Charli was frazzled, she was supposed to start her new job with the Newspaper this morning, but had to make arrangements to see Coles History teacher, because on the note, the teacher wrote it was urgent to see her. She couldn't believe her kid had already caused a problem on the first day, this wasn't her son at all. He was a good kid, he was just having a hard time with the move. She pulled up into the school parking lot and parked she grabbed her coffee out of the cupholder and got out of the car looking up at the school smiling. It had been so long since she'd seen it but it didn't look a bit different. She walked into the school and to the front desk.
"Oh. My. God. Charli?!" The curly blonde headed woman from behind the desk nearly shrieked.
"Tink! Oh my God!" Charli gasped. Tink walked around to the front of the desk and hugged her. 

"It's been so long! What brings you here??"
"Oh, I need to see one of the teachers for my son."
"You do not have a kid that goes here." Tink said in disbelief.
"Yep. I do." Charli said awkwardly as Tink handed her a visitors pass. 

It wasn't her proudest moment, after moving away from Storybrooke during her senior year, She met Keith right after she graduated High school, and ended up pregnant at 18.
"Wow, I can't believe it. You look great!" Tink beamed.
"You too, we should catch up!" Charli offered.
"Definitely, which class are you looking for?" Tink asked.
"Freshmen world History." Charli replied. 

"Oh they moved that, its up the stairs second room on the right." Tink said and smiled.
"Great, Thank you!" Charli said returning her smile and made her way towards the classroom. She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach as she climbed the stairs, but figured it was just the nostalgia from being back in the school for the first time in 15 years. She walked down the hallway and stopped at the World History classroom and opened the door taking an anxious sip out of her coffee, completely unprepared for who sat behind the desk. The dark haired, blue eyed teacher looked up from his computer. His blue eyes widened and his mouth hung open like a codfish Charli missed her mouth with the coffee and spilled it all down her white blouse. She yelped because it startled her, and it was hot at the same time.
"Fallon?!" Killian gasped standing up.
"Hi..Killian." Charli said softly.

Charli was quiet, which was unusual for her. Killian sighed and stopped the car.
"Alright, thats it. I am not driving any further until you tell me what the hell is wrong." He stated.
"Killian, I have a 10:30 curfew.. I'll be late." Charli whined.
"Then I guess you should probably talk." Killian shrugged. Charli looked out the window. Her eyes welled with tears.
"Come on love, what is it?"
"My Dad got a job offer in New York." She frowned her voice cracked and she wiped a tear as it fell out of her eye.
"Oh love, I'm sorry. So He'll be gone a lot then.." Killian sighed. "That must have your mum in tatters."
"Well.. no, not really." Charli sighed. "It's just.."
"What? What is it? what are you not telling me Charli?" Killian asked.
"The whole family is going. I'm..moving Killian."
Killian laughed, not that he found it funny, he just didn't know what else to do, he was in disbelief, the love of his life just told him she was leaving.
"No.. we were going to go to SBU together, you were going to do sports photography and I was going to play Hockey and then we were going to get married and settle down. It's what we planned." Killian said.

"I know." Charli said quietly.
"But you could stay with me, and Liam. He won't mind." Killian offered. "It's our senior year, you can't just go Charli!"
"I already packed Killian."
"What? Why didn't you tell me sooner, we need more time!" Killian's eyes welled. Charli couldn't stand it, she had only seen him cry once before and it was when his mother passed.
"I didn't know what to say, I didn't know how to say it Killian. I still can't believe it."
"When do you leave?" Killian asked.
"Tomorrow.." Charli replied. Killian shook his head.
"So you were going to leave without telling me?"
"No. I was going to tell you when you took me home.." Charli sniffled.
"Please, Stay with me tonight. Give me one more night with just you and I." Killian pleaded and held her hand tightly. Charli knew she'd be in trouble but she didn't care. She nodded.
"Okay." She said squeezing his hand.

"Ow.." Charli winced as the tattoo artist worked a small letter K on her wrist. Killian admired his tattoo beside her, it was just a letter C on his wrist.
"Thank you for doing this. I know its bending the rules a bit." Killian said to the tattoo artist that Liam was friends with.
"Ah, anything for Liam's brother." The man replied with a smile "All done sweetheart." He said wiping the excess ink from Charli's wrist. Charli smiled down at the K. Her parents would kill her, but she loved it. She loved him.

