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CS AU Week – Day 2: Canon Divergence

Single File Into the Sea

“Believe me, love – you don’t want the things on that ship anywhere near this town or your family.”

“If that’s true, then why would I let you go out there alone?”

Shortly after Anna and Kristoff wash up on Storybrooke’s shore, a thick fog settles on the horizon – a fog that Killian recognizes from his years at sea. He has always known it as the harbinger of what is only called The Ghost Ship, and even though 300 years at sea saw him safe from the ship and its crew, he finds himself sailing to meet it with Emma at his side and the town that has become home at his back. They plan to dispatch the threat in short order but the ship’s magic has a way of working in its own favour, and soon the question becomes not whether they can defeat the ship, but whether they want to – whether Killian will join the ship’s ranks, and whether Emma will let him.