A/N: Thank you so much for reading this far, and I apologise for not updating sooner, but I've been working on this chapter since the last one a couple of weeks ago and school's started back up again, and I have to work on my Personal Project at the same time. Anyway I would love to thank everyone who's reviewed, favourited and/ or followed this story or me, I take all the reviews into account. I don't own anything you recognise and I've let my imagination wild, so I have a bit of creative licence to this. I'll try to update again before next Monday here, but I can't promise anything.

About a week after having had stayed at home, and having vowed to herself to hide the pregnancy as long as she can, Erin had somehow managed to convince her parents that she was fine, and that it was just a stomach virus. However the sixteen year old knew it wouldn't be long until someone other than Belle figured it out. Belle and Erin had had a long discussion about it after school the following Tuesday, in the library because Erin needed to get a couple of books for school. They talked for about half an hour, before Jade came looking for her mother and Erin decided that she had to go back home at some point.

Before Erin was born, several things had happened; The Wicked Witch of the West had been beaten by Regina. Snow and David had another daughter, named Nicole, who was a few months older than Erin, while Belle found out that she was pregnant with Jade, during the debacle involving the Wicked Witch. Ariel and Eric finally got married, and in one of the final battles Killian had been injured, later succumbing to his injuries, and dying a week later in hospital.

If a person thought that the family tree had been complicated before Erin's birth, it was absolutely nothing compared to how it looked now. It didn't even resemble a tree, more like a really large leaved bush. Erin and Jade got along well, often hanging out at with each other when there was a family gathering, seeing as Jade had graduated two years early. Nicole and Erin were close as children, almost as if they were best friends, and it had continued mainly throughout the years, and they were still that way. When she had been given the family tree assignment, she tried to fill it out, and ended up filling up five pages on who she knew about.

Moving quietly, and quickly, Erin got dressed, putting her glasses on, because she couldn't be bothered to put her contacts in, and she was trying to sneak out anyway, so going to the bathroom in the midst of that, would arouse suspicion. Passing the mirror, she glanced at her appearance, smiling a little bit when she saw her stomach was still flat, and looked over her appearance, she looked good enough for what she was planning on doing. Erin put her boots on, ran a brush through her hair gently and slowly grabbed her handbag, before tiptoeing over to the front door, and carefully sneaking out of the house. She ran outside, from the rain spitting on top of her hair gently, unlocking the yellow bug door, and sliding into the car. As she slid the key into the ignition she relaxed slightly, and turned it, a small smile gracing her features as it roared, and she began to back out of the driveway, and to Granny's.

Turning off the engine, Erin sighed, and sat in the bug for a few minutes before walking up the stairs and into the diner. As she walked slowly into the diner, across the black and white tiles, she avoided faces of the people she knew and sat in a back booth. The sixteen year old hid her face from prying eyes with a curtain of hair, nervously glancing up at the clock every few seconds to see if more time had passed. To Erin it felt as if time had been slowed down so much so that a second felt like an hour. Erin was waiting, originally William had suggested that they meet at his house after Erin said that they'd needed to talk, but she couldn't do it there knowing someone would hear them. Granny's was the next obvious place as to where not to go, however the two were meeting on the old toll bridge, because it was secluded, no one would ever think that was the first place to look for them and he couldn't physically run from her there.

After what felt like hours, Erin got up and walked back out to the bug, and began to drive to the toll bridge, extra carefully, not wanting to break the car, and the roads were slippery. After having had parked the car, Erin climbed out, and waited at the side of the road for William. Five minutes later he came and greeted her gently.

"Erin." He smiled, clearly unable to read the subtext in her text stating that they needed to talk.

"Hey Will." She replied quietly, shying away as he moved closer.

"What's wrong?" He asked, noticing her moving away.

Erin looked at him, before shaking her head. "I need you to listen to me, please? Can you just promise me you won't run away from me until we've finished, even if you never want to see my face ever again?"

He looked past confused, bemused, but nodded reluctantly. "What's going on? Are you okay?"

