Trip Back to Storybrooke
"This is Neverland?" Emma asked, they got off the ship and stared at the abandoned looking island. "This is it." Hook said with a frown, he doesn't exactly have the best memories of Neverland; the last time he was here he had to trade his only magic bean to Pan, the only way to get to his revenge. But now look at what he was doing; he was helping Rumpelstiltskin with finding his grandson. Hook snorted, "What?" Charming asked. "Nothing" he said with a sarcastic smile. "So where do we find this Peter Pan?" suddenly they heard yelling and laughing, they spotted light from a camp fire. "Let's go" Emma started walking towards the camp "Great idea, walk right into their little playground have fun playing mind games with Pan"
"You have a better idea?" "Here's the plan, I'll blow up the damn camp" Regina said.
"No! Henry is in there! You could hurt him!" Snow replied "Well then tell us your plan Ms. Runaway, in this situation we can't run, we have to deal with the problem" "In case you forgot, I was running from you." All of a sudden everyone was arguing and throwing fits. "All right then, I'm going to be heading off, thanks for the ride." Rumpel said "Whoa whoa where are you going?" Emma asked "I have some people I need to catch up with, if you need me…well don't." then he was gone, evaporating in green smoke. Hook started to walk towards the opposite way from the camp. "And where are you-"Charming asked, about to lose his patience.
"I have a plan" Hook said. "Why didn't you say anything before?" "Cause I just thought of it, and because nobody asked me." Emma rolled her eyes and started following.
They've been walking for 32 minutes and 26 seconds now, Emma counted the seconds in her head; it's a habit of hers now, since most of her job is waiting for evidence of a crime to pop up. Neverland is full of tropical trees and mystical lakes and rivers…nothing else so everyone is losing their patience pretty quickly.
"You know what? I can't do this I'm going a different way and we can meet up if anything happens." Regina said "No Regina, you can't go out on your own" Snow said. Everyone looked at Hook "How much longer than?" Regina asked it physically hurt to look her straight in the eye. "Just a little longer." "You said that 6 times already!" "Well I've only been on the bloody island once! I don't have this place mapped out in my brain I only know what I'm looking for! There's a treehouse of the green fairy next to the Enchanted River, we just passed the Healing Tree a mile ago, so we should be there soon. Just hold your pants, Jesus Christ." "Neverland…green fairy…Tinkerbell?" Emma said. "You know her?" "I've seen enough 6 year old girls dressed as Tinkerbell on Halloween." "What the bloody hell is Halloween?" "Never mind, just...go." They walked for another 12 minutes and 6 seconds before they spotted a short stubby tree with a window cut into the trunk.
"She's not home. We have to wait for her to return, she's the only one who knows the way in and out of Pan's camp. With her help, we can get in, get Henry and get out of this hell hole." "So now what? We make a camp fire and make s'mores while we wait for the fairy to show up?" Regina asked. "That's exactly what we'll do." Charming said. Snow followed him into the forest to find wood for the fire; Regina started to put a spell on her mirror, probably trying to locate Henry. Emma awkwardly shifted her right foot and started to examine the tree, she started to step closer to it. Then something cold and hard grabbed her arm, she jumped and saw it was just Hook. "You don't want to get too close, there's a spell she put on the tree and it could do something like this." He grabbed a branch off the ground and tossed it toward the tree, as soon it touched the trunk, the branch caught on fire. They both watched the branch turn to ashes, "this is weird..." Emma thought. She stepped a good 5 feet away from him and started shuffling through the fall grass around them, she started looking for a place to have the fire, "Not a place too close to the fire or the fairy might try to avoid us, but we need someplace close enough to spot her when she comes back" she thought.
"Have you always been this way?" Hook asked. "What way?" "Trying to busy yourself to avoid some bonding time?" "We're not here to bond." "Might as well, we'll be here for quite a while." "No we're not, the fairy chick will be back soon, we're gonna get her help, get Henry and I'm heading back home." "The boy will be fine sweetheart, trust me, Pan's an ass when it comes to grown-ups but he's quite fond of children." He's starting to annoy Emma, she took two more steps toward him "Look, he wants something from Henry, I don't know what but I know it's dangerous. You can play mind games with me all you want but all I care about is getting my son back so stay out of my way." Hook stared at her for a moment then he smiled "Tiger mum aye?" She started to say something snappy at him when Charming suddenly appeared holding a ton of wood, "So where do you want these?" Emma gave Hook one last glare before she started turned around and stalked away with Charming following her.