Away In Neverland

The day was grey and gloomy as Alice walked along the beach of Storybrooke. She wore a small, pink sun dress despite the absence of the adjective.

"Looks like rain" said a voice to her left where the rocky cliffs were. She stopped and turned to find an oddly dressed young man with messy dark hair and emerald green eyes. The strange part was, she had never seen him before and Storybrooke was a pretty close town. She looked around, then at the sky.

"Smells like it too…um I haven't seen you around here before…" She looked back towards the boy but her eyes widened when she saw he wasn't there.

"No, I suppose you haven't." He spoke, now behind her. She whirled around and jumped back, now backed up against the cliff's side. The boy smirked at her reaction.

"Wh-who are you?" Alice asked cautiously

"Peter. Peter Pan"

"Pan…y-you're the one causing trouble in town."

"I wouldn't call it trouble…"

"I would. Why are you here?"

"I'm here for you Alice." The princess's eyes widened. She had heard rumors about the infamous Peter Pan. He saw her reaction and in a feigned exhausted tone he said,

"Don't run. It'll make things unnecessarily difficult."

Ignoring what he said, she took off running down the shore. Pan rolled his eyes and blew a powder from his hand towards the fleeing girl. The powder quickly surrounded her and took the air from her lungs. She collapsed, unconscious, barely five feet from where Pan stood.

The next time Alice awoke, she was laying on the floor of one of Pan's cages. He was looking at her, rather amused, through the bars.

"My, Neverland's magic sure does affect people differently." He spoke once he noticed she was awake. A look of confusion flashed across her face causing Pan to smirk and hold up a mirror. She screamed at the sight she saw. She had aged backwards and was now looking at the reflection of her 16 year old self despite being much older!

"What did you do to me?!" She demanded

"Me? I took you to Neverland and now you're my prisoner."

Alice sprung to her feet and launched her arms at Pan's throat. He swiftly dodged however and just laughed.

"You've got fire, I like that…let's see if it lasts." And with that, Pan walked away.

Three days she laid on that cage floor: no food, no water, just the beaming hot sun and noises of the island. On the fourth day the cage door opened and the sun was blocked by a silhouette. Pan's silhouette. He crouched down and offered his hand to the weak princess. She stared at him.

"Come on love, I don't bite" he said. She hesitated then, realizing she had no other choice, she took his hand. He pulled her to her feet and out of her cage. Having spent three days in there with no food however, her feet weren't prepared to stand and she quickly stumbled into Pan's arms and her face landed on his chest. She felt her face get hot and pushed herself away from him to find her footing. Pan let out a small laugh and took her hand again. He led her into the forest. Her mind went racing: was he taking her some place to kill her? She shook her head at the thought. If he wanted her dead, he would've killed her already. They walked alone together until the sun began to set behind the trees and they came to a small lake. Alice gasped at the beautiful sight; the lake had a beautiful waterfall flowing into it. Pan let her hand go.

"I suspect you would like to bathe?" Pan questioned. Alice nodded quickly and walked to the edge of the lake, then looked back at Pan.

"Problem?" he asked

"Are you going to turn around?" She asked quietly

"Why would I do that?"

"Because I'm going to undress."

Pan raised his eyebrow and turned around. Alice took off her dirty, ripped sundress and her underwear. Seeing as how her sundress had a built in bra, she didn't have one on to take off. She waded into the refreshing water that was deep enough for her to swim in. She swam to the waterfall so her back was to Pan and the shore. She used the waterfall as somewhat of a drinking fountain; she cupped her hands and let them fill up with water before drinking it. She did this for a while before running her hands through her wet hair, going underwater, then resurfacing facing the shore again. To her surprise, Pan was nowhere to be seen. She shrugged guessing that he had simply climbed up a tree or something. No way would he leave her unsupervised. After ten minutes of rinsing her body in the water, she slowly made her way to the shore. The cold night air bit her skin and she began to shiver as she wrapped her arms around herself and made her way to where she placed her clothing…but they weren't there. She frantically looked around. In the trees, under rocks, behind the bushes.

"Well I bet you feel very vulnerable right about now." Pan spoke from the edge of the forest.

"Wh-where…wh-what did you do with my clothes?" She asked as her teeth chattered. She was standing behind a conveniently placed leaf.

"I got rid of them."

"You wh-what?!"

