"Killian! Killian! Wake up! Wake up!" Emma shouted. "You have a pulse, you aren't dead, so wake up! Get up!"
Emma grasped his shoulders hard, willing him to wake up. She felt a jolt of energy that could only be magic and looked up in alarm ready to spring into action.
"Sorry Dearie," Rumple said quietly. "I wasn't trying to frighten you, I was just checking to see if he was indeed still alive. He got hit in the chest with Elsa's magic. His heart should be frozen, and he should be dead by now, but you are right, he is still alive, if just barely."
Emma had 100 questions, but the one she asked first surprised herself.
"How do I fix this?" she asked. "What can we do to make him wake up?"
Rumpelstiltskin just stared at her with a look that Emma could only describe as regretful before answering in an even quieter voice than earlier, "You can't do anything. We can't make him wake up. The ice has him, and it will not let go."
"I don't buy that!" she shouted, frustrated beyond belief, "You are one of the most powerful magic practitioners of all time. Regina has said that time and time again. How is it that you can't reverse what she did? How is it that you can't heal him? She was in your vault for goodness sake! Didn't you ever think to..."
She stopped when she heard a car pull up to the shop. She watched Regina get out of the car and rush over to the small group.
"What happened here? Did the pirate piss off Rumpelstiltskin again?"
Emma just looked down at Killian and sighed. She knew she had to ask, knew that Regina was going to hate her for it, would probably turn her down immediately, considering what Emma had just done to her, but she had to ask. She opened her mouth to answer, but was cut off by David.
"He was hit in the chest with some ice magic by the person who is causing this crazy weather. Apparently Mr. Gold knows this woman, Elsa. She was in his vault but is here now."
"And how did she get here exactly?" Regina bit out, eyes blazing with recognition of the name.
"She had to have come back with us without our knowing about it," whispered Emma. She knew it was true. It had to be their fault that Storybrooke was once again in danger.
"I told you!" shouted Regina. "I told you that you'd better hope nothing else came back with you!"
"Regina, we all know that Miss Swan would never knowingly bring someone or something that could be dangerous to her boy, your boy, whatever you two are calling it. It was clearly an accident," Rumpelstiltskin said.
"Of course you would side with her," Regina spat out. "Who wouldn't side with the savior?"
David stunned them all with a very loud, "Oh let it go Regina. You cursed us all here and you've taken countless lives intentionally. Yes, Emma hurt you, but it was unintentional. She was trying to help an innocent person escape certain death. So please, just stop. Be angry at the situation, but don't be angry with Emma anymore. Remember why Marian needed saving."
"Dad! That's not...That was not ok," said Emma. She was in shock. David never lost his cool like that. He was always so level headed, but that was unkind, and slightly cruel.
"Regina has every right to be angry with me. She can say what she likes. I did ruin her happiness."
"Ms. Swan, please stop. Your father is...cor...He's correct. If I hadn't been so hell bent on revenge against your mother, Marian would never have been in my dungeon. He is right," sighed Regina. "I also know you would never do anything to hurt our son, and that includes bringing a crazy ice bitch back from the past."
Emma was slightly shocked as she listened to Regina. Yes, Regina had changed in the time that she knew her, but she wasn't expecting something like this. She was expecting months of fighting if not years.
"Regina, is there anything you can think of to help Killian? He won't wake up. I can't wake him up."
"If he was hit in the chest with Elsa's magic, he should already by dead. His heart should be frozen. There is nothing that we can do for him. I'm sorry," Regina rushed.
Emma slumped down, and as she did, she felt David's hand on her shoulder. He told her he had called the hospital and they were on their way to get Hook. She was so distracted, she nearly forgot to ask about Elsa, but once she remembered to ask about her she was filled with more and more questions for Regina and Rumple.
Elsa was a princess from a land called Arendale. She was born with magic, ice magic to be exact, that she struggled to control her whole life. After a near death experience involving her sister, Elsa essentially went into hiding within the castle walls. Nobody ever saw her until her coronation, which ended up being a blast, of ice. She and her sister worked it all out, but Elsa never really truly controlled her magic, and since she could freeze a whole land in one go, Rumpelstiltskin thought it best to keep her "safely locked away"
"So she has a grudge against you? That's just fantastic," Regina said.
Again, David surprised Emma, "I think Hook must have done something to her too. She tried to kill him. She said something about Arendale before she went after him. She didn't try to freeze him like she did with Gold. She was intentional with her shot at Killian."
Emma heard the ambulance and saw the lights flashing and was distracted. If she was really honest, she didn't know what to say. Obviously Elsa had a grudge against Killian as well as Rumpelstiltskin. It may have just cost Killian his life.
She watched numbly as the paramedics got Killian on a stretcher and put him into the back of the ambulance.
"I'm going to ride with him. Can you come pick me up later?" Emma asked David.
"Of course, do you want me to follow now? I should give Mary Margaret an update. I'm sure she is losing it right about now not knowing."
"I'll just call you later. Go tell mom what is going on. Calm her down too, because you know she is going to go a little spastic with the pregnancy hormones especially when she finds out there is a crazy ice witch on the loose. Regina, you keep Henry for now. I doubt she'll come near him, but if she does, you are the better match against her."
Emma tried to give her dad a small smile, but it was lost as she heard something that sounded like a groan come from Killian. She raced to the ambulance and grabbed his hand as the paramedics closed the door.
She flinched and almost dropped his hand. He was freezing! She didn't understand how he could be so cold. She rode the rest of the way to the hospital avoiding thinking. She explained to the doctors and nurses what she knew of Elsa and her magic and what had happened to Killian.
Emma knew she needed to examine the feelings she was experiencing, but also knew she had too much to do to do that right now. She needed to make sure Killian was safe at the hospital. She had to call Henry and tell him what happened. She knew she was going to have to talk to her mom. She wasn't going to get around that conversation. Then there was the matter of the crazy ice princess that was on the loose. Oh and then she had to find a way to keep Killian alive...there was that too.
They had just made it back from the past. She had what, 12 hours since the last crisis ended before the next one began? She just wanted a moment of peace, and she had wanted it with Killain. She hated herself for that thought. This was her life, this was her destiny, her fate, but sometimes, she really just wanted to be a normal person with no powers. Was it really too much to ask for to have one night to go on a date?
She looked at him, noticing that he was becoming more and more pale as the day progressed. When she looked at her watch, she realized she had been sitting in the chair next to him for the last hour. She knew she needed to call David to come get her and they needed to come up with a plan for Elsa. Maybe Belle would know some more about her. Apparently, she was a fairy tale character too but wasn't really as well known.
She leaned over to him as David walked into the room and whispered into his ear, "Killian Jones, don't you give up. You stay alive while I'm away. You owe me a date."
She smiled a sad smile, and kissed him on the cheek before walking out of the room.