Artwork for my @cssns story. You can read the first chapter of Over Land and Under Sea. You can read it here [AO3] or here [FF.Net].
Summary:
Finding herself in trouble, Emma is surprised to find the handsome man who wears a seal skin and claims to have magic may not be as crazy as he seems. But it’s going to take more than just magic to keep these two together when a deadly danger from the past comes back to haunt them.
Author’s Note:
Wow. I can’t believe it, but I’m back! No seriously, it’s been far too long since I wrote ANYTHING, that I just have to give huge thanks to @kmomof4 for putting this CSSNS together. It’s given me the motivation I needed to tell this story that has been niggling at me for almost 2 years now. That said, some of you may recall I had a similar story with the same name I published a while back. I’ve decided to tell this version instead (the other one just wasn’t sitting right with me, though I do know a lot of you really enjoyed it). I think that this is a much fuller, more exciting version. I hope you will like it. I’m expecting it to be around 20 chapters long, with updates about every 3 weeks or so for now, possibly less in the future. What I lack in updates, i tend to make up for with extremely long chapters 🙂
Also, I have to thank @mryddinwilt for looking this over and for inspiring this fic with her recommendation of the movie, Song of the Sea. It’s wonderful and moving, and just so, so sweet. Go check it out. After you’ve read my story, of course!
CHAPTER 1:
Emma took a deep breath of salty air and willed her heart to slow to the rhythm of the pounding waves. She reminded herself that she’d been in dire straights before, though maybe none quite like this, and that the only who needed to rescue her was herself. There was no need to panic about being trapped on a deserted island. None at all. There just had to be some way out of here she hadn’t thought of yet.
With a final deep breath, Emma opened her eyes to the blinding sun, shed her jacket and pulled her long hair back into a pony tail. Now she was ready to kick the island’s ass or die trying. And, if she did end up getting out of this stupid mess she made for herself, there was one thing she knew for certain—she was never going near the ocean again.
I had to check to make sure I didn’t sleep-send this anon to myself last night. LOL. It couldn’t be more true.
I mean. I don’t literally want to shake anyone. More hoping for people to have a metaphorical light-bulb moment and then I’d give a metaphorical hug afterwards. Because I’ve been there. I can’t judge someone harshly for the same mistake I’ve made in opening myself up to that sort of person. And, further, the mistake of opening up my followers to posts that broadcast and perpetuate the narrative that sort of manipulator cultivates via (often-times offline) communication with his/her “friends” and through anon asks. It’s especially hard for me to judge since I know that it’s out of empathy that a person chooses to form a relationship with someone who makes initial connections with you by coming to your aide when you’ve been treated badly (by members of your own fandom, you believe) because it appears a) that you share loves of the same things, b) that person has also been treated badly by the same fandom, and c) that person only wants to enjoy the show you do and doesn’t want fandom divide. It’s hard to comprehend that NONE of that is actually true.
It’s only in retrospect did I learn how this sort of social media sociopath could actually send shit-stirring anons to you to either create the adversity that forms the connection in the first place, or to continue to send them to create the image that you are being harassed by your own fandom. These sorts of people also send anon asks to themselves in an effort to fuel the narrative they want people to believe about fandom.
And since I consider myself a work-in-progress who constantly seeks to be better – who is ready and willing to check myself regarding minority issues – it was also easy to feel a connection to the sort of person who claims to champion social justice. It’s only in the end that you discover that this kind of person only uses SJ in order to win debates about stans/ships and plots, while, in practice, they disregard actual opinions and experiences of actual minorities when they are communicated and they also don’t do a heck of a lot of activism in Real Life.
I’ve been fandom-ing since 2000 online, and have interacted with loads of manipulative people in that realm and in real life, and so I thought I was savvy and boy was I wrong. So, although my patience in seeing some of these posts isn’t eternal and I may wind up unfollowing some folks in the short term, I’m always happy to offer a hug and refollow when the proverbial shit hits the fan.
I just woke up and made myself very emotional by thinking of little Neal running up to Killian and Emma after coronation and Emma’s all wide smiled going to say hi to her little brother, and he runs right passed her and straight up to Killian. Who of course, picks him up and tosses him over his shoulder, making the boy giggle loudly while Emma turns to Henry with a shake of the head and a small smile, “It’s like I don’t exist when his big brother the Captain is around.”
What can I say that hasn’t yet been said about this steamy scene? What I love the most about these kisses is how they go from passionate to gentle and then to passionate again until they escalate into a thirsty “I-gotta-have-you-now-screw-the-pancakes-and-let´s-bang-on-this-kitchen-table” make out session. I think the reason why I find myself rewatching this scene so many times is because these kisses are the perfect mix of the passion and desperation we saw in their first kiss in Neverland and the tenderness and bliss of their second kiss after their adventure in the past. It’s gentle. It’s rough. It’s beautiful. It’s hot. It’s pancakes. It’s Captain Swan.
She’s no longer lost, she’s not alone. She is getting everything. Her parents, her son, a man who loves her for everything that she is. She’s not a lost girl anymore. Now it’s real. Now it’s really good. She found home.
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