Emma grunted and twisted and turned with all her might as she was carried away from the beach. The boys held her tight in the ropes as they carried her away. Emma felt her heart starting to stop as she was dragged away from Baelfire. She was hoping to God that he was not dead. He couldn't die. He couldn't. She didn't understand why she was so frantic about Baelfire, but one thing for sure was she cared about him a lot. Even though they just met. She was praying he was alright and that he would find her.
-
Baelfire groaned as rolled over. The tip of the arrow protruding his shoulder. He got up to his knees and spied the arrow sticking out of him. With every ounce of strength he had, he grabbed the arrow and pulled it out. He yelped loudly and allowed a few tears to come out of eyes. He saw blood soaking the sand and knew he was bleeding. With a grunt, he ripped off the remains of his shirt and started wrapping it up around the hole. He twisted a knot and pulled it tight, making a tourniquet. His eyes widened as he remembered someone.
"Emma!" He said out loud.
He remembered Emma. The Lost Boys took her! Baelfire groaned as he swiftly tried to get up to his feet. He grabbed a fallen spear that Emma had brought with them. Groaning, he started marching back into the jungle. His mind set on rescuing Emma.
-
Emma struggled with the ropes as the boys continued to carry her. Without any warning, they dropped her onto a mossy bed. Standing over her, was Pan.
"Hello Emma." He greeted her smarmily.
Emma just spat at his feet. Pan just smiled.
"Now that wasn't very nice."
"Like hell I'll play nice with you. Not what after you did to Baelfire."
Pan's smirk grew to hide his irritation. She liked Baelfire, he needed to change that.
"You don't need to worry about him any longer Emma. You can have a great time here with me and the boys. Where you'll be treated as you should. Like a princess."
Pan snapped his fingers and Emma clothes turned into a dark red gown, complete with ruffled sleeves and a red tiara was placed on her head. Emma shook her head and the tiara went off her head.
"I am not wearing no tiara pal." She growled.
"I'm just trying to be nice Emma." Pan said with a smirk at her ferocity.
"Nice my ass. I know what you kinds of boys do and I won't go down without a fight." She declared.
"Oh really?" Pan peered down in her face, "Even if it means having a life taken? 'Cause I can always have the boys kill Baelfire."
Emma felt her heart stop. The idea of them killing Baelfire made feel like someone had grabbed her heart in a vice and was squeezing it. She narrowed her eyes at Pan.
"Do that and there will be no one to stop me from doing the same to you." She said coldly.
Pan seized her by the hand and brought her closer to his face.
"Even try to run away and I will not hesitate to hurt you. You're not going anywhere Emma. You're staying with me."
Emma thrusted her head back into Pan's face, breaking his nose and he let her go. Emma tried to run and fight her way out, but the Lost Boys surrounded her. She put herself into a fighter's stance and got ready to fight, only for something to grab her wirst and spin her around to the floor. Pan looked at her with a glare as blood dripped from his broken nose.
"That was not a wise thing to do Emma." Pan said in a low tone, "Girls like you gte punished for being bad."
Emma grew scared. Not realizing what she was in for.
-
The rescue party was trudging through the jungle. Hook and Maleficent were heading towards Pan's camp while Regina, Snow, David, Mikey, Donnie, Leo, and Raph, and Splinter were keeping eyes and ears open for any activity.
"How far are we Captain?" Splinter asked in a hushed voice.
"We shouldn't be too far from Pan's camp. However, as we get up there we need to be quiet. He probably has the lost boys stationed everywhere now."
"Do you think he's found Emma?" snow asked nervously clutching her bow.
" I don't know, but we should just think so just incase." Hook said.
"Hey, we'll get her back." David reassured his wife.
A large chorus of hoots and yells shattered the silence of the jungle. Hook was rigid as he heard this. He knew all too well what that meant.
"Hook? What's buggin' ya?" Raph asked.
"The Lost boys. They're celebrating."
"Celebrating what?" Leo asked as he cringed at the yells and hoots.
"That call means they found someone."
Everyone went rigid as they heard this.
"Emma?" Snow asked."
"Possibly." Hook said.
"Let's go then." Raph said as he started to make towards the head of the group.
"Raphael. Calm yourself. IF they do have Emma, we will get her back. We can't afford to lose sight of ourselves right now." Splinter said.
