So hi peeps, I'm a pretty hardcore sleeping hook fan, but haven't written any fanfics about it because I figured, there where people out there that could always do better than me in that department, normally I just scoure the web for SH moments and comment on it, but lately...there hasn't been anything out there to comment on, so I figured I would write something Sleeping Hook just to prove I could, note: I'm a Sarah Bolger fan, also a Collin O'Donahue fan, ever since the tudors. (they belong together dearies)

this like most of my fics was supposed to be a oneshot, but yet again I have proven my utter incapability of writing short things

if you want to know in what video I based my fic it's called:

This is my kingdom come.[Hook and Aurora]

Look for it in youtube and watch if you want to understand where my fic comes from better

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, except the mirad of OC's appearing here.

Chapter 2: in which Aura Thorne can't sleep

Au brief background : when the ordeal with dark Peter Pan was over things settled down in both Storybrooke and the enchanted forest, Storybrooke's magic was drained back to the enchanted forest

with the exception of one sole (permanent) portal for emergencies and the Storybrooke Enchantment (that both gave false identities to newcomers and "forcefully" prevented outsiders from finding out about magic)

So after the war people where given a choice, those who wanted to live in the the Enchanted Forrest had to be willing to help rebuild their homes, and those who stayed in Storybrooke (or wanted to travel there) had to also willingly embrace their false identities and accept everything the "enchantment" gave them. So yes some people stayed some people went back home, win win.

Aurora was awake once again, walking down miffin street for what seemed the thirty seventh time in the past months, oh how she wished for a sleeping pill..but of course Victor would no longer give her prescriptions, one talk with Archie and there he went, thinking Aurora could abuse the pills.

No not Aurora.

Aura, Aura Thorne, that was her name now. She liked to correct.

She knew some things in this land without magic hadn't changed thanks to the enchantment, she was still the niece of king Midas, although here his name was Andrew King, and he was as far from a king in Storybrooke than she was from being a princess.

For starters Aura Thorne was an orphan and according to her fake memories had lived with her uncle King during her whole life (big surprise), her false identity claimed she was a overachiever in her senior year of high school, student council president, she wanted to go to an Ivy league college, Princeton actually, if the posters in the walls of her fake bedroom where correct, (how cliche Rapunzel had snickered when she found out), she was head of the homecoming committee and had even briefly dated Sean Herman before he "hooked up" with Ashley and dropped out of school to take care of his pregnant girlfriend and find a job.

Her only coisin was still Abigail Midas, although here she was named Kathryn King (nee Nolan), she had apparently gone to Katrynn and David's wedding when they had "gotten married" and the pictures that lined the walls of the King household depicted them as close, her parents had been Jennifer and Matthew Thorne, wealthy co-owners of the local chain of grocery stores, which Mr Gold had bought after their deaths, in a plane crash when she was five, leaving her a large trust fund for college only her uncle had access to until she graduated from high-school.

All these perfect memories where lies of course, lies the curse, sorry, enchantment, had created to accommodate Aurora into it's perfectly crafted deception, her real mother died at childbirth and her father of old age when she went under the sleeping curse, like the rest of her beloved kingdom.

Abigail and her where far from close and although her uncle Midas did love her like a daughter, they hadn't seen each other since a long time ago, another consequence of both the sleeping curse and the dark curse.

Now that had changed, almost a year after she had made the choice to live in Storybrooke, Midas and her had developed a very good uncle/niece relationship.

She hadn't wanted to leave the enchanted forest when the Charmings had declared the dark shadow defeated, but when Rumplestilskin had opened a permanent portal between their two worlds for those who wished to stay in Storybrooke to live lives without magic, it had been a overheard conversation between Red Riding Hood and Dr Victor Frankenstein that had made her decide the opposite.

flashback

"Do you really to stay?" the doctor had asked his companion

"I do, Snow White is my friend, and they will need help rebuilding the kingdom"

"but they don't need you to be here to do it" Victor had pleaded "you heard them, it's over, they have the dwarfs, the fairies, Snow and Charming are going to be fine"

"what about me? How am I going to cope every full moon?" Red had sounded so unsure that Aurora had felt bad for intruding in their private moment.

