Chapter 36
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"Please can I go with them, Mom?" Hanna begged for the 10th time. She wanted to go to work with her dad and Emma. She was tired of being stuck inside. She was over her little sickness from the ice cave and wanted to get out of the house.
"Hanna. I said no. Don't ask me again," Snow warned as she looked up from the mountain of paperwork she was sorting through. Being the mayor came with a lot of responsibilities and a lot of paperwork.
"Emma gets to go and I'm better too," Hanna argued.
"Hanna. Quit pestering your mother," David said as he came into the room holding Neal.
"Dad…" Hanna started to whine.
"All set?" Emma asked as she came down the stairs.
"Yeah. Here Hanna, why don't you take Neal," David said as he handed the baby over to Hanna. "And help your mother out today. She has a lot on her plate right now."
"Okay," Hanna said giving in as soon as she looked down and saw her sweet baby brother looking up at her.
"That's my girl," David said as he gave her a kiss on the forehead. "See you when I get home." David gave his wife a quick kiss goodbye and was off with Emma.
"If I can get some of this paperwork done we can go to Granny's for lunch. How about that?" Snow said with a smile as she looked up at Hanna. She felt bad making her stay home today. She would have let Hanna go with Charming if they were just doing paperwork around the station, but they were going out to find out exactly who was responsible for putting up the ice wall. When Elsa tried to take it down she couldn't, so they knew someone else was behind this. Snow didn't want Hanna in the middle of all of that.
"That sounds good," Hanna said with a small smile as she went over to sit on the couch with Neal. She snuggled them both up under a blanket and decided to read him a few of her favorite stories from Henry's book.
Hanna was upstairs putting some of her laundry away when she heard her dad and Emma finally come home. She had made good on her promise to her dad and helped her mom around the house all day by doing a few loads of laundry on top of helping watch Neal. As soon as she heard the door open though, she dropped her pile of nicely folded shirts and ran down the stairs. She couldn't wait to hear about what happened today.
"Henry!" Hanna exclaimed when she saw her best friend standing in the living room. She hadn't seen him for a few days. Regina had finally come around and let him come see her. He stayed with her while Hanna and Emma were sick. Hanna wasn't sure how Henry changed her mind, but she was glad that he did. Hanna couldn't stand seeing Henry so upset.
"Hey Hanna," Henry said with a small smile. "Feeling better?"
"Much," Hanna said with a nod of her head. "So what happened today?"
"Well a few things actually…" Emma said. Not sure exactly where to start. "Remember the woman we brought back from the past? Well, she's kind of frozen."
"And my Mom ripped her heart out," Henry added.
"What?" Hanna asked as she look over at Henry…very confused.
"To stop the ice from reaching it," Henry quickly explained. "So they can have more time to figure out what's wrong and save her."
"Oh," Hanna said with a nod of her head. That made sense.
"Well, who would do something like that?" Snow asked.
"That's the other thing," Emma said. "We know who."
They continued to explain to Snow and Hanna that they found the Snow Queen. She is the one who is responsible for the ice wall and what happened to Marian. They don't have any idea who she is or what she wants though, at least not yet.
"So what have you been up to the past couple of days?" Hanna asked Henry as they sat on the couch.
"Nothing really," Henry said with a shrug of his shoulders. "Hey I have an idea."
"What is it?" Hanna asked, not missing the fact the he was trying to change the subject.
"Well, I was thinking since Elsa has ice powers and stuff maybe she could…"
"Make it snow?" Hanna asked excitedly. "I was thinking the same thing!"
"It would be awesome! Think she'd do it?" Henry asked.
"Maybe," Hanna said with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Time for dinner you two," David called from the kitchen.
"I'll ask her while we're eating," Henry whispered to Hanna as they walked over to the table.
Dinner was just about over and Henry still hadn't gotten a chance to ask Elsa about the snow. It was hard to get a word in…the adults were talking about the Snow Queen and what exactly they were going to do about her.
Hanna looked over at Henry and gave him a nudge with her elbow. There was finally a lull in the conversation, now was his chance.
"Hey Elsa," Henry said.
"Yes?" Elsa said as she looked over towards Henry.
"Do you think you could make it snow?" he asked.
