She breathes in and out slowly, as she heads towards a secret encampment to meet Peter Pan or drop in surprise and fight more like. As she walks, she knows what she must do to protect her brother and that was to kill him. Or at least try to kill him and if that does not end up well then, she hopes that she will at least maim him, injure him. At the very least she has had already acknowledged the possibility that she could die as she strides closer to where she will attack him. She doesn't know what will happen but all she can do is hope.
The fight was too fast and too slow at the same time.
The fight itself between Felicity and Peter Pan was too fast. That she didn't know if she was winning or not. Didn't know if she managed to hurt the demon child. All she cared was hurting him. Then the fight stopped as she felt a jab of pain coming from her left shoulder. She fell to the ground and looked at Pan who has a wicked grin upon his face as he looks down at her, then grabs her and pushes her away into something. Suddenly she was no longer on the ground of grass, dirt, and tree branches. She quickly realized that she was no longer in Neverland.
She cried out in pain as she found herself in a new realm. Her cry was heard, and two people came to her immediately. A man and a woman who quickly introduced themselves as David and Mary Margaret. Her hand was resting where the pain was coming from on the blades of her left shoulder. She wanted to tear her dress off, however decided it was better to magically tear that piece off from her left shoulder that she was still clutching onto. Once she did, she had also unintentionally left the couple surprised when they saw her perform the magic. She looks to her left shoulder that is now bare and sees the Mark of Ankh embedded into her skin.
"Oh, bloody freaking hell. Damn you Peter Pan, damn you." She angrily voices with clenched teeth looking at the mark that Pan has had marked her with, then turns herself facing the couple. Looking at the couple her anger quickly diminishes into a stoic calmness. She takes a breath and says urgently, "I need you to do something for me please."
The couple looks at her and before they gave her an answer.
"I'm sorry but I don't much time on my hands. I'm going to be unconscious soon because of the mark that's imprinted on my skin as you can see here. I need you to know that I'm not going to be the only one that will pass out."
"What?!" the couple said shocked from the girl's words. Quickly as they assess the situation, Mary Margaret and David started asking questions at the same time. Questions that were to be expected like did you know who will pass out, what are their names, what type of mark does she have imprinted, what is the name of said mark, what's her name and how old she is.
As the questions were flying left and right, when they stopped asking questions did, she answered them looking them into their eyes.
She nodded towards the first question and says, "Yes and they're names are Killian Jones," she saw their confusion perked up as she quickly says, "though he's most known by Captain Hook," she takes a breath as they nod as she continues listing the names, "Emma Swan, and her son Henry." Their eyes then became worried as she said the last two names and sees their eyes turning into a questioning glance. Then they questioned more times, but she can't answer them as the time passes quickly and soon, she could see the black spots fill in her vision.
"I'm sorry I can't answer every question but I'm going to pass out in the next couple of seconds I'm sorry."
"What is your name?" the woman asks.
"Felicity Amelia Jones." She says softly starting to feel her world getting blacker.
"And your age?" the man asks.
"Physically sixteen." She says more softly, as if she was talking in a whisper as she then was acclaimed by the darkness.
At the time she fell unconscious so did her family, Killian and Emma Jones, and her brother Henry.
David and Mary Margaret then looked at each other's eyes and asked what they should do now with what they know. He instantly picked up the teenage girl and then put inside the truck as he tells Mary Margaret to call Neal, Ruby, and Regina and tell them to get Henry and Emma to the hospital without an ambulance as she needs to call them to find wherever Hook is.
Once Mary Margaret called Neal and Ruby, they were flipping out no surprise as they've no idea to why Emma and Henry were unconscious. She said to get them to the hospital as they'll be meeting with them there and to not call an ambulance. She then calls Regina letting her know that Henry's at the hospital and that they're heading there as well to meet and talk about what the hell has happened. She then calls the hospital and puts the phone on speaker as her husband instructed, once the call was picked up David asked if anyone called just now before him. He was put on hold for a few seconds when he gotten an answer and that was a yes, they did get a call as someone called the ambulance for Captain Hook, with a sigh of relief he then thanks the man on the phone.
