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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
- 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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I literally cried when I wrote this freaking chapter, damn Rumple and sacrificing himself.
That feeling of wrongness hits me again as I back away from the others, looking around for whatever could be causing it. Unsure of what it was pulling me backwards, I turn and sprint towards Papa's shop without any of the others noticing I was gone, bursting through to the back in time to see Felix kneeling over Papa. "Soon that fine green smoke will fill their lungs," Felix gloats, his form shifting between the blond I had come to associate with Felix and the form that looked like Pan. "Then fog their brains. And unlike the rest of this town, I'm not just going to take their memories."
I raise my arm, feeling the magic coalesce in my palm, but Felix turns and I find myself drained and being dragged to him, one of his strong arms wrapping around my throat and holding me against his chest. "P-Papa," I gasp, my oxygen supply dwindling the longer I'm held.
"Because of their special meaning to you, I'm going to take their lives and I want you to know that your daughter will be the last to die. It will be painful and I'm going to take my time to draw it out as long as possible. And you won't do a thing to stop me. Do you know why? Because without magic, you are right back to where you started—the village coward."
I pull on the arm with my hands, digging my nails into the flesh with no affect. He doesn't even bleed in this form. Felix grins, walking out of the store and dragging me along with him, leaving Papa lying on the floor and struggling with the leather cuff. How had Felix even gotten it off in the first place? "You….Won't…." I'm forced to trail off as he tightens his hold, cutting off the oxygen entirely before letting go just enough to draw in breath.
We approach the group, still standing in the middle of the street. ""A-are you going to be okay," Henry asks, facing Regina. His mother bends to look in his eyes, the tips of her fingers tilting his head up gently.
"The important thing is that you will be," she tells.
"No, he won't," Felix states mockingly, getting everyone's attention. He grins, pushing me forwards towards Pan and Hook. My father catches me easily, helping to support me as I get my breath back.
"He has the—"
With a wave of his hand, Felix has all of us frozen in place—me with one hand clutching my throat and the other holding onto my boyfriend, Hook with one arm holding onto my upper arm and his other arm outstretched, Pan with one hand in mine and the other half raised and formed to make a ball of defensive magic, Belle and Neal standing with their hands in their pockets, Emma, Henry, and Regina holding onto one another, and Granny, David, and Sow doing the same.
"Curse?" He holds the scroll up with another grin. "That I do. Look at you all. A captive audience. I could play with you like a pack of dolls, couldn't I?" If I get loose I'm going to punch him in his smug little face. His form flickers again before settling back on Felix. "But I think I'll start with these two." He walks until he's standing in front of Neal and Belle. "Hmm, you both look so adorable. Hard to tell which one to kill first. No, it isn't." He points at my brother. "You. You first."
I smile internally as Papa storms out of his shop and over to Felix, pulling the demon away from my brother. "Stay away from them," he snarls.
"Well, how about this? The worm has teeth." Felix is untroubled by Papa's rage, but he doesn't know him like I do. Papa is the protective type of person, and if you mess with the people he cares about, it won't end pretty for you. "What you're here to Pwotect your wuved ones?"
"I'm not gonna let you touch any of them."
"Oh, and I'd like to see that."
"Oh, you will. Because I have a job to finish, and I have to do it, whatever it takes. No loopholes." The fear is back, an absolutely horrific feeling twisting around in my stomach. Whatever it is Papa is planning on doing, it will be awful. "And what needs to be done has a price—a price I'm finally willing to pay." He looks over at my brother sadly. "I used the curse to find you, Bae, to tell you I made a mistake, to make sure you had a chance at happiness. And that happiness is possible—just not with me. I accept that."
"Pretty, pretty words."
"I love you, Bae. And I love you, Belle. You made me stronger."
"Stronger? Yes." Felix lets out an amused sound.
"And you, Aveena, my little bird, I love you. You loved me when no one else was capable of it, when I was at my worst. You were always there to sit on my lap and tell me all the stories you made up and the things you did." Tears sting my eyes and fall down my cheeks, and I just want to fling myself at Papa and never let him go, to turn back time before this curse ever happened so I could have a few more precious moments with my papa. "If you hurt that little girl, Pan, I know Hook and David will make you wish you hadn't."