"Ok, if they do have her, now is the time to make a plan of attack." Hook said.
Everyone agreed and started to huddle together. They needed a plan.
-
Baelfire groaned as he trumped up through the foliage. He knew where the camp was and had to get there before Pan did whatever he wanted with Emma. His side was one fire from where the arrow had struck him but he ignored it. He had to get to Emma. He didn't understand how it was possible, but Baelfire had growing feelings for her. He knew that if Pan did anything to her…Baelfire growled at the mere thought of it. The imagination of it all made him swell with determination to push forward.
-
Emma could only glare as she was forced to sit next to Peter as the Lost Boys played wildly. Pan had his arm around her shoulders, pulling her into his side. It made Emma want to throw up. This pervert was getting on her nerves and worst part was: she couldn't do anything about it. On her head was the tiara. Pan had placed it on her head, declaring her his queen of Neverland. Emma wanted nothing more than to hurt him, but she knew if she did something he would make his promise with hurting Baelfire. She squirmed a bit , but that made Pan pull her in closely. Emma growled under her breath.
"Are we upset my queen?" Pan said.
"I'm not your queen." Emma spat out.
"Like it or not Emma, you are. Together we are the King and Queen of Neverland."
"Very full of ourselves aren't we." Emma muttered under her breath.
"Soon, it won't be long till I catch Tinkerbelle again and she will wed us."
"Excuse me?!" Emma pulled herself away from him and looked at him in outrage.
"We shall be married and be the rulers of Neverland." Pan said, enjoying her freak-out.
"Are you insane? You are no older than fifteen and I'm only fourteen and you expect us to get married!"
"Why not?" Pan asked like there was nothing wrong with the idea.
"People don't get married at that age!" Emma practically shouted.
Pan got up from his spot and walked over to Emma.
"I like you Emma. You're fierce, strong, and a fighter and I belive you would make a good lost girl and lover."
Emma scoffed at the idea.
"I'm not getting married to you Peter. I don't like you."
This made him frown and his eyes searched her. Making Emma uncomfortable.
"Like it or not Emma. I get what I want when I want it and I want you."
Emma did probably the stupidest thing she could do now. She slapped him hard. The sounding smack got everyone's attention. The Lost boys stopped playing and looked at Emma with wide eyes. Emma saw he was stunned, and took that as her cue to go. Emma flipped away from the Lost boys and tried to make a run for it, but they regained their senses and blocked her path. One of them tried to grab her, but Emma knocked his hand away and sent a flying kick in his direction. That started to rile the bpys up as they started to attack Emma. She tried to fight back, but she was getting overwhelmed. Peter took out his dagger and advanced onto Emma. Emma felt the hairs on her neck stand up and turned. Peter brought his dagger down and she moved out of the way. She quickly looked for a weapon, but to her dismay, nothing. Not even a rock. Peter mock lunged at her, but she held her ground. He went forward with his dagger but Emma did a snap kick and knocked it out of his hand. Peter turned and Emma sent him flying to the ground with a roundhouse kick.
"What's the matter? Too much of a coward to fight a girl?" Emma mocked.
Peter growled and lunged for her, grabbing his dagger. Emma sidestepped and did a rabbit punch. The only response was the boy growling as he stared down Emma. Peter then gave her a cruel smile and flew up into the air. He flew around her with his dagger and signaled for the boys. The boys surrounded her and Felix was the first to go at her. He took out his sword and began to lunge at Emma. The girl was too focused on Felix that she didn't realize Peter was coming up right behind her. He snaked his arms around her and pressed his dagger to her neck. Emma felt her heart stop as she felt the blade to her skin, but she dare not show it to Pan.
"You see Emma, you aren't going anywhere. You're staying with us."
Emma did nothing. She could only pray that her family or someone was coming to rescue her.
-
Hook led everyone further up the trail, pulling some brush away as Maleficent passed by him. She looked at him till he said,
"Ladies first." He said with a saucy smile.
Maleficent smiled a tiny bit and went through. Hook couldn't help but stare as he followed her, catching up to her at the front.
"What was that about?" She asked.
"Just being a bit more courteous." Hook said with an impish smile.
Maleficent raised an eyebrow at that, "Oh are you now? Why the sudden change?"
