Never Cursed -OUAT

Chapter 3

Hook hops to the ground first and then, keeping his hand on my back and keeping my hand on his shoulder, he pulls me down. No one is in sight. "Ah, they went back to the ship."

"It is almost dark."

"Tired, mate?" Hook asks.

"Yes," I answer truthfully. "But it is really just my arm. We should keep walking to the ship until we can't."

"If the lady insists." Hook says, taking a bandage from his my satchel, standing incredibly close, and wrapping my arm in a makeshift sling before we walk on.

We walk until we see sun and that's when we see the Jolly Roger. "I thought you were going to let us take a break." The Captain says, grinning at his ship.

"You're the captain," I say.

"You're the princess."

"You kidnapped me. Not in charge," I say, winning, but winning with the fact that I'm kidnapped.

He sighs as he climbs up his ship. I follow. "Did you miss me?!" Everyone on board turns to look at him and me. "Captain Hook!" They yell into the sky when he pours our findings onto the ship and tells me to do the same.

When it all settles down, and the Captain and I are checking out my arm, Mr. Smee comes in. "We got you something, Captain." But he waves him away. When he stands there grinning and waving someone in, that is when I realize that Mr. Smee is drunk. He brings in a woman and when Hook doesn't look up, I say, "Captain." He looks up to my eyes and when I nod over to the girl he seems to get irritated. He asks her to excuse them and then starts yelling at Smee.

"We kidnapped the bloody princess! And I told you I didn't want to be bothered. Now feel free to let her have fun, but she is not to be in here again." He takes a seat next to me and tells me in a much calmer voice, "Just dislocated. This will hurt."

I'm about to ask what will when he situates us into a position I haven't exactly been in before and moves my arm forward, I bite my tongue to keep from reacting to the pain, but I arch my back all the same, my stomach pressing his. I lay on his bed for a moment and eventually I must fall asleep because the pirate kissing my forehead had to be a dream.

When I wake up, I am laying on a chest of a man. I am disoriented for a moment as I look up to see who I lay on and when I see the face of my kidnapper, I stay where I am, wondering how he got there. Then I remember I am in his bed, where else would he sleep. I look up at his face again and his arm goes around me, his hand clasping my waist. I don't dare move as I study his unguarded features. I'm captivated by the beauty in him as I fall back on him silently.

An absurd thought, I think. He took me from my family. ...Family?

I must fall asleep again because I'm awoken again only by the noise of a drawer shutting. My eyes follow the sound sleepily, and then the hands closing it. That's when I notice Hook no longer sleeping next to me, and I see him standing there - getting dressed.

All he happens to be dressed in as I look at him is the black leather pants he always wears around. My eyes move up from his pants to his bare torso. Or rather, bare isn't the word for it, because it is covered in chest hair. My eyes can't help but study every inch of his moving body as he dresses. I'm a lady, a princess, I shouldn't be watching him like this.

My eyes move to his and I notice him looking at me and my face turns hot. How long has he known I've been watching him?

"Morning, lass. Did I wake you?" He asks with a smirk.

I throw off the covers and raise my chin, "Do I have to where these clothes again or do I have any to change into also?"

The pirate Captain laughed lightly under his breath, like he was holding back, "So you were watching me? Enjoying ourselves are we, love? Or rather maybe not, since I am getting dressed, not undressed."

When I stay silent, the heat vibrant on my face, he answers my question with a sigh and a nod towards clothes on his desk.

I smile at them and stand up. He then offers as he walks closer to me, "I could stay and help you get dressed if you'd like, milady Swan. I know you're used to maids helping you get dressed." Emma looked over at him to see if he was serious and besides the fact that he as trying helplessly to hold back a smirk, she could she that he was.

"I am fine, Captain, on my own."

He nodded and exited his own room. I breathed a heavy sigh of relief and disappointment, and then I changed. When I am ready, I open the door and walk out, only to run into Captain Hook. I stumble backwards and sigh when I see his face. He smiles at me and ushers me back into the room.

He pushes me up against the wall and for a moment I'm scared, but then he says, "Try trust sometimes, love."

He takes his hook and digs it into the wall, brushing my hair back with his hand. I stare into his sharp blue eyes, which I expect will hurt like every other time, but instead it's like he is taking my pain. Suddenly, I remember something.

I start to drive the yellow bug, and suddenly a man pops up in the back seat. He tells me it is okay, and I don't believe him, but I soon do. I also soon realize that he stole the car too. The man is Baelfire, but his name is also Neal.

"I lied to you when I told you how Bae got off my ship. He actually got off because I gave him away. And then Bae got off the island without Pan's permission," Hook says, bringing me back. I suddenly have an urge to place my lips on his, but I don't. Instead, I stop my self millimeters away from his lips. It looked like we were, but only we knew we weren't. He smirked when he noticed me leaning in to kiss him. He was standing there with an impatient and curious stance.

"Hook, have I always been a princess in this world?" I ask, dazed.

He hesitates and shrugs, "I don't know, lass."

"Find out for me?"

"Why would I do that?" He asks, inching closer to my mouth. They were almost touching now. One could close their lips and I'm pretty sure that they'd suddenly touch and I wouldn't be able to pull away. I don't know why I felt that way. I just did. It just felt like he's the only one being honest with me, even if he lied about Bae or Neal. Or whatever his name is.

I suddenly closed my lips and they were pressed against his. It was gentle but as he was pressing me up against the wall, I pulled away. "Because you'll get more of that." He smiled curiously at me and nodded.