This is from Killian's POV. Thank you to MysteryFan1997 for the suggestion. Thank you for reading. Thank you for your continued support. I watch as Hope and Kyron sit in her room. I always thought I'd be some sort of heavily protective parent, but it's different. Not even two days ago I said I wouldn't give up my little girl that easily. I now realize she isn't my little Hope anymore, she's a teenager now. With her first boyfriend.

I walk away from them knowing Hope wouldn't want me intruding. I pass by a picture of Emma holding Hope just after she was born. I look at Emma and my happy expression fades. Tears bunch up in the corners of my eyes.

God, Emma. I miss you.

My mind wanders back to that day. The day when my life ended and started again with a different purpose. To love, and take care of a child. She became the hope of our world fourteen years ago.

I go to my room and try to fall asleep. It is late after all. As I lay on my bed looking at the ceiling, my thoughts drift to Hope and the day she was born. I fall asleep and dream of that day.

I'm woken up by Hope screaming for help. "Daddy, Daddy." Her voice sounds like someone is strangling her. I get out of bed and rush to her room. When I open the door, I see her sitting on the floor. A woman stands over her with her hands around her throat. My heart stops beating. She looks at me and smiles. She was wearing a mask so I couldn't recognize her.

"Hello, Killian," she says. "You've got your daughter to thank for this." She pulls back his arm and slashes Hope across the neck. Blood gushes from a deep cut. She falls to the ground. I run toward her but stop when I feel something hit me in the chest. I collapse to the ground and lose consciousness.

When I wake up, I find myself lying on a table in a cold dark room. I can hear faint voices coming from somewhere nearby. I can't move or speak. My wrists and ankles have been bound together. I lift my head and see a pair of red eyes staring down at me. A sinister smile spreads across the face of the person in my dream.

I shoot up panting. Blood hell. It was just a dream. I let out a sigh then turned to Hope's bedroom door. It creaks open and Hope walks into my room. She stops dead in her tracks when she sees me sitting up in bed.

"What are you doing up?" She asks.

"Just had a bad nightmare." I say. She sits next to me.

"What was it about?"

"A girl came here and killed you." I started slowly.

Hope gives me a worried look. "Why? What did you do to her?"

"I have no idea" I tell her. She gasps and holds her hand to her mouth. "Love, don't worry. You're safe here. Nothing will happen to you."

"Good." She says with her arms wrapped around herself. I place my arm over her shoulder. "You need to go back to bed now."

She hops off my bed and goes back to her room. I lie back down in bed and close my eyes. I try to sleep but my mind keeps drifting to who the woman was, what if it was Emma. But why would she want to hurt our daughter? I'll never know. I just hope that whoever killed her didn't hurt Hope. I know I should be more concerned, but I don't think I could handle it.

I decided not to linger on it much longer. But what else is there to think about? My mind again goes back to Hope's birth.

I grab my phone and go through the photos and videos of that day. I've watched them so many times. I smiled at the memories. The moment I saw her tiny fingers. The moment I looked into those big blue eyes for the first time. I didn't know what to expect but I fell in love.

I also look at all the videos of Emma with Hope, and more, like her first steps, her first words, and so much more. It makes me so happy. I played a video of her first steps.

"You can do it, Hope!" Emma says in the video.

Hope moves from the couch and walks over to Emma. I had set the camera over on the coffee table to get both of our reactions. We cheer and shout.

"Good job!" Emma says, lifting her up into the air.

I stood up and looked at Emma's face, her smile was brighter than ever. I wrapped my arm around her and she looked at me. I kissed her and then the video ended.

The smile on my face gets bigger and wider. I look at the clock, it's 3:30am. I still can't sleep. I decided to go downstairs and grab a snack. I go into the kitchen and pour myself a glass of milk. I sit at the counter and drink it slowly. When I finish I grab another glass and start making cookies. I put them in the oven and then go back to drinking my milk. I can't seem to stop thinking about Emma. I wish I could see her again. But I know that won't happen. I promise myself that I will protect my daughter, no matter what.

