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Chapter 1- Prologue
"You have a choice. One of you for Henry." Pan drawled out with a smirk on his face as he held the boy close to his chest. He was hoping one the boy's mothers spoke up. Just the thought of turning the Savior or the Evil Queen into a lost girl was making the boy giddy with excitement. All the untapped potential. He could do so much with either one of them.
It was an utterly selfless thing to do. But it was what made the most sense to the Queen. She would do anything for her son and she knew that Emma would do the same. But she spoke up before Emma could say anything. "I'll do it." She was taking a step forward as she ignored the gasp and protest from her traveling companions.
"Regina no. Don't do this. Think about Henry." Emma exclaimed as she tried to grab for the mayor once again.
"I am always thinking about Henry!" the brunette snapped as she looked to her sleeping son. Her little prince. "He has you. He has his father. He'll have his grandparents. He won't need me." she whispered softly as tears came to her eyes. Tears she would not allow to fall. She would not show weakness in front of this tyrant.
Pan's eyes roamed over the Queen before they landed on her face with a smirk "I was hoping you would be the one, Regina. You'll make an excellent Lost Girl. All that power and potential inside of you. Don't look so glum, doll. You're going to enjoy your time here."
Clenching her teeth together the queen said. "Before we go on the grand tour you need to keep your end of the deal. Wake up Henry and let him leave with them." she chanced a glance towards the others and she ignored the pleading looks they were giving. It was strange. They were looking at her as if they actually cared about her.
"Regina..please don't do this." Snow whispered as she looked to her step-mother. She'd be the first to admit that their relationship was complicated but she cared for the woman. Hell she loved her in a weird way. She didn't want to leave this island without her. It wouldn't be right.
"Snow don't." Regina said as she shook her head and held up her hand to stop the others from talking. "I am doing this for Henry. I'm doing it and there will be no more discussion about it. Pirate, once you get everyone back to the ship you head back home. Emma..Emma take care of Henry. Tell him t-that.." she paused as she felt those blasted tears well in her eyes once again. "Tell Henry that I love him."
Emma knew there was no changing Regina's mind. She was doing this for her son. Their son. She didn't like it one bit and she was already trying to come up with a plan to get the brunette out of this situation but she nods her head anyway. "I will. Regina."
"Now that those touching goodbyes are over I think we have a deal to agree upon." Pan said as he took a step towards Regina. With a wave of his hand Henry was in the air and levitating right out of arms reach Emma and Neal "Once the queen and I get done with our little magic fun you'll have Henry awake and well." he waited for them to nod before he focused on Regina. He placed a finger on her temple and smirked as she flinched slightly.
"What are you doing?" She asked with a frown.
"Making you a lost girl. No adults are allowed here on Neverland, Regina. You didn't think I'd let you break the rules?" As he spoke he was already working his magic around the woman. "Oh no no no. You are going to be a proper lost girl. I'm thinking toddler size. That way I can train you properly."
"Toddler!" Regina exclaimed. She tried to pull back from him but his magic had her locked in place. "That was not apart of our deal!" she hissed as she struggled to get away from him. But she knew that it was too late.
"Too late now, dear." He smirked as the magic continued to weave around her until it was all but engulfing her in a green cloud. He could see her though ,the others couldn't, and seeing the magic work it's way through her system as it twisted and changed around her features was truly memorizing for Pan. He was slowly de-aging her and he was waiting to see her get smaller and smaller until she was perfect. "There we go." with a wave of his hand the spell finished.
The smoke cleared and there before everyone was toddler sized Regina. Her brown locks went to her lower back in gentle curls. She wore a pair of tights and a forest green colored tunic, quite similar to Pan's, and a pair of boots on her small feet. She looked around at everything and everyone with wide eyes and her bottom lip started to tremble as she wrapped her arms around Pan's legs and buried her face there.
"There there poppet. These people were just leaving." He was smirking as he ran his fingers through her curls with one hand while the other eased Henry down into his father's arms. With a flick of his wrist Henry was once woken up. "Weren't you?"
"Emma we can't leave Regina here with him." Snow whispered as she clutched her daughter's elbow gently. She was still in shock from the transformation that they had just witnessed but looking at that small girl clutching at Pan tugged at her heat and she knew that leaving Regina here would be a mistake. A huge one.
"And you won't be." A voice said as he came from the shadows. Rumple came forward and opened up a box and he looked towards Pan, his father, with a smirk on his face. "All of us are leaving. Aren't we papa?"
"Don't you dare use that you insolent little coward." Pan hissed as he eyed the box.
"You lost the right to tell me what to do when you left me, papa." With those words he opened the box and watched as the shadow inside moved right for Pan and clutched at the young man tightly and started to yank him inside of the box. "Someone grab Regina!" Rumple shouted as he struggled to keep control of the box.
Snow rushed forward just as Charming did and they both yanked the terrified little girl from Pan's clutches right before he was sucked into the box. They stumbled backwards with the girl in their arms just as Gold snapped the box close.
"Is she okay?" Snow asked Charming as he held the small girl in his arms.
He stood up and nods his head as the young girl clung to the man holding her. "She seems fine. A bit shaken up but fine, Snow." he helped up his wife and brought her close
"What's going on?" Henry asked as he looked to the scene in front of him. "Where's my mom? Who is she?" he pointed towards the little girl.
"That, dearie, is your mother. She made a deal with Pan to save your life. A foolish deal." Rumple said with a glare as he held the box that held his father's essence in his hands. He moved closer to study this pint sized queen. The gears already moving in his head.
"That's my mom!?" Henry squeaked as he looked towards the toddler in his grandfather's arms. "No way..you can't be serious." he shook his head quickly but in his gut he knew that they were telling him the truth. "Why would she let him do this to her..? Can you change her back?" he looked to his other grandfather hopefully.
"I'm sorry, Henry. But I can't. Only Pan could do that and well. He's in here." Gold said as he jiggled the box a little bit.
"What are we suppose to do with a toddler Regina? There has to be a way to change her back!" Emma exclaimed as she looked from the toddler in her father's arms that was still shaking and clutching at him for dear life and back to the Dark one.
"Like I said, dearie. Only one that can do that is in this box and I'd rather not let him out. As for what you are suppose to do with her..well that's up to you bunch. But I think that's more of a discussion to have on the pirate's ship." Gold said with a shrug of his shoulders. He wasn't going to raise the child, though he was already invested in her future.
"He's right. Let's get everyone on the ship and once we set sail home we can figure all of this out." Charming said with a sure nod of his head. He could still feel Regina clutching at him. It was odd to have the Evil Queen, well the former Evil Queen, tucked up against him like this. He could see tears running down her cheek and he was a bit shocked.
"Right. Home." Emma agreed. She kept watching Regina and then looking towards her parents before she turned her attention to Neal and their own son. "Don't worry, kid. We are going to figure all of this out."
Hopefully.
