Chapter 4 – So much more than a dream
Zelena was starting to get more and more impatient as the minutes turned to hours, Saunders had originally rescued her from that damned dungeon just before sundown, and now the darkness of the night was starting to give way to sunrise, and her and Saunders were still in Snow's and Charming's castle, and Saunders had been staring out the window for hours.
"Are you ever going to tell me your plan?" Zelena asked annoyed.
Saunders didn't respond he just continued staring out the window, this angered Zelena even more, standing up she walked over to Saunders tapping on his shoulder.
"What do you want, Zelena?" Saunders asked not turning to face her.
"What are you looking for?" Zelena asked looking out the window, but not seeing anything.
Saunders chucked finally turning to face Zelena, his blue eyes shining with what looked like excitement, "oh Zelena," he finally said, "patience is a virtue."
"Which I don't have." Zelena said crossing her arms, "now what are you looking for?!" she demanded again, Saunders chucked again closing his eyes.
"Are you falling asleep?" Zelena asked after a few moments.
Saunders didn't open his eyes, instead he lifted up his arm, turning to face the window again, Zelena stared at him and was beginning to think that he was insane, and for a minute she considered running out of the castle, that is until a crow came flying in the window landing on Saunders' arm.
"Where did that come from?" Zelena asked taking a step back; she wasn't the biggest fan of birds.
Saunders turned to face Zelena smiling, "welcome back, Charles."
"You gave it a name?" Zelena asked sarcastically.
Saunders ignored Zelena, raising his arm up, the crow flew off of it, and Saunders waved his arms around, and the crow transformed into a human.
"Charles, come here." Saunders demanded, and Charles walked over to stand beside Saunders.
"Yes Father?" He asked.
"Father?" Zelena asked being taken off guard, "you have a son?" Zelena asked Saunders.
"Yes, and he's going to play a big part in my plan."
Zelena looked at Charles who was looking at Zelena with a puzzled look on his face, "who's this?"
"Meet Zelena." Saunders said.
Charles looked at Zelena nodding his head, "hi."
"Hi, darling." Zelena said looking at Charles who she had to admit he was very good looking, despite looking pretty young, he had striking black hair, which was cut pretty short, and he had the same piercing blue eyes as Saunders.
"Now son, what did you find out?" Saunders asked after he had given Charles a cup of water that he had created.
Charles sat down on the cushion that Zelena had been using, taking a drink of the water, "well, apparently Rumple," Charles stopped talking and cleared his throat, "sorry Gold, as he likes to be called there, has found a spell."
"Wait you came from Storybrooke?" Zelena asked.
"Yes." Charles said annoyed, he clearly wanted to continue on with his story.
Zelena looked at Saunders dumbfounded, "how is that possible?"
"I used a spell." Saunders said simply.
"Then why don't we attack them in Storybrooke?"
"Because if you really want to rule then we need subjects." Saunders said like Zelena was an idiot.
"But if we defeated Snow and Charming in Storybrooke then couldn't we send them all back here?"
"I don't have that kind of power." Saunders stated getting annoyed at Zelena, he gave her a glare, which made Zelena move away from him, Saunders then looked at Charles, "sorry son, please go on."
Charles and Saunders both shot Zelena a glare telling her to shut up, "like father, like son, she thought sarcastically.
"Anyways, Gold, Regina, and Emma are going to send everyone back to the Enchanted Forest tonight."
"Tonight?" Saunders asked excitedly.
Charles nodded.
"Is there anything else that we should know?" Saunders asked.
Charles thought for a minute, "Well I overheard people saying that Emma and Killian, Captain Hook, are getting engaged."
"Lucky her." Zelena said under her breath feeling slightly jealous at what a hot husband Emma was going to have, truth was Zelena had had the hots for Killian when she first met him, of course now that he wasn't as much of a pirate anymore she wasn't quite as interested but she did have to admit that he was still pretty nice to look at.
"That's perfect!" Saunders screamed excitedly, causing Zelena and Charles to jump.
"What is?" Zelena asked.
Saunders smiled at Zelena, apparently too happy to remember his rule about not asking questions, and just doing what she was asked to do when he asked her to do it, "you'll see."
Zelena sighed in exasperation, she hated being out of the loop.