Hook just shrugged as he looked at her with warm eyes. Maleficent felt her stone heart start to crack. She softened her eyes and Hook smiled a bit more. She grabbed his free hand and Hook was surprised as he gripped it gently. Everyone stopped as they heard more hoots and calls throughout the jungle.
"They are riled up that's for certain." Hook said as he looked around.
"I hope Ems ok." Mikey said, sounding nervous.
"We should be close. They're louder than before." Hook said.
Everybody ducked as they all heard a snap nearby. Hook put his hook to his lips, telling them to be quiet. Everyone nodded and started to slink forward into the jungle. They all heard the hoots and howls getting louder as they went North. Hook parted some fronds and saw a sight he didn't wish he saw. Emma was next to Pan in a scarlet red dress looking very scared as the boys all run around wildly. He ducked under the brush and turned back to the others.
"She's there and with Pan."
Snow and David looked scared, the turtles and Splinter looked weary and the rest looked worried.
"We need a plan of attack. Pan's keeping her right next to him. We can't just barge in."
"So what do we do?" Mikey asked Hook.
-
Baelfire groaned as he climbed up the rocky hill from the side. He heard the hoots of the Lost boys and knew he was close by. He was praying to God that Emma was alright. He didn't know what Pan would do with her, and he didn't want to know. All he wanted to get her away from him. He pulled back the brush and peeked through the foliage to see Emma. She was wearing a red dress which made her look even more lovelier. Balefire felt his face get hot once he realized he was starting at her. He then spied Hook in the distance poking his head out. What was he doing here? Bae shook his head at the thought. Why did he care? He's the reason why he was stuck on this island to be begin with? Baelfire started to pull back from his hiding spot and began to creep along the side of the trees, hoping to get closer to Emma.
Emma was really mad now. Not only was she trapped with this perverted idiot, but now he was saying they were supposed to get married?! Her eyes trailed to the outer brush. She hoped Mikey, Raph, Leo, Donnie, her parents and Splinter were coming by to get her. She didn't know what this boy was going to do, but she didn't want to be around to find out. He had left to go get Wendy, because she wanted him to perform the ceremony. She spied something in the brush and saw eyes and a face peeking out. It was Baelfire! She felt her heart leap out in joy. He was alive. Baelfire put his fingers to his mouth and gestured her to be quiet. Emma knew what he was motioning for her to do, so she shut her mouth and pretended to look at irritated as possible so the Lost Boys didn't get suspicious. She looked up and saw Peter Pan coming back with two girls. She recognized Tinkerbell immediately and then saw another girl. She was wearing a white night gown and had long brown hair. She looked scared.
"Ah Emma, meet Wendy and Tinkerbell. They are going to be bonding us for the ceremony."
Tinkerbell and Wendy looked apologetic as they saw Emma. She lowered her head for them to see her eyes, to tell them it was ok. She than saw Baelfire again and realized he was creeping closer to Peter. Emma then got an idea. She remembered a certain movie and decided to pull the same trick.
"You know Peter…." Peter turned to her with a questioning glance, "I might have been a bit too ild, so to say, especially to not see at first, how incredibly handsome you are." Emma finished.
Peter lost his questioning look and smirked, while Wendy and Tinkerbell were confused at what she was doing.
"Well, I am handsome, this is true. Tell me more about what you like." Peter said as he walked towards her with a satisfied smile.
Emma started to talk some more as Peter kept walking towards her. Wendy and Tink were both confused at the sudden performance, till they looked around and noticed Baelfire scurrying over nearby.
"Bae-" Wendy tried to say.
But Baelfire motioned her to stay quiet. Wendy saw what he meant and closed her mouth.
Hook and the group poked their heads out of the brush and both watched from the foliage as Emma was flirting with Peter. Hook was confused and his eyes widened as he saw something else: Baelfire. He touched Rumpelstiltskin's arm, alerting the man. He turned to Hook confused, but Hook just pointed out to where they all saw Baelfire going through the brush trying to get closer to Emma. Rumple felt tears in his eyes as he saw his son for the first time in three hundred years, but he dared not to make a sound. They had to save Emma and it looked like his son was trying to do the same thing as they were. Baelfire was moving silently through the brush, going for a fallen sword nearby. If he could get to it, he could fight Pan and get Emma out. It was worth a try.
"And Baelfire…?" Peter droned on the word as Emma was putting her arms around him, caressing his arms.
