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Ignorance is Bliss	By : Khaleesi-Of-Dragons Category: M through R > Once Upon A Time Views: 2317 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-Ignorance is Bliss
- 2-2
- 3-3
- 4-4
- 5-5
- 6-6
- 7-7
- 8-8
- 9-9
- 10-10
- 11-Season Two: Knowledge is Power
- 12-12
- 13-13
- 14-14
- 15-15
- 16-16
- 17-17
- 18-18
- 19-19
- 20-20
- 21-21
- 22-22
- 23-23
- 24-24
- 25-25
- 26-26
- 27-27
- 28-28
- 29-29
- 30-30
- 31-31
- 32-32
- 33-Season Three: All Good Things
- 34-34
- 35-35
- 36-36
- 37-37
- 38-38
- 39-39
- 40-40
- 41-41
- 42-42
- 43-43
- 44-44
- 45-45
- 46-46
- 47-47
- 48-48
- 49-49
- 50-50
- 51-51
- 52-52
- 53-53
- 54-54
- 55-55
- 56-56
- 57-57
- 58-Season Four: To Those who Wait
- 59-59
- 60-60
- 61-61
- 62-62
- 63-63
- 64-64
- 65-65
- 66-66
- 67-67
- 68-68
- 69-69
- 70-70
- 71-71
- 72-72
- 73-73
- 74-74
- 75-75
- 76-76
- 77-77
- 78-78
- 79-80
- 80-81
- 81-82
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"Pan's shadow," Emma asks incredulously," that's your way off the island?" I look up at my brother from my spot on the ground, constantly having to push Pup's head away so he'd stop trying to eat the flowers on my dress.
"Unfortunately it's the only way," Neal shrugs.
"Oh," David says in disappointment," we though you learnt how to navigate the stars."
"I know how to navigate the stars, but I can't fly."
"Pan's shadow can," I pipe up. "It brought Cubby here a few days' ago before disappearing back into the jungle, but I don't think it is strictly Pan's." Hook gives me a look, nodding his head for me to continue my theory. "Papa and Pan both have called me a magnet for magic, I absorb it and make it my own—I know what magic belongs where and that shadow doesn't entirely belong to Pan. It feels older than he does, like it's been around since Neverland's beginning."
"So, what does that have to do with us getting the Shadow," Mary Margaret asks.
"Unlike ours, Pan's shadow resides elsewhere in the jungle," Neal says, taking over the explanation again. "As long as we know where to find it, we've got a chance." He pauses to make sure the information has sunk in. "I know where to find it."
"Okay," Emma breathes," you and I are on Shadow duty."
"As am I," Hook says, stepping forward as Emma and Neal stand up. "This trek won't be easy. You could use another veteran of the island."
"I'm coming too," I say, standing and wiping the dirt off my dress. "Those two lovebirds behind me have a bad habit of confessing their love in drawn out speeches at random moments, so I'm not about to deal with that any more than I have to." Pup barks as though in agreement. "Pup stays with Snow and Fidget comes with us." Hook looks hesitant, but gives in all the same.
"In the meantime," David says," we'll give Tinker Bell a heads up. See if she can make good on her promise to get us into Pan's camp."
"Okay, we meet back at Tink's," Emma nods. "Then we get Henry and get the hell back to Storybrooke." The group breaks up camp, leaving me with nothing to do except pace around until they're finished. My magic is basically useless without Pan around, it's like he's keeping the island from giving me a magical boost.
"Vee." I look up at Hook as he walks over to me, a small dagger in his hand. "Are you sure you want to go with us to Dark Hollow? It's dangerous and something bad could happen."
"Something bad is going to happen no matter who I go with, so I'd rather stay with the group that isn't fighting each other." I look past Hook as Snow storms away from her husband. "You guys will be less awkward I hope." Hook smiles, holding the dagger out for me to take. "What's this?"
"So you can protect yourself. I've seen you with that sword of yours, so a little dagger should be easy." I smile, holding the dagger in both hands and looking up at Hook, but he appeared frozen, his mouth opened as if to speak.
"Hook?"
"He can't talk to you, Aveena." I turn and find Pan standing behind me, an arrogant smirk playing on his lips. "None of them can hear you or even move until I decide they can." I try to back up, but only succeed in backing into Hook. With a flick of Pan's wrist, Hook's arms wrap around me and keep me where I am as Pan advances. "Are you happy to be back with your father or would you rather come back to camp with me?" I snort at that, fighting to get out of Hook's arms with no success.
"I'd rather watch Twilight and have my eyes bleed than go back with you!"
"Don't be like that, Vee." I wince when he calls me that, the name sounding wrong when he spoke it, twisted and dark. The only person who can call me Vee and have it come out normal is Hook, and I don't necessarily know if that's a good thing or not. "Don't you miss the other boys?" He twirls a strand of my hair around a finger, tugging just hard enough to make it sting, but not enough to pull the hair out. "Don't you miss me?"
"I've missed a lot of things in my life, Pan, and you're not on the list."
