Note: This is my second chapter to A Travelling Love. Emma is now back in town and she is reunited with everyone else.
As Hook sailed away, Emma regretted every single thing she said to him. She shouldn't have pushed him away. She shouldn't have been so stupid. She acted up and now he was sailing away, taking his love with him. She was still thinking about Hook when she just about ran into Henry.
"Oh. Hey kid." Emma said smiling. This was their first chance to really catch up since no one felt like talking on the ship on the way home.
"Where were you?" Henry gave a questioning look and raised his eyebrows. By now, pretty much the whole town had gathered for the return of Neal and Henry.
"I was just—" Emma was thinking of an excuse when Dr. Hopper gave her a look of warning. "I was just making sure Hook set sail safely." Emma quickly stated. It wasn't a lie. Emma looked to her right and saw Snow, Charming, Ruby, and Regina. To her left was Henry, Neal, Dr. Hopper and all of the dwarves. Belle and Gold had gone to his shop for their catching up.
"Emma." Emma looked over and Neal was already looking at her. "Can I, uh, talk to you alone?" He had a defined 5 o'clock shadow and was wearing a long coat and a scarf. His bullet wound was still healing but it wasn't getting worse. They went to Granny's restaurant, which was vacant.
"What is it Neal?"
"I wanted to tell you that… that I'm still in love with you. Leaving you was so stupid. When I said it when I was falling through the portal, I wasn't lying."
"I wasn't lying either," Emma said quietly. She didn't know what she was supposed to do. Hook was gone and she had deep, true, feelings for Neal. Did her real love lie with Neal? She knew that Henry wanted them to get back together ever since he found his father in New York, but Emma knew that it wasn't likely. In this moment, she realized that it was Hook. It had always been Hook and will always be Hook. "I wasn't lying, but I can't get back together with you." She had to say it out loud.
"Emma. This could be our chance. We can be a family again. You, me and Henry, reunited. I can become a bigger part of Henry's life. We can start over. You don't have to be scared."
"I'm not scared Neal. I can't get do it because my love belongs to someone else." She said the words that she knew Neal didn't want to hear.
"How could you say that you weren't lying when you said you loved me, yet you just tell me this? How could let me pour my heart out for you just to tell me that?"
"Neal—"
"No. It's okay. It's okay. I'll just… I'll just stay out of your life, Tallahassee all over again. If that's what you want."
"No, Neal it's not—"
"Goodbye Emma." With that, he walked out of Granny's. Scarf blowing in the wind.
Note: This is the end of the second chapter. I try to keep them short so they won't take forever to read. Criticize, tell me if you liked it or how i can improve. Thanks!