When the calls were down, they just arrived at the hospital with David picking up the girl once again, as his wife walks in front of him. Inside they see Neal sweating profusely as he calm his panting breath of having ran from the forest, Ruby next to Henry with Regina at other side of the bed looking at Henry worried like the time when he ate the poisoned apple, the nurse and Dr. Whale looks towards the new arrival and says, "another one?" As David was appointed to one of the cleaner beds and puts the teenager on the bed. While Mary Margaret goes to Ruby and tells her that she can go back to the diner and give her a call with news. Ruby then reluctantly left with a nod looking back at Emma, Henry, and the newcomer.
"Name:" the nurse said as she looks at David, "Felicity Jones, aged sixteen." He then says. "Do you know the cause of why she's unconscious?" she asks not really expecting an answer. "A mark on her left shoulder blade."
As he said that, Captain Hook was brought in and Dr. Whale got irritated, hearing the same symptoms. He wipes his face with the palm of his hand trying to concentrate, trying to think of what is going on. How these four individuals presumably healthy are all unconscious. He needs answers and he's not going to find out with all noise going on in this room. He moves towards the middle of the room and, shouted "Everyone please quiet down!"
"Thank you." He takes a breath, looking at the four individuals who are unconscious. He scratches his hair around and tries to stand tall rather than his slumping posture, his shoulders trying to slump. "First does anyone, anyone know what is happening? Know what is happening with these four individuals? Will there be more people coming in with these symptoms? Because I absolutely have no idea with is going on here." He says desperately.
"Me and Mary Margaret were on our way to the diner when we heard cries of pain. Naturally, we followed the cries and found Felicity Jones who just arrived here clutching her left shoulder in pain. She magically tears the clothe off ignoring us as she saw the mark. She looked at us and told us that she was going to be unconscious soon, but she won't be the only one. She didn't get to answer all of our questions unfortunately, but she did tell us the names of who will pass out, which who are all here, Emma, Henry, and Hook."
"That's all the information she gave you, David?" Dr. Whale questions.
"Yes, we asked more questions but that's basically what she told us well that, her name and age, she passed out after saying how old she is."
Dr. Whale nods and goes towards the teenager's bed, he goes to see her left shoulder blade and investigate the mark. However, when he found the mark, he knows that he has never seen the mark like that. He then calls out as he almost snarled to Regina as he calls her to come over her.
Once she arrived, he asks, "Is this mark magical?"
Once she was in view she gasps, and she knows what they're dealing with. "It is magical however untreatable. This makes sense."
"What is it?"
"It's the Mark of Ankh. I've never seen the mark imprinted to an individual before, but it is in one of the dark books about dark artifacts. Essentially this object is a mark when imprinted, pressed to an individual's skin will connect towards the blood. It's all about blood."
"Like blood types?" Dr. Whale asks.
"No not the types of blood, but familial blood, the type of blood that parents pass towards their children."
"What?! NO! Henry is my son!" Neal angrily huffed as he shouted.
"I've suspected." Regina says softly as her answers about Henry's father is. She suspected this once Henry was seven when she started to notice certain appearances of Captain Hook. She suspected however it wasn't confirmed. Not until now that is. The Dark One's son, Neal kept on ranting about how he's Henry's father and not the pirates, it's not possible. She then glared at him so she can put this man into place. "Neal shut up or I will make you to shut up!" Neal while heard her, he quiets his voice a little bit however still ranting. "Do you want to know how it feels to be mute?" Seemingly finally caught his attention and what she'll do to him despite him being Rumpelstiltskin's son. He seemed to calm down as she continues. "Look Neal if Henry was your son, he would've been awake, conscious. You need to face the truth that's in front of you, Neal, or gods helps us all. Captain Hook is Henry's father, not yours. You. Are. Not. Henry's. Father." She said slowly enunciating each word making sure it gets through his rather thick skull.
