"Are you just going to stare at yourself all day, I heard you where vain but wow" Emma snapped out of her trance to see a young girl around Henrys age dressed in a ballet leotard tights and ballet shoes. She looked around noticing a ballet Barre, the girl walked up to the Barre and suddenly music started. The child practised Ballet as Emma walked around the newly reformed room her heels clicked against the wooden floor as she moved to stand in front of the child who was lost in the rhythm of the dainty music.
"Where are we? " The child carried on practicing as she spoke.
" Stoeybrookes ballet studio on the outskirts of town" Emma shifted from on foot to another.
"why... Who are you.?" The child stopped dancing and the music stopped suddenly the child was no longer in dance attire but suited a white lace dress that stopped a over her knee and floated like a feather in the breeze.
"Daisy, Daisy Jones" Emma smiled thinking back to when Killian and herself had been thinking about the future he had made her laugh by saying 'we should name out kid Davey Jones' and she asked 'what if it's a girl?' He had said 'then Daisy shall have to suffice'. Daisy smiled strangely Emma wondered for a second if the child was reading her mind, Emma shook it off speaking her thoughts.
"Daisy Jones funny cute" Emma rose an eyebrow "A play on names I guess?" The girl- Daisy shrugged
"You should know it was you and dad who had the idea" Emma stuttered and froze on the spot. *you and dad* she thought *Me and Killian Daisy nodded " that's the one come along people will be arriving soon, they can't see you but they can see me. " Emma scowled at the back of Daisy's headed as she fluttered away like a fairy. The light hitting the girls blonde hair like an ultra violet light revealing hints of brown and darker blonde strewn throughout it. The child led Emma out of the studio and into the open air from here she could see the town Ruby setting out Granny's sign. Her mom and dad walking leisurely with Neal in the stroller, they where all happy and laughing but there was an underlying tone of sadness in the air Emma dug her finger nails into the palm of her hands she had caused this pain. Daisy led Emma all the way to her parents apartment. They entered and everyone stopped what they where doing . Henry and Killian where the only ones in. They got up from where they where sat to greet Daisy.
"Daisy where have you been we where meant to go out for lunch an hour ago" she smiled looking at Emma before walking forward and hugging Killian. "What's wrong kid" Emma felt tears in her eyes and Daisy whispered to Killian.
"I just missed you guys while you were away" Henry laughed "we may not actually be family but I love you guys like family. Henry your like my brother and Killian you are my dad" the three embraced and Emma felt tears slips down her cheek onto the floor she wiped her eyes before turning away and walking out the (purposely kept open) door she sat at the far table in Granny's watching the world go by her mom and dad laughing at funny things Neal was doing. She looked at her brother he was now two years old. She had missed her brothers first steps his first word she wondered if he even knew who she was or had they turned her room in an office put her things in storage erased any thought of her from their apartment. Regina walked into the diner with Roland and Robin Hood. Emma felt jealousy surge with her it filled her up until she was drowning in it. She watched bitterly as Regina held Roland on her lap and smiled having fun not a hint of darkness in her. Daisy emerged from the back motioning to Emma to follow her she did.
Is that why you brought me here so I could see everything I had given up" Daisy shook her head Emma was fuming "what is this some sort of sick game did Zelena put you up to this!" she pushed the girl into the wall pinning her up. "because if she did u I will kill her, you know what I kill the messenger because that sends a stronger message." the girl struggled against the Dark swans grip.
"I've shown you this, to stop you from doing what you're doing now hurting people. I want you too see that no one has given up on you" The Dark Swan let the child go.
"you don't think I can see that! Henry my mom and dad Killian even Regina I can see the pain in their eyes. I caused it Daisy it's all my fault" Emma grasped her head it was all to much she felt like her brain was going to explode from her skull. "I'm a monster I sacrificed myself for them and they're terrified of me I can see it in their eyes they're scared of me" Emma kicked the wall and the abandoned building came crumbling down thankfully missing Daisy.
"You need to calm down, Emma" She made it worse Emma sent the rubble flying at Daisy pinning her by her dress to the wall "Mom you need to stop your going to kill me or worse yourself" Wind swept dust around the town, it howled screaming so Daisy didn't have to.
