A/N the song for this chapter is Scarlet by In This Moment. I feel this song represents so many of my otp's (dramione) *QUE HATERS* ha bye - areej
hope-| a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.
Peters POV
After I kissed her, the evil hazed fog cleared up. I knew it wasn't gone completely. It has scarred her enough, once you go bad, you can never go back. However it was enough to make her stay herself, and at this precise moment it was all I needed. She will be a little harsher. But better then completely horrid all the same.
"You're back" I say grinning slyly.
She nods and embraces me.
"Peter, I still feel evil inside me though, I feel less rage but still quite angry all the same, but I cannot name any reason to be so angry, I can't quite describe it, but it's like a fire that just keeps getting wilder, it's not me, I'm not like this. I just want to be myself again." She says looking down at the grassy ground.
I lift her chin up with my finger. "You are still the same girl I fell in love with. Nobody will change that, ever. Remember that night when I asked why you didn't hate me even though I was evil? You said it was because you thought that there is evil in all of us, some people just don't know how to show it. We are all selfish human beings. You're still you Crystal, you always will be, only you can control that, nobody else.
She nods, "I'm going back to camp" and with that she turns on her heels, and walks away. I watch her until she becomes a figure in the distance. Meanwhile I had other matters to attend to. We all knew that the saviour was going to launch a 'surprise' attack at night, not so surprising when your 10 steps ahead of their game. It was all so predictable, you cannot launch a surprise attack, not against me, not when I know this island down to it's existence. Not when I'm angry at them for even thinking of hurting Crystal, and yet they have the audacity to consider themselves hero's. We are all selfish beings.
What I wasn't planning for was Henry staying, Neverland being quite drunk with the power, and of course falling in love with Crystal, all the while she doesn't know Henry wants to go home but doesn't wanna leave her.
I couldn't tell her. She would leave me like Wendy. But she should trust me, It was an internal conflict in my mind. She would figure it out, eventually. I couldn't bear the thought of her leaving, my heart cannot handle this.
I was not letting that happen. I have to keep Crystal spending less time with Henry, so he wouldn't expose his inner feelings in the little things, I have to keep Crystal away from her parents so they don't manipulate and attempt to kill her, I have to keep Henry away from his parents so he doesn't coax Crystal into leaving, Keep Crystal away from Rumple, keep him away from me because he's an absolute nuisance. Then I have to keep Neal away from Emma, as much as I love a good drama scene, I don't need her becoming any more powerful, I have to keep hook away from Charming and keep my shadow in line.
It was definitely going to be much more, complicated, at least more than I expected. But I could manage it, I had to sustain this, I refused to lose her. But I needed a viable solution, a permanent solution.
I needed to find the Siren of the Lake.
She would help me send them back home never to return, making us safer, and Henry and Crystal would stay here, and his idiotic complicated family would never return. The only flaw, was that she was rather.. Difficult. She always expects things, impossible things, nothing less. If you break a deal, she infiltrates your mind, exposing your darkest secrets, desires and she uses it against you. You cannot break a deal with her. She's the female of Rumple, but far more treacherous, her existence is based, purely on the intention of her evil deeds. Her mind games are haunting. She feeds on fear.
I could not tell Crystal I was going, I hated lying to her but I cannot stand the thought of her leaving me too. I'll tell Felix to occupy her, make sure she doesn't get suspicious. He has to double the guards and be wary all around, it isn't safe and we have to make sure we're on full alert for their sly attacks. Felix doesn't know the island fully, thats the main disadvantage. But he will do, for now.
But for now I have to go back to camp, and I have to prepare for this useless battle, in which I know they will not win, however they still will attempt to hurt Crystal. I don't need a replay of what happened to her. I have enough distractions as it is anyway.
Besides they know she's my weakness. Its already written, why get the chance to take Henry when they can steal Crystal away from me too? They'll try to capture her and Henry. They'll injure her to get to him, and hurt me in the process. Because they're just as ruthless as me, only they claim to be saving him for the greater good. They hurt an innocent girl just to hurt me. Yet they state that they are better than me, they are no better.
