Chapter 7: Amateur hour

"Believe in our love, and we can go back." Belle stated. "Take it, Rumple." She begged him to take her hand. "Please. Come home to me."

Rumple sighed. But before he could take her hand, Regina interrupted. "Enough of this!"

"Regina!" Rumple yelled, as she magically strangled Belle.

"Are you really going to fall for this?!" She yelled.

Belle gasped for air. "Rumple... Stop her!"

"What are you doing?" He asked.

"Showing you the truth." She spat. "Look who you're really dealing with."

Belle's form vanished, being replaced by a dark shadow with white glowing eyes. Pan's Shadow. "Pan."

"What is this? ? Did you really believe that was Belle?" Regina had been in a bad mood ever since the team had ran off o find Neal.

Rumple glared at her. "Why are you here?"

"Well, for starters, it appears I'm saving your ass." She hissed. "You were about to be Pan's lunch."

"Oh, what do you care?"

"I care because I've been camping with the Charmings for a week and getting nowhere!" She stated. "If we're gonna get Henry, I need you. I need Rumpelstiltskin."

Rumple sighed deeply. "Well, the problem, dearie, is that Rumpelstiltskin can only stop Pan by dying."

"You're not gonna die at anyone's hands but my own. We're the two most powerful practitioners of magic who have ever lived. The Evil Queen and the Dark One joining forces? I'd say we can find another way to handle one smug teenager."

He shook his head. "You've never faced him. I have. And I know what killing him requires."

"And that is?"

"My life."

Peter walked into the tree house, and saw Lily on the floor, screaming.

He walked over to her, but she crawled away from him. "Stay away from me!" She yelled.

Peter glared at her. "You don't tell me what to do." He stated. "This is my island, and I make the rules."

Lily bit her lip, "Please... I-I just want to be alone."

He sat on the bed. "That's going to be difficult. Seeing as this is my room."

"Wh-what?" She stuttered. "B-but F-Felix... He said I was-"

Peter nodded. "Oh, did I say my room? No, This is our room."

"No." She darted towards the door, but he appeared in front of her.

He pushed her back. "You're not going anywhere."

She gulped. "I-I-"

"You what?"

She looked away. "Nothing..." She remembered what he told her about talking about leaving.

He smirked. "Good."

"Lily's alive?" Hook had been asking the same question for at least half an hour.

Emma sighed. "Yes, she is."

Hook was happy that his daughter was alive. But he was terrified of what Pan wanted from her. "And she's here? On the Island?"

"Yes." Snow said.

"I have to find her." He stated.

Everyone stopped in there tracks. "We will, but first, we have to find Neal." Emma stated.

Hook scratched his chin. "Do you know what Pan does to girls who come to Neverland?"

They shook their heads. "What does he do?"

"He brakes them. In every way possible." His stomach churned. What if it was too late?

Snow gasped. "You mean... He... He..."

"Aye." Hook nodded.

Snow looked over at David. "He's right, we have to find her."

"We'll split up." Emma said.

Everyone nodded in agreement. "Okay... Emma, you go with Snow... We'll save Lily."

Lily squirmed in the arms of the The Dark One.

She didn't yell, but she scratched, bit and glared at him.

He took her back to the hut, in which Baelfire had waited for him. "Papa! What-"

Rumple placed Lily gently to to ground and ran over to Bae, wrapping her arms around his leg. "Bae-"

"Who-?"

"I took her from the pirate who killed your mother, Bae."

His eyes widened. "You kidnapped her?"

"Bae-"

But Baelfire ignored him, and picked Lily in his arms. "What's your name?" He asked softly.

She trusted him. "Lily Jones."

He smiled at her, then looked up at his father angrily, "Where is the pirate?"

"Bae, he's gone. He abandoned her." Rumple stated.

Baelfire scoffed. "So, what are you planning to do with her?"

"She could stay here, keep you company when I'm away." Rumple stated.

Bae would've loved to have a younger sister, but he knew her life would be as miserable as his own. "No. I'm going to make sure she has a good family."

Rumple sighed, "Then let me erase her memories."

"No. Why?"

"So she can forget her past. I can give her new ones, happy ones."

Rumple reached for her, but Bae stepped back. "No. Maybe if she remembers, she'll be reunited with her papa one day."

"So where will you take her?"

"To the Darlings. They'll love her."

"I didn't know you had a daughter." David stated.

Hook sighed. "She was taken away from me, many years ago."

"How?"

"Rumpelstiltskin, he killed my Milah and stole my child."

David nodded. "That's why you wanted to kill him." It wasn't a question.

"I thought he killed Lily too."

From a distance, they could hear the lost boys. There was a bomb fire. "We're close."

They made their way towards the camp, until they heard a loud blood curdling scream.

"Lily!"