Chapter Two

Next Day

Mia had spent the night in the jail cell. Again I am being held against my will. I am really starting to hate this. You would think that if I did not answer their questions the first time that I will not answer them the second time they ask me. I wonder if I never answer them, will they keep me looked in that barred room forever? Mia shuddered at the thought.

She was sitting in the room that had a table and chair in it again. She presumed that they would be asking her more questions. She was determined not to say anything. She had learnt a long time ago to never give any information about yourself up, even if to people that you think you can trust. Because you can't.

Emma walked into the room again and starting asking the questions again. "Now that you have spent a night in the cell, are you ready to answer me?" No answer. "Who are you?" No answer. "Are you from the Enchanted Forest?" No answer. "Who looks after you?" No answer. "Who is supposed to look after you?" No answer. "Where do you live?" No answer. "Look, kid, I understand that you don't feel that you can trust me yet but I am just trying to help you. So where those others that were here last night."

Really? Mia thought. It looked like they were wanting to help you, not me. And get some excitement at the same time. The pirate even said so.

"Please. Let me help you. You broke the law last night and that is bad. We need to know who to contact to come get you and to help us sort out what to do with you now. Whoever looks you is probably worried sick at the moment." When Mia still did not answer Emma sighed and said, "Fine, I guess there is nothing more that we can do to sort this out if you won't tell us anything." Emma was looking at the spot just above Mia's head when she said this, as if to find out an answer to her newest problem there, Mia thought.

"Go on. Leave then." Emma said and she opened the door for Mia to walk out of after she unlocked her hand cuffs and took them off of Mia. Mia calmly walked out of the station and turned the corner. Then she took off into the woods at a sprint.

Emma's POV

Emma hated lying, especially after the lye that she told Henry about his dad being a fireman. She had to though. It was the only way to get answers from the girl now that she knew that the girl was not going to give her any answers willingly.

Emma thought this as she got into her car that already had Mary Margaret, Hook and David seated inside. No one said anything as they followed the girl at a slow pace to the edge of the woods and then got out to follow her to wherever she was going.

"Why would a young girl take off into the woods like that?" Snow asked.

"Maybe she was meeting someone." Came David's reply.

Emma still did not say anything, instead focussing on the task ahead. They followed the girl into the woods. "We have lost her." Hook stated as everyone started to look around.

Just then they saw a boulder moving slightly to the side and saw the girl come out from underneath it. She then pushed the boulder back into place and walked off in the direction Emma new the well was, swinging her wooden bucket all the way. Bingo, Emma thought as she stared at the boulder the girl had appeared from.

All of the others were staring in that direction also. "Never mind." Hook said. They walked up to the boulder and David pushed it out of the way revealing a large, dark tunnel.

"Come on." Emma said and started to move in the direction of the entrance.

Suddenly Snow grabbed her arm. "Wait. The last time we went into a hole we found a cage that was supposed to hold a mad Rumpelstiltskin in it." She said worriedly.

"Yes well it also belonged to the Wicked Witch of the West." Emma said confidently even though she was feeling slightly unnerved by that comment. "This one belongs to a kid."

Snow nodded and they continued on into the tunnel. What they saw when they got down there was shocking and not very pleasant. That little girl has been living down here for who knows how long, Emma thought.

Emma looked around their little group and saw Hook gritting his teeth, David with his mouth gaping open in shock and Snow with tears in her eyes.

Normal POV

Little did the adults know that Henry was chasing after them, wanting to help both them and the girl. When he got down there he saw what the adults had been seeing for the last to minutes and he two was shocked.

The adults got even more of a shock when they saw Henry standing there. "Henry, what are you doing here?"

"I wanted to help. Her and you."

"You were not supposed to help. Where is Regina?"

"Not here. I sneaked out."

"You should not have done that Henry." David cut in before Emma could say anything. Henry did not say anything and instead just looked down at his feet.

"Well, let's take you back." Emma said to Henry and then turning back to the others, "We know where she lives now. We can return later if we have to." She was starting to lead Henry out when Snow stopped her.

"Wait. Look. There is something in the blankets." Mary Margaret moved the blankets aside and everyone else looked down to see what was there.

"It is a dog toy." David said, stating the obvious.

The dog toy was soon joined by others as Mary Margaret was shifting through the blankets and finding more and more toys.

"Hey, that is Pongo's. It went missing a while ago." Henry said, looking at one of the dog toys.

"She must have stolen that too." David said. At this point Hook was just standing back, deep in thought.

"It doesn't seem like she has a dog. Why would she have dog toys?" Emma asked the group.

"Maybe she wanted to play with a toy and these are all she could find?" Snow replied although looking extremely doubtful of her own answer.

"Maybe." Emma said back.

"Or maybe she is a werewolf." Henry said suddenly. Hook laughed like it was a ridiculous idea but the others all considered it carefully.

"Henry, you may be right. When is the next full moon? That is when we should test the theory." Emma asked the other adults.

David gulped. "Tonight."

"Okay. How about we ask Regina to make the girl a cloak like Ruby's just in case?" Snow suggested.

"Why not the crocodile?" Hook asked Snow although it was Emma who answered.

"Because there is always a price with Gold."

David knocked on Regina's front door. She answered and immediately grabbed him into a hug.

"You should not have runaway like that Henry. I was worried sick." She told him.

"I'm sorry."

"He only wanted to help." Snow said. Hook had returned to the peer.

Regina looked up at Snow with her eyebrows raised.

"With the girl that tried to rob you." Emma answered Regina's silent question of; help with what? "And now we need your help. The cloak that Ruby always wore in the Enchanted Forest, we need you to make a duplicate."

"Why?"

"We think that she is a werewolf and it is a full moon tonight." Emma answered Regina.

"Well just in case she terrorises the town, I will make you one."

"When will it be done by?" Snow asked.

"It will be finished in time. I will call you." And with that she took Henry inside and closed the door on the Charming family.