Captain Swan AU: What if Emma didn't go through foster care but lived in an orphanage and what if Killian and his big brother Liam lived in an orphanage as well. What if the windows to their rooms opened up directly across from one another and the distance between the buildings were a mere 2 feet? Young Emma and young Killian meet at a young age and grow up together…through their window.
Chapter 1: The Meeting
"Emma, can you open the window please? It's getting hot in here."
"Sure, Melissa."
Emma moved to open the window of the bedroom that she shared with her roommate Melissa. Both girls were 13 years old and orphans since birth. For years the two of them would go in and out of foster homes until they were sent to live in the Boston home for girls, Melissa 6 months ago and Emma about 2 months ago.
For the first time since moving there, Emma opened the window and noticed that it looked out onto another window just barely 2 feet away. From where she is standing she could see two young boys sitting in the room reading comic books.
"Hey Melissa, look! There is another window right across from ours! There are two boys over there! I wonder if that is an apartment building."
"It's not, that's another orphanage, uh, I think that's the Boston home for Boys. I've seen the room before but I've never seen anyone in the room before. Quick, throw this paper clip, see if they will open the window."
Emma turned to Melissa's desk that held her homework on top, picking up the paperclip that fell off a bunch of papers. Turning back to the window she handed the paper clip to Melissa.
"Here, you do it."
Melissa took the paper clip from Emma and threw it at the window but it barely made a sound before falling to the ground.
"Emma, why don't you just reach over and knock? It's not that far and you have longer arms."
Her arm did in fact reach across, comfortably, and she knocked firmly but softly on the window.
They watched as the two boys in the other room jerked their heads away from their comic books and looked at the window.
Melissa gave them a big smile and wave as Emma stood back and blushed, she has always been one of the shy ones.
The smaller of the two boys stood and moved to the window, opening it with a big smile on his face.
"Hi! Who are you?" came a loud voice with a slight hint of an Irish accent.
"Hi, I'm Melissa and this is Emma! What's your name?"
"I'm Killian and that's my big brother Liam. Are you two sisters?"
Emma smiled at Killian, he was definitely one of the cuter boys she has seen in her short life.
"No, we're just roommates. We're, uh, we're both orphans."
"Us too, we just moved here. We're both originally from Ireland but our parents died a couple years ago and we ended up in the system."
The three were interrupted by Liam coming over and shaking on Killian's shoulder, trying to drag his attention away from the two girls across the way.
"Killian, Mr. Jackson is calling for us, it's time to head down for lunch."
Liam turned and without addressing the others, left the room. Killian, embarrassed about his brother's rudeness, turned to his new friends with red cheeks and downturned eyes.
"Sorry about Liam, he's not very friendly now a days. He thinks he's too cool to hang around me all the time, with him being 15 years old and me being only 13 years old."
"You're 13 years old? So are we!"
Emma could tell that Melissa was really interested in Killian and for some reason that upset her. Melissa is more outgoing than her and is much prettier than her.
"That's so cool! Well, I hate to leave but they will get made if I am any later to lunch. We should do this more often! There's nothing much to do for fun around here, so it will be pretty awesome to hang out with each other, you know, through our windows!"
The girls laughed and agreed with their new friend and bid him farewell. The two talked about their encounter for the rest of the day until going to sleep.
That night as she lay in her bed, Emma thought about the boy across the way and couldn't help but smile. She hoped they did get to hang out again, living in an orphanage can become really depressing, so having a friend to talk to who understood exactly what she is going through would get wonderful.
What she didn't know at that time was that her meeting the boys across the hall would change the way that she would live the rest of her life. The two would become to be so important to her that they would be like family, something that she had never had before.
I was considering making this it's own story but I thought I would just add it into this instead. I will do updates on this particular story until Emma and Hook are a lot older.
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