An: I do not own OUAT...but I wish I owned Killian ;)
I'm glad to see a lot more reviews came in for my last chapter and I also see that some of you guys had some questions and were confused on some of the things that happened so far, so I hope these answers will answer some of your questions.
Gues: Ella was Snow's age. But now she's 19. She she Alexandra in this story?
No she's not alexandra, when Regina cast her curse, it made everybody from the Enchanted Forest get fake memories, and also Ella got pregnant way later than what she did in the actual show so she also got a fake age. If you want to get technical I guess you could really say that Ella is in her early 30. The curse also made everybody like Charming, Snow, Ella, Thomas and etc look younger and that'll come up when the curse breaks.
Guest: Why does Regina hate Emma and not Snow? Was she Snow's step mother?
Regina does hate Snow (As you'll see in this chapter) She is still Snow's step mother.
Guest: Did Snow eat a poison apple and be awakened by Charming?
Yes, the story still fallows their story about how they fell in love. That'll be mentioned in the next chapter.
Guest: The prologue seemed to be the story of Snowing and you just changed it to Captainswan.
Yes, I did this because I wanted you guys to see what it would be like if Emma and Hook had to go through he same thing that Snow and Charming had to. I think it turned out pretty well.
Chapter 7: Jealousy Strikes The Heart
Emma laid down in the darkness of the night that surrounded her in the small space she called home. Shadows crept in the corners of the room, crickets were heard from outside, which was weird since Storybrooke never had crickets since recently. Her eyes stung from tears that would keep forming and the salt that would burn her eyes, she had tried all day, every day for the past two weeks to hold it in, but tonight she couldn't take it anymore. Graham had passed in her arms two weeks ago, right after an argument, it felt bad that she yelled at Graham a few moments before he died, but she didn't think anything of it, she was angry.
"Graham, I know you probably can't hear me, but if you can, I just want you to know that...I'm sorry, sorry for everything, I never should've gotten mad when I seen you sneak out of Regina's window, I guess I was just...jealous, and I should have never gotten mad when you returned back to town" Emma sighed with a soft smile, "I thought I had feels for you, but now it just feels like that feeling you get with a close friend. I have feelings for somebody else, Killian, he's smart, kind, sweet, handsome, everything like you," Emma chuckled softly, it was the first time she actually admitted to it and said it out loud, she had feelings for Killian Jones. "It's just um...I'm scared to get close to him, everybody I ever got close to either left, or well...died. He has a son, Henry, he's the cutest little boy I've ever seen, he seems so familiar, and something about him just ticks off in me whenever I'm around him. It's like what a mother would get for her children, I'm protective over the young kid" She sighed one last time before sitting up in her bed and looking out the window that was perched above her. "I hope you're in a better place now Graham. Goodnight" And with those last words she stared up at the night sky, looking up at the brightest star before laying down and going to the one place she didn't have to worry about anything. Sleep.
Mary-margaret got into her classroom early today, the sun shone brightly over the town and bounce off the tall glass windows that went ceiling to floor in her class. The winter birds were chirping, which made Mary-margaret even happier, she loved the songs that nature provided.
Taking out books from her bag that she had brought home the day prior she laid them down on her desk. She had a lot of grading to get done within the next two weeks. There was only two weeks of school left before Christmas break started, which meant she would finally be able to kick back and relax. With only being a couple weeks pregnant, she was already tired, she didn't know how she was going to be able to do it for nine whole months, or until she decided to take maternity leave.
"Mrs. Nolan" Regina spat, clearing her throat as she walked into the cluttered classroom that had books scattered everywhere, papers thrown on every surface and bright, colorful paintings on every wall. Her face turned dark as she spotted the dark haired women, she hated her. That bitch stole her chance at one true love and all she wanted to do every time she seen her was rip her heart out and crush it to dust right in front of her. She regretted all the times she had the chance but never did, she didn't know what it was that held her back, she just wanted to see Snow White suffer. Once she had found out about that little brat Snow had given birth to, she felt even more alive with anger, Snow White had everything, A kingdom that loved her, a true love, a child, everything.