"I could yes. Why do you ask?" Elsa replied.
"So we could play in it," Henry answered with a grin.
"Kid, we don't need a blizzard on top of everything else that's going on," Emma told him.
"It wouldn't need to be a lot," Hanna chimed in. "Just enough to build a snowman."
"Yeah and have a snowball fight," Henry added. "Maybe some sled riding too."
"Please, it would be so much fun!" Hanna begged.
"You, young lady, don't need to be playing outside. You just got over being sick," Snow said with a raise of her eyebrows.
"But I'm fine now," Hanna said with a roll of her eyes.
"Yeah she's back to her normal self. I can tell," Henry said with a nod of his head.
"So…Elsa, will you do it?" Hanna asked hopefully.
"Yeah will you? Please," Henry asked.
"Uh…I don't know. Maybe I should talk it over with your parents first," Elsa said as she looked towards Snow, Charming, and Emma.
The kids just sighed. They knew after a discussion with their parents, they answer would be no. They figured they wouldn't be getting their snow day anytime soon.
"Alright, time for bed," Emma said as she got up off the couch after the movie had ended. She had gotten sucked in to the movie Henry and Hanna were watching, but now she was exhausted and wanted to go to bed. It had been a long day running after the Snow Queen.
Hanna watched Henry get up from the couch to follow Emma upstairs. She was going to stay here though. She wasn't tired.
"Come on Han," Emma said with a raise of her eyebrows. She knew it was Hanna's bedtime too.
"Mom and Dad didn't say I had to," Hanna said with a shrug of her shoulders. They were in their room putting Neal to bed. He had been fussy at bedtime lately, so they would probably be awhile, giving Hanna more time to watch TV. Ever since they let her watch that movie while she was sick, they had been a bit more lenient with that particular part of her grounding. They didn't let her watch too much, but she would watch whenever she had a chance and right now she did.
"Han, you know they're going to make you go to bed, so just come on," Emma said with a roll of her eyes.
"I'm not tired," Hanna said, getting annoyed with her sister. She didn't like it when Emma told her what to do.
"Go to bed Hanna," Charming called out from the bedroom. He and Snow heard everything.
"Told ya," Emma said with a grin as she walked up the stairs.
"Fine," Hanna said with a groan as she got up from the couch.
"We'll be up in a minute to say goodnight," Snow whispered with a smile as she poked her head out from behind the curtain as Hanna was walking up the stairs.
"Okay," Hanna said. She wanted to tell them not to bother, but she kind of liked it when they came up to tuck her into bed for the night.
"You think she'll do it Henry? You think she'll make it snow for us?" Hanna asked when she came back from the bathroom and got into bed.
"I hope so," Henry said.
"Knock knock," David said as he came into the room, followed by Snow.
"Hey," Hanna said with a small smile as her mom sat down on the bed next to her.
"All ready for bed?" Snow asked as she tucked some of Hanna's hair behind her ears.
"Mhmm," Hanna said with a nod.
"Did you both brush your teeth?" David asked the kids.
"Yes," they both answered at the same time.
"Henry?" David asked with a raise of his eyebrows as he looked over at his grandson. Sometimes Henry "forgot" to brush his teeth.
"I did. I swear," Henry said as he held up his hands.
"He did. I saw him," Hanna told her dad with a laugh.
"Okay," Charming told Hanna with a wink.
"Mom, can you please let Elsa make it snow tomorrow?" Hanna asked
"Yeah, please Grandma?" Henry begged.
Snow just looked up at her husband, trying to avoid the puppy dog eyes her daughter and grandson were giving her.
"What are we talking about in here?" Emma asked from the doorway.
Hanna just grinned. Emma had already said goodnight to Henry, but she usually found some reason to sneak in here while their parents were saying goodnight. Emma wouldn't admit it, but she wanted to be tucked in too. She was too stubborn to ask, so she just came in with Hanna and Henry instead.
"We want Elsa to make it snow," Hanna told her.
"What's so great about snow anyways, huh?" Emma asked as she came into the room and sat down on the bed next to Henry. "It's cold and wet."
"Uh…it's fun to play in," Henry told her.
"It's not fun when you have to shovel sidewalks and clear the roads," Emma told him.
