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"Where are they?" Red asked Regina as they walked inside the house.
"They were at Emma's room" Regina whispered to Red, signaling her to keep her voice down "I don't want Emma to feel uncomfortable. We should go to the kitchen and wait for them there"
"But if Emma is hurting I want to help!" Red exclaimed trying to keep her voice down.
"I don't think she will appreciate a bunch of people sitting in the floor with her as if we were having a sleepover...so we will go to the kitchen and wait there"
Red thought about it and decided that that was the best option, she agreed that Emma needed her space, so she followed Regina to the kitchen.
The little family continued sitting at the floor, Killian had her arm wrapped around Emma's shoulder and Emma was resting half her body against Killian's. Henry had her arms wrapped around Emma's waist and his head resting at Emma's shoulders.
Emma smiled looking at two of the four men most important in her life. Her other most important men were David and her little brother Neal. She closed her eyes. She had lost her father, her rock. They had grown so close in the last year. They literally saw each other every day at the station and then at the loft. She didn't know how she was going to live in Storybook watching her parents every day. She wanted to hate them for what they did to her, but she couldn't. How can you hate someone that you still love?
"Mom?" Henry asked Emma in a low voice, "why are we in this house?"
"Oh my god!" Emma had completely forgot about Henry's surprise.
"Love please don't tell me that we are invading someone's property" Killian said with a chuckle.
"Henry, I am so sorry, this was supposed to be a surprise for you...I bought this house and everything two days ago, I wanted to give you a nice surprise and..." Emma babbled,
"Mom it's ok" Henry said taking her mother's arm giving her a reassuring smile.
"Surprise?" Emma whispered giving henry an apologetically smile.
Henry let out a laugh and got up in his feet "come on Mom show us our new house" he said as he gave his hand to help Emma get up.
"I want to se your house too Love" Killian said as he got up.
"Um actually" Emma turned around to see Killian, she bit her lower lip. How was she going to do this? Should she just tell him straight up? "I was going to ask you...I was thinking that, if you want to of course"
"Mom you are bubbling" Henry chuckled
Emma turned and gave Henry a mom look. She turned to see Killian again and saw his confused expression. If this were different circumstance she would've thought that he looked hilarious. "Killian" she let out a breath "Would you like to move in with us?"
Killian broke into one of his dashing smiles, he raised his eyebrow and said, "Of course Love, I would love to live with you"
Emma smiled and wrapped her arms in Killian's neck, bringing him closer to her. They shared a quick kiss.
"Get a room!" They herd Henry said.
Emma showed Killian and Henry the house, the master bedroom was downstairs and Henry's room was upstairs along with two other bedrooms.
Once she got to the kitchen she stopped dead in her tracks, Regina and Red were sitting at the island looking at her. An awkward silence filled the room.
"Lad, why don't we go check the outside of the house" Killian said sensing the awkwardness in the room. Henry immediately agreed and they both walked out of the kitchen.
Red walked up to Emma and brought her into her arms. Emma flinched but then relaxed in Red's arms. "What happened?" She whispered in Emma's ear. Red took Emma by the shoulders and looked at her.
"What always happens" Emma shrugged with tears in her eyes again. "They told me that they were tired if having a messed up daughter and that they never loved me"
"Oh Emma" Red said embracing Emma again.
"I hate feeling like this" Emma said as she cleaned some tears that rolled down her checks "I've been trough this before and I wish I could hate them or forget them, but I can't"
Snow turned around to see a really destroyed David "He was upset David, kids say things that they don't mean when they are upset" Snow said trying to help her husband.
"I have never seen him like that before"
"I know, believe me I know how much that words hurt, but we need to get to Emma. I can't stay here and do nothing while I know that my daughter is suffering because of me"
"We will find her Snow, we will find her and we will talk to her..where could she possibly be?" David asked Snow
"The lake house, I am pretty sure she is there, I will get Neal so we can go get our daughter back"
"Sometimes talking about it makes you feel less alone" Red told Emma
"I don't want to think or talk about it"
"Emma, you are building those walls around again. I just want to help you"
"I am not building anymore walls Red, I am so fucking tired of keeping people out, I've done that all my life but right now I don't want to talk about Mary Margaret and David." Emma took a deep breath in and continued "what I can tell you is that I've never felt a pain so deep before, but I guess all the fucked up things that happened to me in my childhood were like a warm up for this. To be honest I don't even know how I am standing up right now. I don't want to feel sorry for myself; I am not a kid anymore. And I won't give anybody else the right to destroy me again, I have a son and I can't afford to stay in a room crying all day"
Regina looked at the woman in front of her, she knew that Emma was still hurting inside but she didn't want to look weak to other people, she wanted to look strong for her soon. Emma had this look in her eyes, a look that Regina knew really well, she used to see that same look everyday she looked at the mirror.
