Someone who wouldn't be on his payroll much longer. She nodded, wrapping her arms around him to pull him into the warmth of an embrace. It wasn't what he wanted at the moment, but Killian knew she never made it easy for him to get what he was after with her. If she wanted to hold him, she'd start there and decide what else she was in the mood for as they went along. "You could speak to all of them. Tell them that you're aware something is going on, give whoever it is a chance to stop." That was the way she would do it, but pirates weren't much for second chances. Tink, on the other hand, couldn't find it in herself to deny others what she'd needed not so long ago.

"Unless you rule with fear, then I suppose you have other plans." Ones she wouldn't like, but it wasn't her business. It had taken her a while to learn how to separate her beliefs from his, yet she couldn't fault him for surviving the best way he knew how. She just thought that, more often than not, he made things more difficult than he had to. "I'll try to stay out of those," she assured him, pressing a kiss to his cheek.