AN: Hello, my dear readers! I'm back with another fic. This is another one of my "based upon another existing work" AU! Obviously, from the title, you can tell that this is based on the 1987 movie; Moonstruck. As a warning, this fic does include possible triggers (i.e. mentions of crime, descriptions of limb loss, and illusions to sex). As always, I don't own anything and please read and review.
Ch. 1 - "New Moon"
Emma tugged her leather jacket tighter around her as she walked out into the brisk Autumn weather. She took a deep inhale of the city around her. She always felt that Boston was the most beautiful in the fall; with the beautiful leaves falling and the smell of crisp air surrounding the city could always put a smile on her face. She was brought out of her thoughts when she arrived at a crummy apartment. She knocked loudly on the door and carefully pulled out her gun and clicked the safety off, making sure she kept it out of sight. The door creaked open; obviously the person on the other side of the door hadn't unlocked the chain lock and was wary about opening the door for anyone. "Can I help you?" a rough male voice asked warily. "Are you Hans Isle?" Emma asked with a fake smile. "Yes," the man answered warily. "Great," Emma said with a smile before suddenly kicking down the door, completely knocking out the flimsy chain lock. An auburn haired man backed away in surprise as he tired desperately to find a way out after he saw the gun in her hand. "Sorry about the door, Mr. Isle, but you have broken parole and I'm here to bring you in," Emma said with a grim determined look on her face as she pointed the gun at him. He tried to dart around her, but she was faster. She grabbed onto his arm and forced him up against a wall. She quickly clicked the safety on of her gun, pocketed it into the back of her trousers and fished out a pair of handcuffs out of her jacket pocket, all the while keeping a strong grip on him. She cuffed him and dragged him outside and threw him into the back of her old, yellow bug.
She sat a desk in the sheriff's station as she filled out some paperwork while trying to ignore the protesting coming from the resent inmate in the holding cell across the hall. She felt a nudge against her shoulder as she saw a cup of coffee land itself in front of her. "Hey Emma," Sheriff David Nolan said with a smile as he finished putting the coffee on the desk in front of her. "Hey David," said with a smile, she was always fond of David and thought of him like a protective older brother, he and his wife Mary Margaret had become like family to her after they took her in after she had Henry. Although she felt lucky to have David and Mary Margaret's support, she couldn't help but feel a bit sad at thinking of that point of time in her life. She had been betrayed by Henry's father, Neal, and had wound up in jail and had even given birth to Henry while in jail, but David had taken pity on her and had taken in Henry while she finished her jail sentence and then the Nolans went above and beyond when they took her in for over a year, while she tried to land on her feet and become the mother that Henry deserved. She had grown up in the Foster Care System, going from Foster Home to Foster Home, never knowing who her parents were or why they gave her up and she always dealt with abandonment issues and it just grew worse after Neal left. But Henry was always her guiding light. Now, Henry was almost 10, Emma had a relatively stable job as a bail bonds woman, and they had a small apartment of their own. "Hey Ems, I want to know what you think," David said, interrupting Emma's thoughts, "I got Mary Margaret some roses today. What do you think?" Emma looked over and saw the beautiful bouquet of roses in his hands. "What's the occasion?" Emma asked. "Just wanted to, I guess," David replied with a goofy grin on his face. Emma rolled her eyes at his love sick face. After being married to Mary Margaret for so long, he was still such a hopeless romantic. "You spent a lot of money on something that could end up in the garbage," she said with a teasing grin. "I'm glad my wife doesn't think like you, Emma," David said with a smile and plucked out a single rose from the bouquet and gave it to her. Emma smiled softly as she smelled the rose and stroked the soft petals along her cheek, "Thanks David," she said and quietly went back to finishing her paperwork.
AN 2: I just thought it would be funny to have Emma arrest Hans from Frozen. Since all we know of his name is Hans of the Southern Isles, I just went with Hans Isle in this AU version. And I did add Henry into this story. In Moonstruck, Loretta didn't have any children, but I wanted to let Emma have Henry. I know in Moonstruck, Loretta's first husband was killed in an accident, but I decided to go to have Neal and Emma being briefly married, and him leaving her.