***A Once Upon a Time Fanfiction
***A Killian Jones/Captain Hook Fanfiction
***
Since I first wrote this book, I have changed chapters and some of the story, several times... I hope that if you are coming back to reread this book, that you will stil...
After several more hours, they finally reached the top. They stopped once they got onto the stone floor when the three of them finally caught their breath.
"Whoa..." Dream said, seeing a giant castle, looking around at all of the bodies and rumble. It was a mess.
"What happened here?" Emma asked, following Dream by looking around.
"It's where the final battle was." Hook looked at the girls when he saw Dream glancing at her hand that she cut. "Give me your hand." Hook said, stepping in front of Dream.
"What?" Emma asked, turning to see Dream looking at her cut hand.
"Your hand. It's cut. Let me help." Hook said as Dream hesitated to let him help.
"No, no. It's fine. Just--" Dream tried to fight, backing up, but Hook wrapped his hook around her wrist, pulling her close to him.
"No, it's not." Hook said when Dream sighed, knowing that she couldn't fight him about it.
"So, now you're gonna be a gentleman?" Dream asked, furrowing her brows at him.
"Giants can smell blood. And I'm always a gentleman." Hook smirked, leaning in, making Emma scoff at the interaction, while Dream tried her hardest not to look into his beautiful, ocean-blue eyes. Hook pulled out a bottle of rub, taking the cork out with his teeth before spitting it on the ground. He poured it over her hand as she winced from the pain.
"What is that?" She scoffed, groaning in pain.
"It's rum. Bloody waste of it." He said, dropping the empty bottle before taking off his scarf. He wrapped it around her hand while she held it, helping the one-handed pirate.
Emma rolled her eyes, seeing that Dream's plan of not getting lost in his eyes was failing.
"Here's the plan. We wait for the giant to fall asleep. When he does, we'll sneak past him into his cave. That's where the treasures are. Where the compass lies." Hook said while tying the scarf around Dream's hand.
Her breath hitched in her throat as he leaned forward, tightening the scarf with his teeth while looking up at her.
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"A-And... And then?" Dream stuttered out when Hook knew by the pink on her cheeks and her staring at him that he got her attention.
He got the scarf out of his mouth, looking at her as he held onto her hand. "And then we run." He said when Dream cleared her throat, looking over at Emma.
"I don't have time to wait for a giant to fall asleep." Emma scoffed, looking at the two of them. "The powder Mulan gave us; we need to use it. We've gotta knock him out." Emma said, making Hook sigh as Dream looked everywhere but him, still feeling her cheeks getting hot.
"That's risker..." Hook said, looking down to ensure Dream's hand was covered by the scarf.
"Than waiting for a giant to fall asleep when we need him to?" Dream asked him, glancing back at Hook.
Hook looked back up at her, chuckling as he caught himself looking at her lips, then her eyes. "Point taken... Ooh, you're a tough lass." He smirked, making her scoff as he moved to grab the bag with the powder from his satchel. "You'd make a great pirate." He said, handing her the bag, when she noticed a tattoo of a heart being impaled by a sword, vines around it, with a name in the middle.
"Who's Milah... o-on the tattoo?" Dream asked, looking up at him. Her cheeks returned to their normal shade as she felt a gaping hole in her chest.
"Someone from long ago..." He said, looking down when Dream noticed that he was upset.
"Where is she?" Emma asked him, obviously not seeing his mood change.
"She's gone..." He said, walking away from them.
"Gold..." Dream spoke up, looking at the ground, before turning to see him stop. "Rumpelstiltskin... He took more than your hand from you, didn't he?" Dream asked, making Hook look at her. "That's why you want to kill him..." Dream continued to say, making Hook sigh to himself.
"For someone who's never been in love and builds up quite the wall, you're quite perceptive, aren't you?" Hook said when Dream sighed, looking to the ground for a moment.
"Maybe, I just know the look of losing someone close to you..." Dream sighed, looking back up at him.
