Here it is! The second chapter of the story! Today we are going to Neverland and we learn more about Emma and Killian there! Thank you for the great reviews!
Enjoy!
Neverland
Emma could swear to anyone that she was officially done with Neverland. After almost dying on Hook's ship, she had to fight with the Lost Boys, met Peter Pan and now had to admit in front of everyone that she was nothing more than a Lost Girl herself; an orphan. She just wanted her boy back and to get the hell away from that island and everything that was linked to it.
For the moment, though, she was in the forest thinking about everything that had happened in the last forty-eight hours. She told her parents that she wanted to be alone, so when she heard steps behind her, she prayed to every God that was out there listening, that it wasn't Mary Margaret or David. She turned her head to see who the intruder was and almost rolled her eyes when she saw Hook coming from 1behind the trees.
"What are you doing here?" she asked him as soon as he saw her.
"Sorry, love. Didn't know you were here," he said softly.
"Really?" she said, not believing him.
"Yes, Emma," he snapped. Then he saw the rejection on her face and he immediately regretted it. "Sorry, I'm not really myself tonight."
"Something happened?" she said, signaling for him to sit beside her.
"Neverland happened," Hook said, taking out his flask.
"Must be hard for you to be here again." Emma took a sip from the flask and then gave it back to him.
"Not as much as it is for you, I imagine. After all, your child is here somewhere."
"Thanks for the reminder," Emma said, taking the flask from his hand again.
"That's not what I wanted to say, love. You'll get your son back."
"How do you know that?"
"You are a mother. Mothers can be very determined when it comes to their children. Regina is also his mother and let's not forget that she was, not so long ago, THE Evil Queen. Both of you have the ability to turn this place upside down in search of Henry."
"Thank you. For this and for bringing us here."
"It was the right thing to do," he said without another word.
The silence started to fall between them when Emma remembered something.
"When you came back to Storybrooke with the bean, you said something like 'maybe I needed a reminder that I could'. What did that mean?" she asked him, looking into his eyes.
"You told me back at Granny's that I could be a part of something. Maybe I just want that. To be a part of something."
"You know, that would mean giving up your revenge on Rumplestiltskin."
"I know. I sort of did that when he came to my ship and I agreed to let him stay there until we made it to Neverland."
"Will you ever tell me why you hate him so much? Because I know it's not just about your hand."
"I am going to tell you, Emma. One day. I will, I promise. But this story needs more rum than this flask has in it and a lot more free time," he said with a soft smile on his lips.
This time, another silence fell between them, but it was a comfortable one. Emma was lost in her thoughts when she yawned out of nowhere.
"You should go to sleep," Hook said when he saw her.
"I can't. I hear them," she said without telling him who she could hear. She hoped he understood anyway.
"I know, I hear them too," he said gently.
"Another long story?" Emma asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Yeah, something like that."
"Go to sleep, Emma." Hook said when he saw Emma's eyes almost closing, followed by another yawn.
"I told you, I can't sleep."
"You just have to imagine something that makes you happy. Think about your boy, your home."
"Think of happy thoughts," she said, even if she knew Hook wouldn't understand the reference.
"Exactly."
"Okay. I should go take your advice and try to go to sleep."
"Good choice."
"Are you coming?" she asked when she stood up and saw that Hook made no move.
"I am going to stay here for a few more minutes."
With one more look at him, Emma left the clearing and went back to their camp. She saw Mary Margaret and David on a cot talking quietly, while Regina was on the other side of the camp leaning against a tree.
Without another word to anyone, Emma sat on her cot and closed her eyes thinking about her discussion with Hook from earlier. She wondered about his quarrel with Gold, wondered why he heard the cries of the Lost Boys. Pan said that only those left behind as children could hear the cries. Was Hook an orphan too? Were they so alike? Would Henry hear the cries? After all, she left him behind when he was a child. But he was raised by Regina, he was loved by Regina, even if he thought she hated him. But he was alone now. He didn't know they were there looking for him. He might think they left him all alone on Neverland.
She fell asleep that night thinking about Henry and what would happen to him if he stayed in Neverland much longer and, at the same time, she fell asleep thinking about Hook and the many questions she had about him.
The following days in Neverland were a nightmare for everyone. Pan taunted them by playing games while the Lost Boys were waiting to attack behind every tree. On top of that, Neverland's heat was making them all crazy.
They found Neal's old cave thanks to Hook, but they couldn't understand the map Neal made to get out of Neverland. For that, they needed Tinkerbell's help.
Emma still believed that everything was crazy. She still waited to wake up one morning and realize that she was back in Storybrooke and everything was a dream because things certainly looked like a dream. Neverland, Peter Pan, Lost Boys, Tinkerbell, these were all things she dreamed about when she was little. Now she was there and the place was nothing like the movie version or even the cartoons. The place was, as Hook had said so many times, a hellish place.
