EMMA
As I waited for the bus to come around the corner I couldn't help but smile at Killian's attempts at coming closer with me. I was impressed with him since this morning when he ignore David's rude remarks and helped they move out. He was really serious on trying to impress me and show me that he was a good man. I already knew he was a good man but he thinks that I'm probably not seeing enough of it.
Like clockwork the bus rounded the corner and I could clearly see Henry at the front of the bus. I smiled and waved to him fixing my coat as it parked across the street. I saw the doors open, the driver out first with his stop sign. Henry followed in pursuit with a happy look on his face; he crossed the street slowly looking both ways. It was hard to believe that nearly two weeks ago I could have lost him forever to Pan.
Every morning was hard to wake up because it felt like I was still in that damned jungle on that damned island. Henry rushed over to me and hugged me tightly; giving a squeeze back I wrapped my arm around his shoulders. "Do you want to go to Granny's today or do you want to drop off your stuff?" I asked him as we walked onto the sidewalk. "Let's go to Granny's; I'm in the mood for some hot chocolate." "How was school today, did you learn anything?"
He looked up at me and pursed his lips; I couldn't help but notice on how much he looked like Neal when he did that. It made my heart ache in the slightest but I didn't want to think of that yet but I wanted to think about was having him agree to go with Hook today. "Mom? Are you listening?" He asked me and I snapped out of my thoughts. "Oh, I'm sorry I have a lot of stuff on my mind, can you repeat that?"
"I said I learned that I'm great at reading aloud in class." I raised my eyebrows at him, "Well, we all know you're a good talker so that's a given." He grinned up at me as we walked up to the diner. "So, we got a couple of things to talk about." I sighed to him entering in. Ruby stood there with a warm smile on her face. "Let me guess, two hot chocolates with cinnamon?" I nodded at her and helped Henry take off his backpack. He slid into the booth and I got in on the other side.
"So, what do you want to talk to me about?" He gave me a look of curiosity. "Well, the first thing is about how you want the sharing schedule to be from now on." I sighed, "I don't know if you want to change houses every two days or-""What about every week?" I looked up at him returning the curious look. "I stay with you for a week, and then I stay with dad, then Regina, then Mary Margret and David?" I leaned back in my seat and thought of it. "Then, maybe we can meet up on Sunday's to bond and to switch over."
This family is completely skewed beyond belief. "That sounds like a good idea, it won't be too confusing for you?" Henry shook his head and opened up his backpack. "Since you and dad's fight a couple of days ago, I made this calendar up for this year." He put a calendar on the table just as Ruby came around with the hot chocolates. I picked up the calendar to see all of our weeks were written out successfully. Somehow, Henry never ceased to amaze me. "What do you think?" He asked taking a giant sip of his hot chocolate.
"Kid, you're too smart for your own good." I sighed and gave him a smile. "I already ran it through Regina, and she said it was a good idea, I just have to talk to Mary Margret and David." "What about your dad?" I asked raising an eyebrow with narrowed eyes. "I thought you could talk to him about it? Maybe you two can make up for the other night." I sighed and took a sip of the coffee; something in me wished that some brandy was in it.
"Let me think about it because I have a lot going on right now." I said realizing that I had a huge pile of stress on my shoulders. "Okay, what's the other thing you wanted to mention to me?" I looked up suddenly remembering Killian's request. How was I going to approach this one? I guess I'll just have to go straight through the bush. "Hook wants to hang out with us today," I said waiting for his angry remark.
Henry's face didn't change; all he did was take another sip of his hot chocolate. "What does he want to do?" Henry asked, "He wants to show you how to steer his ship." Henry's mouth dropped and his eyes danced with excitement. "He's gonna let me ride the ship?" I nodded, "He'll be here in about ten minutes as soon as you finish your hot choco-"Henry stood up and grabbed his backpack nearly sprinting out. I sighed and put a ten on the table and took a giant sip of hot chocolate.
"Henry waits for me! You're gonna run into someone!" I called after him as I went out the door. It turns out, I was right after all. Henry smacked right into Killian, Henry straightened himself and looked up. "Sorry, Hook. I didn't mean to run into you." Killian smiled down at him. "It's no problem; I'm guessing Emma told you about today?" He nodded at him. "Yeah, I'm so excited to learn." Killian laughed and placed a hand on his shoulder. "It'll be a lot of fun, mate, and ready to go?" Henry looked at me and followed with Killian who gave me a wink as we crossed the street.
We sailed a couple of miles away from Storybrooke when Hook finally let Henry hold the wheel. "You're a natural, Henry!" Killian grinned at him. I stood on the deck watching them closely but seeing how well Killian did with Henry made me realize that I didn't need to stare. Instead, I went into Killian's bed quarters. (I know I shouldn't have but the curiosity was killing me)
The quarter consisted of six windows all together on each side of the ship. A desk in the corner with stuff littered all over it, adjacent to the desk was a small chair; there was a small closet on the other side of the room. Killian's bed was huge; it was at least a California King. It was draped over with a thick red and gold blanket with two pillows strewn across the bed. I saw Killian's pirate outfit hanging on the closet door and I just could help myself but touch the thick leather and smile.
