The atmosphere was so tense and stressed that one could physically feel the awkward in the air. Emma was still wearing her sweatpants and one of Neal's shirts, that she'd stolen from the dresser, just by looking at her appearance, you could tell that she hadn't gotten up too long ago. Whilst, from Neal's appearance, his dark brown hair all messed up, and his singlet was on back to front; his face was arranged so that there was a concerned, yet curious look coming from his features. No one spoke for moments, all the communication was done through observation, glances and body language, if an outsider had been there, they would've backed out of the room slowly, not wanting to be there when an argument would implode.

Erin looked down, and sighed. "I-I can explain…" She said quietly. "I-er, went to go get the mail, but there wasn't any." It was the best lie that the sixteen year old girl could come up with on short notice.

Emma raised her eyebrows, and looked at her daughter. "It's eight thirty in the morning, and you've been gone for at least two hours on a Sunday morning Erin." She pointed out.

"Shit." The young girl murmured, it wasn't going her way at all. "I just threw this on to get the mail…"

Neal looked at his baby girl with concern. "Princess, we know you didn't go to get the mail, so stop with that lie." He stated, glancing at Emma before looking back at Erin. "We're concerned."

Emma nodded at Neal and leaned forward from the back of the couch. "Talk to us Erin." She said, in the tone that she generally used to worm information out of someone.

"Mom, Dad, I'm fine, cut it out!" Erin complained.

"Even Belle has noticed that you're different. We're not your enemies Erin, we just want to help." Neal stated calmly.

"Then leave me and my business alone!" Erin begged.

Emma looked at her daughter and shook her head.

"You see! It's things like this why Henry stayed over at Regina's sometimes!" She yelled angrily and tried to stand up, before sitting back down. "Can I go back to sleep?"

Neal looked at Emma before shaking his head. "Not until you tell us what's going on."

The phone rang, interrupting the conversation, and Neal practically jumped up and grabbed the phone, wanting to get out of the conversation as soon as humanly or magically possible. He grabbed the phone and smiled a little. "Yeah, give me a second Henry." He stated, before pointing to the kitchen and continuing the conversation there.

Emma looked at her daughter, and ran a hand through her hair, before deciding to speak again, seeing that Neal was trying to get out of the conversation. "Erin, I'm not as stupid as I look."

"Says the person who mistook their grandfather-in-law for their own son." She smirked.

"Neal still doesn't know about that, and I'd prefer if it stayed that way, and that was on Neverland, where I had absolutely no idea what was where, and I was out of my depth, from a distance it looked like they were the same height and I only saw his back."

"The point still stands Mom, you mistook Peter Pan for Henry." Erin rolled her eyes, and looked at her mother, smirking slightly.

"This isn't about that Erin." Emma replied seriously. "Who do you think empties the garbage?"

"Dad?" Erin guessed, trying to stay impassive, even though she wanted to widen her eyes wider.

"Yes, but I did it this week." Emma sighed, and continued to look at her daughter, before pulling the empty pregnancy test packet out of her pocket. "Care to explain why this is empty?"

"Because someone thought they were pregnant, and took the test, and left the box in the bin?" She said as if it were the most obvious thing in all of the worlds.

"And who would have used it?" Emma pressed on, raising her eyebrows. She knew Erin was going to tell her at some point, even if it took a couple more weeks. Emma was determined to get her daughter to explain now.

"I don't know, it could've been anyone. Maybe you took it and forgot." The younger woman shrugged, continuing to try to get out of the situation completely.

Emma shook her head. "Erin…" She sighed.

Erin avoided her mother's gaze, and kept her eyes firmly on the ground. "Then maybe it was Belle's, or Grace's."

"Erin… My superpowe-"

"No Mom, don't mention your 'superpower' again, it's not!" Erin sighed, chewing on her lips. "Why were you even looking in the cupboard and picking up the pregnancy test anyway?"

"I said the box was in the bin." Emma smiled a little, her plan was working, Erin was crumbling, and spun in a web of her own lies.

"What did I say?" Erin tried to backtrack. "I meant bin… It would've had to have been in the cupboard at some point though." She kept stumbling over her own voice.

Her mother continued to look at the young girl and shook her head. "You said cupboard. How did you know it wasn't in the bin Erin?" She asked again. "You know I hate it when you lie, and I always know."

"What do you want me to say Mum?" Erin asked, exasperatedly. "I looked the other night, and saw that the box was in there, alright?"

"I want you to tell me what is really going on." Emma told Erin gently, stroking her dark caramel coloured hair. "The truth."

Erin sighed, and leaned back into the couch. "Guess, because I'm not saying." She challenged

As Emma was just about to open her mouth to speak, Neal came back into the room, looking frazzled. "Um, Em can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Right now?" Emma asked, turning around to face Neal.

Erin nodded eagerly and stood up, swinging her handbag over her shoulder and walking back to her bedroom, shutting the door.

Emma looked at her husband and sighed. "Yes?" She asked. "We were kind of in the middle of something Mr. Son of Rumplestiltskin."

"Henry's house got broken into." He told her.

"Great, any idea who it was? Wait why are you telling me this?" Emma asked.

"You're the sheriff Em." He pointed out. "Probably Spencer."

A/N: Thank you for reading, can you believe it's less than two weeks until the next ep? The light at the end of the hiatus is visible. I don't own anything you recognise, and I apologise if anyone seems too OOC, I just needed to point it out. I'll write another chapter tomorrow, life's been hectic, so I haven't had time to write. Let me know what you think guys!