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Ok so I know the last one was really short but I felt so bad about not updating for so long that I had to publish something. So sorry if their are mistakes cause I haven't had time to edit. Sooo, if something doesn't make sense, just do your best to figure it out. KK? Thanks everyone! Ya'll are the best!
(Jane's POV)
"So, how do we get out of here?" Snow asks, trying to draw away the attention from Neal and Emma. Hook shrugs and turns towards the elevator, "The same way we came in I suppose. Since we defeated all of the challenges we'll be able to just walk right through."
In silence, we all head back to the elevator. The elevator moves up for a few seconds, creaking and groaning loudly before stopping and giving its loud 'DING'! When the elevator opens, the forest lays in front of us. We have finally made it out of Echo Caves. And we made it with Neal, but at a big price. I nervously play with my fingers, anticipating the million questions that I know I'm going to get. We all get off the elevator, still silent, no one wanting to be the first to speak.
Neal is finally the first one to speak. "Thank you. Thank you everyone." He says awkwardly, looking around at all of us then resting his eyes on Emma. Everyone sort of just shrugs and smiles, then finally Charming says, "Don't thank us yet. Now that we've got you we need to figure out how to get Henry and get off this island." Charming gives me a awkward sympathetic look as he says that, but I just look away, pretending I didn't see it. I'm tired of everything right now and I don't want to deal with his sympathy.
"We found your star map so the real question is, do you know how to get off this island?" Hook says in a tired voice and slightly annoyed voice.
"If we find Henry, I can get us home." Neal says confidently.
Hook nods his head, "Then let's go get Tinkerbell and retrieve the boy."
"Wait hang on," Emma interrupts, "Tinkerbell said she'd help us when we had a plan. I have a feeling she's not going to do anything until we have proof."
"Tinkerbell?" Neal asks, almost sounding shocked. Emma nods, "She's going to help us get off the island."
"Hmm," Neal replies. He looks confused and a little suspicious. This worries me a little bit.
"What's wrong? Don't you like Tinkerbell?" I ask, raising an eyebrow. This eyebrow thing seems to have become a habit for me.
Now that I have time to really look at Neal, I see how awful he looks. He has huge bags under his eyes and his shirt is covered in dirt and sweat stains. His pants have rips at the knees, and his hair is a mess. But his eye pierce into mine, a dark brown, almost reminding me of hot chocolate, sweet, and pleasant, but they seem to be lined with worry.
"I like Tinkerbell. It's just...the last time I saw her, she was working for Pan. She was his right hand man. Did his every bidding. She was so faithful. I'm curious to see why she's now trying to help us. What made her switch sides so willingly?"
"Tinkerbell is with us," Emma replies forcefully, "We have nothing to worry about. She is in on the plan and she is more than willing to help and get off this stinking island."
"I believe you, I'm just curious." Neal says.
After a couple moments of silence Snow speaks, "Well, we aren't doing any good staying here. Let's either decide here what we are going to do, or head back to camp. We need to be doing something." She sounds jumpy. Charming nods and takes a step towards her. The movement makes her frown and she takes a step away from him. She's not going to let him get off the hook that easily after hearing his secret. No one is.
"We should talk at camp. We all could use a little rest," Hook decides. The rest of us nod in agreement, sitting down for a while would be nice.
The way back to the camp is pretty silent. Snow attempts to stay as far away as possible from Charming and in return Charming attempts to get close to her so they can talk. Emma walks behind them, looking forward, not paying attention to anything but the path ahead. Hook follows behind Emma, with Neal and I following behind them.
"So, uh, I don't think we've met before?" Neal whispers, trying to make casual conversation, "I'm Neal."
"I know who you are," I reply, "I'm Jane. I'm a friend of Henry's."
"Jane...Jane...that name sounds familiar. Henry's probably talked about you before. My brain is just a little muddled right now. I've been all over the place in the last few days."
"I understand. I don't expect you to know me." I answer as nice as I can. I'm not in the mood to be talking to anyone right now, but I'm sure Neal hasn't talked to anyone in days, so I try to be as nice and friendly as possible.
"So what's your plan for getting everyone off the island?" I ask, turning back to look at him. His brown eyes meet mine and he gives me a small smile, "It's a secret."
I give him a friendly smile back, "I'm pretty good at keeping secrets."
"You can say that again," Snow calls out from the front. How she heard, I have no clue. I give Neal an embarrassed smile then face forward, focusing my gaze on the ground.
The rest of the way is silent besides the noise Charming makes every time Snow moves away from him. When we finally reach camp we all collapse on the nearest rock or log, exhaustion taking over all of us, well all of us but Emma. She instantly jumps into action.
