Saviours [OUAT || Double Swan Series #1]

9 - That Still Small Voice

Flashback

A crowd was gathered around a puppet show, while everyone was directed, a young boy pickpocketed various people. He went unnoticed and snuck away.

After the puppet show, the boy emptied out the coins he had stolen onto a box, showing his parents.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Careful! Careful!" Martin said, the boys' father.

"Don't let those coin roll away," Myrna said, the boys' mother.

"No, they might..." Martin did a magic trick, making the coin disappear in one hand, "Disappear," Martin said and made it reappear in his other hand, "Whoa, whoa. Look at that!" He said.

The young boy pulled out a small cage with a cricket inside, "Oh, a cricket! I love crickets!" The young boy said.

"Crickets are trouble. Noisy bugs," Myrna said.

"But they get to do whatever they want! Hopping from place to place... They're free," The boy said.

"You're free," Myrna said.

"To do what we want," Martin said.

"To be who you are," Myrna said.

"And you are who you are," Martin said.

"Well, maybe I want to be something else. Maybe I don't want to steal. Maybe I want to be good," The boy said.

"All that from a cricket," Martin said.

"Told ya, trouble," Myrna said.

"Good is another word for weak," Martin said.

"Let us do the thinking for you," Myrna said.

"That's what parents are for," Martin said.

"To help you," Myrna said.

"You are who you are and there's no changing, Jiminy. Right?" Martin said.

"Right," Jiming, the young boy, said.

"Right. Problem solved," Martin said.

End of Flashback

Henry and Archie were in Archie's office having a session, Henry was looking at Archie, almost like he was studying him as Archie wrote in his book.

"You weren't always a cricket," Henry said.

"I wasn't always... Oh, right. Because, um... Because you think I'm Jiminy Cricket," Archie removed his glasses and looked at Henry, "Why... Why do you... Why do you think that, Henry?" Archie asked.

"It's just because of who you are," Henry said.

"And what am I?" Archie asked.

"You're a conscience. You help people see right from wrong," Henry said.

"So, all the crickets in Storybrooke, they were once people, too?" Archie questioned.

Henry walked over to the window, "There aren't any crickets here," Henry opened the window, "Listen," Henry said.