A/N: Thanks for all the reviews guys!

Hook looked around in wonder. Apparently they were at a place called the mall. Nothing was interesting to him until he spied a whole counter full of jewelry at the department store they were at.

"Hello lovely lady, what have you got here?"

The woman fluttered her eyelashes at him. This was her lucky day. The guy was seriously a hunk.

"What can I do for you sir? Trust me I can help you with anything you want" she said slyly.

Just then someone beckoned her and while she turned her back, Hook took that moment to swipe a couple of rings off the counter.

Emma looked around searching for Hook. She felt a tap on her shoulder and whirled around to see a smug looking Hook behind her. "Where the hell were you? Didn't I tell you to follow me and not leave my side?" She seriously contemplated getting a leash for his ass like parents do with their little ones.

She glanced suspiciously over her shoulders and took in the jewelry counter then looked back at his face and groaned.

"Hey hey what are you doing? Getting a little frisky, love?"

She patted him down and then digging into his pants pocket, and believe her, it was a tight fit, she dug out the rings. "Hook you can't go around stealing! Ever heard of prison?"

"I'm too good to get caught. The woman didn't notice a thing."

She rolled her eyes. "They have cameras and alarms here. No matter how sexy your grin is, the camera won't give a damn, got that? Besides these are fake rings, they don't have too much value anyway."

"So you think I'm sexy? Finally she admits it!"

"This is what we're going to do you kleptomaniac, you go back and distract that woman while I put these back."

While listening to Hook flirt with the sales lady Emma rolled her eyes so many times she was afraid they would fall out. How anyone could ever fall for his stupid cheesy pickup lines she'll never know. She jerked her head to indicate they should get going but he smiled knowingly and subtly shook his head in a no gesture.

Walking around to the other side of the counter she draped herself all over Hook. "Killian honey, we've wasted enough time here, let's get going."

Hook raised his eyebrows at her. "Yes my love, I do believe our bed back home is beckoning." Picking up the sales lady hands he placed an air kiss on it, "My life is now fuller to have known you, Susan."

As they walked away, Emma punched him in the stomach. "Can you be any cruder?"

"Jealous?"

She snorted. "As if, now come on. We need to get you clothes and get out of here."

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She gaped at him. "Listen you Mick Jagger wannabe, for the thousandth time, you can't go strutting around in leather pants and billowy shirts flashing your chest to the whole world ok. Now just pick something damn it."

He had spent the entire time rejecting her choices of jeans and tees critiquing them like he was Meryl Streep from the Devil Wears Prada.

"This material is cheaply made, Emma. I can't have that on my body. And this! You want me to wear green? That color makes me look sickly. This is a travesty!"

Finally fed up, Emma stalked around like a mad woman, picking up things here and there and then shoved the whole lot at him. She pointed towards an opening in the wall, "Go try these on."

He tried on the clothes and while they felt weird, looking at himself in the mirror he had to say they made him look quite dapper. Nowhere near his own clothes of course but yes now he blended in like the men he saw walking around the mall.

"Well, what do you think?"

Emma looked at Hook in the jeans and button down and gulped. He looked pretty good, not that she was ever going to admit it. If his ego got any bigger he'd be crushed under their weight.

He walked over to her and touched the corner of her mouth. "You were drooling, Emma."

She shoved his hand away and rolled her eyes. "In your dreams, and by the way those jeans make your butt look huge."

"Nice of you to notice them" he called to her as she stalked off.

As Emma forked over a bunch of green paper at the man behind the counter she gave him a dirty look. "You're going to owe me buddy. That's about 2 weeks worth of my salary."

"What are they?"

"It's called money. Kinda like gold, where you exchange them when you want to buy stuff."

Once they got back to her car, he turned her towards him and slipped a chain with a ring hanging on the end over her head.

"What are you doing?"

"Paying you back of course."

She recognized the ring as one of the ones he had on his finger. "I can't take your ring and anyway it's probably worth far more than what I paid."

He stopped her as she made a move to remove the chain. "Well of course. Anything I have is worth its weight in gold. But keep the ring. It was my mother's. She said the moonstone was supposed to keep the owner safe on land and sea but you see how well that worked out for me."

Emma was quiet. "It feels wrong to take your mother's ring."

He looked away from her, uncomfortable with the expression in her eyes. "Don't be foolish, I gave it to you in exchange for these clothes. That's all. No real pirate lets a wench pay his way. Besides it looks better on you than on my finger. Peach washes out my complexion."

"And where did you get the chain to put this on? I hope you didn't steal it" she grumbled, desperate to dispel the tension around them.

"The chain was yours, you wouldn't be able to wear my ring since it's too big. And I told you I was good, you didn't even realize it was gone."

Emma looked down. "What happened to my pendant?"

"I threw it away. It was cheap and worthless anyhow. It wasn't even real silver."

"You threw away my swan pendant? You jerk!" She punched him in the shoulder, threw open the car door and threw herself in.

"Emma, I'm sorry. Did it mean something to you? I will go retrieve it if you wish." As he made a move to walk away she grabbed his wrist.

"Don't bother, you're right. It was worthless and it's time I let it go."

He stared at her for a moment longer, knowing she was lying.

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Hook looked around, bewildered. If he didn't know any better, this could be a scene right out of Neverland. Kids were running around screaming like banshees but they weren't the Lost Boys, he thought fondly. There were little girls here too and adults were around, so not lost after all. They weren't any less savage however, he thought to himself.

Emma came up to the table he had staked out for them and set down a tray loaded with food he presumed. It was hard to tell since it didn't look like any food he'd ever seen.

"Here, eat."

He looked at the burgers and fries and something she swore was chicken, dubiously.

"What?" Emma asked as she chowed down on her own burger.

"It doesn't look edible."

"You are such a snob. Look you can't get any more American or real world than McDonalds so eat."

He managed to finish about half of it before pushing it away. Emma looked at him, "You're not going to finish that?"

"I think not. I believe my stomach is now protesting."

Emma shrugged and picked up his uneaten portion and managed to polish it off in record time. "What?" she asked spying him staring at her liked she'd grown a third head.

"You eat more than Smee and even he's more finicky about what passes through his stomach than you. How are you so skinny?"

"Hey didn't anyone tell you it's not gentlemanly to comment on a woman's weight? I learned a long time ago not to waste food when you have it cause you never know when the next meal will come."

As soon as the words were out of Emma's mouth she wanted to kick herself. She didn't what it was about Hook that made her forget to filter her words around him.

In one of the promotional pictures of Hook you can see that he wears 3 rings, one on his thumb, the red one and one with an orangish/peach colored gemstone. Not sure what it is but in my head it's a peach moonstone just cause I like it's meaning.