AN- Hey guys! This is my first time posting to the Ouat section so I would appreciate if you could give me a review! Part Two will come out on either Wednesday or Thursday, btw. Also, if you don't like spoilers, don't read. Thanks! -M
Consuming Darkness
Darkness. It consumes you so slowly, you won't even notice, until it's too late, of course.
Days and days go past, the darkness swirling around your soul, waiting for it to crack so it can seep into your soul.
One day, you shoot magic at a stranger whilst shopping in a quaint, little village in Camelot, causing for you to slightly smile, allowing that part of your soul to crack and let some of the darkness in. You then started to embrace the darkness a little bit.
Embracing the darkness was subtle. You first liked the power it gives you, the strength you feel as you unleash the power. You were scared, of course, having unlimited power can be overwhelming, but with enough time and practice, you gradually started to become better and better at controlling the overwhelming power.
You tried and tried to keep the darkness at bay by controlling it, but soon enough, you failed with one simple task: Don't crush a stranger's heart.
The waves of ecstasy crashed down into your body as you squeezed and crushed a red, pounding heart; their loved ones watching in shock as she collapsed on the dirt ground. Her heart crumbled into grey dust and onto the ground, next to the female victim. You liked it, didn't you?
You then poofed away, smiling gleefully as you greeted and kissed your own true love. If he is your true love, why didn't that kiss work?
" Hey Killian?" The blonde stared into his crystal, blue eyes as she spoke. " I know why Excalibur is without a tip and I know what the missing piece is."
His eyes grew wide as Emma spoke, cocking his head to the left and demanded with a soft voice, " Then tell me."
" The missing piece of Excalibur is the dark one's dagger. Once they are connected, I can rid myself of this darkness and everyone can finally be safe." Once Emma had finished speaking, Killian took his arms off of her and lead her to a piece of parchment paper that looked old and crunched up from the creases and the browning over the edges.
" Why do you have this in your drawer?" Killian asked harshly, Emma's green eyes growing wide in shock as she backed away slightly.
" I—I can explain." She stuttered out, sitting onto the creamy, soft bedsheets while crossing her hands over her stomach.
He walked towards her, sitting beside Emma's scared form and spoke, " Then explain. I will listen." Killian's left arm circled around her waist as his right hand pulled Emma's tired face to him and stroked her cheek, staring into her green eyes with love and cherish for her.
" I had that because the darkness is so hard to keep at bay and I wanted a fresh start where I could embrace the darkness without that manifestation of Rumple taunting me every day." Emma started to cry, her tears running down her face as she spoke some more. " I—I don't want everyone to pity me anymore. I just wanted a fresh start; a clean slate." Her cries turned into sobs as she buried herself in Killian's new coat, his arms circling around her waist and hugging her.
He held her as she sobbed and sobbed, her tears soaking his new, freshly-washed leather coat. He didn't mind.
Once Emma's sobs died down, they stayed in that position for a few minutes, both of them wishing they could stay in this moment forever and not face the impending doom that's about to come.
" Emma?" Killian spoke in a hushed tone as Emma's face emerged from his chest, her arms still clinging him like a soft teddy bear.
" What?" She asked, her tear-stricken face staring into Killian's eccentric, blue eyes.
" You can cast it. I don't mind." He spoke with a sad smile.
Emma's face lit up as Killian finished speaking. Her mind went to a million thoughts as she smiled at him.
Her lips suddenly crashed into Killian's, their mouths kissing each other like no other times before. It was sweet, yet rough at the same time, both pouring their hearts out as they made-out.
Eventually they stopped, looking into each other's eyes and snuggling into one another, both wanting to stay like that forever.
But, they couldn't.
The waves crashed along the wooden docks as the navy, blue sky descended over Storybrooke. The stars shined across the turquoise water, making the lapping waves reflect the stars above.
A tired Killian walked along the docks, stopping at the location the piece of paper had said to stop at.
He looked over at the waves crashing and the stars reflecting on them. If he had more time, he would've spotted some constellations he found during his time in Neverland.
As Killian stared into the ocean, he felt a presence linger behind him. When he turned around, he saw Emma. She wore a black, leather jacket that had a flared collar up to her neck, black leggings and black ankle-boots that made her more taller than usual. Her now white hair was in a sleek, low bun, making her look more mature and more villainous.
" Do you have it?" Emma asked coyly, her face expressionless as she stared Hook in the eyes.
" Yes." He answered, pulling out the snow globe he had stolen from Gold's shop from his leather jacket and handing it over to Emma's hands, sending a shiver down his spine.
