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Ignorance is Bliss	By : Khaleesi-Of-Dragons Category: M through R > Once Upon A Time Views: 2313 -:- 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
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- 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
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I let out a scream as jolts of magic are sent into me from Pan, his new-found power making me writhe in his grasp until he's forced to let me drop or come down with me. He does the latter, lying me on the ground and watching me squirm for a moment before smiling at the group and Henry. I feel like I'm being burnt from the inside out and unable to do anything about it. This magic isn't Neverland's, it's like nothing I've ever dealt with and it's like I can't push it out of me.
Every time I try, the pain just increases to a new level of agony. Is this what it feels like to die? An unimaginable pain and a longing to have my papa and dad at hand so I could knock their heads together and tell them to get along for once in their damn lives, to let them know that I forgive them for everything and I love them more than anyone else? It's hard to focus on anything except the burning in my skin, my body too hot for anyone to survive let alone handle while conscious, but the sweet escape of sleep evades my grasp.
Did I do something to deserve this? I can feel my heart beating rapidly in my chest as my pulse speeds up and my head begins to pound—neither sensation comforting in the slightest. My vision has gone blurry and I'm almost certain that my contacts fell out during my thrashing. Sweat begins to form, sliding down my face as my body begins to still against my wishes. Paralysis kicks in, the burning still there, but I couldn't move to try and fight it anymore. I'm left lying on the cold stone, staring straight ahead at the wall as my hearing slowly comes back in place of an insistent ringing and a cold sets in.
Great, now I have a fever on top of everything else! If it were possible in that moment, I would have rolled my eyes. Slowly, my eyes begin to close of their own accord and my breathing begins to slow….

The next thing I know, I'm opening my eyes and finding myself surrounded by trees. Where'd the cave and unimaginable pain go? I'm still achy, but it felt more like the aches you'd get from a cold, and it hurts a little to sit up. "About time." Pan's smooth voice comes from behind me and, when I look over my shoulder, I find him sitting on the dirt with his back against a tree trunk. "I thought I'd put too much magic in you at first, but I don't make mistakes."
"Actually, you do," I comment, shivering despite the heavy Stitch jacket. "You managed to kidnap the daughter of a well-known pirate and the Dark One, the Evil Queen's favorite babysitter, and the Aunt of the Savior's kid. If you do the math, the odds are most definitely not in your favor. In fact, if this was the Hunger Games, you'd be killed right after you jump off the platform." Carefully, I get to my feet, one hand moving to rub my temple in order to fight a headache. "Jesus, I've never reacted this way to magic before. What did you do to me?"
"You've never been exposed to my magic completely, it always went through Pan or the island before going to you." His voice begins to morph from Pan's confident tone to Felix's bored drawl. I turn to face him, expecting to find Pan even after the change, but I'm met with Felix instead with the Shadow hovering just behind him. It's always seemed too tall to be Pan's, almost comical that the dimensions didn't fit, but I'd always pinned it down to shadows never matching completely. It does now, though, it fits perfectly to Felix. "Are you catching on now, Aveena?"
"You let Pan think he was in charge and you were his lackey, but he was just doing your dirty work for you. Oh, that's almost Sherlock clever." Felix still has his club nearby and it made me wonder if it was the thing he channeled his magic through before he had Henry's heart. "W-were you posing as Pan all the time...?"
"He was the one that interacted with you, don't worry. I only just now got the power back to transform into other people. Your precious Pan is back at the camp disguised as me and saying what I need him to say." He stands up, stretching a little and picking up his club. "You did your job well, Aveena. The magic you were feeding into the island was actually going to me...You were draining Pan slowly and filling me with the magic you took from him." Fantastic, I go from being stuck with a guy that puts the hot in psychotic to being stuck with the guy that would steal candy from small children and push helpless old people into oncoming traffic. Boy, you sure do know how to pick 'em, Jones. "Now, it's time for us to play a little hide and seek." He sets the box holding my papa down on a large moss-covered rock jutting up from the ground before grabbing my arm and pulling me with him to hide in the foliage that surrounds the clearing.
I try to speak, but nothing comes out when I open my mouth. I glare at the man beside me, wanting to wipe the smug smirk off his face. A few minutes later, Snow, Emma, and Regina walk into the clearing, all three on guard and spotting the box at once. "Careful," Regina warns as Snow moves to pick up the box. "Pan wouldn't have just left it behind for no reason."