"You know I'm sure it will snow eventually on it's own anyway. It gets cold enough here," Snow said.
"But why wait when we have someone with ice powers just downstairs?" Henry said with a grin.
"Yeah, it's a waste of her powers if she doesn't use them," Hanna said with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Okay, okay, enough with the snow. Who's telling the bedtime story tonight?" Emma asked.
Hanna just rolled her eyes. They didn't usually do bedtime stories. Emma knew that. Then Hanna grinned…she got an idea. "Mom, I think Emma wants you to tell her a bedtime story," Hanna said as she looked up at her mom, then back towards her sister.
"I do not," Emma said as she gave her sister a look.
"Charming do you think we have a bedtime story for Emma?" Snow asked as she looked up at her husband.
"Oh I'm sure we have one that she hasn't heard yet," Charming said.
"No, I was just joking," Emma said as she walked towards the door.
"Now come on Em, don't be embarrassed," David said as he blocked the door, preventing her from leaving.
"I'm not. I don't want a story," Emma said as she tried to walk around her father.
"Sure you do," David said as he dodged her moves.
"Dad..seriously?" Emma said, trying to hold back a smile.
"Come lay back down with Henry and let us tell you a story," David said as he led her back to Henry's bed.
"Okay, okay. Scoot over kid," Emma said as she laid down on the bed next to her son. She took a few seconds to get herself comfortable and looked up at her parents. "Well, do I have to wait all night to hear it?" Emma asked with a raise of her eyebrows when they didn't immediately start the story.
"Oh are you ready now princess?" Charming asked with a grin as he sat down on Henry's bed next to her.
"Yes," Emma said with a nod of her head.
"Once upon a time…" Charming said as he started into the story.
Hanna looked up at her mom and let out a little laugh. Snow gave Hanna a wink and wrapped her arms around her pulling her close. Hanna snuggled into her mom and closed her eyes as she listened to her parents tell them a tale from their past. One that wasn't in the storybook. Hanna tried to hang on every word they said, she didn't want to miss anything, but her tiredness got the best of her and she fell asleep before the end.
By the time Snow and Charming had finished up the story, Emma, Hanna, and Henry were all fast asleep. Snow carefully pulled herself from Hanna's grasp and covered her up with her blankets, making sure she was comfortable. Charming pulled the covers up over Emma and Henry. They decided to just leave Emma here. She could get up and go to her bed later if she woke in the night. Snow and Charming gave their daughters and grandson a kiss goodnight and headed downstairs to go to bed themselves.
"So I'm guessing things are better with Regina then?" Hanna asked Henry the next morning after breakfast. Hanna wanted more details on how that situation had played out.
"Yeah everything's good now," Henry told Hanna.
"How did you get her to talk to you?" Hanna asked.
"I just told her that I wasn't going to give up on her and that I wasn't going to leave until she let me in," Henry said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Good," Hanna said with a smile. "So, what have you been doing for the past couple of days anyway?" Hanna wanted to know what he was hiding from her when she asked him that question last night. She could tell by the look on his face that he was up to something and she wanted to know.
"Nothing," Henry told her.
"Henry…" Hanna started to say.
"Hanna let's go. Get your coat," Snow said as she came into the room with Neal in his carseat in one hand and a bag full of paperwork in the other.
"Where are we going?" Hanna asked.
"The mayor's office. I have stuff there I need to do."
"Hey kid, ready to go to Granny's?" Emma asked as she came into the room.
"Can't I go with them?" Hanna asked as she looked up at her mom.
Snow sighed. She really wished Emma had waited just a few more minutes before announcing that she was going to Granny's. "No, Hanna. You have to come with me."
"Why?" Hanna complained.
"You know why," Snow said with a raise of her eyebrows.
"Oh come on. You're letting me watch TV now. Can't I go somewhere without you yet?" Hanna asked. She knew she was still grounded, but they had lightened up on her punishment a bit by letting her watch a little TV. She thought maybe they would be less strict about her having to be with one of them at all times too.
"No you may not. Now, get your coat on," Snow said sternly.
"Mom please," Hanna begged in one final attempt.