"don't call me that I'm not your mom you don't want me as your mom" Daisy was not afraid of the Dark Swan she had been sent to save her and that's what she must do.
"your holding back, mom there's a reason you can't feel anything, it's because you don't want to. You need to let it out all the fear you had before you became what you are today" Emma stood her ground as the wind got stronger people where noticing now watching from afar as the Dark Swan seemed to be trapped in a glass case full of emotions.
"I'm scared that I'll hurt someone with this new power so I ran and I hid. I'm scared I'll loose control like before and hurt someone I'm scared My parents won't want me that Killian and Henry won't want me" the wind died down and Daisy shouted above the dust storm.
" You're holding something back mom think why am I here *how* can I be here? " Emma stared at Daisy.
" You look just like your dad you have his eyes" The Dark Swan stopped her eternal storm dropping herself and her future daughter onto the ground with a thump. The rubble kept on zipping around the two "I don't know. why won't it go away? "
"you have to think mom you ignoring it, you know it's there you can feel it you just have to let it in" The ruckus stopped, the rubble stopped dancing and the child stayed on the floor unconscious. The dark Swan stood clutching her stomach guarding herself as the world came into view and the her world, Killian and Henry, came into view. *Killian* she thought, she thought about his blue eyes the way he looked at her, the way he had cared for Henry while she was gone and Daisy the way he had taken her in as his own, not knowing she was his own.
Rumplestiltskin stepped in the way of her view knife in hand he went to stab her shielding herself away from the knife the Dark Swan braced herself for the pain feeling nothing opening her eyes she saw the girl in front of her, her daughter collapsed by her feet. The Dark swan was no longer dark, all the evil and hurt and hatred that was within her was released and Emma fell to the floor cradling her daughters lifeless body in her arms.
"Daisy, come back. Oh God Daisy please" the child did not wake up she did not answer she lay in her mother's lap a small smile on the dead girls face she had completed her mission. Emma tears fell onto the girls corpse. She was dead she had died sacrificing herself so that Emma could once again be Emma.
Emma looked up at her friends who looked back at her just as a bright light shone and Emma felt pain and hatred and love and hurt and happiness all at the same team she was lost but Daisy had helped her find herself. Killian had hold of Henrys hand. They where being held back by her dad and Robin, held back from her. Henry looked into the Dark Swans eyes and her hatred melted replaced by the ache to hold her son.
"Mom, David let me go, Killian please let me go to her" Emma stood looking at Henry and Killian the love in there eyes could they see her?
"you can see me? " Henry nodded running to his mother the no longer the Dark Swan, but still the Dark one, pulling her into his embrace the boy cried for loss of his sister and the finding if his mother.
The town slowly moved away, Robin and David carting Rumple off too the jail. Killian taking Daisy in his arms trying not to cry as he felt the weight of her dead body in his arms, he chocked on tears as he remembered how light she used to be when he would pick her up and spin her around or the time they sat up all night just the three of them on Killian's boat talking about Emma and other things they had lost, how she had fallen asleep on his boat and he'd had to carry her all the way back to the apartment even then, her limp sleeping body had weighed less than this *maybe it's the weight of her death and the loss we feel* he thought as he carried her to the graveyard where Emma her mother her lover and son buried Daisy Jones in the ground. Before they got to the burial ground Emma saw the child's features change her hair turning a jet black and her skin getting darker. The magic of her cloaking spell faiding. This was the real Daisy, not really her daughter but still someone she cared for, the Daisy that Killian and Henry knew, that everyone knew, the little girl who had shown up on there doorstep four moths ago and sacrificed everything for them to have Emma back.
After the burial everyone went back to there respected homes and Emma? She locked herself in her room refusing to see anyone and for hours into the deafening silence of the night she cried for Daisy for the people she had hurt and those unfortunate ones she had killed she had blood on her hands and it wasn't going away it was dripping and a simple sorry wasn't going to soak it all up. Emma was going to have to pay for what she did not physically- no no that's far to easy- but mentally; make her hate herself, questions her judgement, screw her up a little? That should do it. That should do it indeed