Hello again. Work is going to start getting busy. Expect the chapters at least once a week.

A lot of expo in this chapter, it kind of got away from me.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with OUAT.

Previously on Pearl of the Deep

Emma and Killian are taking their relationship slowly. The Jolly Rodger or Joy has been turned into a woman due to magic gone wrong and transported to Storybrooke by 'The Green Ray'. Killian received some of Joy's memories and informs Emma. Joy is badly hurt and collapses outside Granny's. Killian is convinced she is going to die.

'She dying Emma. I just know it's magical. Don't ask me how.'

Emma had to agree, she felt it too.

'Miss Swan, this woman needs help and she might not get it in time, can't you do anything?'

She knew what Victor was asking. Emma's magic had greatly increased, she was getting rather good at it, but she had never tried to heal someone with this many injuries. Small injuries yes, even the broken leg Henry got from falling off his bike, but all of this! There must be at least 3 broken ribs, possibly a broken wrist, cuts and bruises not to mention all the internal injuries that she would likely have. Making her way to Joy, kneeling down beside her, she raised her palms over her chest and abdomen, stretching her fingers out, magic beginning to move through her. Something wasn't right, what if she couldn't do it, finger flexing back in response to her thoughts.

'But I-'

'Swan, I know you, you can do this.' He knelt behind her, wrapping his fingers round her arm, his hook round her waist, leaning in so his lips were just behind her ear. 'Just remember, breathe, think about who you're doing this for, why you are doing this.' His hand moved, guiding her back over Joy. His chest so close she could feel the heat down her back. His calm and soothing touch, in combination with his voice, dulled any doubt she had. 'Let yourself feel the magic within you and direct it out.' She had to admit he was good. He must have listened in to her lessons with Regina.

Tension left her shoulders, magic building again. Killian stood up, backing off with Victor, giving her room to work. She wiggled as magic reach and flowed through her fingers, closing her eyes to concentrate. Clicking her neck, moving it from side to side, she let out a deep breath. I'm doing this for Joy, for Killian. Magic surging as she thought of him. She has to live. He can't lose someone else. Don't die, please don't die.

She let the tingling warm glow leave her hands and radiate out to the woman below. Hearing several snaps, she opened her eyes knowing the ribs had repaired. Scanning the body to confirm it was working, she could see the split lip merge together, the black eye begin to fade and her wrist twitch as it cracked back into place. Must have been broken. After a few more moments, Joy would be almost healed. She only had her hair and sickly skin left to do. Suddenly her magic surged more powerful than it had before. Her hand shaking under the power flowing through her.

'Killian, some- something wrong. I c- can't break it.' Her voice cracking, barely able to say her words as her energy began to drain.

'Emma!' She could see Killian shout, rushing forward as sparks surged from her fingers, engulfing Joy in a cage of green lightning. Screaming out for him to stay back. He almost reached her before Victor and David held him back. Where did David come from?

'No, get off me, we have to help her. Emma!' Her head flew back in agony, screaming louder, her fingers spread apart to the point of breaking. 'No.'

Darkness creeping round her eyes, she gave up and fell into the blackness.

'No.' Killian finale broke free from the men holding him, almost falling as he ran to her. He had barely moved when a shock-wave of lightning blasted out from the women, knocking him down to the floor. Car and building alarms rang out down the street, the lights flickered and yet it seemed not a single sound was made. He brushed himself down creating small green sparks where his hand met the fabric, tingling a little.

'Emma.' She was unconscious on the floor beside Joy, stumbling towards her, Don't be dead, don't be dead, Don't be dead. He lifted her head placing it on his thighs as she coughed into life. He breathed, placing a tender kiss on her forehead, fingers in her hair. 'Don't you ever to that to me again,' leaning his head on hers.

'Ok.' She spoke so softly, eyes still closed, clearing exhausted. She's ok, she's still here.

'Jones.' David voice rang out over the alarms.

'David I've got her, she's ok. Check Joy for me?' Remembering what got Emma in this mess.

'Who?'

'The other one laying in the street next to us, the one in the cage Emma created.' His eye's never left her face, hook flailing in Joy's direction. His hand still playing with her hair, waiting for her to fully come to.

'Got her Jones, she's up but just a little shaken. I'm taking her into Granny's, bring Emma when she's finds her feet.' Her eye's fluttered open at the sound of her name, she instantly found his. They held together for what seemed like an age and yet shorter than a second, fingers lacing together, pulled from the moment as all the alarms stopped at once.

'What the-?'

'What have you done now Miss Swan?' A mocking yet firm tone to the Mayor voice.

'Nothing and why do you presume that it is me, it might not be.' He helped her to her feet unable to let her hand go. Needing her touch to prove she was still here and not in his imagination.

'Well is it?' Regina stopped in front of them, hands resting on her hips, looking every bit the Mayor in one of her black pant suits. He shifted his weight, body slowing moving in front of his love.

'Yes, but that's not the point.' Emma gasped, her free hand rubbing her temples.

