Bonnie & Clyde-Once Upon A Time

FOUR

SNOW FALLS

       The sunlight moved away and left the night to cover the day. Bonnie was walking back home from the docks with the hood from her jacket halfway on. She had sat at the docks as she watched the endless horizon. She had done it too many times to count. Somehow it soothed her soul deep inside as she thought somewhere out there under the eternal sky was what she felt was missing.

            She sighed as she walked and wiped her teary eyes. She had wound up crying on the docks, the ache in her chest only growing stronger when she stared at the horizon. She felt crazy for crying; there was nothing in her memories telling her she should have this sort of pain. It was just there and it became her constant. She both hated it and yet she would feel lost without it.

            Emma was talking to Mary Margaret after the teacher's failed date with Dr. Whale when she caught sight of the blonde haired figure always dressed in black. She wasn't sure if Bonnie was a good influence on Henry or not; she seemed like a rough kid.

            "Hey, should you be out here so late, kid?" Emma called.

            Bonnie didn't even turn her head to acknowledge the woman, "I could be asking you the same thing."

And she kept walking.

              Emma turned to Mary Margaret, "I'm guessing she doesn't have a curfew."

              "Bonnie isn't exactly one for the rules," Mary Margaret responded which made Emma have an alarmed look on her face which the teacher quickly corrected. "But, trust me, she's good with Henry. She'd never let anything happen to him."

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When she got home, she climbed up to her window from the rope she made out of her clothes. She always left through her window so she didn't wake anybody.

She landed softly on her carpeted floor and shut the window quietly before she was startled, "Where do you go when you leave at night?"

She jumped and turned around, "Jesus, Henry. You scared me."

He smiled, "I learned from the best."

She rolled her eyes. She was quite quiet and, apparently, Henry had picked it up.

"So...." Henry reminded as he sat down on the end of her bed. "Where do you go?"

She sat down beside him, "To the docks."

"Why?" Henry questioned.

Bonnie shrugged, "I don't know. I just need to."

"Maybe that's a clue to who you really are," Henry said before getting up and picking up the rope of clothes.

"How did you tie this together so well?"

"I can teach you if you want," she approached him and took the rope before hiding it in her closet. "But no telling Regina."

Henry made an 'x' over his heart, "My lips are sealed."

"Okay," she smiled at the action; the form of a promise she'd always done. "But now it's time for bed."