NOTE: Has been corrected***NEVERLAND***
Disclaimer: This was at first just for fun so I can't say that my all that this is that good or that I put my all into it. So don't hang me! Not my best work, again this was originally just harmless fun but it turned into something more. This isn't my usual style but I am being bullied by inlovewithlanaparilla to post so here you are. I own nothing but my laptop!
-iiwasalwaysthequeen
Looking across the console, he could already tell that she was debating even getting out of the car. She was in turmoil, caught between a rock and a hard place; stuck in a situation that couldn't very well find her way out of without scars, without battle wounds. Yes, there was a war brewing and yes they had fought. The only question was if they could fight their way out or would they remain in the line of fire; destined to never make it out.
Her car had been parked at the docks for nearly 5 minutes, and neither had made a move to get out or even take off their seat belts Her hands stayed firm, gripped to the ribbed edges of her steering wheels, the heel of her foot perched on the gas.
She was ready to run at any moment.
"Gold just pulled up." He announced, hoping to snap her out of the trance that seemed to encompass her but not a move was made on her part. She just sat there, knowing that this decision could shape her life, Henry's life, her relationship, her future. She needed to make a choice and fast.
"There has to be another way." She spoke softly, fingers tapping melodically within the confines of black leather gloves. "There has to be some other way to save Henry...Without having to endure a family 'realm' trip for God knows how long."
"Yeah, maybe." He inched closer to her, taking her hand in his and away from the steering wheel. Upon seeing her relax, even for just a second, he continued. "But, it's not safe and I am not going to let you jump from world to world looking for Henry by yourself." He paused, letting his eyes silence her when she opened her mouth for a rebuttal. "I know you're powerful and you're capable but you can't do it alone, not like this." He met her eyes, seeing them soften with the glint of an unshed tear. "Not now."
"I just want my son back." She shook her head softly, clasping a gloved hand over her mouth to muffle the gasp that escaped her as the momentum hit her that she may never see Henry again. This was worse than Emma having him, now she didn't know where he was, what world he was in. She didn't know what made Neal want to take her son to Neverland but whatever it was didn't constitute kidnapping and certainly would not go unpunished if she had her way.
"Shhhhh." He soothed, pulling her into a strained embrace that stretched across the console and in full view of those watching from the docks.
Mary Margaret turned her head, inclining it towards the rising sun as she averted her head from the scene unfolding in Regina's car window. Feeling a had on her back, she shrugged her shoulders softly and walked up a foot as to be Untouchable. "I'll go tell Hook that we're all here." She mumbled, wiping a brimming tear from the base of her eye before stalking off in the direction of the ship.
Emma sighed, squeezing her hands into her jean pockets, trying to avoid the urge to go and ring David's neck. It was bad enough that he had already put Mary Margaret through the ringer with Kathryn; but to do the same thing with another woman and of all people: Regina. It was hard to remain impartial when the woman she knew as her best friend and now, her mother, was obviously hurting and he seemed to have no shame, no remorse
Seeing the two pull apart, she moved towards the car, deciding that it was better said now then later. She leaned into David's window, tapping on its glass. She watched as he shared a brief exchange with Regina who seemed to wipe at her eyes before giving him the go ahead to roll down his window. "Hey we were just about to-"
"You know the least thing you two could have done was shown up in different cars. At least to give the appearance that your relationship wasn't going to be pushed in our face."
"Emma-"
"No David you don't get to talk." David huffed, stepping out of the car, his hands resting on his hips when he approached her.
"Emma this is between...your mother and I-"
"You are married-"
"And we were estranged for 28 years."
"Because of the woman that you are now sleeping with!" She motioned dramatically, pointing to Regina who was now pulling a car into a parking space, and far away from their conversation.
"How crazy is that David?!"
"Emma I love her!" He yelled probably louder than he wanted to, louder than he intended. "Did I want to, no, but now that I do I can't turn off the way I feel. And I certainly can't lead on Mary Margaret like I don't feel that way because I do. " He dropped his arms, almost defeated by the struggle. "Do you think this is easy? Do you think this is fun for me? I intended to spend my life with your mother, to build a family, to rule kingdom. This, NONE of this was apart of the plan."
"It may not have been apart of the plan but you sure as hell don't seem so heart-broken cuddling with your deranged queen while your wife looks on."
"Well what do you want me to do?"
"Cut it out, be a little sensitive to the fact that none of us wants to see you and Regina canoodling in the corner, we're here to save my son not so you two can 'rock the boat'"
Emma spun on her heels before stumbling back, instantly startled by the presence of someone she did not expect: Regina.
