A/N: Here, have some porn! With feelings! Set at some nebulous point in 5B. Speculation and maybe a very vague, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reference to something that might be a spoiler behind the cut.
Physical affection is not a foreign concept to Emma, but her first date with Killian makes her realize how much she’s been starved of it in her life.
She had an inkling when she first came to Storybrooke – Henry is free with his hugs and it stirs a vague sense of something she’d been missing but unable to name. But Killian’s inability to stop touching her (getting his hand back so he could hold her as if he wasn’t already more than enough, God) flips a switch in her brain, and instead of shying away from it she finds herself reaching for him even more than he does her.
Maybe it’s because there are no expectations; he doesn’t want her because she is a mother, or a daughter, or the Savior, and his attention feels all the more light and comfortable because of it. And so she can’t stop – threading their fingers together, bumping her shoulder against his, snuggling into his side as they walk back to the loft. The new leather of his jacket is a caress against her bare shoulders and she wants more, can barely stop herself when she pulls away from his embrace at her doorstep.
It just feels so damned good.
He just feels so damned good.
She’s greedy for it, even more so after she returns his heart to him, during those glorious six weeks when she can touch and explore and revel in his uncomplicated, steadfast love (she knows it even if he doesn’t say it yet) without the rest of the world getting in the way.
In Camelot she is selfish and is desperate for it, clinging to him as if it will keep the little pieces of herself that still feel familiar from floating away. She presses her hand to his chest every chance she gets, letting her fingers drift over the leather to tease at his skin, lingering there when he kisses her. The steady beat she feels underneath tethers her to something warm and beautiful, not the cold, sharp metal of the dagger.
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