After that Neal slumped, unrelentingly admitted his defeat. He then looks around and finally sees his friend Felicity, he wants to go towards her but stops himself. She's unconscious and he didn't realize she was even here, he was far too concerned about who he thought was his son and lover, Henry, and Emma. At the same time everything about him shattered into pieces as the truth comes out. Felicity his crush once upon a time when he was in Neverland, was gone, as he realizes that she is the daughter of not only Emma but also his enemy Captain Hook and he was in love with her. He was also in love with Emma. But who did he love more? He then realizes he was in love with Felicity first and somehow when he met Emma, the feelings he had for Felicity transferred to Emma. It was a realization that he would never be the better man, what his feelings of both daughter and mother made him sick. He was a sick bastard, so he left through the emergency doors of the hospital and go to his room at Granny's.
Silence came as soon as Neal left. Leaving everyone in the wake of Regina's words.
Mary Margaret and David watched Regina tell Neal that Henry is not his son but the pirates. They didn't pay attention after she explained rather blunt and languidly. All they paid attention was the information that they never knew and pondered why didn't their daughter tell them, about Hook and Felicity. Mary Margaret could only say the one word that she and David wanted to say, "How?" as their minds had succumbed.
"As I was trying to say before I was rudely interrupted." She huffs as she's watching Neal leave. "When the mark is imprinted upon skin, it finds its way to the blood. When it reaches the blood of the individual it will find who else shares the same blood that flows through their bodies. When it finds the blood of the family, at that moment the mark makes them unconscious. While unconscious their souls goes to the in between. While they're in the between they need to make a choice. A choice to who will die because only one can die." Regina finishes
Regina heard Mary Margaret's voice and then looks to the bed where Felicity is and decided to learn more about her. She did a quick spell to allow her to see the family tree of blood lines running through. She can see the relationship between the savior and the pirate. "They're married." She only said.
"What?" David questioned.
"Your daughter is married to Captain Hook."
"How would you know that?" he questioned again.
"I just did a spell to see the blood lines, basically a family tree."
"Why didn't Emma tell us?" Mary Margaret asked.
"They don't remember because they're cursed." Regina said neutrally to her stepdaughter still angry at her who killed her mother, Cora only two days ago. "And when they wake up it will be uplifted thanks to the mark."
"What makes you think that Regina?" Mary Margaret ask worriedly. "What makes you think that our daughter and Hook will live? Didn't you just said only one will die. Henry and Felicity are their children, and as any parent would do, they would protect them even if it means one of them could die." She says to Regina and suddenly David realizes the situation at heart.
The thought that their daughter could die. The thought of who will survive and who will die. Suddenly he can't bear to lose not only his daughter but also their granddaughter that he and Mary Margaret never knew existed. Can't bear to think if Henry or Felicity could die and how his daughter and Hook will react if they wake up if they lived. He suddenly feels his wife's pain. Mary Margaret wanted everyone to stay alive because they're family, including Captain Hook. As much as he wants to deny it, he couldn't for the simple truth, that they're parents and gave them their grandchildren. He sighs and understands the true pain of what any parent would feel about this. No choice should be made of who's to die, especially family members, it's an impossible choice.
When the darkness took over, Felicity felt like her soul went out of her and pulled herself downward or was it upward? It was an extremely odd feeling that she'd ever felt. She opens her eyes and finds herself laid down, so she slowly gets up, looking around to wherever she is.
The place was filled between lightness and darkness. What does the darkness mean? Is this even a place? She then tries to remember the last memories and realizes that she was brought here with her parents and brother because of that bloody mark that Pan marked her. Instantly she can recognize some symbols from the mark that's on the flooring. The symbol of the Mark of Ankh, the teardrop-shaped hoop with a cross that is on the floors strangely mirroring the transparent forms the symbol takes form as it glows.
Suddenly she knows that all of them are in, limbo. Somewhere between life and death. She then dares to look up around her surroundings. She couldn't help to gasp. Everything around was celestial. A million of stars in filtering in with its own light that somehow brings out the contrast of what is the in-between.
Then she sees them. She runs to them once her parents found her as they shouted, "Felicity!"
"Mama, papa!" as she was now gathered in their arms. This isn't what she imagined when reuniting with them but that's not the point. The point is the inevitable, to who will die. The thought comes in quickly as it goes out. "I miss you." She said as she needed to feel any kind of normalcy.
"We miss you too." Her mama says, then asks the inevitable question, "Do you know where we are Felicity?" she sighed as Henry comes near mama confused.
