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" Miss Mills, I give you the Sherwood case,", Gold is fed up, this case has been following him since years now.
" Mr Gold…", Regina is surprised of course, and well it's kind of nice to feel that your work is appreciated but she cannot work this case and especially not now, she was just about to take the time off she asked a year ago.
"I want results and I want them for yesterday. You should live tonight! It's a bloody hell, to find the house!", Mr Gold is a rich businessman, when he says "should", it's obviously not an advice. If he's where he's now, it's because he has no scruple.
" Listen Gold, I'm flattered but I can't, I was actually leaving because I'm taking my time off, time off that I asked you to take last year!", she didn't mean to snap at him, at her boss but well she has a temper and god knows how Gold can be infuriating.
There is a long silence following, she's trying to see if she pissed him off enough for her to be fired, and he's just staring at her with a smirk. Gold is not the kind of man, who smiles because he's happy or wants to share his joy with you. He's not happy and doesn't have joy.
No, he's the kind to smile when somebody died and laugh when someone's hurt.
"Miss Mills, let's be clear. As long as you work for me, you will do as I say. Now, if you feel like being unemployed then be my guest. But it would be sad for you to be in the streets alone with a fatherless kid. By the way is your mother still the wonderful woman she used to be?", and this is why she hates that man; he doesn't mind hitting under the belt. He knows she needs the job because she is a mother. And that her own mother is cold heart bitch, who wouldn't care about her offspring to be jobless and homeless. Especially not after the way Regina acted about Leopold.
" No, she's even better. She says Hello and send her condoleance about your wife. " Woman leaving to see the word with a pirate, what a tragedy". I still do care about my job but since you signed and allowed me to go off, it would be pretty illegal to fired me now.", Regina feels pretty proud about her retort but she knows better than to smile, so she replies with a very professional tone.
" Yes, yes my dear… I shouldn't be surprised that you know about laws and such, dating an outlaw and getting engaged with a lawyer. How is Leopold, still mourning his first wife I've heard? Lovely Eva.", of course he would have something to say back. Actually, she doesn't care about her ex fiancé, but Daniel, her puppy love was nothing like an outlaw, kind and nice, yes but nothing like a bandit.
" I don't see how we got to talk about our private life, gossip in the office, doesn't seem like you. I guess that having everybody leaving you does change a man. So I'm gonna go, I need to pick up my son…", she couldn't help to thrown that. The only thing she wants is to go back home.
" Oh yes, Henry. Does he still see his birth mother? Is she still trying to take him away because you're an...unfitting mother? That's not true…. but wait this is why you want some time off maybe. It wouldn't help your case, if you got fired or a complaint in your file, I guess. So let's do something, you go and take care of the Sherwood case, and as soon as you finish, you can go and take as much time as you want. You know what, I'm being so nice that you can go and stay at a house the company owns and stay with your son while you handle this tiny little case.", he looks at expectedly while she's trying to find the loop in his proposal. He breaks the silence and asks with a smirk.
" Do we have a deal, dearie?"
" No, I don't do deals with you. I'll just do what I'm ask and then leave.", she has seen the disappointment in his eye but he then, returns to his normal arrogant face.
" Call it as you want, Regina. Deal, agreement. You know what I mean!"
Regina doesn't reply, just takes the file on his desk and leaves the room as quickly as she can without looking like she's running.
" Oh lord, it had to be in the fucking Jumanji", says Regina as she drives on the road. At first she thought, she only had to cross the forest but now it feels like she's only engulfing in more and more. At a point, her GPS stops to work and the last thing she can see in the screen is " Lost signal. Please, restart". Before she can even do it, the screen turns black.
" Damn it", she hits the wheel and slows down the engine.
" Okay, what do I do now?", Regina looks at her phone and there's also no signal, she takes her eyes back on the road and looks around. There's only a way which seems pretty unused and calm. There is absolutely nothing around, on both side of the car there's the wild forest; she decides to wait a bit, maybe signal will come back. Or maybe she should just keep moving and hope that there isn't intersections. The sun starts to disappear behind the highest trees so the brunette decides to indeed move forward.
She doesn't know how much she has driven, only that the light get weaker and weaker and despite the AC in the car she can feel how the temperature has dropped.
She arrives at an intersection, there's two ways, one to the left, the other to the right.
They both seem pretty similar, she hesitates a long time and takes the road to the left. After, 15 minutes she feels like she's being followed.
" That's ridiculous! Stop being silly ", there's nobody here and that's probably why she's creeping out now, she's veing crazy right now.
She slows the engine again, when she sees something on the road, looks like a dog, a big one. It looks like it's hurt and might be blinded by her light, she turns down the car and steps out with the blanket she had on her lap. For a short instant she thinks " What the fuck am I doing? What the fuck am I gonna do with a blanket ! ", but her thoughts are long forgotten when she reaches the animal. He must be a wolf, he's big. There's a bit of blood on his torso but the wound doesn't seem bad enough to prevent him from moving.
" What's wrong with you, hmm? Are you hurt somewhere else?", her voice is soft and she can't help to caress the thick fur.
Regina doesn't see clearly, until there is light coming behind her. She gasps when she realises it cannot be hers, since the car's keys are in her hand. She turns around, and is immediately blinded. She hadn't realize how far she is from her car. She waits and the car in front of her still doesn't move, she stands up and walks toward it, leaving the wounded animal behind with her blanket wrapped around him.
" What the fuck!", she had hoped that the driver would have turned down his lights or done something. She is now a few meters away from the silver car and the lights are finally turned off. For a few minutes, she can't see any difference because her eyes still hurt from staring right in front of the powerful lights.
The driver goes out, and she still doesn't see him, only a figure but she starts to really creep out, and stops moving forward. Now, she realizes how this person could be a killer or some psycho and she runs toward her car.
" Where are the fucking keys!", the door won't open. She can't stop pressing the buttons but it still won't open. A hand grips her shoulder and she turns back to kick her assailant right in the face, breaking his nose.
She hears three things, her heart beating fast, the stranger's nose being breaking and..; his voice. Talking to her.
" I came for you, Regina."
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