Westbury, England
"Clear!" The doctor yells as he presses the paddle against Giles again, Dawn and Willow gasp and turn to Xander who wraps his arms around both girls.
"Clear!" The doctor yells again, however nothing happens, the doctor turns to the nurse "Turn it up."
The nurse nods and a moment later the doctor hits Giles again.
As Giles flops back down on the bed, Xander, Faith, Dawn and Willow wait, hoping that Giles' heart will start again.
"Come on Geeves." Faith whispers as she watches the doctors and Giles carefully.
Suddenly a beeping noise comes from the monitor, the four turn and stare at the monitor.
"We got him back." The doctor breaths "We got him."
Neverland
Buffy follows after Regina, as David and Hook lead them through the forest "The ridge is just a few hundred paces up ahead." Hook informs them.
Buffy looks over at Hook "So this ridge thing-y, it's gonna give us a 'lay of the land' of Pan's man cave, right? Or is it peak of the land?" She asks the last question mostly to herself.
"It's lay..." Hook assures her "From there, we should be able to see everything, including where he's keeping your son."
"You know, I could have just poofed us up here in an instant." Regina says, clearly annoyed by their predicament.
"Where?" Hook asks her "Have you any idea what's up here or anywhere? There are dangers all about. Only I can guide us past them."
"And how many times have you used that line?" Buffy asks sarcastically, "It's kinda old." She says before turning to Regina "Look guyliner may be an dark haired version of Spike but he's lived here before. So we gotta do what he says, plus if he gets us lost, then I'll kick his ass."
"That really gives a man confidence." Hook remarks.
"Keep moving pirate man."
Hook chuckles slightly before continuing on.
Buffy continues to follow only to pause as Snow moves towards her and hands her bottle of water "Here. You need to stay hydrated."
"I'm good." Buffy tells her "Slayers have crazy high metabolism but we're also like camels some times. Thanks though, Mary Margaret."
"You know, Mary Margaret is a bit formal." Snow says shyly "You could call me 'Mom ' if you want. You've done it before."
Buffy's eyes widen, she had completely forgotten that she had in fact called Mary Margaret mom, and now all she could feel was an overall sense of guilt and betrayal.
"I—I can't. I'm sorry. That was when we—"
"We were about to die."
Buffy nods "That and it's still hard for me. Look my mom was my mom so I'm still adjusting."
Snow nods, obviously disappointed "Oh, no, I get it."
Buffy nods before continuing to walk, she follows the group and notices them come to a stop, as Hook grabs David's arm as he attempts to cut through a bush of thorns.
"No." Hook yells.
David yanks his arm out of Hook's grasp and glares at him "I can handle a couple of thorns."
"That's dreamshade. It's not the thorns you have to worry about. It's the poison they inject you with. This plant is the source of the toxins I used on The Dark One."
Buffy arches an eyebrow "The gross iky stuff that almost killed crazy mc-crazy-ton?"
"Indeed. I used a concentrated dose. In its natural form, death would be much slower and far more painful. I suggest we go this way."
David points in the opposite direction "We'll go this way."
Buffy sighs "Children." She mutters as Snow and Regina follow David. Buffy moves to follow but pauses as Hook turns to her "You're father's a distrustful fellow."
"David..." Buffy says emphasising the world, the discomfort of the term 'father' being hidden bellow the surface "Is not used to teaming up. I am, but they don't do team ups with people who are considered the bad guys."
"I can assure you, on this island, I am not the bad guy."
Buffy shrugs "Yeah well, this just screws up my childhood. Pan is so not supposed to be all evil-y."
"What possibly gave you that idea?" Hook asks her as the two start to walk.
"What part of ruined childhood does not make that obvious...in the stories he's the good, you're the perm having creepy mustache pirate man."
"From the way you're describing me, I can tell it's not good. Which clearly is wrong." Buffy rolls her eyes "You are really full of yourself, you know that."
