welcome to the family | (1/1)

swanisms:

It’ll be the perfect Christmas party this year because they all can make it – all meaning Emma and Killian are going to suffer through this.

But hopefully they can make the best of it.

notes: a ridiculous christmas present for @blondecrowns, who deserves nice things but gets this instead

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If it’s the
straw that broke the camel’s back, then it’s his smug smile that breaks Emma’s
carefully constructed self-control. The self-control that was, coincidentally,
keeping her from breaking him.

“Hey, Mary Margaret, you remember how Killian said that he’d be
going to visit his family so he’d have to miss out on the Christmas party this
year? Well, his plane doesn’t leave until the 22nd so you’re just in luck, he can
make it after all.”

His eyes widen, smug smile dropping fast, and it’s Emma’s turn to
make faces behind Mary Margaret’s back, those faces being a pleased grin and
accompanied by finger guns “you stab me in the back, I’m going to shoot you in
yours, never bring a knife to a gunfight, Jones.”

She sees the problem with this after Killian’s stumbled his way
through another host of reasons he can’t go, all of them shut down by Mary
Margaret’s unwavering enthusiasm – “If you truly have that much packing to do,
I’ll come over on Tuesday and help you out!” After he insists that he truly
doesn’t need that, actually he can pack all of it on Tuesday himself, and he’ll
be ready for the party on Thursday, Emma realizes the massive problem with this
situation.

She’s Indy here – and goddammit, she’d make an excellent sometimes
professor, most times Nazi puncher – but Killian’s definitely Harrison Ford in
the Fugitive, tenacious and hell-bent on getting justice.

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