Charli and Killian laid in his bed wrapped up in eachothers arms.
"Please come back for me." Killian said. "After you graduate. Come back to Storybrooke. They can't stop you then."
"They can't. But they will try. You know my dad hates you." Charli giggled.
"Aye." Killian sighed.
"Hey.. I will come back." Charli said holding his face in her hands. "After graduation. I'll come back and we'll be together again."
"You promise?" Killian asked.
"I..promise. You promise you'll still be here?" Charli asked.
"I promise." Killian smiled and kissed her.

Killian grabbed some napkins from inside of his desk and walked over to Charli quietly helping her to clean the coffee off of her.
"So.. I'm back." Charli said and winced when Killian's icey eyes narrowed. She deserved that, kind of.
"15 years too late, Fallon." He muttered and tossed the napkins in the trash. Walking back to his desk. Charli stepped forward.
"About that.." She said.
"I don't really care anymore, Charli. What are you doing here?" Killian asked cutting her off. "New York get boring for you? What did you get a job with the school?"
"Actually.." Charli started again.
"No, I don't need to know..Just... go if I have to work with you, I can be civil I suppose but that doesn't mean we are friends." He said.
"Killian, I don't have a job with the school, I work for the news paper actually, well.. Possibly not anymore because I had to call in late to be here.." Charli mumbled.
"Then what are you doing here Charli?" Killian asked growing impatient.
Charli sighed and handed him the note he had sent home with Cole.
"You've summoned me." She said flatly.
Killian looked down at the note, and then back up at Charli a couple of times. Now he knew why Cole seemed so familiar to him. 

"You, are Cole's mother?" He asked swallowing thickly.
"Yeah. I am.." Charli replied. "And I'll be the first to tell you that my kid is being kind of an asshole lately, He's upset with the move. He's a good kid Killian."
"Is Mr. Nottingham busy? I'd like to talk to you both concerning his behavior today." Killian said obviously trying to figure out where Coles father was and if he was in the picture. 
"Busy, is not how I'd put it. Mr. Nottingham is not around, He lives in New York and has very little to do with what happens with Cole here. I do. So if you need to discuss my son's behavior, you can discuss it with me."
"Straight to business as usual, Charli.." Killian muttered and sat down at his desk. "Cole has a problem with authority."
"What 14 year old doesn't?" Charli asked and sat down across from his desk.
"He spends the class period, off in space somewhere."
"Cole has trouble focusing when he is stressed. That is hardly him having a problem with authority." Charli argued.
Killian raised an eyebrow and opened his desk and slid Cole's ipod that he had confiscated from him this morning to her. 

Charli sighed.
"He refused to shut it off and put it away, so I took it. He'll be late this afternoon because he has detention for telling me to piss off. Do you see where I am getting at? Mrs. Nottingham?"
Charli narrowed her eyes.
"I will have a talk with my son, and its Fallon. I'm divorced." Charli said and stood up.
Killian sighed. "Charli, wait."
"No, Killian its clear to me that you have made up your mind about me, just try not to judge my son too quickly." She said and put Cole's ipod in her jacket pocket.
"I have to go, and try to beg for my job back so I don't have to pack up and move myself and Cole somewhere else. Have a good afternoon Mr. Jones." She said and stormed out of the classroom.

Killian sat at his desk that afternoon, watching Cole work on some homework from a different class quietly. He stood up and put his hands in his pockets and strolled over and sat on the desk in front of Cole's.
"Fair warning lad, I spoke with your mother this morning."
Cole looked up at him and sighed.
"Great. Thanks." He mumbled and went back to his homework.
"So New York, Storybrooke must be very different." Killian said.
Cole just shrugged. Killian sighed.
"Look, I'm trying to connect with you so maybe we can understand each other a little more. I don't know much about the situation but I know that the move, and the divorce must be stressful for you."
"What are you a guidance counselor? I'm fine. I don't want to talk about it, and I don't want to talk about it to you. My parents will be back together soon enough and then I can move back to New York." He said.
"Cole, I d-"
"I said I didn't want to talk about it." Cole cut him off and slammed his textbook shut and threw it in his backpack and stood up.
"Hey, we aren't done here you still have another 20 minutes." Killian said.
"So add it on to tomorrow or whatever, I'm out." Cole replied and threw his backpack over his shoulder and left.
Killian sighed.
"That could have gone better Jones. Way to go." he mumbled to himself.

