AN: I do not own OUAT.
I hope you guys enjoyed the first half of Hat Trick. There is a lot that is going to happen in this chapter with an ending that will definitely make you have the feels.
This is the second half of Hat Trick, please make sure you tell what you think at the end of every Chapter. Ideas, questions, good job. Anything.
Chapter 14: Hat Trick Continued...
They had been driving down the dirt road for an hour now. No sign of Emma had yet been seen and it was killing him. He still called her every couple of minutes, texted her, everything he possibly could do. The rain was still pouring and the wind was picking up. He only hoped his Swan was alright.
"Alright, pull over. Now!" Killian exclaimed as he then waited for the car to come to a complete stop as he then jumped out of the passenger seat and into the rain.
"Killian, what are you doing? We're not going to find Emma like this" David said getting out of the car as well.
Killian looked up at the grey clouds above as the rain poured down onto his face. "Mate, if she was still here we would've came across her by now. She's not here!" Killian exclaimed before looking around. "I'm looking in the trees." He started walking towards the opening of the trees before David stopped him by his shoulder.
"Killian please, Emma wouldn't want you getting lost in there" David tried to explain to him. They had to find Mary-margaret and now Emma and they had no idea where either of them were. "Just...Just call her one last time before you go and get yourself lost."
Sighing, he pulled out his phone and pressed Emma's name one last time, looking over at David as he placed the speaker up to his ear. He waited and no body was picking up, just the ringing. And then he heard it. Was that Emma's ringtone? Narrowing his eyes he ran into the woods towards the sound until it stopped. He looked around and didn't see anything. He called once again and heard it. He ran as fast as he could until the sound was right under him.
Looking down he seen the phone. Her phone. "Swan! Swan! Are you here! Swan!" He called out but there was no answer. Looking around her, he seen a thick log that sat next to the phone. Examining it closer he noticed there was a little splash of blood. His heart started to race and his breathing was going out of control. "D-D- David! David!"
David came running as soon as he heard the man calling for Emma. He knew something was bad. "What is it?" Killian had his back to him but when he turned around he was holding a heavy thick log that had blood on the tip of him. He swallowed hard. Emma was in trouble. but where was she?
"Look, I don't know what you think you're doing, but if you hurt my friend I swear I will make you regret it!" Emma exclaimed as the man with the gun pushed her into a large room that had white carpet, red and orange wall paper and was well lit. There was a glass desk in the middle as well.
Jefferson slammed the door shut as he looked deep into her eyes and started slowly approaching her. Like he was a black panther that was about to attack his prey. "Hurt her? I'm saving her life."
Emma backed up as he approached her more and more until her back banged into the table behind her. "How do you figure that? She's tied and gagged while pregnant!" She questioned. She was frightened, her breathing was getting heavier. She was never in this situation and all she could think about was Killian and Henry. What would they do when she went missing? Would they find her here? Bleeding to death and staining the white carpet.
"Don't play stupid" He muttered so low his voice was the deepest she's ever heard. Deeper than Killian's. "We both know what happens when people try to leave Storybrooke." He stopped just in front of Emma. His face so close that when he spoke she could feel his warm breath going down her neck and down to her spin.
"What are you talking about?" Emma breathed.
"The curse" He told her seriously.
She looked up at him puzzled. Her face going straight and her breathing slowing down. "What curse?" Was he talking about the curse Henry was always going on about. He couldn't be, that was just something for a little kid to believe in.
"The one keeping us all trapped. All except that pirate of yours, because he escaped" Jefferson muttered.
"You've been reading Henry's book?" She asked. His book did go missing that one time. Maybe this was the man that took it, he's wearing all black and he's so far up in the woods no wonder they never seen him.
"Henry? You mean the Queen's father?" Jefferson asked.
Emma sighed, "Henry. Killian's son."
"Oh, Henry. Your son Henry and his book of stories, the ones that you choose to ignore" Jefferson said with a toothy grin. His grin was so big it was like the Cheshire cat.
Emma smiled and shook her head. "He's not my son, he just looks up to me as a motherly figure since he hadn't grown up with one, I guess" Emma explained to the man.
