The sea is raging. Big waves splash against the deck of a ship. Lighting crosses the sky illuminating for a moment the scene. At the wheel is a man standing fighting for his life and for his ship to stay a float.

The man and the ship are a legend for themselves he is considered the best sailor alive and his ship the fastest one in all the realms even faster than the Lovibond.

"Where are you boy? Show yourself!" an angry voice resounds as thunder as an enormous wave crashes against the ship. The man´s stance change and it becomes more tense and defiant.

The man is tall and slender with blue ocean blue eyes and dark hair, looks exactly like Killian but he can´t be because Killian is safe and sound in a room in her house. Emma remembers just checking on him a few minutes ago.

This man drenched in cold water is as proud and fierce as Killian. He is fighting the waves with all he has because like Killian fighting and surviving are the things he knows best.

A terrible roar and suddenly five tentacles breaks the surface of the furious sea.

"I will find you and take away everyone you love. Everything and everyone!" the voice, promises, this time she recognizes it as a male voice.

Not-Killian looks at the tentacles and at the limp green figures that hang from them. It is a woman without a heart and a men, with dark streaks running along his arm and his chest. The handsome man´s face twistes in agony and she can see the way his jaw clenches, and how he represses a scream. Another wave crashes and the Jolly Roger sways violently, his Captain falls on the floor.

"Your walls are falling dear prince" a woman´s voice, sweet, melodic and fill of so much malice and darkness at the same time that Emma feels her soul shiver in fear.

"Circe" not-Killian growls, and his voice is full of disdain, sounding exactly like Hook´s when he talked about the Cocodrile.

"Indeed, child. Now tell me, why are you being so difficult? Why do you fight?"

Not-Killian does not respond, trying to stand up, and a big tentacle falls on the deck, and the Jolly Roger creaks.
His sword is out and he fights with one of the tentacles but cannot stop the others slamming the deck again and again. The Jolly Roger is breaking and she can almost hear the ship´s agony like it is the living being Hook talks about-

The silent corpses are know hanging from the Jolly´s mast. She suddenly knows their names, Milah and Liam.

"Your love fail them and they will fail them over and over again" the male voice mockingly says.

"Where are you little pirate? Where are you hiding? Or better who are you hiding from me?" Circe asks. She sounds amused and like she is enjoying this too much.

Not-Killian does not answer and keeps fighting but his movements are getting slower, and she realizes that he cannot be other than Killian for the way he is looking at the silent corpses over his head.

She wants to be able to fight by his side, wants to help him, wants to save him, because it seems like a lost cause but she can just watch.

Suddenly her pirate falters and one of the tentacles grabs him pulling him in mid air directly in front of the faces of the bodies, whose faces are suddenly very much alive and are looking at Killian with hate and disappointment.

"You told me you love me! You let me die!"
"You kill me Killian! You goad me in taking that venom. Why brother?"

"I am sorry" Killian says, still struggling still trying to get free with less force than before, something in him dimming as the accusation surrounds him like a blanket of sorrow.

The voices keep taunting him while the storm reaches it`s peak.

"Who are you hiding from us? Circe asks again.

"I will find you boy" the male promises once again.

"Go away Nereus" Circe suddenly orders and the male goes silent.

"I spy with my little eye a woman in your life, dear Captain" Circe sings.

Killian goes still.

"You must be blind. There is no one"

"Oh no, there she is. I bet is a pretty thing. What is her name Captain?"

"No" Killian shouts and is struggling with all the strength he has left only to have the monster tentacles get tighter around him.

"She has the sun in her hair and the forest in her eyes. Oh you are a poet aren´t you? Just like Him"

"I am not Him, Circe. And I will be damned before you find her" he replies fury and fear radiating from his body.

"Oh but I will find her. I can almost see her, your magic is faltering you know. You keep ignoring the call. And you can´t leave her, do you? Because then for sure I will find her."

Suddenly, the tentacle gets him underwater and Emma is staring at the most beautiful woman she has ever seen pretty brozen skin, generous breasts and hour glass shaped. She is also corrupted and vile. She is floating exactly in front of Killian, with a cruel smile.

Killian is drowning. And Emma can just watch like watching a terrible tv show.

"When I find her, I will have you in my power. I will have your heart and destroy whatever is left of it and you will drown just like now"

Before his horrified eyes the Jolly Roger falls in pieces all around him and the tentacles squeeze him until Emma can hear his bones snapping and with a scream he loses all the air he was keeping.

"Oh well maybe tomorrow I will be able to get a better look at her. You can´t fight us forever" the tentacles that Emma realizes are part of the woman let him free with one last squeeze before disappearing completely.

His eyes are full of defiance, even as they are closing consciousness fading and almost immediately his body starts to convulse as lack of oxygen takes hold of him, lips turning blue and she can hear herself screaming his name, begging him to wake up, to not do die, to not leave her alone.

"Killian" she wakes up screaming an opens her eyes and instead of the horror of he dying she finds herself sitting next to him her hands on his temple. He is still asleep as small tremors run all along his body. She does not need to check his temperatureto knows his fever is back. She does not need to ask him what he is dreaming of because she is sure that was not her nightmare, it was his.

She is sure this is the same nightmare she woke him up when she went to look for him.

"Killian, please you need to wake up. Wake up, wake up this moment" she is shouting and shaking him. He wakes up with a gasp, fever bright eyes meeting hers again then groans in pain just to start throwing up.

She realizes horrified it is salt water.