Every King Needs a Queen

Chapter 8: Looking for Emma

He woke up with a pounding headache and a hung over. He felt someone's naked body beside him, he looked over and saw Milah's face, sleeping peacefully on the pillow next to him. His eyes opened wide as he realized what he had done the night before. He remembered shouting at Emma, saying things he didn't mean to say. He sighed and rubbed his hand on his face in frustration. He got out of his bed and put on some clothes before silently making his way out of his room, hoping he wouldn't wake Milah up. He was not in the mood to deal with her.

He quietly made his way towards Emma's room, knocking softly on her door. He didn't hear an answer, which was odd, so he pushed her door open slightly. He stepped into the room and saw that her bed wasn't slept in, making Killian worried. He ran out of the room in search for Ruby, hoping Emma spend the night with Ruby. He found Ruby sleeping sound asleep, no Emma in sight. He quickly made his way towards his sister and shook her awake.

Ruby groaned, covering her eyes at the few rays of sunshine in her room. "What do you want?" She asked annoyed.

"Do you know where Emma is?" Killian asked worried, Ruby shot up from the bed.

"What do you mean?" Ruby asked, still half asleep.

"I went to her room to apologize for yesterday but she wasn't there. She isn't here either. I have no idea where she could have gone." Killian explained to Ruby.

"Maybe in the stables? I haven't seen her since yesterday afternoon. I thought she was with you since you also didn't come down for dinner last night." Ruby quickly got out of her bed, grabbing one of her dresses.

"I'll get some guards. Maybe one of them has seen Emma somewhere." Killian said, rushing out of the room.

Ruby got dressed as quickly as she could, deciding not to wear a corset as it would take too much time to get a maid. She quickly followed her brother outside.

"I've asked a few guards if they saw anything but they didn't see anything suspicious. If she isn't here on the castle grounds, she must have left yesterday afternoon already.

"She did say something about you being drunk and angry. She told me you shouted at her and called her a mere servant. She was really upset when I last saw her." Ruby said, hating herself for not checking up on Emma again.

"That's why I wanted to apologize to her. I messed up, really bad. Where could she have gone to?" Killian asked, he was feeling really guilty for what happened.

"Let's just try to find her first, we'll worry about your drunken mistake later." Ruby said, missing the way Killian gulped at the mention of a drunken mistake. She had no idea how much mistakes he had made the night before.


After searching everywhere, with the help of 15 guards, they still hadn't found Emma.

"She's not here anymore." Killian said, punching a nearby wall in anger.

"Just calm down, alright?" Ruby said, taking Killian's arm so he wouldn't be able to punch the wall again. "Maybe we can ask the Blue Fairy for help. She might be able to track her down."

"Alright, let's give it a shot." Killian said, knowing it was their only chance to find Emma.


The Blue Fairy came immediately after being called by Killian.

"What's wrong?" The Blue Fairy asked, looking confused at Killian's worried expression.

"Something happened to Emma. We can't find her anywhere and I have a feeling something happened to her." Killian explained.

"Do you have anything of hers? Maybe I'll be able to track her down." The Blue Fairy explained, she could already sense the dark magic in the air, not promising anything good.

"Yes, I'll get something from her room." Ruby rushed to Emma's room, quickly grabbing one of her scarves she wore often.

"Here you go." Ruby gave the scarf to the Blue Fairy.

"Alright. Let's see where this will bring us." Blue did a spell over the scarf, it floated through the air, marking the path Emma took. The scarf led them to the forest, but it suddenly stopped.

"What does this mean?" Killian asked, not understanding why it suddenly stopped moving.

"It can only mean that she was transported to somewhere else by someone who has magic." The Blue Fairy explained, getting more worried as well. "I can sense a lot of dark magic here and it can only mean one thing."

Killian and Ruby looked at the Blue Fairy in question. "Rumpelstiltskin has her."


Emma woke up in the dungeon, feeling cold. Her throat started hurting during the night, most likely from the cold and the dampness.

"Good morning, dearie." Rumpelstiltskin suddenly poofed himself in front of Emma. Emma sat up in the bed, rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

"When are you taking me back to Killian?" Emma asked, but she already knew Rumpelstiltskin wouldn't let her go back.

"Once I've stripped you from your magic, I'll see what I can do for you." Of course he remembered the deal he made with Milah, but 'getting rid' of someone does have a lot of meanings. Their contract never stated that he would kill her.

"But I don't want to give you my magic." Emma said angrily, she didn't understand why he wanted her magic as well. "Aren't you already powerful enough without my magic?"

"Of course I'm already powerful, but I want to go to the land without magic without going through a magic portal, only with a lot of light magic I'll be able to do that." Rumpelstiltskin explained, Emma didn't understand most of what he was saying though.

"Come on, dearie. Let's see how we can get your magic stripped." Rumpelstiltskin took Emma by her arm, leading her out of her cell.


"We need to get her away from that demon." Killian said angrily, he didn't like the idea of Emma spending too much time with that crocodile.

"Why does he even want her?" Ruby asked confused, it didn't make any sense.

"We need to come up with a plan. I don't want her to spend any more time with that demon." Killian stated, getting a few guards.

"You don't even know how to get there." Ruby reasoned, hoping to get her brother to calm down.

"I have to try something! This is all my fault." Killian said, feeling even guiltier than before.

"Let's just try to get her home, alright. We'll worry about the rest later." Ruby said to her brother. They had more important things to do now.

"How can we get to Rumpelstiltskin's castle?" Killian asked the Blue Fairy who was waiting patiently on them.

"Do you have a ship?" The Blue Fairy asked the king. "It'll be faster to get there by ship."

"Yes, the Jolly Roger is the fastest ship in all the realms." Killian said proudly of his ship. It's been a while since he went on a travel with his ship though, being the king didn't give you a lot of free time to travel.

"Great, I'll draw the way to get there out. It'll take you at least 4 days to get there though." The Blue Fairy offered.

"The faster we leave, the sooner we'll get to Emma." Killian said. "Ruby, I need you to keep an eye out on the castle. Can you take over my business for a few days? Keep an eye on Milah as well, I don't trust her while I'm away."

Ruby thought it over, she really wanted to go with her brother in search for Emma but she knew she was much more needed at the castle. "Sure, leave it to me. Just get my best friend home safely."

"Don't worry about it. I'll be back soon." Killian gave his sister a hug and went straight to the docks. His ship and the crew were waiting patiently for him.

"Come on, lads! We need to leave as soon as possible." Killian yelled for the whole crew to hear. All the men ran around on the ship, preparing everything as hastily as possible. They left after half an hour and Killian was happy to leave that quickly. The Blue Fairy had left him a plan to get to the Dark Castle. It would take them 4 days to get to Rumpelstiltskin's land and another 5 hours to arrive at his castle. He hoped he would get there in time.


"I think I've found the perfect way to get your magic, dearie. Don't worry. It won't hurt, much." With a giggle Rumpelstiltskin plunched his hand into Emma's chest, ready to take her heart out.


A/N: Let me know what you think! I'm sorry it took me some time to update but writing 4 stories is getting hard :') yes, I know it's my fault to have 4 stories at the same time but I really do try to update as quick as possible... but I'd rather work 2 weeks on a chapter that I'm happy about then try to write as much as possible in a short time on chapters that I absolutely hate :D