"It seems to me like the only person not concentrating on Henry is you, Miss Swan. Instead of watching us, why don't you go try and figure out why your one night stand kidnapped my son and took him to another realm."
Emma stepped forward, invading her personal space as if to silently threaten her, prompting Regina to do the same. "Don't bait me Regina."
"I'm here to save my son. Stay out of my way, and I won't have to." She retorted quickly, eyes burning with the will to blame her for their predicament and call her out on her ability to let their son be kidnapped. But she needed to save her energy, her fighting energy. After all, they were taking a trip
A trip to Neverland
X
"Was that really necessary?" He questioned, offering her hand as she stepped from the dock to the ship.
"Was what really necessary?" She replied honestly, looking at him briefly to skate the tone of their conversation.
"That whole thing with Emma, you basically threatening my daughter."
"Your daughter?!" She scolded incredulously. "From day one Emma has been the one to take my son away from me and the one whose assumptions and lewd behavior I will not tolerate in any sense. The relationship that we have-" She motioned between the two of them. "Does not change the lack thereof with Emma."
"Regina she is my daughter."
"I know that David but I have played the part of step-mother and to be quite honest, I wasn't that fond of it and I refuse to be forced to behave or act in a way that I do not wish to. Especially towards someone who I can't stand, I'm not going through that again."
She shook from his hold and left him standing on the top steps, not giving a second to respond. "Trouble in paradise?" He closed his eyes, silently cursing how many different people, relationships and most likely fights, would be on this journey.
"Just get on the damn boat Gold."
"Always the testy one aren't we?" He questioned, limping idly to the steps.
"I'm not in the mood Rumple."
"Who is ever in the mood?" He asked, a tone seeming to make Charming sound foolish. "The point is, you have the temperament of a woman."
"Gold, are you trying to start a fight with me?"
"Why would I, when you're destined to have so many more?"
"What are you talking about?"
"What am I talking about? You're about to go on a journey with the Dark One and his enemy: a pirate who likes to flirt with your wife, your estranged and bitter wife, your angry daughter and your hot-headed pregnant mistress. I'd make sure to have packed life preservers because someone is bound to be tossed overboard and there were no swimming lessons in our land."
Charming nearly ran up to him, eyes blazing and hand pointed accusingly. "How the hell do you know about Regina?"
Rumple leaned in, a smirk on his face, gleaming eyes hidden by black aviators. "I've known her for over 4 decades, and as private as our dear Queen wishes to be, coats and scarfs become futile in your second trimester. " He smiled knowingly before whispering. "By the way, if I were you I wouldn't be painting the room blue." And with that he carried on, walking an off-beat number as Charming stood there, stunned.
He was having a little girl.
But would he live until the end of the journey to see her?
He sighed, taking the chance anyway and closing up the gate to the boardwalk.
They were off to Neverland.
X
"Are you sue you know what you're doing?" Gold asked, standing keenly to the side as Hook steered the vessel to the right.
Hook scoffed, rolling his eye internally at the man's naiveté, restraining himself from killing the man for even daring to speak with him. "I've been with this ship for centuries mate, I think I have a handle on it."
"You've been with women for centuries but you still don't have a handle on that, so why should I trust you?"
"Because Mila did." He smiled triumphantly, leaning forward until his reflection became visible in his sunglasses. "And considering she left you for me, I would think you would know oh Dark One, what kind of handle I had on her."
"You bastard." Rumple murmured, lifting a palm until the small crackles of orange illuminated into a blaze within his hand; ready to strike at Hook. "I knew someone would die today..."
Suddenly white foam sprayed into his hands and the blaze was put asunder. He turned around to see Emma standing there with an extinguisher. "I said no fire! What do I have to do, put you in time out with Regina?"
"You may be the Savior, but I am not a child-"
"You certainly act like that, only instead of kicking and screaming for tantrums you kill people!" She exclaimed, setting the extinguisher down as Gold stuffed his hand in his pockets. "And stop baiting him Hook."
"No one's baiting anyone love." He smile slyly, turning shortly to look at her. "Although you're welcome to try your hand at it; I promise not to bite."
"Keep talking and you won't be able to because you'll be steering with your mouth." She threatened, eyeing his perfect hand opposed to his hooked one.
Killian grinned, not being able to resist. "But steering what exactly?" He asked suggestively before feeling David push a fist into his back, making him turn around and hit his forehead on the tip of the wheel.
"My fist that's what." David retorted in passing, stopping in front of Emma. "Hey have you seen Regina?"
