Chapter 7

Emma felt like it was a thousand butterflies flew in her stomach and fireworks behind her eyes. Killian's hand where pressed against her back and his hook was around her wrist. She leaned in, feeling his soft lips pressed against hers, and he let out a small groan, pushing her closer against him.

"What the hell are you doing?" Lily yelled as she pulled Killian away. He looked desperately at his Swan, hoping she would return to herself, but all she gave him was a confused and shocked look.

"It…it didn't work." He said and sighed. "Again, a long shot, I had to try."

Lily raised her hand, but Emma put her hand on her and they teleported away along with Rumpelstiltskin. Killian sighed again; disappointed in himself for not being able to save his love from darkness, but her knew he had woken something in her.

"What the hell just happened?" Regina asked and came up beside him. Killian scratched the back of his ear, not quite knowing what to say. Killian shrugged and walked into the station with pissed off Regina after him.

Inside, Mary Margaret sat crying with David holding around her and Henry was playing with Neal in Emma's office. She most have teleported him into the station again, Killian guessed.

"She didn't mean it, Snow. Remember, she's under a curse." David sat reassuring to his wife, but it didn't seem to help. Killian sat down on one of the desks, fishing his bottle up from his pocket.

"What the hell happened out there? Why would the sea bitch and the two others just vanish? How did you manage to break through Emma's magic? Why didn't the kiss work?" Everyone asked him, but he didn't know the answers to any of the questions. After a while, they ran out of questions and sat down, exhausted and sad.

"The kiss didn't work, because she doesn't remember she loves you." Henry said and came towards them. Killian's eyebrow flew up and looked curious at the lad.

"Like you Grandma. You took that potion to forget your love for Grandpa, but it he convinced you that you do love him, because he risked his life for you." Henry said and looked at his grandparents who looked at each other with love in their eyes.

"What are you saying? The pirate risks his life for Emma and she will magically fall in love with him?" Regina said and eyes Killian.

"No, we have to remind her that she is in love with him." Henry said and sat down in one of the chairs, waiting for someone to reply.

"That's easier said than done, lad. She has her own guards and I think they'd hardly let anyone to her." Killian said and sighed.

Emma sat for the first time in Rumpelstiltskin's house without having to search for missing items or pointing a gun at him. He and the women had an argument about why'd they left during the fight. Lily had fallen asleep on the couch next to her, sleeping heavily, but Emma couldn't sleep. Every time she closed her eyes, she was reminded about Killian's kiss. While trying to forget about it, she walked carefully to the closed door that separated her and Lily from the others. She lay her hear against the door, listening to the conversation.

"He broke through her magic! Either, he has magic or they have something more special." Ursula said.

"We had to go, if he had been able to break the spell around Emma's heart too, she would turn that wrath on us!" Maleficent said.

"She doesn't know they have true love, because they have not told each other. Both are insecure about their love, afraid about what the other means it is. The only reason the pirate were able to break through her magic is because its true love for him, but the kiss needs to be from both." Gold said. She could hear he was desperate to convince them of it.

"If they had told each other the words or if they both knew for sure, then that would have broken the curse; but luckily for us, Lily stopped them before Emma understood it. It takes two for true love." Gold continued. The women snorted and didn't sound convinced, but they didn't have a choice but to trust him.

Emma leaned against the door, thinking about what she had heard. Killian had woken something in her, something she wanted gone, but couldn't forget. She didn't love him at all, nothing, but it seems like she did. When she looked back, she didn't remember anything after kissing Killian, taking the dark course from him. She hated not knowing things and it was only one way to find out. She had to find her former love.

The station was completely dark, so she thought they had gone home, but then she could hear her father's snoring from the hallway. God! She hated them, but she was here to get answers, not for her parents. Emma entered the office room and saw her parents asleep in two of the chairs. Henry was asleep in one of the prisons beds and Regina in the other. Too her big surprise, a single light shone in her office showing Killian sitting with her little brother. Neal sat in his little play-chair on the desk and played with Killian's hook.

"Didn't take you for a baby person." Emma said and leaned against the doorframe to the office, crossing her arms. Killian looked fast up from Neal and up to her.

"Swan, what are you doing here?" He asked and stood up. She smiled a halfhearted smile to him and walked to her little brother. Neal looked up to her with his big blue eyes and smiled which warmed Emma's rather cold heart. She picked him up and kissed him on the top of his head.

"Can't I visit my little baby bro?" She said and cradled him in her arms. Killian looked suspicious at her with a smile and she rolled her eyes at him.

"Okey, I overheard Gold and those other women talk about how you managed to break through my magic and how you nearly broke through the dark curse that surrounds my heart." She said and looked through the glass of the office, making sure that everyone was asleep.

"What did they say that made you come here, love?" He asked, his head slightly fell to his right.

"A bunch of true love crap and that stuff. You were able to break my magic because what we had was real to you, but the kiss didn't work because both had to feel the same." She said and simply shrugged. That should have made her blush, but she didn't feel anything.

"And it's not real to you?" Killian asked with a hint of disappointment in his voice. She shrugged again and put down her baby brother.

"Well, that's what I'm here to find out." Emma said and smiled a careless smile to him. "I hate that someone decides what I am supposed to feel or do and that's just what this curse do." Emma took a step towards him and leaned closer to his face. She could smell the rum from his mouth, but it didn't bother her.

"Emma?" Someone said and turned on the lights. Emma sighed; took a step away from Killian and turned around to her mother.

"Great! Didn't you hear what I told you earlier today? Go away!" Emma said and rolled her eyes to her mother, but Mary Margaret didn't go. She walked closer to her daughter and hugged her closely which Emma didn't return, but didn't pull away either.

"Emma, honey, I love you with all my heart and I'm sorry that we sent you away. I know we didn't get you to watch you grow to the beautiful, perfect woman you are today and it isn't a day I regret that." Mary Margaret took her hands on her daughter's cheeks and kissed her forehead.

Emma's heart felt like her heart was set on fire and she fell to the ground, screaming.

"Emma!" Mary Margaret screamed and fell to the ground with Killian beside her daughter taking her into her lap. Emma's screaming became louder and louder, her whole body twisting in pain. Soon, David, Henry and Regina came rushing in and Neal started screaming too.

"Henry, take Neal out in the hallway. Try to calm him down!" David said and Henry did as told.

Emma continued to scream and clutching the skin above her heart.

"Rip it out! Please! Just rip it out!" Emma screamed and it broke Killian's heart to hear and look at his Swan hurting. No one knew what to do, so they just sat around her and tried to calm her down.

"Regina! Do it!" Emma screamed and grabbed her hand. Regina looked at the others who nodded. With a sharp motion, Regina's hand was in Emma's chest and she pulled out her heart. They all gasped at the vision, but Emma didn't stop screaming.


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