"That is where you're wrong Emma, the stories he told you are true. You are Snow White and Prince Charming's daughter. You and Captain Hook did have a son together" Jefferson explained, he had been watching her the passed couple of weeks since Regina had ordered him to get rid of her. But he noticed that her son was trying to make her believe and he knew that she had magic...he seen it. So instead of killing her, he was going to make her believe. "Maybe if you knew what I know, it wouldn't be this hard."
"What do you want with me?" Emma asked.
Jefferson rounded her and pointed the gun at her for a brief moment. "For the last ten years, I've been stuck in this house, day after day, always the same, until one night, you and Killian shared a moment in the station, and the clock ticks and things start to change." Jefferson stopped in front of his desk as he watched Emma slowly walk to the desk with a frightened look on her face. "You see...I know what you refused to acknowledge, Emma. Your special. There's something deep down inside of you - magic."
Emma took a deep breath as she listened to the story he was telling her. Magic? She never had magic. "You're insane."
"Because I speak the truth?" Jefferson asked raising his eyebrows at her.
"Because you're talking about magic."
Jefferson shook his head. "I'm talking about what I've seen. Perhaps you're the one that's mad." He slowly walked back over to Emma as she watched his every move. "What's crazier than seeing and now believing? Because that's exactly what you've been doing." He got inches away from her face once again. "Open your eyes. Look around. Wake up. Isn't it about time?"
"What do you want?" Emma asked looked into the mans ice cold eyes. But all she could see was Killian. She hopped he could find her before...before it was too late.
"I want you to get it to work" He said before he pushed Emma down into the chair making her grunt.
"You want me to make what work?" She asked in frustration. This man was talking in riddles. He was stubborn and frustrating. Then she noticed the hat that sat on the desk and her eyes narrowed as the man leaned down to where the tip of his lips were rubbing against her ear and his breath rode down her neck.
"You're the only one that can do this" He whispered as he rose his head and then placed his chin on her head in frustration. Gritting his teeth as his eyes burned at the hat. "You're going to get it to work."
"Killian! Killian listen to me!" David grabbed the man by his leather jacket, making him stop in his tracks. "We're not going to find her with you just walk off and not knowing where you're going" He tried to explain to him. They were both now soaked from the rain.
"Mate look! I can't have her get killed! I love her! She's Henry's mother! She's the only one who can help break the curse! Without her my entire reason for being here is gone!" He shouted in the mans face, everything come out. The truth.
David released his jacket as his eyebrows narrowed. "Curse? What curse? What do you mean she's Henry's mother?"
"I doesn't matter" Killian scuffed before he started walking off once again but was dragged back but David.
"Oh no, you're not getting out of this one that fast. Did you and Emma meet before?" David asked with a confused look on his face.
Killian shook his head. "It's kind of hard to explain mate. just forget about it."
"Killian no! Look listen to me. Every night I've been having these dreams it started off a couple of months ago when I woke up drenched after waking up from a dream about a siren in a magical lake. And then I had a dream about wake Mary-margaret up in a glass coffin. And just last night I had one where I was fighting a dragon and trying to put some poison inside of it...but they all seem real. Do they have anything to do with this curse you speak of?" David asked.
Killian looked at him and nodded slowly. "The Evil Queen ripped us all apart with her curse, bringing you all here."
"But you arrived here eight months ago with Henry" David said.
"Aye, that I did. When the curse hit I took Henry and we escaped together" Killian explained to him.
"And you didn't bother to take Emma?"
"I couldn't, we were told the wardrobe could only take two. So Emma couldn't move where she had just given birth, so I was told that I was the only hope yo get the child away. so I did " He explained to her.
David looked even more confused, "Wait...I don't -"
What sounded like two girls screaming off into the distance was heard, cutting off David. They both looked in the direction of the screams and hurried off in that direction just hopping it wasn't Emma and if it was she was alright.
"Make it just like that one" Jefferson demanded Emma places black fabric in front of her, on the table that had measuring tools and scissors.
"You want me to make a hat? Don't you have enough?" Emma asked looking around the room at the shelves with dozens of the same exact hat.
Jefferson walked back around the table and sat in the chair across from the blonde. "Well none of them work, do they? or else you wouldn't be here. Now make a hat and get it to work"
Emma looked at all the small tools. Picking up scissors that looked almost like something you'd use more for nails rather than making a hat. What was she suppose to do? "I don't -"
"You have magic. You can do it" Jefferson encouraged her as he sat in his chair watching her with eyes of a stalker.