"It's David's only way home," Snow reminds her. "Without Gold, we're stuck here." She leans down to pick up the box only to have a vine wrap around her middle and pull her back.
"Mary Margaret," Emma shouts seconds before vines wrap around her and Regina, forcing them back against a tree and tying them in place. Beside me, Felix morphs back into Pan before he comes out of hiding, a thin chain of magic wrapping around my throat and working like a leash. He tugs on his end of it, forcing me to walk with him as he reveals himself to the women.
"Are you still at it," he asks in amusement. "Don't you know?" He picks up Emma's cutlass, facing the trio with a smile. "Peter Pan never fails." I open my mouth to refute that, but I'm still unable to talk. Jesus, this is worse than that time I had Laryngitis, at least then I could squeak out what I needed to say. "I didn't expect you to find me. But then again, I shouldn't be surprised. You're mothers. Quite tenacious about your offspring and children in general." He pats the top of my head and I smack his hand away with a scowl. "But if you're looking to see Henry again, I have to tell you, there's only one place you'll be reunited—in death."
I yank away from him, focusing hard on the chain of magic and watching it slowly begin to dissolve along with Felix's disguise. "Not," I choke out, struggling to break the magic bubble surrounding my voice box. "P-p—"
Ad just like that, my ability to speak is gone again and Felix's glamour is back in place. He delivers a hard slap, almost knocking me off my feet. I stumble back a couple of feet, hand coming up to hold my offended cheek. "That's quite enough, Aveena." The dark look he sends in my direction enough to make me tremble in fear of what he might do later. "Having trouble moving? Not surprised, give where you are. You see, what's hastening your demise is your regret."
"What are you talking about," Emma asks suspiciously.
"This tree is the sight of a very important event for me. I possessed a boy here and made him abandon his best friend, made him slaughter and entire tribe of people."
"You're not Pan," Regina asks, her brows furrowed.
"You caught that, good." The glamour fades away and reveals Felix, his pale blonde hair hanging in his eyes. "I can see what you're thinking, Savior. What happened to Pan's best friend….Does Pan miss him? Well, he won't for much longer." He picks up Pandora's Box, holding it for all of us to see. "I have him all boxed up. That way I can keep Pan for a while longer and he doesn't have to lose his friend again."
"Rumpelstiltskin is Pan's best friend?"
"That he is."
"How's that possible, Gold is a lot older than Pan."
"The same way it's possible for you and your daughter to be the same age—magic." He gives the trio a pleased grin, taking in their angered helpless expressions gleefully. "I may not be at my peak right now, but this tree will protect me. It attacks at the regret of any that come near it and you…." He points the cutlass at Emma. "You've got enough regret bottled up enough for ten people."
"The only thing I regret is not taking a better shot at you when I had a chance," she remarks.
"Well, that's not all, is it?" He leans a little closer to me, the chin around my neck forcing me to take a step forward as well as it cuts into my skin. "No. I have your son's heart inside me. I can feel just how much you let him down time and time again."
"Leave her alone." Snow's voice holds a dangerous quality only a parent can have.
"Perhaps I should." He moves to Snow next. "After all, what chance did she have at being a good mother? Look at the example you've set—abandoning her for twenty-eight years." I wince, feeling warm blood trickling down my throat and soaking into the material of my shirt. I hated the feeling of it, bringing my hand up to see if I was imagining it only to find my fingers stained crimson when I pull them away.
"Are you finished," Regina asks superciliously.
"Last words from the Queen." I guess it's her turn to be talked at this time. "Perhaps a deathbed confession from the one who has the most to regret of all."
"Yeah, there's one problem with that. I did cats a curse that devastated an entire population." I can't help the grin that appears on my face, realizing something that Felix doesn't—Regina isn't the type to regret things. "I have tortured and murdered. I've done some terrible things. I should be overflowing with regret, but….I'm not." She shoves the vines away from her, snapping them easily and freeing the other two. "Because it got me my son." She doesn't hesitate to force her hand into Felix's chest and yank her son's heart out.
The chain of magic dissipates and I let out a relieved groan, using my magic to heal the wound. Anger and frustration surges through me, almost as addictive as the darkness that surrounds the people I care about most in this world, and I let it rule me for long enough to bring the heel of my boot down hard on Felix's head. It's not enough to kill him, but it'll keep him unconscious for a while. "Take me to my father," I gasp, picking up the box that holds my papa.

