They were walking through the jungle to find Pan's camp.
"You know, despite our differences, I can always count on you to get things done…. Unlike the rest of them. You were right. They're just a liability." Said Regina as she pushed a leaf away.
"Where are they?" Gold asked.
"Oh, well, Pan told them Neal was alive, and, of course, Emma took the bait. Such a waste of time." Just Regina realized, what she had said. "Oh, I'm so sorry."
"No, no, don't be. He is alive."
"What?" Regina and Evelynn asked in unison as they stopped with walking.
"Pan wasn't lying. My son is here on the island. I've seen him." Gold explained to them.
"You saw him and you…. You just parted ways?" Regina asked as she sees Gold nodded and added. "You realize that he might have a way off the island."
"Let's worry about the travel plans after we get Henry."
"There's something you're not telling me." Regina looked at him suspiciously. "What happened when you saw him?"
"Look, all you have to know is, the next time I see him will be when I'm putting Henry in his arms. When father and son are reunited." Gold explained as they continue to walk again.
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They were continue walking as they came across the others, on an open field, from the jungle. Emma, David and Hook had they swords out and held up, when they saw who it was, they had the swords down.
"Well, if this is your version of a rescue party, we got here just in time." Regina said as Evelynn rolled her eyes.
"What are you three doing here?" Mary Margaret asked.
"Well, same as you, except we actually have a chance." Regina said as she turned to Gold and started to mentions the box that Gold is holding up. "Pandora's box. It could trap Pan for eternity simply by opening the lid."
"You didn't tell me my father was with her." Neal said in a low voice to the others as Evelynn looked at him.
"I didn't know." Emma replied to Neal.
"Wait, your father is the Dark One?" Tinker Bell asked, looking at Neal. Evelynn smirked a little as she thought. "So that's is my brother then."
"Yeah, and he's not getting anywhere near Henry." Neal said strongly as Evelynn frowned.
"Bae…" Gold said as stepped a little forwards but stopped as Emma asked.
"Why? What are you talking about?"
"There's a prophecy that says that Henry will be his undoing. He didn't come here to protect him. He came here to kill him." Neal explained to the others.
"That's why you didn't want to find Neal before you got Henry back? Because you knew he'd spill your secret." Regina Said suspiciously.
"Everything I did was to protect Henry, to rescue him from Pan." Gold said, trying to explaining to them.
"It all makes sense." Emma said as she had her sword held up. "You left before we even made shore."
"You wanted to get to Henry first…" Mary Margaret pulled out her arrow and bow and had it ready to attack.
"To be on his own…" David held his sword up.
"So no one could stop you…" Hook held up is his sword as well.
"So you can kill him." Regina turned to Gold.
"It's not gonna happen, not unless you go through all of us first." Emma finished as Evelynn watched them in silence.
"You're making a mistake. I don't care if the boy is destined to be my undoing. I won't hurt him." Gold argued.
"Because that sounds just like you." Regina said as bit sarcastic.
"Without me, you will fail. I'm the most powerful amongst us."
"That's why we can't trust you." Neal said.
"If I could give you my dagger, I would. But I can't."
"But you can give me Pandora's box. I don't have to trust you if I could stop you."
"Son…" Gold said as he thought for a moment and then he gives the box to his son.
"Look at me, you so much as lift a finger to perform magic, you're gonna spend an eternity in this box."
"Let's go." Emma said as the others follow until Gold stopped his son and Evelynn looked curiously at them as she stood now back at them.
"Look you may think you know who you're up against, but you don't." Gold said.
"Then tell me." Neal said insist. "What really happened between you two?"
"Peter Pan destroyed my father." Gold replied.
Evelynn looked at them sad and that saw Gold and said. "Evelynn…" Neal turned around and saw Evelynn standing there and she shifted uncomfortable.
"Yes?" She said or ratter asked.
"Come here." Gold said as Evelynn told what he said and walked to them.
Neal looked curious at her. "Who is she?" He pointed at her.
Before Gold could answer, Evelynn did. "Didn't the others tell you about me?" Neal shook his head as Evelynn added. "I'm his daughter." She pointed at their father.
Neal's mouth falls open and closed again. "What?"
"Before we found you and the others and you that he can't use his magic. He did used it to find out that we were father and daughter and can't you really not see that I look like him." Evelynn explained as she pointed again at their father.
