"It's the third time this week." Regina's angry voice echoed through the room. She was walking from side to side in the living room.

Emma was sitting on the couch, only staring at the other woman's moves. "I'm sorry..." She whispered trying to keep herself under control.

"Sorry?" Regina stopped her walk and stood in front of the other woman. "You made me drive for two hours to get you this damn burger." She said dangerously. "You're not allowed to be sorry."

"It's not my fault that you people don't have a Burger King in this God for sake town!"

"Are you implying it is my fault?" Regina asked, and Emma knew that she'd have to answer cautiously.

But by the time she opened her mouth to answer, the last thing she thought about being was cautious. "Actually, if you were faster we wouldn't be having this entire problem. I know that I was a little picky to make you go all that way to get it, but the baby wanted it. So you could, at least, be a little bit more supportive, it wouldn't hurt or anything."

Regina raised an eyebrow. "You're not eating?"

Scowling, Emma crossed her arms and looked away from Regina. "Nope."

The brunette was gone thought the kitchen door for a few minutes, when she came back she had Emma's Triple Whopper and a cup of soda. Against all her house rules, Regina sat on the center table in front of Emma. She put the cup by one side and grabbed the hamburger with both hands, showing it to the blonde.

Emma looked confused. "What are you doing?"

"Eating. I'll eat all the crap you ask and don't eat. And, eventually, when I die there's going to be a letter saying that I could still make it till a few more years if not for you and your trash food." Regina simply answered and bit the burger.

"Eat all you want, I don't need it." Emma said not really meaning it.

"Really?" The brunette responded sarcastically.

"What I do need are chocolate cupcakes with flocks of pepper and gooseberry juice."

Regina stopped her action before she could bite, she was almost giving up her self-control and yelling at the blonde.

Regina was still intrigued with the new guy, it wasn't until she received a call from the sheriff informing he figured who it was.

The stranger wasn't a total stranger, his name was August Booth. The little boy Marco once adopted after his brother, the real father of the kid, passed away in a car crash accident around. Since he was sixteen, August had left town, and by the time it happened he was really different from what he looks like now.

Though Regina knew who he was that didn't quiet explain what could this man possibly be staring at her house, she tried to think but there wasn't one tiny thing that could connect him with it. Except that maybe, just maybe, he was after Emma. But why was it? Well, that question was still a mystery.

She was reading the newspaper and eating her breakfast when Emma came in the room. As it had become their routine, Regina had her morning supplement fixed and ready for the blonde to drink. Emma was humming a song in a delightful mood, which Regina found strange because the blonde hated to wake early.

"Good morning." She said to the brunette with a smile and for Regina's amusement went right away to drink the supplement without any complaints.

The older woman immediately stopped what she was doing to observe the blonde with curiosity. "Alright... Why are we so happy this early in the morning?"

"Well..." Emma said pulling a chair to seat beside Regina. "That's because today is a very especial day."

"What makes today so especial?"

"Payback!" Emma said with a smile. And Regina didn't understand what she was talking about. "Your lovely mother is going back to her home and I couldn't help myself, so I got her a wonderful surprise."

Regina rolled her eyes and shook her head before asking the blonde cautiously, "What did you do?"

"Not much..." The blonde said shrugging and then she rose from the chair prepared to leave the room.

"Stop right there." Regina demanded, and Emma did as told slowly turning to face the brunette. "Spill it out."

"Can't we negotiate it?" She said in a childish pleading expression.

"What do you want?"

"A kiss."

Regina after a false pondering moment got closer to the blonde and gave her a quick kiss. "Now spill."

"Oh, come on! That wasn't a kiss, it was barely something. If you want to know you'll have to give me a decent kiss." Emma said in complain.

And once again Regina repeated the gesture to roll her eyes and got the blonde by the neck joining their lips in what soon became a make out session and only stopping when they both needed air. Emma had her legs weak and her heart racing still and Regina besides being breathless could manage to put herself together faster than the blonde. "Now, what did you do?"

Still recovering from their moment Emma said between the still heavy breathing. "I gave her garden a few extra cats."

As soon as the words left the blonde's mouth they both heard the door open and a very contained Cora come inside the kitchen with her hair covered in cat hair which caused the others too much effort to contain their laughter.