"Oh!" Mary-margaret jumped, she never even heard the women come in. "Uh… Madame Mayor, may I um, may I help you?"
Regina smirked, "By dropping dead" She said to herself. "I'm here about your new student...Henry" She said placing her hands to her sides as she stepped in front of the women she hated the most. The women the curse was meant to hurt.
Mary-margaret placed a book on her desk and narrowed her eyes, why was the mayor asking about Henry? "Oh, what about him?"
"Just, how's he with the other kids? What are his hobbies? Does he seem like a troublesome kid?" Regina asked, placing a hand on her hip.
Mary-margaret thought the mayor was just simply trying to learn more about the new citizens in her town, she was mayor after all, it was her job to know. "Well, Henry is a very unique, very smart kid but so far he's been very lonely, instead of hanging out with other kids he stays behind reading this book about fairy tales, they give him hope he says, hope that someday he will have a family" She said with a smile.
Regina nodded. That book was what was going to make her curse break, what was giving the boy all the answers. She had to get it for herself and get rid of it. She couldn't have Snow White and her family of fake princes and brat child win again, not this time. Gold wouldn't even help her so what would she do this time? She couldn't put Mary-margaret in a sleeping curse by a poisoned apple, she had no more magic left, she put it all on that apple she was trying to make Ms. Swan eat. If only Snow White didn't tell her mother about her secret lover, then she wouldn't be in this mess right now! She wouldn't have wasted years of endless torment trying to kill Snow White, she would be happy with Daniel, maybe even have a child of her own, but that was no longer possible since she drank that potion after her own mother tricked her into finding love once again with the wrong man.
Regina scoffed, "Family, What about his father?"
"As you may know, his father is all he has, he wants more, he wants a mother" Mary-margaret said as she started to feel nauseous, putting a hand over her mouth to stop anything from coming out.
Regina noticed how the short dark haired teacher in front of her turned to the side with her hand over her mouth and her arm crossed over her stomach. One of her eyebrows rose up, confused on the gesture.
"Oh, sorry Madame Mayor, just a little morning sickness is all" Mary-margaret explained as she took a deep breath to control herself.
"Excuse me?" Regina arched a brow again.
"You haven't heard?" Mary-margaret asked as she got a dirty look from Regina, "Of course you haven't, well me and David are...having a baby."
Regina's face went dark as her mind went blank. No, it was already happening, Snow White was getting her happy ending. Shit! She had to get out of here, she had to stop it, she needed to figure out everything that Henry knew and find a way to stop it. Yes that is what she would do, she just had to find Henry.
After a long pause of silence Mary-margaret noticed that Mayor was starting to back up into one of the small desks that were set in small rows in the class. "Madame Mayor, everything alright?" She asked with concern in her voice.
"Oh, so now you're concerned about me!" Regina said to herself, "You didn't seem to be concerned about the consequences of telling my mother about Daniel!" All she ever thought about was how she watched her mother crush her true lover's heart in front of her until it was nothing more than just dust. Ever since that day she wanted her revenge, revenge on Snow White and her family. She tried the sleeping curse but that was broken by true love's kiss, then she tried to threaten the kingdom's lives for Snow to step down as Queen, but Snow fought against her. Once she even tried to steal the newborn princess away and keep the infant until Snow and Charming stepped down as the rightful rulers but she failed. Lastly was her threat, the one that would have the princess have sleepless nights and endless torment of the safety of her unborn child, she vowed to take away the happy endings and that's exactly what she did and exactly how she was going to keep it.
"Delightful" Regina said with a blank face before turning around, "I have to go, have fun with the brats" Regina snarled as she starting walking out the classroom, knocking down a pile of books that had been on the edge of one of the tables.
Killian sat at his desk, watching his nephew snack on the pop tart that Emma had given him that morning. The pop tart had a bite taken out from it, obviously Emma was starting to get a little annoyed at how little effort Will would put in when she tried to talk to him about breaking into Granny's, which had happened three weeks ago, you'd think he would give up by now. He caught eyes with Will for a few seconds and decided to walk over to the cell, he couldn't obviously still not want to talk to him, right? At Least that's what he kept telling himself, just to feel better.
