AN: I do not own OUAT
Guest: David said that Emma feels like his daughter but he believes that he's 6 years younger than her?
That was a typo I meant to put David and Mary-margaret believes they're 30 instead of actually being 38. (They would have had Emma when they were 18, which was normal in medieval times.)
Dancingmylifeaway: What did Rumple do to Killian?
Rumple (Mr. Gold) still know's everything that's going to happen, and he knew that Emma was starting to feel towards Killian, but he also knew she had doubts about her feelings. He needs Killian to be alive and awake in order to break this curse so the blue vial of liquid was a potion that when Emma were to kiss him again it would wake him up like True loves kiss, because if she were to just kiss him his heart rate would only go up or she would only see visions but he wouldn't wake up.
Dancingmylifeaway: How will the curse break now?
I have plans for how the curse will break but that wont be happening for a couple of chapters now.
Chapter 9: Awake
Henry was fast asleep in the cot that the hospital had given him to sleep on the night prier. It was firm and the sheets were soft, white and thin, but he was alright as long as the sun shone in through the window and onto him. He opened his eyes slightly and seen that Emma had still been sitting in the spot she was when he had fallen asleep, she was till gripping Killian's hand and looking down at his face, praying he would wake up. He could tell that she was really getting stressed lately, first he assumed that something happened between them the first couple of days his father was deputy because Emma was avoiding him and when they found him in the tunnels she had been crying, then Graham had died, which did take effect on his father as well but not as bad as it had Emma, she wouldn't even look at his father at times and then finally to top it all off she had to go through the pain of seeing the man she cared about in the hospital, in a coma, bruised, cut and with a broken arm. He wanted to help. "Emma..."
"Oh, hey kid. Sleep well?" Emma asked only taking her eyes off of Killian for a split second before looking back down at his resting body. she thought he would have woken up by now already. When they had arrived last night the nurses and Dr. Whale said that everything was looking very good and he should be waking up very shortly. But he didn't.
Henry got up from his bed and felt the cold hospital tile under his sock covered feet. "Did you sleep at all?" When he approached her, he seen dark circles under her eyes and her eyes were red.
Emma shook her head, "I can't sleep, I need to wait until your father wakes up, then I'll sleep."
"But he might not wake up for another day, or even more," Henry said, "I don't think dad would want to wake up to a grouchy Emma." He laughed.
"Trust me Henry, if you were in my position right now and you loved the person, you wouldn't want to sleep either." The words came out without her even noticing, she loved him.
"You love my dad?" His face went to the side. Of course it wasn't a surprise to him, but this brought an idea to him. "Emma...have you ever kissed my father? While he was in the hospital?"
Emma thought about it for a moment, she was so tired she couldn't even remember just a few days ago. "I believe so, when we first came to see him, the night of the accident."
"Did anything happen after you kissed him?" Henry was curious.
Emma had to think about it, she remembered kissing him and then a bunch of people rushing in, "Yeah, his blood flow and heart rate was declining and when I kissed him, everything went to normal...why?"
Henry thought about it for a moment, if that happened because of the kiss...then maybe if she kissed him again..."I need you to kiss my father again, please."
"What...why?" Emma's eyes narrowed, this was the first time ever in history that she ever heard about somebody begging for them to kiss somebody while they were in a coma. She could see if maybe he was dying or already dead and it would be the last time she seen him, but Killian was fine, doctors said he would wake up any moment.
"Because, true loves kiss!" Henry exclaimed jumping down onto the bed next to his father. "If the first time you kissed him made everything go back to normal then maybe if you kiss him again it'll wake him up!" Maybe even the rest of the town, Henry thought to himself.
Emma chuckled softly, "Oh, kid, this isn't a fairy tale, this is real life...Killian will wake up when his body is ready to" She tried to explain to him.
"His body is trapped in a coma! The only way to break any curse is by true loves kiss!"
"Henry! He's not cursed, he's just sleeping!" Emma said once again. She was getting frustrated, this fairy tale fantasy that Henry was going through was starting to go too far.
"It worked for your mother and father when your mother was under as sleeping curse" He wanted her to believe.
Emma sighed, "Henry..." She gave up on trying to explain to him that she wasn't the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming or even any fairy tale character.
Henry placed his hand over the one that was holding his fathers, he wanted her to see, just to try it out. "Please." He put on his quivering lip and the big wide puppy eyes that his father wouldn't even resist.
"Alright...fine, but only the once, if it doesn't work you'll stop bugging me about the true love kiss thing." She wasn't used to hearing the words true love come out of her mouth, she never even loved anybody before. Then something came to her, "Wait...for this true love thing to work...doesn't both people have to love each other?"
"My fathers loved you ever since he first met you." Henry knew it wasn't true love at first sight, but he knew his father would've done whatever it took to win over her heart or at least he would flirt with her and try to get somewhere with her...it was a pirate thing.
Emma raised an eyebrow, she literally just met the man a month ago, how could he have fallen in love with her that very first night they met at Granny's. They only talked for five minutes.
Henry noticed the way Emma looked at him. "I never said the first time here...I meant in the enchanted forest."
Emma nodded, "Enchanted Forest...right." Well here goes nothing. Emma lowered her head closer and closer to Killian's sleeping face, she looked down at his lips, they looked so soft. She remembered the very first time she ever touched them, the night when they saved Alexandria. The only reason she was even trying this was to show Henry that there was no such thing as true loves kiss, it would take doctors and rest for Killian to wake up. She hadn't even noticed but when she got rid of all her thoughts she was nearly inches away from pressing her lips down onto Killian's...was she really going to do this? "I love you Killian" And before she knew it her lips were pressing down onto his, the softness of their lips rubbing together. And then she seen something...dead bodies...three women.
