Chapter 4

Emma looks at Killian, her husband's eyes as he welcomes her back and her immediate response was to kiss him. So, she did and this time it wasn't chaste, it was filled with passion in them, making it wild, making it filled with longing, telling each other with their kisses that they miss each other.

By the time that they had ended the kiss, their hair was in disarray with swollen lips. "We need to talk." Emma says.

"Indeed," Killian agrees.

"What happened after the Dark One Rumpelstiltskin dealt with me?" Emma asks figuring that this should start at the beginning.

"He looked at me, I thought he was going to curse me, but he didn't. He figured that remembering is the worse curse. He said that I won't be able to see you and Clara in centuries unless I find a way which I believe he doubted in."

"You went back there, oh Killian?"

"If there was any realm besides Neverland that were age less, I would've taken one Emma. You know I would."

"How did you do it? How can you not go mad there?"

"Emma, can you keep this a secret?" she eyes him warily but nodding at the same time, not knowing what he was going to do. Then she sees as he pulls from his right hand to take his hook off from his left hand and suddenly the hook was gone, only placed between them that not even Mary Margaret or David would be able to see this. Emma then smiles so big as though she was going to laugh with an amused glint of her eyes, agreeing to her husband's secret. He then gives the hook to her to hold as he then lifts a sleeve of his jacket on his right wrist.

When she can see was etched on his skin was a beautiful, elegant artwork of a swan with her name, Emma, that was near the long neck of the swan and a little farther down was their daughter's name, etched like her name in a cursive font was Clara. "After Rumpelstiltskin left, I've got this to remember both you and Clara. To let it remind me of what I'm doing and why I'm doing it."

"For the bigger picture." Emma smiling. "Killian, I love you. My infuriating, dashing rapscallion. I love you."

"You still call me infuriating lass?"

"Seriously Killian from all the words that I just said of loving you, of course you would concentrate on the word infuriating. You and your ego." She sighs. "Even though I was cursed Killian you are the most infuriating man that I've met, but it only happens some of the time and I still love you." She sighs again and goes back to what they should be talking about. "Now let's talk about our daughter Clara."

"I don't know where she's at Emma."

"I know and that is one of the most important things we are going to do as soon as possible. We need to find out where she's at and then get her."

"Agreed, love."

"Killian remember when we were on the beanstalk, and I was telling you about who broke me?"

"Aye." He says slowly, his thoughts returning to that moment in time, when he thought about Emma's lad being his. Suddenly he can see where this is going.

"I said that I was pregnant." She sighs, "I thought at the time that it was Neal's and during my appointments with the doctor to check on the baby I was dazed and confused throughout my pregnancy. I was confused because I assumed it was Neal's because it was the only thing that made sense to me, but when I gave birth to him, for a few minutes I was awake. I remembered who I was, remembered Clara, and I remembered you. Killian, Henry is yours."

"I did wonder." He causally says as he then shows a smile, "Henry is mine."

"Yes, he's yours." She says smiling as well looking into his eyes then takes a sigh, "Killian I didn't know-"

"I gathered Emma. I know that you would tell me you are with child."

"You like to meet him now?"

"Aye love."

As they get off the street and into the sidewalk, they instantly saw two figures appear. Emma has risen her eyebrows in consternation wondering how long David and Mary Margaret were there for.

"How long have you been there?" Emma asks her voice unexpectedly pitched. At the same time David and Mary Margaret says.

"Um well," David starts, as he was thinking of how to put this nicely, not like they were stalking them kind of way.

"Everything," Mary Margaret says at the same time as she wanted to get this over with.

"What did you hear?" Emma asked worriedly.

"Mostly everything," David says, "that you were cursed, you two are true loves, you married him, have a daughter, and that he's Henry's father. Though we didn't know what you said before you talked about Clara."

"That sums it up." Emma nodded.

"I knew something was going on between you two, of course I didn't know what it was until now." Mary Margaret says.

