CS AU Week – Day 7: Free for All – Emma doing what she does best and running from her happiness, all the while realizing that she left home behind her in the form of a dashingly handsome mechanic
A/N: I feel like I couldn’t acceptably take part in an au week without at least a small foray into my very favourite of my au verses, aka Headlights Fading. For anyone who wondered what was going through Emma’s head in those weeks she was away from Killian, here you go.
P.S. It was this song that inspired me to write this in the first place.
Emma had always been good at telling herself no.
The country station that had become all too familiar over the past month had dissolved into static half an hour ago and now the car was filled with forgettable alt-rock and the hum of the road beneath her tires, and all of it sounded like no. No, she shouldn’t stay in the house up on the hill; no, she shouldn’t let herself believe Killian when he told her she was welcome; no, she shouldn’t chase something that might make her happy because it could all still fall apart. No, she shouldn’t listen to the insistent thought that this wouldn’t fall apart, that this time was different. No, no, always no.
No.
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