Author's note: I'm going to combine two episodes, I hope it will look good to you all readers. The episodes are Red-Handed and Heart of Darkness.
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The next morning, Caitlynn walked down the stairs and walked to Granny's as she heard 'I quit!' coming from in the restaurant. She walked further and saw that Ruby walked out of the restaurant as then she sees the guy who was talking to Emma a few days earlier. She does not change her mind and walked towards the man. "Hey, I saw you with my sister Emma." Caitlynn said to the man. "She hopped up that motorcycle from yours with you in front."
"And I saw you too, you were walking out of the shop from Mr. Gold." The man said to her.
"Hmm…" Caitlynn hummed as then she introduced herself. "I'm Caitlynn." She held her hand out.
The man looked like as if it's was a trap, but then he looked at her face and he saw a real smile on her face. "August." He said to her as they shake hands.
"You are the guy Emma told me about." Caitlynn said to him.
"And she told me about you, that you are her twin sister." August said to her.
"Then you know that she told me your full name." Caitlynn said to him as she sat down on the chair opposite him. He didn't say anything. "That your full name is August W. Booth." Still he didn't say anything. "You sent me that letter, why?"
"To reunite with your family." He said seriously.
Caitlynn looked confused. "I'm already reunited with my sister and found out that I have a nephew. That's enough for me." She explained it to him.
"You have more family than your sister. You have parents." He said to her as he was trying to convince her.
"I don't have parents." Caitlynn hissed.
"Yes you have, you should read Henry's book." August said to her.
"What?" She asked. "It's all stories." She looked confused. "Why should I?"
"You want prove, read Henry's book." August said as he done with the food and he stood up and he paid for the food as he let the money on the table and he walked away from Caitlynn.
Caitlynn turned around to look at him, but he was already gone. "Strange." She said as she stood up and walked out of Granny's.
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Later Caitlynn is by the sheriff station. She walked into the station and she saw Emma, Henry and Ruby.
"Hey." Caitlynn said to them.
"Hey." They said back to her.
Caitlynn looked at her sister. "Can I talk to you for a sec?"
"Yeah, sure." Emma replied to her sister. Then they walked into her office. "What's up?"
"It may sound crazy, but I need to read Henry's book." Caitlynn explained it to her.
Emma was blinking. "Why do you need that?"
"You know that guy August W. Booth." Emma nodded to her. "Well, he said something about a family here." Emma looked also confused to her sister. "About our parents." Caitlynn said to her.
"Okay, I will call Henry." Emma said to her as she pushed the door open. "Henry, could you come?"
Henry nodded. "Yeah." He stood up and walked to them. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing is wrong, just…" Emma trailed off. "You know Caitlynn, she my sister and your aunt." She explained it to him.
Henry looked up and looked at Caitlynn. "Then she also in my book." He said enthusiastic.
"Book?" Caitlynn echoed what he said. "Emma told me already a little bit about your book."
"Then she has told you that you are the daughter of Snow white and Prince charming." Henry said enthusiastic.
"Yes." Caitlynn said to him. "But want more prove than just words, from my sister Emma."
"You want to see it for yourself?" Henry asked.
"Yes, if that could." Caitlynn replied.
Henry run back to his pack back and he grabbed the book out and he walked back to Emma and Caitlynn. "Here." He said to them.
"Thanks." Caitlynn said to him as she grabbed the book from Henry.
"Your welcome." Henry said to his aunt.
Caitlynn looked at Emma. "Can I read it here?"
"Yeah, you can." Emma replied.
Then Caitlynn looked at Henry. "Thank you again."
"You're welcome again." He said to her.
Caitlynn sat down at the table and opened the book as the others walked back to Ruby. Caitlynn didn't hear them of that they were saying anymore as she was deeply in the book. She people she did know in the book, people who looked like the people in Stroybrooke. Also she saw two people that she was sure to recognize them, it was Mary Margaret and Rumpelstiltskin. Then she looked further and saw another one, David, he is Prince Charming. Caitlynn looked confused and she looked up from her book and saw that Ruby was gone, still there was Emma and Henry there. Then she looked down at the book again and she scrolls through the book and she looked at the pictures as she saw another person she knows and that was Ruby. Caitlynn was now really confused and stood up and walked to Emma and Henry.
