Dark Hearts | Once Upon A Time

XLii. Not Like Fairytales

Seven Seas. Present day

A CROOKED SMILE fell on Erica Swan's lips as she stood in the middle of the room, darkness wrapped it's way around the room and Erica Sean stood in the middle of it unfazed by it and she found herself giggling gleefully as she stretched out an arm, her fingers crooked as she reaches into Snow White's heart, making the former princess grunt and tears roll down her cheeks but Erica didn't care anymore as she twisted the heart inside her chest and pulled the red beating heart out of the chest before crushing it as she grins gleefully

Erica blinked as she shook her head a bit to get the pictures out of her head and she grips the ropes to the ship just a little harder

"Hold onto your rum! Things are about to get a little bumpy" Jaclyn shouted from where she stood next to Killian and Keira, water sprayed onto Erica's face, hair and eyes but she was sure she could see Keira whack the pirate over the head making his leather hat fall off of her head causing the Sparrow woman to glare at the tattoo artist before leaning over to pick up her hat just as the ship flew into the air before roughly landing on the water causing more water to be sprayed onto the ship and Jaclyn loses her balance falling onto the deck and she mumbles something Erica couldn't hear and Keira laughed before pulling her up

"Is that it?" Emma yelled pointing to an island

"Aye" Killian spoke gravely before looking to Keira "Neverland"

Keira stiffened and her lips pressed into a thin line but she didn't say a word and Erica raised an eyebrow as she walked across the deck, she was going to see if Keira was okay and she walked over putting a hand on the blonde's arm "Are you alright?"

Nodding Keira opened her mouth to say something else but before she could the two blonde's conversation was cut short by Regina snapping at the Captain of the ship "Why are you slowing down? In case you didn't know my son's life is on the line"

"Oh I know my hotheaded Queen" Killian nods as steers the ship more slowly this time "I'm driving the ship to the far side of the island and we can link up with the widest part of the river, sail right through and take him by surprise --"

Keira's eyes widened as she whirled around to faced the leather wearing pirates "Killian Pan knows everything, so taking him by surprise would be stupid and not to be mention probably reckless and if I can remember anything about Pan he probably already knows we're here and planning his own surprise attack"

"I have to agree Lian, from what you told me Pan is a sneaky bastard" Jaclyn chimed in

"Well it's the only plan I've got and I don't see anyone come up with anything else" Killian remarked hotly

"But how would you know what Pan is like?" Emma asked, narrowing her eyes in the direction of the tattoo artist who pursed her lips and folded her arms as she rolled her eyes but Erica could tell she was nervous by the way she subtly chewed on the inside of her cheek"Who are you Keira Paige?"

"They're going to find out eventually Belle" Killian urged the blonde before his voice and face turned bitter "Better you tell them, than Pan because when I last saw him, he still held a grudge against the fairy that almost mucked up his plans...Whatever they were"

Keira drew a long and shaky breath before answering "I was a fairy. Name's Starbelle"

There were mixed reactions but it was far to say that nobody quite knew what to do with the information until Gemma spoke up, confusion spread across her features "Y-You were a fairy? What happened and why did you end up swept up in the curse?"

"I don't want to talk about it" Keira snapped, her eyes flashing gold and a pained expression swept over her face leaving the ex fairy looking pale "Let's just say I didn't think I'd ever be back here"