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Emma

Emma was slowly losing her patience. She had been waiting for over half an hour and still no officer or detective had come to talk to her. She wondered what could be more important than talking to her. She told the officer at the information desk that she needed to talk to someone about detective Booth but he told her to wait. She was done waiting.

She stood up the moment she saw someone looking a little like a detective. "Excuse me ma'am are you a detective?" Emma asks.

The woman raises her eyebrow clearly having heard the irritation in the blonde's voice. "Yes I am. How can I help you?" She asks. She briefly let her gaze cross towards officer Holds at the desk before directing her full attention to Emma. It wasn't the first time the imbecile let someone wait without telling someone.

"My name is Emma Swan. I'm a reporter for the Golden Times. Detective August Booth is my informant for a story I have been working on but he has gone missing." Emma explained.

"I know August Booth. He was fired a few weeks ago."

Emma frowned. She didn't know that. August hadn't told her that fact. This made him not a reliable source. "Well…..I….I didn't know that. But still he has gone missing. He was investigation some case and…" The detective held up her hand.

"Miss Swan, I find it my duty to tell you that August Booth was fired because he started investigating cold cases and cases that were closed. He would disappear for days without anyone knowing where he went."

Emma opened and closed her mouth. She let her hand drag through her hair. "Alright, but still." Emma took out her tablet. "He found some information about a cold case and he has been connecting other cases with each other." Emma showed the detective the information. "You see. This is about a serial killer. He gets protection from the mayor because he's his estranged son."

The detective let her finger scroll over the information before giving the device back to Emma. "I'm sorry Miss but some of those cases I have personally worked on and the name Greg Mendel never even came up in those. I think detective Booth has suffered some mental breakdown and he has been dragging you with him."

"So you are not going to investigate this? This is all made up?" Emma asks. She didn't believe it. She has worked through the information herself and she could connect the dots as well. "Please just take this." Emma says giving the woman the USB stick with all the information on it. "Just give it a look." Emma pleaded. They couldn't do nothing.

"Alright, I'll give it a look." The detective says.

Emma nodded. She felt defeated, she wanted to do something. But what? She was just a first time reporter. The people who needed to take action weren't doing anything. She walked out of the police department with her shoulders hung low.

Regina POV

She's in the kitchen chopping carrots when Henry starts crying out for her. "Mommy! Mommy! Oscar is in the garden again." He cries out and comes running in the kitchen. Regina puts down her knife on the chop board and cleans her hands with a towel.

"Oscar? You mean the dog?" She asks and Henry nods happily.

"Yes can I go and play with him?" Henry asks and without waiting for an answer he runs to the backdoor.

"Henry wait!" Regina calls out and runs after him. She opens the backdoor and sees the dog rolling around in the grass. When he sees Henry he jumps up and starts licking him all over his face. Henry giggles and rubs the dog behind his ears.

Regina looks around and crosses her arms over her chest. She doesn't see his owner maybe the dog escaped out of his garden. It's rather cold outside and she doesn't want Henry to get a cold.

"Henry let's go back inside. It's warmer." Regina says but Henry pouts.

"But Mommy I want to play with Oscar." He looks at the dog and kisses his nose.

"Alright, Oscar can go inside as well." She says and Henry's face immediately brightens. They let the dog inside and Regina tells Henry to only play with him in the kitchen, she doesn't want him jumping on any of the furniture.

She continues working on the dinner when the doorbell rings. She smiles when she sees Henry rubbing Oscar's belly at a fast rate. The dog's tongue was hanging out and he was enjoying himself clearly.

She walks to the front door and opens it. "Ah you must be looking for Oscar." Regina says smiling when she sees Greg standing on her porch.

"Yes, he escaped from my garden. I'm sorry if he caused you any problems." Greg says holding out the lease of the dog.

"No problems at all. My son is playing with him in the kitchen. Why don't you come inside for a second." Regina says and takes a step aside to let the man in. Greg smiles and thanks her before walking towards the kitchen. Regina closes the door and follows him.

