Belle awoke before the sun had. The boys were still all sound asleep. She looked through the bars of her cage and saw Pan sitting on a large rock looking into the forest. Just then a dark haired young boy walked up to him and started to talk to him. Belle immediately recognized him.
"Henry," Belle whispered to herself. He was alive, and did not seem to be harmed in anyway. Pan and Henry talked for awhile before Pan stood up and walked over to the cage she was in. Henry returned to the forest without even glancing in her direction. She though it was better this way.
"Good morning!" Pan kicked the side of the cage she was in. Pan opened the cage door and offered his hand to her for help. She refused it and sat in the cage defiantly.
The other boys had begun to wake up and started a fire. They were all looking at the interaction between Pan and the girl in the cage.
"I have a proposition for you Pan." Belle said as her voice quivered a bit, but she swallowed her fear and looked at him as she remained in the cage.
"I don't think you are really in a position to be giving requests, but go on." Pan said as some of the boys came to gather around the cage.
"You let Wendy go home to her brothers, where you will never bother them again, and you instead get me. I am a much better pawn in your game to keep Henry."
Pan laughed as he knelt down to look at the girl in the cage. "Well, right now I have both of you. So no deal."
"I figured you would say that." With that Belle held the knife up to her own throat; pressing down hard enough to start to draw blood. "Let her go, or I will kill myself. Then you have lost me and Rumple will stop at nothing to take you down."
Pan grinned. "Well, I did not expect this from you. Who would have thought a proper princess pulling such a powerful negotiation technique on me?" Pan cocked his head to the side and thought about his options. He could take the knife from her before she really hurt herself, at least he hoped he could or since this was something that would benefit him and she was obviously very serious about it he could give in.
"Alright, Wendy can go, BUT we have to make it very public to Rumplestiltskin that you are here with me." Pan held out his hand to the small woman with blood trickling down the knife. Belle shook his hand and he yanked her out of the cage. He simultaneously grabbed the knife and flung her at Felix. Felix caught her and held her small form in place, he looked down to see the trail of blood that descended down her breasts; staining the neck of her shirt.
"Alright everyone lets return Wendy to her brothers" With that Pan opened the cage door and offered his hand to the petite girl inside the cage. The girl stood up straight and looked at the woman who had just sacrificed herself to save her. She nodded in appreciation as Pan roughly grabbed her upper arm and started to walk into the jungle.
"Make sure she cannot do anything stupid, Felix." Pan yelled over his shoulder as he tossed Felix a long piece of rope. Felix grabbed Belle's wrists and started to wrap the rope tightly around her delicate wrists. Belle winced several times as Felix tightened the rope. He then grabbed her upper arm and roughly pulled her into the forest behind Pan.
The group had been walking for an hour at least. Belle's dress was covered in mud and blood, because she had fallen and stumbled so many times. Felix had to keep an iron grip on her upper arm, as she stumbled through the forest after Pan and Wendy.
"Come on we don't have all day." Pan said over his shoulder as Belle's knees hit the hard ground under her. Felix hauled her up again and latched his arm under hers. He had such a strong grip on her she could barely touch the ground with both feet. They walked for about another hour before they hit the shore line. The sun was just barely above the water and the ocean was calm. Pan grabbed his flute out of his belt and blew into it for several seconds. Felix could apparently hear something Belle could not, because he immediately turned toward Pan when he started to play the instrument. After Pan lowered the flute a small pixie came out from the forest. She was darting around Pan's head quickly leaving behind a trail of black and blue dust.
"Take Wendy to her brothers in Storybrooke, make sure she is unharmed and arrives there safely. Leave her with them and return to me when this task is completed." With that the Pixie nodded and quickly flew around Wendy, covering her in the black and blue dust. Wendy's feet immediately lifted off of the ground and she began to float about the sand. The pixie grabbed Wendy's hand and they zoomed off into the sun, leaving nothing but a trail of dust behind them.
"Well Princess, I upheld my end of the deal, now it is your turn. Let's go visit The Dark One shall we." Pan said with a mimicking smirk playing across his lips.