Third Person P.O.V

"And that's why I'm banned from the west side of the kingdom."

Zelena stared at the fairy with an expression mingled with horror and awe. "I see," she managed to say. "What an . . . interesting story."

Tiger Lily looked pleased, tucking her legs underneath her. "It was, wasn't it?" She clapped her hands together, looking excited. "So, we've spent the day playing around with your magic but you haven't said much. What about your story? Tell Auntie T.L all about it!" She let her chin rest on her hands, giving Zelena her full attention.

Zelena smiled slightly but it quickly dimmed down. "My mother gave me up," she said tightly, looking down at her green hands. "The man who raised me didn't even care about me. And now Rumplestiltskin is choosing my sister over me." Her face tightened and anger began seeping into her voice. "You saw today how good I am, how easily it was for you to teach me new tricks. I'm a much more powerful student than my sister!"

Tiger Lily sighed. "Well as your fairy Godmother, I, naturally, have the perfect advice." She clasped Zelena's green hands in her own tan ones.

"Zelena," she began.

"Yes?" she asked, beaming as she eagerly awaited her response.

"Jealousy is bad and you're better than that. Now let's get drunk." She jumped up from the couch and skipped over to the small, round table that practically groaned under the weight of the alcohol. "Ooh," she said happily, grabbing a bottle. "You know, I never thought of the Dark One as a drinker. He must liven things up at balls, eh?"

Zelena set her jaw, slowly standing up. "That's it? You're not going to help me with my revenge?"

Tiger Lily shot her an amused look as she magically summoned a goblet into her hand. "What part of 'fairy' don't you get? Hate is a no-no."

Zelena stalked over, gripping the edge of the small table. "But you're my fairy Godmother!" she insisted as Tiger Lily gleefully poured herself a generous amount of liquor. "You're supposed to do as I wish!"

She burst out laughing. "Do as you wish? Um, sorry sweetheart, but I'm afraid not. My job is to help guide you down the right path so that's what I'm going to do. We're starting with my favorite lesson." She held out the goblet to her and grinned. "Having fun!"

Zelena knocked the goblet out of her hand, making Tiger Lily jump. "How is this helping me!?" she shouted. "Your job is to make me happy!"

"And revenge isn't the way to do it!" she snarled so harshly that Zelena took a step back, breathing heavily as she stared at the angry, pink fairy before her.

"You can't change what happened in the past," Tiger Lily hissed. "If you want to be happy, that's all up to you. All I can do is help you figure out what's right from wrong."

Zelena's face went blank. "I suppose you're right," she said lightly. She strolled away. "I am the only one in charge of my future."

"Exactly!" Tiger Lily said, nodding in approval. "See, you can have a good life if you learn to let go of the past-"

Zelena flicked her wrist and the fairy shot across the room, slamming painfully into a wall before dropping to the floor.

"Unfortunately, that future doesn't include your help!" she seethed. A wild, wicked grin lit up her face."I will get my happy ending!"

Tiger Lily scrambled to her feet, wincing and looking slightly dazed from the hit. She stared at Zelena, blinking slowly. "That disturbing smile on your face tells me that you're plotting something. Care to share?"

She smiled widely, showing her white teeth. "I'm going to kill my sister, of course." Her lip curled in disgust. "Now buzz off."

In a whirl of green smoke, Zelena vanished.

"Wait, you said that if I get four of the same cards then it's a set, right?"

Serena's eyes flickered over to Felix's cards. "Well not if it's twos," she said lightly.

Felix furrowed his eyebrows at his cards and then glanced at all of the sets that Serena had laid down. "But you have a set of twos!"

Serena paused, pretending to shift herself more comfortable on her spot on the floor. Immediately Felix narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "Well?"

"Um, you see . . . um . . ." She faked a cough. "Er . . . go fish?"

Felix glared. "Have you been cheating the entire time?"

An innocent smile crossed her face. "Not the whole time. Just during poker, five-hundred rummy, and solitaire."

"So the whole time," he concluded sarcastically, throwing his cards down on the floor in annoyance.