I turn off the oven and check on the cookies. They look perfect. So I take them out, and they smell heavenly. I grab a knife and slice a piece of cookie off of one of them. I put it in my mouth and chewed slowly. I put the rest of the cookies into a bag and set them on the counter.

I go back upstairs and fall asleep quickly. The next morning I woke up at around 10. I picked up my phone and saw a message from Hope saying she'd be with Kyron all day. I open my phone and find the video from last night. I look for another video to reminisce over. Her first words. I sigh, I miss those days. I miss everything. I watch the video.

"Daddy." Hope says in the video.

Emma and I are sitting on the couch. I flip her over and hold her above my head. "Are you my little angel?" I ask.

Emma laughs and says, "say Mama!"

"Mama!" Hope says.

"Good girl, Hope." Emma says. "Say Mama like a big girl."

"Mama!" Hope says louder.

"Good, sweetheart." Emma says.

I set Hope down and she giggles. She turns around and crawls back over to Emma. "Mama!" She says.

"Yes, baby." Emma says. "Come here."

Hope crawls over to Emma and Emma picks her up, puts her on her lap, and holds her close.

"Are you my sweet girl?" Emma asks.

"Yes, Mama." Hope says.

Emma kisses her forehead and smiles at me. "We made a perfect little angel, didn't we Killian?"

As I watch the video, tears roll down my cheeks. I miss Emma so much. She was the light of my life, and now she's gone. But I have Hope, and she's everything to me.

Hope is all grown up now, and she's dating Kyron. I'm happy for her, but it's hard to watch her grow up so fast. It feels like just yesterday that she was crawling around on the floor, saying "Mama" and "Daddy."

I scroll to find one more big moment of her infancy. Her first birthday. She was sitting in a high chair and Emma brought over a little cake decorated with a little swan on top. Everyone started singing a song. At the time I still didn't understand the customs for birthdays, even though it had been several years of living with Emma in Storybrooke. Hope spat at the candle as all babies apparently did and it went out. Everybody cheered and Hope dug into her cake. It was all over her face. She looked adorable with the little hairs on her head put up into a small, shoot what do you call it, ponytail. Her smile was so wide she could hardly contain her small little laugh. I look at the pictures of that day. My favorite was one where Emma and I was holding Hope between us and we kissed her cheeks. That one was out in the hall as well.

I finally get up out of bed, and get ready for the day. I grab a glass and pour some rum into it. A knock at the front door startled me. I opened the door to find Sadie standing there.

"Hey, is Hope home?"

"No, sorry. She's at Kyrons." I let her inside and I shut the door.

"Good. She won't see this then."

Sadie knocks me out with magic. When I wake up i'm tied to a chair.

"Oh god what's happening?"

"You're being questioned. Has Hope gotten her powers yet?

"Powers? What in the bloody hell are you talking about?"

"Powers! Like her mom did!"

"She doesn't have them."

"Of course she has them, she's the daughter of the savior!"

Hold on Kyron told me about the villain that forced them into our world. Her name was Regan I believe. Wait a second. Holy crap. SADIE IS REGAN! I GOTTA TELL HOPE!

"What are you going to do to me?"

"Oh not what I'm going to do to you but to Hope. And you can't earn her."

"Regan. There's no need for this."

"Ahh. You finally figured it out. Took you long enough."

"I'm going to tell Hope! You won't get away with this!"

"Oh yes I will and you won't tell her you won't even remember this at all." She waved her hand once more.

What just happened? Why am I tied up?

"Oh my god Killian are you ok?" Sadie unties me.

"I think so. Something happened. I don't remember anything."

"Damn, it must've been Regan. I heard she's in town. I wonder why though."

"Aye, it most likely was."

"Why were you here?

"I came to hang out with Hope."

"Oh."

"Right, well I guess she's not here right now so I'll go. Good bye!"

She left the house and I raced to find my phone. I called Hope.

"Hey, dad, what's up?"

"Love, Regan is here in town."