"Uh, nothing happened last night, Henry.." Emma said quickly.
Snow looked at her friend shocked before looking at Emma. "Did you hear what she said?"
"About her wanting to be with us?" Emma asked, looking at her mother.
"No, She said that wasn't David," Regina said and looked at Ruby. "How do you know?"
"The scent. And we never did anything back then, he was always hung up on Snow, and I wasn't much for dating back then." Ruby said as she set the bottle down heading into Snow and David's room, grabbing one of his shirts, inhaling deeply. "I'm going out to find the real David, you three stay here and try a locator spell or something." Ruby moved towards the door taking one last sniff of the shirt before disappearing at a high speed.
"Ruby's right," Regina said, leaning against the kitchen counter, looking at Emma. "Come here, Snow, do you have a map of the town on paper somewhere?"
"Of course." She nodded and went looking through some cabinets on the far side of the room, looking at Henry as he went back to his homework.
Emma moved closer to Regina at the woman's command and she looked over at their son, sighing softly. "Do you think we should take him to Granny's? Where he can be safer?" Emma asked, looking back to Regina.
"That's a good idea, yes. You take him, and I'll do the spell, and if we find anything, I'll call you, okay?"
Emma nodded and kissed Regina's cheek before looking at Snow. "Kiss her for me, will ya?" Emma smiled and walked over to Henry, putting a hand on his shoulder. "C'mon, kid,takin' you to Granny's so you're safer, something's goin on in town and we need you safe." She said softly, heading over to where her laptop was, clearing the history on it for a few reasons, one, to clear some weird searches, and two, to sign her out of everything, thanking the lord that she never saved her passwords or had auto sign in turned on, she then put it into it's case along with the charger and slipped it all into Henry's bag. "You can play on this after you've done your homework."
Emma got back to the apartment not long after dropping Henry off, to find Emma could hear them yelling from the bottom of the stairs, outside the apartment. Regina and Snow in the middle an argument, both women snapped to attention at the sound of the door opening as Emma stepped in, both going silent and avoiding eye-contact.
"Either tell me what's going on, or neither of you will get to touch me for a month," Emma said and they both started talking rapidly, blaming each other.
"ENOUGH!" Emma's voice boomed, startling both the women to silence once more. "Right, now... Snow, you start."
"She was saying that we should allow Ruby to join us, I like it the way we are, I mean, I don't like hiding things from my husband-" She continued, not noticing a look flash across Emma's face at the mention of David, but Regina noticed. "But I plan on telling him when we find him," Snow said.
Emma looked to Regina, waiting for her to speak now.
"I think Ruby would be a wonderful addition to our beds, plus, she's a wolf, she can keep up all warm in the winter," Regina said and looked to Emma. "I need your help on the spell, by the way." She said, changing the subject.
Ruby stepped into the apartment just as the other three women had gotten a clear reading on the spell, "Hey, we were about to call you," Emma smiled at the wolf.
"I can't get a proper scent, it keeps leading me back here," Ruby said and looked at Snow, "I'm sorry, I tried, I really did." She said feeling guilty.
"It's fine, Ruby, Regina did a locator spell, he's located in the forest. Or near there." Emma said and pulled her coat on, holding the door open for Regina and Snow to step out. "Henry's with Granny, come help us look?"
Ruby nodded and pulled the door shut behind them, staying beside Emma as they walked out to the street, Regina waving a hand over the shirt she'd picked up that David owned, it floated briefly before leading the four women through the town.
Ruby and Emma were talking about how Regina and Snow had gotten much closer, over the past few days, Emma was nodding along, watching the two women who were a few steps ahead of them, her eyes drifting to Regina's ass before running down her legs, watching the way her skirt, slightly, drifted up her thighs with every step.
"I knew you two had chemistry from the second I saw you both at the mines," Ruby said, looking at Emma before looking back ahead.
"I knew that I wanted to fuck that smirk off her face the second I saw her." Emma chuckled and bit her lip. "I think that it's time I get my own place away from the rest of the town, I hear there's this property on the edge of the woods, it needs some work, but I really like it." Emma shrugged.
Emma and Regina had pulled David out of his hostage situation by magic, he had been knocked unconscious and needed medical attention as he was dehydrated and looked like he hadn't been fed in days, Snow spent the next few days at his bedside at the hospital, reading to him from the storybook.
David woke slowly after the third day of no movement, Snow still not leaving his side.
People had come in to visit, nurses and doctors coming in at different intervals to check on him and the machines.
Emma had been in the room whenever she wasn't at work, checking on Snow, bringing her changes of clothes, food, and making sure she was okay.
Regina had been in a few times, letting Snow know that she had been keeping an eye on Emma, as had Ruby, Regina also noted the look flash across Snow's face at the mention of the waitress.
It wasn't until David was back at the apartment did Emma break the news that she was moving out to the house she'd been interested in.
She had been so caught up in finding out who had done this to David that she rarely left the station anyway since he had gotten out of the hospital.
Emma had moved the last of her stuff into the farmhouse, she didn't have all that much, but there were a few boxes. She did it all in one move, though, having loaded the bug up she stopped anyone else from helping.
Wiping her laptop to a factory reset after clearing everything from it, she then put it in it's carry case and put a note with the charger cable before leaving it on a doorstep, knowing it'd safe from the snow that was due to come down soon seeing as she had wrapped it in a water-safe bag.
Emma sat in the living room of her new home, the snow bucketing down outside, she was kind of thankful for it also. She didn't want anyone to come and see her, she liked this peace and quiet, she needed it.
She had put a protection shield around the farmhouse, only blood magic being able to break through, not even Henry would be able to walk through, and with Regina and him having dinner tonight, there'd be no way she'd allow him out, and even he would Risk leaving the safety of the mansion to go outside in this.
Emma was holding a mug of cocoa, an insane amount of whipped cream and some cinnamon on top of the warm beverage.
Sorry, this was just a filler chapter, I'll hopefully have less of a block when I start to work on 11, or I hope so. I'll work on more of the David part later when I have more time, but lately, my wifi has been going down a lot so everything is getting uploaded/written from my phone.