Started as a prompt from Swanqueenlove - "What if Daniel had been part of Emma's life, what if somehow his spirit or something has protected her, for her entire life." And while I'm not sure exactly where this is going to end up, it's been hanging around my desktop long enough! A short chapter to start - before this takes on a life of its own!
Emma had always been lucky. Okay, well maybe that was an overstatement. Getting thrown through the system and being bounced from home to home wasn't exactly lucky, but out of all the situations he had been in, she'd come out of them in one piece. Yes, it was never a good thing to almost be abused by your adoptive dad, but she knew a lot of kids who hadn't been so lucky. That hadn't almost been abused.
It was weird, she had often thought. She had been in hundreds of situations where things almost could have ended up so much worse, and every time without fail, something had happened which meant it didn't get to that stage, from a falling shelf to a wayward drunk driver hitting the drugged up waste of space trying to drag to drag her into an alleyway. It had always been that way. And she had always been grateful to whatever the hell 'guardian angel' she'd had hanging over her shoulder. Of course, she'd never say it out loud that she thought she had a guardian angel in her life, but deep down, she knew she had to.
A girl didn't manage to get though as many dances with death as she did with only a few scars without one.
Things had changed since she had been back in Storybrooke though. It wasn't that she hadn't managed to be as lucky. There were plenty times when she probably should have died. Fighting a huge dragon with a sword, for example. Managing to halt the unstoppable failsafe with Regina...
And wasn't that just the crux of it. Regina. Everything had changed since she'd met that bewitching woman...