"It could have been worse," Serena defended herself. "We could have been playing strip poker. We both know I would have ran off with your clothes and hid them."

Felix rolled his eyes and got to his feet. It was around four in the morning and he was starting to get a bit drowsy, the two of them having spent all night talking and playing stupid card games, among other things. But his mind was too cluttered to sleep. "This is getting annoying, you know."

Serena, still wide-awake, sighed exaggeratedly. "Okay, okay, I'll teach you the right way to play! But you're still not getting your money back." She clutched the few coins he had to herself greedily.

"Not that," he scoffed, though he had to fight back a snicker at the devious smile on her face. "Hiding and running."

Serena shrugged, sticking the coins down her shirt for safe keeping before gracefully jumping to her feet. "Yeah, I know," she sighed, giving him a sympathetic look. "But you have to keep the glamour on so that the others don't recognize you." She pulled him over to a nearby mirror so that they could admire her work on him.

To everyone else, Felix was a completely different boy. He appeared a few inches shorter than his real, tall frame. His hair was brown and his scar was missing, along with the lean structure of his body and the shape of his face was round. She changed his eye color to appear brown, his skin to an olive tone, and made his voice more young sounding.

She introduced him to the others as one of the former Lost Boys, "Matthew", who deserted Pan and never had a family to go back to. That, along with Serena's word, had the others welcome him to the castle with open arms.

"We'll have a better chance of defeating Zelena with the help of the others," Serena reminded Felix, noticing how irritable he looked. "Once she's no longer an issue, we can ditch. I promise."

He just nodded and kissed her back when she pressed her lips to his. The last thing either of them wanted was to stay out of the action, which was the only thing they agreed on. Felix wanted to keep his distance and round up a small group to take Zelena down themselves. Serena, however, insisted on staying with her annoyingly large group of friends. Staying in a castle with the people who had ripped Neverland away in the first place was the last thing he wanted, but considering he ripped them away from Storybrooke along with their memories, he grudgingly admitted that they were even.

Eventually, Felix swallowed back his pride and Serena came out of the argument victoriously. They were staying with the others until Zelena was out of the way.

After a couple minutes, Serena teasingly broke it off and walked over to the balcony. Felix had to admit that the castle wasn't so terrible. It was very open, with plenty of breathing space.

"Huh," Serena commented. "Belle and Baelfire are leaving. They must be going to look for Rumplestiltskin."

Felix made a noncommittal noise in the back of his throat, pretending to not really care when in truth he felt nauseated. He'd spent the entire day trying to push what had happened out of his mind, but to little avail.

Peter had never confirmed with his mouth what he'd done. There was a dark expression on his face as he held the dagger, much darker than Felix remembered it ever being. His eyes, however, were tormented. Then Felix saw it, that silver flash of his name on the dagger as he raised it in the air, ready to stab it into Zelena's heart, all for his precious jewel. His Amethyst.

"Are you going to tell her what you did, or should I?"

If there was one thing Felix had learned about Amy, she would find out and it would destroy her, along with a lot of other people. He couldn't even bring himself to tell Serena. Seeing him in action, like a viper about to sink its fangs into a mouse, had horrified her enough.

"Get her out of her while you can. Before they realize."

But they would all find out eventually. Pan never failed, but neither did the "heroes".

As if he were a seer, footsteps racing down the hall caught his attention, making both he and Serena look over to the entrance of the room. "Amy?" Serena said in surprise.

Amy skidded to a stop, several feet away from them both. Serena stifled a gasp, covering it up with a fake cough instead. He didn't blame her. Amy looked like Hell had chewed her up and spat her back out.

Her long black hair was wild and unruly and her tear-stained face was red and blotchy. She looked at Felix cautiously with big, bloodshot eyes, her body shaking like a leaf. Her clothes were muddy and he recognized Peter's multi-colored cloak that she wore, her fingers curling and uncurling around the fabric with trembling fingers.

She knew.

He had spent a long time hating her, blaming her for the changes that had happened to Peter, thinking she made him weaker. Especially when they tried to leave Storybrooke without him.

