HOOK

Aye, did she look so beautiful in this moment, she may have her hair flying everywhere but in this slow motion that my eyes captured was breath-taking. Her blue eyes looked piercing in the cold night air. Her hair was flying around which took every ounce of me not to just catch all the strays.

Her eyes were the most important to me though; those were what caught me instantly when I first saw her. Those magically tormenting eyes made me want her even more. I knew the types of women to play hard to get and eventually I get them. Emma, however, was nothing like my seafaring ladies that I met along my travels.

"Hook-" Emma started but I placed my index finger on her lip leaning in closely. "It's better if you don't speak, lass." I knew Emma wanted to kiss me as much as I did. Her body was rebelling against what she was telling herself not to do. "We shouldn't do this, you know that it'll be bad and I just came to ap-" "Shh." I whispered and felt her lips gently swipe across mine.

Emma was patient like she was holding herself back but I, on the other hand, had other plans. "You have to let go sooner or later, Emma." I inched closer my eyes never removing from hers, her oceanic blue eyes went from my impatient lips to my eyes. "Trust me, I wan-" I lunged in for the kiss but something pulled me away from it.

"What's your real name?" She blurted out. I paused, I held her face in my hand, her smooth face in my hand and her lips oh-so close to mine. "I beg your pardon?" I whispered, "You want to win my heart, right?" I nodded giving her a look. "Tell me who you are and your story. My view of you is very skewed and thrown around."

What was she doing? Was she trying to distract me from my lips going against hers? Or was she just too afraid to kiss me again? I stood up straight and rubbed my jaw and sighed leaning against the pillar of the ship. "Killian Jones," I said crossing my arms. "Killian Jones," Emma repeated out loud and oh, how much I loved her to say my name. It made my heart ache for her to say it again.

"I had an older brother, Liam, who is dead now, he was Captain and I was the lieutenant for his ship that we sailed for the King at the time. " "How did he..?" Emma asked her head just twitching to the right trying not to ask the question that I hated to have to answer. "The king ordered us, the ship, to look for a mysterious healing potion known as Dreamshade." Emma's face changed from interested to full of sympathy.

I made a smile thinking of the silly argument he and I had. "We got to Neverland, found the Dreamshade and we argued over how it did not look like a medicinal plant." Emma sat down on a barrel next to me staring up. "He tried to prove his point and his loyalty to the King to show me that it was a healing source, instead, it's what lead him to his demise." I sighed feeling the small ache in my chest.

"Hook, I'm-I'm so sorry about your brother." She sighed her hand touching mine softly. I looked down at the touch of her cold hands. "Lass, your hands are colder than the sea water." She gave a smile. "Well, not to complain but it is freezing out here."

"This would be the point where I would invite you in my bed quarters." I winked down at her which got her to roll her eyes. "I should go back, and rest since tomorrow the Welcome Back party is tomorrow." I nodded at her and watched her stand up.

My hand gripped hers for a minute, with a quick jerk of the wrist I caused her to turn around. "Are you sure you want to leave so early? After all the night is still so young." Once again, hesitation flickered across her eyes and I knew she did want to stay. "No, I really can't. I'm gonna go. I'll see you at Granny's?" "Goodnight, Emma." I murmured.

"Night, Hook." She whispered, "Killian," I muttered which caused her to turn. "What was that?" "You can call me Killian now, love." This caused Emma to smile at me, my heart pounded against my chest and I smiled back at her. "Goodnight, Killian." Emma murmured, I came up to her and kissed her on the cheek giving her a wink. "Night, lass," I watched her blush and try to hide it as she walked off my ship. I turned around and went to my bed quarters. "I'm getting there slowly."

"What you think that kiss actually meant something?"

"I do, I think it means she's really starting to see me for the man that I am."

"What, A one handed pirate with a drinking problem?"

I turned over in my bed thinking of Pan's words in my head, ever since we left Neverland, that conversation has never left my thoughts. It's kept me up most nights and it's kept me to be unstable to be around Emma. Does she see me like that? A crippled alcoholic? Or does she really see me as a man of the honor that I am?

"Well, you are a pirate."

A pirate? Is that all she ever thought, as we trekked through that damned Neverland together? Walked through bloody hell and back fighting for our lives against the Lost Boys, as we shared that kiss? Did she think she was kissing a pirate or kissing the man I want her to know me as?

Sitting up in my bed, I grabbed my flask off the table and took a swig, letting the warm rum slide down my throat making a grimace as it hit. I opened the window and felt the cool air on my bare chest, sitting down on the window seat. I let the rum pour out of the flask.

Maybe, it was time for a change, maybe it was time for me to show Emma that I'm improving. Show her that I'm not the man that first docked into Storybrooke, show her that I'm not the man she fought against with Cora. Show her that I want to be with her and will fight for her. Neal may be the father of Henry, but if there's one thing I'm good at. It's being clever and being sneaky.

With a smirk on my face, I slid back into bed and began to think out my devilishly evil plot and how I knew to get Emma's affections. It was my turn to get my happy ending.

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