Felix x Reader (From Once Upon a Time)

Y/N's Point of View

The wind tore through my hair, whipping the strands across my lips, tasting like salt and adrenaline. I didn't bother brushing it away. I couldn't afford to slow down—not now. Not when the streets of Storybrooke were abandoned and silent, the town's usual hum replaced by the distant echoes of magic unraveling in the caves behind me.

Everyone was down there—Emma, Regina, the others—fighting to destroy the trigger before the curse swallowed us all whole. But I had seen something they hadn't. Something I couldn't ignore.

Two shadows, dragging a third. A smaller one. Henry.

My lungs burned, my breath coming in short, sharp bursts as I sprinted, boots pounding the pavement like war drums. I wasn't even close to the shape I used to be in, but that didn't matter. The only thing that did was Henry.

He had trusted me when no one else would. When I first stumbled onto the docks of this cursed town, I was just another broken piece of my father's wreckage—a name whispered in warning, not welcome. But Henry saw past that. Past me. He gave me a chance when I didn't deserve one, and I swore I'd never let anyone hurt him.

Which made this all the worse.

They were dragging him through the old neighborhoods near the waterfront, past crooked houses with shutters like watching eyes, flowerboxes spilling with color that blurred as I passed. I might have admired them, once. Another life. But this wasn't that moment.

I slowed to a careful jog, heart thundering in my ears, gaze locked on the trio ahead. Then—

CRACK.

The sound shattered the air like a warning shot. I glanced down. A twig, now splintered beneath my boot.

Damn it.

I ducked, diving behind the nearest brick wall, pressing my back to the cold stone as I held my breath. My pulse roared in my ears. I squeezed my eyes shut, praying to whatever gods ruled this broken world that I hadn't just blown everything.

"Did you hear that?" Tamara's voice cut through the air like a blade, sharp and suspicious.

"Hear what?" Greg's response was slower, duller—more uncertain.

For a long moment, silence.

Tamara scanned the shadows, then scoffed. "Must've been nothing. Keep walking, kid."

I didn't move until their footsteps faded, and even then, I emerged like a ghost—quiet, invisible. I wasn't strong enough to fight them head-on. Not yet. But I could follow. I could find the right moment.

And then I heard it.

"Relax, kid. We're not gonna hurt you," Tamara said, all poison-sugar smiles.

"Just everyone I love!?" Henry snapped. "You tried to blow up Storybrooke!"

"True," she replied without shame, "but that was never the point."

"It wasn't?" Henry asked, voice tight with disbelief.

Greg spoke next, calm and cold. "We came to destroy magic. But then we found something more important. Something that changed everything... You."

Destroy magic? The words rattled in my chest like thunder. Why? Why him?

A sour panic crawled up my throat. Whatever was about to happen, it was bigger than I thought. I had to act. Now.

I darted forward, faster now. The sea breeze hit me like a wall—salt, sharp and bitter—and I welcomed it like a slap to the face.

Then I saw them.

Standing at the edge of the docks, with Henry struggling between them. I didn't think. I couldn't.

"HEY!" I screamed, drawing my sword with shaking hands. "Let him go!"

They froze. Just for a second.

Greg muttered something I didn't hear, and Tamara rolled her eyes. "Just get on with it."

"No!" I charged. My grip on the hilt was so tight my knuckles turned bone-white. I didn't care. I couldn't screw this up. I wouldn't.

But I was too late.

Greg pulled something from his pocket—a glowing bean, thrumming with a dark kind of power. He threw it into the sea, and the water convulsed. Swirled. Opened.

The portal yawned before them like a wound.

"No—!" I screamed, but it was done. Tamara and Greg dragged Henry with them and leapt into the storm.

They were gone.

The silence after was deafening.

Behind me, Emma and Regina arrived, faces twisted in horror, voices screaming Henry's name into the void. But it was too late. I had failed. I couldn't save him.

Unless...

The portal still pulsed, its edges flickering, fading. I stared at it, breath ragged, heart cracking under the weight of regret and fear. Then I looked back at them—Emma, Regina, the others. The people who had fought so hard to keep this world intact.

I wouldn't let it fall apart now.

"I'll protect him!" I shouted, voice raw, promise blazing in my chest. "I promise!"

And I jumped.

Straight into the unknown

A/n: Heyyy my beans. Hehe, get it.. "beans." Nvm. Anyways, hope you enjoyed this chapter. Sorry, it was so short. I will hopefully make the others much longer. I mean, this is just the beginning... right?

Bye my loves <3