I don't own OUAT nor the characters but my OC.
This is a AU of the story line. It starts out with Captain Killian Jones and goes up till he becomes Captain Hook. I'll skip up till the Curse. The stories title has a big impact on the story along with my OC's fate between the other two main characters. It's a Captain Swan story naturally.
The three main characters have some element to do with the title of the story. Something in the chapter will give away to who and what the title means at some point down the road can't wait to get to that point in the story to give the title its true meaning.
There will be some type of song that will start the chapter out and go on from there. You don't have to read it you can just skip it and go ahead to the story. Later down the road the story will go a bit sad and have some challenges in it. But who doesn't love a good challenge?
If you see any mistakes please let me know I don't bite too much. Don't be scared to pm me with any questions or if you see any mistakes. Thank you and enjoy the story.
"What The Water Gave Me"
By: Florence and the Machine
Time it took us
To where the water was
That's what the water gave me
And time goes quicker
Between the two of us
Oh, my love, don't forsake me
Take what the water gave me
Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow
Pockets full of stones
Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow
It started out like any other night on the Jolly Roger. The waves lapping up against the ship giving a nice serenity to the night with the stars out and just him and his ship. His crew slept down below in the crews beds. The perfect calm before the storm or so he liked to think of it that way. Like many nights it always seemed to be nice and a serenity seem to settle over him and the ship. Then he heard the splashes and a soft voice calling out for help. A man that learn manners long time ago went over to the mast and tied it around his hips and leaned over the side he heard the voice. He saw a mass of brownish-red hair bobbing in the water. Something sparkled off top of her head but also she was about to drown in the sea.
Jumping in to save her before she started to sink any farther in the deep sea. As he started to pull her into his arms he noticed the dress and the crown on her head and the jewels around her neck. Her eyes started to close and he knew she was giving up on fighting the water in her dress and how she had bobbed for a bit. Her hands and hair above her in the water and swayed a bit in the ocean. He pushed himself in the water to reach her and when he did he grabbed her by her waist.
She looked deathly close to losing all air and so he started to pull them back up with one arm pushing the water down and kicking his legs. She was dead weight and was out cold from the freezing water that they were in. He felt for a pulse on her neck and found one but it was growing fainter by the minutes and he don't want her to die. He don't understand what was going on at all. As he pushed the water faster hoping to get her above the water and save her. But he felt like something was still slowing them down and looked down at her dress and started to pull some of the layers off her dress.
Soon as some of the layers came off he could feel like he could push them up farther than they were and started to push himself. She had stayed down here longer than needed and she needed air soon. As they get closer to the surface. Felt like something was trying to grab her leg and pull them down again, when he looked down he saw nothing and pushed them to break the surface of the sea. Breaking to the surface was harder than it should've been but he made it with her there. Taking a quick gasp of air he pushed himself towards the Jolly Roger and grabbing onto the rope that was wrapped around his waist and started to pull them both up. As he slipped on the side of the Jolly Roger he had to put the female to where she looked like she was hugging him to get farther up side of the boat. As he scaled the side of the Jolly Roger with her in his arms and limp form. He knew he was running out of time.
Coming to the rails of the deck of the Jolly Roger and pulling them up the last little bit they needed to get onto the deck. He lands with her in his arms and lays her down on the deck and watches her face for any sign that she might wake up and cough up all the bloody ocean water that was in her lungs. He sees that's not going to happen so he starts to lightly tap on the side of her face and turns her on her side where her back is facing him and trying to lightly tap her back to get her to cough up the lungs full of water so she can breathe again.
"Come on lass you can't be dead." I whispered to myself. Feeling concern for this female on deck of my Jolly Roger. I started to pat her back hoping that would help her come too. She looked familiar to me but I couldn't place where from. I tapped her back harder with the heel of my hand and watched to see if she started to cough the water up. Right when I was about to give up and move away from her, she started to cough up the water and her eyes snapped open the bluest eyes I've seen other than my own on days. She coughed up all the water and moved her arm and put her hand to her neck and tears leaked out of her eyes as she closed them for a moment.
She looked to be in pain as her eyes closed then she turned around with her face and looked at me. I saw shock cover her face as she looked at me. For the life of me I don't know who she is but she looks so bloody familiar.