I have to leave to get the water, reason with the Siren, keep Crystal protected and keep everybody away from each other. But clearly that won't prove to be easy. Especially if I leave to get the solution to my problems, but at what expense?
I could take Crystal with me, she'd probably be safest there. I could protect her. 'But can you trust her?' the voices spread doubt throughout my mind like a plague. I pushed it aside, of course I can trust her.
Can I...?
Crystals POV
He must really think I am a blithering idiot. I know Henry wants to go home. I can tell in his body language, his eyes, or maybe its a sibling intuition, either way he is terrible at hiding his emotions. Pan doesn't know yet, but I can tell when people are lying, like Henry's birth mother, I ask him how he's doing, and he just tells me 'fine'.
I don't know what Pan's up to, but I've been watching him pace in frustration tearing at his hair for 10 minutes now, he's clearly worked up about something, and once again he's keeping it to himself rather than opening up, he builds walls over and over again.
I finally had it when I jumped out of my hiding place, he jumped at the sound, but calmed down a little when he realized it was just me.
"I know what you're hiding, I know Henry wants to go home, but I don't want to leave you Peter, so stop second guessing that, if they try and take me, no matter what I'll always come back to you, you've been the one who protected me, not them. My loyalty nor love will never falter. Now I want you to tell me everything right now." I say firmly putting a hand on my hips.
"Well alright, so the only way to make Henry happy is to make him go home. But then you wouldn't be happy, which is why I was planning to leave, there is a lake with water properties capable of anything, the magical waters of Lilith will solve our answers, somehow. But it is guarded by a fierce psychotic siren, she is manipulative and kills for sport drowning men using their fears, she feeds off it, she cannot be killed unless she is removed from the water, but she will never leave. The journey is 3 days time. I was going to go alone." He says stepping so close we were an inch away, I could feel his warm breath lingering on my face.
"I'm going with you. You know that right?" I say. After everything, like I'd let him go and risk his life for me, If something happened to him I would never forgive myself.
He sighs "I knew you'd be stubborn." I smirk in response, damn right.
"How did you know about Henry though?" He asks
I've been dreading telling him, I wasn't sure how he'd react but I suppose it's better he found out now.
"Peter I can tell when people are lying. I don't know why, or how. But I just can." I say quietly
His eyes widened, and I braced myself for the worst.
"Then maybe Regina isn't your real mother, If you were born in the enchanted forest and got sent to the real world that means you must be from the future"
You're a future daughter of somebody. Obviously Robin Hood. But it may be Regina it may not. In the real world a minute here and in the enchanted forest is a day there. So it only makes sense when the curse came you were just born, but they didn't know. And you were sent away from storybrooke. Which means your from the future. And you may disappear. unless we get the water." Peter says finally
That was a lot to take in. I pretended it was okay. We had to go right away. We ran back to camp. Peter set up orders for everybody. I said goodbye to Henry. And also said it's okay if he wanted to go home. I told him to fight hard and that I'll be back.
I wasn't quite sure about the last statement. But hope is the foundation of an army.
Me and Peter had to travel through 5 realms to get the proper materials to
kill the siren. Then we had to travel through the enchanted forest to her land. All the while trying not to get killed by the queen of hearts In Wonderland. We had to get the mushroom from her chamber. Then we had to get a lock of hair from the darkest of creatures. And we also need a product of true love but I didn't know what that really meant.
Suddenly I remembered something. I was bonded with the island. "Peter how can I go? I'm bonded with this island"
He smirked knowingly, "I am the heart and soul of this island, nothing can happen to you if I permit you to go"
We had to run through the thick growth of the forest. We could hear the battle screams about. It was frightening. He stopped abruptly. And pointed to the mushrooms. He grabbed a bean from his pocket in his patched cloak. He crushed it grabbed my hand and pulled me through the swirling portal.
First up was wonderland.
A/N - it was quite brief just to explain what was going to happen. Hope you enjoyed it! It's gonna get very exciting from here I promise