Once Upon A Happy Beginning

Chapter Six: Until My Very Last Second

One Week Later

Emma

"Babe?" I called up the stairs, Killian and I were leaving for our honeymoon today. I've been up for hours preparing the last little things when my darling husband lounged in bed for a few more hours. "Hurry up! The dwarves are waiting!" 

"Coming, love!" He groaned, almost dragging himself down the stairs. "It's your fault we're leaving at bloody 7 o'clock." 

"Correction: It's Leroy's." I kiss him quickly, and laugh at his pout when I pull away, "Alright Captain. Time to move, Leroy wants us at the bean farm soon, before the town starts really waking up." I hand him one of our cases and grab the other making my way to the door. I shove a spare set of keys into the lockbox out front, just in case Henry needs something and has forgotten his set. 

"Aye." Grumbles my half asleep husband in agreement, "Learnt a few things about that guy. Don't annoy him." Leroy and the rest of the dwarves, including Tiny, would be meeting us at the hidden bean farm near the town line. Really it was Blue that would be behind the preparations and everything but those eight would never let anyone take any of their precious crops without their presence. 

We'd planned a few days ago with them and Mother Superior, Killian and I would take some of the beans; travelling to the area of magic from Gold's map, which Blue would duplicate before sending the original back to exactly the place he'd be searching for it, and enjoy our honeymoon together. We'd then stay an additional week "within the magic zone" as we'd taken to calling it and try and scout the area for whoever or whatever was responsible for that abnormality and hopefully to find Robin Hood there too... The only thing that we knew for certain was that Regina did not get to find out what we were doing. It'd only bring her hopes up when there was a great possibility they could be pulled down just as quick. 

Last Week

"Dinner is served," I announce, placing the last bowl of steaming vegetables on the table. Killian comes and sits next to me and looks at his pre-cut up plate before he smiles at me. His pure, genuine smile – it's not the first time that I've saved him the trouble of trying to cut food into reasonable sizes one-handedly, but he gives me that gorgeous smile that melts my heart every time. 

I'm just about to start eating when I feel Killian's hand over mine, "Love?" I look up, "I'd never be mad at you. Not for going to Gold, not for trying to cover the truth today. Never." 

"I know." I scoop some of the potatoes from the centre of the table onto my plate and pass the bowl to Killian, and then I add: "What do you think I should do about Belle?" 

"I think that's up to you, love." He says kindly, taking a drink from the glass of water on the table. "Nasty stuff that, it's better off in the seas where it belongs."

I laugh. We've been trying, well I've been trying, to get Killian to drink actual water, that I'm almost positive he's never even touched before in his life. "I should tell her, shouldn't I? I mean how many times has he promised her he's going to change and then lied to her face? And, I guess, I'd want her to tell me if you ever went back to who you were before but then again that would actually be a shock, and I'm half expecting her to know already. Right? I mean I think they're only really together for Gideon's sake, aren't they - but he's a child, he doesn't deserve a man like Gold for a father. I saw how tortured Neal was when his past came up; I mean, obviously he never talked about it because of well, you know, but he hated it. Every time we saw a small child happy with their families, he looked so hurt..." My voice trails off, it's Milah that I'm complaining about as well as Gold. Milah, who despite everything was actually really kind to me on the occasion I met her before Hades killed her.