Chapter 3

Hook's POV

I sat in my cabin looking wild-eyed as though I'd seen a ghost. No, it was much worse then that. I had seen her, but she did not look like the same girl I was in love with. Her body had changed slightly, she looked…pregnant! My first thought when I saw her was, 'Is it mine?' If not I would kill whoever the father was. Then I saw her belly slowly begin to shrink. Her face became pale and her vein seemed to float to the surface of her skin, she had stopped breathing. It was like I could feel her dying. I screamed, loud and long in anger and despair.

Smee came running in to aid me. "Now don' fret none cap'n. I'm sure she's fine." He said, all knowingly and set a cold compress on my forehead.

"No…you don't understand, Smee." I said, angrily. "I saw her…watched her stop breathing. SHE'S DYING!"

"You saw her stop breathing, cap'n?" he said, calmly.

"YES, YOU BLITHERING IDIOT! HAVE YOU NOT BEEN LISTENING TO ANYTHING I'VE SAID?" I shouted, straining my hand and hook together to keep myself from ripping his head off.

"I have cap'n." he said. "Funny, for you stopped breathing too."

Third Person POV

Sarah flew through the stratosphere towards the white building she knew Katerina was in. When she reached the window she saw that Katerina had not even begun to start breathing. The doctors were about to pull the plug. Just before the doctor yanked, Katerina's eyes shot open. She gasped for air. That was all Sarah could see, because a flood of doctors and nurses blocked her view.

Katerina woke with a jolt. She gasped for air, throat burning with lack of use. She felt as if she had been drowning and someone had saved her from certain death.

"Katerina, Oh honey!" yelled a voice to the right side of her. It was her mother.

"Mom…what happened?" she whispered, weakly. She didn't know why she was so weak, had she gone into labor? Had she had her baby while unconscious? Now that she thought about it, that didn't sound too bad. But now was not the time to make jokes, for as she looked around her no one was smiling. The tension around her was thick and the silence you could cut with a knife.

"I think I ought to tell her." The doctor on her other side said. Her mother opened her mouth in protest, tears beginning to well up in her eyes.

"It will be less…emotional." He offered. Her mother nodded in resignation, tears in her eyes. She left along with the nurses and doctors who had come to help. The door shut with a click.

"Katerina, I'm going to run some tests to see if you've stabilized." he smiled at her, not a real smile a broken one. "All right?"

"Stabilized? Why wouldn't I be stabilized?" she asked, confusion branded on her face.

"Lift your arm please. I'm going to take your blood pressure. All right?" she lifted her arm.

"Fine. But please tell me what happened to me!" she almost screamed.

"Katerina… this is hard to explain… Your body, sort of, shut down." He said, solemnly.

"SHUT DOWN. Oh my God! Was I in labor?" she asked, fear stricken.

"The beginnings of it …yes."

"Is the baby okay?" she ventured.

"Katerina, you stopped breathing for about a minute. For some reason your heart continued beating, then you dropped off into a sort of coma. It's a miracle you lived." He explained.

"You didn't answer my question. IS MY BABY OK?" she screamed, a single tear ran down her face.

"That's what I'm trying to tell you. You lived…but…your baby did not. She came out pre-maturely, underdeveloped. She came out…dead." He whispered. Katerina stared, wide-eyed, at him. Her lip trembled, she could think to do nothing but scream and she did.

"NO!"

"I'm so sorry." He said, and then left the room.

Katerina gasped out deep heavy sobs. "No, no, no…" Sarah watched from the window small glittery tears appeared in her eyes. She flew to her, landing on her stomach which was now as flat as it had been before the pregnancy.

"Oh, Kat…I'm sorry." She said. Katerina looked at the fairie on her stomach. She knew precisely who it was. She stopped crying abruptly as a sort of blind hatred over took her. 'Why does everything happen to me?' she thought. Am I bad? She could not decipher all she knew was that she was being punished, by who she did not know. She thought of Hook, of his handsome face when he smiled at her. Though rare an occasion it was. He had done this to her, he had taught her to hate.

"Take me back, Sarah." She said, in almost a whisper.

