Title: Let Love In

Pairing: Emma x Hook/Killian

Summary: Based on this prompt - "So, they double crossed you." Cora stated, smirking at the irony. "and now they have the compass…What are you going to do now?" Hook barely glanced at her, his mind focused instead on tracking the gutsy blonde. "I'm going to get my damn scarf back."

Disclaimer: I own nothing. I just wanted to show some love for my new OTP ;)

Note: I don't even remember the last time I wrote fan fiction. All I know is that has been a LONG time and nothing has really inspired me to write again until Captain Swan came along and made me feel like I needed to come out of hibernation to write something (hopefully good) for this ship that I have fallen in love with!

Killian Jones has had far worse things happen to him than being chained to a wall in a giant's castle. However he was grateful that the giant seemed to care less about his presence in the castle while he was trying to find a way out (along with a few pieces of treasure, of course). But what had bothered him about those hours that he spent there, picking the lock with his hooked hand, was that he was left there by a certain blonde haired princess. She had saved him from under the pile of rocks, then before he knew it, she had him chained up. She had bested him twice now.

If it had been anyone else but Emma Swan, he would have been hunting them down just as he was hunting for his Crocodile, instead he found himself standing in the woods not too far from the giant's castle wondering if he should be tracking down the lovely ladies who stranded him here, or find Cora again and get to his Crocodile in Storybrooke some other way. The universe seemed to answer that troubling question for him.

"So, they double crossed you." Cora said with a smirk on her face from the irony of the situation. "Now they have the compass…What are you going to do now?"

Killian turned to face Cora, a smirk on his face as well to hide from her that he hadn't the faintest idea what he planned on doing now. As he walked over to her, he noticed something on the ground that did not belong and soon recognized just what it was. He knelt down to the ground and picked up the torn piece of what he knew was his scarf, the very scarf he wrapped around Emma's cut hand. And wasted my rum on as well, Killian thought. He rose to his feet again and glanced right past Cora and looked down at the ground instead where he could see the faint outline of the footprints from the ladies.

"I'm going to get my damn scarf back." Killian smiled.

The group had stopped for the night, Snow and Emma being the only two sitting around the fire that Mulan had built, Aurora was finally getting some more sleep as she rested her head on Snow's lap, and Mulan had been out in the woods gathering more firewood for the night. While Emma had still been very slowly letting herself try to comprehend the idea that in fact the woman sitting next to her that looked barely any older than her was her mother, she had let herself sit in the awkward silence between them and stared into the crackling flames while subconsciously rubbing her bandaged hand.

"When did you hurt your hand?" Snow asked Emma finally, she had seen the bandage on her hand the whole journey through the forest that day but had not gotten a chance to ask until now.

Emma looked over at Snow puzzled, almost forgetting that she did in fact cut her hand today while climbing the beanstalk. "While I was climbing, it's fine." Emma said, hoping that Snow would drop the topic after that. But then again, if she truly was her mother, she knew that would not happen.

"Hook didn't do that to you, did he?" Snow asked. She wanted to be sure that pirate didn't lay a hand (or hook) on her daughter.

"No." Emma said all too quickly. She mentally scolded herself for letting that response leave her lips so fast.

Snow noticed in the campfire light now that it was in fact Hook's scarf that was around Emma's hand. She figured that if he had hurt Emma that he wouldn't have even taken the time to bandage it up. Despite how much she disapproved of the pirate that traveled with them earlier, she did wonder what had happened to Hook after all.

"Emma, what happened to Hook?" Snow asked.

"I don't wanna talk about it." Emma said and heard the sharp edge to her voice that she now too regretted. "I'm sorry I'm just…tired. I need to get some sleep." She said and faked a yawn. "Goodnight Mary Mar-Sno-" Emma stood up and looked down at Snow, not knowing quite what to call her. "Goodnight." She finally said and went off into the tent that Mulan had pitched, hoping that everyone would stop asking her about the stupid, charismatic, pirate that she left behind.

Note (again): Sorry this is so short! I plan on writing more to this, I just need to get back into the groove of writing again :3 I hope you guys like this and leave reviews so I know if I'm going in the right direction or not. Also sorry for no Captain Swan interaction yet but it will be coming soon! 3