You & me... Neverland (SWANQUEEN)

Chapter 10

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It starts as a shudder. She is still asleep, completely knocked out. The shudder however shakes her feet a little and she moves a few inches. The feeling is still there, like a murmur low but constant that holds onto her. A second shudder makes her leave her slumber behind. She identifies the feeling; she is being watched, they are staring at her. She opens her eyes –that feel blotchy as if she had been sleeping for days. And Henry's little blue eyes smile back at hers.

"You are awake..." He whispers.

"No" She growls against the pillow "You woke me up"

"It was for the best, you have been asleep for a while" Is he mocking her? She raising a brow against the scratchy fabric of the sheets and the boy smiles. Yes, he is mocking her. She grabs that insolent child and her fingers hover dangerously close to his tummy. Tickles, tickles without any mercy.

Henry struggles against the mattress and tries to defend himself instead of laughing but is impossible. He surrenders between guffaws; "I was joking, I was joking, I have just woken up too"

Emma is merciful and so she stops the torture eyeing the cabin. It's her room, the same one in which she made the travel back towards Neverland and she still has one bed although is big enough for an adult and a half. "We have both slept here?"

"Yes, don't you remember?"

"I must haven't reach here on my own two feet kiddo" She states letting herself fall comically against the mattress. The questions arrive in less than a blink at that.

"They brought you here like they did it to me? Something happened?"

"We got attacked" She remembers everything. Everything. And she doesn't know how to tell him.

"You got attacked?!"

"Yes..."

"Who?"

"Sirens..."

"...Sirens?"

"Sirens" Emma repeats, convinced.

Henry thinks for an instant if sirens can be considered an enemy or even a danger. Everything he knows about them is that they can seduce men until they drown but nothing more dangerous than that. "And what happened? Is everyone all right?"

"Yes, yes, no one is injured. They covered their ears in time and they even tied themselves before they came close enough to the ship" She herself had thought about covering her ears but she hadn't known how to explain it and that shame had make her loose those valuable seconds. A moment after that she had end up singing happily while walking slowly towards her death. "I was very close to fall out of the deck though"

Henry's eyes widen at that "You were almost eaten by a siren?"

"Or whatever they do those aquatic witches, yes..."

"They hexed you? But I thought they only did that to men..." Bingo, that must be the question everyone on the ship must be thinking right now. Perhaps she can hide on the cabin and not come out until she learns how to make herself invisible. One or two months would be enough. "They are more powerful than what I had read about them... "Henry mumbles deep in thought. A second after though he is looking at Emma with his eyes light up and a big smile. "Breakfast?"

The blonde raises both brows and smiles. She doesn't know if those words are born from the innocence of her not-so-little son or the frankness he shows all the time or... born from hunger. Whatever it may be she smiles back happily.