"What? You wish to go back? I don't think you'll make the journey. Not now, but if you wait I will tell Hook of your arrival so he can make ready for you…" she said hurriedly.

Katerina cut her off, "No! You will not tell him I am coming."

"But, why?"

"Because that will spoil the element of surprise." She said, in a dangerous voice Sarah had never heard her use before, or even ever have thought she was capable of. She sounded almost…evil.

"Kat…w…where is this going?" she asked.

"I also require a weapon of some kind, preferably a sword since it is most unfitting for a warrior to die by a gun." She continued ignoring the fairie.

"Die! No, Kat you don't mean…" she stopped, horrified.

"Oh but I do. I'm going to kill him, Sarah. For it is his fault. He took me in, seduced me, made love to me and made me believe that I loved him." She said, tears welling. "It was him that did not love me back yet continued to treat me as some whore. It was he who cast me aside as if I were nothing. It was his fault I was pregnant. He gave me the hope that maybe I would have a piece of him with me all the time. Now I don't even have that. Don't you understand it's all his fault?"

"No, Kat. He did love you. He only did not show it because he thought it made him look weak. And what kind of captain would want to look like that. The only reason he did not show it was because of his revenge. Which, even at this point, he has not taken yet and I am thankful for it. In the end he had to make a choice between killing Pan and disregarding your love to make himself look stronger, or love you and disregard his first vendetta. In the end he chose his first vendetta and who can blame him. You could and I would not disagree as to why, but know now that he has never stopped thinking of you and I do not doubt that he still loves you." She retorted, buzzing around her face.

Katerina stared at Sarah. 'Of course', she thought. 'How could I have been so dumb? Of course he loved me. He'd have never come back to me all those times if he did not. He even told me he did.' The memory of him whispering those words during his climax came floating back to her. "Oh how I was filled with hope, then." She said, more to herself then to Sarah.

"What?" Sarah asked confused.

"He's not who I wish to kill…no." she whispered, a plan forming. "I must go back. Now."

"As long as you don't try to kill him." Said Sarah, wondering why she was protecting the evil captain.

"Why would I?" she said, zombie-like. "I love him."

"Great! I shall take you to him immediately."

"No. Not immediately… first I wish to be taken to the forest." She said.

"But why?"

"I must get myself together first. It's been a long time you know. I will not know what to say. But please do not tell him of my arrival. I wish to surprise him still." She said, continuing the plan in her head.

"All right then. Away we go!" said Sarah. Katerina unhooked herself from the machines and changed into the clothes she had been wearing when she first entered the hospital. Sarah threw the gold dust on them. Together they flew out of the hospital. All the while Katerina thought more about her plan, she was no longer angry at Hook, oh no. she was angry at the initial one who caused her pain in the first place. At the one who caused him pain in the first place. She was going to kill Pan and anyone who got in her way. She owed it to him. After that, maybe he'd love her.

Hook POV

"I stopped breathing." Hook said, blinking in disbelief.

"You sure did cap'n. I wouldn' 'ave known unless the fairie came an' got me." Said Smee, who continued to busy himself with getting the captain comfortable.

"Fairie? Tinkerbell?" he asked, in even more disbelief then before.

"No, no, not her, the other one." Hook stared blankly at him. "You know the one what walks 'round with the only lost girl."

"Ah…" Hook nodded, knowing exactly who it was. "The fairie that helped us kill the boy. Well, where is this fairie?"

"I don' know cap'n. She disappeared after you woke." He explained.

"CAP'N, COME LOOK AT THE SKY!" came a yell from the deck. Hook and Smee jumped up and bolted from the cabin. Hook grabbed his spyglass from the pirate who delivered the report and looked into the sky. He saw a large adult shape float from behind a cloud followed by a small ball of light. But before he could decipher who they were the sunlight caught into the lense blinding him momentarily. By the time he recovered and searched the sky again they were gone.

"Smee…" Hook said.

"Yes, cap'n?"

"Bring me that fairie. Alive." He said, figuring he could get some answers and maybe some information about Katerina. At least he hoped.