Just a Little Pixie Dust

Izzy (Chapter 2.)

(IZZY) II.

I got into the car and turned the engine over. Going out alone sometimes bothered me, especially around here, but Tink was my partner and right now? Well she was kind of busy with guarding Kitty and cleaning up everything that was on her desk. Days worth of things she should’ve signed off on but I wasn’t surprised, that was just Tink for you. She was a great person to work with despite the stigma she’d gained from her past and on top of that she was just really good at bringing people in. 

But, she was also a terrible liar, and she was horrible at trying to hide things such as how she felt about Jacob. She’d been in love with him for god knew how long but her mind wanted to hold onto a love she’d lost to The Book years back, Jasper, The Mad Hatter. He wasn’t a bad guy really. He was a little rough around the edges and a little weird, maybe a little too headstrong, but bad? No. Though, he also wasn’t someone I ever could see Tink being with for the rest of her life, they were better friends in the long run than they ever were lovers. 

I’d been friends with her for over forty years, long years, years where we’ve never aged or even wrinkled so to say the least, that was something I knew just from looking at a guy she was interested in she was my best friend and honestly I wasn’t going to just let her end up with anyone. We were practically inseparable and like she said once before, anyone we ended up with it’d almost be like the other was dating them too. We hadn’t been partners though for forty years, honestly this really hasn’t even been five years yet.

I’d first met Tink when the Grimm Brothers took her on to keep her safe after her writer said he couldn’t handle her or her family any longer. The Darlings became one of us and the Grimm Brothers were more than happy to help out with them. She met me during a hard time in life, when me and Adam just weren’t working out any longer and we started realizing that it was time to simply move on from one another. Adam refused for the longest time but the divorce happened and it was finalized. 

Tink was the one who was by my side as I made the choice to do so, and she was the one who managed to keep me from falling apart while it all happened as well. I felt so depressed the whole time and at first I had nowhere to go, and Tink? Well, being how she is, she let me into her home, and somehow we’d been friends ever since all of that. Now fast forward almost thirty some years and here we are, still friends and still trying to do what we can for each other. 

Shaking my head I pushed the thoughts aside and pulled into Rumple’s driveway. It seemed almost impossible to ignore where a car had crashed into his home, they’d already gotten it out but that wasn’t going to make up for the damaged house after all or the traumatized children inside of it. Personally I felt horrible for any child who had to live with Rumple and Victoria, The Red Queen and an imp, two of the most twisted people chose to run this orphanage and we couldn’t tell them no since the rule was this was a fresh start but they were just as slimy as always.

“You!” I jumped turning to see who yelled at me, Victoria came charging over angry. “You arrest this stupid woman!”

“What woman?” I asked calmly.

“The dumb b***h who drove into my house!” She snarled at me “Angelica.”

Angelica? Snow’s step mother? That’s who did this? Jacob was out looking for her on the other side of town and now she was here? It made no sense. 

“Where is she at ma’am?”

“Rumple has her tied up in the house.”

“Tied up? Listen that’s a bit much…” I started.

“A bit much?!” Her eyes widened “She drove into my house, terrified our children, she’s lucky no one got hurt!”

I couldn’t really argue that, she was right on that page. Sighing I followed her into the house to see Angelica sitting tied up to a chair, fear covered her face and something about it all just seemed off to me even more so the fact that she was gagged… I wasn’t going to ask questions that I didn’t need to though. 

“Finally, so you’re taking this mad woman to jail correct?” Rumple asked leaning against a wall. 

“Well I need to get witness statements from you both first.” I started as I pulled out my notebook. 

“Witness statements? How are you even certified to work in the police department you daft woman? Just take her in!”

“Look, I know you’re angry, but I have to do my job correctly.” 

“Damn right we’re angry!” Victoria screamed at me

“We were asleep and suddenly there was a car slammed through our kitchen,” Rumple boomed “Good enough? Now take the b***h in!” 

I didn’t bother anymore, they weren’t going to listen or even try to do what I asked of them, pulling out handcuffs I slipped one over her first wrist and cut the ropes from her arms, pulling her up and then clasped the other cuff over her other wrist. Pulling the gag out I threw it on the ground and walked Angelica towards the car quietly at first until we were outside about three feet from the car. 

“What happened?”

“I don’t know…” She said and I could hear the fear in her voice. “I was in my house one second the next I was behind the wheel of a car looking inside their house.”

“You know what this means right?” I asked opening the back car door. “You’re going to jail for this.”

“It wasn’t my fault though!” She screamed resisting going into the car at first “Someone did something to me! You have to believe me, Beauty!”

“That is not my name!” I snapped at her quickly. “You’re going in. End of story.” I said pushing her in and slamming the door shut.

My name wasn’t beauty it was Isabelle or Izzy or even Belle for that matter not Beauty though. That was what Adam used to call me all the time, it was my nickname from him for centuries and now that we weren’t together any longer well, it was safe to say that I didn’t really want to ever hear that name again. The fact she’d brought it up like that? Well that was the wrong move for her, I no longer felt sorry for the woman. 

Getting in the front seat I started up the car and began, to pull out, hitting a button on the steering wheel I waited for the prompt and had the bluetooth call Tink for me. Even I knew this was going to be exciting for her to know about. Someone we’d been looking for since we got to this damned town was now in custody  for being stupid and reckless all in one. That was two down in one night, Jacob would be proud of us as well.