Hi Hook and Amanda fans! Today I start to upload my second (and last) Hook and Amanda story. It´s called "I am home" and takes place right after the end of "I just want love". I wish you much fun. Here we go...

I am home

Chapter 1

A few days passed by were Amanda and Hook didn´t do much then to enjoy their love and lived it.

One morning, as they watched the crew training on deck, she asked him suddenly: "Could you teach me to fight, too?" Hook, a bit irritated about the wish of his love, looked at her surprised. "As you wish." He answered. She nodded. "Yes, that´s what I want. I don´t want to be the helpless victim anymore who couldn´t help herself. I want to defend myself and don´t want to wait until you or someone else come to rescue me. I want to fight and don´t stand helpless next to you, if someone attacked us." Hook nodded. She was right. Sometimes Pan´s brats, the lost boys, attacked them. And although he would fight and protect her with every fiber of his being, he understood very good how important it was for her to defend herself. "Very well. If you really want this, I will teach you. But think of it, it will be hard work and I don´t will take care of you. We start tomorrow." Amanda smiled, that was something she would put up with.

Her training started the next morning right after breakfast. Hook had asked Smee to look at a sword for Amanda in his booty camp and he have find one. There Amanda stood with pony trail and trainee clothes in Hooks cabin. Before he practiced with her the fight technic, he showed her first the correct standing and how she had to use a sword. After that it gone around. Hour after hour Hook trained her. For him it was an interesting experience, he felt remained of his own beginning. There for it was wonderful to teach a fight newbie. His crew was stupid, but they had a long practice in fighting the lost boys and natives. They knew how to fight. Sometimes they made mistakes, that´s why he let them trainee daily. But each one of them had fought the lost boys so often, that you couldn´t count it. Not only Amanda was something new to him, she was like a diamond which he could form. And she was very talented.

In the next weeks they trained repeatedly daily. First in his cabin, as she had understood the technic, on deck, too. There was only one thing he didn´t let her do when he was not around. To practice alone with the pirates. He knew they were too frightened of him, if they hurt her by mistake. But he doesn´t have to take that risk consciously.

Then Amanda was ready. She could defend herself and was a seriously fighter. It was very good for her self-confidence to know that she could defend and fight without help. She wouldn´t be so good like her Captain but it was enough to free herself from danger. She had seen some attacks of the lost boys, but Hook had said to her that she should stay with Smee on the safe side of the ship. He would have loved it, if she would stay in his cabin while they were attacked. But that was something she didn´t could do. She had to know how James was. Now she could help active and defend herself and him, too.

One day, Hook held his daily speech in front of his men, something happened, what no one expected to. As usually Amanda stood with Smee on a safe side a bit away from Hook, because she didn´t want to distract him and that he could present himself better. Suddenly someone came of to the Jolly Roger. Amanda saw him first just from the corner of her eyes and thought her mind were playing tricks on her. But this someone came nearer and nearer, went carefully through the pirates and stopped in front of the stairs. He hadn´t try to wear something like a pirate and this bold of itself made Amanda fury. She breathed sharp. Hook stopped immediately in his speech and looked at the unknown person irritated. "Who are you?" he asked. The unknown, who Amanda knows very well, smiled cocky and looked from Hook to Amanda. Before he could say anything, Amanda answered for him. "Marc? What are you doing here?" In her voice there were astonishment and anger. Because it was Marc, who had let her go a few weeks ago. He was the reason why she was here. "I want to talk to you, Amanda. And explain everything to you." Now Hook was aware of who this intruder was. He had never seen Marc before but about what Amanda had told him, he knew that this could only be the shameless boy who had broke her heart. Immediately his face went dark and he just wanted to take his sword to kill this cocky boy! As he noticed how Amanda came in front of him and held his arm tight. She didn´t want to hear, what he has to say, didn´t she?

A moment Amanda wanted to let Hook do, what he wanted to do but then her mind won. Directly standing by Hook she looked at Marc disproved. "You want to explain to me, why you let me suffer? Really? You had told me that I´m going on your nerves, that I had to leave you alone. You had another girlfriend were your words. You have used me, lied to me and deceived me and you really think, I want to hear what you want to say to me?" She said with a mixture of anger and defiance. Marc was amazed by her words. To see her so self-confident he hadn´t expected. "Hey, listen to me. It was a mistake. I´m sorry. I have done something stupid and I didn´t have had say this to you. I am really sorry." He said silently.

Did this stupid boy really thought Amanda would believe his words? Hook thought. It astonished him that Amanda still knew exactly who Marc was. The spell of Neverland let you forget everything what was before after some time. Even she had herself choose to forget. But this boy named Marc had made an impression on her, more then he had thought. This hurts him a bit, even if Captain James Hook would never confess that to himself.

