Emma hadn't spoken to Killian since their kiss. Mostly because she was bedridden for a few days and now that she was on her feet again she was avoiding him. To be honest she didn't know why she kissed him in the first place. Maybe because he had saved her and her child, but she wasn't sure.
Somehow it just felt right having him close to her, his lips against hers. It felt just so familiar but also so new. The familiar part however was still confusing her. How could his kiss feel so familiar? It just felt like he had kissed her before and many times but it was their first kiss. That was what confused her.
Emma was snapped out of her thoughts when David approached her. "Emma, there had been two lost ones spotted on the southern side of the camp."
"South?" Emma asked confused. "What are lost ones doing south from here? No one goes or comes from south."
"That's exactly what I thought," David said and crossed his arms. "I think it's best if we check it out, see if they are a threat to us."
Emma nodded. "I'll go check it out then." She was about to leave when David caught her wrist.
"Take Jones with you."
"What? Why?"
"He's getting really good with a sword, if they really are a threat than at least you have someone who knows what he's doing."
David gave her pleading eyes and she sighed. "Fine," she muttered and yanked her wrist out of his grip. She really loved David, but sometimes he was more a father to her than a friend which she sometimes hated but also loved about him.
She went to her tent to gather her weapons and was about to leave again when Killian entered. "Dave said you needed me," he said casually like nothing had happened between them. Either it meant nothing to him of he was really good at hiding it.
"Yeah, there had been lost ones spotted south of the camp so we have to check that out," Emma explained as she walked past him out of the tent, not looking at him.
"Alright," he said, following her to the southern borderline. "where did they come from? I don't seem to recall ever seeing other towns or buildings in that direction."
"Your guess is as good as mine," she said as she fastened her pass.
"I did hear a rumor about something south of here, though."
Emma raised her eyebrow and glanced at him curiously. "What did the rumor say?"
"That somewhere deep inside these woods a prison is. This prison contains two of the most powerful sorcerers of all time. Pan had them locked away because he thinks they can defeat him," he chuckled and shook his head. "but that are just rumor, nothing more."
"It would be great if they really did excised," she mused. Her hand absently wandered to her stomach again as she thought of a world without Pan.
"How's your stomach healing?" Killian asked, making her jump a little and immediately lowering her hand.
"Oh, it's great. Just fine," she said and swallowed. "the cut will probably leave a scar though."
"Good." His eyes widened and he looked at her. "I don't mean the scar is good, uhm… just that it is healing properly… and all."
A small smile tugged on the corner of her lips as he scratched behind his ear awkwardly. They walked in silence the rest of the way to the borderline. They didn't talk much after they went over it either. Emma just wondered who those lost ones were and what they would be doing south of here.
"How long 'till we reach the town?" Caligo asked.
"I don't know," Sophia groaned. He's been asking her that ever since his hear of falling off Buddy had disappeared and it was beginning to annoy her. "Why do you keep asking if you know I don't know."
"Because you are the unicorn whisperer, ask Buddy if he knows."
"Why don't you ask him yourself, you are the mythical creature just like him."
"He doesn't like me."
Suddenly Buddy stopped, making Sophia and Caligo almost tumble over his neck. "What is it Bud?" Sophia asked him gently as she stroked his neck. His ears were strait up and she felt his body tense under them.
Caligo got off of Buddy's back and slowly walked forward. Then she heard voices, familiar voices. A smile spread across her face as she jumped off of Buddy and walked closer to the voices. Caligo caught her wrist and pulled her behind a tree.
"What are you doing?" Caligo asked her in a whisper.
"I know those voices," she said, yanking her wrist out of his hand. "those are my parents."
"You don't know if they know you, they could be dangerous."
Sophia frowned and peeked around the tree. There they were, her parents. How she had missed them. She just wanted to run over to them, hug them tightly and tell them everything that happened. But Caligo was right, they probably didn't know her or Caligo so they had to be careful.
She saw them stop when they spotted Buddy who was standing not far from the tree they were hiding behind. She saw her mother carefully move closer. Buddy put his ears in his neck, breezing as he moved closer to them to protect them.
Buddy had become rather protective over them the last few days. He would even protect Caligo and Caligo would protect him, not that they would admit to each other that they cared. Apparently even mythical creatures had their ego and pride.
