Hey guys! Another short one I'm afraid but it is all relevant to the story. Hope you enjoy. Thanks my lovelys.
Pan had let Sarah out the cave to sleep, even going as far as untying her hands. She made a her way to a tree and finally let sleep take over. She was exhausted, emotionally and physically. It felt like she had only been a sleep minutes when someone making a cuckoo sound woke her up, but daylight stretched across the land suggesting it had been a lot longer.
"Wake up," she sat up to see Pan approaching. "Catch," he threw an apple towards the girl which she just let drop to the ground in front of her.
"I don't like apples," she kicked the object away slightly with her foot.
"Who doesn't like apples?" Pan laughed.
"It's a family thing. Besides when you get poisoned by an apple turnover and almost die it really puts you off," the teen shuddered slightly thinking about the events from a year ago.
Peter smiled sweetly at the girl. "Well, don't worry," he crouched on the ground so the pair were eye level. "They're not for eating. It's for a kind of game. A really fun game," he pulled out a bow and arrow. "I call it target practice."
"I'm more of a sword kind of girl," Pan just laughed.
"So, this whole trek has been for nothing?" Emma sighed, throwing the map to the ground. Pan had been messing with them all day, moving things around on the map to make them walk miles for nothing.
"I told you walking was idiotic. If I can just use some magic, we can materialise in the camp and grab Sarah," Regina was sick of wasting time. She needed her daughter back now.
"We don't know where the camp is. Have you even been listening," Mary Margaret scolded.
Zac gasped sitting on the ground. "Either way can we take a break? I'm dying here."
"Pan will have shields against magic, I fear. Such an attempt would end in your death and, more importantly, mine, which is why we're walking," Hook explained.
"Well then, what's your idea? How are we going to find it?" Regina was losing her patience fast.
"By using someone he trusts," Hook smiled.
"Who?" David questioned the pirate. "Because I guess he certainly doesn't trust you."
"A fairy," Hook began to explain. "Lived here when I was about. She might still be on the island. She'd be an inside source, knows all about the camp, can get us in. She might even have some pixie dust left. Perhaps we could fly in."
"You mean fairy dust," the blonde sheriff argued.
"No, pixie dust. It's stronger. Like nuclear fairy dust," David hadn't seen pixie dust in a long time.
"Do you really think nuclear dust is what this situation needs?" Zac panted, he really hated hiking.
"Wait. A fairy? Tinker Bell," Emma began to connect the dots.
"Do you know her?" Hook asked.
"Every kid in the world does," Emma really needed to learn to stop being surprised by these things.
"That's a bad idea," Regina stepped forward. "Mark my words. This Tinker Bell is not going to save us," the group seemed to ignore the mayor, walking away. "Emma. There is another way."
"Is there?" Emma kept her attention on the road ahead.
"Magic," Regina stated simply.
"Didn't we just go through this," the blonde rolled her eyes having no time for this.
"I'm not talking about my magic. I'm talking about ours," Regina stood in front of the sheriff, blocking her path.
"I am not interested. One thing I've learned is, it always comes with a price," magic had ruined too many lives already and she'd be damned if it cost her finding her daughter.
"Sometimes not using it comes with a price to. I bet you and I combined are strong enough. Without Sarah's magic, us working together is the only chance we stand," the mayor insisted.
"What if we're not? I'm not taking a chance on that. We're talking about Sarah's life," Emma could only imagine what the teen was going through every second she was with Pan.
"I'm aware of that," Regina growled. She was getting sick of everyone forgetting she was Sarah's mother too. She gave birth to her for Pete's sake.
"Look," Emma softened her voice taking a step forward. "I know you don't like this plan. Let's just see it through. At least, we can see if we find… Tinker Bell," the blonde never thought she would see the day where she would be going to Tinker Bell for help to save her daughter.
"And you think it's the best plan because your boyfriend came up with it," after everything Hook had done, Regina had no idea what made Emma so infatuated with him.
"My boyfriend? Hook?" Now Emma really was confused. "What's your problem."
"She just lost Neal," Mary Margaret added shaking her head at Regina.
"I'm Sorry," Regina knew she wouldn't win this fight. "I'm just worried about Sarah."
Meanwhile, Pan had began dipping the arrows in a bottle containing a substance the teen had never seen before. "What's that?" she questioned. "Cause it needs a new colour scheme," Sarah made a face of disgust as the liquid dripped off the arrows.
"Dreamshade," Pan began to explain. "A nasty Poison."
"Well then I take it back. It's the perfect colour scheme for poison," she nodded.
"I've heard a story about a man who once shot an apple off his son's head with an arrow," he began to put the arrow in his bow. "Let's find out if this is possible."
"If your shooting the apple, what's the poison for?" Sarah didn't trust the boy for a second.
"A motivation not to miss," the boy smirked before taking his aim. "Felix! Get over here!" He bellowed.
"How's Felix's aim? Because I'm going to take it if you guys don't provide the bare necessities like coffee, I doubt you have a first aid kit," Felix arrived standing opposite pan.
"Doesn't matter. You're the one doing the shooting," Pan put out the cross bow for the teen to take.
"What part of I'm a sword girl do you not get?" the teen firmly crossed her arms refusing the bow.
With that the lost boys began to chant for the girl to shoot.
"You won't hit him. Trust yourself," Pan stared in her eyes willing her to continue. Felix placed an apple on his head, seeming to trust the girl more than she trust herself. "Better yet," Pan tossed the arrow to one side. "Blast the apple off with your magic."
