A new energy seemed to enter the group of heroes and villains as they gathered around a makeshift model of Pan's camp with rocks and sticks that made Amelia smile to herself at the saviors effort with the visual. She found herself sat on a large boulder next to the former Queen as the fairy busied herself around the camp as they tried to figure out a way into the camp to get Henry. She surprisingly felt comfortable being so close to the former Queen despite the silent agreement to completely finish any romantic relationship between them despite the obvious feelings between the pair. The kiss was all they had to say good-bye to one another.

Maybe this could be a fresh start for the both of them needed to build a foundation if they wanted to take if further in the future. A chance was all they needed. But first they had to get Henry back to start it. Re-focusing on the presentation from the savior she took in every detail the fairy had given the group about the compound Pan held Henry in.

"This is where they're keeping Henry" Emma started pointing to the visual on the ground with a stick "Pan's compound. According to, uh..."

"Tinkerbelle" Tink supplied to the blonde continuing to flit around the camp behind the others

"Yes, I know" she told the fairy "Still weird to say"

"Tink is fine" the fairy offered the blonde to call her

"Not sure that's any better" Emma told the woman offhanded

"Well Belle is taken already" Amelia reminded the savior of the librarian they had left behind in Storybrooke

Emma give the assassin a nod before continuing "Right. 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" Emma tells them "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" Tink warned them

"I think we can handle a few children with pointy sticks" Regina told the fairy confidently next to the assassin.

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

"Dream shade" Mary Margaret said aloud "Hook warned us"

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

"Poison sticks equal death. We got it" David snapped.

A curious brow rose on the assassins face at the Prince and pirate who seemed to know why Dream shade was a sore subject for the Prince "Now when can we put this rescue mission into action?" the man continued taking back control of the conversation.

"I'm ready to go, just as you tell me the exit plan" the group stayed silent as the fairy looked to them for one "You do have an escape plan, don't you?"

"It's... it's more of a last-minute trip" Mary Margaret supplied for the group

"We've had a few distractions" Amelia added to the fairy "Mermaids, a rotting ship, pointy stick's of death, magical maps and then you" she listed off the things they had already encountered on the island since arriving. Quickly reminding the fairy that she was the cause of one of the distractions taking them away from finding Henry

Tink huffed at the assassin's reminder "If you don't have a way off this island, then none of this matters"

"We'll figure it out" Regina tried to reassure the fairy

"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" David argued to the wingless fairy

"You don't get it. Here. Let me show you something" she takes out a watch from her pouch and showed it to the group. It had come from the land of no magic "You know what this is?"

"Yeah, a watch" Emma answered

"I got it from the people who brought your son here for Pan" at the mention of this the groups stood up their places and rounded on the fairy.

"Greg and Tamara?" Emma questioned the fairy peaking the assassin's interest. The former Queen felt the assassin become alert at the mention of Greg "Where are they? Why'd they give you that?"

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

"Lucky bastard" Amelia seethed loudly to herself as Regina smiled to herself at the pairs demise patting Amelia's arm in a 'there, there' motion. She despite how much she had changed in the last few months she would still want to get her own back on the man that had hurt them.

What she would give to have another 5 minutes with the man that drugged her and hurt Regina. Well, it would make whatever happened to him here look like child's play.

"This is what Pan does to people he employs" Tink stated emphasizing the word '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" at that Tink turns and storms out of the camp.

"Where the hell is she going?" Mary Margaret exclaimed

"I'll get her, bring her back" David went to follow but Emma stopped him

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

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

"Neal taught me that" Emma clarified

"They taught that in Assassin school as well" Amelia shared to the group with a sly smirk

"What about you, Hook? You got off this island before" the group turned towards the pirate

"Yes, aboard my ship" the pirate told the group "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" Regina stated to the group

"One man" Hook added looking towards Emma "Her partner in crime Neal"

"How?" the blonde asked him

"Maybe we can find out" Hook said before leading the group yet another trek


Hook had led the group to a cave in the middle of the jungle. She stole glances at the Prince as he sweated more than everyone combined. Whatever it was it was getting worse and she was going to find out what it was.