I opened my eyes and coughed up the ocean water onto a deck of a ship. A ship I have no idea who is the captain but can only hope its the one I've been trying to find for quite a while now. I turn my face to look up at who saved me to say thank you.
"Oh god it's Killian! What do I do? I haven't seen him since, I was fifteen. It's only been about five years or so. I can't believe Liam is gone" I asked myself while looking at him with shocked eyes. A tear escaped my eye on the side he couldn't see. "Will he remember me?" I feel tears prick at the corner of my eyes and I just put my hand to my throat. I felt the tears falling down my face while looking at him. My throat felt raw from the ocean's water being down in my lungs and I closed my eyes and leaned back while taking a few deep breathes. I opened my eyes and looked back up at the man leaning over me and tried to think of what to say to him.
"Thank you." My throat hurt even to say that much and I watched as he stood up and reach down to help me up.
"Can you stand on your own?" He asked me and I tried but I ended up in his arms. I hated feeling so useless I was so used to being so strong. I leaned into him and breathed even doing that hurt my raw throat. I backed out of his arms and tried to walk again and looked around at the ship that I was on now. I looked out the corner of my eye and saw him watching me. Hes changed so much since I last saw him in the Navy of the King. Before his brother died and I was taken from them. I can't believe Liam is dead. A tear escaped my eye and I looked away from him and started to walk on steady legs.
"Where are we?" I found myself asking in a mere whispered voice. Shaking my head for a bit and I felt the crown still on my head which made me gasp and I reach up and yanked it out of my hair and brought it in front of my face and glared at the crown.
"Out in the middle of the ocean, I'm kinda' wondering how you got here lass." He said to me with a dark rich voice and I turned to look at him fully feeling some of the dress had been ripped off but really don't care.
"I used a bean to get here to tell you the truth. I really was hoping to land on the ship and not in the water where its bloody freezing." I said to him in a raw voice still in a whisper to him and I turned to him.
"What you mean hoping to land on the ship, lass is there something I should know about you?" He asked in that dark rich voice with its lilting accent.
"Yes Killian Jones, I know who you are and I've missed you for the last five years since we were taken away from each other." I said to him standing tall as I could and looked him in the eyes and pulling the crown down by my side. I watched his face to see emotions cross his face where others would of seen a mask.
"Who are you lass?" He asked me in the dark rich voice I was growing to know only with him in that accent that made me wanna smile and open up to him. Shaking my head its no time to follow a crush and let it out in the open when things could blow up in my face.
"Elly Alexandria Lacey Salvatore, I knew you very well before the time before I was taken back to my Mother." I said to him and turned my back to him and looked out over the ocean I had landed in. It was hard to believe I'm standing on his ship out in the middle of the ocean and have my back turn to him when I all I wanted to do was run back into his arms that always made me feel safe. Shaking my head at this thought. I have to be better than this. Tears run down my face and I sigh.
"Elly? Lass It's been ages since we last saw each other. I don't know your mother had taken you or I would of came sooner to get you after what happen." He says to me in that rich irish accented voice. I turn back to him and look him in the eyes.
"I don't blame you for not coming. Not knowing what happen to me, it is my own fault for not leaving a letter to you and him. I blame myself for allowing her to use you both ageist me. I blame her for your brothers death. I could of stopped it." I said to him so passionately that I have to look away. I feel my throat trying to close up with how much I've cried and I just choke back a sob. Looking back at him to see the emotional fight on his face.
"What you mean Elly?" He asked me in a voice that seem icy yet detached from himself. I turn to him fully and lower my head and let the crown fall to the deck and I take a deep breath and let it out.
"My Mother was the one to tell your King about the plant. I tried to stop her I begged and pleaded all I could, but she would have none of it and forced me into my room and locked me in there. I rebelled as much as I could but there was only so much I could do before she knocked me out with poppy seeds. Later I found out her and the King had made a deal through it and that I was to marry his son." I said it all at once and looked up at him through my current of hair. I take a deep breath and look back down at the crown at my feet. I feel him staring at me. I felt a few tears slip down my face and my throat hurt even more with all this talking. I felt like I let him and Liam down by not trying harder.
"What you mean your Mother told him? How in the hell did she find out about it, Salvatore?" He asked me and I looked up at him with tears swimming in my eyes.