Emma was looking through the Alice In Wonderland book that Will had on him when they had arrested him, searching it with a fine tooth comb, wondering if there was anything inside that could tell her what he had been doing or was planning to do at Granny's. The lose of Graham had really took her emotions to a sharp turn. Lately she hadn't been getting close to Killian, she had been trying to ignore him as much as she could, she didn't want to get close to him now, especially after a man she cared for had just died in her arms. There were times when David would leave early to go check up on Mary-margaret and her and Killian would be left alone, those were the awkward moments. Killian had tried to talk to her a few times but she would come up with a lame excuse saying she was busy or making him go for a coffee run. She frowned, she was pathetic.
Killian had tried to get Will's attention by whispering his name, trying to talk to him without anybody hearing. But Will didn't want to talk to him. "Look, mate, I don't want you in here anymore than you do. So, if you want to get out, just tell us why you broke into Granny's drunk off your arse with Alice In Wonderland" Killian spoke firmly with an arched brow and left hand in pocket. Once the curse was beginning to weaken the feeling in his left hand had started to disappear, he could barely feel a pinch now.
Will scoffed and shook his head, "Like you care."
"I care more than you think" Killian spat back. He had a son now, he now knew how Liam had felt over Will...how he should of felt over Will, but he didn't long ago. But now he did, he cared about Will and he wanted him to be apart of his family once the curse broke, perhaps even before. He waited for a reply, waited for almost a full two minutes but without getting any response he turned around and started walking back towards his desk.
Will watched his uncle slump back into his chair with his feet up, he rolled his eyes. "Alright fine!" Will spat immediately as he flung out of his cot and marched over to the cell bars where he placed his hands on the cold dark metal. "Me father, he had passed away some time ago, and me guess me never fully got over it, so me was feeling very much down that night and decided to open up a bottle of whiskey. Before me knew it, me was picking the lock to Granny's and tumbling inside."
"And what about the book? Not every day that a grown man reads a child's fairytale" Emma asked, hearing the entire story from her office. She picked up the book and placed it in front of her face for her prisoner to see.
Will shrugged, "Reminds me of an old friend."
Emma nodded as she started flipping through pages, "Would that friend be Alice?" She joked showing a page of a sweet young blonde girl in a sky blue dress that just reached past her knees.
Killian noticed the pain behind Will's eyes, not the pain he seen when they were having their argument over what Killian did all those years ago. This pain was something else, the pain he seen in his very own eyes each morning he looked in the mirror after losing Emma.
"Can you let me the bloody hell out now?" Will asked harshly.
"I don't think so" Emma chuckled stepping out from her office, "Just because you told me about why you broke in doesn't mean I'm lettin you off that easy...mate...you still broke in, and you still have to do your time."
"Oh bugger off!" Will spat.
"Hey! Don't speak towards the lady like that!" Killian spat up. As soon as he got the words out he immediately felt guilty, that wasn't going to make Will like him again, that would just push him away.
David got up and walked over to Killian, not wanting an argument to break out in the station between prisoner and deputy. "Hey, don't worry, he's not worth it" He whispered into the other deputies ear as he placed a hand on his shoulder.
Emma watched the two men whisper in silence as Killian controlled his anger that had sprung to the surface. She sighed, it's not like she wanted to ignore him, she just couldn't lose him and if she never has a real relationship with him then she won't lose him because she wouldn't have anything to lose. She frowned, no she had everything to lose, she would lose a love, a friend, everything, she would lose her everything. Killian was her...everything. It was weird to say it, but that's how she felt, that's what she thought she felt at least.
Killian cleared his throat, not knowing if he was welcome in her office or not. Their relationship was confusing all the time. One minute they're good friends, the next their kissing and flirting with each other and then the next they're ignoring one another because it's just too awkward to be around each other. But he loved her.
Emma's eyes glared over to the tall dark handsome man that stood leaned up against her door frame. Gods did she ever want to kiss him right now.
"I'm going to Granny's, want anything?" Killian asked.
"Oh, um, I'll just take my usual...thanks" Emma said with a fake smile.
