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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
- 58
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"This is a man's, man's, man's world, but it don't mean nothing without a woman or a girl. Man thinks about a little baby, baby girl and boy—man makes them happy, 'cause man makes them little toys," I sing to myself, the page of lyrics floating above my head as I relax in the warm bath, the jets hitting my back perfectly and making the muscles less tense. Micah had decided that I would be singing during the intermissions since we have a new monster in town, I had two to prepare for and the songs would be the easy part. "Oh, this is a man's, man's world, but it wouldn't be nothing without a woman or a girl."
I was just about to get to the part I had trouble with when the lights flickered and went out, leaving me in a pitch black bathroom butt naked. "No," I hear Pan shout," how the hell will I find out what happens to Flynn Ryder now?!" I snort a little, using magic to make a small orb of light appear to light up the room so I can dry and get dressed. I wiggle into a pair of dark blue skinny jeans, a black tank with a dark red, off the shoulder top over it, and Jungle Book fuzzy socks before walking downstairs. I use magic to tame my thick hair, a pair of Ugg boots appearing on my feet and a brown leather backpack in my hands.
I find my boyfriend curled up on the couch with Fidget and Pup, all three looking horrified at the dark TV screen. "You wanna go check it out," I ask as he slowly turns to look at me. Slowly, he nods his head and stands up, pulling on his sneakers and leather jacket before walking with me outside. We barely make it down the porch steps when my cell begins to ring. "Yo," I answer, pressing the speakerphone symbol so that Pan can hear.
"Hey, we're heading to the town line," comes Emma's voice from the other end. "Are you guys coming?"
"We just made it outside, meet you there."
"You got it." I hang up, digging the car keys out of my bag and replacing them with my phone before leading the way to the garage where my little car is waiting in the driveway. Fidget hops inside when I open the driver's side door, the cat moving to sit in the back floorboard and looking around with intelligent green eyes.
"Pup isn't gonna be happy if you leave him here," I tell the cat seconds before Pan opens his door and Pup climbs into the back with Fidget. "All right, looks like the gang's all here." I get in and start the car, making sure Pan was comfortable before backing out and heading for the town line. Where there was usually a spray painted line to mark the edge of town, there's now a large wall of ice raised high in the sky, stopping way above my head. The others are already there when Pan and I show up, Dad sending a nod in my direction as my group piles out of the car.
Fidget settles himself in my arms and Pup walks to sit at Dad's side, rubbing Dad's leg with his soft head. Dad pets his head fondly, liking the dog no matter how much he protested otherwise. "About time you two decided to make an appearance," he quips," I thought we would be forced to melt this ourselves."
"If you want, I can run back to the store and pick up a lot of hairdryers." He makes a face, sticking his tongue out at me. "Oh yeah, that's mature." Emma raises her brows, and I can tell by her crossed arms and no bullshit attitude that Dad has been trying to worm his way further into her life. "Okay, step back, Kiddies. This might not be pretty." Feeling arrogant, I stretch out my arms with my fingers pointed at the giant wall of ice, feeling magic coursing through me and at my target….With nothing to show for it afterwards. The ice wall is still as tall as ever and I didn't even cause a dent in it.
"And what did we learn today, darling," Pan asks smugly. I glare at my boyfriend, the older boy shying away.
"Flynn Ryder dies." The expression he gains after those three words almost makes me feel guilty—almost, but not quite considering it even says it at the very beginning before we meet Rapunzel. "Try and make me feel stupid again and I tell you what happens at the Red Wedding."
"You wouldn't dare."
"Don't try me, pretty boy, not when I can't bring down that stupid glacier!" I shout the last bit at the ice, hands clenched into fists at my sides. "Seriously, that's stronger than the ice that took down the Titanic." David sends me a disapproving look and I hold up my hands in surrender. "Okay, not my best reference, but you get the picture. I've never experienced this type of magic before, so y'all need to bring your heads together and form some kind of think-tank."
"Great, you're the only one that has control of your magic in this town apart from Gold," David complains.
"Yeah, and I've been instructed to tell everyone that if Papa and Belle are disturbed on their honeymoon, the old Papa will come out and superglue the idiot that does it to a billboard….Butt naked and covered in honey and feathers. So, I'd avoid calling him for your own safety."
