Twice Upon A Time - Season 2 (reader x once upon a time)

The Cricket Game - Part 2

The Charmings were searching Archie's office for evidence. David was looking through the filing cabinet for Regina's file but found it empty

"Huh, Regina's file, it's empty" he said, showing it to them

"So she did it" Snow said "She killed the kindest soul in this town. A man who only cared about helping"

"I promise we'll find whoever really did this" Emma said

"Isn't it time you admit we already have?" David asked "Regina had a fight with Archie, Ruby saw her outside last night, and now her file is empty. That's... that's a lot of evidence"

"Just like it was a lot of evidence that Kathryn went missing after her fight with mom" Angie reminded them "How her heart was in your jewellery box, and the knife in your apartment" she told Snow

"So you think she was framed too?" Snow asked her daughter

"Angie has a point" Emma agreed "I mean, I don't know it is in Fairy-tale land, but in the real world, it's usually hard to find evidence" she said "And this has been way too easy"

"Almost like someone wants us to find evidence" Angie pointed out

"Who would want to frame her?" David wondered

"That's a long list, present company included" Snow told her husband, raising her hand

"Yeah, but there's only one name on that list that would resort to killing to get what they want" Emma said

In Gold's shop, Belle had prepared a lunch for the two of them when the Charmings entered

"Ah... nothing warms the heart more than a family reunited" Gold said "You have your mother's chin, Miss Swan" he told Emma as she approached him

"We know that you kill him" Emma interrupted him, going straight to the point of their visit

"And your father's tact" Gold said

"Someone's dead?" Belle asked

"Dr. Hopper" Angie told her

"Why on earth would you think I had anything to do with that?" Gold asked, genuinely confused by the accusations

"Because all the evidence points to Regina" Emma explained

"And she's not possibly capable of doing something so vile?" Belle remarked, surprised that they didn't believed it

"This looks like a frame job" Angie said

"It wouldn't be the first time you used someone to try to hurt her" Snow told Gold

"Nice to see your memory's still intact, dearie. But this time, I'm afraid I'm going to have to disappoint you. It wasn't me" Gold said

"Why should we believe you?" David asked

"Because I can prove it. Ask the witness" Gold replied

"No one was there" Emma said

"Well, that's not strictly true now, is it?" Gold said

"Pongo?" Angie wondered

"Precisely" Gold smiled

David went to find Pongo and brought him back to the shop

"Hey, boy. Good boy. Good boy, good boy" Gold said as he petted him

Belle chuckled "I, uh... I didn't know you were such a dog person"

"Well... a long time ago, in another life, I got to know a sheepdog or two" he explained

"That's fascinating. But unless you speak dog, how is Pongo going to tell us anything?" Emma wondered