How Deep Is Your Love

Chapter Eleven

After Henry woke up the next morning, he quickly got himself ready and headed back to Granny's expecting to find his birth mom, Elsa, and his grandparents already there, and Hook as well. The thirteen year old was anxious to see how the date between Hook and his mother went, unaware that Hook never arrived for it. Killian had already been late to arrive when he and David left to bring him back to his home with Regina, but even though Henry was unsure if he could trust Captain Hook to not hurt his mother has his own father had, Henry still liked the pirate. Hook did after all help to rescue him from Neverland and fought to protect him against the Wicked Witch because he genuinely cared about him, along with the rest of the heroes.

Regina had already left to either go to her office, or to visit with Robin by the time he left their mansion. Once he arrived at the diner, he was right about his family and their new friend from Arendelle already being inside having breakfast, but from the tension that suddenly filled the room as he entered, it was clear that everyone, especially Emma, was upset about something that had happened after his grandfather had brought him home.

Upon seeing her grandson, Snow White stood up from her seat at their booth while David continued to hold baby Neal and then spoke first saying, "Good morning, Henry. How did you sleep?"

The teenager looked around at the others before finally stopping on the Princess and stared at her strangely as he answered, "I slept fine. Did something happen last night? What's wrong?"

"It's a long story," Mary Margaret replied quietly, then grabbed a handful of napkins and some cream for the coffee Granny had just served to them moments before the boy walked in. "Come sit down. Just try not to bring Hook up to either your mother or your grandfather. Emma's pretty hurt and David… Well he's pretty angry at the pirate right now."

"Since when has Killian become 'the pirate' again?" he asked and then took a seat beside Emma and Elsa, both of whom slid over to make room for him at their table.

Emma had heard her son mention Killian's name, then she responded curtly, "It doesn't matter. He's decided that he made a mistake trying to pursue a relationship with me. I doubt he'll be around much anymore."

David quickly added, "If he knows what's good for him he won't be."

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring up such a sore subject, but what happened last night?" Henry asked again with confusion. "That doesn't make any sense. Killian's crazy about you, Mom. You can't seriously believe that he would even think that for a second?"

"Even I didn't believe it at first," Charming answered coldly as Granny returned to their table with their food they ordered before Henry arrived. "I thought it was strange even for him. Not until I heard it from him himself. I went out to search for him last night when he didn't come to pick your mother up for their date."

When David paused a moment, Elsa continued for him as she stated, "Hook was drunk just as he told your mother he was in a message on some sort of talking device, which I saw Hook use once just before we confronted the Snow Queen."

Emma suddenly slammed the mug she drank from down on the table in front of her and replied angrily, "I'm done talking about this right now. What's done is done. Besides, we have more important matters to discuss."

"Yeah, another crisis that has nothing to do with that good for nothing pirate," Leroy responded angrily after he walked over to them from the bar where he sitting moments ago and stood beside their table along with Granny, who nodded in agreement with the dwarf. "What are we going to do about the woods completely freezing over? What if the town's next?"

"The entire length of the woods isn't frozen over," their Prince answered in frustration, looking at his friend at first until he turned back to his family. "There's still quite a bit the Snow Queen left alone. Besides if they were, Robin and his men would have arrived to tell us about it."

Grumpy glared at David as he replied, "But for how long? First she put up the giant ice wall surrounding the town to keep us all trapped here and now, she's turned the woods into her own personal winter wonderland where she can hide from us for however long she needs to. We'll never find her in that kind of weather. And what's next?"

Mary Margaret looked between everyone as she responded, "We'll figure it out. We always do. Should something else come up, we'll deal with it. The Snow Queen can't hide from us forever. Eventually, she's going to try to strike out at us again and this time it won't be by surprise. We need to come up with some sort of plan."

"We can't just wait until she tries to kill us again," the Savior answered sternly. "It's because of this ice witch that all this trouble's started in the first place. What if she said something to Killian that made him feel like he doesn't belong here?"

"If he's going to get himself drunk and treat you like he did last night, then he doesn't belong here," David retorted cruelly. "If and when I see him later, I won't kill him, but I sure as hell will give him more than just a punch to the face."

Elsa turned to Emma as she said worryingly, "The Snow Queen didn't say anything to Hook. She only spoke to me. Before we came across her, Hook gave me no impression he regretted doing anything for you, Emma. He's in fact quite smitten with you, like my sister is with Kristoff. I have to agree with Henry. I don't believe that whatever he said or did to hurt you is as it seems. There has to be more to it."

The Savior shook her head sadly and stood as Henry did the same to let her out of the booth, then she replied, "I'd like to believe you, but the Snow Queen and finding Anna are the only priorities right now. I'll worry about Hook once we finish resolving the real problems here."

"Why don't I go and search the woods on my own?" the Queen of Arendelle suggested. "The cold doesn't bother me because of my powers and the Snow Queen doesn't want to hurt me. She may have a strange way of showing it, but I believe she genuinely seems to care about me."

"No," Emma quickly responded. "I won't let you risk your life. Mom's right. We'll face her again when time's right, but this time we're going to be ready for her. It's time to come up with a plan."