"What about you?"
"Are you kidding me? He'd ground me for a month and turn off the WiFi—I'm not risking what little sanity I have left because y'all don't feel like attacking this ice with hairdryers and fire."
"That's real heroic." Pan and I share a moment of laughter, pointing at David like he was some new level of dumb.
"Oh, Nolan," Pan gasps as he recovers," we're not the hero types, we're the neutrals that fight when we don't have much of a choice."
"Then why did you both come here if you didn't have to."
"Because," I explain, pointing over my shoulder at Dad," he'd disturb Papa and Belle if I didn't. I don't know about you, but I could do without the sight of my dad covered in only honey and feathers burned into my retinas."
"Fair enough." I don't notice that Pan had followed after Emma until David is walking over to my father. "I think it's time you and I had a little talk about your intentions with my daughter."
"I'll just be over here." I leave them to the discussion, hoping it's really awkward considering all the talks I got after I began to date Pan. Hell, I still get them from random people around town and Papa had hired Ruby to tell me about the birds and the bees. Whale's promised that if Pan knocks me up, he's gonna knock Pan out. I kneel down on the ground, reaching out a hand to touch some of the ice and snow. "What are you," I ask no one in particular, voice too soft to be heard by anyone. This magic isn't compatible with mine, none of it trying to twine with my own. It actually seemed to try and push me away.
"Emma!" I look up at my father's panicked shout, finding Pan, Emma, and some other lady just a few feet away from where I am. I stay in my crouched position, noticing how some snowflakes seemed to swirl around the new girl. She's pretty with braided white-blonde hair, pale skin, and a figure to kill for, but her dress was definitely not something you'd find in Storybrooke and neither is her magic, until tonight, that is.
"Stay back," Emma warns, holding out her hands in a stand down gesture as Pan and the woman do the same.
"Hey, hey, hey," David says as he and Dad ignore Emma's protests.
"Stay back, it's okay, she's just trying to find—"
But we don't get to figure out what she's trying to find out as David brings out his pistol and a new wall of ice begins to form between them and us. It seemed to come out of nowhere, the woman having no control as an avalanche began, the pieces of ice from high above and vibration of the ground making me fall back and scramble away to keep from being crushed. I groan, getting back on my feet with the help of a nearby stalagmite of ice. "Pan," I ask, looking around, but only finding my dad and David. I follow where the men are staring, finding that ice had covered the space the others had been standing moments ago. "Pan!" I move as quickly as I can, trying not to slip as I follow the tiny path up to where I'd last seen my boyfriend, beating against the ice. My magic has no effect on it and my dad's hook only grazes the surface.
"What if we lift," David suggests, gently moving me out of the way so he can join Dad. When that idea doesn't work, I wriggle between the two men and try my magic again, desperately working with magical fire to get the ice to melt. "Don't tire yourselves out!" I don't pay any attention to him, continuing to focus as Dad begins to go at the ice with his hook again. "This isn't getting us anywhere!" He grabs both of us, his tight hold on my wrist making me lose focus.
"Do you have any suggestions, then," Dad demands to know," because we obviously can't do this on our own!"
"We're going to need magic stronger than Morgan's to unmake this thing." Both men look down at me, pleading me to make the call that could see me without Netflix for a month. I pull out my cell, dialing the one number I've been trying to avoid.
"Hey, Papa," I say with a false happy tone," by any chance, have you finished with your honeymoon?"
Pan
Whimpering, I slowly sit up and look around, finding ice surrounding me like some kind of twisted isolation room at the hospital. Emma and the other chick are talking about something or other, but I'm more focused on finding out whether or not Morgan had been trapped as well. "….You and your people need to be more careful," I hear the woman saying," Keep your distance."
"I would have been happy to," I grumble, standing up," if you hadn't knocked out the power, I would be home right now and happily watching a movie and listening to my girlfriend sing in the bathtub. But can we get a break around here? Hell no, it's like a law that something big has to happen every other month or the freaking world will come to an end!" I throw my hands up in the air, beginning to pace in order to get my warmth back.
"Bring me what I want and then I'll consider freeing the both of you." If she knew how scary Morgan gets when angry, then she'd let us go without a problem.
