"Long day?" Killian questioned, as Emma threw herself down on the couch in the staff break room. It was a horrid green colour and smelt like disinfectant but it did stop it being Emma's favourite place to pass out after pulling a double shift in the ER.
"Don't even get me started" she grimaced. Not only had Emma once again been lumped with a double shift after Dr Whale pulled a sick day, but her mom had also been brought into the ER with unusual symptoms she couldn't seem to self diagnose.
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Emma hadn't had the easiest starts in life, being dumped at the side of the road at just a few days old -passed from foster parent to foster parent until she was 7- but then Ingrid and Jonathan came into her life. The pair had been trying for a baby for over 2 years when they decided to turn their efforts to adoption, that was when Emma came into the picture. Emma idolised her adoptive parents, as a child she would often tell her friends that her father treated her mother like a queen, that they were the perfect couple, oh how she'd got that wrong.
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Emma sighed and buried her head into the brightly coloured scatter cushion that had been thrown on the couch.."Cmon Swan what's the problem" Killian joked "it can't have been that bad, the place has been dead half the night?"
"Try finding out your dads been fucking around with other women and given your mom an STI" Emma blurted out turning a nice shade of red as the embarrassment crept up her neck. "Oh and that's not even the worst part, no, the worst of it is my mom knew about this whole time, and didn't even bother to stop him."
Taken back by Emma's outburst Killian whistled "Jeez Swan you really did get the shit end of the stick today, that's serious bad form on your fathers part, it's not serious though is it? The STI I mean, your mother is gonna be okay right?"
"Yeah she'll be fine, it was just chlymidia, M's gave her a course of antibiotics that should have it cleared up in a few weeks, but that's beside the point, how could he do this to her...how could she let him?...why are men such assholes?"
"Whoa Swan you wounded me" Killian mock gasped holding his hand over his heart, trying to lighten the mood "don't tar all men with the same stick as your bloody dickhead of a father..I may have only briefly met your mother once or twice when she pops in with those delightful cakes she bakes, but God your father is an utter buffoon he cheats on a women like that."
"Stop fantasying about my mom you jackass" Emma scoffed throwing the scatter cushion at Killian's head, smiling for the first time in the past 12 hours.
Just then a loud beeping noise rung out from Killian's pager demanding his attention for an incoming emergency. Killian looked up at Emma apologetically "Go do your job Dr Jones, as much as you wish, you're not paid to sit and talk to me" Emma joked.
"Oh what a mighty fine job that would be love, but we're not finished here though" Killian gestured pointing his finger between the pair of them "Rabbit Hole at 8? My shifts almost over."
"Yeah sure whatever, I could do with a drink" Emma sighed.
"Till then Dr Swan."