"Oh, you're awake." Nadri looked up at him looming over the bannister. Killian was still chuckling to himself as he watched Nadri in the middle of a standoff with the oven. "Snow suggested making breakfast since I can't…you know…and the metal demon won't set alight." Nadri grumbled back at the oven, eyes staring it down as if it was going to light itself. A metal pan was sitting patiently on top of the hob, two eggs had been cracked in the pan but had now sunk in the cold oil and the yolks had split.

"You were going to make breakfast?" Killian gawped, moving around to come down the wooden stairs. Nadri looked back at him, the eyeliner slightly smeared underneath his eyes and his hair was tussled around like he had a fight with the pillow and the duvet at once. "Love?"

"Sorry, you look…very venro in the morning light." Nadri shyly pointed, Killian's nervous smile slipping as he made his way down and moved around the dining room table to join Nadri in the kitchen. "I understand if you want to join Snow and David. I…can't cook." She sheepishly admitted. "Honestly I have never cooked eggs. Mostly chickens, goats…"

"I think you can keep that one to yourself." Killian commented with an amused laugh, moving his hand over to the cooker to take the pan of eggs away.

"What was wrong with those?" Nadri's voice was full of genuine hurt, as if she had insulted him with trying to prepare such a meal for him. Again, Killian chuckled, he couldn't help it. She was a sweet and gentle soul underneath her scales, horns and dragon fire. "Why are you laughing?"

"We can't eat that love, I've eaten some things and er well I can cook it its fine." Killian dismissed, emptying the pan of the ruined eggs and replacing the oil before putting it back on the stove and clicking in the dial, letting the gas out and then lighting it. Nadri made a noise, somewhere between a squeak and hiss as the gas suddenly lit into fire. He opened the fridge, everything stocked to the fullest in an overly neat order. "Since you're under house arrest and we have to sit here and wait, I'll make you breakfast."

"I didn't realise that a raaviir would be so accustomed to this…oven." Nadri said the name of the appliance as if it had offended her existence.

"I've learned, the same with the phone, all I know is if I press the Emma button she picks up." Nadri narrowed her eyes, more confusing over her head as she watched carefully at Killian cracking in the eggs in the pan and cooking them.

"Oh, raaviir, you speak in riddles." Nadri giggled, sitting down at the table. She brushed the light fluff that got caught on her dress and Killian glanced over at her briefly. "I know what a vehicle is - the things out on the road. Some things I learned from Hades. A lot of this world is strange to me since he redecorated, it's hard to keep up." She spoke as she watched the soul wandering around the kitchen, going back to the fridge and pulling out a pack of bacon that had been hidden in the back of the fridge. Nadri tried to look over to see what he was doing, curiosity peaking her as he threw the bacon in the pan too.

"I'm sure Snow will have something around here for you if you're sick of wearing that dress, not that it doesn't look bloody beautiful on you love." Killian couldn't help himself. It felt…somewhat normal? He was cooking breakfast for God's sake. He was at the stove cooking breakfast for the woman he felt so deeply for, talking about what they knew of the modern world as if they were actually living together in the apartment.

Nadri looked down, smiling to herself.

"Do you really like it?" Nadri looked back up at him, coyly eyeing him. The smell of cooked food hit Nadri's nose, it already smelt good before she had even tasted it. Anything would have been better to what she had eaten as a beast or even when she was under the hold of Nathaniel and Hades. Her mouth could have watered at the delicious smell of Killian's cooking, Killian was shuffling the eggs out of the pan and onto the plates that Nadri had already set out for them. "I imagine being in your world this would be unsuitable. From where I'm from we had castles and mountains. Not these." She gestured to the apartment that surrounded her.

"Being down here in what you died in is normal. Being up there wearing that…" Killian trailed off, bring their plates over to the table, giving one to her and sitting down with one to himself and he handed her a knife and fork. "I think I would have to fight a fair few men away." He was brutally honest, watching Nadri's cheeks flame with embarrassment.

"Killian!" Nadri blushed heavily, taking the knife and fork out of his hand and he couldn't help but roar in laughter. "Has your mouth always be so bein?!" Killian was still chuckling even as cut into half of a fried egg and scooped it up onto his fork, eating it hungrily.

"It's called flirting, darling." He said after swallowing his food, raising his eyebrow smoothly. Nadri continued to giggle in front of him. "What?"

