Skull Rock flickers as the moon breaks through the clouds. The shock in that room makes everything silent. Henry is sobbing, hugging his mother, great tears dripping from his nose.

Bae breaches the gap at a jump and runs over to the place where Pan is kneeling beside Ruby.

"What have you done?!" He cries. Emma suddenly charges forwards, and pulls Pan up, shoving him against the wall with her knife at his throat. Slightly weakened, he only smirks at her. Her eyes are angry. "What have you done, you son of a..."

"Mum!!!" Henry gasps, covering her swear words.

"Go ahead." Pan smirks at her. "But good luck finding a cure on your own."

"What do you mean cure?" Emma asks, not releasing her grip.

"Oh she's not dead." Pan says with another smirk. "But she will die if we can't find a cure."

There's silence for a few seconds as the information sinks in.

"He's right." Bae says with surprise, pressing two fingers against her throat. "She's breathing... faintly."

"She's shivering." Henry takes off his little jacket and wraps it around her shaking shoulders.

"She's in shock." Pan says, ignoring the knife at his throat. "Obviously. She'll remain like that until we can find the cure."

"Let him go, love." Hook comes up and taps Emma's shoulder. "If anyone can help us, he can."

Emma glares at him. "How do we know he's telling the truth?"

Pan's laugh is more evil than ever. "I don't lie."

Still glaring, she slowly releases her knife, stepping back. "Fine. But I don't want to play another one of your sick games. What do we need to do?"

"We? I never said there was a we." Pan winks, turning around carelessly. "You need help from someone who knows a bit more about the subject." Pan looks over at Regina. "That being Cora."

"What? What does my mother know about this?" Regina asks. 

"A lot more than you might think. She used to come to Neverland all the time. We spent many hours exploring the island together, its cures and curses. I know the first ingredient of the potion - a drop of her blood."

Bae bites his lip, bringing out his knife.

"No, not now." Pan says hurriedly. "Stupid." He says under his breath. "From when she was alive."

"And who the heck has that?" Emma asks, frowning.

"The above mentioned person." Pan says. "When Ruby came, Cora had cut her - obviously finding out she had the heart of the truest believer. If we can find the knife or sword that cut her, we can get the blood from when she was alive."

"Pfft." Emma snorts. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It's probably been cleaned by now - and if you're not lying, Cora might have even done it with magic."

"It wasn't a cut with magic." Pan repeats, rolling his eyes at their denial. "No cuts made with magic can be healed with magic."

"That is just..." Emma stands with her hands on her hips. "This is outrageous..."

"We have to try!" Henry pleads, whimpering.

"Oh please." Regina cuts in. "Let's get Henry and get out of here..."

"We can't just leave." Hook objects.

"Well well." Everyone turns around to see Pan flying in mid air with a smile on his face. "This is all charming... but I've heard enough." He suddenly disappears, leaving nothing but a sparkle of pixie dust.

"PAN WAIT!" Emma swipes the air with her sword and sighs in frustration. "He had to do that didn't he? Now where the heck is he going?"

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"Peter Pan?" There's a tiny voice next to the tree.

"Go away." He mutters softly. She flies upwards and hovers next to his platform in the branches.

"Come on, this is perfect - just what we wanted." Tinkerbell says with a tiny laugh. "You can live forever now, and I will be by your side." She looks at his hunched shoulders and bowed head. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. It's... nothing." He sighs defeatedly. "I had no idea this was going to happen... argh."

"But it doesn't matter does it?" Tinkerbell's eyes grow wide. "You have what you needed."

"I didn't realize it was going to feel like this." Pan says glumly. "She brought something to me I haven't felt in a while - happiness."

"You don't mean that." Tinkerbell frowns. "You can't! There's no way you can be happier than you are now."

"Wait..." Pan raises his head, sweeping his gaze over the rough floorboards of the tree house. His green eyes flash with excitement. "There is. There is a way to get what I want. Tink, you're a genius."

She flutters her wings. "I know... what are you going to do now?"

"I have a plan." He smiles. "They're going to help me."

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"Regina, can you help us?" Emma asks exasperated. She pulls back on her hands and knees, head tired from thinking.

"I just want to get my son home." Regina says curtly. "The girl wanted to sacrifice her life, so be it."

"Regina." Neal frowns at her. "We have to help her."

"I've changed my mind." Everyone looks up to see Pan appear behind them. Emma spins around, hand on her sword.

"There's no need for that." Pan smirks. "I've decided to help you."

"Oh how nice of you." Emma says curtly. "And how would you do that?"

He gives her a withering look. "I know a lot more about the subject than anyone else here. We're going to the Enchanted Forest. I need to talk to someone I truly trust."

"You mean the only person that's as despicable as you." Emma mutters softly.

Pan laughs dryly. "It's so cute how much you hate me. Obviously teleporting is a lot harder than it looks - we're on my island and after all, you need my help. If I left you to do it all yourself, you'd make it back in... maybe a month at the earliest, and she'd be dead."

"I'm not arguing." Hook says with a grin. "Emma?"

"Hang on." Pan objects. "I'll need people Cora trusts. Namely me. Regina. Hook. No one else."

"I'm not going anywhere." Regina objects. "I'm taking my son home."

"No one leaves the island." Pan says cruelly. "Not yet, anyway. Take your pick - come with me and save Ruby or you can never leave Neverland."

"You can't do that!" Emma looks shocked.

"Whose island is this again?" Pan shrugs. "Now, can we stop wasting time?"

"Are we taking The Jolly Roger?" Hook asks, rather proudly.

"We're teleporting. Like I said." Pan says impatiently. He looks back at the other odd group. "Take Ruby back to the home tree, and get Tinkerbell. She can care for her until we get back." 

"What about Gold?" Regina says. "We can't leave him in Pandora's Box." 

"If you go to the lake and call Ariel, she can take Pandora's Box back to Storybrooke and to Wendy's brothers. They'll get the Dark One out. Now, are we going, or not?"

"Fine. Let me do all the work." Regina rolls her eyes, and in a second the three vanish from Skull Rock.

"Well, let's go." Bae picks up Ruby, who shudders.

"Is she going to be OK?" Henry asks worriedly. 

"She'll be fine." Emma puts her arms around her son's shoulders. "After this we can get you home."

"What's going to happen to her?" Henry asks, eyes wide. "She doesn't have a home. Can she stay with us?"

"We'll see." Emma glances at Neal, who smiles slightly.