Full Sail Ahead [Harry Hook X Reader]

Patching Up

Your POV 

Without a response, I knocked again, speaking to let him know it was me. "Harry?"

"Come in, (y/n)." A muffled voice on the other end barely made its way outside.

I turned the knob and felt sorry as I saw Harry sprawled on the bed, face down on his pillow.

"Please don't tell me you're moping over this." I closed the door behind me.

"I'm not moping. I've just been thinking."

"About what?" I ventured.

"Nothing. Just thinking."

"There goes yet another failed attempt at doing something fun with you." I walked over to the bed and sat on the edge. "Maybe my family is right - I don't know how to give someone a good time."

"Don't say that (y/n), it's not your fault." He slowly turned his head away from the pillow and towards me.

"It is, even if only indirectly." I shook my head and leaned all the way back, my head in his lap. "What my family did was completely uncalled for. They had no right confronting you like that - and especially on no grounds."

"But they weren't wrong."

"Harry - stop being ridiculous. There are countless reasons I could tell you why what they said was wrong, but let's start with the most obvious - no one needs to protect my reputation but me. Think about how silly it is that everyone at that table was concerned about a hypothetical scenario where you happened to do something disastrous, and ruin the peoples' idea of me. It would take a lot to do that, and either way, the people aren't so fickle as to switch up that fast. The whole thing's rubbish. Dai was just talking about Agrabah's loyalty to their royals, and the next was pretending like the smallest thing could defame us! She's my friend, but you really shouldn't be taking her word on such matters."

"Still... I don't know. It all worried me and got me thinking about everything. Like, imagine if they found out about what happened on the Jolly Roger with Father? What if something happened to you? I can't help but think I'm getting you into more trouble than good."

"Please." I squinted my eyes at him. "Was it you who asked me to go there? You're the one who advised against it! If it wasn't for you, chances are I'd be dead!" I exclaimed. Then calmer, added, "There, I said it."

"Don't say things like that." Harry sat up, prompting me to sit beside him.

"But you saved me." I looked into his eyes.

Continuing his point from before, Harry looked back. "You still shouldn't." He opened his mouth - to speak what I knew would be more of the "I don't want to hurt you" narrative.

I quickly covered his mouth with my hand with a smile. "No more of that!"

In reflex, he sprung to cover mine.

I widened my eyes with a look of "what gives?" and the crinkles at his eyes betrayed his better change of mood.

I laughed as I struggled to push his hand away with my free one. In the second he let up, I quickly offered, "I promise no more morbid talk if you forget about today's lunch!"

He put his hand up solemnly, so I released mine as well.

"Truce." He grinned.

"You'll try to have as much fun here over the next few days as possible, no matter what people around us are saying?"

"Yes, absolutely."

"Good. Because we both know what's coming up after Agrabah."

He groaned. "Ugh, the stupid Hook's Bay picnic."

"You know it."

Harry's expression switched to a smirk as I saw him looking down at his hand. "What's this?" He teased.

He held up his palm to show blotches of red from my lipstick.

"God, Harry--"

"I could've sworn you were just telling me the other day, how much you hate red lipstick, isn't that right?"

"When I come to Agrabah--"

"Looks amazing." He smiled as I turned away, embarrassed. Then back to making fun, he grinned. "What's the shade? Maybe "stop sign"? Nah, it's got to be something more intense, probably along the lines of "the blood of my enemies"--"

"Stop it." I was unenthused by his jokes.

"What? Too morbid for you, princess?"

I huffed. "Glad to see you're back. Now for real, wash that off before it stains something!" I paused. "And fight the urge to lick it - this one isn't flavoured." I joked.

He gave me a knowing look before he got up and headed for the washroom. "Still waiting on that shade name." He laughed.

I rolled my eyes and got off the bed.

Harry didn't stay bummed out for long, no matter what the issue - that's one of my favourite qualities of his. Once he was out of the washroom he had seemed to really forget the whole ordeal and rather set his mind on how we could salvage the day.

"I heard Agrabah has great hot springs, is that true?"

I laughed. "Yeah, that's true."

"Do you know where the closest one is?"

"Um yeah... I'd say it's the one in our backyard." I eyed Harry, enjoying his reaction.

"There's a hot spring in your backyard!?"

"It's a nightmare for plumbing but mhm, it's there." I smiled. "Want to check it out? The weather's perfect at this time, it's sort of cool out so we don't, you know, suffocate." I joked.

"Sounds like a plan to me! Let's call over Dai and Daniel too, we both left quite abruptly, we should make peace with them."

"Alright! I'll make sure everything's in working condition - who knows the last time the springs were used." I turned back before leaving. "Oh, and I think this goes without saying, but you should probably change out of that."

"It's a good thing we packed for the Summerlands." Harry excitedly rushed me out so that we could get there as fast as possible. 

Sorry for the shorter chapter, sort of transitional as things get set up for the next "act"/parts of the story!

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