Her whole body was stiff and straight, as if she was getting over the shock of a livewire, still too stunned to move. And that was exactly what she was. She was stunned, completely and utterly floored. Who would have thought, that after the ridiculously boring, normal, altogether shitty life she used to lead, that this would be the outcome?
She was on a mission, a mission deemed fit for a movie. And if she was being honest with herself, if it were anywhere else, anyone else, she would have been scoffing at the absurdity of it all.
She sat in a long, narrow boat, surrounded by her family, a bandit, a shepherd, a sorceress, and an outlaw. Too bad the dark one couldn't join them, but oh no, heaven forbid he do something for someone else, after all, he was the one who had rendered her love's sacrifice completely useless.
And there was the crux of it, saving her true love from the pits of Hell itself.
What was this life? Sometimes, mostly in the beginning of her stay in the magical little town known as Storybrooke, she would pinch herself, screw her eyes tightly shut. She wondered if, eventually, she would wake up to a place where she wasn't a princess, where her parents weren't Snow White and Prince Charming.
Of course things changed when she realized the true depths of her feelings for her pirate. Yeah, that's right, her true love Captain Hook.
The dense fog surrounding the boat, slowly gave way around them, enough so that the group could finally make out their path. Somehow they had reached the point where the pond was no longer a pond, but instead, a wide river; at least, she thought it was wide. The fog was far too dense to tell. The one thing she did know for sure, the one thing she could see through the haze was the river itself.
The river of what she could only wish wasn't blood. Why not? After all, they were going to hell.
"We will find him, Emma," Snow's calming voice brought her out of her thoughts. "And we will bring him back with us. In this family, we always find each other."
A/N- So here we have it, my first OUaT fanfiction. I'm not sure how long it will be, but there is definitely more to come. It will probably end somewhere around where I imagine the fifth season will end. This is all just speculation.
-S.