Fandom: Once Upon a Time

Pairing: Hook/OC

Disclaimer: Don't own any of the characters you know. And I don't own Hook...or Killian...darn it.

Beta'ed by: MistressLoki1618

Chapter 01 - Beautiful Monster

"Killian! Don't!"

The pirate looked back towards the voice just as his hook was about to strike Regina.

"Wendy?" His brows shot up as he looked at the brown haired girl, hook hanging in the air but his remaining hand was still on the Evil's Queen throat. He saw Rumplestiltskin behind her, hand on her shoulder, smirk on his face, and back to the blue eyes that showed less and less surprise and more disgust.

Regina took the opportunity to gain the upper hand by kicking the confused pirate in the stomach and pushed her hand back. A bright, purple electric looking orb appeared in her hand. The 'Wendy' girl took off running, grabbing Hook's sword from the ground, and standing in front of the woman.

"Move…" Regina said between clenched teeth, Killian's handprint still red on her neck.

"Make me." The other girl said, pirate sword shaking in her hand.

Looking into the older woman's eyes she knew there was something in there that might make negotiating with her a little harder. There was vengeance, rage and worst of all, hurt. She was past the point of feeling threatened by a sword. 'Wendy' threw the sword away and heard an audible groan from the pirate laying down on his back and kicked his shin.

"I don't know what he has done to you…" The girl said, her English accent flowing. "Just don't kill him."

"Move…" Regina said once again, her patience with the unknown girl fading.

"Please." Her hands were outstretched towards the other woman. "Whatever it was, he's far more valuable alive, I'm sure."

"I don't see how that's possible." Regina spat.

"Regina…" The woman in front of her looked at the man who had spoken. Mr. Gold he said his name was. "Heed the girl…" The woman didn't move an inch. "Please." She rolled her eyes and put her hand down.

The girl sighed letting her arms go limp by her side. She took three deep intakes of air and looked up at the woman standing in front of her with a mighty frown on her face. The girl pushed her hand forward, and saw the woman look to it like it was the hardest conundrum in the world.

"Olivia Katherine Wendell." She waited for the woman in front of her to snap out of it. Which took exactly thirty-seconds.

"Regina Mills." She shook Olivia's hand firmly. "He called you Wendy?" Regina pointed to the, now seated, pirate with her head.

"Wendell…Wendy." Olivia turned her back to the woman and went to help the pirate stand up. "He thinks of himself as a comedian." She grabbed his left arm, twisting and pulling the sharp hook on its end. "He's not."

"Crabby, aren't we?" The pirate spoke softly, receiving a pointed look from the girl.

She walked back to Regina and gave her the captain's hook. Regina frowned but accepted the offer.

"Well, now darling let's not do anything hasty —" The pirate walked swiftly to the women but stopped dead in his tracks when both of them looked at him sharply. He put his hands up in a mild surrender to them.

"Since introductions have been made, we have a town in need of explanations." Mr. Gold said, leaning into his cane. "And since we have the dog leashed…" Killian took a step forward; Olivia grabbed his remaining hand, but frowned at the nick name. "We might actually get somewhere. Shall we?" He moved towards the road they had initially come from.

"Shouldn't we shackle him or something?" Regina asked walking in front of the pirate and looking at him. The older man rolled his eyes and turned back around, leaning once again into the cane.

"I already did." The whole group frowned, confused, which earned them a sigh and another exasperated expression from Gold. "Madam Mayor," He started jokingly. "As you should know, everyone has a weakness." He pointedly looked at Olivia and then at Hook, who was about to jump at the man, the only thing stopping him was the cold small hand in his. "You just have to find it."

"Still, I find this situation precarious. I would much rather have him bound." Regina insisted, and it was visible on her face that his patience was starting to run thin.

"I vouch for him." Olivia said, from Hook's side which earned her an eyebrow raised from the captain.

"You vouch for him?" Regina stalked towards the girl and Olivia saw a black mass of leather stand in front of her, only to see it be thrown a few feet away from her. She saw, from the corner of her eyes, Hook seated limply on the ground, but her whole attention turned to the woman coming quickly towards her. "Do you know what he did? Do you? He's a traitor, he's a murderer." She was pointing to him and screaming at the top of her lungs. "He's a child kidnapper." Olivia frowned and shook her head.

"What?" Olivia knew he was a mean son of a pirate, but murder and kidnap? Could he? Would he? "No, no, no. He's not that evil."

"Just misunderstood." Both women once again turned to the pirate, who was trying to get up, only to be pushed down by Regina's hand flick. Olivia rolled her eyes.

