She Dreams in Color: 5/6
Are you ready to meet Emma and Killian’s baby? Will it be obvious who the father really is? I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it! There’s a scene with Liam that I wrote when I first started this fic and shared it on the discord chat. It got a chuckle on there, and I hope you enjoy it too. Let’s just say it will become more difficult for our lovers to keep their affair a secret.
Much thanks to all of those following this fic, to @shireness-says for organizing the @cshistfic event, and to my beta @aerica13.
Summary: Emma’s life is drab and colorless, and not just because of the Dust Bowl that has stripped the land bare. Married to a man she does not love and never has, Emma lives for Tuesdays. That’s when the iceman brings cool relief from the unrelenting heat and fire to her unsatisfied longings. Perhaps they won’t go unsatisfied for long …
*Yes, this fic depicts infidelity. I am in no way making light of people who cheat on their spouses - it’s just a story, ya’ll.*
Rating: M
Length: 6 chapters, complete
Updated each Thursday
Chapter One | Two | Three | Four
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Chapter Five: No One Else Who Needs to Know
It wasn’t Tuesday, it was Sunday, and Killian had no coal in the back of his truck. There were no deliveries on Sunday, after all. However, he felt an overwhelming, intense desire to see Emma. It wasn’t just that he longed for her every moment of every day. It wasn’t that their relationship had deepened even more since Emma’s heartfelt confession. She loved him; the baby was his. The tenderness they shared was the deepest intimacy Killian had ever known, both physically and emotionally.
Still, it had nothing to do with any of that. No, this was something more, something that defied explanation. It felt almost supernatural in its intensity.
Relief surged through him as his truck came closer; he saw no basket of red flowers hanging on the porch. He parked, and a sense of foreboding filled him at the quiet surrounding him. Ominous gray clouds filled the air, and if Killian wasn’t mistaken, they portended snow.
Killian opened the back screen door tentatively. The inside of the house was even more eerie than the outside.
“Emma?” he called hesitantly.
No answer. Emma wasn’t in the kitchen, and the stove was cold. She clearly hadn’t made breakfast today. He continued to call her name as he went into the parlor. Then a faint voice caught his ear, and he followed it to the stairs. He called her name again, and he could finally hear her answer in a strangled voice.
“I’m up here!”
It came from her bedroom, and he rushed towards it, flinging open the door. He found Emma still in bed, her knees drawn up to her chest. Her hair was wild, her face was contorted in pain, and sweat drenched her. Killian blanched and felt his knees wobble.
“I’ll get the midwife.”
Emma shook her head, whimpering. “I can’t afford the midwife.”
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What a dramatic chapter! With Henry’s arrival, and Liam finding out.. not to mention, that stinger you left this chapter on. I’m glad we got some Emma and Anna bonding in the middle to break it up!
Anxiously awaiting the last chapter, @searchingwardrobes !