"She went to a seerer. She tried to get me to do it but I wouldn't." I shake my head and before he says anymore. "I saw it all happen the minute you both landed on that island, I saw you meet that boy and threaten him and then ask him about it." I ball my hand in my skirt of my dress and look into his eyes. "I saw the moment he put that poison to his arm and drew that line, I saw you falling with him and then calling for help. I never felt so powerless in that moment while watching him die in your arms. Then I saw that boy come to you and tell you about a cure and the price it would come with." I let the tears flow down my face and my knuckles went white. "I saw you give him that cure even knowing the price. But later you either forgot or don't remember I wasn't sure. I saw you both leave and I wished nothing more to leave and save you and him both." I felt myself weaken and I fell to the deck and bowed my head to my chest and let my hair fall around my face and looked away from him to the deck of the ship.
He dropped to the deck also and reached out a hand and grabbed my arm and I looked up into his eyes that I dreamed about seeing once again. They looked to be in tears and sadness was in his eyes. "I'm so sorry Killian. I should've tried harder and gotten to you both." I said to him and looked down with the sadness in my voice and my eyes. My throat was so raw it hurt more than anything and I went to pull away cause all the sparks from his hand on my arm was making it harder to think. He stood up and put his hand out to me.
"Lass, come on lets get you somewhere a little warmer and get you into something dry and get these jewels off." He says to me and I just look up at him and nod at him. I heard it in his voice the way he was hiding himself from me. I knew I needed to get out of this dress and get something other than the taste of salt water out of my mouth and throat. As I go to stand up I push his hand away and stand on my legs and look out at the ocean again. Shake my head sadly and reach up and pull all the pins out and throw them into the ocean. I have more in my bag which is still with me which shocks me in away.
"After you." I say to him with a kind tone as much as my throat would let me and I followed him across the deck of the ship that was clearly his now. I could tell he wasn't too happy with what I had to say. I sighed and pulled the bag down to my line of sight and looked into it to see everything perfectly dry. I let out a small laugh at less, I had something dry to change into. I looked up to see that he was looking over his shoulder at me. I walked up to him and he was still looking at me. He shakes his head and heads into the door that is between two pair of stairs that lead to the helm. As he opened the door he made a move for me to head in and I walked passed him. I looked around the cabin that he lived in. The Captain's quarters.
The Captain's quarters were like nothing I had seen. The bed was a bigger than most not a normal bunk bed and was maybe a king size bed. I looked over to a corner and saw a desk a beautiful oak desk that had many drawers. A little bit away from the desk sits a table with a few chairs that looked bolted down along with the desk and its one chair. I looked up to see a beautiful view of the night sky outside the windows that were above the bed with curtains to block out the sun if needed. Many bookcases lined the wall on the side that don't hold anything other than them. There was some little things here or there. But mostly books. The desk had many papers on it along with some books.
"Take a seat, lass. I'll get you some fresh water from the galley." He said in an even tone to me and I knew he wouldn't say much till he got back with the water that would help my throat. Putting the crown in my bag along with the other jewels I had on from where I had come from. I take a set at the table and stare out the windows while waiting for him to come back. I pulled out the one thing I still had from my childhood the one necklace I couldn't part with. A parting gift from my Father who don't even stay till I was even five years old. The pendent on the necklace was the most beautiful I had ever seen. It was the color of my eyes in the shape of a teardrop. It came along with two teardrop earrings and a ring that had the symbol of a tear shape sapphire. The necklace the only thing that was different color to the set. Shaking my head I looked back up to the windows and at the night sky.
As I walked to the galley my thoughts roamed around in my head trying to figure this all out and wonder how she got here to the Jolly Roger. "I thought I'd never see her again. Why is she here now and what is going on. Is it true what she said about her Mother being the blame for all that has happen since we were split up at the Naval academy. I'm going to get to the bottom of this if its the last thing I do. What am I to do with Elly? I can't just leave her at the next port she'll most likely see it coming a mile away. I can't let her become a pirate either, but I know she'll never leave the Jolly." Thinking to myself was giving me a headache and I walked the long hallway to the galley from my room to it. When I walked in I saw some of the crew up and about for different reasons. Not like I care.
"Ello, Cap'n. Fin' night we are having' here isn't it?" Jack asked me in a southern type accented voice. I went over to the fresh water stores and turn to him.
