Good day folks! The seventh chapter, I'm excited! The writing right now is really just slow and really hard. I'm sorry if this chapter feels a bit out of character, but this is an AU and Emma and Hook are not completely the same as they are in the series. I mean, sure, nearly everything, but not EVERYTHING.

A review mentioned that there are many twists in my story and I have to agree, I sure love twists, so here you have two more!

I do not own Once Upon a Time or the characters. Neither do I own the song that I took the lyrics from, "Broken Crown" by Mumford and Sons.

So hold my hand

Consign me not to darkness

Baelfire looked like Hook had smacked him across his face.

"So this is why I'm here? Because you want to kill my father?"

It had been so stupid, why, why, why had he been so stupid? Hook couldn't help but love the boy and now he'd made him upset and not a little bit either, this was serious.

"Bae... He killed your mother."

He knew that it didn't matter to Bae but still he wanted to tell him why he was doing this, he thought maybe Bae would understand.

But Bae didn't seem to understand, not even a little bit. Instead he looked disgusted and sad, he'd been let down.

"I'd rather live with Pan than doing this anymore. Goodbye, pirate."

As so many times before that word, pirate, made his heart ache. He didn't want to be defined as that anymore, he thought as Bae just recklessly jumped off the ship into the water. Hook knew he should've had jumped after the boy, but he couldn't, he knew he'd hurt Baelfire and that it would take time to heal it

Hook had followed them for a little while now and he still couldn't understand who that figure she called Neal was. He reminded Hook of someone but he had met so many people in his life that he wasn't sure if he'd ever met this man. There was something strangely familiar about him though, his looks and the way he walked.

Hook had only heard them say a few words to each other and he wasn't sure of their relationship. Emma seemed pretty cold towards the guy but he didn't seem to mind all that much.

Hook also wasn't sure why he hadn't shown himself yet, maybe he was still unsure if he was going to do this.

On the second day that they were walking Emma suddenly heard something behind her, a strange noise. When walking with Neal it was almost silent the whole time but Emma had never felt uncomfortable with silence and she was fine with it. Neal tried to talk sometimes but either Emma answered shortly or not at all so after a while they only said the most necessary things to each other.

They had come a long way into the strange, frozen land and Emma didn't like the part where it was frozen. It just felt wrong and this made the silence even thicker, so when Emma suddenly heard a sound she stiffened and stopped, trying to detect where the sound came from. She understood the noise came from behind her so she turned around.

Neal, who was in front of her noticed that Emma had stopped and he also stopped, giving Emma a look full of questions which Emma just ignored, completely focused on the sound.

Emma put her hand around the stolen sword they'd found in the small house along the road, ready to use it if they met someone.

Hook could se how Emma stopped and for a second he wondered why, before he felt a hand covering his mouth and a sweet, venomous scent reached his nose.

"Show yourself!" He heard Emma scream as he started to get dragged backwards. He felt as if he couldn't move, as if his body had just turned into some strange liquid. His eyes closed slowly but soon Hook felt his back getting slammed up against a tree and he felt awake again for a short moment. Fear had never been a feeling he used to feel but in this moment his heart started to pound. He felt the person who had slammed him against the tree getting close to his ear and he could hear a voice;

"Thank you for being such a good boy, Hook." He could hear how she licked her lips and he could smell that horribly sweet, poisonous smell. Even in his worst shape he recognized that voice. Cora.

"But..." A knife was dancing along his neck and through his dizzy eyes he could se Cora's eyes that was fixated on the blade. Cora turned her eyes toward his again. "I don't need you anymore, pirate, so sadly I'll have to kill you."

Cora smiled when Hook opened his mouth, trying to speak. It was stupidly hard to get through the fog inside his mind.

"You didn't ask me to... to do anything."

It was hard to get out those words and his lips only managed to make it into a whisper.

"Too..."

