When I Met You, I Found Me (1)

Chapter 15

Killian drove to Stargazers Peak and saw Emma's bug there. He got out the baseball bat that he brought and went over to the car. He looked in the windows of the car and it was empty. Regina and Graham came running up behind him.

"Is she in there?" Regina asked.

"No." Killian walked over to a tree around the peak, and began hitting the baseball bat against the tree. Graham came up behind him and pulled him back.

"Killian this isn't going to help!"

"Then tell me how I am supposed to find her!" Killian yelled.

Regina shined her flashlight around the wooded area when she found footprints in the mud. "Killian! Graham! Look! There's footprints!"

Killian got up and went over to them. He pulled out his own flashlight and shined it on the ground.

"There is a trail. Follow me. I'm quite keen on tracking." Graham said.

Regina and Killian followed Graham through the woods. Sometime afterwards the footsteps vanished.

"Where the hell are we supposed to go now?" Regina asked.

Killian shone his flashlight upwards and saw something in the distance. "You guys look. There's something out there!"

"Well what are we doing standing around here? Let's go." Graham said.

They ran in the direction of the thing in the distance.

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Emma tried to find something heavy to knock the door down, but she couldn't find anything. She was trapped, and nobody was going to be able to find her. Before Neal left, he unlocked Emma's bedroom door. She was going to stay until she was found whether it was dead or alive. She collapsed on the ground in the living room before the door opened.

"It's good that you are getting use to your new home." Neal said.

"Why do you want me? I highly doubt it's to talk." Emma said.

"You're right about that. I want to take you away from here. We can go explore and steal like the old times. We can go have fun! Don't you miss getting into trouble?"

"No. I was happy with my life. You just can't get it through your head that I have moved on, and that I don't want you."

Neal raised his hand and smacked Emma. She put her hand to her cheek to help subside the stinging aching pain in her cheek. He went to the door and locked it. There was two locks on the door. One was backwards, so you had to have the key to unlock it on the inside. The other lock was normal so you just turned it on the inside to lock the door. Neal threw a bag of food at Emma.

"Still like your grilled cheeses and onion rings?"

She kicked the bag at him. "I don't want anything from you. For all I know you could have poisoned it."

"I assure you that if I'm going to kill you, I already would have." He kneeled down to her and pulled out a handgun. "With this, and there would have been a bullet between your eyes and one in your chest."

This made Emma fear him. She was going to die. 'How are my parents going to handle this? What about my friends and Killian? They probably lost hope and gave up.'

Neal shoved Emma into her room and she cried herself to sleep. She woke again on that blasted ship in Neverland.

"Welcome back love!" Hook yelled.

Emma collapsed on the deck. Nobody was there except for her and Hook. He left the wheel and sat next to her.

"What's the matter?"

Emma sniffled and wiped her tears away. "You remember that guy that came into my house when you came?" Hook nodded. "Well he threatened to kill everyone if I didn't come with him, so now I am in a house in the woods."

Hook hugged her. It was all so real. "Just fight back." He said.

"How? I don't have weapons and he has a gun." Emma said.

"Here. Maybe when you wake up you will have this." Hook handed her a cutlass.

"I can't use this! I don't know how to fight." Emma said handing it back to him.

"Just swipe at him. Try to cut his arm, then when he drops the gun, you will have the advantage."

Emma took the cutlass again, then began feeling weird. "Hook, I-I don't feel, so good."

"You're waking up."

Emma latched onto his leather coat. "I don't want to! That means I have to go back!"

Emma awoke with Neal hovering over her. She looked down at her hands and there was no cutlass.

"What do you want?" Emma yelled.

"I was watching you sleep. You looked peaceful." Neal said.

"You're a creep! Who watches someone sleep?"

Just then a loud banging sound was heard at the front door. Neal got up and Emma stood behind him. When she saw Killian, Robin, Regina, Ruby, and Graham, her face lit up. The five of them pushed inside and stood in front of Emma.

"I think you know what we want, and we aren't leaving until we have it." Killian said.

"I think you underestimate the number of people here." Neal pulled out the pistol that was in his pocket. "If I can't have her, nether can you." Neal pulled the trigger and shot Emma in the chest. "Well I should be going now." He sprinted out the door and into the cold night air.

"Somebody call 911!" Robin yelled.

Regina whipped out her phone and dialed 911. Killian took his shirt off and put it on her chest. Her chest was raising and falling slowly. Her eyes were trying to stay open.

"Killian... I..... Can't." Emma said.

"No no no Emma you need to stay awake." Ruby said.

"I'm sorry... But I can't." Emma's eyes fluttered shut.

"Emma!" Robin and Ruby yelled.

"Swan? No you need to wake up." Killian yelled.

By now Regina was yelling into the phone and Graham was outside looking for the paramedics.

"There's barely a pulse." Robin said.

There was flashing lights and sirens heard in the distance.

"Emma you're going to be okay." Ruby said.

"Do you really believe that?" Robin asked.

Everyone heard this and they were all looking at Ruby now. She didn't move her head but there was a look in her eye. It was the look of dread, sadness, and loss.