Chapter sixty

Gold yawned as he continued to look through his inventory, a moment later, the door opened and he smiled at the new arrival holding two cups of coffee.

"I had no idea that you would take to this realms beverages so quickly," he smirked as Cora came over and placed the to-go cup on the counter.

"It was more the machine to make it that threw me, the drink itself is quite pleasant," the former Queen of Hearts chuckled.

Gold smirked and then leaned forward to capture her lips in his own, but at that very moment, purple smoke bellowed out and Regina appeared with Emma.

Regina's eyes widened as she saw her mother jumping away from her former-teacher, she bit her lip and desperately tried to push the implications away from the forefront of her mind.

She quickly exchanged a look with her girlfriend, but the sheriff was still being deadly silent after the revelation from her parents and the mayor rolled her eyes and turned back to face Cora who looked like she was about to explain before Regina held up her hand to stop her.

"We have a problem," she said after a moment's hesitation.

Gold nodded for the woman to continue and she said, "Peter Pan is in Storybrooke and he's after Henry."

Cora looked between Regina and Gold and waited for an explanation, but the shock on her lover's face told her the situation was much direr than it appeared to be.

"Who is Peter Pan?" she finally asked.

Gold just shook his head and Regina rolled her eyes, "his father."

Cora's eyes widened and she shot Gold a critical look, he had never talked about his family with anyone.

"What does he want with Henry?" the man asked through gritted teeth.

Emma looked up at Regina as she finally realised that they had forgot to tell the Dark One a certain piece of information, Regina's eyes widened, in all of the commotion, they hadn't called Gold and told him about the contents of the video.

Regina blew out a breath and nodded, she knew that it would probably be more than difficult for her girlfriend outside and she imagined that if what she thought was going on between him and her mother, than he could hardly lash out at her.

"Pan…he did something," she began, she knew that there was no good way to word this, but she was determined to try anyway. Gold furrowed his brow and nodded for her to continue, "he took Neal's heart and crushed it…"

Gold's eyes widened and he said for clarification, "he killed my son."

Regina nodded and watched his expression change from one of complete and utter grief to indifference with a few cracks in it.

"I'm…" Regina began but Gold held up his hand.

"Do you know why he is after Henry?" the grieving father asked, clearly trying to distract himself so that he wouldn't breakdown in front of his company.

Cora looked at him for a moment, she considered placing her hand over his but she was very aware of the fact that neither of them were particularly comfortable with public displays of affection, and Regina did not look to be in the right place to find this information out, or at least not to find out for sure.

"He is after his heart," Emma offered, seeing that the silence had already stretched out for far too long.

Gold nodded and thought about this for a moment, "I suppose the heart of the boy who was able to believe so deeply in the existence of the curse would be particularly potent."

"For what?" Cora asked.

Gold let out a breath and shook his head, "I'm afraid that is not something I can tell you, but I would be if I was a betting man, it would have something to do with eternal youth."

Regina raised her eyebrow, she hadn't thought about the fact that Pan must have lived longer than his son.

"I shall do some research and get back to you," he continued after no one said anything.

Regina sighed and nodded, she looked to Emma who seemed to agree that they should probably leave, even if the brunette wasn't too fond of the idea of leaving them together.

The mayor turned on her heels and was about to go and open the door for her girlfriend when her mother grabbed her arm.

"Regina…" she began.

Said woman shook her head and looked over at the man gripping the counter, desperately trying to hide his emotions.

"Not right now," she whispered and Cora allowed her hand to drop to her side.

She smile gratefully and turned back to talk to Gold.

-The next day-

"You're being a child," Regina said as she continued to sip at her coffee while proof reading one of the many reports she had to catch up on following all of the crisis's of the past few months. She was aware that Pan could be an issue, but he had yet to do anything to constitute 'crisis. They hadn't even heard from him since his attempt to take Henry and the brunette was now protected by the most powerful spells that Regina and her mother could think of. Gold seemed convinced that Henry only needed to protect his heart until the minute at which he was born and then there was nothing that Pan could do to complete his ritual, she was pretty confident that they could look after him until the next day.

Emma looked up from her plate where she was dissecting her scrambled egg and grimaced, "what if you found out that Cora was pregnant?"

Regina raised her eyebrow in amusement at her girlfriend's petulant expression, even if she felt a little pang in her stomach thinking who the father would be, and replied, "that would be very different."

"How?"

"Because, my mother is not the same age as me," Regina laughed and then noticed Emma's hand tightly gripping the wheel on her chair. "It would be unfair to expect them to not have any more children, do you honestly believe you would be an only child if you had grown up in the Enchanted Forest?"

"They would have at least waited a few years," the blonde grumbled.

Regina rolled her eyes and placed her iPad down, "I hardly think it was planned dear."

Emma closed her eyes against the implications and shook her head, "that is not the point…"

"Then what is the point?"

"It'll sound stupid," the saviour grumbled.

Regina's expression softened, and she replied, "I think I may know what the issue is…perhaps you should talk to a professional?"

"How would Archie help with…." She trailed off and looked back down at her breakfast.

"Because I don't know how to convince you that this new child isn't a replacement," Regina sighed and brought her hand across to rest on the taller woman's shoulder.

"I have been sent to therapy most of my life, why would it help now?"

"Because, now you can take yourself and actually talk to a therapist you trust," Regina said softly, Emma took a deep breath and looked up at the other woman.

"Could you call him for me?"

The brunette smiled, she was sure that this was going to be far more difficult.

"Of course," with that, she stood and kissed the other woman on the cheek before going off in search of the phone.

-In the forest-

Wendy sat on a tree stump with her face resting on her fist, she watched as Pan paced back and forth and rolled her eyes, "are we just going to wait here for you to age?"

Pan rolled his eyes and rounded on the teen, "if Felix is as capable as he claims, then we that won't happen," he said through gritted teeth.

Wendy looked around at all of the other Lost Boys gathered around them, she understood that they had to escape the Neverland that was falling apart, but this place hardly seemed any better.

"And then what?" she asked raising from the tree stump.

The blonde teen pinched the bridge of his nose, and said, "and then we make a new Neverland."

Wendy raised her eyebrow and looked around the forest, "here?"

"Not just here, the entirety of Storybrooke will be our playground, once I have rid it of its pesky heroes of course."

"I got it!" Felix shouted as he ran into the clearing holding a phial of clear liquid.

Pan launched forward and grabbed it with a huge smile on his face and began to inspect it, "very well done, Felix. Now lets hope that that you will make a convincing Henry."

A/N Reviews would be much appreciated XD