Twice Upon A Time {reader x once upon a time}

Pilot - Part 2

Wednesday, October 23

Storybrooke

As soon as Angie woke up she knew something was wrong. She was sleeping on a makeshift bed on the floor; Emma was asleep on a small bed by the wall. She was trying to remember what had happened when she saw the jail bars. She also heard whistling, and she turn to find a man in the cell next to hers. The man stopped whistling and asked her "what are you looking at, sister?"

There was another man outside the cells fixing a cabinet. He looked older, with short white hair "Hey Leroy, manners. We have guests" he reprimands the jailed man. He then turned to Angie "So, you are Henry's mother and aunt? How lovely for him to have you both back in his life"

"Looks like news fly around here" Angie thought, before answering the man "we were just dropping him off"

The man called Leroy scoffed "Don't blame you" he said to her "They're all brats. Who needs them?"

"Well I'd give anything for one" the older man said "My wife and I, we tried for many years but, uh... it was not meant to be" he said sadly

"I'm sorry" Angie tried to comfort him while Leroy replied unimpressed "well cry me a river"

The Sheriff came in at that moment "Leroy, I'm gonna let you out, you need to behave" he addressed the man. "Put on a smile and stay out of trouble" He opened the cell door and Leroy smiled sarcastically before stepping out and leaving

"Seriously?" Angie asked

"Regina's drinks, a little stronger that we thought" the Sheriff answered

Emma started to wake up then, whispering "what the hell" to herself once she realized where she was

"She wasn't drunk, there was a wolf standing in the middle of the road" explained Angie to the Sheriff

"A wolf, right" was his response, clearly not believing her

The mayor's voice could be heard then, as she came into the room looking for the Sheriff

"Graham?" She asked "Henry's run away again. We have to-" she cut herself off when she saw the twins in jail "What are they doing here?" She turned to Emma then "Do you know where he is?"

"Lady, we haven't seen him since we dropped him at your house" Emma told her "and as you can see we have a pretty good alibi" she pointed to the cell bars to make her point

"Yeah, well, he wasn't in his room this morning" said Regina

"Did you try his friends?" suggested Angie, to which the mayor admitted "He doesn't really have any, he's kind of a loner"

"Every kid has friends" said Emma "Did you check his computer? If he's close to someone he'll be emailing them"

"And you know this, how?" questioned Regina

"Finding people is what I do" answered Emma "Here's an idea, how about, you guys let us out and we'll help you find him" she then proposed

Regina accepted and the four of them went back to her house, where Emma started checking Henry's computer for any information "Smart kid, cleaned his in-box, I'm smart too" she pulled out a flash-drive and connected it "A little hard disk recovery utility I like to use"

Sheriff Graham commented the different methods they used "I'm a bit more old-fashion, in my techniques: pounding the pavement, knocking on doors, that sort of things", to which Emma responded "you're on salary, I get paid for delivery. Pounding the pavement is not a luxury that I get". The computer biped then and they all turned to look at the screen "Here's a receipt for a web site: whosyourmamma.com" she read