Hook chuckles before going on "Look your childhood stories got it wrong. Pan is the most treacherous villain I've ever faced. Tell me something, Luv. I'm not actually that bad in these stories. I'm sure other than a villain, I'm handsome."
Buffy scoffs and taps his chest "Keep thinking that buddy." She then walks off laughing.
The smirk falls from Hook's face "You're beginning to make me worry, luv."
"Up here!" David calls, Buffy quickly heads up the hill followed by Hook.
Buffy's eyes widen as she sees the forest bellow them "Oh, boy."
"Pan's lair should be just...right..."
"Where?" Regina asks, annoyed "All I see is jungle."
"Ay. The dark jungle."
Buffy sighs "Yep. Never gonna be able to watch Disney again."
Hook pulls out his spyglass and looks over at the land "It's, uh, grown some what since I last stepped foot in Neverland."
"Grown?" Buffy asks confused.
"Aye."
Buffy rubs her temples "So gonna have a migraine when this is over."
Regina sighs as she stares at the jungle before glancing over at Hook "So this nature hike was for nothing."
David intervenes "Hook may have led us astray, but at least we're in a good position to start combing the jungle."
"Not exactly." Hook tells them "The dark jungle's the last place you wanna set foot. We'll have to go around it. In order to do that, we're gonna need our strength. I suggest we make camp."
Regina turns to him, clearly not pleased "You wanna sleep while my son is out there suffering?"
"If we want to live long enough to save the boy...yes."
As the others move Buffy stands there motionless, merely staring at the jungle "You okay?" Snow asks.
Buffy shakes her head "Regina's right. I don't care about rest, Henry is out there, I can't just leave him out there."
"And Hook is right." Snow tells her "You may not think you need rest, but you do. We have to survive if we're going to get him."
Buffy sighs "I hope so."
Before Snow can say anything, Buffy heads back down the hill.
Later Buffy lies there staring up at the sky, unable to sleep. She huffs in frustration before grabbing the scythe and climbing out of the makeshift bed. She heads into the forest close enough to the camp but far enough that she can have some time to herself.
As she steps into the clearing she closes her eyes and takes a deep breath soaking up the smell of the oak trees.
Buffy opens her eyes and begins practicing with the scythe, she spins around swinging the scythe, flipping through the air and ends up burying the scythe in a tree.
She's breathing hard and just stares at the scythe "Couldn't sleep?" A voice asks behind her.
Automatically Buffy rips the scythe from tree and turns around to face the figure.
"Figured you wouldn't be able to hear it. Considering you don't feel abandoned, cause you don't consider them your parents."
Buffy arches an eyebrow "Look at the insightful creepy, teenager." She says sarcastically "Gonna tell me how my hair's really blonde and how I like pizza?"
Pan chuckles slightly "You're Buffy, right? It must be driving you insane right?"
Buffy rolls her eyes "You really like the sound of your own voice." Buffy looks the boy up and down and chuckles slightly before slamming him up against one of the trees "Let me guess the green outfit, the british accent. A plus B equals...Pan." She raises the scythe and places the blade against his throat "So where's my kid?"
Pan chuckles "You're smart. And you've got fire. I like fire."
Buffy forces the scythe closer against his throat "Where is my son? Tell me before I start making pieces of Pan pie out of you."
"Henry's still alive, if that's what you're worried about."
Buffy rolls her eyes at the teenager "Okay and onto the next section of our questionnaire, why the hell did you take him?"
"He's a very special boy, Buffy." Pan says simply.
"Got that. Now time to answer the question. Don't make me repeat myself again."
Pan merely smiles "I came here to see who I was up against—"The Savior", The Slayer. Must say you're much prettier than the last one that came here. And I gotta say, I'm not disappointed."
Buffy raises an eyebrow "You had a slayer here?"
"Yep. Must say you have more control then that one. Let's just say this island has a negative effective on that demon essence. Makes it...let's just say harder to control."
Buffy slams him against the tree again, causing him to groan in pain "I got plenty of control, so don't test me. Now give me my son."
