Disclaimer: I do not own Pans Labyrinth…..surprise, surprise.

A/N- Again thanks for the reviews! A note, Moanna may seem very OOC, she's supposed to at points because she doesn't remember anything. I hope you like this chapter.

Chapter Seven: Grasping at Memories

It was the morning after Moanna's startling announcement and the Faun was deep in the forests thinking. Moanna had agreed to marry that prince, it was nothing he shouldn't have expected. But she had seemed so honest when she was telling him that she didn't want to marry Stephan. He sighed deeply, why had he even begun to hope, hope that Moanna would love him? It was useless, she was a princess and she would marry a prince. There was nothing he could do.

While he was sitting there a fairy flew up to him. He recognized her (he knew all the fairies by name) it was a fairy named Lillandra. "Hello Lillandra." He acknowledged her as she was floating in the air. This seemed to be a mistake as the fairy started talking far too quickly to be understood.

"Slow down. You're going too quickly." The Faun waved at fairy trying to calm her down. Lillandra stopped for a moment to catch her breath then quickly delivered her message. Once she was finished the Faun looked at her with something akin to amazement. "Moanna lost her memory? Are you sure she hasn't just fallen in love with…Stephan."

"Moanna doesn't love Stephan." Lillandra exclaimed. "She loves you!"

The Faun smiled sadly at her. "I'm afraid you're mistaken my friend. She would never love me."

"I saw it all, come I will prove it to you." Lillandra flew ahead of him and waited for him to get up. Her story seemed unbelievable but it was possible. He had to see Moanna for himself.

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They soon reached the palace gardens where Lillandra said that she had seen Moanna reading a book that morning. They managed to find her by herself on a bench and walked up to her. Moanna put her book down and stared at them.

"Hello, do I know you?" Moanna was puzzled. It was the strange person Bella had been talking to the night before. She felt like she knew him from somewhere but she couldn't remember where.

The Faun looked over at Lillandra. "She doesn't remember me?"

"I told you. Her cousin did something to her head. She poisoned her! Moanna wanted me to warn you."

"Why would her cousin do this?"

"Well… Moanna just told her that she wouldn't marry Stephan because….she was in love with you."

The Faun stood there in shock. Moanna loved him? Well used to, she didn't even remember his name now. He turned back to look at Moanna who was looking back and forth from him to Lillandra in amazement. "Are you speaking another language?"

The Faun smiled down at Moanna. "Yes actually. But allow me to introduce myself, you may call me the Faun."

"Oh, hello. It's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Moanna."

"I know." The faun said quietly. "I'm sorry but I must be going. Do you perchance know where I can find Dr. Blightly?"

"I'm sorry, who?" Moanna looked confused. "I've never heard of anyone by that name. Perhaps my cousin Bella knows. You can ask her, she tells me to ask her any questions I have."

The Faun looked oddly at Lillandra. "Maybe we will."

After saying goodbye to Moanna and walking up by the castle the Faun turned to Lillandra. "You were right. She can't remember a thing. I'm going to ask Dr. Blightly if he has an antidote for the poison. I want you to stay and follow Moanna around. Try to see if you can jog her memory."

Lillandra agreed and flew back down to where Moanna was sitting. The Faun went into the castle where he was hoping he would find Dr. Blightly.

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Dr. Blightly was copying some notes out of a book when the Faun walked into the room. He took one look at the Faun and realized something was very wrong.

"What's wrong?"

"It's Moanna."

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Once he'd explained everything the Faun watched Dr. Blightly as he cupped his head in his hands. "I never believed such a poison existed."

"Do you have an antidote then?"

"I'm afraid not." He replied getting off his stool and walking over to the bookshelf. "I've never heard of this before. With memory many things are uncertain. It could be a poison that alters the brains functions and causes it to give itself amnesia. If that's so then she might regain her memories over time. Though if there is such a poison then it should be in one of these books." He started flipping through the pages of a large dusty brown book titled Poisons while the Faun went to look for information in the books he had.

oOoOo

Lillandra was following Moanna around as she paced the garden. She wondered what Moanna was thinking about. Before she could make herself known she heard someone coming so she flew into a hiding spot. She was hidden in a tree and could see that it was Bella walking into the garden.

"Hello Moanna!" Bella called out, waving. Moanna waved back and waited for Bella to come over.

"So I've started planning your betrothal ceremony. I have wonderful news!"

Moanna attempted to look interested. "What is it Bella?"

"You're betrothal ceremony has been moved up. It takes place in a week. Isn't that splendid?"

Moanna sighed, it would have been better if she could remember falling in love with this Stephan. But as she couldn't disappoint Bella (for some reason) so she smiled and nodded.

"Yes…well Moanna why don't you spend the rest of the day in your room. That way you won't run into….anyone you wouldn't want to talk to."

"Ummm…okay Bella. Whatever you think is best."

