Wickedly Clever
Part Sixteen – "I was always the Queen. It was you who added 'Evil' to my name."
The Dark Jungle
Neverland
April 23rd, 2012
Frustrated, Regina sighed. She conjured a basket.
Bending down, she grabbed some sticks.
She put them in the basket.
"Stupid," she muttered, snatching more firewood.
This was preposterous.
By now, they could have been rescuing Henry from Pan.
Instead they were playing Girl Scouts: The Neverland Edition.
"Well, this is a nice surprise," Peter grinned darkly.
Regina spun around to face him.
"The Evil Queen is finally roughing it up. How… quaint," he sassed.
Conjuring a fireball, Regina demanded angrily, "Where the hell is Henry?"
Peter laughed, drawing out his sword.
"Let's play a little game, your majesty," he smirked.
A/N – 1/25/14: First, sorry for the really long delay. Work, work, work – that's all I ever seem to do these days. SMH And all I really want to do is write, write, write. *sighs* Anyway, how did I do with this part? How do you like the Regina/Pan confrontation? Hope that they're both in character! Please let me know your thoughts. :)
Second, like I stated in my A/N at the end of part thirteen, there will be many confrontations coming up. This confrontation between Regina and Pan is one of them. (Not sure yet if I'm gonna rewrite or even incorporate the Pan/Rumple confrontation that occurred in Nasty Habits.)
I didn't like how Regina and Pan had that one big confrontation (with Emma and Snow present) in Save Henry. Even though she's not Henry's mom biologically, Regina is Henry's mom and she raised him for ten years. For that reason and a few more, I felt that Regina and Pan should have interacted one on one – at least once. And thus, this confrontation was born.
Third, I know that the story is going slow, and that Emma and Peter haven't interacted yet. Rest assured that they will. But it will take a while because I'm only writing one hundred words. That's the challenge. Also, I can't resolve the Regina/Pan confrontation in one drabble. I could, but then the story will sound like a first grader was writing it, and not a seasoned twenty-something writer. ;) Plus, I don't think any of you will want this story to sound/look like it was coming from a kid instead of an adult. ;)
Fourth, canonically speaking, all the events/interactions from Chapters 1 to 4 and 14 to the present moment are happening after Lost Girl and before the gang meets up with Tink in Quite a Common Fairy.
Thanks to calistavadia for reading and reviewing. And thanks to everyone else for taking the time to read this fic. Appreciate it. :) Love you all. Until next time! :)