Finally, they'd realized the truth about Pan and Henry. They were even going to switch them back - with the Black Fairy's wand. I was quite impressed, actually, when they destroyed Pan's shadow. And my Papa had risked his life... for Emma. I remembered I time when he would have done the same for me.
"We want the girl!", the evil man had shrieked. My 3-year-old self cowered behind my Papa.
"You'll never have her!"
"Give her up, now!"
"Never!" My Papa threw himself at the bad men. They stabbed him, but they missed and only got him in the shoulder.
He drove his sword into one of their legs, and they turned and ran. He turned around and picked me up.
"Are you okay, Elizabeth?"
"Yeah."
Now, he didn't even know who I was. I followed him, watched as he went into the Dark One's shop. My Papa had forgiven him, so I did too. I watched everything, until they got frozen. I would have run out, right then and there, but Pan would make up some lie that would turn my family against me. I watched everything that happened, wishing I could stop it, but there was nothing I could do. Pan and I had cast a spell so neither one of us could harm the other. And as for stopping Rumpelstiltskin from doing what he did, the only two people who could do that were frozen and unable to say a word. I couldn't do anything. I was just a spectator. And spectators were completely and utterly useless - which is all I ever was.
I watched as Regina mentioned what the price was of stopping the curse, and I panicked. I could have gone across the town line and escaped, but then I'd never see my Papa again. Meaning I had to go back to the Enchanted Forest, a land I'd been hoping never to see again. I followed them after they used magic to get to the town line. I wished Emma and Henry didn't have to go; I knew both of them were important to my brother. Even if he didn't know I existed. I had to change that. Before I could speak a word, there was a bunch of purple smoke washing over me, and suddenly I was back... home?