"Ok I understand" Red nodded "but please if you need anything know that I am here to help you, I care about you Emma"
Emma gave Red a little smile "Thanks Red, I guess one of the reason I didn't break completely is because now I am not alone anymore"
"And you will never be alone again" Red told Emma in a serious tone. "But Emma, I just feel the need to tell you that I know your parents and...something is really wrong here...they would've never hurt you like that..."
"But they did" Emma interrupted "they did and I won't forgive them"
"Emma you should talk to them, I am sure they have a.."
"I wont talk to them" Emma interrupted again "I know that I am going to see them, for god shakes I work with David! Even if I wanted to avoid them, I cant, unless I move out of town" Regina immediately looked up at Emma upon hearing those words. "But I won't" Emma said looking at Regina "It wouldn't be fair for Henry...it wouldn't be fair for me. As I said before I won't let anybody ruin what I have here"
"How are you going to handle them?" Regina asked,
"I won't. They said that they didn't want me, so they won't have me. It's that simple, I know it will kill me inside to see them and remember what they said to me, but I have to stay strong for Henry"
"You don't have to be strong all the time Emma" Red said
"Being strong was the only option I've had all my life"
Henry and Killian were sitting at the front porch when they saw Mary Margaret's car pulled over in the driveway. Killian and Henry immediately got up.
"What are you doing here?" Killian asked David
"I am here to see my daughter" David answered
"No you won't" Henry and Killian said in unison. Killian stood in front of David.
David closed his eyes, he understood why the pirate was doing this, he wanted to protect Emma, but David needed to talk to his daughter and he wasn't going to let anybody stop him from seeing his girl.
"Killian I know why you are doing this, but move out of the way or..."
"You touch him and I forget that you are my grandfather" Henry told David in a warning tone "I already told you that you won't hurt my mother again, and this time I will do wherever it takes to not break my promise"
"Henry!" Snow scolded Henry "that is not way to talk to David what happened was a..."
"Listen Mary Margaret, I don't think my mother wants to see or talk to neither of you right now. I think you have done enough damage for a day, so no you can't see my mother. Please get out of our house" Henry said pointing to the road. He remembered what his mother always used to tell him when he was a kid. Kill the haters with kindest, unless they touch you, in that case kick their ass. He decided that he was going to do the first part.
"That's not my name" Snow said trying to control her tears.
"And this is not your house. So please get out. If you ever felt anything for my mother...please just get out of our house" Henry said looking at Snow. It hurt to talk to her grandparents like that but he didn't want anybody else to hurt his mother.
"I don't know what you did to her" Killian said looking at Snow and David "but I have never seen someone so miserable, and I've lived for a long time. I know her, and I know that she doesn't want to talk to you right now"
David took a steep back and looked at his wife. They had one of their silent conversations. "We won't leave unless we talk to our daughter" Snow said firmly.
"Oh yes you will leave" came a voice behind them.
Regina walked up next to Henry "you will leave because Emma doesn't want to talk to you"
"And who are you to tell us what to do" David said angrily. She was the one who had made Emma grow up without them, why would they listen to her.
"I am Emma's friend" Everybody was surprised to hear Regina say that, even Regina was a little taken aback "your daughter told me that she didn't want to talk to you"
"I won't leave..." Snow began to say as her phone ringed announcing that she had got a text. She looked down to read it and a tear rolled down her check she felt her heart breaking.
Emma:
Go live your life with both your true loves and leave this little orphan alone.
Snow gave David the phone so he could read the message. He also felt as if someone was squishing his heart. To think that his princess, his Emma, tough of herself as an orphan broke David's heart. He looked at Snow and they both walked to the car. As much as they wanted to tell her daughter the truth, they couldn't make her talk or listen to them. David and Snow got in the car and drove away.
Emma waited at the kitchen, she had heard their parent's cars pull in the driveway and she told Regina if she could tell them that she didn't want to talk to them. She would've asked Red but she knew that Red was their friend and really couldn't do it.
