Be Alright 4/?
Summary: Sometimes all it takes is one phone call to completely turn our lives upside down.
He’d left. That was all she’d known. He’d packed up in the middle of the night after a stupid fight, leaving no trace behind of where he’d gone. But when David’s phone rang one night telling them that Killian was in a hospital in Boston, everything changed. For Emma, it was the last call she ever expected and it meant facing the ghosts of her past and releasing everything she’d kept bottled up and hidden away.
But then again sometimes it’s the tragedies in our lives that finally let us feel again.
A/N: I’ve tried editing the cut line 3 times now and tumblr just doesn’t want you to read more under the cut I guess. Sorry to the mobile peeps
It was dark. Just so dark. He felt himself being drawn deeper and deeper, a bottomless pit of despair. The place where hope went to die. Everything was confusing, thoughts incoherent, but he felt the grief all around him. Nothing but death and despair. Deeper and deeper still he fell, with nothing to cling to. No lifeline to hold to.
Until he heard it. A call to arms in the night.
He followed the sound, winding through a maze, wrong turn after wrong turn, but the voice still called to him. A pull to the core of his spirit. But just as he emerged from the deep dark woods that had been holding him captive, the world went silent. His lids still heavy, the world still dark.
Everything was wrong.
But then he heard a shuffle, and she moved just enough to make it into his eyeline, and suddenly he wasn’t so alone.
“Who’s Grumpy?”
“Killian?” That one single word, his very name was a balm to his weary soul.
She was there, wherever there was. Everything unfamiliar. Everything except her. But there was something, a feeling he couldn’t quite place. Something just out of reach, like a distant memory. Her voice, her presence. Something wasn’t right. Something.
He let the void take him once again...