"Are you sure?" His lips hover over mine, brushing them with every word he speaks. "Because I miss you and so does your nephew." He places a chaste kiss on my lips before stepping back. "You know how to find the camp, come back when you've made up your mind." And then he was gone and everything is back to normal with Hook finishing what he was about to say.
"I have a pistol too…." He trails off, looking down at me with confusion. "Eh, when did this happen?"
"It's complicated," I grumble, pushing his arms off me and taking a step back to put a little space between us. "Um, if we get off the island in one piece, would you tell me more about my mom?" My request makes him smile and nod.
"You guys ready," Neal asks, walking over to join us.
"As I'll ever be." He looks down at me, resting a hand on my shoulder and squeezing it reassuringly.
"Don't worry, Kiddo, I'll get us all off this island." The only way we leave Neverland is if Pan lets us, and I doubt he'll let me and Henry go without putting up one hell of a fight. "Come on and stay close, alright?"
"Yessir." I give him a mock salute, following closely behind them as I was told.

"Something tells me we won't find Pan's Shadow in here, mate," Hooks says doubtfully as we enter the cave my brother lived in while stuck on the island.
"Yeah, well, we're looking for something else," Neal responds, digging through the trunks for something. It's a—it's a coconut carved in two. One part holds a candle the other part goes on top of it."
"Yeah, your star map. We hid it—I'll go grab it." Emma runs off, leaving the two men and me in the cave.
"I can't believe you got your own house when I was forced to stay in that stupid tree with Pan and Felix," I complain, hopping up on the little wooden table in the middle of the room next to the lantern. "Even when I was being good, I didn't get my own place and I usually had to sleep next to Pan." Hook's brows shoot up in surprise, his face turning a light shade of red in anger. "Don't worry, the most we ever did was kiss, and besides, he snores."
"W-Why did you kiss Pan," my brother asks.
"I dunno, sounded like a good idea back then." I shrug, looking down at my hands and swinging my legs back and forth as I ignore the men's surprised stares. If I want to kiss a guy, I'll kiss him, simple as that.
"I owe you thanks for being so understanding," Hook tells Neal in order to change topics.
"Understanding about what," Neal asks.
"Emma and me." Emma and who now? I look up at Hook with wide eyes, praying he was talking about what I think he's talking about.
"Emma and you?"
"Our dalliance." Hook and Neal stare at each other for a moment, understanding filling Hook's eyes. "You don't know, do you? Well, this is awkward." This is beyond normal level of awkward, this is calling your teacher 'mom' awkward. "The two of us shared a kiss. Apologies, I assumed she told you." Neal looks heartbroken and I can't help but to be upset with Emma in that moment.Is it so hard for her to keep her hands to herself? Shit, people, we learned this in preschool!
"Honestly, it probably….Slipped her mind. We're kind of focused on getting our son back."
"Of course." Oh shit, are they gonna have a duel over who gets to keep Emma? The woman in question walks back into the cave with a smile, the coconut in hand.
"Everything alright," she asks when we all turn to stare at her—Hook with slight guilt, Neal with sadness, and me with a keep-it-in-you-pants-you-tramp scowl.
"Couldn't be better," Neal answers.
"Here it is, your star map." She holds the coconut out for Neal to take, my brother shoving it in his satchel.
"It's not my star map, it's what we're gonna use to trap Pan's Shadow."
"A coconut," Hook asks," are you daft?"
"You came to Neverland on a pirate ship through a portal, but draw the line at a magic coconut?"
"The man has a point," I say with a smile. Neal grins, helping me off the table and handing me a lantern. "So, where to next on this lovely family vacation of ours, brother dear?"
"Dark Hollow."
"Really," Emma asks, her exasperated tone reminding me of Ron from Chamber of Secrets. "Why couldn't it be called something like Sunshine Valley of Rainbow Cove?" Because Pan doesn't have a cute and cuddly thought in that twisted little mind of his. "What exactly is it?"
"Just what it sounds like," Hook answers," the darkest spot on the entire island. Any light that makes its way in is snuffed out by the shadows that call it home. Even I managed to avoid it."
"So, downtown Storybrooke," I guess," without the helpfulness of the creepy blind guy that lives next to the bar?"
"Why would you be anywhere near a bar?"
"I went through a rebellious phase. I might pick that phase back up when we get back, Jack Daniels might help me out a little bit." The last part is a grumble as I follow the others out, earning a slap to the back of my head and a flick to the forehead from both Neal and Hook. "Oh, great, the old people are teaming up against me now."
"I am not old."
"Yes you are. I bet you played baseball with Jesus and the dinosaurs." Emma snorts, letting Neal lead the way with Hook bringing up the end. I wish I was home right now, I could be sprawled out on my bed and watching the wacky misadventures and bromance of the Winchesters instead of fighting for my life and dealing with a cranky cat. Fidget peaks his head out of my backpack and rests his chin on my shoulder, letting out a small meow. "I know, boy, just a little bit longer."
I scratch the top of his head, feeling happy when I hear his contented purring. Our groups comes to a standstill in front of a tangle of vines. "We're gonna have to cut our way through," Neal informs us tiredly.
