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The coach blew his whistle. “Swan! Get your head in the game! Our first real matchup is Friday. We need you focused!”
Emma couldn’t help but swoon just a little at the football coach’s accented speech. He might be putting a little too much pressure on middle school boys, but she appreciated his motivation tactics. He never lashed out in anger or tried to humiliate the kids. Instead he reminded them how dependent they were on each other.
“Sorry Coach Jones,” Henry called back.
“Don’t apologize to me. Apologize to your teammates.” He blew his whistle again. “ Everyone bring it in. Let’s do a water break. The weather hasn’t caught up with the date yet.”
Emma fanned herself as she silently agreed with him. The weather in their North Georgia town was still hot, despite the September date. She was ready for fall and cooler temperatures.
“Oh my god, I know. He’s so hot, right?” Came a voice from her left. Emma looked over to see Ariel Seafarer, whose daughter Melody was the team’s kicker. Ariel was a beautiful woman with thick red hair, creamy smooth skin, and bright green eyes. She had a personality to match, being one of the kindest people Emma had ever met, outside of her sister-in-law Mary Margaret. She was also very happily married to her husband Eric for 13 years, so why was she ogling the coach?
Emma realized she was staring awkwardly and quickly averted her gaze before replying. “Oh, um, no. I was thinking about the weather, actually.“
Ariel smiled. “Oh yeah, that too. But it only serves to highlight his muscles more when he wears those tight shirts to try and combat the heat.” Emma opened her mouth to reply, but Ariel pressed on. “ And no, there is nothing wrong with my marriage. I love Eric dearly. But I still have eyes!” she said with a giggle.
When Emma’s not busy drooling over the football coach, we can definitely imagine her cheering on her son and shouting “That’s my boy!” and embarrassing poor Henry. Find out more about the football coach who’s hotter than the Georgia weather, and the devoted football mom enjoying the view, and be sure to get your head in the game when the full story kicks off in October on the FFCS blog!
Hi there everyone! Have you signed up for Fall For Captain Swan yet? If not, that’s okay, you have until June 30th. We have 10 authors and 3 beta readers so far, but we’re looking to get more, so tell your friends about us!
Do you want to sign up, but aren’t sure what to write? Have you signed up, but still don’t have a clue where to begin? Here’s a list of story ideas and prompts made by the lovely @onceuponaprincessworld and @hookedonapirate to help get those creative juices flowing. There are some fall-themed prompts as well as college aus, teacher/student, neighbor aus, etc. and you can turn them into anything your heart (and muse) desires!
If you have any other prompts or story ideas you’ve wanted to see get transformed into a Captain Swan fic, please send them to us so we can pass them along to our authors.
School/University AUs
1. Emma is the new girl in Killian’s class, and they become close friends. She ends up spending all of her time after school at his place and thinks she has developed a crush on Liam, Killian’s big brother, until she sees a girl talking to Killian and understands it’s him she’s in love with. Years later, Killian teases her about having a crush on his brother.
2. Emma Swan wants her time in college to be awesome - that’s how she ends up in Killian Jones’ bed the night after her orientation party, and she can't stay away. The problem is he is her brother’s best friend and the one he told her to stay away from.
3. Storybrooke High has a tradition - before every football game, the quarterback throws the ball into the audience, and the girl who catches it has to kiss him, which brings the team good luck. Killian Jones is the quarterback and Emma is the blonde nerd with glasses who was dragged to the game by her best friend and is the one who ends up catching the ball, but refuses to kiss the quarterback.
4. Kindergarten cop au. Killian Jones is a cop, posing as a kindergarten teacher in order to apprehend major drug lord Neal Gold as well as his ruthless accomplice and father before they can get to Neal's former wife, Emma Swan, and son, Henry. She teaches a class down the hall from Killian, and while he helps protect Emma and Henry from the Golds, he starts to fall for her.
5. Emma is working at the university library when one day while she is tidying the books, she finds one upside down on the shelf. She picks it up to put it in order when a note falls from the pages, and that’s when her adventure begins - she must find out who Killian Jones is and why he's leaving notes in the library's books.
6. When you exchange nude photos with strangers from Omegle, you better be prepared for the consequences - which might include the stranger being your hot English professor.
Fall/Halloween AUs
7. Storybrooke’s annual pie competition is coming up in a week and Emma has practiced all year for this. Her apple pie is going to help her beat Killian Jones and win the pie competition along with his stupid bet. Then she won’t have to go on a date with him and he’ll stop nagging her about it.
8. Emma goes to a costume party and dances with a masked stranger. Sparks fly instantly, and when he finally takes off the mask she finds out he is her ex boyfriend and first love who she lost her virginity to.
9. Emma Swan is my best friend’s kid sister and that’s how I’ve always seen her - innocent and a bit of a tomboy. Then on Halloween our senior year, Emma dresses as a sexy pirate and bloody hell, I never knew how hot she was.
Neighbors AUs
10. Emma and Killian are neighbors - he lives in the apartment above hers. Whenever they are both in their bathrooms, she can hear him singing, usually in the morning. Emma has gotten used to it, not that she would ever admit it, because she "hates" that guy. So, one morning she gets up and can't hear anything from upstairs, but she doesn't think anything about it. Until she realizes her day has been the worst because she didn't hear him sing that morning. She decides to knock on his door the next day and ask him where he was.
11. You're my neighbor who works at my favorite ice cream shop and always brings me ice cream and notes with sprinkles when you know I’ve had a bad day. I especially love it when you write that I'm beautiful, and oh crap, I think I love you.
Other
12. Emma is on vacation and she’s texting on her phone while she enters the wrong bus, which goes in the opposite direction of hers. That’s how she ends up sharing a bed with a hot stranger named Killian who wants to help her get back home.
13. Emma gets on a crowded express train and has to stand while Killian is sitting in the seat next to her reading a book with headphones on. Neither of them notice each other until the train stops sharply and Emma loses her balance and falls directly into his lap.
14. Killian is a professional photographer who posts his photos on Instagram. Emma is an amateur photographer who always likes his photos, and she uploads photos which are taken from the same places as his. Killian sends her a message one day, asking how they haven’t met yet since they are always visiting the same places. But they have already met, because she is the blonde with whom he rides the train everyday, he's just always been too shy to speak to her.
15. You cut my hair every few months and I always get it shampooed just so you can run your fingers through my hair. I always think you'll get my ears with the scissors, but you're so cute I wouldn't care if you did.
Have a blind date with our OTP and Fall for Captain Swan!
We invite everyone who wants to write about Captain Swan falling in love, no matter if you are new to writing or already have numerous fics under your belt. We already have 21 authors and 7 beta readers, and the last week of sign ups starts tomorrow. On October 31st, we will begin publishing one story every day under a pseudonym, so nobody will be influenced by the original author’s name. Try something new and join us!
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