Emma looked around and noticed a tea cup set in the corner of the room. Then she realized something as she looked all around her and it came to her. "The hats, the tea...your psychotic behavior. You think you're the mad hatter."
Jefferson grimaced at that name. The name that was given to him because he went insane in Wonderland as he was trying to make hats upon hats so he could get back home to his daughter. "My name's Jefferson.'
"Okay." Emma placed the tools and fabric she was holding in her hands back down and looked at the man. "You clearly glommed onto Henry's thing. They're just stories. The Mad Hatter is in Alice In Wonderland," A book. A book I've actually read."
"Story. Stories? Where do you think those stories came from? Imagination? Where does that come from? It has to come from somewhere" Jefferson scuffed as he rose his gun. "You know what the issue with this world is? Everyone wants a magical solution for their problem, but when they have the chance to believe, they don't, the refuse to believe. Now get it to work!" He exclaimed as he pointed the gun straight at Emma once again.
Emma sighed. She hated being face to face with that gun that in any moment could be the last thing she'll ever see. "Here's the thing, Jefferson, this is it. This is the real world-"
"A real world!" He butted in as he jumped up leaning forward on the desk towards the blonde. "How arrogant of you to think this world is the only one? You're not from here, Emma! You grew up in the Enchanted Forest! You have to open your mind, remember Emma! Remember that there are a long line of different realms, all lined up, each just as real as the last. Some have magic, some done...and some need magic, like this one" He explained as he grabbed scissors and pointed them straight at her. They were sharp. "You and your friend are not leaving here until I get my hat and it works!"
Emma took the scissors and started snipping away at the black fabric, not even knowing what she was doing. "And then what?"
Jefferson sighed. "Then I go home."
The night was getting old, morning was approaching and each passing moment was getting more and more frustrating. Jefferson sat at the desk watching Emma work as he placed his chin on the case he usually kept his hat in.
Emma stood up in frustration, slamming the hat and scissors back down on the table. "I can't make it work! what you're asking is impossible!"
Jefferson pounded his head on the case, he was going mad here. "No! It has to be! If it's not, I'm never going home! I'll be cursed to live in this house forever."
"What is so cursed about your life? This place is beautiful!" Emma exclaimed to him. He lived in a mansion for what she seen. In the woods where nobody would interrupt him and yet he was complaining.
Jefferson walked over to the window where he had a telescope set up. "It's cursed, because like everyone else here, what I love has been ripped from me! From us! Take a look" He said pointing over to the telescope watching Emma walk over to it and look inside.
She seen a beautiful young girl sitting at home, eating breakfast at the table with her mother and father.
"Her name is Grace. Here it's Paige. But it's Grace. My Grace. Do you have any idea what it's like to watch her day in and day out, happy, with a new family, a new father?" He said sadly looking out into the distance.
"You think she's your daughter?" Emma whispered. She felt pity for the man, he was absolutely insane.
Jefferson jumped in her face making her jump back also. "I don't think. I know. I remember."
Emma remembered the last words Graham had ever said "Make her remember" before he was gone. Before he died. This man remembered, what was there to remember? There was no curse!
"She has no idea who I am, our life together, where we come from. I do. That's my curse. What good is this house, these things, if I can't share them with her?" Jefferson asked sadly as he walked over and sat on the edge of the desk.
Emma walked up to him with confidence. No matter how scared for her life she was right now, she couldn't show it. "If you really think she's your daughter, why don't you reach out to her? Why don't you tell her?"
"And destroy her reality? I'm trapped by knowledge. How cruel do you think I am? You think I'd inflict the awareness on my daughter? It's hard enough to live in a land where you don't belong, but knowing it, holding conflicting realities in your head...will drive you mad" Jefferson said through his teeth as he breathed heavily, his anger coming through.
"That's why you want me to make the hat work, isn't it? You want to take her home?" Emma asked sadly.
Jefferson swallowed hard, the lump in his throat forming once again. "It's the one world where we can be together..." He chocked. "Where she can remember who I am."
Walking back over to the telescope she had one last look at the girl. She looked happy. "If I ever lost Henry...It would feel like my entire world would go crashing down."