"He's just…stupid." Olivia shouted. "Look, I haven't seen this…character…for 5 years. But I know him. I remember him. Whatever happened, he'll tell you everything about it. Just please, give him a chance." Something in her eyes flickered and her posture changed, She looked down to the ground and turned around, starting to walk away, but turned back to the pirate one last time before walking back to where Gold was headed before.

Olivia sighed and shook her head, this was not going as she expected. Not that she had expected much, but this was definitely not expected. The brunette walked to the captain and showed him her hand, which he accepted although he didn't need help getting up.

"Well, this is a surprise." He looked her up and down. "How did you get here?"

"Airplane…" Olivia said hands on her hips.

He knew that look on her face. Olivia 'Wendy' had that open face kind of deal. She didn't hide much, she couldn't. Olivia would look at anyone and they would know exactly what was going through her mind. He was trying not to look at her face, but was failing miserably.

Hook looked at the blue eyes and raised eyebrow on the girl in front of him and groaned.

"I can explain?" He tried but the look that the pirate got off of it wasn't the expected. "I didn't mean to…" Shot down once more. "Can I try again later?"

"Let's go…" Olivia said, following the footsteps of and Regina.

"Wait." Hook said following behind her, but slower. The girl turned and raised her eyebrows in question. "I'm actually glad you're here." That earned him a small twitch on the corner of her mouth. But he knew he wasn't out the woods yet.

The four of them arrived in town and Gold guided them towards his shop, where the main players were waiting for the pirate. Gold had stopped Regina from killing Hook for two reasons: first he wanted to show Regina that he still held some kind of control over her; second, because he wanted to have something that resembled a favor from Hook, with saving his life from Regina and bringing Wendy here, he already had two unasked favors from the pirate. In the end, Gold had the upper hand.

Regina was fuming besides the imp. Once again he had trampled her with his pleading. He was watching the two newcomers with mild curiosity, but mainly she waited for Hook to take one wrong step and she would be all over him, pleading or not. The girl on the other hand seemed unusually sane, for someone who apparently knew about Captain Hook from Neverland and was an outsider. On the other hand, Gold's shop was approaching and inside were a few people who would eat Hook alive. And that made her happy.

Hook and Olivia threaded behind the older couple, carefully. From the beginning of their journey from the middle of the forest to the paved road, every time Killian would step on a branch, making it snap, Regina would turn around, so the pirate was now walking and stealthily as he could. Olivia on the other hand wasn't really watching where she stepped. She had spent a few years thinking, she had dreamed Neverland, only to have a stranger call her in the middle of the night to tell her, she hadn't dreamed anything. One thing she wasn't expecting the circumstances. Whatever he had done, it hadn't been good.

"What did you do?" Olivia finally asked, speaking softly to the pirate.

"What I do best." He said smugly. Hook knew exactly what he was in for, and his gut feeling was telling him to walk the opposite direction. His reasonable side was screaming to run, as fast and as far as he could. But something else was making him follow Regina and Rumplestiltskin towards what would probably be, certain death.

"Usually your best isn't very good." She said looking straight at him.

"I'm going to remind of something you seem to have forgotten." He said, looking everywhere as if checking to see if anyone was around. "I'm a pirate, I'm not exactly a good guy."

"You weren't this bad when I left." Olivia countered and saw him swallow and look away.

"Things change." He whispered and Olivia groaned.

The four of them arrived silently at Gold's antique shop. Olivia looked at the windows filled with what seemed to be old things. Clocks, rings, dolls, an assortment of period pieces that Olivia just loved to look at. She was brought out of her reverie by the door opening and the bell chiming. Mr. Gold had walked inside, followed by Regina and Olivia, who was now pulling at Killian's hand, who was short of digging his heels on the ground.

And with reason too. As soon as the tall man stepped inside the shop, a blonde mess of hair pushed Olivia aside and threw Hook to the ground, gun in hand.

Olivia had stumble to the floor and hit her head on the counter. The gasp that came out of her mouth was more of surprise than of hurt, but it was enough for Hook to untangle himself from the blonde haired woman and kneel next to her.

"Are you hurt?" He asked immediately and turned her head roughly towards his to inspect the damage.

"I'd be more concerned with her." Olivia said looking behind his head.

Hook looked slowly behind him and saw the barrel of a gun. It had been pointed at him at one point in the past, and it been shot once with the intent of harming him too. Holding the gun was a very enraged Emma. He looked around and saw that pretty much everyone who was anyone in Storybrooke was there, looking at him.

