Today’s Captain Swan Rewrite-a-Thon spotlight features @dassala!
How long have you been writing for the OUAT fandom? Did you write anything else (original or fan fiction) before joining the OUAT fandom? Are you writing anything non-OUAT now that the show is over?
5-ish years. Still kinda writing it.
What sort of fic do you like to write? What sort of fic do you like to read?
I'm an AU queen. It's just how my brain works. But I do like a good canon divergence as well.
I read almost everything related to CS
What kind of rewrite will you be doing?
Rewriting an older story from scratch and fixing problems it originally had.
Tell us about your Rewrite-a-Thon story! What's it about, and why did you decide to rewrite it?
Killian Jones is a Federal Agent tracking down a known member of a drug cartel, who has settled with his girlfriend and child in Storybrooke, Maine. Basically, the ending sucks real bad and I wrote it ages ago so the style is probably very different from where I am today.
What are you most excited about when it comes to rewriting your story?
Here is a little something for you inspired by the book The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade!
Ghost!Emma AU with a bit of soulmates!AU
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Emma Swan it’s just an ordinary high school student. She is beautiful, with her golden hair and green eyes, she has some of the best grades in school, she’s in the school’s running team, she has friends and a boyfriend she loves and whom loves her just as much (or that’s what she thought). She has what many high school students don’t have and what others might call the best time of her life.
That is of course until she dies. But she doesn’t go in a better place, no, she’s stuck in the high school, waking up every day in the same place she dies and she doesn’t know why. Even worse, her body appeares and dissapears without Emma being able to control it.
What could be even worse? The only person who can see her is Killian Jones, school’s nerd and also school's rocker with leather clothes and even a motorcycle. The man her boyfriend always hated and also the man who refuses to help Emma!
On the other side, Killian Jones is school’s nerd and ‘wanna be’ bad boy. His father wants to put him in a mental hospital ever since Killian started to talk with his brother, Liam. Actually, Killian started to talk with Liam’s ghost, but how was he supposed to know that?!
Let’s get back to our problem. Yes, Killian Jones, nerd, rocker, with a big crush on Emma Swan. Who is dead now. And who wants Killian’s help. But how can he help her when there are people, watching him and waiting for him to start talking alone (he’s talking with ghost!) so they can put him in a hospital?
Will Killian Jones help Emma Swan? Will Emma find out what is happening with her and why she didn’t move on? And what about Killian’s feelings?
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When Killian opened his eyes that morning he was in his room but he felt like he was being watched. He raised his head from the pillow and looked around the room. There, on the chair was none other than Emma Swan.
“Bloody hell!” He said putting his head back on the pillow.
“Good. You are awake and you can see me. I need your help,” Emma started to talk quickly.
“Slow down, love. I just woke up.”
“Well, at least you can wake up every day, to a new day in front of you. I am dead!”
“I can’t bring you back to life,” Killian said, knwoing that this is what most people want when they come to him.
“But you can at least help me find out why I’m still here?”
“No I don’t. Now please, can you leave?”
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“Killian you have to help me! I don’t want to spend the rest of my eternity stuck in this high school! Emma said while following him in the school.
“And I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in a mental institution. We both want something and only one of us can have what he wishes. And that’s me!” He snapped at her.
Emma looked at him offended and he half regreted what he said, but he was tired of her following him around all day.
“Sorry princess. Now go hunt your boyfriend or something.”
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When Killian saw her, she was on a bench crying. Or mourning. Something like that, something ghosts did when they wanted to pretend they were alive and crying. He didn’t care in that moment that someone might see him, he went to her and sat beside her.
“He was kissing Tamara,” she said as soon as she saw him.
“Well,” Killian said, not really knowing what to do..
“I’ve been death for three days and he was already kissing someone else!” Emma yelled at him.
“I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, love, but he was doing it long before you were dead,” he said.
Half of the school knew that he was cheating her with someone and yet no one said anything. He saw no harm in doing it now.
“Neal was cheating me?” She said, suddenly shocked.
“I bet now you want to find an angry ghost and make it hunt them,” he said with agrin and he felt better when she smiled at him.
“Oh yeah!”
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“Why was he hating you so much?”
They were in his room, trying to find a way to help her with her problem when she talked. He was on the floor, books around him, while she was on his bed, a closed book in front of her.
“Neal?” Killian guessed.
“Mhm.”
“Well...”
“What?”
Killian let out a sigh and started to talk. There was no point in hiding the truth for much longer.
“I liked you a lot and he knew that. I guess he was afraid or something.”
“You liked me?”
“No. I actually had a big crush on you,” Killian admitted.
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“Killian what if we can find a way to help me?”
“We will find something. Don’t worry.”
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“I’ve been an idiot,” Emma said, when he was close to falling asleep.
They were again in his room, Killian in his bed, trying to sleep, while Emma was looking around the room, waiting for the night to pass and the day to come so she could appear again in the school yard.
“Why Emma?” Killian said opening his eyes and looking for her.
“For not seeing behind all this leather and behind the mask you have at school. You are a good guy,” she said with a smile.
“Thank you.”
“And you are cute,” she said, coming closer to him and sitting on his bed.
“Should I remind you that you are dead?”
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“So that was it?” Emma asked, looking at the light in front of her.
“We found a way for you to go on, didn’t we?” Killian said with a sad smile.
“Yeah.”
“What is it?”
“Will I be able to see you again?” Emma asked.
“Probably. When I die,” Killian tried to make her laugh.
“I’m serious!”
“What is going on, Emma? That’s what you wanted didn’t you? To move on?”
“I did,” she said, still sad.
“And now?”
“I don’t want to leave you alone. Who will take care of you?”
“I can take care of myself.”
She looked at him, then. She came closer and put her hands on his shoulders.