Killian nodded as he left, heading towards the entrance of the station. It was snowing outside, the cold breeze was getting stronger and stronger everyday. It wasn't as cold as Boston's winters but it was still pretty cold, cold enough that the roads would freeze over night and small icicles started to form on the edges of roofs. He decided to walk, clear his head a bit from everything that had happened in the last two weeks.
David watched as Killian left the station, immediately spinning his chair around in a complete circle and staring at her until she noticed.
Emma looked side to side, she felt the eyes that stared deeply into her soul. "Can I help you David?" She asked.
"Why have you been avoiding Killian?" David asked placing his hands behind his head, leaning back into his chair. He had grown to like the man more and more each day, but it seemed like it was the complete opposite for Emma, she was pushing him away.
"What do you mean? I'm not" She said to her deputy as he then raised both his eyebrows at her, telling her that he knew she was lying to him. "Alright fine...I just...Graham died in my arms just two weeks ago, a man I cared about! Everybody I've ever trust left and abandoned me! I grew up alone, if I got close to him...He would eventually be like everyone else and just...disappear" She said bowing her head down as she closed her eyes to hold back the tears that were starting to sting at her eyes from the memory of her dying friend in her arms.
David stood up, approaching her and going to sit on the edge of her desk. He put on his stern parent face that he had gotten use to using on her a few times before. "Emma...Killian isn't like everybody else, he actually seems like a good man, you said so yourself. He cares a lot about you, I can see it in his face, he wants to get close to you but he's scared you'll just push him away. Killian won't die in your arms, he won't abandon you like everybody else has and he definitely won't leave you alone" He reassured the grown women he looked down too as a daughter, although he wasn't even old enough to be her father. Twenty two.
Emma smiled weakly, she wanted to believe him, one half of her did and the other didn't. How would she know for sure he wouldn't abandon her, she did trust him, she really did, but she was wrong once before about Graham. "But Killian isn't Graham" She kept telling herself. "And just a few weeks ago you were trying to keep me away from him" She said shaking her head.
"What can I say, me and Killy got bromance going on" David joked as he chuckled.
"Killy?" Emma rose an eyebrow.
"Oh yeah, I tell you, if you don't hurry up and give him a chance I will" David said wiggling his eyebrows as a joke as he made the blonde laugh, he loved seeing her happy.
Regina walked down the sidewalk, confident smile spread across her face. She was going towards the school, a plan in mind on tricking Henry to show her the book. She would act kind and sweet to him, pretend she wasn't the Evil Queen that she feared he knew her as. What was she saying, of course that little brat knew, his father was Captain Hook and he had given Ms. Swan pages from his book.
By the time she had gotten to the school all the kids were gone except for one kid in particular. Henry. She approached the young man with a wide friendly smile on her face. Huddling her jacket closer to her petite body as the cold winter breeze swept over her.
An ambulance was suddenly heard off in the distance. Good that was one down, one more to go.
"Henry" She called out in her most friendly voice with her smile still on her face. She hadn't been this nice since...well since she rescued that no good for nothing Snow White from her run away horse.
Henry looked up from the bench that he sat on outside of the school. His father was suppose to have picked him up half an hour ago and he still hadn't showed up yet. Henry thought he was just running late. "Oh, hi" Said Henry, not sounding very pleased to see the women in front of him.
"Where's your father? School ended half an hour ago?" The mayor asked, pretending to feel concerned, even though she knew exactly where the pirate was.
"Um...he's running late" Henry lied, he really didn't know where he was.
"Is that so? You'd think he would make sure to pick up his son" She said, trying not to sound to much like a bitch.
"He's been very busy lately, with his job and other personal things" He replied back to her, looking down at the closed book that was held tightly in the palms of his cotton mittens.
"Well, until he arrives, how about I stay here with you, keep you company" Regina stated as she walked over to the bench and sat down, placing her hands in the deep pockets on her long coat. "So, what's that?" She asked as she nodded down at the brown leather book.
Henry looked down into his hands, "Oh, it's just my book, something to do I guess, not very interesting" He lied, he couldn't tell the truth, not to her at least.