Pan smiles again "That's why I'm here. I'm going to help you find him. I'll give you a map."
Buffy looks at him skeptically but removes the scythe, Pan chuckles as he places his hands on his neck and notices that she had actually cut him "You're ruthless. I like it."
Buffy crosses her arms and glares at him "Yeah. Map now."
Pan reaches into his jacket and pulls out a small piece of parchment "This map will lead you straight to your son."
"Yeah. I smell trap."
"I may not be the most well-behaved boy on the island, but I always keep my promises. The path to finding Henry is on this parchment."
"Yeah you see, normally when crazy people say they wanna help, they have an ulterior motive. What's yours?" She asks, still completely unconvinced.
"No ulterior motive. See, it's not about finding Henry. This is about how you find him. And Buffy... you are the only one that can."
Buffy continues to glare at him as she takes the map from him, however as she glances down she sighs "It's blank."
"You'll only be able to read that map when you stop denying who you really are."
Buffy arches an eyebrow, she glances back down at the map but as she looks back up Pan is gone.
"He so likes his games." Hook says as he stares at the parchment, which Buffy currently had her attention glued to.
"What game?" Regina asks as she continues to pace "There's nothing there."
"If he said there's a map on this parchment, then there is."
Buffy scoffs "Great so the creepy teenager is now acting as my therapist. 'You won't be able to reveal the map until you stop denying who you really are' Screw that." Buffy does her best Pan impression before scoffing.
"But how do we know Pan won't use it to lead us straight into a trap?" Regina asks the pirate.
Hook glances over at her as he stands "Because he doesn't need to. This whole Island's his bloody trap."
Buffy hears a scuffle in the near by bushes before hearing David's voice "There's no sign of him anywhere."
"Great so he can do the batman disappearing act as well." Buffy mutters as she continues to glare at the map, cursing it internally for not revealing itself to her.
"Any luck with the map?" Snow asks.
"Don't hold your breath." Regina tells her.
Buffy continues to stare at the map as she addresses the queen "Meaning what exactly?"
"Don't you see what he's doing? Every second we spend talking about this is another second we're not looking for my son."
Buffy rolls her eyes "Yes, because great ideas are just lying around. Please tell us your oh so genius plan."
"Magic." Regina says simply causing everyone to sigh, Regina ignores them "If there's a lock on there, I'll find a way around it."
Regina moves in to take the map but Buffy slams her hand down "Look Regina, I'll make you a deal, if I can't unlock the map, then I'll let you have at it. But Pan's smart...I don't want to risk going against what he said just in case its a freaking booby trap."
"I'd listen to Buffy, Luv." Hook tells the mayor "Breaking Pan's rules would be unwise."
"Sadly, I agree with the pirate." David says, clearing not enjoying the fact.
Hook merely grins and glances at David "I'm winning you over. I can feel it."
Buffy rolls her eyes "You two can get a room later but..." Buffy glances at Regina "I don't wanna risk something going wrong if we use magic on this. If it comes to it, then hell I'll let you do what you want to the thing, but as a last option, I don't wanna risk that us going against Pan's rules could hurt Henry."
Regina sighs but nods hating herself for agreeing with the blonde "Fine. Try it your way, but if it doesn't work, then we try this my way."
Buffy gives her a nod before glancing back down at the map with a sigh "Hey." Snow says softly seeing the defeat in Buffy's eyes "Don't give up. He's playing a game. You can win."
Buffy stares at the map in her hands as she sits on the large rock "This is ridiculous." She says with a huff before shaking her head "Okay here we go."
Buffy stares trying to think of what to say "Um...my name is Buffy Anne Summers?"
Hook who is walking around her, glances at the blonde "I'd wager the solution to Pan's riddle is a bit more complicated than that."
Buffy shrugs "I'm guessing asking it not gonna really help either."
"Don't hold anything back." Snow tells her.
