"May I help you?" Hook asks a bit confused on this person sitting in front of him.
"Hello, Jones." The woman slyly smiled her words being prolonged with a disturbing wickedness. Hook's eyes narrowed unsure on how this woman knew him, and why she spoke with dominance.
"Do I know you?"
"Maybe, maybe not. But I know who you are, Jones." She said as a dangerous grin made their way onto her countenance. Hook sat back observing the strange woman trying to figure out who she was, but then he felt a disturbing realization that she may be the one who caster this damned curse.
"Who are you?" Hook hisses with frustration observing how the woman sat back relaxing like she was meeting a friend.
"It doesn't matter, all that matters is your little plan with that blonde woman will not work." She crookedly smiles almost with a sneer in her tone. Hook tries not to show his nervous demeanor after finding out who this woman was. He kept cool even though his mind raced with hectic ideas and thoughts.
"And If I say otherwise?" His brow arching up with a grin coming across his face demanding a challenge.
The woman chuckles her eyes rolling condescendingly, "Try me." She looks over toward the diner's door nonchalantly giving another smile as she looked back to Hook, "Tell Aurora I give my deep sorrow on her failed attempt with Mulan." She stands from the chair with grace as if she was having a scheduled meeting with Hook, but before she walked off completely she sneers another comment. "Tell Emma she should really see her parents."
Hook stiffens sitting up watching the unknown woman walk out as he thinks of anyone he could know to be the woman. He shakes his head leaning back not knowing who she was.
"I've never seen her..." He mumbles to himself trying to keep calm of the situation. But another thought dawned on him, how could the unknown woman know of Aurora's situation? But before he could think more on in, Aurora slumps into the chair in front of him exhausted from her over-worked shift.
"I'm so sorry! I didn't realize time." Aurora tells him exasperated as she heavily breathes to relax herself. "You didn't have to wait." Aurora slumps her lips slanting into a frown.
"I'm enjoying myself." Hook smiles trying to show he had been wanting to talk with Aurora, more to gain information and to know his and Emma's next move. " I hate to ask..." Hook begins, his fingers fumbling with his hook as he tries to think of an easy way to ask. "I thought you liked that woman...what was her name again?"
"Mulan-and I thought we had hit it off that night at the school...but she's a flirt." Aurora straightforwardly explains noticeably frustrated with her counterpart. Hook tries to remain calm and not overly noisy in Aurora's business. He didn't want Aurora thinking he was sticking his nose in her affairs. "I mean, she could have told me she is seeing others!" Aurora complains huffing out a sigh as her eyes focus elsewhere. Hook scrunches his eyebrows downward trying to think if Mulan had ever acted like this before. All he could honestly remember was himself flirting with Aurora while Mulan made an obvious notion that Aurora was hers.
Hook shakes his head trying to sympathize with Aurora. He had never been on the opposite end of those people he would string along his frenzy of womanizing, but this was different. Aurora was someone he did care for and of course Mulan as well, but he didn't know how to react other than staring at her quite clueless. "She's pretty and all, but I'm not into women like her."
"But, why not? Wasn't there something in her that seemed genuine?" Hook asks trying to give Aurora the hope she desperately needed to love Mulan again; or this version of Mulan.
Aurora quietly sat for a moment or two glancing around the diner as she spoke, "Well, she was quite nice. And polite. She laughed along with my jokes and stories, but her smiles were what I liked most about her. Even when there was nothing going on her smile...it was just..." Aurora sighs like a lovesick puppy unconsciously twirling a lock of her brunette hair as she thought of the woman. Aurora notices her own drifting and shakes her head trying to screw it back on to reality, "But, that's just her game. She strings girls like me then dumps them at the side of the road like garbage." Aurora shrugs slumping back into her chair again angry. Hook tries to add something, but at the inconvenient moment he notices Mulan walking into the diner; with another woman. Hook watches with disappointment as Mulan sits with the other woman, smiling at her like she did with Aurora. Hook quickly tries to direct his eyes toward Aurora hoping she wouldn't notice and peer around, and thankfully she didn't.
"I guess Mulan wasn't who I thought she was." Aurora sadly remarks looking down at her fingers which were fumbling with themselves out of boredom.
"Don't talk like that!" Hook encourages trying to lift Aurora's mind from the roadside. "Maybe Mulan needs to find out what she's missing in going slow?"