One of my absolute fav things about 3B is when Killian’s lips get cursed, and he just abruptly stops flirting with Emma, and she picks up on it immediately and decides that something is wrong, so in order to try and fix it, she starts flirting with him instead, and Killian gets SO. FRUSTRATED. Like, of course she would start flirting with him when he’s trying to distance himself from her for her own protection. The poor guy, lol.
Not just that.
Like, he stops to protect her and you can see it grates on him. This is the man who spent a year or more pining after this woman and finally – FINALLY!! – she’s back in his life and he gets to start wooing her again. Or at least pull her pigtails and tease her to get her mind off of how worrying everything is.
And then he has to stop.
But yeah, Emma notices. She notices when he backs off, when he withdraws and becomes grumpy and she’s like “??????????? what did I do, nothing in my demeanor has changed–OH NO DOES HE NOT LIKE ME ANYMORE” and all but flicks a paper football at his head that, when unfolded, reads “do u like me, check y/n” and there’s only “y/y” options. She flips it on him when he stops because SHE THINKS MAYBE HE’S LOSING INTEREST AND GIRL LIKES BOY BUT GIRL DOES NOT LIKE FEELINGS BUT FEELINGS =? BOY?????????? emma!bot broken, please uninstall Feelings 2.0
and then. THEN!!!!!!!!!!!! she’s flirting with him and he’s???????? “Gods DAMN IT ALL SWAN WHY NOW” not realizing that BECAUSE THEY AREN’T COMMUNICATING (in an actual amusing and good use of miscommunication) THEY WOULDN’T HAVE THIS PROBLEM.
They’re on the world’s angstiest see-saw made of the purest pine.
Look, guys, I’m aware the dagger is name-side out for the aesthetic of the shot, but do you ever think the canon reason is because Killian couldn’t stand to see Emma’s name attached to that cursed dagger?
In honor of Once coming to its conclusion, I will be posting my deleted scene fics here on tumblr leading up to the finale. There are 14 total, and they will be posted in chronological order. Each week leading up to the finale, I will post the scenes in a particular arc.
Summary: But the one thing that cuts deepest of all is the mirror that hangs on the other side of the chamber. This is Killian Jones true torture. Or how Killian went from a hero’s death to being tortured by Hades. Title and lyrics from song of the same name by needtobreathe.
Words: Almost 2,000
Rating: T
Episode: Swan Song through Labor of Love (contains dialogue from Labor of Love)
Trigger Warnings: Major Killian whump
I am a troubled mind, I am a calloused heart
A failing engine from driving way too hard
Trying way too hard
I pulled a thirty eight out of my bleeding heart
I killed my selfishness for bringing me this far
This far away from you
Oh, this is the way I wanna go down
This is the way I wanna go out
Killian Jones, sadly, has lied to Emma Swan before. Many times. It’s a fact that he wishes weren’t true. A fact that merely points to the depth of blackness in his soul. But this lie has to be the worst one he’s ever told her.
He lies and tells her it’s okay, nodding at her as she sobs, Excalibur clutched in her fist. The tears streaming down her face break his heart in two, and he wishes she didn’t have to do this. He thought about doing it himself, of holding the sword to his breast and falling upon it. But he feels the darkness throbbing just below the surface, and he knows he isn’t strong enough. It has to be her. So he lies.
He lies and lets her believe it won’t hurt him, that he isn’t afraid of steel slicing right through him. Lies as if he doesn’t mind dying. Not that he doesn’t know this is the right thing to do. But he wanted so much more. His heart breaks to think of all they wanted together and now will never have. Tries not to think of all the memories they will never make in that house he picked out for them.
He told her this day would come, that afternoon in that cabin in the woods. He warned her someday he would lose his happy ending. But now he lies as if he won’t miss it at all.
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