"Hanna, I don't have time for this," Snow said as she struggled with the load in her arms. "Maybe we need to restrict your TV privileges again if you can't do as your told."
"Fine," Hanna said as she reluctantly went to retrieve her jacket and stormed out the front door.
Snow closed her eyes and took a deep breath. This was going to be a long day. "Bye you two," she said with a smile to Henry and Emma before following her moody daughter out the door.
"Mom, there's nothing to do here," Hanna said as she laid upside-down on the couch in her mom's new office.
"I know, Hanna. You've told me this a few times now," Snow said with a sigh as she tried to concentrate on the form she was filling out…there seemed to be a never ending piling of forms that need to be completed.
"But I'm so bored. You should have a TV installed in here or something."
"Why don't you read one of the books I brought for you," Snow suggested as she made a mistake on the form and had to search through her desk for the Wite-Out.
"I've read those ones already," Hanna whined.
"Well if you hadn't stormed out the door you could have grabbed different ones," Snow said between gritted teeth as she dug through her desk. She was starting to lose her patience.
Hanna just sighed and sat up. "Can I go walk around?"
"No you're staying here," Snow said. For one, she didn't trust Hanna to actually stay in the building and there was a Snow Queen running around. Snow knew she wouldn't get any work done if she didn't know for sure that Hanna was safe. The only way she would know that was if she stayed right in here where she could see her.
"Fine," Hanna said as she stood up and walked around the room.
"How long do you think Neal will be asleep?" Hanna asked. She was playing with her little brother until he fell asleep about a half an hour ago.
"His morning naps last about 2 hours, Hanna," Snow said, trying to stay calm. "Don't you dare wake him."
"Mom, I'm not going to wake him," Hanna said with a roll of her eyes. She quickly looked over at her mom to make sure she didn't see…thankfully she didn't.
"Mom…" Hanna started to say.
"Hanna, I just have to finish these files and then we can go. Can you please be quiet until then?" Snow begged. She didn't want to admit to the fact that those files would probably take awhile to finish.
"Okay," Hanna said as she went to sit back down on the couch.
The silence lasted long enough for Snow to finish up the file she was working on….
"Mom, what's Dad doing?" Hanna asked.
"He's working," Snow answered. She not really sure why she even answered though, Hanna knew that.
"When will he be done?" Hanna asked.
"I don't know," Snow said, hoping he would be done sooner rather than later.
"Can we go get lunch?" Hanna said as she got up and walked towards her mom's desk.
"There are sandwiches and apples in the bag."
"I don't want that though," Hanna said as she sat down in the chair across from her mom.
"Well that's what we have," Snow said as she closed her eyes for a second. She was pretty sure she was filling this form out entirely wrong and put the last one in a file where it wasn't suppose to be.
"Can't we go get something else?" Hanna asked as she set her elbows on the desk and rested her chin in her hands, leaning over to see what her mom was working on. She knew she was getting on her mom's nerves.
"Hanna," Snow said in a very calm voice as she set her pen down and looked up at her daughter. She knew Hanna was pushing her buttons on purpose. "Go back to the couch. Now."
Hanna slumped her shoulders and got up. She looked down and noticed her mom dropped one of her files. "Oh Mom, you…"
"Hanna! Please!" Snow said a lot louder than she meant to and not a second later small whimpers came from the bassinet. Snow let her head drop in her hands.
"Dropped this," Hanna said finishing her sentence.
"I'm calling your father," Snow said as she swiftly got up from her desk and went to pick up her crying baby.
Hanna sat on the couch hugging her knees to her chest as she waited for her dad to come. She felt bad for bugging her mom so much that she woke up Neal. Luckily, she was able to get him right back to sleep though, so Hanna thought maybe she wouldn't be in too much trouble.
"Hi, Daddy," Hanna said once her father walked through the doors, not even 10 minutes later.
Charming just gave Hanna a questioning look. He wasn't sure what happened. All Snow said was that he needed to come right away, but from the guilty look on Hanna's face, he concluded that it had something to do with her.
"Good you're here," Snow said as she walked up to her husband.
"What's going on?" he asked.
"Nothing. I love our daughter dearly, but you need to take her now," Snow said in an urgent tone.
"Do you want me to take Neal too?" David asked. He could hear the baby crying in the background when Snow called him.
