The bells chime as Amara walks down the road as she heads to Granny's for breakfast. She runs into Emma as she is putting Henry on the bus. "Hey, I'm glad you're not taking Regina's threat to heart." Amara smiles as she walks up to her. " It takes more than a verbal threat to scare me off." They laugh and go to walk to Granny's when they hear Graham's car siren going off and he pulls onto the side walk in front of them. They both stop clearly amused by what he's doing. Graham steps out of the car as Amara crosses her arms in front of her. "What's with the siren Graham no one takes you seriously here, at least I don't." she says with jokingly attitude. "Well I'm trying to get Miss Swan's attention seeing as how you are no longer on the market by what I hear from morning chatter." She rolls her eyes. "It was one date, I knew people around here can't keep their mouths shut." "Miss Swan it is so hard to get your attention." He said to Emma ignoring Amara's comment. "Well you have it now, what are you arresting me again?" He shakes his head. "No, I'm here to thank you, for helping find David yesterday, we all owe you a debt of gratitude." "Well what do I get? Accommodations? A key to the city?" she jokes. "How about a job?" Graham asks seriously. "Really?! I helped too don't I get a job?" Amara fake pouts. "You already have a job besides who is gonna support our Wednesday night card night if not at your bar?" Amara rolls her eyes. "Alright, Alright I can take a hint, I'm gonna go ahead I'll catch up with you inside alright Emma." She says. Emma turns to her. "Yea alright I'll be in in a few." "Bye Graham try not to arrest any of my customers again today alright." She says walking off across the street. She almost makes it when she hears her name being called. She turns around and sees Joseph rushing to catch up to her. "Hey." She smiles at him when he catches up to her. " Good morning beautiful. Would you like to have breakfast with me?" He asked before bending down and giving her a kiss on the lips. She smiled up at him. "I would love to but I'm meeting Emma. Maybe we can do lunch? Would you like to come over to the bar later?" He sighed. "OK, lunch sounds good I'll see you then." He turns around and heads off.
She made it to the diner and passed Regina as she was coming out the door. "How was your date with my brother? She asked her blocking her from moving forward. "Is there something you want Regina?" she asked starting to get defensive. "I just want you to know if you're going to be involved with my brother I don't want you anywhere near Emma Swan. Do I make myself perfectly clear." she threatened. "Regina. You don't own me and I'm not scared of you like everyone else is either. I can be friends with who I want and you can't stop me. And not once has Joseph mentioned anything to me about this. But if he had then its between me and him not you." She pushes past Regina and bumps her shoulder with hers. She goes in and sees Emma sitting down already. "Hey Rubes, can I get a hot chocolate please with a cream filled doughnut?" she asked taking off her jacket and sitting across from Emma. "Hey, so I just had a fun run in with your best friend." Amara jokes as Ruby brings over her breakfast. "Here you go, hey are we still on for drinks tomorrow?" "Yea I wanna try out some new liquor I got shipped in." "Great! I can't wait!" Ruby walks off and Amara turns back to Emma. "Yea she cornered me too already." She says and Amara goes to reply but Emma spills her hot chocolate all over the table and herself. "Oh crap!" She exclaims. "There is a laundry room in the back you can use Granny won't mind." Amara tells her helping her wipe it off the table. Emma walks off to the back as Ruby comes over to help her. "I hope she's OK, I've come to like her I don't want Regina to scare her off." "Yea me too. I have a feeling she is gonna be sticking around for a while.
Amara was wiping down the counter and getting things ready to open the bar when Henry and Emma come in looking for her. "Hey Amara, we really need your help." Henry exclaims sitting down at the counter. Amara looks at Emma with raised eyebrows questioning why the both of them need her help. "We do actually. I was wondering if you knew anything about Ashley Boyd. She works at the diner with Ruby." Emma explains to her sitting down beside Henry. "Yea. I know Ashley she is a good kid I let her work in the back in the kitchen. Why what's wrong?" Amara asked getting worried about Ashley. Emma sighed then started explaining to Amara. "Apparently she stole something from Mr. Gold last night." She starts as Amara's jaw dropped in shock. "What?! Ashley stole something from Mr. Gold? Way to go Ashley!" she laughs as Emma continues. "Yea. But he wants this as hush hush as can be so he asked me to find her and return whatever it was that she stole from him." "So what do you need from me?" she asked as Henry spoke up. "You can come with us and talk to Ruby, she listens to you and will tell you anything. But if its just us she won't." Henry says as if it were obvious. Amara sighs and tells writes a note down on the back board about she went out and to whoever is due to open go ahead and open without her. "Perks of owning this place." She smiles at them as they walk out the door. "I can come and go whenever I need to." They get in Emma's bug and drive off to the diner.
