All the magic (OUAT Peter Pan)

Chapter 61: Home and heartbreak

Hope yawned as she laid down. She blinked at the bright sunshine. Sleepily she sat up and looked around the forest. Hope rubbed her face, still half asleep. She stretched as she saw something moving towards her.

"There you are! I found her!" Henry yelled as he tackled her to the ground in a hug.

That woke her up and she hugged him back. "Hey, Henry." Her eyes opened wide as she looked around again, much more awake. "What am I doing in the middle of the woods? What happened? Last thing I remember is we were on the ship. The ship! Please say everyone made it back okay."

More people ran over to them relieved. Rumple and Belle were the first people to hug her after Henry let go of her. Emma and her parents stood by them watching. "Yeah, kid. Everyone made it fine. We couldn't find you or the pirate. We thought maybe he took you and hid the ship."

"What do you mean you can't find him?" She asked, worried about him. "He is a dramatic pirate with a ship, he shouldn't be hard to find. Did you look at the docs? Or a bar?"

Mary Margaret nodded as she explained, "We looked at the docks and the bar. We woke up all over Storybrooke. Crossing the portal must have knocked us out. I woke up in the clock tower, and Emma woke up in the sheriff's station. And all your boxes were at the pawn shop."

"You are never leaving this realm again." Rumple told her as she gave him another hug.

"I'm sorry Papa, I didn't mean to scare you. I was safe the whole time and actually had a really fun time. What happened while I was gone?" She asked, hugging Belle.

Henry told her proudly, "I got a horse."

Hope laughed. "Of course you did. After all, you are a prince, I think. I brought back so many things for you."

"We can catch you up on more when we get home. We're just glad you're safe." Belle told her.

Rumple cleared his throat to get her attention. "I'm sure you would love to talk about it with the boy but there are other things we need to talk about." Hope followed him as they wandered away from the small group. "He had very bad nightmares and met with a woman called Aurora in his dreams. She warned him that Cora was trying to get to Storybrooke. She is-"

"I know who Cora is. One I read the book, two I met her a few times. She tried to come here with a magic compass and ash made from the wardrobe that brought Emma here. We stopped her and took the ash and compass for ourselves."

"Are you positive? It would be bad for many people you care about if she came here."

Hope nodded her head. "There is no way Cora made it over. If that's all this is about, can we go home? I really want to take a shower. Plus show Henry everything I brought back from the Enchanted Forest." She walked away and the group headed back their own ways.

When Rumple Belle and Hope got back Belle asked what happened to Hope. "Long story. Can I get cleaned up, get some food that isn't Chymara, and then talk?" She climbed up to her room and found an envelope sitting on the floor outside her door. Hope sat down on her chair in the first half of her room and placed her blanket around her shoulders as she opened the envelope.

'Lia, I hope you are reading this, that means you're still alive. I was never as scared as when I heard you fell through a portal. If you are also reading this, then it means I'm gone, don't worry I just left town I didn't die. I wish I could have told you in person and asked you to come with me. Me and dad left town and are going to New York. Since the curse broke, my family has been fighting non-stop, it's awful.

Me and dad want to stay human. Mom Marie and T wanna go back to being cats. Something about how simple it was and never having to work again. I think it's insane. We can't go back to being Madam's pets as much as I love her. Growing up as an animal, only to get to be human and really live, then they want us to go back? Me and Dad can't do that.