"No he can stay. He's back to sleep and he'll need to eat when he wakes up again anyway."
"Alright. Let's go young lady," David said as he handed Hanna her coat.
Hanna quietly took her coat and followed her dad out the door. She looked up at her mom before leaving, but decided against saying anything to her.
"What happened?" David asked Hanna once they were in the car, wanting an explanation for why he had to leave work to retrieve her from her mother.
"I was just asking her a few questions," Hanna said with a shrug of her shoulders.
David just looked over at Hanna, eyebrows raised. He knew there was a bit more to it than that. Snow wouldn't have called unless she was at her wits end.
"Okay, I might have asked her so many that she got mad and shouted a little too loudly and woke up the baby," Hanna told him.
"Hanna…"
"Dad, I was just so bored. I couldn't help it."
"You could have helped it."
"But there's was nothing to do and I guess I…" Hanna started to say before stopping herself.
"You guess what?"
"Nothing," Hanna said as she crossed her arms and looked out the window.
"Hanna…"
Hanna sighed. "I guess I was just a little bit mad at her for not letting me go with Henry and Emma instead."
"You know why you couldn't go with them," David told her. "You got yourself into trouble and now you have to deal with the consequences. That's not your mother's fault. She has a lot to deal with right now and you're not making it any easier for her."
"I know," Hanna said as she looked down. She did feel bad about bothering her so much.
"Now you get to come to work with me," David said as he pulled into the station.
"What about lunch?" Hanna asked, hoping he would get Granny's for them like he usually does.
"Your mom said there are sandwiches and apples in this bag for you to eat," David said as he held up the bag of food her mom had packed.
Hanna slumped her shoulders. "Do we at least get to go look for the Snow Queen or something?" Hanna asked hopefully.
"Nope, I have paperwork to do."
"Seriously," Hanna groaned as she got out of the truck and headed towards the station.
"I have paperwork for you to do too," David said once they got into his office.
"Me?" Hanna asked.
"Yes. You can file everything Emma and I haven't gotten around to since we've been back. I would start with Emma's pile. Your sister doesn't like to file and her stack has gotten out of hand."
"Do I have to?" Hanna whined.
"Go on," David said as he gave her a nudge.
"Ugh," Hanna groaned as she walked over to the mountain on Emma's desk. Now she wished she would have just stayed with her mom and read one of her dumb books.
Hanna yawned and rubbed her eyes and she walked into the apartment. She was tired. It took her forever to get through all of the files on Emma's desk. She hung up her coat and turned to see her mom sitting on the couch with Neal. Hanna instantly felt guilty. She walked over to the couch and sat down next to her.
"Mom?" Hanna whispered. Neal was asleep and she didn't want to wake him.
"One second," Snow said as she got up from the couch.
Hanna watched her walk across the room and place Neal in his bassinet. Then she came back and sat down next to her again.
"What is it Hanna?" Snow asked.
"I'm sorry I was being difficult today," Hanna said.
"Can you tell me why you were acting that way? You knew I had a lot of work to get done," Snow replied.
"I was mad at you for not letting me go with Henry and Emma," Hanna answered as she looked down, ashamed.
"Mhmm…" Snow said. She had a feeling that was the reason.
"And that's not an excuse. I deserve this punishment and I know that. I shouldn't have acted that way. I know you're really busy with your new job and the baby. I won't do it again. I'm sorry. I don't want to be a burden," Hanna said.
"Hanna you are not a burden," Snow told her.
"Okay, well then a pain in butt sometimes," Hanna said as she looked up at her mom with a grin.
"We'll go with that," Snow said with a smile.
"So, do you forgive me?" Hanna asked.
"Of course I do," Snow said as she wrapped her arms around Hanna and pulled her in for a hug.
"Did you get all of your paperwork done?" Hanna asked as she looked up at her mom.
"No, your brother decided to be a pain in the butt too after you left," Snow told Hanna with a wink.
"Maybe you should ground him," Hanna joked.
"No desserts for a week?" Snow suggested.
"Yeah, go easy on him for his first offense," Hanna said with a shrug of her shoulders as the two of them laughed.
