Hope Jones The Pirate Princess

Fire

It had been three weeks since Brooke had been imprisoned and life had gone back to how it was before her curse.
Snow had asked Hope and a few other ex students to return to school and assist in a school event. When Hope arrived at the school she headed straight for her old strop zone.
She had around an hour before she had to be in Snows classroom and decided she would spend it there just as she used to in high school.
Just as Hope decided she should make her way to where she needed to be she noticed that the corridor in front of her was on fire. She looked out of the window and saw that the rest of the school was on fire.
"Great!" She muttered as she sank back down into her corner. She had no way out it was only now she realised she had left the house yesterday without telling her parents she loved them, she hadn't spoken to Henry for a week, Dalton was now married to Melody and finally she hadn't told him that she wanted him back.
Dalton had managed to help as many people as he could on his way out of the school. As he left the building he and everyone else heard the east side of the school start to collapse.
Melody had been at the school that day as well and she ran to Dalton when she saw him exit. She threw her arms around him glad that he was safe, sure she was in love with Hercules but she wouldn't want anything to happen to Dalton.
He turned and noticed Emma and Killian had arrived and were staring at the building anxiously
"Mr and Mrs Jones? What are you guys doing here?"
"Hopes here!" Emma shook
"What!"
"She came for that event! She's still in there!"
"I'm going back in for her!" Dalton yelled as he began to run back into the building. Just before he reached the door the west wing began to crumble.
Melody yelled at him to stop but he couldn't let his true love die because he was too afraid to try and save her.
He looked for a new way in and tried to think of all the places Hope could be. She obviously wasn't anywhere he had been as she had been avoiding him since the Brooke incident.
He thought of everywhere Hope would go when she wanted to be alone or she wanted to throw a strop and then it hit him. She would go to the abandoned floor of the south side and strop there.
As he began to run back towards the front entrance the whole of the front of the building fell to the ground. The only part of the school that still stood was the south side of the school. But it was engulfed in flames.
"Dalton, don't do this!" Melody pleaded slightly concerned but mostly she was pretending to care
"Melody, the marriage is done! Go be with Herc, the deal we made still stands but I have to be with Hope. If I die saving her that at least I know she'll be ok!"
And with that Dalton made his way into the south side of the building by climbing through a broken window.
Everyone watched on as the king ran into the fire. Emma and Killian desperately wanted to follow him in but Snow and Blue for-bayed anyone else from getting any closer to the building.
As Dalton hit the floor he heard the faint sound of coughing through the roar of the flames. He threw his mouth and nose into his arm in an attempt to filter the smoke.
"Hope! Hope!" He screamed but there was no answer. All that could be heard was the sound of the flames, the coughing had stopped and he immediately feared the worst.
"Hello?"
Dalton didn't need any more words to know who that was. Emma was right Hope was still in there and she was trapped. Dalton pushed through the flames and found Hope in a corner surrounded by parts of the now fallen down ceiling.
He ran over to her and began to throw parts of the ceiling across the floor finally managing to free her. He looked at her and saw her face covered in charcoal and cuts.
"Great! It had to be you!" She sighed
"Your welcome!"
"Thanks!"
In her mind Hope still felt guilt for everything Leia had done and couldn't forgive herself. Everyone in her family had raised a near impossible self forgiveness line and she had no idea if she would be able to reach it.
"Come home?"
"Dalton it's not that simple! Your married now I mean I clearly don't mean that much to you if you can replace our relationship in days!"
"Hope it wasn't like that and you know it! The marriage is over anyway!"
"I'm sure it is! But I still can't come back with you!"
He yelled at Hope to get out of there but being the stubborn princess she was she refused.
"I don't need saving!"
The floor began to shake and Hope knew in that instant the building was about to collapse
"Come on! Let me save you!" Dalton yelled but Hope didn't budge
Hope let out a sigh and dropped to her knees. She knew if she let him save her he would continue to beg for her to go home. The force she had used whilst doing so had caused the floor to begin to fall through from beneath her.
She carefully stood up and cautiously made her way back over to Dalton. He reached out his hand and Hope grabbed onto it before the floor below her feet gave way and she fell through.
"Hope!"
He looked down into the hole and saw Hope laying in the ground her hair fanned out around her head and her eyes shut.
As he looked upon her he noticed she wasn't alone down there. He saw Alexandria ,his big sister, impaled on a metal bar.
Before he could call out for help the rest of the building came tumbling down above him. He threw his hands over his head and the next thing he knew he had passed out.