A/N: So I'm going to try to make this my first multi-chapter fic but I make no promises! I can be a bit of a flake and lose interest quickly. There are some things I've changed here from 2x10 onwards like no one knows Emma has magic besides Snow with the heart thing but that's all she knows. Emma's magic being a secret is a plot point for later. I also plan to use some random bits and parts from my one-shots here.

Now onwards to the story.

"Put the gun away Hook!"

He spared her a quick glance before refocusing on his target. "Hey beautiful. Nice of you to join us but this is a party of three. You and I can have our own private party later."

Emma rolled her eyes. Leave it to Hook to throw around innuendos in the middle of a life and death situation. She had a tiny urge to laugh at his sheer audacity and insanity but quelled it. The last thing he needed was any encouragement. Instead she turned to Gold and eyed the magical fireball thingy in his hands. Damn magic and Fairytale folks. All she wanted was a hot bath and a whole lot of liquor. Was that too much to ask for?

"Gold, put your...great balls of fire crap away."

He didn't even bother to look at her. "Now Sheriff you know I can't do that. This needs to end now."

Yep she didn't think either of these fools would listen to reason. She looked at Hook with his gun pointed at Belle and Gold with his magic and briefly wondered which would travel faster, a bullet or fireball? Definitely an impasse.

Sighing heavily she reached into her double holster, drew out both guns and aimed one at Hook and the other at Gold. "Alright if that's the way you 2 mofos want to play it. Drop your weapons now or I will shoot you both."

And that's the scene Snow and Charming came upon. A weird square of Belle, Hook, Gold and their daughter facing off. Only Belle was unarmed and looked confused and frightened. "Emma, what is going on here?" her mother asked.

Out of the corner of her eyes she saw both Gold and Hook give the slightest twitch with their eyes and knew the game of chicken was over. Dropping her guns she took a running leap towards Hook and managed to knock him out of the way just in time. Or maybe not. She felt a searing pain rip through her upper arm and collapsed back on top of Hook. Damn, round 1 to the fireball.

In the midst of all the chaos Charming had managed to pull Belle out of harm's way and Snow had leaped on Gold when she saw he was gearing up for another go. "You will not fire at my daughter" she yelled.

"Then she should learn to know when to stay out of my way!" Gold snapped back.

Belle ran to him and pleaded with him, "Don't, David just saved my life. You're better than this."

Hook regained his equilibrium and smelt the sweet metallic tang of blood in the air. Sure enough when he gently touched Emma's arm, his fingers came away wet with her blood. Emma groaned and with some effort lifted her head to look down into his face. "I swear Hook if you make one joke about me being on top of you, I will kill you."

"You're bleeding."

She cocked her head in amusement, "And you're always a gentleman? Funny how I always get hurt around you. My own personal kryptonite."

Still cradling her, he shifted so he could stand and then pulled her gently up.
Gold finally under control somewhat, Snow looked over to her daughter and saw the blood stain on Emma's jacket sleeve. "Emma you're hurt!"

Running over she made to shove Hook out of the way but Hook grabbed ahold of Emma's waist and shuffled a few steps back.

"Let go of my daughter!"

"Let go of me Hook!" Emma demanded quietly. She didn't want to incite her parents more than they already were. The last thing she needed was her parents adding to the already volatile situation.

"No. You're hurt because of me and I don't like owing a debt. I'm taking you back to my ship to patch you up."

He bent down to whisper in her ears, "And should you desire my love, I'll be more than happy to play doctor and patient with you."

Emma glared at him. Spying Gold smirking in the background and her parents fierce expression Emma did the one thing she never thought she would do, play the damsel in distress. Giving an exaggerated moan of pain she went limp in Hook's arms. He swept her up in his arms and cradled her against his chest. Charming drew his gun and pointed it at Hook. "Give us back our daughter! You have no reason to harm her."

"Fool. I'm not planning on anything of the sort, no matter how infuriating she is. I'm taking her back to my ship to deal with her wound."

"We can take care of our daughter ourselves! I don't need a rat like you anywhere near her."

Hook smirked. "That's Captain to you. And tough, we can stand here all day while your daughter is bleeding or you can let me take her back to my ship which is a lot closer than the town center."

Charming moved threateningly towards him but Snow reached out to stop him. "You send her back in 1 hour or I will come after you myself. And Hook, by the time I'm done with you there won't be anything leftover for Rumpelstiltskin."
Gold for his part surveyed all the going ons with interest. Wheels were turning in his head, just what had happened between these two in the Enchanted Forest.
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Nearing the docks where his ship was docked, Hook jiggled Emma a bit. "You can stop pretending now love. Your charming parents are nowhere in sight and neither is the crocodile."

Cracking open one eye she squinted up at Hook, "You knew?"

He raised an eyebrow. "Open book, darling. And besides that piece of acting was just pitiful."

She grunted at him in disgust. If her arm wasn't in pain she would've decked him. Glancing around, "I thought you said we were going to your ship. Wait Hook, are you planning to drown..."

As his ship made it visible to her she glared up at him. "invisible ship huh. You just love drama don't you?"

He took her below deck to his cabin and gently sat her on his bed. "I knew you'd be in my bed one day, lass."

She tried to shove him away at his thigh with her uninjured arm but hewouldn't budge.

"You know what they say about men who constantly make sex jokes don't you? They're insecure about their manhood."

He smirked. "Care to test that theory?"

To his surprise she burst into laughter. "You just never stop do you? Like the energizer bunny, it keeps going and going." Matching his smirk, "You know those stupid lines don't work on me. Which begs the question why you keep at it." She tapped her chin with a finger pretending to be deep in thought. "You hide behind you're flirting. You use it as a distraction technique. Afraid to reveal your feelings to me?"

Hook straightened and took a step back from the bed. "Stay there while I go get something to clean your wounds."

"Open book!" Emma called after his retreating back.
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Emma held on to one edge of his scarf while he wrapped the other end round and round her biceps. Quirking his eyebrows he said, "You know love, having you around is going to deplete my scarf collection and more importantly my rum."

"You want your old ugly one back?" She leaned away from him to grab her discarded jacket and rooted around in the pockets. Digging out the one he had wrapped around her bleeding hand back on the beanstalk, she shoved it at his chest. "Here take it back."

"You kept it on your person all this time?"

She blushed. "So what? I forgot about it actually. It's not like I knew you were going to come through."

He took the scarf and laid it around her neck. "Keep it darling. I don't mind losing my scarf to you."

Looking away from his knowing eyes, "Where's Cora?"

"Ahhh the real reason you consented to come with me instead of with your parents. Hate to disappoint you but I don't know. She has her own agenda."

Emma growled. "Don't I know it. I'm warning you Hook, go back to Neverland. You can't win against Gold and if you continue to work with Cora I will take you down."

"You can certainly try."

"We're done here." She shot him one last dirty look before opening the door to leave.

He slammed his Hook into the wood to shut it and she pivoted around in anger. Before she can say anything he leaned into her face, "This is only the beginning my little swan."

She shoved him away and stalked through the door to the sound of his chuckling.