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Emma Swan was fed up. She has been working all day long trying to track down a monster who betrayed his wife just to get out of jail. Sly and untraceable. The worst combination Emma could imagine. Though, she liked the challenge at first. Her job as a bail bondswoman was never boring, but she never turned down a good challenge. But a week has passed, and she still hasn’t found a single clue, and it was getting on her nerves.
She slammed the table with her fist in anger. The person next to her jumped in her seat.
‘Girl, you should chill out a little.’ Elsa, her colleague smiled. ‘What’s the matter?’
‘I’m sorry.’ Emma shook her head. ‘It’s just… This case is so impossible! There’s no sign of the man! Not a phone call, not an e-mail, not a single clue! It’s like he didn’t even exist!
'You should take a break’ Elsa said with a worried smile. 'You’ve been working so hard these days, you deserve a day out. Listen, tonight me and the girls are going out. Ruby is going to bring her girlfriend, Dorothy too. You should join us. Get a little detached from work. What do you say?’ Elsa said smiling widely.
'Thanks Elsa. But I gotta get to the end of his case. I can’t go. There’s something fishy about this guy.’ Emma sighed.
'Fine.’ Elsa knew Emma enough not to force it.'Just promise me, you won’t stay here 'till ten, like yesterday. Our electricity bills won’t get cheaper, you know.’ she tried to joke.
Emma smiled weakly at Elsa. She was exhausted and annoyed. 'Don’t worry. I’ll just look up something then I’ll be going.’
Elsa gave her a doubtful look as she picked up her backpack with 'THE COLD NEVER BOTHERED ME ANYWAY’ sign on it.
'I promise.’ Emma sighed.
Elsa looked back from the door and gave her an 'I keep an eye on you’ look.
'Cross my heart.’ Emma said it now with a laugh, and Elsa gave her a bright smile. And she was gone.
Emma took a deep breath as she typed 'Mr. Rumple Gold’ in the search engine for the hundredth time. But suddenly the computer screen went off with a silent “puff”, and the lights in the office started flickering.
Emma sat there for a while in shock, wondering what to do. Something must have gone wrong with the electricity supply. It’s the second time this week. She should call Jeff to fix it. She looked around in the office to call for Jefferson, the janitor, until she realized that she was all alone. But then, whose breathing was she hearing? She pulled out the top drawer of her desk and grabbed the first thing that she could reach. At least, she wasn’t unarmed now. Unluckily, her “weapon” was only a stapler. A picture appeared in Emma’s mind of a really creepy horror movie as she quickly pointed the stapler in the direction of the sound.
'Whose there?’ she asked in a strict voice.
'Why? Who’s there?’ the response came from under one of the desks.
’ I said. Who’s. There.’ Emma put a stress on every word. ’ I had a long, exhausting day, and I’m not in the mood for silly pranks’ she said. Suddenly, a head popped out from under the desk three chairs away from Emma. It was a man totally dressed in leather with dark, fluffy hair, and a massive amount of eyeliner.
'It’s just me, lass.’ he said. 'Now if you could give me a hand…’ he chuckled as if he had said something funny. 'Would you mind giving me that pair of scissors on your desk?’
Emma gave the man the scissors with absolute confusion on her face.
'Who are you?’ she demanded.
'I’m the Captain’ he said as he kept doing whatever he was doing.
'The Captain of what?’ she asked. 'And what are you doing?’
'Just the Captain.’ he ignored her question as he emerged from under the table. 'And you are?’
'Emma. Emma Swan.’ she answered.
'Nice to meet you Emma Swan. Alright lass, now if I can have a suggestion. They found me so… Run for your life!’ he shouted just in the exact moment when a troop of rhino-headed men stormed in the office.
'In the name of the Shadow Proclamation, you have violated the Galactic Law by selling illegal alien articles to humans. You will now come with us!” one of the rhinos said.
The so-called Captain quickly grabbed Emma’s hand as they made their way to the door on the other side of the office.
'Wait! You did what?’ she shouted as they reached another door. Unluckily, it was locked. The man reached out with his other hand to push the door, but his hand didn’t move.
'Bloody Torchwood!’ he shouted as the heavy footsteps of the rhinos got louder. 'Don’t worry Captain! This time, there’s no bug in it! It will work perfectly!’ he said in a high-pitched voice as if he was imitating someone. He quickly grabbed his little finger with his teeth and just pulled off his hand like a glove.
Emma watched in horror as the hand fell on the floor with a few electric sizzles. When she looked back, there was a shiny hook in place of his hand. A few green lights were burning on the hook, and the man himself looked like a pirate from a sci-fi.
'That’s better.’ he said as he held the hook, which was now making a weird buzzing sound, to the door.
'What’s that?’ Emma asked in horror.
'Sonic hook.’ he said without looking up at her but still holding her hand.
A few seconds later, the door clicked, and the Captain opened it as they darted towards the emergency exit.
A few minutes later, they were out in the fresh air, and the Captain quickly ran behind a dustbin, pulling a completely numb Emma after himself.
Emma just opened her mouth to ask thousands of questions when the troop stepped out the door.
'Find him’ one of the rhinos said as the troop spread in different directions.
The Captain waited a few minutes then looked around.
'All clear’ he said with a smirk. 'I should get back to the…’ he started, but Emma interrupted him.
'You’re not going anywhere. Not until you’ve explained me what the hell that was.’
'Okay, Swan. It was Swan, was it?’ he asked, and Emma nodded. 'First of all, I’m the Captain. And I’m a Time Lord.’