Author's note
I'm not one to stretch out angst in a fic. A little drama is needed but the happy ending is the best, isn't it?
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20 weeks pregnant- part II
Everything was such a blur, her body was aching and she feels strangely detached from it.
She looks around the room and there was Killian sitting beside her bed, holding her hand and on the other side her father, holding her other hand, both sound asleep.
She looks at herself and the thought of dying crosses her mind.
"You're not dying, savior"
She turns around only to see Mr. Gold or to tell the truth more Rumple as he looks like he was back in the Enchanted Forest.
"What are you doing here and why do you look like that"
She feels that she is not actually speaking with him. The whole conversation takes place in her mind.
"What is happening to me?"
"You're on the bridge between death and life- both of you." He motions to her baby-bump.
"No, this can't be happening, I had a dream about our Happy Ending and everything already happens like I imagine it.
Being pregnant with a boy, Lady, Killian.."
"That's why I'm here Emma"
She turns around to take him in, she eyes him sceptical.
"I will help you to go back and I will heal your body so that you're able to continue your life and more important to give birth to the little wonder you currently carrying under your heart."
"But why are you helping me? I'm together with your arch-enemy and we both know that it was always him and never Neal who would be my choice. You even sabotage us in the past by taking the wand"
She is unsure how but Rumple winces at her statement, apparently her anger can be transported via thoughts. She just didn't pursue any confrontation with him in the past because of the house he had given to them and then detecting the pregnancy, her life was just busy at this moment and her focus was on other things then talking to Gold about the incident in the Enchanted Forest.
"Didn't you find another way to get back?" She hears his maniac giggle and nods.
"See, and I needed the wand. That and pandora's box was in my vision as the things I'll need to defeat my father and as we both know it worked, so don't hold a grudge against me."
He takes her hand and guides her back to her body.
"And now do me a favour and go back, dearie. You will wake up and everything will be fine"
She still looks not convinced. He raises his eyebrows"Do you really think that I would pass the chance to experience the wonder of a second generation of True Love?" He giggles again and as she reunites with her body he whispers some words why holding his hand over her stomach and she barely catches the last sentence.
"You will not remember a thing and more importantly you will not owe me a debt."
Emma wakes with a start, taking in her surroundings.
"Emma, thank god, you're awake!" she is embraced by a relieved Killian, followed by her relieved father.
David stands up and walks into the hallway to call the doctor to let him know that she is awake.
"Emma, I'm so sorry. Oh god, I don't know what I would have done if you didn't survive the night. All that happened is my fault" She sees the self-blaming expression on his face and tries to soothe him.
"Killian, if at all it is the fault of Blackbeard as he was the one who hit me. What happened? Is everything ok with Liam?" She feels the movements of him in her belly, that's why she isn't in full panic-mode. "And why did he mention a mermaid? There weren't any mermaids back then he attacked the Jolly Rodger." Before Killian can answer Whale enters the room followed by David.
"Good morning Emma. Nice to see you're awake! Let's have a look at the little one, shall we?"
Emma nods and Killian and David take their seats beside the bed. A mobile ultrasound is pulled into the room.
The procedure is the same. Whale places the cold gel on her stomach and spreads it with the head of the ultrasound and soon the baby is seen on the monitor. The loud sound of the heartbeat fills the room.
She looks over to her pirate and her father and is overwhelmed by the sight as both men are crying tears of joy at the sound and the picture of the baby on the monitor.
"Everything is ok with him" Whale comments on his examination. "And the strangest thing is that it looks like there wasn't any hematoma which bursts." He shakes his head. "You don't know how much luck you had Emma. This could have caused a detachment of the uterus which would have meant the need of a direct C-Section of the baby and to be honest, at this week of pregnancy the boy hadn't got a chance to live." Emma sobs and hears Killian sobs as well. She wasn't aware, that it was so bad.
"But everything is fine though. Honestly, I don't have any explanation for this, it's a wonder."
Killian kisses her and her dad takes her hand again.
"I will call Snow. She was so devastated to leave you yesterday but she needed to get back to Neal."
Emma nods as David exit the room and Whale leaves as well, giving the suggestion that they will make another examination in the afternoon and that afterwards she can go home.