Emma was in the middle of the woods for minutes, she had waited for Sidney to come. As he claimed to know something about the lost teenage girl, the blonde decided to give it a shot. The ex-newspaper chief editor decided that it would be better if they met in a remote location to avoid undesired events. The man was twenty minutes late when he arrived.

Emma, hearing the step sounds turned to the direction it was coming from and was relived to see that Sidney Glass was finally there carrying a black folder.

"So, what do you have for me?" She asked as quickly as he stopped across from her.

"Fifty thousand dollars." He said and handed the folder to the blonde.

"Excuse me?" She frowned not understanding his point and moved to get the files from his hand.

"That's the amount of money she received before disappearing."

"And what does the mayor has to do with it?"

"Everything." He explained. "He's name was in the check."

Opening the case Emma started to analyze it, finding a copy of the check. "Why would he do this?"

"I don't know yet. The family said she had consults with doctor Hopper." The expression of the blonde suggested she got his point, and with the smile of a winner Sidney spoke, "This is just a tip of the iceberg, we figure out why he gave her the money and all the rest will be easier."

"The shrink keeps the patients files... But we don't have permission to do that."

"We can make permission-"

"No!" She cut his words. "If we're doing this, we're doing it by the book."

Sidney nodded in agreement, and before they prepared to leave the place he asked the blonde, "Sooner or later he'll know we're doing this... Are you prepared for his raft?"

Emma had a half-smile when she said, "Sure."

For days Emma waited to find something useful, a start point. She never expected a drunken Sidney Glass to be the one giving her that. Looking through the files she got from the station and the ones the man gave her, the blonde woman could figure a part of the mystery puzzle, which was bigger than she imagined it to be. First, the mayor was involved with it, one way or another. He had obviously given her the fifty thousand dollars. Now, she had to figure why a man of his status did this.

The more she looked the more she collected questions. Not once the name of the girl was mentioned. She only knew that she used to have therapy sessions with Dr. Archie Hopper.

She had to find a way to get the files from the shrink, and fast.

For the blonde's amusement, the former newspaper editor called her to schedule a meeting days later. He brought no other than Archie's files and news about the mayor. Explaining that as Storybrook was a small town, it wasn't a problem to find the right patient, but the name was still unknown. And also it was the only patient that left -or more like disappeared from- Storybrook. At first, Emma wasn't very convincing that he simply asked for the files and Archie gave them away, but Sidney seemed really insistent that this was all that happened. Yet suspicious, the blonde accept it and took the papers with her so she could start to read them.

Regina said she would be out all noon for a business meeting with a colleague from out-of-town in order to discuss the last balance sheet of the company. The blonde didn't understand much about business but from what she heard something was going wrong with it.

At the diner, Emma sat at one of the booths and as usual, when she hadn't the risk of being catch by Regina, she asked for burger and fries.

Comfortable in her seat she put the folder on the table and opened it starting to read what was inside them. Ruby never saw the blonde so concentrated in anything before and found it weird, but decided it was better not to ask or interrupt her friend.

It had been a couple of hours she was into the papers, she didn't even saw time pass by. Wasn't until she was interrupted by the sheriff, who she hadn't had a decent conversation since things with Regina worked out.

"Miss Swan." When he said her name, Emma frowned at his tone. All the more serious and nothing friendly as it always used to sound.

"Hey." She carefully asked, "Would you like to seat down?" He gently declined. Using the same tone she said, "Is everything okay?"

"Well..." He seemed to look for the right words. "I'm afraid not." She had a questioning glare at his statement. "There's something I need to ask you." She nodded as a sign for him to continue. "It's about Doctor Archibald Hopper."

"Arch... Who?"

"He is a therapist in this town." She made an 'oh' face as recognizing who Graham was talking about. "I received an anonymous call saying that you've got one of his confidential files under your possession."

She rolled her eyes already knowing why all the fuss. Of course this would happen, she thought and cursed Sidney Glass.

"Sidney gave them to me." She tried to explain.

"Seems that someone has another point of view."

At that moment Emma closed the folder and handed it to him. "Here."

He took it from her hands but didn't leave. "And I... Umm... I'll need you to come with me to the station."

Emma's facial expression changed a few times until she had what took to respond him. "I just told you that Mr. Glass was who gave me these files."

