Emma Swan has more than enough to deal with. For one, her son believes the entire town of Storybrooke is cursed. She definitely doesn’t have time for the mysterious pawnbroker, Killian Jones, even if Henry insists that he’s the prince she’s meant to be with. Cursed!Killian AU
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Even though Emma had seen the whole thing, she couldn’t believe what had just happened. Crouched at her son’s side, she couldn’t stop thinking of the last five minutes, couldn’t stop wondering if she could have done something differently. She relived it in slow motion, how they’d finally made it through Pan’s barrier and into Skull Rock only to see Henry standing with him. She’d tried, they’d all tried, to convince Henry that Pan’s lies about magic were just that. Lies.
He hadn’t believed them. She couldn’t understand what Pan had done or said to make Henry trust him over the pleading of his parents, but despite their desperate cries, Henry had done exactly what Pan wanted. He’d used the magic Pan had loaned him to rip his own heart from his chest and plunged it into Pan’s, a cold wind blasting out from the teen just as Henry dropped to the floor.
Emma only spared a brief look at the smug grin on Pan’s face, seeing it only for a second before she ran to her son’s side, her knees skidding on the rough floor when she collapsed down beside Henry and started to shake his shoulder as though that would be enough to bring him back.
“Oh God,” she said, her voice breaking when Henry showed no signs of waking up. “He isn’t… He’s just unconscious, isn’t he?”
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