Once Upon a Time
Multiple Pairings
Title: You Should Have Stayed Dead (Not Really)
Summary: It all started with five words: you should have stayed dead. And things only got worse from there, much worse. Warning, will contain bullying, harassment and self harm.
Chapter 1: All It Takes Is Five Words
No One's Pov
It all started with a note.
You should have stayed dead.
Killian found it pinned to the front door as he was on his way out to go on his morining sunrise sail. As soon as he read it Killian shoved it into his pocket and looked around to make sure he hadn't been seen and made a hasty walk to the safety of his beloved ship. Once he was on the water he threw the crumbled note as far as his arm would carry it into the sea. He thought that would be the end of it, just one of those pranks he had heard Henry speak of.
But he was wrong.
The rest of the day went without another incident, after his short sail he had breakfast at Granny's with his radiant fiance and his spitfire of a soon to be son (he was planning on adopting Henry with Emma and Regina's blessing after they got married) after which he went to the library to comb book after book to find even the smallest glimmer of hope in resurrecting Robin Hood. He knew the others would call him a fool, even Regina for trying to do the impossible but Killian would rather go back to the Underworld than give up hope, that's why he kept this a secret from everyone. In the end he owed Robin because if they could save him from that hell hole then Hook could bring his mate back from wherever Hades had sent him.
Next he was off to join Snow, David and the little prince for lunch at the police station. Ever since he and Emma had gotten engaged he had been spending more time with his future in laws so that they could get closer before they officially became family. Once he arrived he was greeted with a hug and kiss from Snow and a one armed hug from Charming. Then after he passed out the rations he greeted Neal who giggled excitedly at the funny faces of his favorite babysitter (don't tell Emma). No one else knew this but David and Snow were going to make Emma and Killian Neal's godparents, they were planning on telling them at the rehearsal dinner.
Anyway while the three of them ate they joked, laughed, smiled, basically they just enjoyed each other's company before David and Mary Margaret went back to work and Killian went to visit a very pregnant Belle. She was living alone in an apartment not too far from Killian's since she left Rumplestilskin for good. What really drove her over the edge was how her ex husband woke her from the sleeping curse she put on herself. She learned that he had teamed up with Mr Hyde who told him of a way to transfer the spell to another but he could only do it once. And it didn't take much for Gold to decide to put it on Hook. Then to make things worse he hid Hook's body away so that Emma couldn't bring him back with true love's kiss, he even went as far as to hide the Jolly Roger to make everyone think he left so that no one would go looking for him. But his plan backfired when Henry, ever the optimist refused to believe he would leave them resulting in him accidently discovering his captain's cloaked ship.
When he told his parents and grandparents what he had found they put the pieces together and in no time found him. Gold was clearly still holding resentment towards the reformed pirate because he put Killian in his old grave which made everyone's blood boil, but they'd deal with him later. Quickly they dug him up and Emma woke him and after a small moment of merriment they explained to Killian what happened and he was more than ready to go back to his plans to skin the crocodile. But he put that all aside to go see Belle and they were both ecstatic to see each other but the moment didn't last because they had to tell her the truth. She was devastated and Killian held Belle in his arms as she cried, it broke his heart to see his friend in such pain. And he was ready to kill the croc again when he heard Belle sniffle out 'how could he set this kind of example for our child?'. But once the tears were dried she hardened and together they all stormed into Gold's shop, some of them honestly thought that if Belle wasn't pregnant she would have kicked the door down with how livid she was.
Belle did all the talking, she screamed and ranted at Rumple while the others watched with shocked faces, they had never seen her like this before but they were pleasantly surprised and happy that it was Gold and not them receiving Belle's brute force. After 10 minutes she was done and they all left to try and have a tension free dinner at Granny's. In the end it didn't do much good but things eventually when back to "normal".
Going back to the present Killian and Belle had a nice relaxing afternoon with some good books, good tea and great company. They said goodbye a few hours later at sunset with the promise to see each other shortly at their weekly dinner with the Charmings and Mills.
This is the part where things get bad again.
Killian returned home to find a package addressed to him on his doorstep. He hadn't ordered anything and he didn't see any people around, plus the fact that the note from this morning was at the back of his mind he took it in with little worry and lots of curiousity. Setting it down on the kitchen table he took off the top; he stepped back and put his hand over his mouth in disgusted and his became slightly glassy.
Inside was the severed head of a crocodile.
With speed he didn't know he had he took the note off the creatures head which said: here's your crocodile, since you were too weak and pathetic to take care of it yourself.
The note flashed before Killian's as he stared down at the one he just received and his mind began to race.
Someone was out to destroy his happy ending.