"Hey! Hey look!" Emma was wearing a long light blue dress that flowed from her hips down, a long sash was wrapped around her waist with multiple designs of buttercups.
"Somebody's under there!" Aurora shouted as she seen the arm moving from under neither all of the dead bodies that they had found when the two Princesses and Queen were out for their morning stroll to the nearest village that they did every time Aurora had come for a visit.
"Please! Please don't hurt me!" The man whined as the three ran over to him.
"It's alright...you're safe now" Snow comforted the man.
"Thank you..." He looked around, everything was going according to plane. Make the Princess and Queen feel safe, make them believe they are helping a simple blacksmith and then as his orders were...kill them.
Emma could see the visions were starting to change, this time there was a man wrapped to a tree and Emma had a cutlass pressed against his neck.
He was lying, she knew he was. "Who are you!"
"...Killian Jones, but most people tend to call me by my more colorful moniker...Hook" The man smirked. His orders kind of took a wrong turn but when you get to look into the emeralds of the Princess...who cares.
"As in...Captain Hook?" Emma asked. She had heard all the stories about the infamous pirate, but she always thought he was just a pirates myth.
"Ah, so you've heard of me...check the satchel."
Snow White was holding the mans satchel, she opened it up and immediately pulled out the hook.
Emma gasped for air as the visions ended...what was that. She felt a hand press against her cheek, a much larger hand then Henry's, his was still on her hand. She looked up and seen the big blue orbs of sky that she had been only wishing to see for the last four days. "Killian!" She jumped onto him and threw her arms around him.
Killian grunted in pain and chuckled at the same time, he was happy to see her this happy. "Swan...miss me?"
"Yes, you idiot!" She joked as she started placing kisses all over his face.
Killian chuckled again, he had noticed she had that same look on her face that she had in the police station before she had collapsed. "Love...are you alright? You just blacked out a moment ago"
"It doesn't matter anymore" She said smiling, looking down into his eyes.
"Yes it does!" Henry spoke. He watched the entire thing. One minute Emma was kissing him the next her head shot up as her eyes were wide and her pupils grew twice in size, she was still clenching the sheets into her fists. He knew she had seen something.
Emma looked at Henry, and a small chuckle escaped from her mouth, they would laugh when they heard. "Well, after I kissed you I had this vision, I was dressed in medieval clothes, me, Mary-margaret and this auburn haired women were walking through the forest and we came across this village of dead bodies but we ended up finding one survivor that happened to be you but then then I seen myself pressing a cutlass to your throat," She chuckled, "I know, it was probably just my brain playing tricks on me, I haven't slept all night."
Henry looked at his father who was looking at him, they both knew Emma seen a vision of when she first met Killian...or actually the villain Killian.
Killian raised an eyebrow and looked over at Emma, was she being serious? She's been seeing visions this entire time of their life together, from the very start and she hasn't told him! Well I guess anybody who just randomly seen strange visions wouldn't really come out and tell anyone. Then he clued in. "Hold it love, did you just say you kissed me?"
"Yeah, it was Henry's idea really, said if I kissed you, you would wake up, guess it was just a coincidence" She said shrugging it off, she didn't care if she kissed him anymore, he was awake.
Killian placed his hand over her cheek, "Yeah, just a coincidence." He seen Henry was about to cut in but he immediately raised his hand to cut him off, he was going to let Emma believe what she wanted to...for now.
Emma leaned into Killian's hand, it's like the entire world had paused for just a moment, a moment where it was just them. She couldn't deny that she had feelings for the man now, she had kissed him for crying out loud, but what did that now mean for them? They haven't even been on any dates, they only had a few kisses that weren't suppose to happen. She had a tear roll down her cheek.
"What's wrong love?" Killian answered whipping away the tear with his thumb.
Emma shook her head, "Nothing, I'm just...happy."
"Aye, me too." Killian pulled her in for another hug, ignoring the shooting pain in his left arm, he only cared about holding her.
"This is all my fault, if I hadn't been so upset over Graham and had been avoiding you..." Emma had been cut off my Killian.
"It's not your fault Swan, you did what any other regular person would have done." He placed a small kiss onto her cheek and held her close once again, he didn't want to let go.
Emma broke the hug and looked over where Henry was still sitting on the bed, this time with the widest smile. "Henry, can you go fetch Dr. Whale, so he can say when Killian can go home."
Henry ran off immediately, he had ran passed Mary-margaret and David. "Sorry Mrs. Nolan, Mr. Nolan!" He shouted as he ran off.
"Uh, Henry? Where are you going?" Mary-margaret called out as she watched the boy run down the hall. He was too far away to hear and didn't answer her. Her and David had just shrugged it off. "That was weird." They had come for their first ultrasound to see the baby that they desired for so long, but they wanted to make a stop some where. They walked into the room and Seen Killian and Emma embraced into each other arms while locking lips.
David cleared his throat, there was nothing better than going to visit the man you just were starting to get along with and then see him locking lips with the girl you'd do anything to protect. But he didn't feel like he should have to worry, the only thing going through him was embarrassment for walking in on them.
"David! Uh...Shouldn't you be at the station" Emma asked as she pulled away from Killian and seen the two in the doorway. She had felt her face starting to turn bright red, this was so embarrassing.
"We, um, had to come for Mary-Margaret's first ultrasound." David stood there holding his wife's hand for a moment in silence, how he wished they had showed up at another time. "So, um...Killian's awake, glad to see you awake buddy." He walked over with a smile, pretending that nothing happened and leaned over giving Killian a bro hug, being careful not to crush the man anymore than he already had been.
