Title: lessons
AUTHOR: obisgirl
Rating: nc-17
Characters: Killian/Emma
Summary: Fairytale land – AU. Emma is a princess on the verge of becoming a woman but wants more out of life than what her parents can give her, so she makes a wish to be swept away which translates into being kidnapped and sold at a slave auction to Captain Killian Jones.
A/N: The Evil Queen's curse never happened. Beta'd by zeldabel.
Disclaimer: Once Upon a Time characters are property of Disney and Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis. This fanfic is for pure entertainment.
Emma doesn't hate her life but sometimes, she does wish that she had a different one. Her parents are Prince Charming and Snow White, whom she loves very much. She is a daddy's girl, even at seventeen and she gets along with her mother, most of the time. Her mother, Snow was raised a "proper" Princess until she was forced to become a fugitive in her own kingdom.
The story of how Snow was framed for her father's murder by her evil stepmother, stole her father's jewels and was forced to work with him in order to get them back from trolls is legendary; after which, they fell in love and the rest is history.
The adventure intrigues Emma, life fascinates her, among other things of a more sexual nature. Sadly, her attitude towards adventure and other things, is Snow's primary concern. Emma knows her mom. Snow wants her to have a proper life, which means inviting all the eligible suitors to her 18th birthday ball tomorrow evening and courting her properly, and by weeks end, maybe planning for a wedding.
That's her mom's plans, but that's not what Emma wants. Marriage, getting betrothed to someone after only meeting him isn't her idea of fairytale romance. In fact, she would rather wait until she is at least twenty-five or older before considering getting married.
Still, Emma wishes that she had another life or at least, be swept away by something so fantastic that she can't fathom walking away.
What she gets instead is even more frightening; it's almost a death wish: kidnapped on the eve of her birthday, and sold into slavery.
Someone must have misinterpreted her wish because she certainly did not intend for her destiny to go this way. But there isn't much she can do now, standing in a square along with four other girls as someone collects bidding prices.
A lot of the men in the crowd are big, scary brutes and doesn't look like if she were bought by one of them, she would be treated well.
Still, she watches as one by one, each of the girls are led off from the stage and exchanged for money until she is the only one left. Emma also notices as the field narrows, so have the men save for a man in black. Emma doesn't want to look at him but his intense gaze makes her nervous and she shifts uncomfortably.
"I'll take the last one," he says, stepping forward followed by another gentleman with a sack of gold.
The bidder sighs, reluctantly taking the gold, wishing he had a bigger bidding frenzy so he could collect more money. He shoves Emma towards the man in block and he catches her nicely in his arms. "There, there now," he whispers, "No need to be afraid, I just bought you your freedom m'lady,"
Emma doesn't say anything, daring herself up to look at him.
"I'm Killian Jones, Captain of The Jolly Roger," he says.
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