Bella smirked and looped her arm around Moanna's. "I knew there was a reason I liked you this way."

"What?"

"Oh nothing."

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Bella left Moanna on the staircase leading up to her room. Moanna watched as Bella walked away smiling. Her cousin had a strange smile, on anyone else Moanna would have said that it looked sinister…but Bella wouldn't do anything evil…would she?

Moanna made sure her cousin was far away before she started to walk back down the stairs. She quietly made her way to a little known side door. The night before she had explored her room and found a map with little notes on it that seemed to be written in her own handwriting. Again she didn't remember writing them but it certainly was coming in helpful when she didn't remember how to make her way around her own home.

After making her way out she found herself in front of the forest. Again she found something familiar about the whole situation. She felt that there was something inside the forest that was drawing her into it. Not remembering if anyone had told her anything bad about the forest Moanna started to walk in.

Unknown to Moanna, Lillandra was still following her. When she saw Moanna was going into the forest she moaned. The forest was easy enough to get lost in when you did have some idea where you were going. With Moanna's missing memories and the fact that she was just wandering around meant that Moanna was in trouble. Deep trouble, Lillandra followed behind the oblivious girl hoping she would be able to steer the girl away from the more dangerous things in this forest. It couldn't be that hard, could it?

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As it turns out Lillandra had her work cut out for her. Moanna seemed to want to walk into every dangerous place the forest had. On a positive note Moanna had seemed to understand that when Lillandra was flying in front of her waving her hands it meant she shouldn't go that direction.

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With an irritated wave at the fairy Moanna turned around from the path she'd been taking. Another wrong direction, it seemed to her that everyway she turned was some sort of wrong direction. As she turned around she must have done so too quickly because she lost her balance and tripped over a tree root that was sticking out. She cried out in pain as she hit the ground. She ignored the fairy flying over to her as she concentrated on getting up. However as she got to her feet a burst of pain shot through her ankle and she sat down quickly under a tree.

The fairy flew in closer as she was examining her ankle. "I must have twisted it or something." Moanna muttered to herself. She was distracted when she noticed the fairy flying off. "Hey, you can't just leave me here!" Moanna called out, and then shook her head as the fairy flew away. It probably had no idea what she had just said. She went back to sitting on the ground trying to figure out what to do next.

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After many failed attempts to start walking Moanna was wondering how long she'd been in the forest. It certainly seemed like a very long time to her. She was rubbing her ankle and about to make another attempt to walk when she looked up and saw…the Faun was looking down at her.

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The Faun had a strong feeling of déjà vu as he looked down at Moanna. What was she doing in his forest? "Are you alright….?" He asked her hesitantly.

Moanna tried to get up and then grimaced in pain. "I…I think I twisted my ankle."

She looked at the Faun to see he looked very concerned. She thought this odd as Bella had told her that the Faun was a stranger to her.

"Yes the fairy said it looked like you did. If you would like I can wrap it up for you."

"….Okay." Moanna replied and watched the Faun take a roll of bandages and start to wrap her ankle.

"It's only temporary." The Faun said. "But it should hold you till we can get you to Dr. Blightly."

"Thank-you." Moanna said quietly.

Very carefully as not to hurt her, the Faun proceeded to wrap up Moanna's ankle. Moanna looked at him as he was doing it. He was so gentle and sweet. Her eyes widened and she was sure that something was coming back to her. But by then the Faun was finished wrapping up her ankle.

"Do you think you can walk?" The Faun asked breaking Moanna out of her daze. She realized with embarrassment she'd been staring at him and blushed when she replied. "I'm not sure. I can try." She got to her feet and took a couple of steps. She could walk now but not without wincing.

"Here let me help you." The Faun offered her his arm, watching her with curious interest as she was blushing again.

"Oh…thank you." Moanna replied taking the Fauns extended arm. As they started walking through the forest Moanna decided to attempt some conversation to make the moment less awkward. "Why were you in the forest?"

The Faun looked at her before replying. "I live here I happened to be nearby when the fairy came over looking for help."

"That was nice of it. I thought it was leaving me there."

"No the fairies are very fond of you Moanna. They wouldn't want anything bad to happen to you."

"I wish I could remember." Moanna said irritably. "I only have Bella's word on everything but I'm starting to doubt her. For instance, I have the strangest feeling that I know you from somewhere but she says that you're a stranger to me."

"Is that so?" The Faun replied slowing down as they reached the edge of the woods.

"Yes, did I know you before I lost my memory?"

The Faun was silent and Moanna looked at him expectantly. "Yes, you did." The Faun replied quietly.

"I knew it!" Moanna exclaimed, and then frowned.

The Faun saw her look and was hoping she wasn't going to ask him why she was friends with a faun. Bella had been the one telling her things after all.

"So all this time Bella's been lying to me. Why would she do that?"

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"I think it's because she wants you to marry that prince Stephan." A voice answered Moanna from beside her. She shrieked and looked at the person next to her. "Who are you?"