"Seriously Killian, what did you do?" Olivia said from behind the man.

"An awful lot of things." He said so low that even Olivia had trouble hearing.

"Where is he?" The blonde asked. "Where did she take him?" Hook clenched his jaw. "Where?" This time she shouted.

"I don't know." The pirate finally answered.

"Who's she?" The woman asked and Olivia stood, clearing her throat.

"Olivia Katherine Wendell" She said the same manner as she had with Regina, extending her hand, and receiving the same puzzled look.

"Emma Swan. How do you know him?" She said shaking the girls hand as she stepped from behind Hook, who was also standing.

"She's Wendy." Regina answered, Emma frowned.

"From Peter Pan?" Olivia nodded. "Why's she here?"

"Are you that dull, Miss Swan?" This time Mr. Gold threw out, and Emma's frowned deepened.

Emma looked at the pair in front of her. Not just look, but observed. She read them, like only Emma could. Killian, generally, looked like himself. Proud, loud and obnoxious, chest puffed out like he didn't do anything wrong, but the expression on his face was different. His eyes darted between Emma, the girl and the gun. He was so close to the newcomer, that if Emma was to pull the gun on Olivia, he would only have to shove her out of the way.

Olivia was a normal looking girl. Straight brown shoulder length hair. Blue eyes, looking back at Emma's. Her demeanor seemed to be calm, but alert. She was looked sane enough, to be believable. Obviously, Olivia knew Hook. He stood tall behind her, her head just reaching his shoulder, but she didn't seem to find it imposing. Emma knew that she would have already jumped at his neck if he hadn't been standing so close to her, but Olivia was just standing there, waiting for the assessment to be over.

Emma noted movement and followed it with her eyes.

Olivia was clinging to where Hook's left hand should have been. Emma frowned. His hook was missing.

"Where's the hook?" Emma asked without thinking. She heard the sound of it being slammed against the opposite counter.

"Oy, careful with that…" Killian warned.

"Be happy it's not your neck." Regina countered.

Sticking out from the wooden counter was the captain's shining hook. Emma looked at it and then back up at the pair. If she had been looking at them in any other situation, she would have laughed. He was obviously dressed like a pirate, leather pants, knee high black boots, black shirt and black trench coat. Olivia on the other hand was dressed like she had just stepped out of the office, blue shirt under a ash gray blazer and matching skirt, on her feet a pair of blue flats.

Olivia groaned loudly, shifting all eyes to her. She turned to the pirate, who had let his stare go from the hook and to the woman in front of him. Olivia turned slightly to him and he took a step back. She looked angry. Killian didn't like it when Wendy got angry.

"Would you please explain to me why half this world and the next wants your ass on a platter for Sunday dinner?" Olivia blurted out, staring at Killian who was now trapped between her and the counter. "And don't give those enigmatic tales you've been giving me 'till now. I just flew half way across the world to arrive here and be short of a mob seeking you out! They're just missing the pitch forks and the torches! I'm tired and jet lagged. So explain to me, in detail, what exactly did you do."

Emma was stunned, Regina was frowning and Mr. Gold was thinking carefully if he should just jump up and down from giddy. Hook cleared his throat and opened his mouth once, but shut it before saying anything.

"Just tell her what you did Hook." A new voice chimed in and Olivia looked at the woman. She had a pixie short hair and was being held by a tall blonde guy. Olivia looked back at the pirate, who was looking anywhere but at her. "Tell her what you did! Are you that much of a coward that you can't even admit what you did?"

Hook was trying. He was. If he had ever tried anything, this was it. To tell this woman in front of him everything he had done. He had never been a good person, he was a pirate, it wasn't expected. But he hadn't been this bad before.

"Tell her, how you tricked Aurora and ripped out her heart." The woman shouted. Hook looked up immediately from Snow to Olivia who was now looking back to the woman. And for once Hook couldn't read her expression. "How you made a deal with the Queen of Hearts to come to this world and avenge your hurt ego. Tell her how you left me and my daughter inside a prison cell to rot and walked away without so much as a last look. Explain to her, how you walked into this town prepared to kill everyone of us, and ended up aiding in kidnapping a child."

When Olivia looked back at him, he saw anger, disbelieve but most of all disappointment. When he tried to put a hand on her arm she took one step back from him. And he finally understood why there had been a small voice in the back of his head telling him to not mess with Cora, telling him not to help any of these doings. Telling him to stay in Neverland.