"This is going to be an adjustment." David stated.

Then they all walked in silent agreement back to the diner.

At the diner Mary Margaret and David walked in first, before Emma walked in, she looked at her husband who was behind her. Looking at Killian she sees him, he scratches his right hand to his ear, and she knows that he is nervous, very nervous mind you as he looked at the door in front of him looking like he wants pace first. "It's going to be okay Killian; Henry will love you. We have a very understanding kid, it's going to be okay. Don't worry okay, I love you." Then they walked inside the diner.

Walking in she looked around and it seems that Mary Margaret may have warned everyone here as they were all looking towards her and Killian. Instantly she sees shocked looks as she hears whispers and mutters of "Emma's true love is a pirate. Not any pirate but Captain Hook." However, she ignores it as she finds Henry at a table, sitting down on a chair. She pulls out the chair as she sits in and finds Killian doing the same as she feels the staring of everyone looked at her curious.

She takes a breath and says, "Henry-

"Hey mom, are you feeling, okay?"

"I'm feeling great kid better actually." She says and suddenly she is nervous thinking how do I tell him that his father is right here. It shouldn't have been hard, but it feels like it. While she thinks of a way, Henry gets excited meeting Captain Hook. "Henry, do you remember when a couple of months ago you asked why I gave you Liam Jones as your middle and last name?" Killian then looks to Emma immediately shocked and grateful that she remembered their conversation from long ago when she was pregnant the first time and they were talking about baby names for their child. He remembers that they both agreed that if it was a boy they would incorporate the name Liam as their son's middle name, so that they could remember his brother.

"I remember and I also asked who my father is, and you said that he was a firefighter and he died. Mom why are you asking now?"

"Henry I kind of lied to you," as she looks at his expression and continues as she sees his shocked face, "because I thought then that the guy that put me in jail was your father and I wanted to protect you. Until a few moments ago," Henry interjects grinning saying when you did true love's kiss, Emma's face reddens, "yes when that happened everything became clear to me. "She then sees her son's eyebrows shift to curiosity. "Henry I've been to the Enchanted Forest before, and I've stayed there a little of about fifteen or sixteen years there." She hears the gasp around her and ignores is as she continues the story. "In my duration of my years living in the Enchanted Forest, I had a good life, I'd gotten married after being there about a four to five months and only three months after that I fell pregnant with your older sister. Then one day years later the Dark One Rumpelstiltskin came and teared our family apart, he sent your sister to who knows where and he cursed me, letting me forget the life that I'd in the Enchanted Forest. While my husband, your father was cursed to remember everything."

"What happened to him," Henry asked?

Instead, she only smiled, intentionally saying "I've forgot to say that when I was brought in the Enchanted Forest I was in a different time. You see I was brought to centuries past of the Enchanted Forest." With her smiling she looks at Henry as the wheels in his brain were turning as she looked to Killian, holding his right hand with her left.

"My father is Captain Hook?!" He exclaimed loudly as Emma nods; he then quietly says awesome. Emma chuckles seeing her amused son. Then Henry turns to his father and asks, "Why is my middle name Liam?"

Killian naturally expected this and answers him. "I'd an older brother and he was a good man."

"What happened to him?" Henry naturally with his curiosity asks.

"He died however that's a story for another time." Killian said as he doesn't want everyone in the town to know of his pasts. It wasn't their business and he's not ashamed of his past, he just doesn't want everyone to know about him, he knows there's a line between of what to share out loud and what should stay between his personal and familial life.

As the rest of the night lures the welcoming back party dwindled down into the late night that was full of surprises. Before everyone left, the blue fairy called for a meeting for the royals to talk about the Enchanted Forest and everyone's role within their own kingdoms for tomorrow morning at nine.

Besides that, everything went on quietly.

