Searchingwardrobes

Here’s a snippet from chapter three of my Captain Swan AU of the Natalie Portman/Ashley Judd movie. You can read the rest on Ao3

Words: 3,000 + in this chapter, four chapters total

Rating: T

Trigger Warnings: Anti-Rumbelle, a child swears, and this chapter is so over-the-top Captain Cobra, it may give you a toothache

Killian hesitated as he lifted his fist to knock on the loft’s front door. He could hear crashes on the other side followed by Emma swearing.

“Mommy, you said shit!”

“No I didn’t, Henry.”

“Yes you did. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shiiiiiit!”

“Henry, stop using that word!”

Killian couldn’t help laughing as he knocked. The door was flung open by an exuberant three year old boy.

“Kiwee!”

He swung the boy up and gave him a hug. “And how are you this evening, Henry?” Killian balanced the boy on his hip as he walked through the front door. The child frowned.

“Mommy is ‘tated.”

Killian narrowed his eyes. Henry spoke pretty clearly for his age, but he was lost on this one. “Mommy is what?”

“Tated.”

“He means irritated,” Emma explained hastily as she flew past Killian in a blur. She opened the door, then paused and turned around. She spread her arms out. “How do I look? Professional?”

“Well,” Killian chuckled, scratching behind his ear, “you would look more professional with your camera.”

Emma’s mouth hung open, and then she wrinkled her adorable nose. “Shit!” she cried as she raced up the loft stairs to the room she shared with Henry.

“Wowds, Mommy!” Henry shouted after her.

Killian chuckled loudly even as Emma glowered at him as she raced back down the stairs. “Okay, I’m going,” she told them as she grabbed her keys. Then she shook her head, muttered, “What kind of mother am I?” under her breath, then raced quickly back to Killian and Henry. She gave first Henry then Killian a peck on the cheek.

“Love you!” she cried with a half wave.

Then the door slammed shut, and Killian jumped three feet in the air. He lifted his hand tentatively to his cheek, Emma’s “love you” ringing in his ear. She wasn’t thinking when she kissed you, idiot. She was just a mom on autopilot. And the “love you” was for Henry, you git!

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Here is an excerpt from chapter two of my Captain Swan AU of the Natalie Portman/Ashley Judd movie. My version is told completely from Killian’s point of view, however. If you like this snippet, you can read the rest on Ao3

Rating: T

Words: 3,000 + in this chapter, four chapters total

Chapter Two

“This is so exciting! My first Christmas tree!”

Killian grinned at Emma as he brushed pine needles from his jeans after tossing the douglass fir into the back of David Nolan’s pick-up truck. Her eyes were shining, and her cheeks were flushed a fetching shade of pink.

“I can’t thank you enough for helping me tonight.” Emma Swan wasn’t one to gush with excitement or appreciation, this Killian well knew after five months of friendship. So the simple tradition of getting a Christmas tree obviously meant a great deal to her.

“It was no problem,” Killian said as he climbed into the cab of the pick-up, “and I had fun. I’m secretly glad David got swamped at the animal shelter.”

Emma removed her hat and gloves, then rubbed her hands in front of the heater vents. “David felt so bad for cancelling on me, but I also know he’s excited that the Christmas adoption drive had such a good turn out.”

Killian watched her in silence for a moment, hesitant to pry, but wanting so badly to learn more of her beginnings. The thing was, he could tell those beginnings were painful. “You’ve never had a Christmas tree?”

Emma shrugged, as if it were of no consequence. It was something he noticed she often did when relating sad details of her childhood. “No. There was this one time I was living with this woman named Ingrid, and she promised me a Christmas tree. But then she spent all her money on an ice sculpture because . . . well, because she was crazy, I guess. She felt real bad about it, so on Christmas Eve, she took green paint and painted a Christmas tree on one wall of the living room.” Emma turned to him then with a wide smile. “And that was my only Christmas tree . . . until now. Mary Margaret and David are so great to let me do this. Their loft is crammed enough since they took us in.”

Emma paused for a moment, and Killian knew she was thinking about Henry. She got a little half smile and a fond twinkle in her eye whenever her thoughts turned to her son. “I can’t wait for Henry to see this tree!”

Killian chuckled, “Well, don’t expect too much of a reaction. After all, he just turned five months old today.”

It got suddenly quiet in the truck and Killian turned to see Emma gazing at him in wonder. He squirmed nervously under her gaze. “What?”

Emma shook her head, “I just . . . you remembered that he’s five months old today.”

Killian’s face turned serious as he nodded at her, “Aye, Swan. I’ll never forget that day as long as I live.”

Emma ducked her head, suddenly blushing. “Right. Of course you do. You jumped through a plate glass window. Kind of hard to forget that, right?”

Killian quickly took her hand in his, tenderly stroking her knuckles with his thumb. “No, Emma. You misunderstand me. I’ll never forget the day that little lad came into the world. He stole my heart the minute I laid eyes on him.”

Emma’s eyes softened as she lifted her face to meet his gaze. “You’re good with him.” She gave him a wobbly smile then slowly pulled her hand away.

Killian keenly felt the loss of her warm hand beneath his. He wanted to tell her that she had stolen his heart, too, but her walls were still too high for that.

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Chapter One

Here is an excerpt from chapter one of my Captain Swan AU of the Natalie Portman/Ashley Judd movie Where the Heart Is. My version, however, is told from Killian’s point of view. If you like this teaser, you can read the rest on Ao3 Here

Rating: T

Words: 3,000+ in this chapter, four chapters total

Granny’s diner in Storybrooke, Maine, was packed as usual for the lunch crowd. Killian Jones, however, took no notice of it. He was looking instead across the street at the figure sitting on a bench in the park. She was eating a box of saltine crackers, occasionally tossing some to the ducks that waddled up from the pond. Beside her on the bench sat a small potted apple tree cutting. It was that apple tree that had sent Emma through the doorway of the Storybrooke Public Library where he was acting librarian. He was afraid he hadn’t made the best of impressions on the young lass, snapping at her in condescending fashion as she asked for books on how to care for her tree. He hadn’t meant to hurt her feelings or imply that she was ignorant; it was simply the surly countenance he had adopted ever since returning home amidst too much gossip.

“She’s pretty, isn’t she?”

The voice over his shoulder jerked Killian out of such a deep reverie, that he spilled coffee all over the table in front of him. He narrowly managed to rescue his pristine copy of Treasure Island before the brown puddle spread entirely across the table. Mary Margaret Blanchard rushed for extra napkins, apologizing profusely as she assisted Killian in mopping up the mess.

“Apologies entirely unnecessary, Mary Margaret,” Killian assured her. The petite school teacher was one of those rare people to whom Killian spoke with kindness, largely because she was generally above town gossip, and never one to partake in passing judgment or speculating.

Mary Margaret’s gaze traveled out the window again to the blonde across the street. “I worry about her,” she mused, crossing her arms across her chest and cocking her pixie head.

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