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Regina was woken by the loud noise of Emma letting out a stream of obscenities that would make a sailor blush.
She sat up and watched as Emma sucked on the knuckle of her thumb then kicked the folded up bed, "Piece of shit." She mumbled.
Regina laughed and Emma looked over at her, taking her thumb away from her mouth.
"Morning." Regina said with a smile.
"Yeah." Emma said, "Morning."
"So, lover's quarrel?" Regina asked nodding to the folded up bed.
"Ha-Ha." Emma said, "No, the stupid thing has a hard time doing what it's told, so I had to use brute force and I injured myself in the process."
"Oh brute force huh?" Regina smirked.
"Do you have an off button?" Emma asked as she pushed the bed out of the way.
"Are you asking me what turns me off?"
Before Emma could answer David the Deputy came in with a goofy smile on his face.
"It's raining." He said as he took off his yellow rain poncho.
"Really?" Regina asked, "You mean that big yellow poncho isn't your special cape?
Emma stifled a laugh then glared at Regina before she looked back at David, "Keep an eye on her, listen for calls. I'm going to grab some breakfast."
"Oh bring me a maple donut and a side of bacon, please Sheriff!" Regina called after Emma as she grabbed her jacket and headed out the door.
"That's a very strange breakfast order." David said as he sat down at his desk.
"Well you're a very strange deputy." Regina said to him.
Emma went into Granny's diner and stood at the counter.
A tall gorgeous brunette came out from the kitchen and placed a brown paper bag on the counter.
"Fried egg and cheese sandwich, hash browns and a side of bacon." The waitress said.
"Thanks Ruby." Emma said, "But can you double the order this time?"
Ruby raised an eyebrow.
"I have a prisoner that's stuck here over the weekend and I can't have her starve before the judge can see her."
"Sure thing." Ruby said before going back into the kitchen.
"Good morning Sheriff."
Emma turned around to see Mulan, the tavern's bartender.
"Morning." Emma said then turned back around.
"Suddenly got real chilly in here." Mulan muttered as she sat at the counter.
Ruby came out of the kitchen with another brown bag and placed it in front of Emma.
"Thanks Ruby." Emma said as she paid then grabbed the two bags.
"You have a good day Sheriff." Mulan called out.
Emma ignored her and headed back out into the rain.
When Emma got back to the station David was just getting off the phone.
"What's up?" She asked putting the bags down on her desk.
"Minor car accident on the toll bridge." David told her.
"People go crazy when it rains." Emma said as she grabbed her badge and gun from her desk drawer.
"Don't worry about it." He said to her, "I got it covered."
"You sure?" She asked him.
"Yeah, no problem." He told her as he slipped on his yellow poncho before leaving.
"Alone at last." Regina said as she leaned against the bars of her cell.
Emma grabbed one of the bags from her desk and took it over to her, "Here."
Regina took it and placed it on her bed before returning to the bars, "You seem grumpier than usual."
"Just eat your breakfast." Emma said as she sat down at her desk and pulled her food from her bag.
"Did you run into an ex-boyfriend?" Regina asked then smiled, "Or was it an ex-girlfriend?"
Regina gasped a little, "Was it both? Is your ex-boyfriend dating your ex-girlfriend?"
"Will you please shut up!?"
"Why won't you tell me?" Regina asked.
"Because you're not here to bond with me over breakfast. You are a prisoner in my custody till Monday morning." Emma told her, "And I'm not trying to make friends."
"Well that's clear to see." Regina said as she went over to her bed and sat down. She opened the bag and quietly ate her breakfast.
The phone rang just as Emma took her last sip of coffee.
"Sheriff Swan." Emma said then listened for a moment before saying, "Be right there."
Emma stood up, leaving her breakfast on her desk and put on her jacket.
"Why do people get drunk so early in the god damn morning?" She muttered to herself.
She walked over to Regina's cell, "Behave yourself while I'm gone."
"What am I going to do?" Regina asked her, "Pick the lock and leave you a note saying, 'Catch me if you can'?"
Emma gave it a thought.
"Relax, I'm not going anywhere." Regina told her.
Emma headed out to the tavern near the woods called The Rusty Screw.
She got out of her car, slammed her door and headed for the tavern.
Emma walked in and loud music blared in her ears as she watched two women fighting in the middle of the room.
The women both had death grips on each other's hair and they were screaming and kicking at each other.
Emma rushed over, "Hey! Knock that shit off!"
When that didn't work Emma took out her baton and cracked one woman behind her leg and buckled her knee. She did the same to the other woman and they let each other go as they fell to the floor.
One woman tried to get up.
Emma pointed her baton at her, "Don't even try it."
"Turn the music off!" She yelled and someone unplugged the jukebox.
She grabbed her radio, "David, I'm going to need a little help out at The Rusty Screw."
