Hey, I am super sorry that I have not put out a story in forever, I have been super busy lately and I had a severe case of writer's block. But that is all gone now and I am back to writing!
Anyways, this is my new story, I really hope you like it as much as the last one that I posted! If you haven't read it, it's called The Toddler and the White Blanket, feel free to go read and review if you would like!
Disclaimer: I do not, nor have I ever, own Once Upon A Time! Although I am extremely excited for the new season! September 28th!
Please read and review! Thank you very much!
Chapter 1
They landed unceremoniously in a heap on the ground, groaning as they took in their surroundings.
From what Emma could see, they were in an alley. Cobblestone streets were under them and dark and dirty buildings were on either side of them. It reminded her of New York, but she knew that wasn't where they were.
"Where are we?" she asked the leather clad pirate on the ground beside her.
Climbing up from the ground slowly, dusting off her jeans and red leather jacket, Emma turned to look at him.
"The Enchanted Forest. A better question would be when?" Hook answered, brushing off the dust he had acquired from his own fall.
He stood silently, looking at Emma, waiting for his blonde companion to answer his question.
"Don't look at me like that! You are the one that lived here!" Emma glared at the one handed man.
"Your boy is the one wandering around Storybrooke with that… book!" Quickly, he grabbed the brown messenger bag, yanking out the large, leather bound book and handing to Emma.
It landed on her lap with a dull thud.
"What do you want me to do with this?"
"Find out what time we are in. Match one picture to where we are," Hook explained, happy with himself for thinking of the idea.
"That could take forever! This book has hundreds of pages!" Emma complained.
"Well obviously you don't need to look at the ones of the woods and times inside. Or in placed like Oz," Hook explained, sounding like he was telling her that the sky was blue.
Emma huffed and dropped herself ungracefully down onto a wooden barrel, placing the book loudly on her lap and starting to leaf through the yellowing pages.
After a few hours, Emma was still at a loss and it was starting to get dark and busy as the sun when down. Hook was keeping a 'look out', watching everyone pass by, some coming and going from the tavern, some of them already drunk and stumbling down the street.
"Swan!"
Emma's head whipped up from the book at the sound of her nickname to look at the man.
"What? I'm kinda busy, unlike you," Emma grouched, cranky from being stuck with the pining pirate in a confined space for such a long time.
"Come here."
Emma dropped the book beside her, creating a nice bang, and pushed herself up, walking over to where Hook was peering around the corner.
"What?"
"Look."
Emma followed his ring covered finger to a young woman in a glittery, long white dress. She had lightly curled, long, deep, almost black, brown hair .Her back was turned so Emma couldn't see the woman's face, but she could tell she was no peasant by the look of the plain, but rich looking clothes.
"What is the big deal? It's just a woman," Emma said.
"It's Regina," Hook answered.
"Is not!"
"It is too. And Tinkerbell just left."
"What would Regina be doing at a filthy tavern? I thought she was a princess or something like that," Emma questioned his logic.
"I heard from Tinkerbell that she was supposed to meet her soul mate and true love at a tavern," Hook explained.
"Daniel?"
"No, Robin Hood," Hook shot back.
"You are such a gossip. Honestly, you are worse than a teenage girl," Emma commented.
"But I know when we are now," Hook said before rushing out of the alley and into the throngs of people.
"Hook!" Emma growled, grabbed the book and followed him angrily towards the tavern, weaving in between the crowds.
She found him standing beside the tavern, leaning against a neighboring building, watching the woman discreetly, trying not to get caught.
"What are you doing?" she growled lowly at him, trying not to cause a scene.
"Proving my point," he answered, still looking at the woman, not taking his eyes off of her for a moment.
Emma sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Why don't you just go talk to her?" she asked.
"Because she might remember me when we get back to Storybrooke in our own time," Hook answered, his voice making it sound extremely obviously.
"But, what if she met him now? Wouldn't the whole 'Evil Queen' thing never happen?" Emma wondered out loud.
"Possibly. But we can't go out there and tell her. She'll remember you really well. We would need to find you a disguise before you go any closer to any more people," Hook explained.
"How are we going to do that?"
Hook looked around for a moment before his eyes found an open door.
"Just give me a moment," he smirked.
Rushing off towards the door, he left Emma to slick into the shadows of another alley to wait for him.
Using the skills he had acquired from his years of being a pirate, Hook snick into the open door and looked around. When he was sure no one was in the house, he gathered up some clothes and a cloak with a hook for his female companion, knowing that she would need to keep her face hidden from anything that could expose her years later.
Making sure that nobody would see him suspiciously leaving the house, he rushed back over to the shadows and threw the pile of fabric at Emma.
"What is this?"
"Your disguise. Get changed," he pointed at the alley.
"What if she leaves?"
"I'll distract her."
Emma sighed and marched into the alley. She made quick work of getting changed and tying the corset tightly, grabbing up her other clothes and walking back out the throw her clothes at Hook.
"Not that I'm complaining, but why are you throwing clothes at me?"
"Hide them somewhere," she instructed, throwing her hood over her blonde curls, making sure that her face was hidden from view by the shadow of the hook before poking her head around the corner to see that Regina had vanished.
"Good job watching her," Emma looked over at Hook, who had a blank look in his face.
"She was standing there a second ago!" Hook cried.
"And now we have to find her," Emma sighed. "Just great."
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