A few minutes later, Emma and Henry came in through the door. Emma darted straight up the stairs without saying anything to anyone.
"What's she in a hurry for?" Hanna asked Henry.
Henry just looked back at Hanna and smirked.
"What is it?" Hanna demanded as she got up from the couch and ran over to Henry.
"Yeah Henry, what's going on?" Snow asked.
"She's going on a date with Killian," Henry told them.
"She what?!" David asked as he came into the room.
"Oh David stop," Snow said with a roll of her eyes and then turned back towards Henry. "Where are they going? Who asked who? What is she going to wear?"
"Henry, we need to know everything," Hanna said as she grabbed him by the hand and pulled him over to the table. "Spill it."
Henry told them about how the date came to be. Emma asked Killian out at Granny's this morning. He said yes, obviously. Henry didn't know where they were going though because Hook wanted to be the one to plan the date.
"Aww, I'm so excited for her," Snow said, not being able to contain the smile on her face.
"I don't like it," David said.
"Dad…" Hanna said as she raised her eyebrows at him.
"Fine, I'll go along with it," David said with a sigh. He didn't want to admit it, but that pirate was growing on him.
"Henry, what do you want to do tonight?" Hanna asked while they all sat around waiting for Emma to come back downstairs.
"Uh…I'm going to Regina's. She's coming to get me in a few minutes," Henry told her.
"Oh, okay. What are you guys gonna do?" Hanna asked.
"I don't know yet," Henry said as he looked down at his phone. "She's here I gotta go."
"Henry wait…" Hanna started to say. She wanted to know what he was hiding.
"Bye everyone. See you tomorrow," Henry said as he swiftly made his way out the door.
"Bye," Hanna said as she crossed her arms and leaned back on the couch.
A few minutes after Henry left, Elsa showed up. She was still looking for her sister. Snow thought she had a way she could help.
Snow came into the room carrying Neal in one hand and three very large green books in the other. "Census records from the first and second curses," Snow said as she set a pile of books onto the table. "If Anna was ever in Storybrooke we'll find some trace of her here."
"Your curses are very…thorough," Elsa said as she took a look at the books.
"That's just 'A' through 'E'," Snow told her.
"Here are the rest of them," David said as he set several more books onto the table.
Snow looked over at the couch where Hanna was sitting. She knew she was upset that Henry had left. "Hey babe, why don't you come help us?" Snow suggested.
"Okay," Hanna said as she got up from the couch. At least they were letting her help with something, it was better than doing nothing.
"Okay, I want honest opinions," Emma said as she came into the room. "What do we think?"
"Wow," Snow said with a smile.
"What your mother said," David added.
"Is that just the corset? Where's the rest of it?" Elsa asked.
"This is the rest of it," Emma said as she looked down, examining her dress again.
Hanna couldn't help but laugh at Elsa's question. "You look beautiful, Em," Hanna told her sister with a smile.
"Thanks, Hanna," Emma said as she smiled back.
"Someone's sister is going on a very big date tonight!" Snow said as she laid Neal down and picked up the camera.
"Let's not oversell…" Emma started to say as her mom snapped a picture of her. "Wow, I really need to get my own place."
"Cut your mother some slack. It's not like we got to send you to a ball," David told her.
"You sure you guys don't want help. Maybe I could get Hook to stay in for the night," Emma suggested.
"No way," Hanna said.
"My sister put her wedding on hold because of me. I don't want anyone else to stop living their life on my account," Elsa added.
"Here we go," Snow said with a excitement as they heard a knock at the door.
"You looked stunning Swan," they heard Killian say after Emma opened the door.
"You…look…" Emma started to say.
"I know," Killian said with a shrug of his shoulders and came into the loft. "Now that I'm settling into this world I finally thought it was time to dress the part." He held out a single red rose for Emma…with his hand…his hand that use to be a hook.
"Uh, Emma…" Hanna said.
Emma looked down. "Is that?"
"Mine? Yeah," Killian told her. "The Dark One kindly restored what he once took from me. It seems he has indeed changed his ways."
"So, what do I call you now—Captain Hand?" Emma joked.
"Killian will do."
"Okay, Killian. We should get out of here before David decides to give you his overprotective Dad speech."
