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• Sacrifice • Word Count ~ 1030
"I love you too." Henry replied. Emma, Regina and Neal smiled, slowly taking a step closer to Henry, believing that they were winning him over.
But what Henry did next shocked everyone, including me and Pan.
"But I have to save magic."
"No, no, no, no!" Neal went from a mumble to a shout."
"I'm sorry." Henry said before shoving his heart into Pans chest. I finally snapped out of whatever trance I was under.
"No!!" Me, Emma, Regina and Neal shouted. But it was too late.
A powerful wave of green magic shot from Pan, going all throw out the island, that sent all of us flying back, hitting the back of the cave wall.
The back of my head collided with the cold stone and my vision went fuzzy for a moment. I heard everyone groan but saw them all slowly get to their feet, only to see that Henry was lying limp on the ground.
They all quickly ran over to Henry. A groan passed my lips as I pulled my hand back from the back of my head only to see blood.
Shit.
I looked behind me only to see that I'd caught my head on a sharp piece of stone that came out from the stone wall.
Fuck.
I tried to get to my feet only to have another wave of dizziness crash into me. But I ignored it, I had to get over to Henry.
I tightly shut my eyes before opening them again.
Wait... was Pan flying? God, I must've hit my head harder then I thought.
_𝙿𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠_
"Oh god is he unconscious?" Emma ask Neal.
"Henry can you hear us?" Regina asked Henry. I smirked as they all panicked for the boy.
"Is he breathing?"
"Just hang in there buddy."
I slowly lowered myself back to the ground.
"What the hell did you do to him?!" Emma demanded.
"Oh, I didn't do anything, Emma. It was Henry. He offered me his heart of his own free will." I said smugly. Emma gets up and faces me, unsheathing her sword.
"I'm going to take it back from you." I raised an eyebrow in amusement.
She went to strike me but I teleported behind her. I grabbed Pandora's box which I'd placed on the stone beside me.
"I don't think you have it in you.Rumpelstiltskin didn't. Why should you?"
"Where is he?" Emma asked me.
"What did you do?" Neal added.
"Why, he's right in this box." I commented, gesturing down to the box in my hand.
"Safe and sound and out of the way. Unfortunately for you, he can't hurt me any more. And neither can you."
"Really?" Emma asked before swiping my arm with her sword.
"How did that feel?" She asked, glaring at me. I glared back at her.
"Like a tickle."
Suddenly a thud echoed throughout the cave. I turned to my right only to see that Maze had collapsed.
Panic and fear struck me as I teleported next to her, picked her limp body up into my arms and teleported away from skull rock.
Leaving the savior, Neal, the evil Queen and Henry's dead body, behind.
***
I reappeared on the beach at the east side of the island. Where Maze had first stepped foot on Neverland all that time ago.
As much as I wanted to take her back to camp with me. I knew that Snow White, Prince Charming, Tinkerbelle and Hook were there.
I gently laid Mazes body against a tree, the ocean behind us. I ran a hand through her hair while using my other hand to caress her face.
"What's wrong with you, love?" I muttered while looking for any reason why she might have collapsed.
Out of the corner of my eyes, I caught a glimpse of something red on her hand.
Blood.
I took my hand back from her hair only to see that it was also now covered in blood.
"Hey, hey, hey, it's going to be alright, okay, I'm going to help you." I whispered to her, - though it was more to convince myself - moving closer to her side,
I waved my hand over the wound and a green wave of magic glowed. As soon as I removed my hand, the wound was gone, along with the blood.
I couldn't go back to camp so I'd just have to stay here.
I picked Maze up and sat down so that my back was leaning up against the tree - I knew it would be uncomfortable but as long as she was comfortable and okay, I didn't care.
I wrapped one arm around her waist while my other hand went to her head. Her head was resting on my chest as I could feel her body slowly rise and fall with every breath she took.
"Don't worry my love. From now on, I can protect you, I promise I'm going to protect you." I whispered as I kissed the top of her head.
I heard a small groan pass her lips and I froze, thinking that she was going to wake up.
Please no, just give me a little bit longer to be with her, I really don't want to fight with her. I just wanted to be able to hold her in my arms.
To my relief and utter delight, she not only didn't wake up but she moved closer to me, placing her hand on my chest as she snuggled up to me.
A smile made its way onto my lips. The first genuine smile since she was last on the island.
I loved this feeling. I'd never felt so powerful. Not only was I feeling more alive the I ever had, I was stronger and had limitless magic. I could protect Maze forever now. Everything could go back to how it used to be, but even better.
Now that I'd finally got this immortality thing out of the way I could focus on her.
We could finally be happy together.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thank you guys so much for reading. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I should hopefully be updating the next one soon xx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
