Chapter 2: "The Call"
Killian was sitting at his desk at the station finishing up some paperwork before he had to meet Emma for lunch at Granny's. It had been a few weeks since the conversation in their living room, he would be lying if at first he wasn't hurt by Emma's confession. Except when he learned how much his wife was hurting he vowed to do everything in his power to fix it. He realized that Emma had been right, they had stopped being them and had become like strangers to each other. Since that night they had spent time reconnecting with each other as a married couple.
He looked up from the report he was finishing to the clock, seeing that it was almost one. Standing up, he put on his jacket, walked over to the front of the station and turned the lights off. He stepped outside into the crisp autumn afternoon, he turned to lock the door then started walking in the direction of Granny's. As he's walking he starts thinking about the upcoming weekend and their plans to take the Jolly Roger out. He still needed to do some more prepping to the old girl, but he was sure with Henry's help it will get done in no time.
Rounding the corner he spots Emma sitting at one the diners outside tables. When she caught sight of him a beautiful smile formed on her face. Sometimes even after all these years he still can't believe that she is actually his wife, that she saw the good in this old pirate and gave him a chance. When he reaches her side they both leaned forward at the same time to meet for a loving kiss. "Hello love," he greets her as they pulled apart, she grins up at him and they both head inside.
"How has everything been at the station today?" Emma asked after they were seated and their orders taken.
"It's been fine love, I had a call about a dispute between two fisherman at the docks this morning, but it was nothing major," he informs her. Reaching across the table to take her hand in his, "What about you darling, how has your morning been?" He asked just as the waitress brought their food.
Emma shrugged her shoulders, swallowing the fry that she had been eating before replying "It's been ok, my mom came to have coffee earlier." She didn't need to say anything further, ever since Emma had told Snow about their decision to stop actively trying to have a baby things have been tense between the two. Sensing his concern she was quick to ease his worry, "Killian it's fine we actually talked and cleared the air about everything." He nodded his head in acceptance and they both started to eat their lunch, talking about going home and spending the rest of the afternoon together.
After they had finished and were waiting at the front counter to pay their bill, Emma's cell phone began to ring. She pulled it from her back pocket and answered it. "Hello," she listened to the person who was on the other end for a minute. Looking up a him she pointed to the door indicated that she was going to step outside to talk. He nodded his head, he watched her walk to the door talking to the person on the other end.
When he finished paying and went outside to join Emma, seeing that she had ending her phone call. "Everything ok Swan, who was on the phone?" He asked.
She looked up at him, "It was Blue, she says that there have been some trouble over at the convent lately and she wanted to see me about it." She continued by saying, "It sounds pretty urgent, do you mind if we swing by there?"
"Of course not love, I don't mind at all," he smiled at her. As they were headed towards the convent Killian grew wary, his past with the fairies has been questionable at best. He knows that he was being controlled by the Crocodile when he used the Apprentice's hat on them, but he was still the last person they saw when they were sucked in. Since then he kept his distance from the fairies and Blue, interacting with them only when necessary.
When they pulled up in front of the convent, Emma turned off the car then turned to him, "Do you want to come in with me?"
He gave her a small smile and a shake of his head, "No Swan ,you go ahead, I'll wait here for you."
She tilted her head, knowing he was hiding something, "Are you sure Killian? I don't know how long I'll be talking with Blue."
"Aye, I'm sure love. I'm not exactly Blue's favorite person, so I think it's best if I stay here." He said with his head down.
Emma reached over to place a hand on his leg. "Killian please don't tell me you still blame yourself for what happened to the fairies, that a long time ago." She moved her hand to his cheek and turned his face toward her. "It was not your fault, you had your heart taken and were being controlled by Gold you didn't have a choice and I will keep telling you that until you believe it."
He gave her a sad smile, turning his head to kiss the palm of her hand. "Aye, I know love, maybe one day I'll get there."
She gives a tiny shake of her head and leans forward to give him a she pulled away, she didn't say anything as she opened the car door and stepped outside. Before she closed the door she bent down to look at him, giving him a look of understanding and said "I love you," before shutting the door and heading up the walkway.
As she made her way up to the front door of the convent, Emma was still going over in her head what just happened with Killian. She didn't think after all these years he still held himself responsible for what happened to Blue and the fairies. She has always tried to be sensitive to Killian about his past, he had lived for hundreds of years and she knows he's done some terrible things, but he is not that man anymore.
Now that she thinks back on it, the few times they have had to deal with the fairies, KIllian did always make himself scarce.
Breaking out of her thoughts, Emma reached for the door knob only to have her hand met with a barrier of magic. "What the hell?" she said reaching he hand out again, gently testing the barrier, feeling that it stretched all around the building itself. Suddenly the door to the convent flew open and there stood Blue, fairy wand out in front of her, ready to strike. Emma's hands instinctively raised in front of her in defense, "Blue, it's me Emma!"
