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Chapter 6

305. She never gets fed up or irritated when he has to ask her to explain one of her favourite TV shows. Especially the few he had seen many episodes of: Doctor Who and Game of Thrones. Was it his fault the shows had really convoluted plotlines and characters?

"So let me get this straight love." Killian looked at the image frozen on the TV screen with a look not unlike confusion, bewilderment and exasperation.

Emma threw popcorn in her mouth and looked at her pirate with a grin. She loved it when he got all confused. He didn't often get phased by things in their modern world much to her surprise but then again he had been alive for 300 years give or take.

Henry bounced on the sofa next to the pirate in excitement. Emma and the Kid had decided to introduce Killian into some of their favourite TV shows. The last few nights they had been fortunate enough not to have any major event or disaster so the Swan/Mills/Charming descendants had decided to educate their adopted Pirate in the amazement that was long and drawn out television series.

The weather was also perfect for this as a snowstorm had swept into Storybrooke early that morning and whilst it wasn't the worst snowfall they'd ever experienced nor was it anything like Elsa's snowstorms it was still bad or irritating enough to cancel school, work and any other thing the citizens of Storybrooke had planned for that day.

Killian had ventured out into the snow with Orson so that the dog could get his necessary exercise for the day but no sooner than the pair were back than Swan and the Kid captured them and bribed them both with their favourite things.

Orson was sat on the floor at Killian's feet with his mass weighing on the man's feet and gnawing quite happily and contentedly on a bone. Every now and again there was the sound of the strong jaws crunching through the bone or sliding across the smooth surface but apart from that Orson was quiet and relaxed with his favourite humans. No evil undead or anything else unpleasant for the hellhound to deal with.

Killian had Swan, rum and trifle. Yes trifle. But that is another story for another time. Needless to say to say the Pirate has a rather alarming fondness for the sweet pudding and Henry had prepared one the previous day when he had seen the weather forecast.

Pleasantly surprised and happy to be invited to join Emma and Henry in their favourite TV shows Killian had made himself comfortable and settled down to watch.

That had been roughly an hour ago and now the programme was paused whilst Killian tried to wrap his brain around the plot.

"There are aliens, from space who are made of plastic who want to take over London. The lass meets a strange man who happens to be in the right place at the right time. They escape from the plastic monsters and after a series of other events she realises that the strange man is also an alien. He is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, is roughly 900 years old, his name is "The Doctor", has a ship called the TARDIS standing for Time and Relative Dimension In Space, which infers that he can travel through space and time, has recently fought in a battle in space and he doesn't die but regenerates into a new person but is still the same and has all the memories from his previous incarnation?"

Emma and Henry stared at Killian in something akin to amazement.

"Pretty much yeah?" Henry offered up slowly.

"Cool." Killian grinned and spooned more trifle into his mouth before pressing the play button on the remote and watching as the next episode began.

***Killian&Emma***

The snowstorm had let up after a few hours and even though they had watched several hours of Doctor Who none of them were all that interested in venturing out of the warm den they had fashioned for themselves.

Henry nipped outside with Orson for a brief moment so the dog could take care of business and all that whilst Emma searched through their boxsets for something new for them all to watch. Killian cooked some pasta with a tomato sauce and made up a salad and some garlic bread and eventually they all settled down in front of the television again with plates balanced on laps or trays.

"I do not understand these men." Killian announced less than ten minutes into the show.

Emma and Henry exchanged looks as Killian scratched his head with his hook.

"They are intelligent but they are weak. And they are mocked by everyone around them."

Henry quickly shoved pasta in his mouth so that he would not have to answer and instead Emma was left to try and explain.

"Well, the thing is they are really smart and everything but they're what society considers nerds or geeks. They obsess over things like TV shows, games, films, comic books. More than is normally considered well normal for a person."

"I do not understand the references." Killian said with a pout and Emma quickly changed the disc over.

"Maybe Big Bang Theory should come later."

Henry nodded in agreement.

***Killian&Emma***

The mother and son duo had quickfire conversation which Killian did not understand at all. What he assumed were genres and titles were thrown back and forth between the pair and Killian sat patiently while they seemed to come to some sort of agreement.

"Right Killian!" Henry said excitedly. "New plan! We're going to go through TV shows but watch one episode of each so we can give you a taste of TV and then when we know the ones you like or are interested in we can go back and watch those series."

By the end of the day Killian was not ashamed to admit his head hurt ever so slightly. He also could not understand why Henry (and Emma also although she was less vocal and obvious about it) were so fascinated by fairytale people and creatures when they had such a wide variety of 'genres' on the TV.

They had watched an episode of several shows and whilst Killian had completely forgotten some of them already there were a few that had stuck in his mind.