"Hello Henry." Greg greets the happy boy. He crutches down and pets Oscar's head. "Hello Oscar. It seems like you are enjoying yourself quite nicely." Greg says and looks up to smile at Regina.

"Yes. He has a really soft belly." Henry chuckles and let his head rest on the dog's belly. Greg smirks and let his hand brush over Henry's head. "You are a nice boy Henry and probably very intelligent." Greg says standing up and looking at Regina. He let his eyes room over Regina's body. Standing so close to her makes his every fantasy become a reality.

"Yes he is." Regina says feeling a little uncomfortable with the way Greg is looking at her. "Henry it's time to let Oscar go home now." Regina says motioning for Henry to come to her.

"Oh, but we don't want to go home just yet." Greg says and puts his hands on Henry's shoulders. Cleary feeling the tension in the room Henry's looks up at his mother with confusion in his eyes.

"Mommy?"

"Let go of my son!" Regina says and takes a step forward. The moment she does this Oscar jumps up and growls at her.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you! Oscar is trained to protect me." Greg says squeezing Henry's shoulders making the boy whimper.

"Let go of him! You're hurting him!" Regina says and takes another step forward trying to reach Henry but Oscar jumps forward and tackles her to the ground. He standing on top of her and in barking. Henry starts crying but can't move because Greg is holding on to him too tight.

"Please don't do this! Let us go." Regina asks quietly hoping the dog won't attack her.

Greg chuckles. "Oscar here." He says and the dog listens immediately getting of Regina and walking back to his master. "Get up Regina!" Greg demands.

"Take Henry. Comfort him and lock him up in his room!" He says pushing Henry towards Regina and taking out the Taser he had hidden in his pocket. He points it at mother and son and Regina can only obey his every command.

"Mommy. What's going on?" Henry asks when they enter his room. Regina crunches down in front of him completely aware that Greg is watching them. "Nothing honey. Greg just wants to talk to mommy and when we are done he's going to go away and I'll come and get you." Regina says brushing some hairs out of his face and giving him a kiss.

"Mommy don't go." Henry pleads and Regina needs to use all her strength to not cry.

"I'll just be moment. Why don't you go play with your toys." Regina says and points at his lego blocks. Henry turns to his toys and Regina stands up. "Why don't you make me a castle, my little prince."

Henry nods and slowly walks over to his toys. Regina smiles and walks out of the room she closes the door and locks it. The moment the lock clicks shut she feels Greg's hand in her hair and he pulls at it.

"aaah!" She cries out.

"Shut up! Where's your bedroom!"

Emma

It was too early to go the Regina's so Emma decided to go back home. She walked, she needed to clear her head. Everything had fallen apart. She couldn't go to Gold, she didn't have a reliable source and with the Mayor's threat there was no way Gold was going to run the story. She blamed herself, she was a reporter she should have checked August. She checked the information but she didn't check her source enough. Biggest mistake a reporter could make and she had made it.

She walked in her apartment and decided to take a shower before going over to Regina's. The woman would make her forget the mess that was in her mind. Emma entered her bedroom to gather her things when she noticed her laptop was placed on her pillow. She frowned she would never put her laptop on her pillow, it might trip over. She sits on the bed and grabs the device. On the first look she doesn't see anything strange. She goes to systems changes and finds out someone has undeleted files from months ago. She goes to her fast access and clicks on the file that was recently opened, she knows it wasn't her that opened it. She knows what the file is before it actually starts to play. She goes death silent and feel her heart stop when she sees her and Regina enter her old bedroom.

She starts shaking. Someone has been in her apartment and someone knows about the most disgusting thing she had ever done. She has a sinking feeling the person that entered her apartment must be the same one that left her the post-it. She needs to talk to Regina! She needs to talk to her right now!

Emma grabs her phone and runs out. She almost falls down the stairs but manages to stay upright. She reaches her car the same time as Regina's voicemails tells her the woman isn't reachable.

"Fuck!" Emma yells and turns on the engine.