The Very Definition of Fate
Fanfic started as a RP between me and EvilRed and grew from there. Hook's in the hospital right after his car accident when someone from his past who shows up: A pretty Mermaid he once betrayed. She takes him to her home where they fight and then their daughter shows up from the future. Things get crazy from there.
Reposting the now Beta read chapter! This fixes all the Gammar mistakes! Thanks SO much Jill! Your amazing!
Chapter 1- Karma: A Bitchy Mistress
Hook stared at the ceiling. Was he… in a bed?!
What the hell!?
Confused, he went to sit up only to find himself in terrible pain. Gods! He felt like he was run over by a carriage and six horses. His head was spinning as he tried to remember what had happened…..
He was hit by some moving metal creature. …
Ariel made her way to the hospital where, it was going around Storybrooke, Killian 'Hook' Jones was staying after nearly killing Belle and getting hit by a car. Ariel hadn't seen him in years and she had to know if it was really him. It was her damn curiosity that had always been her downfall and this would be another prime example, she knew this. She realized deep down that she had once cared for Killian more than she ever wanted to admit and therefore wanted to see him again.
…Maybe to tell him off in person?
She wasn't all that sure why but before she could even question it, she was outside his door. Ariel let herself in and closed the door behind her. She wanted to put a pillow over that stupid pirate's face, but instead she made her way over to make sure it was really him.
Hook, fearing the person who came in the room could be The Croc, lifted his head. He laid it back down seeing a red head.
... Must be a nurse….
Ariel could stay silent no longer "Well, well, well…look at what the ocean washed up." She folded her arms defensively.
Hook gave a groan and laid his head back down. "Hello Lovely." he greeted her flirting.
"Please don't tell me you don't remember me?" Ariel asked she paused for a moment. "Who am I kidding of course you don't! Look at me Killian! Do you remember me now?" She questioned him, walking over to the bed. She wanted to smack that smug look right off his face.
Killian….
It'd been years since his ears had heard that name. He blinked and looked the young lass over. "Have we met?" he blinked. "I never forget a pretty face or..." he caught a glimpse of those legs. "Or legs, and darling, you have the loveliest pair I've seen in a while."
Ariel smirked at his usual flirting ways "Well that probably would explain you not remembering me, see I didn't have legs when you knew me." She told him, shooting him a glare.
Of all the people to come back to Storybrooke why the hell did it have to be him?!
"...No legs...?" He questioned.
"No legs." she repeated.
Dear god was she really that easily forgotten?
Ariel felt her chest ache at that. Damn it! All these years and he still had a hold over her. She felt the biggest urge to punch him right in his bruised face.
He racked his brain and his eyes grew "A-Ariel?"
"Oh finally! Thanks I am glad I meant so much to you." She retorted.
Hook tried to set himself up to get a better look but pain shot through his body. "Gah!" He swore.
She sat down in the chair next to his bed. "Oh yeah bet that hurts. Well Carma is a bitch." Ariel told him laughing at her own joke.
"Hardy harhar!" He spat.
"Now… I find myself in a bit of a situation."She told him eyes narrowing and crossing her legs as if to ward him off.
"Do you now?" He questioned her.
"I do. Because I could leave you here at the mercy of Rumpelstiltskin or I could help you. I am thinking I really like to see what Rumple is going to do to you after hurting Belle." Ariel said her voice was laced with a trace of malice.
"You wouldn't leave me with that Crocodile."
"Oh I wouldn't? How can you be so sure? Because I saved you once?" She questioned him.
Hook thought about it he wasn't sure maybe she would leave him here. He didn't do anything in the past to make Ariel look out for him. He had used her and then thrown her back now she was here, it was a good opportunity for him to maybe use her as a way of out this place.
"The lass will live. It wasn't a kill shot!" He told her.
"Yeah. Some kinda life." Ariel shot back, "Can you even walk? I am so not carrying you!"
His eyes narrowed. "I can't test it right now because I can't sit up!"
"Well then I guess you will just have to stay here a bit longer," She looked at him. As much as she disliked him she couldn't let Rumpelstiltskin kill him.