"Why do you people struggle so much with the listening skills?" The teen sighed. "My magic isn't working."
"Because you aren't letting it," Pan countered. "You don't trust yourself or your magic. You weren't taught how to. Maybe if The Queen had kept you around she would of got round to it."
Sarah felt a spark of anger flood through her but surprisingly not at the boy in front of her. He's right. It was Regina's job to teach her about magic and how to use it, but instead she let the girl go into the world not knowing who she was. She aimed her hand at Felix, feeling her magic bubble away at the anger inside of her. However, her mom may of got the chance to teach her if Pan hadn't stole her away. What right did he have to tell the teen where she belonged? At the last minute she changed her aim sparking a bolt of magic to the boy which he dodged at the last minute.
"Told you, you could do it," he smirked. "Come on, I have something to show you."
Regina walked at the back of the group, dragging her feet. The last thing she wanted was to face more demons from her past.
"Hey," Emma headed over to the mayor. "You're falling behind. Hook thinks her place is right up ahead. Come on."
"Well, if she still lives there. You go waste your time searching and I'll wait," the mayor comes to a stop refusing to go any further.
"What did you do to her?" Emma frowned, knowing there was more to this then what Regina was saying.
"What? Why would you assume I did something?" People were always so quick to blame her.
Emma sighed, deciding to take a different approach. "You've met her before right? In the Enchanted Forest?" Regina's silence confirmed the blondes suspicions. "What did you do to her? Kill her brother? Steal her halo?"
"She's not an angel," the queen scoffed. "Okay," she relented. "We have a complicated history."
"I knew it," the blonde couldn't take the mayor anywhere.
"You don't need to know all the details, but if she see's me she won't help. And if she's the way in, well then, trust me, my staying out of her sight is probably the best for Operation Sarah," she crossed her arms adamant in her decision.
"Operation Sarah?" Emma raised an eyebrow.
"Well if Henry was here…" Regina began.
"That's what he would have called it," Emma finished with a smile. As determined as the mothers were to get their daughter back, it didn't mean they weren't missing their son back home.
"He'd have a better name, but it's the best I can do," the mayor sighed.
"Probably Operation Pegacorn," Emma nodded.
"Operation what?" Regina scoffed.
Emma just smiled. "Never mind. We'll get her and I'll come get you."
"No, don't bother. It's better if we never see each other. And if you don't find her, keep going. Just get Sarah. Don't worry about Tinker Bell," Regina didn't want the fairy messing everything up.
"What the hell did you do to her?" Emma questioned.
Regina sighed slightly shaking her head. "What I always do."
Pan and Sarah sat above the camp looking down at the boys running around below. " Look at the fun they are having," Peter smiled at the mayhem. "The thing with this place, Sarah, is that no one tells you no. You can do as you want."
"You really don't know me at all," the teen raised an eyebrow. "I'm a walking disaster, believe me I need someone to tell me no. I don't belong here."
"Actually, you do," Pan turned to seriously look at the teen. "We've been waiting for you to come back for a long time Sarah."
"I don't believe that," Sarah sighed turning away. "I was found on the side of the road by an amazing woman who took me in."
"Then explain this," Pan continued. "You've read Henry's book. If you were born before Emma, how come she is your mother."
Sarah had never really thought about it before but Pan was right. According to the book she was born long before the curse, long before Emma. "So, I was here? And you guys don't age so neither did I," she said slowly letting it sink in.
"This place runs on imagination. On belief. But all the worlds have stopped believing. Magic is dying and you, Sarah, need to save it. You are the most powerful being to ever of been born. It's your destiny to return magic."
"Okay, you've got the wrong one," she turned to look at the boy. "Regina, my mother, is the one with all the power. Not me."
"She cast a curse yes but what if her spells aren't what makes her so powerful? What if having you did? Think about it, you both descended from strong magic. You were created for a reason and I can help you find it," Pan saw the girls walls fall ever so slightly.
"So you're thinking I'm supposed to save magic," Sarah stated rather than asked. "The world might actually be doomed. You really think a girl who got tortured by your humans, captured and left in a cave without being able to stop it with magic could really save it. Guess there is somethings that lost boy school doesn't teach you."
"I believe. Remember I said I had something to show you," he pulled out a scroll and handed it to the brunette. "I have had this for a very long time. Long before you even arrived here. Take a look and you'll know why I'm so sure you're the hero magic has been waiting for."
Sarah doesn't even bother looking at the scroll, throwing it to the ground in front of her. "I don't believe you. You've got the wrong girl."
"You don't feel like your enough I get that," the boy sighed. "Maybe because that's how your parents have always made you feel. By abandoning you, or turning to drugs, or spending all their time focusing on their other kid. Regina might of not seen your potential, but the second you arrived here, we did."
Regina sat by the camp fire, Tinker Bell finally accepting their plea to help even if the queen was involved. She wondered where her kid was on the island, whether she was still alive to tell the tale. Regina had let her down so many times, had so much of their time together wasted. She sighed as the flames began to grow. She promised herself in that moment if she ever got her daughter back she would never let her go again.
So the last chapter focused more on Sarah's anger to Emma and this one takes a look at her anger towards Regina. The point is that the teen is mad at all her parents in some ways which is why Pan feels he can manipulate her. More angst to come.