"Yes, it's so nice to see you awake...with Emma." Mary-margaret giggled, she felt like a proud mother. She gave Emma an 'I told you look' When she walked over to the group.
Killian scratched behind his ear with a nervous chuckle, "Sorry, you had to see that Dave and Mary-margaret." The only time Emma's parents had seen them exchanging a scene of romance was after they said their vows on their wedding day which seemed like an eternity ago...probably was.
David smiled, Killian definitely was a gentleman, a gentleman he was glad that Emma could count on. "No need to apologize, you make Emma happy."
Killian looked over at Emma with a toothy grin, she looked down at the floor and her golden locks covered her face, but he could tell that she was blushing. He knew his Swan more than she even knew herself. Open book. He gripped her hand as hard as he could at the moment and she looked back up at him and smiled.
Emma had been thinking about the visions she had seen...it wasn't the first time she's seen them, but she didn't want to tell Killian that and worry him. The only time she seen them was when she came in contact with either Killian or Henry and when she did she didn't really think twice about them because she didn't know what they meant.
"Mr. Jones, I see you're awake." Dr. Whale came walking in with his usual white lab coat and stethoscope. Henry was behind him with a smile, he was beyond excited that his father was awake. "How about we check how you're doing?" He made his way over to the machines checked over everything, took his stethoscope and checked Killian's heart and lungs making sure they were healthy. "Alright, everything seems to be in order."
"So, when should he be aloud to leave?" Emma asked, wanting him out as soon as possible.
"Well, everything seems to be above average, his heart and lungs are good, so I say he'd probably be well enough to leave tomorrow morning." Dr. Whale said.
Killian cupped Emma's face, "Here that swan." He gave her a toothy grin, they were certainly improving quicker than he had ever thought.
Henry was walking along main street with Ava and Nicholas by his side, they had asked him to actually hang out for real this time. Plus he needed to get out of that hospital room and let his parents catch up, he couldn't see them kiss anymore than he already had in the last ten minutes he was there. He had his storybook held between him and his arm, he was going to show Ava and Nicholas his castle. "So, how's living with your father?" Henry asked.
"Amazing! He lets us stay up late eating popcorn, cookies and chocolate...so much chocolate!" Nicholas exclaimed. He had a sweet tooth, at least that's what Henry had gathered from the story of how Hansel couldn't resist himself from taking a big bite out of a cupcake when him and his sister had to steal a small pouch that contained nothing but a poisons apple from the blind witch that had almost cooked them for supper.
Henry laughed along with Ava. When they turned the corner Henry seen the mysterious man on the side of the road, bent down on the road looking at his bike. Henry ran over to him, Ava and Nicholas didn't know what he was doing. "What are you doing here?" He asked.
"Fixing my bike" The man answered with a low tone, not picking up his head.
"No, I mean in Storybrooke, and isn't it dangerous to be on a motorcycle?" Henry asked since it was mostly winter and the roads were covered in slush and ice.
"I live for the danger." He answered, "And I'm just visiting."
Henry looked to the back of the mans motorcycle, there was an old wooden box strapped to the bike. "What's that?"
"A box" Said the man as he stood up, pointing out the obvious.
"What's inside?" Henry was curious.
"Just something I need to do what I came here for." He picked himself up and placed his helmet back on his head.
"I thought you were just visiting?" Henry asked.
The man sat down on his motorcycle and started up his engine making a loud roar come from the pipes. "Doesn't mean I don't have anything to do." Just then Ava and Nicholas ran up beside their friend. "Better get going, looks like a storms coming. "A loud crash of thunder was heard in the distance as he drove off.
"Henry, who was that?" Ava questioned as she watched the man drive off.
Henry shrugged his shoulders, "That's what I'm trying to find out."
"Well, who ever he is, he seems pretty cute" Ava said as a soft blush appeared to her cheeks and down to her neck.
Henry shook his head and rolled his eyes. Girls. "Come on, let's go, we're almost there." Henry continued to walk as Ava and Nicholas fallowed behind, he loved going to his castle, it resembled just a small piece of the castle he could have grown up in.
Walking down the street Henry could hear loud trucks, but he didn't think anything of it, until they all turned the corner and seen a truck tearing apart his castle, one piece at a time. The Mayor was there, of course she was. "No! What are you doing!" Henry shouted as he started running down the street. "Stop this!"
"I'm sorry sweetie, I can't, plus it looked like it wasn't a very safe place to play." Regina gave Henry an evil grin, the only reason she took it down so to destroy the boy on the inside, maybe it would teach him a lesson. You try to destroy something I enjoy, I'll destroy something you enjoy.
The mysterious dark man watched in the distance as the Mayor and Henry were having an argument, clearly Henry didn't agree with her tearing down his play area. Then he noticed the book, the one thing he had came here for, he had to get it. But how? He couldn't just walk up to the boy and ask for the book.
"What is wrong with you! Ever since I came here you've been trying to get close to us just so you could destroy our family!" Henry shouted. Ava and Nicholas were a few feet behind him, they didn't wanted to get in between the two. Suddenly somebody that was dressed in all black from their head to their feet ran in and swiped his book out from under his arm and started running away with it. "Hey!" Henry shouted as the rain started to come down. He watched as the man ran and ran until he ran behind the corner. His book was gone...the one thing that told him who everybody was, the one thing that gave him hope that he would have a full family some day.
Emma looked into the deep ocean blue in front of her. Mary-margaret and David had gone to their appointment, all the doctors and nurses gave them some privacy after they checked everything and Henry was out with friends, though they hoped he was back soon, it was starting to rain out and the wind was picking up by the minute. Killian had been rubbing his thumb along her cheek as he stared at her and she didn't mind, it just made her blush, but she was having an inside argument with herself. She kept telling herself that this was alright and that she did love him, she did, she did, but did she really? Of course she felt different around him, she felt happier in a way, when they kissed everything just stopped and time paused, but was this really love? She didn't know because she never felt it before.