"We're in between the worlds of the living and the dead." She says rather sullenly as she shows her the mark on her left shoulder blades.
Her mama gasps as she breathes, "The Mark of Ankh." After shock breath of silence, she asks, "Who did this?"
"Peter Pan."
"You've been Neverland for all these centuries." Her papa then stated as he closed and opened his eyes with a shaky breath. Felicity then silently nods. "Why did he mark you, Felicity?"
"I don't know. I'm much confused to why he marked me. Why would he do this? All l know was that I've started a fight with him to protect Henry."
"Me?" A still confused Henry asked curiously.
"Felicity why would Peter Pan want with Henry?" mama asked.
"Neverland is dying." She said rather quickly when she was then met with their inquisitive silence as she continues, "when Peter Pan first arrived and decided to stay there, he took away the magic of the island to use for himself. When that happened, an hourglass appeared at Skull Rock representing time until the magic leaves from Peter Pan. For him to keep his power and immortality he needs the heart of a truest believer. Henry has the heart of a truest believer. For that to work Henry must be physically in Neverland at Skull Rock willingly giving his heart to him. It's a trade for trade, Henry's heart, his life to gain Peter Pan's enhanced life."
Then a great shock of silence quickly came in and out all in a couple of seconds.
A voice unfamiliar to Felicity was then heard as she pinpointed the voice was coming from her brother, Henry. As she looked at him, he looked a bit pale acknowledging the words that she said and find herself apologizing for saying it out aloud. "Peter Pan wants to kill me." He said slowly.
"Yes." Felicity says, struggling for words to announce herself to Henry. "Yes, he wants to kill you, Henry." She says taking a breath and suddenly finds herself apologizing herself again though this time that Henry does not know who she is. He must be confused. "I'm sorry Henry but let me introduce myself, you must be confused to who I am." He then looks at her curious and nods as she then introduces herself. "My name is Felicity Amelia Jones and I'm your older sister."
Henry then raises his brow surprised and then finds his mom as he talks to his mom. "Mom is she telling the truth?"
Emma sighs glancing at both of her children with Killian standing next to her placing his hand on her shoulder, a sign of comfort which she did needed now. She was thankful for him as they walk towards their children between them. "Yes, Henry she's telling the truth." She then sees Henry going to open his mouth and ask her another question, one that she knows the answer to. Before he started to pronounce what, he was going to say she quickly she starts to explain. "Henry the reason I didn't tell you was because we were cursed. Me and Killian, Captain Hook is your real father. Neal has never been your father." She looked at Henry's eyes as he took in this realization. He looked at the Captain, walked towards him as he embraces his father for the first time. This time it felt right. When he was with Neal, trying to get to know him, it felt too strange, too uncomfortable, it never felt right or settled with him. He nodded to himself to getting an answer.
The hug then dissipated as Killian, Emma, and Felicity were all smiling to themselves, happy to Henry taking it well. It was as this moment that Felicity knew what she was going to do. She had not thought of much of what she was planning to do once she arrived here. But seeing this was something else. She wanted to cry but decided to remain stoic which she found herself doing. Not letting her emotions go astray. Then suddenly, she feels a presence hugging her and as she looks down, she sees Henry giving her a hug. Seeing him in good spirits, his excitement that he has an older sister. He then looks up and says, "thanks for trying to protect me." She hugs him back feeling her throat tighten up a bit as she does not try to start crying.
The hug stops eventually and Henry glances back to his mom and asks, "how?"
"Well Henry it all started a few days after I turned seventeen years old…" Emma says as she tries to tell the tale of how everything came to be in a short story. When she finished Henry was amazed at the story of how his mom was trying to stick to the most important parts of the story while his father was describing the scenes in the story making more lifelike. However, the story went on forever thanks to his dad who was being more descriptive to the story. Clearly, he was the better storyteller between his mom and dad and realizes that he got that storyteller gene from his father.
Then suddenly a presence was here.
Or more like presences.
