iii. Do Dead Men Walk?

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Storybrooke. Present-day.

"DID YOU KNOW that Mary Margret were taking the kids to the hospital?" Emma tells Erica as they sit in the elementary teacher's apartment, drinking cups of hot chocolate topped with cinnamon and when Erica shook her head no Emma nodded "Yeah

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"DID YOU KNOW that Mary Margret were taking the kids to the hospital?" Emma tells Erica as they sit in the elementary teacher's apartment, drinking cups of hot chocolate topped with cinnamon and when Erica shook her head no Emma nodded "Yeah. Henry's quite excited about it, he thinks he can get Snow White and Prince Charming back together"

"Does he now?" Erica asked, amusement colouring her tone 

"Yeah," Emma says before laughter bubbles from her mouth, and not a few minutes later, Erica joined in and the two sisters were sat at the table, drinking lukewarm hot chocolate, draped in blankets and laughing in a new town where both of them could get a new start, where nobody expected anything from them.

 If only they knew what was coming 

"Okay girls I'm off to school and then off to the hospital I went on a date last night to make sure my students could go and besides I am a teacher, not a nun, so sue me if I had a date and I actually fancied a guy for once in a few years --" Mary Margret rambled, causing Erica to chuckle and at the sound of that chuckle Mary Margret blushed beet red

"Hey, no judgment here." Erica laughed although her laughter was muffled by a hand over her mouth as Emma forces her hand over Erica's mouth and playfully Erica swats her sister off as they dissolve into laughter yet again 

"You two have a weird relationship," Mary Margret says as she grabbed her coat off the coat rack and her statement caused  both women to nod their heads and raise their eyebrows as they look at each other "I mean last night you were shouting at each other and looked just about ready to pull each other's hair out and now your all buddy-buddy with each other, drinking hot chocolate and laughing"

"We're like that" Emma shrugged 

"Well I'm off now, if you need me, I'll be at the hospital" Mary Margret chortled before walking out the door leaving the two sisters alone in the apartment and for a few moments, it was quiet until Emma spoke 

"I'm visiting Henry later today. Wanna come?"

"Yeah" Erica nodded, she needed to know her nephew better

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Storybrooke. Present-day.

"I found your father" Henry informs the two women as they both sit with him in what the ten-year-old boy dubs as his 'castle' (which was really an abandoned play structure with a slide) "Prince Charming?"

"Henry..." Emma tried to explain how a fairytale character couldn't be their father but stopped when she couldn't find the words she trailed off and looked over at the blonde, that was looking back at the anxious mother's blue eyes t and over Henry's head, it was clearly a look that said Help! 

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