Killian could feel the doubts she was having, he sort of known already she had doubts about how she felt, he just didn't want to say anything in case she pushed him away. "Love, what's wrong?"
"Nothing" Emma said shaking her head with a smile.
"Trust me Swan, I can feel something's not right...come on share with me." He placed her hand over his heart, letting her know that he's all in, he loves her.
Emma closed her eyes and took a deep breath as she felt every single beat his heart made. "I um..." Before she could even speak Henry came running in the room with Ava and Nicholas. He was drenched and had tears in his eyes, he must of ran the whole way here considering how much he was gasping for air. "Henry, what's wrong?"
"M-my book" Henry cried out through his breaths.
Killian raised an eyebrow and looked down, that's when he noticed that Henry didn't have his book on him. He always had his book on him. "Henry, where is it?"
"Henry wanted to show us his castle but when we got there Madame Mayor was having it torn down, and then out of no where a man dressed in all black ran up to Henry and swiped his book out from under his arm. He was too fast, we couldn't run after him, and then it started to pour so we came here as quickly as we could" Ava explained.
Henry climbed up on the bed as Emma wrapped him up in a soft towel that laid next to Killian's bed, she was wiping away the tears. "Don't worry Henry, we'll find whoever stole your book alright? And if we don't I'll buy you a new one." Christmas was almost here after all, and she still didn't even know what to buy anybody, the only people she ever bought for was David and Mary-margaret and they didn't really care what they got.
Henry shook his head, "No, there was only one of those books and it was all I had that would give me hope about finding my family and breaking the curse."
"Don't worry Henry, we'll still be able to break the curse without it." That's when Killian then noticed something, "Wait...did you say Madame Mayor was tearing down Henry's castle?" He asked Ava as the young girl nodded. "Well, I guess I know what I'm doing first thing tomorrow when I'm out of here."
Emma ignored what Killian had said about another way to break the curse, she was starting to think that he was starting to believe this whole cursed fairy tale thing. She already knew that any relationship was going to have their ups and downs but having arguments about if a curse was real or not...well, that was something new for the books. To think that Henry thought she was his mother was unbelievable, she couldn't even find time for herself, so how could she find time to have a baby, better yet even make a baby. Besides she didn't even know Killian ten years ago.
Mary-margaret and David ran inside of their front door, their clothes were wet and they had water pouring down their faces. It was a real rainstorm out there. They had just gotten back from their ultrasound and everything went reluctantly good. The baby was well and healthy and they even got little samples of pictures that Mary-margaret was going to put around the house and David was going to put on his desk at the station.
"I'll go draw you some bath water" David said as he placed a gentle kiss on the side of his wife's cheek that had droplets of water forming small streams. He ran upstairs and turned the hot water on adding some lavender scented bubbles and the most relaxing music.
Mary-margaret took off her rain soaked jacket and walked over to the living room where she was able to start a small fire before David had returned back to bring her to the bathroom. She looked down at the small picture that she had tucked away in her pocket, looking at the small bean that was growing inside of her. "I can't believe you're actually there, inside me, we've waited years to finally have you, and we only have eight more months to go, and you'll be in the comfort of mine and your fathers arms." She placed a hand at the bottom of the small swell that had formed not to long ago and smiled. Before she knew it David had placed his hand over hers, he heard everything she had said.
When David walked into the living room where he found Mary-margaret he smiled at he words she was saying to their unborn son or daughter. he softly walked up to her not wanting to take her out of her thoughts and placed his hand over where hers rested on her baby bump. He started placing small kisses on her neck and went up to her cheek. "Your baths ready." He picked her up without warning, making a small giggle come out of Mary-margaret as he carried her up into the bathroom. "If you want anything just call. Now, sit down and relax. You'll have a hot cup of cocoa with cinnamon waiting for you."
She did as told. She stripped off ever single piece of clothing that she had on, her body met the cold and instantly got goosebumps all over her body. When she met the warm water, and her nose smelt the sweet lavender, she closed her eyes. She was so lucky to have a prince like David, somebody who would take care of her and wouldn't fuss a single bit. She closed her eyes and listened to the soothing forest sounds that David had put on for her. The birds chirping, it seemed like she really was there.
Snow White was laying in a glass coffin, seven little men around her. There was another man there also, a man dressed in royal clothes, he had just jumped off of a white horse and was making her way to her.
"Just let me say goodbye!" The man demanded.
The seven men lifted up the glass case, revealing the palest of skin with the reddest of lips. The man looking down at the beauty before him and started inching closer and closer. He gently placed a kiss upon the red lips, rays of rainbows blasted out where their lips had met, making the women shoot up gasping for air.
"You. You found me" The women said with a smile.
"Did you ever doubt I would?" The man let out a chuckle as he looked into the emeralds of the women he traveled miles to find.
"Honestly, the coffin kept me paused."
"Mary-margaret!" The prince shouted out of no where.
Snow narrowed her eyes, "What?"
"Mary-margaret!" The prince shouted again.
"Mary-margaret! Wake up!" David shouted as he tried shacking her. She was out of it. He came in to check up on her and seen her sleeping in the bath, maybe he made it too relaxing.
"Charming!" Mary-margaret shouted as she shot up from her trance. She looked up into Davids eyes, the same eyes she had saw in her dream, the same man, with the same love looking back at her.
