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

Chapter 16: Date Night

For the rest of the trip, I mainly just kept quiet. I tried falling back asleep, but I was way too excited to. Occasionally, I would talk to someone, whether it was Neal or someone else. But a majority of my attention focused on the sights I saw as I was flying...on a pirate ship.

 Eventually, I began to see a town come into sight. Some familiar sights began to come into the sight such as the clock tower in the middle of town. We were back in Storybrooke. I breathe a sigh of relief. As we landed by the peer, I saw almost the entire town standing on the dock, cheering and applauding. The first people to walk off the boat were Henry, Emma, Mary Margaret, and David and everyone went crazy. I saw Mr. Gold walk off and run to a girl whom I assumed was Belle. It was then my turn. I walked off the boat and began to walk into the crowd. I almost expected them to cheer for me as well, and that they'd forgot about the article. Boy was I wrong. As soon as I did, people began to give me evil glares and turn their head. I sighed sadly. Not even this was able to make up for the article. I began to walk away from everyone and back towards the peer. I simply leaned against the support. I turn to look to my right and I notice Regina doing the exact same thing.

"Regina, what are you doing? Why are you not celebrating?" I ask.
"It may not seem like it, but we are alike in some ways Molly. When it comes to this town, they don't care about either one of us. We could save all their asses and still wouldn't give a damn. They would still see us as horrible people" she says.

I gulp. It almost sounds true. The only thing is though Regina is known as the Evil Queen here. Me, I'm just the mysterious visitor who exposed all of Storybrooke's secrets. I bring my phone out and immediately start looking for flights back to Baltimore. As I'm doing so, I hear someone yell, "And we owe a lot of it to them!"

I look up wondering who the voice was referring to. I suddenly realize it was Mary Margaret who said so, and she was referring to both Regina and I.

"Molly and Regina helped save us all" Mary Margaret adds.

I began to hear murmurs through the crowd as if none of them believed it.

"It's true!" I hear a voice from the crowd says.

The crowd parts a bit to reveal Neal.

"If it weren't for Molly and Regina, not just Henry, but I myself would've died at the hands of Pan. What they did in the past may have been bad, but that was the past. We are now in the present, and by what it seems, both of them have changed" he proclaims.

This silences the crowd for a few moments until everyone began to cheer and applaud again. I began to smile. I looked at Regina and noticed she began to smile to. As soon as the crowd died down, Neal came up to me.

"Molly, there's some people I'd like you to meet" he says.

He grabs my hand and pulls me through the crowd until we reach Wendy with two young adult men. When Wendy saw me, I noticed she looked a little different.

"Don't worry Wendy, I'm fine now. Pan is no longer in control of me. I'm just a normal woman" I say.

Wendy breathes a sigh of relief then smiles.
Neal then turns towards me

"This is John and Michael. They're Wendy's younger brothers" he says.

This causes another flashback. In the original Disney movie, Wendy had two younger brothers named John and Michael. Since Wendy has been on Neverland so long, she never grew up, but John and Michael did. Both Michael and John smile and shake my hands.

"Pleasure to meet you" they both say to me.
"Likewise" I say to them smiling.
"Guys, would you mind telling my friend here how you found your way to Storybrooke?" Neal asked John and Michael.
"Well, after we thought all hope was lost, we managed to find this article online" Michael started.
"And this article contained tons of information about Storybrooke and we were able to find our way here" John finished.
"Do you guys remember who wrote it?" Neal asked them.
"Not off hand" Michael replied.
"I think it was Molly or something like that" John said.