So this is my Captain Swan hiatus project. I'll aim to update daily during what's left of the hiatus. This story is set in the end of Swan Song with a little change in the end. The chapters will be short but frequent.
She didn't know how long she'd been lying there, motionless on her living room couch, fully clothed. She hadn't even bothered to remove her boots or her jacket.
Judging by the amount of sunlight that crept in through the gap between the curtains she assumed it was somewhere between 9 and 11 o'clock in the morning, which meant that she had been lying here for a long time.
She absentmindedly let her fingers trace the engraved metal of the ring in her hands as she looked up at the ceiling. She was pleasantly surprised by the lack of visitors. She'd told her family to leave her alone but she hadn't expected them to actually listen to her. Staying away when told to wasn't something her family was good at. There was only one person she wanted to see right now and that person was gone forever. Third time was the charm, right?
She had used up all her tears several hours ago. She was done crying. Now she just wanted to lie here and wait for sleep to claim her. This couch was the only place she could sleep. She hadn't even furnished her bedroom - their bedroom. When she was the dark one she didn't need sleep so she never felt a need to get a bed.
But she didn't feel tired. It hadn't been long since she got rid of the darkness and up until then she had never felt tired. She supposed it was like waking up after a long night of sleep, she didn't need rest yet.
"I'm sorry Killian," she thought. "I couldn't save you."
She could still hear the whispers from the previous dark ones, taunting her.
"We're still here, you saved no one, you failed, he's here with us and we're still here!"
What the hell?
Emma instantly sat up. This was definitely not something she had imagined. She heard those voices loud and clear. This wasn't right. Killian destroyed the darkness when he sacrificed himself. She needed to get to the bottom of this. She could grieve later. If something had gone wrong she owed it to Killian to find out what it was.
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