Hi so here is another chapter, this one takes place in Storybrooke and is entirely from Giselle's perspective.

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Paradise Lost

Chapter 14-Aftershocks

As Giselle attempts to deal with the latest revelation and decides denial is the best option a spanner in the works stops that and forces her to make a decision that will forever change her life.

"Hope is the worst of evils, for it for it prolongs the torments of man" (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Storybrooke.

When Giselle woke up the next morning it took her a second to realise why she was on the couch in a house that definitely wasn't the one that she remembered. The sun was shining and her head felt like it was about to explode but she couldn't understand why she was in what looked like Emma's apartment in an old pair of pyjama pants and a top that looked like something that Mary Margaret Blanchard had worn.

And then it all came crashing back...

The lies, Hook being her father, the fact that he hadn't killed her mother after all, the fact that...that he had never come looking for her.

She didn't understand why she seemed to always come back to that fact but she did. She remembered what her father had said. "I never made it difficult for him to find you" or something like that, the Lord knows that Giselle had forgotten most of the conversation, other than the important bits.

She sat up wining as something in her back protested loudly. She did remember walking to Emma's apartment and then finally (after a beer that Emma had produced much to her mother's disapproval) telling the entire Charming clan and Henry what had transpired between her father and her the second Emma had left the shop finishing the entire sad story with the fact that she didn't know if she could go home for round two of the conversations at least (she thought privately) not with Belle there looking all concerned and fliting between her father's side and Giselle's .

Snow White had looked shocked and then had started to cook something saying that of course Giselle wasn't go back home tonight and that she could spend the night on the couch and any nights that she wanted and David Nolan, who had looked a combination between furious and shocked had offered to go and bring her some of her stuff.

Giselle had shook her head at that. A. She didn't want David Nolan going around her house if her father was in a mood and the magic was uncontrolled and B. She didn't want him to know where she was in case he came looking for her.

Therefore she had sat next to Emma at the dinner table, forced down a few mouthfuls of pasta and then collapsed on the couch exhausted while Henry was sat on the floor reading the book again.

"I guess that this explains, why you're not in the book" he said finally not looking up from its pages. "And I guess that explains why Captain Hook's not in it either" he shook his head. "What a waste of a good story" he said not looking up. Giselle stared at him. "Henry" Emma said sharply shooting her an apologetic look. "Let's leave Giselle alone"

Henry moved to go upstairs and Giselle felt the sofa bend a little as someone sat down on the edge. She closed her eyes. She didn't want to deal with Emma right now. She was grateful truly but that didn't mean she wanted to deal with the pity she was sure the blonde woman must be feeling for her. She didn't think she could stand it. Instead the scent of hot chocolate assaulted her nose. She opened her eyes to see David Nolan watching her with a small smile. In his hand was a mug of hot chocolate with cinnamon sprinkled over the top.

"Henry mentioned that you didn't like whipped cream" was all he said, Giselle stared at him for a split second and then took the mug to warm in her freezing hands.

"I don't know what to do" she said finally she could feel tears prick her eyes but she was determined not to let them fall. Perhaps David knew that because he slung an arm around her and pulled her close to his side. Giselle felt her eyes burn again despite David's shirt and her own hair covering her face. She couldn't remember being hugged like this, as if by a real parent. She had always assumed that her father loved her but even in both the Enchanted Forest and within the memories of her old life she could never remember having a hug like this. A hug where she felt like every single bone in her body was being warmed by it.

"This is what you're going to do" David said his voice gentle. "You're going to go to sleep and then in the morning we are going to go and get some things and you can spend the next few nights here" Giselle nodded and for once she allowed David to tuck her under the blankets as if she was a child.

There were some people she thought as she fell asleep, that were really meant to be parents.

And when she woke up here she was.

School was out of the question Giselle knew that, she already knew that Henry would have gone for his breakfast/hot chocolate with Ruby like he did everytime Emma couldn't keep her eye on him but she didn't think she was up to joining them.

