Sorry for no update last week! Had a bit of a crazy week! Hope you enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 12: Left Hook, Right Hook

David and Killian were running through the forest as fast as possible to get to David's truck.

"Have you texted Emma yet?"

"Aye, I sent her a message asking her to call me."

"Good, I sent a message to Snow, too." David said, breathing hard from running, "now, tell me, what is Hook up to?"

Killian scoffed, "I don't bloody know!"

"Regina had a feeling. She knew what she was struggling with before the Evil Queen got out. Was there anyone you were angry with? Any agenda you had? Any revenge you wanted to take?"

"No!" Killian yelled, in frustration. "I was quite happy actually, happier than I've been, in well,ever!"

David frowned, "Well, where do you think Hook would go?"

Hook walked into Granny's, searching for Emma, turning a few heads in the process. Hook tried to walk inconspicuously towards the booth.

"Granny, have you seen Swan?"

Granny stepped up, "She just came in to pick up some dinner. She's probably at home."

Leroy was sitting at the bar drinking a beer, "Can't find her, huh? You and the lady have a fight? On the outs? I knew Emma would come to her senses about you, eventually." He teased. "And did you go back in time?"

Hook clenched his jaw and grabbed Leroy by the lapel. "That'll be enough from you, dwarf…" he shook him off.

"What the hell, man. I was just kidding."

Hook glared. "Thank you, Granny. I'll see you another time." Hook bowed and exited.

Granny and Leroy looked at eachother.

"What the hell was that about?" Granny asked Leroy.

Emma was arriving home with Granny's in her hand, she got out of the bug and

There was one text from Killian:

"Emma, when you get this, call me." She pressed the call button as she saw Hook running towards the house.

"Emma!" Hook rushed at her, hugged her tight and kissed her cheek.

"Hey! I was just about to respond to your message! What's going on?" Emma grunted out from the tightness of his hug, "And what the hell are you wearing your pirate outfit for?"

Hook looked down trying to come up with an explanation, "That's what I was messaging you about. The Evil Queen paid me a short visit."

"What?! When?"

"Just a bit ago, she wanted me to join her, tried to remind me of the times we would work together and team up. Wanted to tear us apart. She changed me into the pirate gear to refresh my memory. When she saw I was unwilling, she disappeared."

"She…" Emma tried to make sense of this, "...tried to get you to be dark again?"

"Aye." He said. "When she saw I was having none of it, she left."

Emma looked at his face. Something was up but she had no idea what. "And she just left?"

"Aye, I suppose she found no use for me."

Emma looked seriously at her boyfriend, Hook knew she was trying to use her super power and the best option was to distract her. He put his arm around her shoulder,

"Did you pick up dinner?"

"Yeah, um, I figured after your talk with Henry we could have dinner together. How'd it go?" She said slowly. Hook grabbed the bag, chivalrously and opened the picket fence for her.

"It went well, love! I believe the boy understands much better now. He's very excited."

Emma was still unconvinced but confused, "Ok, well that's good. Where is he?"

"He went to the mayor's mansion to do some homework, I'm sure he'll drop by later." Hook was doing everything to distract Emma. She was definitely sensing something was off.

"Shall we go inside?" He said, smiling at her, and opening the gate chivalrously.

Emma smiled at him. "Ok, sure. Let's eat."

"Emma's not bloody answering my texts." Killian said to David, as they drove into town. He checked his device and kept seeing nothing coming up. They had been driving around town trying to see where Hook could've gone.

"Emma was supposed to pick up some dinner tonight at Granny's. Let's check in there before heading to the house."

David looked over at him, "Ok." They parked and ran into the restaraunt and up to the booth.

."Have any of you seen Emma?" Killian asked, looking around.

Leroy glared at him, "Still looking, huh?"

"Still?" David asked.

"Yeah, Mr. I-Can-Impale-You-With-My-Hook here just came in asking about him. Had time to change I see."

"Hook was here." David whispered to Killian. "Think Leroy, how long ago was he here and what did he say?"

Leroy looked shocked, "That wasn't you that grabbed me?"

Killian scoffed, "No, I have a pirate altar ego out there on the loose. Now answer David, please!"

Granny chimed in, "He was here about 15 minutes ago and he was looking for Emma. Emma left her about 30 minutes ago to go home."

David and Killian nodded and headed for the door.

"Sorry for hurting you, mate!" Killian yelled to Leroy on the way out.

Leroy looked at Granny, they were thinking the same thing, it was just another day in Storybrooke.

