Forever Doesn't Last Forever

Chapter 27

Emma opened her eyes and she was back. Her magic had succeeded, but before she could say a word, her legs gave out. She hit her head on the corner of the table, and fell to the ground. Pain engulfed her body. Her head hurt worse than before, her stomach was hurting, her left wrist was in even worse pain than before, and her legs were throbbing.

"Emma?" She heard Killian ask.

"Emma!" He ran to her side. "Stay with me love." That was the last thing that she remembered before everything went black.

Hook picked Emma up and laid her down on his bed. He wrapped her wrist up, and cleaned some cuts out. He sat with her until she would wake up.

"Swan, you need to come back. These things keep happening to you, and it breaks my heart. I know that we have been through too much, and that is why you may need to go home. Back to your castle. That little baby will need its mother more than its father. You will be its best chance, and you will need to forget about me and move on. I can't let you two get hurt anymore. You need to survive for that." He said pointing to her stomach. He watched her stir in her sleep, and her eyes fluttered open. She took in her surroundings then looked at him. She tried to sit up, but he pushed her down. "You need rest love."

"No I need to get up." Emma said trying to get up once more.

"Swan, you're injured."

Emma shut her eyes and focused. He watched the cuts disappear. She unwrapped her wrist. "I'm fine."

He hugged her but she pulled away. "You told me that you weren't going to leave us." She said.

"I'm doing it for your protection love."

"Are you really sending us back?"

"I don't want to."

"Answer the damn question Hook!" Emma never said Hook unless she was really mad.

"I can't keep letting you get hurt. It's all my fault."

Emma raised her hands up in defeat, but he ducked away from her. She saw this and knew, that he was scared of her. She ran out of the room.

"Emma wait!" He yelled, but she was too fast.

Emma ran into the kitchen. She hid behind a barrel. She heard the footsteps of Hook and the crew. She also heard muffled talking. She sunk farther into the shadows. She pulled her cloak up over her head, darkening the golden curls going down her shoulders.

"I scared him." Emma whispered under her breath. "I scared him. I should have known that no one could love a monster like me." Silent tears were running down her face. "I was right. He only pretend to like my magic." She looked down at her wrist and saw the beautiful blue ship and sword bracelet. She was reminded of their adventures together, and more tears came down her face.

She heard the kitchen door open, and heard Hook's heavy footsteps against the wood. She held her breath. "Swan this is the last place that you could be. If you still want to know if I'm giving you up, well I'm not. And I'm not scared of you."

"Yes you are." Emma said quietly. She stood up and wiped the tears away. "I was blind to not see it before. I knew you were pretending. I'm a monster."

He came closer to her. "I am not scared of you. And you're not a monster."

"That's what you say, but I know deep down that you are." She sniffed as he shook his head. "When are you going to the Enchanted For-" She began before clutching her stomach and falling to the ground.

"Swan? What's wrong?" He caught her before she fell.

"I, don't know." Emma cried out in pain.

He leaned her up against the wall and got her a cup of water. She drank it, but it didn't seem to help.

"You can't go anywhere like this love."

Emma clutched her stomach. She had her eyes shut tight, and she was grinding her teeth. "No, you don't want me anymore. I have to go." She said in between breaths.

"I'm not letting you go! I know you don't want to go back there, and I'm not taking you back. I thought about it. We are just going to have to give an illusion that you aren't here anymore."

"It doesn't matter. I put my hands up and you ducked away. You were scared that I would hurt you. You can't live in a constant state of fear that I would hurt you."

He grabbed her hands and put them on his face, but she quickly moved one of them back to her stomach. "I know that you won't hurt me. Cmon, let's go back to our room, and you can get some sleep." He picked her up and carried her back to their room. He put her on the bed and covered her up, but she was still in pain.

"I can't sleep." She protested.

"Why not love?"

"I need to make sure that you aren't taking me back."

He smiled then called Mr. Smee down.

"Yes capt'n?" He asked.

"Set the course for Arrendale."

Smee nodded then went above deck.

"See? I'm not letting you go anywhere." Killian said rubbing her forehead.

Emma nodded the scooted over. She patted the bed and he laid down. "I'm not letting you go anywhere either."

All of a sudden, Emma's stomach pain went away. She looked down and he did too.

"What's the matter Swan?"

"My stomach ache. It's gone."

Killian laughed. "It's as if the baby didn't want you leaving."

Emma laughed too. "I guess it didn't."

Killian looked back up at Emma. "I'm sorry I said what I said. I've never had anyone stay in my life for as long as you have. I just don't know what I would do with myself if you got hurt or taken away from me again."

Emma smiled. "Okay." Out of the corner of her eye she saw the magic blocking cuff on his wrist. "Why do you have that?" She asked pointing to it.

"Well when we came back, I woke up in the middle of the night, and it was still on your wrist. I took it off and put it on myself. I wanted you to forget that you had it on."

Emma kissed his lips, and while she had him distracted, she took the cuff off and put it on herself. "Thank you."

He nodded and she turned over. He draped his arm over her and they both fell asleep. Killian fell asleep knowing that his Swan was there to stay, and Emma fell asleep knowing that he didn't have to be scared of her anymore. She had the cuff on now, and she couldn't use her magic anymore.