"You know. You did lose him one time...the curse, after you birthed him" Jefferson explained the tales he had heard.
Emma looked up at him and smile with tears filling in her eyes. "That's what they keep telling me." If this curse was actually real, when it broke she would feel like the worst mother. She abandoned her child for ten years, he had no mother. She never got to experience the motherhood world...never heard his first words, his first steps, she even missed his first birthday and first day of school. She would have a sibling.
"This is all real!" Jefferson exclaimed to her.
"Maybe. Maybe it is" Emma breathed with a sigh as she looked up at the pitiful man.
"You believe?" He asked.
"If what you say is true, that women in the other room is my mother. And I want to believe that more than anything else in the world, I want to believe that Henry is my son. So maybe you're right" She said with a slight shrug of her shoulders as tears started to fill in her eyes. "Maybe I need to open myself up more. Maybe if I want magic I just have to start believing."
Jefferson nodded sadly as he looked down at his feet. "So...you're gonna help me?" He asked looking back into the sheriffs eyes with nothing but sadness. "You can get it to work?"
Emma nodded, "I can try." She seen the way her words lit something inside of the man. A small smile appeared on his lips and he was proudly walking back to retrieve the hat but before he even had the chance to get the hat in his hands Emma heard what sounded like somebody trying to fiddle with the front door locks. Killian? Before she knew it her hands were moving to the telescope and smacking Jefferson a long side his head, knocking him cold out. "That's payback, bitch!" She quickly grabbed the gun that he had stuffed in the back of his pants. Running out of the room she opened up the door that had Mary-margaret still held inside."I'm gonna get you out of here, he can't hurt you anymore!" She quickly started with the ties around the women's wrists, getting them undone.
"Emma look out!" Mary-margaret exclaimed as she seen the man running in after Emma and jumping on her, knocking them both to the ground. Her baby started to kick rapidly, seemed like something it was doing a lot of now. "Don't worry little one, mommy's got this" She whispered to her very active baby as she started to untie the ropes around her ankles.
Emma was now on the floor, she had dropped the gun on the impact of hitting the floor. She was now reaching for the gun. "Killian!" She screamed out hoping it was him down at the front door trying to get in. Suddenly she heard what sounded like somebody slamming all their weight against the doors.
"Swan!" Killian called out as he slammed harder and harder, not caring it was his bad arm.
"Killian!" Emma shouted again as Jefferson grabbed a hold of her hair and yanked her around as he picked her up and pushing her against a pile of black chairs. Before she knew it that gun was pointing right at her again as he bent down to pick up his hat and place it on his head as he showed off his neck this time. There was a thick scar the whole way around his neck. It startled Emma more than the gun did. What kind of accident would have caused that? It looked similar to the one she spotted on Killian's left hand a few times but didn't bother asking him too much about it.
"Off with his head" Jefferson said to her with an evil toothy smile before he was hit over the head with a chair and kicked against the wall by the pregnant lady hard enough that he was knocked out.
"Swan!" Killian shouted once again as he ran down the hall way he heard the commotion coming from.
"Mary-margaret!" David shouted after Killian as they both came to a room with both women and an unconscious man. "Oh my god, are you okay? How's the baby?" He asked placing a hand on her active stomach.
"We're fine" She said with a sweet smile.
"Well it's about time you guys showed up" Emma said with a smile before Killian pulled her into a warm hug and she collapsed into his arms as they both sank down to the floor. Holding each other.
"I'm so glad you guys are alright" He whispered into his princess ear as he pulled away and placed a soft kiss on her lips.
David looked over at the man that was now groaning as he started to gain consciousness once again. "Well, looks like somebody's going away for a long time! You put my wife and child in danger, you son of a bitch!" David pulled the man up by his collar and gave him a good punch to the stomach before taking out handcuffs and putting them around the man's wrists.
Suddenly the clock tower started to ring. Were they serious here for twenty four hours? It did not seem that long at all. Everybody turned their head to look at the clock off in the distance. "The arraignment."
"Come on, let's go! I have to get back!" Mary-margaret fumbled as she pushed passed everybody to get out of here. She had t do this to prove herself innocent or else her baby might not have a mother.
"She's right, come on" Emma rushed up holding onto Killian's hand as they left David to deal with Jefferson. They had to get Mary-margaret back before Regina got to the station for the arraignment.
