She wasn't really he jewelry type -apart from her collection of keepsake bracelets from her travels- but there was just something about it that made her want to wear it. It had been tucked away in one of the pockets of her backpack carefully wrapped and protected in a little blue swatch of blue leather catching like a little drawstring pouch. The thing that surprised her the most was that Margot didn't know how or where she'd picked it up, but she wasn't about to forgo wearing the thing inside just because she couldn't remember where or who had given it to her.
"Someone's happy." Her aunt Roni had joked when she'd come down to do the bar's inventory and caught the younger girl grinning like a fool as she looked at herself in the dirty back mirror behind the bar. "I found a little treasure that surprised even myself when I was unpacking the last of my stuff this morning." Her niece explained pushing the little ash wood hand carved white rabbit, and left half of what was possibly a heart charm hanging from the neckless under her shirt and out of sight from her intrigued aunt.
"Is this what that little treasure as you call it was wrapped in?" Margot nodded pushing her glasses farther up her nose as she resisted the want to snatch the little leather pouch out of her aunt's hand and hold it as close to her heart as she possibly could. But that was silly it was only a little gift bag from some dusty gift shop she'd forgotten she'd stopped in along her travels it was surely nothing to get so protective over.
"Reg…Roni…hey." Margot cocked her head at the hastily covered greeting her mother made just at the sight of her own daughter as she came down from their little shared apartment over the bar. "I thought you'd be sleeping longer after your long flight." Her mother covered pouring herself some cereal from the box at Margot's elbow as her daughter finished making a sandwich for later in the day and tucking it carefully into her backpack.
"You know I'm a light sleeper mom." The younger woman argued as she zipped up her bag after making sure she'd packed everything in her hast to get down to breakfast after she'd overslept, "A little snap of a twig could wake me up half the time." She didn't know what had made her use that comparison, but it just seemed right to her in the moment as she busied herself with finishing her breakfast without arousing any suspicion about how quickly she was wolfing it down.
"Roni…. What's that you've got?"
Margot's eyes snapped up at the surprised tone in her mother's voice when she'd noticed the little blue bag Roni was still holding. "Nothing." The younger woman answered snatching the smooth leather out of her aunt's hand from across the little kitchenet's table.
"Have you seen Jonzy anywhere?" Margot wondered by way of changing the subject as the last of her anxiety cooled the instant the well-worn fabric was back under her fingers while she talked between bits hurrying through the last of her breakfast and keeping the topic away from the necklace her mother was eyeing curiously as well as to keep her mother from asking her to hand over the little bag now tucked safely into Margot's coat pocket.
Although she was hazy on the details she knows she'd gotten the bunny when her younger self was hard set convinced she was going to grow up and fall in love with a pirate. Hence the name she'd given her furry prize from…was it a street fair? A claw machine? Yeah, that had to be it. She does remember something about a hook from her haze of any memories really before her backpacking trip in Peru. It's funny really, she jumped from wanting to marry a pirate to wanting to meet some blonde-haired adventuress…like Tilly maybe…. somewhere in Wonderland.
"Last I saw you'd packed her up with the rest of your things the day you left." Zelena answered although she honestly didn't know why her daughter was asking about a plush rabbit her cursed self knew her daughter hadn't talked about since she was really young.
Regina rolled her eyes as she pointed her niece toward the raggedy looking push that had been knocked onto the floor in her niece's haste to get the little blue clothe gift bag away from her grip.
Zelena and Regina exchanged look at the whispered familiar pirate like curses slipped passed the rushing woman's lips as soon as Margot's eyes had landed on the clock on the wall opposite them. "Late Late Late." Margot chanted as she tossed her favorite book, her childhood friend and the funny little sea blue leather pouch all into her backpack and pushed her chair back so quickly it toppled over in her hast.
"Hot date waiting?" Regina couldn't help but tease earning a lazy glare from her niece "No." Margot answered too fast for the other two to really believe her. Not that they would anyway with what they knew about the truth behind the gift that had just 'magically appeared' in the young woman's pack.
"I mean yes she is beautiful but no this is not a date we're just meeting for lunch and a chess game," Margot told them unconsciously pulling the little charms from under her shirt again as she checked her reflection one last time in the mirror. "Now if you'll excuse me I have to go meet a girl at a tower…I mean at a troll…...I mean never mind what I mean I'm late anyways." She admitted pushing the strap of her bag over her shoulder as she took off toward the back door at a dead run.
"She's just as protective of that has she was back home." Regina pointed out as she and her half-sister watched her leave. "Well can you really blame her she's young and in love even if she doesn't remember it." Zelena defended bringing her coffee cup to her lips for a long drink.
"What was it Alice always said? Follow the white rabbit?" the mother sighed while Regina just nodded in agreement clinking her own coffee mug with her half-sisters. "Let's just hope she does." Regina hummed draining the rest of her drink then getting back to work.