The Bird and the Captain
CS, AU fanfiction
Chapter 3
He sits at the bar late at night. Thinking of what the secret is she is hiding from him. A secret she is hiding inside of the deepest part of her soul.
He is looking at the rum, still in the iron cup that is present in his hand. Not feeling the need to drink. He has not taken a sip once he arived at the bar around three hours ago.
He doesn't notice the bar tender that comes to sit before him. A dark skinned older woman with black curly hair and dark chocolate eyes.
"You haven't drinked anything since I gave it to you like three hours ago. Is everything allright sir?" he looked up, broken from his thoughts that are circling in his mind with the questions he has in his mind since he saw Emma for the first time yesterday morning.
She looks at him woriedly. "Everything's fine. Just having something on my mind." "I can see that. Do you want to talk about it sir?" he looks at her. "You can call me Hook. And yes there is. I have heard some men outside speaking about a magical creature that lives in the woods. Do you know something about that my lady?"
Finally talking a sip from the rum. She looks around her, like making sure they are alone in here. And they are. "There is this legend… there is a creature living in the woods, by the lake. They say it is a she, but no one has been able to capture the creature."
She looks tired. She probably had a long day of serving annoying men, travelers and women drinks, like rum, wine and beer. "They say it is a outstanding good looking, even enchanting, beautiful looking woman, mortal, but she can live for hundreds of years, is fertile. They even say some children in the village are children of the water women."
"Women. Are there more than one?" he asks her, interested to hear more. The lady seems to know he wants to know more so she tells more of this mythe, this story. "They say that there are a few women still alive to this day, but they are hiding from the humans, from the men who look for them. Some say they have seen them in the lake or changing into blackbirds. Magical creatures with magical powers, shapeshifters, waterbenders, but I do not really believe it."
Emma stood in the water when I met her, she did even turn into a blackbird when Smee arived at the… bloody hell. She is a water woman. He has a pokerface, not letting the bar tender before him see he knows something. I have discovered your secret love.
"They even say those women can kill, take children from the banks and let them drown until their deaths, but some say they are loving creatures. There even is a story they have children with human men that can't tell anyone, they even brush their childrens hair."
She asks if he believes this mythe. "It is a nice fairytale, but we will never know the truth. I have sailed a lot of seas and I never have seen a megadon, thank you for the drink." He drinks the last bit of rum, goes to a stand and walks off. "By the way, outstanding rum."
"Emma! Emma I know you're here. We need to talk!" does he yells at the banks of the lake. "I know what you are. I figured it out. I… I am not gonna hurt you love."
He looks around her, trying to see a glimpse of her somewhere. He hears chirping. "I think I know why you didn't told me your secret. You don't want to get hurt. I believe you have been hurt before, but I promise I will not hurt you love."
He sees a blackbird on a treebranch in the tree by the water looking at him, so he looks back at her, her in bird form. "I know you may not trust me yet. I'll will wait for when you're ready to tell me Emma."
"I will set sail in two days." The water starts to bottle now again. He looks at the water and back at the blackbird. Still sitting in the tree, unmoving, still staring down at him and he walks off.
Towards the harbour. He needs to make his ship ready for the departure. Not knowing she, the blackbird, is following him silently through the trees.
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