Peter paced the tree house. Things got too real with Lily. He was just supposed to poke at her, put her on edge, but he lost control. She was the only one who could ever do that to him. What he hated to remember was that he liked who he was around her. Worst of all, he had missed her while she was gone.
This wasn't good. He was king of Neverland, feared by those he ruled. He refused to be taken down by the orphan girl he used to know. She was someone different now, and so was he.
He just had to take a breath. She was nothing to him anymore. Nothing more than a toy.
"Pan?"
"What?" He snapped.
Turning he saw Felix at the entrance, who recoiled when he heard his boss's tone.
"You asked me to give you this when the boy woke." Felix held out the crossbow.
Peter came to his senses, quickly plastering his face with his smirk once again.
"Right." He took the weapon and looked his right hand man in the eye. "Let's do some target practice, Felix."
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"How much further?" Regina groaned.
While her tone wasn't helping anything, Lily couldn't disagree that they had been walking a long time.
When Emma had revealed the contents of the map, and seen where Peter's camp was, they immediately began their hike. Lily was rather conflicted about the whole map idea.
She knew enough not to trust it, knew this had to be one of his games, but she also knew he didn't lie— or at least he didn't used to. When she had known him that had been a hard line he didn't cross, but he was different now, darker. She had to keep reminding herself of that.
"We should be getting close to Pan's lair." Emma said in front of her.
Mary Margaret and David had taken the front while Hook and Lily almost always took the rear.
"Going in a straight line course..." Emma continued as she unfolded the map for the hundredth time. "Son of a... how is it now behind us?"
She turned back to Lily and Hook as they all came to a halt.
"How can that be?" Snow questioned.
Regina interjected, irritated.
"You got us lost."
"No, she didn't." Hook came to her defense.
Lily peered over Emma's shoulder.
"It's the camp, Pan's moving it."
"He's playing tricks on us." David said.
"If Pan's camp keeps moving, how are we gonna find Henry?" Emma's voice held fear. "This whole trek has been for nothing."
She sounded like they all felt; defeated. Which is exactly what Pan wanted.
"I told you walking was idiotic." Regina spat. "If we can just use some magic, we can materialize in the camp and grab Henry!"
"We don't know where the camp is. Have you even been listening?" Snow argued with her.
"Not to mention Pan is in charge of all magic on the island." Lily said, with some experience at what they were talking about.
Hook agreed with her.
"Exactly, he will have shields against such magic. I fear such an attempt would end your death and more importantly, mine. Which is why we're walking."
Lily elbowed hun in the ribs as Regina took a deep inhale.
"Well then what's your idea? How are we going to find it?"
Hook's eyes lit.
"By using someone he trusts."
"Who?" Emma asked.
Hook turned towards Lily and quirked his eyebrow.
She looked at him, towards everyone else, then back at him.
"Oh no. No no no no... no." She shook her head violently.
"Lily," Hook started but she interrupted.
"No! There's no way he'll let me in. You saw the fight earlier, you know he doesn't trust me. He doesn't care about me."
"Really? Then how is your lip suddenly healed? And I'm willing to bet your ribs aren't in pain anymore?"
He knew her too well, or at least had too much background information about her. She glared.
"Pan healed you?" Emma questioned her.
"I told you, he's in control of the island's magic. I'm technically still a kid, magic works for me." She was evading the question but she didn't care.
She didn't have the time nor the energy to justify her actions.
"Exactly, you'll be able to get to his camp. You break away from us, distract him, while we look for Tink."
"Tink?" Emma paused. "As in Tinkerbell?"
"You know her?" Hook looked confused.
"Every kid in the world knows her."
"You're thinking she can help?" Lily interjected. "Who says she'll be on our side?"
"We can't know if she will, but its worth the ask. She may even have some pixie dust left."
"Wait, you mean fairy dust." Said Emma.
"No, pixie dust. It's stronger, like nuclear fairy dust." David informed her.
"It's only grown on Neverland." Lily added before she turned back to Hook. "Okay, if you can find Tink and if I can get into camp, what good am I supposed to do?"
"See Henry." Regina said, who had been oddly quiet during the whole discussion of Tinkerbell. "Talk to him, make sure he knows we're here."
"Not to mention, if you can keep Pan distracted long enough he won't know where we're going or who we're looking for." Hook added.
Lily thought about this as she looked at everyone. She was incredibly frustrated it had to be her risking another interaction with Pan, but couldn't deny their logic. She gave a frustrated sigh before she held out her hand to Emma.
"Give me the map." She grumbled.
Emma handed it to her.
"Thank you." She looked her in the eyes and thanked her sincerely.
"Meet you back at camp." She turned and started trudging towards the new location of the X.
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Eye of the Tiger | Peter Pan x OC
Fanfiction(OUAT Universe) When Henry's family had deduced that it was Neverland he had been taken to, Lily volunteered herself to come and save him. She volunteered to go back to Neverland even though she swore she never would. Even though she swore she wo...
