Prologue

Emma groaned as she began regaining consciousness, her head was pounding and her whole body felt like it had just been hit by a truck. After a few minutes she began trying to force her eyes open, but the headache made that pretty much impossible, rolling onto her back Emma tried to remember what had happened, but everything was a blur, all that she could focus on was that she felt like she had a hangover, but that was impossible because she was pregnant. As she thought of her babies everything came flooding back to her, gasping Emma sat up too quickly giving herself a head rush, she put her hand down quickly to stop herself from falling backwards, beginning to hyperventilate as the memories came flooding back to her. Being taken by the Boogeyman, Killian screaming out her name, the Boogeyman touching her stomach, the unbearable pain when he did so. Emma quickly touched her stomach holding her breath, until she finally felt the twins kick, "oh thank God…" she whispered.

"Excuse me, miss," Emma gasped looking around her surroundings and discovered that she was in a cage, but that's not what she was paying the most attention to, sitting in the corner of the cage was a little boy, who was just skin and bones, "excuse me, miss," he said again, "are you alright?" He asked weakly.

"I'm fine…" Emma said, "Are you alright?"

The little boy brought his knees up to his chest, wrapping his arms around them beginning to cry. Emma stood up, with some difficulty since she was still pretty weak, and walked over to the boy sitting down beside him putting her arm around him, "hey, sweetheart it's OK."

"He's going to kill me!"

"I won't let that happen." Emma vowed.

The little boy continued crying into Emma's stomach, the whole time the babies kept kicking, but obviously only she could still feel it.

"What's your name?" Emma asked.

"Charlie."

Emma gasped, "Are you Bernard's son?"

Charlie nodded his head.

"Oh my God…" Emma said her eyes filling with tears, she had been so sure that Charlie would be dead by now, and yet here he was lying on her stomach. She figured that the Boogeyman must be keeping him alive in case he needed more energy than he was getting from the twins.

"You know my Father?"

Emma nodded her head.

"How's he doing?"

Emma's heart sank, she knew that she couldn't tell Charlie that his Father had accused Emma of being a witch and had almost gotten her killed, and it was because of him that she had been taken by the Boogeyman. So instead she said, "He misses you like crazy."

"I miss him too…" Charlie said sadly.

Emma hugged Charlie closer to him, "I'll get you back to him somehow…" She promised.

"But as soon as you give birth he'll kill the both of us…" Charlie whispered, "I'm already really weak."

Emma looked down at Charlie and then out of the cage, it looked like they were being held in a cave of some sort, it was pretty dark, the only light coming from a little hole in the wall letting in the moon light.

"Well it's a good thing that I'm only a few months pregnant," Emma said giving Charlie a small smile, "there's lots of time for us to think of a plan to escape."

"Oh so that's why he took you," Charlie said, "Because you're pregnant."

"I'm afraid so."

Charlie sat up weakly, Emma put her hand on his back to make sure that he wouldn't fall backwards, "thanks," Charlie said smiling weakly at Emma, "I'm so weak."

Emma kept her hand on Charlie's back looking around the cage that they were in, her eyes resting on a plate of food, "why don't you go get some food from that plate?"

"I can't…" Charlie said beginning to shake.

"Sure you can," Emma said getting on her knees, which was somewhat difficult, she was still pretty weak herself, and her hell had just began, who knew how long Charlie had been held captive.

"No I can't," Charlie said, his eyes filling with tears, "when the Boogeyman brought the plate he told me to stay the hell away from it… that it wasn't for me."

Emma gasped when Charlie began falling, she quickly caught him, "this is not up for negotiation," she said in a final tone.

"No he'll punish me!" Charlie begged.

Emma helped Charlie walk over to the food, "I'll protect you," Emma promised, "eat!"

Charlie wanted to argue with Emma more but as soon as he saw the several pieces of bread, vegetables, and fruits he couldn't help himself, he quickly began stuffing his face. Emma sat down beside him and began eating as well.

Once the food was pretty much all gone, the door of the cage flung open and the Boogeyman floated in and pointed at Charlie, "did I not tell you that that food wasn't for you!" He screamed.

"I'm sorry!" Charlie cried.

"You will pay for disobeying me!" The Boogeyman screamed floating over to him.

"No!" Emma cried standing in front of Charlie, the Boogeyman quickly stopped, "you won't risk hurting the twins or me to get to Charlie!" She said confidently.

The Boogeyman screamed and disappeared out of the cage.

Emma and Charlie looked around waiting for him to reappear, when he did Emma spun around, pushing Charlie behind her. This kept happening for several minutes, which was starting to tucker Emma out, she was still pretty tired from the Boogeyman sucking the life force out of her, as well as being pregnant. "Enough!" The Boogeyman screamed touching Emma's stomach once again, she screamed falling to her knees, the Boogeyman took his hand off of her stomach before she lost consciousness, "don't think that I won't hurt you… because I will…" he said before disappearing.

"Are you alright?!" Charlie cried putting his hand on Emma's shoulder, she just began shaking as tears fell from her eyes, "Killian…" she whispered before losing consciousness once again.

End Prologue

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