Buffy groans "Yeah. If I do that this is gonna get real un-pretty, real fast." Buffy rolls her shoulder not liking having to sit still, after a moment she turns back to the map "I'm Henry's mom. I lived in Sunnydale California for 7 years with my mom and my sort of sister. Um..."
Buffy continues to come up blank so Snow speaks up again "Don't you think you're leaving some things out?"
Buffy sighs but turns back to the map "I was given to my mother Joyce Summers as a baby by a douchebag named Whistler. My biological parents are...Snow White and Prince Charming, I'm the last chosen one in the Slayer line. I was sent to the Hellmouth to fight evil and crap. I have died twice and after a war with the first evil I left. I now live in Storybrooke where I broke a curse..."
David stands "And you were able to break the cure because...you're the..."
Buffy shrugs "Saviour, yadyda." Buffy places the parchment down and huffs annoyed "Look there's nothing that is working. I denied being the slayer for years, same with the saviour jest. This isn't working."
Buffy stands and lifts the parchment before turning to Regina "Do it."
Regina nods and takes the paper "Finally someone with common sense. I'm begging to think there isn't a map on here. That doesn't mean it can't lead us to Henry."
Buffy nods "A locator spell."
"I though we decided that using magic was a bad idea." David argues.
Hook nods in agreement "For once I agree with the prince." Charming turns to him slightly shocked, Hook shrugs "Well, I told you we're getting along."
Buffy glances at them "Locator spell works, uses minimal magic. I've used a few in the past, Willow would cast them when we were locking for a demon. Hell they used one to find me."
Buffy turns back to Regina who was now waving her hand over the parchment causing it to glow "This parchment belonged to Pan, it will lead us to him."
Slowly the parchment floats out of Regina's palm and heads towards the dark jungle.
Hook groans "So it appears we will be venturing into the dark jungle after all."
"Wasn't that at the top of the do not go list." Buffy asks.
"That's the one."
Buffy nods "Okay, well rules are made to be broken, guess were breaking our own now." She says softly to herself before heading towards the jungle.
"I'm surprised you let me do this spell." Regina tells Buffy as they walk together "Considering you've said your not a big fan of magic."
Buffy shakes her head "i have no problem with magic, it can be good, I've seen it. The problem I have is when it's abused. In this case, I wanted to just make sure all the possibly ways to get to Pan were ticked off before we went to magic."
Suddenly Regina notices the parchment stop "Wait. He's there. Pan. I can feel his smugness."
David moves around the girls and pulls out his sword "Shall we? While we still have the element of surprise on our side?"
Buffy shrugs before pulling out the scythe, as she does Hook walks around her "Careful. He may look like a boy, but he's a bloody demon."
Buffy sighs "Great, it's like the annoying one all over again."
"No one's here." Snow says as they walk into the small clearing of the jungle "Maybe your spell was wrong, Regina."
"Yes." Regina says annoyed "Blame me...again."
As they walk Buffy notices something, she sees a young boy dressed very similar to Henry, but Buffy can sense something is off "Henry?" She questions.
At that moment Pan turns to face her "Hi, Buffy."
Buffy rolls her eyes "Great the annoying one. Where is Henry?" She demands.
"You broke the rules. I mean I've heard stories of your past, I knew you had issues with rules but that's not fair. Bad form."
Buffy shrugs "Eeh, form never really been on my to do list."
Pan chuckles before turning to Hook "I expect more from you, Captain."
"Aye, and you'll get it." Hook hisses.
"Yo, kid." Buffy calls "Give me Henry now, before I start getting testy."
Pan shakes his head "Sorry. Can't. Don't you know? Cheaters never win."
At that moment the lost boys appear, surrounding them, pointing bows and arrows at them, laced with dreamshade.
Buffy spins the scythe in her arms preparing for a fight as Hook speaks, warning them "Watch out for their arrows. They're laced with dreamshade."
At his words the lost boys begin firing arrows. As arrows come close to Buffy the blonde spins swinging the scythe, blocking any from reaching her, as boys run at her Buffy simply grabs them tossing them to the side as she makes her way up to Pan. Boys continue to run at her and raise wooden stick but the blonde slashes them in half with her scythe.