"Hey" Snow White said gently as Giselle sat down at the table.

"I made you some eggs" she said gently sliding the scrambled eggs and toast across to Giselle. "I know you don't want to eat sweetie but you have to have something"

Giselle then felt her face crumple. Snow White stared at her for a second and then she moved across to the counter to wrap her arms around Giselle who shook a little in the older woman's arms. David curled one hand around her head a little.

"It's ok" Snow White said gently. "Let it all out sweetie"

Finally after what seemed like an age Giselle stopped shaking enough for Snow White to lean back and let her focus on her breakfast.

"Do you want to get some stuff from your fath...from Gold and then come back here for the rest of the day?" David asked gently. "Emma was called out early on a suspected Regina sighting and therefore won't be back until later"

Giselle nodded once. "If you don't mind me spending some time here" she said quietly. "If I go home..." she shrugged and David shook his head his hand cupping her chin forcing her to look up into those very attractive blue eyes. "You don't have to do anything that you don't want to do" he said his voice strong. "You can always have a home here"

Giselle didn't think that true but didn't want to get into anything with her head still pounding from all the information that she had received from the previous night.

"I'm gonna go grab some coffee and go for a walk before..." she gave another little half shrug and then turned her attention to her eggs. She could feel Snow White and her husband shoot a worried look over the top of her head.

"Have you given any thought about what you want to do about Hook?" David asked gently. Giselle paused her fork scooping up a mouthful of eggs.

"I haven't thought about it" she said truthfully. Her mind had been so locked on the betrayal that she felt and how it tied into her father that she hadn't given a thought to her other one.

Oh shit. Her other one.

Hook, Captain Hook. She had thought of him in the abstract she had never thought of him as anything other than the person in the background but now...now he was in Storybrooke. Cora obviously was if her father was right and he so often was. Archie turning up alive had disproved the Regina theory even if she was in hiding and Hook...he had obviously used his ship to get there. It made sense now. When she had been Scarlett Gold, the dreams about the Pirate Ship and the man on the deck.

"No" she said finally. "I don't know...what the hell am I supposed to say to him? What the hell is he supposed to say to me?"

Any forms of a relationship that might have formed...hell she had wanted to kill him once upon a long time ago and then she had backed out.

David smoothed a hand down her hair in an oddly comforting kind of way. "Giselle you take as much time as you need if he's a...decent...man" Giselle smirked as an undercurrent of disgust was to be heard in David's voice. "He will want to know you, he will have an explanation"

She nodded tuning back to her eggs and when she left to do what she had to do it was with something oddly horrific like hope bubbling in her stomach.

That was naturally dashed to shit and back the second she stepped into Granny's. She had planned on going to go and grab a coffee before she went back home, she knew it was almost lunchtime but she had used the shower and had slept for a little bit more. Henry she knew only had a half day due to the teachers still trying to wrap their heads around schooling so many different children from different backgrounds and abilities and therefore was coming home around lunchtime to spend the rest of the day with Emma. And so Giselle went in for a coffee and a grilled cheese and didn't think twice about it.

However she forgot all about Henry.

She knew the second that she had walked in that something was wrong. Ok so since she had been outed as the Dark One's daughter so to speak people had been ducking away from her a little. They had been doing that since she had been in Storybrooke thought, she suspected however that that was because she had been the daughter of the man that had controlled their rent with an iron fist. This today however, was just...strange.

The second she walked in the entire diner became shushed and then muted as if they were at the funeral of dear friend. Giselle sat down at the counter.

"How ya doing sister?" said a voice behind her and she turned to see Leroy...now Grumpy she supposed staring at her with sympathy. There was a pause where they stared at each other before Giselle shrugged. "Good" she said as Leroy took the chair next to her uninvited. "Really?" he said passing her the milk as without asking Granny came over with Giselle's black coffee that she hadn't ordered.