Emma sat down on the couch with the bag of takeout, Hook sat next to her.

"I've had such a long day." Emma sighed.

"Aye, love, I'd wager a distraction is needed for you. " Hook raised an eyebrow at her and drew her in for a kiss. Emma kissed back. Hook growled a little and put his hand in her hair and began pulling her tighter. Emma smiled through the kiss, "Well, you're cheery."

Hook smiled, "I just can't resist a beautiful blonde in front of me." He kissed her cheek and began trailing it down her neck.

"You don't want to eat first?"

"I think the food can wait, love." Hook brushed her hair out of her face. "I have some enjoyable activities in mind at the moment." He kissed her passionately again, pulling her jacket off of her.

Emma smiled and moaned a little, "You're certainly in a mood."

Hook looked at her with a devious grin and started in for more of a kiss and laid her down on the couch. "I guess I just don't feel like fighting my inner battle right now."

Emma giggled.

Within a minute they arrived at their home. David and Killian jumped out of the car. David had his gun and he hid, Killian crouched behind him behind a bush. David stood a little to look through the window.

He saw Emma and Hook were on the couch, engaged in a rather, passionate encounter.

"Well, I know where Hook is."

"He's in there?"

"Yes." David said.

"Is Emma ok? What's he doing?"

"Umm maybe you should look for yourself." David sunk down, in horror of what he was seeing.

Killian stood up and looked through the window. He saw Hook deeply kissing Emma and anger bubbled up inside of him.

"What in the bloody hell are they doing?!" He growled.

"This pirate outfit is really doing something for me," He heard Emma say, "Hey, do you remember when we climbed on the beanstalk," Killian heard her say between kisses."Remember when you mended my hand? I've never told you this but...that was really sexy."

Killian cursed. David groaned.

Hook smiled, "Oh yeah?" He went in for another kiss.

Killian flushed with anger, he started lunging for the door. David grabbed him and stopped him. "What are you doing?!" David whispered.

"I need to get his bloody hands off of my woman."

"Technically that's you." David said, "From what it sounds like, it doesn't sound like he's hurting her."

Killian's eyes flashed at David and looked through the window again.

Emma was giggling and Hook was enjoying every moment. Killian's jealousy and rage was bubbling.

"Shall we take this upstairs, my darling?"

"Ok, Captain, care to...pillage and plunder…" Emma giggled playfully again.

Killian shot up. "That's enough, I can't take anymore of this!" He darted through the door. David groaned and followed him with his gun aimed and ready.

"Emma!" Killian shouted, interrupting the intimate moment between him and his altar ego.

Emma and Hook stopped what they were doing immediately and she pushed Hook off of her instinctively. She was looked at Killian and then Hook...and then...oh God...her father. A feeling of horror went through her.

"What the hell is going on?!" She said weakly standing up. Hook, tried standing up and David rushed over, holding him and sticking his gun to his back. Emma adjusted her clothes and ran over to Killian, who was bright red, and pissed. Killian, now that Hook had been subdued walked over and punched Hook right in the face again.

Emma screamed, "Killian!" Hook fell over.

"What the hell is going on?!" Emma demanded.

David responded, "The Evil Queen separated Hook and Killian in order to turn them against each other, I guess. She thought he'd destroy the town, wreck havoc. It's backfired though, clearly."

Hook stood up and grinned at Killian, "He's not man enough to fight. He needs his sheriff to protect him." Killian reacted by pushing him.

"Quiet. You. And keep your filthy paws off of Emma." Killian grabbed him by the neck

Hook groaned out a chuckle and said in a pained voice, "Oh, ya got to see that, hmm? Did you hear her? She loved it." Killian's jaw clenched harder and he pushed him again.

David groaned. "Listen, I don't know how much more of this I can take."

Emma stopped them.

"Killian, enough. I don't know what the hell happened. But, you two...really don't need to be killing each other here."

Killian still had his hand around his neck, "He's asking for it Emma! He went after you."

"Killian, I don't really know what to say but...he wasn't trying to hurt me!"

"He has no business here with you." He squeezed Hook's neck a little tighter.

"Killian, stop! I don't think this is going to help. I don't think he and you are all that different."

"What are you saying, Emma?!" David yelled.

"I'm saying. I love both of them."

Killian looked over at her. "What?" he said in disbelief.

Emma sighed, and moved towards Killian. She put her hand on his arm. "Whatever happened, this split? You are both the same. Remember...I am a fan of every part of you."

"You're saying…" he tried to make sense of her words.

