No sooner had they taken two strides across the street than Mary Margaret caught their arms and muttered to Regina "Maybe you are better qualified for this and I can keep our guests happy and worry free."

Regina followed Regina's head bob over to King Arthur and the woman. She didn't know exactly what she was talking about, but she knew right away that Regina was going to remove them from the picture, and she couldn't wish for anything more. She didn't know why King Arthur upset her so much, but she knew that he did, and she didn't particularly want him hanging around and listening to every detail of what was going on. So Mary Margaret, David, King Arthur, and the woman all took their leave and left them to walk to Granny's.

"Wh-who was that?" she asked as they crossed the street.

"King Arthur," Robin responded.

"No, the other one, the woman. I've never seen her before."

"Oh," Regina sighed, "she's Arthur's wife, Guinevere."

She nodded. Really, she knew Camelot history from books she'd read back home and from the legends in the library. She should have guessed it would be her. Though she supposed it was odd...as far as she knew, Guinevere had left King Arthur for a knight named Lancelot.

She shook her head. It was nothing but a reminder that sometimes the stories she read in this world were not the most accurate and anyway it didn't even really matter. There was too much else going on for her to question who one individual was and why she was with her husband. For example, why were Arthur and Guinevere in town with them in the first place when last she'd heard they'd been camping out in the forest? Why were they coming from the jail cell? And really, what had Mary Margaret been talking about?!

"Why were they in town?"

"Long story."

"But it might have something to do with Emma," Killian pointed out making all of them stop in their tracks just inside Granny's patio. "First the Crocodile and now the Squire…I can't be the only one to sense something foul is going on here."

Regina gave a deep sigh and sat down at one of the picnic tables. "He's right. Emma could be just as responsible for one as she is for the other. It just all seems too random! Why would she want a dwarf axe? Why would she want Rumple?!"

She only shook her head and took the seat opposite Regina. "What are you talking about a squire?" she asked suddenly interested. If they were over there for an odd reason that might just have to do with Rumple then she wanted to know about it! What was going on? What had she missed?

"Mom!" Henry called glancing up from his phone. "I've got to go talk to someone. I'll be back later."

"Who?!" Regina asked almost angrily as Henry turned to leave. "Who is he talking to? And why am I the last one to know about it?"

"You are his mother," Robin pointed out sitting on Regina's other side. "What teenage boy wants to tell his mother about a first love?"

"That teenage boy!" she replied. "He knows he can tell me anything!"

"It's not that kind of secret, Regina," he finished with a smirk.

Not that kind of secret…

She glanced over her shoulder at Henry who was walking down the street, unaware of the world around him as he stared at his phone and kept walking. Regina wanted to know who, but Henry wouldn't lie unless…

She felt herself smile as she suddenly began to put two and two together. "Wait, is…is Henry talking to a girl?!"

"Oh good! It appears I'm not the last to know," Regina said sourly.

"The lad has a girlfriend, and he's keeping it a secret from his parents and grandparents," Killian confirmed for them. "Stranger things have been known to happen. For example, Emma, this town's Savior, has suddenly become a ruthless Dark One, and no one seems to know how to fix it, perhaps we should focus on that instead of a teenage romance."

Regina glared at Killian. It was easy to see that for her finding out who Henry's mysterious girlfriend might be was of utmost importance, but she appeared to at least know that she would be in the minority of that opinion. Much to her dissatisfaction she had no choice but to think about Emma before Henry.

"Killian is right," she muttered trying to ease her tension, though she couldn't quite figure out why considering her current opinion of the woman. "Henry will be fine but Emma won't and we have no idea what she is doing to Rumple. What do you know?"

Regina sighed and grit her teeth. "Yesterday there was a robbery over in the camp," she began.

Belle nodded her head. "Right, David came into the shop looking for what was stolen. Last I saw him he'd grabbed a cup and said it would solve everything."

"Well I guess it did, last night they arrested one of Arthur's Squires who confessed he broke into the reliquary and took items for some stupid reason or other."

"I believe the reason was that he was upset because Arthur didn't treat him well enough," Robin provided.