"I'm sorry, but I need to do my job."

"You cannot arrest me." She said slowly, trying to remain calm. "You have no proof I did this."

"Actually, finding you with the files is a high-proof. And I recall you that the mayor's office had already sent me your files, in which says you've already committed such crimes." He declared.

She rose from her chair and stopped in front of him, looking defiantly into his eyes. "You know I'm being set up, right?"

"For who?"

"The mayor." She said in an obvious statement.

Before heading with Graham for the station, the blonde passed by the counter to pay, yes she paid for her meal before leaving to basically jail. Of course that was only an excuse so she could talk to the waitress. She asked for two favors, first for the woman to contact Mary Margaret and send her to the station, and second for her to try to talk to Regina in her office, knowing she was on her meeting the blonde assumed she'd never answer the phone. When receiving a nod from Ruby, Emma walked with the sheriff out of the diner.

Mary Margaret was in her break when the phone rang, she looked at the display and saw Ruby's name. Only that managed to get a smile on her face for the first time in the whole day. Excitedly she answered the phone, and when she heard the words of her best friend her smile died in her face and she stormed out the room.

When delivered the message to Mary, Ruby was already on her way to Regina's office building. Arriving the place she went right away to speak with the secretary. The woman explained that Miss Mills wasn't there, she had a really important lunch meeting and wasn't to be interrupted by anyone. The waitress tried to say that it was for a really important thing, she even tried to use her charms to get the information of where exactly was this meeting happening, but nothing she did was enough. That was until she said the name Emma Swan, and the secretary widened her eyes immediately giving her directions. After having the paper with the information in hands, Ruby merely had the time to yell 'thank you' on her way to the elevator.

Emma wasn't thrown in a cold, smelly and uncomfortable cell right away. Instead the sheriff asked the blonde to sit at one of the chairs while he prepared to ask her a few questions, as he well said. She was nervously moving her hands and legs all the time, and once in a while she changed her position in the seat. "Where are you Mary Margaret?" She murmured to herself staring at the door.

The sheriff heard someone arriving on a run and turned to see who it was. For Emma's relief the school teacher had just walked in, and with worry she walked right at the blonde's direction.

"Emma." She spoke exasperated. "I came as soon as I heard."

"It's okay." Emma tried to calm the other woman down, as she seemed to be more nervous than herself.

The sheriff seeing the interaction between the two of them, decided to intervene. "What are you doing here?" He asked looking at Mary.

But before she could answer Emma quickly spoke, "Mary Margaret was my witness at the case." He looked like not understanding.

After arriving at the Italian restaurant, the best one in town, Ruby asked the maître for Regina. After checking Ruby's clothes from head to toe, the woman said that Miss Mills wasn't to be interrupted and started to walk away, but before she was out of reach Ruby said, "Please can you just tell her I'm here?" Trying to be patient.

The woman hesitated, but as Ruby seemed not to be going anywhere she gave in. "Your name please?"

"Ruby Lucas." The maître nodded and walked out.

By where she stood Ruby could see most part of the tables, and following the woman with her eyes the brunette saw when she walked inside a closed room. And before she came back, Ruby walked in the same direction trying to pass by unnoticed, but with her choice of clothing was almost impossible. When she opened the door and entered the room she was surprised at what was there. The maître was now apologizing for letting this crazy woman, as she said herself, enter the room. At first Ruby just stood there with her eyes widen and glaring at one direction.

"I knew it was you!" She murmured.

Regina turned to the restaurant's employee saying, "It's okay, you may leave now." After saying she was sorry for the tenth time, the maître left and the obvious tension was now increased. "Care to explain, Miss Lucas?"

A moment of silence was made and Ruby opened her mouth to speak for a few times before the two women heard the man say, "Hello, Ruby." She greeted her politely. "I can leave you two alone, if it's needed-"

"It's okay." Ruby interrupted him quickly before he could raise from his seat. "It's about Emma." She said direct to Regina.

At the same time she heard the blonde's name Regina was under alert. "Is everything okay? Is the baby okay?"

"Hmm... Yeah. The baby's okay-"

"Is Emma okay?" She said in concern.