But a question had started to grow in her head. if Pan was the only one allowing people to leave Neverland. How the hell did her father manage to leave.

"What is this supposed to be?" Regina sneered at the rock that laid in front of them

" So... what, Neal swung out of Neverland on a vine?" Emma hypothesized to the group

"Well, if someone would be kind enough to lend me a hand... What do you say, saviour?"

"I'll do it" David was quick to volunteer in front of his daughter at the men grabbed the rope and started pulling, she heard them speaking in hushed voices as they pulled a trap door that hide the entrance to the cave

"Ladies first" Hook offered the women in the group who went ahead. Amelia's green eyes turned gold as she reached out her sixth sense to listen to David and Hook's hushed conversation as she followed the others in.

"How much longer do you think you can keep up this charade?" Hook started in a slight distorted voice "Don't you think your family deserves to know you're gonna die?"

"What do you care?" David scoffed at the pirate in an equally distorted voice

"Why don't you?"

"What is the good in telling them when there is nothing, I can do to stop the poison, when there is no hope?"

'Shit' she seethed to herself

She saw David push Mary Margaret out of the way of poison arrow. She never saw it hitting him. Her eye's darted side to side as her mind thought back to the fight and she stopped listening to the conversation the men were having

"See anything we can't?" Emma suddenly asked the assassin

"What?" she asked caught out, her gold eyes fading back into their usual green

"You were using your weird vision thingy" this made Regina and Mary Margaret look at her "do you see anything?"

"Nope" her voiced cracked

"Hook!" Emma called out to the pirate. After a beat Hook came into the cave followed by David who Amelia was looking at in concern "What is this place? What are we doing here?"

Emma continued to look around the cave until realisation hit her "Neal. This is where he lived."

"Aye" Hook confirmed as he tried to light a torch with a flint and his hook until David put him and the rest of them out of misery by using a lighter

"Baelfire spent some time in Neverland as a boy. This was his home"

"So, you think he may have left a clue as to how he escaped from here?" Mary Margaret asked the pirate

"Well, let's hope so, or we'll be lost just like he was"


The group set to work to find any clue of how Neal escaped, this gave her the opportunity to talk to David about his situation, she found him looking through some truck when she cornered him and slammed down a small glass bottle with a cork stop in front of the Prince. The Prince looked up in surprise of being corned by the red head.

"Take that and shut up" she tells him in a hushed voice

"Excuse me?"

"I heard your little conversation with the pirate, you need to be more careful with keeping secrets from an Assassin"

"You mean you eavesdropped" he accused her trying to get out of the corner, but Amelia only had to move to the right to trap him again

She shrugged her shoulders in indifference "Call it whatever you want, you're not looking so charming, Charming" referring to sweat that was gathering on his forehead "I'm trying to buy you some time until we can get you better" she said by pushing the small bottle in his hand "I don't have many but this should help the symptoms, it can't cure anything magical, but it will help" David silently nodded at the red head pocketing the bottle until he could take it later. Emma finished her conversation with Hook and started to speak to the others

"Looks like you're right" Emma tells the pirate "They're just a bunch of pictures. What's all this?" Emma asked the others referring to the pots and pans they had found around the cave

"Uh, just some cups and bowls he fashioned from things he found here" Mary Margaret showed her daughter

"Don't know how great a cup this coconut could make" David commented holding up half a coconut "It's filled with holes"

"Uh, maybe it's a tiny colander" his wife suggested making Amelia roll her eyes

She was surrounded by idiots.

"Yes, because preteen Baelfire probably made lots of pasta" Regina quipped

Emma examines the coconut shell closely "Hold on. Hook snuff out that torch" Emma instructed the pirate. He did so as Emma covered a candle, she was already holding with the one David was talking about

Amelia looked up and smiled to herself as she recognised what it was from her younger days "Am I supposed to be impressed that he made a night-light?" Regina asked the blonde

"Look up" Emma instructed Regina

The ceiling of the cave was lit up with star "Stars" Mary Margaret said in awe

"It's a map" Amelia corrected the Princess

"To where?" David asked

Emma answered her father "Home"


"How can you be so sure it's a map?" Mary Margaret asked Amelia as she took the coconut for herself to examine it.

