Season 1 Theme: A Pirates Life For Me. Episode 6: Doctor Zombie

Snow could talk...a lot, and she did, Erin had learned more than she needed to know, that was for sure. Everything from how her and "Charming" had met, all the way to how she had named her second child, Neal, after Henry's dead father. By the time Erin had returned from the diner it was already dinner time, and she was exhausted. It was almost instantly that she fell asleep when she laid down. And didn't wake up...until loud bangs sent her jumping out of the bed.

"Open the bloody damn door, Erin!"

There was no need to ask who it was. His accent and crudness gave it away. "But I didn't order housekeeping," she retorted, as she pulled open the door. "Oh wait...that was my job."

"You're pregnant?!" He demanded promptly, and she glared at him.

"Who told you that?"

"Emma."

"Who told her?!"

Her mother..." Hook replied."It's bloody true then?"

"Yes, it's bloody true," she said. "Not that it's any of your business."

"It's my baby?" He asked, she rolled her eyes. "You're sure?"

"As much as you and The Lady Swan wish it wasn't so...I'm sure."

"Is that why you came here?' He asked then, and really, where had his tact gone? "For the baby?"

"Nope, I had no idea I was pregnant," she answered, and quickly added, before he could say anything. "I came here for you...what a joke that was right?"

Hooks lips were pressed in a line, and his brow forwarded. If nothing else, he still looked the same when he was pissed off. "I brought you back so you could go home, it gave me peace of mind, knowing you would be safe, with your family..."

"And doesn't it suck knowing all that time, while you SAY you thought that, that really...I was looking for you?"

"If you didn't want to leave then why the bloody hell did you?" Hook shouted, face turning slightly pink from the effort of it. "Did you think I wanted you to go?!"

"I don't know..." She retorted. "Maybe you wanted me out of the way for Miss Swan."

"It was two hundred years, I moved on!" Hook said, still rather loudly. "And I don't need you here now...ruining my relationship with Emma. I worked too damn hard for it!"

"And you think that's why I'm here?" Erin retorted. "I would leave tomorrow if the Charming's wouldn't bust a freaking nut over it! You think I want to be here?"

"And the baby?" Hook asked, quieter now.

"None of your concern, don't worry." She walked over and opened the hotel room door. "Leave, I'm no longer your wench, I don't have to take your shouting at me."

And Hook went, without another word, and as she slammed the door after him, she wondered how she could have ever been in love with that guy...and even more so, how come she still was.

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It was late the next morning before Erin pulled herself out of bed, all she really wanted was another burger and to slap Hook in the face... With his own hook. She washed and headed to the diner. And immediately, when she walked in she knew it was a mistake, because there was Emma Swan, with two coffees in her hands. Hook had never struck Erin as a coffee dude, more of a rum dude...which he drank far too much.

"Hi..." Emma said, with a would-be calm voice. She noticed where her eyes were looking and added. "For my dad, we're doing a lot of work at the station today...we're uh...the sheriff's here."

"I know, he told me," Erin said, she couldn't help but think they were probably trying to investigate her. "See ya later then..."

She walked around Emma and headed for the booth she had sat in the day before. Emma didn't move right at first but, then followed her. "Listen, um..." She stumbled for words, as she set the coffees down on the table and sat where her father and son had, the day before. "I know it's none of my business but Regina told me Gold told you you were pregnant, he's not always the most...trustworthy-"

"I know that!" Erirn said, testy. Emma nodded.

"Right...but it might be a good idea to get checked out, make sure the baby's okay," Emma pressed on. "You can go see Doctor Whale at the hospital, I'll call Hook and have him meet you there."

"Don't bother, I don't care to see him," Erin retorted.

"Give him some time," Emma instructed, as she stood up, taking up the two coffees again. "Trust me, it's a lot to take in when you find out you have a kid."

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Erin never really imagined having a kid, but if she had, well first off she would have been married first, second, her first baby-doctors appointment would not have been in the hospital. She sat alone for the longest time, in a too white hallway with the same picture mounted on the wall six times. There wasn't any sign of life until she looked up and saw two people walking toward her. Well, one was walking the other was being dragged.

"I had to cohorts him, he's being difficult...as usual," she said, giving a look to Hook, that he glared at. "I hope you don't mind that I'm here, I can wait outside while you two go in..."

"I don't care, honestly, you both can leave."

"Hooks just a little angry..." Emma said, as she had to grip onto his arm and stop him from walking back up the hall."He'll get over it."

"Like hell!" Hook retorted, glaring daggers at both of them. they ignored him, and he succumbed to his fate, taking a seat between where Emma was standing and Erin was sitting. It was only a few moments later that a man with very blond hair walked by and Emma waved to him.

"Hello, Doctor Whale."

"That's Doctor Whale?" Erin asked, red alarms going off in her mind.

"Yeah," Emma nodded, like this was completely normal. "In his world he was a Frenknstikn, but in this world he's a pretty good doctor."

"When he's not drunk," Hook added, Emma looked down at him, a look of concern on her face.

"You're always drunk."

"But I'm good at it..."

"Oh, hell no," Erin stood up, they both stared at her. "I'm not letting that weird, zombie dude touch me, or my baby! I'm leaving, I'm going to find a real doctor!"

"Doctor Whale is a real doctor!" Emma called after her, but it was too late, Erin was already up the hall and turning toward the doors out of there. It was just not happening, definitely not happening. "I do know a Doctor in New York..." Emma said, as she and Hook caught up with her outside. "He lived across from us when me and Henry lived there."

"Great," Erin said. "Call him."

(A/N: The episode is called Doctor Zombie, and Erin refers to Dr. Whale as weird, Zombie dude in reference to the fact that the guy who plays Dr. Whale is also Blaine from Izombie, who I absolutely love. I get so happy whenever he comes back on the show. Also, if you don't watch Izombie, the woman who plays the star, Liv, is also Tinker Belle. Small world, I know...)