"Good job, son." Saunders said to Charles and then turned to Zelena, "can you rip people's hearts out?"
Zelena smiled before nodding, "who do you want me to kill?" She asked excitement in her voice, since she thought he was going to ask her to kill Snow, Charming, Emma, or even Regina so that Saunders could get his plan into action.
"No one, I need to find a villager and rip out her heart so that we can control her."
"Oh." Zelena said slightly disappointed, the thought of ripping out her sister's heart was so appealing.
"So can you rip out people's hearts?" Saunders asked again.
"Yes."
"Good." Saunders said as he started walking to the door, stopping when he realized that neither Charles, nor Zelena were following him, "well come on we don't have much time!" He demanded.
Zelena and Charles quickly followed him, "is your Father always so secretive?" Zelena whispered to Charles.
"Yes, but you'll get used to it." Charles whispered back.
Zelena sighed, wishing that she had been rescued by someone who liked to share their plans, instead of someone who was so secretive, granted she was happy to be out of that dungeon, so she did owe Saunders for that, and he had promised her that she would be royal one day, she just had to hope that he would follow through with his promise.
Emma smiled as she felt big strong arms wrap around her, nuzzling his face into her hair.
"Good morning, beautiful." Killian whispered.
"Morning." Emma said turning her head so that she could press her lips to his, before resting her head back against the pillow, last night had been the first time that her and Killian had actually slept together, sure they had shared the same bed, but it had always been in Emma's parents' house, and out of respect for her parents both her and Killian had decided to be respectful, but last night they had been onboard the Jolly Roger, and that meant that they were alone, and free to do what ever they wanted, and Emma had to admit that finally sleeping with Killian was everything that she had ever hoped and dreamed that it would be. Granted Emma had wanted to sleep with Killian for months now, but she had been scared to, scared to let her guard down even more then she already had, after all she had slept with Neal after only knowing him for three weeks, and then he had betrayed her a few months later, leaving her with Henry. But Emma knew that Killian would never leave her the way Neal had, but Emma had to make sure that she was one hundred percent ready, and after Killian had proposed to her last night Emma knew that she was ready. Smiling Emma looked at the engagement ring which was shinning beautifully in the light from the sun that was being let in through the windows on Killian's ship.
"Do you like it?" Killian asked noticing that Emma was staring at the ring.
Emma smiled turning her head to kiss Killian again, "I love it."
"You're not even going to ask about what the three stone colours mean?"
Emma looked at the ring, and back at Killian feeling slightly guilty, she had been so busy admiring the ring that she never even thought about that the three stones, (the right side was green, the middle was an actual diamond, and the left was red) meant anything she just thought they were beautiful.
"What do they mean?" Emma asked curious now.
Killian laughed taking Emma's hand, "I'm surprised you don't recognize that one," Killian said pointing to the green stone.
Emma examined it, she had seen that stone somewhere before, thinking hard, she gasped and felt her eyes burning with tears as she realized where she had seen it, "it's the same stone as in my Mom's engagement ring."
"That's right," Killian smiled, "they have such a strong marriage that I thought that it would be nice to incorporate something into your ring for luck."
Emma smiled at Killian, hopefully they would have a strong marriage just like her parents, "what about the red stone?"
"To match my ring," Killian said holding up his hand revealing the red ring that he always wore, "that way you'll always have a piece of me no matter where you are."
"And the diamond?"
Killian shrugged, "I thought you liked diamonds."
Emma chuckled, kissing Killian, "I love you."
"I love you too." Killian said wrapping his arm around her as she rested her head on his chest.
Emma wasn't sure how long she and Killian had been lying like that for, but all too soon Emma's cellphone went off, Emma sighed sitting up, reluctantly, to answer it, however before she could get it, Killian pulled her back kissing her.
"Where do you think you're going?" He asked playfully.
"I have to check my phone." Emma said chuckling.
"Why?"
"Because it might be important." Emma stated.
Killian turned her face so that he was looking into her beautiful green eyes, "more important than this?"
Emma leaned in for another kiss, but her phone went off again, "stop distracting me," Emma said finally able to get up, "I don't know if you've heard but we're leaving tonight."
Killian rested his head on the pillow again, "yeah I heard."