An urge to fight harder slowly blooms in Buffy as she continues to fight, as one of the other boys runs at her he manages to hit her in the side, Buffy elbows him the face before sending a spinning kick to his chest, sending him flying through the air before crashing to the ground, Buffy makes her way up the hill to the boy and places the blade of the scythe near his near "Where is Henry?!" She hisses harshly, when the boy doesn't answer the urge in her over comes her, she raises the scythe prepared to end it, but just as the scythe is about to make contact she freezes, she notices the look of fear and horror on his face. Something she recognised from her time in San Francisco. Her hand shakes as she clutches the scythe trying to resist from bringing it down. Slowly and forcefully she pulls the blade away from the boy and steps backs, breathing hard.
"Buffy, are you alright?" Snow asks but Buffy doesn't hear her, all she can hear is the pounding of her heart as it slowly calms, the anger and urge to kill depressing.
Buffy's attention is brought back to reality as she hears Pan whistle, the blonde looks up to see all the boys return to their leader, who currently was watching her with a smirk "Maybe you don't have as much control as you think." He says, sweetly, causing her to glare at him.
He merely smiles "Remember what I told you. That map will show you where Henry is...only when you stop denying who you really are. I'll make sure to send Henry your regards."
Buffy stares at the map as she continues to spin the scythe in her hand, an habit that she had picked up since she first found the weapon. For some reason it helped her focus more.
Buffy looks up and sighs internally as she sees the currently grinning Snow walking towards her with David.
"Don't let him shake your confidence." Snow tells her."We've all had moment where we felt we couldn't prevail."
"She right." David tells her.
Buffy rolls her eyes "Now is not the time for pep talks, they don't work for me. So please, just not now, leave it alone." Buffy shakes her head and walks off to a small area away from the camp ignoring David's attempt to speak to her.
Buffy sits on a small rock and sighs as she hears Snow take a seat next to her "Please talk to me."
"I'm not one for chit chat these days." Buffy says as she continues to glare at the map, knowing that she was going to explode if it didn't do something.
"You have to keep fighting."
Buffy scoffs "I know that. It's what I've been doing my whole life. You fall, you get back up, I've heard it all. But in this case, that's not gonna help me. Cause apparently my emotional baggage is playing a game in my head, so I can't open this stupid map. I can fight, I can deal with a demon, but I can't open this map."
Buffy places the map down next to her and just continues to play with the scythe.
Snow looks over at her daughter sadly "You say you have emotional baggage, maybe that's preventing you from seeing what you are. Sometimes we think we know ourselves, but we need a push to show us the reality. That boy with the knife—you stopped fighting him. Why?
"He's a kid." Buffy says simply.
"No. There was something else. I saw it in your eyes. Why did you stop? Why?"
Buffy hesitates "Because...because I wanted to kill him. There is—there is something inside of me that makes me not wanna stop, to lose control and to kill. Pan said that people like me we—we are affected being here. But that urge to kill, I've had that a long time. I tried to kill the girl that attempted to kill Angel. But I didn't—"
Buffy pauses taking a deep breath "I killed people in San Francisco. More than I can count. I was tortured for months, forced to fight to the death in a ring, But—when I escaped I lost control and—I—I hunted down the people who locked me up. That look in that boy's eyes, is the same look that those people gave me when I killed them. For the past two years, I've have tried to control it, to be good, to make up for what I did."
Snow struggles to speaks "Go on."
"Being here, just makes me feel like everything I have done—I know they were bad people and a lot of others say I shouldn't feel guilty-but I do—being here, I'm scared that I'm gonna become a monster. My mom wanted me to be good, she was proud of me, but now..." Buffy's voice wavers as she speaks, tears dripping from her eyes "...she would be ashamed of what I became. On this Island I-I don't feel...like a hero, a slayer or even a saviour. I feel like I did back then...a murder, a monster. I feel alone."