David helped her get out of the bath, wrapping a towel around her. "Mary-margaret, are you alright? I came in here, and you seemed out of it"
Mary-margaret was silent, she was thinking about the dream that she had. It seemed so real to her. "I, um...I had this strange dream. I was laying in this glass coffin with seven little men around me, you were there also, but you were dressed up and then all of a sudden you kissed me and this blast of something came from our lips and then I woke up gasping for air."
"Like Snow White?" David asked narrowing his eyes. Of course he's heard of the movie, what person hasn't? It was one of his favorite fairy tales when he was just a little boy.
Mary-margaret nodded, "Yeah...like Snow White." She thought back to the other day when Henry was telling her about how everybody in his storybook was real and they were all cursed in this town to believe they were somebody else. It couldn't be real, obviously, but it was just weird that she had this dream where she was Snow White and everything that happened in the book, she seen.
Emma thrashed her sword at the pirate, there was no way she was letting him give that compass to Cora. She kicked him back as he was getting ready to swing at her, what kind of Princess could say she fought swords with a pirate and won? None. She thought Hook was different, thought he was actually going to change after she helped him get the compass. She didn't want it for herself, she wanted it to save her world from Cora, to send her back where she had came from. The pirate shared his secret to her about The Dark One, they even had a moment on the beanstalk when Emma had cut herself and he helped her. She didn't want to admit it but she was falling for the Captain, she could see another part of him, a part of sorrow and heartbreak. Her mother always told her the ones that are most evil are the ones that have been hurt the most.
She grunted as Hook pushed her down, making her sword fall out of her hands. She was trying to reach for it but he would just keep pulling her away from it. Her mother was there along with a Mulan, a warrior that served in Princess Aurora's kingdom, they were trying to fight against Cora but it was hard considering the witch had dark magic.
Mulan thrashed her sword at Cora but she was too late, by the time her sword would have met the witch, she was gone in a poof of dark purple smoke. A small satchel flung off the witch, it was the satchel with Aurora's heart that Cora had taken to manipulate the group.
Hook reached out and grabbed it with his hook before it even had time to fall to the ground and crumple to dust. He let go of Emma's leg in order to throw it over to Mulan. "I may be a pirate, but I risk the thought of a women losing her heart. Unless it's over me!" He said in a dark tone as he looked over at Emma and winked as he bent down and picked up his sword that he dropped to the ground.
Emma nodded over at Mulan before she ran back over to the Pirate, getting ready to defeat him.
"Go!" Snow shouted over at Mulan.
"No, you guys need my help!" Mulan shouted back.
"And Aurora needs her heart!" Snow stated as she nodded down at the satchel that Mulan held in her hands.
Mulan looked down at the satchel that held her friends red beating heart, Snow was right, she had to get this back to Aurora. "Here, take this, it deflects her magic!" Mulan said handing Snow the sword that she had been using to try and kill Cora. She ran off towards the dungeon that Aurora had told them to lock her up in.
"I had no idea you had such a soft side" Emma said with a smile towards the Captain as she held up her sword pointing at him.
"I don't" Lie, "It's like a fair fight" Hook said as he than spun around and started thrashing his sword at Emma, making her step back and allowing him to get close to her face as both their swords thrashed together and formed an X. He couldn't lie to himself, he had been starting to form feelings for the Princess but he kept pushing them aside. The Princess was pretty good at handling a sword, if only he wasn't a black hearted pirate, then maybe he could actually have a chance with her, but what kind of Princess would want somebody like him. A monster. "Good form! But not good enough!" He said in the Princess face as he took her leg with his Hook and made her fall to her back. His sword was on one side and his hook was on the other, scratching against the cold metal of her sword as he lowered himself down onto her, "Normally, I like to do more enjoyable activities with a women on her back, but with my life on the line you leave me no choice, bit of advice, when I jab you with my sword you'll feel it" He said with a smirk as he wiggled his eyebrows.
Emma looked into his cold dark eyes, she seen sadness, he really did not want to hurt her. "And why's that?"
Hook smirked as he took his hook and scooped up the compass by it's chain that had been laying right next to her. "Because I'm winning!" He stated as he pushed himself up and started walking over to Cora, about to hand her the compass. His threat was nothing more than just that, he couldn't hurt the princess, not after everything they went through together, from their first meeting to their little flirty moments, to the moment where he had almost kissed her on the beanstalk when she saved him from almost setting off a trap.
"So the pirate actually gets it, good" Cora smirked as she appeared in front of Hook with a smirk, "Hand it over Hook."
He was about to do it, about to go through with it. His hand was nearly inches away from Cora's but he stopped and looked back at Emma who was sitting on the dried up lake, looking back at him, she knew. Knew he couldn't go through with it, "No!" he stated in the witches face as he threw the compass on the ground beside him and cruched it with his boot, shattering the entire piece.
"No!" Cora shouted as she watched and then looked up at Hook, "You useless pirate!" She shouted as she used her magic to make his sword appear in her hand. She jabbed him immediately in the gut making him grunt down in pain holding his bleeding wound.
"Hook! No!" Emma shouted as she seen the sword go through him and him fall to the ground. She rushed over to him and cupped his face with her hands, her eyes were filling with tears as she seen the man she was falling for dying before her. "Why did you do that?"
Hook coughed, "I couldn't have Cora get the compass and destroy you and your family, now go! get out of here! leave me to die!" He coughed again, his breathing was slowing down.
"No! I'm not leaving you!" She shouted as she cupped his face harder and placed her forehead against his.
Cora did an evil chuckle, "So that's why you did it Captain? For her? She's a princess! You're a pirate! You will never be together!" Cora shouted as she then disappeared in a poof of smoke.