" Here, drink this and your memories will be back." She nonchalantly said, poofing up a blue potion bottle, but before she could hand the potion over, Hook's right hand went over Emma's left.
She looked at him with her green eyes and smiled, more genuinely than their last encounter. He took the bottle and placed it inside one of his pockets in his leather jacket and grabbed Emma's hand before they both started to stroll across the docks and into the streets of Storybrooke.
Since it was night time, all the stores were closed, leaving Emma and Hook to themselves.
They walked until they were at the Granny's back door, their hands still intwined with each other as they kissed.
" Meet me at my house once you drank the potion." Emma whispered into Hook's ear before poofing herself gone in grey smoke.
Killian then opened the back door quietly, slipping into the gap before closing it. He quickly walked towards his bedroom room and went right in, closing the door with a slight creak.
It was morning when he woke up. The people outside chatting about the danger of The Dark One and Granny ordering people about gave it away that it was morning.
As Killian stood up, he noticed a translucent, blue potion bottle on his night side table. A scramble of memories appeared in his mind about the events from last night.
After reminiscing about last night's events, Killian grabbed the bottle and took off the cork that prevented the liquid from spilling out. He then gulped the liquid down, the liquid burning his throat a bit as memories start to shoot through his mind.
The wind breezed past as Killian and Emma galloped on a brown-coloured horse towards a meadow of soft pink roses. The roses glistened in the sunlight as they slowly halted to a dusty, tan-coloured dirt patch, quite close to the blossoms of soft pink roses scattered about the large, lime green meadow.
Once the horse had stopped, Emma climbed down, exclaiming, " That was amazing! Thank you."
" I knew you'll love it." Killian answered, grabbing Emma's smooth hand and leading her to the grassy meadow of soft pink roses.
" Now, tell me, what do you see?" He asked, still holding onto Emma's hand.
" Lots of flowers." Emma answered, looking around at the pink roses scattered across the grassy meadow.
" Very good." Killian bent down and grabbed a rose before standing upright.
" Now, what don't you see?" He gave Emma the soft pink rose while talking, both having their hands on the stem of the rose.
Emma looked to the right and answered,
" Rumpelstiltskin," She moved her head towards the other side. " He's gone."
" By trusting me with your burdens, you've left no room in that head of yours." His blue eyes stared into Emma's greens eyes, just gazing at each other like love-struck puppies.
" Well, now that we're alone..." She looked down at the grassy meadow before looking back up to stare at Killian's soft, pink lips.
He raised his eyebrow up before he met Emma's gaze, his crystal, blue eyes slowly trailing towards Emma's blush pink lips.
Before they knew it, they were leaning in, both of their eyes closing just as their lips met.
It started out slow and steady, Emma's arms slowly rising to Killian's neck while Killian circled his arms around Emma.
The kiss was now passionate, both pouring their heart's content to each other as they kissed and kissed, not wanting for this sweet, lovely moment to end.
As they finally stopped, they both gazed into each other's eyes, smiling as Emma gave one, final peck to Killian before they strolled off towards the brown horse, Emma's hand clasped around Killian's and the soft pink rose he gave to her, silently promising that she'll forever keep the rose until she dies.
" Pass me the leaves of Camelot's finest trees and the glistening water of Arthur's lake, please." Emma asked Killian while stirring a large bowl full of ingredients for the curse.
Killian scanned across the wooden rows of various items until he found what he needed. He took the items and handed them to Emma who was currently mixing another bowl.
" What's that for?" Killian asked, pointing to the small bowl next to the large bowl that had light grey smoke flowing up to the ceiling.
" Oh, that's—uh nothing." The blonde answered uneasily, causing for Killian to walk towards her and stroke her tense back.
" Emma," He urged, still stroking Emma's back as she turned her face towards his.
" I—I can't say. I'm sorry." She meekly responded, turning away from him to add the ingredients Killian took from the wooden racks to the mixture.
As she stirred, Killian stopped stroking Emma's back and strolled over to the golden, oval mirror to see where the others were. Emma casted a spell on the mirror an hour ago to allow them to track where the others were as both of them were currently missing to them and of course, Charming had to send out a search party for them.
Luckily, none of them were even remarkably close to where they were right now. Though, Regina had been utterly close to finding out their location, but Emma casted a magical barrier around the island quick enough that blocked the spell Regina had casted a second prior.
" How are the others going?" She asked flatly, abandoning the concoction to look at Henry trying to figure out what the piece of ripped paper was and meant.
