"I can't pretend to hate you, Jones." "Then don't." Iris Ashe, was a con-woman in the Enchanted Forest. One night, after a job attempt went wrong, she finds herself falling for the mysterious man who goes by the name Hook. Killian thinks that Iris can delay the sting of 200 years worth of waiting for revenge. But he's wrong. As much as he wishes to deny it, he's fallen for Iris just as much as she has for him. And he can't risk losing his revenge, so he leaves her. And in doing so, makes the biggest mistake of his life. But when he gets to Storybrooke, suddenly, it's not just revenge on his mind anymore. It's her, too. I do not own Once Upon a Time, or any characters that aren't Iris Ashe, Maggie Dean, or any characters that are not originally in the show. Except for any Disney characters that appear in the story, which belong to Disney. (Also, inspiration from Megan Van Dyke's Second Star to The Left.)

What if you had been kept apart from the man that you love for 200 hundred years? Tortured years by the Dark One? Could you still have a heart of gold... well Adelaide could, after all she had hope in her heart that one day she would be reunited with one Killian Jones.