Sometime after she had disappeared Hook had gone off to find her to see if she was ok. But he couldn't find her so he stopped looking. It was obvious that she wanted to be alone. He would find her later to see if everything was alright.
The next day as he set foot off his ship, the ship saw her sat down on a bench so he made his way towards her. "Callie?" He called out.
She turned to face him. "Oh, hi Killian, " she said a small smile coming to her face then it fell from her face. "I'm sorry about yesterday. I was just a little upset and wanted to be alone," she apologized now he was standing near her and the bench.
"If I had said," he started trying to find out if it was something he had said but she cut him off.
"You didn't. This time of the year is a little hard for me. It's a very emotional time, " she told him.
He was glad that he hadn't upset her but now he wondered what had. However, he felt like it would be wrong to ask. Whatever it was hurt her still and it was up to her if she wanted to share it with him or not. However, he would find he didn't need to ask.
He sat down beside her as he asked, "so are you here to think again he wondered?"
"More like remember," she answered.
"Oh," he sighed.
"Yeah, today is the anniversary of my step-father's death, " she explained given an answer to the quest he had been wondering.
"I'm sorry, " he stated.
"It's ok it was a few years ago now. It doesn't get to me as much now but yesterday I'm not sure why but it hit me harder than it normally does. I cried as much as I did the day he died. The talk of the promise he never got to keep to me and talking about the tales he uses to tell me, just reminded me of how much I miss him, " Kenzie said. And of how it was my fault he had gotten killed, she thought as she looked back down at the photograph in her hands.
"It's hard losing someone you love, " he spoke sympathetically.
"Yeah, " she sighed, still looking down at the photo.
"What's that you're looking at?" He wondered.
"Just a photo of me and my step-dad, " she replied.
"Can I look?" He asked her. In an edition of wanting to know her, he also now wanted to know what she was like before he had met her. And he hated it. He hated that suddenly she was on his mind all the time. That since getting to know her, he kept forgetting about the only thing that had been important to him for years; his revenge. But even though he hated it he still wanted to keep talking to her and he wanted her to acknowledge his attempts at flirting with her and to say that she fancied him back.
"Sure, " she agreed to turn in her seat to look at him and handed it over.
He took it from her and then looked at it. There was a man with dark hair who was about in his late 40's with his arm around, a pretty young blonde woman who looked about 18-19 and a lot like Kenzie. He had his arm around her, not in a creepy way but in a loving, caring fatherly way. Kenzie was smiling too and Hook couldn't help but notice that she had a very nice smile, that he hoped to see more of.
"You're blonde, " he pointed out.
"Yeah, " she said.
"How come you changed it?" He asked looking up at her and pointing to her hair.
She shrugged and then said, "I was bored with my natural colour, so I dyed it and purple is my favourite colour so."
"I think you look far more beautiful with your natural hair colour. It suits you better," he complimented her.
"Erm... Thanks, " she said and he handed back the photograph, but she didn't look back at it. Instead, she looked off into the distance for a moment and then turned back to face him.
" I get why you feel like you need revenge. I thought about it once, when my step-father was killed because they couldn't find who did it. I thought that if they couldn't find them maybe I could. I wanted them to pay. But then I realised that I didn't actually want to do that. I didn't want to go down that path. It wouldn't stop ease my pain. It wasn't worth it to me, it wouldn't bring him back. The outcome wasn't worth it and I knew that's not what he would have wanted and neither would my mother, " she said.
"Well it's a little too late for me, I've already gone down that path, " he pointed out.
" No, it's not because despite what the stories say and what you think of yourself I see that there's a good person inside you. There once was a better man who lost sight of who he was because his heart got broken and that led him to give in to the darkness but that man still exists inside you," she told him.
"You wouldn't think that if you knew all the terrible things I've done, " he said.
"I would, because like I said I see the good in you, " she measured him.
"I'm glad you do but just because you do, it doesn't change the fact I am a villain, " he stated.
"You don't have to be."
"But I am, " he asserted.
"Like I said you don't need to be. You can change be that better man, " Kenzie said.
"I thought you weren't going to try and talk me out of getting my revenge?"
"I'm not. If you want to get your revenge on Gold then go ahead. I won't stop you. I was just saying that I understand why you want it and I won't judge you for it, " she replied.
"Ok, well thanks, I guess, "
There was then a moment of silence, until Kenzie said, "so a pirate huh! What made you decide to be one?" She was curious to know.
"It's kind of a long story, " he replied.
"I've got nothing better to do, " she declared. "And anyway I've told you about me but you've not told me anything, about you, " she added.
He began to explain what had led him to be a pirate. It was a very sad tale that Kenzie hadn't expected.
He told her of how he and his older brother Liam had been serving in the navy when his brother is the captain of the ship had been given orders to travel with his crew to a strange new land called Neverland to retrieve this plant called Dreamshade. He was told that it could heal the injured so off they went to Neverland to get the plant.
How there he met a teenage boy by the name of Peter Pan who lived there and warned him that the plant was dangerous, so he went to go tell his brother. Liam didn't believe it, thinking that Pan was lying and just playing games with them because why would he receive orders to retrieve something so deadly and be told that it had healing properties? But it turned out Peter Pan was telling the truth. Liam accidentally scratched himself on the plant when he was trying to cut it and got poisoned. Desperate to save his brother he asked Peter to help him. Peter Pan told him about the enhanced pool that could heal any sickness.
So he took his brother there to heal him. It did as Peter said but they didn't listen to Panos statement about how the water's magic was tied to the island's magic, so when they left Neverland Liam ended up dying from its poison.
Angry and grief-struck he decided that he would no longer take orders from someone who would use such unfair methods to take out the enemy, that he would become a pirate with his own rules. So now the captain of the ship, he changed the name and that's how he became a pirate.
"I'm so sorry about what happened to your brother, " Kenzie said when he had finished talking.
"Thanks. It was a very long time ago though, "
"Still I'm sorry you lost him like that. And I don't blame you for not wanting to follow orders from someone like that, someone who had lied to your brother after he gave his faith in him and would lie about his true and unfair intentions. I wouldn't want to follow orders from someone like that either, " she stated.
She then added, "I'm getting hungry so I'm going to head off to Granny's so I'll see you later, Captain." Finishing off the sentence with a smile.
"Aye, of course, you'll see me later, " he said winking at her.
She smiled while sighing and shook her head while turning around. Then she started walking.
