AN: I do not own OUAT even though I wish I did.

Another new chapter, even closer to breaking the curse. This chapter is going to be very long. When I wrote out the plan there is so much to write in here that it took up 1 1/4 of a page. Most of my plans don't even take up a whole page, even the very long ones.

This chapter is based off of 1x17 Hat Trick, I hope you enjoy it. I also hope you don't hate me for actually making Mary-margaret go through this, I know it was hard in the show but this also means that it's one step closer to the curse breaking and the next couple of chapters are suppose to be getting really intense. Especially this one. I also changed Kathryn's last name because in this fic her and David didn't get "married." Enjoy :D

Chapter 13: Hat Trick

Emma woke up to the warm sun shining down on her body. She stretched her eyes having a moan escape her moan from the feeling of every muscle in her body being nothing but absolutely relaxed. Mary-margaret was soon to have her baby in just a matter of days and that was the talk of the town. Everybody was overly excited to welcome somebody new. She had helped with the crib and putting the things away in the nursery, the entire time all she could think about was starting a family of her own. Of course it was too soon for her and Killian to start a family, they've only been dating for eight months.

Feeling a strong pair of arms tighten around her she looked to the side and seen a sleeping Killian next to her with his bare chest exposed. He looked so handsome when he was asleep. She picked up her hand and placed it on his cheek. It was times like these that she just wished time could stop.

Henry had been sneaking out a lot at home and had been skipping school. The only excuse he would give was trying to find proof to show her so she would believe the curse was real. As much as she wished it was real, so then she could actually have a family, she knew it wasn't and she just pushed that thought to the side. The chances of her even having a happy ending were very slim.

"Mmm, good morning love" Killian groaned with his eyes still shut and sleepiness in his voice. His rough sleepy voice was the sexiest thing in the world, any girl would go crazy over it. Opening one eye at a time he seen Emma's sparkling emeralds looking at him. Her blonde hair was still tangled and knotted from last nights activities and she hadn't bothered to put on a robe. That was his Princess.

"Good morning, somebody looks like they slept good" Emma exposed as Killian then suddenly jumped on top of her letting a small chuckle escape from her delicate lips.

Killian brought himself closer to her, his arms on both sides holding himself just inches above her. "Only because I had you, Swan." He lowered himself closer to her and planted a sweet and gentle kiss on her lips. It was suppose to only be a quick kiss but Emma brought her arms around his neck pulling him lower to her. She had made the kiss more rough and spontaneous. You could feel the sparks all around them as the kiss got even more heated. He wanted her so badly right now, the throbbing between his legs that was getting more painful by the minute was starting to bother him. "I want you, Emma" He whispered in her ear as he started to kiss down her neck until he got to the pulse point that made her whisper out his name.

Suddenly Emma's phone started ringing making her push Killian off of her. "Sorry" She said as Killian groaned, she could see the problem he had and he quickly went into her bathroom to take care of that while she was on the phone. "Sheriff Swan" She answered as she picked herself up and wrapped a robe around her exposed body. "Oh, um - I'll be down there in a moment."

Moments later Killian came out of the bathroom dressed and cleaned, he looked well groomed. "Who was that?"

"Somebody found a car with the engine still going, but nobody was inside, they searched the area and called out but nobody responded, so we need to go check out the area" Emma explained everything that the male had told her on the phone moments ago.

"Alright, Well hurry up there Swan and get dressed. We don't have all day!" Killian joked around with her as he came and placed a kiss on her lips before swatting her ass and watching her put on a pair of skinny ripped jeans and a red tank top. He loved those arms, he was so glad it was finally summer and maybe he could get her in a bikini next time they go sailing.

When Killian and Emma had arrived in the sheriff car they immediately seen how the car had swerved off the road and the engine was indeed still going like the man said on the phone. And nobody was there, they didn't even see any trace of footprints which was strange considering they were in the woods which was muddy. Other than that there was a river with rocks and sand around it, if they would've left they would've seen something by now.

Emma started taking pictures of the scene for evidence while Killian started looking through the vehicle for anything that could tell them where she could've gone or what could've happened. Unfortunately they didn't find anything before another car started to pull up. Killian seen it was Sidney. What was he doing here? He already made a fool of himself, Emma and Killian enough already. "Sidney. What are you doing here?" Killian asked as he looked on the handles for any kind of fingerprints, weirdly there was nothing.

"Mind if I take a look?" Sidney asked approaching the car in his strange beige attire with his camera hanging down from his neck.

"What for?" Emma asked taking pictures and not bothering to look up. She was on a job and nothing was going to take that from her.

Sidney came closer to the car, going beside Emma. He didn't know why but he didn't quit fancy Killian. "Well, just because I got fired from the mirror doesn't mean that I can't still can't have a little freelance reporting" He explained as he started snapping pictures of the car along side Emma. "So, what do we got here?"

"Gym teacher found this thing on the side of the road, abandoned, engine running, no one around. Registered to Kathryn Smith, she's M.I.A" Emma explained as she circled the car helping Killian search for anything useful.

