A/N: Thank you for waiting lovely readers! I know how hard it is to wait for updates! (Only one of my 69 followed stories has updated since October began...I may die soon.) But here it is and there should be more to follow!
Weeks passed but they were all the same. I saw one of these men acting in one way and within 24 hours the other would do something so reminiscent my skin would crawl. I felt like I was cheating on one with the other. And that feeling made me want to vomit.
They each flirted, they each took ever more annoying care of me and they each sent dagger like glares at one another. I was in love with them both. But they were the same person! Only in Storybrooke did idiotic things like this happen. This wouldn't have happened to me in Boston!
I had to decide. But I also wanted to figure out what was happening. What were they protecting me from? Was something coming for us all? And who knew? Who sent them here in time? Who had a whole handful of magic beans, not just any magic beans…colored magic beans. Magic beans that gave you a portal through both time and space. They refused to tell me anything. But they knew. They knew who the man was, this much I was certain.
I missed my son. And I wanted this all to be over so that I could bring him home to me. To Regina. Even to Killian. The two of them got along well. Henry loved the ocean and loved Killian's ship.
Funny. How I trusted my son with the pirate, but I was afraid to leave him in the same state with the man who wouldn't touch liquor or mis-address a lady for fear of 'bad form'.
Maybe that was it. Maybe my subconscious had solved it for me. I didn't trust the young lieutenant no matter how much my father preferred him. ("But Emma, He is the same person but without the dark side? How can you not choose him?") I trusted my pirate Killian. He knew what it was to submit to the darkness. He know what it was to have to fight tooth and nail to get to where he was today. He knew what it was to be lost and have to find yourself. He knew me. He knew my soul. He and I had a shared past. We understood each other. We trust each other. And I think I am falling in love with him.
How could I pick anyone else?
How could I not want him beside me?
My Pirate. I had to find him.
A/N: I feel the need to warn you. We aren't done here. This isn't necessarily what the end will entail. There will be more factors and there will be more loops and turns and twists and betrayals and besides...you don't know who the cloaked stranger is! And believe me. It's good. You're gonna flip. It's gonna be great. Anyway...stick with me and don't think that a cookie cutter finale like this is the end. There's going to be a lot more drama first! Please review! Please please pretty please review! Love you!
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