"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." - Rose Kennedy

"First of all," Sarah began, her patience slowly wearing thin enough that it would break soon. Along with a huge headache, she was sick and tired of being accused of Henry's kidnapping by them when they didn't know what really happened. "I just fell down a steep cliff so let me recover before accusing me of something I never did. Plus, your accusations are getting on my last nerves."

The raven haired woman remained unfazed by Sarah's bit of anger. "You don't frighten me," Regina replied, and a grin slowly formed on her mouth. "And don't try denying it. We all saw you with Pan."

"What am I… on trial here? And you're the judge? You are doing a rather poor job of it," Sarah said. She saw a gleam of impatience in Regina's eyes. Sarah prepared herself for an upcoming battle with her but the woman didn't do anything.

"Keep talking. It will only make me want to tear your heart out," Regina growled.

Emma stepped in before the argument got out of hand. That was a shame because Sarah ready to show the damn woman what she was made of. "Wait! Why were you running in the first place? From Pan?"

"I was running from one of the Lost Boys. Felix… I think his name was?"

"Regina, I don't think she was a part of Henry's kidnapping,"

"You can't be serious… you told us your 'ability' sensed she was lying," Regina said. "Why are you suddenly changing your mind now?"'

"Emma's right," Mary-Margaret agreed. "Sarah happened to arrive in Storybrooke at the wrong time. I doubt she was conspiring with Tamara and Greg to take Henry."

"Now you suddenly believe me?" Sarah snapped. "Would this be a good time to tell you all that Henry is literally in danger of Peter Pan right now?"

Regina rolled her eyes at Sarah as if the news was old to them. Sarah was beginning to get fed up with her attitude. "Please, that is why we're here to begin with. To save him from Pan."

"He wants Henry's heart," Sarah told them. "I talked to Wendy before I was chased and she said Henry has what Pan calls the Heart of the truest believer. He wants it because he's actually dying. I am to believe the immortality here doesn't last forever. I really want to save him. He's a good kid. He doesn't need any of this."

"How come I have a hard time believing you?" Regina said, her fingers tapping on her arm. Within seconds, Regina's hand reached inside Sarah's body. She took out what looked like a beating heart. Sarah fell to the ground, finding it hard to breathe like she was underwater. Regina still had the heart in her hand, and gave it a squeeze before Emma grabbed her arm. "What are you doing?"

"We can't just kill her," Emma said. "She has valuable information. She could possibly take us to Henry."

Regina ignored Emma's pleas, continuing to watch Sarah unable to breathe. Sarah's hearing began to go out, while the entire group argued with Regina about her fate. Without warning, her heart was put back into her body. It felt like she had been hit in the stomach rather than a good feeling her heart had returned. "What just happened?" Sarah asked, weakly.

Mary Margaret helped her up to her feet, while Sarah tried to stay balanced. "Are you okay?" Sarah looked at the hill she fell down and never thought it was actually that steep while she ran down it before. She had been lucky to escape with bruises and cuts from the fall but nothing compared to having her heart taken out. She guessed it was only a fairy tale thing.

"I'm fine," Sarah replied, rubbing her head. She glared at Regina, who was anything but the person she wanted to see. "If she is done trying to kill me first then maybe we can focus on finding Henry."

"The girl speaks the truth," someone suddenly appeared. Sarah jumped when she saw it was actually Rumple. His skin was green as it looked when she met him earlier. "Pan is indeed dying and that is why he needs Henry's heart." The man tried to kill her last time and now he was on her side? She felt an overwhelming darkness around him, a much darker one than Regina's and she didn't know why.

"Pan said he was related to you," Sarah said. "He never told me how."

"Well, since you asked, I might as well answer you," Rumple replied. "The truth is, dearie, Peter Pan is actually my father."

Pan saw no sight of Sarah. She disappeared and he failed to stop her when he had a chance. The woman knew how to disappear without any detection. It was in her nature. Felix returned with visible bruises on his face and he knew his second in command disobeyed his orders. "What did I say about confronting her?" he asked. "Didn't I tell you to only follow her?"

"I know I didn't" Felix replied. At least he admitted what he had done. It gave Pan little comfort knowing Sarah was out there along with Henry's family. "But she and Wendy were talking about Henry. I couldn't just let her get away with it. I definitely knew I had to do something before she tried escaping."

