( I am very long winded, so excuse me if you decide to read this, though I hope you do: This will be a season 6 AU of Once Upon A Time, it can really start from any point after the end of season 5, I never really mention when exactly this takes place. There will only be slight changes to this story, which will be explained either before or after the "episode", or chapter, it depends on if this bit of story gives anything away. I am calling them episodes instead of chapters because of OUAT it's self. In this season (part 1 of the story) you will get quite a bit of back story, but as the seasons go on, (and right now I am working on 3 or so,) they will get fewer and start being about other people and other characters from the show, not just the main character of this story. Speaking of that, the main character WILL be an OC, kind of because I wish they would do this in the actual show, (and also I don't like where the show is going right now, so no (SPOILERS OF SEASON 6 AHEAD;) Hyde, or Emma's visions of her death, or Regina splitting her Evil away. Because, no thank you.) Also, yes, there is Captain Swan in this story, but it is a Hook/OC story also, because I JUST WANT DRAMA! I don't want the possiblility of someones death to be the main point of the drama, I want Desperate Housewives type drama, but of course with a Once kind of twist. Kind of more like season One. Now, I realize, that this probably won't be your first choice in reading material, no one likes an OC story, and yes it will be the OC's centric storyline, it will be in her POV, (it will be in third person, a Harry Potter sort of thing. How I do most of my stories,) but it will be about the other characters just as much. You might ask yourself then why didn't you just write about them? Honestly, I just don't like any of the ships in this series enough to make a one-ship centric story and that's why I am doing this. The OC herself is kind of me, and other fans, like the fans voice. (Just because of the things she says.) This story started out as a dream I had during the second part of season Five, which will in turn be the back story of the main character, it then sort of turned into a thing me and my sister came up with when we were bored. And we are still coming up with new stories for it, so it will be quite a long journey.)

(I forgot to mention above, that every season will have an overall theme, in the show there is a different theme for each half season, which will also happen as well, but that is more for you to figure out, however the overall theme for the entire season I will put at the beginning of each chapter, and this one happens to be Pirates.)

Season 1. Theme: A Pirates Life For Me. Episode 1: The Beginning Of The End.

The boat rose from the center of the spinning world pool, something you would only see in a movie, and Erin was pretty sure she had seen it before, in a movie about pirates. How funny it was to think of now, as she looked to her left and there stood a pirate, granted, a pirate a lot hotter than the one from that certain movie, not that at the moment she planned on telling him that. He really wouldn't understand what she meant anyway, he had that problem; not understanding what she meant. Probably another great reason why she was going back in the first place. It hadn't been entirely her idea to go back though, in fact, it wasn't her idea at all. It was his, a way for him to prove himself to her, that he wasn't a cold-hearted pirate after all. Or whatever he had rambled on about the other night, where he had basically promised his left...well, hook, that he would find her a way home. This was, of course, his way of wooing her, and yes, shamefully it had worked. A lot of what he said did.

However, it had been Erin who found the Magic Bean that was now taking her home. And we will use the word found very loosely, it was more along the lines of given to her. She would never tell him how she got the bean, if she did he would never forgive her. Though, she would most likely never get the chance to tell him, as they would likely never see each other again. And was that really what she wanted? Yes, it was true she did get the bean, but it was not her idea to go home. Go home to what? To a family who thought she was dead? It had been a year, wouldn't they have mourned and moved on by now? And wouldn't that cause tons of emotional torment on everyone's behalf, if she just walked back into the front door? Not to mention the therapy she would be given after telling them she had been perusing with a pirate for all that time, in another universe to boot. Oh, how they would think her mind was gone. Water-logged and soggy, was it really worth her sanity? Could she not just stay here...with him? He was going to another world, one she had only heard of in yet another movie, one she really was not that fond of, but she could still go. What were a few ticking crocodiles and boys that never grew up? Surely she could handle it. And yet, as the boat stopped its forward sail, in a marina that it did not belong in, for it was too...piratey, she followed him to the dock.

It was a bit out there...him, in general, how much he seemed to fit in there, and how odd he looked here; in his all black leather and very tight pirate pants. Or he would probably call them trousers, he was kind of British like that. Erin had always liked British people, she could have you talking about One Direction for hours.

"Well, I suppose this is goodbye..." he said, and took a long pause, probably waiting for a kiss. He was that type. Kind of a pervert, but also cute; when she was least expecting it. And that got on her nerves more than anything. How dare you be cute, she would think, when I am annoyed with you. Which was mostly all the time. "You will be able to find your way home from here?"

And here she was again, faced with the same dilemma; did she even want to go home? He raised his eyebrow at her. "Yes," she finally answered, putting a lot of effort into getting her voice to work properly. "I...can."

He took a breath, watching her. It was awkward, she could only think neither of them really wanted to go. Tears were welling in her eyes now and she flung her arms around his shoulders, she felt his hook hit her back, as he hugged her, and she wondered what normal people would say if they saw that. It was probably a good thing it was so early in the morning. Who came to the pier this early? Idiots, that's who, because she could hear people walking. That meant as short as this goodbye had to be, as he had to return before the portal closed, that's how much shorter it would be now. He released her, pressing one last, fleeting kiss to her lips, before backing away.