Emma picked up her cellphone and saw that Regina had texted, asking Emma to meet her at home, if she wasn't too busy, with a wink emoji, Emma felt her cheeks go red as she read the last part, turning to Killian she raised her eyebrow at him.
"What's wrong, love?"
"Did you tell Regina that you were proposing?"
"Aye love I did, why?"
"She told me to meet her at home, if I wasn't too busy, and she ended it with a wink emoji." Emma wished that Henry hadn't introduced Regina to emoji's.
"You could always tell her you are." Killian suggested.
Emma chuckled, "I wish I could but I'm helping to cast this spell tonight, so I feel like Regina is going to want to talk about it."
Killian watched as Emma texted Regina back, mesmerized by her body for a minute, he had truly never felt this way about anyone before.
"Are you alright?" Emma asked noticing Killian staring at her.
"Aye love," Killian said biting his lower lip, "you're just very attractive, that's all."
Emma felt herself blushing, but decided to play it cool, "as are you."
Killian winked at Emma as she picked up the dress from last night, grateful when she saw it wasn't too badly wrinkled and there were no stains on it, after she had it on she looked at her heels sighing.
"What's wrong?" Killian asked concerned.
"I'm just not looking forward to having to walk home in these things." Emma said picking the heels up.
Killian got out of bed, wrapping his hand around Emma's waist, "and who said anything about walking?"
"What are you talking about?" Emma asked thinking back to last night, which was a bit of a haze, it had all felt like a dream, but Emma remembered that they had walked from Granny's all the way back to Killian's ship.
"Follow me." Killian said putting a robe, that her Dad had given him on, and walking up to the top of Killian's ship, Emma gasped when she saw her yellow bug sitting in the parking lot where she had been yesterday when she originally was going to see Killian before Regina had stopped her.
"How'd my car get here?"
"I asked David and Mary Margaret to drop it off." Killian said smiling as he wrapped his hand around Emma's hip.
"Alright I really need to go." Emma said somewhat sadly, she really didn't want to leave Killian right now.
"I guess we'll have plenty of time later to spend together." Killian said optimistically.
"Aye." Emma said with a grin.
Killian chuckled, kissing Emma, "I'll see you in town in a bit."
Emma nodded as she walked off to her car, when she was in it she looked at herself and groaned, all the make-up that she had worn last night was now smeared all over her face, and her hair was sticking out in all different directions, she was surprised that Killian even called her beautiful this morning, she really wished that she could see herself in his eyes, but that being said Emma was super grateful that Killian did love her, she never dreamed that she would be this happy not in a million years.
As Emma pulled up beside her apartment, she hoped that maybe Mary Margaret would be out, she really didn't want to explain to her Mom what had happened last night, but judging by the way she looked she was certain that Mary Margaret would be able to figure it out.
Taking a deep breath Emma got out of her car, running inside before anyone could see her, as she walked upstairs and to her apartment, Emma opened the door quietly looking around, surprisingly Mary Margaret wasn't sitting at the table like she usually did in the morning, feeding Neal, and as Emma opened the door farther looking into the apartment fully she was surprised to see that Henry wasn't downstairs either.
"That's strange…" Emma thought to herself, walking into the apartment, before noticing the time on the stove, and Emma realized the reason that no one was awake because it was only seven am, Henry, and David didn't wake up until between seven thirty and eight, and Neal wasn't due for his feeding until around that time either, since Mary Margaret had him on a pretty strict schedule now that he was six months old, Emma tiptoed in shutting the door quietly behind her, and walked to the bathroom, as she looked at herself in the mirror she was grateful for the first time in her life that she had been woken up early, since that meant that she would be able to have a quick shower, and get herself looking more presentable, before she would have to explain to her family, very awkwardly, why she was out all night and why she looked like crap. Emma quickly started the shower and hopped into, she would have to wash herself up quickly since David would be looking for the shower very soon.
