Here's chapter three!

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Chapter 3

"Before we can forgive one another,

we have to understand one another." - Emma Goldman

Knocking harshly on Emma's front door Killian calls her name. He can hear two people talking inside when he presses his ear against the glass window, it sounds like Henry and her. "Emma, unlock the damn door." Killian rattles with the handle until he feels the metal come loose, allowing him to push the door open and step inside, his brother right behind him.

"Killian, what a lovely surprise." Emma's voice is low and sharp. She knew Killian would be the one to show up and try to stop her from doing something she'd regret, he always does.

Killian steps forward to the kitchen where Henry sits and Emma mirrors him from across the table in her own seat. When Killian reaches the boy he puts a hand on Henry's shoulder giving him a reassuring squeeze. "You alight lad?" He questions looking him in the eyes searching for something that says, please help me, but Killian finds nothing. He hates it when Henry gets mixed up in Emma's games. Henry is a tough boy but he's still a boy. Killians come to know Henry more than he thought he ever would these past few weeks. They'd been spending a lot of time on his ship. Henry always finds ways to talk about Emma but he also talks about other things. School and his friends, asking for advice with girls, always thing's you only share with people you trust. Killian would go as far as saying Henry's like a son to him. He'd protect the boy with his life if it ever came to such things.

"Regina showed up but she used magic to take her somewhere, I don't know where though." Henry tries to explain.

"Where is she?" Killian questions Emma who rolls her eyes and stands from her seat.

"I can't have you barging into my home and asking all the questions now can I. It's my turn." She gives that smile that makes Killians blood boil. "We have a guest that I haven't been properly introduced to." Emma saunters toward Liam but Killian blocks her path stepping between his brother and her.

"Please, do you really think I'm going to hurt the man I spent so long trying to bring back to life?" Emma chuckles, her eyes fixed on Liam.

"These days I wouldn't put it past you." Emma's eyes flicker to Killian's. A flash of pain he wasn't supposed to see is quickly hidden when she smiles.

"Killian, it's all right." Liam says placing a hand on his shoulder. It's not all right, he has no idea who their dealing with. He doesn't know who Emma really is. The first impression his brother will have of the woman Killian loves isn't really her. Taking a breath Killian steps to the side clearing Emma's path. Killian can see the curiosity boiling in the Dark One's eyes. She stops in front of Liam and a smile reaches her lips that makes Killian's stomach twist. It's Emma's smile, it's not tainted with darkness or full of deceit. It's pure and It's the real her. It's the smile that made Killian's heart flutter the first time he'd seen it and continued to do so when he had a courtesy of being the cause for it.

"Hook has told me lots about you." When she speaks her smile is gone and replaced with an eager look, but Killian barely notices for his mind is still focused on moments before, on her smile. It amplifies Killian's desire for who she used to be.

Killian watches the two closely, the idea that she would hurt Liam does sound ridiculous. She brought him back for a reason, that reason wouldn't be to just kill him. Seeing the two together is surreal. How has this become Killian's life, his brother and lover in the same room. It's a possibility he would have laughed at not long ago. There used to be nights that Killian would spend in his cabin where he imagined what it would be like to introduce Emma to his brother. He never imagined it like this. He never thought he'd be trying to find hints of Emma through a mask she wears to make herself seem unwavered by her emotions, but Killian knows better than that. He spent so long breaking down those walls of hers that he can see though almost everything she does. He knows her better than he knows himself, or at least he used too. She's changed so much from the woman who kissed him in Neverland so long ago. He misses her, he misses every part of who she used to be.

"All good things I hope." Liam chuckles. Killian knows it's a nervous laugh. He'd grown up with the man and even if it was centuries ago he's still able to see through his nervous tics as if they were his own.

"Of course." Emma glances in Killian direction.

"How did you do it?" They turn to Henry who had been silently watching the events unfold before him.

Emma smiles and holds out her hand showing the room the object wresting in her palm. When Killian sees the ring attached to a long chain he resists the urge to snatch it from her. That ring had been the one Killian found himself clutching onto for support, until he met Emma.

"My ring?" Liam questions.

"I thought I lost it in Camelot." Killain voice is hoarse at first but he quickly clears it. He now has his brother beside him so why does the ring still have such a powerful affect on him?

"You gave it to me, to keep safe." Emma explains as Killian looks deep into her eyes. His chest tightens. He had been planning on giving it to her for a while but he never found an opportunity that gave him the courage to do so. Something big, besides Emma becoming the Dark One, must have happened in Camelot in order for her to have it. "You can have it back now." Emma pushes her palm toward Killian but he doesn't reach for the object. He gave her the ring for a reason and until Killian finds out why she'll keep it.

"Keep it." Killian tells her. The moment seems too intimate to share with Henry and Liam staring at them. Emma's eyes flicker to the ring when she closes her fingers around it, a small smile finds the corner of her lips. "Well, you've met Liam so where's Regina?" Killian questions

"She's safe." Emma glances to the door leading down to her basement suggesting that Regina's down the steps. "In there." Emma explains. She turns her back to everyone and gives a small cough into her hand. Killian furrows his brow knowing what she's probably found in her palm.

Killain feels his brother clutch onto his shoulder, when he looks at Liam he looks a bit woozy but recovers almost instantly.

"You won't hurt her?" Henry asks standing from his chair and walking toward his mother who pins around to face them, her composure having found itself once more.

"Of course not." Her tone doesn't sound promising.

"What do you want with her." Henry looks at Emma and she looks anywhere but back at her son. Having Henry question her actions must be painful. His trust in her has never wavered until now. She could always count on him to believe in her actions and the things that motivate her to do what she does. Now everything he says seems like a test she's been given to prove herself to her him and so far she hasn't passed any of them.

"Nothing that she can't recover from." Emma promises, though it doesn't exactly settle Killians nerves.

"That doesn't sound promising Swan." Killian finally steps in.

"She'll be fine." Emma insists, her voice thick with annoyance. "I think you've all overstayed your welcome." She flicks her wrist and Killian's vision is clouded with a grey smoke. When it's cleared he finds himself in David and Snow's apartment once again. Henry and Liam appear shortly after.

David sighs at the sight of them. "I take it that went well." Sarcasm thick in his voice.

"Come to torture me?" Regina spits at Emma who found herself in her basement once she'd forced her guests to leave. Her stomach turns thinking of the look in Killian gave her. He doesn't trust her anymore, but he will. They all will understand, eventually.

"Of course not." They all seem to think she's become an evil torturer now. If only they could see who she really is. She doesn't do these things out of joy, she has her reasons. Most of which are focused on Killian. She's caused him to much pain in the past, torturing him with uncertainty of their future together. Of course now that she can't have it, she wants it more than anything. It's too late for her now and she needs to fix it. Killian deserves a better happy ending than one she could ever give him, that's if she still means that to him. The idea of him not wanting her anymore makes her stomach twist and chest tighten. She isn't his happy ending anymore, all she can do is help him reach the one he deserves. "I need you to do something for me." Emma explains stepping toward the metal bars that stand between Regina and her.

"Like I'd do anything for you, Miss Swan." Regina glares leaving a stinging feeling in Emma's chest.

Ignoring Regina's refusal Emma places her hands in front of herself forcing The Dark One's Dagger and Excalibur to appear in her hands. She looks to Regina to see nothing in her eyes but confusion. "I need you to make these blades whole."

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