I already have some follows and favorites after my first chapter! Thank you so much! I am glad that you are enjoying this story. I hope I am doing their love story justice. This chapter will cover Emma and Hook meeting for the first time as well as the beanstalk storyline. Enjoy!

"Hope. Liam. Grab some blankets and pillows to cuddle with on the couch. And I will make my specialty. Microwave popcorn with Milk Duds mixed in to get all melty." Emma says as she heads to the kitchen.

Liam bounces up and down with joy while saying, "Yay! Popcorn! My favorite!"

"Okay mom! I got blankets and pillows. We are ready!" Hope yells to her parents in the kitchen.

Emma smiles at her husband, kisses him on the cheek and then yells back to her kids. "Be right there! The popcorn is almost ready!"

~~CS~~

Killian smiles and then begins, "It was hardly love at first sight. Things changed. We changed. We made each other better. We were never a predestined love story, guaranteed a happy ending. We fought for our love and we won. And this is that story. A story that began on a beanstalk."

"Dad, what does predestined mean?" Hope says.

Emma smiles at her daughter. "Predestined means 'meant to be.'" Hope smiles and nods her head in acceptance of that answer.

Emma continues, "Your dad and I first met in the Enchanted Forest when your grandma and I were sucked into a portal that took us there from our world. We met two women, one named Mulan and the other Aurora."

"Like from my movies?" Hope interrupts.

"Same characters, yes. But their tales in real life are quite different than what you see in the movies, but that's a story for a different time." Killian says.

"Okay. Continue please." Hope says as she looks at her mom and then her dad.

Emma responds, "Mulan knew your dad as a blacksmith, a person who makes and repairs things in iron by hand."

"But I thought dad was a pirate?" Hope questions her mother's story.

"Aye, love. I am a pirate, but I was pretending to be someone else so that your mom, your grandma, Mulan, and Aurora would help me. Your mom figured out I was lying though." Killian says as he smiles at his wife.

Emma smiles and says, "That I did."

"Because of your superpower?" Hope asks her mom.

"Yes. My superpower is almost always right." Emma responds. "Anyway, your dad was in our care for a while and I knew that he was lying and I didn't want to help someone I couldn't trust, so I took a dagger and held it to his throat and told him 'You're not going to guide us anywhere, until you tell us who you really are.'" Emma said nervously not sure how their daughter was going to take that part of the story.

"Wait, you tried to kill dad?!" Hope says in disbelief. Liam drops the bowl of popcorn in shock of what his older sister is saying.

"Momentarily, yes." Emma responds while looking down at her feet. "Would you like us to continue?"

Hope sighs still in disbelief of what her mother was telling her. "Yes please, but hopefully you try not to kill each other anymore." Hope finally responds.

Emma and Killian share a knowing look and then proceed. "Mulan tied me to a tree while your mom, your grandma, and Aurora stood by watching. Your mom then continued to ask me questions about who I really was and I kept trying to convince her that I was just a blacksmith. She never believed me." Killian tells his son and daughter.

Emma continues, "I finally got so irritated with his lying, so I whistled to signal ogres. Ogres are blind but will come when they hear noise. They are very mean creatures who don't care for humans much. After I whistled, I told your dad, 'You don't want to talk to us? Maybe, you'll talk to the ogres while they rip you limb from limb.' He wasn't very happy that I was just going to leave him there to die, so that's when he decided to tell the truth."

Hope interrupts and in disbelief asks, "You were just going to let dad die?! First you tried to kill him and then you were going to leave him to be killed by these ogres?" Liam looks at his sister then at his parents waiting for an answer.

"Aye, love. She did try to leave me tied to a tree to die, but I convinced her not to." Killian responds to put his daughter at ease and then continues to tell some more of the story. "Your mom was able to get the best of me. Most people can't do that. I was very impressed. That is when I started to tell that your mom and I would make a great alliance. So I decided to introduce myself. The truth this time. I said my name is 'Killian Jones, but most people have taken to call me by my more colorful moniker – Hook.' Your mom looked at me as if to question whether I was still lying to her or not."

Emma interrupts, "I asked him if he meant Captain Hook, which was someone I knew from fairytales growing up, so I couldn't possibly believe that I was face to face to an actual fairytale character I knew from one of my favorite stories when I was about your age, Liam. This was still when I getting used to Storybrooke before I accepted that fairytale characters actually exist as I now know they do. Anyway, I decided to go along with your dad's Captain Hook theory to see if I could get more answers as to what he was up to."

"So in the Enchanted Forest or Fairytale World, there is a woman named Cora. She is the Queen of Hearts in Wonderland, like what you see in your movie. But in the Fairytale World she has magic and she uses her magic for evil and not good. I was working with this woman and she was the reason I pretended to be a blacksmith. She wanted me to gain the trust of your mom and grandma, so I could learn everything there is to know about Storybrooke, so when we made our way here she wouldn't be surprised with what she found. She then wanted me to betray your mom and tell her everything I learned." Killian adds trying to explain the crazy life they left behind to their children.

"After your dad told us that, Mulan wasn't happy with the fact that your dad was helping an evil woman who killed lots of people, so she suggested that we leave your dad tied to the tree to pay for these crimes. Mulan, Aurora, your grandma, and I get ready to leave him there, but your dad yelled back to me to tell me that he is someone who we need to keep alive because he can help us. In the end, we decided to untie him from the tree. He led us to beanstalk where he said we would find a magical compass that would help us get back here to Storybrooke." Emma says.

"I had two special wrist bands that would allow me and one other person to climb the beanstalk to get the magic compass. Your mom, your grandma, Mulan, and Aurora were arguing about who would be the one to go with me up the beanstalk. In the end, it was decided that your mom would join me. Your mom didn't really talk to me on the climb up the beanstalk because she didn't trust me. But I didn't need your mom to trust me. She was an open book to me then and she still is." Killian says as he turns to his wife and smiles before returning his attention to his children. "I thought your mom and I made quite the team, but she unfortunately still didn't trust me and wouldn't let me help much. Your mom then was finally able to befriend the giant that lived at the top of the beanstalk. She convinced the giant to give her the compass. Then your mom grabbed some shackles and chained me to a wall." Killian adds as he looks to his wife who was looking at him.

"I couldn't take a chance that I was wrong about you." Emma says looking at her husband with a smile then turns her attention to Liam who has fallen asleep. "It would appear that someone got a little bored with our love story." Emma giggles as she points to her sleeping son.

"Love, how about we go play on your pirate ship until your brother wakes up?" Killian asks his daughter. "We can continue the story after Liam wakes up from his nap.

"Okay!" Hope excitedly yells as she heads towards the door leading to their back yard.

In the next chapter, Hook and Emma tell the tale of how Hook made his way to Storybrooke, ended up in the hospital talking to a not so sympathetic Sherrif Swan, and Hook teaming up the bad guys fighting against Emma.