A/N: This is a really short chapter, but it seemed like a good place to take a break. Again, thank you for reading!
Chapter Two
As Killian made his way down the hall the banging continued and increased in urgency. Killian yanked the front door open, only to see that there was no one there. He stepped through the door in confusion; looking each way for the source of the banging.
"Killian?" Emma called from behind him.
"There's no one there, Love." Killian called to her, stepping back inside. They looked at each other in confusion until Liam knocked his bottle off the high chair, startling them both. Breakfast continued as normal for the family, but Emma and Killian couldn't help glancing towards the door from time to time.
"Can we go to the park, pwease?" Melanie begged as her mother wiped the sticky syrup from her little face and fingers.
"Yes, but you have to go brush your teeth first," Emma told her. As Melanie raced off to the bathroom, the phone began to ring.
"Hello?" Emma said as she picked up the phone. There was static on the other end and a voice cutting in and out.
"Why can't…." a sweet woman's voice cut out in the static.
"…..nothing I can do…Fight….themselves." A second woman said.
"Mom, please…." A young man's voice started before the line went completely dead.
Emma gasped and dropped the phone, tears in her eyes. Killian ran in from the kitchen, having heard the crash of the phone on the floor.
"What's wrong, Emma?" he asked, taking her gently by the shoulders.
"I….I don't know." She said.
"Why are you crying, Love?" Killian reached up to wipe the tears from her cheeks.
"Am I?" Emma said puzzled. "I, I don't know."
"Who was on the phone? What did they say, Emma?" Killian asked with concern.
"No one. A lot of static and, just some voices. One was so familiar though." She tried to wrap her head around what had happened. "It must have been interference with someone's t.v. or something." She said, trying to convince herself of what had happened.
"Em…" Killian started, not quite sure he understood what was going on.
"I'm Weady!" Melanie announced, racing into the room, her blue jacket on inside out and shoes unbuckled.
"Yes you are, honey." Emma said, tears drying up and the phone incident forgotten. She picked up her daughter, smiled at her and started over to Liam's play pen. Killian's eyes followed his girls on their way out of the room. He returned the phone to its stand and glanced warily at it. He frowned and tried to think about what had happened. Emma called to him from the other room breaking his concentration and he shook his head, sending one last weary look towards the phone before leaving the room to join the rest of his family.