It had been a week since the David incident, Graham and I had come to an agreement that Emma could be useful at the station when I wasn't around, and we decided to offer her a job but I let that part for Graham. That morning Henry, Emma and I we're walking to the school bus, not that I needed to be walked to school but I appreciated that Emma wanted to spend more time with Henry, I knew how important that was for him, and I could see that Emma was not a bad person but sometimes I felt like I was intruding or something.

"You're sure we can walk in the open?"

"No more snicking around" Emma turned to look at Henry "If your mom has a problem with me taking you to the school bus, I'll be more than happy to have a little chat with her"

"You're brave" Henry said "We'll need that for operation cobra. Speaking of that, I think we need codenames"

"Ain't cobra our codename?" I asked.

"That's the mission" He looked at me "I mean us; I need something to call you two"

"Oh..." Emma looked at me "Uh... I don't know, you could just call me Emma for now..."

"Okay, well then, I see you later Emma" He said as climbed up the bus.

I looked at her and gave her a small smile before following Henry inside.

Next morning I decided to drop by the station to give Graham a hand, but it turned out there wasn't much to do so it was about 1PM when I headed back home. I could see that my mother had just left and I was about to open the door when Henry rushed out of it.

"Yo kid, easy" I said as I held my hands up "Where are we going?" I said and he smiled at me.

As we pushed open Mary Margaret's door the first thing I saw was Mr. Gold at the middle of the living room.

"Hey Emma, I was thinking we..." He stopped as soon as he saw the town owner talking to Emma.

"Hey Henry" The man said, his voice full of accent "Olivia, how are you two?"

"Okay..." I said as I faced him.

"Good" He said as he looked away "Give my regards to your mother, and uh... Good luck Ms. Swan" And with that he passed by me and walked away.

"Do you know who that is?" Henry asked Emma.

"Yeah, of course I do" She answered.

"Who? I'm still trying to figure it out..." He looked confused.

"Oh, I meant in reality" Emma said as she grabbed some stuff out of some boxes.

"Is that all you brought?" I asked, eying the few boxes on the ground.

"What are you two doing in here?" She avoided my question, rude.

"Our mom is not back until 5, and I thought we could hang out" He said sweetly.

"Oh kid, I wish I could but there's something I've got to do" She said as she passed by us, but then stopped and turned around, looking at me "Olivia, uh... do you mind helping me?" I was confused now.

"Course not but, what does make you believe that I could help?" I said as I raised my eyebrows and shoved my hands into my pockets.

"I mean you're Graham's deputy and you know how to do this kind of stuff" I gave her an uncertain look "C'mon, you know the town better than me"

"Okay then" I said calmly "Should I call Graham too or..."

"No" She cut me off "Gold doesn't want the police involved, so I trust you to do this undercover okay?" She faced me.

"Okay"

We had agreed that Henry should go back home but he didn't want to listen to us, so as we were walking towards Emma's car he was following and begging us.

"Please, please, please" Emma rolled her eyes beside me "Let me help"

"No" Emma said "It could be dangerous"

"The pregnant lady? Dangerous?"

"She assaulted Mr. Gold" I pointed out.

"Cool" He said full of excitement.

"This isn't a game, she's desperate!" Emma tried.

"How do you know?" Emma looked at me.

"Because I know"

"Well then, let's find her" He said as he moved to open the passenger's door.

"No, no, no, no" I said as I blocked his way "There is no 'let's', you cannot come with us"

"Then I'll look for her myself" He wasn't changing his mind.

"Then I'll find you and bring you back" Emma shoot.

"Then you won't be helping the maid" He pointed out.

"I'm trying to be responsible here" Emma said, looking exhausted.

"And I'm just trying to spend more time with you" He snapped back.

Once again, Emma's face was priceless.

"Oh, that's really not fair" She said as we entered the car.

"So, the maid" Henry said from the backseat "What's her story?"

I suggested Emma that we should ask Ruby about Ashley, since I knew that they were friends so we went to Granny's to get some answers.

"So this boyfriend of hers" Emma started "Do you think he's involved with her disappearing?"

"I wouldn't say he' involved with her at all" Ruby said as she finished cleaning the table and moved to look at us "He left her right after he found out that they were expecting, haven't talked since. Like I said..." A sound behind us caught our attention, and it turned out that was only Billy with Ruby's car "Hey, hey! Billy, be careful, you almost shattered my wolfie, it's got luck"

"I'm sorry Ruby, but look, it's fine" He apologised. Billy was one of the sweetest residents of Storybrook.

"Uh, Ruby" I caught up the conversation "What about her family?"

