I was inspired from Taylor Swift's song "The Best Day". The lyrics are amazing and so cute. Kudos to Taylor Swift. It's currently one of my favorite songs. So I recommend you check it out because I kind of based it as a story here.
Also I do not own anything that has to do with "The Best Day" song by Taylor Swift nor anything/anyone in Once Upon A Time. I just have an imagination and a love for awesome songs and beautiful characters 3


"Daddy," cried a little girl as she ran across the pastures in the autumn afternoon. Her hair was spun gold that when caught in the sun gave a dazzling shine. It reached down to beyond her shoulders falling into loose curls that her mother had passed on to her, her cheeks red with the cold afternoon, eyes that blazed diamond blue with aurous specks that she inherited from her father. She was five years old. And as any five year old would be, Leia Margaret Jones thought the world of her father. She was wearing wool stockings, a navy mini skirt and a long sleeved shirt. And at her father's insistence, an oversized red coat that her mom made the mistake of buying thinking it would shrink in the washing machine.

"It's too cold, darling," he told her.

"No Daddy, it's too stuffy," she lisped as she pouted at her father.

In the end, the coat was put on and he took her out to see the red leaves turn gold as they fell to the ground and to feed the ducks in the lake. Storybrooke was indeed beautiful in the autumn. It looked like a picture you would find in the postcards. There were pumpkins scattered around the pasture they were at. The sky was taking a reddish halcyon color as the sunset approached.

Killian turned towards his daughter's singsong voice. She huffed as she ran towards her dad, her coat giving an extra weight.

"What's wrong, sweetheart?" he asks her as she reaches to him catching her breath.

"Daddy, I have a questions." She says her dimpled face breaking into a smile. She clutched at her father's leg hugging him close.

Killian crouched down beside his daughter so they could have an approximate height similarity.

"What's your question, darling?"

"Why do the leaves fall to the ground?"

Killian sat down on the ground and so did Leia. He pulled the coat closer towards his little daughter's body so she wouldn't get cold.

"It's because the trees change their dress every autumn just as you change your clothes every day. The leaves become too old and so they fall, so the trees could get a brand new outfit."

Leia looked thoughtfully at the lake. She turned to her father and asked him:

"Will this happen to me too?"

Killian burst into laughter at his daughter's bizarre question.

"No, my love, I pray that you will stay young and beautiful for as long as you live."

"Daddy, could you tell me a story?"

Killian smiled at his daughter. He gathered her in his arms and told her, her favorite story about the stubborn princess who would go on way too many adventures with the handsome pirate who she would not let herself love until the very end. Leia was very much in awe at her father's strength and bravery. She even bragged to her friends at the nursery how her father had slayed a ten-foot octopus that tried to take down his ship; The Jolly Roger. The children were so impressed with the story that the teacher had asked Killian to come in for the afternoon and tell them one of his many adventures. Of course, Emma had to persuade him to do it, as his old pirate pride was still very much alive in him. Once a pirate, always a pirate. Imagine Captain Hook acting out one of his experiences to mere children! What would his men say if they say him? The only person he would become an obedient storyteller to would be for his daughter. But even though he would never admit it to Emma, Killian enjoyed that afternoon very much. And so did the children, who came back to their parents that day telling them that they had actually met the feared Captain Hook and he had made them laugh.

Leia fell asleep in her father's arms. He carried her home, her head resting across his shoulder. Emma greeted them at the door.

"Good day?" she asked warmly.

"The best," smiled Killian carrying Leia to her room. He planted a kiss to his daughter's forehead and whispered:

"Sweet dreams, Princess."