Dark Hearts | Once Upon A Time

XL. Torture

Storybrooke. Present-day.

HOLDING HER GUN, Erica burst into the room by kicking down the door to the mayor's office, but was confused and surprised at how easily the door opened and then realised that it was unlocked which caused even more confusion. She had been talked into breaking into Regina's office to find the bean that was stolen from them although Erica didn't see the point in trying to steal back the bean but then again she didn't want Emma to end up getting herself in trouble or taking the matter into her own hands like she had done previous times before and although Emma had carried a gun before, she wasn't trusting of her twin because if something ended up transpiring Erica wasn't sure that Emma would be able to properly handle a situation and not hurt herself or others

"You can come in" Erica shouts into the hallway where Emma and Mary Margret who were in the hallway with Henry trying to comfort the eleven-year-old and the boy instantly ran into the room looking for his adoptive mother but stopped when he looked around and couldn't find her and although he tried to hide it Erica could see the hurt on his face

"When you find my mom, y-you aren't going to hurt her are you?" Henry asked and Erica turned her head towards the boy was from her spot scoping the room and making her way to the boy and putting her hand on her shoulder and kneeling in front of Henry 

"No sweetie, no we're not we just want to find her" Erica stated softly

"And get back what she stole from her" Emma commented bitterly looking like a sulking child but was quickly cut off from her sulking by a glare from her older sister and started to confront her son hugging him close to her chest and reassuring him that nothing was going to happen to him -- not as long as she was there and Erica smiled softly thinking how much because of how much she has changed as a person thanks to Henry and finally letting people in 

"I don't get it why would Regina leave the door unlocked" Mary Margret comments as she walks further into the office and Erica furrowed her eyebrows as she thought the same thing. Regina wasn't stupid, she wouldn't purposely leave the door open especially if she was keeping things that were important to her so something must have happened to her

"The override code was used on her office at six o'clock this morning" Erica states

 "Why would she use an override system on her own alarm?" David comments, looking puzzled, as he walks over to a glass case with Erica following in tow, her gun now down at side as she crossed the room and peered inside the case only to find there was nothing inside "Especially when she's keeping the beans here"

"Or was there" Erica hummed "It's gone"

"She wouldn't" Emma tells them "Something's not right, Regina wouldn't just leave her office unlocked,"

"Maybe she's just used the bean and already got out of Storybrooke" David suggests 

"Without Henry?" Erica asked raising an eyebrow in question because she knew as much as Regina probably hated everyone in the town and wanted to get away as quickly as possible there was no way she would do that without Henry "I don't think so"

"I agree with Erica as much as I hate to admit it she just wouldn't just leave Henry" Emma mutters but it was loud enough for everyone to hear and unfortunately Henry caught onto what his mother was saying and looked between the two sisters

"Does that mean something happened to mom?" He asked, voice pleading

"We're going to find her Henry, I promise," Emma said confidently rubbing Henry shoulder's 

"There's only one person who could overpower Regina" Mary Margret starts to say but trails off when her husband looked at her and nodded his head looking quite worried over the fact and was undoubtedly thinking about what horrible things Rumplestilkskin can do to Regina and even though Erica doesn't know exactly what Rumplestilkskin is like but he knew he could be a crude man but she doubted he took Regina this time because he was trying to get on his son's good side and was with Belle/Lacey