There were three presences that came out of here out of nowhere as they looked at everyone they saw there. Although the three people walked towards their places as one goes on the light side, one on the dark, and one in the middle. From afar it looked like a line was forming of the three people. Unbeknownst to the family these people are not ordinary people rather they are gods. Their names are Osiris, Isis, and Horus. Osiris was standing on the dark side, Horus in the middle, and with Isis on the light side.
Then they all synchronized saying:
"It's Time to Choose."
Back in the hospital, it's been hours later since the family are still unconscious. In the time spent in the hospital more friends showed up, joined David, Mary Margaret, and Regina in waiting. However, the waiting seems to be taking a longer time.
"Regina do you know how long this is going to be?" Mary Margaret asked.
"I don't know. Time works differently when one is in limbo. But I don't think it will take long. They should be back before tomorrow morning from what I've read." Regina informed.
"I hate not doing anything." David finally speaks.
"Me too." Mary Margaret agrees as she and David were always doing something whenever it was taking their kingdom back, preparing for the curse, preparing for Emma's birth. They always did something even here when they were cursed, while she had a job, a routine, normalcy and David was in the coma, they kept on fighting. But this what they're experiencing is new territory. There was nothing to be done as they wait and see what happens. This shouldn't be happening to their family that they've built, to become what it is. Not when they just found out they have a granddaughter whom they don't know about. They should be doing something. "We don't know her. We didn't know she existed until today." She states.
"Then go through her stuff and try to find something."
"Regina!" Mary Margaret shouted.
"What Mary Margaret?" Regina asked dubiously.
"We are not going through Felicity's things. They are her stuff. We are not going intrude her privacy."
"It won't be intruding if you gone through it. Like you said she's family, she's your granddaughter, you two get to know someone you didn't even know exist."
"Regina," Mary Margaret says softly.
"I'm just saying the truth. You two have a reason, that's my point."
With that David and Mary Margaret go to Felicity's bed trying to find any possessions. First, they looked through her cloak, seeing if there were any pockets. Then they checked if they had anything on her body. They managed to find parchments from the cloak, there were only a few as they put it aside. As Mary Margaret takes the locket that she was wearing. Between what they have they decided to open the locket to get that away before going through the parchments.
The locket was a small gold antique that was encased with their granddaughter's initials written in a beautiful intricate handwriting FJ. Looking at the locket it still looked preserved through time as if the locket was never worn, like it was still new when it was given to her. With care Mary Margaret gently and slowly opened the locket seeing what was inside. There were two sketches one that was clearly a young Felicity that looked to be an age of six or seven. She looked so beautiful with that wild hair of hers that they still don't know if its wavy or curly, so they settled that it had to be somewhere in between that goes along with those indistinguishable blue green eyes. As they looked at her photo it was like catching a glimpse of her childhood, of what they missed and thinking about which type of kid she was. Was she that kid who was kind and gentle or was she more of an active kid, always playing, always on the go? The possibilities were endless to them. Yet only Emma and Killian only experienced it as her parents.
Then they moved to the next sketch which was a portrait of Emma and the Captain. Looking at the picture with their daughter, their daughter who looks to be in her young twenties made their heart break. It was a reminder of their choice that they've had made. That they decide for Emma to grow up without them. It didn't take them until now that they have missed everything out of their only child's life. It's not about missing the first years of Emma's life but everything that they wanted to do, wanted to see. They missed the most important moment of her life, Emma getting married in a white dress with David walking down the aisle. They thought they still had time for that. Now it's gone, they missed it. While the surprise of the relationship that Emma has with Captain Hook was shocking for them. They can't help not to see this picture that is clearly full of love of each other. The way how their eyes look towards each other, the holding each other with their arms and the smiles on their faces. They can't help to see how happy they both were. Something they didn't get to see much when the town and the people were cursed.
They sighed as Mary Margaret closes the locket carefully as she then places the locket safely away. David who is holding the parchments carefully goes through the parchments browsing through it. He saves a few to go through thoroughly with his wife. The first parchment that he found was the first one on stack with the other parchments. From the looks of it, it looks like a goodbye letter in case things went south. As David reads the letter, he furrowed his brows, as Mary Margaret took it from him once he was finished reading it and starts to read it as David is still processing from what he read. Soon she finishes it and re reads it again as she looks up to David. "We should tell Regina." Mary Margaret says as David nods as he called to her.
