Here's a new CS fic that I started that won't be too long. Takes place mostly in the yellow bug and it's called New York to Storybrooke! ENJOY!
Chapter 1
The car was silent as Emma maneuvered her yellow bug through the streets of New York. The only sounds were the soft click of her blinker, the beeps and whirs of Henry's iPad Mini she had given him for his birthday and Hook's winces and curses when some asshole cut them off.
"Bloody hell." He braced his hand on the dash when Emma had to brake suddenly when a car pulled in front of him. "What is with these yellow vessels? They're everywhere…I almost got hit by them at least a dozen times."
Emma smiled softly. "They're called cabs…taxis. They take people wherever they want to go…and yes, they are everywhere."
"They drive like a drunken sailor."
"And you would know all about that wouldn't you?"
He lifted a brow at her and when she just smiled, his teeth flashed in appreciation. "Perhaps."
She braked at a red light and then gave him another glance while he was busy looking out the window. She still couldn't quite believe he was here…that he spent the past year searching for her. She didn't know exactly how he did it, but that didn't matter to her…what mattered was that he came back for her. No one had ever done that before…she had always been the one searching, looking…until now.
"Swan?"
She shook out of her daze and noticed that he was staring at her.
"What is it?"
"Nothing," she said with a small smile. "I mean…I just…" Just say it, Emma…tell him how you feel. "I wanted to tell you…you…seatbelt."
"What?"
"Your seatbelt," she finished lamely. "You need to put it on...it's the law and we don't want you to get arrested again, do we?"
Emma took a quick glance at the light to see that it turned green, but they were a ways back so she should have enough time. She quickly undid hers, but her car in park and leaned over on the other side of him to grab the strap. "It protects you…in case we get into a wreck."
She began to pull a strap across him and when her knuckles grazed his bare chest he quickly swallowed back a groan. Her closeness in the small vehicle was bad enough and this was only making it worse. She smelled bloody amazing. "Your killing me, Swan."
Her eyes flickered up and met his and the soft click of the seatbelt clicking into place echoed the silence. They were inches apart…and when his eyes shifted to her lips her heart began to race. She actually began to lean towards him when the sound of a horn blaring catapulted her back in her seat.
Flustered, she quickly got her own seatbelt on while cars whizzed and honked by her. She made the light…but barely.
"That person in that car just stuck out his middle finger," Hook pointed out. "I'm guessing that's an insult of some kind?"
"You guessed right…they're pissed at me because I wasn't paying attention when the light turned green."
"No…you most certainly were not paying attention."
When she gave him that look he loved so much…he simply chuckled as he looked out the window. Sure he was teasing her, but that small moment of vulnerability hit him just as hard. It had hardly been the time for them to let their guards down…not in a small car with her kid innocently playing some sort of game in the backseat. But it happened nonetheless and he realized more and more that his feelings for her were far from one-sided. She was going to have to deal with that…they both were…sooner or later.
Henry, who had witnessed the whole ordeal, rolled his eyes as he returned his attention back to his iPad. He wasn't an idiot…he knew there was something going on with his mom and the pirate. He had slightly hoped it was one-sided…that his mom still loved his dad and they would get back together. He was quickly beginning to realize that wasn't the case…especially after witnessing what had just happened.
Hook spent a year looking for her…for both of them…and he knew just how much that would mean to his mom. It only made him more annoyed that it hadn't been his dad who knocked on the apartment just this morning. Hook assured him that he wanted to come, but felt like he needed to stay behind with Belle.
He couldn't blame his father for staying…in a way Belle was his only family during the past year and it would be just like him to want to make sure she was okay. She lost her true love and he lost his father…it made sense that they needed the other to get through it. Still…it didn't change the fact that he missed him and wished he were here.
Wanting his parents to get back together didn't seem as important to him anymore…he just wanted them in his life no matter what and wanted them to be happy. If his mother was happy with Hook, then he wouldn't stand in his way…although it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on him…just in case. He wasn't so bad…the pirate thing was pretty cool and his constant fascination with this world was always amusing.
Just a few hours ago, when they were back at the apartment waiting for Emma to come home from an errand she had to run before they left, Henry was showing him his iPad.
"You can play read books, watch movies…play games…like this one." He quickly opened the Angry Birds app and showed him how to play. "See? You just try to wipe out all the pigs with the birds."
"That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen," he scoffed but then quickly snagged it from him. "Let me try."
Henry smirked at the memory as he looked up from his game and over at Hook, who was fiddling with the buttons and knobs on the dash before his mom slapped his hand away. No, the pirate wasn't half-bad, he thought again as he set his iPad aside to glance out the window. After all, he was the one who found us…he was the one that brought back their memories…brought back his family.
Sure…a part of him was going to miss the normal life he had last year, but at the end of the day…it wasn't real. He would always choose real over fantasy…no matter how hard it got, so for that alone…he owed Hook everything.
