Captain Swan ~ One Shots

Save me

EMMA'S POV

I could hear the others panting behind me but nothing in the world could stop my legs now. Burned arms, bloody lips and soft cries flashed through my mind and I was almost unaware that I had sped up.

"Emma, can you please wait for a minute?"

My father's voice caught my attention and I turned to face him. "No. I can't! I have to find him, the more he stays in there the more..."

My lips were parted, ready to continue my speech, when suddenly a sharp scream echoed, not far away from us. I'd never heard it before. I'd never heard anything like this before but the familiarity of this voice made us all shiver. I started to run with everyone following me, now willingly.

The scream echoed again and I stopped running only when we were in front of something very similar to a cave. And as if the previous screams weren't enough to terrify us, the cries that could be heard now from inside made the things worse. I didn't wait any longer and walked inside.

There, in a dark and dirty corner, I saw him. A man, lied down and curled up like a child, with knees touching his chin and making horrible noises.

"No, stop, please. I... I can't, please stop. Please..."

It was the only words I managed to recognise between the sounds and I felt like I was frozen in place. I noticed something liquid near his mouth and when my mind finally realized it was blood, I woke up and walked up to him, slowly.

"Killian?" I didn't want to believe it was him. He couldn't be him. However, the answer never came from the man and I was forced to walk farther and kneel down in front of him. Tears filled my eyes as I was not able anymore to deny the truth. My beautiful, playful, sassy, brave, romantic man was now weak and broken and I didn't know how to fix it.

I spread my hand to touch him and he stood up in an instand, looking right at my eyes with horror. It was like the view was painful; one moment watching me and the next one, turning away.

"Go away." It was something between order and plead and my heart skipped a beat... or two.

"Killian, it's me."

"No, please. Leave me alone. Just leave me alone for a while." Now he was definetely pleading.

"Hey. Killian." I cupped his face with my hands forcing him to look at me. "It's me. Look, I have Liam's ring. Touch it. It's real."

He must have been desperate to believe me because he followed what I had said immidiately. He then stayed staring at the ring for a while, before bringing wet, blue eyes back to me. "Emma." It sounded like a question but I knew it wasn't one. His voice full of realization, surely inaudible to all who was watching us from behind.

"Yeah." I whispered back, thinking that loud noise maybe bother him, and I caressed his bruised cheek gently.

"What are you doing here? What have you done?"

I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time. Cry because it was my Killian, here, in this terrible position, hurt and injured as hell. And laugh because even now all he asked was if I had been through something painful to be here.

"I came here to save you. We all came here to save you."

He searched in my eyes for a while, looking for something fake or scary. He obviously find nothing so he turned to face the others, behind me. His eyes full of surprise as if he had just noticed them.

"You did?" Knowing Killian, I was sure he didn't planned to ask that out loud but I was glad he did, because I knew I could at least do something for him and reassure him.

"Of course we did. Your family is here to take you back." I tried to smile encouragingly at him but my smile faded when a lone tear touched my thumb and I rushed to wash it away. I saw him taking a deep breath, probably trying to stop a sob and then he said the less expected thing, that made my heart break in a million pieces. I was ready for him to refuse my help, to tell me it was too dangerous, to push me away. But what he said made me realize that this awful view of him was nothing compared to how much his soul had suffered.

"Take me out of here, please."

This time, I was too shocked to find an answer but as it proved I didn't need to find one. After whispering this phrase to me, Killian just leaned into my body and hid his face in my hug. The soft cries and his arms tightening around my waist were the only things my senses could apprehend that moment.

A/N: This just came into mind and I decided to write it. I also tried to used POVs for the first time. So how do you think?

Sorry for any mistake!