So my best friend, Rosa is entirely to blame. She was texting me head cannons one day and then yelled at me to write her fanfiction. So this then happened... I shouldn't start another long multi-chapter but here I am.

CHAPTER ONE

It was three in the morning when Emma's phone rang.

"Regina?" Emma answered sleepily after checking the caller ID. She took a look at the time, "What's wrong? Is Henry okay?"

"Henry is fine, Miss Swan," Regina reassured. Emma was annoyed now. If her son was okay, why was Regina calling in the middle of the damn night?

"Why are you calling, Regina? I have to be up in three hours for our last day of filming."

"That's what I'm calling about," Regina huffed, "I found you a new role."

~O.o.O.o.O~

Killian Jones needed this role. He'd been starring in rom coms for years and this was going to be his big break out role—his career would be set. It was a fantasy adventure film and he couldn't put the script down. All the characters were so layered and complex, which would be nice after all the two dimensional pretty boys that he had been playing.

Everyone in his life had been supportive of him trying to break out of the rom com shell but he could tell that none of them really got it. He was making decent money and everyone knew who he was—as an actor he couldn't really complain. Killian wasn't happy anymore though. He wasn't challenged by these roles; he wanted to show that he could be more than just a pretty face.

Killian sighed and rolled over in bed. It would do no good, dwelling over whether he was going to get this role or not. For now he needed sleep.

~O.o.O.o.O~

A movie. An actual feature length fantasy film. That's what Regina had been calling about. Emma Swan had been the lead actress on a tv show for the past five years, until the show had suddenly been cancelled during the filming of the fifth season. For a long time, the show had been doing really well. She played a tough and troubled bail bondsperson who reluctantly starts working with the sheriff, named Hunter, of a small town. Graham and Emma had major chemistry from day one and they had even dated for a while. Then Graham had a heart attack on set and died in Emma's arms.

Not only had the cast and crew suffered from this tragedy, but the show had suffered as well. It was only a week after Graham's funeral that the network had told them that "The Huntsman" was being cancelled. Today was the day that they were going to be filming their last ever scene for the show—Hunter's funeral.

It wasn't fair that Emma had lost both her friend and her job in the span of a week. Emma had been so upset about it that she had asked Regina, her agent and her son's adoptive mother, to keep Henry for the week. She didn't want him to see how upset she was. She knew she should be there for him, after all, her son was close to Graham too, but she just couldn't face anyone right now.

The media was already gong crazy, saying that this was going to be the death of Emma's career. This is one of the reasons she really needed this role. She didn't want to be that actress that had one lead role on a tv show and then never did anything again. She needed to prove to everyone that she could get right back out there. More importantly, she needed to prove it to herself. She'd grown up from nothing and worked way too hard to get to where she is now to just give up. A lead in a movie like this was a big deal.

According to Regina, she was perfect for the role. "Deep", "career changing", "award winning": those were all words Regina had used to describe it to describe it to Emma. Now she just had to get her an audition.

~O.o.O.o.O~

Emma's audition flew by. She was still so emotionally compromised from filming Hunter's funeral that the whole thing went by in a blur. She used her emotion to fuel the lines about being alone. The character makes a heartfelt confession about being an orphan—something Emma can relate to far too well. She put her all into it and just hoped that it would be enough.

She was still in a daze as she left the audition, barely pausing to apologize to the man she ran into on the way out.

She didn't notice that the man with the dark hair and blue eyes couldn't stop watching her until she was long out of his eyesight.

~O.o.O.o.O~

"Come on, Killian, you know the part is as good as yours," Robin told him. Killian's best friend and agent, lovingly nicknamed Robin Hood, had been trying to calm Killian down for days.

"But what if it isn't?"

"You're the only one they're really looking at for the role. Actresses though..."

Killian put his empty glass down on the bar and motioned for the bartender to pour him more rum. He couldn't stop thinking of the blonde woman he had run into outside of the casting room, and secretly hoped that she was auditioning for the role. He shouldn't think that way but he just had a hunch she'd be perfect for it. She was as distracted as he had felt and was clearly freaking out. His role, if he got it, was a take on Captain Hook, a dashing pirate disguising himself as a prince—Prince Charles. Opposite him would be the beautiful Princess Leia, a fiery princess who had been separated from her parents, Snow White and Prince Charming, at birth due to a curse cast by the Evil Queen. Leia was going to be a tough role to play and he hoped that they found someone who would do it justice. And if that someone happened to be the blonde woman who looked as passionate about it as he was, all the better.

"Who are they even looking at for that?"

"I don't really know who all is up for the role other than Regina mentioned one of her clients is hoping to get it."

"One of the Evil Queen's clients? Hopefully she isn't a complete diva?"

"Oi, that's my girlfriend you're insulting."

"You can't deny she can be a little difficult and her clients are even worse. Remember that dreadful Zelena woman?"

Robin shuddered. Zelena Greene was an actress Regina had tried to book a movie for but she was clearly more interested in attempting to seduce Regina's boyfriend than she was actually acting.

"Point taken, but don't tell Regina I agreed."

Killian laughed. "Well hopefully this actress is better than some of the clients Regina has."

Robin just nodded, not defending his girlfriend any further. The table shook slightly as his phone vibrated. "Locksley," he answered. He talked for a couple minutes, mainly just "uh huh"s and "yeah"s.

"So?" Killian prompted as he hung up.

Robin grinned. "You got the role you lucky bastard."

~O.o.O.o.O~

"I think that's enough," Emma attempted to say sternly as Henry piled more sprinkles onto his ice cream.

Emma knew she couldn't hide from her son any longer so after her audition she called him to see if he wanted to go for ice cream. His response had been, "Duh, I'm ten."

"So, how was your audition?"

"I think it went okay."

Henry nodded. "And your last day on 'The Huntsman'?"

She smiled sadly. "Bittersweet. I think the ending is brilliant and we did it justice but it was still strange..."

"Without Graham," he finished for her.

When did her ten-year-old get to be so smart? "yeah, without Graham."

"It's okay to miss him, you know. And it's okay to be sad. I miss him too and you don't have to shelter me."

Emma had to take a deep breath to stop herself from crying. Henry knew her so well.

"I love you, kid," she said pulling him in fir a hug, "I'm sorry I haven't been there for you lately as I should have been. I know you loved Graham even though we weren't dating anymore and that losing him was hard on you too."

"It's okay, Mom. I know how hard all of this has been on you. Losing Graham. The show ending. You just needed some space."

Emma hugged him tighter and both their ice creams fell to the floor. Neither could stop laughing while they tried cleaning it up as best they could while the girl who worked there glared at them.

The ice cream was almost enough to distract Emma from stressing out over the movie. Or at least it was until her phone dinged with a text. Three words came up from Regina Mills: You got it.