Then she saw Mary Margaret walking to Emma, then she said to her. "David's in the woods. There's something wrong with him. He looked right through me." Emma looked worried for him and for Mary Margaret. "It's like… It's like he was a different person." She sighed.
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A little while later, Emma walked to her son as Caitlynn stood already for leaving as Emma said to her son. "Okay, kid. Don't mean to kick you out, but I gotta go see if David's in some kind of trouble out there." Emma throws the keys to Henry.
Henry grabbed them. "It's okay. I'm supposed to meet my mom." He put his book into the la and closed it and he is locking it. "There." He gave the keys back to his mother.
"Nice." Emma said to him as she had the keys back.
"You know, you can let Ruby do more. She's Little Red Riding Hood." Henry said as he grabbed his pack back.
"With the little basket? Yeah, she seems like a badass." Emma said with a little laugh.
"She is. She just doesn't remember how cool she is or what she's capable of. But it's true." Henry said to her as he walked away as then he sees Ruby. "Hey, Ruby."
"Hey, Henry." Ruby said to him as she walked inside and Henry walked away.
Then Caitlynn looked at Emma. "I'm also going, Emma." She said to her sister.
"Okay." Emma said as she looked at Caitlynn.
"Bye." Caitlynn said as she was already walking away.
"Bye, Caitlynn." Emma said to her.
"Bye." Ruby said to Caitlynn.
"Bye." Caitlynn said as she really was walking away from them and walked back to the hotel.
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Caitlynn arrived at the hotel and she went to her room as she take off her jacket. Then she sat down on her bed as she thinks about the book. Then she heard knocking on the door and she stood up and walked to the door, she opened the door and she saw that August was standing there.
"Hello." Caitlynn said to him.
"Hello." August greeted to her as then he turned serious. "Have you read the book?"
"Yes." Caitlynn said as then she asked suspicions. "How do you know?" She leaned against the door frame.
"I came back and you weren't there anymore." August replied.
Caitlynn was now really suspicions. "Hmm, why would you come back?"
"To see that you were really gone." August said to her as then he asked to her. "What did you think of the book?"
"Why should I tell you that, you are a creep." Caitlynn said to him as she closed to front door from her room.
Caitlynn walked back to her bed as then she picked up her book from her night stand and she began to read from her book.
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Later Caitlynn fallen asleep while reading, when she woke up, it a few hours later. Then she put her book away and walked out of her hotel room to Granny's as then she saw August and Henry, they were talking.
"I don't think that hot chocolate's gonna drink itself. You're upset about your teacher, aren't you?" August asked to him as he came next to him and sat down on the chair.
"She didn't do it." Henry replied as then he asked to him. "Why can't anyone see that?"
"Because most people just see what's right in front of them." August explained. "And I don't think you're gonna find the answers you want at the bottom of that mug."
"Then where?" Henry asked to him.
"That a book in your bag? You know I'm a writer. So I'm partial to finding my answers in the literary form." August replied to him.
"It's just a book." Henry said to him as he takes a sip of drink.
"Is it?"
"Yeah."
"I think we both know that that's not the case." Then he asked to the waitress. "Can I get a water, please?"
Henry looked at him. "What do you know about it?"
"I know it's a book of stories."
"Aren't all books?"
"Stories that really happened."
Henry looked at him, surprised. "You think my book is real?"
"As real as I am." August replied to him.
"How do you know?" Henry asked interested.
"Let's just say that, uh I'm a believer, and I want to help others see the light. That, my friend, is why I'm here." August replied to him.
"But I already believe."
"Oh, I'm not here for you, buddy. I'm here for Emma."
"So you want to get her to believe? Why don't you just tell her?" Henry asked to him.
"Well, there are some people like you and me we can go on faith, but others, like Emma, they need proof." August explained it to him.
"Last time I tried to find proof, I got trapped in a sinkhole." Henry comment.
