A/N: Happy birthday, dear @cat-sophia! You are a lovely CS shipper and I’m happy to know you. Your messages are always so kind and you spread such a nice vibe around! 🙂
You asked for nr. 13 (“Looks like we’re gonna be stuck here for a while.”) and I’m really happy I made it in time for your birthday. 🙂 I hope you like it; I’ve had fun writing it.
This is a CS AU fic. Princess Emma and Captain Hook. Rated T.
Princess Emma had always been a bit adventurous. Too adventurous for her own good, if you asked her parents. But she loved to explore and discover new things, to rather spend her time outdoors than in a stuffy palace room. It was beyond her ability to sit still, no matter how many times her mother had chastised her for her unprincess-like behavior.
And now, with such a juicy piece of information on her hands, she could not possibly ignore it and not act on it. Her mother might get a few white hairs again (Gods know she’d been complaining about this ever since Emma had been five), but it’s a price she decided she was willing to pay. Not to mention that she was willing to sit through the inevitable reprimand if her parents ever found out what she was about to do. And at 17, she had been through her fair share of scoldings.
But honestly, there might be a hidden pirate treasure somewhere close! She had never heard of anything more exciting in all her life. When she had heard the raunchy sailors talk about it in the tavern (the unruly establishment she was not supposed to set foot in), she could barely contain her excitement. They did not have a lot of information, just that the dreaded pirate Blackbeard had been spotted close to the coast several nights in the past few months. And with no obvious reason for his presence in her kingdom, people had started to talk. It was also rumoured that Blackbeard had one of the vastest treasures on the Seven Seas, surpassed only by Captain Hook’s. But since no one had ever seen the two fortunes, the final verdict was yet to be delivered on this particular issue. Just as the verdict of who of the two was the greatest pirate captain to hoist a sail, was still undecided.