Missing Year

Post Curse

The snow was slowing down as Emma, her parents, her husband, her children, Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff walked to the town line where the ice wall was blocking the town. Killian looks at his little lass. "Hope, is that a new winter coat?" Hope babbles. Henry was holding his sister. "Little sis, can you tell Daddy that Mommy used her magic for your new coat?" Hope pats her brother.Killian looked at his swan."You used your magic love?""Yes. Hope needed to stay warm after Ingrid sacrificed herself to stop the curse, it began snowing. I was not going to let our little pirate princess get sick.""Aye, that is why it is snowing." Emma laughs.They arrived at the ice wall. Anna was stunned seeing how huge the ice wall was. "Wow! That is a lot of ice.""And it is time for it to come down." Elsa used her ice magic to take down the ice wall and made it disappear. Anna skips to the townline. "Okay, now we can go home!Emma heads towards Anna. "Stop! Do not go any closer. That is the town line.""Right the townline. But I want to leave the town.""The wall may be down but I sense some of Ingrid's magic remains." She uses her hand and felt the magic still there. Emma faces Elsa. "Yeah. This does not change anything Ingrid wanted to be here alone with you and me. She wanted to make Storybrooke her ice castle. Clearly, she wanted to protect it."Anna, "How do we get back home?"Elsa,"Walking would not get us there anyway, it is in another realm.""We need to find a portal. Or magic bean, something."Kristoff, "Now I am lost."Anna,"Then let's get one of those things, we have to hurry...""No, we do not need to rush. We need to be careful. Arendele will still be there when we return.""It might not."She looks at Kristoff. "Did we forget to tell her?" "A lot of stuff was going on.""Tell me what?""Arendele has been conquered by Hans and his 12 older brothers."Elsa looks at Emma in a serious face."Emma, we need to find a way back, now." "We will do our best." Killian knows what he needs to do and leaves. He went to Gold's shop. Rumpelstiltskin squeezes his heart as he was telling him about the two sisters not leaving. "They cannot go over the townline since the Snow queen magic up the border. Once, you cross the border there is no way of coming back. They need to find a way home back to Arendele."Rumpelstiltskin squeezes Killian's heart making him gasp. "Only if the Snow Queen went through with her plan, this would have been much simpler.""Yes, a perfect cover for your exit but everybody survived. Sorry for the inconvenience." He smiles knowing Rumpelstiltskin cannot go through his plan."What about our friends from Arendele?""They are searching for a portal way back.""Well that is a problem, I cannot have Anna running around town.""Anna knows what you are doing? Leaving yourself from your dagger and still have your power. Emma told me that Belle confessed knowing Anna.""Still quite the subsubsition.""Why else would you care?" He smiles. "Anna is a danger to you. You can't have your blissfully ignorant wife...""Blissfully nor ignorant. You need to watch Anna. Make sure she comes nowhere near the shop.""If I have a choice?""No, you do not. Your usefulness is unexpectedly extended. But tonight the stars in the sky align with the stars in the sorcerers' hat. I will finally do something I should have done a long time ago. I will crush your heart.""I am not doing your dirty work. What are you going to do?"Rumpelstiltskin chuckles. "I am simply going to wake my wife and prepare her for her greatest gift, the life she always wanted." He looks at sleeping Belle. They walk to the mansion of the assistant of the sorcerer. "You may have got the best in me this time,dark one. I promise you the next life it won't be pleasant for you.""Hold on, give my mortality you will have quite the weight of the fire and moon star.""If I really have to die, give me the reason for all the information. Whose house are we in?""A powerful sorcerer. He brought the Snow Queen from Arendele to here. There must be some magic. He left strong magic moving our realm to here. There is a portal around here, we just need to find it." A door with Arendele symbols appears in front of