"There are less dangerous places to look." August said as he opened Henry's bag a little to see the book.
Henry grabbed his book and he opened it as August stood up and he gives him a pat on the back. Then he walked away from him, August walked in the direction were Caitlynn stood. He said nothing to her as he walked past her. Caitlynn didn't mind that as she walked to her nephew.
Caitlynn sat down next to Henry and said to him. "Hey, Henry."
Henry looked to see his aunt sitting next to him. "Hey, aunt Caitlynn."
"So, you are reading your book." Caitlynn comment as she had noticed that he had his book for him.
"Yes." Henry replied, then he asked to her. "Do you like the book?"
"Yes, I liked it and I recognized some people in it." Caitlynn replied to him.
Henry looked in interest. "Who did you recognized?"
"Uh… Mary Margaret, David, Mr. Gold and Ruby." Caitlynn replied to him.
"And who were they in character in the book?" Henry asked curiously.
"Snow White, Prince Charming, Rumpelstiltskin and Red." Caitlynn replied quickly.
"Do you believe that they are real people?" Henry asked to her.
"I don't know." Caitlynn looked unsure. "I have seen it by my own eyes, but I don't know, it's confusing."
"Why?" Henry asked confused.
"Adult people are not so fast into believing like children, Henry." Caitlynn replied to him. "Some of them, they need prove and some don't, they just believe in it."
"Huh? I don't understand." Henry said confused.
"People like me, they want to believe, but it's too much unreal to really believe in it." Caitlynn explained. "It's my kid's dream and now maybe it's all real, that's why I'm confused."
"So you want to believe, but you are scared." Henry said to her as he was looking through the book to find Snow White and Prince Charming together.
"Afraid that it's just a kid's imagine." Caitlynn said to him honestly.
Henry was now op a page that Snow White and Prince Charming were expecting twins. "Look!" He said to her as he pointed on the picture.
"Okay." Caitlynn said to him.
"They had just visited Rumpelstiltskin and he said that they were expecting twins and he were asking for the names and Snow White said Emma and Caitlynn." Henry explained it to her. "A few days later, Snow had the twin as then curse was coming. So she decided to give them up…" Henry was interrupted by Caitlynn.
"To give them their best chance." She said to him as he had his eyes widened.
"Have you read that in the book?" Henry asked to her.
"No, but it's was just obvious." Caitlynn replied to him as she looked confused at him.
"How did you know that?" Henry asked to her as he was surprised.
"I worked for a short while in the system, because a needed a job." Caitlynn replied to him. "Parents gave up their child and they say all the same thing, I'm giving him or her their best chance." Henry looked now more surprised at her. "Emma and I were by ourselves in the system and I wanted the children to have it a little better, till they were adopted or ended on the streets." She sighed. "That's how I know."
"Wow." Henry said to her.
"Yeah." Caitlynn said to him. "I'm adopted like you, but I not a baby anymore, I was like 7 when I was adopted. It's lucky, you have parents that love you, well adopted parents, but yeah."
"My mother doesn't really love me, she the evil queen." Henry said somber.
"If she was really evil, why would she adopt a child?" Caitlynn asked as Henry looked confused. "Then she isn't really evil, she just had done bad things to get what she have now."
"Who?" He asked confused.
"You, that's what some people want to have children." Caitlynn said to him. "And don't be so hard on her, eh? She really loves you, you know." Henry nodded to her.
"But why to cast the curse?" Henry asked out loud as he was thinking, confused.
"Don't know." Caitlynn shrugged.
Henry looked at her. "I was thinking out loud, didn't I?"
"Yep." Caitlynn replied as she smiled at him. Henry looked embraced. "Why don't go reading further and I go into the town to see more of it." She suggested.
Henry nodded. "Why not." He looked at his book, then he said to her as he wanted to see his aunt again. "See you later, then."
"See you later, Henry." Caitlynn said to him as she stood up and she walked outside of Granny's and she walked into the town.
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Author's Note: I hope you liked the chapter and I hope that the characters are in character. Please tell if they are or not and a thank you who has favorited and followed. Well that's it for now.
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