'Let's get you inside first, you two can carry on this once she's had rested and had a drink.' He could feel Emma swaying behind him. She squeezed his hand for the strength to keep herself up right. Turning his back to Regina, he took Emma's arm over his shoulder and reach for her waist, taking her weight heading to Granny's.

Only after Victor convinced him that both Emma and Joy were fine, at least for the most part, did Killian allow himself to relax. Sitting next to her, he took her neck with his hand, laying a soft but still powerful kiss on her lips. Every touch warming him, the pain of the image of her stuck in his mind. Body splayed out over the road. Convinced she was dead.

'Don't you ever do that again.' Kiss. 'I thought I'd lost you.' Kiss. 'Are you sure you are ok?' Kiss.

'I'm fine just a little drained.' She gave him one last kiss and picked up the hot chocolate, cupping it in hand, taking a sip. 'Henry'

'Mom'. The boy ran over to his mother shuffling in the booth to hug her. Mary-Margaret followed with Neal in arms, gently rocking him up and down. He moved from the booth, giving space for mother and daughter to exchange words. Standing next to David staring at the sight before him.

'So what happened? David said you had been in an accident.' He loved the boy sometimes, straight to the point, no messing around with small talk.

'I think we would all like to know?' Regina's voice a little louder than needed, capturing the attention of everyone in the diner.

Seeing that Emma was still drained from the incident, Killian spoke up.

'Well it all starts with her.' Pointing at Joy who was in the booth at the back of the diner. He walked over to the ship he called home, still not completely over what she had become. 'Hey.' He spoke to her quietly, taking her hand, leading her to joint the group. Granny had kicked out all but the essential people, closing early for the night. Stopping by a stool at the bar, he gestured for her to sit.

'Joy.' Calm in his voice. 'This is-'

'I know who most of you are, just not you three and the baby.' She pointed at Victor and the Lucas women. 'I remember most from Neverland. That's Regina and her son Henry. David and Mary-Margaret, they are royals of some sort and parents of Emma Swan who is sat in the middle, also Henry's mother.' She correctly pointed at each as she spoke their names, dropping her arm at Emma's unable to hold it out any longer. Confusion on all the faces in front of him, only Emma's was smiling, her eyes fixed on his. She nodded, giving him the strength to carry on.

'Joy this is Dr Victor Whale, Frankenstein, and these fine ladies are Granny Lucas and her granddaughter Red or Ruby.' Each one nodding their head at the woman. He took her hand holding it tight. 'The babe is Neal, Emma's brother. Everyone this is Joy, formerly the 'Jolly Rodger', formerly the 'Jewel of the Realm'.' Each face in the room dropped in shock, breaking out in questions.

He started at the beginning, telling from the moment he met her up to the explosion outside. Telling the tale was a relief to Killian, helping to convince himself that this day was in fact real. Joy's head was down, she picked the dirt from under her finger nails clearly nervous. Her stuttered breath was picking up and she drew in one sharp quick breath.

'Wow, how did you do that?' Killian raised his head at Henry. Following the finger and he pointed at Joy, one of the knots along her head and turned grey. Joy jumped up, putting her fingers through her hair, pulling the ponytail, seeing the change. Panic screamed in her eye's. He could see her mouth 'What the Fuck', feeling grateful that she didn't speak the words aloud, that language was not used as often in this realm.

'I don't know, I didn't even know it was happening.' Sitting back down on the seat. The quick rush of energy from the shock of her hair had been used and the aches of the body returned.

'Something is draining your magic, I could feel when I was healing you. I was a bigger power source than you, but the magic seamed to clash and I lost control. I refused to give in for so long, I think I just made it worse.' Emma's eyes closed at the thought, her face wincing recalling the pain. His heart ached for her. He wanted nothing more than to take her in his arms, carry her home and pay deep and intimate attention to every sore on her body. Later. 'Go ahead Regina, you're better at this than I am anyway, we clearly don't have time for me to be messing around again.'

'Mmm, I've seen something like this before, you were enchanted, before?' Regina still kept her distance from Joy raising her hands, feeling the air, the magic. Both Joy and Killian nodded together. 'The magic that turned you, was it a spell or curse? Was it spoken or were there items involved, like a potion or a-'

'I was hit with a vial just before I changed. Green mist rose round me and then I was here and like this.' She gestured to herself as another knot began to lose it's colour. Killian placed his hand on her shoulder. He hated what had happened to her, unable to push down the guilt he felt as images of the vial flashed through his mind.

'Well if it is I suspect we don't have time to waste, if you want to stay alive. Jones you have to trust me, this is going to hurt her but it will buy us time.' Killian looked at Joy, waiting for her approval, as she dropped her head, taking Regina's eye's in his, he dropped his chin. Unable to use his voice without pissing the woman off. Now was not the time. Besides, Regina really had changed since the encounter with the Wicked Witch. She had fully embraced the light within her, had a family of her own with Robin and Roland, Henry was so proud of her and to be honest, so was most of the town. 'Ok then Miss... Rodger.'

