𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖑𝖔𝖈𝖐 𝕻𝖎𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖊

21

"HOW ARE YOU holding up, mate?" Killian asked the Prince.

"Don't worry about me. Just worry about getting us to the sextant." 

"I meant the good-byes. Looked a bit stormy back there."

The man was panting as he walked in-between the pirates. "I did what had to be done, and I did it out of love.  Emma and Mary Margaret will understand that."

"You gonna tell them that from beyond the grave?" Majo asked. The three of them stopped walking.

"No. You are. You gonna tell them that I died a hero, fighting for their way home. What you're not gonna tell them is that I left already a dead man."

"The truth, you mean," Killian said.

"Their last memories of me won't be of a liar." Prince Charming started walking again.

"Why should I help you?" 

Prince Pretty Face chuckled, "Well, because if you didn't steal that bean, they wouldn't have had a chance to take Henry, we wouldn't be on this island, and I wouldn't be dying of Dreamshade."

"You don't know that," Majo told him, "They could still have taken him after you had saved Storybrooke."

Charming scoffed, "You're only defending him because you slept with him"

"We haven't-" the warlock interrupted herself and looked at the black-haired man, "Have we slept with each other?"

"Once or twice."

 "Okay, so we have slept with each other but that's not the point. The point is, that you never know the future and besides, Killian didn't steal that bean, I did." She walked past him.

As the three of them stood before a big cliff, Killian said, "This is where we ascend. Majo, you go up first and look for possible dangers, if everything is safe you get me and the Prince up. If not, you get me up and we'll deal with it, then get him up." Majo nodded and disappeared before Charming could say anything against it.

*****

Majo jumped up from her couch when a portal manifested itself on the wall in front of her. She lit her fingers in blue flames and waited for the intruder to show his face.

"You have a nice home, you know." her brother said, as he stepped into her living room.

Majo groaned and unlit her hands, "Couldn't you have sent a message?"

"It's nice to see you too, Joy."

"I go by Majo now."

Her brother waved it off, his yellow-green eyes sparkling "You'll always be Joy to me."

*****

Majo looked around but couldn't see anything so she shrugged and was about to get her Captain and the Prince up but was interrupted by a voice, "Don't get them up yet."

The Warlock turned around and saw a silhouette. Peter Pan. "I want to talk. Alone."

"What do you want?" the warlock asked, narrowing her cat-like eyes.

"To offer you a deal. Work for me, like your Captain once did."

Majo scoffed, "Why should I do that?"

"What if I were to offer you something very hard to come by?" the 'boy' suddenly stood right in front of her, "Passage of this island."

"Nope, not interested."

"What if I were to sweeten the deal? You can take someone with you-Killian."

The Warlock looked down, "He wouldn't want to leave Emma and Emma would never leave her son."