Ruby shook her head. "She... She's at the station, with the sheriff. She asked me to came and warn you to go there as soon as you can. And I think she might need a lawyer."

Regina looked at the man apologetically and started to gather her purse and blazer to leave, before she could head to the door she heard Ruby pointing at the man and asking, "Is he coming too?"

Regina glanced him and then the waitress. "Daniel is a lawyer."

"When I went to juvie, Mary was my witness..." Emma spoke explaining. "She tried to say I wasn't guilty, but the court didn't believe her. Or at least that's what they said."

Mary was looking from Emma to the sheriff. "Emma-" She tried to say something.

The blonde didn't care to look anywhere but at the sheriff's direction. "I've spent one year, eleven months and seventeen days of my life locked up in that place, and I didn't even do anything to actually deserve it. By the time I only had few days to leave I was mysteriously proven innocent. So when you point your finger at me and accuse me of thievery, you should at least do it for the actual facts."

"How come this not be in the criminal record?" Graham asked.

"The mayor gave you those, it's obvious he only gave you what could frame me."

"I can bail you out." Mary spoke.

"No-one is bailing anyone here." Regina said stepping inside the room with Ruby and no other than Daniel right behind her.

All the others turned to face the older brunette, but neither Mary nor the sheriff could say a word when they saw who she was with. Ruby looked at the school teacher and then walked until she was behind her. Emma didn't get what the fuss was all about.

"It's evident that you do not have any reason to maintain Miss Swan here, sheriff. So I suggest you let her leave with us."

Graham looked from Daniel to Regina. "I'll have to ask her some questions before she leaves then."

Regina agreed. "That's quiet all right, but she'll be having her lawyer present."

"Lawyer?!" Mary, Emma and Graham asked together.

Daniel stepped up. "That would be me?"

"And who are you?" Emma asked.

"Oh..." He said walking at her direction. "I'm Daniel." He stood a hand for her to shake. Emma glanced at it for a few seconds before she shook hands with him. He gave her a friendly smile saying, "You must be the famous Emma Swan."

The blonde tried to smile but she couldn't do it, so she looked at Regina with a questioning expression.

The way home was made in total silence. Shortly after they arrived Regina's house, the brunette went to her home office and waited for Emma to follow her with the door opened. Right after stepping inside, Emma received orders to close the door and take a seat while Regina fixed them two glasses of water. She gave the blonde a glass, deposited hers on a center table and went to one of her desk's drawers taking a white envelope out of there. With what she was looking for in hands she took seat right beside Emma. Neither of them spoke for a while. The blonde stared at the floor not knowing what to do or say. Regina handed the envelope to the blonde and for the first time since they left the station they exchanged words.

"What is this?" Emma asked hesitating to take it from Regina's hands.

The brunette looked the envelope now in Emma's hands and then she started to explain. "A while ago I received those papers in the office. I opened it, but when I saw what it was about I decided not to continue reading."

Emma placed her glass at the table and went to look through what was given to her. "Those are..."

"...Your juvie records."

Emma swallowed hard before speaking again, "This was supposed to be sealed by court order." Her voice was little. "How did you get this?"

"I didn't." The blonde faced her frowning, it was the first time she looked at Regina since they started talking. "Someone left on my table."

"You mean the mayor left by your table." She pointed out exasperated. "I didn't do it." Emma spoke as if her life depended on Regina believing her words.

And the response she got was more than enough for the moment. "I believe you."

They fell into silence again for a couple of minutes.

"I wanna tell you." Emma said getting Regina's hands between hers.

The older woman turned in the blonde's direction looking at their joined hands and then at Emma's green eyes. "What about?"

"Everything. But it's such a long story and I don't even know from where to start."

Kissing Emma's cheek and then taking her hands out of the blonde's ones, Regina placed an arm around the blonde adjusting they both at the couch into a more comfortable position. "First things first." She said in a soft voice. "Tell me about what happened today. The other things can wait."

While Emma told the story Regina threatened Sidney Glass of death as many times as she said that Emma shouldn't be involving herself with Mr. Gold's life. However, the blonde insisted that she was only trying to make justice which Regina responded with worry. After telling everything, Emma was still trying to figure where the girl could be. The therapist's files said she was counting on someone else to break a deal with the town mayor. So now she only wanted to know who this person was, and then all the mystery would be solved. Regina didn't say it, but Emma knew she was upset.

