I do not own Once Upon a Time.
The running theme now is that Amelia is hiding something huge about herself. It could and will change everything and how people see her.
Now Storybrooke had two new residents, who showed up in Granny's diner the next morning. Amelia and Neal were enjoying their breakfast before heading off to work when they arrived.
Amelia noticed that Mary Margaret and David looked beyond concerned and annoyed. So she left her own booth and slid in next to David.
"Who ate your bowl of sunshine this morning, thunderclouds?" She greeted them. Either one of them answered, they just continued to stare at the new comers. "So who are they?"
"Cruella De Vile and Ursula, big time villains…" Mary Margaret said.
"I got the fact that they are villain but the way you are staring at them, it's like they really did you wrong. Or you did them wrong." Amelia guessed. Again Mary Margaret and David said nothing. Amelia shook her head, she would get the truth out of them eventually, Mary Margaret could never keep a secret.
"Hello handsome, have we met before?" Cruella was closing in on Neal. She actually touched Neal's shoulder.
"No, we definitely never met." Neal played it cool though he was uncomfortable.
"No, no. I know we have. Your eyes are familiar…" Cruella thought then suddenly snapped her eyes. "Rumplestiltskin. That's who you look like."
Damn him and his eyes that matched his fathers.
Ursula chimed in. "Rumplestiltskin did mention having a son. Well, I am thankful that the apple fell far from the tree."
And that was Amelia's sign to step in. She walked over to Neal, draping a comforting arm over his shoulder. "Back off ladies, he's taken."
The new comers sized up Amelia. "And you are…?" Ursula questioned.
"Amelia Hunter, former bounty hunter in the Enchanted Forest. And Neal's fiancée". Her emerald engagement ring was front and center.
"Oh congratulations darling. Please invite us to the wedding." Cruella said.
Amelia shot them a fake smile. "Slim chance of that."
Neal agreed but had a question. "You saw my father recently?"
"Yes, we ran into the Dark One in a bar, drowning in his sorrows away. Sad sorry excuse for a man." Ursula told them. "He told us all about this town, how it's a second chance for villains who want to turn their lives around."
"And that is exactly what we want to do. We aren't villains anymore. Is that why you call this place home?" Cruella directed her question to Amelia. Obviously being a former bounty hunter meant she had been a villain at one point.
"This is home because my family is here." Amelia answered with a smile on her face. "I believe in second chances…"
"That's sounds so heroic." Ursula remarked.
"But I don't believe everyone deserves one." Amelia finished.
Finally, Cruella and Ursula got the hint and walked out of Granny's.
Then something that Ursula said set off warning bells in Amelia's head; that Gold had been drowning his sorrows in a bar, but she said nothing.
"Thanks for coming to my rescue." Neal kissed her cheek.
"That's my job, protecting you from crazies."
"I wonder why slim chance and fat chance mean the same thing." Neal mused. Amelia looked at him with a confused look on her face. Then she laughed and kissed his cheek. "Now go tell Mary Margaret and David that something is up with our new friends."
So Neal did pick up on the same thing Amelia did.
Amelia went back to Mary Margaret and David's table. "Cruella and Ursula were lying about meeting Gold in a bar."
"How do you know that?" David looked up at Amelia.
"Gold doesn't drink." That comment earned her an odd look. "Something I learned during a family dinner. I wouldn't be having any more of those." Amelia shrugged.
Amelia and Neal left Granny's and walked down the street. That's where they saw an odd sight. It was Belle, walking hand in hand with Will Scarlet.
Neal stopped dead in his tracks, unsure what to think. That was his step-mother.
Amelia shook her head. "Well, she moved on quick." She tried not to judge, Amelia was one who took a long time to get over a person. Her grip tightened on Neal, she was grateful that she found her True Love. "I'll talk to her later, girl to girl."
"Okay, thank you. You take such good care of my family."
"That's because you take such good care of me." He kissed the side of her head.
Amelia walked into the sheriff station later that day and saw Emma. "Hey, so you met Storybrooke's newest residents?"
"Briefly. Amelia, can I ask you a personal question?" Amelia nodded, not really know where this was going. "You knew Killian a long time. Did he ever mention Ursula?" Emma asked
Well, not really what she thought Emma would ask. "No, he didn't. We definitely kept things from each other." Amelia sat down on the desk.
Emma looked at Amelia almost not believing the answer. "But you two were sleeping together…" She tried to reason.
Amelia rolled her eyes. "That did not mean we told each other everything." Oh, there were definitely things she had kept from Killian.
"What about Neal? You two are engaged. Does he know everything?" Emma wanted to know. She still cared about Neal and didn't want him to be betrayed.
Amelia understood that. "Neal knows I'm saving something for a rainy day. Emma, sometimes there's stuff in someone's past that's too painful to talk about." Amelia had never been so honest in her life.
Amelia made a point to catch up with Killian later that day. She had a feeling that Killian did have history with Ursula and she didn't want to worry that it would mean bad things for the town.
She found him walking down the street. "Killian!" He stopped in his tracks and he turned to face her with a smile on his face. "Hey, so Emma asked me about your history with Ursula…"
His smile dropped. "And you said?" He sounded slightly worried.
"The truth, I know nothing. I did kind of assume there was something. You're a pirate captain, she's a sea goddess."
"She's just named after the sea goddess. She was a mermaid." Killian informed her.
"Learn something new every day. So you two do have history together? How bad did it end?" Amelia asked. Killian didn't answer. "That well, huh? Are you alright with your past coming back to haunt you?"
"I'm fine. Did she press about my past? What did you tell her?"
"That sometimes our pasts hurt too much to talk about." She gave him a sad smile.
"So there's things I don't know about you? I thought I got to know everything during our six months." He cocked an eye brow at her.
"Not even close. At least I know my past can't catch up with me…" Amelia began to say then she froze. "I need to go home and check something…" She broke into a run down the street, leaving Killian standing there completely confused.
Her past was catching up to her… the break in months ago… just before the nightmares started … maybe there was a reason for them… the magical tonic that she did unspeakable things to obtain. It was safe, wasn't it?
Amelia raced into her apartment and into her bedroom. Inside, she went to the closet and her hand franticly felt around in the back. Her hand closed around a vial and she heaved a sigh of relief. But Amelia Hunter should have pulled it out and looked at it. Because it was the wrong color.
She was robbed. Her magic tonic, the one that she did unspeakable things to get is gone.
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