The Piper's Song ~OUAT Peter Pan fanfiction (Book 1)

"...a simple glance from the past."

Running across the stony path anxiously with tears rushing from her eyes, Anne nearly collapsed in front of her brother's cage. Impatiently she yanked off the key around her neck and unlocked the lock keeping the cage closed. Instantly when the chains fell to the ground, the door was yanked open. Much relief welled inside of Anne when she saw her brother's desperate face. "Anne!" He cried and he pulled her into a hug. 
        "Thank goodness! I thought Pan was tricking me," the little Beastly sister cried back squeezing her brother like it would be their last interaction.

Pulling away from each other, Anne quickly put her precious key back on. "We've got to get out of here," Felix told her eagerly. Without responding, he received a nod then the siblings escaped the echo caves. On the way out, Anne halted. "What are you doing? We have to escape," Felix spoke trying to rush her. She stopped him quickly.  
        "No--wait I need something," Anne spoke cautiously.
        "What is it?" 
        "It's not here--"
        "Then what are we doing?!"
        "Pan had some lost boys follow me to come rescue you. We've got to lose them first before we can get to it," Anne told him.
        "What do you need?" Felix asked again.
        "You don't happen to have squid ink do you?" She asked. It took a moment for Felix to process, he shook his head to straighten in what she was saying.
        "No--"
        "Then we've got to go to the mermaids lagoon--"
        "Wait--is that what you need?"
        "Precisely," Anne assured him quietly.
        "That can paralyze a person," Felix mentioned unsure if his sister knew what she was doing.
        "I'm aware. That's why I need it," she told him.
        "What do you plan to do with it?"
        "I'll tell you after I've got it. Now listen. When we get outside, the lost boys will probably be on both sides of us. When I give you a look, you bolt. I'll go the opposite direction to throw them off. They'll split then go after each of us. Lose them and meet me at the lagoon, okay?"
        "But, are you sure we can lose them?" Felix asked anxiously.
        "You know this place. You've been with them long enough, I'm sure you can."
        "But what about you?"
        "I'll be fine, I can do it."
        "Are you sure?"
        "More then sure. Now come on!"  

Escaping into the outside world again, within an instant they were founded by Pan's lost boys. Trying to act casual long enough, Anne gave Felix her special look. He then bolted and she went in the other direction running, just as they planned. Just right after they split up, the lost boys split themselves and began chasing the Beastly children, just as predicted.

Felix tried taking clever turns to throw the boys chasing him off and he did at one point. Taking a heavy stick nearby, he hid himself. An upcoming lost boy came and Felix knocked him hard in the nose. They collapsed, blacking out and the Beastly boy escaped once more but not before stripping his fallen lost boy of any weapons so that he could protect himself.

Specifically Benjamin was on Anne's tail while she ran. Some lost boys followed behind him. Anne couldn't help herself and played around a little. At one point she was playing around a tree, precariously. It took a moment but Benjamin finally snatched her and slammed her into the tree. She held a smirk on her face. "Shes mine!" He barked at the boys behind him.
        "Not necessarily, Benjamin--"
        "Shut up," He snapped dangerously. "You're the reason Pan felt like using me for his own jealously--"
        "Oh, that was jealously? I just thought he was better then you--"
        "Not even the slightest!" Anne laughed some.
        "Of course. There's always got to be one of those over-confident boys who believe he can win over leadership of the group he's in--not to Pan though, he's just too powerful if you ask me," Anne played. Benjamin slammed her again.
        "It's your fault I was humiliated! And you're going to pay--"
        "What can I say--I guess now you know not to toy with the King's property then, huh?"
        "And what's that property going to do about it?" Benjamin tested. Anne's mouth slid into a smile.
        "You really want to test me?" She asked.
        "Actually, I do," the mindless lost boy replied.
        "Okay," Anne shrugged, "you asked for it." Then she used her iron knee and knocked him her most hardest, harder then when Pan did the same to him. Of course Benjamin flinched and it threw him off some, only slightly. But it was just enough for Anne to yanked her way out from behind him. He almost turned when she slammed his chest into the tree she had just left, where she got a hold of his fingers on both hands and tortured them. Benjamin cried out as Anne was cornered by the lost boys that followed him.

