"Emma." Snow popped her head around the corner of Emma's office, holding a coffee and lunch from Granny's in the air. "You okay? I brought lunch." Snow scanned the station quickly, realising there was no sign of Hook "Also, where on Earth is Hook?" she asked, almost worried
"Thanks." Emma muttered, trying her best to sound thankful, despite the ton of paperwork she had to work through. "He…escaped, Last I heard he's on his ship. I don't think he is stupid enough to go near Gold, yet anyway."
Snow sighed taking her eyes from her daughter and placing them on the large pile of paper work beside her. "Okay, enough," she finally snapped "You are going home." Emma opened her mouth slightly to protest but Snow cut her off quickly "David will take over, and he wont mind. I'll make sure."
Emma half smiled and stood up, collecting the lunch Snow had brought her. She considered telling her about the crazy pirate that was currently bunking at her place, but it would lead to an awfully long conversation, well, argument. "Okay, Can you keep Henry at your place for a few more days? I think it will be safer for him to be out of the firing range."
"That's fine. We'll look after him for as long as you need." Snow smiled, before softly pushing Emma out of the door "Now go. Home. Rest. I'll see you tomorrow."
Emma stood outside her door for a few moments before pushing open to unfortunately reveal the annoying captain innuendo. "Hook!" She bit out in her warning tone.
"Don't worry, Love." He shot out sarcastically "Still here, still bored."
"Get over it, Hook. You're lucky I took the handcuffs off." Emma threw her jacket carelessly onto the coat rack and collapsed next onto the sofa next to Hook. "Why isn't the TV on?"
"The what?" he asked, looking slightly confused "Oh, the, box with the pictures. I couldn't figure it out."
Emma sighed and considered getting up to turn the TV on, but she settled for lazily slumping on the sofa instead.
"Well, aren't you going to turn it on?" he asked, looking down at her. He rolled his eyes when she gave him a vacant stare.
Emma turned her head slightly to look at him, but instead of keeping eye contact, she grabbed to pillow closest to her and buried her face in it. She was exhausted. "As much as I would love to have it drown out your voice, I'm really not in the mood to watch TV right now, Hook." she mumbled through the fabric of the pillow.
After pulling the pillow off her face, he flashed his trademark smirk and intended to annoy "I am sensing something's up. What is it?" he asked, awaiting an answer, but he got none. "Fine. Tell me this then, why exactly are you letting me stay here, with you?"
"You know why?" she bit out, clearly annoyed "I'm not being held responsible if you get killed by Cora." She said quickly, trying to hide her face in fear of him finding out the real reason.
"So, no other reason then." He grinned, nudging her with his shoulder. "There must be, because you know I can look after myself. I am pirate after all."
Emma rolled her eyes and pushed herself up on her elbows "That would be why you haven't left then. I don't usually lock the door, and when I do, I know you know how to get out." She said, smirking.
Trying to ignore the last comment, he sat forward and picked up the rectangular device that worked the TV. "You said you have a...movie, that I would enjoy." He asked, dropping the remote on her stomach.
She would have been annoyed with his sarcastic tone, and the remote being dropped on her, but she was about to have the upper hand. "That's right. I do." She grinned, picking herself up off the Sofa to search through Henrys pile of Disney DVD's. When she passed 'Snow White', she laughed quietly to herself at the picture of Snow and the prince being all soft and romantic, then she came across the DVD labelled 'Peter Pan' "Here it is." She grinned, holding it up before sliding the disc into the DVD player. She couldn't help smirking at Killian's confused yet, amazed expression at the TV and DVD player, although the 'amazed expression' was well hidden, But Emma seen through it. "I'll skip the adverts. Oh, and by the way. This is how the entire world outside Storybrooke see's you. Enjoy."
30 minutes into the movie, Emma couldn't tell if Killian was seething with anger or was just simply huffing, because he hadn't said anything since the cartoon Hook came on the screen when he opened his mouth to protest but there was only silence. Emma spent the rest of the time secretly staring at him and laughing at his horrified expressions, but he was too outraged to notice her.
When the movie ended, Emma was still laughing uncontrollably that she never noticed Killian was now looking at her with annoyance. "It has been a while since I've laughed that much. I'm going to have to do that with everyone in town." She said through laughs.
"Careful, Swan. You might choke and die, we wouldn't want that to happen." He bit out sarcastically. He tried to get up of the sofa, but Emma dragged him back down.
"Don't go off sulking now, Hook, or you'll be proving the movie right." She informed, through a false stern expression.
He tried a sarcastic smirk, but it turned into a genuine smile that he wasn't proud of. So, instead he quickly got up before Emma could pull him down again and murmured "It's not funny, Swan. This world thinks so little of me." as he sulked through to the kitchen.
"Well, if it helps, they thought little of you in your world to." She corrected, straight-faced, fighting the smile that threatening to appear. "Don't be such a baby, Hook." She said, leaning against the kitchen counter. Before he could answer, with some witty retort, there was a knock at the door. "Wait here." She warned, walking to the door after he held his hands up patronizingly.
"Hey mom." The little voice chimed as Emma answered the door.
"Henry? What are you doing here?" she asked sternly, trying to keep him from getting into the house, but he squeezed past her quickly, running into the house.
"What is he doing here?" Henry asked, avoiding her question setting her with a judging expression for many reasons, the most being how he wasn't allowed to even talk to Killian but she had him in their house. "Well?" he said with small authority, crossing his arms.
