Dream snuck back into her house and up to her room. She took a much-needed shower, before changing into clothes rather than the ones she was wearing for the past week.
She got out of the shower when she moved to sit on the bed, looking around her childhood room. She thought about what she and Hook talked about. She waved her hand up, which caused her room to start cleaning itself up. She stopped, when she saw the books from her desk, float over to her bookshelf. Underneath the books was a map.
Dream stood up to walk over to the map, seeing that it was still marked with all the places she planned on visiting. Dream smiled as she ran her fingers over the map, seeing a sticker that had Disney World marked in Florida.
She sighed to herself when she wondered what the world would have been like if only she decided to go to Princeton, instead of coming back home. She went to shake out of the thoughts, setting the map back down, when she looked at the necklace that Hook gave her on her dresser.
She would have never met him. Or Cora. Or anything about this life. She might have not even learned about the truth of the curse.
Was it a good thing or not that she stayed?
Meanwhile, at Granny's, Hook came out of the bathroom. He left for Granny's while Dream headed home to change since she did not want to be seen in her clothes yesterday. He adjusted his leather vest before walking out to the back of Granny's diner. He was walking back when Tinker Bell came out of the bathroom, bumping into him.
"Hook!" She exclaimed when she noticed it was him. "Are you okay?" She asked when she noticed his frustrated face.
"I'm fine, love." He said with a chuckle when she turned to walk back to the diner, but he caught up with her, stopping her. "The question is, are you?" He asked her with a smirk when she scoffed at him.
"Why wouldn't I be?" She asked him, noticing what he was doing.
"Well, I know that Storybrooke can be a disorienting place if you're not used to it. Perhaps a drink to help settle you in?" He smirked, holding up his rum bottle.
"We both know you want more than a drink. You want me to help take your mind off of what happened this morning..." Tinker Bell said, holding up her phone to show that she was texting Dream. "And yeah, I know. Dream is becoming one of my best friends, and that's why I'm here... I may have lost my wings, but I haven't lost my dignity." Tinker Bell said, watching Hook sigh, looking down at his bottle.
"Apologies, Lady Bell..." Hook apologized, before wondering what Dream exactly told Tinker Bell. "What did she say? You know, Dream--" Hook was stopped when the two heard a woman screaming.
The two of them rushed out of the back door, rushing to the entrance of Granny's to see David and Emma pull up in David's truck, while Dream got out of the car that Gold got her for her sixteenth birthday.
There was a woman's scream again when they all looked around.
"What was that?" Emma asked, closing the door to David's truck. "We had the same question." Hook sighed when Dream walked over to them.
Emma looked between Tinker Bell and Hook since Hook had forgotten a few notches on his vest since he had trouble hooking them with one hand and a hook. "Wait, we're you two..." Emma went to ask, looking at the two.
"No!" The two of them denied it, shaking their heads. The conversation was cut short when there was another scream.
"There!" David said when they rushed off to the church.
Despite the urgency, Dream stopped, looking at Hook and pulling him to the side. "Hey, we haven't talked since this morning..." Dream went to say, hoping Hook was not holding what happened against her. "Yeah, well, there wasn't much talking when you practically left my ship in a hurry." Hook said, rubbing his face and scruffy beard.
"Yeah, I'm sorry about that..." Dream sighed, but Hook stopped her.
"Love, you don't have to apologize." Hook sighed when he knew that she was just building those walls around her heart since what he did to her in Neverland.
"Hook..." Dream sighed when she tried to talk to him, but they were interrupted by screams, before rushing to catch up with the others.
The group was too late. Somehow Pan's shadow ripped out Mother Superior's, killing her as she fell to the ground. "Blue!" Tinker Bell yelled out when David rushed to check her pulse.
"Come on..." David said in a soft whisper, before looking up at the others. "She's gone." He sighed, looking at the other four.
"Why would the Shadow kill her?" Tink asked, looking at the others.
"No idea, love... But I do know the Shadow only takes orders from one person." Hook sighed, glancing at Dream who covered her hand over her mouth.
"Pan..." Emma sighed, looking worried for Henry and everyone else in this town.
Dream stepped aside to call her mom while David called his wife. Mary Margaret and Neal got there before Regina and Henry. Emma and David covered the body with a blanket that Mary Margaret brought from Granny's extra ones from her bed and breakfast. Hook kept looking at Dream, who was standing with Tinker Bell since they were both upset.
"What happened?" Regina asked, rushing over to the group.
"The shadow. It killed her." David sighed, standing up with Emma. "Pan's shadow? Dream and I trapped it on the sail." Regina said when Dream moved away from Tinker Bell to hug her little brother.
"Dream!" Hook and Regina rushed to her side when she gasped as soon as she hugged Henry. The others looked at her worried when Dream's face went white as a ghost when Hook steadied her to stand up. The others looked worried since it was almost never a good sign when Dream got a vision.
"Dream?" Mary Margaret asked when Dream shook her head when she did not see Henry's memories but Pan's. She was mortified when she looked at Henry or the body of her little brother.
"Well, it got free," Emma said, speaking up when Dream did not say anything.
"Hook, let's go back to the ship and get the candle. If it strikes again, we need to be able to capture it." Neal said to Hook, who nodded, going to follow him along with Tink.
"Pan's behind this." Dream spoke up, being vague about what she saw. "I agree." Emma sighed, nodding when she agreed with Dream.
"Well, he's trapped in a box under the floor of Gold's shop," Regina said, looking at the others.
"Who else would be doing this?" Emma asked Regina when Dream kept looking at Henry.
"So, Pan can still hurt me?" Henry asked, sounding scared, while he looked at Regina and only Regina. "We don't know that..." Regina said, trying to comfort him when she did not know what to do.
"But we have to assume he's still a threat." Mary Margaret spoke up, adding to the conversation. "And that he's still after Henry." Emma sighed, looking at Dream because she knew that Dream knew something.
"Then what am I doing here?" Henry asked Emma when all of the adults saw how he looked frightened.
"He's right... He's not safe out in the open." David said when Henry looked at Regina and only Regina again.
"You'll protect me, right?" Henry asked her. "Well, yes, of course." Regina sighed when she hugged Henry.
"Go. We'll take care of the shadow." Emma said to Regina, but she stopped Regina before she could walk away with Henry. "Regina, wait..." Emma said, worried about her gut feeling.
"What?" Regina asked her, confused about what Emma had to say to her.
"Keep a close eye on him," Emma said in a low whisper voice.
"I already said I would," Regina said with a slight scoff when Emma glanced at Dream, then back to Regina. "I know... He just doesn't seem quite himself." Emma sighed, making Regina scoff.
"Really? You mean because he asked for me?" Regina asked, scoffing at Emma.
"No, I didn't... I didn't mean that--"
"That's exactly what you meant." Regina scoffed at her. "You can't face the fact that I'm his mother, too. And maybe, just maybe, he wants me when he's frightened. You forget I have 10 years of soothing his nightmares under my belt. He's fine." Regina scoffed at Emma, since she got annoyed by Emma trying to control her relationship with Henry. "Dream, are you coming?" Regina asked before looking at her daughter when Emma stopped her again.
"It's not about you, Regina. I just have a gut feeling." Emma sighed, trying to explain to Regina what she was feeling, but she did not know how to explain it.
"Well, maybe you can use that gut feeling to find the shadow instead of obsessing over who's gonna comfort our son. Just keep an eye on my daughter because if anything happens--"
"She gets it, Mom." Dream said as Regina nodded, walking off with Henry. "We need to get that box. Pan has something over Henry's mind." Dream whispered to Emma, who nodded.
~season 3, episode 10: "The New Neverland"~
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