them. "Ha..ha. There." Killian goes to Granny's seeing Emma at their booth, with Henry, Hope, Elsa, Anna and Kristoff. "Swan, come celebrate. I may not be the savior but I just saved the day." Emma knew Killian was not himself. "Henry, keep an eye on Hope.""Yes, I can, Mom." He takes Hope from their Mom and puts her on his lap. Emma looks at her friends. "Hang on, do not get your hopes up yet." Emma goes to her husband at the bar as Anna and Elsa were both talking to Hope. "What exactly are we celebrating?" He was pouring rum into two glasses and gives her one. "The portal to Arendele." He takes a sip of his rum. "I found it."Emma knew her husband was not himself and knowing she cannot drink. "Killian, you know I cannot drink right?""Right." "You found a portal?""Well I found, Gold. He told me where to locate one. The door in the ballroom of the lakeside house mansion. Yes, it appears our Rumpelstiltskin had turned over a new leaf."Emma gave her husband a curious look."Apparently, a dozen of leaves. Are you sure we can trust him?""Positive." Rumpelstiltskin was talking into Killian's heart controlling him. "The crocodile sure has changed. He gave me a long explanation about the portal but how the Snow Queen was brought into this land which I don't recall. The important thing is it works." Emma knew something was not right with her pirate. "All they have to do is walk through it." "We should go." "Brilliant. You do that. I alas, bruised myself during the curse. I really need to get it checked out." Emma stops her husband from moving knowing his tone of voice and behavior was unlike him. "Hey..." She places his hand on his scruffy cheek. "What is wrong? You are not yourself at all. You are acting strange.""Nothing." He smiles at her. "I am fine." She rubs his cheek. He kisses her gently on the lips. "See you around, love." Killian leaves the diner. Emma looks at the door wondering what the heck is wrong with her husband. Henry carried his sister to their Mom. "Mom, what is wrong with Dad? He is not himself at all.""I have no idea, kid. I know he is not himself and we are going to find out soon what it is." Emma goes to Anna, Elsa and Kristiff. "Good news, Killian found a portal for you all to go home.""Yes!" Emma drove Elsa, and her children while Anna and Kristoff rode with Charming and Snow White to the mansion. They all enter the mansion. Henry was in awe. "This place is amazing. Mom, I will be right back." He went to look around. "Henry!" Henry finds the door. Everyone enters. He takes his sister from their Mom.Anna quickly goes to the door. "Look Elsa, the door has Arendele crocuses. Crocuses!! We are almost home.""Maybe I should open it? Magic can be unpredictable." Emma knows from her own experiences with portals. Elsa holds Emma's hand. "So this is it?""It appears so." They hold hands."Emma, thank you for taking such good care of my sister.""This is kind of what we do."Snow White, "It was our pleasure. Now, don't you have a kingdom to save?""We sure do. I hope Hans is not too comfortable on that throne. When I get there, I am going to knock him off." Emma and Elsa looks at Anna.Kristoff goes to Anna. "The second we get there. Maybe we could get married? Just a thought." "Emma, thank you for everything. You have done so much. I can never repay you." They hug. Henry brings Hope to Elsa. "Hope, say bye-bye to Elsa. She is going home.""Bye, Hope. I know I will see you and your Mommy again soon. Henry, I will see you soon. You all must come to Arendele.""Awesome! Can we go, mom?"Emma chuckles. "How about after they defeat Hans? You know when it is safer.""Okay." She hugs her son. "It is time for us to go. Please thank Killian and Mr.Gold for us as well." "We will." Snow White and Charming nodded. She opens the door and it was a portal and smiles knowing it was safe. Elsa enters first, then Kristoff. Anna turns around. "I wish I met this Mr.Gold. He seems super helpful. Who is he in our land? Let me guess, he is a fairy godfather?"Charming approaches Anna."Well not exactly, he was an evil sorcerer in our land. Someone, you lucky you never met, Rumpelstiltskin."Anna got so serious. "Wait what?" Emma, Charming, Snow White, and Henry were all surprised that Anna knows him.Emma looks at