A/N: There was a request from my good friend Hime no Kowai Shumi to include a scene in this one and since she has been amazing to me and encouraging me, I couldn't say no. :P so it is included in here. The prompt essentially was, "can she hit him?! I want him to try to kiss her or something and her knock him out." I've noticed that I have gotten a few more favourites and follows on this one and I just want to thank you guys. Also, please let me know what you think by leaving a review.

Chapter 10

The drive to the bar was entirely too short for her liking, she didn't know what exactly had rubbed her the wrong way tonight, maybe she needed a good nights sleep or just maybe a date with Jack Daniels instead of the pirate and she practically jogged into the bar.

She was entirely surprised to see Tinkerbell and Ruby together, hanging at the bar, though Tinkerbell looked more like she was hanging on it, along with Leroy, who she was not surprised to see at all.

The music was loud, Tinkerbell already looked like she had too much, Ruby attempting to hold her up while she laughed insanely at something Leroy was saying and instead of spending too much time thinking about it she nodded to the bar tender, whose name she never seemed to remember, as she requested two drinks and slid it across to Hook as he sat down next to her.

He watched as she downed the liquid straight, relishing the burn as it slid down her throat, her face contorted slightly at the after taste but she gestured again to the bar tender and he poured her another one.

"Wowa," The pirate admonished, his hook clinking against the glass as he shifted it more towards himself, "Not so fast..." At the glare he received he slowly removed his namesake, "Or you know, at least let me catch up..."

She practically ripped it away from him as she took another sip, suddenly realizing she would rather be with her family, than at the bar drinking with Hook...

"We need to talk," She said slowly, not sure where the words were coming from, she didn't really want to lose the attention she got with the pirate, she did sometimes enjoy his company but she wasn't a prize, she wasn't a trophy to be won and she certainly wasn't some damn damsel that needed saving.

"Oh," Hook replied, taking a sip from his own glass, "What about?"

He cringed, Emma noted but she was too tired to sympathize with him, she had created this mess by kissing him in the first place, knowing exactly where he stood in terms of his feelings for her, maybe that was why it was so easy in the first place.

"This... whatever this is," She gestures between them and turns in her seat to face him, "I don't know what it is..." when he doesn't say anything, simply swallows and stares intently at her with slightly glazed blue eyes, her mouth falls closed and she sighs softly, he's not her she thinks and she looks down at the bar, before she takes a sip of her beverage again.

"Emma..." Hook mutters quietly, drawing her chin back up with his actual hand and before she can even open her mouth to say anything else, he kisses her and she barely has time to think about her reaction as she violently pushes her stool backwards, splashing amber liquid across the bar and onto the pirate's leather.

The bar stops then, it goes pretty much silent except for the loud bass of what ever is playing on the jukebox, she can't focus right now and suddenly she hears manic laughter in the background that she somehow knows is Tinkerbell again and then the familiar tones of Ruby as she hushes the fairy and Leroy is laughing louder than before.

It's too hot, too hot in there... when she finally can look at Hook, blue eyes stare back at her hurt, confused and then anger... anger she can deal with.

"I gave up my boat for you Emma!" He may not have said it loudly but she heard every word, she tried to open her mouth, to apologize but nothing came out. She opened and closed her mouth a few times and then a small, strong, hand was on her shoulder.

"Hey, Em, are you okay?" It was Ruby, who situated herself between the blonde and the pirate and hazel eyes stared intently at the blonde, "Emma?" she repeated and finally she focused on the werewolf.

"Yeah," She mumbled, "I'm fine,"

"Thanks for butting in, we're good now wolf," Hook mumbled as he emptied his glass, throwing his head back quickly before immediately pulling his flask from his coat.

Ruby didn't even look at him, her eyes remaining firmly on her friend who nodded at her once more to reassure her, then she finally looked at him, barely containing a snarl as she returned to who she was there with that night.

"What is wrong with you?" Hook finally asked and then she finally smelt his breath, why she hadn't noticed sooner, he probably had been drinking on and off all day and she sighed softly as she returned to her seat.

In the mass of their small spat, the barman had cleaned up and replaced her drink and she took the opportunity to wrap her fingers firmly around the glass, staring into the depths as if it held the answers and then she heard Hook say the words she never expected him to say, "It's her isn't it?"

"What?" She snapped, glancing up over her shoulder at him, emerald orbs growing hard daring him to speak out of turn against her.

"Regina," He said pointedly and then took another swig from his flask.

It was a mistake coming here tonight with him.

"What about Regina?" She asked carefully.

"What do you mean? Everything is about Regina and you..." He paused, anger marring his tone as he stared accusingly at her, "You... you don't even see it."

"We're not having this conversation..." Emma said firmly before turning back to her glass and instead of taking a small sip she practically downed it again and in moments it was replaced.

"Oh, sure we are," Hook pushed, "But let me tell you something about our dear Regina..." He almost laughed then when he was met with such a fiery look he almost didn't continue what he was going to say, "Sorry, The Evil Queen... who you just saw... experienced first hand what she is like..."

He didn't get to finish his sentence as before he knew it, a fist collided with his face... Emma's fist... it stung for a moment as he pressed long fingers to the blood that now trailed from his nose, blue eyes hardened as he looked at the blonde and said quietly, "She'll ruin you, Emma, that's what she does."

Before he could say anything else though, she was gone, she was out of the door in seconds, running like she hadn't in a very long time.

She didn't know where she was running, just that her legs carried her and the urgency to remove herself from the pirates presence, to have him not be able to follow her, by the time she stopped her chest was heaving, her throat raw and it was then she realized she was crying as she tasted salty tears.

She looked around at where she found herself, she didn't even know where that was, just that she had managed to run into the forest, surrounded by nothing but darkness and chill.

She lowered herself onto the ground, leaning her back against a log as she pulled her leather jacket closer around her, this was as good a place as any to stay if not for a few hours... she needed to be away... though where she really wanted to go, she just couldn't right now... it wasn't the right time.

She wasn't sure exactly when the right time would be either.

As she closed her eyes, accepting the darkness that surrounded her and the coldness that seeped into her bones, she couldn't help but focus her thoughts on the brunette she had spent the last few days obsessing about and it finally cleared in her mind, exactly what she was feeling for the other woman and she sighed softly into the night. She wasn't quite sure when she no longer felt cold, just a strange lightheadedness that she put down to a combination of lack of sleep and alcohol and she almost jumped out of her skin when familiar dulcet tones jolted her from her thoughts followed by an intoxicating scent she'd come to associate with one person.

"Emma?"