Chapter 12: Falling staircases
Boston; Tuesday; lunch time
It's been a long morning at the police station, there was a lot of work to finish and a lot to start. Emma was with Laura for the day, checking out the closest nature park of the city. Just to check if everything was going well up there. But she couldn't get Mila out of her mind. Did Killian really tell her the truth? He said so, but she couldn't quite believe the man.
The blonde walked into the lunchroom, holding the brown paper bag for the two sandwiches and her bottle of lemon water. Yes, she always sliced up some lemon for her water, just for the taste.
"Oh hey Emma!" Mila kinda waved at her, trying to draw Emma's attention to the table where she was sitting at. Of course, Emma couldn't ignore her and came to sit along with the lady.
"Hey… How has your day been?" she said nicely, trying to hide the suspicious and mostly curious look on her face.
"It was good! Miss. Mills and I went out for coffee, she is amazing. And I needed to review my project for the lab with her. And what about you?"
Well how nice, she liked miss. Mills so her boss would probably like Mila too. Emma didn't have any chance with her, "Just going like it always goes, being a cop and keeping this town from being a big mess." Emma said opening up her paper bag, grabbing one of the sandwiches.
"Yeah a cop needs to do, what a cop needs to do right?"
"Kinda." And Emma took another bite of her sandwich, Henry made her lunch for today. He just wanted to be a sweet boy, and he was. Of course he made his mummy a peanut butter jelly sandwich.
"So, what do you mostly do out of work?" Mila asked her.
"Oh… Me? Well, just hanging around in my apartment. With my son, and my boyfriend." She took a short break, "Do you know him, Killian?"
"I don't really know him personally... He was in the same college as I was, it took me a bit to recognise him though."
Wow Killian actually went to college, and lied about not knowing Mila. Once again he lied to Emma, and yes she already knew he was lying... But still she gave him a second chance. Then why, why did he messed it up again? "Well that's a big surprise to see him then."
"Kinda yes." And Mila took a sip of her damping coffee. How many coffee did she drink in a day? Anyway, Emma still didn't trust her sayings. The young lady had this meaningful look in her eyes, like a thousand secrets were still unresolved.
"Well I gotta go, lunch break is over for me. It was nice speaking to you Mila." The blonde gave her a small smile, and Mila nodded at her while continuing her black coffee.
It had been a rough day. Filled with paperwork, problems to solve, keeping an eye on Laura and David... But most of all the weird conversation with Mila. Emma felt dizzy after all the information she adjusted today. She climbed up the stairs of her apartment, holding on to the steel bar aside the steps. Second floor... And the stairs became to see less sharp in her eyes. She rubbed them, her little bright blue eyes, but everything faded. She grabbed her phone out of the pocket of her red leather jacket, ready to call Killian.
"Swan, are you okay?" She heard far waag through the phone.
"Killian... I'm at the second floor, at... at the stairs. Please come, I don't feel very well." She said, grabbing the steel bar of the stairs just as before. It was like the staircase was dropping, and she was about to fall off them.
"Don't hang up on me, I'm on my way okay?"
"Okay..." And she slipped through the bar, letting herself fall but still holding on to the phone, "Gosh..." Killian heard through the phone.
"Em are you still there?" But the young man didn't hear a responding sound, so he rushed over to where Emma was laying on the steps, still holding on to the phone. He cancelled the phone conversation, and picked up his girlfriend to let her sit straight.
"Emma, Emma say something!" Killian yelled in a bit of a panic.
"I feel... Dizzy." She said as her boyfriend lifted her up, putting her arms around his neck and carrying Emma in his arms, up to the apartment. Henry was standing in the doorway, wondering what was going on with his mom.
"Henry call an ambulance, now." The kid didn't ask why, he just did it. Emma heard their voices from far away but wasn't able to respond. What did she do today? Just her normal work, she got coffee with Laura for lunch. But Laura got an office call, so Emma went to the lunchroom by herself where Mila was of course. Did she put something in her drink? Would she really do that? Emma didn't know, Emma didn't want to know. She just want to lay down her head and sleep, she felt like she needed it.
"Is she giving any response?" Killian asked the men of the ambulance.
"Her eyes are, she just cannot speak." The men said, trying to lift Emma, ready to take her to the hospital.
"Are you going with her Killian?" Henry said
"If you're okay with Laura in here for the night then yes. But only if you want to."
"I can handle that." Henry said to Killian. They mostly called Laura when they needed someone to look after Henry. And Henry loved it, as Laura played all the video games Henry wanted. And there was always popcorn involved.
"Don't worry about school Henry, I got you covered." Killian said rushing his hand through the boy's hair, calling Laura and jumping into the vehicle.
Killian looked at his girlfriend, her eyes weren't fully closed but he noticed she couldn't understand anything they're talking about either. The blonde got a blanket over her body, as she seemed to be ice cold. She could still hear everyone though, no one knew she could. But the voiced were far away. And how hard she tried to respond, her body denied.
