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i'll move on baby just like you
when the desert floods and the grass turns blue
... Someday when I stop loving you.
His face haunted her. All their faces haunted her.
She wasn't entirely sure where she was. She guessed it was some kind of never world. She couldn't see them but she could feel them. Their grief. She wanted to reach out to them, hold them comfort them.
At the same time she could feel something tugging her away from everything, everyone she loved Darkness.
She had another choice to make. To carry on fighting or to let the darkness take over.
After forming friendships, finding family, falling in love, believing in herself only to keep losing it the freedom darkness offered became alluring.
She was Emma Swan, she'd been fighting all her life and truth be told she wasn't sure how much fight she had left in her.
He could hear snow's cries muffled by charming's shoulder. Charming himself was barely holding it together. The loss of a child haunting him once again. Regina's eyes were shimmering with tears but she tried in vain to keep the composure of a queen. Robin rubbed circles in her back. He hadn't had the pleasure of spending much time with Emma but he had been so grateful to her for helping Regina track him was Roland he envied the most, the boy too young to understand the gravity of the situation, but who had in his short life, experienced loss
He couldn't bear the thought of having to tell Henry. The boy with the biggest heart, the boy who believed in everyone's happiness had had his ripped away from him once more. He'd lost his father, now because of him he'd lost his mother.
It was Belle that approached him tears streaming down her face, gently tugging his shoulder, coaxing him up. Neither of them spoke and they shared the briefest of moments but understanding flooded through.
He allowed himself a shallow chuckle. All these people who for years had chased vengeance, encompassed darkness, conquered kingdoms had found hope, family, love because of her.
The girl, who for years had been abandoned, who didn't think she mattered, who sometimes still didn't, had touched the hearts of everyone.
Emma had always sacrificed herself for everyone else's happiness.
Last time he lost his love to darkness he pursued vengeance, this time he vowed to be the person in Emma's life that fought for her happiness.
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