Ok so I am in love with Captain Swan. I'm not ashamed to admit it and give fair warning that at the heart of this short story beats a lot of Captain Swan love. They'll be apart for the majority of the story as this is a quest to kind her, but be sure they are the couple that makes this show for me. That being said I have read a lot of CS stories and loved them. I have even played with a couple of my own, but never felt I got the voices right and never posted them. I'm going to try this time and do that. I have no clear mark of how long this story is going to be or what exactly it will include, but I'm just going to go with it! Hopefully you all enjoy and I look forward to hearing your thoughts!

Story Description: Emma Swan is the new Dark One and has vanished from Storybrook. Where did she go? Is she ok? Can they find her and rescue her? This is the story of the people who love her trying to find her. And the man leading the charge is the man that she loves back. Killian spent the last 300 years trying to find the Dark One to kill him. He is prepared to spend the next 300 finding the new Dark One and saving her. But will it be for nothing? Has darkness eclipsed her heart?

Disclaimer: I don't own anything; not the show, the characters, or this wonderfully strange universe that drives us all a little insane.

Killian doesn't know how much time had passed since the black vortex had vanished, sucking Emma up with it wherever it went. He hadn't been able to take his eyes off of the ground where the damned dagger had fallen. He couldn't find it in himself to move just yet. If he moves it all becomes real and when he picks up the dagger Emma's name will be on it. He might never move again just to avoid having to see that. Apparently her parents, Regina, and Robin all feel the same way because they've made no move forward either. They're all just stuck, the horror of what has just transpired freezing them into place.

Because Emma was gone.

Finally their frozen silence is broken when Snow's silent tears break out into a loud wail, followed by David struggling to hold her weight and his when her knees buckle. Slowly they both lower to the ground, David's arms wrapped around Snow as he rocks her and tries to calm her down. It's made harder by the fact he can't seem to control his own silent tears.

Regina is the next to breakout of shock and takes a step towards the dagger, only to be stopped by Robin grabbing her arm and pulling her back. "Maybe we shouldn't touch it." Robin says shaking his head and staring half fearful, half sad at the dagger. He didn't know Emma well, but from what he did, he liked. And the fact she had just risked her happiness, her life, for Regina and him makes him eternally grateful to her.

"We don't have to fear the dagger. Not now." Regina says with tears still in her eyes and with a shake of her head. But she still doesn't make another move towards it, deciding to hold onto the comfort in Robin's arms.

"Where is she?" David asks still crouched down holding onto Snow, who was back to silently crying. "Where did she go?" He asks turning to look first at Regina and then to Killian, hoping someone would have an answer.

Killian just shakes his head, finally giving up on the hope that she would reappear and the entire thing would be some sick joke of Gold's. He looks first at over at Emma's parents and feels his already broken heart crack into smaller pieces. They had just gotten Emma's forgiveness and had their daughter back, only to lose her to this. It seems even as heroes they don't necessarily always get to be happy.

How could they with Emma gone?

Looking over towards Regina and Robin he feels first a smoldering anger, because it should've been them this darkness tore apart. Not Emma, not him. But almost as soon as he thinks it he knows he is wrong and that anger is snuffed out and sadness takes its place. Because Regina didn't deserve to be taken by that darkness and Robin had already lost one of his loves. And Regina will never truly be happy either, not when she knows it is at the expense of her new found friends. Not when Henry had lost his mother. Again.

Just thinking of the young lad makes Killian grimace and rub a hand on his forehead. What were they going to tell the poor boy? How do you explain something to someone that you can't even explain to yourself? That Emma was gone. She had sacrificed herself for Regina. She had sacrificed herself for all of them. How do you begin tell Henry that he might never see his mom again?

Because Emma is gone.

And she loves him.

So what did you think? I'm off to work now, but have plans for the next chapter already forming in my mind! Enjoy!