Okay guys I am sooooo extremely sorry it's taken me so long to get this chapter up. I promise that chapter 7 will be up Wed. or Thurs. And I do have a two shot Halloween fic in the works to make up for this late chapter. Sadly the writers didn't give me much to work with for this chapter so it's short.
I saw Henry sleeping beside a campfire and Pan kneeling over him. I tried yelling out to Henry but he couldn't hear me. Pan looked in my direction and he looked evil. His eyes were dark and he had a sinister grin on his face. Henry woke up and pan spoke to him. I couldn't hear what he was saying but then he started to play a pipe. That gained Henry's attention and he picked up a pair of sticks. He joined in with the other boys and danced around the fire.
"He's mine now Emma. Henry is mine now and you can never have him back."
"Henry!" I shot up and could feel the sweat running down my neck. I looked around and Regina was staring at me. "Did you?"
"Yes." Both of us were shaken. We startled everyone else by yelling out our son's name. "Pan…he has Henry under his spell. The spell he casts on all of his lost boys." Regina looked down as I came and knelt beside her.
"Regina…we will find him…together." She didn't look up. Her fists were clenched and I saw a single tear drop to her hand. I pulled out her handkerchief and made her take it. "Believe Regina. We will get him back." I'm not sure if I was repeating it to help her or myself believe in it. All I knew was that Henry needed us; he needed his moms to save him.
Later on, once everyone was calmed down from Regina's and mine's dream, I started to draw out the plan on how to get into Pan's layer. "Okay, so according to…" I looked towards Tinker Bell.
"Tinker Bell." She kept walking around and close to Regina. I knew that they had never been anything besides friends but I didn't like her prancing around.
"Yeah…still weird to say." I continued to explain the plan and showed them how we'd get in after Tinker Bell gave us the signal.
"All you need to do is watch out for the lost boys…."
"I think we can handle a few children with pointy sticks." Regina was on edge and was snapping at everyone.
"It's not the sticks you need to watch out for. It's the poison they're coated in. One nick and..."
"Yeah. Yeah. Poison sticks equal death." David was acting odd but I couldn't worry about that now. We had to get Henry back as soon as possible. The dream Regina and I shared had all of us scared for Henry's safety.
"Well, I'm ready to go if you all are." Mary Margaret was her normal hopeful self. Right now I didn't care how annoying her optimism was.
"As soon as you tell me the escape plan." None of us said a word. "You do have an escape plan don't you?"
"It was going to be a last minute thing." Tinker Bell was shocked.
"I'm not putting my head on the chopping block until you tell me how we're getting off this island." She stood there with her hands on her hips.
"We'll figure it out." Regina was getting more irritated with everyone by the second.
"No one gets off this island unless Pan allows it." She was right. We needed an escape plan.
"Hook, you've gotten off this island before. How?" David looked towards the pirate who was digging dirt from under his nails with his hook.
"By my ship only with magic Pan gave me through a bargain I know he won't make again. But Tinker Bell is right. We do need an escape plan."
"Never break into somewhere without knowing how to get out." I stood there with my arms crossed across my chest.
"And where'd you get that, in Bail Bondsperson School?" The snarky Regina was back with a new force and it struck a nerve. I didn't know where the aggression was coming from.
"No. Neal taught me that." I saw something in Regina's eyes when I said his name.
"So no one has ever left here without his permission?" Regina broke eye contact with me and crossed her arms. It was a defense mechanism of hers. It was actually one we shared.
"One person," Hook took a step towards me. Regina, as pissed off as she was, still didn't like him near me. "Her partner in crime, Neal."
We walked into what was supposedly Neal's cave when he lived on Neverland. David helped Hook light a torch and as the room lit up drawings were everywhere. I had a strange feeling as I looked through all of his things. Emptiness and maybe anger were running through me. Regina was looking through a trunk but wasn't acting like herself. She had her guards up again; I did too. I let my guards down when it was just Regina and I but when others were awake they went right back up again. "So you think he left a clue?" Mary Margaret was looking through a bag Neal left.
"Let's hope so love. Otherwise we're not getting off this island." When I tried to help Regina go through a truck I could tell she didn't want me near her.
"Maybe he left a clue or a map." I picked up a candle and placed it in a cup to hold it. "Hook, a ligh…" The candle lit on its own. Both Hook and I looked back at Regina who was just turning around. She beat Hook to it. I looked around more and saw a cup that matched the one in my hand. "What's this?"
"A calendar maybe?" Mary Margaret stood and handed it to me. On further examination it had a lot of holes in it.
"Yes, because preteen Bealfire probably made lots of pasta." I tried not to chuckle at Regina's expression. She was so cute when she was annoyed.
"Wait…" I put the two pieces together. "Regina put out that torch." She did and huffed.
"Am I supposed to be impressed that he made a night light?" Regina walked behind me to look over my shoulder. I could feel her presence and the heat radiating off her body. Somehow it calmed me but also excited me at the same time.
"No Regina. It's a map. Look up."Everyone looked and the ceiling was covered in star-like dots of light. "He made a map to show the way home. Hook can you read it?"
"No mate. Bealfire stayed on my ship and I taught him many things. One was how to make a map and how to make it in code so only he could read it. He was a very smart and quick learner."
"So this was all pointless. The only person who could read this damn thing is dead." I walked out of the cave in a hurry.
"Emma!" Mary Margaret and David followed me. "Emma wait. I can't imagine the sadness you're feeling right now."
"No. I've done enough waiting. I'm not sad…I'm pissed. Yes Neal just died but I lost him a long time ago. I moved on and fell for someone else. Just for him to come back and tell me that he never stopped loving me. When I saw him all the feelings I had came flooding back and I don't like that. He hurt me too badly for me to care about him. He will always have a place in my heart because he gave me Henry and that lead me to…." I saw Regina walk out of the cave and thankfully I stopped myself. "I need to think." Even though Mary Margaret and David tried to stop me I turned and jogged into the woods. I had to be alone for a little bit.