"Emma!" Snow shouted as she rushed over to her daughter and knelt beside her, "Emma, we have to go, it's done now."
"No, I'm not leaving him here alone!" Emma spat in her mothers face as she looked back down at Hook, his eyes were closed but he was still breathing. She placed her hand over his wound, his vest was now soaked with his own blood, a tear shed from her eye and landed on his face she whipped it away and she seen just a peak of deep blue come from his eyes before he stopped breathing. "Hook! Hook!"
Suddenly Emma felt something warm in her hands, she looked down and seen a white glow coming from her palm and shooting into Killian's wound. Picking up her hand she looked down and seen that the blood stain from Hook's vest was disappearing and his stomach was again rising. He was breathing.
"Emma?" He asked as his eyes opened once again, looking at the Princess.
"Hook!" Emma shouted as she awoke from her alarm clock going off. What just happened? She looked over and shut off her alarm, Henry was stretching on the spot of the couch he had fallen asleep on last night when he was watching Peter Pan. Today was the day Killian could leave the hospital, she was so happy. Then she remembered in her dream, Killian was Hook...Captain Hook, and she was a Princess and Mary-margaret was Snow White fighting against the Evil Queens mother, wow, Henry was really getting into her head with these fairy tales.
"Emma?" Henry asked as he turned around, he heard her shouting his father moniker. Was she remembering.
Emma looked at Henry and seen worry on his face, of course, he must of heard her shout. "I'm fine. Come on we need to go pick up your father."
That morning Emma and Henry picked up Killian, he fused over having to be rolled out of the hospital in a wheelchair but he sucked it up long enough until he got into the car. Emma offered to take him back to Granny's and stay with him while he rested up for a bit, but he argued with her about just taking him to the station, he wanted to see Dave. Emma rolled her eyes, the relationship between those two, she would never understand. She dropped Henry off at school after they had picked up Killian, he already missed two days of school last week due to the accident, he wasn't going to miss anymore.
Emma parked the sheriff car outside of the station and Killian immediately ran out of the car and into the station. "Davy!" She heard Killian shout, she laughed. Maybe Killian and David would be true love. "Killy!" David answered back. When Emma walked inside the station both men were embracing each other, well Killian was trying to at least, it was still hard with his arm still in a sling.
"How you been buddy?" David asked with a huge grin on his face as he placed his hands on his hips.
"Well, you know me mate, nothing can hold me back." Killian chuckled as he got a grin on his face, he was so happy to have been back. "Is this the little monkey?" He asked as he seen a framed sonogram on the deputy's desk.
David nodded and smiled, "Yup, another eight months and I'll be a first time father."
No you wont be Killian said to himself, but he just nodded and smiled. He was happy for the Charming's, he really was, but the one thing that bothered him the most was how was Emma going to react and feel when she awoke from this curse and realized that she had a baby brother or sister, and how would David and
Mary-margaret react when they realized that they were trying to have their first born because they always wanted a child but they ended up having one right there in front of them the entire time.
"Wow, I see you've missed David more than you missed me" Emma joked as she walked in from behind the corner.
Killian smirked as he walked out to Emma with swagger and a raised eyebrow, "You know I'll always miss you Swan."
Emma blushed, he was so hot! She couldn't control herself anymore, she just wanted to kiss him, but he wasn't that kind of man where she just wanted a one night stand with, she wanted a real relationship, a family. She wanted everything. "Come on Captain, let's go load the car for our shift tonight."
"Captain?" Killian raised his eyebrow with a grin. Being called Captain never got old to him, he loved it. But it felt even better when it came from her mouth.
Emma slapped his shoulder, she knew what he was thinking about. "Come on." She walked outside and the wind caught her hair making it fly back into Killian's face, she laughed at that. Even though the storm had passed over night, it was still pretty gusty outside. She watched as Killian picked up suitcases filled with equipment with only his one hand, she felt bad for the guy. "Are you sure you don't want to go back to Granny's? You should be resting."
"Swan, I'd rather be here with you then sitting on an old hard mattress watching soap operas all day" He said picking up another bag and placing it in the truck.
Emma shrugged, "Don't you ever get tired of living at Granny's and only eating fast food? Don't you miss having a place to call your own and having home cooked meals?"
Killian looked up at her, he had missed being in a place that was bigger than just a couple of meters. He missed being able to do whatever he wanted and missed having home cooked meals but the one thing he missed the most was waking up to locks of golden hairs on the pillow next to his. He nodded, and didn't bother to look at her, if he had, he would have thrown himself at her and kissed her none stop.
"Me and Henry...we found an abandoned house right next to the Ocean, I don't think anybody owns it, so if you'd like, tonight me and you could go check it out? It looked pretty nice, nice enough for a little while anyway." She shrugged, she didn't know if he would've liked it or not, maybe he enjoyed living at Granny's.
"That sounds lovely lass."
Emma smiled, she felt proud of herself. But then her smile faded when she seen the one and only Madame Mayor walking towards them with a serious look. She stopped right in front of them. "Now if you're here to blame me for the storm, I think you're taking things a bit far now" Emma said as she went to pick up a suit case and place it in the trunk.
"I need you to look into something sheriff. Someone's in town, someone new" Regina said sternly.
"Yeah I know, I gave him directions to Granny's last night" Emma informed her.
Killian listened, he wondered if Regina was this uptight when he had just come to town. Who could this new person be? Everybody that was in the Enchanted Forest at the time had come over with the curse and outsiders wouldn't even be able to find this place.
"You spoke to him? Well what did he say?" Regina wondered, she didn't like that somebody new was here, this town was suppose to be invisible to the outside world.
"He asked for directions. What's the big deal? Who is he?" Emma asked, shouldn't that have been clear from what she just said.