"You said you knew how to get us off this island?" she asks Neal sitting down next to him on the log. Neal looks up with a tired expression on his face.
"Emma don't you think we should," Charming starts but Emma shakes her head and holds up a hand, "No. We need to get a move on with everything. I'm tired of waiting."
"You sound like Regina," I hear someone mutter. Emma stiffens at the remark and looks around at all of us, "Where is Regina anyways?"
"Um, last time we saw her she was stomping off into the forest refusing to go help Neal..." I answer, giving Neal an apologetic look as I finish. He chuckles and shakes his head, putting his head in his hands.
"There's also my dad," he muffles through his hands.
"Your dad?" Emma asks. Her eyes widen as she remembers that Rumpelstiltskin came to this island with us, "Oh my. I forgot about him. We have to find him and Regina before we leave. But right now we need to figure out the plan on how to escape the island."
Neal remains quiet for a moment, face still in his hands. He then rubs his face and looks up at everyone. "You said you found something of mine?"
"Yes, your star map," Hook replies, his finger resting on his chin, making him look like a pirate attempting to be an Englishman. Neal furrows his eyebrows together, "My star map?"
"You know, it's coconut split in half with lots of holes and..." Emma begins to explain. Neal's eyes widen with recognition.
"I'd forgotten about that thing," he whispers to himself. He shakes his head and looks up at all of us, "The only way to get off this island that I know of without Pan's permission is his shadow."
"Pan's shadow?" Emma asks doubtfully, "That's your way off this island?"
"Unfortunately it's the only way," Neal replies, hands clasped together.
"I thought you learned how to navigate the stars?" I ask. What's the star map for if he doesn't even know how to navigate stars?
"I know how to navigate the stars, but I can't fly," Neal responds, shrugging his shoulders. I nod my head, "Understandable. I'm guessing that's where the shadow comes in?"
Neal nods, "That's why we have to capture it."
"Capture it?" Emma exclaims, "We've never been within ten feet of Pan unless he wanted us to be. Sneaking up on him to steal his shadow? That sounds insane."
"Actually Pan's shadow is rarely with him. It keeps to itself. It can carry on thousands of miles away from Pan and do his bidding."
"Well what does that mean for us?" Charming asks.
"It means we can get his shadow without having to be anywhere near Pan," Neal answers, "You just need to know where to look. And I know where to look."
"Alright, that settles it. You and I are on shadow duty," Emma says almost jumping to her feet, ready for action.
"As am I," Hook immediately replies. Emma looks at him a little surprised.
"The trek won't be easy. You could use another veteran of the island." Hook says trying to cover up his eagerness to be inbetween Neal and Emma. I hide a smile forming on my face and cover it up with a cough. Hook narrows his eyes at me and I wiggle mine at him. He rolls his eyes and looks away.
"Thanks man." Neal says, actually sounding truly grateful which surprises me. I would have thought he'd be a little annoyed to have Hook tag along.
"Snow and I will give Tinkerbell a heads up on what's going on then," Charming suggests, looking hesitantly, but she doesn't refuse so he continues, "We'll see if she can make good on her promise to help us off the island."
"Ok, but we need some type of distraction. Pan's eyes are everywhere. We need him to be focused on anything else while we try to catch his shadow." Emma points out. All eyes instantly shoot towards me. I sigh, "I volunteer. But what exactly am I supposed to do?"
"I don't know. You're a girl. Think of something," Hook says with a little smirk on his face. It's my turn to glare at him. He mocks me by letting out a fake cough, then wiggling his eyes at me.
"Ok is everyone good on what you have to do?" Emma asks, one hand resting on the hilt of her sword and the other outstretched towards us, pointing to each of us. We all nod in agreement.
"Good. We meet back at Tink's, then we save Henry and get the heck out of here and back to Storybrooke."
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The gang has me leave first, while the rest of them are still packing, to make things less suspicious. As if Pan is watching my every move. Oh what's Jane doing? Leaving before the gang? What's that mean? Why would he care what I was doing of all people. I'm already stuck on the island. What more could he want from me?
I smack the leaves in front of me, making my location as noticeable as possible. But I don't want to attract any unwanted attention from any monsters in this place. Not that I want to attract Peter Pan's attention. I just have to.
I shake my head, Shut up and stop talking to yourself. I kick a rock out of the way. It goes flying off in some crazy direction. I hear a sudden "OOF!" I instantly freeze in place. Someone's hiding out there.
"Whose there?" I call out, refusing to move a muscle. "C'mon. I know you're there. I heard your voice."
"Well then I guess there's no use hiding huh?" a mono-toned voice calls out to the left of me. I turn around and roll my eyes, "Oh, it's only you lost boy."
