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Author's Note: What Bealfire/Neal might have been thinking in The Miller's Daughter.
Papa
I'm in the lobby and find my Dad with a gash on his chest. I quickly race up towards him and hold him. I call him Papa the same word that I used before I went to the land without magic. When I was growing up on my own I thought that I hated my father because of the choice he made. I had thought that he would go with me when I went through the Portal, but because he liked the magic he didn't. When I saw his wound I had to rethink about my thoughts about my father.
I steer Hook's ship with my son. The son I never knew I had and the son that I wanted to know more about. I only thought about how Hook would get back to Storybrook, but only for a moment. I still remember what it was like in Neverland when I knew Hook. I wonder how my Papa was doing and I hoped going back to the place that had magic would heal him.
When we got to Storybrook we took Papa back to his shop and then prepared for battle. I talk to Emma as she draws an invisible line by the door. I wondered what it would have been like if she never went to jail for me and we were allowed to raise our son together. What would our life been like? She would have never been pulled to Storybrook and meet my Papa. She would have never come to my apartment and tracked me down with my Papa and we would have never been back to a place where there was magic. I thought I had escaped it, but I guess I didn't.
I hear my Papa say that he's dying and I tell him he's not. I see what's happening and I don't want to lose my Papa after this and I try to tell myself that he's not dying. I hear that he wants to call Belle who Emma says is his girlfriend. I didn't know that he had a girlfriend. How could I know since I haven't seen him for 300 years? I listen to Papa pour his heart out to Belle to tell her that he wanted to change because of her. Here I am his son and he never wanted to change because of me he even let me go because he didn't want to change. Yet he wants to change because of this woman. I don't know what to think about that. Maybe in time I can come to terms what he's saying, but right not I feel hurt.
The End