Chapter Three: The Past Should Stay There

A/N: Hi everyone! So I just wanted to let you know that I love you all so much for the reviews! No matter if it's constructive criticism, a suggestion on what should happen next, or just a compliment! I love it all. I just like having that connection between the author and readers! It's also nice to know that they're people reading my story! Also I will be posting a new chapter to this story every Friday. So keep your eyes out for it. Anyway, here is the awesome chapter I was talking about in the previous chapter. One of the people who wrote a review for my story actually guessed what my intention was for this chapter before I wrote it! Also, the other suggestion I got will also be in this chapter! So sit back, relax, and read! J

"Amy, something is suspicious about someone here," whispered The Doctor as he sat on a log in front of a campfire. The Storybrookians had led Amy, The Doctor, and River to their base.

"What do you mean, Doctor? These people just want Henry back and are willing to do anything to get him back. Just like how I am about Rory. It's also an added plus that they have actual weapons and magic."

"Hey the sonic can do everything!"

"Mhm right, and what about wood?" retorted Amy as she smirked.

"Alright fine. You got me there, but still something isn't right about someone here." The Doctor glared at Rumple talking to River. Amy followed his glare.

"Are you talking about Rumple?" Amy shockingly asked.

"Well if you know anything about the fairytale of "Rumplestiltskin" you would know not to trust him. But there is something else we don't know about him. Something that isn't written in the fairytales. Something none of these fairytale dinguses know, and I'm the only one willing to find out."

"Doctor, I don't care about other people's secrets. Secrets are a secret for a reason. Now if this is just jealousy because he is over there talking to River…"

"It's not because of that!" The Doctor blatantly stated while interrupting Amy, "The secret he is hiding could be valuable in finding Rory."

"How do you know if it can help us find Rory? In fact, how do you even know if he has a secret?"

"Amy, don't question me. I just know. He has a past and I need to know what it is." River began to walk over as she had overheard part of their conversation.

"Sweetie, we all have a past. You of all people should know that. Pasts are meant to be right where they are, the past." River said trying to console her "five year old" husband.

"Look River, I don't want to be lectured on pasts. I know what they are for. But that doesn't mean that we can never revisit other people's pasts."

"Would you want other people to revisit your past?" River frankly responded.

"Alright everyone, let's get this show on the road," The Doctor said as he stood up. He quite obviously wanted to change the subject, "Does anyone have a plan on how to get to Pan?"

The group had become silent. Emma finally decided to speak up as she decided no one else was going to speak up for her.

"Well we had already encountered Pan already. He is on every single part of this island at once. He gave me a blank piece a paper and said some kind of twisted philosophical thing about finding out who I really am. He then went on to say that once I know who I am the blank piece of paper will turn into a map that leads to Henry. I got the map to show up, but it was a dead end."

"Okay well from the fairytale Peter Pan he had sidekicks. I think they were called…" The Doctor said fumbling on the name of Pan's helpers.

"The Lost Boys." Hook responded.

"Yes!" The Doctor said pointing at Hook with excitement, "What about them? Can we ask them to help?"

"They are completely on Pan's side," explained Hook, "they would never help us. But I used to live here in Neverland. I was one of the lucky ones who escaped. All thanks to one of my friends. You see no one can ever leave Neverland without Pan's approval. But this friend of mine is one of Pan's closest friends. She was able to get me out of Neverland."

"Well who is this powerful lady?" The Doctor asked.

"Her name is Tinkerbell."

"Oh brother." Regina said as she rolled her eyes. River stared at her from across the fire.

"Oh of course!" The doctor said as he pranced around the fire slapping his head, "how do we get to her?"

"Well she has a tree house on the North side of the island. We can drop by and see if she is home."

"No I'm not going to see Tinkerbell." Regina said crossing her arms.

"Why not, Regina?" asked Emma worriedly.

"It's nothing I just want to find Henry without her help. I doubt she can actually help us."

"Regina, of course she can help us. She is the closest we are going to get to Pan and Pan is the closest we are going to get to Henry and Rory." Said Snow trying to reason with Regina.

"If you guys want to go trust that wench, then go I'm not holding you back. But you just won't find me coming with you. I will go by myself."

"No Regina, you can't go by yourself." Charming said.

"I agree with the Prince," said Rumple," Pan is far too powerful for you even with your magic."

