The quarto now drove to the places they needed to attend. Lots of people had a watch or a clock from mister Gold's shop. In fact almost the whole town had stuff from his shop. Any ticking stuff was coming from there but, luckily, he hadn't hid a glowing piece of heart in each one of them. They started with Mary-Margaret and David's place. They were good friends with Belle. They gently gave their watch as Belle explained that they needed them to re-draw the mechanism. Soon, they would get it back. The neighbours followed. And soon the whole neighbourhood was gained.

Then they went to the town's main school and got the clocks mechanism while students and professor were giving class. They certainly would be sad not too know when the class ended but at least, the alarm still rang. It was a chance for the team that they were four, they were quicker. All the town's main places were also explored: the museum, the post office, few other schools and shops. As we said, lots of places were equipped with stuff from mister Gold's shop. But now the hardest part came.

As the night fell, people wouldn't open their door as easily as before. Henry got home. Only the trio remained. They had to find a way to access the clocks. For the houses it wasn't complicated, mister Gold was extremely good at opening closed doors -his job had formed him to the hardest tasks and offered him incredible technical skills. They slithered in and opened the clocks or stole the watches. Granny was hard to rob, it seemed like this old woman was prepared to fight any kind of enemy. Yet, Belle knew her place and quickly found what she came for. Ashley and Thomas got robbed as well as the others even though it was sad for them. Thomas had saved money for a long time to offer himself such a brilliant watch. Aurora too. Then Ariel and Eric. And to be fair a fisherman wasn't really rich neither.

The sheriff' office was robbed as well and it was quite a treasure; all the people who had their personal stuff involved in crime were quite huge. They got at least five watches, two pockets watches, few necklaces and three clocks. "How was it possible that clocks got involved in crimes ? " Belle wondered. But the two men wondered even more about the fact that they encountered no security to the stocks rooms nor the offices.

Only two places left to rob and not the easiest ones: the mayor's office and Regina's place. There was a massive clock in her living room and a wonderful clock in her office, just above the door. Henry said that he would take care of the clock at his home, even if it was quite a hard task, if he woke up in the middle of the night, maybe his mother wouldn't know. But the mayor's office was kept with codes and alarms, and it wouldn't be easy to access. Furthermore, Regina knew now. She would certainly be more careful.

As they planned, Henry woke up at three and walked down the stairs to his living room. The white wooden clock was ticking in the corner of the room. He had opened clocks all day, he knew the mechanism by heart now. He walk tip-toed to the clock but he suddenly heard a crack in the stairs. He turned. Regina was going down to the kitchen, she certainly would take a glass of water... But as she would come up, she would look into Henry's room and see that he wasn't there. He silently walked to the entrance and grabbed his back-pack. His steps resonated on the floor. Regina quickly moved to the entrance where she saw Henry.

" What are you doing ? "

" I was just... Getting my bag. "

" Why ? "

" Because... " she crossed her arms and looked at him. " I didn't do my homework... "

" Henry! Don't you think you have better things to do after school than going God knows where ? Leave that here and go back to bed now, you'll wake up sooner to do your work. That's it. "

And he went back to bed. She turned off the lights and walked up the stairs almost on his steps. She watched him in the door frame of his bedroom and stayed here, watching him falling asleep until she was sure that he really was in a deep sleep.

The trio on the other hand was heading to the mayor's office. As previously mister Gold opened the doors, but the mayor's office by itself was more complicated to open. It had three lockets and inside was an alarm to turn off few seconds after being in or it would ring directly to the police station.

" What's the code ? "

" I don't know. "

" You own the town and you don't know ? "

" I know the people, what they do with their lives, if it doesn't concern my shop, it is none of my business. "

" You've changed man. "

" Stop fighting you two, and start thinking of something. The code must be related to her in a way. "

" Her birth date ? "

" No, she doesn't like herself enough for this. "

" Henry's then ? "

" ... "

" ... "

" Henry's adopted how can you know the date ? "

" And if we're frozen in time how can we know it either. "

" Shut it. " The old man said closing his eyes. " I said that I knew each person in this town... August... fifteen... That's it! 08/15/2011, 0815 2001 ! "

" Ready ? "

" Whenever you are. "

They pushed open the door and entered, a loud alarm almost tear their ears apart. The old man threw himself on the alarm system and entered the code. Luckily, it was the good one. " Congrats. " Jefferson mockingly said. They only had to open up the clock and get back the cube now. But as they approached the clock, they noticed something quite unusual. It stopped ticking. The old man opened the clock and searched deeper to find any clue of why it wasn't working. The battery wasn't here. No cube were to be find.

" She knew. She knew we would come. "

Outside the flash of a car enlightened the place. Red and blue colours danced on the window.

" What do we do now ? " Belle asked frightened.

" Go, I'll stay. " Jefferson said.

" But Emma will arrest you. "

" She knows me now, she won't be surprised. Go now, find the pieces of heart. " he said smiling to the young lady. The two men shook their hand and the couple left.

Soon Emma arrived. She climbed up the stairs and found the hatter playing to the drunk man. And as he said, she wasn't surprised. They watched him getting in the car. End of the road for him too. They had to find Henry.