"It's just you're so…I struggle to find it in the human tongue. What is the word where you find someone so humorous but in a…weird way? Lovingly of course." She sweetly asked, smiling. She used to the fork to gently jab her bacon and lift it up, eyeing it curiously.

"An idiot?" He grinned, that he had been called multiple times.

"Yes, is there a word for that?" Nadri was so serious when she questioned Killian, her deadpanned tone making Killian laugh even further.

"You say I speak in riddles, love. Your language is something I can't get my head around." She shovelled the hot food in her mouth, enjoying the flavour of the salty bacon mixed in the eggs that had been scrambled to perfection. She enjoyed the atmosphere around her, it was peaceful. Nadri truly wondered if this was what it was like to feel Killian's normality that could have been waiting for her beyond. "Your English is good though, love." Killian quickly complimented, quite impressed by her understanding of his own language.

"I learned from humans how to speak in your language. Would you rather me to speak in Dovah? Dreh hi lorot Zu'u vust mindov hi?" The foreign words rolled off her tongue perfectly, sending shivers through Killian to hear the ancient language so fluently spoken. "Do you think I could teach you?" She translated to words that he could understand, her sweet and melodic voice coaxing her words.

"I think you'd have more luck with me teaching you." Killian chuckled heartily, going back to eating and watching Nadri thoroughly enjoy what had been put in front of her.

"This is good, raaviir. I haven't had much chance to eat like…this." She admitted behind a wave of sadness, continuing to eat quietly.

"As a human?"

"Mhm." Nadri nodded, filling her mouth with food.

"What's it like? Going from one to the other?" Killian raised his eyebrow, breaking away from his breakfast and his gentle blue eyes rested upon the woman across the table from him, shuffling her food around the plate as she swallowed.

"It doesn't hurt." Nadri finally replied, bitterly taking another forkful of the crisp bacon in her mouth. She chewed it with attitude, thinking to what it was like the first time she felt the scales of her hide being peeled back away from her, her own blood-curdling screams deafening the room and of those around her, feeling the cracking and crunching of her bones as they broke from within to form into a smaller, more human form. She could barely put it into words, she was left as a naked cowering woman chained in a cell breathing so heavily she thought she could have thrown up her own heart at the time. "Not anymore. Now it is second nature. Hades did it so frequently that it became painless." Nadri looked up at the pirate briefly before flickering her eyes back down.

"I'm sorry, love." Killian sighed, crossing his cutlery on the plate and reaching for her hand. He had lowered the atmosphere of the room incredibly. What was once happy, enjoyable and lively was now solemn and full of angst.

"Don't be, Ruveyzun. You're a curious soul." Nadri replied sweetly, letting her hand rest on the top of his hand, the long nails on her finger tips stroking his skin. "I imagine that wasn't pleasant." Her head gestured to his missing hand that had been replaced with gleaming, sharp hook attachment. Killian snorted softly, he deserved the talk to be reflected back on him. "Raaviirs rarely ventured into my realm, too far away from the water but the attraction to the gold was great."

"I don't blame them, lass. There's nothing like sailing the sea." Killian replied with a matter of fact tone. "That's what I want to do when we get out of here. I want to get back to my ship, she's been sitting at port for far too long now."

"You were sea-given?" Curiosity poked her.

"Aye, Liam and I were sea-given from a young age. We worked and then went into the Royal Navy." Killian nodded with a hesitant smile. "I've sailed to many lands, I do miss it. I think the sea will always be my true love." Killian chuckled, Nadri returning his smile and brightening the mood back up in the room. Killian could see that her smile was the thing that warmed his heart the most, all he had to do was close his eyes and think of her flashing those pearly whites and his troubles would just slowly seep away from him.

"I have never had the opportunity to find out if there is truth to that tale." Nadri admitted with a half-smile. Nadri had never encountered those who were bound by true love. In the Enchanted Forest, true love was a common tale to tell and common with the residents of all of the stories that the authors had written. Snow White and Charming were the first people Nadri had been around who were enchanted with that happiness, Nadri never had the chance to find her own love before her death. She was just meant to be overwhelmed by darkness, nothing more.