"Oh, she's got a step-mom and two step-sisters that she doesn't speak with" She said like it was the most normal thing.

"Wait" Henry jumped in "step-mom, step-sisters, and she's a maid..."

"Henry" Emma gave him a look "Not now" He sighed beside me.

"I don't know what they've told you" Ruby looked at us "But it's wrong" I frowned "Everyone thinks she's not ready to have this kid but she's trying, taking night classes, trying to better herself, trying to get her life together, do you understand that?"

"I think so" Emma answered beside me.

"Well, then just stay out of it" I eyed Emma "She's been through enough already"

"Well, me too Ruby, and I can help her" Emma pushed.

"Then try her ex" Ruby gave up.

"Where can we find him?"

"Let me guess" I said "He lives with his dad"

"You got it girl" Ruby answered.

The guy's house was on the other side of the town, which wasn't far anyway. During the five-minute car ride I could realize that Emma was tense about the entire situation. When we reached his house we told Henry to stay in the car, while we talked to Sean. As we reached the doorstep, Emma knocked.

"Can I help you" Said the young-looking guy that opened the door.

"Sean Herman?" Emma asked.

"Yeah, who are you?" He asked Emma and then turned to me "Hello Olivia"

"I'm Emma Swan. I'm..." She looked at me before continuing "I'm looking for Ashley Boyd, she's in trouble, just thought maybe she came to see you..."

"My son doesn't have anything to do with that girl anymore" Said the guy that was climbing up the porch stairs. Sean's father. "For whatever trouble she's in, I'm sorry for but there is nothing that we can do to help"

"You're the reason he broke up with her" Emma turned to the man.

"Absolutely" I stared at him wide eyed "I won't let my son throw away his entire life over a mistake"

"So you just told him to leave her?" Emma was shocked.

"What were they gong to do? Raise their child on the back seat of a car?" He stared at Emma.

"Some people only have the back seat of a car..." I mumbled beside them.

"Oh they are dign of pitty" He said as he pushed past us "I'm not letting that happen to my son"

"Dad, maybe we sould help her look" Sean finnaly spoke.

"It's a waste Sean" He said from inside.

"Sean, if you wanna come, come" Emma said "Stop letting people make decisions for you. If Ashley runs away with this baby, she'll be in some serious trouble"

"She's running away with the baby?" He asked, worried.

"Yes" It was the only thing that Emma could manage before Sean's father stopped her.

"Sean" He said as he approached us "Inside"

Sean looked at us, he really looked like he wanted to help, that was sad.

"Now" His father insisted.

Sean sighed as he stepped inside the house, leaving Emma and I on the doorstep with his father.

"Look, believe me, if I knew where she was I would tell you" He crossed his arms "I went through a lot of trouble to get her that deal..."

"Deal?" I snapped "What are you talking about?"

"Don't you know?" He looked at us "Ashley agreed to give up the child, and she's been payed very well to do so"

"She sold the baby?" Emma was as disturbed as I was.

"Oh, you made it sound absurd" And he made it sound like it was the most normal thing on the world "I found someone who's going to find that child a good and propper home"

"Who are you to judge?" Emma snapped "Ashley is capable of providing that"

"Oh c'mon, she's a teeneger" He looked at me "She's never shown any evidence of being responsible, how could she possibly know how to be a mother?"

"Maybe she's changing her life" Emma sugested.

"Everybody says that" He rolled his eyes "Now look, I found someone who's going to pay Ashley extremelly well. Someone who's going to seek it to everybody's happiness..." Then it hit me.

"Gold" Emma looked at me.

"Oh, wasn't that why you were hired?" He looked at us "To bring him the baby?"

So there we were again at the stack zero, now Emma, Henry and I were driving around the town aimlesly until we dicide to head back to Granny's.

"You can't make her double cross Gold" Henry spoke from the back seat "No one has ever broken a deal with him!"

"Then I'm happy to be the first" On that point I agreed to Emma "If Ashley wants to have this baby, she'll have it. Everyone who wants to be a mother should be allowed to be one"

It did't take long for us to reach Granny's. Emma stopped the car at the space right in front of the stabilishment and we all rushed in.

"Why didn't you tell me she sold the baby?" Emma spoke to Ruby as she walked towards the counter.

"Because I didn't think it was important" The waitress said as she moved from behind the counter to the kitchen.

"Really?" I said.

"Considering that's why she's running away?" Emma completed.