Mary-margaret was getting ready to leave the school and go home. She had her long grey coat on, her blue crochet hat and a pair of blue mittens on her delicate hands. The snow was starting to fall harder by the minute and all she wanted was to get home to her Prince, snuggle up next to a fire and drink a nice hot mug of steaming hot cocoa. When she stepping outside after finding her keys in her purse, she seen that Henry was still here which was strange since Killian had usually come to get him by now and if he couldn't he would get Ruby, Emma or David to pick him up. Regina was with him. She pulled out her cell phone and quickly dialed a number.
"Emma, hey, is Killian there?" Mary-margaret asked once the sheriff answered her phone.
"No, I haven't seen him since he left a few hours for Granny's, why?" Emma asked as she bit down on a blue pen. The pen broke and ended up spraying all over white blouse, causing her to curse out loud and David to burst out laughing.
"What's going on over there?" asked Mary-margaret as she listened to the rescue and watched Regina sweet talk Henry.
"Just a small accident" Emma said trying to whip off the ink but only making it worse, "Shit!-Anyway, why you asking about Killian?"
"Henry's still sitting outside waiting for him to pick him up" said the teacher as she watched Regina tap on Henry's book.
Emma sighed, "Alright, I'll be there in a bit, watch him for me." Hanging up the phone she pulled on her red fleece jacket, grey wool hat, and a pair of thick wool mittens to keep her hands warm. Her nerves started to go off, it wasn't like Killian to just vanish in mid air, and she knew that he wouldn't abandon his son. Where could he be? It's been three hours since he had left.
"Where you off to?" David asked, spinning around in his chair as he seen the blonde rushing to get out the door.
"Mary-margaret just called, said that Killian didn't pick up Henry today so I'm going to get him" Emma spoke as she went to grab her keys that she had flung in the top drawer of her desk this morning.
"That's not like Killian, he hasn't returned back from Granny's either" David spoke, starting to get a little worried.
"Looks like pretty boy got into some trouble" Will spoke from his cell, giving the deputy and sheriff a smirk as they looked at him.
Emma tried to ignore the man as much as she could, but it was hard, she was really worrying. "Alright, well I'll be back in a bit, watch the station while I'm gone and keep all eyes on our smart-ass prison here." And with that she stepped out the door and into the cold air, going into her big and driving off towards the school.
Regina had been sitting with Henry for almost ten minutes now, she hadn't noticed the teacher that was hiding in her car, she was too busy on trying to let Henry she her his book. "So, how about while we wait, you show me your book."
Henry looked up at the Mayor, he knew she was trying to trick him into letting her see the story. "Why? It's just an old book about fairy tales, nothing special" She said.
"I've always been interested in fairytales, I like to think that they're trying to tell us something" Regina said sternly.
"Yeah, like you're the Evil Queen that sent everybody here in a curse for you to get your happy ending" Henry muttered under his breath.
"Excuse me?" Regina asked raising an eyebrow.
"Oh, nothing" Henry said, "If you want to hear a story, I have a great one" He had an idea, "Once Upon A Time, there use to be a vengeful pirate that cared about nothing more than to skin himself a crocodile, but one day when he was helping out the Evil Queen's mother retrieve a magical compass that would let her go or do anything she desired he came across a beautiful princess, her mother and her mother's friend. At first the pirate and princess hated each other, couldn't even be around one another without picking up a fight, she even tied him to a tree and let him almost get eaten by ogres. But as time went on and that pirate went against the Evil Queen's mother, he found himself falling for the princess each and every day so when he finally got the courage to tell her, he found out she felt the same way. Many years later they got married but their wedding was interrupted by the queen, threatening to take away their happy endings and that's exactly what she did, once the princess had given birth to a baby boy a curse was coming, so the pirate took his son and escaped to a world without magic to return ten years later and save his family!" Henry spat in the woman's face, it was her fault he didn't have a mother.
Regina's friendly smile went to a evil smirk, she knew it, this little brat and his guyliner father were trying to break her curse, "You won't break it Henry...atleast not now anyway."
"What is that suppose to mean?" Henry's face fell, the way the Mayor spoke was dark and eerie, almost like something you'd hear out of a horror movie.
"You'll see" She smirked.