"You think?" He snapped at her.
Ariel was getting tired of this, "Hey do you want help or not? Face it Hook, I am the only person that's going to assist you! Actually who am I kidding, I am not. I've changed, I am not your mermaid set only to do you bidding anymore…" She trailed off anger getting the best of her. She looked away then it was abundantly clear she wasn't over how bad he hurt her in the past. Damn him
"Ariel...?" Hooks voice was small.
Ariel whipped her head around to face him "What?"
"Did I hurt you that badly?" Hook's voice was suddenly meek.
Ariel's mind flashed through a million things she could say to him, in that moment but she couldn't bring any of them to her voice so she settled for a glare.
Finally after a long moment she sighed. "Damn it I'll be right back."
He closed his eyes wondering if she would actually come back.
The entire time Ariel was on her way to grab a wheel chair her mind was screaming at her. Why are you helping him? You know what kind of person he is? Are you insane? She didn't listen and came back in the room moments later.
He opened his eyes, hearing her return.
"Alright let's see I need you to sit up. Doctor says you only bruised some ribs but you're gonna be fine but you're also going to be dead if I don't help you so get up." She warned him heading over to help him.
He sat up, giving a groan. Ariel went over and helped him maneuver himself into the chair. It was awkward as hell, but she managed it.
"Alright let's move."
He gave a nod. "Thank you..."
"Yeah yeah… Let's worry about me getting you into my car." Ariel responded not caring if he was actually being sincere or not.
He groaned again, but let her push him.
Ariel made her way out of the hospital, amazingly no one stopped them and they made it out to her car.
`"Sea green." he mused.
"Think that's bad? You should see my apartment." She quipped opening her door "Now just slide in. Can you do that?"
Hook did just that, there was minor pain but he didn't let it bother him as he got into her tiny… carriage thing.
Once she got him in she shut the door and got into the car. "You do realize you're going to have to walk, unless you want to spend the night in my car right?"
He nodded.
She drove the car back to her place "Honestly I have no idea why I am helping you. I mean you truly don't deserve it!" She sighed. "I am so hopeless."
"I know." he told her in what seemed to be a moment of humility. "you're right...I don't deserve your help." He continued to her surprise.
She turned to him then "Well what happened to you? Ya know besides getting hit by a car." Ariel asked him.
"Explain Love?"
"Explain? How the hell did you get here? Why weren't you cursed like the rest of us?" She asked him, a bit frustrated this night was wearing on her nerves- and it was only early evening.
"My ship. Someone with magic like The Crocodile managed to protect her and I from The Curse."
She laughed bitterly "Yes it figures you would be saved, Lucky bastard." she muttered under her breath.
"Alright we're here." She announced, parking the car.
He opened up the door and attempted to walk.
She went over. "Here let me help you." She helped him to the door. Stopping, she unlocked her small flat and let him in setting him down on the couch.
"...Thanks..."
"You're welcome" She reached over and turned on the light. Her small place was decorated with light aqua and tan walls; she had pictures of tall ships gracing the walls and surfaces with statues of mermaids. Reminders of the sea were strewn throughout her humble home. She was also near the ocean and her back balcony looked out at the sea.
He couldn't help but chuckle a bit "Was this before or after the Curse broke?" he mused
"Before… Of course I loved mermaids, ships, and the sea now I know why," She recalled voice weak with memories "Do you need anything? Are you hungry?" She finally asked him.
He shot her a grin "Do you have rum? Whiskey? Bourbon?"
She laughed. That was expected. "Well I probably have some wine or something. Let me go look." She told him making her way over to her fridge.
"Bah, why would you have had stuff like that?" he joked
"Because it goes good with Dinner? I don't know - I like girly drinks." She told him digging around her in fridge "hmm well let's see."
She took two packets out of the freezer - "Well this will have to do"- and poured them into a glass, making her way back to the couch and handing one to Hook. "It's a Margarita lime flavored, you might like it?"
He tilted his head but took a small swallow.
"If someone told me a week ago that I would be sitting in my living room having a margarita with Killian Jones… I'd have told them they were mad!"She took a long drink of her own. After tonight she was going to need it.