"I'm sure Rumplestilskin would be more than accommodating to help with that Red, after all you did save the life of his true love" then Victor had taken Red's hand "look, in Storybrooke, we get another chance, there's no magic to harm you, no lynch mobs, the worst danger we'll get there are taxes"

"Do you really think we could start over in Storybrooke? After everything we have done, so much has happened"

"Yes!" he'd cried "it's all over now Red, all the threats, I'm asking you to come with me" he extended his hand "there we don't have to be Red riding hood and Dr Frankestein, the werewolf and the monster maker, let's start over" the doctor had smiled "in a place where we are just Red and Victor"

then Red had looked into his eyes and smiled "just Red and Victor, is that even possible?"

Dr Frankestein smirked "is that a yes?" And Red had nodded with all her might as tough Victor had just proposed.

flashback end

Aurora hadn't wanted to overhear, but they had both sounded so hopeful, when Aurora had left the Enchanted Forrest many had asked her why she did, she didn't think people would understand. She herself didn't understand why sometimes.

All she knew was that all her life she'd been raised to be a princess, to rule as a queen someday over the sand kingdom, but her kingdom was gone, and her true love, Phillip, was now in-love with another.

The question back then had only been, how do you tell the love of your life you know he has fallen out of love with you?.

She hadn't cried when Phillip's kiss no longer held the taste of curse breaking magic it had before the wraith took him, a princess never cried, that was in her book of etiquette, Cora had told her his soul was sent to another realm thanks to the wraith, but even then Aurora had known something had happened to his spirit, where had Phillip's spirit gone when not in his body?, she couldn't help but wonder until she saw how he was looking at Mulan when he thought she wasn't looking, then she understood.

Yes Phillip loved her, she had an inkling he always would, but his spirit was more attached to Mulan than he cared to admit. And that, broke the sand princess's heart. When had their union become one of duty?.

She wanted happiness for Phillip and Mulan of course, (the happiness of others would always matter above her own, especially if it was concerning the two people she cared about the most) but she knew they could never be trully happy as long as she was there, they would feel they where betraying her and could never trully enjoy eachother's love.

At that time, Aurora had heard Riding hood and Frankestein talking so earnestly and wondered herself.

Would it really be so bad to start over? Somewhere else. To give Phillip and Mulan the chance to live their love?.

Would it really be so bad to leave everything bad behind and start anew?. Even when it broke her heart?

Would it really be so bad to be someone else?.

So she'd left, stepped trough the portal with Red and Victor and Regina herself, the former who had given her a rather amused smile that Aurora had returned with a haughty look.

This was why she found herself here, a year later, walking aimlessly down miffin street in a effort to keep insomnia at bay, another fun fact the curse accommodated for her, the inability to sleep she had, now rechristened as acute insomnia, back then when the enchantment had hit, and Aurora had been bombarded with so many false memories at once that left her in the hospital for days, she had asked herself once again, if it would it be bad to embrace it?, for the girl who had been raised to lead armies and fight courtiers with both grace and dignity, would it be so hurting to embrace Aura Thorne?, this young woman who went to a place called highschool and listen to a strange device her memories claimed was an I-pod, that looked like her in her memories but lacked both the corset and the tiara?.

Aurora had thought back to Phillip and Mulan.

No it wouldn't be so hard.

"So still here huh, I thought after all this time you would finally be learning how to sleep like a normal human being" A voice broke her out of her reverie Aurora looked up, and saw Regina in her black heeled glory smirking at her, while exiting her home.