"Look, Ashley is my friend, I don't like the idea of people judging her"

As Ruby crossed the stabilishment all that was left for us to see was the kitchen's counter, but something called my attention, which was Ruby's car trinket. Oh no. I looked at Emma and she looked outside for Ruby's car. It just simply wasn't there. Shit.

"Ruby" I called out "Where is your car?!"

She looked at us quite worried then moved away again.

"You didn't send us to Sean to find her, you sent me to give her a headstart" Emma said, letting that sink in.

"Look, I'm only trying to help her!" Ruby finnaly said.

"So are we!" Emma said "Ashley is more trouble than you know Ruby, where is she?" Ruby eyed her "Don't make her deal with him without me!"

Ruby looked at Henry and I before she spoke up.

"In front of her it's okay because she works for Graham, but he's only the mayor's son and I'm not saying anything in front of him"

"Hey" Henry loked indignated "I'm on your side!" Emma pushed him aside and I eyed Ruby.

"Henry, I need to find this woman, and for that I need you to to go home okay?" Henry stared at her "Please, listen to me, seriously. She's not going to tell me anything in front of you"

"Okay" Whoa, what?

"Thank you" Emma said and Henry just simply left. That boy, was up to something.

As soon as Henry stepped out of Granny's, Ruby walked back to us.

"She left town" Yay, more time sitting on a damn car! "She said she was going to try Boston"

"How long since when she left?"

"About a half an hour" After that Emma and I rushed out the stabilishment and run into the car and made our way to Boston.

I told Emma to drop me by the station so I could take one of the cars to check on the alternative route, but when I was about to pass by the town line Emma sent me a message to go immediatly to the hospital and that she had found Ashley, and that's what I did.

When I reached the hospital the first thing I saw was Henry at the waiting room and he explained everything to me once I sat beside him. After several hours and cups of coffee Emma popped up bringing in some news about Ashley, but apparently everything was ok, but the Gold appeared as well. What a lovely day.

"What lovely news" I heard him say as he moved he's sight fom me to Emma. I didn't know why he seemed to find me so interesting these days... "Excelent work Ms. Swan and.. Olivia" He smiled at me. Creep "Thank you for bringing me my merchandise"

With that he moved away to the coffee machine and Emma followed him. I couldn't hear what they were saying so I sat by Henry's side and waited until Henry broke the silence.

"Are you sure you don't know who he is?"

"What?" I stared at him "Who?"

"Gold, I mean, he's been acting a little strange" He looked at him and I followed, the man looked at us and smiled "Don't you have any suspicions?"

"I don't think so kid" I leaned forward and supported myself on my elbows "Do you?"

"I have my guesses..." But before he could finish anything Emma walked back to us and said that we could drop by Ashley's room and see the baby.

As soon as we entered Ashley smiled at us.

"Hey" Emma said as she looked at the baby "What is her name?"

"Alexandra" Ashley said as she looked at her daughter.

"It's pretty" I spoke up.

"Thank you for getting me here" Ashley said.

"Mr. Gold was outside" As Emma said that, Ashley tensed "And I took care of him" And as fast as she tensed, she eased "She's yours"

"She is?" She looked stunned "What did you do?" Emma sighed.

"I made a deal with him" I turned to look at her, wide eyed.

"Thank you" That was all Ashley could say before Emma realized it was about 5 and rushed outside with Henry to get him home. I turned around and smiled at Ashley before running after those two.

I told Emma that I would head back home with the stations car, so when I got home my mother was already there and she would think that I was at work.

As soon as I reached home I got upstairs and peeked through Henry's door and he smiled at me and I winked. Everything was alright, thankfully.

I decide to take a shower and went downstairs looking for my mother, just to say 'hey, I'm home' but when I entered the back office I saw the piano. It had been a long time since I had played it, but I thought I should give it a try.

I had been playing it for hours when I heard someone entering the room, interrupting the introduction of 'Love of My Life'. I looked back and there was my mother on her pajamas, holding what it seemed a hot mug full of coffee. She made her way through the room and sat beside me and offered me the mug.

"I love when you play it, you know" She looked at me and sighed "And I wanted to say that I'm sorry, for everything" I looked at her.

"What are you talking about?" I said as I took a sip from the drink and put it over the surface of the piano.

"I've been.." She paused and pressed some tiles "Distant and arrogant, with everything that's happening with Henry I..."

"It's okay" I smiled at her and continued to play. Even with the fights and everything, she was still my mother.

"I definetelly love it but it's late" I looked at the clock. It was past midnight "You should try to sleep" She got up and messed with my hair and looked back at me before leaving the room and smiled "I love you Olivia"

"I love you too mom" And with that I watched her walk down the hall through the open door into the darkness.