Lies (Captain Swan)

. Chapter 7 .

Emma's p.o.v

"Neals...what?"

I couldn't have heard him correctly. There's no way. Neal was shot. Then fell through a portal. How could someone survive that?

"He's just as I told you love"

"But h-how is that possible?"

"I don't the particulars. Just what he told me"

My mind was racing. My breath was speeding up. I was freaking out.

"I-I need a minute." I said as I ran off.

"Emma wait!" I could hear him yelling behind me. But I didn't stop. I just sped up. I ran until I thought I would collapse.

I stopped at a small clearing and sat against a tree and vainly tried to stop the tears streaming down my face. They weren't sad tears. Or happy ones. I'm honestly not sure why I'm crying. I'm just so overwhelmed.

Do I want Neal to be back? Honestly? No. I don't. He hurt me so much. And I'm with Killian now. I don't even think if he wouldn't have fell through that portal I could've gone back to him. Not even for Henry.

"There you are love" Killian's deep britsh accented voice pulls me out of my trace.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm fine" I respond coldly while trying to remove the evidence of my tears.

He gets onto his knees in front of me. "No" he says taking my hand in his. "you're not."

"Why ever would you think that?" I fire back sarcastically.

"Because, you may be able to hide your true feelings from everyone else. But not me. Open book remember?"

I let out a bubble of laughter remembering our time on the beanstalk.

He sits down next to me and places his arm around me. I gladly melt into his embrace.

After a few minutes he says "I know this is a lot to take in love" he starts cautiously "but I'm afraid there's more to it."

I lift my head to meet his gaze.

"What?" I ask quietly

"Neal he's... he's here"

I pull back slightly and give him a confused look.

"What do you mean he's here?"

"He's here. On Neverland.

I start panicking again. Killian notices and he tries to calm me down.

"Hey. Hey. Hey Emma. Its alright."

I stand up and try to run away again. But before I can he grabs my arm turning me to face him.

"No Emma. You need to stop doing this. Please. Stop pulling away from me. I know you're going through a rough time. But its not gonna get better unless you let people in to help you. Emma, please. Let me in. Let me help.

I started crying again. His eyes softened and he pulled me into his warm embrace. He held me close while he toyed with me hair gently as I sobbed into his shoulder.

"Shhhh. Its okay love its okay. You're going to be alright." He whispered into my ear softly.

As crazy and chaotic my life might be at the moment, when Killian holds me in his arms I know it will get better.

When he's with me I feel hope.

Hope that we will get Henry back.

Hope that we will get off this island.

Hope that we will get back to Storybrooke and our lives will be normal. (as normal as it can get in a town full of fairytale characters).

Hope that one day we'll all get our happy endings.

And all good things start with hope.