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When Charli made it home that evening, she opened the door to the smell of something cooking. She raised an eyebrow and walked into the kitchen to see Cole attempting, and failing at making some form of pasta.
"What are you doing?" Charli asked with a laugh. Cole turned around.
"I..tried to google how to make that pasta stuff you like..it didn't work." He mumbled.
"I'll show you how to do it this weekend." Charli smirked and turned off the stove and put the burnt pasta on the back burner.
"Awfully nice of you to try and cook dinner though." She said.
"I picked up the living room too and did the dishes." Cole said and glanced away.
"I appreciate it Cole, really but we do need to talk about today." She said and pulled his ipod out of her jacket.
"Mom. the guy is constantly on my case!" Cole whined.
"He's trying to teach you Cole, I know this move sucked, and you miss your dad but you still have to focus on your school work, and telling him to piss off was way out of line. I want you to apologize to him."
"But mom!" Cole sighed.
"No, you can have your ipod back, after you apologize." Charli said.
"Fine.." Cole mumbled.
"Good, now what sounds good for dinner?" Charli asked.
Cole shrugged. "All the kids at school talk about this diner in town."
"Granny's?" Charli asked with a grin
"Yeah. That one." Cole replied. "Is it any good?"
"Only the best!" Charli beamed. "Come on get your shoes, we'll go out."

"So, have you thought about checking out the Hockey team?" Charli asked as she popped a french fry into her mouth.
"Not really no, We moved here after the try out deadline, and..Mr. Jones is the coach." Cole shrugged.
Of course he is. Charli thought.
"He's not a villain Cole, talk to him." Charli suggested. "Killian is a great guy, he can be a bit of an ass, but other than that he's a good guy."
"Why are you on a first name basis with my teacher?" Cole asked.
"You keep forgetting I grew up here, Half of your teachers I went to school with," Charli winked. "Mr. Jones was Captain of our Hockey team." She said. "We were good friends." She added and looked down at her food. 

"You okay mom?" Cole asked.
"Yeah.. Yeah. I'm fine." Charli smiled. "How do you like your food."
"It's great, so far the only thing I like about this town."
"Oh, but you haven't seen the library. You love to read, the library is in the big clock tower. You'll like that too. The town has a lot to offer." Charli said.
"Do you think..maybe Dad will get a place here? So..he's closer?" Cole asked. Charli sighed and squeezed her sons hand.
"I don't know Cole. He's really busy with his work in New York."
"Yeah. Sure." Cole sighed and then looked up as the bell on the door jingled and rolled his eyes. Charli turned around and saw Killian walk in. He locked eyes with her and gave her a half smile before approaching the table.

"How did I know I'd see you here?" He asked "and in this spot."
Charli hadn't even realized that she had sat in her and Killian's spot.
"I guess it's just stuck in my head to sit here." Charli said and gave him smile and then looked at Cole.
"My son, has something he'd like to say to you."
"Mom, really?" Cole grumbled.
"Yes really. Go on Cole." She said. Cole sighed and looked at Killian.
"I'm sorry I told you to piss off. It won't happen again."
"Its alright lad. I can't honestly say that I didn't tell a couple of my teachers to piss off back in the day." He chuckled and scratched behind his ear.
"I have to go to the bathroom." Cole said and got up walking away.

"He really does not like me." Killian sighed.
"Hes 14, he doesn't like anyone." Charli shrugged.
"Charli, I'm sorry about earlier. I shouldn't have attacked you like that." Killian sighed.
"No.. I probably deserved it. Maybe you...can make it up to me?" She asked.
Killian gave her his classic smirk.
"No. Not like that." Charli sighed. "Cole says you coach the Hockey team. Cole plays Hockey. Do you have a spot?"
Killian sighed. "One of my boys was injured and wont be able to play this season. He'll have to try out I can't just give him a spot and He's going to have to keep his grades up. As and Bs."
"I will work on helping him with his grades if you help him with Hockey. It might be a way to get him motivated about school, and maybe he won't be such a grump.." Charli said,
"I'll see what I can do." Killian smiled.
"Okay good, but don't tell him I asked you to do this or he won't want to do it." Charli said and rolled her eyes.
"Aye." Killian chuckled. "I won't."
"Thank you." Charli smiled.
"Yeah.." Killian replied not taking his eyes off of hers. 15 years later, all the anger he felt when she left him here, was gone. 15 years later and he still loved her. He still wanted her.

"Dude, quit staring at my mom.." Cole said as he slid back into the booth.
"I wasn't staring at your mum." Killian laughed nervously. "Anyways, I better pick up my order. I'll see you tomorrow Mr. Nottingham." He said.
"Yeah. Tomorrow." Cole mumbled. Killian looked back at Charli.
"Later, Fallon." He said and walked to the counter to get his order