A.N. I'm sorry for the delay but unfortunately I broke my computer, but now I plan on updating the story every day since I have the week off. Thank you all for waiting.

Chapter 24

"This is where they're keeping Henry." Helena explains to the group pointing to the improvised map she made while everyone was asleep and with the fairy's help. During that time she also made a plan. A plan she was now explaining to everyone. Emma was sitting next to her in the large rock, David and Mary Margaret are sitting by a tree as Regina and Hook decide to stand up in opposites sides. "Pan's compound. According to, uh..."

"Tinker Bell.

"Yes, I know. Still weird to say."

""Tink" is fine."

"Not sure that's any better." She says shaking her head at the weirdness of her life. "Anyway, she says that there are sentries positioned across the front, which is why we are gonna come in through the back entrance here. She's gonna talk her way in. Once she makes sure the coast is clear, then we are going to sneak on in."

"You'll still have to deal with any lost boys once you're inside."

"I think we can handle a few children with pointy sticks." Regina comments with her typical sassiness but she knew they had to be careful with the boys.

"It's not the sticks you need to worry about. It's the poison they're dipped in."

"Dreamshade. Hook warned us." Helena told the fairy still looking at the map wanting to figure out the last part, the one that keep it in her awaked mind. She doesn't like that missing part.

"Good. Because one nick, and you'll spend the last of..."

"Poison sticks equal death. We got it." David says a little bit agitated. "Now when can we put this rescue mission into action?"

"I'm ready to go, just as you tell me the exit plan." Everyone started to look at each other, with the expection of Helena who was still deep thinking about that exact problem. "You do have an escape plan, don't you?"

"It's... it's more of a last-minute trip." Emma told her trying to sound confident but failing.

"If you don't have a way off this island, then none of this matters."

"We'll figure it out."

"You'll figure it out? No one comes and goes from this place unless he allows it. This is a waste of time."

"Hey, when it comes to family, we always find a way."

"You don't get it. Here. Let me show you something. You know what this is?" She says showing everyone a watch.

"Yeah, a watch."

"I got it from the people who brought your son here for Pan."

"Greg and Tamara? Where are they? Why'd they give you that?" Helena demands of the petite blonde. Her anger was obviously, of course, she did promise Tamara the change to meet her father.

"I got it off the girl's body."

"Don't try to sound so disappointed love." Hook whispers at her ear understanding that the look was about her wanting to be the one to kill the woman.

"Spent half the night cleaning the blood off it. And the other guy... Well, there wasn't enough left of him to find anything useful. This is what Pan does to people he employs. What do you think he's gonna do to you? I'm not sticking my neck on Pan's chopping block without a way off this island. When you figure that out, you know where I live."

"Where the hell is she going?"

"I'll get her, bring her back."

"Don't. She's right. If there's one thing I've learned, you never break in somewhere unless you know the way out."

"And where'd you get that, in bail bondsperson school?"

"Neal taught me that." Emma says with fire in her eyes as Helena nodded, she too know, the importance of it.

"What about you, Hook? You got off this island before." David asked looking between the very small distance of the pirate and his younger daughter.

"Yes, aboard my ship, which would require some form of magic to create a portal, which... I got from Pan in a deal I don't think he's ready to repeat."

"So no one's ever left the island without Pan's permission." Helena asked Hook with a somehow kind voice, or as kind it could come from her.

"One man. Her partner in crime Neal." Hook says turning to Emma who tried really hard to hide her pain but Helena could see it. She was giving Emma time, knowing the last the woman wanted was to talk about it. When the time came Emma would come to her. Emma knew that Helena would understand her pain very well.

"How?"

"Maybe we can find out."

OUAT

"When was the last time you slept?" Hook asked Helena, as they once again, were walking side by side. He noticed how the beautiful blonde tried to ignore him, but he knew better, we remember their talk in the Enchanted Forest, the one she believe it was a hallucination, how she admit it not sleeping very well, or well at all. "You haven't slept since we came here. So I have been wondering, how long?" Hook asks her determinate to get the answer. He could already see the tiredness on her stunning green eyes.

"Since the night you rescue me." She confesses knowing he wouldn't let it go until she confessed.

"Next time we set up a camp you're sleeping." He says with a voice that didn't allow any argument space. "If you don't sleep how do expect to keep fighting?" He knew he won the argument.

OUAT

In the end it didn't work. The map they found could only be read by Neal so there was no point in even trying to figure it out without him. Emma, broken, left them in tears as Helena just stare at nothing and then after a couple of minutes decide to go after her. She sat next to Emma as the woman let the tears fall. She didn't touch her or show any kind of comfort to her. She didn't know how.

"I told him I love him, before he died." Helena didn't moved, not even turned to look at her sister, she just let her talk, her eyes fixed on the tree next in front of her a few feet away. Emma doesn't need kind words or hope, just someone who will listen to her. "I still do. Right now I keep focusing on saving Henry but what happens when we do, and we go back home. How do you move on?"

"You don't. That's a lie." Helena told her looking at her sister for the first time. She knew this wasn't the answer she wanted, but if Emma wanted comfort she wouldn't come to her or want her to speak. "You learn to leave without that person. You learn to leave your life with the emptiness. Sometimes you even forget: when you wake up, you get this short time when you just forget about it, but then reality hits. You will think about: what your life could have been if that person was still with you. And you will feel the pain in your heart. You will cry, scream and demand to know why it happened. Yet, you will never get the answers. Death doesn't give you answers, life does."

She gets up living her sister to think about what she said as she got next to Hook. He was sitting, with his legs stretched, in a rock. She sat next to him as just lean into him, allowing herself to fall asleep. He didn't say anything. Neither of them did. He just moved a little bit so she could be comfortable as she rested and just thought about what was said.

Everyone was, because one thing the blonde didn't realized is that everyone had listen to the little speech she gave Emma. And everyone was still thinking about it.