Once Regina was close, Mary Margaret gave the letter of parchment to Regina telling her to read it. Once she read it, she exclaimed rather loudly, "Peter Pan wants Henry!"
"Did she cursed at Peter Pan when we arrived?" David reclaimed.
"She did." Mary Margaret quickly replied.
"Then we can safely assume that your granddaughter was fighting Peter Pan to protect her brother Henry before she arrived here?" Regina says. "Well she is either brave or crazy. Actually, knowing you two and who the father is she's got to be both."
At this Regina then becomes quiet as she dwells into her thoughts, a dangerous place to be as to what she is thinking about. The letter of parchment that she read from Felicity was clearly saying her goodbye. But it wasn't about what she wrote that grabbed her attention about Henry. There was something there, somewhere between the lines that caught her eyes. The way it was written, the tone between all the words that flowed with ease and why she made this letter before confronting with Pan told her everything about who Felicity Jones is or rather a part her essence is. She knows who's going to die and she is not going to tell Mary Margaret and David.
They were all together as one as a family and it might be the only time, they will all be together. Instantly they huddled close together as they give one big family hug and slowly, they broke apart as the gods watch.
Henry slowly back away first, then did the parents, and suddenly Felicity knew what to do. She jumped to her parents and whispered to them, "I love you mama, papa. I'm sorry." Instantly she pushes them away, letting them stay with Henry, not looking back for she knows she would cry. As she runs to the dark side.
As the gods continue to watch they can see how the scene played out in slow motion. As the girl jumped to the parents, seeing the parents looking confused at first and then shock as the girl quietly says her goodbye as the girl pushes them to the boy and runs to the other side, the choice already made. They look one last time to the parents with them still in shock, looking towards their daughter at their obvious heartbreak.
Osiris, Isis, and Horus then outstretched their arms and then started to chant in a foreign ancient language that no one understands, not even Killian Jones himself who traveled to so many places, who read so many books in the naval academy about other places, couldn't decipher to what these people are saying. As the gods continue chanting with their outstretched arms slowly move towards upwards that is the stars. Then there was a pause and then Isis strides from the light side as she makes her way to the other side, once she past the middle did Horus stride next to Isis as they continue to stride the dark side. Then at last Osiris completes the circle as they surround Felicity, encompassing her in the middle with the gods with around her. Instantly their hands stretched and grabbed each other's hands as they chanted once again with a feeling that Felicity feels that this was the last chant. She can barely see her parents with her brother, as she starts to cry slowly and suddenly a glow encompasses the whole place.
Suddenly she looks around and found out that her parents and brother were no longer here.
She is alone.
It was the beginning of the sunlight rays showing through the hospital. Mary Margaret, David, Regina, and others stayed at the hospital waiting. Eventually they all fell asleep until now when there was movement on the beds and a monitor going off that woke everyone up.
When awaking Henry, Emma, and Killian looked around finding out where they are. Then they all looked at each other and Emma and Killian got off the beds while Henry looked dazed on his bed, not knowing what was going on. He looked at his parents got up and went to another bed which was his older sister's bed, where everything was going off. He was trying to process of what has just occurred.
"Felicity, don't you dare!" Emma shouts, "don't you dare die on us." She then says more softly as the tears already come falling on her cheeks. "Why did you have to push me and your father away?" she continues as she sees Dr. Whale and the nurses shocking her, trying to revive her. "You shouldn't have done that, Felicity. You shouldn't have-
"Time of Death: 6:05 AM." Dr. Whale announced, and the only thing left was silence. Killian was holding Emma as she seems to lose her focus while he's in shock. Mary Margaret and David only looked at the scene in morose, seeing their daughter falling apart in her husband arms of their granddaughter. Their granddaughter who is now gone. It was with such shock when their heard the monitors going off to Felicity's bed. Everything became unthinkable and unimaginable as small pinpricks of moist was coming to their eyes. And Henry was in denial.