"Come on Regina, Henry would want to come back with both his moms, not just one." Emma said, "Please just for the sake of Henry. I said that we will all stay together and I'm the leader of this group."

"Well you're not doing very good of a job," Said Regina as she rolled her eyes.

"Actually if you don't mind Emma, but I will take over as leader. I have been through situations like this before. I've gone on search parties for my friends all the time. I would consider myself an expert." The Doctor said straightening his bow tie, "Now Regina, you're coming no matter what. Now come on! Alright Hook you show us where to go. Geronimo!" The Doctor sang while pointing his sonic screwdriver in the air.

Hook began heading to the North using his hook as a sword cutting down the branches. The Doctor soon followed. Everyone was now in a line with Regina in the back.

"So Rumple," began the Doctor as he spun around to face Rumple walking behind him, "how do you know how powerful this Peter Pan is?"

"Oh I know my fair share of all the powerful magic conjurers, dearie." Said Rumple passing The Doctor up, taking his place in the line.

"Yes I'm sure you do," continued The Doctor, "but have you ever encountered Pan before?"

"I have some unfinished business with him, if that's what you mean."

"What sort of unfinished business?"

"Look Dearie," said Rumple turning around and coming to an abrupt stop which caused the line to be backed up, "I understand you are some sort of expert at searching for your friends, but I'm not the person you need to be interrogating right now. You do not want to get on my bad side. From the looks of it you're getting close to being on it. You can't just pop on in here through this mysterious blue box and act like you own the place. I'm the wisest out of everyone here, dearie. I know the weaknesses of everyone on this island. This is my territory. So I hope you don't mind, but you are resigning from this leadership title right now. I'm the new leader now." Said Rumple getting in The Doctor's face. The Doctor didn't back up one bit,

"Rumple, I understand you have more background about his situation than I do, but let's get this straight. I've been alive for 909 years. Way longer than you have been alive. I have been chasing people like this almost all my life. I think that from experience I'm the wisest right now." The Doctor and Rumple's noses were touching by now, "Now whatever it is you are hiding from me about Pan, I will find it out." The Doctor began walking again taking his old place in the line.

"SWEETIE, YOU BETTER BE BEHAVING UP THERE!" River scolded from the second to last spot in line. The Doctor did a little wave to show he had heard her.

River had turned behind her and had seen that Regina was scowling. River had known that Regina obviously had known Tinkerbell somehow. Her curiosity had taken a hold of her mind. She began to talk to Regina, "Boy, sometimes I wish he would just behave like an adult, but that's just how marriage works I guess," River giggled at her own joke and looked back at Regina to see if her joke had any effect on her. Regina's scowl had brightened up a little, "do you want to talk about it?" River asked.

"Talk about what?" Regina said as he scowl had deepened back to how it was before. Regina had made a complete stop. River had stopped and turned back to face Regina.

"Regina, you know what I'm talking about. How do you know Tinkerbell?"

"Who are you to ask such a question?" retorted Regina putting her defense up.

"It's okay Regina, I know you know her. I won't tell anyone. I just want to help you because she is obviously getting to you. I'm coming to you as a friend who wants to help you. You're a strong woman, Regina. Don't let her hold you back."

"I used to be friends with Tinkerbell," Regina began to explain," back when she was a fairy. She saved me from dying when I accidentally fell out of a window. Ever since then she helped me try to become less bitter. She told me the thing I was missing in my life was love. She sprinkled pixie dust on me to help me locate who my soul mate was. She took me flying and we landed in front of a bar. We looked inside and she pointed to a man inside the bar. His back was facing the other direction. I couldn't see his face, but she was able to point him out by a tattoo on his wrist. It was a tattoo of a lion. She told me to go in there and talk to him and then she left. But I got too nervous and went home. Little did I know, she stole the pixie dust she used on me from the head fairy. It cost Tinkerbell her wings and she wasn't a fairy anymore. She was sad, but she wasn't completely sad because she was convinced that I met my soul mate and that if she told the head fairy what happened, she would get her wings. Unfortunately, I lied and told her that he was a jerk and that she was a bad fairy. She eventually realized that I never went in the bar and she hated me ever since. But she was right. All I needed to find was love. I somewhat found that in Henry. Until Emma showed up. Now he probably doesn't even want me anymore. I should've went into that bar. I want to find my soul mate and live a happy life with Henry and him. But that will never happen."

