He is the living embodiment of his parents' reckless romance and he understands now that their legacy to him has always been a throne he's never wanted and the duty to end what they had begun.

"The Season will begin in two months. Go to London. Find an heiress. A pretty girl whom you will not mind seeing across the dining room table night after night. After all, as your mother would say, 'marriage is a long business' so if you cannot be with the woman you love, then find a woman you will not mind being with."

She murmured to her guest for a few moments in a patter meant to put him at ease before the on-air interview began. The entire Federation was salivating to get a good look at the young captain and hear his story.

A marriage forced on them both under the pretext that it would bring peace to the land had instead yielded nothing more than enmity between them and a failed attempt at regicide. A story of Elizabeth of York and Henry VII of England based on The White Princess

And so it came to be that there was only one resident of the town who had no understanding of Christmas and no knowledge of the story of Old St. Nick. This then, is the story of how Captain Hook came to believe.

She is done telling herself she doesn't believe in happy endings; done with hiding behind her carefully constructed walls.

He stares upward as she disappears from his view

It's on the water that they find true healing (an "Absence of You" continuation)

And he knew on this Christmastide, he was a man well-blessed.

"Do you know what hell is? For me, it was the absence of you."

He knew Margaret would not take kindly to being forced into a marriage against her will. If the best that could be said before was that she didn't like him, he knew she would hate him now.

He pressed his face to his knees and wondered how everything could have gone so wrong, so quickly.

He didn't know what their future held. But he knew in her, he had found not just a wife, but a partner to share it with.

The road to true love is never easy.

Robin hunkered down beside her and pressed the tips of his fingers against the pulse point in the pirate's neck. Lifting his gaze to the others, he gave a mournful shake of his head. "Nooo," Emma keened and rocking forward, she pressed her ear over the finger-shaped bruises covering Hook's bare chest, frantically listening for the reassuring sound of his heartbeat.

She felt his hand grope for hers as they awaited the conclusion of the tribunal. Twisting her hand, she pressed her palm to his, threading their fingers together and as the verdict of a life sentence at a maximum security penal settlement was read

A collection of vignettes centered in, around and after the events of Star Trek Into Darkness told in no particular order

One year prior, the Enterprise had shipped out for its first mission under the official command of James T. Kirk and the young captain had deemed it a day worthy of recognition

"I do not love you," she cried in frustration. "Why do you want me?"

She fought down the hysterical urge to laugh as she wildly wondered whether she could overcome the confused mix of feelings she had for Guy and sink the dagger into his chest in order to protect Richard.

After everyone had breathed a sigh of relief and shared laughter that bordered on the maniacal; that was when the real work began and the crew became intimately familiar with the old Earth expression "no rest for the weary". Gen/Friendship/ensemble

“I don’t want you to stay because of him,” she breathed. “I just want you.”

Here, he thought with relief, was home.

She had come to reach a hard-earned respect for her commanding officer in the three months since they had been assigned to the Enterprise

Set after Washita but assumes a different path for Sully’s recovery than those shown in the episode of the same title.

There is more than one way to guard a kingdom...