"You are both, Killian. I like both. It's what makes you the amazing man you are. I don't need one gone or the other, you need him and he needs you. I need both."

Killian looked at Emma for a moment and softened. Killian released Hook, from his hold, David picked him up and held him with the gun.

Killian looked back at Hook. Killian approached Hook. Hook arched his eyebrow, "You will always be a part of me, but you aren't all that I am anymore." Killian reached out to the other figure and Hook's body began absorbing back. Killian groaned slightly and the two figures became one.

Emma and David watched as they saw Hook disappear into Killian. Killian took a breath and looked at them.

"That was new." Emma said.

"You ok, Killian?" David asked.

"Bloody fantastic." Killian responded.

David looked around, "Let's just hope this is the last of any of that I ever have to witness again." He said looking down, scarred for life.

Emma shifted uncomfortably, flattening her hair, "Well, at least I think we just figured out the key to destroying the Evil Queen."

"And what is that?" David asked, still not looking his daughter in the face.

"Regina needs to absorb her back, accept her back."

"Aye." Killian said, still recovering from the moment, looking a bit bashfully at Emma and then at David, "We just need to find out how to get the Evil Queen in a compromising position. One where she was open to receiving Regina."

Emma and Killian nodded.

David sighed. "Ok, well, I'm going to check in with Regina and Henry, keep your phone on. Killian, fill her in on what she's missed. Bye." David exited their home and walked to his truck.

Emma looked over at Killian. "Fill me in on what?"

"Regina and Henry had been taken captive by the Evil Queen in a hidden cabin in the forest. She had been pretending to be Henry all day, even when we told him about the baby."

Emma's eyes widened, "Is Henry ok?"

Killian nodded, "Henry is fine. He's with Regina, she took him to safety. Dave will check in with us once he finds them. The Evil Queen led me into the forest while pretending to be Henry while we had our "man to man" about the pregnancy." He rubbed his hand through his hair.

Emma nodded, "That explains Henry's odd response to the news." She sighed, "So... the Queen knows."

Killian looked at her, "Aye, she does."

Emma and Killian looked quietly at each other for a moment. He read her face, terror was rising in her, he knew they would defeat this Queen, this wasn't the moment to freak out. He moved closer to her and wrapped his hooked arm around her waist and placed his hand on her stomach.

"Swan, don't fret. You have your parents, me, and a whole town out to protect this child." He looked straight into her eyes and kissed her forehead, "I won't let anything happen."

Emma put her head onto his chest. "Okay…" She looked up at him and breathed. She wasn't used to feeling so cared for but she was revelling in the feeling for now. The Lost Girl who only looked out for herself did indeed have a whole town at the ready for her. She held Killian a little tighter, looking up at him, noticing that a grin came to Killian's face.

"What?" Emma asked, returning the smile.

"Oh...just thinking…" He said, shaking his head a little.

Emma pulled away a bit, "About what?"

Killian let out a little breath of a laugh, "Oh, just that all these years, I knew you liked it when I mended your hand on the beanstalk." Killian raised an eyebrow.

Really? He was teasing her about this? Now? Emma's cheeks heated and she rolled her eyes. "Oh stop."

"You liked me."

Emma rolled her eyes and walked away from him, "I thought you were a scoundrel trying to get a rise out of me."

Killian raised an eyebrow with a smile plastered all over his face, "Oooo, a scoundrel? And you loved it. You want me to be more of a scoundrel, Swan?"

Emma scoffed, "I don't think you could be more of a scoundrel."

"Aye, but it does something for you, hmm?" He was leaning in, teasing her with a playful, daring look.

"I can't believe this." She said, unable to hide a smile but moving up the stairs, trying to hide her feelings.

"Oh, don't be embarrassed, love," he leaned against the stairs in an intentional, posed look. "not many women can resist my devilishly handsome looks."

She stopped and turned around, "Shocking that I don't often talk about what scoundrelly stuff does it for me. Your ego certainly doesn't need any more fluffing." She was trying to hide a smile, clearly flirting, crossed her arms, turned around and headed upstairs. Killian chuckled even louder and started following her up the stairs.

"Ah, but it does something for you, love. You admit it. "

They both reached the top of the stairs, Killian grabbed her arm, "What other things did I do as a scoundrel that you liked, before we were together." He stepped into her space and gave her a smile.

Emma took a breath as he moved in, "Please…" she said, "clearly you can't handle it." She walked into the bedroom.

"Oh, I'm pretty sure we've just determined you're the one who can't handle it." He said quietly, chasing her into the room, with a grin. Emma giggled and Killian closed the door.