"But still….No magic."
"Oh, but I don't need it." Papa turns to face Felix again, his sad but determined gaze no longer focused on me. "You see, you may have lost the shadow part of you, but there's one thing you're forgetting." They're basically nose to nose now.
"And what's that?"
"So have I. I sent it away with something to hide." He raises his hand as his shadow soars through the air to them, his free hand clutching the back of Felix's shirt to keep him close. The dagger lands in Papa's outstretched hand as his shadow disappears into his body. Felix struggles to break Papa's hold, but my papa is stronger than he looks and is able to hold him easily.
"Ah, what are you doing?!"
"You see, the only way for you to die….Is if we both die. And now….Now….I'm….Ready." No, please, no, I'm not ready, Papa! He brings the knife up and down harshly, pushing it through Felix's back and into himself. Felix lets out an agonized scream, his hands balling into fists from the pain. A cloud of black smoke swirls around them and when it clears away Papa is clutching at a black figure, the Alp's true form.
It was black and all sharp angles with eyes that glowed red like dying embers. "Rumple, please," it wheezes in a deep rasping voice. "You can stop this. Remove the dagger. I can turn back time, never allow you or Peter into Neverland. The both of us can have a happy ending without ever meeting each other."
"Ah, but I'm a villain and villains don't get happy endings." He twists the dagger, golden light beginning to emanate from the wound. The golden magic envelopes the pair, glowing brighter and brighter before it disappears all together, the scroll the only thing left of them both. The magic keeping all of us still releases us and I fall back against Pan. The sobs that rack my body are uncontrollable along with the gut-wrenching scream that tears out of my throat.
Pan and I both drop to the ground, the older boy holding me tightly and rocking me as I cried. The depression was an immediate thing and not even my biological father or boyfriend holding me could make it fade even the tiniest bit. It swelled inside me, like a black hole that was going to devour everything that makes me happy. What the hell am I supposed to do now? Papa was always the one to keep me on a good path, the only person that ever really cared about me besides Dad.
"I've got you," Pan whispers in my ear, continuing to rock me back and forth in his lap. "I have you, Aveena, and I promise that I'll never let you go. Shh, I have you, sweet girl, I have you. You're safe now."
"Papa," I sob, my eyes squeezed shut and my hands clutching my hair. "I want my papa, I want my papa!" A few strands of my hair are ripped out before my dad kneels next to me and takes my hands in his to keep me from pulling any more out. "I want my papa, I want my papa." The chant continues until Leroy catches my attention.
He ran over to our group, panting and screaming and completely terrified. "It's coming from all sides. There's no escape!" I don't want to escape, I want to go to my papa. I don't want to be here when he's not. Just leave me here and let me die in peace. A rumbling starts in the distance and I cling tightly to Hook, needing some semblance of comfort.
"We're going to get out of this, Vee," Dad tells me confidently. "Just you wait and see, we always do. I love you, Vee, I love you so much." He carefully stands up with me held tightly in his arms as Emma demands to know the price of undoing the curse.
"It's not our price," Regina tells the blonde. "It's mine."
"What are you talking about," Emma asks.
"It's what I felt when I….First held it. I have to say good bye to the thing I love most."
"Henry?" I stare ahead, my vision blurred by the tears that seem like they'll never stop. The depression is growing quickly, my body becoming numb but the sadness enveloping me like a dark spell that will never let me out of its grasp.
"I can never see him again. I have no choice. I have to undo what I started."
"The curse that brought us to Storybrooke," Snow guesses with surprised evident in her voice.
"That created Storybrooke. It doesn't belong here. And neither do any of us."
"Breaking the curse destroys the town," David translates for the rest of the group and I can feel Pan take me from my dad.
"It will wink out of existence as though it were never here. And everyone would go back to where they're from, prevented from ever returning."
"You'll go back to the Enchanted Forest," Emma states.
"All of us. Except Henry. He will stay here because he was born here."
"Alone?" Pan's familiar scent makes me relax against him, the smell of the woods something that's comforting to me.
