A/n: ok I'm late, again. But I've quit my job so let me be. I've spent most of my time looking for a new one that hopefully will bring me home more often, that means I can actually be on time. Until then, please be patient. I'm trying really hard to remember to update amongst all this.

Also thank you to Siyah Ay and lunarwitch16 for favoriting this story the last month; it really makes me happy to know people like what I write.

I will be posting two chapters again, because this one is short.

The Cricket Game

Orabella and Devon walked up to Granny's. "Why am I here?"

"Because Mary Margret invited me and I invited you," Devon said just before he opened the door.

Some of the others turned to see who had entered but Mary Margret and Emma were the only ones to approach them. "Thanks you so much for watching Henry while I was gone," Emma said to the other woman with a hug.

"Oh, well, he is still technically my nephew," Orabella said as she drew back, looking slightly uncomfortable. "Anything for family. Did he tell you he's learning to sword fight?"

"And you gave him a horse," Emma said as Mary Margret led Devon away.

"It was either give him a living horse, or we use my skeletal one. I figured people would feel more comfortable with the latter." She shrugged. "And don't worry about him being alone in his 'training'. Hroar and Lucia are joining him, so he'll be socializing with kids his age."

Emma sighed happily. "You cant imagine how good that is for me to hear."

"I can," Orabella said, hiding the hurt. Emma looked confused. "'Once Upon A Time'..." The women shared a laugh. "I had children. I had a son and a daughter. I've felt mother's love before." They looked to Henry. "He looks like him sometimes."

"What happened to them?" Emma was in shock. She never knew much about Orabella, but to know she had kids...

"I lost them." The older woman's face betrayed her pain before a weak smile flitted across it. "But I'm close to finding them again."

"Where are they?"

"Over the town line. But they are in this world, I know it."

"I hope you find them."

"Me too."


"You want me to take Madesi's ring and plant it in Brand-Shei's pocket? Why?" Erimentha stood before Brynjolf in Riften's market square.

"There's someone that wants to see him put out of business permanently. That's all you need to know."

She agreed to the job. And almost succeeded. But she couldn't do it. She never could. He was innocent in this. She botched the job, but it was quickly forgotten with her next one.