Blue eyes watched the captivating brunette laying on the hospital bed resting. It had been a miracle in her mind that they had stumbled across her, a one in a million chance. Tanya held herself shivering as she thought of the, what if's. What if they had not seen her? What if they were too late?
"Tanya?"
She jumped as her brothers voice broke through her thoughts. Turning she smiled shakily leaning heavily against the closed hospital door. "Hey"
Kyle moved forward pulling the blond into his arms. He could see how this whole situation had traumatized her and the toll it was taking on her. He himself felt a little overwhelmed for two contradicting reasons. He was happy that the woman was alive, and that he wouldn't be going to jail anytime soon. However he was disappointed that Emma couldn't remember more than her name. She was quite the beautiful woman. He wondered if she had a family or a husband. Feeling Tanya break down in his arms he held her tight to him making comforting noises.
"KYLE!?... TANYA?!" A frantic voice shouted down the hospital corridors searchingly.
The twins turned and faced the direction it was coming from knowing that the voice came from their mother. There at the end of the corridor Maura Isles Kelly stood with their other mom Jane Rizzoli looking frazzled and roughshod. In some insane part of their mind the twins were laughing at the sight of their usually poised mom so sloppy looking, while the sane part just wanted to break down in relief to see their parents. Maura ran to her children with Jane beside her. Gathering Tanya and Kyle into her arms Maura cried as she assessed them. She was so happy that neither was injured, or seriously hurt. Jane stood to the side her eyes telling her that both her kids were fine, but her honed skills as a detective were telling her to wait for the right moment to start finding out what happened. First she had to find a way to pry Maura away from the kids.
"Maur.." Jane husked in her whiskey timber. The name passing her lips saying everything and nothing at the same time. She knew however that the blond understood her without her needing to explain more. Stepping forward she gently grabbed Maura's hand in silent support as she looked at her kids.
"Kyle." She choose first seeing as he was the calmest out of the bunch, she knew he would be the easiest to get answers from.
"I don't know mom" Kyle sighed tiredly the last few days' excitement catching up with him, "We were coming up on the highway on the last leg before we hit the main highway back to Boston when Tawn here starts to freak out telling me to stop."
"If you had been paying attention to the road I wouldn't have freaked out, you could have killed her" Tanya yelled anger now filling her at the thought.
"I didn't even hit her Tanya!"
"That's not the point!"
"Whoa, whoa," Jane yelled over them, "Both of you stop it, and start explaining. Tanya since you're so eager who did your brother almost hit?"
"Emma." Tanya spoke the name softly, reverently turning back to the closed hospital door as she thought of the brunette that lay in a sea of confusion and mystery.
"Emma? Who's Emma?" Maura asked.
Ignoring her mother, Tanya walked forward opening the door and entering the sleeping woman's room. She sat in the chair that she had sat in vigil waiting for those dark caramels to shine on her once again. Since she had first seen them the blond couldn't get them out of her mind. Grabbing the soft hand of the sleeping woman Tanya turned to face her family.
"This is Emma."
"What happened Tawn?" Jane asked
"It was like Kyle said, we were on the last few miles on the 405 to the main highway arguing over the radio station." Tanya spoke her eyes going back to the sleeping beauty. "I looked up and it was like she had appeared out of nowhere. I swear mom," she looked to Jane pleading with her mom to believe her. "There was no one on the road not a car or person in sight. But there she was, I freaked out because we were heading right towards her. I tried to get Kyle to stop, we swerved and when I opened my eyes again she was behind us lying on the side of the road." Tanya broke down crying remembering the broken looking position that the body was in and thanking ever deity in existence that they hadn't hit her. That Emma was going to be alright.
"I didn't hit her mom," Kyle spoke up, "I think she was drugged. The doctors are unsure why she was there and according to Dr. Rudenfeld she is perfectly healthy aside from the bump on her head. I think we saved her."
"Dr. Rudenfeld, I know him he was my mentor when I was interning," Maura looked to Jane who without saying anything left to look for the Dr. knowing that was where she would get the rest of her answers from him.