"If it was my life that had just been blown to pieces and back I wouldn't be"

Giselle stared at him horror forming an icy pit in her stomach. She had a feeling that she knew where this was going but she couldn't understand how.

"How..."

"Hook and your old man?" Leroy said guessing. "Henry told us, came in here and told us all about Captain Hook being your biological father and the kidnap and the murder of your mother and how you were hiding out at his place"

Giselle gazed at him blankly before an anger so strong it was unlike anything she'd ever known formed inside of her. She felt like her very skin was on fire. Certainly she had never felt like this before.

"I didn't want that shouted around" she forced out her hands clenching on her lap into fists. Leroy nodded soothingly his hand coming out to pat her clenched ones. Giselle was reminded of that night where they had all thought Kathryn Nolan was dead and Leroy had driven her home. There were sides to him that he didn't like shown.

"I know" he said heavily. "I don't blame you, Belle was in here a couple of hours ago..."

"Oh what the hell did she do now?" Giselle all but shouted her anger for one split second getting the best of her.

"Nothing" Leroy said thankfully not commenting on Giselle's bout of temper. "Nothing but she came in and told us that Hook was here, he has his ship on the docks cloaked in some spell. He had Archie that was how we all knew...anyhow she said your father turned up, there was a row, things were said, and he pretty much declared war"

Giselle grit her teeth.

"Leroy I don't want this story dragged around this town" she said finally. "This was my story, not Henry's so if you hear someone discussing the finer points of my life please kick them and hard"

Leroy let out a laugh that was distant memory when Giselle shut the door to the dinner leaving her coffee on the table. She was going to kill Henry, Emma and Regina be both damned.

She all but punched the door to the apartment and Emma opened it surprise flickering across her face when she saw her and probably her expression.

"Where is he?" Giselle asked pushing past her.

"Who?" Emma asked.

"Henry...Henry!" she yelled "Get your ass down here now"

"Hey..." Emma started and Giselle was well aware that she had an audience but she didn't care. She was too angry to give a shit about the Charming's right now. Henry had just appeared at the top of the stairs.

"Giselle" he asked bouncing down the stairs and looking thrilled with himself.

"Do you want to explain to me why the hell I went into Granny's this morning only to find out that you had told everyone about my private life over hot cocoa?"

Emma swore under her breath.

"It was your story" Henry said looking confused. "Everyone knows everyone around here and yet nobody seems to know you so I just...i wanted them to know you as more than Rumpelstiltskin's daughter"

Giselle forced herself to count to ten, she got to about four before she snapped.

"Henry that was not your story to tell, it was mine and I didn't want it spread across the town, I didn't want either one of my father's knowing where I was until I was ready to tell them. Everything I knew or thought I knew has just turned out to be a lie, I haven't even had the time to process it and I didn't need you pretending that this can be fixed!" she realised that she was yelling at the end of this and she turned to Emma.

"What are you going to do about this?" she said. Emma started.

"Me?" she asked and Giselle couldn't help but laugh at her look of surprise. It wasn't a good laugh either.

"Well Emma, as you delight on telling everyone, you're his mother, he's invaded my privacy, turned my life into gossip for fun and possibly put my life in danger to boot. You discipline him, a real mother would" she leaned close. "Regina would"

And with that she slammed out the door and onto the cold street before anyone could tell her that she was being unfair.

Stupid fucking heroes.

As she walked down Main Street thinking hard Giselle realised that there was one thing left to do. One thing that she realised that she would always have to do. See how, she thought bitterly, the other one lived. His ship was in the dock and this time her courage would not fail her. This time she wouldn't ride back pretending that she didn't need to know about him because she did need to know. She had always needed to know.

It was time to go and find Captain Hook.

And i hoped you enjoyed this little update and teaser towards the next chapter which will have what all of you have wanted for so long.

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Next Chapter-Giselle and Killian finally meet and Killian gains some perspective on the damage done to his daughter and takes the first step towards his revenge (entire chapter from Killian's perspective)

I will update as soon as i can.