"Your sister, right," Emma checks, stuffing her hands in her pockets and shifting from foot to foot. I continue to pace, listening to the conversation and waiting for any sign that points to my girlfriend's safety. I've become fond of the girl and I'll be pissed if something happens to her before I can make certain that she knows my feelings. Not all men are as deplorable as that Vincent that I killed, and while I may have certain dark tendencies, I would never beat the crap out of a woman—especially not a woman that could easily suck up my magic and turn it back on me. "I can't really look for her from in here."
There's a brief crackle of static before David's voice rings out from the walkie talkie inside Emma's jacket," Emma, can you hear me?!" Emma takes the device out, the black box scaring the other woman more than it did me the first time I saw it.
"What is that," she asks with an edge of panic in her voice as she holds out a hand.
"It, uh," she tries to explain as David continues to yell," allows me to talk to my father, whose on the other side of that wall, but if you want to melt that, we can all talk." It's obvious she has no control over her magic, just like I didn't when I first encountered the extensive cache of it in the heart of Neverland. Felix helped me learn, made sure I knew it all before he began to take control.
"Tell him to go get Anna." Anna? Oh right, that's her sister's name.
"Dad, can you hear me?" She holds the device closer to her mouth, ensuring that her words wouldn't come out mangled on the other end.
"Emma!" This time it's Hook's voice, the desperation in his tone telling all what he feels for the blonde. "Say again."
"I'm in here with this woman. She's looking for her sister, Anna. She thinks that Anna is in town because she found a necklace of hers in Gold's shop. She wants us to try and find her before—"
"Before I freeze this town and everyone in it," the woman interrupts, grabbing Emma's arm and bringing the device close to her own lips.
"You listen to me, you walking popsicle," Morgan snarls, no doubt having ripped the walkie talkie out of Hook's hand," you turn my boyfriend into a frozen dinner and I'll make frostbite seem like a goodnight kiss! You can bet your sweet ass that I will make you wish you had frozen yourself if Pan is hurt—"
"We're going to Gold's," says David," maybe he'll know something." I can still hear Morgan yelling threats in the background until David releases the tiny button on the side to allow Emma to speak. She holds it out for me and I take it, holding it as though it may bite me.
"Ah, Morgan," I say into the speaker, voice shaking slightly as I shiver," try not to get grounded because I'm certain that Gold will make me suffer as well." I hand the device back to Emma, moving further away from the women and beginning to do jumping jacks, knowing that if I stopped like I really want to, then the chance of dying would only rise. If Morgan finds out I let myself die, she'll find a way to bring me back only to kill me again her own way. My breath comes out in puffs of white smoke, the cold making me ache everywhere and my teeth chatter loudly.
This is terrible, I've never been so cold in my life and I spent quite a few winters sleeping outside as a child until those spinsters found me and took me in. I continue moving, though slower than I had been when I started, my movements sluggish and hard to maintain. I just want to lie down, just for one single moment, and rest! The first thing I'm doing if I make it out of here is buying a heavier jacket and a couple of dozen blankets.
Morgan
I lead the way into Papa's shop, only briefly noticing that the lock was messed up as I walk straight in and over to the counter where Papa and Belle are sorting through things. "It appears our honeymoon truly is over," Papa quips.
"Did you doubt me when I said I had an emergency," I ask, resting my arms up on the glass case, careful not to disturb the piles of index cards.
"Honestly, your emergencies range anywhere from your favorite character dying to a real person dying, so you'll have to be more specific next time, little bird. Which it right now?"
"Emma and Pan are trapped under ice by a woman who has some kind of ice magic," David explains quickly.
"And this involves me because?"
"You're the bloody Dark One," Dad says irritably," do something."
"Well, I could melt the ice and destroy it with a thought, but that would also destroy your girlfriend and our daughter's boyfriend. As much as I would love to blast Pan into the next world, I'd also have to live with Morgan afterwards and we all know how prickly she can be." I scowl, shooting a look at Belle that she returns with a shrug. She can't control what comes out of Papa's mouth any more than I can since she doesn't possess the real dagger.
