Part 2 of Secret Meeting: I decided on an adventure for them!

Anyway I don't own OUAT and hope that people are actually reading this

Hook ducked past a few of the guards and then quickly moved out of their line of sight and behind a tree. He didn't need to look back to know she had successfully followed him but he did anyway. Hook couldn't remember that last time he'd done something so bloody stupid for a woman.

Flashback

"I need to get inside somewhere but I can't be found out. I heard you'd managed to," she paused here, looking for the right word, "sneak in successfully before and thought you might help me."

He was both curious and suspicious. Where would a princess need to break in to and why couldn't she just drag along one of her many knights. "Where is it we would be going Princess?"

She smiled, "You can call me Emma, and I'd pay whatever you wanted."

"Are you planning on telling me the location love?"

"The Evil Queen's castle." She answered with an apologetic smile, but said no more and waited for his answer.

He was sure it was his pride that answered for him. A beautiful woman was asking for help but looking at him like he wouldn't be able to do it. "And when do we leave?" he asked knowing the minute those words left his mouth that they had been a mistake.

"Immediately."

End Flashback

"Now what?" She asked as she shifted her body so she was pressed against him and also covered by the tree.

He was surprised, and thankful, to find that she was rather good at this, and that she had been able to use the sword she carried pretty well, for a princess at least.

Flashback

He hadn't expected an easy journey, not while breaking into the Evil Queen's castle but he had hoped that danger would at least wait until it got to their destination, but it hadn't.

More than anything he was annoyed that he would have to make sure the princess wasn't hurt while doing this damned job. He should have tried to talk her into staying back at her palace while he retrieved whatever it was they were going after, not that she had even told him what that was yet.

It was these thoughts that he was so caught up in that he failed to notice that princess had drawn her sword until one of the bandits laid on the ground unconscious.

She looked beautiful then, and nothing like a princess should look. Her hood had fallen so her hair could be seen. It was golden in the light and pulled back in a high ponytail so it was out of her face. She was wearing clothes that were brown and greens and nothing like what princesses would have access to.

She turned her glare on him then and asked, "Are you planning on helping or am I going to have to do this by myself?"

There were at least four men left standing but that wasn't why he was in trouble anymore.

End Flashback

"Now we sneak in."

"You make it sound so easy." She groaned as she rolled her eyes.

"Why shouldn't it be?" he asked with a raised eyebrow and before she could argue he was already headed toward the entrance they had been looking for, "Most wouldn't try to break in so she doesn't really guard against it. That's the problem with most powerful people love, they get too comfortable."

Once they got to the end of the first hallway she took the lead. Right turn, left turn, second door, "What are we looking for anyway love?"

"A crown."

Hook snorted, "Really, I would think your place would have enough of those. Why kill yourself for another."

"My mom's first crown." Emma said as if that answered everything.

"And?"

Emma blushed a bit now. "Dad, Charming," she spat, "Said that as a Princess I need to stop being so reckless, so if I show him I'm capable of sneaking in and out of here they have to give me more freedom."

"Reckless, you, never," Hook said under his breath before speaking up, "So what is this supposed to prove?"

"I'm trapped, a prisoner in my own home, because they are so worried about some threat made years ago. If I show them I can take care of myself they have to give me more freedom." She growled.

"Sure, now where do we go?"

Realizing that she had stopped moving she looked around to regain her bearings then continued on to her mom's old room where the crown should be. "Besides if this doesn't work then I'm done trying and I'll just run away."

He said nothing to this and the conversation died just as she found the crown sitting in front of her mother's old vanity mirror.

"Well well what do we have here?" a gruff voice asked from behind them.

"Believe we got ourselves some thief's." Another answered.

"Shit."

"Language Princess."

"Princess?" the first chuckled, probably in disbelief, but they didn't ask.

Instead they both moved to attack, and it really wasn't fair, because the two men at the door weren't prepared or armed at the moment. They went down rather quickly and so Hook and Emma were leaving the castle without anyone the wiser.

It was only when they were back in front of her castle she asked, "So what payment will you demand from me?"

He shrugged before smiling, "A kiss."

"No gold?"

"I have gold, in fact a snagged a bit more during our trip. Why are you shy princess?" he snickered.

She seemed too perfect and he wanted to shatter her image just a little. If they parted like this he would think of her, but when she backed down it would be a weakness he could use to put her from his mind and focus on more important things, like his revenge.

"You couldn't handle it." She said pushing her hair back and glancing over her shoulder at the castle.

"I think it's you who couldn't handle it."

He was ready to leave then, his point being made, but was stopped by the look in her eye. That was all the warning he got before he was pulled forward and into her lips. He couldn't stop himself from responding and she pulled away too soon.

"Thank you Hook." She whispered, and he hoped it was because she was as affected as he was, before taking off in the direction of the castle, away from him.

He touched his lips with his fingers and decided that maybe he couldn't handle it. It would be something to think about on the way back to his ship, and maybe he would run into her again.

Always accepting prompts and pairings

so this was the adventure that follows the meeting in Secret Meeting, and because I like this so far I will probably post a third part.

This part was mostly because I thought about how much Snow loved the crown and how she couldn't exactly take it with her. I figured if Emma was going to do something stupid to prove a point she would at least do it for something that Snow loved. I was kinda annoyed that it made her sound a bit selfish (is that the right word?) but in the next part I'll explain that better.