Hey everybody,

a new chapter just for you! Hope you like it!

Also, I finally was able to watch the latest OuaT episode, I was SO happy when Outlaw Queen had a scene! They're are just so perfect!

Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Once upon a Time, just the crazy ideas in my head that I incorporated into this story!

Chapter 48

Aura's POV:

Everything was happening so fast; he was touching me everywhere. With my hands tied to the bedpost and him keeping my knees apart, I was restricted from any movement, but I continued shouting for him to let me go. Tears began rolling down my cheeks, and in my mind, I begged for a miracle to happen; for him to stop.

When I felt his hand on the area between my thighs, that's when I knew all my struggling wouldn't change him from doing whatever he planned to do with my body.

Pan holding me down, as he was about to take advantage of me.

The fact that I had dreamt of this scene, and that it was happening at the moment only reinforced my resolve that Pan was a monster; that it was completely and utterly wrong to love him.

I heard him unbuttoning his pants, ready to take me when I pleaded, barely audible, 'Please, Peter. Stop.'

He stopped immediately, making the rope disappear. I sat up, pulling the nightdress hitched to my hips down and cowered to the corner of the bed, far away from him. He looked at me confused, as if he had been taken over by something, like something that brought the wild uncontrollable look with it.

'I'm sorry,' he whispered and disappeared into thin air, leaving me alone.

I broke out into tears, since those were his last words before he had locked me up in the Echo Caves. After some time, I rested the head against the bedpost and fell into a sleepless daze.

There was a knock at the entrance of the treehouse. A long black sheet replaced the door, offering me no insight on who was standing outside. Getting out of bed and pushing the sheet out of the way, I went to see who was knocking.

'May I come in?' Pan asked, balancing a tray with breakfast and flowers on his hands.

'It's your tree house, I was about to leave anyway.'

He stood in the doorway, blocking the entrance. 'I can't let you leave, not after I have just found you. Please, have breakfast with me.'

I didn't understand what game he was playing. His smile; him being nice, it all made me want to forget last day's events, but I didn't.

'I don't think breakfast will make up for yesterday, Pan.'

He sighed defeatedly, as if already anticipating my answer. 'Please, just let me come in. I...I want to apologize.'

Stepping away from the entrance, I let him in and he set the tray on the table. The smell of eggs and sausage reached my nose, my stomach making grumbling noises.

'Why don't you take a bite first?' He offered a stool.

It would've been foolish to decline after a hundred years of eating manifested food that could never really fill my belly, so I sat down. We ate in silence.

'I know you will never forgive me for all the terrible, horrible things I have done to you.' He began after I had set my fork and knife to the side of my plate.

'I can't explain my behaviour yesterday, I don't know what came over me. But I want you to know that I am truly very sorry. For all my actions.' Pan took hold of my hand, gently rubbing his thumb up and down the back of my hand.

I didn't pull away, even if I wanted to. I craved his comforting touch. Damn him.

'Aura, I did want to make you fall in love with me so that I would be more powerful. It never was my plan to love you back. Us being soulmates; that was never planned. But our love; us, we were inevitable. I did love you from the second I laid eyes on you.'

How could he be doing this to me? After a century, now was the time to confess?

'And after all I put you through, I want to make you happy again. I want you to trust me again, and I now it's a lot to ask for, but maybe even love me again. I want to be your True Love, I want us to be together.' Pan got off the stool, never letting my hand go, and knelt before me.

He...he was doing it again. Making me feel all weird and conflicted. But as I looked into his eyes full of sadness and hope, I saw a broken and lost boy, trying to get his love back. He wasn't lying either, his secret in the Echo Caves had, after all, caused the bridge to materialize. Pan was trying his best, and I did believe in second chances. Killian had so easily forgiven me for my wrongdoing and offered to be friends. I believed that even the darkest of all could seek out the light and that evil could have good in them.

That love will overpower the blackness in its True Love's heart. It will overcome the evil…

I recalled reading this sentence in my mother's journal, when I tried to gather more information about what my heart could so. Like Pan had put it…us. We were inevitable. My resolve was faltering, the ice around my heart thawing. I was ready to forgive him, but not love him. Maybe eventually.

'You broke me, Pan. My heart just doesn't work like that anymore, you can't expect me to...' Before I could finish my sentence, his lips found mine in a gentle kiss, ever so softly brushing mine.

'I will do all I can to make you whole again.' he whispered.

That's when I saw a tiny, almost indiscernible, golden gleam sparkling from my chest. And I felt it within me - beating - magic…

Hope. My heart, was beginning to heal itself.

So...yeah...This love is going to be a process, especially for Aura...now that the roles are kinda reversed...

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aureaborealis