminded the former wicked witch so much of her father