Learning The Truth (Gold)

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Peter Pan

James had snuck into this room. It was Gold's potion room. It had his potions and other magical items he wasn't selling in his store. He had been forbidden to enter here but there had to be a way to remove this thing. And it had to be in here. Gold, Belle, and Venice were all out right now. Sean was busy doing his usual cleaning so no one knew he was here. He'd left a note in his room that he was spending the day with Rebecca so no one think anything about it. Hopefully he'd be in an out of here and have this manacle off him. Perhaps put it on Gold so he couldn't try this again. He frowned not finding anything on the manacle but he did find a seeking truth spell.

"Hmm. Perhaps it can help me find a way to get off this manacle. If it fails I'm back where I started. After all what harm can truth do?' thought James.

He gathered ingredients putting them in a pot as he began to boil it. He then mixed it together as the fumes flew out of the pot and created a window of the past.

It was a village from the Enchanted Forest. Mr. Gold walking up to a woman and a little boy. The woman was on a bed holding the little boy with other women around her.

"What are you going to call him?" asked the woman to the mother's left.

"Peter." said the mother.

"Peter. A fine name for our boy." said Rumplestiltskin.

"Well we'll leave you guys alone and tell everyone the good news." said another of the women.

They left giggling as Rumplestiltskin held Peter and smiled.

"A son. We have a son." said Rumplestiltskin.

"What is this? Why am I seeing Rumplestiltskin's life? I thought his son's name was Baelfire." said James.

The image shifted to a burning hut as James realized it was the same hut.

The mother had collapsed trapped in the hut unable to get out. She was dying.

"I wish my son could be saved. Please someone grant me that wish."

A ball of light flew in from an open window and carried the baby away and out of the house. Realizing her baby was safe the mother smiled and passed out.

James frowned in confusion.

"Is one of the Lost Boys Rumplestiltskin's son?" asked James.

The image shifted again to Neverland as Peter recognized the ball of light as Tinker Bell. James gasped realizing instantly that little boy was him.

"Rumplestiltskin is my real father? This can't be true." said James.

He then looked up seeing Gold standing at the door realizing he must have seen part of this. And more importantly he realized he was caught. Gold wasn't going to be happy about this. But he was too shocked by the information to say anything or put up a fight.

[Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold]

Gold had come home before the others, he was not sure where Pan was right now & went to look for him with him not being in his room he was quick to find him in his potion room in the basement the issue was many things one Pan did not listen to him, used one of his potions, used it with out asking & the list went on with little things none took what was his people should know that & Pan was going to learn that "You still are disobeying me" He growled as he looked at Pan his darker side taking hold of him, as his grip tightened on the cane more "What are you doing here?" He entered the room, using magic to close the door & where it would not open until he wished it & he also made sure to silence the room encase it was needed, he did not miss what images he saw yet he was not going to believe it. "What do you think you are doing?" He used his magic to threw Pan back some, before it keep him form moving as he spoke "I expected any answer Pan & if I do not like the answer, you will learn just how bad it can be when on my bad side & it will be nothing like in the old world"

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Peter Pan

James glared at him.

"I was looking for a way to get this cuff off. I wanted my magic back. My life back that you stole from me when you adopted me and forced me to stay here." said James.

He paused looking back at where the vision had been before back at Rumple.

"But I found something else instead. I performed a seeking truth spell. It didn't give me the truth I wanted. It showed you and your first wife. The wife you had before Milah. She died but a baby boy was rescued by fairies and taken away. To Neverland. I didn't want to believe it but the only reason it would have shown this to me if I was that boy. And I recognize that village. It was where my mother was from. Tink and I went back but we found no trace of my father or any other family. But you're my father. My real father. Perform the spell yourself if you don't believe me." said James.

He stepped away not as angry with Rumplestiltskin as he used to be. He had wanted to meet his father for so long and eventually had given up. But now his real father was here. And yet he'd hated his father for not saving his mother or trying to look for him. And he'd hated Rumplestiltskin getting into a couple fights with him before. And now Rumplestiltskin had adopted him, blocked his magic, and trapped him here. He had an adopted sister in Alice who wasn't that bad. He paused with the realization that Baelfire was his brother as well. He'd always liked Baelfire when he'd been in Neverland before he had come to this world.

"I have a family. A real family. I thought the only family I had was Tink and the Lost Boys. But I was wrong." whispered James, thinking out loud.

[Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold]

Gold listened to the Peter "Perhaps if you bent to my rules, that cuff would not be on your wrist yet I do not think one can trust you with out it for then you will have no bounds for sure" He did not miss his words he did not wish to believe it the fact was it could be true yet, for now he was not going to he could not perhaps it was all that happened between them it was hard to think of them as family for it felt like lots of bad blood & also it was hard if he was his son he was not their for him for the start so in some way he failed him even if he had not really.

So in his mind it was more simple to take the cowards way out & just not accepted it at least for now "I did what I could to treat you as a family, yet you would not accepted the idea & now all of a sudden you want that why should I believe you that family means anything to you?" He would see what Pan said yet he was not willing to for now think of him as family.

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Peter Pan

James sighed and shook his head.

"Perhaps if you'd just left me alone we wouldn't have this problem either. I was happy at the orphanage. You took me away from my friends, my girlfriend. They're my family. What I do with my powers should be my business. I haven't hurt anyone here. Besides I only really went after you and Hook pretty much. And you both seem to be able to care of yourselves. This was just a way to make yourself superior. The last time I saw you was in the cage and I thought we were done with this feud. But then you did this? Haven't you had enough fun already? Just let me go." said James.

He paused at his words and glared.

"Treat me like family? You forced me to be adopted against my will. And then you blocked my powers. You've forced all these rules on me. You've made me miserable and that's not what a family does. If you really wanted another kid besides Venice you should have taken one of the other kids. And what really stings is I found out you're my real father and you don't even care. Now I wish you'd just died with my mother. At least I could pretend you cared then. You haven't been nice to me since you got here. Not really. I could tell you were faking it. Probably because Belle told you to. I don't need this family and I certainly don't need you." said James.

He sighed wishing he could talk to Rebecca or the others but he couldn't. He wasn't even sure if his newfound father would even let him out of the house. He'd broken one of his rules to come in here. He just wanted the manacle off. He wanted to go back to his old life. It seemed magic and fate just had different ideas. Why was he being punished like this? He sighed as he started to walk to the door.

"Let's just forget being nice to each other. It's clear you want nothing to do with me. The only reason you adopted me was to get revenge. You probably even thought of killing me but thought this would be more fun for you. Now I wish I'd never even met you." said James.

He turned bolting from the room and running. He had to get out of here. He could leave the house and go find Rebecca. Surely her family could get this off. Or The Blue Fairy. Or even Regina. He just had to get out of the house first and away from Rumplestiltskin.

[Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold]

He heard her words "It would be your business if you had left me be" For the most part it would of been any way unless a dea came a long of course "And if you obey the rules you woud of found freedom, but you could not do it. You just had to be head strong & not listen unless it was your idea" As Pan mad a run for it he used his magic to stop him & caught up to him, he used his magic to keep him in place as he spoke "If I wanted you dead you would be & if I wised revenge I would of made your life much worse"

He was upset his anger was hardly under control & the idea Pan coud be his lost son was still hard to take in. "I adopted you thinking you want a better life, yet it is clear you want to just find a place that lets you do what ever you want, that you have no rules" He did not let Peter go yet "I am not allowing you to just run off, but I will allow you to go speak with your friends I expected you back here by 11pm tonight" His eyes flickered at Pen "Do not tempted me to come looking for you" With that he let Pan go, he would allow him to run off now he said what he wanted & he would come looking for him tonight if he did not show up by 11pm.

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Queen Regina/Regina Mills

Peter Pan frowned as he spoke.

"Well dueling you was fun at the time. If I'd known it'd have come to this I'd still have done it. I just wouldn't have let you adopt me if I'd known." said Peter Pan.

He shrugged.

"I've kept your pathetic rules. All I wanted was to break this cuff. Flying was one of the few joys I had left here when the curse broke and you took it away from me. I want to fly again." said Peter Pan.

He frowned as Rumple stopped him from escaping. He shook his head.

"Who are you trying to fool? You or me? This is about revenge. You don't care about me and I was being taken care of at the orphanage so it wasn't like I was on the street." said Peter Pan.

He shook his head.

"I didn't want a better life. I've never wanted that. You never knew me at all so don't make up excuses. I'm sure that's what you told Belle anyway. But I know the truth." said Peter Pan.

Peter Pan frowned as he said he could go speak with his friends but had to be back here by 11.

"Fine. Since I don't have a say in anything. I guess you won. You've made me your prisoner and made my life miserable. Congratulations. Finding out you're my birth father doesn't change anything. I'd rather live on the streets than with a monster like you." said Peter Pan.

Peter Pan frowned and left hoping Rumple didn't follow or stop him. He just wanted to let Tink and his other friends know what was going on.