"Killian..."he repeated softly.
"Hmm?" She questioned him taking another long drink and secretly wishing she had something stronger.
"Oh tis been a while."
"Since?" She questioned him.
"That name crossed these ears," He told her his voice low and almost tender.
"Oh yes no one really calls you Killian do they? I always did." She said thoughtfully.
"You were the only."
"I was." She told him. Truthfully she never called him Hook until he threw her from his ship after he had what he wanted.
She looked at him for a moment studying his eyes. They were as blue as she remembered... like stormy seas.
He didn't know why but he leaned over and kissed her lightly on the lips.
Shock went though her body and a want she couldn't describe but she remembered herself and pushed him away. "No I can't do this again," She told him sitting up more firmly.
"Ariel..."
"What?" she looked at him, tears pooling in her eyes. Damn it. She thought these feelings were gone but seeing him and they all came flooding back slamming into her with a force of a hurricane.
His hand went to her cheek. "Gods, I truly hurt you."
She turned away from him "It's nothing."
"No. it's not nothing." He told her, suddenly sounding upset.
She stood up "Yes it is...Look, you and I had different ideas… on the arrangement we had... I fell for your lies...it was stupid I should have known better."
She stormed off into the kitchen and starting cleaning, anything to keep her mind from him. Why did her heart beat so fast around him? She was young and stupid when he tricked her. She couldn't possibly still have feelings for him could she? But he had never kissed her before.
He slowly rose to his feet. "Ariel...?"
Her kitchen was open to the living room, so she could see him trying to stand. "Killian don't try to stand. You'll hurt yourself." Ah! What was wrong with her?
"I'll be fine. I gotta try...right? He took a step and let out a cry as pain shot through his body.
"I told you..." She went over to him. "I'll get you a pillow or something."
He tried to move from her. "Thank you for getting me out of there before the Crocodile got at me. But clearly you don't want me around either."
She brought her hands up to her head "No… it's not that. I mean if that were true you wouldn't be sitting on my couch right now."
"Then why? Why did you bring me here?" He asked her.
"Honestly I have no idea…maybe it's because… deep down I still care if you live or die. This isn't the first time I've saved you." She told him.
"True, you did didn't you?" he shook his head. "Sometimes I wonder what made you save me..."
She sighed. "Me too! I mean even after everything and you are still up to your old tricks... I mean do you even care who you hurt? You're the most insensitive man I've ever met! And I once had a one night stand with Dr. Whale!"
"Damn it Ariel! The ONLY one I hurt was the CROCODILE! Alright?! Belle is alive! I DID WHAT I CAME HERE TO DO!
She laughed coldly. "Oh Yes...because not having any memories of anything but being in a cell your whole life is so much better than being dead! You did nothing! Rumpelstiltskin is clearly still alive and well and pissed! So yeah he isn't going to come find you and kill you. No why would he? So if you came to piss him off more then I guess you won didn't you!"
"Damn it Ariel!"! He spat back at her. Belle may not even remember THAT! All I've done was take away HIS love from HIM because HE took MINE! Therefore I Won! Yes!" He took a breath "Even he couldn't have done that!"
"Let me ask you something? Did it make you feel good to hurt her? Did it bring Her back? Do you feel better about yourself now that you evened the score? " Her voice was rising and she wanted to hit him
"No. No. YES!" he hissed
"Ah same old Hook!" She spat."Well it's refreshing to see you haven't changed… at all!"
He reached out suddenly grabbing her wrist tightly.
"Hook let me go! " She warned him trying to pull lose.
"So I'm the 'same old "Hook," am I?" he sneered, tightening his grip.
"You're proving to be…now let me go, I can make you hurt in so many places." She threatened him. He really was starting to scare her.
He yanked her toward him with a tug and his lips found hers. He kissed her hard and eager, his tongue exploring her mouth with a fierce hunger.
Ariel was shocked was pulled toward him. With his mouth on hers she couldn't breathe or even think properly She allowed the kiss for a moment before pulling away roughly and slapping him as hard as she could.
