That's How You Know | Emma Swan

Viii. Sheriff Swan

Storybrooke . Present day.

THE NEWS OF Sheriff Graham's death had affected everyone in the town, but none were more effected than Emma Swan, Erica Swan and Gemma Wexler; Erica Swan taking it hard because during the short time of knowing the Sheriff she had grown close to him, Emma Swan taking it hard as she was the last one to see him alive and felt guilty for not being able to do anything more and of course the town's lovable redhead was the one that felt the most guilty and couldn't think about her friend without tears spilling out of her eyes because she knew he was sick and hallucinating and yet she told him that there was nothing there and to get some sleep and everything would be okay in the morning

Oh how foolish she had been

Nobody expected it but then again nobody ever does. The coroner said that he had died of a heart attack induced by stress and as the days tick by and life moves on and everyone begins to return back to normalcy, Gemma feels like the more days that go by since Graham's death, the more the guilt weighs on her shoulders and makes her feel like she was suffocating

Now as day fourteen rears it's head, Gemma found herself at a total loss of what she was supposed to do next, she knew in her heart that she needed to let go after all it wasn't healthy to hold onto someone this long especially since everyone else had started to move on and piece their lives back together and Gemma knew with Erica Swan vying for the position of the sheriff, new changes were going to come

Gemma just wasn't sure she was ready for the changes that were to come

* * * * *

New York City. Then.

Rain pelts down further wetting her already soaked body and Giselle sighs before running a hand through her drenched hair, her orange tinted curls heavy and soaked up with rain as she runs through the streets of New York easily as there was nobody else quite foolish enough to go out in the middle of a storm and this late at night but Giselle had to come out right in the middle of the storm because it was decided that tonight, in the middle of the storm would be the best time for her to cross realms to visit the Enchanted Forest and to help Snow White as nobody was out in the middle of a storm so it allowed the redhead to make the portal with the bean without any prying eyes

When Giselle had sent the letter to Snow White, it didn't take her long to turn to Robert and confess what she had done and she told him that the raven haired princess needed help and that the redhead owed Snow White a debt that she indented to repay but it took Robert a lot of convincing to allow his fiancée to cross realms as he didn't want any harm to come to her however it had been his eight year old daughter that had eventually worn the man down and convinced him

With one last look around the area that the red head was in, she cast a look to the heavens and prayed to anyone who was willing to listen that she hoped that this would lead her to the right place and not some random realm that she hadn't been to before and had no idea how to get out of as that would've been her last bean -- she was hoping after all of this was said and done that Snow would have a plan for them to get back home 

And then she did it

Throwing down the magical bean on the side of the road that was streaked with puddles, Giselle waited for a moment or two and frowned when it didn't seem to do anything, but jumped back in surprise when the bean fizzed to life and opened a portal to what Giselle hoped would be the Enchanted Forest, with one last glance at the streets around her the red headed women held up her rain soaked dress and stepped into the portal, whispering one last goodbye to her family as she didn't know how long she would be gone