Sooooooooo... yeah, that happened but just you wait, that's not the half of it!
Poor Killian lol
Let's carry on
PLEASE review, I'm dying to find out what you guys think
"What the Hell?" David yelled throwing a hand out to steady himself as a huge cloud of dust plumed from the cave towards him. Even before he had scrambled back through the narrow entrance David knew what had happened, well it was the only thing that made sense in his head, the cave had collapsed but how?
He skidded to a halt coughing harshly as the dust got into his lungs, he couldn't see damn it, it was too dark. All the magic globes had disappeared and the only source of light now was the soft sunbeams that filtered in from high above cutting a shaft into the dust as it began to settle.
"EMMA... HENRY!" David called out but all he got back was silence "No no no, please God no. EMMA"
David's heart was rattling in his chest and his throat was rapidly closing as his emotions threatened to over take him, he had lost them, they were gone! This couldn't be happening! He scrambled forward and started digging into the rocks, throwing boulders out of his way as quickly as he could but he had no idea if there was anyone anywhere near where he was ripping at the pile and just as the panic was starting to take hold he suddenly heard a cough from off to his left, his head snapped to the side and he was running in seconds falling to his knees and tossing some more rocks aside.
"EMMA..." he yelled when he pulled back a few small rocks to reveal her dusty face
"I'm OK" she spluttered but with her next breath she gasped out "Where's Henry?"
"I'm not sure yet. Emma what happened?" he replied trying to wipe her face with his shirt sleeve.
"I... I have no idea!" Emma looked totally baffled as David helped her struggle to her feet but again another cough in the darkness had them both rushing forward into the rubble to throw back a few boulders revealing Regina looking very disheveled.
"What the hell happened? Where is Henry?" the Queen gasped out when the rocks were pulled back enough to allow her to sit up with a groan.
"We haven't found him yet, are you OK?" David asked crouching by her side
"I'll be fine, please, just find my Son" she pleaded with clenched teeth while she clutched her right arm to her side but David did as she asked and immediately stood again.
"HENRY" David's voice echoed off the cave walls and rattled it's way down the passageway but still there was no answer.
"Where's Killian?" Emma suddenly asked bringing her hand up to her head with a hiss pulling back her finger to show blood "Ouch"
"HOOK" David yelled out and when he thought he heard a muffled groan he was there in seconds digging once more paying no attention to the damage he was doing to his hands. A few more rocks were pulled back and suddenly he could see a red skate shoe.
"HENRY" David yelled and in seconds Emma had joined in, he glanced up and could see blood freely flowing down her face but they didn't have time for that now, they had to free Henry.
"Grandpa? Mom?" Henry's muffled voice carried through the rubble making them dig faster.
"We're coming Henry, hang on Kid" Emma grit out and she was right as they quickly worked to free him.
"Henry are you alright?" David asked in concern when they finally freed him and he cried out in pain when he moved
"My arm, I think I've broken my arm" he gasped "and my head hurts."
"Anything else, have you got any pain anywhere else?"
"I'm pretty sure I've lost a lot of skin off my back but apart from that, I'm fine. Where's Mom?"
Regina immediately answered knowing that he was talking about her, Emma was right in front of him "I'm over here Henry, I'm alright, just a bit bashed up, Swan can you heal him?"
David looked at Emma hopefully and she nodded vigorously raising up her hands to cover Henry's arm but nothing happened, she furrowed her brow and she seemed to try and refocus but still nothing happened.
"I don't understand, it's not working!" She cried out in frustration
"Help me up Swan" Regina suddenly blurted out "I'll do it, David you get Hook"
"Is Killian alright?" Henry suddenly burst out eyes looking round wildly
"I'm sure he'll be fine Henry, just you stay there until Regina sorts you out" David said trying to calm him down "I'm going to get him now, OK?"
"OK Grandpa but hurry"
David scrabbled away practically crawling on his hands and knees cursing slightly as he tumbled face first into a heap when some of the rocks shifted but he pulled himself back up quickly and carried on.
"HOOK" he called out again then muttered "Damn it, answer me, where are you?"
He carried on crawling over the rubble but froze when his hand fell on something strange, it most definitely was not a rock and if he was right which he was sure he was he had just put his hand on the Pirate's hair but it was too dark to see clearly and he didn't want to raise the others hopes so he just got to work clearing the rocks around him and after a few were gone he could clearly make out the back of Hook's head.
