A/N: Just watched the end to TLG and had to write this. Because that ending just sucked. And as a devoted Emma/Ethan shipper I had to do something about it. There just wasn't another option.
Everything
As a foster child Emma learned early to go without. Without food, without proper clothes, without hugs and without love. Those things were things other people had. Other kids. Kids with parents that wanted them.
Then she suddenly had them. All the things she'd wanted and more.
She'd had a twin, a often cruel and thoughtless twin, but a twin none the less.
She had Kirsten who was just the kind of mother she'd always dreamt of.
A father and a little sister.
Friends.
And she had Ethan, who loved her.
Loved her.
We are everything, he had said.
Then he'd not said, we are over, but she hadn't needed the words. She'd felt it. She'd died inside. Because of all the things, of all the things she'd found in Phoenix he'd been the most important one. He'd been the one thing she knew she would have even if everything else failed.
She'd so sure. So very sure. He'd been hers and he'd been the one who would always be there for her. She'd known that, in her heart.
Or at least thought she had.
We are everything.
Another lie that was a truth. Or maybe not. Maybe it was a truth that had become a lie.
She imagines the knock on the cabin's door. Imagines it being him, imagines him telling her it was all a mistake. That he still loves her. She imagines it as if it was really happening. She imagines a dream, where he takes her in his arms and it's all alright. She imagines him holding her and telling her it's all going to be alright. Holding her all night. Holding her until she falls asleep.
Only when she wakes up, he's still there.
Only then does she begin to realize it's not something she imagined.
Only then does she realize - it's not a dream.
He's really there. And it's all going to be okay.
Because they are everything and no lie can change that.
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