Sophia gently touched Buddy's neck. "Hey, it's okay," she said softly, pushing him a little so she could walk past him. She heard Caligo protesting behind her but she ignored him. "Hi," she said a bit awkward to her mother.
"Who are you?" her mother asked. She tried to ignore the sting she felt when they didn't recognize her.
"I'm Sophia and this," she grabbed Caligo's arm and yanked him to her from behind the tree. "is Caligo."
"Who's the unicorn?" Killian asked from behind Emma. Emma rolled her eyes at him and he just smirked.
"That's Buddy," Sophia said with a soft smile.
"Are you two working for Pan?" Emma asked them warily.
"No, we were imprisoned by him," Caligo said as he straitened himself beside her.
"Wait, imprisoned?" Emma and Killian shared a look. "are you the two powerful sorcerers?"
"It appears so," Caligo said bored.
"We aren't really that much use actually," Sophia said and held up her hand, showing the cuff around her wrist. "This blocks most of our magic and we can't get it off."
"Maybe there is something in the camp that can help you," Killian suggested and Emma gave him a glare before taking his arm and walking back a little.
Sophia turned to Caligo and crossed her arms. "They aren't dangerous."
"How would I have known that? I've been living in that dark hell hole just as long as you have."
"Have a little faith in my parents."
Caligo rolled his eyes. "Just because they are 'heroes' doesn't mean they are always good."
"But a bit of good will always make its way through."
Sophia looked away from Caligo when she heard her parents walk back to them. "Can you defeat Pan?" Emma asked, raising her chin.
"If you can help us get our magic back then yes, we can," Caligo said, raising his chin as well. Sophia rolled her eyes and stepped forward.
"There is actually a lot more going on than just Pan's evil ruling," she said.
"What do you mean?" Killian asked, giving her a curious look.
"Can we maybe go to this camp first? We are pretty tired and Buddy needs to rest as well."
Emma and Killian shared a look before Killian nodded and Emma sighed. "Alright," she said. "follow us."
"Aren't we going to knock them out like you did when I first came?" Killian asked Emma as he fell in to pass beside her and raised his eyebrow at her. Sophia, Caligo and Buddy followed them.
"For one, we don't have Mary Margaret's tranquilizer darts," Emma explained. "and two, if they really are powerful enough to stop Pan than tranquilizer darts wouldn't be enough."
Caligo snorted a laugh beside Sophia. "What?" she asked in a more hushed voice.
"Tranquilizer darts would be more than enough to get us down," he said, matching her hushed voice as he leaned down a bit. "especially now with these cuffs."
"Don't let them hear that," she whispered back with a smile.
"Already heard it," Killian said without looking behind him, making both Caligo and Sophia look at him.
Caligo scoffed. "I never liked your parents," he mumbled under his breath. Sophia just smiled and shook her head. She was simply happy that she was with her parents again, that she knew they were okay. It didn't really look like they were together from the way they act around each other but there was definitely something that they both knew of but didn't want to voice.
They just need a little help with that.
"You asked for me?" Rufio said as he walked into the throne room. Pan straitened himself as he addressed Rufio.
"Yes, where were you?" he asked and raised his eyebrow.
"Uhm… I was just playing with some of the lost boys," Rufio said as he pointed behind him with a confused expression.
Pan stood. "And you didn't think I wanted to join?"
"Was I supposed to invite you?"
Pan glared at him and crossed his arms. "That is what friends do."
"Are we friends then?" Rufio narrowed his eyes. "Was this whole competition just so you could get a new friend?"
Pan uncrossed his arms and looked away before looking back with a glare. "You don't question your king."
"You just miss Felix and I'm supposed to be his replacement."
Pan clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. "How do you know about Felix?" he hissed.
Rufio laughed. "You aren't that subtle in hiding your emotions, sire. Everyone knows about Felix and why he isn't here anymore."
Pan's body filled with rage. In Neverland he was much more subtle in hiding his emotions but since the stupid curse everything had changed. His cursed self was less subtle and he hated that even now it affected him.
"Tell you what, I don't want to be your second-in-command or your best friend," before Pan could respond Rufio turned and walked out of the room.
"Your scar is on the wrong side anyway!" Pan yelled after him before he turned to the guards. "Leave. Now!"
