Darkness Dies with the Sunrise

The shadowy figure at her window would normally have been disconcerting. But something about the uncertainty that would come with the sunrise left Marigold more curious than concerned. Tomorrow she would be a legal adult. She would be turned out to find her own way, without the government protections she had leaned on her whole life. Perhaps it was the fear of the unknown adult world that caused her to open the window for the figure. Perhaps it was that nagging curiosity. Regardless of the motivation and without much forethought, she allowed herself to slip out of bed, pad to the window, and unlatch the lock...

Marigold may be becoming an adult by legal standards, but the uncertainty of what that means for her future becomes irrelevant as she finds herself in Neverland with Pan his Lost Boys.

Having faked his death to escape the heroes of Storybrooke after his failed attempt to steal the heart of the Truest Believer, Pan returned to Neverland to find that a multitude of pirates have dropped anchor. In his absence, word spread among the looters that Neverland and her many treasures lay unprotected. After just a few skirmishes, it became clear that Pan needed a larger group of Lost Boys to aid in the pirate extermination effort.
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What?? A OUAT Peter Pan fic in 2023? Crazy I know. But you know, sometimes you just have to come back to Wattpad and write the fanfic you never wrote in high school. Let's just call it healing for my inner teenager.

*OUAT spoiler and backstory disclaimer: Pan is NOT Malcolm (Rumple's father) in this story. That fact is just blatantly ignored here. That plotline is just not the vibe, and honestly never was.