When the morning came all the royals from the Enchanted Forest were met at the town hall including Emma and her pirate husband Killian Jones. At nine in the morning all the royals arrived although King George of the Southwestern Kingdom was exempt along with Regina from the meeting. The first discussion of the topic was gathered to Snow and Emma asking how the state of the Enchanted Forest was currently as they are trying to figure out if they should go back all of them would find themselves rebuilding their own kingdoms. Yet the answer was undecided. Which was most likely because their role within their own kingdoms would be one that will be long and hard and challenging which arouses questions of the biggest question would they stay, or would they go back to their lands? It's the reason they are currently in a stalemate.

Then they talked about what to do with the King George's kingdom. Almost everyone there had complaints of the man himself but there was a reason why the blue fairy asked them to be here, and it was for this purpose solely.

"There is a prophecy that the true heir of the Southwestern kingdom will rule the land. According to the prophecy the heir will be female, I don't know if she's already born or not. I'm going to pass these two sketches; one is a ring, and the other is a portrait of Princess Dorothea who's the grandmother of the true heir." She then passes the sketches from her right side and tells a story. "Very long ago before King George's family changed the Southwestern kingdom, there was a king and queen who had three daughters. Their eldest daughters Althea and Theodora did their parts correctly however both were divorced because they were infertile. The sisters met with each other as they board a ship while on route a storm came leaving no survivors. However, the youngest Dorothea was different, she cared about the people that at she would visit the village at night and on her of her outings she met a man and felt a connection with him. About two months later she found herself pregnant and it would take another two months that the king and queen would learn that their youngest were pregnant and when they found out they disowned her however they never officially announced it to their kingdom. By the time they decided to find her with their grandchild it was already too late for the princess perish from the plague with no sign of their grandchild."

As the story ended did Emma and Killian see the sketches as they looked at the ring and the portrait of Dorothea. Once the sketches were right in front of them, they then looked to each other's eyes, and it was with no doubt that they know who has the ring and that the sketch looked like their daughter save the color of the eyes. It was at this point of time that Killian looks at Emma as they talk with their eyes and then as he stands up, he looks to mother superior and only says "pardon me," as he gets out of the town hall to take a breath of air outside. Once outside he curses and acknowledges of what he just learnt. He had an inkling his birth mother was high born but never would he ever have thought imaginable, conceivable that she was a princess in which makes him a prince which startled him. He needs more than a minute outside as his world changes.

Back in the Town hall, everyone was perplexed to see that the captain Hook left the town hall with such a reaction. "I have a question," Emma stated as she looks to mother superior until she sees the nod as she passes the portrait of Dorothea. "Did she have had an alias?"

"Yes, she did." Mother Superior says, "her name is," as she's about to say the name that she went by however-

"Let me guess, Clara." Emma said as she takes a breath as she looks to everyone with curiosity. "The person you're looking for is my daughter." By that time everyone has seen the Dorothea's portrait as they looked to Emma. "Killian and I decided to name our daughter after his birth mother who only took care of him for a year before she passed. Looks like we aptly named her because she looks exactly like her grandmother, except that she has green eyes instead of blue. On her fourteenth birthday we gifted her the ring from her grandmother's which was a gold insignia ring with etchings of vines in a knot inside of it."

Then one of the royals asked a question, "Are you sure that he didn't steal it?"

"I've heard stories from Killian and his older half-brother, Liam that the ring was passed down. When his birth mother Dorothea died, she gave the ring to his stepmother Clementine. Then when she passed, she gave the ring to Liam so that it can be protected and good thing she did because his father was selling jewelry and trinkets after he no longer had a job. Then he gave it to Killian when he was old enough and that was before we met. So, I can assure you that my husband didn't steal it."

Then suddenly Emma feels something, and she knows the blue fairy or rather mother superior feels it as well. Outside the town hall, Killian senses something that he hasn't sensed in centuries. Magic.

He then sees a portal opening and once it closes, he sees her on the ground and gets his wife. Once he called for her, Emma instantly came to him and she sees why he called her, for the person who has just arrived was their daughter Clara who was lying down unconscious.