The Way Back to You
Chapter 5
Summary: Killian & Emma were childhood sweethearts but fell apart after he received orders for a military tour in Afghanistan. Injury caused him to leave the service & seven years later, Emma returned back to their hometown as a result of a tragedy. Will they be able to fall back in love with each other or has too much damage been done? Rated M for marijuana use, language, and eventual smut.
A/N: Hi again! Here is another one of my WIP's with a preview of the most recent chapter and a link to the full story below so I don't clog up y'alls dashes cuz I'm on mobile lol. I'm hoping to have everything moved over to AO3 in the next week or so as well. I'm excited for the transition! But for now, you can find the rest of this chapter, the whole story, and all my other works on FFN under doodlelolly0910. Huge shoutout to my amazing beta @kmomof4 who is the very bestest and as always, thanks for reading, reblogging, and reviewing!
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It turned out that small town policing was exactly as Emma expected it to be. People waved and smiled when she was out on patrol. She spent a lot of time enforcing city ordinances, rather than hunting down criminals. She broke up a single bar fight that resulted in Mary Margaret's Uncle Leroy spending the evening in a jail cell, only to be released the next day with a promise to behave. She was greeted by name when people saw her on the street or in a store. It was quiet. It was peaceful. Her first week was an overall success.
But unfortunately, policing a small town also meant dealing with the small town gossip. Lord, she'd almost forgotten.
Spending her teenage years as one of the only foster children in the entire town of Storybrooke, she had learned very quickly how to let rumors and whispers roll off her back. When she left for New York with Neal, she had gained a level of anonymity that was refreshing after spending so long with everyone's nose in her business. She was invisible, but in a good way. She had gotten a little too comfortable with it, apparently. Even though she was aware of the constant scrutiny she was subject to since her return to town and subsequent arrest, even she didn't see what happened that Friday coming.
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