True Love Will Prevail

Chapter Two: The Audition

"Ugh" she groaned looking out the window. "Another wonderful day in Los Angeles"

Emma had been in LA for as long as she could remember. She had been given up for adoption right after she was born and she had been in and out of the system ever since. On her eighteenth birthday, she decided to finally move out of the home she had been staying in. She starting working at a diner near her apartment and with the money she managed to save, she enrolled in some acting classes. She had always loved acting. During her high school years, she had always been involved with the theater club and all the plays they did.

After a long list of failed auditions, she finally started getting some roles in commercials and small TV shows. Eventually, she had enough to hire herself a decent agent, which she knew would be an investment that would help her move up in the Hollywood scale.

That is how she met her manager and now best friend, Alex. He was really good at his job and always did a great job with Emma's schedule and auditions. She had tripled the amount of auditions she was going to and now, she actually had parts she could choose from! Alex really admired Emma as an actress and as a person. They knew everything about each other, and knowing how hard her life had been, he thought it was incredible that she was never willing to give up her dreams.

And that much was true. Emma was strong-minded, loved a challenge and she never gave up when it came to something she wanted.

That morning was pretty relaxing for Emma. She didn't have any auditions scheduled so she had the whole day off. She got up from bed and checked the time on her phone. It was already 10:30am, a pretty late morning for her. She walked over to the kitchen, running her hands through her messy hair, and started making herself some coffee. Meanwhile, she hopped into the shower, following her morning routine. She decided she was going to use her day off and get some exercise done.

She got out of the shower, slipped into some comfy workout clothes. She then headed to the kitchen and poured herself a cup of hot coffee.

"Mmm, coffee is always the best thing of my morning routine" she thought as she took a ship. In that moment, she heard her phone ringing back in her room. It was Alex.

"Hey babe" Emma said picking up the phone to an excited Alex.

"Emma, I have the best news for you" he said.

"What is it?" she asked wondering what kind of audition he had managed to get her into this time.

"How does being the main female lead in a movie sound? They said they have seen some of your work and they would love for you to audition"

Emma's mouth dropped open. The female lead in a movie! This would be the biggest project for her up until now.

"Are you being serious right now?" she asked still a little bit in shock.

"You know I wouldn't joke around with this" he said.

"Oh my god, Alex. This is huge!" Emma said excitedly. "What's the movie?"

"Well, lets meet for lunch and I can give you all the information and the audition script" he answered.

"Always leaving me hanging" she said jokingly. "Let me know when and where you want to meet up and I will be there"

"Perfect, this is going to be great Emma" he said "See you soon"

The minute he hung up the phone, Emma squeaked and started doing a little dance around her kitchen. She had been waiting for her big break for so long and now she was confident, no matter what, that she would get this part. This was going to be it.

Her hone rang a few minutes later, just as she placed her now empty mug in the sink. It lit up with the address to a salad bar restaurant downtown. Typical Alex, Emma thought, always sticking to his healthy diet. She had to meet him at 12:30, so she had an hour before she had to be there.

It was going to take her at least 30 minutes to get there so she decided to get ready. She went into her room and grabbed a thin wind-breaker from her closet to put over her tank-top. She then went into the bathroom and continued with her morning routine, washing her face and finally brushing her teeth. She took a look in the mirror, while she brushed her hair, and she decided she was going to skip the make-up. It was good to appreciate a natural look from time to time.

With a huge grin on her face, she grabbed her car keys and headed out the door. Her next-door neighbors were out taking a walk; she waved at them as she got in the car. "Good morning Mary Margaret, morning David" Emma said. The couple waved back, smiled and kept walking.

She closed the door, started her car and begun her drive to downtown LA. Her eyes were brighter than they had ever been before and she couldn't stop smiling. She knew all her hard work was about to pay off.

Killian woke up to the sound of his phone ringing. He groaned and turned around in bed, burying his head in his pillow, hoping whoever was calling would take the hint. Unfortunately, they didn't. A few seconds later his phone started ringing again.

