I don't own Once or any of it's characters.

Only doing this to have fun and share some swanqueen feelings.

Hope you'll like.

Emma woke up early what was not usual to her but she needed to stop by the library before going to work and she was already quite late.

Having no time to eat breakfast she grabbed an apple and ran to her yellow car driving like crazy to the library.

She ran the marble stairs of the building and entered in rush forgetting that it was a library after all.

She looked at her watch, it was 9.20, she had only twenty-five minutes, she was really late and her mind was full of all the things she would have to do that day.

Emma was so distracted that she didn't even notice the woman in front of her walking with a book open in her hands.

Emma and the other woman bump against each other and the books that Emma was going to return fell on the floor.

"Oh I'm so sorry I..." Emma only then looked at the brunette woman in front of her.

The brunette was looking at her with pain still in her face.

"I'm so sorry, are you ok?" (Of course she isn't ok you idiot) Emma thought.

Finally the woman spoke "I'm fine don't worry" she knelt and picked up the books from the floor, returning the ones that belonged to Emma to her, except one, and hold edition of the "Phantom of the Opera"

"So you like the classics..." Emma was surprised by the question from the brunette.

"Oh... yes I do"

Emma was looking at the brunette, the woman seemed to be in her thirties, her hair was short just touching her shoulders and she had lips of an incredible red that made Emma think about the apple she had eaten earlier.

"If you like classics you should read "Great Expectations" from Charles Dickens" the brunette voice sounded soft but strong like the ocean in the dawn.

Emma took a few seconds to answer "In fact I've already read that one, it's actually one of my favorites".

"It's one of my favorites as well" She smiles at Emma and returns the book, with her hand touching Emma's softly.

Emma was speechless without knowing why and it was the brunette who, after almost 5 minutes of silence, reminded her "You were in a rush so I imagine you have somewhere else to be".

"Yeah, I'm late for work" Emma finally snapped out of her unexplained hypnosis and delivers the books to the hold woman behind the main desk.

Then she ran out of the library yelling "Thank you and sorry" while she was leaving.

When Emma finally arrived at the police station she realized she didn't know the woman's name.

"Hi Emma" It was Graham, her college and kind of boyfriend, their relationship was weird and hard to give a name to.

Actually it was very similar to all Emma's previous relationships, only a way to pass the time.

"Hey" he looked around the office making sure they were alone and then kissing her on the lips.

"You're late Emma" he said to her gently.

Emma smiled back to him "Yeah, sorry I went to the library and lost track of time".

Graham laughed "I really don't understand what books have that interesting".

Talking with Graham about anything else beside job things or sport was a waste of time, that was the reason they barely talked when they were together, her relationship was more like a physic thing but it was exactly what Emma always wanted, no worries, no promises, no pain at all.

The day was normal and when she finally arrived home, alone this time, she went to take a hot bath.

The hot water in her naked body made her moan in pleasure. She loved those moments when she was alone in her apartment, far away from the troubles.

After putting a towel around her body she walked into the bedroom to get her pajama and was then that she saw she had forgotten to return one of the books to the library.

Immediately after seeing that book the image of the brunette came to her mind for the first time since she walked out of the library.

Now that she was thinking about it, something in that woman was stuck in her head, the smile she gave her while talking about Emma's taste for the classics.

She had never saw that woman on the library what was odd because Emma spent a lot of time in it since she was living in the town.

"I didn't ask her her name..."

The next day would be Sunday, she didn't need to work and she could go return that book.