Chapter 15:
After Killian left the Stowaway with August earlier that evening, Henry began to clean up the bar and get ready for what he hoped was a date with Violet Mills. He chilled a bottle of champagne, set out flowers on a table in the middle, and even found candles in the storage room in the back. He wanted everything to be perfect for Violet.
He is putting the finishing touches on everything when there is a knock on the door of the bar. "I'll be right there." He calls out before rushing over to the door on the other side of the bar. He opens the door to find Adam and his goonies waiting for him on the other side.
He backs away as they enter the bar. "Hey, what can I do for your guys?" He asks them.
"You can stay away from Violet for starters." Adam says before nodding to two of his friends. They rush towards Henry and grab his arms.
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Emma steps outside onto the porch of the beach house. Happy to slip away from the noise and the stress of the party happening in her home. She steps towards the railing and leans against it staring at the ocean. The ocean always had a calming effect on her.
"Emma Swan." A male voice calls out behind her. She turns to see Killian walking towards her with his hands up as a gesture of peace. "I swear to God, I am not stalking you. Though I am not sure the same could be said about my dog." He says while gesturing down towards Sammy who she now notices is walking beside him. "Congratulations on the house."
"Thank you." She replies with a soft smile.
"I hope you are not planning on tearing it down and building yourself something like that." He says pointing towards the Mills Manor behind her.
"No, no, not at all. This house stays exactly the same." She reassures him.
"Good. It's nice to know there is somebody else out there with an appreciation for history. This place sure has a lot of it." He tells her while looking intently into her eyes. She swears he is looking at her like he has known her his entire life which is true. He knew Emma Nolan when they were children but he only just met Emma Swan. "Anyway… umm… I'll let you get back to your party." She nods and smiles back at him. "If you see August, let him know I split."
"Yeah, no problem." She responds.
"It's nice to see you again." He tells her.
Instead of responding she just stares at him and nods slightly. He turns and walks away from her. She watches him walk down the porch with Sammy. She stares after him imagining the life she could have had with Killian had everything not happened.
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Two of Adam's friends hold Henry's arms against the railing that lines the upper seating area in the bar. Adam continues to punch him in the nose and the stomach alternating between the two. Henry can feel the blood dripping down his nose and can feel his eye beginning to swell shut.
"Who are you going to stay away from?" Adam asks him when he takes a break from punching him. Henry mutters something under his breath. "What's that? I can't hear you." Adam says before stepping towards Henry. Henry headbutts Adam and he falls to the ground.
"Your mother." Henry responds the question.
Adam gets up and tells him, "You're a dead man."
"Hey!" Henry can hear his father shout from upstairs as he walks down the stairs into the bar. Adam and his friends run through the door and away from the bar as fast as their legs would take them. His father swings his baseball bat at them and Henry falls to the floor.
"Hey, Henry, who are those guys?" He asks his son when he reaches him. He helps Henry off of the floor.
"You're drunk." Henry tells his father as his father helps him stand up.
"And you look like hell but they will get what's coming to them." His father tells him.
"Yeah, I know. They will get girls and they will get cars and they will get more money than they can spend. And you know what I am going to get? Crap. You wanna know why? Cause I'm a loser, Dad, just like you." He says pushing his father away. He clutches his stomach as he limps towards the stairs.
"Henry, listen…" His father call out to him as Henry reaches the stairs. He ignores his father and keeps going up the stairs to the apartment.
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At Mills Manor, Regina is in her bedroom that she shares with Robert watching the new on the tv. Her phone begins to buzz on the table beside her. She looks down to see it is Albert.
"Hello." She says answering the phone.
"Regina, its Albert. I found an anomaly in Emma Swan's public record." Albert says to her through the phone.
"What kind anomaly?" She asks him while she walks towards the balcony of her bedroom. She looks down at the beach house next door.
"From ages sixteen to eighteen, it's like she didn't exist. Every piece of information you would expect to find on her is sealed by the court." He tells her.
"I want you to start following her." She tells him as she continues to stare at the beach house next door. "I wanna know everywhere she goes. I wanna know everyone she sees. Something is not right here, I can feel it."
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Emma stands on the porch of the beach house and says goodbye to one of the last partygoers as they walk down the stairs, down the sidewalk, and towards their car.
"Where we love I home. Home where our feet may leave but not our hearts." Neal says from the doorway behind her. She turns around so she can face him.
"Oliver Wendell Holmes." She says to him with a smile.
He takes a step towards her closing the gap between them. "Maybe I should have been a poet."
"You still can be." She tells him.
There is a pause between them as they both stare at each other. Neal leans forward and places his hand on her cheek. Their lips touch for a few moments. Emma could feel the spark between them as she breaks the kiss. She rests her forehead against his. She smiles at him and laces her fingers through his.
"Goodnight." He whispers to her.
"Goodnight." She replies as he takes a step back and walks around her down the steps of the porch. She turns and watches him walk down the steps. He turns and looks back at her and smiles. She returns the smile. This is going to be harder than she thought. She is beginning to fall for him. She stares up at the Mills Manor before turning to walk into the beach house.
After changing out of the dress and taking her hair down, Emma walks back down stairs and pulls out the infinity box and her laptop from its hiding place in the living room/ she sets it down on her kitchen table before sitting down at the table. She opens the box and pulls out a photo of the birthday she got Sammy. She stares at her dad's and Uncle Owen's happy faces questioning how Owen could do something so horrible to her father so soon after this photo was taken.
This is why she had to take him down. She swiped his id badge during one of their meetings, snuck into his office, and pulled up the records of his clients and their investments. She printed them quickly. She was in and out in a matter of minutes. It was almost too easy.
She places the birthday photo back into the box and pulls out the Mills Global retreat photo and a red sharpie. She crosses his face out in the photo with a red x. Two down, many more to go.
She puts the photo away and walks over to the kitchen. She pulls out a single cupcake from the fridge and lights the candle on top.
"Happy Birthday, Emma Nolan." She whispers before blowing out the candle.
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Killian walks into the Stowaway curious as to why the all the lights in the bar were still on. His father closed up early and both he and Henry should already be upstairs at this hour. He looks down to find his father not moving on the middle of the floor of the bar.
"Dad?" Killian shouts. He runs over to him while muttering no over and over. He kneels beside his father and shakes him gently while calling out his name. He shouts for his brother who comes running down the stairs.
"Killian, what do I do?" He asks his brother as he kneels on the other side of their father.
"Call 911." Killian tells his brother as he begins to do cpr on his father. He only hopes the paramedics get there soon.
A/N: Sorry this took so long! Since they took this off Netflix it was harder for me to write since I cannot have the episode playing as I write the chapter. To those of you still reading this fic, thank for reading and I hope you enjoy!
We have concluded episode 2 of the show. The next episode will start episode 3.