"Seriously love, they were all torn up. Try these on for size." Pan tossed a bundle of clothing over towards her. Alice let them hit the ground so as to not move from behind her leaf. Seemingly reading her mind, Pan threw his hands sarcastically in the air and turned his back to her. She darted out and grabbed the bundle of clothing. There was fresh underwear (although it was clearly made for boys), a green tank top, a tan skirt, brown belt, and a stray piece of fabric. It looked long enough to wrap around her, so she tied it around her breasts and used it as a make-shift bra. She then dressed herself in the clothes that suspiciously fitted her perfectly. She dressed behind the leaf. Luckily for her, it was a large leaf. Once she was done, she stepped out from behind it. Pan heard hear bare feet against the rocky shore and turned around with a smirk.

"Good they fit." He spoke

"Quite the coincidence." She responded

"Yes, quite." Peter motioned for her to come over to him. She did and he took her hand. He snapped his fingers and they were teleported to the top of a cliff. Alice caught her breath at the sudden switch of location.

"Turn around." Pan ordered. She quietly obeyed and turned her back to Pan and the edge of the cliff. She felt Peter place his hands on her shoulders and lower her to the ground. He began to run his fingers through her hair. She whipped her head around.

"What are you doing?" She demanded.

"Relax, I'm just going to braid it."

"No way."

"Either that, or I just cut it. It is pretty long and…"

"No!...fine just braid it." She said bitterly and turned her head back around. Peter braided her long black hair and left a few strands out in front of her face on purpose. When he finished, he stood up; Alice remained seated with her back turned.

"…you know they'll find me" she stated quietly

"Sorry?"

"I have a family, friends. By now they know I'm missing and they'll come looking for me."

Peter let out a laugh, like he was genuinely amused.

"Even if that were true, they would never be able to get here. But we both know that's not true."

Alice stood up and whirled around defensively

"It is true! I have a family and friends! Everyone does! Except maybe you"

"Ignoring that last part, you're right, I stand corrected, you do have a family. They've just forgotten about you. Because you're the Forgotten Princess…" Pan teased in a sing-song manner

"How do you…?"

"What? You think I don't know who I bring to my island? I know everything about you Princess Delany. Poor little baby cursed by Maleficent. Doomed to be forgotten by all she knows. That must make it hard to find true love eh? But you keep searching because you know only true love's kiss can break your curse." Peter smirked

"How would you know how to break the curse? And how come it doesn't work on you?" Alice's eye narrowed at Pan

"Because it's my curse. I made it. That and true love's kiss is the most powerful magic of all. But I assumed it was a pretty safe bet that anyone with my curse has pretty slim odds of finding love. I believe that answers both your questions."

"I have found love!"

"Who? The one-handed pirate with a drinking problem who has already forgotten you existed and found new love? News flash darling, true love has to work both ways in order for the curse to break."

"What do you mean he's already found new love?" she asked in a heart breaking tone

Pan waved his hand and showed Alice an image of Storybrooke that had Killian flirting with Emma as they ate at Granny's.

"No…it can't be true…" Alice teared up and turned her back towards Pan and the image

"'fraid so love" Peter waved his hand again and the image disappeared.

"No…" Alice's sadness quickly turned to anger: she picked up a large tree branch and swung it at Pan's head. But because of her malnourishment, the swing was weak and Pan easily caught it with one hand, then proceeded to tackle her to the ground. He sat on her hips and pinned her arms above her head with one hand. In that instant, Alice felt a pull in her gut. Fear? No it was worse, she felt attraction. There was something hot about being completely helpless underneath Pan. Peter felt the attraction too and saw what she felt in her eyes. He smirked, forming a plan.

"Now darling, why so hostile?" He asked. Alice pushed her attraction aside and focused on her anger.

"Let's see, you kidnap me, torture me, then you rip my heart out by showing me that the man I love has already found someone else!"

"Oh love," Pan said coolly with a smile, "That's not ripping your heart out, this is." Pan stuck his free hand into her chest and pulled out her heart. She screamed in pain and fear of seeing her still beating heart in the hands of Peter Pan. Pan's smile faltered a bit at her scream but he didn't let it show.

"Now, back to your cage then" Pan took his other hand from pinning hers off, but before she had time to react, he placed it on her throat and quickly suffocated her until she was blacked out, but still breathing.

Alice woke up with a gasp. She was back in her cage. She looked around and saw no one. She placed her hand on the left side of her chest and felt her heart beating. Was she imagining it because she was used to feeling her heartbeat. She knew how improbable it was that Pan had put her heart back. He wanted her to behave and that's the sure-fire way to achieve that. She looked around again and noticed a plate of freshly cut fruit now sitting in the corner of her cage. She could swear it wasn't there earlier. That meant Pan was watching her…