Author's Note : this is just a mid-season 4 finale idea I had that will literally not leave my head. Therefore, I had to write it down A.S.A.P – sorry if it is badly written!
Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to OUAT or the Characters involved
Chapter 1- Emma (POV)
"Code blue, code blue! Somebody get Dr. Whale down here stat!"
"Miss Swan please, you can't come into the surgery. Please, go sit with your family"
There was people talking her at both sides of her but Emma couldn't hear them, the only thing she could focus on was her devilishingly handsome pirate lying there and slowly turning blue.
I'm the saviour, why didn't I save him? I can't lose him, not now!
"Emma honey, you need to sit down and tell us what happened" she felt her mother guide her to the waiting seats where the rest of her family were sat. "At least tell us who did it" pleaded Snow.
Before Emma could even reply, Regina stood up and walked over to her mother, "who did it? Snow, we know who it was! It was that bitch the Snow Queen".
"What we need to know is what happened and what we can do to save Killian" David argued.
"Mom?!"
The sound of her heartbroken and confused son snapped Emma out of the trance she'd been in since she'd seen Whale wheeled Killian into Surgery. She turned to see her normally brave and strong almost teenager look terrified and almost if he could burst into tears. Exactly how Emma felt.
"Henry!" Regina scolded "I thought I told you to stay at Granny's with Roland until we'd sorted this out".
"But I couldn't, I left Roland there and ran straight here" Henry choked out as he walked towards Emma and hugged her "Mom, where's Killian? Wh-what happened?".
Emma could hear the heartbreak in his tone. Before she could answer, Emma swallowed back her tears.
"I'm sorry Kid, Killian and I was walking towards the docks when out of nowhere the Snow Queen appeared. She told me 'if I was really the saviour and the product of true love then I could save just about anything', then she turned to Killian an-and struck him right in the he-heart" Emma barely choked out the last sentence as her tear fell down her face like there was no tomorrow.
As soon as, she'd confessed what happened Henry hugged her tighter and burst out into heart shattering tears.
"Mom, we can't lose him!" Henry cried out
"I know Kid, I know" Emma sighed sadly into Henry.
Snow watched as her daughter comforted her grandson, whilst they waited for Whale to bring the news about Killian.
"There must be some sort of magic you can use to stop this!" David argued with Regina
"No, David! I wouldn't even know where to start, I didn't even know this type of magic existed till she got to Storybrooke" Regina cried.
"What about Rumpelstiltskin?" asked Robin.
"No, he won't help Killian. He hated him for years, there's no way he's going to save his life now" David sighed in frustration.
"Not even for his grandson?" interrupted Snow
As if a light bulb had switched on in each of their brains, the trio smiled towards Snow,
"I'll go call Gold" said Regina as she walked out of Emma and Henry's hearing distance.
I'm going to save my little girl's broken heart, Snow promised herself.
"Miss Swan?"
Emma looked up from her sleeping boy lying on her lap, to see none other than Mr Gold standing there.
"Gold? What are you doing here?" Emma asked, slightly confused,
"Regina rang me. I know myself and the pirate was never going to be the best of friends but, I've seen how he cares for my grandson and how much of a friend he was to my son. So, for them I'm willing to see how I can help in this dreadful situation".
"No catches?" Emma asked, with a glimmer of hope in her voice,
"No catches Dearie, I just want to make sure my grandson stays happy" Gold replied with every ounce of honesty.
"So you'll help us?" David asked
"Yes Prince, I will take a look at the patient once he arrives out of surgery" replied Gold as looked at David, Snow, Regina and Robin as they now joined.
They all turned and looked as Henry started to stir in his sleep.
"What's going on?" Henry asked Emma sleepily
"Well Kid, seems your grandpa as a soft spot" Emma smiled hopefully towards Gold "he's going to take a look at Killian when Whale comes back".
Henry's eyes widened in excitement and hope as he turned towards his paternal grandfather.
"Really? With no catches?" he asked Gold
Gold breathed out a chuckle at the surprise in his grandson's voice "Yes Henry, with no catches. It's a special deal that I only make when it benefits my family",
Henry smiled, stood up and hugged Gold.
"Thank you" he whispered.
Not even five minutes later Whale walked out with a sombre look on his face,
"Emma, I'm-I'm so sorry. The ice, the magic it was too quick we couldn't save him" apologized Whale.
"No, no, no, no, no, no" Emma cried out as she clung to her crying son
No! She couldn't lose him, she hadn't even had the chance to tell him that she loved him!
Emma turned towards her family and Gold
"Gold, please" Emma managed to choke out, as her parents stepped forward and hugged her and Henry.
"Okay, I will go and take a look" Gold smiled sadly.
Emma stood there clinging onto her parents and her baby, crying out her pain, Regina and Robin offered their condolences as Regina stood and squeezed Henry's hand for comfort.
"Well?" David asked Gold when he walked out of Killian's room "Can you do anything?"
"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't" Gold confessed " the only thing that can save the pirate now is True Love's kiss, it's the most powerful magic of all" he said as he turned to Emma "Dearie, only you can save him".
"But, I-I-I-I-I" Emma couldn't even manage to form her own thoughts, never mind comprehend what Gold was telling her,
"Emma, have you told Hook that you love him?" Regina quizzed
"No, I was going to tell him tonight, that's why we were going to the docks" Emma managed to cry out
Regina and Snow looked at each other, stepped out of their significant other's hold and walked towards Emma as David went and hugged Henry tightly
They both held her hand as Regina said "Emma, you have to tell him right now, it's the only way you can break the curse. You're the saviour you can do it, you broke my curse. I know you can do it",
"She's right honey" confessed Snow "you can do this, we all know how you two feel about each other",
"But, I don't even know if he loves me back" Emma cried
Both women squeezed her hand tighter
"Seriously Emma, the man follows you around like a little lost puppy. Everyone in this whole town knows how he feels about you" Regina told her
"Emma, Killian climbed a bean stalk and risked his life before he even got to know you, he went back to Neverland, a place he swore he'd never return and he traded the one thing he counted as his home just so that he could bring you and Henry back" her mother told her sternly "you are my daughter, and I love you, but if you can't see that he loves you I need to teach you a few things".
Emma smiled at her mother, and looked at both women as she took in what they told her.
"Okay, I'm going to do it, I'm going to tell him" Emma said as she walked towards Henry and hugged him one last time before she went into face Killian, "Kid, I'm going to fix this. I'm the saviour right?"
"Yeah Mom you are, and I believe you can do this" Henry told her honestly,
"And so do I" her father said as he squeezed her shoulder.
The silence in Killian's room was deafening, Emma felt her heart crush into even more pieces as she saw him, her love, her pirate just lying there completely still,
She walked over to his bed side and seen the shade of blue he had turned
'I'm going to kill that woman for taking you away from me, from Henry', Emma thought to herself.
As she leaned forward to kiss him on his pale pink lips, Emma whispered " I love you, Killian Jones. I have loved you for a very long time. Please, come back to me, please come back to our family".
Emma felt a rush of electricity surge through her as she looked down to see those beautiful sea blue eyes staring back up at her,
"Swan?" he asked as he sat up as he pulled her to him "what the bloody hell is going on? What am I doing in here?"
"You were cursed, you were dead, but I saved you" Emma confessed
"Because you love me?" Killian smiled as Emma nodded "Well Swan, guess what? I love you too"
Emma smiled as Killian pulled her in for another breath-taking kiss.
Just as they pulled a part the ground beneath them started to shake, they could hear the screams of the town from outside the window. Emma turned to see her family rush in with panicked looks on their faces.
What was going on? Emma turned and looked at Killian one last time before everything went black.