He rolled back and grabbed his phone picking up. "Who is this and why are you calling me so early" Killian said. His voice was deep, and his words came out slow. You could tell he had a rough night.

"Killian" said the voice on the phone. "It's noon, please tell me you are not still in bed"

"Of course not" Killian said still a little bit hangover. "So, who is this?"

"Sean, your agent" he said frustrated. "Jeez Killian, you need to get your act together. I understand that you got your heartbroken, but it's been a few months and you can't keep going down this path! You are losing all your audition offers and if you don't get serious again you will be out of the business before you can realize it"

Killian sighed and sat up in bed. "I'm sorry I'm such a disappointing client" he said rolling his eyes.

"I'm not just your agent, I'm your best friend" Sean said firmly. "Now do you want to get up and come meet me for a late lunch or are you going to make me come to your house and drag you out of bed?"

"Fine, I guess I'll get up" Killian whined. "I'll meet you at the Starbucks near your office, I need coffee"

"You better be there" Sean said. "See you in an hour"

Killian hung up and placed his phone back on his nightstand. There he saw a glass of water and two ibuprofen pills on top of a post-it note. He took the pills with some of the water and then read the note.

'Call me, 231-516-7754, xoxo Melanie'

He crumbled it and threw it across his room. He knew Sean was right. He had to turn his life around, but it was hard when he had nothing worth his while. Still, he got up, taking off the little clothes he was actually wearing on his way to the bathroom and got in the shower.

Fifteen minutes later, Killian came out of the shower with a towel wrapped around his waist, drying his hair with another. He threw it onto his bed, leaving his hair spiked in all directions and went to his closet. He grabbed a pair of clean boxers, some black jeans and a black button up and got dressed.

He then walked back to his nightstand and opened his drawer, putting on his signature rings. He went to the bathroom once more, run his hands through his messy hair to make it look decent and picking up his cars keys, which were still laying on the floor, he headed out.

Killian was a very successful actor, but he had no close family to share his life with. Coming from a rough start when he was a kid, where his foster family couldn't afford much, he had grown up to be very responsible with his money. But at the end of the day, he was still a man whom, from time to time, liked treating himself; so, a few years ago, he had made the decision of finally getting a convertible Porsche. That car was his baby.

Once outside, he opened his garage door and hopped over the door of his car; opening it was overrated. He grabbed his black RayBan sunglasses from the center console, put them on and drove towards Sean's office. Living in LA, where it was always nice out, driving around feeling the air through his hair was one of his favorite things to do. Fifteen minutes later he was parking in front of Starbucks.

Sean was already waiting inside, sitting on one of the side tables with two coffees. Killian took a seat in front of him. He was still wearing his sunglasses.

"Here, I ordered you a coffee" said Sean pushing one of the cups towards his friend. "Black"

Killian smirked. "So, what was so important that I had to leave my comfortable bed"

"I got you an audition for a movie, and given the fact that you have messed up most of your auditions for the past few months, I think you should really consider it" Sean said giving Killian a serious look. "I meant what I said this morning, if your behavior does not change, you career will be over before you know it"

"I know, I know" Kilian huffed. "so, what is this audition"

"It's for a rom-com, You're the One, it's supposed to be a big hit" Sean said. Kilian took his glasses of and raised an eyebrow.

"A rom-com? That's what you want my next project to be?" he answered. "No way"

"We don't have many options right now Killian" Sean said. "Please just promise you will at least go to the audition"

"Fine" Killian said as he rolled his eyes at Sean.

"Okay so tell me more about this movie" asked Emma as she got ready to take a bit of her salad.

"It's a rom-com, You're the One" Alex said taking the script out of his bag "The audition is tomorrow at 5pm, and guess who you are auditioning with for Male Lead"

"Who" Emma asked interested.

