Sorry that it took me so long to post the new chapter, but I'm trying to compensate with posting another one soon. And from now on I am trying to publish a new chapter on week basis, because school just started.
I'm also changing the name of the fic just to Harsh I only left the word Overexposed as an adjustment period. Please write reviews, specially if you find anything wrong, your opinion is extremely helpful. Enjoy :)
I'm here for you, like you're here for me
You might just not know it yet
And neither do I
But we are the same
We are for each other, even if you don't see it
Made from the same
Afraid of the same
I am just like you, and I won't hesitate a second to hold you on my arms
Emma sighted and sat down on a rock trying to figure everything out. She couldn't be in such a fragile situation ;she would never allow herself to depend so much on another person, even if for just a few moments… a tear slipped through her pale and soft face, it hurt that she only had such brief moments with Graham. Why couldn't he have stayed longer? Emma got up and kicked the ground, raising the dust like a sand storm. It would be hard but she couldn't be exposed like this ever again, not now that Henry needed her the most, not when Regina was so disturbed.
Henry, how would he react? It could only be her to break the news to him, nobody else. That reminded her, that she had to leave. She had to leave the woods so she could be there for her son, like nobody did for her, but Emma didn't want to go. She wanted to stay forever lost in her thoughts, wandering and planning. But time would keep passing by, time waits for no one so Emma had to go and not to lose her chance of consoling her son, my son, her only light now. Would Henry be her only light forever? Probably, no: definitely. Emma was never again let anyone into her and hurt her, the only person she would let in would be Henry; no one else.
Emma got up looking around looking for the way back. It was then that she realized that she had no idea of where she was. Every cursing word went through her mind in a matter of seconds.
So she kicked the rock that she had sat on just moments ago, but just as her foot met the harsh and cold rock a shiver of pain rushed up her foot and leg.
"Damn!" Emma yelled, it was ridiculous, she couldn't believe it anymore. It was like someone was joking with her, right in front of her face! Like someone was just planning and controlling her life, damn they must be having fun! she thought. This thought of someone purposely trying to couldn't leave her head, as much as she tried to ignore it and shake it to the back of her mind.
So Emma tired, set on the ground holding to her foot like a child, furious and mad, trying to figure it out or at least forget.
And in the quiet silence a loud laugh was heard, but it wasn't hers it was someone else's. For a moment Emma thought it could be Graham's, but then a tall and slender figure revealed itself from behind a tree. Emma defensively lift herself from the ground in a second.
"Love you don't need to be scared, a gentleman never hurts a lady. Specially such a beautiful one" the man said playfully with a smirk pouring out of his lips as he walked away from the shadows.
As he kept walking with the moonlight facing him, his features started to reveal themselves to Emma, and she and she wasn't able to stop small sigh from slipping of her pink lips. He was a tall, with dangerous blue eyes like the angry sea on a storm, is hair was dark like a mystery following to his beard and handsomely matching with his heavy leather clothing.
Emma was quite mesmerized in the mystery involving his body and soul, but the man didn't stop, he kept walking smoothly. He carried himself with elegance like a panther on a hunt, gracefully and yet determined and virile. This mysterious man knew the effect he caused on people, he was well aware of the beauty that carried, maybe too well and Emma could tell. He let out a small smile as he reached for her jaw line with his thumb, tucking her hair into her ear and catching hold of her chin.
Emma shivered and step back quickly, shaking her head from his hypnotizing gaze. The man's hold of her face remembered Emma how Graham hold her just briefly ago, so she tried to keep in the tears of the harsh memories with a gulp. The man's smile increased in curiosity.
"Who are you!" Emma asked, more as a statement to the fact that he was unknown to her then actually wanting to know who he was, as she tried to distract herself from the painful memories.
"Sorry, where are my manners? We haven't been formerly introduced, but I don't let out my name just like that. Let's just say that I am Richard! And you beautiful, what's the name of that charming face?" the man said amused.
Emma's eyebrows rose in confusion but she wasn't going to be on the dark anymore, she didn't want to. Emma actually hated the idea of being lost in the dark, ignorant and lost with no idea of what was going on.
"Jule, that's my name." she stated, getting in the game, allowing "Richard" to let out another laugh.
Then Emma, gaining her confidence back, started to walk around the tall man, observing him, trying to figure out who he was.
"Lovely name, but you know being stared at isn't really one of my biggest turn on's. You know?" he tried to explain, but Emma didn't care much for his words. "What are you doing here in the late of the night, Richard?" she asked, calling his name ironically. The man was definitely amused by Emma's attitude.
"Well that is a very nice question, but I don't give in information like that. I need to get something in return, like why are you here?" "Richard" demand as he played his move wandering what would her next one be.
She sighed again, "I'm came down here to clear my mind." She said sharply.
"Yeah, I could tell. And so did the rock." he said letting out a smirk and kept talking extremely amused "Okay, well I am here also to clear my mind you know. The sea really calms me down, it suits me. It's breeze is challenging and accelerating. And then, I heard a yell from a lady attacking a rock in trouble" he finally explain laughing again
"What? We are in the middle of the woods!" Emma asked confused as never. "The thing is, love, we are just five minutes away from Storybrooke's harbour. I'm surprised that such an observing person like you didn't notice this enchanting breeze." the man said laughing.
Emma was disappointed, she had been so focused on Graham that she didn't' even notice the , she probably parked her car not far from the harbour, since the forest went down through all of Storybrooke. Everything is so alike and similar and new to her in this town and the residents are the weirdest she had ever seen; Graham crossed her mind and she gulped, guilty for forgetting him in all of this mess.
"Are you okay, love?" the man asked loosing his smile as he realise of Emma's worried look.
"No, I mean yes... I just remembered there is something do." Emma said quickly as she turned back as she remembered of Henry, leaving the mysterious man alone to himself.
"Well goodbye then, Emma." Killian said leaving her speachless but never stoping, never looking back. Afraid of the man who could see the real her.
Killian turned around and stated walking in the opposite direction with both hands on his pockets, wondering of this not so mysterious girl. He let out a chuckle thinking of her attitude and the way she ran from him.
You can run away as fast as you can but I will always find you.
I will meet you
By chance or not
I will be there to run into you, to meet you
You can run as long as you can
But I will always chuckle in the thoughts of you
You can run but you can't hide
And even if you do
I will always find you...
Who the hell was he? He was just so... Emma focus you need to find Henry... Henry, Graham he. Damn it! He just...died and this guy... Emma stops at thought of Graham, but she can't waste any time. She keeps running.
Time waits for no one.
Time keeps going, fast and never looking back. No regrets, waiting for no one. A lonely wolf, running in the wild. And if you don't catch on, you might just lose your chance.