* Amara joined Snow and Charming as they went to Prince Thomas and Cinderella's wedding. Amara was on one arm of Charming and Snow was on the other arm. The crowd parted as the Royal Family went to greet the newly weds as they ascended down the stairs. Amara hugged Ella first. "congratulations I am so happy for you." she tells her with a fake smile. She was upset that she had just recently had to leave the love of her life. Snow hugged her secondly also congratulating her. There was dancing and fireworks as the night went on. Since Amara didn't have a date, Thomas's cousin asked her to dance. He had the same blonde hair, blue eyes as Thomas and he was fairly attractive so she said yes. Snow grabbed Amara and they went to Ella and pulled her into a dance. "I am so happy for you." Snow said as the three of them spun around dancing. "You are an inspiration to us all." She continued. Ella just gave her a look. "All I did was get married." She said brushing it off. "No." Amara says. "All you did was prove that women can change their lives." Amara said proudly. They smiled and twirled and went back to their dance partners. Amara looked over and seen Ella dancing with Rumpelstiltskin. She looked over worried wondering why he was here. She seemed fine until he spun her and left. She looked like she was about to cry. Amara quickly ran over to her. "Hey are you OK?" She asked wrapping her arm around her. Ella just nodded her head. "Yea. I'm fine. He just wanted to rattle me up that's all." she said to reassure her. Amara didn't believe her but she let it go, wondering why Rumpelstiltskin was there and why Ella lied to her.*
They were out front of Granny's talking to Ruby as her car was getting towed. "So this boyfriend of her's, do you think he would have anything to do with her disappearance?" Emma asked while Ruby was giving a table their food. She looked over at Amara as if to decide whether to tell her about Ashley's life. She scoffed and continued. "That would mean he was involved at all. He left her as soon as he found out they were expecting. Hasn't spoken to her since." She stands in front of the three of them. Her car all of a sudden got jerked off the platform. Ruby rushed around them. "Billy! Hey Billy!" she yells at him. He turns around to look at her. "Watch it alright, you almost shattered my wolf. She looks and sees her red glass wolf charm hanging from the visor. "Sorry Ruby." he looks down into the car. "It's alright Ruby look." he points at it. "No harm done." She smiled at him flirty. "Uh Ruby." Amara says as her and Emma rush up to her. "What about her family?" Emma asked. Ruby turns back around. "Uh she has a step mom and two step sisters she doesn't talk to." Amara stopped and stared at her funny. Step mom? Two step sisters? That sounds an awful lot like..."Wait a minute." Henry turns to them. " A step mom and step sisters? And she's a maid?!" Henry tells them pointingly. Amara had a sudden since of Deja vu. "Henry not now." Emma tells him before Ruby can hear. He sighs and doesn't say anything else about it. " I don't know what you heard but its wrong." Ruby states angrily. "Everyone thinks that she's not ready to have this kid. She's really trying you know, taking night classes trying to pull herself together." Emma looked at her like she knew exactly what she was talking about and going through. "Can you understand that?" she asked them desperately. Emma nodded her head and Amara just looked at her and smiled. "Yea. I think I can." "Then maybe you should just stay out of it she's been through enough already." "Hey. Come on Ruby we're just trying to help her that's all. She's probably scared and alone and that's not good for the baby." Amara says seeing as Emma wasn't getting anywhere with her. Ruby looked at her and sighed. "Then try her ex." "Where can we find him?" Emma asked Ruby looks at Emma. "He lives with his dad." She says disgusted at the guy. Emma and Henry headed for the car. "Thank you Ruby, I know that wasn't easy and I know you hate to betray your friends, but she does need our help." Amara tells her sensing that she was mad at her. Ruby just smiled and walked back inside.