"Henry!" Emma shouted from across the street as she seen the Mayor sitting with the young boy. Something inside of her clicked, it was like a rage of protectiveness, like she had to protect Henry, it was almost like a motherly feeling.
Henry glanced once more at the Mayor, giving her a cold dark look of his own, telling her that he wasn't afraid before he ran across the street, almost slipping on ice as he got to the passenger side of the yellow bug that was parked alongside the road.
"What was that all about?" Emma asked as soon as the young dark haired boy got into her but, she wanted to know what the Mayor had said to her...Killian's son. The only feedback she got was a small shoulder shrug, that made her even more suspicious. As she looked back across the road, barely seeing anything from all the snow that was starting to fall, she noticed that the Mayor had vanished, no longer there. Suddenly her phone rang as an ambulance went swooping by towards the hospital with it's lights on. She didn't recognize the number, "Hello, Sheriff Swan."
"Ms. Swan, we're afraid to alarm you but it seems that your deputy Killian Jones has been in an accident, we think you should hurry down here, we usually don't like to discuss things over the phone" The women on the other end said.
Emma's face went blank and everything around her, every noise, every object, every moving car suddenly stopped. Killian got in an accident, the only thing she could hear was the vibrating of the other woman's voice on the phone. Without even responding to the women she hung up, fastened her seatbelt and stepped on the gas, not caring about the icy roads, she had to get to the hospital and see what was wrong with Killian. The worse just kept playing in her mind, what if it was severe and he didn't survive, she would lose him. A single tear started to stream down her cheek as she wiped it away.
"Is everything alright?" Henry asked as he held tightly onto the seat, confused on what was happening.
Oh shit! She had been thinking so much about what could have happened to Killian she forgot that Henry was in the car. How would she explained to a ten year old that their father was in an accident. "Um...Henry, your father...well...um...there was an accident" She spoke as she tried to hold back the lum that was formed in her throat.
"Is he alright?" Henry asked, not caring about anything else.
"I hope so kid" She didn't want to say yes because if he really wasn't then that would kill him, he wa too young to understand.
By the time they arrived at the hospital the sun was almost under the horizon, the sky was a mixture of purples, blues and blacks. Emma immediately dashed out her big and ran inside with Henry in tow. Tears had formed in her eyes and her heart was pounding out of her chest, her breathing even got heavier, she was panicking.
"I-I'm here about...K-Killian Jones" Emma said trying to catch her breath.
"Ms. Swan right?" The main desk lady asked as Emma nodded, "Alright well, it seems that Killian had been walking across the street and was struck by a black mercedes, doctors are doing everything they can to stable him, but when they made it to the sight he had already lost a lot of blood."
Emma's eyes suddenly started to fill up as the women spoke, "Is he going to survive?"
"Like I said, doctors are doing everything they can right now" She spoke, she could see how glassy the woman's eyes had gotten and then she seen the young boy run in behind her, "Oh, and paramedics found this on him...thought you might like it" She went threw a drawer and pulled out a small yellow post it note and passed it to Emma.
"Is my father alright?" Henry asked looking between the nurse and Emma with nothing but concern in his eyes.
Emma pushed the yellow note inside the pocket of her fleece coat, walking slowly over to the boy and kneeling in front of him. "Henry...your father is being well taken care of, doctors are doing everything they can to help him out alright" She said holding the boy's shoulders firmly as she watched the tears swell up into his eyes.
Henry was scared for his father's life, what had happened? Was he ever going to make it? This was the Evil Queens doing, he just knew it! It seemed weird how she just suddenly shows up when his father went missing, trying to get close to him. Tears started to pour down his face and Emma wiped them away with her thumb. He fell into the woman's arms, wrapping his own around her, his grip was weak, he was weak. "Is he...going to...die?" Henry asked through tears.
Emma squeezed the boy as tightly as she could, placing her hand at the nape of his neck, "Your father is a strong man Henry, he will get through this, he will fight, because he needs to come back to you, to me...to everybody that loves him." She pulled away, looking into the boys emerald green eyes that were strangely the same shade as hers, "He's a survivor." She whispered pulling the boy in for one more quick hug.
