Emma tossed and turned in her bed before finally giving up and getting out of bed. She had the same strange dream from the night before. 'Damn I wish I could remember their faces.' The faces of both brunettes had again been blurred. She found it strange that it happened the exact way as last time. The crying long haired brunette and the oddly curious darker brunette. Then the change of scenery. She was no longer in a falling apart castle, but instead a warm room with the curious brunette and the other one gone. The sexy brunette would stalk over to her with an evil smirk. Emma shook her head as she scolded herself for having another fucked up wet dream, and on top of that still think about it afterwards.
She winced slightly has the brush tore apart two golden curls tangled together. Her was always getting tangled. She remembers teachers and other adult figures in her life telling her it was a nasty rat's nest.
She glanced at the clock on the side dresser. '7:44, Great only sixteen minutes until your new job Swan.' She rushed the rest of her makeup and hair before hurrying out the door down the small staircase, towards the diner, and out the door.
Luckily Mr. Gold's pawn shop was barely a block away. She swung the door open and made her way in. The place desolate of people, but made it up with different antiquities. Emma ran her hand along a dusty wooden shelf, but unfortunately her hand tipped over one of the smaller vases. She quickly went in action and dived in before the case hit the ground. She ended up lying on my back with the vase loosely tucked between my arm and side. In her line of sight she could see a large square object teetering off the edge of the very top shelf before giving in and flying smack down to only miss Emma by a few centimeters. It landed with a large thud with a puff a dust soon after. 'Geez this place really does need to be cleaned.'
"Miss Swan it seems that your right on time." The voice startled Emma into jumping and hastily puts the vase back. "Keep it up and you might just become a permeating resident in our... unique little town." He chuckled oddly at the last part of the sentence, but Emma chose to ignore because, hey money is money.
"Um, Yeah thanks." She says as she swipes the dust off her pants. "Uhh, Sorry about the vase. It fell, but luckily I caught it in time." Her voice was meek in the attempt to make a good impression, and not to say any dumbass things. She looked down at floor nervously, before seeing the large object before lying on the ground. It was fairly large book with a brown leather cover with golden letter sleeping out the words 'Once Upon a Time'.
She felt a strange pull to it as she slowly began to bend over and let her fingers grace over the cover edge. She picked it up and carefully began looking through the pages. Emma felt a tug at the book and looked up to see Mr. Gold hand on the edge of the book.
"Huh, I've never see this book before." He said curiously as he the book left Emma and went to him. A slow smile spread across his face as he flipped through a couple a pages. "Tell you what, since I have never seen this before, I'll give it to you as... let's say a welcome to town present. How's that sound?" Her extended the book back to her.
Emma's eyes fluttered back and forth between the book and her new boss. She wasn't much of a reader, but she didn't want to be rude. "Thanks." She took the book crime the old man's hands.
"Great let's get to work, shall we?" Mr. Gold said with a smile and began showing her new job. He gave her a simple set of rules that applied to most things in life like respect his privacy and always talk to him before doing something not already instructed. He also had a long list of things the blonde shouldn't mess with.
The day flew by with great ease. She mostly swept the floor an dusted different antiquities. For the most part she was really beginning to think she had hit jackpot. When she finished dusting and cleaning she was free to go.
It was around lunch time that she finished up work. The blonde quickly put up the cleaning supplies and made her way down main street with her new book tucked between her arm. She was mostly consumed by thought that she didn't notice that someone was trying to get her attention until she felt a harsh grab at her arm.
"Miss Swan!" A sharp voice called out and she snapped her head to see the lady from before looking still murderous as hell.
"Umm... Hi?" She didn't really know what to say. The woman was rude as all get out, and people don't change over night.
"Hi? That's all you have to say?" Regina asked incredously. "I've been trying to get your attention for over a minute now." The older woman took a deep breath and pinched her nose. "Listen I think we might've started out on the wrong foot. I realized that I was maybe too harsh. So will you let me make it up to you by buying you dinner? I would really like to start over again." Ping, Ping, Ping! The loud bells went off in her head. Emma had a superpower. She could always tell when someone is lying, and this woman right her was setting off so many sirens.
"Thanks for the offer, but I'm really good." She smiles politely and tries to walk away, but brunette grabs her again.
"It just one dinner and I'll be paying." The brunette insisted, but Emma struggled to free herself from the iron grip holding her. "Please it would really put my heart at ease." Ping.
"No I'm really good." She finally tugged free and made a dash for it. Leaving a pissed brunette behind her.