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stolenwatches) wrote2013-12-30 01:54 am
stolenwatches) wrote2013-12-30 01:54 am
broken | bargaining
[ Thinking back, the past couple weeks had just been one big blur of action, but Neal just feels elated now. Finding out he had a son but that Emma gave him up for adoption had been a bittersweet moment, but getting to meet him and bond with him over the past couple weeks has been a treasure.
Seeing Emma get to meet her parents for the first time, as well as introduce them to him and Henry, is something that, as cliched as it sounds, gives him a warm feeling inside.
It's later, when the celebrations are winding down in the diner, that he excuses himself under Emma's knowing look to head for his father's shop. The past few years have been nothing but good for him, and he finds that the pit in his heart was gone, and in its place, a quiet acceptance and with the curse broken, a readiness to start anew.
Neal enters the pawn shop, and lets the door close noisily behind him with a chime of the bell. ]
Seeing Emma get to meet her parents for the first time, as well as introduce them to him and Henry, is something that, as cliched as it sounds, gives him a warm feeling inside.
It's later, when the celebrations are winding down in the diner, that he excuses himself under Emma's knowing look to head for his father's shop. The past few years have been nothing but good for him, and he finds that the pit in his heart was gone, and in its place, a quiet acceptance and with the curse broken, a readiness to start anew.
Neal enters the pawn shop, and lets the door close noisily behind him with a chime of the bell. ]
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[ His words are stilted, though, as painfully truthful as they are. Him forgiving his father of a whole mess of things is something Neal doesn't even know if he's capable of. If his father came into this... reunion, with the expectation of forgiveness, he likely would've walked straight back out of the shop.
Neal lapses back into silence, thinking back to all those years ago. Meeting Hook... ]
I, uh, jumped ship after learning that. [ After learning why his mother left him, that the pirate he'd started to become fond of was only after his father's blood. ]