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It was regular school night. People running errands, working, and having dinner. As for Norman, he was at Granny's He was in a booth with Rose studying. Now that Granny is his foster parent, she demanded him to always get good grades. Which is why she even asked Rose to help the boy.

Sadly, Ruby wasn't being a great role model. She was flirting with the town's visitor, August. Because of her attitude during work, she and Granny ended up arguing. Ruby made a scene and burst through the doors of the Diner.

"Will she be okay?" Rose asks him.

"Yeah. She will be fine. This is normal." He answered and took a glimpse at her. Something was on her mind since she was playing with her fingers instead of reading.

"What's wrong?" She hesitated a bit. Then decided to hand him a folded piece of paper. After opening it, he saw it was a picture of Rose with Mr. Gold.

"You and Gold. What's so-"

"This picture wasn't taken recently. I don't even remember when we took it. And that is a younger version of me. I didn't even have this breathing tank yet!"

"So?"

"So? Clearly this must do with my missing memories. My missing life. My aunt told me I had no other relatives and no close friends, except for her. What if… what if Mr. Gold knows something. What if he knows something about my parents?" She explained her thoughts aloud.

"Whoa! Are you even hearing yourself?" He had to ask

"I know it sounds crazy. But why would Mr. Gold even have this picture?" She asked back at him

"Because he is a creepy old man."

"Norman, be a friend and help me out with this."

"With what? Going against your aunt?"

"I'm not-"

"You are. She's your aunt, Rose. She took you in, raised you, and she loves you. Yet, here you are trying to find your real parents. It's like you want to leave her."

"When did you suddenly get along with my aunt?" She narrowed her eyes at him, as if studying his expressions.

"I don't. I- I just don't think it's fair. Besides, wouldn't Regina tell you herself about this?" He did have a point. But after everything Regina's done to Henry and Emma just to keep the two apart, Rose wouldn't be surprised of Regina did hide something from her.

Rose decided to go back to being quiet and tried to study. Norman couldn't but help feeling guilty towards the girl. They just got back to being awkward from the dance and already he's ruining their friendship.

"What did you want me to do?" He gave in. Rose looked up at him and smiled. More like a smirk.

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Jim Hawkins easily got use to his new lifestyle. Granny took him in as if he were the grandson she never had. Red was excited to have someone else living with them. Red would constantly complain about her boring life. But he didn't mind. Compared to what he went through almost a year ago, he liked the calm life.

He was out doing his chores for the old crampy lady. He was on his way to town when he saw a sickening sight. Body parts ripped out, scattered everywhere on the snow. Blood was traced all over the once white crystal blanket of snow.

"Jim! We have a visitor. Her name is Mary." Ruby had called out to him as she and the new girl with black hair were walking towards him. But she noticed he wasn't responding as they got closer. He was still as a tree, pale as a dying man. She rushed over to him

"Jim? Are you okay? What's wr-" Nothing was needed to be said once she and Mary looked at what he was looking at. The wolf had attacked last night.

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"What do you plan to do?" Norman asked his friend while they continued their walk together as the headed to the diner for him to work. Now that Ruby had quit, Norman had to work more shifts. He was really starting to hate his foster sister.

The two teens had stopped when they saw Emma and others leaving the sheriff's office building. Judging by Emma leaving quickly in her police car, Rose knew that the blond woman wasn't going to be returning soon.

"How about we take a look to find out more about the car accident I had." She suggested Breaking and entering? Not a good idea.

"You want to break into the sheriff's office? Are you crazy?"

"Come on, Norman! You're the one that always told me that I needed to do stuff. To be an alien, remember?"

Great. I forgot.

"I need to do this. What if there is information about the accident with my parents' names on it?" She added.

"I don't know Rose…" Rose then made a puppy face. The puppy face that he was started to hate. Well, more hating himself for falling for her trap.

The two troublemakers entered the office without getting caught. He was surprised that he could unlock Emma's office with just his pocket knife. They searched, and searched for any files containing the accident from all those years ago. But then they heard a car pulling up. The Sherriff was back. Rose and Norman quickly grabbed the rest of the files they hadn't gotten to yet and ran out before they could be seen.

For the first time in Rose's life, she was extremely excited for what they had just done.

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Granny explained to Mary about Red being the wolf. Jim remembered. The first-time Granny told him about Ruby's secret. He had to admit that he feared for his life, but he felt he had to stay and help them. He thought of it as sort of consequence for all the mistakes he had done for not helping his own family.

The three managed to find Red and layed her cloak on her wolf form to transform her back to herself. Unfortunately, they were too late to save her love, Peter. He was ripped to pieces.

"It's too late. He's gone." Mary sadly muttered.

"What's gone?" Red asked, waking up faster than they thought. Jim, in a fast speed, grabbed her by the arms and forced her to stand up. His goal was to avoid her turning around to find him gone.

"Get ready to run." Granny rushed to help her as well.

"What's going on?" Red was completely clueless to the situation.

"Come on, Red." Mary said and tried to pull her to move.

"You have to go now!" Jim desperately added.

"Go? I don't understand.." Ruby felt uneasy and started to turn.

"No Red!" Jim was too late to hold her still. She looked at the broken chains and notice Peter was missing.

"Where's Peter?" Red was panicking. Hoping the three-people standing before her would give her answers and relief.

"He wasn't the wolf." Jim whispered. But she heard him. There was no point of lying now.

"Granny?" Red didn't want to believe what she had done.

"I was wrong to keep it from you." That was the end for her. But Granny continued.

"But now you have to go!" Granny was rushing her to make a run for it. The sounds of the men from the village were getting closer and closer by the second.

Mary held Ruby in her arms and started to run away together. Granny and Jim stayed put as the watch the girls go.

"You must be regretting living with us now, huh?" Granny asked the young lad. To her surprise. He shook his head.

"Your wrong. I don't regret it." Because of his answer, the old widow hugged him in her arms.

"Thank you. I will make it up to you, I promise. Ruby will as well."

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Norman was working as a cashier at the diner when Ruby walked in. The young adult was dressed in more decent clothes than she normally wears. She also looked happy. After talking to Granny, all was forgiven.

"Thank you, Norman." Ruby thanked him. He wasn't certain why she was thanking him. He didn't do anything.

"For what?"

"For everything. But mainly, for putting up with me. I know I complain a lot when you have already had so much happening to you. What I'm trying to say is…. I'm sorry. I'm sorry you have been working more hours, which has caused you to spend less time with your crush-"

"Rose isn't my crush!" She smirked at the dumb kid.

"I didn't say it was Rose." He rolled his eyes at her. He fell for the trap.

"Shut up." He muttered, getting annoyed by the second. She laughed and hugged him.

"I'll make it up to you, I promise. What do you want me to do for you?" The boy didn't want to be mean or take advantage of her. So he came up with an idea.

"Let's just say, that you owe me a favor."

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Rose was going through the files and found nothing. That is until she found a file about the accident. In a super speed, she opened the folder and read through the papers. She eventually found her name on it. Except her last name was covered in dark black ink, her real name being a mystery.

How convenient.