LOCKED AWAY

CHAPTER SEVEN


A month has passed since Graham's death, and Emma was now the replacement of him in the Student Council. How she gained votes is forever a mystery to her.

Killian is aware that she had moved on, but he knows that a part of her died that day. Just like him. Seeing her at her grieving state reminded him of him before.

Both lost a loved one and built walls around them.

Both were broken.


He was eating alone in the cafeteria, and then Emma sat in front of him. Killian observed that she was wearing a new jacket.

"I've never seen that jacket before, love." he asked, curious.

"It's Graham's." It was given to her by Mr. Gold, which, surprisingly, was Graham's guardian. He claimed that Graham would've wanted her to take it, so she did. She chose to wear it just now, because the past weeks and days, whenever she looked at it, she wanted to cry. But now she had accepted the truth. Graham is gone, and though she won't forget him, she mustn't dwell on the past.

Killian remained silent, feeling jealous of a dead man. He found it foolish; the fact that he is still jealous of Humbert.

"I just wanted to thank you, for being there for me."

He broke out of his silence and laughed, "Took you a month."

"Yeah, I know. But seriously. Thank you… Killian." His eyes widened at the sound of his real name. No one has called him that since he transferred and became 'Hook'. Even his adoptive family calls him by his moniker.

Killian couldn't help himself, so he grabbed Emma's face and kissed her briefly. It didn't even last a second, but it was really sweet. Emma blushed and fluttered her eyes while he just smiled at her boyishly.

"What. Was. That?"

"Think of it as a reward for saying my name."


Their last class ended, and the three friends approached Emma in her seat. They were all grinning at her.

Crap.

"If you think we didn't see that earlier, you are wrong." Her face became red.

"It's his fault!"

"Did he taste nice?" Ruby teased. Before Emma could answer, their teacher called her friend. She went to him, anxious about what he has to say.

"What is it?"

"I'm resigning." She frowned and started to tear up.

"Victor! Why?!"

"I'm going to apply at the hospital. Don't worry, we'll keep seeing each other. Not every day, but still."

Ruby embraced her boyfriend tightly, while he patted her back. "Don't forget about me, okay?"

"I won't. I promise." The two kissed passionately, but stopped when Emma cleared her throat.

"I don't want to ruin your moment, but somebody might see."

They followed Emma's advice and stopped holding each other. Mary-Margaret linked her arm with Ruby's and gave her a comforting smile.

"Come on, let's go."


When Emma opened her locker, a note with the words, "YOU KISSED GRAHAM. NOW HOOK? SLUT." fell down. She felt anger and irritation boil inside her, so she crumpled the paper and threw it in the bin.

Same happened with her three friends, but different mean messages in it.

"Who would even do this?" Mary-Margaret's smile that was always in her face faltered to show up.

"I don't know. But I think it's best if we let them be. Immature things like these are meant to be ignored."

Ashley tore the paper and said, "I think I know who."

Her friends gave her a skeptical look.

"Regina." They gasped, but they knew it was possible that she was the one who did this.

"I'll try to confront her tomorrow." She's not going to do it for herself, but for Ruby, Ashley, and Mary-Margaret. They looked seriously offended by the messages, and Emma can't stand to see them like that.


"This is pretty low, President." Emma threw the notes at the table where Regina and her friend Kathryn were eating on.

"Excuse me?"

"Oh please. You wrote this nonsense!"

"I did not. And I wouldn't call this nonsense." She read what was written and gave Emma a fake smile. "It's rather true."

Emma lost her composure and grabbed the cup on the table then emptied its contents into Regina's face.

Killian witnessed the whole thing. His sister just got poured with iced tea, but he was smiling proudly of Emma. "There's my fierce darling."

What Regina did next wasn't expected by anybody. It wasn't like her to fight with anything but words and manipulation. She picked up a brownie and smeared it all over Emma.

That's when a student screamed, "FOOD FIGHT!"

Random students started throwing food at each other. Hook decided to join the fun and threw at his adoptive sister a piece of meat. He positioned beside his Swan and arranged a table as their shield. They snickered and smiled lively.

"This is going to be fun." They stood at the same time and tossed food at the people aiming at them. They ducked for cover as the others bombarded them with food in return.

"We make quite a team, don't we?" Killian smirked while Emma rolled her eyes.

"Just shut up and throw, Hook."

"It's back to Hook now, eh, Swan?"

"Well, I couldn't risk getting kissed by you again." They stood again, but instead of seeing other students, they saw their guidance counselor in front of them.

"Miss Swan, come with me, please." She followed Archie, but she saw that Killian was walking beside her.

"Stay here! I'm the one who started this."

"No way. I'm coming with you, my dear."


Archie grabbed a towel and handed it to the two. He sat at the leather chair and waited for them to get cleaned up.

"As punishment for the chaos you two caused, you will be serving an hour of detention after class for five days."

"What?!" She doesn't like staying long at this school and any other punishment is okay for her, just not this.

"I'm sorry, but that's the consequence. That, or you will be failing your conduct grade." Emma sighed, deciding to have detention instead.

"You will be staying at the library, fixing books." Killian groaned. He doesn't like libraries that much, but smiled when he realized he would be spending an extra hour with Emma.

"What will it be? Detention or failing?"

"Detention."


Emma walked out of the office with a weary face while Killian had a wide grin.

"What are you smiling about, Hook?"

"Come to think of it, love. We'll be together for another hour for a week. Now why wouldn't I be happy about that?" He played with a strand of her golden curls. She was irritated, but was too tired to scold him.

"You infuriate me, you know that?"

"But you still can't get enough." Killian bent down and winked.


A/N: FINAL EXAMS TOMORROW YAY! Since I'm happy today, I wrote this. Hope you weren't disappointed. Also, thanks to midnighthatter and JustWriter2 for the suggestions :)