"Nobody's destroying anyone," David says, holding an arm out to keep Dad from doing something stupid. "Now, the woman who has Emma and Pan trapped is in there with them and she's looking for her sister—name of Anna." That name sounds really familiar, but I can't place where I've heard it before. "She thinks she's in town because of something of hers she found in your shop—a necklace." Belle looks down at the index cards, Papa's way of keeping inventory organized in case someone shows up to claim an object.
"Is this it," she asks after a moment, holding out the card for the rest of us to see. The card has been through the typewriter, the description of it printed out and a picture of the object paper-clipped to it for extra help. Its design is a silver snowflake, though a little tarnished with age, it was still pretty with a sizable diamond in the very center.
"I know this. I know exactly who Anna is."
Pan
I never knew it was possible to be this tired until right now, my feet and hands have long since gone numb and the rest of my body beginning to follow suit. Since I'm still standing and pacing in a tight circle, the woman focuses her attention on Emma with occasional glances in my direction. Emma's taking it worse than I am, trying to sleep despite the increased risk of death if she does so. At the very least, she could come down with hypothermia.
Cold and hurting too badly to stand, I curl up beside the space that the ice had blocked off, my chin on my knees. Suddenly, the whispers of the women are drowned out by what Morgan has assured me is the Doctor Who theme song and my ringtone. I barely manage to dig the device out of my pocket, pressing answer and then speaker before resting the device on my knees. "M-Mor-gan," I stutter in greeting.
"Hey," she answers," Dad and David are looking for something that can help us find Anna, but how are you guys?"
"Emma's almost unconscious and I'm not doing much better."
"W-well, you have to stay awake. Uh….Sing to me."
"You're the one with the good voice, darling, not me."
"I don't care, sing our song with me. You remember it, the one playing on the radio when we driving home from the welcome back dinner?"
"How could I-I f-f-forget?" I hear her take a deep, steadying breath before her voice fills the cave-like room, making it easier for me to relax a fraction from where the cold has made me tense.
"When your soul finds the soul it was waiting for, 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! No, there's no one else's eyes that can see into me. No one else's arms can lift, lift me up so high. Your love lifts me out of time and you know my heart by heart." Swallowing hard, and shaking almost too badly to speak, I join in as a way to stay awake.
"When you're one with the one you were meant to find everything falls in place, all the stars align. When you're touched by the cloud that has touched your soul, don't let go!" While Morgan executes the lyrics just fine, I have to stutter my way through them, wishing I could breathe easier. "Someone comes into your life, it's like they've been in your life forever!"
I pay no attention as David begins to talk using the walkie talkie again, I just focus on staying awake and singing with Morgan. "N-no the-ere's no one e-else's eyes tha-at c-can see in-into me." Suddenly the ice beside me begins to disappear, a wave of magic burrowing its way through it until there's a hole big enough to crawl through. Hook and David help me out, basically handing me off to Morgan. I cling tightly to her, craving her warmth. "I-I s-s-san-ng with you," I gasp out, letting her magic wrap around me like a warm hug and lift me into the air.
"I know," she smiles, sniffling a little. "I heard you and you were right, you sound like Fidget when he's angry." I laugh a little, but I can't manage more than that until I'm safely tucked inside the backroom in Gold's shop, four blankets wrapped tightly around me, and Morgan's magic warming me further.
"When I said I loved you a few days ago….I wasn't just saying that so you would stay with me." She nods, holding me tightly as she curled up in my lap. "I'm serious, I love you so much and it's a good thing too because I'm starting to think you might just be the death of me, woman."
"We're only teenagers," she says softly," how do we know what love really is?"
"Because, technically, I'm over two hundred years old and you're in your forties. If we don't have a hint as to what it is at this point, we've been doing something wrong. I love you, Morgan Elizabeth Gold-Jones, whatever your name is, I love you and that's that."
"I….I suppose I love you too, even if you are a dork." The lights decide to come on a few seconds later, making Morgan and I smile at the good timing.
"So, shall we return home and finish season three of Game of Thrones, or will you keep me in suspense about the Red Wedding forever?"
"Trust me, it's not a good thing."
So there we have it, Pan is finally the damsel in distress! The song Morgan sings at the very beginning is called 'It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World' by Katharine McPhee and the song Pan and Morgan sing together is called 'Heart by Heart' by Demi Lovato.
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