Killian felt butterflies in his stomach as he thought of the proposal last night, he was so surprised that Emma didn't know the song that he had chosen, but that was OK with him it made it so much easier to surprise her, Killian would never forget the look on Emma's face, well actually there were several looks on Emma's face, at first confusion as the song started, that was the moment when Killian knew that Emma had no idea what the song was, the second emotion was a mixture between surprise, and pure happiness, and the last look had been the most confusing as all, since Emma was sitting there with a deer in the headlight's kind of look, and Killian thought at that moment that the answer was going to be no, so he had had to ask her to "marry him" again, and that seemed to snap Emma out of her daze, and to his joy and relief she had said yes. Killian smiled as he thought of what had happened next, he had expected Emma to say yes and then they would have some drinks and enjoy their night together, however Emma had apparently had other ideas in mind, not that Killian minded, since he had wanted to sleep with Emma for a long time, but he would never pressure her to sleep with him, Killian knew that Emma had been hurt in the past, and he sure as hell didn't want to hurt her, he loved her too much to do that to her, Killian sighed as he thought of seeing Emma naked for the first time, and how magical the evening had been, and Killian knew that he would remember last night for not only the engagement but also for the first time that he had gotten to sleep with his true love. Killian looked around the room, deciding to tidy up a bit, he bent down picking up the suit that he had worn last night, hanging the jacket, shirt, and pants on a hanger, he'd have to return it to Ruby, that is if she even wanted it back, especially since they were leaving Storybrooke tonight, and in the Enchanted Forest there really wasn't any need to wear suits. As Killian thought of going to the Enchanted Forest he couldn't help but feel more nerves, would he belong there? He had always lived on the Jolly Roger, but Emma was a princess and he couldn't expect her to live on a ship, especially if they were going to have children, potentially, one day, granted Emma hadn't been a princess for long, but she'd probably want to be with Mary Margaret and David, and learn how to run the kingdom for the day when she would have to take over. Killian loved Emma so much that he was definitely willing to learn what it would take to rule a kingdom one day, and Killian knew Emma, and knew that she would get bored every once in a while, and want to go on adventures, after all he had heard the stories that Mary Margaret and David had told Emma, so Killian was sure that he and Emma would still get a chance to be a young stupid couple once they were back in the Enchanted Forest. Killian looked around the room, before deciding to go above deck.
"I hope that they're able to send my ship back as well…" Killian whispered to himself looking around the Jolly Roger, hating the idea of losing his ship, granted if his ship didn't go back to the Enchanted Forest then he would find a new ship, but this had been his ship for so long that he almost couldn't bare parting with it. Killian decided to push the thought of such a stupid thing of losing a ship out of his mind, and decided to head into town, in hopes that maybe he would bump into the future "Mrs. Jones" again.
Emma got out of the shower wrapping a towel around her head, grateful as always to have curly hair that dried perfectly with just a few sprays of product, but she would do that in a bit, Emma brushed her teeth, and washed, her face and then applied her usual make-up of concealer, eye liner, and mascara, much less then she had worn last night, but she preferred minimal make-up. Once her make-up was done Emma took her hair out of the towel, and put the curling product into her hair, after Emma made sure that it was distributed evenly through her hair, she walked out of the bathroom, where she was greeted by Henry, Mary Margaret, and David sitting at the table, granted Mary Margaret had an excuse to be sitting there since she was feeding Neal, but David and Henry were eyeing her, and at one point Emma saw their eyes go to her ring finger, where her engagement ring was sitting out in full view.
"Morning." Emma said sitting at the table.
"Were you out all night?" David asked, sounding like a concerned but annoyed Father.
"Yes."
"You could have called." David said crossing his arms.
"Sorry I was slightly preoccupied." Emma said trailing off.
"So I take it you said yes?" Mary Margaret asked tears filling her eyes.
Emma smiled holding her hand up so Mary Margaret could see the ring.
"Hell yes I did." Emma said laughing happily.
Henry got up, and hugged Emma, around the neck, "congratulations Mom!"
"Thanks kid." Emma said wrapping her hands around Henry's arms.
David stood up walking to Emma, placing a hand on her shoulder, "congratulations."
"Thanks Dad." Emma said watching as he walked to grab a cup of coffee, and to Emma's surprise his hand moved up to his eyes, "you alright?" Emma asked concerned.
"Yeah," David said, "just have something in my eye." He said his voice breaking at the end, Emma smiled getting up quickly and running into the kitchen hugging him, "I love you, Dad, always will." Emma said smiling up at David.
"I love you too, sweetheart." David said wrapping his arms around Emma.
"I'll always be your little girl, never forget that."
"I won't." David said kissing Emma's forehead, since her hair was still wet.