There were many lights going in the circle that Felicity felt she was blind. She couldn't see and she was down on her knees that's the only thing she knows. At first it hurt and suddenly the pain vanished. She doesn't want to look up as she's still on her knees. She felt nauseous, then feels like she's been staring at her. The three people were all looking at her as everything stopped.
It started with Isis as she holds the soul towards her, seeing the life that she lived. She commented through the chanting of the life that she always does when this ritual when the individual is dying. "You've lived your life in happiness at first. Then you had to be a survivor for a long-time sweet child. May your death be final with Osiris as your life fades. May you encounter death as a friend. May you see death as eternal peace Felicity Amelia Jones."
"STOP!" Horus says as the soul was being handed to death but the time that is him, wouldn't go through as hands the soul from life to death. The chanting immediately stopped. Osiris and Isis then look at Horus as he says, "something's wrong. Isis look into last memories." He ordered.
Isis looks through the memories seeing the last days when she finds out, where one Felicity Amelia Jones writes a letter before she fought. They paused it and took a closer look as to what's she is writing about and to whom it addresses. It was her goodbye letter. Then the memories go a little bit faster as she then slows down after the fight was over as the disguised man marks her; the memories go slower. She was in new realm as she clutched her left shoulder blaze where the mark is as she takes the piece of cloth off magically and sees the girl's reaction. She recognized it and sullenly made a choice. Then everything turns dark and blank as the soul moves from the living. Horus joins in as there was something more that happened before Felicity Amelia Jones made her choice to die. The most recent memories show and then stops it when the gods could see the love in the hug between father and son, as the mother joins in, they see the girl stoic, her choice affirming of what she needed to do.
They all look down at her who is unconscious. They had no choice but to reverse the ritual. When she awakes, Horus speaks, "Miss Jones you are being granted to live as you soul cannot go to death today. You cannot die and the reason of which you are to be living is that you accepted death not once, but twice. You accepted death before you came here. Miss Jones, I advise you when you are brought back to the living you do not share the news of how you're still living publicly."
"You are lucky Miss Jones," Isis says, "you get to live once again. Don't waste it."
"Don't worry child you will not die today though you should be advised that the person who marked you will be taking your place." Osiris says as then makes a contemplative look on his face. "Looks like in a way you've protected your brother after all, Miss Jones."
With their arms still outstretched to one another, hands touching another's, they chanted one last time as a glow appears in and out.
3 Minutes later
The curtains were drawn closed right away after Emma and Killian Jones looked at their daughter one last time. Then they left her alone as they left while Dr. Whale covers her up and leaves the oldest child of Emma and the pirates', their daughter alone. He only went to the nurse's desk to call for the morgue when it happens.
He hears someone coughing and when he turns around, trying to figure out the source. He was surprised that it came from the bed that he left from. He goes there cautiously not expecting when he goes back in the bed. He prays that when he goes in that it will be not appear like his brother when he tried to bring him back to life. He admitted that he's not a monster, but did make his brother a zombie, a worser fate, only for a short while until he realized that you should not bring a person back. It proved that it was impossible and makes the person uncontrollable thus no one can come back to life given the exception of Henry when he ate a poison apple to save the town. As he lets himself in through the curtains, the coughing was subsiding. He looks at the bed and discovers that the sheet has been moved and the teenager was sitting upright, alive.
His instincts took over as he put the wires back on her and manually check her up, hearing her heart from his stethoscope. Checking if she's paralyzed as she responds to everything. He thinks for a moment if he should get her cleared by running every test via CT, MRI, MR, Ultrasound, and X Rays. However, as he checks her whole body, feeling nothing unusual he decides to get a Brain CT, just to make sure. That is until-
"Is this necessary?" Felicity says.
"Yes, it is since you died for a whole three minutes and are miraculously alive which reminds me, how are you still alive?"
"I'll tell you when my parents are here." She said softly trying not to sound rude or condescending.
"Of course," he says as he realizes when he leaves her that the morgue was coming, so he redirected them back to their office, saying a miracle has happened. The person who runs the morgue grunts as he goes to the nurse's desk and asks if the sheriff and the family was still in the hospital. Once he hears that they're still here, still in the waiting room, he quickly replies a thank you to the nurse and zoomed out of the er to the waiting room.
