Second Love to the Right (Neal Cassidy/Baelfire Love Story)

Chapter 15: Coming Home

I had no other choice but to run over to everyone else. Henry lied down flat on the floor, not moving. He no longer had his heart inside of him, does this mean he was.....? I dared not think the last word.
"Henry, are you alright?" Emma asked.
"He passed out when his heart went inside of Pan" Neal says.
"Is he even breathing?" Regina asked.
I see Neal put his fingers on Henry's neck. As he's doing so, Pan comes back to the ground.
"What the hell did you do to him?!" Emma yelled.
"I didn't do anything. It was Henry. He offered me his heart of his own free will. You can also thank Molly once more, for her faith gives me just as much strength" Peter says.
Emma turns around to look at me. She takes out her machete.
"Emma, don't listen to him. I didn't know what I was doing and you know that. He tricked me into believing in him and renewing my faith in magic" I say.
"You even said it yourself, Molly. Your seeing everything, therefore, you have to believe it. Don't take it back just because your not under my control anymore" Peter says.
Emma was debating whether or not to attack me or Pan.
"Emma, I'm not your enemy. I came here to help you find Henry, not to hurt him. Trust me, please" I beg.
She takes a moment to consider what to do. Suddenly, she turns around to stab Pan. However, he disappears right as she does so. He appears behind all of us holding a box.
"I don't think you have it in you. Rumplestiltskin didn't. Why should you?" Peter says.
That reminds me. Mr. Gold tried rescuing me before a Henry gave up his heart. Where is he now?
"What did you do?" Neal asks.
I realized he must've come with Emma, Neal, and Regina.
"Why, he's right here in this box. Safe and sound and out of the way. Unfortunately for you, he can't hurt me anymore. And neither can you" Peter says.
Quickly, Emma nicks Pan in the arm with her machete.
"How did that feel?" she asks.
Pan chuckles.
"Like a tickle" he says.
Then, Pan gets off the ground again and flies away from us, for now. I turn back around and see Regina casting, what looks like a spell, on Henry.
"This preservation spell can keep him in this condition for a while longer. It'll but us time to get to Pan" she says.
I sigh. We've spent this entire time trying to escape Pan, now we actually have to go and find him. I have a feeling now he'll be hiding good.
"Your a Lost Boy. Do you know where he went?" Emma asked Neal.
I rolled my eyes a bit. Neal would only know about Pan's main hideout I've only been on this island for a day and even I know that he's not stupid enough to go back to the same place, especially with us trying to hunt him down.
Neal stutters for the right words.
"I-I know where he lived. His compound" he says.
Regina scowls.
"Your useless" she says.
I wanted to say something but Emma beat me to it.
"Enough" she says.
"My son is dying. Do not tell me what's enough" Regina hisses.
"Our son" Emma says.
As they continue to argue, I sigh and begin to walk away. I didn't want to cry anymore because I not only was I dehydrated, but I it wasn't my right to cry right now. I'm the one who caused this anyway.
"Hey, you all right?" Neal asks.
I turn around to face him.
"Yeah, I'm just tired is all" I say.
"Don't worry, as soon as we get Henry's heart back, we can leave Neverland" he says as he places his hands on my shoulders.
I smile a bit.
"Hopefully, it won't take long. I want to take the earliest trip back to Baltimore as soon as I get back" I say.
"What do you mean?" Neal asks.
I bite my lip. I never told him.
"Neal, I came to Storybrooke just to visit Greg. Greg is dead, therefore, I have no right to stay in Storybrooke. The sooner I'm out of everyone's hair, the better" I say.
"No Molly, you can stay as long as you want. Plus, we just found each other again. I don't want to lose you again" Neal says.
It looked like he was about to cry.
"Come visit me in Baltimore anytime you like" I say.
I hear someone clear their throat. We turn to see Emma and Regina staring at us. I pull away from Neal. I felt my face heating up with embarrassment.
"We'll talk more about it later" I say to him.
He nods in agreement. We walk over to Regina and Emma and Neal speaks up.
"Even if we can find Pan, he was powerful before. With Henry's heart, I don't know if we can hurt him."
"Yes we can, look you nicked him" Regina said.
She points at Emma's machete with a bit of Pan's blood on it.
"If he can bleed, we can hurt him. And if we can hurt him, we can kill him. And we will" she says with the most determination in her voice.