Emma wished that the hug between her and David didn't have to end, but sadly her phone ran, and Henry informed her that it was Regina, which brought Emma back down to reality she had a big job to do tonight with Regina, and Gold.
"Hello?" Emma said answering her phone.
"Emma, I'm at Gold's shop, are you coming?" Regina asked impatiently.
"Yeah sorry, I'll be there in five." Emma said hanging up the phone, "guess I'd better get dressed." She said looking down at herself realizing that she was still in her housecoat, Emma quickly ran up the stairs and into her bedroom, putting on a pair of jeans, and a long sleeved black shirt, since it wasn't supposed to be too cold today she decided to leave her red jacket that she always wore. After Emma was ready she ran down the stairs.
"What time are we meeting up tonight?" Mary Margaret asked rocking Neal to get him to sleep.
"Not sure," Emma admitted as she kneeled down to do up her boots, "I'll call you."
"Alright, in case we don't see you beforehand, "good luck." David said.
"Thanks." Emma said smiling at the three of them running out of the apartment before Regina got anymore annoyed then she already was.
Emma couldn't believe that it was already almost time to send all the residents of Storybrooke back to the Enchanted Forest, it seemed like just an hour ago that she had gone to Gold's store, and both he and Regina had explained to Emma what they would have to do, once they went over what needed to be done, they had spent the rest of the day as normally as possible, Emma had met up with Killian for lunch, and had shown of her ring to Ruby, who had also asked for details, which Emma and Killian both left out the part that they had slept together, After that Regina, Killian Emma and Henry had gone for a walk around Storybrooke so they could remember every detail of it, and Emma had to admit she was going to miss this place, even though she had been in such a hurry to leave it when Henry had first brought her here, the place had grown on her. After the walk it had been time for her and Regina to gather up the residents' and now they were all gathered around Emma, Regina, and Gold in front of the clock tower.
"Is everyone here?" Regina yelled, although she didn't really have to since the crowd was quiet.
"Looks like it." Emma said looking around.
"Alright then let's get started." Gold said smiling at Belle.
Emma felt her nerves growing as she took Regina and Gold's hands, closing her and clearing her mind just as she had been told to do earlier, and Emma could feel her magic flowing through her fingers, and as it got to the tips, she felt Regina's meeting up with hers, and Gold's as well, after a few minutes of the three of them just standing in a circle channeling all their magic, Emma began to feel wind circling around them, and Emma felt her feet leave the ground, gasping in surprise, and dying to open her eyes, she fought against the urge, and kept her mind as clear as she could manage, she would not be the reason that this spell failed.
Killian watched in awe as Emma, Regina, and Gold stood in a circle holding hands, that was something he never thought he would see, after a few long moments of nothing happening, Killian was starting to think that the spell wasn't working, when a huge wind started up, and what looked like smoke, but was probably magic, started coming up from the ground, and Killian realized that he had started floating.
"What the?" he asked himself but as he looked around him, he saw that he wasn't the only one who was floating.
"It's working!" Leroy said excitedly.
Killian realized that the magic was starting to disappear, and as it disappeared completely Killian saw that they were in the Enchanted Forest.
"They did it!" Mary Margaret said, smiling up at David.
Killian smiled and was about to run up to Emma to give her a big hug when he realized that Emma, Regina, and Gold were nowhere to be seen.
"Emma?" Killian asked looking around him,
"Moms?" Henry asked also looking around.
"Gold?" Belle asked.
"Emma!" Mary Margaret screamed, as she spotted the three of them laying off to the side in some trees.
"Emma?" Killian whispered running over to her kneeling down beside her, "love, can you hear me?"
"Gold!" Belle cried kneeling down beside him, tears filling her eyes.
"Mom!" Henry cried kneeling down beside Regina.
"Are they…" Mary Margaret asked trailing off, she couldn't even think of the word.
Killian held his breath resting his head against Emma's chest, "no she's alive."
"Same with Gold." Belle said lifting her head off of his chest.
"Same as Regina." Henry said, although he checked her pulse via her neck.
"Then what happened to them?" David asked the concern he felt written all over his face.
In that instant no one could answer, and as Killian looked down at Emma he prayed that she would wake up, and just be alright, he hated not being able to help her.
That's the end of Chapter 4.
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