"Kathryn Smith? She use to go out with David years ago, they were engaged to be wed but David ended up falling in love with Mary-margaret and had an affair. But after breaking up with Kathryn, I guess months went by and Kathryn was still in love with David so David went back to her and Mary-margaret was heart broken but eventually David knew Mary-margaret was the one because she made him the happiest and ever since then Kathryn had been trying to get back at Mary-margaret and there's been very strong hate between the both of them since Mary-margaret got pregnant. The scoop writes itself, The Mirror would have no choice but to take me back" Sidney explained the story to her.

Killian's eyes narrowed. Wow, so Regina did get her revenge for a little while, guess there was still some of Snow White and Prince Charming inside of them and their love was stronger than this curse.

"Calm down tiger, you don't work for Regina anymore. Besides that story must've been years ago, I'm sure no body cares for it anymore." Emma explained. She's known Mary-margaret and David for years now. How come they never told her? "Apparently she had gotten accepted into law school in Boston. So maybe her car broke down and decided to hitchhike the rest of the way" Emma explained taking the keys out of the ignition. "That's what I would do if I was running away from my problems."

"Would you leave your luggage behind, Swan?" Killian asked as he popped open the trunk.

"What?" As Emma walked over beside him she found the trunk was still loaded with all of Kathryn's clothes and belongings. This women was missing...great. "Time to pull Kathryn's phone records and find out who she spoke to last" Emma ordered to Killian as they started to make their way down back to the sheriff car.

Sidney ran over to them, he had an idea. "You know, if you go through the station department it'll take days to get those. I've got a contact over at the phone company who used to help me when I was over at the newspaper. I can get those in a couple of hours."

"Great mate! Call us the minute you get your hands on those phone records!" Killian exclaimed with a smile as he wrapped his arm around the waist of his beloved Swan. They got into the station car and went back to driving down the road, looking to see if they could find anybody on the side of the road or any article of clothing they may have gotten snagged on a tree. There was nothing.

Regina sat at her desk, looking through her work as she started to get a fax. She walked over to the papers that were printing off. They were the phone records for Kathryn Smith. "Hmm" She said to herself as she looked them over, interesting she thought. Taking out her phone she dialed a number. "Hello, Sidney? Those phone records you wanted. I have them, and I think you'll find them quite interesting."

Emma and Killian were walking through the town square. It was miners day and there was games and activities, food, drinks, and everything. So they decided while they were waiting for the phone records they would just take a quick look. They had nothing to go on yet, they already called the Boston law school and Kathryn never showed up so they had to now wait for the phone records. They seen Sidney playing some kind of ring toss so they went up to him.

"Mate, did you get the phone records yet?" Killian asked walking up to the man holding Emma's hand.

Sidney turned and stopped playing, they startled him. He hated people walking up to him out of no where. "What's happening?"

"So far all I've uncovered is that Kathryn never showed up for registration at law school and it was this morning" Emma explained.

"So something did happen" Sidney stated placing a hand on his hip while leaning the other on the table he was playing at.

"Right now it seems that way, mate"

Mary-margaret was walking around with David and seen the group. She waddled over to them as fast as she could. Being pregnant was harder than she thought. At first it was all fun and exciting and now she just wanted this monster out of her. She could barley sleep, she was always gassy, always hungry, could never get comfortable in bed and when she looked in the mirror she only seen herself as fat and the worst of all was the emotions. One minute she was delightful and the next she was throwing something at a wall. "Emma, Killian, and...Sidney? Hi" She said with a big smile. She seen the tenseness around the three. "What's going on? Did something happen?"

"Yeah, actually something did happen. Kathryn Smith...something happened to her and we're trying to figure out exactly what that is. We found her car abandoned by the Toll Bridge with the engine running and her luggage still in the trunk and she never showed up for registration at her law school in Boston this morning" Emma explained.

David's face went blank when he heard that name. Kathryn Smith. Toll Bridge. "Kathryn Smith? Why didn't you guys notify me on this? I'm still apart of this job too" David spoke up. The anger inside of him was starting to flare up and he was trying to calm himself down but it was hard.

"Mate, calm down. We just thought that you might've wanted to just spend some time with your wife, your baby is due any day now" Killian explained in the lowest voice he could, they didn't need the entire town to know.

"Yeah, and how come you guys never told me about your past with her?" Emma questioned.

Mary-margaret jumped back. She didn't want to ever bring that part in her life back up. The entire town went against her for the longest time until David started to stand up for her. They called her a tramp. She didn't want to sleep with an engaged man but he also promised her that he would leave her. "We didn't think it was important. It was a dark time in both of our life's and we wanted to forget about it."

Emma understood why they wouldn't want to talk about it. She was just frustrated because she had no idea what could've happened to this women. "Alright well thanks guys. David go have fun with your wife, you wont have many of those moments left anymore" Emma said with a smile pushing them off and turning back to Sidney who had a straight serious face almost like he was saying "Are you kidding me right now?" "What?" She asked confused on the look.

"You want a suspect? Pixie cut over there has got one a mile high" Sidney stated pointing out what he thought.

