A mysterious girl, a town called Storybrooke, an uncanny friendship, a lost boy bent on power, and a hidden evil bubbling under the surface.
Lily lived for as long as she could remember in a town called Storybrooke. Strangely enough, she has no memo...
"We're finally home kid!" She sighed, full of relief. Emma looked out across the water and at the town which she now called home with a hopeful look in her eyes, to her all wrongs had been righted, they'd accomplished their goal of rescuing both Henry and Lily. Unfortunately for her, she was blissfully ignorant to what was going on right underneath her nose.
It had been a month and a halfs worth of time in Neverland, but only a few days in Storybrooke. In the distance a crowd of people that had gathered by the dock cheered and hollered in celebration. Among them were familiar faces such as Granny, Archie, Belle, and Grumpy. The Jolly Roger eventually pulled into harbor and the voyagers were quick to jump off the boat to see their loved ones.
Gold walked off the boat and saw his beloved Belle. "Belle, I'd never thought I'd see you all again!" Gold embraced Belle tightly and Belle kissed him on the cheek tenderly.
Mary Margaret, David, Emma, and the fake Henry all walked off the ship. "Mary Margaret, David!" Grumpy, Archie, and Granny ran up to them.
"I knew you guys would be alright, you have this luck about you guys." Grumpy nudged David's shoulder.
"I guess it's just family tradition now," David laughed. David glanced over at Emma and Henry proudly. He felt that even though it might've been a rough path, he did well by them both.
Regina walked off the ship as well but did not receive a warm welcome like the others. Instead she got glares and frowns. The town still had a grudge against her for cursing them all for twenty eight years.
"Nice to see that I'm wanted in this town," Regina said bitterly.
"Hey, let's all give a hand to Regina for helping us recover Henry and Lily!" Mary Margaret cheered. "If it wasn't for her, none of us would be back here today safe and sound."
A few measly, half hearted claps came from the crowd. Despite her redemption, there was still bad blood between the Evil Queen and her subjects.
The crowds eventually cleared after greetings and Lily was transported from the ship to Gold's shop. They took Felix and locked him up inside the mental asylum below Storybrooke where he wouldn't be a menace. Pandora's box was also transported to Gold's shop for further examination.
Golds shop itself was a curiosity. Magic items of both dark and light power were scattered along the ebony shelves. Puppets that had once been people, a snow globe that trapped an entire town, cuffs that contain and disable magic, a glove that could take away power and magic, and a golden blanket could all be found in the glass displays. The only passageway between the front and back room of his shop was a thin bead curtain. Lily was laid down on a velvet couch in the back room of Mr. Gold's shop.
"She doesn't look so good," Emma looked at Lily's hands and forearms and noticed small dark wood splinters dotting her skin. "Hey Regina, where did these splinters come from?" Regina walked over to where Lily was lying. She lifted her arm and pulled out one of the tiny splinters with a pair of tweezers.
"That's peculiar, maybe they have something to do with her hex," Regina picked up a spell book from a nearby shelf and flipped quickly through the pages. "Emma, it says nothing here about brainwashing or memory altering properties," Regina started to look frustrated. "Emma, the more I look the less I find out, what if she wasn't under a curse after all?"
"If so, what did Pan tell her to make her comply?" Emma started to pace back and forth trying to think of ways that Pan could have convinced Lily.
"Maybe he told her that he'd kill Henry?" Regina guessed.
"That doesn't add up, she was smiling and flying when we saw her. She would've shown that she was being held captive in her expression."
Regina furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. "Well we don't know that for sure, I mean, Henry told us nothing about what happened there,"
"No, I saw her expression." Emma looked off into the distance, recollection her past. "I used to handle kidnapped children cases all the time back in New York. This just doesn't add up!" She looked over at Lily sleeping so peacefully and wondered what Pan could've said to her, why didn't this make sense?
"Emma, lets ask Lily what happened. She's in a safe place now and Pan's locked away, she could tell us what happened."
"I agree, if we want to know what happened, we better get to the source. Call Henry in here too to patch up any time gaps."
Regina walked to the front of the shop and found the fake Henry analyzing magical objects.
"Henry, we're going to wake Lily up, can you come to the back of the shop and help us answer some questions?" Regina asked.
The fake Henry put down the magical cuff he was looking at. His brown eyes glinted with a mischievous energy. "I'd love to Regina,"
He and Regina walked quickly to the back of the shop. The fake Henry sat upon a leather stool next to Lily's bed and glared down at her, his brown eyes still tinged with red. Regina stood next to Emma and cast a waking curse on Lily. Lily's eyes slowly opened and the light from the autumn sun coming in through the window made her eyes shine bright gold. She sat up slowly and looked around. Lily's eyes scanned the room and she spotted Henry, or what looked like him anyway. Her eyes narrowed slightly in fear.
"What's the matter Lily?" Asked the fake Henry with a sinister grin. Lily broke eye contact with the fake Henry quickly and her eyes lowered to the ground.
"Oh it's nothing, my eyes are a bit sensitive." She knew that she could never tell the truth to Emma and Regina while he was in the room. She had to keep this secret, not just for her sake, but for Henry's too.
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