A/N Hi there. Soooo, as I promised you all Hook is going to receive his punishment, enjoy the chapter and friendly reminder that I'm open to prompts and with more free time so if you want to make me write something please do it ^^

I mainly do SQ but I'm also open to Clexa, Rizzles and the other pairings that are already on my profile. See you 0/

The punishment

"Emma" The brunette said just as Emma was about to bolt, the soft way in which her name was pronounced making her stay for a few seconds, the ones Regina used to gently cup Emma's cheeks with both hands and kiss her, fear and doubts crumbling inside of her as their lips finally touched.

Emma opened her eyes to find herself alone in Regina's study, a thick blanket covering her. As she stretched bits and pieces of what had happened the night before came back to her memory and she smiled a little at the empty room; kisses had escalated for a second but then Regina had merely asked to be held and that was the last thing Emma actually remember.

Rising herself from the comfortable divan that Regina kept in the studio -and Emma thought that maybe the reason of that was that she had spent many nights there without being able of sleeping the first she came to Storybrooke- she glanced at her phone and checked that it was in fact a little too soon for her.

"I knew that the smell of food would make you want to reunite with us" Regina's teasing voice sounded at her back making Emma turn with a blush already forming on her cheeks.

"Regina! I…" Emma swallowed, not knowing what she could do after last night's incidents; she had never been good with the morning after, even if that wasn't exactly one.

The brunette seemed to have realized the same thing because for a second both of them looked at each other as they tried to break the silence that hung between them.

"Are you two ready? I'm hungry" Henry complained from some point of the house and at the questioning glance of Emma Regina cleared her throat before turning her back to the blonde.

"He went to talk with me this morning to my room but as he saw that I wasn't there she came to look for me" Regina's explanation left Emma nodding, suddenly realizing that Regina was in fact wearing different clothes that she last remembered her; the ones she had been wearing all those days in the enchanted forest, and now she looked like the mayor Emma had once met.

"What have you told him?"

"Well" Regina said after closing the studio's door once Emma had walked through her, the blonde woman still fumbling a little with her own clothes that felt uncomfortable after spending the night with them. "You know your son; he always knows when to not ask something"

Even in her half sleepy state Emma caught the irony of those last words and turned to look at Regina with slight worried eyes. One thing was how both of them were with last night kisses but another different thing was how good their son could see the new… thing that had happened.

Even if Emma didn't really know if Regina wanted to keep with whatever they exactly were starting she wanted to be sure that their son was ready for that and being the amazing mother Regina was the brunette had probably thought of that several times by now.

"He is fine dear, you can see it for yourself" Regina finally said motioning to the kitchen in where Henry could be heard already eating something.

Emma entered in the room only to find Henry happily eating what looked like bacon, his face lightening slightly when he spotted his blonde mother.

"I was starting to think that mom was going to need to wake you up" The teen-age boy joked "Grandpa called and they want us to go to the station as soon as we can"

"Us?" Emma asked confused while stealing her son a piece of meat as Regina nodded, cup of coffee already on her hands.

"Yes, apparently your father decided that it was better to ask Henry if he was ok with seeing the pirate's punishment"

Although the words were carefully said Emma sensed the tension that filled the brunette's body, Henry picking it up as well judging his worried glance at Emma before speaking himself.

"Everyone is going to be there, besides Mom is the mayor, she needs to be there" The rest of the argument wasn't said but both women knew that David had probably wanted to make sure that both of them were ok.

"One thing kid, how is that everyone already know that Regina has returned?" Emma's question was met with an exasperated look from the boy but both women were now looking at him, Regina actually nodded to herself before drinking from her coffee mug.

"I told him yesterday when you left my bedroom thinking I was already asleep" Henry snickered a little when Emma raised her eyebrows, impressed that she didn't have picked up that she was being played. "David was worried about you because of what happened with Hook, I only told him that you have managed to bring mom back"

Regina sighed while Emma blushed a little miffed for not having seen that Henry had managed to fool her.

"Then we will go" The brunette interrupted Emma's thoughts while washing the mug.

"Are you sure?" Emma still doubted of what she was going to do with Hook and suspected that Regina didn't really have the time to think of that either.

"It's better if we finish with that" The brunette replied while Henry stood up and went to grab his coat, his face parted in what seemed nervous excitement and Emma noted that to discuss with the boy later about it. "Besides I'm not going to turn down the possibility of being in the right for all the citizens of Storybrooke, dear."

