Rumplestiltskin's Daughter

Ep 6 - Forgive and Forget

Forgiveness is not always easy, at times it feels more painful than the wound we suffered to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. I can't live my whole life with the pain inside me, but If I forgive Hook than I'll feel no more pain, because holding a grudge doesn't make me strong, it makes me bitter and forgiving doesn't make me weak it sets me free.

And I'm not saying forgiveness means i shall act as though the incident never happened, I'm saying that I shall forever act as though the offence did happen and that I chose to forgive the person, that I chose to forgive Hook and that I chose to forget about it.

Maybe it's time to Forgive and forget.

Throwing my diary down, I walk out onto the top deck, I'm not sure of the time, but one thing I knew for sure was that it was late, that late In fact everybody was asleep except me and the whole ship was quiet but I knew one other person was awake.

As I make my up to the main part of the top deck of the ship, to where Hook was stood steering the ship, hook on the wheel and his functional hand holding a bottle of rum as he carried on drinking from it, "what are you doing awake?" Hook asks.

"What are you doing awake?" I reply back smirking emphasising 'you', I then look towards the floor as I eventually reached Hook's side, "a real pirate never sleeps" I say quoting Hook since I remember him saying that to me and Bae this one time, he smirks back "plus I couldn't sleep anyway!"

"Of course you couldn't" Hook replies looking away, "I'm sorry" he says sadly.

"I know you are!" I say continuing to look at the floor thinking about the incident earlier on today, thinking about my brother, and then it soon led to me thinking about everyone I've lost along the way.

I notice Hook quickly swung his head to look at me, "you forgive me?" He states as a question almost surprised.

Looking up at him, I answer his question, "it will take a long time for me really to get over it, but it's good to forgive and best to forget, don't you think?"

Hook smiles which causes me to also do the same thing, "you want some?" He says offering me the Rum.

"Would I?!" I beam quickly snatching it out his hand as he slightly laughs, I then take a sip and begin coughing instantly placing my hand in front of my mouth whilst passing him back the bottle with the other hand.

"Its always worst the first time!" Hook laughs looking to me then back to the sea as he was still steering the ship.

"I like it" I smirk to him referring to the drink.

I know Hook isn't perfect, but neither am I, and life isn't perfect, and I'm happy here, I always have been, so who am I to stop my own happiness, nobody's perfect, but this is the perfect place for me right now.

»6 months later»

I swoop my sword holding it with two hands forcing it to clash against the other sword held by the opposing person, I then jump up on top of something to get at their level as I move my sword ready to continue swinging it down, up, left and right trying to win but making sure I don't actually kill someone.

The opposing rival manoeuvres their sword to my feet as he swings again but I jump to miss it almost forcing me to fall, as I lose my balance and fall back to where I was earlier so I was no longer at their level, they start clashing their sword towards mine until I was almost defeated.

But I wasn't giving up as I kick their knee and swing their leg around causing them to slightly lose their balance as I swerve out the way making my way behind them as they quickly turn around we smash the swords together more than a couple of times.

After one big blow I knock the sword right out their one hand, you'd think it'd be easy since I have two hands and they have one but they were still strong, after eventually knocking the sword away I brung mine up to his throat as I smirk, "boom! You're dead!" I then move my sword away from Killian's throat.

"Yeh, more like I let you win!" Killian says walking past me to go pick up his sword again before looking back at me, joining me as we sit down together panting from the sword fighting.

"Whatever you want to tell yourself!" I say still smirking as he just rolls his eyes and I place my sword next to me, Killian decided to teach me how to use a sword and how to fight and win, and look now I am winning.

"Hey, isn't it your birthday tomorrow?" Killian asks looking towards me, I look at him then down at the floor knowing it was but we didn't age in Neverland so although I'd be turning 16 tomorrow I will look exactly the same as the day I got here, "16th right?"

I look back at him, "you remembered?" I smile and he smiles back basically saying with a smile 'of course I remembered', "only if we actually aged in this place!" I laugh slightly.

Killian gets up from where he was sitting and goes towards a bag opening it rummaging around with his hand and Hook I look towards him confused as he places something in his hand curled up in his fingers so I couldn't see it he walks back over to me.

"I've been wanting to give you this for a while now, what's a better time then now" he opens his hand and lets a necklace fall out as he holds onto the top so it didn't completely fall, at the bottom of it was a closed locket, "think of it as an early birthday present." He smiles.

Still sat down in shock I wait a few seconds before jumping up and holding it in my hand he completely lets go so it falls in my hand the cold metal wrapping around my fingers, "I love it!" I say loudly before looking up at Hook and charging at him for a hug, "thank you!"

At first he was surprised I hugged him but then he puts his hand and Hook around me too before I pull out the hug still admiring the locket, "it's your mothers, open it!" As I open the small locket at the end there was two drawings in either side.

I recognised the art style straight away, so I knew my mother had drew them, in the left side was a drawing of Bae and the right side was a drawing of me, I guess she really did care about us, "it's me and Bae" I state softly as Killian slightly nods.

"She loved you both so much!" He says now sitting down as I look over to him then back at the now opened locket with both mine and Bae's picture in.

"If she cared so much, why did she leave us!" I say sadly trying not to tear up.

"You know she couldn't stand to be around your father anymore," I look over to him again, "not even you and Bae could, none of you could, and that's why he's alone now, suffering!" He says with anger, I know the one thing Killian wanted was to get revenge on my father, and that's one of the reasons Bae left, but I hated my father and I couldn't care what Hook did to him.

"I barely even knew my mother." I say softly joining him as I sit down once again, "I remember few memories from when I was younger, but the last time I saw her she kissed me and Bae on the forehead, and then, then she never came back."

I look at Killian and no longer could help it but let a few tears fall down my cheek, "and now, now she's dead!" I look away again bringing my hands in the air, one still holding the locket, as I then slam them back down onto my knees, "I mean how is that even possible!?"

"Blame your father, not your mother" Killian says placing his hand on my shoulder, "Milah was a good woman, she was kind, caring and beautiful, and she hated having to leave you and Bae with the person she hated most!"

I look down at the locket once again, looking down at the drawing of Baelfire and at the drawing of Me, of course the drawings were from when we were younger but they still captured our faces perfectly, our mother was wonderful at drawing, I wish she was still alive to this day, but she isn't, she's dead because my own father ripped out her heart, and that just adds onto the many things he's done to me.

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