"Roger dodger." He said happily over the radio.
"David."
"Sorry." He said, "I'll be there soon."
Emma handcuffed both women and stuck them in separate booths before going over to Mulan who was behind the bar, "What the hell are you doing serving alcohol at 9am?"
"Hey, they came in here shitfaced." Mulan said, "Look around, no one here's been served a drink."
Emma looked around at the 4 other people sitting in the tavern. Three were eating breakfast and an old man was hunched over with a cup of coffee.
"Why do I have to come out here almost every day to tame the animals you serve?" Emma asked her.
"Fuck if I know." Mulan said with a shrug, "Maybe you just miss seeing my pretty face."
"Oh yeah that's it I'm sure." Emma said sarcastically as she eyed the two women. One had passed out and the other was slouched over and seemed to be drooling on the table.
"Aurora says hello."
Emma whipped her head around and glared at Mulan.
Fire in her eyes, she clenched her jaw.
"Hey boss." David interrupted their tense moment.
Emma broke her stare and looked at David, "Take Tweedledee back to lock up. I'll get Tweedledum."
David headed over to the booths then stopped and turned around. Before he could say anything Emma said, "The blonde, take the blonde."
Emma turned back to Mulan and was going to say something when Tweedledum threw up all over the tavern floor.
Emma smirked as she hauled the woman up to her feet, "Looks like you got a mess to clean up." She said to Mulan as she practically dragged the woman out of the tavern.
When Emma got back to the station she found David at his desk doing paperwork and the blonde passed out on the floor of the cell next to the one Regina was in.
Emma opened Regina's cell door and set the drunk brunette down on the bed. She leaned to one side and Emma pushed her back the other way so she fell onto the bed rather than the floor.
"Enjoy your roommate." Emma said as she stepped out of the cell and locked the door.
"She smells." Regina said crinkling her nose.
"Well we all can't smell like leather and lavender." Emma said to her as she sat down at her desk.
"You know what I smell like?" Regina asked with a smile, "I don't know if that's cute or creepy."
Ignoring Regina, Emma turned to David, "What happened with the accident?"
"Dr. Hopper lost control in the rain and crashed into the Storybrooke sign." David told her, "He's okay, just a gash on his forehead. I had him taken to the hospital though to get checked out."
"Anyone else injured?" Emma asked.
"Nope."
"Good." Emma said as she looked at the paper work.
"Uh, I think your girl's gonna blow." Regina said pointing to the woman on the cot who was gagging.
Emma grabbed her trash can and hurried to open the cell. She sat the woman up but didn't move fast enough to put the can in front of her and the woman hurled all over Emma's shoes.
"Son of a bitch!" Emma yelled as she jumped back, letting the woman fall back onto the bed.
She looked down at her shoes and the mess, "I should kill you Belle." Emma muttered as she carefully stepped out of the cell and slowly kicked her shoes off.
"Sorry Emma." Belle muttered.
"Hey, you better get this cleaned up before I blow chunks." Regina mumbled through the hand she used to cover her nose and mouth.
"David, will you please clean this up?" Emma asked as she took her shoes into the bathroom and rinsed them off.
"Sure thing." David said then got up and went to the utility closet and got out a mop and bucket.
Emma left her shoes in the bathroom then padded out to the cupboard and grabbed the spare pair she kept there.
"You keep shoes at work?" Regina asked Emma as David finished mopping the floor.
Emma sat down to put them on, "It's not the first time I've been puked on."
She snorted, "Hell it's not even the first time Belle's puked on me."
David locked Regina's cell door then went to clean out the bucket and mop.
"So you know these women?" Regina asked Emma as she looked from Belle to the blonde still passed out on the floor.
"Yes, I do." Emma said, "You've met Belle and the one on the floor is Ashley."
"Lovely girls I see." Regina said as she stood in the corner of her cell.
"They normally are when they aren't out getting drunk together." Emma told her.
Ashley moaned on the floor and Belle burped in her sleep.
"Don't worry you'll only have to share your cell for a few hours till Belle sobers up." Emma told Regina.
"As long as she doesn't throw up again I think I'll be okay."
By lunch time Belle and Ashley had sobered up so David took them home.
Emma finished typing something into her computer before standing up and grabbing her keys.
"I'm going to grab lunch." Emma told Regina who was sitting on her bed thumbing through an old magazine David had lent her to read.
"I'll be right here." Regina said not looking up.
Emma was making mental notes for two reports as she walked and wasn't paying much attention as she opened the door to the diner and bumped right into someone.
"Hey!" She yelled then saw who it was.
"Sorry Emma."
"Uh—No I'm sorry." Emma didn't know what else to say to the woman. She avoided eye contact as she stepped aside and let Aurora pass before going into the diner.
She could feel everyone's eyes on her and she didn't like it.