Eventually she was forced to let go and defend herself. Her adrenaline was really pumping now. She was suddenly feeling more powerful then she ever had been and like a bolt of lightening she was there then she vanished. Most of the lost boys lay terribly weak on the ground by this point while she ran off.  And while it might've surprised an onlooker she could escape, it surprised the one and only herself. It was a blurry battle but she had achieved freedom. Then without even looking back, she ran all the way to the mermaid's lagoon.

Getting there, something like the body of another person suddenly knocked into her and they both fell to the ground. Stabilizing herself, Anne's heart sank with relief when she saw her brother. "You did it!" Felix couldn't help but yell with much surprise.
        "And you're surprised?" Anne replied, breathless then knocking loose strands of her hair from her face, getting up.
        "Well I just thought--"
        "Do you remember that day in the cave? How I defeated Pan? Yeah," Anne scoffed, "no, you shouldn't be surprised." Felix was standing himself now. 
        "Sorry," he told her innocently.
        "You should be," the little Beastly sister spoke then began walking towards the lagoon.

Reaching just outside Pan's hideout now with the squid ink put away, Anne and Felix hid behind some bushes. They peeked inside only to find that Pan was motioning and directing some lost boys to bring in a cage. Anne's eyes widened.

"Alright, that's good," Pan spoke. The lost boys carrying in the cage now, placed it onto the forest floor. "Bring them in," he said. Anne perked with instant caution. "What--" Felix began but was cut off when some lost boys popped up behind the siblings startling them and grabbing them.
        "Found you," they laughed and pulled them forcefully into the hideout.
        "Welcome!" Pan perked, "back," he finished darkly. "Anne I told you running away..." Pan started shaking his head, "tisk, tisk...not a good idea. I'm displeased."
        "Good," she spat.
        "And now here you both are again...tell me...where'd you run off too?" Pan thought a moment. "I guess...was it to meet a certain group of rescuers? And perhaps you didn't find them..." Suddenly opening his arm looking as if he were directing their eyes, inside the hideout came Henry's family tied and being held captive by lost boys. Anne gasped.
        "You little bitch!" Snapped Regina causing the little Beastly girl to flinch. Regina tried to go for Anne and was yanked back by some rope and slammed into a tree. Just then, Henry's family was being tied to this tree, and Rumple as well, and another man, Baelfire. On Rumple's wrist, he wore a black cuff.
        "Wh-what are you guys doing here?!" Anne asked anxiously. Pan smiled.
        "They decided to come in and save Henry themselves...not the first time. Quite foolish, isn't it?" He asked turning towards Henry's captivated family.
        "We trusted you--" Regina started but was cut off.
        "Regina she had to!" Snapped Baelfire, or Neal. Anne felt tears prick her eyes.
        "Or did she?" tried Emma just as angry as Regina. Snow, Charming, and Hook looked highly disappointed. Snow was shaking her head, anger on her face. Charming looking saddened and Hook was rolling his eyes. Rumple looked different. He looked almost pleased looking at Anne.
        "Of course she did," Rumple replied to Emma still looking at Anne. "We all have to make sacrifices," he said looking down. Angry tears now spilling from Anne's eyes she glared at Pan.
        "What is this anyway?!" She snapped addressing to the cage. He grinned.
        "Release her," he told the lost boys holding her. They did. Pushing the lost girl towards Pan, everyone grew silent. Coming over, he snatched the roped key off her neck making her wince with pain. Anne looked back at her brother. He waited for her to go for what she planned, his face in much earnest. She ignored him looking back at Pan. "Is that them? Is that my parents?"
        "It's a simple glance from the past," he told her, coming down and beginning to slide her key inside the lock keeping the cage closed.
        "I knew it," Anne couldn't help but mention. She waited.

It didn't surprise her Pan knew her key unlocked anything and she wasn't surprised he knew about her plotting with Henry's family. "Presenting..." Pan started with a grin, "the first lost boy and girl!"

~And the cage was swung open.