"I'm here for Killian Jones" A feminine voice said from behind the embracing mother and son.
Emmas eyes went dark, that voice was familiar, too familiar. Letting go of Henry gently and standing up she seen the women. Madame Mayor.
The day had spread into night and the hours seemed like centuries as Emma sat with her face in her hands and the feeling of David's hand making small circles on her back. She had called up David and Mary-margaret when she had found out about Killian asking to come to the hospital after explaining everything to them. Henry had sat next to Mary-margaret, looking over the pages in his book of Captain Hook, his tears dripped down onto the page, Emma wondered what was so important about that book.
Regina had gone to get coffee after she had kept yawning, she was going to stay at the hospital until she was informed on what happened to Killian. If he died or if he survived, if he survived, well then she would have to go down to Mr. Gold's Pawnshop and swear to him that he had not hitten him hard enough.
"Emma it's alright, Killian will get through this, he's a strong man" Mary-margaret told the blonde that sat next to her, sniffling from all the crying.
"I know, but what if he doesn't what if he…" She stopped, she couldn't bare to make Henry worry even more.
"Well, if that happens then know that me and David will always be here for you" She said comfortingly.
Emma looked to the small boy that sat two seats away, "What about Henry?"
"We would all help out Henry," David said, "But we can't think about that until we know for sure what's going on."
Emma nodded her head and took a deep breath. She was over worrying herself, but she didn't care,all she cared about was Killian surviving and being able to tell him how she felt, she had to now, after almost losing him.
Mary-margaret had noticed how Regina was watching Henry from across the room, it worried her on how obsessed she was with the boy and his father. "Um, Emma...can I speak to you in private?" she asked.
"Sure" Emma breathed out as she picked herself up with her remaining strength and walked over to an empty area, where nobody could hear them, "What is it?"
"Do you know why Regina is even here?" She questioned.
Emma shook her head, "I don't know, when I picked up Henry at the school Regina had been there and when I found out about Killian I rushed to the hospital and she showed up shortly after."
Mary-margaret's eyes narrowed, "This morning she showed up to my class and started asking questions about Henry and Killian."
"Like what?" Emma suddenly felt the same rage she had build inside her when she seen Regina sitting with Henry on the school bench.
"Asking about his hobbies and if he was a good kid and stuff" Marry-margaret informed her, "I just said that he was a good student and that he was unique."
Emma nodded as her eyes narrowed, "Well, thanks for telling me." She stormed off into the waiting area where everybody else was. Mary-margaret went and sat next to Henry, trying to distract the boy from everything that was going on. "Regina can I talk to you?" She asked as the Mayor looked over and got up, smirking as she walked around the corner where Emma had been waiting for her.
"Reading your book again I see" Mary-margaret said as she sat next to the young tearful boy. The only response she had gotten was a slow nod. "What makes this book so special? I'm always seeing you around with it."
Henry looked up at the short haired raven teacher, he knew he could trust her but he was scared, what if Regina found out he told her and then went after her? Well she wouldn't if she didn't know. "Um...can I tell you a secret and promise not tell anybody?" He asked, wanting to make sure he could trust her.
"Of course, what is it?" She asked narrowing her eyes.
"Everybody in my storybook is real, they all live here in Storybrooke" Henry said.
"Oh really? And who my some of them be?" She asked thinking that the boy was only playing with his imagination.
Henry flipped to a page of a Queen and King with a Pregnant Princess and Pirate, "This is you, you're Snow White and David is Prince Charming, you're also the mother of Emma, she's married to Captain Hook who is my dad."
"Oh, Henry, this is all incredible" She said with a soft smile on her face, playing along, not wanting to hurt the boy more by telling him that wasn't true.
"What is it you want Ms. Swan?" Regina asked as she turned the corner, placing a hand on her hip.
"It's come to my intention that you suddenly have an interest in Henry" Emma stated firmly.
"Well, as Mayor it's my job to know everything about my citizens" Regina informed.
"Oh really? Or are you just some crazy psychopath bitch" Emma said getting into Regina's face, "It's awfully strange how you showed up to the hospital only minutes after I just found out about Killian."