Seeing how hard she'd fought to get Peter back when he had lost his memories had changed his mind.

Now, all he felt was genuine sorrow for her.

"Felix?" she whispered uncertainly, her voice surprisingly steady. "Tinkerbell said you'd be here . . ."

Felix swallowed. "Yeah, brat. It's me."

Her face crumpled up and she sprinted at him.

"Amy, violence isn't the answer-!" Serena cut herself off when Amy threw herself at Felix in a hug and began to cry. Serena raised her eyebrows so high they nearly disappeared into her hair. Felix let his hands rest on her back lightly, looking at Serena desperately for help.

Serena shrugged. "Maybe she's pregnant?" she suggested, looking completely bewildered, though the corners of her lips were twitching.

This seemed to make Amy cry harder and tighten her arms around Felix, whose eyes nearly bulged out of his head at the constriction.

"Hey, it's okay!" Serena tried to assure her. "I'm sure Pan will make a . . ." She paused. "A . . . well . . . he'll make some kind of father, I guess. I mean . . . ah, shit . . ."

Felix shot her an exasperated look and shook his head.

"Yeah, I'll just stop talking now," she said, awkwardly patting Amy's back.

"He did it, Felix!" Amy sobbed. "He did it! He killed Rumplestiltskin! He's the Dark One!"

Felix shut his eyes tightly, blocking out Serena's horrified gasp. Hearing what he already had known spoken out loud shouldn't have cut through him as deeply as it had. But he'd spent so long fantasizing about what it would be like to get revenge on his childhood brother, but never was he prepared for how painful it would be.

Somehow, despite everything, he knew that Peter was feeling the same way.

"I don't know what to do anymore!" Amy choked out. "What do I do!?"

"Whatever you have to do to survive," Felix said simply.

Amy's PO.V

"Are you sure you're okay?" Serena asked me worriedly as I settled into bed.

I nodded and forced a small smile. "I'm okay. Thank you, Serena."

She smiled back, looking relieved that I wasn't hysterical anymore. "No problem, kid." I watched as she walked back to Felix who was lingering near the entrance. She slipped her hand in his and together they left, leaving me alone in the dark with my thoughts.

Peter had sent me directly in front of Regina's castle, where everyone was gathered inside still. But I hadn't been able to bring myself to go in, to tell them that Peter had killed Rumplestiltskin. Not on my own. So, like a coward, I sat outside of it and waited for Neal, staring at the ring on my finger. A long time passed before Neal finally found his way back to the castle from where he had originally left me in the forest.

He seemed surprised to see me there, but all he did was put an arm around me and lead me inside, where we broke the news of what had happened together. It was all a blur. People were gasping and shouting, there were misty eyes and sad faces. All I remembered was hugging Belle after she'd completely broken down, whispering, "I'm sorry", over and over again. She'd clung to me like I used to do to her when I was a little girl afraid of the dark.

Finally Belle was calm enough to leave with Neal, to go to the Dark One's castle. I stayed behind so that the two people closest to Rumplestiltskin could grieve in peace.

After they left, I had to talk to someone. Someone who understood what I was feeling about Peter to some degree, someone who wouldn't judge the fact that I still loved him after everything. I didn't think Belle would, but no way would I ever talk about my situation with her true love's murderer.

So, the answer had been obvious. Felix.

As if by magically sensing my thoughts, Tinkerbell came over and quietly informed me that Felix was in the castle with Serena. I took off to find him after that and cracked.

I closed my eyes, pulling the covers around me more. I knew that a few hours more of sleep would do my body some good but I didn't see how it was possible. Out of desperation, I grabbed the other pillow and pulled it down next to me so that I could cling to it. It was better, but nowhere near the same.

Damn him for doing this to me.

Giving up, I tossed the pillow aside and slipped out of the room. Surprisingly enough, I managed to find Regina's room easily.

She was standing at the balcony in the hallway right outside of it, staring at the forest below. When I coughed slightly to announce my presence, her head snapped up and she quickly wiped her eyes.

She cleared her throat. "Couldn't sleep?"

I shook my head, joining her at the balcony. "You either?"