"What? Mary-margaret? No! She wouldn't hurt anybody, she's not like that. Besides all of that stuff with the affair, that happened years ago, so long I don't even remember it" Emma said. She didn't believe it was Mary-margaret. Even if they had strong hate feelings towards each other in the last couple of months didn't mean Mary-margaret would go as far to actually kidnapping her. She was almost like a Saint. Almost!

"But she's -" Sidney exclaimed wanting to protest against the sheriff, which was a bold move.

"Trust her, mate!" Killian said gritting his teeth at the man, cutting him off, nobody went against what Emma believed. "Just get those phone records to us!" And with that he moved him and Emma away from the imp. Killian still had the feeling inside of him since he agreed to take down Regina for Emma. Something was up, he wasn't telling them something.

Both at the station they were looking at the pictures that Emma had taken this morning and trying to see if they could pin point anything odd about them. There was nothing and this case was getting further down into the hole. They didn't know what to do from here. Then Sidney came from around the corner holding a yellow envelope. "The phone records" He said handing them over to Emma, "Every call she made the day she crashed her car. Including an eight minute call between her and David within an hour of the accident."

Emma took them and opened them up, looking through her call log. He was right, David was there. But why would he be talking to Kathryn, they were over years ago and he was now with Mary-margaret happily married with a baby on the way. "Why would he call Kathryn? He didn't seem shocked when we seen them at the fair."

"Maybe he was trying to hide something, he did get a little angry when he heard about it" Sidney notified remembering how anger flared up inside David at the fair from earlier.

"He was only upset because we didn't notify him about this situation" Killian said, he didn't believe that his friend would've done anything to Kathryn.

"Look, it's right there on paper Emma, that's your proof that he's hiding something." Sidney turned and walked out of the room with a smile on his face. He was pleased. Regina did a fair good job at making those papers look real.

Killian walked over to Emma and looked down at the papers himself, yup there was David's name, circled in red pen. "So, what are we going to do now? He questioned.

Emma took out her phone from her pocket and sighed. She didn't want to do this. Question her own deputy about a crime that he could now be apart of. "The only thing we can do." She listened to her phone ring on the other end until the other person answered. "David, look, we need to talk. Can you come to the station?"

"Uh - I'm actually a little busy right now."

To Emma it sounded like David was somewhere outside, she could hear the wind blowing into the phone. "Where are you?"

"The Toll Bridge."

Hanging up Emma rushed out to the station car with Killian behind her, he was yelling for her, asking what was happening. "David, he's at The Toll Bridge! We need to get there before he leaves!" She zoomed off down the road. Lord knows what David might be doing down there. Emma told him to go have fun with Mary-margaret and then he goes to the crime scene. Yeah, that's not strange at all.

Slamming down on her breaks they both rushed out of the car and down past where the crashed car was still laying off the road. They walked down by the river and seen David digging into the sand. What was he doing? "David...we need to talk. You were the last person Kathryn talked to right before the crash." Emma informed him as the man looked up from what he was doing. His face had dirt and mud all over it.

"Come on mate, you need to come with us to the station and explain this to us." Killian picked up the man who was trying to get away and push the man off. He didn't seem like the David he knew. Finally being able to get David to the car he hand cuffed him and was able to place him into the back of the cop car. Walking back over to Emma she was digging where David was just moment ago. She hit something hard. "What is it?" Killian asked as Emma brought up a jewelry box.

Emma took a deep breath, there could literally be anything inside of that. "I don't know but we're about to find out." Lifting open the cover she gasped and screamed almost dropping it. It was a heart.

"Bloody hell" Killian muttered as he seen what it was. David couldn't have done this. He was too innocent.

Emma passed the mug to David, he looked tired and drained, he didn't understand what was happening. "David, why were you at the Toll Bridge digging on the beach?"

"I wanted to help find what happened to Kathryn so I found a piece of wood covering up a spot so when I flipped it over I took a stick and felt something hard and that's when you guys showed up" David explained to them.

"so you had nothing to do with the heart that was inside?" Killian asked. He seen David shack his head and his eyes went wide, he really didn't know anything about it. Killian sighed, thank god, he did not want to go down that road with having to arrest his mate and see him go to court and then thrown into a prison.

"What about the call from you an hour before the accident?" Emma questioned, there had to be a reason he was talking to her.

David shrugged, "She just called to say goodbye. Me and her still talk here and there, she just wanted to say she was leaving and she wasn't going to be coming back. Why? Do you think I killed her?" He was starting to panic. How could the people he trust the most think he would do such a thing and kill an innocent.

Emma looked down at the man who was sitting in the dim light of the room. "No, I can see you're not lying you really don't know anything. But if I were you I'd get a lawyer, right now you're the only suspect we got and you going and saying what you told me wont be very believable in court."

"You're saying I'm a suspect for murdering Kathryn? I'd never do anything like that" David said as tears started to swell up in his eyes.

"I know mate, we both do, but it's just for a little while. Me and Emma will figure this out. We promise" Killian said patting the man on his shoulder, "Now go home and see your wife, get some rest, take it easy."

