I do not own Once Upon a Time.

Odd combination but I like it.

Archie Hopper walked into the local drug store, he had stupidly forgotten his toothbrush. He got a new puppy, a two month old Dalmatian and he was going over the last minute things with the dog sitter. Anita just smiled as he went over the feeding schedule for the fifth time. Eventually she just kicked him out.

So he stood in the toothbrush aisle and shook his head. Why were they so many different brands and styles and colors? He just needed a plain normal toothbrush. He did grin when his eyes glanced over the character brushes, Pinocchio in particular.

Eventually he chose the most normal blue toothbrush he could find and headed to the counter.

"Took you long enough." The woman said no so good-humorly.

"So many choices make my head spin." He said, pulling out his wallet to pay. "I have a new puppy at home and left the important things there this morning."

"I did not need your life story." The woman, Tink the woman behind the counter said. She was having a bad day, or as she called it, just a day. But she smiled and nodded.

"Thank you, have a nice day." Archie gave her a huge smile.

Tink gave him one back, a real one this time. Maybe the world wasn't so bad after all.

Archie returned to the drugstore each day of his trip. Basically he looked for any reason to see her. Tink seemed like she faked nice because she had a hard life. She was negative while Archie was positive. As a psychologist, this frustrated Archie and he wanted to get to the bottom of it all, professionally.

Tink was on break outside the store when Archie came over to her. "I don't have any drugs on me right now. The shipment gets here on the weekend." She said slightly defensibly.

Archie took a step back, shocked. Drugs? No, he was not looking for drug. "Ummm, no. I'm not looking for drugs. You deal?"

"Maybe. You a cop?" She sized him up. He didn't look like an addict but then again she didn't look like a dealer.

"No, not a cop, just a psychologist who just wanted to say hi."

"Ohh…" Tink looked slightly confused but grateful that someone wanted to talk to her. "Hi, how's your day going?" She asked trying to act like a normal human being for once in her life.

"Pretty good, I'm heading back home the day after tomorrow. Maybe we could grab a coffee or something?" He asked hopefully.

She laughed, it sounded like a fairy twinkle. "I'm not one for a relationship." She answered honestly.

"How about a friendship?" Archie inquired.

Now she smiled. All she had ever had were associates. A friend would be nice.

They had a nice afternoon, fun conversations and laughs. She thought they hit it off, thought that there was a real friendship. She thought wrong.

The cops showed up at her door a few days after Archie flew back home. Tink was arrested for drug dealing. On the bright side, she didn't serve jail time, she just got a million hours of community service. But it was all his fault. That stupid meddling bug. He had better wish upon a star that he never saw her again. That encounter would not end well.

So, when they meet back up, it's going to be *fun*.

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FYI- I'm taking a mental health day Monday to get another 4 chapters of this story done and whatever other projects I have time for.