"Do you not believe in such a thing?" He was genuinely baffled,

"My feelings for you are true and just, Killian." Nadri promised, still holding his hand. "True love was something I had never thought of as a Dovah. It was legend. I was alone for hundreds of years before…Nathaniel…strayed into my mountain." The name felt sour in her mouth, not wanting to say it again. "I have said before, Ruveyzun. I would burn down the world if I could not be with you. That is a powerful love."

"You gave me something to fight for when I got here. I was lost…angry." Killian started, the air around them beginning to thicken over with emotion again. "I wouldn't have thought that I would have found someone down here, someone I could love again. True love is a rare magic, Nadri, but finding someone like you down here…now that is rare."

"Rare enough for it to be true?"

"It could be." Killian swallowed hard, watching her expression falter from the smile that it had been beaming at. "Nadri, if you believed, it would break the curse." He urged and Nadri pulled her hand away, as if it burned her. It was upsetting to hear, to watch even. She got up from the table, not wanting to go through another tearful conversation when they had just pulled themselves out of one already, and moved over to sofa where she could sit with her head in her hands. Her dress flared out across the sofa, her hair was resting over her face so Killian could barely see her. "Nadri, please."

"Killian, do not do this. I just wanted one morning with you where I could at least feel somewhat...human." Nadri begged, not wanting to hear another word of Killian's irrational plans.

"The possibility-"

"And if we're not? If this is me loving you until you find another, do you really think I'd want that? It would break me, Killian." Nadri looked up behind her hands, Killian was still sitting at the table with his hand curled into a fist on the table and looking at her behind the hair that was tussled down in front of his eyes. He understood where she was coming from, at least some what. She found it hard enough to trust him in the first place and now he was asking her to go even further in her trust by even considering the idea of their love being the rarest of them all.

"I think we are." Killian's voice spoke firmly.

Fate had brought them together. Death had brought them together. Why would the Universe put them through all of these trials and tribulations only for them not to be together?

"I know it." He uttered and Nadri looked up at him with eyes that stared back into his soul, it was like looking into deep space. He felt as if the galaxy in her eyes were going to swallow him up.

"You can't know that, Killy." Nadri whispered, looking up at the dark-haired man. He got up from the table and approached Nadri, sitting on the coffee table opposite her so he could look at her, taking her small hands within his own. "I fear that if this was…a love that could break the darkest of curses…the curse would be lifted before I could destroy the power that Hades holds." Nadri tried to explain to the best of her capabilities, Killian sitting in front of her wearing a facial expression as if someone or something had smacked him hard in the chest. With no heart, it was like he could feel this empty pit filling with a deep feeling of overwhelming sadness at her walling her feelings back.

"I thought I had a true love before in Milah, I didn't think I'd be able to open up again. I died and I met you, we saved each other. It could be true."

"I can't believe that until I'm free, Killian. I feel if there was no way to leave this world with you, my fire would burn out."

"Darling-" Killian's voice pleaded, only to be cut off with the lock turning in the front door of the apartment. The door was pushed open, Killian pulling back from Nadri and clearing his throat. He lifted himself up from the coffee table and went over to the dining table and picked up the plates and placing them in the sink as Emma, Henry, Regina and Robin strolled through the apartment door without warning. Henry placed the Storybook in the middle of the table and gave Nadri a bright morning smile. She simply returned it with a sadder one, Nadri desperately trying to suppress the tension in her face.

"Ooo, breakfast?" Emma chimed, looking over Killian shoulder to see the mess that Nadri had made across the counter with this morning's antics and attempt on trying to put breakfast together for the first time. The morning was sweet while it lasted, maybe he was in the wrong to bring up the conversation all together.

"You missed out." Killian curtly shut the conversation down, beginning to clean up. A dark stormy cloud might as well have been lurking over his head raining down on him. Emma stepped away from him, making a face behind his back before coming to sit down with Henry at the table. Nadri got up from the sofa and made her way to the table to see what was going on. They weren't going to prod him more on the subject, all they had to do was look between him and Nadri and they could see that something had happened moments before they had walked in.

"Well, we thought we'd come and show you this. Henry wrote a few pages in his sleep, we're still trying to work out if he can try and write something about Hades." Regina and Robin lurked at the end of the table, Emma shuffling through the book to where they had found an illustration of Snow and David sitting in Granny's having breakfast, the writing in the book stating that they were trying to find a way to speak to their young son, Neal. Emma continued flipping through the pages and stopped on a drawn picture of Nadri and Killian sitting at dining table together in a heated discussion, she frowned as she looked at the writing on the page.