"Hook, can you hear me?" he whispered working quickly trying to free him from the rubble but there was no reply and after a few minutes David realized that something was wrong and not just by the fact that Hook wasn't answering, as he worked he heard Emma and Regina talking loudly then Regina's cry of despair rang through the air.
"My magic is gone, what the hell happened here? I've got nothing"
David ignored it he had bigger things to worry about as his worst fears became reality, he lent forward and felt for a pulse sighing slightly when he found a strong one, at least there was that, he then turned back quickly seeing the other three standing huddled near the passageway.
"The magic issue will have to wait right now, you guys need to get over here, we have a problem"
"Hook?" Emma gasped out and started scrambling across towards him followed by Henry still clutching his arm and Regina who seemed to be protecting her ribs as she trailed behind.
David lent over Hook slightly protecting him from view but when Emma dropped to his side eyes wide in fear he couldn't hide the truth anymore, no words were needed the sight of her Pirate was enough to explain and as David sat back on his heals he finally revealed what he had found.
There laying face down in amongst the rubble was a young boy of about five years of age. He had dark hair, pale skin and David might have been jumped to a different conclusion if it wasn't for the scar on the boy's right cheek... this kid lying here was Hook, he was just about three hundred years younger than he had been twenty minutes earlier.
"Dad?!" Emma looked so confused, her brain obviously refusing to accept what she was seeing right there in front of her "What the hell?"
"Look, I don't now how it happened but this kid is Hook, just look at him Emma, it's him but we don't have time for this right now, we need to get out of here before the tide cuts us off"
With that David gingerly pulled the boy up into his arms and stumbled his way back across the boulder pile to the sand where he stopped for a second.
"Is everyone OK to walk out of here?"
They all gave silent nods and David knew exactly how they felt, he was feeling it too but he couldn't dwell on all the things rambling through his mind right now, he had to get his family to safety so he sucked in a breath and carried on.
"Good, then let's go, we need to be quick about it too we've already been here longer than we should have"
They hurried most of the way back but as they were getting closer to the cave entrance it became clear that they were already too late, the tide was upon them. David inwardly cursed, they were going to have to wade out. It wasn't much further, it would be tough going but they didn't have a choice. From what he could see all three of the others needed to get to the hospital and he definitely needed to get Hook there too, the boy still hadn't woken up.
"Right, stick together. Form a line and hold onto each other we need to wade out. I'll go first"
David didn't hang about waiting for any arguments he just started wading into the waves. He felt someone grabbing onto his shirt low down, Henry must be behind him. David was fine with that, he could keep the biggest waves from knocking him off his feet but as it turned out it was him that was knocked over. They had just managed to get out of the cave and had each started scrambling their way towards shore all formation gone when David stumbled on something just as a wave hit him and before he knew it he was beneath the waves and he had lost his hold on the boy. He tumbled about in the waves being washed further up the shore than the others but finally he managed to right himself and in seconds his eyes were searching for Hook, panic set in as he failed to see him and just as he was beginning to lose hope he saw him crawling his way out of the waves a bit further up the beach before falling face first in the sand. David was running through the surf to the boy's side falling to his knees and turning him over in one swift move.
The boy's eyes went wide in fear and he brought an arm up to protect himself cowering away from David.
"Please Sir, do not harm me" he stammered closing his eyes tight
"Hook?" David asked cautiously but the boy didn't react to the name and then a sudden thought hit him "Killian?"
The boy's eyes creaked open and he studied David with caution.
"Do I know you Sir?" his accent was thick and sounded like Hook's just not quite as Piratey
"It's David do you not remember me?" the boy shook his head causing his hair to slap and stick to his face then he cringed bringing his hand up to the back of his head.
"Does your head hurt?" David suddenly asked leaning forward to look but the boy cried out and tried to scrabble away form him "Hey, it's alright Kid, I'm not going to hurt you"
"Where is Liam?" the boys eyes were wide again and David could see tears forming, the kid was petrified.
He was saved from answering as the others all appeared but that was when the tears finally started, the boy just seemed really confused and who could blame him? From what David could tell he had none of Hook's memories, to him he had probably just been pulled from his world straight to this one.
"Hey, it's OK" Henry said in a hushed tone dropping down onto the sand next to the boy and smiling at him "I'm Henry"
The boys sniffed a few times and scrubbed his face with the sleeve of his very ratty looking nightshirt, he frowned slightly eyes locking onto each of them in turn before finally falling back onto Henry.
"My name is Killian, Killian Jones, where am I? Where is Liam? Where is my Brother?"