"I haven't tried," she admitted with a small smile. She put her hand on my back comfortingly and we stood in a comfortable silence for awhile, each of lost in our own thoughts.

Finally, I said, "Were the two of you close?"

"Depends on your definition of 'close'. He mentored me in magic a long time ago."

"That had to have been fun," I couldn't help but say sarcastically. Being taught magic by Cora was bad enough. Being taught by the Dark One sounded like pure hell.

Regina rolled her eyes in agreement and I found myself giggling.

"Our mother tried to teach me magic when I was with her in Wonderland," I told her. "But I was so hopeless she gave up."

Her expression grew more serious. "What was it like?" she asked softly. "Living in Wonderland with her."

I chewed on my bottom lip thoughtfully. "Empty, mostly. I tried to please her but never could. My mind sort of shut down after a while and I became numb to everything." I let out a slow breath. "She hurt so many people . . ."

She grimaced, obviously understanding exactly what I meant. "How did you escape?"

"I used to make hats with Jefferson to pass time," I explained. "And one day I gave our mother one as a gift. When she touched it, our magic somehow made it work and-" I cut myself off, biting the insides of my cheeks.

"And?" she pressed.

I smiled weakly. "It transported us to Peter," I said quietly. Regina nodded slowly, encouraging me to go on. "But they tricked each other," I continued with a sigh. "She ended up back in Wonderland and I lost my memories for the next seven years."

Regina inhaled sharply. "Amy, she put a spell on the Enchanted Forest to prevent my curse from affecting a certain part of the land. Everything was frozen for twenty-eight years there. She got to Storybrooke not that long after the curse broke. She couldn't have been in Wonderland with you unless she found a way to leave before my curse hit and then come back to the forest later after you were gone."

I stared, my mind only registering part of what she said. "She came back for me? Why would she do that?"

Regina smiled slightly and took my hands. "Maybe deep, deep down there was a part of her that cared about you, even without her heart."

I furrowed my eyebrows, confused even further. "She didn't have a heart?"

Regina nodded. "She took it out and kept it locked up."

I blinked. All that time I had been with her she didn't have her heart inside of her body? She'd actually been physically incapable of caring about me? I'd remembered her telling me that love was weakness once but never had I imagined she'd gone that far. I wondered how different things would have been if she'd had her heart. Would she still have given me up? Would Regina have become the Evil Queen?

"Can I ask you for a favor?" I said hesitantly. I held my hands up with a sort of guilty expression, remembering all the trouble I'd caused before. "Will you teach me to control my magic?"

She smirked. "I thought you'd never ask."

AN: Your feedback has been incredibly helpful for me, like you don't even know. So please keep it coming and THANK YOU! If I could personally hug all of you I would.

Not sure about when the next update will come because it's going to be really busy for me the next three weeks but I shall do my best to post chapters as much as possible. I'm about to start working on the next one now so that I can get it up (hopefully) this weekend.

SPOILERS FOR FINALE

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I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE MY FEELINGS! The Captain Swan ship has FINALLY sailed! (For the time being at least because we know how the writers are). I'm curious, are there any SwanFire shippers out there that have converted to Captain Swan? Leave a review!

MY OUTLAW QUEEN SHIP HAS BEEN SUNK BECAUSE ADAM AND EDDY LOVE TO WATCH THE WORLD BURN! THEY BETTER FIX IT BECAUSE REGINA NEEDS HAPPINESS FOR ONCE!

AND AUGHH, ELSA! I'm sorry, but I'm excited for that! I know a lot of people are annoyed about them bringing Frozen into this but as long as they don't mess it up or ruin the show with it then I'm all for it.

I honestly thought it might have been Pan at the end. I literally stood on my couch, bouncing up and down while chanting, "Pan, Pan, Pan, Pan, Pan, Pan-ELSA!?" Then I threw myself to the floor shrieking and I saw all hope for her child leave my mother's eyes once again.

So does anybody know when season four is supposed to premiere? I hate these hiatus's, though looking at Sherlock and the waits between those seasons then I really can't complain much XD