Hooked: Captain Swan One-Shots

Damn that pirate.

Captain Swan One-Shots #3 ~ Damn that pirate

*Set pre-time travel. The portal didn't open again. Hook and Emma never went back. Zelena was defeated, Rumple killed her and life carried on.*

-/-

 
Storeybrooke. Home? Not exactly but what can you do. Even if my family was here. Even if Henry wanted to stay here, it wouldn't feel like home yet.

I hadn't had a chance to miss it.

Neal. Neal had told me that. Or should I say Baelfire had told me that. Knowing what I know now, I see that he was talking about the Enchanted Forest. He missed his home; his Father. If only he knew what would happen...

If Neal knew back then that Rumple was only in Maine, along with everyone else, I wonder if he would have done anything different. Would he have been a thief? Would he have even wanted to see Mr Gold? He ran a mile when we turned up in New York.

I guess I'll never know.

Would he have wanted to see me?

I mean, if he knew who I was. If when we first met in that little yellow Bug, and he knew I was the saviour, the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, would he have still fallen in love me? Did he know who they were? The timelines in the Enchanted Forest seemed really messed up. Was my childs father older than his grandparents? Ew.

I needed to stop thinking about him. It'd been a year.

I sighed and downed the rum that was left in my glass. Damn that pirate. Ever since Neverland, I've had a taste for rum. It seemed to be  the only thing that kept me sane at the moment.

"Ruby!" I called from the end of the bar in Granny's. There was only me and leroy left, but he was sat in one of the booths drowning his sorrows in ale. I felt sorry for him. That dang fairy had turned him down again. I mean seriously, I know in this world Astrid was a nun, but would one date break her vows? Nova was pretty happy to run away with him, so why couldn't Astrid just have a drink. Did nuns drink?

Get your head out of the rum, Emma.

Ruby poured me another one. She stopped asking if I was okay an hour ago. She knew I wasn't. Why else would I be sat at Granny's in a black knee length dress, drinking my body weight in rum. I noticed that this time Ruby left the bottle next to me.

Great, now I looked like Leroy.

"How much do I owe you?" I asked Ruby. It was getting late, I was drunk, and Ruby would want to go home. Maybe I could buy the bottle and go kill some brain cells at home.

"It's on the house" She smiled sympathetically. I didn't want her sympathy.

"No, Ruby. I'll pay you for the bottle. I think I drank it all anyway." I looked down at the bottle, my gaze a little blurry. It was like when you don't blink for a while, or squint for too long. This alone told me I'd drank too much.

"Emma, go home. It's been a rough day for you. This. Drink. Is. On. The. House." I don't know if you over enunciated the last part because she thought I was too drunk to understand, like a German woman in a Scottish terminal, or because she wanted to make her point clear.Either way, I didn't like being babied. I'm  a strong, independent, strong, caring woman, I thought to myself while glaring at Ruby and fisting the twenty I'd pulled out my bag.

Looking back now, I see that I really was drunk and should have taken Ruby's advice and just gone home. I mean, I said 'strong' twice.

I walked out without saying anything to Ruby or Leroy. She probably wouldn't hear my with her headphones in anyway, and Leroy pumped as much as a tank, he wouldn't remember much. I was drunk senseless, but I still had a conscience. I stuffed the twenty in the pocket of Ruby's jacket as I walked out the door. She would never accept it ad a tip. If she didn't want me to give her it, she shouldn't have left her jacket on the coat rack next to the door.