Chapter 10

HAPPY ONCE DAY!

Here is another chapter! Here we see all of Zoe's emotions come flooding out and poor Emma and Killian are just trying their best to be there for her.

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Emma and Killian stood at the door staring at the handle. Neither of them knew if what they were doing was right. They had no reference for raising a teenager. However, once they heard the banging of drawers, they knew they had to go in.

Once the door was open they both stood looking at Zoe throwing her few belongings into her duffle bag.

"Zoe?" Emma asked. Zoe immediately spun around in shock. She hadn't thought that they would be coming in her room.

"I'm leaving" Zoe said matterafactly. She wasn't going to let them talk her into staying.

"No…you're not" Killian said walking over and flipped the flap closed on her duffle bag followed by placing his hand on top to keep her from being able to continue her manic packing.

"Killian…take your hand off my bag" Zoe said through gritted teeth.

"Zoe…"

"STOP! BOTH OF YOU! I'M LEAVING AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME!" she screamed. She then collapsed on the floor and began to sob. She felt completely out of control and she couldn't hold her emotions in any more. Emma immediately got down on the floor and wrapped her arms around the young woman while she cried while Killian moved to her other side and took her hand into his. The trio sat like this for about twenty minutes while Zoe slowly stopped crying and was able to calm down.

"I'm sorry" came Zoe's small voice

Emma pulled back from her a bit until she could see her face "You have nothing to be sorry for" she said as she took her face into her hands. "There are times when life just gets to be too much. You have been though a lot in the last 72 hours; you can't expect to be able to just act like nothing happened" she finished moving a small piece of hair out of her face.

"But I have to be strong…I have to be there for Heidi…I have…I have to…to go" She got out between gasps. She was starting to have a hard time breathing as she went into a total panic.

Killian squeezed her hand a bit tighter "Listen to me love. In, out, in, out…there you go…listen to me and take a deep breath" he coached her till she calmed down. "There you go. You're just fine and Heidi is going to be find to"

"You don't know that"

"I do" Emma chimed in "My parents said that they are getting the officers in their station to start looking for her right away and my parents don't say things they don't mean."

"She's right love. Mary and David are going to make sure that she is taken care of. But they can't take care of her if they are worried that you are also in danger" Killian added.

"I can't leave her alone. If they find her they're going to send her back. I can't let that happen" Zoe said starting to get worked up again. Emma placed a gentle hand on her upper arm and started to gently run her hand up and down to try and help Zoe keep her cool.

"Zoe, You don't know that. I talked to my parents and they already said that they are going to do everything in their power to make sure that Heidi has a good home. They aren't going to let anything bad happen to her." She said now moving to stroke her hair.

"Love you are trying to take too much on. I know you're used to having to deal with everything on your own. That's all changed now. You only need to worry about your safety. Let Emma and I deal with the rest" Kilian said sandwiching her hand between his two. Emma and Killian shared a wordless conversation. They knew that they could keep talking till they were blue in the face, but that wasn't going to help this all to become truth to Zoe. They agreed that they would give her some time alone before they tried to push her any further.

"Take some time to calm down and relax. We'll be in the living room if you need us" Emma said. She then placed a small kiss on the girl's forehead and stood up before helping Killian to do the same.

Zoe sat on the end of the bed with her head in her hands. She hadn't felt this hopeless in a long time. She was normally good about stuffing her emotions away and focusing on the logical next step. There was something about these people that brought out her emotions in ways that she wasn't used to. She had never felt safe enough to lean on anyone but herself…until now that is.

She stood up and walked into the small bathroom attached to her room and splashed cold water on her face to try and calm down a bit. She had to come up with a way to make sure that Heidi was okay. She couldn't let her go back into the system, even if she had to put herself in danger to do it.

Once the door closed Killian wrapped his arms around Emma and held her. They both had the shared feeling of hopelessness and fear combined in their stomachs. They wanted to help her, to make her feel safe here. They also knew that someone who had been through all that she had and to have all of this change thrown at her at once, it was going to take time.

"Killian…are we sure we can do this?"

"Aye love. We have both been through these types of things before. You of all people should understand her fear of the system"

"But I was only in the system until I was five and I found my parents. This girl has been in the system for 18 years. I mean, that changes you in ways neither of us can ever understand. She has never had a family"

"Then we show her what it means to have one. I know that all of this is unorthodox but we have a chance to help this girl. We just have to take it one day at a time" He said taking her hands into his.

"Sometimes I wonder how you can always find optimism in every situation" Emma said closing the gap between them and laying her head on his shoulder. "I mean, I know deep deep down somewhere inside that we can do this but the larger part of me is feeling like we've already failed"

"And that is why you have me…to remind you of that small part inside of you that knows we can do this. Sure it's going to be difficult but we have never been one's to take the easy path"

"I love you"

"I love you too" The two stood there for a moment enjoying each others presence. Eventually hook began to rub his hand up and down Emma's back "Alright love, Let's get back to our day. Zoe will come around when she's ready"

"You're right. I'm going to go to the store and pick up a few things" she then pulled away and gave him a quick kiss before heading toward the door and putting on her shoes. "Any requests?"

"Why don't you grab some of the basic and then stop by that little dinner we love and get dinner?"

"Will do" Emma said as she pulled on her red leather jacket. And with that she was out the door leaving Killian to look out for Zoe

Zoe studied the newly installed window alarm. After some googling she finally was able to figure out that it was a magnetic system. One magnet on the window frame that connected with the magnet on the window its self. The alarm was engaged when the two magnets lost contact. Zoe then looked around and finally found a small magnet on the mirror in her bathroom that she thought would work. She knew she only had one chance to get this right. She got her one hand ready to open the window with the other one ready to slide the magnet onto the base.

"Here goes nothing…" She moved her hands in a fluid motion pulling the window up and sliding the magnet into place.