Neal looked really good at her and then at their father. "Yeah, I see it." Evelynn grinned at him as he asked uncomfortably. "So do you have magic to?" He asked as they started to walk, they not wanted to fall behind.
"Oh… uh… yeah, I have." Evelynn said as she rubbed the back of her head.
"Oh…" Said Neal as he changed the subject. "So… How did you came on this island?"
"I already told the others, but I will tell when we have Henry save." Evelynn replied as she turned to her father and said. "I never asked, what I should call you?"
"Call what you would like." Gold replied as Evelynn smiled.
"Okay…. Papa." Evelynn said while smiling. Gold smiled back.
Neal smiled a little too as he learned that he had a sister, well half-sister.
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"Unless there was another cure." Gold said as he had heard Emma and Hook talking as they turned and looked at him. "You suddenly interested in what I have to say? Thought I wasn't to be trusted."
"You're not, but I'll take my chances." Emma said.
"Well, if you remember, I, too, was poisoned with dreamshade by a cowardly pirate. And yet…."
"Yes, and we know how you cured yourself with a candle that takes another person's life. David is not that selfish."
"Oh, how noble. The point is, after my near-death experience, I discovered much about the poison. I believe I could create an elixir back in my shop. Well, this is quite the favor. I'd expect one of equal weight in return."
Neal and Evelynn walked to their father as Neal heard his father had said as he self said. "No." Neal walked forwards to his father. "When we get back to Storybrooke, you're gonna save David because it's the right thing to do. No deals, no favors, understand?"
"Fine. I'll do as you ask." Gold said.
"I'll go tell David." Emma said as she walked away but stopped because the others walked to them.
"We're here. Pan's perimeter." Tinker Bell said.
"It's time. Tink will sneak us in the back like we planned. We grab Henry. In and out, simple." Explained Emma as she turned to Neal. "You good with Pan patrol?"
"Locked and loaded." He replied.
"You mind if I, uh…" Gold pulled out Hook's sword. "Borrow this? You said no magic, I agreed. But I'm not walking in there with nothing but my good looks." Gold walked away, followed by his daughter.
"Now I, on the other hand…" Hook argued.
David pulled another sword and throw it to Hook. "Here, in case your good looks fail you."
"Thanks, mate." Hook said as he catches it.
"Let's get Henry." Emma said as they walked away.
They walked around Pan's camp as they were in the bushes. They all saw the lost boys around the campfire.
"Can I at least use magic on these boys?" Gold asked.
"No." Neal simply replied.
"I'll do it." Regina said.
"You remember the spell?" Gold asked sarcastic as Evelynn grinned at her father and Regina give him a look and waved her hand as the lost boys fall asleep.
"Well, that looked simple." Evelynn comment as Regina now give her a look but said nothing as they all walked into the camp.
"Where's Pan?" Neal asked.
"I don't know." Emma looked around to camp. "Henry!"
"He's gotta be somewhere." David said as he looked around as well.
"Where?" Mary Margaret asked as she looked by the tent.
Suddenly someone shouted. "Help!" Emma was the first, who ran forwards to the sound.
Emma saw that the girl was in a cage, a bamboo cage. Emma walked closer forwards to the cage as the girl said. "You're an… an… adult."
"My name's Emma. I'm looking for my son." Emma said to the girl.
Just then Evelynn, Neal and Gold walked up to them.
"Wendy?" Neal asked.
"Do I know you?" the girl asked back as she is afraid.
"It's Baelfire." Neal happily replied.
"You two know each other?" Emma asked curious.
Just then, the girl, Wendy breathed. "Bae!"
"Yeah. Yeah, we do." Neal said as walked forwards to them and kneeled.
"Can it really be you?" Wendy asked as Neal picked up a rock and smashed it on the cage and it swung open. Wendy scrambled out and hugged Neal. "I thought I'd never see you again."
They broke the hug as Neal said. "What are you… wh… what are you doing here?"
"Well, I… I came back to save you." She replied.
"You did that for me?"
"Well, I couldn't bear for you to be without a family, not after you told us that your mother and father were both dead."
"You told her I was dead?" Gold asked boldly.
"It was easier than telling the truth my own father abandoned me." Neal replied.
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They took Wendy back to the camp and gave her and blanket and some glass with water as she sat on block of wood while the others stood around her.
"Hey, Wendy, since you've been here, have you seen my son? His name's Henry." Neal said as he kneeled beside Wendy.
"You have a son?" Wendy asked as she looked at Neal.