"Well you can spare yourself the trouble, mate. I assure you, your daughter couldn't be in better hands," Killian told him.
"That's exactly what worries me, especially now that you have two of them," David said.
"I can take care of myself," Emma assured him as she started walking out the door.
"Sure you don't want me to drive?" David asked.
"Goodbye," Emma said, ignoring his question.
"I wasn't too hard on him, was I?" David asked as he shut the door behind them.
"You should have seen me when Kristoff started dating Anna. It's the only time in my entire life that I've ever made someone sweat," Elsa said.
"I can't wait to go on my first date," Hanna said with a grin.
"Oh no. Absolutely not!" David said as he looked down at Hanna, eyebrows raised. "You're not allowed to date until you're 30,"
Hanna just laughed. She knew that would get a reaction out of him.
"Okay, let's get to work and see if we can figure out what happened to your sister," Snow said as she turned her attention back to the census books.
"Hanna," David whispered as he gently shook her shoulder.
"Huh? What?" Hanna said as she lifted her head up.
"Let's get you to bed," he told her as he took the book she had been looking through and closed it.
"No, I want to keep helping," Hanna said as she shook her head.
"Honey, you keep falling asleep."
"Oh," Hanna said as she looked around. She knew she was having trouble keeping her eyes open, she figured she must have finally fallen asleep. Looking through census books wasn't exactly the most entertaining job.
"Come on," David said as he scooted her chair out for her.
"Can't I stay up and wait for Emma?" Hanna asked. She wanted to hear all about her date.
"You'll see her in the morning."
"Besides we don't even know how late she'll be out," Snow said as she came into the room.
"It better not be too late," David said as he crossed his arms.
Snow just rolled her eyes at her husband. "Go on up and get ready for bed Hanna," Snow said.
"Alright," Hanna said with a sigh as she did what she was told.
As Hanna laid in bed, she just stared at the ceiling. She wasn't even remotely tired anymore. She decided to just listen for Emma to come home. After awhile, she heard her sister come through the door. Apparently, her mom and dad had stayed up to wait for her because Hanna could hear them questioning her all about how the date went the second she got inside. She could also hear that Emma didn't answer any of their questions. Hanna stayed in her room long enough to give Emma time to change and get ready for bed before she tiptoed over to Emma's room. She wanted to hear all about her date and was hoping Emma would tell her.
Hanna slowly opened the door. "Emma, can I come in?" Hanna whispered.
"Yeah come on," Emma told her with a roll of her eyes. She knew why here sister was in here.
Hanna laid down in the bed next to her sister. She turned on her side to face her. "Well…are you going to tell me how it went? What did you guys do?"
Emma turned on her side so she was facing Hanna too. "Well, he took me to the Italian restaurant."
"Oh not Granny's, that's good!" Hanna said with a grin.
"Yeah it was nice…except I almost ruined it by chasing after a perp," Emma said.
Hanna raised her eyebrows questioningly at her sister.
"Long story," Emma said as she shook her head
"Did he kiss you?" Hanna asked excitedly.
"I don't think that's any of your business," Emma said with a raise of her eyebrows.
"I'll take that as a yes then," Hanna said with a grin.
Emma just rolled her eyes, not admitting to anything.
"You seem happy, Emma," Hanna told her. "I think that pirate might be good for you after all."
"Yeah I think so," Emma said with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Maybe he can get you to do your filing instead of letting it turn into a mountain on your desk," Hanna said with a roll of her eyes.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Emma asked with a grin, already knowing. David told her that Hanna put all of her files away today, for which Emma was grateful. She hated filing.
"I had to file all of your stupid paperwork today. You really need to keep up with that you know…it was getting out of hand," Hanna told Emma.
"Why would I do my own filing when I have a little sister who gets herself into trouble and has to do the filing for me?" Emma replied with a smirk.
"I am not doing it again," Hanna said with a raise of her eyebrows.
"We'll see," Emma said with a shrug of her shoulders. "So do you want to hear more about the date or what?"
"Yeah," Hanna said with a nod of her head.
The girls just laid in bed as Emma continued to fill Hanna in on the rest of her date. She liked being able to talk to her sister about this kind of stuff. However, she made sure to leave out any parts about kissing, of course.