Character A is pretending to be their friend’s lover for the sake of the friend’s family. Character B is said friend’s sibling.
(header by the incredibly sweet and talented @katie-dub)
It All Went Downhill From Here; ~ 2, 000 words; FF.NET || AO3
She watches
Killian Jones storm out of his own house and wonders when exactly this whole
weekend went so horribly wrong. A few instances come to mind.
Possible It-all-went-downhill-from-here moment
#1
She bumps
into him and almost covers his shirt in mulled wine. She has not been hanging around the kitchen’s
doorway, with its fake-as-can-be mistletoe, scotched-taped by someone, who, if
Emma has to guess, was operating with one hand. She is not that smitten, thank
you very much. But the fact remains that when she looks up and it is Killian
who almost got a first degree burn as a Christmas present, Emma doesn’t rush
off.
She
hesitates. She lingers. Probably seeming distracted to everyone else and
completely obvious to herself. She waits and waits and starts wondering if she
should storm off in a huff or just grab him by the lapels and snog him
senseless, as his brother would put it.
Killian’s
chuckle is only a little forced and he scratches behind his ear for just a
second and then makes the decision for her. He takes her hand and lifts it to
his lips. She barely feels the brush of his mouth but his breath is warm and
heavy on her skin and Emma swears a proper kiss would’ve been less sensual. She
certainly hasn’t had one she enjoyed as much as this.
///
No, as nice
as it is to relive that one, she should go further back.
Possible It-all-went-downhill-from-here moment
#2
She almost
missed it, busy as she is with staring at Killian Jones catching every popcorn
Robin’s kid throws at him. With his mouth.
There are
certain things that should not be attractive and acting like a 5-year-old, in
the company of an actual 5-year-old, should be one of them. But when Killian
catches her staring and grins proudly (he did catch every single one), she
quickly averts her eyes. And that’s when she sees it.
Elsa is
most definitely not gonna make the top of that tree, no matter how much she
frowns and huffs at it. Emma laughs quietly at her for using her people tactics
on a dead plant and is just about to go save said plant from being toppled over
when she sees Liam comes up behind her roommate. She sees Elsa jump when his
hands come to rest on her hips and almost hears her indignant yelp when he
lifts her up without much preamble.
Emma wants
to laugh again but then she catches Killian’s frown that melts into concern
when he meets her eyes and all she wants is to scream in frustration.
It All Starts With a Dance 