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"Please turn to the right." Emma voice remained monotone and her eye focused on the Polaroid camera in front of her. She pulled out the last printed photo as her roommate protested.

"Emma, this is a mistake! I didn't kill Kathryn." Mary Margaret insisted firmly, but calmly.

"Of course you didn't." Emma agreed. Despite what the evidence said, the Sheriff didn't believe for one second that Mary Margaret was capable of murder. She pushed the shutter button, a bright light flashed briefly before she pulled the final mugshot out of the camera. "But while I am your friend, I am also Sheriff. And I have to go where the evidence leads."

"Which points to me?" Mary Margaret's voice cracked and she became slightly defensive. "Emma, yesterday it was David. There's something not right here."

"I know." Emma assured her, slightly irritated. "But your fingerprints were on that box and his are not, so now we have to deal with this..." She gestured to the mugshots that were developing on the desk.

"Evidence that says I cut out Kathryn's heart...and...buried it in the woods? This is insane."

"If I don't book you, with this evidence, it's going to look like favoritism." The Sheriff was trying her best to stay calm. "And then, Regina will have cause and she will fire me. And then you know what she'll do? She'll bring in someone who will railroad you. So, please, just try to be patient and trust me. We can't even move forward till we verify the heart belonged to Kathryn and I'm still waiting for the DNA test results. But in the meantime, you need to bear with me. I have to ask you a few questions."

"This is crazy. I would never hurt anyone." Mary Margaret sighed before letting Emma lead her towards the evidence room. Having put out one fire Emma groaned. She knew another argument was just around the corner, literally. She led Mary Margaret to the evidence room and cautiously swung the door open. Regina was already in the room, she smiled as the others entered.

"Hello, Miss Blanchard." The Mayor greeted in a sickeningly sweet voice.

"What is she doing here?" Mary Margaret questioned in a half-whisper.

"She asked to be here as a third party to make sure that I stay impartial. It can only help you." The sheriff explained delicately before sitting next to Regina.

"I have nothing to hide." The school teacher promised. "Ask me anything." She sank down in the only other open seat, a folding chair across from the Mayor and Sheriff. Emma turned on a tape recorder and began to speak.

"The heart was found buried near the old Toll Bridge. It had been cut out by what appears to be a hunting knife. Have you ever been to that bridge before?"

"Yes, many times." Mary Margaret nodded slowly. "It's where David and I liked to meet."

"Mr. Noland?" Emma clarified. The Sheriff rose to her feet and opened an evidence locker.

"Yes." Mary Margaret replied. Not sure what else to say.

"And you met there for what purpose?" Emma asked, still searching the evidence locker.

"We were having an affair." Mary Margaret confessed. "I'm not proud of what happened and I'm sorry. But that doesn't change the fact that I did not kill Kathryn." While she talked Emma found what she was looking for. She removed a jewelry box from the locker and placed it on the table.

"Have you ever seen this before?" The interrogation continued.

"Yes. It's my jewelry box." Mary Margaret identified it with confusion. She couldn't believe the heart had been found in there.

"That is what we found the heart in." Emma explained. Her voice once again void of any emotion.

"Don't you see what's happening here?" Mary Margaret turned to Regina. "Someone stole that box and put the heart in it. I didn't have anything to do with it. I'm innocent."

"Miss Blanchard, it's okay." Regina spoke for the first time. "I know what you're going through. I know what it's like to lose someone you love. To be publicly humiliated. It put me in a very dark place. Changed me." The Evil Queen was grinning internally. What a sense of poetic justice that this was how she finally took down Snow White. The same way she'd been betrayed by that foolish girl all those years ago. "I can only imagine what losing David Nolan did to you."

"But I haven't changed." Mary Margaret insisted, level-headedly. "I'm still the same person I've always been, a good person. I did not do this."

"Can I speak to you in the hallway, please?" Emma snarled at Regina. The Mayor willingly followed the Sheriff into the hallway. "I told you to leave the questioning to me."

"How do you know she didn't do it?" Regina asked. "If that box was stole from her, as she claims, don't you think there'd be signs of a break in? Well, you're her roommate. Tell me, has there been a break in?" Emma didn't respond. "She is a woman who's had her heart broken and that...that can make you do unspeakable things."

Whether Regina had intended it or not, she'd given Emma an idea. The Sheriff decided to investigate her apartment for signs of a break in. Sure there hadn't been any apparent evidence, but a skilled thief might not leave a trail. Emma was inspecting one of the windows when someone entered the room. The Sheriff spun on her heals and found Henry and Sarah walking towards her. Henry was wearing a green sweater and jeans suggesting he'd either changed out of his school uniform or never put it on in the first place. Sarah on the other hand was still wearing her school uniform, her wavy blonde hair tied back with a blue ribbon. The young girl typically wore her hair this way at school because she could better focus on her work without blonde locks falling in front of her eyes. Judging by the kids' state of dress Emma could only assume Henry had dragged Sarah out of school for their latest troublesome adventure.

"We have to help Miss Blanchard." Sarah insisted. She didn't bother explaining that they'd skipped school. Emma was smart enough to figure that out on her own.

"I am helping her." Emma promised. "That's why I'm searching the apartment. But you two have got to go home."

"Not going to happen." Henry insisted. Emma thought for a moment. There was no point bringing them back to school, their teach was still in at the station under arrest. If she took them home, she'd risk another confrontation with Regina. Even if she avoided that, there was a great chance Henry would just drag his sister out again. At least if they were with her they were being supervised.

"Just stay out of the way." She decided.

"So, what are we looking for?" Henry smiled, glad to have gotten his way.

"I'm trying to see if maybe someone broke in. Looking for busted door jambs broken glass, muddy boot prints. That kind of thing." Emma explained.

"So anything Nancy Drew might find useful." Sarah suggested. "You think someone is setting Mary Margaret up?"

"It's the only thing that makes sense." Emma said. "The only problem is, nobody's got a motive."

"Our mom does." Henry suggested.

"Regina?" The Sheriff was skeptical. Regina had proven herself pretty crazy in the past, and she wasn't beyond a frame job, but a murder frame job? It seemed like a reach even for the diabolical mayor.

"She hates Snow White." Henry reminded her. "Hey you want a motive."

"Somehow I doubt 'she hates Snow White' will hold up in court." Sarah saved Emma from having to say it herself. Sure she was only ten, but she'd read enough books to know what concrete evidence was.

Together Emma, Henry and Sarah searched around the apartment for some actual evidence when the heat kicked on. A loud rattling noise filled the air. Emma hadn't been living in the apartment very long, but she couldn't remember the heat making that much noise before. It didn't take her long to locate the heating vent in the floor.

"Did you find something?" Henry questioned excitedly. Emma didn't answer him as she lifted the grate off the heating vent. Sarah and her brother watch on curiously when Emma stuck her hand in the heating shaft. To the horror of all three of them, Emma removed a hunting knife wrapped in cloth.