"Regina, don't worry. It wasn't your fault that Tinkerbell lost her wings. She refrained from telling you she stole the pixie dust. That wasn't your fault. It's okay if you didn't walk into that bar. It's normal for humans to get nervous. You probably weren't ready yet. But I believe you will meet him someday. Sometimes I get rather lonely too. The Doctor isn't always with me. He is always traveling with my parents somewhere through time and space, while I'm in a jail cell. I got arrested for killing someone. It's really something I regretted. Especially since the person I killed was The Doctor. It was his future version of himself. See since he is a time traveler we never meet up at the right time. His future self always shows up in my past. But my future self always shows up in his past. I always get so caught up in my mind. I dwell on my past, present, and future with The Doctor. But then I realized it doesn't matter when we meet up. All that matters is if we will meet up. That's honestly how I survive this mess of a marriage. I just believe that he will come rescue me from my cell, and he always does. You just have to have faith. Have faith in love, you, the future, and Tinkerbell to help find Henry and Rory, and then you can go home and find this mysterious soul mate with the lion tattoo and go live happily ever after."

"Wow, I can't believe how easy it is to talk to you," Said Regina, "we have so much in common. Don't worry I have killed people too. More than one person. Many innocent people. That's something I'm not proud of. I try to put that behind me. But I too, have seen my loved one die. His name was Daniel and he worked at the horse stables near me. He helped me become a better horseback rider and I fell in love with him. But my mother insisted I married King Leopold. The king was Snow's dad. I refused to marry him because I wanted to marry Daniel. My mother found out that I was engaged to Daniel and literally ripped his heart out of his chest, crushed his heart to smithereens, and killed him. Ever since then I have been killing people just like my mother did to Daniel. I have also regretted doing it. It just really sucks to deal with the pain of your loved one's death and knowing you're responsible for it."

"Yes I understand what you mean, completely. Wow we really do have a lot in common!" River chuckled a bit.

"Thank you so much, River. It means a lot that you care about me enough to help me."

"Oh no problem, sweetie," River grabbed Regina and hugged her. Regina had gotten caught off guard by the hug. She tensed up at first, but then started to ease in to the comforting hug. River then pulled out of the hug and grabbed Regina's arms, "Don't worry we will find Henry and Rory soon enough." River said as she began to turn back to face the front. They had noticed that they had become rather far from the crowd, but they were still able to find their way back to the crowd by finding a path of broken branches. When River and Regina finally caught up to the group they were in front of a giant treehouse in a huge tree.

"Woah this is where Tinkerbell has been living?" Emma said in awe with a slight tinge of pity as Emma felt like she would never feel comfortable living inside a tree. It was bad enough that she had been transported through a tree from the Enchanted Forest to America when she was barely even a day old. She cringed at the thought of being alone in an orphanage all because of some tree. Although she did find her parents, Peter Pan was right. She is a lost girl. No matter how much she tried to convince herself that she has parents who love her. They could never make up for the 28 years she spent alone without parents. No matter how much they wanted to be there for her. She washed the thought away because she noticed her mother had caught her having the same sad, faraway look that she had earlier.

"Yes this is where she lived last time I was here," said Hook, "alright Swan, will you come with me to see if TInkerbell is in there?"

"Why me?" Emma said as she felt uncomfortable as to why Hook would choose her out of the seven other people.

"Because you are probably the strongest person here."

"That is so not true."

"Just come Swan, I won't bite."

"Fine," Emma said as she rolled her eyes. Hook grabbed the ladder that led up to the tree house. He began to climb using his hook to hang on to the ladder. Emma followed close behind. As Hook got to the top, he held out his hand to Emma to help her up. As she took it, she looked around in amazement as to how bare the little space was.

"Well looks like Tink isn't home." Said Hook.

"Well where else would she be?"

"I don't know. Maybe Pan warned her that we were coming so she fled?"

"I wouldn't doubt it."

"Maybe we can find some leftover pixie dust in here. That will be able to get us home. Start searching anywhere and everywhere."

"Where? There is like nothing here."

"I don't know Swan, just look," said Hook as he began to rummage through the little amount of things that were in Tinkerbell's treehouse, "Ugh there is nothing here," he declared in defeat.