"My name's Felix," he growls, pulling his hood further down so I can't see his face very well.
"Oh now we're on first named basis?" I reply back raising my eyebrow up mockingly. He grunts and shrugs his shoulders, swinging his big stick around, resting it on his back.
"Well, your gonna be here for a while aren't ya? Might as well...get to know each other," he smirks and walks towards me slowly.
"What are you doing here?" I ask, keeping my eyes fixed on him. He snickers. I can see his mouth a little, but the rest of his face is dark, covered up by his hood.
"What are you doing here girl?"
"Hey your the one who was hiding in a bush. And my name's Jane," I mimic.
"Let's not get into this whole thing again, Jane."
"I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about."
"You're smart mouth is gonna get you into trouble one of these days," he spits back.
"Aw, are you just saying that because you can't think of a comeback. You've been on this island a little too long, haven't you?" I reply.
"Ha! I don't need to get in a stupid argument with a little girl."
"Keep talking Felix. One of these times you might actually say something witty," I snap back.
Felix mouth opens to say something, but a different voice speaks from behind me, "Felix. Don't bother the poor girl."
"I should have known you'd show up sooner or later Pan," I say, spinning around to face him. As usual, he's leaning against a tree, arms folded across his chest, a smirk on his face.
"I always do," he teases, his eyebrows raising playfully. I don't reply, I just stare at him. I've run out of witty remarks myself, so I just stare, trying to look as annoyed as possible.
"Ah, have I actually silenced her?" Peter scoffs, pushing himself away from the tree. He looks behind me at Felix and nods off to the left, "You can leave now Felix. I've got everything under control."
"Gladly," he mutters, and I hear him stomp off. Peter snickers and shakes his head, looking at the ground, then back up at me. "I think you've annoyed Felix."
"He was hiding in a bush, spying on me," I point out, making Peter laugh. I catch myself almost smiling too, "What was he doing anyways?" Peter shrugs his shoulders, "Maybe he was hunting?"
"Uh huh."
"If you think I sent him to come spy on you, then you're very wrong. I have more important jobs for him to do. More importantly, I have better things to do than to keep tabs on you."
"And yet, here you are. As always," I reply. For the first time, it looks like Peter doesn't have anything to say. He just stares at me, like I had done to him. I shift awkwardly, and look away from him. I see him tilt his head from the corner of my eye. I wish he'd stop looking at me.
"So have you been sent out to gather firewood again or something?" Peter asks finally, changing the subject.
I shrug, "Someone's gotta do it."
"All the way out here?"
"What do you mean?"
"Isn't your camp out that ways," Peter asks, pointing backwards.
"Aw, you know where our camp is? How sweet," I avoid the question. Peter seems to notice, "I know everything about this island Jane. I know exactly where your camp is. Obviously. I've been over there several times."
"Fine. You got me. After Echo Cave, which I'm sure you know all about, I didn't want to talk to anyone so I just sort of ran," I lie. Peter looks intrigued by the mention of the Echo Cave.
"So they finally know eh?" He chuckles, "Well they were going to find out eventually right?"
"I guess."
"I don't see why you're so ashamed of it Jane. It's nothing to be embarrassed or ashamed of."
I shrug my shoulders and look around, pretending to search for firewood. I see a twig that looks like it could go in a fire to I head towards to pick it up.
"Well since you're not doing anything important, how about I give you that tour?" Peter's voice is suddenly right behind me. Before I can even answer I feel his arm wrap around my waist. I drop the twig in surprise. Before I even know what's happening, I'm being lifted into the sky.
"Peter!" I cry out in fear. He chuckles, "Hold on tight Jane." I look down and see the island getting smaller below us. My stomach churns and all the memories of the tower come back to me, panic rising into my body. I squeeze Peter tightly, making sure that even if he let's me go, wanting me to die, I won't fall. He makes a fake wheezing sound, "You took that very literally."
"Peter put me down," I stutter, squeezing my eyes shut, "And don't you dare drop me."
"Jane I'm not going to drop you," he whispers into my ear, sending a tingle through my whole body, "Why would I save your life several times, just to drop you now?"
"Satisfaction?"
"Jane I promise I won't drop you." The way he says it is so reassuring that I forget that he's my enemy for the moment and trust him. The wind slices against my face as we fly. Finally I feel us lowering down. I don't release my hold on him till I feel the ground beneath my feet. I peek through my left eye to make sure we're safe then slowly let go of him, my legs shaking. I stumble a little, but Peter catches me, never moving his arm from around my waist.
"And here we start our tour at the greatest viewpoint in all of Neverland," Peter whispers into my ear again.
And the Peter/Jane moments have begun! Enjoy my friends. XD