"Um, yes and no, except not yes, so to sum it up no." She replied, beginning to pace, and twiddle her thumbs.

Will gently grabbed her shoulders. "Tell me what's going on." He said firmly, with his gentle ocean blue eyes filled with concern.

Erin looked up at him, milk chocolate brown meeting ocean blue. "I-we, not if you don't want to, I mean I can do it on my own. I love you."

"Erin, you're not speaking in coherent sentences, what are we doing?" He asked her gently, as he gently stroked her cheek with one hand. "I love you too."

"I'm-" She stopped herself, and looked at him, and ran a hand gently through his sandy blonde hair. "I'm pregnant, with our baby…" She whispered.

Will stood there, looking at her, his mouth was moving, however no sound came out. It was as if his tongue had been taken from his mouth, except there was no pain from trying to speak. "Are you sure..?" He asked after a couple minutes of mute lip movement.

Erin rolled her eyes and nodded. "I wouldn't joke about this." She said quietly.

"They're going to kill me." He sighed, referring to her family.

"Really, no how are you? How're you feeling? Is this why you ditched school last week? Instead saying my family's going to kill you. They'd probably just try to turn you into a snail and step on you." She laughed hollowly.

"It's just a lot to take in…" He replied, looking at her.

"You think? You're not the one who's having a baby in seven months."

"So we're keeping it then?"

She raised her eyebrows. "It's a baby, not an inanimate object Will. I'm not discarding our baby, or giving them up for adoption."

"Sorry, that was insensitive." He murmured.

"Just a little bit…" She said icily.

William looked for something intelligent to say to his girlfriend, eventually settling on. "How long?"

"I don't know…It's been about a week since I found out, so almost two months…" She said quietly, before drawing in a large breath and speaking a little bit louder. "Look, I understand if you want absolutely nothing to do with me or the baby, actually I don't, but I'll pretend to and I won't come and tell you anything if you don't want me to, but I just had to tell you, because otherwise it would've made it really awkward when I had the baby and still hadn't told you-" Erin said rapidly, before Will cut her off.

"I got it." He murmured, chuckling slightly. "How many times do I have to tell you that the only thing that'd stop me seeing you would be going back to the Enchanted Forest?"

"More." She joked.

"I'm not leaving you."

"Good." Erin replied, looking at him, the past few minutes running through her mind. "Did you just say that you love me?" She asked him.

William raised his eyebrows. "You said it first, and I love you- like a best friend." He tried to cover it up.

Erin nodded. "Right, me too. Because it'd just be weirder if we started dating, or if we liked each other the other way." She mumbled, silently disappointed. "It's simpler if we just have a baby together and stay friends." She nodded.

"Right…" He nodded slowly, looking at her. "Um, I should go back home, before Dad questions me." He stated awkwardly, looking away from Erin.

"Yeah, I should go home before they notice and start the search party." She nodded, and started to walk back to the car. "Bye." She mumbled.

On the drive home, Erin replayed the whole meeting through her head. It had been so awkward, and she'd snapped at him, when she hadn't meant to. She admitted it, she loved him, but being the stubborn teenager she was, she wasn't going to admit it to him, up until he did first. Traffic was slightly congested on the main road, as people began travelling to work to open shops up for business. After about ten minutes the yellow bug slowly pulled into the driveway in front of the house, there were no other cars there, which either meant that the whole family was looking for her or had absolutely no idea that she was gone, the garage door was still locked (electric system in place). The key in the ignition was rotated, and the engine stopped rumbling, Erin quietly climbed out of the car, and shut the door, trying to make as little noise as physically possible before walking in through the front door, after having had unlocked the door.

Swinging the door in front of her, Erin clambered inside the door, and began to lock it back up, as if she'd never left in the first place. Erin slowly tiptoed to the living room, and immediately came to a halt seeing both of her parents looking at her silently, as if trying to deduct her story from her appearance. "Shit." She mumbled, looking at the two of them.