Chapter 7: As you wish

I hope you all like the changing personality of Taylor! She's getting less shy.

Taylor looked the man deep in his eyes and moved her hand, the one that was holding the hook, down.

"now please, don't bother me anymore." she gave him a wink and smile as she stood up.

"Hook is the name." He let himself gently fall to the ground while he moaned a bit.

Taylor let the hook fall into the brown and orange coloured leaves, next to "Hook".

"What a nice nickname, but if you really want to impress me, you have to say your real name." she looked with a fiery glance at the man who called himself Hook, she saw that he was in pain. But she showed not to be interested and slowly walked away.

"Killian Jones... Now would you mind helping me stand up?"

Taylor stopped walking, how should she know he wouldn't stick a dagger in her side? Anything could happen. She closed her eyes for a moment , biting her lip and sighed deeply. Taylor turned and walked back slowly, she grabbed his hand and with a quick movement she helped him up. The man made a moaning sound, but quickly got up. He was a bit taller than she was, black hair, dark eyes, and despite his bad introduction with her, she thought he had something special.

"I heard you moved in with Rumplestilskin, I don't have a great relationship with him ."

"So it was your idea to take me so Rumple could perhaps come after you to get me back. quite a well thought-out plan. Anyway, now I've helped you, you can help me. By leaving me alone."

"And what if I will see you again, by accident?" he gave her a little grin.

"Then I'll just have to talk to you, by accident, but otherwise, leave me alone. Understood?"

"As you wish Taylor."

She smiled at him and turned around. She climbed without too much trouble back up the hill and stood again on top of the road within a few minutes. She looked down, Hook, Killian, whatever he was called, looked up. Probably to see how long Taylor had spent climbing up. She picked up the wooden buckets and walked towards the village, however she still looked back one last time.

After an hour

Taylor opened the large wooden front doors of Rumple's castle, she saw him sitting at the fireplace.

"I'm Sorry, I had some problems along the way." she placed the water-filled wooden buckets gently on the long dining table and placed her cloak on the big chair that stood at the end of the table. Taylor walked slowly to the fireplace and sat on her haunches beside Rumple's chair. She looked at him, but he looked straight ahead.

"I was worried about you, I thought you were gone and were never coming back." Rumple kept looking ahead, the fire in the fireplace, a dull reflection in his eyes.

Taylor slowly and gently picked up his hand. "But I'm here, it hasn't even crossed my mind to think about walking away from you, Rum."

Rumple finally looked at Taylor, he stroked her cheek and a small smile on Taylor's face appeared. She gave him a hug and breathed deeply as she closed her eyes with happiness

" So, what kind of problems did you have along the way? "

Taylor was a bit taken aback by the question and her eyes opened immediately, Rumple could feel a shiver run down her body. Taylor made herself loose from the hug and stood up.

"Would you like some tea, Rumple " she pretended she didn't hear the question and turned to the large dining table. She rested her hands on the wood and blushed a little. Embarrassed, She looked slowly over her shoulder to Rumple who got up and stood behind her. He put his hands on her shoulders as Taylor stood right up again.

"I asked, what kind of problems you had along the way. " He moved his hands to her upper arms and felt Taylor was shaking.

"I met someone, that's all." Taylor turned and looked at Rumple with a small forced smile, she couldn't tell him the truth. The man said that he hasn't got a good relationship with Rumple, Killian was his name, right? The only thing she remembered was that he called himself Hook and that he had something special to him. She hoped that she would meet him again but on the other side, she was afraid. Afraid that it was all a scene and that he would take her to Regina the next time.

"Then that's okay, and yes I'd like to get some tea " Rumple laughed a little while Taylor walked to the tea tray, Rumple moved to sit in his chair again.