Anna. "You know him? He explicitly said he did not know anything about you?""Well, that is a lie. Not that I am surprised. All he does is lie."Emma gets thinking of all his lies. "He has been playing us this whole time. But why?""Something about him trying to get a lot of magic without being tethered to the dagger." Emma, David,and Snow White knew Rumplestilskin was going to do something dangerous.Emma got thinking why her husband has not been himself, Rumpelstiltskin is controlling him. "Killian! Dad, Gold's plan has something to do with Killian. We have to get Belle, she thinks she has the real dagger. He has been lying to us since Elsa came into town." "I will call Belle. Anna, thank you for your help." Anna leaves. They all rush to their cars. Emma drove so fast back to town. "Mom, what do you think Gold is up to?""Something with magic and using your Dad. He is not himself. Something tells me it is all Gold's fault."Killian and Rumplestislksin were at the clock tower with the magic hat. "We should begin.""You mean I should end, let's not start mixing our words now.""Oh, right. I half expected you to crumble at the mist of your demise.""I am not the one who is a coward!" "Well, then." He takes Killian's heart out. "You will enjoy the coward crushing your heart." He uses his hand to magically open the top of the clocktower. He takes the dagger and opens the magic circle container, which forms to the sorcerer's hat. He guides his hand so the scorer's hat floats up in the air and it expands to pieces to a magical sky. Killian closes his eyes seeing the sight.When Emma and the Charmings arrived, Belle was there. "Emma,he betrayed me." "I have a plan, you are coming with me. Henry, you stay here with my Dad."They all went up to the clocktower. Emma enters the clocktower first. "Gold, stop!" Snow White was behind Emma."Sorry, I cannot stop. I waited too long for this. I am too close." He uses his hand to freeze the mother and daughter from moving. He looks at Killian."Everything is going to plan. This part I really am going to enjoy." He began crushing Killian's heart, making him scream and kneeling to the ground in pain. Killian groans. Belle sneaks up and holds the real dagger. Rumpelstiltskin cannot squeeze the heart nay further. "I do not understand." Killian looks up. "Why can't I...?""Because I have commanded you not to!" Rumpelstiltskin was surprised to see his wife holding the real dagger. "Drop Killian's heart." He drops the heart and Killian catches his heart. "Now, release everyone." Rumpelstiltskin uses his magic to release Emma, Snow White and the magic from the hat. "Now, you can take us to the town line. We have to talk privately." Rumpelstiltskin did as he was told from Belle, they disappeared. Emma rushes up the steps to her husband. "Killian!" "Emma!" They hug. "Your heart. ""Aye, he took it and made me do bad things. I just have to put it back, swan. Before we go downstairs to the children, I need to tell you something. That I do not want them to hear."Emma sits down with her husband. "What is it?" She holds his hook hand."The bloody crocodile stole my heart. He made me use the sorcerer's hat to take all of the fairies from this realm...I am so sorry, Emma. I did not want to do it. I had no choice or he would have crushed my heart sooner. I was there when you Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff came there...I am sorry Emma."Emma saw the pain in her husband's ocean blue eyes and hugs him. "Killian. It was not your fault, he had your heart. You had no control of yourself. It isn't your fault, Killian Jones. It was Gold's fault, he has been lying since Elsa arrived here. Anna told us what he was up to. I knew he had you in his plot. I came here right away to rescue you, my kind caring pirate husband." She hugs him. "You are there for me. I am there for you. I knew you weren't yourself. You weren't talking like yourself. I just knew something was going on because Hope would not let you hold her.""Hope knew before you did.""I knew something was wrong, Anna told us before she left back to Arenedele.""Where are Henry and Hope?" She helps him stand up. "In the car.""I want to see them.""How about dinner at Granny's?""Aye, that sounds good." Snow White