At the end of the day
Remember the way
We stayed so close till the end
We'll remember it was me and you

'Cause we are gonna be forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love…

[High – Lighthouse family]

REMEMBER IT WAS ME AND YOU

1.

New York. Present.

Hook took a deep breath and rang the bell. Those few moments waiting for the door to be opened, seemed like for ever and he couldn't help but recall all the memories he had with the woman who was on the other side of the door. Terror, despair, hope: that was exactly what he was contradictorily feeling. That wasn't the time though, to let his fear fill him: that was the last chance, the last chance to save everyone, the last chance to save himself.

The door suddenly opened and a confused and yet pretty face appeared in front of him. A smile crossed immediately his lips, Emma was even more beautiful than he remembered.

"Swan" he whispered.

And he kept on smiling, trying to ignore the fact that for a moment, staring into her green eyes, he thought about some brown ones.

Enchanted Forest. A year before.

"Gina! Gina!"

That concerned yell seemed almost unreal, as she was getting further from him at every second; the lady couldn't understand why her horse, Apple, had become so indomitable, but what she was sure about was that gallop could have led her to certain death. In fact, suddenly she lost her grip and almost instinctively closed her eyes, already expecting the terrifying impact to the ground, when instead she ended up wrapped in something more comfortable.

"Hey, my lady, are you alright?"

Gina opened looked up to her savior and remained some moments to stare into his stunning blue eyes he slowly set her on foot.

"It is everything fine… Thank you" she said, hinting a smile.

"It was my duty to save a lady in danger" he joked, smiling back.

They continued to look at each other for a while. The fact that they found a instant connection was just a part of the reason though, it seemed to both that there was something more than that. He must have know her in another life, he decided in his head nodding slowly at the thought. Looking at the refined cloth of her dress, her precious jewels, it wasn't hard to guess that she was a real lady, a typical noblewoman of the countryside and that means that it was impossible for him to have know her in this life.

"Let me introduce myself, I am Killian Jones" he finally said, making a slight bow.

"And who are you, Killian Jones?" she asked looking a bit amused by that encounter.

"Whomever you want me to be" he answered, taking her hand in his only one "I can be a prince, a stableman, a thief…" he continued, placing a kiss on the back of it.

Gina couldn't help but shook her head, even if the smile was still on her lips. He was clearly trying to flirt with her, and she wasn't that much immune to his charm after all.

"I am a sailor" he admitted then, releasing her hand and starting to walk beside her.

She nodded silently and then focused her attention on the particular she had noticed just a moment before.

"What happened to your hand?"

Killian just laughed and crossed his arm, hiding his physical defect.

"You want to know too much now, don't you?" he asked back, avoiding the question "And yet I don't even know your name yet" added then, turning his face to her, waiting for an answer.

She was about to answer when a man broke the moment, almost running towards them.

"Gina!" he exclaimed stopping right in front of her "Have you got hurt?"

The woman quickly shook her head and let herself be hugged by him, ensuring him that she was indeed fine.

"I was lucky to have met this gentleman, anyway" she stated, coloring with slight irony the word she had chosen to describe the sailor.

Killian laughed again noting that tone and then moved his eyes on the other man. Who was him? He didn't know why but he felt a wave of jealousy rush through him. Luckily for him, what happened next proved him wrong about his suspects. In fact, the still unknown man, approached him and offered him his hand with a grateful smile.

"Thank you for saving my sister, Gina. I am the Duke Baelfire Gold" he introduced himself "Come to our Palace, so we may thank you properly"

The sailor thought about the proposal for a moment, but quickly agreed meeting the woman's eyes.

Maybe that was his lucky day.

New York. Present.

"It's really absurd! You can't really expect me to believe that!"

Emma was somehow getting angry. It was not just the kiss that strange person had tried to give her, it was not just the way he was stealing her time, what was really annoying her was the fact that he was telling nothing but fables. Fairytales, it could be nothing but that: Snow White, Prince Charming, Rumpelstiltskin, Captain Hook, The Evil Queen… Fairytales, fairytales, fairytales.

"But you have to, love!" he exclaimed, trying to convince her again "Look, you really are Prince Charming and Snow White's daughter and you have to save us all from the curse that Peter Pan casted… You have been the savior once and now you have to be the savior again"

"I don't believe you, I'm sorry" she said again with a sigh.

A lamp of doubt seemed to cross her eyes and but it was just a moment and the moment after she was already closing the door right to his face, when suddenly a voice came from behind them.

"I do"

There it was a boy with a serious expression on his face and a big book with a red cover in his hands. Hope immediately raised in Hook as he recognized him. Henry. Once a believer, always a believer, it seemed.

"I do" the boy repeated approaching the captain "I believe you"

Hi everyone! In the reviews for my last Hooked Queen one-shot "Evil love", I received two prompts and I'm going to write both of them The first one, which inspired this long-fiction, is from The Dark Queen Always:

Can you write something about Regina and Hook reuniting in New York, let's say that the curse brought Regina to Enchanted Forest but Hook managed to escape it and Regina finds a way to get back to him and Henry, or if this is not good, or whatever, you make something up...

I decided that the curse makes forget everyone about everything and they are all stuck into fake identities in the Enchanted Forest as it happened with Regina's curse… At least until Hook remembers and finds his way back to Emma.

Even if there are hints to Captain Swan, this fic is absolutely HOOKED QUEEN and SWANFIRE… They are my two OTPs and I wanted to write a fic about the both of them together!

Hope you liked it, let me know what you think about it!

See you soon and merry Christmas:)