Author's note: After the last episode I've had this idea in my head of what might happen in the next episode or two. So I decided to write it down. I'm planning to do another chapter, but I'll see how it turns out. This is post 3x20.
I do not own Once Upon a Time.
"Swan?! Emma?!" She heard him call her name repeatedly. She came out here to be alone, to try and sort out her life. Not to have a pirate to convince her otherwise. "Swan, there you are. You worried me when I couldn't find you at the party. Are you alright?" He stood next to where she was sitting on a log, near the farmhouse they had been at the day before.
"I... I just needed to clear my head. That's all." She only looked up for a second before looking down at her hands again.
"Well I for one don't think that is all you came out here for." She sighed and looked up to him.
"I don't know. I have that gut feeling that something bad is going to happen again. Last time I had this feeling we ended up being cursed by Pan. I didn't want to tell anyone because my parents looked so happy. Even Regina and Gold looked happy. I can't ruin this day for anyone." It felt good to get it out, even if it was to Hook.
"You need to enjoy this day Emma. We won! We defeated that Wicked Witch..."
"Regina did. Not me, not anyone else. She did." There was a long silence before Hook was looking through his satchel. He pulled out a book, not just any book, the story of everyone's past. She couldn't get how that thing survived at the chaos.
"Swan you're the saviour. You defeated the bloody wicked witch, you defeated Pan. What are you looking for?"
"Home." She felt like that lost girl all over again, she couldn't find home. She thought home was in New York but she knew Henry would never want to leave Storybrooke. He sat down on her right and placed the book on his lap and started turning the pages. "What are you looking for?"
"I thought a story might cheer you up." He kept flicking through the pages, how did he not tear any of the pages with his hook?
"What happened to rum?" He opened it to a page and lay the book out over their laps.
"Well if you like, we can still have some rum." He pulled out his flask and she couldn't help but smile. So she took the bottle and took a sip before handing it back to him, and he took a sip. She looked down at the open page, ah this story.
"Seriously? We are going to read the story of how my parents met?"
"Your father was going to tell me but he hasn't had the chance with the baby and everything. How did the two meet?" It wasn't the traditional fairytale meeting, but it was almost similar to how she met Neal. Instead she didn't run off.
"Actually it was when-" she stops when they hear loud noises coming from the direction of the farm house. "What the hell is that?" She helps Hook put the book back in his satchel and they start walking towards the farm house. Once they get there, there is orange lights coming from the cracks of the farmhouse. The doors are trying to open themselves. "What the hell?" She says more to herself. They look up and there is a beam of orange light coming through the roof. She starts walking towards the doors.
"Wait!" She hears Killian yell. But it was too late. The doors flew open and inside was an orange portal. The strong winds started dragging them in. They were both on the floor and she was about to be dragged to the edge of the portal.
"Hook!"
"Swan!" He grabs her hand with his good hand and holds on with his hook. The satchel is still hanging off him. She tries to keep a grip of his hand, but she keeps getting pulled harder and harder into the portal. "Swan!" She hears Killian scream before she falls through the portal. After a few seconds she feels an arm grab hold of her, then everything goes blank.
She opens her eyes to find she is standing. She looks around, damn it. They weren't at the farmhouse, or even Storybrooke it looked like it. "Emma are you okay?" Hook was standing in front of her, he still looked the same. Same clothing and satchel as before.
"Where are we?" She looks down at her clothes, she's wearing a dress and a brown cloak. She looks around to see trees on either side of the gravel road, and a fallen tree in the middle.
"Bloody hell, I think we fell through Zelena's time portal."
"No,we couldn't have. She was locked up, without her powers. We stopped her. How did this- What about Henry?!" Panic started to rise in her, where in the time line was she? They both looked down the path to see a carriage pulled by white horses charging before them.
"Swan, quickly get off the path!" Hook grabbed her hands and they ran into the Forest. They hid behind a few trees out of sight.
"Killian if we fell through Zelena's time portal, where are we and how do we get back?" She whispered in case someone was close by.
"I don't know, it looks like we are in the Enchanted Forest. Sorry love, I don't know when." They peaked out from behind the tree, but still were out of sight. The carriage came closer but stopped.
"Whoa, whoa!" What looks like a knight halts the horses and someone walks out of the carriage... No way. Her father walks out of the carriage and meets up with several of the guards who were now looking at the fallen tree.
"Worry not, it's but a fallen tree. Fellas? Shall we?" David walks over to one side of the tree and stops. Her head snaps when someone jumps on too of the carriage. This is starting to seem familiar.
"My lord, what is it?" One of the guards ask.
"These markings. This tree didn't fall, it's been cut. It's an ambush." Every knight, or guard, or whatever they were pulled out their swords. The person who jumped on the carriage went into the carriage to grab something, and a women screamed.
"Sir!" A guard said.
"Guards! Stop, thief! Help me!" A women screamed from the carriage. The thief jumped on a horse and started riding off, but her Charming dad jumped on another horse an chased after her. They watched as he tackled down the thief, they could just hear what was being said. "Show your face, you coward!" He is ready to punch when he stops. "You're a... Girl?"
"Women." She replied before hitting him in the face with a rock. Her mother jumped back on her horse and ran off looking back at the Prince she had defeated.
"You can't hide from me! Wherever you are, I will find you!" He yelled to her as she got away. They both waited until the carriage left before they stood up and faced one another.
"I believe I know where in time we are."
"And when would that be?" He asked as he slung the bag around himself again.
"We just watched when my parents first met. When David was still engaged to Kathryn- or Princess Abigail."
"So you aren't suppose to be born yet? Then why are you here, and also why am I? As far as I know, I should still be in Neverland." She leaned against the tree and took the hood of her cloak off.
"I don't know, but there is one person who would know. Rumplestiltskin."
Author's notes: Any thoughts? Likely to continue.