goes to Charming and updates him on Rumpelstiltskin. Emma and Killian see Henry was holding Hope standing by the yellow bug waiting for them. "Dad, Mom!" Henry carried Hope to their Dad and hugs him. "Dad, are you okay?""I am better now that my heart is in your mother's hand not the crocodile's clutches.""Hope, Mommy saved Daddy, little sis."Hope reaches out for her Daddy. "Killian, I am holding your heart. Hope wants her Daddy to hold her." She takes his heart so he can hold their daughter. Killian takes Hope from Henry."Hope! Dada is back." Hope smiles as she hugs her daddy. "I finally get to have my little pirate princess hugs." He kisses his daughter on the head. Henry hugs his Mom. "Mom, you saved Dad." "I did not save him. Belle did by getting the real dagger from Gold.""You knew Dad was in danger, Mom." "He is safe now, kid." She hugs her son. "He is getting your sister's hugs finally."Henry smiles."Yes, I got one yesterday and today.""I got one yesterday when we were with the Snow Queen and this morning." "Swan, family dinner?""Yes, we all need to eat. We also need to get your heart back.""Aye, let's do that at Granny's." Hope fusses. "What is it, little love?" Hope grabs her Daddy's hook making her Daddy smile. "Aye, you just want my hook. You can hold my hook." He kisses Hope on the head. The family walked to granny's together. Granny got them their table. "Dad, I can hold, Hope." Henry holds Hope on his lap who was moving around babbling "Hopey, are you happy that Dada is safe?" Hope babbles. "Killian, we should get your heart back into your chest?""Aye, swan." They went by the bathrooms to do this in private.Emma looked at her husband's heart in her hands. "Just be.." Emma puts the heart back in his chest right away. He groans in pain. Her hand was still on his chest."Sorry, I just thought if I did it quickly. It wouldn't..." Killian felt all of love for his swan right away and kisses her as she leans back against the wall, they were still kissing each other passionately. Emma knew her pirate was back. He stops kissing her. "I told you swan, I am a survivor. I am not leaving you or our family." They looked at each other and smiled. Emma knew her husband would not ever leave her like everyone else did in her past. They returned to their table. "Little sis, Mommy and daddy are back." "Aaa-ahh!!" "Lad, I think your sister is calling for me." Killian takes Hope from his son. "Hi, Hope!" "Aaa-aah!!!""Yes,Da-da. You are with Daddy, little love." Hope moves around excitedly making her parents smile. "Yes, Dada has his heart back!""Killian, she knows that you're back your daddy the best, pirate self." "Aaa-aah!!" "Dada!" He hugs his daughter. "Dada is back,Hope. The crocodile won't take my heart away ever again." Killian sits down next to his swan. Hope was patting her Daddy and babbling away. He was smiling knowing his daughter was so happy that he was back to his normal self. Emma was smiling at the daddy-daughter sight. Hope looks at her Mommy smiling. "Hope,are you happy Dada is back!" Hope screams making her family laugh."Mom, Hope made it loud and clear, telling everyone in the whole diner that Dad has his heart back." Emma laughs. "You are right, Henry." Killian helps Hope stand up on his lap. Hope grabs her Daddy's face and babbles. Emma was smiling. Henry takes a picture of his parents with his sister on his iPhone. Granny delivered the family their meal to their table. Hope was fast asleep on her Daddy. "My little pirate is resting.""Killian, I can...""Emma, Hope can sleep on me. I missed my little pirate princess. She can hug her Dada while she sleeps. I can eat with her sleeping, love." Emma smiles seeing her husband and daughter's close relationship again. "She is just happy that her Dada has her heart back." She kisses him on her scruffy cheek. "My captain is back." "Mom, now that Dad is back to normal. Can you please tell me how the Snow Queen was defeated?""Swan, I want to know too. Only Hope was there with you. She is fast asleep and cannot tell me about your Snow Queen adventure."Emma smiles. "I will tell you both now since Killian is back to his normal self." Killian hugs his wife. The Jones family is back together and the Snow Queen curse was broken.