"I don't know, I've asked around and nobody seems to know a thing," Regina said crossing her arms, "There's something about him though, something familiar."
Emma looked at Killian and smiled before looking back at the Mayor, "He must've been one of the untold millions you've cursed." It was only a joke, she didn't think it was real.
"What?"
"You know, Henry's thing, with the fairy tales." The Mayor must've heard something about the curse by now, Henry went around mostly telling everybody about it.
Regina ignored the smirked Killian gave her, of course he would smirk, he was the only other one in this town that knew about the curse, other than Mr. Gold that she was aware of. "Sheriff, I need you to figure out who he is, what he wants and what is he doing here."
"I'm sorry Madame Mayor but as hard as you tried so hard on my case, there is no law about visiting Storybrooke lass" Killian stepped in.
"This isn't about the law Mr. Jones, you guys are going to do this because I asked you to and because you'll see it's the right thing to do."
Killian closed the trunk with his good hand as Emma finished putting in the last suitcase. "And why's that?"
"Because I seen him yesterday morning and he was taking quite an interest in something that you both hold close to your hearts...Henry" Regina said looking deep into the pirates eyes.
Emma sighed, that was just great, a mysterious man comes to town and now he's taking an interest in Henry, the one thing she cared most about. Other than Killian. "We'll look into him." She was about to walk off and go find this guy until she remembered something "Oh, and speaking of Henry, I heard that you tore down his castle!"
Regina's eyes narrowed, "You mean those wooden planks of garbage? If he would've kept playing on that thing the next thing you would've known was the sound of it collapsing under his weight and his skull being cracked open!" like she cared anyway, she just wanted to seem like a nice person who was watching out for the boy.
"No need in tearing it down, we could've just talked to Marco in rebuilding it" Killian suggested.
"That wouldn't have fixed anything deputy, he's your son, you're suppose to make sure that he's safe, you're a parent you need to start acting responsible!" Regina snapped in his face.
Killian's face began to turn red, what was it to her how he raised his son! The only time she cared about him was when she tried to kill him when he was first born because he was a threat to the curse. He couldn't stand this women anymore, first she tried to get rid of them, and now she cares about them. Killian's anger only started to boil, he walked over to the passenger side of the car and stepped in, slamming the door behind him.
Emma gave Regina one last look before she walked off and headed into the drivers side. The women was going to be sorry someday for all the crap she put people through.
Killian held open the door as Emma walked through and gave him a small smile. Emma had seen the mysterious mans motorcycle that he came to town on outside of Granny's so she pulled over and got out. Right as they walked in Emma noticed that the man was sitting in the back booth, the same booth Killian and Henry sat in when they first arrived in town. Emma pointed over to him for Killian and they both walked over to him, together.
"We need to talk mate" Killian said from behind the man, Killian never met this man before and from the back he didn't even look a little familiar.
"Why?" Asked the man not turning around. That wasn't the first time he heard that voice, but the last time he heard it was when he was trying to sooth his newborn son in the woods.
Emma and Killian walked in front of the man this time, making sure they could see him. "Because you're suspicious" Killian answered as he went into the booth followed by Emma.
"Sitting here? Out in the open? Drinking coffee? Wonder what kind of hell I'd arose if I had ordered a doughnut" He joked, giving Emma and Killian a smirk.
"Now's not the time for jokes mate," Killian said with a straight face, slightly turned to the side so part of him was facing Emma, "You were talking to my son, Henry."
"You mean the little kid that came up to me asking me questions?" If it wasn't for that than he would've never talked to Henry, well the only time he planned on interacting towards the boy was only for the book, nothing else. "Is that unusual for him, being curious and precocious?"
Killian knew his son, and he knew that Henry wouldn't just go up to a stranger for no apparent reason, there must've been a reason why he was talking to him. "What were you doing for him to talk to you?"
"Fixing my bike, it happens" The man answered. Wow, he was surprised at how Killian was, he thought that after losing Emma he'd go right back to the drunk pirate that he use to be and not give any attention towards his son, clearly he was wrong.
Emma looked down to the floor beside her, there was a large wooden box by the mans feet. "Your mysterious box, what's in it?"
"Wouldn't you like to know? awfully frustration not knowing isn't it?" The man smirked.
"Just tell me what it is!" Emma fussed, this man was more stubborn than Killian himself.
"Why, is it illegal to carry around a box in these parts?"
"No, of course not" Emma shook her head, why did she have to put up with this man now, she just wanted to enjoy Killian being back.
The man smirked, "You really want to know what's inside it, don't you?"
Killian slammed his hand against the table, causing a big bang to ripple through the dinner, "Just get to the chase mate!"
The man leaned forward, looking deeply into Emma's eyes with that same dumb smirk on his face. "I'm going to make you wait. You're going to have to watch me carry it around. Hauling it to strange and mysterious places, the mystery will become more tantalizing. Your imagination will inflame, but so will your frustration. Never knowing...only guessing...what could be inside that box," He paused, "Or, you could let me buy you a drink sometimes and I'll show you right now."
Emma squinted her eyes, "You want to buy me a drink?"
"Yes!"
Killian watched, he didn't like the fact that this guy was obviously flirting with his Princess, he was trying so hard to make Emma fall in love with him and he didn't need this mystery man to come in and destroy everything he's worked so hard for up until this point.
"Alright, a drink it is." Emma watched as the man picked up his box and placed it carefully on the table. He opened it very slowly, unclasping all the clasps. When every thing was unbuckled he placed his hand at the top, waiting a few seconds before opening it, the anxiety rising up into Emma and Killian's body's. Then they seen a type writer. "Really?"