"Like I said, some stupid reason or other," Regina waved away. "They arrested him last night, took him to the prison, came in this morning to feed him, and he was gone."

"Gone?" she questioned. "Just like that."

"Just like that."

"What about the security system? Did it show anything?"

This time, it was Robin who gave the uncomfortable sigh. "Apparently, they're in the process of renovating the system after Zelena's escape. It wasn't on."

Well, that was a happy coincidence! Not that it would have mattered with Emma, she'd been in the room last year if she'd had anything to do with the Squire's disappearance she would have thought to turn it off. But why would she want to take the Squire? Why ruin Doc's birthday party? Why steal an axe?! And where was she keeping it all?!

She glanced over at Killian. "You said you might know where she's hiding Rumple. Where?"

"At her house. When I was there a couple of days ago testing a theory. Robin and I have been trying to break in-"

"You've been what?!" Regina blanched.

"Only the very preliminary stages of planning," Robin corrected. "He only told me he needed to break in yesterday and for that you ask a thief."

"Why do you want to break in there?!"

"Because of what I saw," Killian insisted. "There's a door in her house, it's kept locked, every time I question her about it, she diverts. It could be where she's keeping the Crocodile. If we could figure out a way to break inside, then we might be able to figure out what she's doing, what she's planning."

"Right but we'd need a distraction," Robin inserted. "We can't break in while she's in the house and chances are we can't even break in while she's out, she might have magical alarms that would warn her we're there. We don't just need a distraction we need a very good distraction, something to get her out of the house and genuinely hold her attention for long enough that she won't notice what's going on in her home."

"Maybe the party tonight," Killian suggested. "She had no trouble stepping out of her house to destroy the dwarves drinking festival, maybe she'll leave to do the same tonight."

"What party?" she asked looking at Regina again.

Regina rolled her eyes. "Apparently, the Camelotians are getting restless and depressed. Mary Margaret is going to plan a dance for them here tonight to raise spirits. It's a good idea," she said looking over at Killian. "But we don't know that Emma will show up for sure and even if she does we can't leave the people unprotected or assure anyone who goes to investigate the house that they'd have more than a couple of minutes."

"A couple of minutes might be all that we need," he pointed out.

No. A couple of minutes might be all that they need but Regina was right, a "distraction" like that might keep Emma busy for a minute or so but the minute it was over all she had to do was poof herself back to her home and then they'd be trapped. Not to mention that doing it that way was going to endanger the lives of countless individuals. No. They couldn't do it that way. It was too much of a risk. They had to come up with something else.

"Maybe you could get her out of the house," she suggested looking at Killian. "Love is a powerful thing. Rumple was always the Dark One, but he was human with me. Maybe if you took her somewhere-"

"Been there, done that. I don't think she'll want to see me again considering the circumstances."

"Maybe not…but there might be someone else who could appeal to the Emma we know. Love comes in many forms after all. Give me a few minutes," Regina requested before getting up and going into the diner.

She glanced at Robin, wondering if he could offer her some kind of explanation. "She was up late last night," he excused. "Along with the Squire, David was able to find something she was looking for, and she was working on a potion into the early morning hours."

Her eyes went wide. "David found the Crimson Crown?"

"Supposedly it can help us figure out what happened to Merlin," Killian added for her benefit.

"No, I know what it is I just didn't know that she'd found it!"

"David did," Robin corrected. "Regina's just trying to figure out how to use it. You know how?"

"I-"

"Let's go!" Regina exclaimed emerging from the diner and replacing her cell phone. "We might not have long we have to be ready to go. Let's go find out what's behind that door."

::Bang my head against the wall:: So much to explain, so much to catch others up on, so much stupid stuff that was skipped but can't be skipped because skipping it is out of character for pretty much everyone! So...I guess this means that this chapter is filler, but necessary filler in my opinion because everyone has been on relatively different pages up until now and I wanted to be able to put everyone back on the same pages again.

Thank you, Kathryn Claire O'Connor, Fox24, Grace5231973, Teresa Martin, Matty, and Ladybugsmomma for the reviews you left for me. I hope this chapter is okay. Filler or not I do believe it is necessary. Peace and Happy Reading!