"You mean before or after she tried to kill Mary Margaret with a fireball?"
"What?" David mumbled, wondering where the hell he was, probably talking to Gold. "Where is she?"
"Below deck."
David nodded curtly, skidding down the wooden panels until he came to the trap door that led to below the ship. He tumbled down the stairs boisterously, sparring no noise. Regina jumped at the sound of him, half-expecting Emma or Mary Margaret. She settled upon noticing that it was just David but her body remained tense as she sat on the abandoned cot, clearly uncomfortable.
David looked down at her, not knowing what to say or if he should say anything. From the look on her face, he could tell that she didn't need to be scolded and her being miserable was punishment enough. "What happened?"
"I don't want to discuss that right now." Her voice was low as she let out a shaky breath, fingers meddling w the helm of the long turtleneck that stretched over her stomach. He sighed, taking a seat next to her, hearing her attempt to even out her own breath and calm down. "Are you alright?"
She looked up, giving him a smile that didn't quite meet her eyes. "How could I be?" She sniffled quickly, wiping away at the tears that attempted to flow. She waved him off, pulling her coat to herself so that he didn't feel the pull to stay "Don't worry ab, out me, I'll b fine...Go see if Hook needs any help or-"
"C'mere." He interrupted her, refusing to be pushed away, pulling her into an embrace that let her head buy into his chest, staining his jacket with salt-laden tears. "We're going to find Henry."
She shook her head silently, knowing that it was not an issue of Henry but of what happens when Henry is found. He is going to go back to Emma and she remain the Evil Queen to him; now strong and since no one he lives with tries to correct him, his distortion of her will never be fixed.
So neither will her heart.
"He hates me." The broken whisper chilled his spine, hurting his own soul because there was no doubt in her mind that the son that she had raised for ten years didn't love her. She didn't believe it, she couldn't fathom it; Love was action to her,
And she saw none from him.
"Hey, look at me." He titled her chin up to look at him, tenderly meeting her lips briefly. "Things will get better Regina, you just have to give him time ...and you have to trust me."
Though she didn't quite believe him, she nodded and returned the favor with a fervent double of his own kiss, so unexpected that the mere feeling of his breath on her skin made her melt beneath his arms yet kept around her, they abruptly pulled apart at the sound of feet running back up the stairs. "What was that?" She asked, still nestled into him.
"I don't know.." He got up from the cot as the ship rocked rhythmically his back turned as Regina turned a ghostly pale. He turned around at the sounds of hurried footsteps to see Regina stumbling into the quarter-moon marked door.
Before he could make a move, Emma was appareling down the stairs, eyes fuming. "Really David, Really? I ask you to stay away from each other for a couple of hours while we sort this whole thing out and now you're making out on cots? This isn't Mardi Gras!"
"Making out, no one is making out! What are you talking about?"
"Mary Margaret said she saw you and Regina making out in here-And where the hell is Regina?" Emma exclaimed, praying that she hadn't poofed her self above deck just to scare the living daylights out of Mary Margaret.
Again.
Her question was answered by the horrid sounds of retching emanating from the moon marked door. David moved, nearly running before banging on the door after finding it locked. "Regina? What's going on, are you okay?" He asked, loud enough for her to hear. His only answer was the repeated emptying of her stomach to which he huffed, his eyebrows knitting in worry.
"Sounds like our dear Queen is a wee bit seasick." Gold spoke from behind them, his eyes meeting with David's. "I don't believe she's been on a ship before-Your majesty has always preferred horses, or just...coming into a room from a cloud of smoke. Not really much of a boat person."
"What do you want Gold?"
Before he could reply, they all held steadfast to the nearest wall as the floor rocked with turbulence and shelves were wiped of their contents as she ship was left lopsided and shaking.
"I told you he didn't know what he was doing." Gold scolded, getting down the stairs ass fast as he could. Behind him came Mary Margaret, being pushed by Hook.
"What's going on?" Emma questioned above the noise.
"We're changing realms!" Hook replied, holding on to a beam post. "When the tides changed, I threw out the bean and it opened a portal. We can't be above deck while we're twisting reality; it'll disrupt the continuum"
"So what do we do now?" David asked, still shaking with the boat.
"We wait!" Hook yelled.
David gulped. They wait...
On a boat
In one small space
With an immortal imp who likes fire,
A horny pirate
A bitter ex
An angry daughter
And a seasick sorceress
He sighed, having one thought to blame the culprit of their predicament.
"I hate Neal."