"Captain Hook confessed-" The book was suddenly slammed shut, Killian's hook had swept underneath the book cover as Emma had started to read the page in a low murmur and almost caught her fingers in the page. Killian pulled the book away from Emma's hands and headed over to the coffee table, placing it on top to avoid any one else starting a story-time group. The tension was thick, Killian didn't want what he had said to Nadri to become common knowledge amongst the group yet and he certainly didn't want Nadri to be humiliated by his best friend reading about her feelings.

"Did you find anything that's actually to do with Hades?" Killian almost hissed in annoyance, still holding frustration from his and Nadri's unfinished conversation that was still weighing on him.

"Easy there, Captain Guyliner." Regina called back, crossing her arms over her chest. "I don't see you doing anything productive apart from making breakfast and getting a lay-in."

"I'm making sure that Nadri isn't by herself. It's alright for everyone to gallivant off to do what they want but she can't leave the four walls she's in because of that sadistic f-" Nadri widened her eyes at Killian's attitude towards Regina, getting a rise out of the sorceress as she looked at him like he had lost his mind. "-man." Killian clenched his jaw, flaring.

"Hook!" Emma gestured towards Henry who was sitting at the table with Nadri as they sat in awkward silence. Nadri looked up at him, exchanging a glance of concern. The boiling tension of being in the Underworld was getting to everyone who was living and breathing, for Nadri and Killian it was a matter of going in circles of what could and couldn't be done.

Nadri understood his frustration but he had to remember she had been stuck in this realm for few hundred years now and she had never been given a lifeline until Hercules freed her from Hades' cell. There was nothing a chance of complete, living freedom until now.

"We're here for you remember, Hook." Regina snapped and Nadri cleared her throat, pushing her chair up to get up quietly. "The whole reason we're here is because of you and we're the ones out looking for a way to get rid of Hades while you're on guard duty."

"Easy, Regina. It's not Nadri's fault." Robin reprimanded, coming to Nadri's defence. She had just been sitting there the whole time, she had not uttered a single word and she was still coming under fire. Regina exhaled with a huff. "We didn't come here to instigate an attack on anyone. Come on, it's first thing in the morning."

"I'm sorry, Nadri." She apologised sincerely, her features softening instead of the stern expression she usually wore. "We're all frustrated. You have nothing to do with this."

"I appreciate the apology, Regina." Nadri nodded, thankful that for once she had actually realised when she had crossed the line. She appreciated it, she wanted to feel like she could be helpful to their team.

"It's been a stressful few days for all of us. I just wish there was an easier way to all of this."

"Did you find anything at all?" She wanted to move the conversation away from the tension in the room, Killian moved towards the wide windows and stared out at Storybrooke solemnly.

"Hades has got the elevator covered with protection magic, it's taking some time to figure out something strong enough to take it down."

"I couldn't imagine Hades putting his faith in a protection spell. He has the power of the Dovah, all he needs to do is summon me and I'm the one who makes sure that no one can get through." Nadri bit the inside of her cheek, trying to think of the possibilities that she had witnessed after hundreds of years. A knock was heard at the door, Regina and Emma exchanging wild looks between each other.

"Who the hell is that?" Emma looked towards Nadri and she shrugged innocently with a similarly confusion expression.

"It's not for me, everyone I know has moved on."

"Be on your guard." Regina told them lowly before turning around and cautiously approaching the door. She rested her hand on the golden door knob and gently twisted it, opening the door and peeking her head around the wood to see who was standing there. "Zelena?" She opened the door right up, revealing to the room a red-headed woman dressed head to toe in emerald green and stunning black. Regina's cautious look turned into one of a smirk, almost pleased to see the woman had arrived in the Underworld. Nadri tried to peek over at her and couldn't help but feel that her aura had been a presence before.

"Before you say it, I'm not dead." Her tone was incredibly well-spoken British. It was different to Killian's, Nadri picked up a lot more of a common tongue in Killian.

"Oh." Regina expressed with a distasteful tone. "Then how did you get here?"

"Through a portal and I didn't come alone. My baby is here, she's in danger."