"Who?" She asked innocently, her hands going for his right cheek.
Baelfire was moving swfityl, he was close to the sword, he just had to not make a sound. His feet brushed against a rock and it rolled on the ground clattering into another rock. Pan turned, only Emma did the unthinkable: she grabbed Pans face and kissed him full on the lips. Everyone's eyes went wide at the sudden display. Baelfire's eyes went wide, her parents were opened mouthed along with Splinter and the turtles.
"Oh dude. That's gross." Mikey said.
"What is she doing?" Raph growled.
"Uh.." Leo and Donnie both said.
"Goongala." Casey said.
Emma did a quick movement with her lips before pulling away slowly, making sure he enjoyed the sudden moment. Peter looked at her with a dazed look till it turned into a full-blown smirk. Emma just smirked back raising an eyebrow, saying 'did you like that?'
"That was…" He trailed off as he felt something wrong. He looked down in a chalice's reflection he saw Baelfire. Going for the sword.
"YOU!" Pan roared.
Baelfire went for the sword, only to be hit in the side by Felix who attacked mercilessly.
"So you came to save her did you Bae? Well a little too late-"
Emma stepped away and did a roundhouse kick to Peter, sending him far away from Emma. Baelfire got away from Felix by kicking him in the face and grabbed the sword. He went right for Pan and the two started to clash with each other. Emma turned and got ready to fight, only that was the kicker for the Hook and the others. Snow came out with her bow and shot an arrow at one of them. David came out with his own sword and began taking on one of the boys. Hook came out with Maleficent and the two started to work together
"Ems, catch." Leo's voice rang out as he threw her katana.
Emma jumped into the air and caught both her swords in her hands. She twirled in the dress, moving her swords along with her. She put herself in between her mother and father as they took on the lost boys. The Turtles came out along with Splinter and they joined in on the battle. Swords clashes and arrows flew, along with magic being used. Rumpelstiltskin was trying to move closer to his son who was fighting Pan with a vengeance. Pan flew up and got Baelfire in the place where the arrow had struck him and he went down to the ground. Rumple watched as Pan got ready to fly at him, only he shot a blast of blue magic at him, sending him away. Baelfire looked at where the magic came from and his eyes widened as he saw who did it: his father. Baelfire could only stare till he heard a grunt and watched as Pan was flying again and this time, going for Emma. He flew towards her and Baelfire felt his heart beating faster. No! He couldn't lose Emma! He grabbed the sword and run up. Tackling Pan to the ground. Emma heard and watched as the boy who saved her, save her again, only this time, she saw he wouldn't last long. Emma tried to go for Peter and Baelfire, only Felix blocked her. Felix smiled smarmily at Emma and that was all it took for her fear to vanish and began fighting back. She raised her katana and began to duel. Baelfire was pushed off by Pan. The boy was grinning madly at Baelfire, who had a hard time standing up. Bae gripped his sword and the two started to fight again. Baelfire was barely holding on as he tried to fight Pan. He misinterpreted a step and felt the dagger go into his side.
Emma saw the whole thing, "NO!"
Everyone stopped and turned to see Emma staring at where Pan stabbed Baelfire. Emma felt red hot anger burst through her and charged pain with an enraged yell and swung her katana. Pan dodged and was backing away from Baelfire's fallen body as Emma attacked full on. Rumpelstiltskin ran to Baelfire frantically.
"Baelfire! Bae. Bae. Hold on. You'll be alright."
"Pa-papa." Baelfire spat up blood.
"You're going to be alright son, hold on."
He turned to Emma fighting his father and found himself wanting to kill him. Maleficent and Regina came up and added their own magic to the wound.
"Rumpelstiltskin. Go." Regina said, indicating to Pan.
He didn't want to leave his son, but he knew he had to do this. He grabbed the dark one's knife and went for Pan.
Emma fought Peter with anger. She wanted to run her swords through him. He was blocking every hit and dodging her. He was too quick. She then saw Rumple coming up from behind and got sense going through her. She wouldn't kill Pan. Rumple would. She dodged one more time and put her sword down.
"Tired are we Emma? How does it feel that I took your love from you?"
"Nothing could compare to what I feel to what he feels to you now."
Pan was confused, till he felt a blinding pain go through his side. He fell to his knees and there was Rumple, stabbing his knife into Pan's side. Pan gasped and fell to the ground.