David walked out of the room with tears filling his eyes. What was he suppose to tell Mary-margaret? That he got arrested because he's the suspect for murdering Kathryn, that wouldn't go down good. She would end up leaving and wouldn't let him see the baby. But they were married and they had to be honest with each other.

"So what do we do now, Swan?" Killian asked as he watched his pitiful friend walk out of the station and into the night.

Emma opened up the jewelry box with a cloth, not wanting to get her fingerprints on it. "Now we find out who really killed Kathryn and who's jewelry box this is."

Two days had went passed and there was still nothing new they could say about the murder. Emma and Killian even went back multiple times to see if they could find anything new but there was nothing. The only evidence they had was the heart in the box and the pictures of the vehicle. Sidney wasn't around which was strange because he was trying to help out with the case and David was told to stay home until they figured this out. He said he had told Mary-margaret and she was like everybody else, she refused to believe David could ever do anything like that.

"Swan! Swan!" Killian came running through the station with an envelope in his hand and a smile on his face. "Look what I got!"

Emma turned around with wide eyes, she's never seen Killian this excited about anything since she's known him. Well other than when she was in bed next to him, but they couldn't do anything because Henry was in the bed next to them. Killian really needed to build onto his house. "What is it?" She asked as she took the envelope from him and opened it up. "Wait - is this?" Killian nodded. "So it wasn't David after all...but this can't be right..."

"DNA tests don't lie love" Killian told her. What he seen on the paper was even worse than David committing the crime. He's sure that even Sherlock Holmes wouldn't of even seen this coming from a mile away.

"But this...no, this is impossible!" Emma threw the papers down onto Killian's desk and cupped her face in her palms. What was she going to do now, this couldn't be right, why was this case so fucked up she thought to herself. "Well...we better get this over with. I hate to do this, I can't do it Killian. That family is going to be separated."

Killian sighed and looked down, "I understand Swan, I know what it's like to get separated from your family. But this person did something horrible, something that nobody would ever expect from them. Come on." He drew her into his arms and made small circles onto her back. "I'll be there with you the entire time, alright?" He looked down at her and she nodded and gave a small smile. He didn't want to do this either but he had to be strong for Emma.

Emma pulled up to the white farm house, all the lights were on and the house seemed like an ordinary family home. Nice and peaceful. But that was about to change. The sheriff car lights were on as her and Killian exited out the car and slowly walked up the gravel driveway and up the stairs that led to the front door. They looked at each other before Killian knocked.

"Emma...Killian, what are you doing here?" David asked as he opened the door with Mary-margaret coming up behind him drying off a dish.

Emma looked up to the man with sorrow in his eyes, she wanted this to be over with already, but little did she know it was just beginning. "David, we um...ran tests on the heart and it is in fact Kathryn's" Emma started off barley being able to look up at the man. She heard glass shatter and look up to see the dish Mary-margaret must had dropped. David had walked off a little and placed his head in his palms, he couldn't believe this. "We also found fingerprints on the box."

"Take me. Arrest me. lock me up!" David ordered through tears as he held out his wrists to be handcuffed.

"Mate wait, the fingerprints weren't yours "David said placing a hand on the mans shoulder trying to clam him down.

David's eyes narrowed, "Then who's were they?"

Emma swallowed, this was it. She was about to just split up a family. "...They were...Mary-margaret's."

Mary-margaret gasped and looked around, all eyes were on her. She didn't kill Kathryn, she would never even hurt a fly. How dare they believe it was her, she was pregnant for crying out loud!

"Turn to the right lass" Killian ordered as he took the mug shots of Mary-margaret who was trying as hard as she could to not cry.

"Killian, this is a mistake, I didn't kill Kathryn!" Mary-margaret exclaimed.

"Of course you didn't love, I believe you" Killian said taking out the mugshots he had just taken and walking over to his desk to finish them off and place them inside of the suspect book.

Mary-margaret walked over to the man and looked up into his eyes, pleading. "Then why do this?"

"Because while you are our friend, we are also the law, and we have to go where the evidence leads" Emma said walking out of her office. She felt horrible ever since she found out that Mary-margaret's fingerprints were on that box but she had to do this or she would have to deal with Regina.

"Which leads to me? Emma, just two days ago it was David. Something's not right here" Mary-margaret notified them. Something seemed off to her, it wasn't right. How can it jump from her husband to her just that quick? Was this all because of that affair they had all those years ago.

"I know, but your fingerprints were on that box, and his are not...so now we have to deal with...this" She said holding of the mugshots that were laid out on her lovers desk.

Killian made the women turn to him and look at him once again, "Look, we will figure this out alright." He hugged her the best he could, which wasn't much considering her stomach was the size of two bowling balls.

"This is insane" Mary-margaret muttered out with her chin pressed again Killian's shoulder. "All this evidence, it leads to me cutting out Kathryn's heart and buried it in the woods. I can't believe this. My baby will be born with his or her mother chained to a hospital bed and I won't be able to raise them." two tears came from each eye and dropped down onto the mains black vest he had over his long sleeve shirt.