"Oh my god! What is wrong with you?" She yelled. was she really sending mixed signals?
"Ariel...You...you're..." he stuttered "Your...attitude...feistiness...I-I don't know..."
She studied him for a moment. "Are you saying what I think you're saying?"
He blinked. "What am I saying?"
"I have no idea...You need sleep and rest...things." She started to walk away in disbelief. She had just had the most amazing kiss in her life from Killian Jones and wanted very much to forget it ever happened.
"Ariel! Don't walk away from me!" His voice… It wasn't demanding...was it more...desperate? Pleading even?"
She turned back and blinked. "What is it?"
"Where are you going?" He asked.
"Um, to my bed room to get you a pillow?" she told him lightly. "Do you want anything else?" She was unsure, for once he seemed so upset that she was going to leave him and that never seemed to bother him before.
"Perhaps...maybe…a blanket too..." he added.
She sighed as if suddenly exhausted. "Here you can have my bed. You're hurt. I'll take the couch, follow me."
She led him into the room. It had a teal green bed set and a net with all kinds of trinkets from the seas above it. Her nightstand had a lamp covered in shells.
Seeing her room, he had to give a small chuckle.
"I told you... Adriana loved the ocean, ships, pirates, shells. I must have seen that pirate of the Caribbean movie a thousand times."
He laughed again. "Well, it'll make me feel at home..."
"Well good. Get some rest…" She went over to her dresser and grabbed some clothes to sleep in.
He lay down. "A water filled bed?" He mused out loud.
"Yes don't pop it! Oh yeah you don't have your hook…we're good!" She smiled.
"Harhar." he laughed teasingly. "Yes! The Sheriff lady took it..." he muttered.
"I know, but hey, it will be okay for a few days." She told him. Why was she being so nice all of a sudden?
"I...don't feel...whole..." He thought for a moment. "Ah well, tis one thing facing death and not having it..."
She found what she was looking for in the dresser and turned back to look at him. "I know how it feels to be incomplete, trust me." She watched him for a few moments. "Okay well...sleep tight...or whatever..." She made her way to the door.
"Ariel!" He yelled out her name.
"Yes?" She answered without looking back at him, she wanted to forget the sight of him in her bed more than anything because she knew deep down she loved the very idea of it and that pissed her off.
"...do you still…" his voice was unsure.
"What?" her heartbeat was rapidly speeding up...Damn it!
"...sing?"
She wasn't expecting that "Um yes?" She turned back to look at him.
A moment of silence and then he spoke. "Would you?... for me? That... was one thing I missed... over the course of The Curse..."
She blinked for a moment not believing what she was hearing.
"Umm.. okay…sure." The words were out before she could even think about saying no. She used to sing for him all the time on his ship. She went over the bed and sat on the side of it.
Ariel began to sing.
"My name is Ariel,And I want to be free,
It is your sorrow That has made a slave of me
Forgive me, Forgive me,
But you are all I know,
Forgive me for leaving.
The day is breaking now,
It's time to go away,
I'm so afraid to leave,
But more afraid to stay,
Forgive me, For leaving
The sadness in your eyes
Forgive me."
He closed his eyes as he listened to her sing a sad smile crossing his face.
"Let the wind and ocean water,
Wash across your hands,
Wash away a thousand footsteps,
Wash us all away
Like sand.
The sky has fallen,
Now the earth is dry and torn
I know you're tired,
From the violence of the storm,
I love you, I love you
But you are all I know.
Forgive me, forgive me."
She finished the song as he fell asleep. She thought about the words they fit them so well. Except for the I love you bit because she did not love him! Not at all, not even a little! She got up and made her way to her couch.
It was not comfortable to sleep on and she was starting to wonder why the hell she bought it in the first place. Probably because it was blue, Adriana was really getting on her nerves, everything really had to be about the ocean.
Suddenly there was a movement of light out through the window...Like a shooting star. What the hell? It seemed to have touched earth...
Ariel got up and went to the bay window, She looked out but couldn't see anything. Shooting star maybe? Her mind supplied. She jumped in surprise at a knock at her door.