Chapter 26 - Friends Reunite
She can't be serious. Wendy's daughter?! No way. I stare in shock. "You can't be serious."
"It's true, Sami," she says. "When Wendy got pregnant she wanted to hide me from Pan. So she gave me up to another family, and had Rumplestiltskin change my looks so I'd look like my foster family."
"Wait, Rumple wouldn't have done that without a price. What's the price?"
She closes her eyes. She looks sad. Upset. Guilty. "I'm cursed. Cursed to fall in love."
"Isn't falling in love a good thing?" Wait. Could she mean...
"Not when you're falling for someone in particular. The Pied Piper. I'm cursed to fall in love with Peter Pan."
"Oh god.." I gasp. No wonder she was so easily manipulated by him. It wasn't him. Well, it partly was. She had no choice. She was going to fall for him either way. "Oh god, Becky..." Wait. Why isn't the cage open? The ledge isn't broken anymore.
"I guess I have one more thing," Becky says. "We kissed."
I stare at her. "Oh my God, Becky, you guys kissed?"
Becky immediately blushes. "Yeah. He pinned me against a tree and kissed me. And I kissed him back..."
The front of the cage dematerialized, and I threw my arms around her. Until it felt like the poison kicked me in the side. I groaned.
Becky pulled away. "Sami, what's wrong?"
I panted. "Dreamshade."
"Dreamshade?!"
"Yeah. Your boyfriend wants to get rid of me. Because I'm standing in the way of him getting to you."
"I've got it covered," I look up when I see a tall woman, with pretty brown curls, much like Becky. Then it dawns on me. Wendy. Wendy Darling. She holds a clear flask. She came up to me and Becky. "Here, Sami. This will heal you."
I take the flask with trembling, weak hands and press the top to my lips, tilting my head back and letting the healing water run down my throat and through my veins. I feel it coarse through me, getting rid of the Dreamshade.
Becky looks expectantly at me. "Sami! How do you feel?"
I sigh, giving Wendy the flask. "Better. Much better."
"Well, look at that. Friends reunite." I know exactly who he is.