It was late and they were already heading to their bedrooms when Emma stopped half way through the stairs and asked, "Who was this lawyer guy that came out of nowhere?"

Emma was heading to the garden when she saw it. She stopped right where she was and only stared at the amazing sight. Regina gardening, but what called the blonde's attention were the jeans she was wearing. Emma had a glass of water on her hands and when she started to feel the heat come through her body, she started hyperventilate. "Oh, my..." She said with her eyes specifically on Regina's ass.

When the blonde started drinking her water a voice coming from behind her said in warning, "Miss Swan, are you looking at my daughter's behind?" And the blonde immediately spat starting to cough. She put a hand on her chest, and her eyes were widen. her face started to get red, more and more. Cora just stood watching her cough crises. Emma started moving her arms as if she was asking for a little help and on the same time she also tried to cry for it.

Regina when seeing the blonde, now pressing a hand on her throat and with her face red as one of her apples ran in her rescue.

"Oh my God! What happened?" She said trying to help Emma with her cough problem. The blonde tried to say something but it only caused her crises to get worst. "Calm down, Emma." She passed her hand through the blonde's back. "Drink the water." She suggested, but Emma only shook her head hopelessly. "Okay, okay. Just try to breathe with me?" Regina said breathing in and out and signing for the blonde to join her. When the blonde's cough was almost fully controlled Regina asked them, "What happened?"

Cora was the one to speak as Emma was still recovering her breath. "Well, Miss Swan here was staring at your behind." And the words barely left her mouth when the blonde started shaking her head again and the cough was coming back.

Regina started laughing of the situation and the other two women stared at her in confusion. Emma had almost stopped her cough and even tried to speak, "Why-coff are you-coff laughing?"

"Is everything okay?" Ruby yelled coming from the front door, she heard a commotion coming from the yard and went to see what was going on. She caught Regina a bit more contained and Cora and Emma staring at the brunette.

The blonde cleaned her throat and spoke, this time decently. "It's nothing Ruby."

"You and your woman still own me an explanation, Regina. And we shall talk about the scumbag." Cora said and walked out.

But before she was out of reach Regina said, "Don't call him that."

"How may we help you Miss Lucas?" Regina asked.

"I think I... Came to speak with Emma." Looking over the other brunette's clothes.

"Excuse me then." Regina said going inside. Ruby was still looking at her until she closed the door after entering the house.

"Hey! Don't stare!" Emma said calling her friends attention.

"I... I'm sorry. I just saw the powerful Regina Mills laughing and wearing jeans. That's not something easy to get over." She said making a point. "Okay, I got over it. Now did Cora just say 'your woman'?"

"Long story."

"Good I've got the day off."

As things with Sidney Glass didn't work out, and he was now doing his explain for the sheriff, Emma decided to start acting by herself. At every suspicious move, she was there to watch him. Things were now personal and she would find out all the dirty Mr. Gold had to hide.

In the middle of an afternoon she saw the man getting out of his office unattended, he carried only a briefcase and before getting into his car Mr. Gold looked around as if he wanted to check there was nobody he should worry about. Done this he got to the car with the briefcase in hand, and the blonde walked fast to get her beetle that was parked one block away.

She thought she was lost in the middle of nowhere and was about to start cursing herself for this dumb idea, when after the bushes she saw Gold's car turning left and stopping. She parked the bug in a left entrance where the trees and plants and all the green stuff she could use to cover it made her car disappear of sight.

She walked until she was close enough to see it, when the mayor knocked at the door, looking around suspiciously. And Ashley came out the door, she looked inside quickly seeming to say something and then closing the front door. She started to walk side by side with Gold until they were close to his car.

Emma saw when the man showed Ashley a small paper, which looked like the same size as a check. The girl stared at it and then nodded. By now he put some papers out of the briefcase and on the car's hood and handed her a pen so she could sign.

"He's doing it again." Emma murmured and then started making her way back to the bug.

Regina arrived home late that night, she expected Emma to be sleeping but what she found was the blonde at the study looking very concentrated at the computer screen. She stopped before the desk placing her purse there and not even this made the blonde look away.

