Emma waited outside the orphanage for Hannah to come out. She had given her a day to think things through and Emma could only hope that Hannah would have come to a favorable decision. If nothing else she needed to get Hannah to tell her where Regina was living.

With that information, she and Lily could plan a better way to nab to Regina. At this point, they knew that is what it would take – an abduction. Regina wasn't going to come with them willingly, so this is where they were at.

Emma hoped that even after abducting her, once they had Regina in a position where she was forced to listen to them, that Regina would then willingly come with them.

After talking with Maleficent, Emma had begun doing research on Hannah and what she found – or rather what she didn't find that made her more suspicious of the woman. In her previous line of work, she had to deal with a lot of people who tried to switch identities to hide who they were. She had gotten pretty good at spotting certain things in a person's background check that didn't add up. She had run into that with Hannah.

The woman didn't have any social media accounts so Emma had to stick with other types of data to track down her background. Her education for instance. According to what she could find, Hannah had attended UCLA and gotten her undergraduate and graduate degrees in social work. But she couldn't find anything – a graduation notice, a dean's list, club notes, or anything that tied the name Hannah Easterly to UCLA.

The background was perfect for someone just trying to fool an employer doing a simple background check, but it wouldn't hold up to true scrutiny if a person knew what to look for. Emma did.

Emma doubted anyone outside of someone like her who knew what to look for would be suspicious at all about it. So why was Hannah using a fake identity and who was she really?

If Emma didn't need her help, she would have confronted Hannah with it immediately. First, she wanted to hear Hannah's decision. If it wasn't the decision Emma needed, then she would question Hannah more on who she was.

She wondered at first if Regina had set up the background for her. With her criminal empire, it wouldn't have been difficult to do so, but Hannah predated Regina's arrival here.

Emma also wondered how they met. Had Regina been seeking a cause to give her ill-gotten gains to? Or had they simply met randomly?

She was so lost in thought she was startled when Hannah knocked on the passenger side window. Emma indicated it was unlocked and Hannah slipped into the seat.

"Thank you for coming," Emma said.

"Don't thank me yet," Hannah said. "I can't help you."

"Can't or won't?"

"Does it matter?"

"You know what, it does," Emma said.

"Fine, I won't. I think we are done now."

Hannah got out of the car and Emma followed suit, rushing around to the side of the car to block her.

"I explained what is happening back at Storybrooke. I get that you don't have any connection to it, but would you be willing to sit back and do nothing when you could have done something? Because that doesn't sound like the kind of person you are."

"You don't know anything about me."

"No one does, do they, Hannah, although I'm guessing that isn't your real name," Emma said. "Tip for your next identity theft, don't make it so perfect. Everyone's background is flawed. Tell me, does Regina know who you are?"

Hannah took a step back as if appraising Emma once more.

"Yes," Hannah said. "So, if you think you were going to use that information to gain some leverage on her or me, you can forget it. Just like I know you aren't going to go to the authorities about it either."

"Oh yeah, and how do you know that?"

"Because you've been inside that building. You have seen the kids in there and you have seen that I care about them and you wouldn't take me away from them. Because you know what life is like for kids like that and how rare it is for them to find a place where they are loved," Hannah said. "So, as I was saying, I think we are done now."

Emma knew Hannah was right, that she wouldn't do anything to jeopardize those kids in there, but she also had an entire town to save. Something had to give.

"Please Hannah," Emma said. "There is too much at stake here for you to just walk away. We need your help. We need to know where Regina lives. Just give me that information and you never have to hear from me ever again."

"You don't get it do you?" Hannah said. "I care about Regina and I don't want to be a part of betraying her trust. Her whole life people have been taking advantage of her, using her for their purposes. Her mother did it, Rumpelstiltskin did it, and you did it. You took her and your family down to the Underworld all for your selfish reasons. Look at what it cost her."

Emma was getting tired of being blamed for things by this woman. Hannah didn't know anything about her so Emma wasn't going to sit back and be judged by her.

"Don't you dare lecture me about things you don't know about," Emma said. "Do you think I'm happy with the way things turned out? Do you think I wanted Robin to die? I didn't want to see Regina get hurt. I still don't want to see her get hurt, but what's happening now is bigger than the problems between her and me. If the Home Office manages to get through the protective barrier into Storybrooke what is it that you think they will do to the inhabitants there? Maybe I didn't paint a good enough picture for you of the situation there because I don't have time to play nice with Regina right now. I don't have the luxury of sitting down with her and asking for her forgiveness for what I did. If I had the time, I would take the time. Storybrooke will fall if we don't get Regina back there. So, I'm asking you again, please help us."

A part of Hannah wanted to help Emma. She wasn't on board with the idea of taking Regina back to Storybrooke against her own will, but she also thought Regina needed to stop running. If nothing else, Regina needed to see her son again. But Hannah was not sure she could risk being anywhere near this problem. She had hidden her identity to keep the Home Office from ever finding her again. She knew better than Emma did what the inhabitants of Storybrooke were up against. She knew what they did to those who were not native to this world.

Hannah knew because she had experienced it first hand.

This world was not her own. That is why she connected with Regina so easily and believed her when she told the fantastical tale about being the Evil Queen from the Snow White tale. It was why she had confessed to Regina about her background in a world so unlike this one. It was more like the world Regina was from, where magic was real and where even the ordinary could become extraordinary.

Regina knew how she had ended up in this world – a story that Hannah had told only once before and that had been when she was captive of the Home Office. She swore she would never let them capture her again, but could she risk it to help Regina find her own path home.

"Let me speak to her," Hannah said finally.

"Not good enough."

"Well Miss Swan, it's going to have to be," she responded. "You can't get close to Regina, I can. Let me speak to her about what is going on. Let her make a decision."

"How soon can you talk to her?"

"Tonight."

Already another plan was forming in Emma's mind. If she couldn't follow Regina, then maybe she could follow Hannah to Regina. As much as she wished that Hannah could convince Regina that she needed to return with Emma and Lily, Emma wasn't ready to chance it.

"Fine," she said. "But I need to know what her response is immediately. As I said, we don't have time."

"I will let you know. But I'm not going there to convince her one way or the other. I will tell her what you told me, but the decision has to be up to her."

"Thank you," Emma said. "I will take what I can get at this point."

Emma moved out of the way so Hannah could return to the orphanage and Emma got into her rental car and called Lily.

"Change of plans," she said. "We have a new target to follow."