"Come home with me. Then we can talk about it and start again." Marc said and reached out his hand demonstrative to Amanda. She looked him directly into the eyes. A look, which was determined and said that she knew exactly what she did. Then she went a step backwards to Hook. She hooked under his arm and with a determined voice she answered: "I am home." Hook smiled triumphally. He had known it; his Amanda didn´t want to go back. Marc looked at her angrily. "You can´t be serious? You will rather be in this world," he made an outlining gesture, "then to the real world? You will rather stay here as to go home with me?" "Yes, of course." She hissed angrily. "Maybe you asked yourself what´s the reason for it is. You and your mean and deceitful behavior. I don´t think about it to go with you, you mean traitor!" Marc had enough. She was mean to him and him didn´t want to let it go. He took a sword from the next best pirate and hissed: "I don´t let it be, Amanda. I won´t give up without a fight. I will take you back with me, I swear." Hook was alarmed and took his own sword, too. "Then, my friend, death is waiting for you." He said. And he took position to charge. "No!" Amanda shouted. "That´s something between Marc and me. It´s him or me this time. This time I WILL fight!" With these words she went upon him. Luckily Smee had taken her sword and gave it to her. "You want to fight against me, Amanda? You know, I can deal with this." He looked at their weapons. "Either I. I have learned a lot in the last weeks." She growled as she went down the stairs with pulled blade.

The pirates stood back, indeed when Hook nodded at them. This was really a fight which had been done by Amanda alone. Hook would interventive if Marc would have bad form, but only then. This was Amanda´s fight. It was about her. In mind he saw a younger version of himself fight against Pan. Oh, he knew very well how important this fight was for Amanda. It wasn´t only about winning or losing. No, it was about glory and self-worthy. It was about to don´t let you go down and to show this cocky boy who was the strongest now. It was about everything.

With crossed blades they closed the distance between them. Directly on deck they fought their fight. First, Marc had the upper hand, he started to attack her, again and again. So, all that Amanda could do now was to avoid his strikes. He smiled self-confident, what makes Amanda angry. This deceitful bastard, he will never win! They fought until they reached the gangway, the pirates separated. Hook came after them, his blade in seize. Smee followed them, too. But his face was full of sorrow. He liked Amanda and was afraid of that she couldn´t stand the fight.

In the meantime, Amanda and Marc were at the harbor and Marc started again to provocative her. "You should better give up, Mandy! Against me you have no chance!" Amanda looked pissed; Mandy once was the nickname he gave her. How long had she longed to be called by him this way?! But now he obtained the opposite of it. Her anger grows into strong hate and it made her stronger. "Stop calling me Mandy. It´s over now!" she growled. While they fought through the harbor nobody said a word. Parry and loss, hit and stich, both faces were distorted by anger. It seems like they had the same strength. Now they had reached the crocodile clock. Hook stood in the background with Smee, but came after them. A few pirates either, they observed the spectacle like some viewers of a football game. Marc again had the upper hand and he used it to try to influence Amanda negative. "Admire it, Amanda. You still love me. You´ll NEVER break up with me, I know that. You´re like a limpet and you know that damn well. It doesn´t matter what you tell yourself, you will ALWAYS come back to me. Even now. Admit it, Mandy!" For a long moment Amanda had doubts on herself. Was he right? She had recognized him immediately when he came here. And wasn´t that proof enough he was right? He pushed her at the clock and it seems like he would win. But in this moment Amanda looked to Hook. He looked at her with a mixture trust and love and nodded, so that only she could see it. He knew, she was strong, he knew, she would understand his gesture. Because this look, which could melt butter, seems like to say to her without speaking: "I´ll trust you. You can defeat him. You can be sure of my love, no matter what happens. You don´t need him." All of this she was reading in this few seconds in his eyes and with that all off her strength came back to her. Marc often had tried to intimidate her with this kind of words. One time too often. It didn´t work anymore! With all her power she drawn him back. "You are wrong, Marc!" she shouted as she started to attack him. "You are gone too far, this time. I don´t want to run to you anymore! You were and still are an asshole who searched for an idiot girl like me that is listening to you. But now it´s over, do you hear me?!" All her anger, all off her hate, that were hidden inside her, all of that were blazed unfiltered towards Marc. And with determined steps she pushed him back. Marc was irritated. That was a very different Amanda as he had known. A young woman who didn´t put up with everything and a woman who didn´t get intimidate or one he could lull on him. Therefor he hadn´t thought of. His surprise made him careless and Amanda, who had learned from Hook to exploit every little advantage, attacked him a last time full of anger and self-confident.

Marc´s weapon fell with a noise to the ground- she had him! He was confused about her determination and looked at her. Hook ran to her and stayed behind her, to make her stronger. "You got me, Amanda. You have beaten me. I give up." As she still looked at him with great triumph in her eyes, he said very silently: "What do you want from me?" "I want that you go. Go and never come back again. Let me be! I don´t want you anymore." She said and quoted almost word for word his hurting words from then. Marc looked at Amanda, then to Hook, who´s face had a self-confident smile on it. Then he nodded. "Disappear from here, Marc. I will never ever see you again!" she said as a last warning. She let him stand up but still held her weapon towards him. Without a word he turned around and go.

Amanda and Hook looked after him. In her chest it was hammering. It was over. Forever. She had made it and won about her enemy, which once was her big love.

She felt wonderful! It was such a release and it felt like a big weight had fallen from her. Finally. Finally, she was free. Free from him and all the feelings for him. Her anger and hate were gone just in the moment as he had given up. Lord, it felt fantastic!

To be continued...