Nothing happened. No one came to meet them, no one said anything and it felt like time stood still, at least to Emma. Apparently it did to Rumple to because evetually he had obviously waited long enough, he had just about as much patience as she did which wasn't much.
"Elsa! I'm here, now come out and make Belle alright!"
It took a few seconds more, but then Elsa got out of the trees from their right. Without Olaf, Emma noticed. Elsa also seemed a bit red eyed, as if she'd been crying recently and a small piece of Emma felt sorry for her although she didn't really know why. Still, Elsa walked up to them with steady steps, stopping a couple of metres away.
"It took you long enough, I almost started thinking you wouldn't show up."
"I'd do anything for Belle, now take away the ice in her head."
"Calm down Rumple. I never wanted to hurt an innocent girl... not like you. I wanted to take away the ice in my kingdom and I was the one who sent Anna to get you. We wanted you to remove the ice, not remove me."
"Look, I didn't understand your magic. So being who I was back then I wanted rid of you and when someone offered me a deal that said that if I removed the ice in their kingdom I could get a gift free of choice."
"And you broke it!
Emma stopped and thought about it for a while, then she realized, Elsa was wrong.
"No he didn't... Rumple didn't break the deal. He locked you up in the urn and thereby removed the ice and his gift of choice was the urn itself!"
Elsa looked at her as if she hadn't even noticed she was standing there. Then she got a look in her eyes that Emma recognized. Hate.
"Why don't you keep out of this huh? And as for you Rumple... we're not done yet. We are not by far done yet."
With those words she turned around and walked back towards the barn, leaving them all in silent. Well, leaving Rumple and Emma in silent, neither Killian, David or Belle had said anything during the whole time. But it seemed as if Rumplestiltskin wasn't done yet.
"Hey! Keep your deal! Make her well again!"
Elsa stopped in the middle of a step and stood there for a while. Then she raised her arm and flashed something white at Belle and suddently her head was surrounded by white snowflakes that soon fell to the ground. Then Elsa kept on walking. Rumple turned to his wife.
"How do you feel?"
"I feel... I feel fine."
Since it seemed that Elsa had kept her deal, they all returned back to the town in hopes of being rid of her for a while. Emma had also hoped that the car ride back would be less awkward, but for some reason she couldn't quite figure out, it wasn't. At least it didn't seem to bother Killian who had fallen asleep against the window. She smiled when she looked at him, he seemed so in peace, so calm and that was something she really needed right now. Or pretty much all the time, she needed him. Maybe she should tell him that.
Seeing Snow and David walk in to Grannys to pick up Neal, Regina couldn't help but noticing how happy they were. Perhaps this baby could bring her that happiness as well, that happiness that she'd been searching for in such a long time. This was the first time that she' actually thought about this child in a positive manner. Of course, she had thought the whole 'it's the miracle of life' stuff, but she'd never thought that it was hers to love and cherish. It made her kind of happy. Regina slightly pat her stomach a bit and looked at it with a smile and then she remembered the annoying part; she would soon have to tell someone. But who? Who could she trust that wouldn't go running straight to Robin to tell him about this? The only one she could think of was Snow. Yes, Snow would understand, she would even try to help her after her own best ability, the only problem was that Snow shared everything she knew about everyone with David and the few things she didn't tell him she was simply horrible at lying about. After a while, Regina still decided that she would wait at least another week. By then she would probably be showing a bit, but hopefully, no one would notice. All this hanging out with the Charmings had gotten her to be pretty optimistic about most thing, at least for her usual pessimistic self. It was probably a good thing, when in reasonable limits.
Now the Charmings were leaving the diner along with their infant son, leaving their fully grown up daughter with her new or recently admitted boyfriend, captain Hook also known as Captain Killian Jones. They really were a strange family, perhaps the strangest one in Storybrooke and that's saying a lot. Still they weren't strange enough to catch attention, not like Regina. She sighed and felt a bit sorry for her baby having a mother commonly known as the Evil Queen. The person closest to being evil in the Charmings family was Killian and even he was a big softie at heart and it shined through bright and clear when he was with Emma or anyone else in the family for that matter. Particularly when he was with Henry, which was good. He needed a male role model in his life that wasn't also his grandfather, at least according to Regina. Now it looked as if the big sweetheart was about to get something of a reward because instead of going up to his room, he followed Emma out the door, holding her hand with a very satisfied and happy grin on his face.
There was no words that could describe how eagirly Killian had been waiting for this moment. To have Emma, really have her, his Emma. It was marvellous. Pulling up her shirt, pushing her closer to him. Kissing every inch of her soft, warm body that felt so small and easily breakable beneath him. This was not like any side he had seen of Emma before, but he knew that he loved it, just like he loved every other part of her, good like bad. He loved her. When the morning came, he should probably tell her that, but not now. Now he had other things to focus on.