"Are you sure this is how you want to handle this?" Red asked Emma
"Believe me this is the best way" Emma looked up at Red and said "Red I know they are your friends and you have more history with them than with me. I totally understand your need to try and defend them or help them. But I wasn't the one who pushed them away, they pushed ME away"
"Ok, I get it" Red knew that right now wasn't the best time to make Emma talk. She had been trough a lot for a day.
Regina, Henry and Killian walked inside the house again. Nobody mentioned the Charming again for the rest of the day. Regina went back to Robin and Roland and Red went back to Granny's while the family stayed in their new house. Emma decided that she was going to take a three day vacation, she felt that she needed time to heal.
At night
Emma settled in the bed next to Killian who was already under the covers. They have slept together before but for some reason this time felt different. She used to hate the night; just right before you go sleep when all your demons appear to come to you wanting to keep you awake. She looked up at the ceiling; she felt Killian's hands take hers.
Tears started to roll down her checks again and a sob escaped her lips. She hated this; she completely hated this whole situation.
Killian immediately brought her into his arms and hold her close to him. "It's ok to cry love, let it out, it's ok...I am here now. You wont be alone again"
Emma continued to silently cry in Killian's arms until she felt asleep.
Snow and David settle in their bed. Snow snuggled close to her husband and rested her head in his shoulder, wrapping her arms in his torso. The loft was completely silent.
"I don't think I'm going to be able to live with myself Snow" David whispered, he was silently crying, "How can a father let his daughter down so many times? How we treated our daughter for the last month was..." He couldn't finish; his sorrow was so strong that he couldn't even the words out.
Snow looked up to his husband and David saw that Snow had been crying too. "I know David, knowing what we did and said to our daughter is eating me alive" She said as she cleaned David's tears with her fingers. "But we have to stay strong, for Emma. We will find whoever did this, and when we do I will torture them so bad that they will plead me to kill them"
David looked down at her wife and saw the old fearless bandit that he felt in love with. He hugged her closer to him and they both fell asleep with tears in their eyes.
Emma walked into the station after three days of being in her house with her little family. She knew that she had a lot of paperwork to do, just as she was about to sit down she heard someone open the door. She closed her eyes knowing who this person was.
"So Neal is with Ashley. I will go look in the library to see if I can find anything" Emma heard her mother say.
David and Snow had tried to reach Emma for the last three days but she won't answer their texts or phone calls, so they decided to look for evidence to show to her daughter so she could believe them.
"Fuck!" Emma whispered as she sat at her chair. She had decided to just ignore David and Snow instead of having a confrontation with them. She turned on her computer and pretended to be working.
David opened the door to the sheriff office and his heart stopped. Emma had her back to them. Snow gasped when she saw her daughter, she wanted to run and hug her but she knew that her daughter wouldn't like that.
"Emma?" David breathed out.
Emma took a deep breath and turned around, she looked up and gave them a smile as if they were only acquaintances. "Deputy...Ms. Blanchard " she said looking at them.
Snow took a steep back she felt as if her daughter had slapped her. She had never called her Ms. Blanchard not even when they were only roommates.
"Deputy, I need you to do the first patrol. I have some paperwork that I need to finish" Emma told a stunned David.
"Emma what we said the other day it wasn't us...we were put under a..." David started
"Deputy!" Emma said raising her voice, she didn't want to hear them, afraid that they could hurt her again "I said that I want you to do the first patrol, or would you rather do the paperwork?"
"Emma please" Snow pleaded, her vision was getting buried from the tears that threaten to fall "we were put under a spell honey, we would never..."
Emma let out a humorless laugh "Is that what you tell yourself so you can sleep at night?" Emma said standing up crossing her arms in her chest "oh wait let me guess your next sentence...we wanted to give you your best chance...Ha! Classic"
"Emma please listen to us princess..." David begged.
"Don't fucking call me princess!" Emma screamed.
David flinched. Emma looked at her parents and saw a destroyed Mary Margaret and an equally devastated David. She didn't want to hurt them but she couldn't help herself, she didn't wanted to hear their lame excuses. A spell? Really? There were no sorcerers in Story Brooke anymore; only Regina and Emma knew well that she wouldn't do something like that, not anymore. She didn't want to hurt them, for some fucked up reason she still loved and cared about them.
"Listen" she said taking a deep breath in "I really don't want to talk about what happened. I wish you both the best...I really do. I whish you can have the family you always wanted Ms. Blanchard." she said looking at Snow "I whish you and your family the best, but as you said...I am not a part of that...happiness...so please just don't refer to me as your family because I am not."