Blue lowered her wand in alarm, "Oh! Emma I am so sorry, one of the fairies said that there was someone testing the wards out and I thought," she stopped suddenly taking a step back away from the door and flicking her wand, making a hole in the barrier. "Please come in, I think it's best if we talk inside.
Emma was unsure as she looked back in the direction of the car where Killian was waiting for her before stepping through the opening and into the foyer of the convent. As she turned around she watched Blue raise her wand to put the wards back into place. "Blue what is going on? When we talked on the phone you never mentioned anything about you having a protection spell around the place," she said slightly annoyed.
Blue turned to face her, Emma could tell she was nervous and flustered. She could never remember ever seeing Blue like this, she always seemed so stoic, poised and also a little stuck up. So something must be really wrong if she is so distressed, "I'm sorry again Emma, something happened in the short time we talked and I felt it best to be prepared."
Emma was still confused. "Be prepared for what, what is happening here?" She asked exasperated.
"Let's go into the sitting room, and I'll explain everything." Blue stared walking down the hallway, while Emma followed behind her,as they were walking several children passed by them. When the blimp from The Land of Untold Stories came to Storybrooke there were quite a allot of displaced children, the only place to house them was the convent. Many of them had found families but there were still some that hadn't.
When they reached the sitting room, Emma took a seat on one of the loves seat's while Blue sat in the armchair next to her. "So the reason I called you is that for the last few weeks we have had several incident's happen," she said in a rush.
"What sort of incident's?" Emma asked.
Blue looked uncomfortable almost like she didn't want to be telling Emma any of this. "Well at first it was just objects going missing, little trinkets belonging to the other fairies, of course we thought it was one of the children, but a search turned up nothing." She continued, "Then things started disappearing form our spell room, ingredients, instruments and that's when we started worrying, we tried to do a tracking spell to see if we could find the person who took them but no luck," She paused almost hesitating on what to say next, she took a deep breath. " Then today we had an accident." She said refusing to meet Emma's eyes.
Emma's eyes grew wide, "An accident, what sort of an accident?"
Blue sighed, "Sister Faye was attacked today, right after I got off the phone with you," she confessed.
Emma taken aback asked, "Attacked! It she ok? Is that the reason for the protection spell?"
"Yes, when we realized that the culprit was someone not inside the convent itself, I felt that we needed outside help." Blue explained , "Then today as Faye was doing her lunchtime rounds she came across the thief in the courtyard, she startled the thief and that's when they hit her with stun spell."
Emma was shocked by all that she had heard. "Do you have any idea who it was, did Faye get a good look at the person who didi it"
Blue shook her head, "No Faye said her assailant was wearing a hood and, she didn't see their face."
"Right," Emma stood from the couch, pulling her phone out of her back pocket to text Killian to meet her by the front door. "Blue I am going to need you to make another opening in the barrier,"she said typing on her phone.
"Why?" Blue asked confused.
"I need you to let Killlian in, he's been outside waiting in the car for me," Emma explained to her.
"Oh! I wasn't aware that he came with you," Blue said almost sounding displeased.
Emma head snapped up from her phone upon hearing Blue's tone when she mentioned Killian. "We were finished having lunch together when you called me so we came straight over," she paused watching Blue's face contort slightly in disapproval . "Plus he is my Deputy, so I'm going to need his help if you want me to investigate what happened here." She finished, her tone hard and giving no room for argument.
Blue blinked her eyes in shocked, like she wasn't used to people speaking to her like that, "Of course, I'll send one of the fairies out to get him and bring him in." She turns to walk out of the room.
Emma watched Blue leave, not knowing what to think about her reaction to Killian being with her. Could Killian have been right about Blue's feelings toward him and she just hadn't seen it. Promising to get to the bottom of that later, right now she had a job to do. Looking down at her phone she saw that Killian still hadn't replied back to her, she was about to type out another message when a voice called out to her "Hello."
Emma looked up to see a little girl standing in the archway of the sitting room. She had dark wavy hair that reached the middle of her back, light blue eyes, and a sweet round face. She looked to be around 8 or 9 years old at the most and she was wearing a pale blue dress with ballet flats, also in her arms she was holding a large sketch book. "Hello there, what's your name?'
The girl smiled sweetly up at Emma, "My name is Amelia."
Elsewhere a figure burst into an empty room, anger and frustration clear on their face. That damn fairy ruined everything, they had been so close in getting the final ingredient they needed. Now it was impossible because of that damn protection spell around the convent, and there was just no way they could get past fairy magic. It's fine though they could be patient, soon they will have their prize and nothing and no one will get in their way