"Killian Jones" Alex said giving Emma a wink.

"The Killian Jones?" Emma said perplexed.

"The one and only" said Alex. "voted Sexiest Man of 2018"

"Well this just keeps getting better doesn't it" said Emma laughing. "I will make sure to go over the script tonight, thank you so much Alex"

"Anything for you dear"

After they had finished their lunch, they parted ways for the day. Emma went on to the gym as she had planned earlier and then headed back home. She took a shower and got herself into some sweatpants and a comfy shirt.

It was nearly dinner time, so she decided to order some chinese food and started reading the script as she waited. It was actually really good, and she was growing more excited about the audition the more she read into it.

A few minutes later, her doorbell rang. She got up to get her food and headed back to the couch. She turned on the tv; the movie 'Hook' was on. For some reason, Emma had always enjoyed fairytales. Before she realized, she had fallen fast asleep.

When she next woke up, she was still laying in her couch. Her clock read 11:30pm. She groaned as she sat up. The script on the table reminded her of what Alex had said.

"Killian Jones" she whispered to herself. She grabbed her laptop from the table and opened up Google. She looked him up.

The first thing that came up were a few articles about Killian. 'Killian Jones goes out of control after break-up with two-year long girlfriend"

Emma took the bait and started reading into it. She learned that he had been dating this girl, Milah, for two years until he found out that she had been cheating on him all along. It seemed that he had spiraled out of control after that. Emma felt bad for him. No one deserved to go through that.

There was a picture of him earlier that year attached to the article. He really is devilish handsome, she thought. And with Killian in mind, Emma closed her laptop and headed to bed. She couldn't wait until tomorrow.

The next morning Emma woke up, following her usual morning routine. She had not been able to stop thinking about Killian. Those ocean blue eyes had been stuck in her mind since the night before. The rest of her day went by painfully slow. Eventually, when it was time to go, she changed into a pair of jeans, a black shirt and her lucky red leather jacket.

At the same time, Killian woke up decently early. He read over the script that Sean had handed him the day before. It really wasn't as terrible as he thought it would be. But either way, he still had no high hopes that he would actually go through with taking the part if he got it but he had promised Sean he would go.

Killian's morning was pretty relaxing. Having an audition really didn't alter how he felt. Acting always came natural to him, so nerves were not an issue. An hour before he had to be on set, he started getting ready. He wore another pair of black pants, a white shirt and a black leather jacket. Of course, his rings were not missing.

Exactly at five later that day, he drove into set ready for his audition. One of the directors was already waiting for him.

"Killian! I'm glad you came" he said "Emma Swan is already waiting for you inside"

"Emma Swan?" Killian asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yes, the actress auditioning for the female lead" he answered leading the way inside, where Emma was patiently waiting.

She was standing with her back towards the door, taking deep breaths, trying to get her nerves calmed down. She didn't know if she was nervous about the audition or meeting the man she had dreamt about the night before.

"Emma, we are ready for you guys" said the director startling her. She turned around and there he was. Standing right before her.

He was even more handsome in person. She was speechless, and for a few seconds, they got lost in each other's eyes. Killian was speechless too and the nerves started to creep up. This is weird, he thought. It was different for Emma. Looking into Killian's eyes, her anxiety washed away and felt confident. She felt safe.

He then realized he was staring and straightened up. Trying to be civil, he stretched his hand out to her.

"Killian Jones" he said with a shaky voice.

Emma took his hand and the minute they touched, she felt sparks rush through her. And from the look on his face, Emma knew he had felt that too.

"Emma Swan" she answered.

And in that moment, Killian grew very interested in getting the part and working with Emma. There was something about her that drew him in; something that made him feel like it was part of his destiny to get to know her.

A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed this, let me know how you feel about this chapter and if you would like me to continue with the story!, I'm not getting a lot of feedback so I don't know if I should stick with this story or try something new! Their journey begins now, long live CaptainSwan!

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