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The next day found Amelia and Neal home alone. Marian had officially moved back with the Merry Men at their camp. Amelia was reading the newspaper and the front page had an interesting article.

"Oh look your father made the front page, in a good way." Amelia opened the paper wide on the table and Neal leaned over her shoulder. "Mr. Gold wed his True Love earlier this week in a private ceremony. The new Mrs. Belle Gold works at the library. And the family is not done expanding. Neal Cassidy, Gold's son from his first marriage, is currently engaged to Amelia Hunter, the head librarian. No date is set for their nuptials."

Gold and Belle looked so happy in their picture. So even villains, when they stopped being villains, got happy endings. It made Amelia so hopeful for her own future.

"Do you want to?" Neal asked.

"I already agreed to marry you…" Amelia had a goofy grin on her face.

"I meant do you want to set a date." Her smile faded and she stared at him thoughtfully. "I don't want to pressure you…"

"I don't mind what we have, living together, fighting evil together, we had True Love's kiss. This ring will connect us forever. So I am in no hurry to set a date."

"I just don't want anything to happen to either of us before we can make it official."

"We are heroes, and heroes always win. We can overcome anything." Amelia gently kissed Neal.

They went about their normal duties, that was until Amelia got a call from Emma.

"I need you down at the station. We have a situation." Emma didn't seem that panicked, but still any situation is a reason to worry about in Storybrooke.

"Of course we do. I'll be right there." She hung up the phone. "Duty calls, I'll see you later."

Amelia arrived at the station and found David, Emma and Killian already there. Was Killian on the force now? Not that Amelia was surprised; he was basically joined at the hip to Emma. How was David taking this whole thing: that his only daughter was with a former pirate?

At least stepping foot inside the station didn't hurt at much as it used to, Amelia discovered. Her brown eyes still went to the leather jacket hanging up. Gods above she missed her brother.

"So Grumpy was driving with Sleepy and their truck was frozen solid by someone. And there's icy footprints throughout the town. We need to find out who's behind it." Emma informed her

"Grumpy was driving?" Amelia asked, turning to the rest of the room.

"No, Sleepy was." David said.

Amelia opened her mouth to say something but ended up blinking a few times. Grumpy let Sleepy drive? Someone gave Sleepy a license? Seriously? Dopey would have been better behind the wheel. But Amelia decided to keep her mouth shut and didn't say a word.

Then the power went out, leaving the four of them in the dark. Cell phones came out for light and Amelia looked out the window. It wasn't just the station, but the whole town.

The station phone rang, Killian stared at it like it would attack him. Emma answered it

"There's a wall of solid ice surrounding the entire town." She said when she hung up. "Let's go check it out."

"All of us?" Amelia was glad she hadn't taken off her coat yet.

"No, we need someone to stay in town. Make sure the people don't do anything stupid. That's your job." David told her.

"You know that's basically like leaving the mouse in charge of the cheese, right?" Amelia asked, trying to keep a straight face. She heard a chuckle from Killian.

"Amelia, I'm serious here." David said.

"You want me to make sure they don't start a riot? Fine, not a problem. Your town is safe with me." Amelia asked, there was a twinkle in her eye.

"Yes, part of me is slightly scared."

Amelia gave him a silly salute. Then she headed home to get Neal.

"David, put you in charge of the town? I'm worried." Neal said when Amelia entered their dark apartment. He had been fiddling with the electric panel since the power went out.

"Basically I'm running around unsupervised. I know, it freaks me out too, but the possibilities are endless." A ridiculous smile grew on her face but she quickly reined it in. "But in all seriousness, David and Emma are counting on me. Gather all the flashlights and candles. I'm afraid everyone is going to want answers and something to do. So I'm thinking about organizing a game night or sorts down at the town hall."

"That sounds great. You're so brilliant." Neal told her, kissing her forehead. Then he grabbed a bag.

Ten minutes, they were on Amelia's motorcycle and they had to spread the word about the latest activity.

They spilt up, Neal went in one direction, ready to gather everyone he could find. They would meet at the town hall in thirty minutes. Good thing Storybrooke was tiny. She arrived at Gold's house first. There was already a sound glow of candle light from inside.

Gold answered the door. "Neal, Miss Hunter, is something wrong?"

Miss Hunter, really? He couldn't use her first name; they were going to be family sooner rather than later. "Power's out in the entire town, Emma, David and Killian are out investigating the cause. I'm organizing a game night over at the town hall, basically so everyone would have something to do instead of possibly rioting. And I need Belle to bring all the games you can carry and bunch of books from the library."

Belle heard her name and appeared at door. "No problem, Amelia. I'll be right over at town hall." She then ran off to get her coat.

"I'm putting you in charge of food." Amelia told him.

"In charge of food, why?" Gold asked.

"Because you put out such a nice spread for the lecture." She gave him a sweet smile. "Just light finger foods. Not real fingers, sometimes I'm not sure with you.

"We will be right over good." He returned her smile with his best happy face.

