Two loves, one choice
Chapter 1
After the Queens of Darkness was defeated and Rumple was banned from the town, again, everything was back to normal. Or as normal as it can get in a town full of storybook characters.
"Emma! Can you get your brother?" Mary Margaret called from upstairs. Emma sighed, but picked up her crying brother.
"Hey, kid. Mommy is coming soon. She has to get dressed first." Emma said in a calm voice to the brother who immediately stopped crying and just stared at his big sister.
"Thanks, sweetie. He really loves you, you know." Mary Margaret said while walking down the stairs. Emma smiled and handed Neal to her mother. Suddenly, someone knocked on the door.
"It's probably Killian." Emma said and avoided her mother's smiling eyes. She loved to comment on her and Killian's relationship. It seemed like she knew what was going on between them that Emma didn't. Emma opened the door to welcome her pirate inside, but it wasn't him.
"Regina, what are you doing here?" Emma asked surprised. The dark haired woman pushed her way inside and was followed by Robin Hood who gave a nod and followed his wife. Roland came jumping after and wanted Emma to pick him up, which she did.
"We have a problem." Regina said. Emma sighed and leaned her fore head against Roland's.
"Of course there couldn't be a full month without trouble." Emma mumbled and handed Roland to his father. "What is it now?"
"Gold has somehow opened a portal. It works the same as Zelena's, but this time it's not certain that the portal can open again." Regina said and looked worried over at her husband.
"How can you be sure it's Gold who opened it?" Mary Margaret asked while carefully putting Neal in his crib.
"Please, I have spent enough time with him and his magic that I know." Regina said. "Henry, David, Belle and the pirate of yours is there already." With that they left Mary Margaret with Roland and Neal in their apartment.
"The portal is stronger than Zelena's since Gold is still alive, but how he managed to open a portal from a world without magic is a mystery." Regina said in when they got in Robin's car.
"It's magic out there too, in special places." Robin said while driving the car towards the empty farm house where Zelena lived.
"I know, but that he could force it from wherever he is and into Storybrooke is almost impossible." Emma listened to their conversation, but she did not want to go on another time travel trip, especially since she didn't know where she would end up if she did.
Robin pulled up to the farmhouse and Emma held in a gasp. The portal wasn't yellow like last time, but it was red and it had almost ruined the barn. Only a few pieces were still standing strong. A rush of panic ran through her body when she didn't see her dad or any of the others and she practically ran out of the car.
"Swan!" She heard her nickname from her pirate and she sighed out in relief. Killian came towards her with her dad, Henry, Belle and Will. She hugged him and breathed in his scent which was a mix of rum and Killian.
"What happened?" Robin called over the loud noise of the portal to the group as he walked towards them with Regina.
"The portal was to strong and sucked the whole barn with it. Luckily, we got away." David said and kissed Emma's head. Henry got into Regina and Robin's arms and Will pulled Belle closer to him.
"What are we going to do about it?" Emma asked the group. Killian tightened his arm around her shoulders and Regina looked at Robin.
"We can't shut it down. Someone has to go through for it to close and I'm not if we can open it again." Regina said and leaned on Robin. Emma sucked in her breath and looked up at Killian's worried face. He shook his head like he was reading her mind.
"I have to. I'm the savior remember?" Emma whispered into his ear when he pulled her into his arms.
"I know, but you might not come back, love." He whispered back. She pulled away a little to look into his eyes.
"I have to." She repeated and pulled out of his arms. "I'll do it." Then an explosion of protest came from the group except from Regina and Killian.
"Emma, you can't do this! We just got you back again!" David said and took her hand. Emma smiled reassuring to him and pulled her hand away.
"You're not going to argue with me?" Emma asked Regina who was quiet.
"Is it going to help?" She asked, but Emma shook her head with a smile. It reminded her of the time she and Mary Margaret went through the portal to the Enchanted Forest and she climbed the beanstalk with Kilian. Henry went into her arms and hugged her,
"I'm sorry kid. I have to go." Emma said and bent down to her son. He nodded and smiled.
"I know, mom, and you are going to find a way to come back to us." Henry said and hugged her once more. Emma felt pride and love well up in her chest. Her son was the truest believer in the whole world. She stood up and went to her dad. He had tears in his eyes and was about to protest, but she cut him off.
"Tell mom and Neal that I love them, promise me that." Emma said and the tears rolled down her cheeks. David nodded and hugged her. "I love you dad."
"I love you too, Emma." He said and kissed the top of her head. Next was Belle who was also crying.
"Thank you, Belle, for all the help you have given us. You are a hero and I know you will protect the town when I'm…gone." Emma said and hugged the brunette.
"You should hurry before the portal takes the whole town with it too." Regina said. Emma gave Will and Robin a nod, before starting to walk towards the portal. Suddenly, she felt a hand grabbing her wrist, pulling her around.
"Please. Don't do this." Killian stood behind her with tears in his eyes. "I can't lose my happy ending. I can't lose you." Emma put her hands on his cheeks.
"You are not going to lose me. I'm coming back." He pulled her against him and their lips met. Salty tears came from their eyes and mixed together.
"I have to go, Killian." Emma said when they parted, but he wouldn't let her go. "Please, let me go." She pleaded. Suddenly, she heard her dad call out her name. He was pointing to something behind her and she turned around quickly. The portal had ripped half of the farmhouse and pieces of it were flying through the air.
"I have to go." She screamed over the noise of the portal, but Killian didn't let go of her. Emma felt the wind getting stronger and stronger by the second, but it was too late. She was picked up by the wind and was thrown in the portal. Colors flew past her eyes for a few seconds, but quickly landed on her back on solid ground.
"It hurts every time." Emma mumbled after getting her breath back. She sat up and scanned the environment around her. It was a forest, but she couldn't see any posters of her mother on the trees, so that was a good sign.
"Swan, are you okay?" A voice said behind her. Mixed feeling flooded through her, but mostly anger. His hand grabbed her arm and dragged her up.
"Why are you here? You weren't supposed to come!" Emma yelled at Killian. He brushed the dust of his jacket and Emma did the same to her jeans.
"It's not my bloody fault! Had you listened to me, we would have been safe in Storybrooke!" He yelled back. Emma's eyes flew up to his and she felt the anger boil inside her.
"If I hadn't gone through the portal, all of Storybrooke would have been gone and sent through it!" Emma almost screamed. "Why couldn't you just let me go, Killian? Why couldn't you just, for once, trust that I can do things on my own?" He was about to answer, but the sound of something that exploded, cut him off.
"What the hell?" Emma said and started walking towards the sound with Killian after her. After a couple of minutes the sound became stronger and stronger and then they came to the end of the forest.
"Where are we?" Emma asked and looked at Killian who had a stunned look on his face.
"The Enchanted Forest." He said and took a step closer to the edge of the hill.
"Yeah, I got that, but when?" She asked and looked over the village under them. People were going around something that looked like a marked and children were running up and down, playing.
"The last time I was here, the night before Milah died." Killian said and looked at Emma's face. Now it was her turn to be stunned.