Doctor Who: Killian liked Doctor Who. It was pretty Fantastic.
The Big Bang Theory: He didn't understand it at all.
Stargate Atlantis: John Sheppard seemed like a good man, charming, charismatic, handsome. Killian could see a lot of similarities between him and Sheppard.
Sleepy Hollow: Turned out to be Killian's current favourite. He felt rather like Ichabod Crane, a man out of time, when it came to the modern world of Storybrooke. Apparently Henry said, there was another TV show and film franchise that had a similar character that Killian might enjoy (Captain America was it?) but for now Killian had begged a reprieve from all the television and they had all turned to playing a board game.

Well Henry and Emma were playing a board game. Killian was reading something he had found on the internet called 'fanfiction'…

***Killian&Emma***

A couple of months later the trio (and Orson) finished the first episode of the eleventh Doctor. It had been a long couple of months with a few instances that had turned into major catastrophes.

Rumpelstiltskin had been pursued by an angry bear through the streets of Storybrooke. A magic bear that had the ability to nullify all dark magic with a single roar. Rumpelstiltskin had been forced to flee from the bear by more mundane and pedestrian methods and Killian and Emma had watched with the two Charmings and Regina as the Dark One fled down the High Street pursued by a bear that was shouting about how the Dark One had stolen his honey.

There was an actual incident with cats. Some crazy old lady had rescued all of the Enchanted Forest's stray cats and when she had eventually passed on the cats had been set loose on Storybrooke and begun to run in a "clowder". (Henry had done something called "Google" on Killian's phone when the two were sitting in the boat slightly off the docks and watching the cats pace along the docks while mewling at the catch the pirate and boy had caught, and discovered that a group of cats was called a "clowder".)

Orson had thoroughly enjoyed 'The Cat-Tastrophe' as the Daily Mirror had called it and the hellhound along with Emma had herded the feral clowder into the woods to the north of town.

After a series of incidents and even during them the trio had managed to find time to squeeze in episodes of TV shows between saving Storybrooke, work and school and that night they watched the first episode of Matt Smith's Doctor Who.

"I don't like the new Doctor." Killian said petulantly as the credits rolled and Emma let out a barking laugh.

Henry giggled along too until both mother and son were bright red with laughter.

Killian left them to their cackling and took Orson out for a walk. The Pirate told Orson all the various reasons why he didn't like the new Doctor and the hellhound sighed in commiseration.

Needless to say they did not watch any more Doctor Who.

***Killian&Emma***

Henry had been far more excited than Killian had expected him to be about that afternoon's TV show. The boy apparently had been dying to watch the series but Emma had refused to let him watch it saying that it wasn't suitable for his age group. Now apparently the boy was old enough so they had all settled down to watch on of Emma's favourite TV shows.

"I don't understand why adults are so interested in this show." Henry announced about half an hour in. Neither Emma or Killian answered him as both of them were transfixed to the screen.

"I'm going to go and visit Grampa and Grandma and Uncle Neal." Henry said as he slipped his shoes on and gathered up Orson's leash. The dog surged to his feet and trotted to the door.

"Okay. Give me a call when you want to come home and I'll come get you lad." Killian offered distractedly and Henry shouted a reply.

Several hours later the phone rang breaking the viewers intense concentration and Killian swiped at his phone. He had a brief conversation with Henry before hanging up and turning all his attention back to the show.

"Henry?" Emma said when the credits rolled.

"Staying with your parents. Winter is Coming." Killian said with a grin and pointed out the window. Snow had begun to fall once again and Emma giggled at Killian's reference.

"Think you're ready for the Big Bang Theory now!"

"Just one question love."

"Sure."

"Who's the rightful King of Westeros?"

Emma slapped her forehead with her palm and Killian looked for his phone. Maybe "Google" would be able to assist him in his queries.

***Killian&Emma***

305.2 Because even though he really hated some of the shows she never made him watch them and she was always happy to watch their favourite episodes of Doctor Who again.

A/N: Sorry I didn't update last week! On holiday so was without laptop with which to write and publish Captain Swan goodness! Hope you enjoy this little chapter! Also please let me know any Reasons you would like me to have a go at writing.

Thanks to:

Aurorellin - I just can't seem to get into Emma's headspace without everything going very, very angsty. I might try one day in the future but for now Killian's point of view is the only one I'm going to attempt to write.
taikara100 - I was always more of a Mr Rochester fan than Mr Darcy. Truth be told I really can't stand Jane Austen. I can watch the films and TV adaptations no problem but just cannot read Miss Austen without getting irritated or bored. Actually that happens with most works of that era except for Jane Eyre... Thanks for the review!
toots1- Did you mean 151 or 163? I'm goint to try and do 189 at some point but I've got a couple of more angsty ones to write first so there will be fluffy ones between the angst and 189. Let me know any others you'd like to see!