"My father taught me how to do this, he used to leave me in the middle of the ocean with nothing but a map like this and a few supplies" the others looked at her in a mix of confusion and some degree concern "I obviously made it back home…eventually"

Hook cleared his throat to gain everyone's attention, which Amelia was grateful for "There was a short time in Neverland when Baelfire was aboard my ship. I taught him to navigate using the stars. What you're looking at is the fruit of my labours"

"Then you two can read it" Regina pointed out

"Sadly, no" Hook answered for the pair

"I thought you just said you taught him how" David argued "And your father taught you" he added towards Amelia

"Yes, but I also taught Neal something else" he told them "The key of being a pirate... secrecy"

Amelia decided to interrupt the pirate "The best captains conceal their maps in a code, my father did, I did and Hook did. And by the looks of it Baelfire was an apt pupil"

"So, you're both saying the only person who can read this map is Neal?" Mary Margaret sent the question to the pair

"Which means the only person who can read it is dead" Emma said outload

"Yes" Amelia confirmed sadly before Emma stormed out of the cave with her parents chasing after the woman


Amelia followed the distraught Emma through the jungle until she found the blonde sat on a log deep in thought as she stepped though the foliage. Hearing her rustle Emma's head shot up to see Amelia not Mary Margaret come through.

The assassin sat next to the saviour in silence as she reached into her cloak and pull out a silver hip-flask twisted it open and handed it over to the blonde. Emma raised her eyebrow at the assassin in confusion that she held a hip flask as well as the multitude of weapons on her person.

"I have my habits as well" Emma accepted the flask of drink taking a swig of the alcohol she recognized as scotch, neat before handing it back to the redhead "Better?" Emma nodded

"Look whatever you have to say, I don't want to talk" she tells the Assassin

"I don't want you to talk, I want you to listen. I know how it feels to lose someone you love" she started "Especially someone you had a child with" Amelia said as she unclasped her necklace around her neck

Emma said nothing as she watched the assassin drag out a chain necklace that held a simple silver ring threaded through it. Emma stared at the ring as Amelia held out like it was the most precious thing in the world.

"Once upon a time, before the Black Widow. I had a family. I was happy. Until one day when my guard was down, it all came crashing down. My past had finally caught up with me and I wasn't ready to fight when it threatened to take everything I had gained from losing my father. When he died and my son was taken away from me, becoming the Black Widow was the only way for the hurt to stop, even for a second. As long as I was hunting them, I forgot about all about it. The people who I thought were my family took my father, my home and the home I found when I thought all hope was lost"

Emma was speechless at the redhead's confession. This was what Regina meant by saying she lost everything. It was everything.

"What was his name?" was the first question that came to the blonde's head

"John" Emma saw a sad smile grow on the woman's face as she remembered her husband "He was the Captain of his own ship, I snuck on when I ran from the Brotherhood. He was everything I wasn't. He saved my life when I needed it most, and I repaid him for not fighting hard enough to save his. He was the love of my life"

"And now?"

"Well, you know the saying Swan. You never forget your first love"

"Who else knows about him?"

"Regina, Rumple and now you" Amelia listed off "I know, and your parents have been wondering about my past, so there you have it"

"I'm so sorry"

"But you want to know the difference between the both of us" Emma looked at her with a questioning look "I had no one. I only had anger and vengeance to fall back on. Your parents are doing their best, and you still have your son to find. Henry never gave up on you when you and Snow went missing, don't let him down by giving up at the first hurdle. I lost my family because I didn't fight hard enough to keep them, don't make the same mistake"

"I won't" Emma promised the red head

"Good. Because if there's one person here who's gonna do it while keeping all everyone sane. Is you Swan"


AN: Quick Chapter today...

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