Chapter 3

From here on out, when Evelyn is talking to people I will be using italics for her voice. As in Storybrooke she would need to be signing, since she has lost the ability to speak.

"You saved me!" His voice was silky and smooth. He reached up and cupped her face in his large hand. "Thank you."

Evelyn nodded a smile in her eyes, though her mouth was set in a thin line. She looked up at the Sheriff and nodded at the rag that was over the mans head. The Sheriff pulled her hand away and let Evelyn remove the rag, she gently pressed it against the wound, trying to clean up around it.

"Are you okay?" The Sheriff asked, looking at both the man on the ground and the woman who had rescued him. "I'm Emma, Emma Swan, I'm the Sheriff."

The man looked up at her and smiled, "Yes, I've seen you in town, I'm Adam." Both he and Emma looked at the Evelyn, waiting for her to give up her name.

"Her name is Evelyn," Henry piped up. He was trying to push the dog down that continued to lick his face. "She can't speak."

Emma and Adam both exchanged shocked glances. "Well," Emma cleared her throat. "We should get you both to the hospital to make sure you're okay."

Together Evelyn and Emma pulled up Adam, "I'm fine to walk." He said gruffly, he towered over Evelyn, but he couldn't take his eyes off of her. "I don't know how I can ever thank you."

"What happened out there?" Emma asked, as they all began walking towards the parking lot. The dog following on Henry's heels, still trying to lick the little boys face.

Adam shook his head. "I…"He paused, looking back out at the gentle waves that washed onto shore. "I saw something in the water. I saw," he turned and looked down again at Evelyn. "It was your face." Evelyn blushed and looked down and the small dog. Adam continued. "And then I saw a necklace…"

Regina Mills, the Mayor of Storybrooke was losing her footing in this land without magic. Ever since Emma Swan had arrived the pieces of the puzzle she had so carefully placed were slowly being lost. She stood on the hill where her son's "Castle" had been and watched as that mermaid pulled her Prince out of the ocean. She watched as Emma herself helped pull them to shore and that mangy dog lick Henry.

She shuddered. Hating all but Henry, she had no idea how to distance him from his birth mother. And how to stop the happy endings from returning. She knew now that the mermaid had found her Prince she was that much closer to getting her voice back. If only Regina had that necklace still. She knew then that the mermaid would never regain her voice if she still controlled it.

Regina took a deep breath and slowly began making her way down towards the water's edge. Of course she didn't WANT to help any of them, but she had to keep her face up as Mayor of the town. As her heels sunk into the soft sand she saw something floating amongst the weeds. A shell that shone a pearly white. Regina gasped and quickly bent down, grasping the chain that connected to the shell she pulled it up and pooled it into her palm.

As soon as the shell touched her palm it began humming, holding it up to her ear she grinned as she heard the most beautiful voice coming from inside the shell. Grinning, Regina stood up, stuffing the chain back into her pocket and turning around, she headed back to her car. She knew that Emma wouldn't allow Henry to get hurt and she had to see a man about a shell.

Evelyn gasped as soon as Adam had said the word necklace. Both her and Emma looked at her, both thinking that something was wrong. She began gesturing, trying to get them to understand something.

Emma shook her head. "I'm sorry! I don't know how to read sign language!"

Evelyn reached out and gently pulled Emma's swan necklace off of her shirt, then looked at Adam. She dropped the necklace and made a question mark in the air. Trying to show them that she wanted to know what type of necklace Adam had seen in the water.

"I think she wants to know what type of necklace you thought you saw," Henry piped up, he had finally bent down and picked up the dog. It was once again licking his face. He giggled as Emma took the dog from him and put it back on the ground.

Evelyn nodded and looked at Adam expectantly. As she did she watched as his eyes rolled back into his head and began to fall. Both Emma and Evelyn lunged forward to grab him before he hit his head again. They gently lay him back onto the beach.

Emma whipped her phone out of her pocket and called 911. "We need an ambulance down at the beach. There's been an accident." She looked at Evelyn, her eyes sad. "I'm sorry! We can ask him about the necklace later."

Evelyn nodded, she ran her hand through his hair, pushing it off of his face. If only she could speak, to tell this man that he would be okay.