How Deep Is Your Love
Chapter Fourteen
"Emma, Whale said we would be free to go in and see Hook in a few minutes," Snow said worryingly as she and David approached their daughter not too long after she stormed out of the town's clinic in hope to try to comfort her. "He's going to…"
"Don't tell me he's going to be alright," the Savior answered angrily when she cut her mother off. "You don't know that for sure and even if he is, how can I possibly expect to have any kind of relationship with him now? Why was I so quick to believe that Killian could actually hurt me after everything? He's done nothing, but prove he's a good man. And I know how he feels about me. How could I have been so stupid?"
Mary Margaret laid her hand gently on the small of Emma's back and responded, "You can't blame yourself so harshly, Emma. After everything you've been through… Emma, are you okay?"
The Savior's thoughts drifted off to an earlier time between her and Killian when she had hurt him then as she had done so now, remembering as she pulled Hook out from under the debris within the giants' castle after Anton had awakened and charged at them while she whispered, "Hook."
"You are bloody brilliant," the Pirate Captain replied as he laughed. "Amazing. May I see it? The compass."
"It's more beautiful than legend," he continued when Emma held the compass out for him to see until she suddenly grew suspicious of Hook's motives as he started to reach out to take it from her, then Emma withdrew her hand and quickly pocketed the compass. "Come. Let's go."
Killian chuckled again as he extended his hand to her in order to help her up, but instead of taking it, Emma immediately grabbed hold of a shackle lying on the ground nearby and swiftly chained Hook to the wall by his wrist, then backed away from him out of fear of his reaction.
He looked at her in confusion as he stood up after her while he asked, "What are you doing? What are you doing?"
"Hook, I…," Emma struggled to answer as she turned away for a moment out of guilt upon seeing the hurt in his eyes. "I… I can't…"
"Emma, look at me," Killian pleaded with her despondently. "Have I told you a lie? I brought you here. I risked my own safety to help you. The compass is in your hand. Why do this to me now?"
She turned back to him and responded worryingly, "I can't take a chance that I'm wrong about you. I'm sorry."
When the Savior started to walk away from him, Hook called out to her angrily, "You're sorry? You're sorry?! I got you here! I got you the compass!"
"I got the compass," Emma replied calmly when she turned around to face him again.
"You're just going to leave me here to die?" he asked fearfully. "Have that beast to eat me, to crush my bones?"
Emma retorted quickly, "He's not a beast. And you're not going to die. I just need a head start. That's all."
When she finally walked away from him for good, the pirate shouted, "Swan? Swan! Swan!"
"Emma!" Mary Margaret cried out her daughter's name once more to pull her out of her head.
"I'm sorry, it's just that…" she muttered nervously when she turned back to them, but didn't look into their eyes. "Killian's never given me a reason to doubt him. Do you remember when I climbed back down the beanstalk from the giants' castle alone? I never told you why, but I left Hook up there because I was too afraid to trust him, afraid that he might betray me. Yet he didn't do anything wrong. I was the one who first betrayed his trust and he still chose to help us when we needed him to again. Things aren't really any different now, except… Well actually, things are a bit different. This time, he depended on me to protect him and he believed that I would. I should have, but I didn't. Why was it so easy for me to distrust him when I thought I knew before all this happened that I could trust him? I do believe him, but I…"
David swiftly grabbed her by her shoulders and turned her to face him as he stated forcefully, "Emma! Listen to me. Just try to calm down. We know how much you're worried about him, but you have to understand, none of this is your fault. We will figure out how all this happened, whether it's from Hook himself or through Regina's magic mirror. Why don't you go and sit with Hook in the hospital. Look after him and we'll go with Regina to her vault."
Emma shook her head as she answered, "No. No, I need to see for myself what happened to him. I need to know how it was he's been out in those woods all night and for God knows how much longer, without one of us noticing that something was wrong. If the Snow Queen did have something to do with why I wasn't there for him…"
"Sweetheart, if you really feel that you need to be with us to find out the truth because you hope it will help Killian, then fine," Mary Margaret responded firmly. "But if you're coming with us because you think it'll help you to avoid seeing Hook, because you're feeling guilty, then it's probably better that you stay here at the clinic."
"I want to see him," the Savior replied sadly. "I want to be with him, but first I need to see for myself why the Snow Queen did this to him. I still believe this villain is here because of me and Elsa. She may have revealed something to Killian that Regina's mirror will allow us to see as well. And I prefer to see it firsthand."
