It seemed as though hours had passed since she had put into the small dark cage. She could not sit up straight and she had to keep her knees to her chest in order to be able to fit.
Things had begun to quiet down outside. Many boys were sleeping and Pan had seemed to disappear somewhere unknown. She decided to take this opportunity to talk to the girl in the cage neighboring her.
"Hello? Are you there?" Belle whispered, hoping the girl could hear her barely audible words.
"Yes, who are you?" the girl squeaked out.
"My name is Belle. Who are you?"
"My name is Wendy."
Belle remembered the name from the men who were working for Pan. She also remembered the promise she had made to the men, to tell Rumple to save their sister. This must be fate.
"I met your brother's Wendy."
Wendy inhaled sharply and began to cry.
"They are alright and worried about you. They are working with Pan so that he will give you back to them unharmed."
"He will never give me back to them. He has too many tasks for them, and they are too useful of allies." The little girl squeaked out between sobs of what Belle thought must have been joy and fear mixed together.
"Well I promised them to get you to them safety, and I never break a promise."
Just then someone hit the side of Belle's cage. Belle jumped back, as much as the small space allowed. Someone was looking though the bars.
"Oi, love, do shut up. Some of us are trying to sleep here." It was the boy who brought her to pan.
"What does Pan want with me?"
"I don't know, but I want you to shut up."
"Well I am not sure I can make that happen. I talk a lot when I am in cramped dark spaces and haven't eaten in a whole day." Belle said defiantly. She had formed a plan and she needed something sharp, such as a bone of a piece of wood.
Just then the cage door swung open and the boy grabbed her arm roughly.
"Maybe you would like to sleep with me tonight instead." Felix said as he pulled her out of the cage.
"Don't you think I am a bit old for you, boy?" Belle said with as much distain as she could muster up.
The boy laughed and looked her dead in the eye.
"I was 22 when I was brought here. I am far from a boy."
Felix brought Belle's body close to his own. She could feel his chest heave with every breath he took. "It has been a long time since I have seen a woman as beautiful as you on this little island."
"Oh, do shut up Felix. Put her back." Pan said as he came out of the forest.
Belle saw the knife dangling from Felix's holster. As Felix argued with Pan about whether or not to put her back she quickly grabbed it just as she was flung into the cage again. The door slammed shut behind her as Felix went back to his palate, grumbling all the way.
Belle had done it. She had grabbed Felix's knife. She looked at it in her hand. It kept catching glimmers of the moonlight as she moved it back and forth. She quickly ripped off a piece of her tattered skirt and wrapped the knife in the cloth and stuffed it under her shirt, between her breasts.
In the morning she would enact her plan, but for now she had to rest.