They find the house. It was in the nice part of town. Amara and Emma got out telling Henry to stay in the car. Emma knocked on the door. A guy about 19 years old answered the door. "Shawn Herman?" Amara asked standing with her arms crossed. "Yea. Can I help you guys?" he asked. "I'm Emma Swan and I'm looking for Ashley Boyd." "She's in trouble Shawn, we were just wondering if you could help us." Amara finished for her. An older man came up on the porch. "My son does not have anything to do with that girl anymore." he stated. He walked up the porch steps and stopped in front of Emma. "Whatever trouble that girl is in I'm sorry for but we can't help you." He tells them. "You're the reason he broke up with her." Amara accused. "Absolutely." he confessed. "I will not have my son ruin his life over a mistake." Amara scoffed at him with disgust as she turned to look at Henry, just sitting in the car. "So you just told him to leave her?" Emma asked. "What were they suppose to do? Raise a child in the backseat of a car?" he retorted back. " Some people only have a backseat of a car!" Emma said getting defensive. "Well it's not going to happen to my son." He finished and stormed into the house. "We should at least help them look dad." Shawn defends back. "Its no good son." he says dismissively from the house. Amara having enough walks up to Shawn. "Shawn if you want to come and get people to stop making decisions for you. If Ashley runs away with this baby she is gonna be in serious trouble." Amara tells him hoping to get him to come help. "She's running away with the baby?" he asked shocked. "Yes." Shawn's dad comes back out. "Shawn inside. Now." Shawn has a stare down with his dad until he relents and walks away. His dad sighed and looked toward the girls. "Look believe me if i knew where she was I would tell you guys. I went through a lot of trouble to get that girl that deal." "Deal?" Emma asked as Amara asked "What are you talking about?" "You don't know?" he asked. "She agreed to give up the child and she's getting paid very well to do so." he tells them. "She sold the baby?" Emma asked with an emotion Amara hadn't heard from her before. "You make it sound so 18 century." He commented unamused. "I found someone who was gonna find that child a good and proper home." he defended himself to her. "Who are you to judge that Ashley is not capable of providing that?" Amara said getting angry. "She's a teenager! When has she shown any means of being responsible and possibly know how to be a mother?" he argues back. "Well maybe she's changing her life!" Emma defended. "Everyone says that. Now look I got someone who paid Ashley extremely well. Someone who will see to it that everyone is happy." he tells them. " Oh my god! Its Mr. Gold." Amara says finally realizing why he wanted Emma to find Ashley. "Isn't that why you were hired? To bring him the baby?" Amara looks at Emma with a realization that she had been tricked.
As they're in the bug Henry is trying to convince them that they can't cross Mr. Gold. " No one has ever broken a deal with him before Emma." Amara says trying to talk her out of finishing this job. "Happy to be the first." she retorted back with conviction in her voice. "If Ashley wants to have her baby then she should have it. If she wants the chance to be a mother than she should have it. We all should have it." Amara looked back and seen Henry looking at Emma with a look that she didn't know was good or bad. They made it back to the diner. Amara stormed out of the car to talk to Ruby. She pulled open the door and made her way right to the counter and started on Ruby. "Why didn't you tell us she sold the baby?" She almost shouted at one of her best friends. "I didn't think it was important." Ruby said back as if it wasn't a big deal. "Ashley's my friend I don't like the thought of people judging her." "I'm your friend too Ruby! You know for a fact that I wouldn't judge her or disrespect her. But you lied to me." She turned around and stomped off back outside. She went back and stood in front of the car. A couple minutes later Henry came back out without Emma. He walked over to her. "I guess Ruby gave Ashley her car and sent us to Shawn's as a distraction." He tells her as she just shakes her head. "I can't believe Ruby would do this. I mean not to tell me? That's insane!" Before she can finish her rant her phone rings. "Hello?" she asks into the speaker without looking at the caller ID. "Hey its Tim, we're slammed in here when are you coming back in?" her bartender Tim asked her. She sighed into the phone. "Give me ten minutes and I'll be in." She hangs up the phone as Emma comes out of the diner. "She left about a half hour ago. If we hurry we can still make it." Emma said hurrying over to the driver's side. "I can't you have to do this one without me. I have to head over to the bar apparently were swamped for it being 3 o clock. But call me if you really need me and I'll be there." "OK I'll call you later." she said and sped off toward the town line. Amara walked back to the bar to take care of the rush.
