"I can get you out of Neverland…if you do something for me."
Hook looked at the woman before him and thought about her offer. He had a feeling he knew what she wanted from him and licked his upper lip. That was a small insignificant price for passage out of this hell hole.
"I know that look and no, that is not what I want from you." She spoke again and Hook looked confused, that's what all woman wanted from him. "I need you to take me somewhere when we get away from this place."
"Are you sure that is all you want, lass?" Hook grinned.
"Yes, I am definitely sure that is all I want. So do we have a deal?" She hated making deals; deals always ended badly…so why was she making yet another one? Because she didn't have any other way to get to where she wanted to go. Sure, she could just jump over to the Enchanted Forest and get a ship or something there to get her to the place, then why was she doing this? Making a deal with pirate, one of the worst people to make a deal with—well this wasn't the worst deal she'd made—?
It was because she wasn't scared anymore. She didn't care anymore. She still wanted adventure and that was her down fall.
God, I'm stupid, she thought.
"I think we do. But first where is it you want to go?" Hook replied and looked towards his ship, the Jolly Roger, fastest ship on the seas.
"The Dark Mountains." She said, unsure. Did she really want to go? That was the only way to get home so she definitely wanted to go.
"And what does a pretty little girl like you want to go there for?" Her jaw clenched at the words 'little girl'.
"I just need to go there." She said simply. That was the only way to get home and away from these unpleasant places with magic. She would just simply open a doorway to her realm and jump over and then she was home. The only bad thing was if she missed this doorway she would have to stay here for a year before the get doorway could be opened; that was the trouble with worlds without magic, doorways rarely opened and if you were lucky enough you'd be able to catch your foot in the door and get there. That's all they really were…doors…doors that she had the key to.
"My I ask how you will be getting me, my ship and my crew out of this hell hole of a place?" Hook asked taking her out of her own thoughts and back to the current moment.
"We're going to go through a door." She said and walked towards the shoreline and let the waves roll up on her boots as she looked at the fine ship ahead of them.
"A door?" Hook raised his eyebrow and walked up next to her.
"Yes a door, but don't worry your ship will go untouched. It's quite a big door." She explained. "So deal? Or would you rather spend eternity on the godforsaken wasteland?"
Hook clenched his jaw and looked towards her, she still looked at the ocean in front of her.
"Deal" he said hoping he was not making a big mistake.
"Good, my name is Alice Kingsleigh." She introduced herself and held out her hand.