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Regina tapped her foot furiously. Someone was going to pay for this.
Sheriff Emma Swan walked through the doors of the supermarket and asked for the Manager's office. When she was escorted to the back by an employee she was greeted with, "Nice to know you take your job seriously, Sheriff Swan," as she looked at her watch.
"I got here in less than 15 minutes Regina. Now get off my back." Emma turned from her to the manager. She knew that if she got the story from him she was less likely to want to strangle Regina by the end of the conversation. "So, what's going on?"
The man looked thrilled that he was no longer alone with the former Evil Queen. "Mayor Mills was shopping and had gone to the checkout when she found out that her wallet wasn't in her purse any longer. Since she had just put a large amount of cash inside of it, this was of course extremely worrying for everyone. As I was just saying to the mayor, my security department is collecting the tapes right now."
At that, a knock sounded on the door. Someone poked their head in and spoke to the manager. He waved Emma and Regina to follow him to the security room.
"We've identified the thieves."
"Thieves? So it was like a mob hit?" Regina asked.
"Well, I'm not sure you'd call them that. I'll let you see for yourself Madam Mayor," the manager gestured for them to have a seat inside the security booth. He told the guard there to roll the tape. Everyone watched in awe at whoever was brave enough to steal from Mayor Regina Mills.
Emma snorted out a laugh which she tried to cover with her hand. Regina glared at her and she broke out in full blown doubled over laughter. "You were robbed by tiny tots!" She managed to gasp out during her laughing fit.
The surveillance showed two girls, one who was literally a tot, probably around the age of 2 and another girl who looked to be about 6 actually casing Regina. They followed her around for a while and then the smaller one went to the end of the aisle Regina was stopped on and called her attention over. The other one reached in quickly and snatched her wallet. She took out the money and threw her wallet into the frozen section of the grocery store.
They walked over to where the wallet had been tossed to. The manager pulled it out of the freezer and Regina snatched it out of his hand. She went through it to see if anything else was missing.
"Well?" Emma prodded.
Regina took a breath before rounding on her. "All of my credit cards and ID are still here. I guess you can go back to your sleeping on the job now Sheriff Swan. We can all put this little mess behind us," Regina flung her hair over her shoulder.
"But your money's still missing. I still have to write up a report on this and all and – "
"You will do no such thing Sheriff Swan. If this imbecile," she indicated the manager, "had only bothered to look at the surveillance footage before calling you then we wouldn't be in this mess. Good day Sheriff Swan," Regina started to walk away before turning back with her hand on her hip. "I should think that I shouldn't have to tell you that this matter is to be kept private?" she cocked her eyebrow at the manager.
The guy nearly fell over himself to appease her, "Ye- Yes ma'am," he stuttered out.
Regina was usually always up for a fight. Emma could only guess that it was her embarrassment over being bested by two kids that had her ready to back off.
Emma yelled after her, "I think this calls for continued active investigation. I wouldn't want to be accused of snoozing on my job Madam Mayor."
Regina strolled back over to her and went practically nose to nose with her, "I swear to you Sheriff Swan if you ever mention this again, to anyone, at any time, I will see to it that you are buried knee deep in paperwork for the rest of your foreseeable career. Which means, you can kiss your diner runs, 2 hour lunches, and all day siestas goodbye," with that she turned and stalked away.
The manager looked at her apologetically before walking away. Emma shrugged and decided to go back to her midday siesta. Though she guessed it wouldn't be a bad idea for her to do a patrol around town first. And if that patrol happened to end at the diner well, that's just because it's at the center of town. Not because this is when a fresh batch of bear claws gets pulled out of the fryer.