"That's for my son you bastard." Rumple sneered at him.
Emma watched as the light faded from Pan's eyes. Dead. She then turned her attention to Baelfire. She dropped her katanas and ran to Baelfire.
"Baelfire!" she screamed and dropped to his side as Regina and Maleficent who were trying to stabilize the wound.
"What's happening?" She asked frantically.
"The wound's too deep. Emma. There's nothing we can do." Regina said sorrowfully.
"No. There's gotta be something." Emma said with tears running down her face.
"Emma…" snow placed her hand on her shoulder.
"He can't die. He just can't. Not after what he did for me." Emma said.
"Emma. They're trying all they can." Splinter said as he tried to calm her down.
Emma was on the verge of tears. She couldn't lose Baelfire. She loved him. Yes, she knew it. She loved him. If he died, it would kill her just as much. Rumple came back and had tears in his eyes as well. Regina and Maleficent kept using magic, but nothing seemed to be happening.
"The wounds too deep. We can't close it." Maleficent said to Rumple.
The poor man was starting to cry. Emma just threw herself on Baelfire and screamed,
"No! Baelfire." Emma cried.
"Emma." He choked.
"You can't go. I won't let you."
"Emma," He choked, "I'm happy I met you."
That made her freeze up. Baelfire was happy he met her. She watched as his eyes started to close. Emma was shaking her head frantically as he got ready to draw his last breath.
"Wait, maybe there is something…"
Emma leaned forward into Baelfire and slowly, gently, kissed him on the lips. As she pulled away, she waited with baited breath. It had to work. It worked for her mom and dad why couldn't it work for him too? Baelfire was still. Until, everyone watched as a greenlight surrounded his wound and began closing. Everyone watched in awe as the green light surrounded the wound and started healing. Emma found herself smiling big as the magic started to work. As it dimmed, Baelfire took a deep breath and his eyes popped open. He started spluttered and then coughing up. He took in big lungsful of air. Emma let out a shriek of happiness and hugged him tight. Baelfire was shocked, but he smiled big and returned the hug.
"You're alive." Emma whispered hoarsely.
"Thanks to you. But how…."
"True loves kiss." Rumpelstiltskin said croakily.
"But she's only fourteen." Snow protested.
"Maybe, but it worked either way. On both of them." Leo said.
When everyone heard that, Emma and Baelfire turned to each other in surprise. True loves kiss? It worked between the two of them?! Both teenagers blushed and looked away, causing all the adults and Leo, Mikey, Donnie, and Raph to chuckle. Emma got up and helped Baelfire to his feet. He then turned to his father.
"Papa, I don't know what to say. You left me. You abandoned me for magic. We could've had a life together with no magic or any of the Ogre Wars." Balefire screamed out the last part, he looked at Emma and saw a look that made him look cowed, "But you did look for me. You came here for me and I can tell that you are sorry about what you did and…I want to give you another chance."
Rumple had a shaky smile and tears were running down his face. He opened his arms for a hug and Baelfire dove into them without second thought. Everyone watched as the man hugged his son and all had smiles at the reunion. Emma smile.
"What's with the dress sis?" Mikey asked.
"Not my choice. Pan put me in this." She said.
"Not your color?" April asked.
"Nah. I prefer jeans and a t-shirt then this. Which reminds me, Mom," Snow looked to Emma, "Now that this is all over, why don't we have that shopping trip."
"I think we can do that." Snow said.
"I'd be happy to get out of these clothes myself." Baelfire said.
"We'll be getting you some new things once we get back to Storybrooke Bae. Besides, I'm sure Belle would be more then willing to help." He said.
"Who's Belle?"
"His girlfriend." Raph said.
Baelfire looked at his father who sheepishly rubbed the back of his head, "Yes, my girlfriend. I've met someone Bae. Someone I think you'll like."
Baelfire saw the love in his father's eyes and felt his heart go lighter. His papa had met someone? He smiled.
"I'd like to meet her too."
rumple smiled.
"I believe now is a good time to get back to the Jolly Roger." Splinter said.
"I agree with that." Emma said.
Everyone nodded and started walk back down the slope. Baelfire walked up next to Emma,
"Emma, what's up with your family?"
Emma smiled mischievously. Boy, did she have a story to tell him.
