Emma awoke to the sounds of machines beeping as she opened her eyes. She was laying in a hospital bed, her mother asleep in a chair next to her.
"Ouch," Emma said, waking her mother up as she tried to sit up.
"Emma don't get up," Snow said as she stood and put her hand on Emma's shoulder, pushing her back to lying down.
"What happened?" Emma said, rubbing her head.
"You fainted," Snow said, "it seems you were pretty dehydrated. And you kinda hit your head on the table before I was able to catch you."
"Oh… yeah," Emma said, "Explains the splitting headache." Emma chuckled.
"You must not have had time to eat or drink while you were busy defeating the Snow Queen," Snow said, grabbing Emma's hand. Emma looked around to see that they were the only ones in the room.
"Where's Killian?" Emma said.
"Oh, I-I sent him home." Snow said smiling, "He was here so long so-"
"So long?" Emma said, "How long was I out?"
"You've been out for 2 days," Snow said hesitantly.
"Two days!?" Emma said flabbergasted. Then her mind went to the baby as her hand shot to her belly.
"The baby is fine," Snow quickly said, seeing the look of terror in Emma's eyes.
Emma leaned her head back, looking at the ceiling and sighed. Her hand caressed the area below her belly button.
"I never had to worry like this with Henry," Emma said, looking at Snow, "Sure I slept in a car and was a thief-"
"A thief?" Snow interrupted.
"I was 17," Emma said.
"Emma," Snow said, giving Emma a stern look. Then her look softened.
"If you ever need to talk," Snow said, "I know a few things about being worried about danger while pregnant." Snow laughed as she smiled at Emma.
Emma chuckled, "Yeah, I know." Emma said sitting up against her mother's wishes. Emma's head swam as she sat up, so she took her mother's advice and laid back down.
"Why don't you rest a bit more," Snow said, "You did hit your head pretty hard. I'll go call Killian."
Emma laid her head down and closed her eyes.
When Emma woke up, Killian was walking into the room.
"Swan!" Killian said, running to her side and wrapping her in his arms, "I-I thought…"
"It's ok," Emma said running her hands through his hair, "We're ok." Emma kissed Killian's forehead.
"I can never understand what these bloody doctors are saying," Killian said sitting down in the chair next to her, "It hard enough understanding the language of your world without mixing in all those fancy words."
Emma giggled, "Yeah, I don't understand half the things they're saying either, but what is important is that I am fine and most importantly, "Emma said as Killian leaned towards her, her hand going to his cheek, "Our baby is ok." Something flashed in Killian's eyes, but Emma couldn't figure out what it was.
"I need to go," Killian said standing up, "I have something I need to take care of."
"Wh-What? You just got here." Emma said, slightly sitting up.
"No worries, my love," Killian said, standing by the door, "I'll be back in two shakes of a lamb's tail." He smiled at Emma, a small twinkle of pain in the pools of blue as he walked out the door.
Once Killian left, Emma picked up her phone and dialed.
"Mom?" Emma said, "I think something is up with Killian. Can you get Regina and come to the hospital?"
"I'm on my way, " Snow said before hanging up.
Emma didn't have to wait long before her mother and Regina came into the room.
"What's going on?" Snow said, looking around the room. Snow moved to sit in the chair next to Emma.
"He's not here," Emma said, "He said he had something he needed to take care of."
"He's been to Gold's shop several times in the last few weeks," Regina said, "Maybe it has something to do with that?"
"He was leaving Gold's shop the day we broke the curse, " Emma said, looking from Snow to Regina. Her hand went to her lips, "When I kiss him, it feels…"
"Different." Regina said cutting Emma off and looking at her knowingly.
"Yeah, how'd you know?" Emma said looking up at Regina in surprise.
"Because I know what it's like to kiss someone without a heart." Regina said flatly.
"How-" Emma started.
"Graham." Regina said, looking down and fiddling with her hands.
Emma began trying to get up, but her head swam once more. Snow stood to put her hand on Emma shoulder.
"Emma, you rest," Snow said, "We'll go see if we can poke around and see what's going on. I'll ask the dr when you should be able to come home." Snow turned and walked out the door.
Emma laid back and looked at the ceiling, frustration building inside of her. She had to do something. She couldn't just sit there doing nothing like some helpless person while the man that she loved was out there without his heart. Snow came back before she could dwell too much.
"The dr said we can take you home in a few hours, Regina is going to try and see what she can find out," Snow said, "I can stay with you if you like?" Snow looked at Emma with such sadness.
"No, it's fine," Emma said sadly, "I-I'll be fine." Emma tried to hold back the tears, but they escaped without warning, her heart aching at the thought of having to have another baby alone, not knowing it's father, and for her to lose yet another person she cares about.
"Oh, Emma," Snow wrapped her in a warm embrace, "We'll figure this out. We'll get Killian's heart back, you'll see."
"Always so optimistic," Emma said chuckling through the tears.
"It's gotten us this far hasn't it?" Snow said leaning way and looking at Emma as she wiped the tears from her daughter's eyes, "Just have hope." She pulled her daughter back to her as she rubbed her back. Emma fell asleep with her mother playing with her hair.