Hey everybody! Here are the second batch of January updates. I'm trying to get ahead on all my stories whist I've got the time to do just that. I am enjoying writing this fic and have a few plans now planned out and I just hope you'll like them. Big thanks to HateMe101 and MysteryFan4Ever for their reviews.

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The Two Truest Believers-Part 38:

Careers Day had arrived and Emma was worried that the baby steps of progress she'd made with Eva was about to be undone. Eva had reassured her mother that wouldn't happen but Emma wasn't so sure. She knew that she couldn't trust Regina or even Zelena no matter what they said or did.

Emma drove her bug over to Regina's house as that's where the child swap was taking place.

"Now you listen to Regina and behave yourself," Emma said as they arrived at Regina's.

"Mum you know me. I'm not Henry," Eva replied before grabbing her bag and getting out of the car and hurrying up the path and rang the doorbell. The door soon opened and Henry hurried down the path and got into the Bug before putting his seatbelt on and Emma drove off and Regina closed the door.

"Well we have a few minutes before we need to head to the office so you can go and get some juice," Regina smiled and Eva nodded before hurrying off and getting some juice.

"Zelena!" Eva said, "I thought you'd have been in the office already with Henry arriving…"

"I've helped raise Henry so I'm sure he won't miss me for a few minutes and I had to say hello to my favourite girl didn't I?" Zelena smiled before she finished her coffee and headed over to her sister and winked at her before grabbing her keys and heading out of the door.

Eva hurried over to the mirror and checked herself over and made sure that she looked presentable before she jumped as Regina appeared beside her.

"You look fine Eva," Regina smiled, "now grab your bag and we can go." Eva nodded and grabbed her bag before the two got into the car and headed to the office.

"Wow! This is so cool!" Henry exclaimed as he walked into the Sherriff's office with Emma and instantly began to look around at things and pulled some handcuffs out, "I wonder if that handcuff trick actually works or not."

"Well you aren't going to find out because those are off limits to you," Emma said as she took the handcuffs out of Henry's hand and placed them in a drawer before pulling something out of the drawer and passing it to Henry, "now if you're joining the ranks today you'd better have a badge."

"That better not be a real one Miss Swan," Zelena said as she walked into the office.

"Of course it's not. It's one that Eva won't even know is missing," Emma replied rolling her eyes, "she got it in a cereal box and never used it so I thought I'd give it to Henry and he can use it."

"And what if Eva finds it missing?" Zelena asked as she looked through some papers.

"She won't care. Anyway Henry and I will go and pound the streets and see what's going on," Emma said before heading out with Henry.

Eva walked into the Mayor's office and had to force herself not to gasp. It was so big and everything was black and white.

"It's so posh and big; much bigger than I'm used to…" she said to Regina, "how will I not get lost?" Regina laughed softly before taking Eva's hand and leading her to the office area and unlocked the door.

"Because you'll always be with me. Now whatever you hear you're not allowed to tell anyone because it's confidential. Now I'm sure I don't need to explain to you what that means…"

"No you don't Regina," Eva said before waking over to Regina's desk and looking around at it before Regina walked over and sat down in her seat.

"Right now the first thing I do is check my e-mails and schedule for the day. Why do you think I do that?" she questioned Eva.

"So you know exactly where you're meant to be and to see if there's anything that requires your attention," Eva said.

"That's right. See this is what I've got today and these are my e-mails. So in half an hour I have a meeting with Mr. Gold at his shop," Regina told Eva, "we'd better get going now or else we'll be late." Eva nodded and put her bag down in a chair before waiting for Regina.

"So we walk around and wait for trouble or just make sure everyone's behaving?" Henry asked.

"Yes and keeping an eye on Eva from a distance," Emma said, "I got into your mom's calendar so I know where she's meant to be."

"How is converting her to Operation Cobra going?" Henry asked as they saw Eva and Regina heading into Mr. Gold's shop.

"She still won't believe a word I say but she's not spending as much time with her because I'm spending time with her," Emma replied as she watched Eva go inside with Regina before hurrying across and crouching down outside the window with Henry to see if they could hear what was going on.

"So you say this money will go towards building a park for the children?" Gold asked Regina.

"Yes and it'll have a good view of the sea as well," Regina replied, "kids like Eva and Henry need a safe place to play and this place is perfect for it."

"Well in that case you can count me in. I'll send you the money as soon as," Gold said before Regina thanked him and left with Eva and ran straight into Emma.

"Miss Swan what are you doing here? Aren't you meant to be keeping the streets safe?" Regina said, smoothing down her skirt.

"Yes we were patrolling this area of town," Emma said, "come on Henry," she said before walking away with Henry to carry on patrolling the streets before Regina could even say another word to either of them.

Regina and Eva headed back to the office and Regina showed Eva some of the more desk based stuff that she did. She allowed Eva to read some and the girl even suggested things that could be done to solve the problem or even advice and even managed to tidy Regina's e-mails up that tiny bit more than they already were which impressed Regina.

Emma had taken Henry for some lunch and the two were talking about what they'd seen in Gold's shop.

"So what did my other mom want with Gold. Wonder if Eva would say…" Henry said as he drank his milkshake.

"I doubt it. Despite the fact I've been spending time with her, Eva's still loyal to your mom and aunt and until we can break that then Eva will not say anything against them," Emma said, "I don't want to hurt her either. I've done enough of that." Henry nodded and began to think of a plan.

Careers Day had been a success. Eva wanted to follow in Regina's footsteps and Henry wanted to follow in Emma's. Both children had had fun and had learnt lots of interesting things and had formed tighter relationships with the adults in their care. Relationships that would be crucial and put to the test in the very near future.