"Yeah. Pan needs his heart." Neal replied.
"Wonderful." Evelynn muttered while she stood beside her father.
"Has he said anything about the heart of the truest believer?" Neal asked as he and the others didn't hear Evelynn.
"No. I'm sorry. He never mentioned anything about a heart." Wendy replied as she played a little her cup.
"She's lying. Where is he?" Gold said as he began to walk forwards to Wendy.
Neal stood up and held up his father as David help him. "Whoa, whoa, whoa."
"What the hell are you doing?" Neal asked.
"I've carried enough lies in my life to recognize their burden. She knows where Henry is." Gold replied.
"Is that true?" Neal and Evelynn asked in unison, before they looked at each other and then back to Wendy.
"You don't understand." Wendy said as she looked at the group.
"You're helping Pan?" Evelynn asked with a disbelief look.
"He's keeping John and Michael alive, only if I do as he says." Wendy replied.
"Trust me, whatever he's promised, he will go back on his word." Gold said.
"And why should I trust a man who abandoned his own son?" Wendy asked as she looked at him.
"Because your brothers did." Wendy looked now at Regina. "They trusted a woman named Belle. They helped her get this box so we can defeat Pan."
"They're okay?" She asked.
"For now, and only if we succeed." Gold replied.
Neal kneeled ones again, by Wendy and said. "Wendy we will save John and Michael, I swear to God. But right now, I really need your help. Please."
"Pan told Henry that he needs his heart to save magic. But it's a lie. He needs it to save himself."
They looked alarmed the news as Evelynn muttered. "Oh, not good." Nobody had heard her.
"What do you mean?" Hook asked as he stood by a tree.
"Pan's dying. He needs the heart of the truest believer to absorb all the magic in Neverland. And once he does he will be immortal, all powerful." Wendy explained to the group.
"And what happens to Henry?" Mary Margaret asked.
"Well, it's a trade. When Pan lives, Henry will die." Wendy replied.
"How do we stop Pan?" David asked to the others.
"Pan took Henry to Skull Rock. But you haven't got much time." Wendy replied as she stood up.
"Then we stay behind. Someone needs to be here to guard the lost boys when they wake up." David said.
"You don't need to stay behind." Emma argued.
"David's right. You get him home, tell him we love him." Mary Margaret said.
"Tell him yourself, when you get back from Deadman's Peak. Gold can cure you back in Storybrooke. We just need to bring some of the water with us." Emma explained.
Mary Margaret walked to her daughter and hugged her. "And you… You didn't give up." She turned to Gold. "Thank you." Mary Margaret broke the hug with her daughter.
"Well, apparently, that's the only thanks I need these days." Gold said a little sarcastic as Evelynn snorted a little bit.
"Tink and I will take care of things here. Meet you back at the "Jolly Roger" when you find Henry." Said Hook.
"Promise me if your father and I don't make it back, you get him home." Mary Margaret said to Emma.
"We're all going back home. Together." Emma said to the group as Mary Margaret and David walked out of the camp.
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Evelynn, Emma, Regina, Gold sat in the rowboat as Neal took them as he paddled to the skull rock. Evelynn insist that she could go with them and not stay with the Pirate and Tinker Bell, but the others agreed that she could go with them.
When they had arrived, they go out the boat and looked around.
"These are Henry's shoes." Emma said as she pointed at the footsteps on the ground. "Wendy was right. They're here." Emma tried to go to the stone stairs but was thrown back down on the floor.
"Are you okay?" Neal asked as he helped Emma up.
"I think so." Emma replied.
"What was that?" Evelynn asked confused.
"Pan cast a protection spell." Gold replied as he walked a bit closer.
"There has to be a way to break it." Regina said as a fireball appeared in her hand and throw it at the stone stairs. But it reflected back to them as they ducked down.
"Whoa!" Evelynn exclaimed.
"Careful with that!" Neal added.
"Try all you want, but Pan's magic is too powerful. At least for you." Gold said as he walked through to the protection spell.
"Wha…." Regina said confused.
"How did you do that?" Emma asked also confused.
"The spell is designed to keep anyone who casts a shadow from entering." Gold explained to them.
"And you don't have one. You were telling the truth about ripping your shadow off." Neal said to his father.
"And Pan knows it. That's why he cast the spell he did. This isn't about keeping you out. It's about drawing me in. He knows I won't give up the chance to finish what I came here to do."