Killian pulled away but still made sure his hands were rubbing the women's shoulders gently, trying to relax her. "I won't let that happen, Mary-margaret. I promise your baby will have both parents raising him or her."

Mary-margaret made a weak smile as she whipped away the tears that had strayed from her eyes. She wished David could be here, but Emma thought it would be best if he had stayed home just for now. "Thank you, Killian."

"Look Mary-margaret, If I don't book you, with all this evidence it's gonna look like favoritism and then Regina will have cause and will most likely fire me, Killian and David, and then you know what she'll do? She'll bring in somebody that will railroad you. So please try to be patient and trust us. We will get you out of this because I know you didn't do this Mary-margaret, but in the time being, you have to bear with me because I need to ask you a few questioned" Emma explained as honestly as she could. She didn't want to scare her, she was just preparing her.

"This is crazy. I would never hurt anyone" Mary-margaret breathed out as she walked over to the private room that had nothing but a large desk built for four and a long stand up locker that must've held evidence. Why couldn't this just all be a nightmare that she could wake up from in any moment and just snuggle into David's arms and tell him about it in the morning. Why did this have to be real.

"Alright love, just take a seat" Killian said as he and Emma sat on the opposite side of the table with a table recorder on the table to record the entire conversation so they could go back and listen to it.

"Ask me anything. I have nothing to hide" Mary-margaret begged for them. She hopped that she was able to get through this as quickly as possible and just go home, not guilty.

Emma smiled and pressed record on the recorder. "The heart was found buried near the old Toll Bridge. It had been cut out with what appears to be a hunting knife. Have you ever been to that Bridge before?"

"Yes. Many times. It's where David and I liked to go" Mary-margaret answered honestly.

"Mr. Nolan, your husband..." Emma began as she got up from her seat and walked over to the stand up locker and started to get something out of it, "And you went that for what purpose?"

"That's where he proposed, and we also went there for Valentines day...and where we would meet years ago when we were having that affair" Mary-margaret answered another question with an honest answer.

Emma placed the box the heart was found in on the desk and placed it in front of the women. "Have you ever seen this before?"

Mary-margaret looked at it and her eyes went wide. How had she not noticed that was missing earlier? No wonder her fingerprints were all over it as they had told her. "Yes, it's my jewelry box."

"That's what we found the heart in" Emma said narrowing her eyebrows. Great! Now she had something else to figure out, was Mary-margaret really the killer? Just because it was her jewelry box doesn't mean she killed Kathryn, of course her fingerprints were on the box, it was hers after all. Something was really not right here at all.

"Don't you see what's happening here?" Mary-margaret asked as she clued in. Somebody who hated her this much tried to frame her for something she didn't do. Something horrible. Something she would never do. "Someone stole that box and put the heart in it. I didn't have anything to do with it. I'm innocent! I'm still the good person I've always been, a good person. I did not do this."

Emma looked over at Killian who looked like he figured it out as much as she did. There was another bump in the road. They both knew Mary-margaret couldn't have killed Kathryn. For one she was way to huge to even move quick enough at killing somebody and two she was the most sweetest and the most innocent person in all of Storybrooke. "Can I speak to you out in the hall?" Emma asked looking over at Killian.

Killian got up out of his seat and fallowed Emma out of the room, he placed both hands behind his neck and started pacing. Now he was freaking out. "Who could've done this?"

"What? Steal that box and frame Mary-margaret for it? I'm not sure, is there anybody else in town that doesn't like Mary-margaret?" Emma wondered. She hadn't noticed anything with somebody giving her dirty looks or trying to hurt her.

Killian shook his head and shrugged, "I don't think so. But if the box was really stolen then there must be a sign of a break in at her house. Maybe we should go look there?"

"Alright great idea." Emma went back into the room that sat Mary-margaret. "Come on, me and Killian are going to search your place for any signs of a break in, but I'm afraid when we're gone, you'll have to be locked up." Emma hated telling her friend that she had to lock her up in the cell it was horrible. What was even worse was the saddened look upon her face when she locked those steal bars and walked out of the room with Killian.

"Dem...Gold, what are you doing here?" Killian asked as he seen that man walking into the station.

"Oh, did I catch you on at a bad time? I just wanted to speak with Mary-margaret since I'm a man who's gotten himself out of situations similar to these, I thought maybe I could be some assistance. I am a lawyer after all and It appears that's the one thing she does need" Gold muttered out looked into the darkness of the man who stole his wife away from him.

Emma's eyes rose up "You're a lawyer?" She had no idea.

"Ever wonder why I'm so keen at making my contracts? I've heard mostly everything I had to about your case Mrs. Nolan and I think you'd be well advised to bring me on as your counsel" Mr. Gold told the short raven haired lady as kindly as he could, which still seemed a bit dark and scary with him.

Mary-margaret never felt comfortable around this man. She had heard rumors about him that he would start going crazy and would threaten the florist and start beating him almost to death blaming him for taking her away...who was her? "And why's that?"

