Nancy Jones- abandoned on Neverland by her father at age 15. Left to fend for herself against Pan and his evil lost boys by her father a once great pirate.
Nancy met another abandoned child on the island and together they escaped. Bealfire and Nan...
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"Qestiyah!" The young woman looked up from the note she had been clutching all evening to address the voice who had called to her. It was her brother in law Liam Jones who was approaching her slowly through the crowd of their fellow bonfire-goers.
"Liam, you surprised me." She sighed getting over the initial shock of hearing her own name. "Apologies......I was looking for you- Killian said he was thinking of heading back.....he knows you need your rest." The young sailor replied.
"How sweet of him to send his brother to get h his pregnant wife." She joked and he released soft chuckle. "That's my brother for you, the epitome of a chivalric gentleman." He joked and she smiled. "We'll lead the way- brother." She nodded at him.
He smiled, extended an arm and helped guide the four-month pregnant woman back towards the path that lead from the town centre towards the docks.
The two and her husband/his brother, along with the brothers' ailing mother all liked on the harbour in their own respective homes. Killian and Qestiyah had met at a village dance, him being intrigued by her beauty and intelligence and her being captivated by his talent with a paint brush and pencil.
Qestiyah hailed from a rather mysterious upbringing, having arrived as a newcomer to the town but was unquestioned due to her charming and kind temperament, that would later morph into a vengeful, cruel demeanour.
Liam cared for his and his brother's slowly dying mother the most as Killian now had a wife and a child on the way but Qestiyah often helped, being particularly astute with potion brewing (being blessed with magic). Liam and Killian were sailors by trade, like their late father, but due to a heavy law of the land the two men were conscripted to join the king's navy and were now beginning to head off on certain naval missions leaving Qestiyah behind.
She was lonely, despite having her mother-in-law and her soon-to-arrive child, she was unsatisfied with her life. She was seeking adventure, sweeping action and even a dangerous romance.
That was until she met a man named Silas, a sorcerer like herself, he was handsome, educated, generous and kind. But he was also flamingly passionate and prepared to fight for her hand. But she was torn.
She still cared for Killian, despite orchestrating this affair behind his back. She still loved him. She was carrying his child. So she couldn't bare to see him harmed or to take away his child. But she needed an escape.
An escape from her mundane, small village life.
That was when Silas came up with a plan. Qestiyah had told him of a faraway realm where long ago one of her mother's ancestors had disappeared to, a land with out magic.
One where she could be free and powerful with her abilities as a witch. An ancient bloodline of a witch at that.
So the two lovers planned to escape to this land. To run away. Qestiyah didn't want to be a mother and she couldn't bare to take the joy from Killian or from her baby's dying grandmother, so she was going to do something drastic.
Something selfish.
She was going to fake her death in childbirth then bribe the midwife and slip away, into the ether, never to return.
Silas would go with her- that was their plan.
And so that's what happened.
Nancy Mariana Jones was born in a small hospice boarding room in an attic of a key side building that looked out across the sprawling waters of the blue bay.
Her father and Uncle Liam were forced to stay out of the room, as per Qestiyah's request when she bribed the midwife and when she was born.......her mother was freed.
Unburdened, untethered, she was 'dead' or so her family was lead to believe as she and her lover took the magic bean he had somehow per-cured and left the Enchanted Forest for their new life.
A new life that sadly for her daughter, depraved a young girl of a mother figure and for her abandoned husband, left him with a guilt that his beloved wife died delivering their child.
She let them believe that because she was selfish.
She left them alone and eventually her selfish deed came back to bite her.
Her 'true love' Silas found comfort in another woman leading Qestiyah to grow into a hardened, evil, vengeance-fuelled maniac who cursed the couple and imprisoned them both for over 2000 torturous years of solitude.
It was a painfully ironic tale because even if 'death' was staged and really she had abandoned them, her family grieved for her for decades, her daughter longed for a mother to sing her to sleep and night and hold her when life broke her down. But all she had was her father.
And her father closed himself off from live for fear that he could loose someone again.
He too hurt their child, but that was because he was protecting their child, she was just selfish.
So the Jones father and daughter lived. They lost Nanny, they lost Liam and then they lost eachother.
But now they were found.
And just like one that day over 300 years ago (in Enchanted forest time as it works different to Earth time) Killian held his daughter close as she came to terms yet again, with the 'loss' of her mother.
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