It was 3 o'clock in the morning when Emma got a call from David to come to the police station. Emma groaned but got out of bed slowly to get dressed. She scurried down the stairs, slipped on her red leather jacket, and walked out the door.
She walked into the police station to see her dad waiting anxiously for her. David's face showed that he was worried but Emma was too tired to notice.
"This better be good." She spat as she started to yawn.
"It is." He responded and led her where the jail cells were. Upon entering Emma found Grumpy sitting in one of the cells. The blonde looked at her dad with glaring eyes.
"It's just Grumpy, so what?"
"I was doing my rounds and I found him drunk on the bench so I was going to take him home like always but he started to yell at me and it was more than usual and I thought something was off so I brought him here."
Emma was annoyed but went with it. "Ok. He's always mad, hence his name. What was off about him?"
David led Emma to the cell where Grumpy was leaning on the bars. "Do you remember when we were under the Shattered glass spell? How our eyes were glassy and that's how we knew we were under a spell."
"Yea, go on…"
"Well I think Grumpy is under a spell. Look at his eyes." David looked at Grumpy. "Hey Grumpy."
Grumpy huffed. "What do you want your majesty? Oh I see you brought your little princess. Tell me Emma, are you even mad at daddy for sticking you in a tree and leaving you alone for 28 years?" The dwarf was now inches away from Emma and she looked into his eyes to see if what her dad was saying was true. To her surprise she did see the gleam of something in his eye.
She looked at her dad, "Come with me."
"You stay here." David said in stern voice.
"I aint going anywhere else." Grumpy plopped down on the mattress in his cell.
David closed the door to the sheriff's office. Emma's face had worried written all over it and she didn't know where to go with this new information.
"Did you see it?" David questioned.
Emma was pacing back and forth. "Yes I saw it. It wasn't the shattered glass spell it's something else. We need to figure out what it is, who did it, and why."
David nodded his head but he also had no idea what to do with the information or where to start.
"Would it be Regina?" David asked.
"No. It wouldn't be her. What does she get out of turning Grumpy even more well, grumpy?"
"You may be right but then we should just be more worried because if it isn't her then we have no clue who it could be."
"Well this isn't going to be solved at 3 in the morning so just watch him and I'll be here at 8." Emma didn't even wait for approval she walked out of the police station to head home to her bed.
Throwing her jacket on the chair and taking off her shoes the blonde didn't care to do anything else. Making it back to her warm bed was the only thing she cared about.