Snow let out a sob and David had tears running down his check. "Emma please believe us," David said taking a step towards Emma who took a steep back.
"I can't, I cant let you hurt me again" Emma whispered. She hated to see their parent like that but she didn't believe them. A little voice inside her head told her that they were acting, that they probably needed her to do something for them again.
Snow couldn't help it she walked towards her daughter and brought her into her arms. "I am sorry baby, I am so sorry" she whispered to her daughter's ear.
Emma flinched when she saw her mother practically run towards her, but when she felt her arms around her she relax for a second, she had wanted this for the last month, she had wanted to give her mother or her father a hug.
"I don't want to be your mother, my only true love is David and Neal" Emma remember her mother saying this, she could actually hear her voice saying this over and over again. Emma pushed her mother off her, making Snow stumble backwards almost falling.
"Don't do that again" Emma told Snow in a low voice. She took the car keys and walked towards the door "Deputy you are on desk duty today" She said before closing the door behind her.
"Are you sure this is the right exit?" Leonardo asked Angelica.
"According to this map it is" Angelica said looking around the forest at either side of the car. "I have to be honest this is kind of creepy"
"I wouldn't be surprise that once we get to the town we see a bunch of zombies walking around" Leonardo agreed.
"Shut up!" Angelica said slapping him in the arm "This looks like a ghost town, I guess this is the best place to be if you are running from something"
"Angelica, I don't want you to get your hopes up again. Emma might not be here"
"But this is a place that Emma would run to, don't you think? She always said that she wanted to go to a quiet place where nobody would know her, so she could leave a peaceful life, leaving all her past behind her" Angelica insisted getting a little exasperated at her husband "and this place looks like that kind of place"
"Don't go all Latina on me" Leonardo joked trying to ease her wife's worries "I want to find Emma as much as you do"
Angelica gave her husband a smile "Then shut up and drive" she said jokingly.
Emma thought about what happened at the station throughout the day. She hated herself for pushing Mary Margaret away almost making her fall, but what she hated the most was to see her mother's expression when Emma pushed her away. She had only see her mother like that once before, when the cursed David left her for Katherine. She felt as if she had kicked a puppy. She cursed herself, but she couldn't let them in again. She couldn't let them break her heart again; it was only starting to heal.
She checked her phone and saw that it was time to go get lunch. She was meeting Red, Belle and Regina. For some reason they had become closer in the last three days.
Belle and Regina were sitting at the Island talking to Granny.
"Hey Emma" Granny greeted her "I have your food ready. I just need to go get it." She went into the kitchen to get Emma her food.
"So how was this morning?" Belle asked.
"Not so good" Emma said as she sat next to Regina "Let's just say that Snow and David were there, and they tried to talk to me, I kind of screamed at them, and then Snow tried to hug me and I practically pushed her away making her almost fall"
"Oh my!" Belle exclaimed
"Exactly" Emma grumbled,
"How do you feel?" Regina asked Emma in a serious tone.
"I feel like shit" Emma breathed out "maybe me and David wont be able to work together after all"
"Things might work out" Belle said.
"Yeah right" Emma said sarcastically.
They continued eating and talking about the things that were going on in the town.
"Look! There is a bed and breakfast there. We can stay there and ask if anybody knows Emma" Angelica said as they drove near Granny's.
"Perfect" said as he parked in front of Granny's "we just have to be careful about what we say about Emma, we don't know if she has a different name or..."
"I know, I was actually thinking the same thing. This town isn't that big, maybe we can look for ourselves first and then ask somebody if they know her"
"We haven't seen her in 15 years, we don't even know how she looks like"
"Oh, we will know when we see her, believe me"
They walked into Granny's and walked to the island.
"Excuse me?" Angelica asked Granny "I want to get a room at the Inn"
Emma felt as if her blood had turned into ice. She would recognize that voice anywhere. Her heart started to beat fast; she could've sworn that everybody in the dinner could hear it.
Emma turned around slowly afraid that if she moved fast she would wake up and realize that this was a dream. She finally turned and looked at the woman whose voice she knew too well. She looked exactly the same as the last time she saw her. She had black hair, light brown eyes, and a few inches taller than Emma. The woman turned and saw Emma and gasped. Their eyes locked on one another.
Thank you everyone for the reviews! I totally love reading them! The more reviews I read the more inspiration I get to write more! This was supposed to be a short story, I had the outline with what I wanted to happened and it was only 12 chapters, but then it grew bigger thanks to the nice feedback that I got... so thank you so much again!