Chapter 3
Hook thought that he must not have heard correctly. Emma saving him? That had to have been a misunderstanding. Right? "You… you did what?"
Emma sighed heavily. "Hook, I wasn't working with Gold because I wanted to help him. He came to me and demanded that I leave with him to New York. He said that every minute that he stayed in Storybrooke was a minute closer he came to killing you. I went with him to save your life."
She cared about him. Neither Hook, nor Emma, could deny that now. But why did she save Gold?
"Emma, I have waited for over 300 years to kill the Dark One. I had succeeded in my vengeance and then you saved his life. How could you do it? Even you know the evil that man is capable of but you stopped him from dying. Stopped me for obtaining my revenge!"
"I didn't have a choice!"
"Of course you did. You chose to save him. You could have let him die and everyone would have been better off."
"That's not true. I wouldn't have been. I had an obligation to try to stop him from dying."
"What obligation is that, Emma? Why does he matter to you?" Hook's question was out of genuine curiosity. There was no malice in his tone. He really wanted to know her motivation. But Emma had no plans of spilling everything to him immediately.
"Hook, I will tell you why. But later. Right now you do not look good at all. So we need to get you changed and in bed."
Hook thought that whatever Emma wasn't telling him could be potentially devastating to him. She obviously thought that he couldn't handle it in his, he had to admit, weakened state. Perhaps she was right. "Alright, Swan. Let's do this."