"No. You will take him, because you're the savior. You were created to break the curse and once again, you can escape it."
"I-I don't want to. We'll both go back with everyone."
"That's not an option. I can't be with him. If I don't pay the price, none of this will work." Thunder rumbles overheard, the wind picking up and blowing some of my dark hair in my face.
"Emma, you have to go," Snow instructs.
"I just found you," she replies sadly.
"And now it's time for you to leave us again. For your best chance, for his." For your best chance. When is anything a good thing when that sentence is used? Emma was sent away to a different world, Henry was given up for adoption, and Papa sacrificed himself. All to give someone their best chance when all it really did was tear families apart.
"No. N-no, I-I—" Rain beings to fall, soaking into my clothes and mixing with the tears on my face. "I'm not….Done. I'm the savior, right? I'm supposed to bring back all the happy endings. That's what Henry always said."
"Happy endings aren't always what we think they will be. Look around you. You've touched the lives of everyone here."
"But we're a family."
"Yes, and we always will be. You gave us that."
"You and Henry can be a family," David tells his daughter. "And you can get your wish. You can be like everyone else. You can be happy."
"It's time for you to believe in yourself, Emma. It's time for you to find hope."
"I've known you for some time," Regina says," and all I've wanted was for you to get the hell out of my life so I can be with my son. But, really, what I want…." I hear her voice crack, but I can't bring myself to look at my nephew, someone else I can add to my list of people lost to me for the rest of my life. "Is for Henry to be happy. We have no choice. You have to go."
"Okay," Emma whispers

Everyone is gathered at the town line to say their goodbyes, my tears having dried up for the moment. I stand in between my dad and Pan, my eyes focused to the boy that everyone has come to love in some way or another. Henry walks over to me after saying his goodbye to Neal, wrapping his arms around my waist tightly as I hold onto him and rest my head on top of his. "I love you, Aunt Mo-Mo."
"I love you too, Squirt," I whisper back. "Be good alright, but don't be too good. Pick some fights and eat all your vegetables, and….and don't finish a whole gallon of ice cream by yourself because Whale says that's a bad thing." He laughs a little, pulling back to look at me before his gaze moves to Pan.
"You be nice to my aunt," he demands, poking Pan in the chest. "You don't get to hurt her feelings or make her sad, you're her boyfriend now and your job is to make sure she's happy and doesn't get into too much trouble."
"I promise," Pan nods. Henry gives Pan one last hard look before walking back to Neal, letting his father hug him. Pan wraps an arm around my waist, both of us looking past the Dwarves at the green smoke enveloping Storybrooke. It will take us all back, back to the devastation that is now our realm, back to the Ogre Wars.
"My gift to you," I hear Regina tell Emma. "Is good memories, a good life for you….And Henry." Henry joins both of his moms and I notice a small vile in her hand. "You'll have never given him up. You'll have always been together."
"You would do that," Emma asks, tears gathering in her eyes.
"When I stop Felix's curse, and you cross that town line, you will have the life you've always wanted."
"But it won't be real."
"Well, your past won't, but your future will. Now go. There isn't much time left, and the curse will be here any minute." I bite the inside of my cheek, trying my damnedest not to cry. Emma and Henry climb into Emma's yellow Bug, and my breathing quickens as the tears come again. Pan holds me tightly to him, letting me rest my head on his chest.
"Sing to me," he whispers suddenly," sing me our song before we're ripped away from here." I take a few deep breaths, holding out one hand until I feel my dad take it.
"When your soul finds the soul it was waiting for," I sing softly, my voice breaking. "When someone walks into your heart through an open door. When your hand finds the hand it was meant to hold, don't let go. Someone comes into your world, suddenly your world has changed forever." I can feel the hair on my arms stand on end as the magic begins to surround us and my nephew disappears over the town line. And then I'm free of the earth, floating in a blackness as my clothing begins to shift back to what I was wearing when I was taken in the first place.
When the smoke clears, all of us are standing in a clearing with Aurora and Philip staring at us in shock. "Goddammit," I curse in annoyance," I'm in my freaking nightgown!"
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