When a little girl appears in the backseat of her car, Emma Swan will have to face a future she hadn't planned and things will be even more complicated when the little girl calls "Daddy" to the last person she thought she had a future with.
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Monday January 20, 2014
Emma's first thought after seeing the sleeping girl in her car had been of anger, for a moment she thought that maybe it was some kind of joke. She looked out for anything, some person, a group of children, whatever, but the streets of Storybrooke were completely empty and silent.
She took a quick look back at the back seat of her car hoping the girl had disappeared, but there she was, her little chest rose and fell slowly. Her first instinct to see her again had been to wake her up, but just as her hand was about to touch her, the girl moved.
Her hand froze and the girl babbled something Emma couldn't understand, she moved her little body and curled up even more on the seat.
She was still asleep
Emma could not help but hold her breath and push her hand away from the child.
No, she needed to get away completely from the little blonde.
She quickly opened the door of her car and left without a second thought. She felt the cool air crash into her face and she could not feel more relieved at that moment. As a first impulse, she was going to slam the door shut but she saw the sleeping kid and closed the door gently.
She breathed deeply, one, two, three times in a row and rest her hands on the car and breathe again trying to clear her thoughts.
In what damn moment had anyone put a child in her car?. Two hours earlier she was sure that the girl was not inside, two hours earlier she was parking her beetle in her usual place. Two hours earlier there was not a child asleep in the back seat of her car.
Slowly, she turned her gaze back to the girl almost afraid that upon seeing her she could wake her up. And not that she didn't want to wake her up, she thought to herself, but she had no idea what to do if the girl opened her eyes and looked directly at her.
She felt an itch through her body.
She was small, she thought. Her small body barely covered half of the back seat, and that, made Emma smile, everything looked so big around her.
Her dress was a bright blue that barely reached her knees and her shoes were white. All her clothes were clean and she looked healthy.
Emma looked at the girl's face and was a bit sorry to see that was completely covered by her blond hair.
She breathe slowly and giving one last chance, she looked back at the street.
There was no one there.
She smiled sadly as she returned her gaze to the sleeping beauty.
She was alone.
She didn't know how, or why the girl had appeared in her car, but certainly, she knew that at least that night no one was looking for her and surely not in the next days either.
