Funny How Fast Life Changes

Behold The Jolly Roger

Emma and Killian had been sitting at the counter with flashlights directed at paperwork. They had found plenty of information but none that could lead them to where the delinquent was possibly hiding.

"Emma?" Killian spoke up.

"Yeah?" She barely raised her head from the papers.

"Hey so I saw some pictures of  what I assumed were you and your parents. You all looked so happy. What were they like? "

Emma seemed to concentrate deeper on her work. "Already told you about them. They died when I was 5." She was clearly avoiding to give details.

Killian put the paper down. "Yeah, but what else? Come on. You obviously have a lot of memories of them. You have all these items in your closet and you don't- "

Emma finally looked up from the papers and scowled. "Yeah well you shouldn't have been snooping around there in the first place."

Killian sighed. "Look I'm just trying to be your friend. I mean perhaps it'll make you feel better about-"

"I feel fine. I don't need friends or you judging me. We're work partners and if you're not going to help with this right now, then go away." Emma said with a hostile expression on her face.

Killian was fed up so he stood up. "Fine. I will. I'm tired anyways." He turned off the flashlight and handed it to her.

Before he turned the doorknob he looked back at her. "You can't hide behind your walls forever, Swan."

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Emma had just woken up when she heard loud knocking on her door.

"What the hell?" She said as she opened the door and Killian walked past her.

"Did you see it?" He asked and pointed to her desk.

"See what? Dude. I just woke up."

Killian inspected the wires near her desk.

"I see the wifi is on now. Looks like your landlord got things working again." He reached for Emma's laptop and starting typing away. He then picked it up so Emma could see the screen better. The man they were after had posted 3 new photos. A selfie and two landscape photographs of what seemed like woods. No captions or locations.

Emma nodded slowly. " Yes. I see.  This helps so much. Woods. We'll just go running around all of them. Will probably take us a year or two but yeah we just might find him." Emma ran her hand through her hair. If the photos didn't work what else could they do?

Killian saw Emma's frustration and laughed. "Do you seriously doubt me? I know exactly where he is."

Emma stood up straighter in relief. "You do? How?" She began thinking of the possible ways Killian could have tracked him.

Killian's lips curled into a smile. "There was no need for tracking. The place you see here. I've been there multiple times. I know exactly how to get there."

"That's great! Okay. I'll go change and we can go." Emma rushed off to her room.

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An hour later Emma was driving towards a really big house at an end of a street.

"This doesn't look like the picture...." Emma said rather disappointed. Killian had refused to give her any direct address and instead had just given her commands such as " Take a left" or "Turn right."

"That's because this isn't the place."

Emma stopped the car immediately. "Then what the hell are we doing here?"