Fiery Kettles
Disclaimer: Would you believe it? I STILL own nothing of OUAT. Worryingly and I have a plan though. It involves having Hook teach us about ropes first, though.
Note: Being in the UK, we are about half a season behind, so I have no idea what happens beyond the titles of episodes and my own logical leaps. I am assuming that Cora is defeated and is stuck under the hospital, where all prisoners seem to go for long term confinement, while Hook is released on good behaviour. Regina is forgiven and the two mothers have agreed to help each other - Regina gets him every other weekend, some weekdays and for Henry's safety, any time Emma and David end up working, or he's with Neal, to help the two bond.
Emma let Hook into the flat. While she had been away her father had the ingenious idea to renovate the attic, and move her bed in there. As a result, she ended up with a two bedroom place, which was connected to her parents and had room to both make food and have Henry sleep on something other than the sofa or in her bed, only to be woken up at 2 am when she had to go work. Of course, it also helped that she no longer had to look out for a tie on the door handle and threaten her parents for scarring her for life AGAIN.
"Alright. The bathroom is through there, and since Henry is with Neal this weekend, you can have his bed. It's late, so let's get to bed."
Hook's eyebrows rose. "Is that an invitation, princess?"
The blonde woman did not even bother responding, but looked wearily at him and pointed to the room where he would be staying. Without another word, she turned to go up her small set of stairs to the attic.
"Goodnight, lass."
He received no response.
Morning found Hook well rested. Although he was used to sleeping on the ground and the rather short bunk in the Sheriff's office, he found that this world had created a true luxury - a full-sized mattress. The Charmings had clearly invested in some quality furniture for their grandson, as the rather large bed was made from a nice warm wood and was incredibly comfortable.
The pirate proceeded to leave the room as soon as he heard Emma, or at least what he assumed to be Emma, moving around, making breakfast. He got up and slowly got dressed in the clothes that she had bought him the previous day. A red shirt with no buttons, a pair of blue trousers that Emma had called Jeans, shoes. He wondered about the 'boxers' that she had left for him, but decided they looked uncomfortable, and left them.
He moved into the kitchen alcove and saw Emma busying herself with making something in a frying pan. A pot of coffee was ready on the side and Hook made a face - he had discovered that coffee was not a pleasant drink to him, and wondered how most of the town seemed to be able to get through several pots of it a day.
Emma chose that moment to look up and spotted him in the entry to the alcove. She nodded to the counter: "Help yourself to some tea. Just fill that kettle with water and push the ON button. Should take care of it itself."
He moved over to the strangely shaped version of a kettle common to this world. He saw that this had a lid that came off (not too hard, good) and lifted this off. He then proceeded to lift the kettle up.
The bottom bit stayed on the table.
Hook startled and turned the kettle over, wondering if he had broken it by just touch. Nope, there WAS a bottom. How strange.
Emma caught his surprise out of the corner of her eye and smiled at him. "That's ok, actually. It is supposed to do that. The electricity goes from the wall into that base, and through that metal bit in the base to the actual kettle to heat the water. Simple and efficient"
Hook moved towards the sink, and turned the taps on, proceeding to fill the kettle to the brim. He then shut the lid again and moved it back to its strange bottom, fitted it nearly over and pressed the ON button. The kettle lit up, startling the pirate, and started to make a small hissing sound.
Emma chose that moment to take her pan off the stove and move to the small dining table. "Good job, it's supposed to do exactly that. Now, get me a couple of plates from the cabinet, and let's eat."
They sat down in relative silence, munching on toast and eating their way through some bacon and fried eggs. They both dared hope that the day would start off normally, without any dangerous encounters with technology.
The kettle continued to whizz.
Suddenly, the device sputtered and started making a sound that sounded suspiciously like coughing. A second later, the kettle started spewing out water.
The two sitting at the table stared at it perplexed.
A second later, they were no longer sitting, as the kettle had quite happily stopped spluttering, and instead went up in flames.
While beating down the flames, Hook dared ask the question that had been plaguing him: "How did it catch fire? It was full of water…"
This was the wrong thing to do. Emma rounded on him: "You, you imbecile! You overfilled it! Water boils. Water expands. WATER HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE AND SHORTCIRCUITS THE ELECTRICITY! You, you, you... PIRATE!" She followed this up with throwing the fire blanket at the astounded man and marching out of the room.
Reviews: Thank you to everyone that has reviewed so far, it warms my heart that my story has make people laugh.
XoxPhoenix10 - Wonderful. I shall be borrowing those ideas and letting my brain run riot ;)
SibOlga - This is going somewhere. I promise. It just may take a few months of me getting there.
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