"Emma" Killian is now really breaking down, his voice barely noticeable.
"I don't deserve you and our son!"
"What are you talking about?" Emma is really horrified by his statement.
"Emma, Blackbeard has a grudge against me and there is something that happened in the year we were apart that I didn't tell you."
"And I told you that I didn't want to know and that I was tired living in the past"
"Yeah I know, but that was just you and me back then. Emma, we nearly lost the baby because of me!"
He is pacing in the room back and forth.
"Then tell me, Killian. Talk to me, don't you dare shut me out now to drawn in your self-pity." She gets a little bit angry at his behaviour.
"I'm afraid" She looks up at this statement and right before her she there is not her pirate but a broken man.
"I'm afraid of what you will think of me. Emma, I'm not the hero you think I am. I wish I could be but I'm not."
"Don't be afraid, we survived so many adventures together, we're good together. Don't let something that happened in the past get between us! I promise I will hear you out and don't judge you right away."
He sighs and starts to speak "When we returned to the Enchanted Forest I thought I lost you forever. The only thought that kept me going, was to find the Jolly Roger again. I met some men of my crew including Smee on my search for her and we did what we always did, just on land. One evening after I refused a whore the crew has ordered, I was attacked by Ariel who was searching her prince. She got the information that he was captured by the captain of the Jolly Roger and thought it was me but in fact it was Blackbeard who was more than happy to take over my ship as he got the chance to do it. So we, which were Ariel, Smee and me went to win the Jolly Roger back and to find Eric."
"Did you succeed?"
"Yes" and she feels that now the part of the story will come for which he is so ashamed.
"Of course I defeated him but he wouldn't give us the information about the whereabouts of Eric unless I would give him the Jolly Roger."
"Why would he do that?"
"He wanted to prove the point that the infamous Captain Hook had gone soft over a woman and I couldn't let him win."
His eyes are focused on a point at the floor as if he doesn't dare to look in her eyes.
"I thought she was the only love I had left and made him walk the plank. Ariel was furious and slapped me and followed Blackbeard. That's the reason Zelena was able to curse my lips, she used my remorse against me. I understand if you don't want me in your life anymore. Ariel was right, I'm selfish and heartless and it will bring me pain and I don't want you or our son to pay the price of my actions."
She is speechless at first but as he turns to leave her, she reaches out her hand and stops him.
"Killian, look at me" Hesitantly he lifts his head to meet her eyes.
"I love you for being you and not something you think I want you to be. I love you because you're the only one who ever came back to me and not only once. I love you for believing in me, in my strength and in my magic, just as Henry does. I love you for making me the best version of myself when I'm with you and I also love your mistakes or the way of life you have gone through, because all this is what makes you the person you are now. Do you understand?" he nods.
"So come here and kiss me like I know you can kiss me" She smirks at him and soon his lips meet hers and the kiss grows more and more passionate. His hand roams over her belly and that's then she realized the turmoil in there.
She stops kissing him and holds his hand at the point where she feels the most movements.
"Do you feel this?" He looks at her in wonder and then to her baby-bump.
"Is this Liam?" Her view roams lovingly from his hand on her belly to his eyes as she nods. He leans in for another kiss but the return of David let them spring apart.
Her father only grins at her reunion. "Snow will be there in half an hour if Neal is awake by then. She was so relieved that everything turns out well."
Killian sits now at the seat beside her bed.
"And the boy is going to be named Liam? Thank god you didn't take Leopold" He winks at his daughter.
"Yes, Liam it is" "And his last name?"
Emma begins to smile. "As Henry already hasn't got the same last name as I have I thought about Swan."
She looks over to Killian who seems surprised at first.
"Really, didn't take you for such a modern man, Killian" Her father winks at his mate.
"Oi, mate, it is not all been said and done. There are other ways of getting Liam my last name"
He's now smiling a warm smile to Emma and she is sure that he has understood her, like he always does.
Because this was her way of telling him that she is ready. Ready for him to ask the question he is so desperate to ask and for which he thought she was not ready to hear, but she is now and she knows that he will surprise her. She just has to wait and see how her pirate will propose to her.