AN: I just needed to write this down very soon, I am concentrating on character development on Emma's side but I have other things in store, a tad more action that's what I'm going for so stick with me loyal readers and enjoy !

Lunchtime never felt so incessant to Emma. She grow herself a backache for sitting to still at the border of her chair, every cell in this body screaming "danger zone" . Her mom was barely coping with the situation herself, but slowly she settled in a more comfortable light chat with her family and guest. Emma, on her side, was not only rehearsing her interventions, but was increasingly worried that her family would accidentally mention something like car accidents, waxed moustaches and perms, coconuts or wishing well and she'd be fucked. To make things even more tense, Hook had left his black coat at the entrance and his shirt buttons were blatantly open. He's going to regret ever sitting in front of me with my parents in the same room.

It was finally time for Hook to leave, the lunch had perpetuated itself way longer than necessary, after coffee and cake was offered (Mary Margareth was being way too nice to him). She was about to escort him out when her father joined them and said to Hook "Remember what I told you back in Neverland?" Hook weirdly smirked and raised an eyebrow "Aye, but I think it's not me you should blame, mate" then, before David could say anything else, Emma threw the door opened and almost shove him out of the flat.
They noiselessly agreed to walk down the stairs without talking to each other, then they ventured out in the street and, a the first alley free from sight, Emma make a quick turn, then crossed her arms and looked the pirate in the eye, a feisty expression on her face.
"Hook, .hell?"
The pirate had his eyes on the pavement, his right hand worryingly touching the back of his head.
"Look love, I know you're pissed I could tell the moment I saw you, but I swear it was your lad calling me out, I was simply venturing this bloody town in search of rum in that whats-its-name building where you store food supplies and he saw me across the street and just yelled my name and.."
Emma took a deep breath. It looked exactly something Henry would do, so she dropped that one.

"What about what David told you? What is going on with you two?" she said then.

Regaining his cockyness, Hook resumed smirking and said: "Well, love I don't know if you want to know that" he was chuckling now. Emma gave him a meaningful look and then he dropped the attitude and said "Back in Neverland he told me to stay away from you. Actually I don't think he means it anymore but you never know with fathers.." Emma heard her dad's voice and Hook's response in her mind and her head begin to spin " ..it's not me you should blame, mate.."
".. after all I don't think he's all that serious about that " you-never-gonna-get-her-i'll-see-to-that" thing, after I saved his life, I mean he toasted to me and didn't kill me when he heard I kissed you which was actually not true since you kissed me but then again.. " as the pirate was rambling Emma gathered her wits back and harshly interrupted him "My father threatened you? What is up with everyone? It's not like I'm swooning in your arms every time you make an innuendo, so why is people so aware of us two? I don't even know anymore" she opened her arms "Seriously, first it was Gold, then Cora, then Regina, Anton and now my FATHER? . !" This was Hook's time to look startled "Hold on Love, what does Rumplestilskin has to do with me and you now?". Emma flushed lightly and looked at her boots "When you were in the hospital and Belle lost her memories he came to my house asking me to accompany him to find his s.. Neal, and he made us leave right away because otherwise he'd have killed you"
Hook's eyes were burning on her face and when she tentatively tried to look up. "I don't know if I hate him more now for making you bump into Neal in Manhattan or if I paradoxically owe him for making me acknowledge this " she saw his feet closing up to her "Emma, look at me" she obliged and instantly regretted doing it: his face was somehow glowing with light. He wasn't just smiling shyly at her but he looked overall happy, his features softened and his eyes mirroring his smile, genuinely surprised and pleased; Emma felt her legs go jello, but she couldn't look away from him.
She didn't know how much time they spent looking at each other like that, at one point though she got scared of what was happening between them, and she began to tremble faintly. At that moment his expression changed, and once again he was desperate and all at a sudden his walls and attitudes were dropped, leaving him stripped, naked and vulnerable in front of her. Emma didn't think, she just spoke, and after that everything was blurry and unclear, because Hook was kissing her, with the desperations of a hundred men, keeping her so close to him that his hook was almost pinching her back. She kissed him back, letting him into her defences, feeling his tongue fighting with hers and running her hands through his hair, as he breathed hard against her cheeks, letting her breathe every now and then but never releasing his hold on her.
In the end he broke off what he stared, after placing another small kiss on her lips, whispering her name between his breaths. When Emma regained her ability to process any thought at all she asked "Well this was unexpected, not that I'm complaining, but I didn't think that confessing that would lead to this" He looked at her adoringly and brushing her cheek, replied: "It wasn't just that Emma. You said my name"

Did she? Emma didn't realize at first.
"Will you say it again Emma? Please, for me" Emma smiled and looked straight into his eyes "Killian" she said and he looked back at her, his smile if possible, even wider now "I think I'm in love with you Emma Swan"
Before she could reply she heard a voice calling her at the beginning of the alley
"Mom?"
Oh God.
Emma looked at him mortified "Henry, honey I can explain it's.. it's just that… I.. and.."
Henry smiled and said "It's ok mom I figured, I might own the Heart of the Truest Believer but you're a terrible liar sometimes. Besides, it was about bloody time!"
Next thing the population of Storybrooke heard that day was the Savior yelling at Captain Hook for sharing his bad language with her pre-teen son.