Teleios AU: What If Henry had been canon updated.....

[geneticfaith]

[Setting: December 2013 Arrival Post - Canon Point from 2x14 Manhattan to 3x09 Save Henry.]

Henry quickly awoke and looked around. There were a lot of people here and someone was talking to the room at large over to front of the room. Words like 'Teleios', 'Two' and 'Utopia' sounded familiar. As did the names 'Demeter', 'Cecilia' and 'Gloria'.

Blinking, he looked around again, trying to focus his mind. What was the last thing he remembered? He'd been in Hook's cabin. He'd been saved from Neverland. And then...The box. He shuddered at the thought. Somehow he'd been pulled into the box, into to Pan's body and locked for eternity.

He quickly looked down at his hands and his clothes. He was not looking at his red checkered shirt. He was looking at green forest colours. He was still in Peter Pan's body.

[Note: Pan icons will be used. I just didn't for the start as it would be a spoiler.]

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[exceptone]

We all know how this goes, don't we?  Pan wakes up on the floor of the temple, confused and disoriented.  He gathers the basics: Teleios, Utopia...  And, once he has his bearings, he begins to explore, to seek out familiar faces amongst the crowd.

However, he's not expecting a face quite so familiar as his own.  This is new, and unexpected, even considering the fact that everything here is unexpected.  The presence of an utterly identical doppelganger, right down to the clothes, throws Pan for a loop.

Still, he's not going to let that show.  He strolls up to the boy that he doesn't realize is Henry, a cocky grin playing at his lips.

"Well, isn't this interesting. Who are you? And don't say Peter Pan."  Because there's only one Peter Pan.

[geneticfaith]

Henry turned and saw...Peter Pan. But how could that be when he was in his body and Pan should be in his. Where was his body?!

"Don't play dumb with me. I wouldn't want to be you. What have you done with my body?"

[exceptone]

"Your body?" He scoffs. "How should I know? " He examines the other Pan, taking note of the way he carries himself, the way he speaks. It's all very familiar to Pan, but he's not one of the Lost Boys, that's for certain. Which leaves...

"Henry."

Well, this just got even more interesting... and, though he won't admit it, a touch worrying. If he had to resort to stealing Henry's body, then what happened to that very special heart beating in his chest?

[geneticfaith]

He about to get a lot more annoyed when he remembered that Pan hadn't been here when he left and time was strange.

"Yeah. Tell me, what's the last thing you remembered before coming here." Please don't say you have my heart. At least you don't have your powers.

[exceptone]

Pan puts on a well practiced, sincere expression. "You gave up your heart to save magic, Henry." If by magic, he means Pan, then yes, that's accurate.

"And then, suddenly, I woke up here, in this strange temple. "

[geneticfaith]

Henry did his best to calm down slightly. Pan didn't know what happened after. He didn't know about Pandora's Box or switching bodies. And he smirked as he retold the information.

"Then you don't know you lost it. My mothers took it back and stopped you from ever taking it again."

[exceptone]

Well, that's... no good. But, it at least explained the body swap. He must have been in dire straits indeed.

Pan's expression falters, but he recovers quickly. With a dark gaze, he leans in closer to Henry, lowering his voice.

"Oh, but I have it now, beating away in my chest. And I can feel it all, Henry. All the disappointment, the hope..." He laughs. "And what do you have? Not even your own body."

[geneticfaith]

"What disappointment? I'll accept the hope. I am the truest believer. But there's nothing else in there." He does his best to smirk back, trying not to show how scared he's really feeling.

"No. I have your body. Which means I have your heart. So I can feel it all too. The regret. The loneliness. The lack of power. And no only that, I'm here. I don't need my body. I have my family."

Even though they won't recognise him, he's trying not to think about that part.

[exceptone]

Regrets. As if he has any; as if he's capable of feeling it. He laughs, an arrogant sound. "Don't lie, Henry." He circles his "twin", watching him carefully. "They'll never accept you, not like this."

[geneticfaith]

"I'm not Pinocchio." He remembers his first meeting with Emma and how he said that. It amused him but back to the problem at hand. "They don't even know you. I'll be just fine." As long as he finds Emma before Neal or Gold. Because that would end badly.