Amelia got to a dark town hall, she had attempted to get the keys from Regina but the mayor was not answering the doorbell, or the multiple knocks Amelia gave the door.

She really did not want to kick the door it, she was in charge of keeping the town in control. And breaking public property would look really bad.

Suddenly there was light from inside and she just stared. Then the door opened to reveal Neal standing there.

"Welcome to Storybrooke's first ever game night." He said, taking her hand. "Can I take your coat?"

"How did you…" Amelia started to ask.

"I picked the lock." Neal didn't even look guilty.

Amelia placed a kiss on his cheek. "I knew I loved you for a reason."

The inside of town hall was alive with people, who looked like they were enjoying themselves. Ashely was reading books to her daughter and a small group of children. Archie was winning a game of Trivial Pursuit with a few people. Ruby was trying to get a game of twister started. Julia was watching as Nathan set up Jenga. Amelia had a feeling Neal would be pulled over there soon.

"Is this what we are supposed to do all night? Play games when there's something out there trying to kill us?" Leroy said as soon as he entered the hall. He had Granny and Happy with him. Granny settled down with her knitting. Happy went to a table with his fellow dwarves, who were arguing about what game to play.

"Who said anyone is trying to kill you? And yes, I expect you to play games so you aren't bored out of your minds and do stupid things." Amelia sounded very final. She knew how to deal with people.

"If we had power, we wouldn't be bored." Leroy said under his breath before going to sit in front of a TV and stared. As if his wish would come true and it would turn on.

Amelia took out her cell phone, glad she had charged it earlier in the day. She called Robin, just to see how the Merry Men were doing.

"We are fine; this doesn't bother us. Though game night does sound enjoyable." Robin told her.

"Glad to know that someone can survive without power. Seriously Leroy is being such a baby about it. I would cut off his head if it stood just a bit higher off the ground." Amelia said into the phone.

"Be safe the rest of the night." Robin said before hanging up.

Neal walked over to her. She shook her head. "You would think all these people had electricity all their lives. We all lived in the Enchanted Forest, no electricity there. No TVs, or computers, or video games. People can enjoy themselves without modern conveniences."

"You don't know how important things are until they are gone." Neal replied.

"Don't I know that." Amelia said. Neal pulled her close and his lips found that spot on the back of her neck. "Neal…don't start something you can't finish…." She moaned slightly.

"This is town hall; there must be a back room that we can use." He whispered in her ear.

"As much as I would love the sound of that, I'm working, David put me in charge."

"You are so responsible …"

"And Granny's giving us the death stare."

At that, Neal let go of Amelia and stepped back. "She's the only one in this town who scares me."

"The sweet old lady who makes lasagna? She scares you?" Amelia giggled.

"She's sweet like you're sweet."

"But you love me."

It took a few hours, but the lights came back on. By then Ruby had somehow convinced Amelia to play one round of Twister. And they discovered that Gold was quite good at taboo. Must be his way with words. There was actually a sigh of disappointment when the lights came back on.

Everything was quickly and magically cleaned up by Gold and Amelia sent everyone home.

"Go back to the apartment, I need to stop by the loft to give David and Emma an update on the state of their town and see what happened with the ice wall. I'll see you at home and we can pick up where we left off." Amelia told Neal before giving him a teasing kiss and then walking off.

It took her a few minutes to get to the loft. Amelia knocked on the door and David answered it immediately.

"No rioting?" He asked.

"No rioting, no dead people though Leroy was getting on my last nerve. I held a game night at the town hall. It went well, I think we should cut the power more often." She stepped in and noticed a new person.

She was blonde and wore a long blue dress; clearly she was from the Enchanted Forest or at least not Storybrooke.

"Hi…" Amelia sounded worried, was this the person that Leroy thought was out to kill them? Was she behind the ice wall and the icy footprints?

"Amelia. This is Elsa. She came through the time portal with Emma and Hook." David took charge of the introductions. "Elsa, this is Amelia, she's my deputy."

It was bad enough Emma brought Marian back, but there was someone else too. Oh well, they would deal, as always.

"So what are your plans in Storybrooke?" Amelia asked.

Elsa looked at David worried. Clearly Amelia did not give off a trusting vibe. David nodded.

"I'm here to find my sister, Ana. I need her to help me control my powers." Elsa answered.

"Powers, ice powers I'm guessing?" Amelia asked, and Elsa nodded. Then Amelia noticed Emma across the room. She was in a chair covered by a million blankets and a very protective Killian. "What happened?"

"I lost control and she almost froze to death." Elsa looked guilty.

Amelia nodded and turned to Killian. "You got her?"

Killian looked up for a second. "Aye." Amelia only nodded.

"You might want to get a hold on the magic." The librarian said helpfully to Elsa.

"Trying, it's hard without my sister." Elsa told her honestly, looking down at her hands which had little snowflakes around them now. "There is still a wall of ice around the town."

"Trying is good at the very least." Amelia shoved her own hands into her pockets and forced a smile onto her face.

So one crisis was over and who knew what the next one was going to be.

Elsa is here now! Amelia isn't going to have much to do with that plotline though.

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