Chapter 6: A cop

Manhattan; Thursday; Two years earlier; dinner time

She heard their doorbell ring, it was the bell which hung outside the apartment building. She picked up the phone "You're with Emma, can I help you?" she greeted shortly.

"Emma… Emma Swan?"

"Um yes… That's my name." She heard two men talking with each other as one of them answered.

"My name is Mr. John Hansfield from the police station. Do you have a minute for us?"

"Yes sure… The door is open you can come in." Emma said as she already began to walk over to her apartment door seeing two police men walking over to her.

"Is there something wrong?" she asked still standing in the door opening.

"Miss Swan… I guess it's better if you take a seat for a moment and um… order your kid to his bedroom for a moment."

The policemen and Emma took their places at the dining table as Henry went this room. First they didn't know how to bring it up, but they just came out with it after a while. Neal had died in a car accident on his way home. Yes Neal was his name, Emma's boyfriend and Henry's father. She firstly stared at the men after receiving the news before the tears streamed down her cheeks and her coffee cup hit the ground. She had dropped it in her shock.

After the police men had left, she told Henry about it and he had locked himself in his own room for three days, and Emma had to put his food in front of his door if he were to eat anything at all. Yet, he didn't open his door, not until a few days, and when he did… Emma and he decided to move to New York, and from New York to Boston.

Boston; Thursday; present time; a week later

It had been one whole week. Emma had ignored all the phone calls which she had gotten from Killian.

"Kid, hurry up school is waiting for you!"

Henry walked into the kitchen with his rucksack, "Mom, when will Killian come again? I wanna show him my new videogame."

"I don't know, we um… We had a fight." She said whilst taking her car keys off of the hook and putting her coat on.

"But mom…"

"Henry, not now okay? He lied to me, and you know that I can see those things." She took a brief pause, "Now, get into the car kid! We're already late."

Emma took her son to school, grabbed some coffee at Starbucks and bought a newspaper with her to check any advertisements for jobs. And there it was, an opportunity to become a cop at the Boston police station.

A few hours later.

"Name?"

"Emma Swan."

"What can I do for you, miss Swan?"

Emma had put her passport onto the desk of the police man.

"I want to be a part of the police force." She said whilst giving the man her necessary papers.

"You've had a job as a waitress… And an undercover agent?"

"That's correct, sir."

"You never worked as an official police woman… But the undercover agent isn't a bad profession." He briefly paused, "Give me a second." He dialled a number and talked a bit with the person on the other end of the phone.

"If you go through this door, you'll find the office of our head officer Miss Mills. Oh, and my name is officer Nolan but you can call me David." He smiled towards Emma as she walked over to the office of Miss Mills.

"Come in." she heard once Emma had knocked on the glass door.

"You must be Emma Swan." Miss Mills said as she stood up from her chair to give Emma her hand to shake.

"Then you must be miss Mills." Emma smiled as she took her seat in front of the desk once removing her hand from the officers.

"Exactly, and from now on I'm your boss." Miss Mills said whilst dialling a number.

"I.. I'm part of the team?" Emma asked her. But before Miss Mills could answer, the call was answered and she discussed Emma being part of the team with the other person.

She hung up, "Yes you are, your partner is waiting in the room at the end of the hallway next to my office. Welcome to the team and do your best, we wanna keep this town safe. Understood, Miss Swan?"

"Understood, you can call me Emma if…"

Emma got interrupted "I'd rather call you miss Swan, now go." She picked up the phone for her next call as Emma walked over to the next room where her partner would be. Miss Mills was a strict women as she could see, a bit arrogant and sassy… But a good boss she hoped.

Emma had a conversation with her partner, her name was Laura Kings. But she didn't have to call her miss Kings, just Laura. She was a women around the age of 25. A bit younger than Emma, but she knew more about this job than Emma did.

And even before she knew it, Laura and she went on a case. There was called about a fight with some drunk people in a bar called Ducklings. So they didn't hold back and went for it.

"I'm going to check out the building, can you keep an eye outside Emma?" Laura said as Emma nodded.

Now she was alone. Laura wasn't gone for about a minute when Emma already heard something coming from a narrow street next to the bar. She pulled her gun out and walked into the ally slowly.

She pulled out a lighter and there she saw a man, drunk… sitting in the corner. "Hands up!" she said.

"Well love, I would do that if I could. But I cannot move my arms that much."

She recognised the voice, "Killian?" she said as he looked up so she could see his face.

"Emma? What the bloody hell are you doing here." He asked as he went to stand up, but he couldn't. His arms were full of cuts and unable to support him, it looked like glass had hit him over a million times.

"I'm a cop since today… Did you fight with the others? Look at your arms!"

"No.. Yes… I don't remember much. All I knew is that a few men came in the bar and then some glass flew against the walls, and hit people." He replied casually.

Emma took her walky-talky "Laura, the fighters are gone. But I've found one of the victims. Please call back up and come over to the ally way next to the bar."

"Understood Emma, what's up with the victim?"

"He has a lot of glass wounds to the arms and cannot stand up."

"An ambulance is on its way, stay where you are I'm coming." Laura said before placing the walky-talky back in to her jacket.

"Emma why are you doing this…?" Killian said closing his eyes because of the pain.

"Because I love you, no matter what. Even because you lied about your past, I won't lose you."

They heard the ambulance coming, and when it arrived Emma got in it together with Killian as Laura went over to Emma's apartment so she could tell Henry that Emma would be home a late.