She went to the counter and Ruby already had her lunch ready, order doubled of course. She grabbed the bag, told Ruby to put it on her tab and headed quickly out the door.
David was just sitting down at his desk when Emma came back into the station.
"Was that Aurora I saw you bump into?" David asked as Emma dug out the sandwich and fries she'd ordered for Regina.
"Man, that must have been something." David said as he sat down, "Running into her after everything that happened."
"Who's Aurora?" Regina asked, "What happened?"
"No one." Emma said handing Regina her food through the bars, "And nothing."
David chuckled a little, "Well I wouldn't call it nothing when your girlfriend leaves you for your deputy."
"Oh, former deputy." David corrected himself, "Seeing how you fired her and she's now working at The Rusty Screw."
Emma glared at him, "David, how about you shut up?"
"But—" He looked confused, "I was just saying-"
"Shut up." She said more sternly and he nodded and went back to typing up a report.
Satisfied that David would keep his mouth shut Emma went back to eating lunch and just took a big bite of her sandwich when Regina chimed in.
"Soooo, girlfriend huh?" She asked and Emma choked.
"Whoa, are you okay?" David asked getting up, Emma waved him away and took a sip of her soda to stop her coughing.
"I'm fine." She said to David, her voice hoarse. She looked at Regina, "And it's none of your business."
"I just never would have pegged you for the girlfriend type." Regina said.
"Sorry I don't fit into whatever stereotype you have in your head." Emma said then took another sip of her soda.
Regina sat down on her bed, "You don't know what I have going on in my head when it comes to you."
Emma grabbed the rest of her lunch and stood up, "And I don't want to."
She walked out and went into another office area to eat her lunch in peace.
"Hey Deputy Do Nothing." Regina called out.
"Are you talking to me?" David asked looking up from his computer.
Regina sighed, "Yeah I'm talking to you."
"What?" He asked.
"Who was her deputy?" Regina asked, "And what exactly happened?"
"I don't think she'd like me telling you." David said.
"It'll be our little secret."
Emma sat in the next room fuming mad. Just thinking about Aurora and Mulan pissed her off so bad she wanted to punch something or someone. It was bad enough she had to see and deal with Mulan on almost a daily basis because of her tavern but now she had to bump into Aurora, someone she'd done her best to avoid for the last 2 months.
Even the thought of that pissed her off, why the hell was she the one avoiding people? She's not the one that cheated. She wasn't the one that betrayed her girlfriend.
And Mulan, her former best friend and deputy loved to rub it in Emma's face that somehow she'd won and Aurora was hers.
Who the hell brags about ruining someone else's relationship?
Emma let out a frustrated growl as she threw her half empty soda can across the room.
David looked around to make sure it was just the two of them then got up and went over to Regina's cell.
"Emma and Mulan were really good friends, almost the best I guess you could say." David said in a quiet tone, "That is until Aurora came into their lives."
"We don't get many visitors to Storybrooke but Aurora came to visit her aunt or cousin or someone here in town over the summer." David explained, "And while visiting her path crossed with both Mulan and Emma."
"Both women pursued Aurora who was clearly interested in them." David told her.
"And?" Regina asked getting impatient.
"Eventually they asked Aurora to choose and she chose Emma." David told her.
"But she really didn't choose did she?" Regina asked.
"What do you mean?"
"She was seeing them both the whole time." Regina said.
"How'd you know?" David asked surprised.
"Experience." Regina said to him and he wondered what that meant.
"So anyways, after a few months of dating Emma caught them one day." David told her, "Here at the station going at it like bunnies on the bed."
"Which bed?" Regina asked, "Not this bed?!"
She stood up quickly, "Gross."
"Hey the sheets have been washed." David told her.
"So what happened next?" Regina asked.
"Emma—." David started to say.
"I beat the crap out of Mulan and left her locked up for 2 days while I threw all of Aurora's shit out of my house."
David turned around and was horrified to see Emma standing there.
"I'm sorry." David said, "She's very persuasive."
"Go home David." Emma told him as she walked over to Regina's cell, "I'll see you Monday."
He didn't say another word as he grabbed his things and practically ran out the door.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Emma asked Regina, "What gives you any right to hear about my life?"
"Hey, don't take your anger out on me." Regina told her, "I'm not the one that cheated on you."
Emma grabbed the front of Regina's leather jacket and yanked her forward, pulling her against the bars.
Emma growled then pushed Regina back and away from her. She turned around, "Just stay out of my business."
She stormed out of the office and stepped out into the rain. She let out a scream then closed her eyes and let the rain pelt her face.
She took a moment then let out a heavy sigh before going back into the office.
"Look I'm sorry I shouldn't have lost my cool." Emma said as she took off her jacket then hung it up.
She looked over at Regina's cell, "God damn it!"
The cell door was open and Regina was gone.