'Joy.'

'Joy, I need you to trust me. I'm here to help you.' She gently placed her hands in Joy's, they had the attention of the diner. Henry was moving round to get a better look, David wrapping round him, stopping him from getting too close. 'Close your eye's and look within, find the point that's draining you, hold it in your mind.' Regina closed her eye's to concentrated, mumbling words under her breath. Killian could see her eye's moving beneath her lids. Both of their hands began to shake. One or two sparks flew out, lights flickering, Joy bearing her teeth in pain. Then calm, Regina's mouth stopped moving. Their hands retreated from each other, both breathing quickly. 'That should slow it down.'

'What did you do?' Emma asked.

'I plugged the hole. When two enchanted items collide or in this case, the magic from them, they counter each other creating a void. Magic, energy or even life collects to fill the space. I think as you were hit with a vial of magic and not the item it's self, this void latched to you draining your life. I followed your guide and placed a magic plug over the void. It should be able to feed off that, giving us quite some time to find a more permanent solution. We need to know the other enchanted item used to create the vial. If we get them together the magic will right itself.'

'How long do we have?' Killian didn't know how long a solution would take to find. Time would not be on their side.

'A month, two at most.'

'Well then, any idea's? It could be any number of items.' Though still considered rare, there were many enchanted item dotted around the Enchanted Forest, never mind those in other realms or worlds.

'I think it might be the 'Pearl of the Deep Sea'.' Joy spoke up, head tilted to the side, eyes squinting while closed. 'As the mist came over I just knew it was it. It screamed in my head, flashed through my mind. A black pearl, larger than any I have ever seen, it gives the owner the power to control to sea's.'

'That's a legend. No one has seen it since Atlantis sank. Everything in that realm was lost.' Every sailor knew the story. The Atlantian's had grown too greedy, too far, too fast. They had angered Poseidon, so he sank their realm as punishment.

'No, it wasn't there at the time, it was smuggled out. It made its way in and out of history. The last man known to have it was my Captain, my current Captain.'

'Bellamy.' Where the hell did he get a hold of that?

'Well that's it then, we need to get to him, we can use your ship to travel to the Enchanted Forest, find the thing, save Joy and get back home. It must be a Wednesday.' During the time since the witch, he and a few of the townspeople gathered together to build Killian a new ship. David, Marco, Robin, the lads Roland and Henry and most of the Dwarves had helped to repair and rebuild a run down vessel in the ship yard. After a gruelling six weeks the 'Hope' had her maiden voyage. It was smaller than the Jolly but was just as grand. 'Any questions, no, good. Who's with us?' She made her way out of the booth and took place next to Killian and Joy.

'My wife had the pleasure to be with you the last time, now it's my turn to protect and help my daughter.' David nodded at Killian moving over to calm his wife down, explaining that he had to do this and Neal would be in the best of hands. Kissing her head, followed by Neal's.

'I think I should stay here Miss Swan, I don't think it wise to leave the town so unprotected. You might be gone for sometime, plus someone will need to take care of Henry.' She was right.

'No, mom I wanna come, I wanna help.' He shrugged out of Regina grasp, moving to Emma. 'Mom tell mom I can go, please I can help. Killian I can be the cabin boy, tell them.' Henry gripped his hand. Killian knew better than to get between two mothers.

'Nice try my boy, but it's not my decision to make.'

'Henry, You need to stay here, I can't let you come with me it's to dangerous, I can't be worried about you too, and with David gone you are now the man for the house. Mary-Margaret will need your help, it would be Good Form.' His heart lifted, he had taught Henry everything about good form, and a bit of piracy, but he thought it was their little secret.

'Your right,' sighing, 'You'll talk to me everyday, we can put a mirror on the ship.' He could see the disappointment in the boy's face, He understood why Emma didn't want to bring him but he had seen boys far younger set sail. She was right not to bring him. 'Wait how are you going to get there, I thought there was no more portals.'

'I've got one, I just need to borrow the Black Fairy's wand from Mr. Gold.' Little did the room know that Emma had worked with the Crocodile on that small issue, much to his distaste. 'He's not going to give it up easily.' After opening the portal in the past with the wand, they had worked on adapting it to open a normal portal between worlds, thinking it could come in handy one day.

'Not a problem.' David smug face beam out. 'He owes me a favour.'

'David, what did you do?'

'Nothing dear, I just helped him with a problem.' David reassured his wife.

'That's settled then, David will go to Gold's to get the wand, Killian will get the ship stocked for the journey, I'm going to take Joy back to the house and pack some thing for us. I should have a few things that should fit you. We'll all meet at the ship in say, two hours.'

They all nodded in unison, splitting off to make quick goodbye's before breaking off. As David left Killian grasped his arm.

'David what did you do to gain a favour from the crocodile?' Hoping the man didn't do anything stupid.

'I helped him write his wedding vows.'

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That chapter really did get away from me, oh well, next Enchanted Forest here we come. Action really going to kick off.

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