Take Me Away

Chapter Fourteen

"All I ask is one simple thing. Deliver a message to Peter and I will protect the talisman."

"That's it?"

"That is all, my deary."

I glare at him, and try to see if he is secretly tricking me, and this message won't just be a message. "What do you want me to tell him?" 

"Oh, that is a secret, deary. Just deliver this to him." Rumple hands out a wooden box, but it didn't seem to have any opening. I look from him to Killian then to the box. I bite my lip, and take the box. "Deal." He giggles, and takes the pouch with the talisman in it. 

"Now what may I do for you Captain?" Killian steps in front of me, and hands him a paper.

"Ah, may we step inside for a moment?" Rumple grins, and since my job here is done I head back down the path, and away from Rumple. I don't need to know Killian's business, and I am pretty sure he wouldn't want me to either. As soon as I got to the end of the path Peter stepped out from behind the trees. "Smart girl yet you are so stupid. How do you know he won't use it?"

"I don't, but I have more faith in him than you." I say, and the door of the cabin opens again and Killian steps out. 

"Is this his doing?" Peter looks pissed off now, and grabs me. Killian laughs, and throws something on the path in front of him. Giving me the flirty finger wave, and a magical purple smoke envelopes him. Then he's gone. I step away from Pan, and look around me. Then back to him. "What is wrong with you?" I say almost losing my voice. "You're so different every time I see you! One minute your so caring, and I feel like you actually have a heart, but other times? Other times, your so cold it's like you can kill someone without even being in the room!"

"I actually have done that before." Peter laughs. 

"Shut it!" I point at his lips, and glare into his eyes. His poor, soulless green eyes. "You are a monster. You are incapable of feeling anything for anyone other than your god damn self! So, if I choose to trust Rumplestiltskin over you than anyone who fucking knew you would choose the same thing I have." My eyes fill with tears, and once again Peter changes, and his eyes are more blue now. He looked like such a lost boy. A true lost boy, the lost boy who dreamed of impossible things, and never growing up, and happy thoughts. A young, broken boy. 

"Erin, what are you doing?" 

I step back onto the path far enough he can't reach me. My heart hurts, and I don't know what I'm doing anymore. 

"Erin! Stop!" Peter goes to step on the path, but it crumbles under his foot again. "Erin!" Fear fills his eyes, and he turns around and punches the tree behind him. "Erin come back here!"

I turn around, and Rumple is already awaiting me at the door. "I knew you'd come back, deary." 

It was so incredibly hard to walk inside his cabin, but I did, and Peter's last words that I heard broke my heart. "Come back to me." He almost whispered, and choked on the word 'back'. A tear slipped down my cheek, and I wasn't quite sure of what I was to do now. "Well, I mean I don't really ever have guests, but you are welcomed to stay till night, and then find a place to stay the night." Rumple giggles, and turns to his desk. 

His house was actually huge on the inside. A glass desk placed right before the hallway to the living room, and kitchen. A giant main stairwell that headed to his room I would imagine. I don't understand how he wouldn't have a guest room. "Well, I do have duties to preform, my deary. So, as fate would have it. I must leave earlier than expected. Be out of here a half an hour before dark." Then he disappeared. Why does everyone do that? 

I grumble a curse under my breath, and walk down the hall to the living room. It was pretty creepy. The hallway anyways. 

Knocking at the door caused me to stop in my tracks. "Hello, love." Killian said, and walked passed me. "Where's the crocodile?" He looks around. "Gone." I tell him, and he looks back at me. "And Peter?" I shrug, and Killian pushes me against the wall, and kisses me. His kiss is full of lust, and want, and vengeance. I push him off of me. "What the hell!" I yell at him. 

"Oh, come on, love. You wanted that just as much as me." Killian grins, and goes to kiss me again. I put my hand against his chest to stop him though. "Leave." I say, and pull my hand away slowly. "Leave, please, Hook." I look down, and he leaves. Shutting the door behind him. I don't even go in the living room or anywhere this time. I just lean on the wall of the hallway, and slide down. I don't know anything anymore. I don't know anyone anymore. I don't know me anymore. Hours pass, and it's already starting to get dark. Probably should leave now. I step out of his cabin, and shut and lock the door. Just as I go to turn around. I can feel Peter's presence at the end of the enchanted rock path. 

"You kissed Hook." 

I turn around, and look at Peter his eyes are red. "H-ho- What are you talking about?"

"Don't lie to me. You kissed him. Why would you kiss him?" Peters eyes look into mine, and I can't even tell if he's pissed off or upset, or both. 

"Peter let me explain."

"No," he says choking on his words, and his accent heavier than before. "It's a waste of my time." Peter goes to leave, but I run after him, stopping just a foot before him. "You're kidding me right? So, it's okay for you to be so hot and cold all the damn time, and not explain that, but when I ask to explain something you clearly don't know the truth to. You walk away? I'm the waste of time?" My breath heavier now. I can feel my tears in my eyes. 

"Well, Pan. You're a waste of my breath. Not all girls are the same. Why can't you see that?" I gulp, and his biceps tense as he tightens his fist. 

Before I know it he turns around, and his face is so close to mine. His hand feels all the way up to my jawline and then to my bottom lip. Peter's eyes are dark except for the glimmer of light from the moon and stars. They search my face for truth, and for something. Something it seems he found because his hand grips the side of my face roughly, and his lips smash onto mine. They move in sync together until he breaks it off leaving me speechless. "What was that?" I whisper breathless.

"Nothing." Peter walks slowly off into the woods and before I could call out to him he disappears.