"Well as many times I've had charges dropped from me after the more worst things I've been in that you probably couldn't count on both hands, I say you need me, it's for Mrs. Nolan's best interest" Gold explained to her.

Mary-margaret looked over at Emma and nodded, Mr. Gold was right. "Come on Emma, who are we kidding? I need help and you need to do your job or else I'm screwed. I know you'll prove me innocent, just please, go do your job, go check my house, and tell David I love him" She told Emma who nodded to her and left with a saddened smile on her face. Killian fallowed her and she hopped that they would find some sort of break in that would prove her innocent.

"Alright Mrs. Nolan, let's get down to business, shall we?" Gold said as he started approaching the cell that held Mary-margaret.

"I can't pay you" She told him. She didn't have enough money with being pregnant and having to spend mostly all her paychecks on getting ready for the baby and making sure she or he had everything.

"Oh, I didn't ask for money...let's just say, I'm invested in your future." Gold needed Mary-margaret and David to be happy, they were true love's after all, but they hopefully already knew that. But he also knew that if this was still going on when the curse broke...well that wouldn't be good for anybody because apparently everybody in this god forsaken town is related some how!

Killian knocked on the front door of the white farm house once again. He hopped this would be the last time they would have to show up here for a while. David opened the door and he looked like he didn't even sleep at all last night. Who would when they just seen their significant other being arrest. "Mate, look, I know this must be hard on you, but we believe that somebody may have broken in and stolen Mary-margaret's jewelry box to frame here since that's what the heart was in."

"David, may we please look around?" Emma asked softly after the man didn't even answer Killian. All David did was nod for a response. That was good enough for her.

They both checked the doors and all windows making sure there was no broken latches, no broken windows, no doors being kicked open. So far they didn't find anything and they were about to give up when they heard clinking down inside one of the air vents. Killian looked over at Emma as he approached it and lifted off the top. He didn't expect to pull out a ten inch hunting knife. The look on Emma's face was sad and frightened, they found another piece of evidence that lead to Mary-margaret.

As they told David there was no signs of a break in and the found a knife hidden in the air vent, he looked even more drained, like somebody had been sucking the power right out of him. They both gave him a comforting pat on the shoulder and told him they'd do their best to solve this. As they opened the door to walk out for some reason Henry was there.

"Henry? What are you doing here lad?" Killian asked confused. He left him home this morning and told him not to leave the house so he could figure out this Mary-margaret thing.

Henry held up a ring filled with keys. But these keys were unlike anything he ever seen before. These keys were black and had skeleton heads around the top where you'd pinch your fingers to hold it. He had read about them in the storybook, "I think I found something that could help out Mary-margaret."

"Keys?" Emma asked narrowing her eyes confused, "What are keys going to do?"

"Not just any keys, these keys open up any door in Storybrooke. This is how Regina got into the house and framed Mary-margaret with murder" Henry explained. He may have snuck into the Mayors office and found the keys.

"Where did you get those? Did you sneak into Regina's office?" Killian asked.

Henry looked from side to side and shrugged, he couldn't tell his dad that he broke into the Mayors office when she wasn't there and took them. "The book said they could open any door" Henry explained and he seen Emma slouch, of course she would, she still didn't believe.

Emma took them from his hand and examine them, "Henry, there's no way these could even fit in the lock. They're too big."

"We have to try!" Henry said taking the keys from her and walking over to the now shut door. He took each key one by one and tried putting them inside the lock, each one he tried wouldn't fit.

"Come on Henry, I know you believe everything is the answer to Operation LoveSwan but sometimes the real world has to come first" Emma said before getting cut off.

"It is! just try one more...you do it" He said handing her the keys. She watched as she hesitated to take them, but she did. She looked down at the keys, each one and finally picked one. One that was slim. She placed it in the key hole and found that it fit, narrowing her eyes she turned the key and immediately the door opened up. "Do you believe now?" Henry asked with a smile as he looked up at Emma who's mouth was open wide in shock.

"Mr. Gold!" Emma rushed in the back of his pawn shop with Killian behind her. They seen him cleaning up an old lamp, it looked like the lamp from the Disney movie Aladin.

Gold turned around and seen the two storming into his back room, where nobody but him should be. "Ms. Swan, Mr. Jones. Any development in the case I should be aware of?"

"Aye, Regina set her up" Killian said through his gritted death as he looked at the crocodile.

"And this surprises you? Just show me the evidence and I'll make sure this is over immediately" Gold muttered.

Killian leaned himself on the small table that Gold had been sitting at, looking him deep into those demon eyes of his. The eyes that he just wanted to stab with his hook...he missed his hook. "Yeah, that's the thing. There isn't any...any that's court worthy. But we know it now."

"Really? Even you Ms. Swan?" Gold asked looking over at the women who was eyeing him up with a death stare. She didn't say anything. "Look who's finally become a women of faith. Why are you here? To spin conspiracy theories?"

"We need help! Every time we've gone up against Regina, we've lost or one of us gets hurt" Emma stated as strongly as she could.