"Here, use this." Emma pulls out her cutlass and hands it over to my brother.
"My cutlass, you found it in the cave?"
"No, Hook gave it to me."
"Since when are you sentimental?"
"I thought Emma would wish to have something to remember you by," he answers begrudgingly.
"Thanks, but she has me now."
"Great," I mumble, moving past Emma and after my brother," maybe I picked the wrong group to go with after all." When I finally catch up with him, he's on his way back in the direction we just came from. "Please tell me you didn't get us lost and we have to go the other way."
"I didn't get us lost," he promises. "But I do need to go grab the other two." I plop down on the trail, taking Fidget out of my pack and setting him on my lap. "Really, you're just gonna sit on the trail and let me interrupt their moment?"
"Sweetie, I may be your little sister, but I'm not doing your dirty work. Go grab 'em and I'll be here when you break them apart. Oh, and try not to kill Hook if they're sucking face again, because we might need him later." Neal rolls his eyes, walking back the way I had just come from while I stay put and pet my cat. When they make their way back, I get up and put Fidget back in the bag to keep him safe, following the group to an ominous tangle of dead trees and vines that seems to make up a nest or a ball of some sort.
A sudden wind blows out the flames in our lanterns, leaving us with the darkness and strange red light. "Dark Hollow."
"So this is where the victims of Pan's Shadow reside," Hook says, making sure to stay directly behind me.
"Yeah—forced to spend eternity in this darkness. Let's be sure not to join them."
"Remind me to check Dark Hollow off my list of places I never wanted to visit but had to anyway," I whisper to Emma.
"Only if you remind me to do the same," she whispers back. We stop in a clearing of sorts, the strange red glow mixing with the blackness and turning our surroundings orange. "So we just wait for Pan's Shadow to show up?"
"Yeah," Neal nods," and when it does we'll be prepared." He brings the coconut out of his satchel.
"You wanna tell me how that coconut works?"
"We light the candle and the Shadow's drawn to it." He sets both halves down on a fallen tree. "When it gets close enough, the flame will suck it in, put the lid on, then it's trapped inside this bad boy."
"A fine plan," Hook admits. "Apart for one thing, our lanterns went out. How the devil are we supposed to light the bloody thing?" Is it possible for him to sound any more British than he did in that second?Neal holds up a Zippo lighter with a smug grin.
"Welcome to the twenty-first century." When Neal fails time and again to light the candle, Hook steps in, which leads the boys fighting over it and losing the lighter. I throw my hands up in the air in frustration.
"Is no really the time for a pissing contest," I yell. Emma gathers up the coconut as a loud roar sounds seconds before three shadows come out of the trees. "The Shadow's here and it brought friends!" The shadows strike out at us, pinning Hook and Neal against trees, me to the ground, and cornering Emma. I thought I knew pain, but every bit of it I've felt over the years was nothing compared to how it feels when your shadows is being torn off you.
I arch in pain under a shadow's hands, screaming out and begging for it all to stop. I never asked for this shit, I don't want this! I can feel every little tear as my shadow is tugged away from my body, leaving no physical wounds but plenty of mental scarring. Suddenly it all stops and my body falls back to the earth, my shadow disappearing back where it belongs and my breaths coming out as panicked gasps. "How did you do that," Neal asks breathlessly.
"Regina," Emma answers, holding the coconut tightly. I let out a groan, rolling onto my side and pushing myself into a sitting position with shaky arms.
"She's teaching you magic?"
"Yeah, I guess she is."
The trek back to Tink's camp is a long and awkward one, Emma giving the boys the cold shoulder, the boys looking like puppies that have just been kicked, and me feeling as though I just got ran over by a bus a couple of hundred times. "H-hey, hey," Neal calls out. "I'm sorry, I know I screwed up."
"Yes, you did," Emma agrees, turning to face us," you both did. We almost lost our shot at capturing the Shadow and our lives because you two were fighting over a lighter."
"It wasn't the lighter we were fighting over, love," Hook clarifies. I glare at Hook, stomping his foot as hard as I can and grinding the heel of my shoe on his toes so I know I hurt him. He grimaces, pulling his foot back with a whimper.
"Okay, let me be very clear about one thing. If I had to choose someone...I choose Henry. He's the only love I have room for in my life." I cross my arms over my chest, giving my father and brother a you should be ashamed of yourself look. "And Morgan because she's the only one on this group that hasn't started a fight." Hot damn, I'm winning the blonde over. Emma takes the lead again, leaving the rest of us to follow behind her into the clearing where Tink, Pup, David, and Snow are waiting for us.
"We got the Shadow," Neal says with a smile. "Been a long time, Tink."
"Bae," the dirt covered fairy asks," Is it really you?"
"Yeah, but most people call me Neal now."
"We did it," Hooks says sourly, interrupting the reunion. "Are you finally ready to do your part, Tink?"
"She'll do her part or I'll break her face," I state firmly, giving the fairy a hard stare. "Enough running around the island, let's get Henry and go."
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