Buffy closes her eyes tightly and lets a few more tears fall, as she sniffles slightly.
"Buffy..." Snow says softly.
"What?"
"Look." Snow whispers, Buffy turns to the parchment, as it slowly reveals the map. Buffy's eyes widen as she stares at the map, she grabs it just to make sure she's not hallucinating "What happened?"
"You admitted what you did. Who you think you are." Buffy exhales sharply before looking over at Snow "I'm sorry. I know what I've done..."
"Buffy. It's the truth. The things you've been though, I can't judge what you've done. But listen to me, your mother..." Snow winces slightly as she says thee phrase "She is so proud of you. And so am I. It's my job now to just make sure you don't let your guilt turn you into something you're not and that you forgive yourself."
"Map is all with the working it's mojo thing now." Buffy says as she rushes back into the camp and over to Hook, David and Regina "Henry's location is smack dab in the map."
"Where?" Regina ask.
Hook takes the map and examines it "Uh...we're here at the southern tip of the isle, in the middle of the dark jungle, and Pan's camp lies due north."
"Bingo, presto was his name." Buffy mutters.
"What are we waiting for?" Regina asks getting impatient.
Hook glances at her "Well, the terrain's not easy. There will undoubtedly be some nasty impediment along the way."
"We should prepare." David points out "We only made it out of our last encounter because Pan let us. We need a new plan."
Buffy nods "Gotcha. Annoying one gonna get a taste of his own medicine."
"And if I disagree?" Regina asks.
Buffy shrugs "Well then aloha to you, but numbers will be more effective."
Regina sighs "You better be right." She says before walking off, while Snow and David head off to prepare.
Buffy turns to Hook who smiles at her "Excellent show of patience, Luv." He then pulls out his flask of rum "And that's what defeats a nasty little boy."
Buffy raises an eyebrow "You do realise you have a drinking problem right? Cause seriously with the rum, again?"
Hook grins "It certainly doesn't hurt." He says before taking a swing.
Buffy shakes her head "Is that thing like magically filling itself, it seems like it never empties."
"A pirate never tells his secrets." Hook says with a smirk as he holds out the flask towards her.
Buffy groans but goes ahead, as the liquid hits her throat she immediately regrets drinking it "Yyuck." She mutters as she scrunches up her face in disgust "That's just, yew."
Hook chuckles "You're going to have to learn to stomach it eventually, luv."
Buffy shakes her head "I'd rather not."
Hook smiles "So just how did you unlock the map?"
"I did what the annoying one asked."
Hook looks into her eyes as he asks his next question "And just who are you, slayer?"
Buffy grins "A slayer never tells her secret. But wouldn't you like to know." She asks as she hands him back the flash. He takes the flash and looks into her eyes again. "Perhaps I would."
Buffy merely tilts her head slightly at him before moving away from him and back towards her things, not noticing him watching her as she does.
Buffy is spinning the scythe again slightly away from the camp, just as Pan appears "You should be careful where you swing that."
Buffy rolls her eyes "Why, then I might miss you."
Pan chuckles "Congratulations. You did it. So I'm a bit curious here you say your alone so can I call you Lost girl, or should I call you a monster, or a murder."
Buffy scoffs "Give me whatever nickname you want you ain't gonna stop me, but whatever you do call will help me decide how I deal with you, once I get Henry. And I will find him."
He chuckles again as he walks "Oh, I'm counting on that. There's a reason I tested you."
"Really?" She asks sarcastically "So didn't see that coming."
"You see know that you've admitted what you've done, that control of yours is going to get very slippery. No one, and I mean no one not even Henry knows what you capable of. You've got a lot of anger for what the powers did to you over the years, lying to you about who you were for one. Don't deny it. You see not only will Henry not want to leave by the time you get to him, but neither will you. I see that monster being set free anytime now. I just hope I get to see it."
Buffy rolls her eyes and turns her back on Pan walking off ignoring him but worrying about the truth in his words.
