I fell through the portal and landed hard on the cold stone ground. I was only 6, and very scared. I started to cry. But I knew I had to stop. I had to keep going. I had to find a new life. I kept walking, but I soon realized I was in the middle of nowhere. I finally came upon a small town. I found a train station and I found a train to the nearest city. I grabbed on to the back. When it got there, I let go. I started walking. Eventually, I was too tired to continue. And then Charlotte found me. She asked me who I was, so I just told her my name was Elizabeth and left the rest out. She asked me about my family, so I said I didn't have one. It might as well be true. I didn't think I'd ever see them again. Charlotte didn't have a family either. Her parents died when she was a baby and she lived in an orphanage, but she ran away. So we became each other's family. She was like my older sister. She was 10 then, 4 years older than me. We lived together on the streets. One day, when I was 11, we ran into a girl named Isabella. She seemed nice, but one day she did something completely out of character. She used magic on me - or tried to. Charlotte hit her and she stopped. But then Charlotte knew about magic, so I told her who I really was. Isabella kept trying to kill us. Once, I asked her why. She said I stole from her. I asked what I stole. She said I stole her life. That Charlotte used to be her best friend, and I took her. But they had already stopped being friends because they got in a fight. Isabella also had a brother, named Charlie, who had taught her magic. They kept on trying to kill us, but then Isabella had a better idea. She summoned the shadow so it would take Charlotte to Neverland, where Pan would torture her eternally. But Charlotte was my family. So I went instead. I made a deal with Pan - he told the shadow it could never take Charlotte, and I would work for him. Pan agreed. After a long time, I mad another deal with him - he let me free, and taught me magic, and I would never leave the island. He said I already had a lot of magic, because I was the product of true love, and that I just needed to learn to use it. He agreed to the deal, though I didn't understand why until he asked me, a very long time later, to convince Henry to give up his heart in exchange for passage off the island. But I didn't do it. Instead, I tried to do the opposite, but it didn't work. I snuck onto the ship and went to Storybrooke. Pan also told me that I had more powers, powers yet to be discovered.