* Amara and Charming led a very pregnant Ella and Thomas down below into a cave prison where they had the dwarfs building a prison cell. "Why are we down here?" Ella asked seeming very disturbed. "We need a place to keep him." Thomas explained. "Rumpelstiltskin is the most dangerous man in all the realms he needs his own special prison." Amara started. "So we converted the mines into a holding prison." Charming finished her sentence as they all kept walking further. "But how do we get him here he's elated all forever." "His strength is also his weakness, his deals." Amara continues. " We know he can't resist making them, and we know who he wants to deal with next." Amara said cryptically. "You." Ella's eyes widen as they continue on farther in the mines. "We sent word with Snow's bird's to him and he's accepted the meeting with him." Charming tells her explaining the plan. "You're gonna tell him that Doc heard something on the stethoscope. Two heartbeats." Thomas cut in. "You're going to tell him we're having twins." He stops as Amara finished. "And if he wants both, which he will, you will post a new deal." Amara finished and she stopped. She opened up the lid of the book she was holding and it revealed a feathered ink pen. "Quill?" Ella asked confused looking at the pen than at the others. "I don't understand." "I casted a spell on it." Amara explains. " Whoever signs with this will be frozen and all magic will be made impotent." Amara explains to her. "All you have to do is get him to sign the contract." Charming tells her in a gentle voice. "Ella this man is a terror, a menace. You will be doing this whole world a favor." Amara says to her holding up the quill pen. "Are you sure we should be using magic? Magic is the reason this is happening how can we trust this magic doesn't have a price." " Then I will pay it. I will do whatever is needed to save you and our child." Hearing those words cut a hole in Amara's heart wishing she could be with him right now. But she made her choice and he must never find out who she really is. A magic welding princess. "Let's go." Charming said softly breaking Amara out of her thoughts as they carried on through the mines. Charming opened a door led to a hollow rock informed room and in the very back was a large holding cell. "I hope you like it a lot of magic went into that cell." Amara said walking up to stand beside Ella. "Are you sure it'll work?" She asked. "Once here's in there he'll never get out." Charming confirmed. "You'll be safe Ella, trust us." Amara said nodding at her. "You can do this Ella." Thomas tells her grabbing her face gently. With a new look of determination Ella agrees. "OK, let's get him."*
When she got to the bar she noticed that Tim was telling the truth. It seemed like everyone wanted to be in to have a drink. "Hey not that I'm complaining but why is everyone here and not at work?" she whispered to Tim as she slid in behind the bar to take care of customers. "Well apparently your boyfriend decided to let everyone out early and bought his whole workers rounds here." He rushed out as more people came up wanting drinks. "So...what do I just send him the bill?" She asked him since he seemed to know more than she did. "He said he will be in later today to pay for all the drinks." She went to Leroy who was sitting on the stool pouting into his beer. "What's the problem Grumpy, you're getting free beer out of the deal." She told him sarcastically leaning against the bar. " I don't want to talk about it sister, but I will take another beer." She sighed and grabbed his bottle to throw it away and get him a new beer.
* They watched from a far as Ella was talking to Rumpelstiltskin. They seen her pull the contract out and him grab the quill. He looked at it for a second then talked to her to warn her about tricking him. Amara had a bad feeling about this plan. She seen him grab the contract and sign it with the cursed quill. Once he was frozen and Ella hollered for Thomas they came out. "No one breaks deals with me dearie." He tells her promisingly. Amara runs up to her as they pull the carriage up. "No matter where you are or what world or land you find yourself in, I assure you. I will have your baby." He growls at her as Amara pulls her away into her arms. "No magic can hold me for long Amara you remember that." *
A few hours later she is finally able to go back into her office and sit down. She checked her phone and noticed she had 6 missed calls, 1 voicemail and 5 texts from Emma telling her that she found Ashley and she had her baby. She rushed out and told Tim to take over that he should be fine. She was able to leave when she stopped in her tracks when she seen Joseph standing in front of her car with a red rose. She smiled and walked over to him. "Hi." She says taking the flower from him and smelling it. "Hey beautiful." He says pulling her closer to him. "Hey I need to make a quick stop before we go to dinner." She tells him giving him a peck on the lips. "Sure of course, anything you need." "Good I need to meet Emma at the hospital Ashley Boyd is having her baby!" They jump in the car and rush to the hospital. They rush in just in time to hear the nurse tell Emma that the baby was a healthy baby girl. "Hey, sorry I'm late, I got held up." She tells Emma and Henry who were sitting in the waiting room. "It's OK, She just had her." Emma said smiling. Just then Gold walked up. "Well isn't that fantastic news." All heads turned in his direction. "Excellent work Miss Swan." He praised her walking up closer to them. "Thank you for bringing me my merchandise. And thank you Miss Hurley for helping her. She couldn't have done it without you, almost seems like magic doesn't it?" He smirked at her while he said that last sentence.
