Such A Sad Love, Deep in Your Eyes Ch 2

Chapter 2: In Search of New Dreams

Storybrooke, Maine

Emma Swann sighed as she walked out of Granny’s, cup of coffee in her hands. She had not been all too well recently as her friend and roommate was currently under arrest for possibly killing someone. Though Emma highly doubted it, as Mary Margaret barely looked like she could hurt a fly. Even so, it hurt badly to think of someone who she considered… family as a murderer.

VROOOOM

The blonde beauty looked up at the sound of an engine. In her line of sight was a motorcycle. At first, Emma thought it was August, but realized it was not him as the motorcycle had a sidecar and there were two people on the motorcycle.

“Excuse me?” The driver called out, their voice muffled by their helmet. The driver was clad in jeans, a black leather jacket that was zipped up, black gloves, and black biker boots. The passenger wore a brown leather jacket that was zipped up, navy gloves, jeans, and work boots.

“Y-yeah?” Emma stuttered, a bit shocked to see some random couple so early in the morning, especially, she noticed the plates on the bike, when they’re from New York.

“Where’s the nearest gas station?” The driver asked as they moved the visor on their helmet, revealing the feminine face beneath it.

“Around the corner, four blocks from here.” Emma instructed.

“Thanks.” The driver nodded before revving up her engine and driving off.

Emma watched as the motorcycle turned the corner. This was odd, Henry said strangers never come to Storybrooke, yet, in less than a month, three people arrive in the town.

~~~

Kat was fuelling up the bike at the moment, so Kyle decided to see if there was anything of interest in the town. When he saw the name of this place on the map about a week ago, he was interested in what kind of place Storybrooke was. Glancing down the street, he saw there was not much to look at, mainly housing, but he did see a pawnshop when they first entered town. Maybe he could get something for Uncle Tobi while they were here.

“Hey, Kat?”

“Yeah, Squirt?”

“Mind if I go check out the pawnshop, I wanna see if I can get Uncle Tobi something.”

“Sure,” Kat said as she removed the nozzle from her bike, “Just give me a min and we’ll head over there.”

As the brunette said, a minute later, the two were heading towards the pawnshop.

~~~

RING

A bell chimed over their heads as they entered the shop. Kyle immediately started to look around while Kat had to suppress the shiver she got. Something about this shop seemed so… so… wrong.

“Can I help you?” Startled slightly, Kat’s head snapped up at the voice. The owner of which was an older man, who had to be at least in his forties, with longish light brown hair. From his accent, Kat guessed he was Scottish. It was clear that he, at least, worked at the shop as stood behind the counter, dressed sharply in a suit.

“Ah, just browsing.” Kat responded after a moment.

“Well, I’m certain I’ve never seen you around town before.” He commented nonchalantly.

“Oh, that’s cause me and my brother were just passing through.” Kat responded.

“Odd, this town does not get many strangers, much less those who are just ‘passing through’.” His comment caused Kat to frown lightly. Kat turned away from the shopkeeper and looked over towards where her brother is.

“Hey, Kat,” Kyle said cheerily, clearly not having heard the conversation that just happened, “Look at this, think Uncle Tobi would like this?” The item he was referring to was an antique-looking pocket watch, on the cover was an odd-looking creature. It could almost be a goblin.

“Looks like something he’d like.” Kat said, remembering how her uncle used to draw creatures similar to the one on the watch.

“Interesting choice, young man.” The shopkeeper said as he walked over towards the two, “That’s been in my shop for quite some time now, I almost feared that it would die out before someone wanted to buy it.”

“How much for the watch?” Kat asked, though her eyes were gazing around the shop. When her eyes stopped for a moment on a pair of wooden dolls, she could not suppress the shiver she got from looking at them.

“Eighty dollars.” He responded, making Kat look over at him. That was a really good price for a pocket watch that seemed to be a couple of decades old.

“Okay.” Kat said as she dug out her wallet from her jacket.

A few minutes later, the purchase was made and the siblings were walking out of the shop. As they left, they did not hear the shopkeeper’s quite words towards the elder sibling.

“Nice doing business with you again, dearie.”

~~~

“Ready to head off?” Kat asked.

“Yeah.” Kyle nodded as he puts on his helmet. The two then get on the motorcycle, ready to take off.

Kat pulls out of her parking space and heads off for the highway. As they near the town’s border, however, the two notice that the bike is making odd sounds, which got louder as they continued moving.

“Shit!” Kat cursed before quickly attempting to stop the bike. For some reason the break did not seem to work properly, but eventually the bike skidded to a stop just a few feet from the Storybrooke sign.

“What’s going on?” Kyle asked, his voice somewhat muffled by the helmet.

“I don’t know, maybe something is wrong with the engine? And the breaks…” The two sibling removed themselves from the bike and Kat crouched down beside her bike, inspecting the visible parts to it.

“Can you fix it?” Kyle asked, somewhat impatient as his next game was only two days away from now and they were, at least, a 16-hour drive away.

“I think so.” Kat murmured before taking off her helmet and gloves. She then held out a hand in front of her, palm facing the sky, and closed her eyes tightly in concentration. She stayed like that for a few moments before she suddenly flinched backwards, as if in pain.

“Sis!” Kyle cried out before kneeling down and grabbing the older girl’s shoulders to steady her, “What happened?”

“I-I don’t know… A rebound?” Kat murmured, her voice somewhat strained, “Whatever it was… I don’t think I’ll be able to fix my bike quickly.”

~~~

Emma was driving near the town border when she noticed a silhouette over by the sign. Curious, the blonde drove closer to the sign to see what was near it. The silhouette turned out to be two people and a motorcycle. Judging by the people’s clothing and the bike, it was the same people who asked her for directions only an hour or so ago.

Slowing to a stop near them, Emma rolled down her window. Looking at them, she noticed that the driver from before was inspecting the motorcycle, muttering curses as she did while the passenger, now known to be a blonde teenage boy, was sitting on the ground looking around in boredom.

“Hey.” Emma called out, causing the two to look towards her, having not noticed her until then.

“Yes?” The girl asked, she sounded annoyed but it was clearly directed at her bike and not Emma.

“Is something wrong?”

“Fucking bike broke down on me.” The girl said in exasperation. Emma could see that the girl seemed very exhausted for some reason.

“If you want, I can give you lift back into town. You can get a tow truck to bring your bike to the local garage.” Emma suggested, causing both of them to perk up a bit.

“Thank you, miss.” The girl grinned.

“Yeah, thanks!” The teen echoed.

“No problem, and its Emma, not miss.” Emma responded, feeling somewhat weird about a girl her age calling her ‘miss’.

“Name’s Kat, this is my brother Kyle.” The girl introduced as she stood up. She then walked over to the sidecar attached to her bike and took out two duffels, one of which she tossed to her brother.  The two then entered the police car and Emma proceeded to drive them back to town.