"Felix, you had simple instructions!" Pan snapped at him. It was the first time he ever got truly angry with Felix but it was also the first time Felix went against his orders. "I wanted to deal with her myself."

"Why? You wouldn't have killed her," Felix said. "You had plenty of chances to and blew every single one of those chances to get rid of her. Just tell me who she is to you!"

Pan was trying hard not to read into the situation before but now brought the subject up. He didn't like the tone Felix had when he spoke to him, although Pan allowed him to get away with a lot. "And what different would that make?"

"It would help me understand my leader a lot better," Felix replied, and added a shrug, "but whatever. You don't care, right?"

As badly as he wanted to tell Felix everything, Pan said nothing and watched as his second in command and close friend walked away from him. For the first time since he had been on the island, he felt completely alone. Felix was his only true friend in Neverland, never questioning Pan until Sarah came along. Nothing good ever happened after she arrived. He should have seen it coming.

Emma, David and Mary Margaret decided to find David while Rumple, Regina and Sarah went to the ocean to retrieve the mysterious artifact Rumple said they needed to defeat Pan. He never mentioned what exactly. He planned on keeping it that way until he got it. He didn't want Pan to know of his plan. "If Pan is your father… then who is your mother?" Sarah asked, but Rumple gave her no reply. Truth was, he never knew anything about the woman. His father told him she died in childbirth and since he asked years ago as a child, there was nothing more about her that Rumple knew of.

He wanted to know one thing. Why his father held Sarah as his prisoner along with Henry. It made no sense. There were only boys in Neverland who he kidnapped. Did his father have a good reason to take her? And another question popped into his mind, did Sarah have a previous life in the Enchanted Forest? She wouldn't know but it seemed so odd she was able to come into Storybrooke because he thought Regina restored the town's protection against outsiders. The girl could not be affiliated with them. She arrived far too late into their 'plan'.

Why do you care, Rumple? He thought. The girl is nothing to me except an outsider from Storybrooke who may have an enchanted past. He wasn't sure why, but he when he returned to the real world, he wanted to stay far away from her. It's for the best.

Regina summoned a mermaid once they reached the water. The mermaid's appearance struck Sarah as familiar. The long red hair made her realize it was Ariel from the Little Mermaid. All these fairytales are related to each other some way or another, Sarah thought. When Ariel came to the surface, she frowned immediately at the sight of Regina and Sarah guessed they were not fond of each other as she watched them interact. Except Ariel wasn't able to speak. Regina gave her the ability to talk again, which the mermaid was anything but thankful.

But her appearance was more than just familiar, it was something else about the mermaid that made Sarah glance at a closer distance. Arial noticed her and said, while ignoring Regina, "I know you from somewhere," she said. Sarah was taken aback and shook her head frantically. She never saw the mermaid in her life except maybe in the Disney movie. "It's me. Ariel. Your name is Sarah, isn't it?"

"How… did you know that?" Sarah demanded.

Regina put her hand on her hips. "You two know each other?"

"We've met before!"

Sarah shook her head again and this time backed away from the water. "I really don't know you." But the name Ariel did somehow ring a bell, outside of the movie and in another world or another life.

An image of the same woman who looked like Sarah said to Ariel and handed her something in a bag. "Take this, Ariel, please! Bury it if you must. Keep it safe and out of sight."

"Are you sure you want this? What if I forget it and you want it back all of a sudden?" Ariel had asked.

"Trust me. I won't. I can't have it with me where I'm going. It'll be too much of a burden to carry."

Sarah snapped out of her daze. She didn't know what to say and the mermaid was patiently waiting for a response to confirm her identity. Sarah ran off instead, not sure of what memory she just saw. This is crazy. I have to get out of here. I can't be with these people… she thought. Are these memories even real or illusions?

She skidded to a halt when the path stopped abruptly to a cliff. This time she could not just run down it. Sarah rubbed her forehead, trying to think of how to escape but how was she able to? Neverland wasn't like the real world. It had magic. Sarah didn't know how to use it.

And then she saw him standing in front of her. Pan appeared with his arms crossed and shaking his head. "You never learn, Sarah. Don't you know it's useless to try and leave this place?"

