I hope you liked the first chapter. I hate when stories drag so I wanted to move the story along. Lots of teen angst in this chapter. Would love your reviews and I hope you like it!

Chapter 2 –

David returned to the truck with Mary Margret's things and found the note Emma had left on the napkin. Immediately David began to drive out of town hoping that they would find Emma walking along the side of the road. Once they didn't see her the pair jumped out of the truck where David found a set of footprints that had to belong to Emma.

She had walked into the woods and it was starting to get dark.

All Mary Margret could think about was what would happen if Regina found out and immediately called grannies.

"Grannie? This is Snow, Emma has run off, I need you to get as many people together as you can to keep an eye on Regina in case she is trying to find Emma."

"Of course dear, I will have red spread the word, let us know if there is any other way we can help"

"We will" Snow said before hanging up the phone and catching up to David.

"Charming I'm scared, why would she do this?" Snow said as they continued to follow the footprints.

"She did this once or twice when she first came to live with me but I had been able to catch up with her before she got too far. Whenever things get to be too much for her she runs away from them, literally." David said trying to reassure his wife that it was in no way her fault.

Even though she hadn't said it charming had picked up on how Snow was feeling. She had lost her daughter once; she wasn't going to let it happen again. As it got darker the prints became harder to follow and the two began to worry that something had happened.

Emma had found a small cave deep inside the woods. She had no idea where she was or how she would get home, but she didn't care much about that at the moment, right now she needed to process her thoughts on everything she had just experienced.

Parents, that was a new concept entirely. Sure she had had multiple foster parents but none of them ever made her feel she was part of their family. She was always a guest in every home she stepped foot in and more likely then not, they always made sure she knew that.

David was the first foster parents she had ever had that made her feel like she mattered or that he wanted more then just the government paycheck every month, but instead he genuinely cared about her wellbeing which was new for Emma and she didn't know how to take it.

On top of that, she is supposed to believe that everyone in this small town is actually a character from a fairy tale including the two people who are claiming to be her biological parents? This all felt like a bit much for her to swallow at the moment.

Emma's train of thought was interrupted by the snapping of a twig not far from where she was. She wasn't sure who it was until she heard David and Mary Margret yelling her name. Emma knew it was only a matter of seconds before they found her and she had no place to run. She had to face them wither she wanted to or not.

David and Mary Margret rushed to their daughter. They were both relieved to see that she was unharmed and that Regina had not been able to get to her before they were.

"What were you thinking?" David asked in a disappointed tone. He and Emma had talked about how she needed to communicate when she needed space instead of running off.

"I just needed some time to think" Emma said looking at the ground, not wanting making eye contact with her parents.

"Emma, we talked about this. You know I will give you space if you need it but you have to let me know before you go running off, especially into the woods when it's about to get dark" David said.

"I know…I just…"

"You didn't think" David interrupted Emma.

"Now lets get you back to the truck and we can talk about your punishment when we get home."

David helped Emma to her feet as snow wrapped her arms around her daughter.

"We wouldn't be able to live with ourselves if anything happened to you Emma" Snow said wanting to reinforce the fact that they were doing this because they loved her.

"Whatever" Emma said as she broke away and started toward the truck.

Snow stood there wondering what she had done wrong. "It's not you Snow" David said placing his hands on her shoulder as they both watched their daughter open the door and hop in.

"She will be fine, we just have to ride it out with her. We will figure all this out" David reassured her as they began to make their way to the truck.

The three of them rode in silence back to David's house. When they arrived Emma immediately jumped out and ran to her room locking the door behind her. She knew they were going to send her back but she couldn't live with the fact that it was because they were starting over without her, so she would give them a different reason. A reason that she could live with and one that wouldn't keep her up at night after she left.