"You really did come here to save Henry."
"I gave you my trust with that box. Now I need you to give it back."
Neal was about the give the box to his father but Regina grabbed it. "Hey!" Neal cried.
Regina ignored Neal as she walked to Gold. "You better come through, Gold. Or I'll make whatever Pan has planned for you look like child's play. You understand me?"
"Well, a simple "good luck" would've sufficed." Gold said as he held out his through the protection spell and grabbed the Pandora's Box from Regina and turned around and walked up the stairs.
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After Regina started to pace around, Neal sat one on of the rocks, Evelynn stood by Neal and Emma stood by the shield of the protection spell.
"So what are we supposed to do now?" Regina asked as she's still pacing around.
"What about the spell my father used to rip off his shadow?" Neal suggested.
"You think if I knew how to do that, I wouldn't have done it already?" Regina said as stopped with pacing.
Emma suddenly said as she looked at the moon. "The moon."
"The moon?" Regina asked as she also looked at the moon.
"The moon is what causes our shadows, right? What if there was a way to block it out using magic?" Emma said as Evelynn looked confused at them.
"What, you mean like an eclipse? Is that even possible?" Neal asked.
"Maybe." Regina replied.
"So?" Emma asked.
"I need help." Regina replied as she looked at Emma and Evelynn.
Evelynn nodded and walked beside Regina as Emma asked confused but also walked beside Regina. "With magic?"
"It requires a lot. I guess we're about to find out how much those lessons I gave you paid off. Follow my lead." Regina replied as they raised their hands at the moon. Neal moved behind them and looked at the moon as a shadow started to form over it.
Once the moon was behind the shadow, the four of them run up the stairs. Until they reached the main room and saw Henry and Pan standing there but Gold was nowhere to be found. They saw also a giant Hourglass that was almost empty. They also saw that Henry pulled out his own heart out.
"Henry, wait!" Neal shouted as Henry turned to him. "Whatever Pan's telling you to do, don't do it."
"Dad? You're alive?" Henry asked in shock.
"I am, buddy." Neal replied as he added. "And I need you to listen to me. Pan is lying to you."
"Oh, pleasure to see you, too, Baelfire, not to mention the Savior and the Evil Queen and Evelynn." Pan smirked at the last part as Evelynn shivered.
"Henry, you need to get away from him now. He's trying to hurt you." Emma said.
"No. The heart of the truest believer. It's what's gonna save magic. It's gonna save all of you." Henry argued to them.
"No, it's not. This was never about magic, Henry. You have to believe us. The only person Pan's interested in saving is himself." Regina said as she trying to reason with Henry.
"That's not true!" Henry argued.
"Of course it isn't." Pan said as he moved between Henry and his family.
"Yes, it is! Pan can't live without you dying. If you give him your heart, it's gonna kill you." Neal said.
"They're trying to stem your belief, Henry. But don't let them. Remember, every hero gets tested." Said Pan to Henry as he put his hand on henry shoulder.
"Henry…. I know what being a hero looks like, and this isn't it." Emma said.
"Why would they lie?" Henry asked as he looked at Pan.
"Because that's what adults do, Henry. You know that better than anyone." Pan replied.
"Henry you have to believe us." Regina said.
"Your parents don't care about Neverland, Henry. They know if you give your heart to save it, then you'll have to stay. They're being selfish because they don't wanna lose you." Pan explained to Henry.
"Henry, you have to trust us." Emma said.
"Trust?" Pan raised his voice, before it went back to normal and added. "I'm the only one who's ever been honest with you, Henry. The only one who ever believed in you. This is your choice. Not theirs." Pan looked at the Hourglass, then back to Henry. "You have to choose now. We're running out of time."
"We believe in you, Henry." Neal said.
"Because we love you." Emma added.
Regina also added. "More than anything."
"I love you, too. But I have to save magic." Henry said to his family.
"No, no, no, no!" Neal shouted.
"I'm sorry." Henry said as he turned to Pan.
"No!" They shouted, but it was too late Henry shoved his heart in the chest of Pan and everybody was knocked to the ground expect for Pan, he had a smirk on his face as he above the floor.
Emma, Regina, Neal and Evelynn stood up as Emma shouted. "Henry!" They run over to Henry, who was laying on the floor, he didn't move. They kneeled down and tried to shook him awake, but it didn't he was lying on the floor. Then they looked up at Pan, who smirked at them.
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