Regina parked her car at the station parking lot. Getting out she noticed Emma's bug and the sheriff car were gone. She smiled at herself. Her plan worked. Mary-margaret left, they were after her and now they would have no other choice but to prove her guilty and send her off to a real prison. Walking inside she was confident, an evil smirk placed on her face. But then she seen a pregnant women in her cell, reading The Mirror. Her smile instantly faded.
"Good morning, Madame Mayor" Killian said coming out behind her a long with Emma and David with their arms crossed.
"Morning, sheriff. Deputies" Regina felt embarrassed so before she could even do anything she started to walk out of the room, wanting to leave.
"Uh, Madame Mayor, can I talk to you." Emma ran after the women as fast as she could making her stop in her spot and turn around.
"What is it Ms. Swan? You should be getting Mrs. Nolan ready for her arraignment" Regina stated firmly.
Emma smiled, "You mean the one she wouldn't have to do if it wasn't for you."
"Ms. Swan, what are you talking about?"
"Oh, come on Regina! We all know it was you that set her up! We all know it was you that put your skeleton key in her cell for her to find! We all know you broke into her house and planted that knife! But for some reason, you have feelings towards Mary-margaret, hate feelings...don't you?" Emma asked crossing her arms.
"It seems like you're just letting your feelings cloud your judgement once again, sheriff" Regina confessed.
Emma's eyes went wide, "Oh me? How about you? You have so much hate towards Mary-margaret that you're framing her for a murder, a murder that you probably did yourself!"
Regina walked closer to Emma with a smirk on her face, looking at her with cold dark eyes. "Really? Well if you're so sure about that, show me the proof."
"It's called, skeleton keys, and trust me when I say this Madame Mayor. I will find proof that will bring you down...soon you'll be the one behind bars" Emma said before she walked off back to her deputies with a big smile on her face. She finally stood up to Regina.
Emma and Killian had just come back from dropping off Henry at Ava and Nicholas for the weekend. They were both exhausted and just wanted to go to sleep, but one thing was tugging on Emma's mind. She was good enough for Killian, she never was. Why would he want her? They were always constantly battling against Regina and if they weren't they were chasing down drunks or kidnappers.
"Love, are you okay?" Killian asked as he turned around and seen her just standing and looking out at the Ocean. She didn't answer him. "Love?"
"Killian, I can't do this anymore," She started she a tear dripped down form her eye, "I don't deserve to be happy, my whole life has just been me, running away from being happy. I did horrible things Killian, I stole, I broke the law! You don't deserve me, you should just go."
Killian slowly approached her, "Emma...I love you for you, I don't care about the things you did before" The things you thought you did before "All that matters is now, everything else is in the past and that's where they stay."
Emma shook her head as tears started to streak down her cheek, "You should just go."
"No, Emma, I'm not leaving you." He stepped closer to her and tried to pull her into him but she pushed him away.
"Go! Now!" She shouted through her tears, "I don't love you!"
Killian looks at her, his eyes filling with love. He wanted her to see how much she meant to him. He knew she didn't mean it, she was just scared. She pushed him away once again and he felt sad...what happened to his beautiful Swan? He sighed and turned around to leave. But just as he was about to open the door, he turned around and stomped towards her. "No, I'm not leave Emma, and I never will. I'm afraid you're stuck with me lass." He quickly pulled her into his chest and held her tightly against him so she couldn't escape. She didn't fight it. She just sobbed into his shoulder as he rubbed her back.
"I'm so sorry Killian" She sobbed. She told him to leave and he didn't. He really wasn't going to give up on her no matter how much she pushed him...He really did love her. "I didn't mean what I said, I was just scared that I would end up getting hurt once again in my life. I don't want to lose you...I love you" She whispered as she finally started to calm down.
Killian looked down at her and kissed her forehead. "I love you too, and I always will. I'm not going anywhere, Princess"
So what did you all think? When do you think Mary-margaret will give birth? How do you think the curse will break? I want to hear what you guys think. I hope you liked it and enjoy reading my fic, and remember that id you have any ideas or want to comment on anything, just go right ahead. The second half of Hat Trick is now done! I hope you enjoyed it. Please Review. I promise to get the next chapter up as soon as possible.
Until next time. Chapter 15: Could This Be The End?