"Well, as I recalled...Mr. Jones, doesn't quite approve of my methods" He said giving a smug grin up to the pirate and back down at his left hand...his "hand."

Emma looked over at Killian...did they had a past together? "Well we approve of you results...we need your help, I have something more important to me than anything. I need help saving a friend"

Oh, great Swan, you just made it sound like I approved of him cutting off my bloody hand and killing Milah...his wife! Killian thought to himself but stayed quite staring at his crocodile that he's waited years to skin. Hopefully when the curse is broken he finally will!

"And you're willing to go as far as it takes?" Gold asked as his eyes were still glued on the pirate.

"Farther!" Emma told the man.

"Now we're talking" Gold whispered at her. "Fear not, Ms. Swan. Regina may be powerful but something tells me that you're more powerful than you may know." Gold looked once more over at Killian. He knew. Emma did save him after all once when he was dying.

Mary-margaret sat quietly on her bed, she was getting tired and her baby was agreeing with her that she needed some sleep. For the both of them. Laying down slowly onto her back, she started to struggle at trying to find a comfortable position to lay in. She heard what sounded like metal bouncing off of concrete. Looking below her bed she seen a skeleton key. What was it for? Then she clued in. Taking the key in her hand she walked over to her cell and placed it inside of the lock. Turning it, her cell door swung open. She was free.

Emma had gone and told David everything that they had found out in the last week about Mary-margarets case and how they believed that Regina was framing Mary-margaret. They still didn't understand why they would do this and they still didn't have full blown proof. But it was enough proof for David to actually start going to work. He wanted to see her. His wife.

"Mate, you don't have to do this" Killian begun as he placed his good hand on the mans shoulder as the three of them stood outside the entry of the station. Today was David's first day and first time being able to see his wife since they had arrested her. Killian could tell he was beyond nervous.

David sighed and shook his head. "No, I do." Walking in he took his time. Mary-margaret was probably furious with him since he hadn't come to see her. But he was here now. Turning the corner he looked down at the floor before looking up and seeing nothing but an empty cell. "Uh, Emma. You said she was here"

"What? She is" Emma said walking up to him and seeing no women, just the cell door wide open. "She should be...how did she get out!"

"Did anybody make sure the cell was locked before they left last night!" David exclaimed, starting to get furious that his friends, the people he counted on most lost his wife. His pregnant wife.

Emma looked over at Killian since he was the last one in the station last night, locking up. "Yes, I double checked before I went home, everything was locked, there was no way she could get out" Killian explained.

"Well, it obviously wasn't since she's not here!" David was now in Killian's face. He was so filled with anger he could just punch the man.

Going in between the two men Emma made sure that nothing broke out in the station causing both men all bloody and bruised. "Hey, calm down. We'll find her David. I promise."

David backed off and collapsed on his desk chair. Placing his head on his hands. He grunted in anger. "She thinks I'm mad at her! She thinks I believe she killed Kathryn!"

"No, no she doesn't David. She loves you, you guys share a love that is so rare in today's society" Emma said coming to the mans side and rubbing his back. "We're going to find her alright. We better start soon though, it looks like a storms coming." As she said that a loud crash of thunder was heard and lightening lit up the heavens as angels started crying above.

"Alright mate, me and you will search around town and ask around to see if anybody seen here" Killian suggested as he calmed himself down from almost punching David. His father in law. That would be bad.

"And I'll go see if she may have ran into the woods" Emma said as she slipped on her jacket and a toque so her head would stay dry.

Emma took her yellow bug into the woods and she let the boys take the sheriff car. The rain was really coming down now and the thunder and lightening were increasing. The storm was right above the town. She thought that maybe Mary-margaret would escape into the woods and try to hide there, that's where she would go if she was trying to get away. But so far she didn't see anything out of the ordinary.

She drove for another five minutes down the dirt road when she noticed a pink article of clothing. Thinking back she remembered Mary-margaret wearing a pink sweater over her shirt. Parking her car and turning off the engine she got out and walked out to the bush that had the clothing. Taking it in her hands she noticed it was the sweater that Mary-margaret was wearing. She walked down into the woods, passed the trees, seeing if maybe she would've gone and tried to seak shelter under a tree to keep dry.

snap.

The sound of somebody stepped on a twig alerted her making her head whip North, the way the sound came from. She didn't see anything. Then another sound again from behind her. Nothing. She seen a black coat drape behind a tree like somebody was running and trying to hide. "Mary-margaret? Is that you?"Emma called out hopping the girl would pop out form behind the tree. "Come on, this isn't funny. Look if you just come out now this will look better on your part."

"We're all mad here."

A man whispered into her ear but before she could spin around to see who it was she was getting hit over the head with something hard and heavy and then everything went black.

Gold was walking along main street, enjoying the peace that crept through the rain. Lately he had thought he was once again going crazy. It seemed every corner he looked he would see Belle's brunette hair blowing in the wind, or her gentle giggle, or even her strong accented voice. He missed her so dearly.

There must have been an uneven step along the side walk that he didn't noticed because before he knew it he was falling on the ground below him.