The guards bowed their heads and left the room hasty. When the doors closed Peter gripped his hair and let out a scream. Ever since this curse Peter's life had been perfect, he had everything, but still nothing. All of this, it just felt like it didn't matter.
Peter hated to admit it but he regrets killing Felix. He admits that he thought Sophia would take his best friend from him, but in the end it was just all his fault. He made Felix do things he didn't want to do. No matter how much he wanted to blame Sophia for everything he knew he was the only one to blame.
So he was the one who was going to fix it.
Peter calmed his rage and left the throne room. He walked down the hallway until he stopped before two large doors. He took a deep breath and pushed the doors open, revealing a massive library. If there's a way to bring Felix back then Peter should find it here.
He walked to the 'Strange worlds and Magic' section and grabbed all the books he could find about the underworld and anything that had to do with death. Peter placed all the books on a table and sat down behind it, grabbing his first book and started reading.
He found the usual; a life for a life, but Peter knew that Felix wouldn't trade someone's life so he could live. Well, not since Sophia. Before her he would have done it gladly. That stupid bitch had to make this harder than it already was.
Peter snorted to himself as he closed the book and grabbed a new one. For another hour or so this was his routine. Open new book, page, page, page, page, close book and repeat. He sighed as he rubbed his eyes and looked out the window, seeing that the sun already had set.
He yawned and starched his muscles. He skipped dinner by the looks of it but he wasn't feeling hungry anyway. Peter decided to read through one last book before calling it a night. So he shoved the old one away and placed the new on right in front of him. He rested his head on his hand as he looked through it, seeing nothing that he didn't know already.
Just when his eyes started to feel droopy and sleep started to take him something on the page caught his eyes. Peter straitened himself, blinking and rubbing his eyes as he ready the text again.
"'As many know True Love is the most powerful magic in the world. Everyone has one True Love. This is the reason why many True Love couples don't even let death separate them. There are myths of men and women who went to the underworld to retrieve their love by splitting their hearts and giving the other half to their love.'" Peter read to himself. A small smile crawled its way up his mouth but soon turned into a frown when he realized three things.
One, Sophia is Felix True Love.
Two, she's locked away in a prison millions of miles away from here that is guarded by a creature that even he doesn't want to encounter.
Three, she fucking hates him.
Still, he had to try. It was his only chance on getting Felix back without having him hate him more. He looked back at the book and scanned the page, huffing in frustration when half of the text was gone because of leaky ink. There was nothing about it actually working, even when he searched through a few more books. Not one book spoke of this True Love heart splitting thing except for the one with the missing text.
Great, just what he needed.
Peter rubbed his face as he stood up. Maybe he would find something tomorrow when he wasn't half asleep. He stretched his arms above his head as he walked out of the library to his bedroom. He noted how quiet it was at night in the halls. Not many guards and no servants walked by.
He rounded a corner and saw Violet just leave her healing station. She spotted him and gave him a flirty smile. He wanted to smirk back but the corners of his mouth could only frown deeper. Violet walked up to him, swaying her hips.
"What are you doing here so late, Your Majesty?" the purred as she stopped before him and placed her hand on his shoulder, playing with the fabric of his shirt.
"Nothing important," he mumbled, looking away from her.
"Well, you look sad," she said softly, cocking her head. "is there anything I could do to make you feel better?"
Peter shook his head. "I'm fine," he said before walking past her and to his bedroom. As much as he liked this version of Violet, the only thing that occupied his mind right now was Felix and Sophia. Yes, Sophia occupied his mind. Mostly because he need her to get Felix back, so he had to find a way to get her to help him.
It's not like she wouldn't want Felix back, it's more her trust he needed. She probably wouldn't believe him if he told her there was a way to get him back, and she would try to kill him if he wasn't careful.
Peter sighed as he entered his chambers and walked straight to his bed, letting himself fall face first into the comforters. Tomorrow he would think of a way to get Sophia to work with him. For now he just needed a night without any nightmares of his best friend.
A/N: Thank you all for reading! So the next chapter is the last one of the first part of season 2. I hope you all enjoyed it. I personally liked this season more than the first. What do you think? let me know in the reviews ;) also if you have any ideas I would love to hear them!