"Miss Swan." She said and waited for the woman to look at her but nothing happened. Emma only typed something on the keyboard. "Emma?" She went beside her to look over what the blonde was finding so interesting. "What is this?"

Finally the blonde started speaking. "I know he bought both babies, but why?" She said and looked up to Regina. "I bet it was for personal reasons but I need to know for sure. So I need documents that officially link him to those girls, which are the contracts. If Ashley signed one, 'Belle' must've done it too. The question here is who has hers? I could try and break into his pawnshop, let's take it as the place where most of his things of value are, but according to this building design plan he's got a state of the art security system and alarm. So, if I break in the alarm system goes off, it calls for the police and if I plan it well the sheriff will be at least ten minutes away. The mayor will have two minutes to get a call from the alarm company, one minute to get coat n' keys, three minutes to drive until the pawnshop and I could still add something for his lame leg, but I don't want to underestimate the man. I'll have six minutes to search the place and get the contract."

"Where did get those?" Regina asked after recovering from the astonishment of hearing the blonde's entire plan.

"Oh, this is the reason I didn't resign from the work at the station. I needed to have access to some files."

"This is illegal. And you're so not doing this." Regina said making clear that the subject wasn't open for discussion.

"Of course I'm not doing this... I want to make it clear, so that way the victory is going to be much better."

Regina got the blonde by her shoulders and turned the chair she was sitting at until she had all of the blonde's attention. "I forbid you to do it. This is craziness, and you are pregnant remember? You should be away from things like this."

"You can't-"

"I know I can't tell you what to do. I've learned my lesson the first time. But this is different, this is something that could put your life in risk, and I'm not letting you put your life in risk."

Your life. Two words that echoed into Emma's head, she had never had anyone to worry about her life being in danger. And though probably Regina was prizing for the baby's life and not hers the blonde felt a warming feeling when she heard the other woman say it.

"I worry about you." Regina said as if she had just heard to the blonde's thoughts. "Can you promise not to do anything stupid before telling me at least?"

Emma seemed to be considering the words before she said in a little voice, "Okay." And Regina leaned to kiss her.

The clouds started to form in the sky that once was blue, but the temperature was still warming as many other summer mornings. Emma Swan was walking down the street coming out of Regina's house, she had decided to make a little effort and exercise a bit. Regina had left early this morning, it wasn't a work day but she claimed to have an important thing to do.

Emma was carrying the book against her body.

The first thing she saw on her path was the results of her malefic plan against Cora, who days later could get ready of the cats in her garden, maybe now she'll think twice before messing with the leather jackets, Emma thought to herself.

She walked a bit more, and when she passed by Kathryn's house, across the street, she saw the blonde by the porch looking out as her husband, David Nolan, packed his old pickup and attached load at the back of the vehicle. She didn't look any happy, none of them did. Emma only had the time to see when David looked at Kathryn disgracefully nodding and got into the car, after the man left the blonde could see that Kathryn cleaned a tear before entering by the door.

For a while she hadn't seen Michael Tillman and his kids, Nicholas and Eva. When passing by a small park she could see the whole family united playing around. They seemed the happiest they could be and when the little Nicholas saw her he waved and called the others attention to the blonde passing by making them wave her too and she returned the gesture with a smile.

Reaching the main street she saw Mary in her little front garden, though it was a humble location the teacher took such good care that it turned out as graceful as it could be. The pixie haired brunette was trying to reach higher enough to hand a birdhouse in place but she was too little for that. The blonde thought about going there to help but stopped in place when she saw that Ruby was coming right ahead yelling madly with someone -who the she could bet it was Granny- but immediately hung up when she sighted the petite woman with difficulty to reach her purpose and went to help with it. Mary Margaret climbed down the little ladder and Ruby went up on it. She was about to reach and make it when a black motorcycle passed by honking and with the unexpected sound of it she lost her balance and went right down the floor. Mary tried to suppress the laughter but she couldn't manage it.

Emma thought about joining her friends but decided it was better not to, they had much to talk about and things to work out. So she kept her walk.

More ahead she saw the pawnshop of the mayor and coming out of it there was Ashley Boyd, she found it weird and the other woman seemed to carry something with her, she moved her head at a greeting and walked the opposite way. Emma only forced a smile and resisted to make her way into Mr. Gold's shop or follow the younger blonde.

