Rowena

The witch had gone back for the baby, after having a long and relaxing bath, and when she arrived to where she had left it blondie wasn't there.

"Och, come on! How far can an adult turned infant go?" Rowena said with disgust. Getting dirty in the forest looking for a baby was not what she called vacation time.

She quieted down for a few second and heard a twig breaking and following the noise found the infant, who was still trying to get away. Rowena let out a really long sigh and whispered "manete" to keep Emma where she was and carried her to her house with her magic so that she wouldn't have to touch her. She really did not like babies, even previously adult ones.

"I didn't stand Fergus, I will not stand this one." As soon as she arrived she locked Emma in the bathroom and casted a noise isolator spell around it.

"Peace at last."

Regina Mills

Regina had received Emma's call and had transported to the crime spot right away, the murder was indeed not for someone with a weak stomach. Blood adorned the place and the corpse was disfigured beyond recognition. One could barely tell it had been a man.

"Poor bastard" She said out loud while crouching near to examine the wounds. "Are these… teeth marks? What sort of new psyco have we got now?"

She heard a rustle behind the trees and appeared a fireball on her hand. "Emma, is that you?" She said in direction to the noise. No one answered. "State your name or intention before I decide to roast you down." She added coldly.

"Stop there , love. You wouldn't want to roast a friend such as me." A black haired man stepped out of the tree, he had a hook instead of one of his hands.

"I would hardly call you a friend" She snapped coldly but turned her fire off.

"Bloody gruesome isn't it?" Said the pirate while surrounding the body.

"You don't say" She bite back.

"Come on love, I'm not trying to pick up a fight here. Swan called me." He said while raising his arms in a gesture of mock surrender.

"Well, I guess she called us both."

"So it seems"

"Then where the hell is she?"

Both stood in silence for a second, the threatening idea hanging over their heads.

"You don't think…" Hook started to say.

"No." Regina stopped him. "Let's not go there yet. For all we know she found whatever did this and decided to go against it."

"Emma wouldn't do that." He rebated quickly. "Not without backup" He defended and Regina shot him a dark, seriously, look. "Okay maybe she would."

"Of course she would, she is 'Miss Emma I'm a hero and I save everyone even if it kills me and I fuck up everything else Swan'. " Regina replied with an annoyed sigh that hide preoccupation. "Why couldn't you just wait for us?" She asked to no one, exasperated while throwing her hands to the air.

While Regina went on a rant about the times Emma had done stuff like that, Hook worried about his girlfriend. He was meant to go with her on that research mission but he had found himself trapped researching other cases when people started disappearing. Well at least now they could eliminate one person from the missing list and pass him over to the deceased one. Poor bastard. Emma, David and him had been working like crazy on those; and now Emma was the one missing.

He swore if he could have just one glimpse at her and know she was okay, he'd do anything.

"Hey! Have you been listening to me?" Regina snapped her fingers on his face. "We have a situation here, remember? Emma's missing."

"Aye, we do." He answers.

"So? Focus!"

"You don't have to scream all the bloody time, your majesty." He replied sassily.

Regina rolled her eyes. "What-ever, one handed wonder."

"But this hand is more than enough."

"We do not have time for you dick sided jokes now, maybe Emma can stand them, but I will cut your other hand and I want to see you laughing then."

"It seems someone didn't get some last night"

"Oh… you devil!..."

And so they kept fighting with each other instead of actually looking for Emma, who at that time was still trapped on Rowena's bathroom.

Rowena

She had been spying Regina and Hook, so far it seemed they were far from discovering what actually had happened.

"What, did they not have vampires from where they're from? I mean; the evil queen, snow bloody white, snow white's daughter and captain hook, but no vampires? It had to take a town out of the book of the damned to be so weird." She said while shaking her head.

"Well little Swan." She yelled to where Emma was. "I guess your friends are too busy fighting with each other to actually look for you, of course that might have something to do with the little spell I left there to tamper with anyone's mood in case they went there." She stopped the noise isolator spell for a second and heard and obviously offended baby yell. "What? I had to protect my part of the forest from prying eyes." She replied and returned the spell back in place before Emma could start breaking her ears.

"Shush now, tomorrow you'll be back to you parents. Maybe they can raise you right this time and teach you not to go where you are not bloody called. "

Regina Mills

She and Hook had been fighting for what seemed like hours, they went over things as big as Emma's disappearance to which eyeliner brand was better. Then things began to get violent, Hook tried to attack her and she froze him in place while feeling a lot like ripping his guts.

Finally Regina reacted and sensed something was wrong, a little voice in her mind told her she should not want to murder the pirate for disagreeing on makeup brands.

"…and that's why…" Regina raised her hand and muted Hook, who had kept talking angrily despite being paralyzed.

"Shh, stop. Don't you see what this is doing to us? We haven't been able to stop fighting since we arrived. Something's wrong here, and I mean wrong besides bloody corpse wrong."

Hook finally seemed to realize this and moved his hands trying to say something.

"No, I'll give you your voice and movement back after we get out of here. We will never get anything done if we can't go two steps without fighting."

Now it was Hook's time to roll his eyes, but he knew she was right so he stopped complaining and instead worked on the way out of there.

"We should check the house Emma was going to see; maybe we can find something there."

Hook nodded, fighting the urges to fight, and they both made their way there. More like Regina transported them. When they arrived they felt the strong urge that propelled to fight vanish. They shared a glance, something was definitely wrong on that place.

Rowena

She was surprised those two had actually made it that far. Well the brunette witch was certainly skilled, Rowena laughed, oh right, she was the evil queen. Fun.

Rowena heard two knocks on her door and smirked, time to start the show.