"No!" the collective scream rang out and rebounded off every possible surface surrounding them, she had been fighting off the on-going stream of Lost Boys and trying to get to her son when it had happened. Pan's laughter set every cell in her body alight, she finally knew what Regina must have felt like upon being tortured by Greg and Tamara for here she was looking at a grinning Peter Pan holding Henry close to his body with one strong arm and the other deep in the brunette's chest, all gasped as he pulled Regina's heart out and looked at it as if it were some sort of parasite.

Fighting had stopped, a choice had to be made that much was clear. All simply watched as the blonde made her way towards the raised dirt mound on which the two most important people of her life were being held. Henry had tears streaming down his face as he watched the pain flashing intermittently over his adoptive mother's face as the boy holding him captive squeezed with nothing but clear glee on his face. He hadn't even noticed his birth mother approaching, he was too horrified, his vision tunnelled and watery.

Regina's face was strained as she attempted to remain calm and composed enough to speak, no tears fell from dark eyes as they moved to Emma's face, she wouldn't give him the satisfaction. Her legs were weakening but she willed herself to remain upright as she watched her true love coming closer.

The brunette knew all too well what this felt like, the pain of watching a loved one's heart being ripped from their body yet the only part that hurt was knowing that Emma was going to have to make the choice herself, that it was going to haunt the younger woman for the rest of her life…but there was no alternative, Henry was the only choice and both had agreed that should something ever come to this they would chose him…

"You need to decide Saviour, who lives?" he flung Henry out in front as if he were some sort of prize on a tacky game show, "the boy you abandoned so long ago? Could you do that again to save your true love?" he then squeezed harder on Regina's heart in order to garner a moan of pain from the woman but instead she merely kept her eyes locked onto Emma's green before speaking in a much steadier voice than any could have expected.

She smiled weakly at the blonde, trying so desperately to keep strong for the younger woman and their son but knowing this was it…these were going to be her last moments on this earth.

"You know what to do Emma," she spoke softly, wincing at the blonde's quivering lip, "we've always known it could come to this, but just know…" her voice was breaking slightly now from the sheer pressure of emotion weighing heavily on her chest, "you have made the last of my time in any world so special and I cannot thank you enough for that" her words were merely a whisper on the air but Emma caught every one as if her life depended on it, every syllable causing her heart to break a little more.

"Henry, baby…" she began now looking to the boy on the other side of their captor, "I'm sorry, I love you so much my darling, please remember that…" her words were cut short by the tightening of a hand on her heart, the vice like grip was just on the border of being crushing, the air was forced from her body as she fell to the ground, the movement accompanied by sounds of distress from those that she had come to find her son with, she had found him now, he would be safe…she had done her job.

"I'm assuming this is your decision then?" he snarled as he looked to the once powerful Queen on the ground, "the boy is your choice?" he didn't seem surprised by the closeness of Emma now, he did however notice the slight change in her complexion, her usually pale skin was practically shimmering…a golden light just under the surface. Regina had never seen anything so beautiful in her life and could only hope to remain conscious to see just a little more of it before Pan's hand completely closed around her heart.

"Emma…what are you-" her words were coming out in pants now as black spots flickered in her vision, her hands coming out to hold her weight above the ground as she could almost feel the life leaving her body. Bright white light broke through filling every part of her before she succumbed to the force dragging her away from this life, with the feeling of her son's hands on her face, his tears cascading down and seeping into her skin, she forced one small smile on her face before completely letting go.

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"I don't think you did it right…" her son's voice was distant, as if a thick fog had descended and he was lost within it.

"Well how else am I supposed to do it kid?" Emma's voice sounded slightly closer as she felt the tingling of her limbs beginning to reawaken.

"I don't know but clearly not like that!" Regina would have laughed had it not been for her current form of unconsciousness, although she could feel herself coming back she couldn't force her eyes to open, couldn't move her fingers in signal of her life as she heard the two who she could now identify as being above her whilst she lay on the ground.

She wasn't dead…she was still here, albeit unconscious but she was here!

The brunette felt warm hands on her cheeks as hot breath skirted across her lips, "come on Regina," Emma whispered almost desperately as her lips brushed across the full red of the woman lying on the ground, "I need you, I love you"

She gasped as a blast of air was forced into her body upon Emma's lips meeting her own, instantly her eyes opened as she finally regained control over herself. Henry's yelp of surprise and joy almost went unnoticed as brown eyes locked with a green pair hovering mere millimetres away from her face, golden hair falling back in place after the gust of wind had attempted to push her away but to no avail. None in the clearing could stop the tears from streaming down their face as they heard a breathy, yet husky "I love you too" emitted from Regina's lips.

Pan was gone, Henry was safe and Regina was alive…

"Now let's go home"