Hook helps support me as we gather around Henry on the Jolly Rodger, making sure that he had me in case my knees decided to give out. Regina gently pushes the heart into Henry's chest, resting her hands there as we wait to see if he'll wake up. "Come on, Squirt," I whisper, feeling tears stinging my eyes. A moment later, Henry opens his eyes with a gasp and I allow myself to relax back against my dad. "Thank God."
"Welcome back, Young Sir," Hook grins down at my nephew. "Only the best for our guest of honor, don't you think? Captain's quarters."
"Come on," Regina says softly," I'll tuck you in." She helps Henry to his feet and leads him into my father's room to rest.
"I'm gonna go talk to Pan and see what he remembers," I tell my dad, looking at the teen over my shoulder. He looked lost and dazed as he looked around him on the ship, his hands bound with coarse rope. Hook holds onto my arm, keeping me from walking away so he could bend down and whisper in my ear.
"Do you think it smart to get close to the very boy that kidnapped you," he asks, blue eyes studying my face.
"Why not, that last guy that kidnapped is now called Dad." He purses his lips, looking unamused. "Lighten up, I thought you were going to be the relaxed Dad." I pull my arm free with an easy smile and move to sit cross-legged in front of Pan. He looks up at me, sitting up straighter. "Do you know what happened to you?"
"I was a puppet," he answers in a shaky voice, clearing his throat. "Felix was pulling the strings and I thought...I thought I would never truly escape him." He scoffs, shaking his head in annoyance. "Not all I did was Felix, Aveena, not all my thoughts were his. I was the one that wanted to kiss you and I was the one who showed you the cave."
"Felix is responsible for all the bad things you did either."
"No, but he amplified the darkness surrounding those thoughts until I felt like if I didn't act on them I would be driven mad. I resisted when Rumple and I first came here….I thought I was going to marry Tiger Lilly back then, but the Shadow—Felix—made me murder her and her entire tribe."
"No he didn't."
"What do you mean?"
"He was the one to kill them, you weren't."
"But….I felt her blood on my hands, I watched the light leave her eyes."
"That's the thing with magical possession, you feel and see everything the other does. You were probably hidden away somewhere while he used a glamour to fool anyone who might've happened upon him." Pan lowers his head, his bound hands clenching into fists. "It wasn't all your fault, Pan, and you can get back to yourself with some therapy."
"You speak as though you know. Were you ever possessed?"
"Mordred and Vincent—back then he went by Thomas—they, uh, were using me to get information about Papa until I finally gained the courage to call their bluff. After a lot therapy, I was back to myself and all the stronger. You'll be stronger too, just wait and rest."
"Morgan!" My head snaps up when I hear my name called out in a familiar Scottish accent. The tears spring back as I leap to my feet and rush to embrace Papa, fresh out of the box. "My little bird, my sweet little bird." He hugs me tightly, not yet noticing who I had been talking to earlier. I know the moment he does, though, because he tenses and pushes me so that I'm positioned behind him. "What the hell were you doing talking to him?"
"He was possessed," I say quickly, gripping his arm in both of my hands to keep him from hurting Pan. "Felix is the real bad guy behind all of this; he's the Shadow in human form."
"A glamour?"
"A very good one apparently," Pan grumbles. "Now, if you don't mind, I'd was working up the courage to do something." He nudges Papa out of the way and takes my face in his hands, careful not to put too much pressure on my bruised cheek, before bringing his lips down to meet mine in a gentle kiss. There's nothing demanding in it, just a soft persuasion that couldn't be faked in a thousand years. I vaguely hear Papa murmur something about my poor taste in men before he walks off and I'm pulled back into the kiss.
A sudden surge in magic makes me jerk away in surprise, Pan trying to steady me despite his bound hands. "What is it?"
"Felix….Henry!" I turn, finding Regina already following Papa down into the cabin that held my nephew. Pan and I move quickly, both of us anxious to see what was going on. When we get down the stairs, Papa holds me back so that Regina can comfort her son. "Felix….?"
"He's locked away," Papa assures me, holding up the box.
"I hope he stays there forever."
"You should find somewhere to rest, little bird, you were put through a lot these past few weeks." I nod, using a small amount of magic to untie Pan's hands so he could climb easier before joining the others up on deck, curling up near the back with a thin blanket my dad gave me when we boarded.
"I don't have any magic anymore," Pan says, sitting down beside me. "It feels nice." For the first time since I met him, Pan doesn't have a haunted look in his green eyes….He looks freed.
So yeah, I just made me a fun plot twist and it works out well since Felix always seemed kind of annoyed with Pan in the show—I thought so anyway.
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