"Sir, are you okay?" A women asked helping him up and brushing off the dirt from his suit. Her voice was gentle and flowed with the wind, she had an accent too.

He was about to push the women off of him. until he seen the brunette curls. Slowly he looked up at her face and seen the pink cheeks and blue eyes. It couldn't be...she was died, Regina even said...Regina. "Belle - is that you?"

"No, I'm Lacey. I'm sorry do I know you?" She asked confused on why he would think she was somebody named Belle.

Gold wanted to step closer to her and place his hand on her cheek. Make sure she was real. But he would scare her away if he did. "I'm an old friend I guess you could say."

"Oh, I'm sorry, I've been locked up for as long as I can remember after I was in a terrible accident. I lost all my memory. The Mayor just recently registered me out a few months ago. I'm working for her secretary" Lacey explained to the man and then remembering the hot coffee she held in her hand. "Oh, that reminds me, I better get this to Regina before she throws one of her adult tantrums."

"O-of course. If there's anything you need help with or want to know, I'm usually at the pawnshop just down the road...you shouldn't miss it. People here call me Mr. Gold" He explained kindly. The kindest he's probably ever been to anybody in his hundred of years of surviving as The Dark One.

Lacey nodded with a sweet and gentle smile before waving her hand that didn't hold the coffee. She walked off down towards City Hall as Gold watched her until she was no longer visible to his eyes.

"Gold! Gold! Have you seen Mary-margaret?" David asked out of breath as he ran up to the man, hoping he would know where his wife was. Killian followed shortly behind him

"No, I can't say I have. But since she is an arrested women, I would say she should be locked up in her cell at the station. Am I right Deputy?" Gold said, the imagine of belle, or Lacey getting erased from his mind.

Killian came up next to the man, catching his breath he placed his hands on his knees. "That's the thing...when we got there this morning...she was gone...cell wide open" He said through deep and heavy breaths. David was definitely still fit, as for him the only rush he's gotten in ten years was arresting people who jumped bail and not chasing royal carriages or boarding ships or going on adventures where he was usually on the run from some witch or monster, or a little demon child.

"Well, I say you better hurry up and find her for the arraignment that happens tomorrow morning" Gold muttered to them before limping off back towards his beloved shop.

David placed his hands on his hips and watched the man limp off, taking in his long deep breaths. He looked puzzled. "Alright, what now? We searched the entire town, and every place she would usually show up at." The rain was falling down even harder now and him and Killian were getting soaked. They had left the car parked by Granny's and then just started running around.

"I'll call Emma, let her know she's not in town." Taking out his phone Killian pressed Emma's name and immediately the phone started to ring.

Ring.

Ring.

"Come on Swan, answer."

Ring.

Her voicemail popped up making Killian hang up and stuff the phone back into his back pocket. "No answer. Come on, let's go in the woods and find her, maybe she lost service." They walked back to the sheriff car and hopped into the car. Starting up the engine they drove towards the dirt road that Emma had gone on. She shouldn't be too far in here. As there drive went into half an hour Killian started to feel as if something was wrong. He would try calling Emma's phone ever five minutes but nobody would answer. Where was his princess?

Emma slowly opened her eyes. Her head was killing her. She tried to touch the sore spot when she noticed her hands were tied up and a white cloth was tied into her mouth to prevent her from screaming. She told herself not to panic, that wouldn't help her in this situation. Seeing a sea cup sitting on the coffee table in front of her she knocked it to the ground as hard as she could making glass shards form. Taking one of the sharpest pieces in her hands she started cutting away the rope until her hands were free. She untied the white cloth from her mouth and started to look for a way out. Who live here?

As she started walking around she heard what sounded like muffled cries from behind one of the doors. Opening it up slowly so the door wouldn't make any noise so she would be caught she seen the one person she did not want to see in this situation. "Mary-margaret! What are you doing here?" Emma whispered as quietly as she could as she went over to the women and took off the cloth that prevented her from talking.

"I was trying to get away when this man just popped out of no where. I woke up here, tied" The distressed women explained, this was not good for her baby.

"I'm going to get you out for here, okay?" Emma started to untie the rope that had been tied extremely tightly onto the women's wrists and ankles when she heard what sounded like a click of the safety of a gun being turned off.

"Tie her back up" The man said darkly from behind the women as he pointed the gun down at Emma.

Turning around Emma came face to face with the gun. "I'm sorry" She whispered to Mary-margaret before tying the ropes back up and putting the white cloth back around her mouth and tied in back of her head.

"Now, follow me...Emma, I have some plans for you" The man dressed in fancy black attire whispered into her ear as he then walked off and sent a wink in her direction as she began to slowly walk behind him. Tonight would be fun for him but not so much her.

Okay guys so since this part of the story is suppose to be pretty long, I think I'm just going to end it there and then split it up into two parts, just so this wont take you guys like an entire day to read because there is still a bunch more that happens. Please Review, Favorite and Follow. Thank you.

Next Chapter: Chapter 14: Hat Trick continued...