Once Upon a Time - Crossed Life AU

[motivated]

There was nothing left for Chris in Beacon Hills. He had lost his wife and daughter. All that he had held dear beyond them was destroyed as well. All he had known, he now knew, had been a lie. Paris had been helpful in Chris finding at least a calm, even if it was a hollowness he clung to. He had nothing left but two things. Stopping his sister, and continuing to protect others.

For the most part the two went hand in hand, but when he got a call from a hunter he knew worrying about a possible rogue in Maine, he decided to catch a plane and help them check things out.

The trio had split up somewhere around midnight, not having found a single sight or sound of any type of wildlife. Honestly that was worrisome for Chris, and he wasn't letting his guard down. He had come over a small ridge when he realized that what should have been forest, and was shown that way on the map he'd been given, had given way to what looked like a town. At least it looked that way in the dark, a few lights showing but not many at that hour.

Carefully holstering his weapon, Chris moved closer to the edge of the village, a heavy frown curving his mouth.

"Why don't you show on the map," he muttered, having the fleeting, and terrifying, though that maybe this wasn't a rogue but a pack that had made a home of their own?

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[savedbylove]

Emma smiled but the expression on her face was serious. "Not exactly," She said. "Do you really want to know?"

Emma had a feeling that he did or he wouldn't be here right now. "I'll need your gun first though. I will not have my family put in harms way. How did you find us anyway?"

[motivated]

He was still thinking she was just a little mad right until she asked for his gun. With that he shook his head, hand off the weapon but taking a step back. "Sorry, Miss, but I can't do that. I don't know you, or how you're here with this town, and we've been tracking a killer up to this area. At least they were heading this way. For my safety and returning to ..."

He stopped then because he had no one to return to. Not anymore. "I was told to head to the west and keep an eye out in case we had managed to get ahead of the killer." Killer what he wasn't saying. "What is this? Some kind of preppers commune?"

[savedbylove]

Emma shook her head, because there was no way in hell that she was taking him in town armed.

"No dice. My son is in there, and I am not bringing an armed stranger in town," Emma spoke confidently. "The gun comes with me, but I will let you keep the knives."

Emma looked at him critically. "Look, I can read people well, and you look a little lost. Let me help?" She held out her hand.

[motivated]

"And my daughter lives in a town where I wouldn't just invite strangers in," he noted, smiling slightly at her and being amused. "I am willing to leave the gun, which I won't give to you sorry, but I won't go anywhere unarmed," he said, hand sliding to pull back his jacket, showing the knife in the lining. It wasn't the only weapon he had on him.

"I'm not lost. This town doesn't exist on maps," he pointed out. "Which means you may be harboring the killer we're looking for." We. Letting her know he wasn't alone out there. "For all I know, you're them. Not that I think you are." Not entirely. But she could be.

[savedbylove]

Emma could read people like an open book, so she knew he wasn't lying. "Fine leave the gun. You keep the knife but if you draw it without being provoked you are going to have me to deal with okay?"

She reached out a hand for him to take. It was the only way he was getting through the barrier after all.