The man shrugged, "I'm a writer."
"And that's why you're here? To write stories?" Killian asked raising an eyebrow.
"I find this place provides...inspiration. Don't you?" He starts closing his box and locks it back up. He throws a dollar bill down in the table, enough that would pay for his coffee as he started to leave.
"Wait, did you come here before?" Emma asked as she watched the man. If he ever came here before she's never heard or noticed him before and she's been here for as long as she could remember, she know's mostly everybody in this small town.
"I didn't say that." The man starts to leave, walking in back to go where the Inn was.
"What about that drink?" Emma asked before he could get away.
"I said sometimes" He answered not bothering to look back.
Emma watched as he left, she collapsed into the booth, thinking about what had just happened.
Killian cleared his throat as he scratched behind his ear, "So, you um..agreed to a drink with him."
Emma picked herself up and looked at him, giving him a smile, "now's not the time to be jealous Killian, it was either that or worry about what was in his box, for all we knew, it could've been a deadly weapon."
"You're right Swan. Come on, we better get going, it's getting late and we still have to do a drive around the town. Oh and I'm not jealous...just very protective over my lady. At least I now know you're attracted to men in leather" Killian said making Emma blush and pick herself up from the booth.
"Who said I was your lady?" Emma asked. Killian only looked down as he scratched behind his ear once again, Emma discovered that was a nervous tick of his. They both walked out the diner hand in hand. Emma didn't bother asking again, she thought it was kind of cute how he referred to her as his lady, they held tightly onto each others hand until they got to the car and they had to let go. Emma suddenly felt cold.
Killian was over whelmed by the attitude of how the stranger had reacted towards Emma. He didn't know of anybody from the Enchanted Forest that acted like that, at least that he knew of, but yet again, there wasn't that many people in the Enchanted Forest. But Regina and Emma had said this person was new in town so maybe that person was able to escape the curse somehow and end up in the land without magic where they got to grow up. Then it dawned on him that the only way to escape the curse was through the wardrobe...the blue fairy said it only had enough magic to take two over, him and Henry.
They had both done the sweep of the town and they were now going back to the station, at least that's what Killian thought until he noticed that Emma parked outside of a small house. "Where are we?" Killian asked.
"Hopefully, your new home." She got out of the car and started walking towards the front door, "Come on!" She exclaimed as she motioned for Killian to get his ass out of the car.
Killian chuckled as he stepped out and shut the door with a big slam that echoed through the woods around them. It was pretty much at full twilight right now and the only things he could make out was the trees around him, the trail of lights, the house and the figure of Emma walking towards the front door.
Emma took out a key and unlocked the door, she grabbed Killian by the collar of his jacket and dragged him inside, flicking on the light. "So, what do you think?"
He looked around, the house resembled his ship almost, the cabinets and sideboards were designed out of old planks and made into something that looked like rum barrels. There was a large bookcase in the corner next to two small beds, the beds had fur blankets, just like the Jolly Roger. Two swords were hung up on the wall next to a picture of the Jolly Roger and a crimson flag. "I think this place will do just fine" He said with a grin.
"Good, now you can just move whatever you have at Granny's over here, of course it's not the biggest place but it's...a starter" Emma said as she walked around with her hands in her back pockets. She took out a key and handed it to him, "I have my ways around somethings so I got the key and if you want it, it's now yours."
"Aye"He nodded. "Penney for your thoughts."
Emma looked at him with raised eyebrows, "What?"
"Yesterday, at the hospital before Henry came running in...you were about to tell me what was troubling you...care to share?"
"Oh...well." She moved to the couch and sat down. How was she going to tell him this? "Um, when you got in that accident and I thought you were a goner, it made me realize that...I care a lot about you and Henry and if anything were to happen to any one of you I wouldn't be able to live with myself," She begun, "Just watching you lay there motionless was the worst pain imaginable, I hated myself for avoiding you and not trying to get closer to you like I wanted...I have feelings for you Killian Jones, strong feelings! But I still have all these doubts inside of me of you running away or something happening that you don't come back from, or even that you don't feel the same way." She hadn't noticed but as she was speaking tears started to pour down her face.
Killian placed a hand on her knee and looked into her glassy eyes, "You have nothing to worry about love, I have strong feelings for you as well," He didn't want to say the three words he was so anxious on saying, they might scare her away. "Nothing will happen to me, I'm a survivor, and all those doubts swarming through your veins can go away because I vow that I will not run!." He whipped away the tears that had escaped her eyes with his thumb and then placed his fingers at the bottom of her chin, making her look up into his eyes, he gave her a sweet smile. He looked deeply into her eyes that were filled with...love and she looked back into his, it was deepest they've looked into each others eyes ever since they were separated. "I promise." He got closer and closer to her lips, the soft pink juiciness that he had been dying to feel and taste once again.
Emma had gotten closer as well, leaning in whenever he did. For this first time in her life she was positive about something. She wanted to be with this man.
He placed his hand ever so gently on the back of her head, their lips were millimeters apart. He moved in one last time before he let their lips meet, meet with love. He felt the shock run through both of their bodies, he felt the love coming from their lips that spread through the entire house. The kiss was the most passionate one they've had in a long time and it stung when they separated but they placed their forehead together and looked into each others eyes. "I love you" He whispered to her, making her smile and go in for another taste.
Phew! This chapter was uploaded early! I hope you enjoyed this CaptainSwan chapter, I really enjoyed writing in the visions and writing Killian and David relationship progress. Killian and Emma are finally in a some what stable relationship, but who knows maybe something will happen where Emma doesn't want to be with him anymore, but it probably wont...or maybe it will, I guess you'll just have to keep reading! Mwahaha!
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