Regina's Rose

Old Friends?

As we get closer to the security check Henry leaves me to pelt Gold with questions, so I'm here standing next to the beautiful blonde as she looks around seeming agitated about Gold's favor.

"You know, you're really hot when you're pissed."

"And you're really happy about all of this for some reason." She says without looking at me.

"No, not happy." I say with a chuckle. "I just had more coffee than you, and I didn't have to drive here." I say and she looks at me with a half smile. Finally, it's been impossible to get her to smile today. "Trust me, my caffeine crash is gonna be a bitch."

"Have fun with that." She teases and my smile grows bigger.

"No Henry, I'm fine." Gold says, clearly annoyed by all of Henry's questions. Emma tries to deescalates the situation.

"It must be really hard not to use magic and being like everyone else." Henry says and Gold looks like he's completely over Henry.

"Dani, I'm not sure if you meant to be rude and I don't want you to tell me. I'm just gonna assume you didn't and put my stuff in these bins. Okay?" I say as I smile at him sweetly before picking up a bin.

"You gotta put your shoes in." Emma says and I sigh in annoyance before taking off my shoes.

"How terribly uncivilized." Gold says and I stifle a chuckle.

"Scarf and cane in the basket." The security guard says.

"What?" Gold says in anger and I laugh.

"Good luck Gold." I say and walk through the detector only for it to turn red.

"What the hell?"

"Ma'am is your bracelet made of metal?" Another guard asks me.

"Yes..."

"I'm gonna need you to take that off."

"Fucking hell." I grumble to myself in anger as I start to remove my bracelet as Emma helps Gold past the metal detector. She quickly rushes back to me and grabs my wrist.

"Calm down or else everyone here is going to see a pink thunderstorm over your head." She says and I glare at her in agitation and she glares back. I look away and sigh.

"I hate airports." I grumble before taking a few deep breaths and putting my bracelet in a basket. I then walk through the detector with no problems and quickly put on my bracelet afterward.

"Glad you could make it, Ms. Mills." Gold mocks and I flash a fake smile.

"Hey guys, there's a Cinnabon here." Henry's says before running off and I'm right behind him.
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I take Henry to the waiting area we're supposed to be at once we leave the Cinnabon. When we arrive I see Emma and Gold already there, Emma sees us arrive and we both wave our bags in the air excitedly and I almost spill the drink carrier in my hand.

"You're a child." She says with a smirk and I laugh.

"You're one to talk, grilled cheese and hot cocoa." I say and she laughs causing me to get mesmerized by that beautiful sound and smile.

"Fair." She says with her smile still in place.

"Speaking of hot cocoa.." I say and turn to the drink carrier I have. "Hot cocoa or coffee, just to warn you they would not put cinnamon on top of the hot cocoa, they said they "didn't have any"."

"The Cinnabon claimed that they didn't have cinnamon, to put on the hot cocoa?" Emma questions and I shrug.

"Yeah they all seemed to really hate their jobs." I say and laugh a little. I then reached out the cocoa and the coffee to Emma.

"I need the coffee, thanks." She says with a smile.

"No problem Em." I say and she reaches in her pocket before pulling out cash to pay me back.

"Here you go."

"I'm not taking that. I got you the coffee because I wanted to and you needed it. You're not paying me for it." I say with my regal voice and Emma looks at me in surprise.

"Alright fine." She says and holds up her hands in surrender before putting the money back in her pocket. I smile victoriously at the action.

"Great." I say now with my normal voice. "Also question, has he been doing that the whole time?" I asks as I point to Gold who's been pacing since we arrived.

"Yes he has." She says and we fall into silence at the nervous behavior of Gold.
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After Rumple some how injuring his hand in the bathroom and the plane ride, we're finally in New York. I think it's beautiful, the whole ride over I was staring out the window at all the art this place has. Sure graffiti may be illegal in most cases but it's expression of yourself and it's beautiful to see someone's representation of themselves. The taxi stops and we all get out.

"This is it?" I question as I look at the rather bland apartment complex.

"Indeed it is." Gold responds while looking at the building nervously.

"And you didn't tell him you were coming." I say and he doesn't respond. "Alright let's go." I say with a smirk as I head into the building. To be honest I'm not excited for this, I just know that I need to get to Baelfire before everyone else and tell him to keep his mouth shut about Neverland. The thing is without being able to communicate telepathically, that's gonna be real hard.

"No Baelfire." Henry says as he looks at all the buttons. I smile at his effort, gotta love the kid.

"That probably wouldn't fly as an alias." Emma says as she continues to study the buttons. "Your magic globe didn't give you an apartment number."

"Yeah...magic likes to leave a little mystery. A fun surprise, except it's not fun. It's a pain in your ass." I say to Emma with a smile.

"Do any of these names mean anything to you?" Henry asks and I turn to Gold hopefully.

"Well, names are what I traffic in, but sadly no." Gold says and now both him and Emma are studying the buttons.

"Here's your boy." Emma says as she points at the only button with no name.

"It could just be vacant." He says and I look at the buttons.

"But the other ones say unoccupied under it." I say and point to a truly vacant apartment.

"I find people who don't want to be found. And they don't like to advertise their whereabouts." She says before hitting the button. "UPS package for 407." Emma says and it clicked off.

"Maybe you should have said FedEx?" Henry questions and I let out a chuckle. Suddenly we hear rustling from above and outside.

"He's running." Emma says and we all rush outside. We see him climbing down the fire escape.

"Those favors you two owe me, this is it." Gold says and I turn to face him. "Get him to talk to me. I can't run." He says and I sigh.

"Watch Henry, we'll be back." She says before taking off running and I'm right behind her.

He runs across the busy street and we're right behind him he turns and Emma and I split up, knowing we can cut him off. What I didn't expect was for Emma to practically tackle him and I stopped running as they both fell to the ground.

"No." Emma said as she looked up at Baelfire. "Neal?" She asks. Who the hell is Neal?