"Indeed it is a fine night lad. Now you lads best be off to bed or extra shifts comin' morning'." I said to them taking a cup of water with me and nodded to the two that were still up at this time.
As I exited the galley. I had a strange foreboding feeling in my gut that made me hurry a little bit more to my own room and open the door to see her staring out the windows and then look down at her necklace that was always on her whenever I saw her before. Closing the door behind me I step over to the table and sit the cup in front of her and take a seat at the head of the table and look to her.
"Lass, do you need any clothing to change into so you don't catch your death?" I ask her and watch her shake her head to clear her mind. I look closer at her and see her eyes are different. Like shes seen a lot in her short time where ever her mother kept her.
"No, I have some with me they are in the bag and are shockingly dry for being with me when I landed in the water." She said to me in a same accented tone of voice I to look at me with her fingers on her necklace that was in the shape of a teardrop and the color of her eyes. She looked to the cup and picked it up taking a small sip of the freshwater and turn her eyes back to me. I stood and turn my back so she could get changed.
"Well then you should get changed lass, I'll just turn around and be a perfect gentleman." I said to her and did as I said I would do like when I had gotten up from my table. I heard her stand up. Shaking my head I looked at the wall and window that I could see. The moon was out now.
"You can turn around again dear." She said to me. I turned around and smiled at her for what she was wearing. She was wearing a black leather pants with black books that looked to be knee high, black tunic shirt that don't give off to the imagination, with a corset like vest over top of the tunic that was color blue and a coat that was rather long on her and was form fitting. Her long hair was braided. She smiled at me softly and I just shake my head.
"So why did you come looking for me now Elly?" I asked her and watched as her face fell and she looked out the window. Her hand fell to the table.
"I don't want to be where my Mother was any longer it's been a few years since we last saw each other and I rather be with you where I feel safe and know I'm protected from poisonous things that can happen to me from her. She tried to kill me the first few weeks I was back under her roof." She looked away again out to the window. "I was poisoned. The doctors don't know if I would pull through or not." She looks back at me with deep sad blue eyes. "All I could do was lay there and wonder if this was the end and if I'd ever get to see you and him again. She later found the cure as they said. But I knew it was a lie all of it." She said with a sadden tone.
I just stare at her in shock at what her own Mother did to her. I remember her Mother hating her but not that much. She always had to stay with my family because of her own Mother. Shaking my head. I look back up to her and see shes about to say something else.
"So pirate now Killian?" She asked me. I smirk at her and laugh. Her braided hair whips behind her as she shakes her head and lets out a soft laugh.
"Aye lass that I'm. Does it shock you?" I say to her and look to her with a raised eyebrow and a smirk on my face. She shakes her head and looks up at me.
"Not at all really. I do wonder though are you looking for another crew member?" She asks me with a raised eyebrow of her own. I shake my head and look at her. Really look at her this time and for the first time I see the dark spots under her eyes.
"I don't know how my crew will deal with a woman on the ship, lass you could be in danger. Or we come up with a plan to make it where they won't get the idea that you are free." I said to her and I watched as she walked close to me.
"We'll have to come with a plan my dear Captain Jones." She said to me and had a smirk on her face.
"What kind of plan do you think we need?" I asked her and raised an eyebrow at her. She leaned forward to me and a small smile came over her face.
"Well we could always say I'm your fiance, after all we would be telling the truth. As for how I got here the truth. I fell out of a portal into the ocean and we don't tell them how said portal put me there. It's all up to you Captain Jones." She said to me. She turned her head to the windows and a small smile was on her face.
"That's the story we shall go with then. But less you better stay out of trouble." I said to her and she turned back to me and laughed.
"Me stay out of trouble? Don't make me laugh you were just as bad as I was when we were younger dear Killian. Plus I'll be a pirate so staying out of trouble will mean nothing." She said to me with a wink. I laughed at that.
"True lass. Alright but we'll have to figure out where you'll sleep and see what all you do know about fighting with a sword and other weapons." I said to her and she smiled at me. She laughed and smiled at me.
"I don't care where it is long as I can see you everyday from now on." She told me and stepped closer to me and leaned up and kissed my cheek.
Let me know what you think and if I should keep going. Feed the muse as she is always looking for something.