They were sitting on the chairs, still in sorrow with distraught faces that the only one with a hopeful, optimistic face was Henry's. He slowly dragged himself to Emma and the pirate.
Emma noticed him immediately as did her husband, Killian, however when he was right there in front of them. She automatically says, "Dr. Whale we are not going through the documents now. We just lost our first born, our daughter, so if you can please just leave-
"I need you two to come with me now," he says in his commanding voice.
"Why do you want us to be tortured by returning to our daughter, who is dead mate? Have you not heard Emma? We just lost our daughter and you want us to go back there, bloody hell do you know what you're doing to us?" Killian vented out.
"I'm not asking for you to come. I'm saying you must come with me for if I explained it to you, you won't believe me. This is something you must see for yourselves."
Unrelentingly Emma and Killian got up and followed the doctor.
When Dr. Whale pulled back the curtains and let them in, they didn't move.
"This has to be a trick." Emma says.
"Aye." Killian agreed. They didn't know what to expect when Dr. Whale came in the waiting room and basically forced them to come with no real reason. They didn't understand what he meant but now they find themselves looking at the figure at the bed. The only thing that they know is that this is what they weren't expecting. Now that they're here, they don't know if it was their eyes playing with them, their grieving is giving them an illusion or a hallucination until the figure shifts and looks at them.
"No, it's not mama, papa, I'm really here. This is not a trick," Felicity says trying to find what to say the right words, " look I know you're still in shock of what I did to you and papa but I don't regret it. If I hadn't one of you would've taken my place you would've stayed dead. Have you read my letter?"
"What letter?" Killian says.
"Before I confronted with Peter Pan, I've made a letter telling my goodbyes in case I was dead. Before I fought with Pan, before I've made that letter, I accepted that I might die. However, the fight between us was very unexpected that I didn't think I get marked with the Mark of Ankh. After Peter Pan marked me, he forced me into a portal and brought me here. When I saw the Mark of Ankh etched onto my skin, I was furious at Peter Pan and I believed that I lost, and he won. However, when I saw that bloody mark, I accepted death once again before we all fell unconscious. That is the reason why I'm still breathing."
"It's really you, Lissie, It's really you." Emma softly says with tears of joy as she moves to the bed, sitting at the edge while Dr. Whale has learned the truth decided to leave, giving the family some privacy however Felicity looked at him with her eyes telling him to don't tell anyone, he gives a quick nod and left the room silently.
"I'm a Jones and our family are fighters, survivors. What made you think I wasn't fighting?" Felicity says as she looks to her parents with little tears going down her cheek. "I was still fighting, my soul was fighting, my body was gone for a few minutes, but I never stopped fighting." She is now crying as her parents gone closer to her as they all hug one another. "The plans that I make." She finished as she hears her parents bring themselves to chuckle. It wasn't a laugh but at least it was something to bring themselves out of their sorrows and shock.
"I don't think we never would hear that. You are saying a very adult comment." Emma says.
"Indeed, that is right," Killian says, "Emma, love what happened to our daughter." He said in mirth.
"Felicity," Emma starts as her smirk went and came by in a blink of an eye, "Felicity," she repeats as she begins as she takes a stern tone. "What happened? I understand that this the rarity of the situation, that all of us are alive, while we're happy and relieved but what happened, who took your place?"
There it is, Felicity thought. "Well looks like we don't have to worry about protecting Peter Pan anymore."
"Peter Pan is gone?!" her father asks surprised.
"Yes, papa he's gone for good. He's the one who implanted me with the Mark of Ankh unto my skin, he's the marker." Felicity says as she takes a breath, "so what happens now?"
"Life," Emma says, "We move forward."
Life moves forward once Felicity was reintroduced to the public in a great shock when she was discharged. What happened after that was one big family gathering that occurred. A wonderful surprise. The rarity in which Regina asks incessantly for but will never give an answer. As of now the family all in one piece enjoys the new life together. Whatever comes they will handle it together as one family. As one family with the Jones and the Charming's they are undefeatable. They will enjoy these moments the most as they all learned from this that life is precious and whenever you have a moment of peace, you enjoy it for you don't know what life is going to bring to you.
Fin