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Ch. 3 - "First Quarter Moon"
"What about the wedding?" Emma asked as she drove Liam to the docks, "How long will you be gone this time?" "A week, maybe two," Liam said with a shrug, "We'll get married sometime after I come back." "Where, at City Hall? No. We have to do it right, or it will be bad luck," Emma said with conviction. Liam held his hands in surrender and said, "Alright. You can plan everything; it's not like I'll have time to plan anything while on the ship anyway." "Okay," Emma replied with a mischievous smile, "I'll plan the wedding to be a month to today. I'll plan everything; you don't have to worry about anything. All you have to do is show up." Liam nodded distract fully as he stared out of the passenger's side window.
Emma pulled up to the docks and walked with Liam silently as they came across his ship, The Jewel of the Realm. It was a large container ship and Emma always felt a bit apprehensive whenever Liam left on one of his many excursions. The ship could easily fall prey to bad weather or worse, pirates out in the open ocean, but if there was one thing that set Emma's anxieties at ease was that Liam was a fine captain. "Listen Emma," Liam said nervously, "there's one thing I want you to do for the wedding. I want you to call this number and ask for Killian and invite him to the wedding." He handed her a business card and she looked at him in confusion and asked, "Who's Killian?"
"My younger brother," Liam replied with a sad look on his face.
"You have a brother?!," Emma replied, shocked that she didn't know this detail about her fiancé.
"There is some bad blood between us and we haven't spoken in five years. Five years is too long to not speak with family," Liam explained as he looked at his watch and said, "I have to go."
Emma watched him walk away with a resigned smile and almost laughed when he turned around and looked at her like a lost puppy. She indulgently went up to him and placed a chaste kiss upon his lips and watched him board his ship.
Emma walked into her apartment to see Regina seated next to her son as Henry did homework on the kitchen counter. "I have news," Emma said as she playfully messed with Henry's hair. "What? Did Liam purpose to you?," Henry asked with a smile. "Yep," Emma said. "What? You're getting married again? You know it's bad luck to get married again if the first one ended so badly," Regina remarked in her usual blunt fashion. Emma rolled her eyes at her, but couldn' t help but wonder why herself and Regina were so obsessed with bad luck. Maybe it was because that the one thing in common that they had was that they had bad luck with men. Neal had abandoned Emma and Regina's first love, Daniel, died in an accident. "I think I had bad luck with Neal because we didn't get married in the right way. This time, I want everything to be right," Emma said with determination, "Liam even knelt down and purposed." "Really?," Henry asked surprised, "That doesn't sound like Liam." Emma shrugged with a playful glint in her eye as Regina asked, "Well, let's see the ring." Emma held out her hand that bore Liam's pinky ring for Regina. Regina looked at it and said, "It's stupid. This is a pinky ring. This is no real engagement ring." Emma rolled her eyes again at Regina's bluntness and said, "it's temporary." Regina tsked at her and asked, "Well, if you're getting married in the "right way", who is going to give you away?" Emma didn't let herself get bothered by Regina's bluntness that reminded her that she didn't have a father to give her away, instead she rolled her eyes again and answered, "I was thinking about asking David to do it. He and Mary Margaret have been such good friends to me and they have basically become family to us anyway. It just seemed like the right thing to do." Henry nodded with a happy grin and said, " I bet he would love to do it."
Emma pulled out the business card that Liam gave her and read The Jolly Roger Bakery as she carefully dialed the number. "Hello. This is The Jolly Roger Bakery, how may I help you?," an enthusiastic, young female voice said as they answered the phone. "Ah, yes," Emma stuttered out, suddenly nervous about speaking to Liam's estranged brother, "I need to speak with Killian Jones, please." "One sec," the girl on the other end of the phone said and transferred her over. A rough sounding voice suddenly answered the phone with a gruff, "Hello?"
"Ah, yes. Hello," Emma said, "I'm calling in behalf of Liam Jones. You see, he is getting married and wanted to invite you to the wedding."
"Why didn't he call me himself?" the man demanded.
"He is away on business," Emma explained.
"What's done can never be made right!" the man roughly yelled into the phone.
"Well, if I could just come and talk to you...," Emma tried to say, when the line suddenly went dead. Obviously the rude man on the other end of the phone had hung up on her. She slammed the phone down in frustration and cursed the man, "Animal!" she said with a determined glint in her eye. She would just have to treat this rude man like all the other convicts that she had taken in.
AN2: So, I wanted to keep Liam as a ship captain, but Killian is more like Ronny from the movie and will work at a bakery.