"My apologies Princess Moanna. I was just walking down to look for the Faun when I noticed the two of you standing here talking. My name is Dr. Blightly and I'm guessing you don't remember me."

"No, sorry." Moanna said flushing with embarrassment again. "Am I supposed to?"

"Yes but that doesn't matter right now. I'm a doctor and my first calling s to heal people. So care to tell me what you've done to your ankle?"

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After Moanna had explained what had happened to her. Dr.Blightly and the Faun helped her walk the way up to the castle. Once the doctor was satisfied she'd be all right he told her to get some rest and went to get her some food. This left Moanna and the Faun alone in her bedroom. The Faun looked around the room, it was….emptier, or so it seemed.

"I see you've cleaned out some of your papers." The Faun said.

"Have I?" Moanna asked. "I don't remember doing that, I wonder where everything went." She looked around and noticed her room did seem to be clear of all papers. Suspiciously so, for some reason she seemed to know that there out to have been quite a few papers lying about.

Ignoring the Fauns protests Moanna got slowly off her bed and made her way over to the closet where she had found the map to the castle earlier that day. Sitting down carefully she found the wooden box and discovered it was filled with papers. As the Faun walked over she called out.

"Well, I found the papers." Looking through them she had no idea what head possessed her to put them in this box. Then she found a drawing of the castle with fairy's flying in front of it. "Look at this!" Moanna exclaimed limping back over to the bed, where there was more light. "I wonder who drew it." As she sat on the bed examining the picture the Faun looked at her oddly. If she hadn't put the papers away who had? With a grimace he realized that is was probably Bella trying to stop Moanna from remembering anything.

"Faun, do you know who drew this?" Moanna asked him and he walked over to see the drawing she was talking about. Once he saw it he froze as Moanna was flipping the picture over to the back. "Look there's a note. It says "Happy 11th birthday Moanna, from your friend…the Faun..." Moanna looked up at the Faun. "You drew this?"

The Faun nodded as he watched Moanna expression. She was looking oddly at him.

"But that means I've known you since I was at least eleven! How is it that I don't remember you? Why don't I remember anything?" Moanna was clearly exasperated.

The Faun walked over closer to her. "I'm sure your memories will come back soon."

"I hope so."

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The Faun left when Dr. Blightly came back with some food for Moanna. Outside the door he turned to the doctor. "Do you have any news?"

"Well, yes and no."

The Faun looked at the doctor as if he was mad. "What do you mean?"

"I mean I have found the poison. It's a rare one, called simply Memoria. It acts in the brain and clouds the part that controls memories."

"Is there an antidote?" The Faun interrupted.

"Yes there is but it's very difficult to make and may not even work."

"You have to try."

"Don't worry I will. Come and I'll show you the recipe. You may have some ingredients I'll need." The two of them walked off down the hallway.

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Two days later Moanna was still in her room. Bella was absolutely furious with her as because of her ankle they had to delay the betrothal ceremony till she could walk. It was night time and as Bella ranted and paced in Moanna's room, Moanna was taking a close look at one of the things she had found in her closet. It was a little box with strange carvings on it. She was about to open it when Bella yelled at her.

"Moanna! Are you paying attention to a word I'm saying?"

"Sorry Bella." Moanna answered, quickly hiding the wooden box so Bella couldn't see it. "I was distracted."

"Well you should listen. I heard you were walking with that disgusting faun, I thought I told you to stay away from him!"

Moanna looked at Bella angrily. "Don't be so mean to him! He helped be when I twisted my ankle."

Bella looked like she was going to scream. She breathed deeply trying to control her rage. They get rid of the girl's memory and she still defends the stupid faun. What could do to get her away from him!

Bella sighed. "Well it doesn't matter. You'll be marrying your true love soon." She put emphasis on the words true love. "Then you'll be far away from that horrible faun."

With this she walked out of the room.

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Once she was gone Moanna took out the wooden box again. Opening it slowly she heard the first few bars of what sounded like a lullaby. She put it carefully on her pillow and closed her eyes. She listened to the music till she fell asleep. That night she had strange dreams…

--Running, she was running up a tall spiral staircase. Up into the bright light of the sun but the light was too bright and she felt darkness swarm her mind.--

--Her father lay dieing, as her mother looked on crying.--

--The new man she was supposed to call father had thrown her books onto ground.--

--A strange creature showed her a labyrinth--

--Her new dress was ruined--

--Someone was humming a lullaby--

--Her mother was dead--

--A pain went through her chest, and everything went numb as she saw her blood on her hands…there was so much blood….so much blood!

Moanna woke up screaming and looked at her hands. They didn't have any blood on them but Moanna still felt the pain on her chest. She closed her eyes and wished she knew what everything meant. After a while the pain subsided and Moanna fell asleep and for the rest of the night she did dream.

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