"It can't be true!" Mary-Margaret argued to her brother in law, her hands firmly placed on her hips. James sighed and put his head on his brother's shoulder in exasperation. It was officially declared 10 minutes ago that Princess Anna and Duke Liam were captured by the rival family the Golds. "Do you think

I want it to be true?!" He shouted back to her once he had breathed for a moment, "my daughter has been captured by another rival family, it's not as if it was Emma!" He continued. Mary-Margaret glared at him, her steps taking her towards him, an act that caused the other men, including David to back away. "Don't you ever raise your voice to me again or I will-" the hall doors suddenly swung open and in walked a tall raven haired women "You will what dear? Win him over with your rainbow talk? Come on" the women rolled her eyes and walked further on into the room, she wore long black dress covered in jewels and her hair was down her back in an up do, reaching just below her stomach. "Regina, be nice" David suddenly spoke up, dragging his wife away from his brother to the other side of the room. Regina just rolled her eyes again and say down on one of the thrones earning a few gasps which were silenced by her glare.

The doors opened once more and Emma and Killian walked in looking around frantically, "what happened?!" Emma exclaimed as she walked over to her parents, "who took them?" She continued, "we have to get them back!" She walked on further. Killian quickly walked forward and caught Emma's arm pulling her back away from her receding parents carefully, "Swan.. Stay calm" he whispered in her ear. Emma took a side glance back at him and composed herself. Emma was panicking, there's no doubt about that but she had right too, her cousin was now missing, if they were already married this wouldn't have happened, no one would have dared kidnap them then, they would have had to answer to the king and that would not have been good.

A sigh escaped David's lips and he looked at his brother with despair, lost for words as this would break Emma. "Is anyone going to answer me?!" Emma raised her voice, looking around them all expectantly, her hand now suddenly joined with Killians as he hadn't let go of her and she needed the comfort. Mary-Margaret coughed and looked at Emma and Killian, "W-We don't know Emma, it just happened" she lied to her. At this Emma looked at her father, disbelief all over her face. Killian looked at her mother questionably, Mary-Margaret's gaze however was unable to meet his, especially when Emma dropped Killians hand in fear. "You're a liar!" She said to her mother calmly,

"Emma da-"

"It was the Golds wasn't it?" Silence fell as Emma spoke and everyone's gaze was on her. Killian's was confusion, Mary-Margaret and David's was worry and everyone else's was shock. Emma took one look at Killian before walking out of the room, anger boiling.

The rage boiled in Emma's veins as she almost ran to her room. Once she was there she banged the door, causing a previously occupied Belle and Ariel to jump. "Miss Emma?" Belle asked, walking to her quickly. Emma looked at them pleadingly "Anna.. My cousin has been captured. I am going after them and you will provide me with the proper outfit, whether or not you agree does not matter. All I ask is that you wait till I have left to tell them when they arrive" Ariel looked at Belle and the brunette shooed her off giving her a list of items to fetch. Emma sighed and smiled at Belle, grabbing her hand and giving it a squeeze she began to calm slightly.

It took them 20 minutes to dress Emma and not one person had come to fetch her, something that made Emma happy but yet at the same a little sad. She was off with a wave to her ladies and some sly instructions where the swords were kept in the castle, for battle, from Ashley.

Emma went where the blonde told her and she pushed open the door only to jump back in shock. "Fancy seeing you here, Swan" Killian raised an eyebrow at her, grinning from ear to ear as he lounged at the back of the room, she glared at him as she walked in the room, "why are you here?"

"Well my mother and father ma-"

"No, Jones. Why are you in the room? Surely you aren't doing the same thing as I am, you didn't seem to be too bothered about your dear brother" she snapped at him, her hands clasping around a long sword as she began to rummage around. Killian's face dropped at her comment, "my brother means the world to me" he said to her, a serious note in his voice. Emma turned to him and was about to speak before he did first, obviously regaining his composure, "we possess a problem"

"And what would that be?"

"Your parents want us to marry, tonight" Emma dropped the sword she had hold of and stared at him, "excuse me?!" She almost shouted, a panic note to her voice.

Emma looked at him furiously, her ears almost steaming from anger. She imagined him getting burnt at the stake as if he was a traitor. Not like that was going to happen any time soon. He was a duke for Gods sake! She was absolutely furious with him, how did he expect her to react to such a statement?! She wasn't ready for the marriage already, this was making her feel even more frightened. Killian confused her greatly and it wasn't getting any easier for her, their walk earlier was quite the journey for Emma and she had felt they were getting along, and she had felt less like she was going to her doom by the second, but Killians attitude to the whole endeavour was unsettling to her. Their walk and their getting along her led Emma to let her guard down and she wasn't prepared to let it happen again, after all her cousin was taken while she was off being friendly with someone she felt a little uneasy about. "Emma, you really need to learn how not to shout" Killian said to her, moving closer to where she was stood, to form a common ground. "I will shout however I damn well please Jones, my little cousin is out there taken by not just my family's rival but yours if I do so recall, and I certainly don't think us marrying right this second will fix any of that. Do you?" She snapped at him, "and I certainly don't see you making as such a fuss over your brother as I am making over Anna, that seems to me that you wanted him out of the way to me. To rule the castle and the army." She continued speaking, "I'm old enough to know how this works, you'd become the new Duke of Northumberland and me finding them would make you lose that title" she glared at him and went back to rummaging through the swords, mumbling for him to go away under her breath. Killian clenched his fists at his sides, the anger boiling in him by the second. He didn't think she would dare to tell him he would plot to kidnap his own brother, it certainly wasn't unheard of in these days but he couldn't believe she'd say that. He was just a nervous and anxious as she was to even marry someone else but this was taking it all too far for him, he knew secrets and lies and boundaries but this was ridiculous! He wouldn't stand for it.

"Look princess I don't know what your problem is with me but you need to suck it up, go get dressed properly and get ready to be married to me because that is what's happening because that will stop us from being taken too" he huffed, "last I recall we were getting along fine about an hour ago, what has changed? Do I frighten you? Because surely I am not that scary am I Emma?" Emma turned her head to look at him, he was looking back at her and she sighed. "I believe we would be a pretty great team Emma, and this is not the life you had in mind for you and your son, but this is not what I had planned either. I imagined marrying someone I had known my whole life and I'm sure that your past beloved was that for you, this is all we get now Emma.." She quickly turned away from him, her breathing coming out fast as she fought away the tears, she hadn't felt this horrible in a while, she hadn't meant to have been so mean to him but she was scared of him, not in the sense that she was in danger of him hurting her but more that she was scared of him because she could fall easily for him. He was dashing, smart, kind and she knew she could fall deep and she could not let that happen, like it had before. "Emma.." Killian began as he placed a hand on her shoulder, "I do think that you're putting up a wall Emma and it may take some time but through this marriage I intend to try and bring it down so we can at least be friends.." Emma turned to smile at him, not the forced smile she had done when she met him many hours earlier, it was a genuine smile, but it still wasn't as big of a smile as it could have been. "So how about we leave finding our loved ones up to the others and we can go do our part in this alliance, after all we were going to have to get married at some point anyway!" Emma laughed lightly and nodded in his direction, and Killian began to lead them out of the room. Emma was still skeptical and her walls were still up, but if this meant she and Killian had a better chance at getting along and possibly find her cousin then she was okay with that..