Humming Emma approached the older woman and stood in front of her, not sure if Regina wanted to be touched at that point or if what happened last night was still something that they could talk about in that situation.

But Regina smiled and nodded softly, her own eyes bathed in something that Emma saw as anxiety, maybe the same anxiety as she was feeling, the nervous feeling of someone that wasn't entirely sure of where they were standing.

"I would kill him myself" Emma finally said, her voice a soft murmur as the tension around them grew exponentially "I know I could do it"

"And that's reason because I am going with you." Regina replied "I told you in Neverland, your heart needs to be kept as you are, not as the rest of this world tries to make it. And that includes the pirate's punishment"

"What do you think is going to happen?" Emma bit her lower lip as Regina took a step forward, their bodies almost touching at that point.

"Giving that we are talking about your parents I expect something close to a pat in the back of his head and a very long reprimand but since they are asking for me…"

Emma was about to ask Regina more about it when Henry called from the main door.

"Mom, ma, c'mon"

They arrived at the station in no time thank to Regina's magic and when the purple smoke finally disappeared they found themselves in front of more people that they had thought off.

Belle and Gold were also there, the man smirking at the sight of an imprisoned pirate.

There were Robin and Marian as well and Emma clenched her jaw when she saw the longing look that Hood gave to Regina but the brunette merely glanced at the couple for a second before turning her face to David. The man was smiling smugly while Snow was holding Neal at his side.

"I didn't know this was a formal celebration" Regina's caustic voice made David flinch a little but it was the pirate who answered.

"I was saying the very same thing" Long gone where the brooding looks and soft eyes and Emma saw for the first time in a very long time the Hook that she had met once in the Enchanted Forest instead of the men that the pirate had tried to pass himself to be.

"Shut up" David said before neither Regina nor Emma could say anything. "Gold wanted to be here and…"

"We wanted to talk with you about leaving the town" Marian said with her voice cold and hard as iron, her eyes never leaving Regina's.

Emma was about to say something giving the hostility that Marian was displaying against Regina but the older woman looked at her direction for a second and shook her head, signaling that it was better to leave the situation to her.

Nodding reluctantly Emma approached her parents and hugged her father briefly, Henry already next to Snow while shooting daggers to Hook, who was comfortably seated in his cell without looking worried in the slightest.

"Very well, we will have that talk" Regina said before looking back to Gold, the man's smirk intensifying for a second and Emma had the sense that even if Gold had proclaimed that he didn't remember a thing there was something that he was hiding.

"Rumple"

"Regina, always a pleasure to see you, I would say that I'm slightly interested on what is going to be your punishment towards our leather covered friend"

Suddenly Hook's confident smirk vanished.

Emma looked at Snow for a second but the woman wasn't paying attention to her, her eyes set on Regina who had a surprised look on her face.

"My punishment?" Regina asked eyeing both David and Snow.

"Emma had repeated day after day that she trusts you" David said softly "And so do I"

Snow didn't say anything but her nod was enough confirmation for the rest and when Hook tried to say something it was Gold who gagged him.

"Stop" Regina commanded and Emma moved his right hand towards Gold, willing to make the old man stop but the man merely nodded at the brunette, silently saying something to the woman with his mischievous eyes that Emma didn't catch.

Once Hook was again on the floor without magic surrounding him Regina approached the metal bars of the cell and looked at him, her eyes wandering through the man's face.

"If all of this would have happened earlier in my life you would be dead" She stated calmly "Not only because of what you tried to do but also of all of the things that you have provoked to hurt me and my family" Those last words were forcefully said and even Emma shivered a little. "But then, what I have learnt is that I don't need to do any harm to make you regret what you did"

Hook started to relax, suddenly cocky once he was sure that he was going to survive.

"And since I'm better my punishment is to make you leave Storybrooke with the memories of what you were and without the possibility of being able to touch the sea as long as you live"

A/N Agh, writing with a hangover is the worst, let me tell you… Anyway, I know, I didn't kill him but while I have a complete set of fantasies in which I kill Hook patiently and with a lot of pain neither Emma nor Regina would actually kill him. Emma because she is not like that and Regina because she isn't like that anymore. Actually I have this little head canon that it would be Ruby the one to actually kill him. Don't know why….