X
He sat on the edge of the cot, rubbing soothing circles on the small of her back as she laid, facing the wall. It felt like it had been hours but really only one hour since they were trapped under deck and according to Hook, they still weren't in the clear. The ship hummed beneath them but they had all long forgotten, having gotten used to the vibration. Hook sat on a stack of boxes next to the stairs, polishing his hook for the umpteenth time as Rumple stood against the wall-asleep or awake; they couldn't see behind his sunglasses. Mary Margaret and Emma seemed to be boring holes into David's head as they sat across the floor, occasionally sharing words with each other.
The ship dipped un-expectantly, causing a few of them to let out an involuntary yelp before holding steadfast to the nearest pole as the shaking consumed them once again, Hook hopping of his boxes before they tumbled on top of him. David peered behind him, watching as Regina curled into the wooden paneled wall the best she could, palm pressed urgently against it as she exhaled labored breaths. He couldn't tell if it was the boat or the baby but all he wanted to do was endure it for her. She was trying her best to maintain her composure but the nausea bubbling within her each time the vessel dipped had other plans.
"What do you need?" He whispered softly, bending a bit as he turned around so that he could see her if and when she replied.
She closed her eyes and shook her head, as the ship's rocking mellowed and he slipped a hand over her thigh, running his hand up and down without a care of who was watching them.
"Hook are there anymore beds?" Mary Margaret asked, looking up at the vain pirate.
He chuckled, lips twining upwards with his answer. "If you want to take your chance at scurvy, they're in the storage. Otherwise, our Queen has occupied the only one."
"Here's a crazy idea-Maybe we should be TAKING TURNS." Emma mumbled uncomfortably against a hard pole, rolling her eyes.
David's eyes flashed, looking at Emma warningly, his hands still moving slowly against the base of the Queen's spine. He would never move her-pregnant or not, and Emma realized that as she looked at David; challenging him silently.
"It's only fair." Emma continued, not backing down from the man biologically known as her father.
"Emma..." Mary Margaret trailed off, looking to stop any confrontation but was unheard to the rest od them.
"No, I mean it's enough that he left us for the woman who sent us here but now we have to spend hours on a cold ship sitting on the floor with wooden poles as our pillows because Regina can't handle a canoe."
"Hey!" Hook yelled, looking at Emma. "This is an ark." He announced, not taking her derogatory language to the only constant in his life.
"Now he's Noah." She mumbled into her jacket, huffing as she leaned back into her pole.
"I didn't leave you." David spoke under his breath, not allowing her to discredit him. "I was kicked out."
"This isn't the time or the place to be discussing it." Mary Margaret intervened.
"No maybe it is."
"David-"
"No Mary Margaret, we are going to discuss this now-in front of Emma because it's obvious she hasn't been getting the whole story."
"I refuse to do this in front of your mistress."
David eyed her angrily, his hand still resting on Regina's legs as he turned to face her. "She is NOT, my mistress and if you all keep calling her that then we are going to have a problem on this ship." His voice boomed passed the wooden planks as he eyed each one of them. She wasn't his mistress, she was his love, she was his comfort, she was his heart. She was the mother of his child and he'd be damned if he would have the other mother of his child call that into question.
No matter how twisted this situation got.
X
They sat in silence, David's back now turned to everyone as he sat on the cot with Regina, whispering the occasional sweet nothing in her ear with the attempts to comfort her. Brushing the hair from her face, he tucked it neatly behind her ear and kissed her cheek as her breathing evened and she had finally fallen asleep, no longer cold beneath her own coat and David's. Soon the boat rocked again, this time violently throwing them to the left, Hook falling from the boxes and onto Rumple as Emma's sleeping form landed into Mary Margaret's lap and Regina's eyes fluttered open in frustration.
"Damn you!" Rumple cursed, seeing the scrape on his hand from Killian's hook. He moved to raise a fireball and nothing came of it. "What is going on?"
Killian stood to his feet, limping to the stairs as the vessel calmed and came to an abrupt stop. "I think we're here."
Emma's eyes opened at the words and she jumped up as Regina moved her legs from the bed, against David's protests. Pushing Killian out of the way, she climbed the stairs and opened the trap door. "This is Neverland?"
Killian poked his head up and frowned, looking back at the crew. "No...This...This isn't it at all."
"Wait let me see." Snow pushed them all aside, gasping when she got clearance. "This is the Enchanted Forest."
"I told you, I told all of you..." Rumple whispered, shaking his head at Hook. "Idiot."
X
Should I continue? It was originally a one shot but it kept going on and on and I don't know, tell me what you think. Hope you all enjoyed! :)
-iiwasalwaysthequeen