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title: good.

rating: g.

a/n: so @thesschesthair has been doing these amazing CS Scene Analysis posts, and I just saw the Goodbye at the Town Line 3×11 post, and I wondered… they looked like they wanted to kiss… but who would’ve kissed who? (Psh, we all know, but here, have canon divergence post-Neverland CS!)

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“Good,” she says, just one word, filled with such bittersweet heartbreak that Killian feels his heart stutter even as his lips curl up.

Good.

The word reverberates through him as she gives him a small smile of her own, and he understands what she doesn’t say – maybe with time, with you annoying me and breaking down my walls, this could’ve led somewhere, Jones. Somewhere good. But it isn’t over till it’s over even if I never see you again, hope has a funny way of lighting infernos.

Or at least, he hopes he reads her correctly.

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