She still didn't know what to think about the fairy. First, she attacked Regina because apparently they already had history together. Then she refused to help them because they didn't had a plan for leaving Neverland after they got Henry back. Finally, the thing that annoyed Emma the most was that she flirted with Hook. Tinkerbell flirted with Hook a lot. She didn't know where these feeling came from, she shouldn't feel like that. But she did, and seeing Hook with Tinkerbell made her question their relationship.
"What was that?" she asked Hook as soon as Tink left them back at Neal's cave.
"What was what?" Hook asked with an eyebrow raised.
"You two." Emma said, pointing towards the direction Tink left.
"We know each other very well," he answered simply.
"How well?" she asked with even more curiosity.
"You have no reason to be jealous, love."
"Oh no, I'm not. I just want to be sure that there aren't certain things to distract you from our true mission here."
"There aren't. Tink is not a distraction for me. Even if there would be something to distract me, trust me Emma. I would still care about getting Henry back."
From that moment, Emma understood that Hook had no wish for his relationship with Tink to be in their conversations again. In fact, he made it very clear that there wasn't any relationship to talk about.
Still, Tink wouldn't help them as long as they didn't have a way off of the island. Between finding Tink, finding a way off of the island, and looking for Henry, there were also the Lost Boys who were a royal pain in the ass and who attacked them every time they got close to their camp.
For instance, they were so close to their camp at the moment, she could actually see the Lost Boys and Pan. She was looking for Henry when some of the Lost Boys attacked out of nowhere, forcing her to move her eyes away from the camp. She still tried to look towards the camp while she was fighting with the boys but it was hard; one punch in the face, one look at the camp, a sword hitting an arrow, another try towards the camp, a right hook and a raised leg with a hit in the stomach, but the camp was now empty.
She stopped her attacks to take a better look, to make sure that she was seeing right. The camp was empty, the Lost Boys gone. Same with Pan. Henry was most likely gone too.
She couldn't believe it. She swore in that moment that she'd kill Pan next time she saw him. In that moment, she didn't care about the Lost Boys who were still attacking them; all she cared about was Henry. She was so caught in the moment that she didn't see the boy coming at her, or launching an arrow towards her. All she heard was her name being screamed and when she turned she saw a body on the ground.
Storybrooke
Ruby tried over and over again to find out who the man Milah was looking for was, but with no knew for sure that Milah hadn't had much luck either. She was now on her way to the library to talk to Belle because if there was someone who could help her doing research about someone from the Enchanted Forest, that would be Belle.
"Belle, are you here?" Ruby asked when she entered the library.
"Yeah! Be there in a second!" Ruby heard Belle yelling back.
"Hi!" Belle said a few minutes later while coming towards her from behind a door with a few books in her hands.
"Hey," Ruby smiled at her.
"How are you, Ruby?" Belle asked, putting down the books.
"I'm fine. I'm here with a little problem," Ruby said, walking towards the table Belle occupied with her books.
"Oh? What happened?"
"Someone came into town, Belle."
"What? When? How did that happened?"
"I don't know. Yesterday. She's looking for a man. I tried to find him, but I couldn't. That man is not in Storybrooke, Belle. I need your help," Ruby said very seriously.
"Okay. What should I do?"
"Help me find out who this man is?"
"Okay, but first I need to know who she is." Belle said, taking out a few books.
"She said her name was Milah Spinner."
"What?!" Belle yelled, dropping the books on the table.
"What? Is there a problem?"
"That woman's name is…?"
"Milah? Why?"
"Milah? Ruby are you sure her name is Milah?"
"Yeah. I asked her myself. And then Granny asked her. Her name is Milah. Why Belle?"
"Milah is the name of Rumple's first wife."
"Mister Gold?"
"Who is she looking for?"
"She said he is tall, has dark hair and blue eyes. Oh! And his name is Killian Jones."
"Ruby?"
"Yeah?"
"That's Hook."
"No. She said she's looking for Killian Jones. Hook is… Hook? Why would anyone look for him?"
"Ruby, it makes sense. Milah is looking for Hook; tall, dark hair, blue eyes. That's him!"
"I think she would mention a missing hand if she was looking for him."
"Ruby, think about it! Hook is not in Storybrooke at the moment. He's in Neverland with the others. That's why you couldn't find him."
"But, why would she want to talk to him if you said she's Gold's wife?"
"I don't know exactly. Rumple never told me too much about her, just that she was his wife and Bae's mother. I mean Neal's, and that she left them."
"Well then, we just have to ask her."
So what do you think? Is Milah looking for Killian? And what happened in Neverland?
Let me know what you think, I am really curious!