Cora didn't get to finish the sentence because from behind her a blonde woman came running. Hook was sure she was an angel, she must've been. The angel threw a sword towards Cora who looked pissed off for a short second before snapping her fingers and disappearing in a cloud of purple smoke.

Hook fell to the ground, still dizzy. The angel was now by his side, taking his face in her beautiful hands, slapping his cheek lightly.

"Hook! Killian!"

Suddenly he opened his eyes and started to cough. She felt relieved that he seemed fine and she let go of her grip around his face.

"Is that... Captain Hook?" Emma jumped a bit when she heard Neal's voice from behind, she'd completely forgot about him. Now she turned to him quickly and nodded.

"Yes... Yes, it is." Neal got a strange look upon his face and Emma felt suspicion start to bubble through her veins.

When Neal saw Emma's suspicion he looked very tired, sighed and sat down on a rock.

Hook was still coughing when Neal opened his mouth, looking like he was searching for words.

"I.. I used to know him. I was on his ship, he taught me to sail. But that was," Neal looked away and suddenly seemed very far away, "long ago. Nearly like another life."

Hook had stopped coughing now and watched Neal with big eyes.

"Bae... Is that you?"

Neal didn't answer, instead he now looked angry.

"And why are you here, pirate? Still trying to murder my father?"

It hit him pretty hard. He... He couldn't. Not after this.

He couldn't let down Baelfire yet another time and he couldn't do it to Emma either. Emma, the angel.

Hook was trying to catch his breath, still with his back against the tree.

"No, I'm not, I won't do it." He watched Emma intensely, wondering how much she knew of this madness.

In the corner of his eyes Hook saw Bae nodding and then standing up, leaving without a word.

Still watching Emma, Hook figured that Baelfire would come back again, he probably just needed to think.

"Emma, thank you. You saved my life there." He wasn't very used to thanking anyone but this time he was sincere and his words were true.

Emma didn't looked at him, instead she also stood up with her back turned towards him.

"Who was that?"

She simply couldn't look at him, she knew what look he had on his face, she knew it all too well. Emma knew, that if she looked at his face, she'd melt and she couldn't have that.

"It was Cora, a very powerful witch. She's the mother of the witch who cursed this land."

Emma nodded and started walking after Neal.

"Emma, wait, we have to talk." His voice sounded desperate and she hated, hated, him in that second. Why did he have to push her?

Emma turned around and finally looked at his face and to her surprise she didn't get smacked across the face with his looks.

She crossed her arms and raised her eyebrows.

"I'm listening."

He took another deep breath before he got started.

"Emma, I'm not sure how much you know about me but I've done so much wrong, mostly because of this bloody revenge but I can't do it anymore, I won't do it. I never thought I'd be capable of letting go of my first love, my Milah. To believe I could find someone else. That is…until I met you."

For a while it felt like time stopped there and both of them were just looking into each others eyes, trying to read the other one. Emma finally broke the eye contact, looking at the ground but she could still feel Hook's intense stare burning her skin. Instead of discussing the uncomfortable subject Emma cleared her throat to win some time before having to say something.

"Do you really think I'm the saviour?"

"Lass, if it's something I'm sure about, it's that."

At least he wasn't lying, that much she knew. What he'd said had hit her in the face and she still didn't know how to handle it, any of it.

She didn't notice it at first but suddenly Hook stood behind her and when Emma noticed she felt herself tense.

"I truly am sorry, Emma."

Still nearly speechless Emma turned to him and suddenly they were so close again, an energy pulling them closer to each other. Hook looked as vulnerable as Emma felt and without thinking her lips was on his. The kiss didn't last that long but it felt like an eternity. It was Emma that broke it, the feeling of her getting too close to this pirate began to reach levels that were too high for her. Without saying anything Emma just turned around and left the place, leaving Hook behind.

When Hook stood there, filled with joy and hope he heard a strange sound. It sounded like a scream but it suddenly disappeared. His feelings changed fast and he found himself running to the place where the scream had come from but he didn't arrive on time.

Everything that was left to se was a cloud of purple smoke.