"You know, usually women touch my bed, not my clothes." I jumped hearing Killian's voice come close to me. I spun around and hit the closet door, "You scared me," I said putting a hand on my chest. "I didn't mean to, I just wondered where you ran off to, it makes sense now." I took a deep breath and then looked above me. "What's Henry doing? You left him alone on there?"
Killian gave me a look that held fake hurt. "You think I would let the boy steer my ship alone?" I looked at him in disbelief. "I think that you were smart enough to keep it on manual." Killian sighed with a look of irritation. "Emma, we have no mountains or cliffs to worry about you can relax what were you doing with my suit?" I looked over my shoulder and gave a sheepish smile. "I was just touching it; I kind of miss you wearing it." Killian looked down at his new clothes. "Do these not satisfy you?"
"No! They do because you look great in them; I just miss these a little bit." Killian leaned in, "You know if you want I can wear that again if you asked." I smiled at him; "I know but I like these outfits a lot better, it makes you look better." "You give a pirate some mixed signals, love." "I don't mean to but at least I'm not sending you into the depths of Davey Jones locker." "Love, you've stuck me in worse. You've stuck me in the depths of abstinence."
I gave a nervous laugh and backed up, it's not like I haven't thought about Killian like that. Practically a week ago I was begging him to take me. It's not like I have had the time to actually have him take me. It just hasn't been the good time and sleeping with Killian would only mix up my feelings worse. "I-I'm just gonna go check on H-Henry." I stuttered and then zipped out of the room.
Henry had one giant grin on his face as his hands remained motionless on the wheel. "Are you having fun, kid?" I asked going up the stairs, "Yeah, this is so cool. Hook taught me this trick on how to make the boat do one full circle, want me to show you?" "No, that's-that's okay maybe you can show me later?"Henry nodded. "Do you like him?" I looked over at Henry. "I-what did you just say?"
"I just asked if you liked him, he seems to really like you." I sat on the railing next to him. "Um, I don't know. It's hard to tell at this point but maybe." I gave him a smile, but truth was I did find myself falling for Killian. I was falling for Killian and what was going to hurt was where I was going to end up landing. "Do whatever makes you happy," Henry finally said which caused me to look up. "I just want you happy, mom. It'd be cool if you and dad got together but I know you wouldn't trust him so I just want you to be happy with whoever you choose."
"Thank you, Henry that means a lot." I sat up and ruffled up his hair planting a kiss on his head. "Aye, Henry, come here, lad!" Henry stood on his tip-toes to hold up two wooden swords. "I heard from Mary Margret that you and Charming like to play with these?" Henry grinned and left the wheel going down the stairs. "I'm totally gonna win this one." Henry grinned, "I don't think so, lad. Remember who you're going up against." "Psh, David has been teaching me every day; I'm almost as good as him!" "Prove it to me then!" Thus began the clanking of wooden swords.
An hour and a half we were back at Storybrooke laughing on how Henry managed to beat Killian. "You're a fast one, aren't you Henry?" "I told you I'm almost as good!" Killian rubbed his arm where Henry had whacked him hard. "Aye, and you were right, lad. You have one heck of an arm too." Killian and I smiled at each other. It was the perfect moment within itself that is until Neal had to ruin it.
There Neal was coming like a bat out of hell, with a face full of anger and eyes that look like he froze hell over. "So, this is your idea? Winning over my son with your clichéd schemes?" He said coming right up to Killian. "Whoa, whoa! Slow down Neal, what's gotten you this angry?" I asked putting an arm between them. "I was on my way to the diner to ask about a date tonight but what do I see instead? You guys boarding his ship!" Neal pushed against my arm. "Killian was nice enough to bring have Henry be the captain of his ship!" I said defensively.
Whatever had Neal hot bothered was getting me angry because I was not having a fight between these two again. "Is that your plan with everything, Hook? Just win kids over while you steal their mothers?" "I'm not doing anything to Henry." Killian hissed. Henry was standing behind Neal and I pulled my head to see him clearly. "Go get David." I mouthed and let Henry take off sprinting.
"He's not doing anything, Neal! He just took us out for a ride!" I said trying to push him away from him. "No, he's trying to weasel his way into your life by buying your son's affections! He did that with me when I was Henry's age!" "I'm not buying that lad's affections, you are a different story!" Killian objected. I couldn't help but look at Killian, "You did that with Neal?" Killian looked down at me and then at Neal.
"It was when he was abandoned by his own father and his mother was killed! This is different!" "How it any different, you're taking Henry's dream of having his family back together!" "I'm not taking anything from him, nor am I from you!" Killian finally hissed which caused Neal to finally lunge forward. "You son of a bitch!" Neal shoved me out of the way and Neal's fist connected to Killian's jaw.