Graham was taking the garbage out, in that case Sidney Glass. It seemed that he was going to be released from charges after all. God know how, it had been enough happening for Emma to figure that this was probably the results of doing dirty works for the mayor.

Regina was coming out of her office, she was closing the door with the key and with her it was Daniel, the man had with him a travelling suitcase and Regina accompanied him until the taxi. He seemed to be assuring the brunette of something and they said their goodbyes while the driver got the baggage to the trunk. They were a little bit closer than it should be if you ask Emma, so the blonde stopped staring at them with her fairy-tale book in hand and one of her childish expressions. When Regina saw the ridiculous image of Emma Swan she smiled at the way the blonde tried to disguise her attitude.

The brunette walked her way till the blonde and when she approached the woman she spoke in Emma's ears, "What are you doing here, princess?"

She tried very much not to show that the closeness of Regina's body was intoxicating and control her tone when she spoke, but when it came to the brunette, Emma couldn't fully use any kind of control. "I was only looking the peasant with his hands all over my queen."

The brunette opened a smile hearing the blonde's words. "Your queen, huh? I wonder who that is..." She said teasing the blonde.

"Regina, I saw him all over you right there-" She pointed the spot Regina and Daniel were a moment ago.

"Daniel is only a friend."

"He's not only a friend..."

"Why are you so jealous?"

"I'm not jealous." The blonde said fuming and looking around.

"Whatever you say, dear." Regina said not wanting to engage into an argument with the blonde. "I need to go, my mother is waiting for me. Will I see you for dinner?"

The blonde nodded and gave Emma a quick peck which caused the blonde to put on her most dramatic shocked expression. "Did you just kiss me in public?" But Regina didn't mind it, she only turned to leave. "...And without my consent."

"Goodbye, Miss Swan."

Emma was waiting for her hot cocoa when the irritating voice interrupted the silence.

"What are you reading?" He asked sitting beside her in the balcony.

"You..." She said not really happy to see the guy.

"This look a lot like a book I lost..." He commented looking at the fairy-tale book. "It was a hell of a book."

"Did you write it?"

"No."

"Then it sure was a hell of a book."

"It sure was... What is this one about?"

"Stuff."

"The author was terrific, he was also a really nice man you'd like very much to meet hi-"

"Why are you so interested in me and my book all of the sudden?" Losing a bit of her patience she asked him.

He friendly smiled at her, "I'm just trying to be neighborly."

Emma turned to him with a suspicious glare. "What are you doing in Storybrook?"

"Stuff?" He answered her sarcastically as he started to get out of the seat. "When you start missing something, just come and find me."

Emma stared at him while he left the diner with a puzzled face not knowing what he meant.

She sat by the wooden platform and looked over the beach view. Coming to this place had become something regular in her life, she sat by there with the book and read it as if she was reading to the baby. With a smile she caressed the over grown belly.

"Hello, Smudge." She said in a soft voice. Regina always got furious when she called the baby by that name, but Emma didn't care for it, she felt like it was an affectionate nickname towards the baby. Something only they both shared, like a bond of their own. Since she gained the book, the blonde read it –as she liked to say, for the baby- every night she could before sleeping and every weekend she came by this very spot to do it.

Emma opened the book on the marked page. Once she stopped to glance over the figure of the Dark One, in the picture he was incarcerated in a jail protected by magic.

She took a sigh and started her reading it, with each word she got more into the story and even the tones were changed within each character. Truth be told, her Rumplestiltskin imitation was one of the most embarrassing things she had ever done in her whole life. The Dark One was about to tell something of how the curse of the Evil Queen, that she didn't find much of an evil character, would be broken. But all the lines when to hell when she saw the name write on it as Snow White told the name of her unborn child. "Emma." She murmured. It must have been a coincidence, but as the pages were turned and at one specific she saw an image of a baby blanket exactly like the one she had since she was a baby was drawn there. "It's just a coincidence." She tried to keep herself calm but that didn't work at all. Reminding that she didn't look through the front pages information, such as the author's name, dedication or any other thing for that matter, Emma opened the first few pages looking for it, but found nothing. At that moment the click finally came and she remembered the words: When you start missing something, just come and find me.