So, we all know how it starts. Neverland, Peter Pan, eternal youth, but now that's all coming to an end. Pan's youth is running out, and he needs Henry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know. Storybrook? Over it.
But now there's someone new, someone very important. Lily Lee. Someone even the Dark One fears. Someone who's been kept a secret because she has the power to break everything apart.
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"I need your help actually. My grandson was taken. We need to get him back," Gold says, tilting his head. He tries to ignore Lily's fiddling with the items in his shop. She looks in a mirror, then shakes a box on the counter and listens to it, holding it to her ear.
"Taken? By who? And what's in it for me? Your grandson happens to be a very important person. I'll find him, no doubt about that, but now, what are you willing to give me to get him back to you? I could just keep him for myself, Gold," she giggles, heading to the other side of the pawn shop.
Gold purses his lips. "Neverland," he says, watching her ears perk up. "He's in Neverland. Pan took him. I need him back."
Lily turns to him with a sly smile. "And what's in it for me?"
He slides a box towards her and she opens it. "Deal. But remember what I said, a deal with the devil isn't always the wisest move."
Lily Lee is 15. She steals just for fun, plays with boys, aces her classes, and is a pretty amazing actress by now. She's a normal girl, for the most part. All she's ever wanted is an adventure, and now, she's got one hell of an opportunity.
What do you think? Is she a cliché who falls in love with Pan trying to win his own heart, or is Lily just a little too lost for that?
Disclaimer: this is a fanfic, therefore, I don't own most of the characters, I do own some of the them and some ideas. Until I buy all of Disney.
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.