Salt Meets Wound | Chapter 2 - Before the Sundown
"Look!" Snow yells, pointing at something at the horizon. Hook unfolds his binocular and looks in the direction Snow had pinted. "Neverland." He confirmes, but his voice has an edge as if the memories he has from this place isn't very pleasant. Snow glanses at Hook with a glimse of sympathy in her eyes. If his time here indeed was bad, then coming back here must not have been on his things I want to do before I die-list. Maybe it wasn't the place, maybe it was something else, entirely. With Hook you could never be sure.
Emma joins the crowd with tired eyes, yawning. She looks at her mother, then Hook. "Good morning, honey. Did you sleep well?" Snow says, breaking the silence.
"I didn't sleep." Emma mutters. Snow opens her moth to say something but then closes it again.
"Look," Hook says tossing Emma his binocular. "It's Neverland. We're getting closer." Emma gaspes when she sees the land ahead. Finally they where getting somewhere, finally they where getting closer to finding Henry.
"Hook, can I talk to you for a moment?" Emma asks. She glanses at her mother. "I'm going to excuse myself so you two can talk." Snow says and walks away.
"Yes, love?" Hook smirkes. Emma sighs loudly. "So we're getting closer to Neverland, when do you think we'll be there. I'm not very good at boat-speed or this land." Emma says. She wants to be completely sure that their plan will work and that they'll have time to capture the possible traitors before they arrive. Or before they suspect anything.
Hook seems to read her mind. He leans closer to Emma. "We have to do it before sundown, that's when we'll arrive." He whispers. Emma nods and looks over at Mr. Gold - or Rumplestiltskin - and imagines for a second that if he turns back to the book version of himself, the darkes possible version of him, then he'd truly be a danger to Henry. Just thinking about how he gave up his son for power and all the pain he had caused in the past. He could easily kill them all, and if they all would die then Henry had no one to save him from whatever Greg and Tamara was brining him to - or whoever.
"I think we have a problem though." Emma looks back at Hook again. "Gold and Regina aren't fooled very easily. We have to come up with a really good plan to capture them, otherwise they'll get away for sure."
"Then that's what we'll do." Hook agrees.
If there was an award for deadliest gaze, then David Nolan would most certainly achieve it. It was extremely tempting to go over to the pirate looking at his daughter as if she was a gift to unwrap. But he knows that Emma is a smart girl who would never even think about getting involved with Hook. Snow lays a light hand on her husbands shouder and he turns to face her. He already knows what she's going to say.
"You've got nothing to worry about." She says in a calm voice. David nods, agreeing with her words. But he still can't shake the feeling that there is something going on, what it is is a mystery. A mystery he is determined to reveal.
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Later the same day, Emma's disappeared down to check the food - how much food do they have left and is it still edible and so on. She can't stop thinking about her conversation with Hook earlier. She knows that magic isn't as easy as you would think, and she knows that it always comes with a price. But those are facts. Magic in Neverland is supposedly the darkes form of magic, turning you to the darkes verion of yourself. Emma knows very well her worst, weakest or most reckless selfes, but her darkest self? That is something she'd never explored. Darkness and rescue mission goes together like two pieces from different puzzles. Emma tries to turn her thought in a different direction, it's not like she's going to use magic anyway, that is way off the map.
Footsteps outside the storage room startles Emma and she jolts up. Wandering innocently into the storage room is Hook with an amused look on his face. "Did I scare you, love?"
"No," Emma almost snaps. "I'm fine, I-I was just-" The words doesn't come out the way she wants them to. She bites her tounge and cuses for not being able to speak in front of Hook. This is one of those what the hell is wrong with me moments, and they're starting to come more often, creeping in and startling Emma everytime it happens. Hook smirkes at how he made her speechless.
"Well if I did I'm terrible sorry." He says in his most teasing voice. As he speaks he slowly walks closer to Emma.
He is standing very close now, Emma can feel his hot breath, she can feel his fingers bumping agains hers when he's breathing, she can feel every muscle in her body tense. In the blink of an eye he's so close their lips almost touch. "I think that it's time to set the plan in motion." Emma manages and takes a step back from Hook and his deadly lips. Hook sighs, the feeling of trying to reach something but never even gets to touch it stuck on his ips.
"As you wish, love."
"OK, then let's do it." Emma tries to sound like she's up for it, though in reality the same agonizing feeling is on her lips. "We don't have much time before sundown." She adds when Hook doesn't answer.
"You're right, Swan, we don't have much time." Hook says. Emma could swear that he said it more to himself than to her.
To be continued...
Author's note:
So firstly I want to say that rewievs are very appreciated, so please take the time to give me some feedback. That way I can imrove my writing. So a big thank you to those who rewieved my first chapter and those who followed or added as favourite! And I also wanna point out that I know that I write pretty short chapters, I'll try to make the third one a bit longer. Well, that's it from me! I hope that you'll keep reading!