Chapter 7

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"Killian?" Wendy strolls into the hidden room that housed Killian but the bed was empty. He couldn't have escaped; he was handcuffed to the bed.

She spun around hoping that maybe he had just left and her eyes would catch him. But he was long gone.

Wendy spots the male nurse she had run into the other day and she catches his arm in her grip.

"Excuse me, where is he?" She points to the empty bed behind a curtain. The man smiled as he recognized her.

"He's been let out. Probably long gone by now, bloody pirate." He spat on the word.

"Thanks," she rolled her eyes and blew him off and missed his confused expression as she walked away from him.

Wendy untied Percy from the bike rack outside and decided she would try to find him on her own. Well, they came on his ship, right? So he must be at the harbor.

There were no pirate ships in the harbor. At least none that Wendy could see. She figured there had to be some sorcery involved. Sorcery name Cora.

Leash in hand, Wendy walked along the water and the docks hoping the Hook would make an appearance. But nothing.

No one.

"What are you doing out here?" He sneered.

"Killian? I went to see you at the hospital, but you were gone. I just wanted to make sure you were all right."

Wendy stepped toward him, but Percy stepped back and growled at the Queen of Hearts card that lay on the ground. She tried not to make it obvious that she saw it there. But there was no hiding the betrayal on her face.

"You're working with her again?" She whispered.

Before he could answer they appeared behind him in a cloud of purple smoke.

Regina and Cora. No.

"Oh, you brought us a toy, Hook." Cora smiled sweetly but she oozed malevolence and Wendy didn't trust her. She knew enough about Cora to know that. Regina too.

"Wendy, you need to leave." Killian said without turning around to face her.

"I'm not going anywhere. What in the bloody hells is going on? What are you doing with them?" Regina laughed, and Cora simply smiled that evil grin.

"Well isn't she feisty. Come along, Hook. We have things to do." They turned their backs and Wendy took it as a chance to…

She ran and lunged at them…

…but with a swift wave of her hand, Cora threw Wendy into the side of the brick building beside them and she crashed, hard, on the pavement below her.

"What the hell are you doing?" Killian ran to her motionless body.

"We can't have her getting in the way of our plans. I've heard all about our little Wendy Darling. She's a strong-willed, fighter that one. It's better to get her out of the way now, rather than later." Cora explained, the same vicious, cheeky grin stretched across her face.

Killian hesitated.

"Oh, don't worry. She won't remember a thing when she wakes up. She'll think she was out walking that mutt of hers when she blacked out." Cora sneered sarcastically.

That was enough for him to leave Wendy. Percy barked and barked but would not leave Wendy's side, not even to attack Cora.

He was walking home from his shift at the hospital when he heard the barking. He followed the noise to the docks and the alleyway alongside it and there he saw the pug.

"Hey, little guy. What's the matter?" Percy walked a few feet over to Wendy's unconscious body, blood dripping down her head and bruises all over.

"Oh my god," he grabbed Percy's leash and got his arms under the lifeless girl and slowly picked her up off the ground.

The hospital wasn't far from here. He walked in, Wendy in his arms and Percy trailing behind and it set the Emergency Room into an uproar.

"Who is she?"

"What happened?"

"What are her injuries?"

"Did someone do this to her?"

All questions he really couldn't answer. Dr. Whale stabilized her, and hooked her up to fluids and I.V.'s. Percy still refused to leave her side and for once, they didn't enforce their rules of "no pets." He got himself comfortable beside her in the bed.

"Do you know who she is?" Dr. Whale asked.

"She came in a few times to visit that pirate when he was here. She came in earlier today looking for him, but he was gone. She must've gone looking for him."

"Alright, I'm going to check the guest sign in book and see if anything jumps out."

A few moments later, Dr. Whale returned, the sign in book in his hands.

"Take a look…"

He took the book in his hands and studied the times and days, looking to see if he could make a match.

And then he saw it.

He knew who she was.

Wendy.

And he remembered when he once knew her, so very long ago, in a land they called, Neverland.