"Here's not here right now" Henry soothed "What's the last thing you remember?"
"Liam had just sent me to bed, he said that he was going to try and find us something to eat and that I was to stay where I was, he didn't want me to anger the Captain again. Why did he leave me? Where is he?" the boy got quite agitated again but David watched in awe as Henry did what Henry did best
"Hey, it's OK. He didn't leave you. We'll help you find him. Now where were you and Liam?"
"On board the Captain's ship" the boy replied in a quiet voice
David sat down on the boy's other side and spoke gently "Was your Father on board too?"
The boy shook his head as he turned to look at him eyes suddenly filled with tears again "He left us, he traded us to the Captain... he traded us for a rowing boat so that he could escape the law. The Captain is going to be angry that I am not there, he will take his anger out on Liam, please I need to get back"
David looked up at Emma as she shifted from foot to foot, she couldn't seem to bring herself to look at the boy and who could blame her. This wasn't Hook, not her Hook... this was a five year old Killian Jones with memories only from the past but Regina suddenly caught David by surprise as she came down onto her knees next to the boy and spoke in a warm tone.
"We will all help you Killian, I promise you if we can get you back to your Brother we will but right now we need to get a doctor to check you over, you've hit your head and that arm has to hurt" she said indicating to the boy's arm with her eyes and when David's gaze followed he could see Killian's wrist looked very swollen and bruised, it looked like Henry wasn't the only one who was going to be in a cast for the next few weeks.
"Come on Kid" David suddenly said standing up and stooping down to pick up the boy into his arms, he half expected him to resist but he didn't and as they walked across the sand back towards Storybrooke David felt Killian lay his head down on his shoulder with a sigh. Yeah, this was definitely NOT Hook.
David could hear Henry talking behind them in a soft voice as they walked along, Regina was walking by David's side and he could tell that her ribs hurt but she didn't say anything. Then Henry's next whispered statement cut into David's heart as he thought about what Emma must be going through.
"It'll be OK Mom, we'll get him back"
There was no reply and David didn't turn around to see if his daughter was OK, he knew that she wasn't but right now there was nothing he could do about it but as soon as they got the all clear from the Doc David was going to take the boy to see Blue, she had sorted out August, maybe she could help with Hook too.
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Killian woke with a groan, the weight of the rocks above him was nearly unbearable as they pressed into his body but he could see light so he knew he wasn't buried too deeply under the rubble. He tried to move but he was trapped by his legs and another groan was pulled from his mouth.
"Swan?" he called out as loudly as he could but there was no reply
He tried again to free himself and he could hear that he had managed to dislodge a couple of rocks as they tumbled down around him but he couldn't do it, he was in too much pain.
His hip pulsed in time with his heart but his heart felt strange, like it was beating twice. He could feel the normal beat but then there was another right along with it, it kept fluttering quickly making his chest feel like there was two hearts contained in there.
Killian gave a groan as a wave a nausea washed through him, his head and neck hurt along with his left shoulder and he knew he must have been hit in the back at one point. His left leg seemed to be trapped under a particularly large boulder and his hand felt like his skin was burnt but he paid it no attention, he knew if he didn't get himself out soon he was going to be in big trouble so with a renewed effort he tried again to free himself needing to find the others and make sure that they were alright.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh" he screamed out as he finally managed to claw his way from beneath the rocks using his hook to bring himself up into a sitting position but his leg was still trapped and after another couple of attempts to tug it free he realized that the only way to free it was going to hurt... a lot.
He drew in a deep breath and held it before twisting and rolling at the same time but if he had thought that it was going to hurt he had underestimated just how much, this was beyond painful. He actually heard the crack as his leg snapped just above his ankle and suddenly he was tumbling his way down the short distance to land with a thump onto the sand. The scream that had been torn from his lungs was cut off abruptly when he hit, his vision went white and his hearing disappeared as he tried to breath through the pain but it wouldn't leave him and in the end the darkness rushed in.
The sound of the waves grew louder as the tide roared in cutting the Pirate off from the outside world and as the light began to dim and dusk settled on Storybrooke Killian knew nothing of the younger version of himself that currently lay on a gurney surrounded by the Charming family as they tried to figure out how to return the boy to his older self completely oblivious to the fact that they didn't need to, Killian hadn't gone anywhere... he was right where they had left him back in the cave.
You didn't think I'd leave Emma without her Killian did you but now the question is how long until she realizes that there are two of them and will the Nevengers be able to get to him before it's too late.