"Goodbye, Erin," he said, putting special meaning to her name, she smiled, as he backed up ever more. Heading toward his ship.

"Goodbye..." she replied, licking her lips and taking a step back herself. His frame was fading into the bright, rising sun, and it was almost like he wasn't even there, as she added at the end, " Captain Hook."

She could hear his laugh as if he were a ghost, haunting her, and then he was gone. On his boat and through the portal before she could even yell stop. And why hadn't she yelled stopped? Why did she let him leave? She never felt sorry for those who say they admittedly regret making a choice in their life, but here she was now. Running toward an empty dock, regret heavy in her heart. Why did she want to go back? The truth is she didn't, she didn't want to return to her family, to the boring life she had led before she had fallen into that portal, the possibilities of leading her old life overwhelmed her and granted, she was never one to seek an adventure, she liked going on Tumblr too much for that. But the year long one she had, made the idea of going home and going back to her basic life completely unbearable.

As she stood there, tip-toes hanging off the edge of the dock, the Blue Fairy's words echoed in her mind; "There will come a time in your near future that his presence will double in your life." So, clearly that meant he was here now, he was here just a moment ago but he was also here NOW. Maybe he was looking for her. Maybe she should start looking for him, too...

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Her travels took many days, more like weeks, and with very little of this world's money she was barely eating and stealing other peoples bus tickets. Maybe that was wrong, in fact she knew it was. But she told herself that in the end it would be right, it was fate...it had to be, or maybe just a really bad case of remorse. Whatever it was, it carried her all the way to Maine. A big part of her brain told her this was a fools mission, but yet she continued on, and on until she was hitch-hiking in the woods. Now, one would think this was in the middle of a horror movie, around the time when the dumb girl gets hacked off, and that dumb girl was Erin, but still she pressed on, and on...

She reached a county line, and no, that wasn't special to her, she had reached lots of county lines while she was basically killing herself, looking for a damn pirate that might not even be here, but this one just felt different. The town was apparently called Storybrooke, and the lameness of that haunted her thoughts as she walked across the line. Oddly enough though, as soon as she crossed the line, it was like a beacon activated and she knew, she just knew he was here. At a run she went up the road, no cars passed her as they had done before she had turned up this road, or entered this town, there was nobody around and it scared her, but she continued on; she had faced worse than this while hanging out with pirates, so she could handle walking up a creepy, tree-clad road.

She reached the town, which was just like every little Maine town you see on The Weather Channel; it didn't strike her as odd, or different, there was shops and cars and even a crab shake as she reached the pier, the one thing though, that stood out, was the very obvious pirate ship docked at the end of the...well, dock. And standing close to it, her heart gave a great leap, was a scruffy dark-haried man. She didn't notice the blonde at first, who was standing in front of him, her mind was too blank with happy thoughts to care. It was a miracle she had found him.

"Hook!" She began to run again. She was still a good distance away, but someone like Killian Jones was easy to spot. It wasn't like she was at the grocery store, looking for her mom, she had spent weeks looking for him, and granted he looked different, older somehow, and dressed, still in leather, but a little more modernly. Yet entirely the same person...or maybe not, because as she approached him, and he looked confused for a long moment, it was clear things had changed. And maybe it had to do with the blonde woman that was now turned around, staring at her. Erin stopped just short of them, staring at them, yet she said no more. An amazing accomplishment for her, to say the least.

"Killian, whose this?" the woman asked, Erin looked at her and than back at Hook; the realization was in his eyes more than anything, Erin knew he remembered her, and she waited. She wasn't going to be the one to tell her, or to make something up. She wasn't going to be the one to break her own heart; that would have to be him.

"Just someone I used to know..." he answered, and there it was, and yet it still made Erin's eyes widen. She wasn't expecting it, not in the weeks she was searching for him, that there might be another reason, someone else, that he was here for, and yet it made all the more sense to her, as she stood there, still staring at him.

"Oh..." she muttered, because what else could she say? Nothing much. "I've been looking for you..."

"For all this time?" he replied, awkwardly. He had most certainly changed. It was almost like she was looking at an entirely new person all of a sudden.

"It's only been a few weeks for me," she replied and he paused there, looking at her almost apologetically.

"It has been two hundred years for me."

That blew her mind, her mouth formed an O, as she looked at him. No wonder he was different, and yet it still hurt, she wanted that Hook back, her Hook. She had always known she wasn't his true love, Milah had been that, no matter how much that idea made her gag, she didn't know what she had been expecting. But yet, she still felt detached from him, like he would rather she stop looking at him and run off, instead of standing here now, giving him just a little glimpse into his past. Maybe he just wanted to forget her? Maybe he already had?

(I hope you do enjoy this story, granted the beginning is not the best, and (in my opinion,) kind of boring, but it will became more fun and have TONS of twists and turns. I promised myself I would post a chapter every Sunday, like Once Upon A Time does, there may be small stops or no update for a week or two, (unless something comes up that I have no control of, of course,) there won't be any long breaks between half parts of a season though, nor should there be between seasons either. Once one finishes, the following Sunday I should post the beginning of the next season. I am thinking there is going to be at least five seasons, so hopefully you do enjoy and you stick around to see what happens.)