"Alright we'll just look somewhe…" Emma said as she felt a hand on her shoulder. She quickly turned around and saw a shorter girl with blonde hair in a ponytail, "H…Hi are you Tinkerbell?"

"Who sent you?" said Tinkerbell aggressively.

"Um… nobody, but uh…"
"Killian!" exclaimed Tinkerbell as she saw Hook.

"Hey Tinkerbell. I hope you don't mind, but we need your help."

"What do you need?"

"Pan has my son and a guy. We are trying to get them back. So we need to know where Pan's camp is to find them," said Emma joining in on the conversation.

"Oh that little boy Henry, and that strange man Rory. Yes Pan has been looking all over for them."

"Tink, can you help us find Pan's camp? Obviously you would know where it is."

"I have a map that shows where his camp is," Tinkerbell pulled out a map from her bag, "This is where Pan's camp is. He is usually there. Hopefully that's where you can find them at."

"Thanks Tink," said Hook as he took the map, "we also need something else."

"What?"

"Do you happen to have any leftover pixie dust to get us home?"

"I'm afraid I can't help you with that one, Killian. I have had a pixie dust dry spell for a while now."

"Well I'm afraid we are going to ask you to come with us to see Pan. You are our only ticket out of this place."

"I don't know, Killian. I already got you out of this place once. I don't think Pan will allow it again."

"Come on Tink, we really need to get Henry and Rory back."

"Alright fine, come on let's go find Pan," Tink said as she didn't feel like putting up a fight. Tinkerbell started to climb down the ladder. When she got to the bottom she jumped off. She turned around to find a clump of people. One of them happened to be the person she hated the most, Regina. Emma had already reached the ground and Killian had just got to the bottom of the ladder, "Oh hell no I'm not going anywhere with that witch," said Tinkerbell as she pointed to Regina.

"What? Regina, you know Tinkerbell? Emma asked in shock.

"Uh… we've sort of had a complicated past," Regina said as she looked over at River who was to the right of her. River put one arm around her and hugged her.

"Sort of? You've made my life a living hell! You are the whole reason why I had to move to Neverland!" Tinkerbell yelled.

"Regina, what did you do?" Asked Hook as he had finally reached the ground.

"It's a long story I really don't feel like telling right now…"

"She was the one who caused me to lose my fairy wings. She is also the reason for the pixie dust dry spell!"

"Look, I didn't come here to hash out the past. I came here for one reason and one reason only. To get my son back. I know I messed up really bad. But I just want to put that aside right now. This isn't just about me Tinkerbell, this whole group is here to get Henry and Rory back. So please if you wouldn't mind helping us…"

"Of course I would mind helping you! I would never help you again after what you did to me."

"To be clear, that wasn't her fault at all. It's not a crime to get nervous. Stealing pixie dust from the blue fairy is a crime." River said defending Regina.

"But I stole it to help her!" Tinkerbell retorted.

"She had no idea you stole it until you told her after you used it. You did that to yourself. You got your wings taken away because you stole, lied, and didn't take accountability for your actions." River said.

"I don't care. I know what I did was right. I helped her, but she just lied to me. She told me she went into that bar and said he was a jerk. She blamed it all on me and called me a bad fairy when really she was too chicken to go in there and talk to him. That's what not taking accountability looks like."

"Well she was ashamed that she was nervous. But she was right for calling you a bad fairy because you stole."

"River, stop. This is getting us nowhere." Said Amy scolding her like she was behaving immaturely.

"Agreed." Said Tinkerbell.

"Please Tinkerbell, I really need your help getting home. You may not be Regina's friend, but you're mine." Said Hook.

"Killian, this is the one thing I can never do. You know that. This is the one person I hate the most."

"I know, but Tink, I'm asking you to put this aside and help me. I used to help you all the time back when I lived here. I think you owe me."

"Fine, Killian. Just know that I'm only coming because I'm paying my debts to a friend. Not because I forgive Regina," said Tinkerbell as she stared Regina down, "well we better get moving if we want Henry and Rory back in one piece."

A/N Part 2: Just so you guys know the part I originally intended to do was the Regina and River bonding part. The thing I added in was the Doctor/Rumplestiltskin rivalry just so I could please one of the readers. So I hope you enjoyed! Also please leave suggestions down below! Thank you!