Night had fallen in Neverland and everybody was asleep except for the two of them. Emma coudn't sleep, she kept thinking about Henry. She wanted to go and search for him the moment they reached this godforsaken place, but he wouldn't let her "you know Swan, Neverand is a dangerous place, most of all at night. You should stay here on the Jolly, get some rest. We'll go looking for your boy when the Sun comes up"

"Hook, I have to find him, I have to go and you can't stop me! I'm going right now, with or without you!"

"Are you deaf? Haven't you heard what I just told you. You can't go out there alone. You're gonna get yourself killed!"

They kept on bickering like that for a while, then Killian realized he wasn't going to talk her out of this, so he decided to go with her and have a what she called a "quick look around". And so out they went.

"Swan, we've been walking in this forest for the past two hours and we did't see a thing don't you think we should... Ouch!"

"What is it now, Hook?"

"Just a bug, can't we just go back to the Jolly? If something happens to you your father's gonna skin me alive"

"Concerned now, are we?"

"Just 'bout my skin lass, you have to admit it's quite beautiful, ain't it?"

Emma wanted to scream, to punch him but they had to get along if she wanted any chance in finding her son so she just muttered a "Whatever" and kept walking, Hook ahead of her...

Suddenly Hook stopped. "What? Did you hear something?"

"Nothing"

"Well, next time warn me, I woudn't want to..." and upon seeing his leer she stopped talking and started walking, she'd had enough of his innuendos.

She couldn't for the life of her tell how much they spent just walking around, time and space and everything in between seemed blurred in this place.

A twig snapped, taking her back to the then and there and making her realize that Hook was growing more and more noisy behind her.

"Dammit!" at his curse she turned around as ready as ever to berate him. "What the..." she started to say, but the reproach died on her lips upon seeing his face: even in the dim moonlight he looked pale, his ocean blue eyes almost a dull empty grey, he was sweating and it looked like he was having trouble catching his breath. He slowly got to where she was standing. He looked dazed and... sick.

"Hook are you ok?" He started to sway one, two, three times and she catched him just in time to prevent him from falling to the ground.

"Hook, you're burning up"

" 'm fine" he slurred.

He weakly tried to get up but she wouldn't let him. "No, you're not fine, you stubborn pirate! You should rest for a little bit. Here drink..." Just then he started to shiver, eyes rolling back "Hook! Hook! Look at me! DON'T YOU DARE FAINT ON ME LIKE THAT!"

She was frantic and did the only thing she could think of: she slapped him, hard until he opened his eyes again. He looked at her possibily without really seeing her and mumbled something that she couldn't quite catch: it sounded a lot like sing, or maybe thing... oh shoot, STING!

Then he lost consciousness again.