"Go away!" Sarah shouted but he pushed her to the ground when she tried leaving, kneeling beside her. He got quite close to her face like the time he confronted her about Henry. His touch was also familiar, like she had once touched him in an affectionate manner.

"I'm not done with you yet. I have come to believe you were an apprentice of someone who contained dark magic at one time," Pan said. "You must have some of that magic left in you."

Is he talking about the man I saw before in my memories? I think his name was… Zoso? Sarah thought. "No, I don't know what you're talking about. I can't use magic. I'm from the other world, the world without magic."

"Doesn't mean you don't have a past."

"What do you know?" Sarah asked. "How did you figure out I was an apprentice for Zoso?"

"It occurred to me. I remember seeing you walking with him in the same town I was in at the time. He had the same dagger as Rumple, meaning you were working for the former Dark one."

"If you know who I am, then tell me what I did to make you hate me so much or is that a lot to ask?" Sarah asked.

"You really want to know?" Pan said. "Figure it out yourself. I want you to wallow in your own misery while you're still alive." Sarah didn't have anything to add. She couldn't because it made her see how cruel he was and anything she had to say would go through one ear and out the other. It never mattered to him about anyone else's feelings except his own and surely those lost boys meant nothing at all.

"I know Rumple is your son," Sarah said, hoping somewhere in her words, it would pierce him. "He told me. I also know about your plan for Henry. You're not going to win this, Pan so give it up already."

Pan took out a knife, placing it against her throat. It wasn't close enough to cut her but she sure felt the cool blade running against her neck. "Tell me everything."

"You'll kill me then? What happened to making me suffer?"

He put it down and touched the side of her face for a moment. It was like déjà vu all over again. Her heart thumped as his fingers went over her dried lips. No not this again. "It's a reminder of what I could do to you," he replied, and traced her face with the knife. "You're going to tell me everything Rumplestilskin is planning or I will kill them all."

She curled her fists, ready to knock him away from her if he didn't stop touching her face. "I hate you," she growled fiercely. "It is hard to believe I may have known you in a previous life. How could I be associated with a psychopath?"

"Funny. I can say the exact same thing about you, Sarah."

"Except I am no pyscho."

"Oh, that's right. You're an angel in all of this. That's why you beat up those kids in the shelter which got you kicked out of your first one, right?" Pan said. How does she even know about that? Sarah thought. She admitted she hadn't done a lot of nice things back in the shelter, especially since she hated the fact her parents dropped her off as a child. Since then, she went from orphanage to orphanage. After a while, she became sick of it and went to shelters instead, which were no better than the orphanages. She knew she was not a nice person to most of those kids, but she stopped her erratic behavior once realizing they were in the same situation.

Sarah never forgave herself for bullying them, for beating them if they got in her way. Most kids were under the age of sixteen and much tinier. Even the older kids got out of her way but she never picked on the older ones. The younger ones were too big of a target. "That doesn't matter. I'm sure you did something terrible to your own son. I mean, you want him killed for crying out loud!"

"That runt made my life miserable. He ruined everything I had planned in life. He's no different from you." He grabbed a hold of Sarah's shirt. "Are you going to tell me or not?"

There was no difference between betraying Henry's family or getting them killed by not betraying them. Either way, it wouldn't end well for Sarah. She still preferred they live for Henry and not die because of her. The boy didn't need to be an orphan such as herself. Sarah told Pan about Pandora's box, which Rumple explained he had in his shop somewhere. "He is sending a mermaid named Ariel to get it from Belle… not sure who she is but I think she's important."

"Then this only confirms what I thought he would do. Rumple is too predictable," Pan said. "I've already sent people to Storybrooke."

"You bastard… you made me tell you on purpose."

"What language you have. Someone should fix it."

"Get the hell away from me," she warned him, gritting her teeth which was not enough to scare him off. "I'll go back with you, just don't hurt anyone else." Pan moved away from her, his eyes moving towards a shadow appearing before the two of them.

A|N: Another chapter so soon?! Oh no! Well, this is only because I am going on a trip and I want to at least release one chapter before I go. Don't forget to favourite and review :D You guys are awesome :D