Discovering You

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"David!" Killian yelled over the sound of the roaring fire, "David, are you alright!?"

There was a low groan from under the pile of rubble, and Killian didn't hesitate to rush over, lifting the splintered wood off the King. "Mate? David?"

"I'm not your mate," He groaned softly, and Killian laughed.

"Yeah, you're alright. C'mon, get up." He pulled David to his feet, keeping his hook safely away from the King's injured side. "We have to get you back to the castle, David. They can patch you up there."

"No," He forced Killian to let him go. "We have to find this bastard."

"David, you have a wife and a daughter who need you, you can't keep doing this!" He caught his hook on David's arm, earning him a glare. "It's a fools errand! You'll die."

"Emma and Snow are capable enough. And so am I, Hook." Killian watched in dismay as the King of Misthaven dragged his arm free once more. David took a few steps before an arrow flew from the trees, Killian moved, and the arrow struck him in the side. "Hook-"

"I'm fine." He grunted in pain, "Now let's get you back to the castle, mate, because we both know that if anything happens to you, the blame will be on me."

David nodded, but before they could go much further, another arrow struck him in the chest, and he fell backward, dead before he hit the ground. "David! David!?"

***

"I would like to let everyone know that we are taking extreme measures to find and punish the man that killed my husband, our King." Emma watched numbly as her mother gave the speech to the kingdom. She could see, beyond her mother, in the middle of the courtyard, Captain Hook. He was in chains, surrounded by guards. He wouldn't look up from the ground, a scowl on his face. Emma wished he would look up, look her in the face. He killed her father... The least he could do was look her in the face.

But he didn't. At least, not until they were escorting him out. He looked up, and she met his eyes from across the courtyard. They were starlingly blue.

"I didn't kill the King!" He yelled, his voice deep. "I was working with him, trying to keep him safe!"

"Shut up!" One of the guards jabbed him in the ribs, and he grunted, bending over. He managed to maintain contact with her.

"Ask the princess! She can tell if I'm lying!" He sounded winded now. Emma closed her eyes, sighing. "Princess, please!"

"Emma?" Her mother turned to her and Emma bit her lip, before standing up and looking at him.

"Did you kill my father!?"

"No!" He yelled again, "I was helping King David-Ah!"

One of the guards elbowed him again, and the pain on his face made Emma's heart clench. That wasn't the kind of pain you felt when someone jabbed you in the ribs. "Stop it! Let him speak!"

"There were bandits, and we were hunting them. They killed the king!" The people around him and the guards started calling him a liar, yelling loudly. "I took an arrow in the side for David! I tried to make him come back to the castle, to the Queen and Princess! We were turning back when they shot him! I tried to save him!"

Snow looked to Emma, wondering what her daughter saw in the pirate's eyes. Emma squared her jaw. He was telling the truth. He had to be telling the truth. "Emma? Is he lying?"

She shook her head. "No. He's telling the truth."

Snow tried to look her in the eye, but Emma was frozen on Captain Hook's face. His eyes were so startlingly blue that Emma almost couldn't breathe as she stared in his eyes. "Princess, please!"