*Charming and Thomas load up Rumpelstiltskin in the back of the carriage while Amara still holds Ella. "Hey it'll be OK. We did it! He can no longer come after you or anyone else." she tries to reassure her. Thomas walks back over and she goes to him and Amara walks back over to Charming. She looks over and sees that Ella is finally smiling and she leans in and kisses her husband. Just then Ella started to have cramps in her stomach. Thomas got her to sit down. She wanted to go over and help her friend but she was helping Charming finish securing the gate. Thomas rushes off to get her water. "What did you do?!" Ella demands as she comes storming up the hill surprising Amara and Charming. "Ella what's wrong?" Charming asked. "What did you do to my Thomas?" She ignored the others and just kept demanding from Rumpelstiltskin. "I haven't done anything. If you haven't noticed I've been otherwise encaged." He told her with a sarcastic tone. "But you know what's happened to him tell me!" She demands. He leas forward to her. " I have no idea dearie, but I did warn you all magic comes with a price." He smirks "Don't listen to him Ella we'll find Thomas." Amara tells her as she pulls her away from the cage. "No you won't. Until that debt is paid. Until that baby is mine. You're never going to see him again. Mark my words Cinderella I will have that baby." He tells her as Charming pulls her away. "I told you dearie, that messing in things you don't understand will only hurt you." He smiles at her evilly. Amara just smiles back and leans against the bars. "I will defeat you one way or another. I know something about you that you didn't want anyone to know and I will expose you for who you really are. A coward." She spits that last word at him and for a second she sees a flash of surprise in his eyes but it changed too quickly. "All in good time my dear." *
Emma walked to Gold while Amara stayed with Henry and Joseph. "Henry aren't you suppose to be home right now?" Joseph asked with his mock stern voice. "You're not gonna tell on me will you?" Henry asked almost pleading. He looked at Amara before answering him. "I think I can let it slide this one time." Joseph tells him smiling at him. Amara smiled when she seen the brief exchange. She walked back over to Joseph and sat down next to him. "We'll leave here soon I just need to talk to Emma and Gold. She stands up and walks over to them and comes in at a bad time. "If anyone understands giving up a baby I assumed it would be you." She heard him tell Emma. "You're not getting this kid." Emma continues with him. "We have an agreement and my agreements are always honored." He told her starting to get angry. "If not I'm going to have to involve the police. and that baby is going to end up in the system. And that would be a pity." "Its not gonna happen." She continues to argue. "I like you're bravery. " "but now I'm going to involve the cops, after all she did break into my shop." "Let me guess to steal a contract." Amara states standing beside Emma. "Who knows what she was after Miss Hurley." "There is no jury in the world who would convict a woman of breaking and entering when that was the means of keeping her child." He just looked at Emma. " I'm willing to bet the case won't hold up, are you?" Amara tells him smirking. "Then of course than there's all that stuff that would come out about you. I know no one wants to admit it but you're not just a pawn broker aren't you?" Amara continues. He smiles at Emma. "I like you Miss Swan you're not afraid of me and neither is Miss Hurley, and Id really like to have you on my side." "So she can keep the baby?" Emma asks. "Not just let he declares. "There's still the matter of my agreement with Miss Boyd." "Its simple tare it up." Amara tells him like it's obvious. He turns back around and looks at her as if she should know. "That's not what I do. Contracts or deals well they're the foundation of everyday existence." He turns to Emma. "Do you want Ashley to keep her baby? If so are you willing to make a deal with me?" She looks at him before answering. "What do you want?" She asked. He smiles in victory. " Oh I don't know just yet." He smiled smugly. "You'll owe me a favor." He tells her. Emma looks at him before walking up to him and shaking his hand. "Deal" she tells him before walking away. "I told you Miss Hurley nobody breaks my deals." He walked away as she stood there confused as to why she suddenly remembered him telling her that.
While Emma and Henry went in to see Ashley, Amara walked back out to the waiting room to Joseph. "Hey." She greets him sitting down in the chair next to him. "How's Ashley doing?" He asked her turning so he was facing her. "She's doing really good, she gets to keep her baby so she's happy about that." She smiles at him while she sees Shawn walk in and go to the front desk. "Is Ashley Boyd here?" He asked looking worried. Amara stand up to greet him. "Hey Shawn she's in room 212 if you wanna go see her." She tells him. He looks at her relieved. "Yes thank you so much." He hugs her and walks off down the hall. "So do you want to get out of here or wait for Emma?" Before she had the chance to answer Emma and Henry rushed out down the hall. "Hey we got to go it's almost 5 we got to get Henry back!" Emma said coming up to them. "Go ahead and go we'll catch up later." Amara gives Emma a hug. "Yea OK sure Henry let's go." She heads out he door as Henry looks at Joseph. "Thank you uncle Joseph for not saying anything to my mom." He gives him a hug and Joseph smiles and hugs him back. "Don't worry it'll be our little secret." Amara smiles seeing them together. Henry goes and follows Emma. Amara turns to look at him. "Thank you for being cool with this. I know this is putting you in a difficult position being Regina's brother and all-" Joseph cuts her off when he leans down and kisses her. He pulled back after a couple of minutes. "Its my pleasure. Now let's go eat I'm starved." They head out of the hospital.