"Madame mayor" Aurora regarded her with shocked nod, that of one who knows she's an equal but can't prove it "Insomnia can do that to people"

Regina laughed when she saw Aurora eying her up and down from head to toe and looking at the clock "don't look so shocked Aura, I have nocturnal activities too you know"

"I wasn't doing anything of that sort" she replied because she really didn't want to imagine what kind of things the town's mayor could be doing dressed to kill at two AM, there was a rumor floating around about her and a certain man but, Aura would just rather not speculate about the queen. "as you know I live just a couple of houses down"

"I know, I hear you are about to graduate from highschool darling" Aura didn't understand why Regina was doing chit chat in the middle of her driveway at that hour but as she'd come to learn, when the nights where dark and late, things rarely made sense. "any thought on what you are going to do after graduation?" she said it in such a mocking tone Aura squared her shoulders and raised her chin

"I am going to an Ivy league college Madame mayor, but of course you already knew that didn't you" she said in her haughty princess tone

"yes Midas hasn't shut up about your early admission into Princeton since you received it last week, makes council meting so tedious, but I'm told Harvard is still an option" Aura's eyes widened, she hadn't beeped a word to a soul about Harvard, how did she know "makes one wonder about why that admission letter is taking so long" Regina continued "bahh don't look so surprised honey, it's my town, I know everything that goes on"

Suddenly Aurora remembered the time she'd left her backpack in the sofa of her uncle's house only to find Regina there when she came to look for it "You had no right to go trough my things!" she ghasped "those notes where private"

"you mean the ones that say you are not sure what career to pick? Poor Midas, he'll be so disappointed, Abigail is already back in law school you know"

"this conversation is over, I refuse to let you mock me"

"Did I sound that way Aura?, I'm sorry" the evil queen apologized heading towards her car "one year later and I still can't seem to have a conversation with someone without him or her getting defensive, I didn't mean to offend you" and suddenly Aurora regarded Regina with a puzzled expression maybe she had misread the whole situation "Old habits are hard to kick, I'm sure you understand that"

"what did you mean then if I may be so bold as to ask, Re-Madame Mayor" One year later and still Aurora couldn't bring herself to address Regina by her given name, the queen was right, old royal habits where hard to shake.

"what I meant was, that if you really are undecided about what to study, politics in Harvard is something I know you would excel at" she winked "after all how long can getting a degree take?, five? six years? In that time, who knows, maybe I will be up for retirement"

"you don't mean" the younger girl gaped "are you implying you would want me to run for mayor?" she asked cutting the chase "why?"

"straight to the point darling, I like that, and to answer your question I don't know a more qualified applicant," The queen said offhandedly "my son is more of the type to run off in search for ogres than sit down to negotiate with Gold how to avoid raising taxes, the Charmings are all in the Enchanted forrest and before leaving Storybrooke on the hands of any old money miser like Midas or George I would rather self destruct the whole town myself" Regina said vehemently "I have been watching you for a while, you are different from the other blundering princesses I considered"

"thank you, I think" the sand princess nodded regally still puzzled

Regina eyed her up and down from the jewel studded hair bow in her hair to the purple ballerina flats in her feet and got on with her proposition "you are a royal born, raised for this job, you know what it takes and that the sacrifices one sometimes has to make, can and will be unappreciated by most" Regina shrugged "if I didn't know it would be taken as an insult I would tell you I see a lot of myself in you, well, the good part of myself"

"I am flattered your highness, I never knew you thought about me that way, I don't know what to say" Aura replied with the same amount of both humilty and pride

"don't say anything then, just think about it" Regina sighed dismissing her comment "Henry will need me to retire in a couple of years, presumably to raise my grandchildren and you where born a princess, even in those clothes one can tell you are a royal from miles away, so remember that if you ever need a job, I'm in need of a new assistant in city hall"

Aurora knew what Regina was implying, so she nodded regally "thank you Regina, I will think about it, I promise I will" it was flattering really, it gave her enough courage to call the queen by her given name, her head always held high she returned Regina's proud smile with one of her own.

"good, ohh and Aurora" Regina said almost as an after thought Opening the door to her car and getting in, the former evil queen leftover wikedness couldn't resist one tiny jab at her "Hook's been back in town for a week, last time we spoke...he asked me about you"

Needless to say that after that very disturbing comment Aura turned on her heel and walked, no, ran, back to her house, the sole memory of the conniving pirate strong enough to make her wish for a door and a lock between her and the world that held him.

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