Maura turned back to her quiet children, taking in the somber expressions as they stared at the woman in the hospital bed. The sadness in their brow and heavy set of their shoulders alarming her as she knew there was not much comfort she could provide them until she had more information. Looking at the brunette in the bed taking in her high cheekbones and superior model facial structures much like her Jane's she felt the urge to take this woman in. This woman who looked younger than her by about 10 to 15 years seemed so small and innocent lying in that bed Maura felt an overwhelming urge to protect her. To mother her.
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Henry knew from the beginning that this was a bad idea, even as he stood across the street from the pawn shop he could hear his mother's voice in his head. It was so clear to him that he felt as if she were right next to him.
"Go home Henry, don't do this."
"I have to mom."
"Never make a deal with him, Henry, this is not the way"
"It's the only way!"
"Mr. Gold is dangerous, his deals will poison you. Go home to your mother."
"I am going home mom and grandpa Gold is going to get me there." Henry moved forward not wanting to hear another word from his phantom mother. The jingle of the door opening reverberating in his head as his heart pounded. Looking around the pawn shop trying to identify the items in the shop and comparing them to the ones mentioned in his storybook. That darn book that destroyed everything, Picking up a crystal seashell that glowed when he picked it up, Henry became entranced as a beautiful song filled him. Its melody reminding him of the lullaby his mother used to sing to him when he was little after a nightmare. Hearing it filled him with happiness, chasing his anger and depression away.
"Henry!" Gold wrapped his hand around the shell in Henry's hand, stopping the song's progression and breaking the spell it had on the boy.
"Hey!" Henry shouted indignantly, the happiness that he had been feeling rapidly disappearing as the song was no longer playing.
"You shouldn't play with the things in my shop Henry. Some of it is very dangerous."
"More dangerous then you?"
Rumple ignored the unusual sting that the boy's words had caused to his heart. While he had loved his son Bae, it was taking him some time getting used to being a grandfather. "What can I do for you Henry?" He asked with a sigh, moving to place the shell behind a glass case.
"I want to make a deal."
Rumple stopped as the words seemed to echo in his head. The opportunist in him giggling madly in glee at the thought of another deal to make, especially with the child of the savior. To really drive the knife in that much deeper into his favorite toy, until he remembered. She was no longer here. Turning around to face the young man Rumple stopped. His black heart clenching in his chest as he took in the child before him that suddenly reminded him of his son. In fact looked the spitting image of his Bae in that moment standing before him defiantly determined to get his way.
"You don't have anything I want Henry."
"I do, I have the only thing you've ever wanted."
"Henry, I have everything I have ever wanted, there is nothing you could give me that could garner a deal. Now go run along home and forget about making deals." Rumple turned to go upstairs, wanting to finish his lunch with Belle.
Desperately Henry reached into his jacket pockets, he pulled out two vials. One filled with a glowing red liquid, the other filled with a silver powder. "Make a deal or I take Belle away."
Gripping his cane the imp turned to the insolent boy with a fake smile on his face. He eye'd his grandson with a calculating look, wondering slightly if he had heard correctly. "Take Belle away? You don't know what you say boy."
"Villains don't get happy endings, that's what everyone has been saying including you. I couldn't figure it out why you got your happy ending. After all you're the beast in Beauty and the Beast, right? So you're not really the villain, unless-"
"I don't have time for this childish drivel!"
"It took some time but mom kept better record than the book did. She knew-"
"Go home Henry!" Rumplesteilskin roared in anger, his skin shinning as he tried to contain himself from lashing out physically against his grandson.
"Red was the beast! You took her happy ending!" Henry shouted
"Rumple? Henry?" Belle appeared on the stairs that led to their apartment above the shop. Their yelling had gained her attention and she went to investigate what was going on. Looking between the two as they stood glaring at each other in a standoff, feeling the tension rolling off of them in waves her curiosity was beginning to kill her. "What is going on?"
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A/N: hi all so I am back, sorry it has been so long, vacation and working and what not. But here is an update. Also a little side note, I don't own Rizzoli and Isles or their characters or OUAT kinda wish I did. But to make this work I am placing Jane and Maura in their 40's, the kids will be explained in another chapter. Hope you liked it please review. I welcome criticism just not flames. And looking for a beta too so if there are any takers let me know.