Emma was going to tell Henry the truth but Killian would overhear, so she settled for the half-truth "Cora and Gold are both after him, and they're both after me too, or at least Cora is. Also Hook can do less damage if I can keep an eye on him." she explained
"So, that's why I'm staying with Grandma and Grandpa?" he asked
Emma nodded apologetically "Yeah, that's right, kid. How about you and go get some of your things to take to Snow and David's place, yeah." Henry nodded and ran up the stairs. Behind her, she heard Killian laugh quietly "What?" she snapped, turning to face him.
"Why did you just lie to your own son?" he asked amused.
Ignoring him wasn't going to work, so she decided to bluff it, otherwise he would never let it go "I didn't." she argued, placing her hands on her hips for good measure.
Finding it as a challenge, he approached her daringly, placing their faces a couple of inches apart "I happen to be almost as good as you at picking out lies, love."
"I don't-" she tried, but just crossed her arms over her chest. She heard Henry begin to come down the stairs and realised she could tell Killian then leave quickly with Henry. "Fine, you saved my life, and I guess…I felt like I owed you." She said bitterly, seeing as Killian smirked irritatingly. Henry finally joined her side and the ushered him to the door. "Also, I would've kicked you out days ago, but you're not that bad to have around. For a pirate." She got out finally, walking out the door, closing it behind her.
Killian was smirking as she left, he got the truth eventually. Actually he did more then that, he thought, his smirk faltering slightly. Did he just bring down one of her walls? He tried to forget the thought because getting Emma to open was deemed impossible.
On her way to drop Henry off back at Snow's and David's, she noticed Regina walking down the street. "Regina, oh no." she sighed "Henry, wait here." She said quickly, walking over to Regina, but Henry followed anyway. "I'm really sorry, I was meant to meet you. Something, really bad came up. Are you still ok?"
"Thank you for your concern Miss Swan, but as you can see I'm fine." Regina said slowly, slightly annoyed. "What happened, anyway?"
"I was right. Cora's here. She got to me before I could talk to you." Emma explained.
Regina raised an eyebrow amused and intrigued "And you got away alive?" she mocked half-heartedly. The last thing she wanted was her mother to be here, or near her. She was trying to get better for Henry, for herself and her mother would only corrupt her again, or worse.
Emma nodded, noticing the discomfort in her expression "It'll be fine Regina." She tried to assure, but Regina's expression didn't falter "I have something to do back at my place, could you take Henry to Snow and David's? Or actually," she cut in before Regina could answer her first question, and looked down at Henry "Would you like to look after him for a couple of days? If Henry doesn't mind that is." She asked, looking down at Henry, who just smiled up at her and nodded.
"I would love to." Regina said enthused, smiling, and genuinely happy. "Thank you, Emma." She smiled softly. Taking Henrys hand and walking him back to her house.
Emma smiled lightly, as the two of them walked away. She couldn't help feel a little happy that Regina and Henry could have some time together. Now she had to go back and face Killian again, which she wasn't looking forward to, remembering that irritating grin he had before she left.
She pushed open the door, to find Killian sitting on the sofa watching TV "You found out how to work it?" she asked, slight confusion washing over her. Killian looked up at her and smiled, not smirked, smiled, which she found weird, if not disturbing maybe. Or was it none of the above. Did she like…no she did not like it when he smiled.
"You left the TV on, love, and I watched you work the buttons before," he informed, "I didn't seem that difficult."
Emma was too tired to question, today had been tiring and to be honest she hadn't even done that much. "Want to watch another movie?" she asked seriously. His expression twisted in a disgusted expression which made Emma laugh "Not Peter Pan. What about 'Snow White', that has Snow, David and Regina or maybe 'Sleeping Beauty', that has Aurora, or…"
"I know, love." Killian cut her of quickly and grabbed the Snow White DVD box from her. "Let's make fun on Regina and your parents." He grinned.
Emma smiled and took the DVD from Killian, placing it in the player and sitting down beside him again, a little closer then before.
"My name isn't even James Hook." He snapped randomly as the adverts continued and Emma looked up at him, shaking her head "I know, It Killian Jones." She countered.
He raised an eyebrow at her "I thought you would never remember, Daring." he replied, amused.
Emma lay her head back on the Sofa. "You never let me forget." She said finally before the movie finally started.
"Well they got the heart thing right." Killian said lightly, watching as the evil queen had the box stored heart. When there was no reply, Killian looked down at Emma through the dark, realising how even through closed curtains he could tell the sky was dark it must've been late. Emma had fallen asleep "So many opportunities." He mumbled, looking down at her silent sleeping form. Killian fixed his gaze back on the magic box again, watching the movie. Several moments later, he felt a soft weight weigh down his shoulder, thinking Emma had woken up he turned to say something sarcastic but she hadn't woken, her head was resting on his shoulder. He considered pushing her off, but it wasn't unpleasant, so he adjusted his position so he was more confortable and rested his arm around Emma's shoulders as she slept, before watching the movie again.
A/N: Guess what guys. I'm finally updating this story, shocker. Don't worry, It'll be frequent now, hopefully. If not guys, shoot me (Don't really :P) let me know what you think. There's a serious lack of Captain Swan on the show. This story is now pretty much AU, because the story is set too far back and if I make the storylines the same then it would be dull. Still bringing Neal though, Possibly Tamara and Greg/Owen too and others. :)