Regina raised her eyebrows, "Are you saying that I had something to do with what happened to your secret lover being in the hospital?"
"Secret lover? Killian is my deputy and if I find out your intentions towards Killian or his son will cause them any danger then you better know I will lock your ass up faster than you can say Madame Mayor" Emma threatened about to walk away.
"May I inform you Ms. Swan that you are not Henry's mother, he is not your son" Regina spat back to the women.
"Yes he is! He is my son!" Emma shouted that it made made all the doctors and nurses look over at her.
"Oh really? So you gave birth to him? You raised him from the day he was born? You endured every tantrum and changed every diaper and healed every scrape and bruise?" Regina asked. Emma was silent and just looked at her, "Exactly Ms. Swan you are not his mother, you just met him three weeks ago." She said as she then walked off, giving the sheriff one last look before going and sitting in her seat.
Emma watched as the mayor walked off, she was right, she didn't raise Henry, she never changed any diapers or endured any of his tantrums or even healed any scrape or bruise, she wasn't his mother, but she felt so close to him, she felt the pull that a mother would feel towards her own.
"Ms. Swan?" A nurse came in to the waiting room.
Emma stepped around the corner and rushed over to the nurse, her heart had suddenly started beating ten times faster. "Yes? That's me, is Killian going to be alright?"
"Doctors say that he is now stable, although his heart rate isn't as high as it should be and his blood flow is still declining a little bit, those could change in a matter of minutes, we could lose him or he could be well and healthy tomorrow"
"C-can I see him?" Emma asked, seeing how Henry was still busy with Mary-margaret and didn't even notice the nurse that came in.
The nurse nodded and brought Emma into a small room. The room only had a chair in the corner, machines, and bed and the man she was hoping would be alright. Limp in his bed and unctuous.
Emma slowly walked over to the side of the bed and looked down at the man who looked like he was beaten with a metal pipe. His face was cut and bruised, and his left arm was wrapped in a cast, the nurse said it was broken, he looked helpless. "Killian, I'm so sorry, I should have never been avoiding you the past two weeks, I was just scared, scared of losing somebody else that I cared deeply for, but it seems like I'm too late and I already did lose you," She spoke as the tears started to come, "Ever since you and Henry arrived I've had this feeling that I knew you before, there's this pull that just pushes me towards you, I can't stay away, I want to protect Henry from the world" She said as she sobbed. Her legs grew weak and she suddenly fell down to the floor as she gripped onto the man's cut hand. She wished he would squeeze back but there was nothing just the motion of the blankets going up and down from his breathing.
She reached in her pocket for something to wipe away the tears with but then felt paper, remembering the note the nurse passed her. Taking it out she turned it over where she seen Killian's hand writing, I will not give up on you, I will fight until I have you once again -Killian, That made Emma smile. "I won't give up on you either, Killian" She whispered to herself as she suddenly felt the energy to pick herself up and look down at the man's face once again. "I love you" She whispered as she then bent down and placed a soft and gentle kiss on his soft lips.
Suddenly the machines started to beep, going crazy, making Emma back up. She didn't touch anything and she was getting nervous and scared.
Dr. Whale ran into the room immediately with a crew of nurses behind him. He rushed up to Killian and looked up at the machines. "This is very unusual in somebody that has this much damage to their body. His heart rate is going back to normal and his blood flow is evening out" Dr. Whale said.
"What's happening?" David asked as he rushed into the room with Mary-margaret and Henry.
"His heart rate and blood flow is going back to normal" Emma said as she gave the group a smile.
"So, my dad's going to be alright?" Henry asked.
"If his heart rate stays normal and everything goes smoothly then yes, he should be fine, although it may take him some time to wake up" Dr. Whale explained.
Emma kneeled down to Henry and grabbed him into her arms, feeling the warmth roll off of the boy's body, everything was going to be alright, her Killian was going to alright.
Hope you all enjoyed this chapter. If any of you are confused Emma is twenty eight as her cursed age but her real age is eighteen. If you have anymore questions or are confused please ask me so I can explain. Thank you, tell me what you thought of this very sad and depressing chapter.