" Gladly, not well. Though your spell has made Regina more suspicious that your being is on one of the islands close to Camelot." Killian answered, staring at Belle reading one of Merlin's dusty, old leather books while Snow and Charming help Regina with mixing another type of potion set to find anything.
" Hey Killian?" Emma called for him, grabbing his right hand. " Do you love me?" She asked, staring into Killian's blue eyes as if she could see the answer just from his eyes.
" Swan," He paused, looking into Emma's hazel, green eyes. " Of course I love you. I think nothing more." Killian confessed, his eyes still locked on Emma's.
Their eyes locked onto each other's as they slowly inched closer and closer, Killian's lips brushing against Emma's as they kissed.
It was slow and steady, a kiss that would forever be ingrained in their minds. Emma's arms slowly coiled around Killian's neck and kissed him as hard as she could.
Killian wrapped his arms around her waist, reciprocating Emma's fierce kissing with his own.
*Boom* *Crackle*
Upon hearing these noises, they untangle themselves to look at the oval mirror beside them, now showing them a view of Regina, Henry, Snow, Charming, Robin and Arthur on the shores of Avalon.
" They're here. Quickly, gather up the potion while I clean the mess up." Killian demanded hastily. Emma quickly ran towards the concoction in the large wooden bowl, pouring the liquid into a medium-sized blue bottle.
Killian started to clean up the mess they've made while being down here. He fixed up the wooden racks, making sure the items were perfectly aligned and looked exactly how they looked when Emma and Killian arrived at this quiet, little place beneath the crashing of the waves on the Avalon shores.
" I'll go. Meet me at the crumbling stone tower left from here." Emma whisked away in grey smoke just as the others came tumbling down the stone stairs. Gladly for him, there was another exit behind him, but before he could run, Robin came scrambling towards him and crashed into him, pining him to the cold, stony ground.
" What the bloody hell is happening?! Let me go!" Killian cried out, struggling to grasp out of Robin's reach.
" Not until I do this." Arthur had replied, revealing a vial of sparkling, golden sand.
" This is enchanted sand from Avalon, designed to fix things to make them whole again." He explained, carefully watching Killian's struggling movement while Robin harshly grabbed him up, still holding onto him like a piece of meat as Arthur went closer towards Killian.
" When I sprinkle this onto you, you will, well, let's just say you'll despise the dark one." Arthur coyly said, Killian's face contorting from frustration to anger.
" Never in my life will I despise the dark one. Emma is my true love, I will never despise her!" Killian shouted, his face directly from Arthur's.
" Well, I guess you're going to despise her now." He proclaimed, popping the cork off the vial and pouring some of the golden sand into the palm of his hand.
When he flew the sand towards Killian, Henry pushed him to the side, making him sprinkled with the sand inside.
" Go! Run for your life!" The boy yelled as Killian stumbled at a lying blue bottle on the floor before running towards the exit, not stopping until he arrived up the stone stairs.
Once he came up the stairs, he saw black smoke rising up from a collapsed tower nearby. Killian then realised that was where Emma currently stood so he ran toward the tower, running as fast as he could with his legs.
When he arrived at the dilapidated tower, he wasted no time and started to run up the spiralling stairs, heavily puffing as he arrived at the of the tower.
He saw Emma dressed in a black, sparkling, cap-sleeved gown, her hair now as white as snow spilling over her shoulders.
" Hey, you made it!" She came rushing towards him, Killian picking and spinning her around as she hugged him tightly.
" Is it..." Killian quietly asked, staring at the black smoke currently rising from the cauldron that stood in the middle of the tower.
" Yes." Emma responded, grabbing Killian by the lapels of his coat and kissing him roughly, Killian reciprocating her lustful kiss by kissing her with more desire and hunger than he ever had before.
" You will PAY for this!" A voice shouted beside them, making Emma and Killian abruptly stop kissing to reveal an angry Arthur with Regina, Robin, Snow, Charming and Henry who currently has his gaze fixated on the smoke behind them.
" No, you will." Emma retorted, her hands still lingering on Killian's chest whilst Killian's arms lingered on Emma's waist.
*Swoosh*
Emma started to smile evilly at them as Killian's gaze was on her face, then, towards the others.
The black smoke started to filled the air as Emma and Hook stared at one other as the black smoke finally consumed them all.
" Woah." Killian stumbled to the ground as memories came crashing back, filling his head with tons of new information he didn't know before.
After processing everything, Killian stood up and opened his door, looking out before stepping outside incase people were lurking about. He didn't want people to know where he was going, otherwise it might cause some trouble between Regina and possibly Henry.