The streets were bare, not a car nor person in site. The chill in the air was enough to drive everyone back into their homes for the night. Wendy stood on the pale sidewalk looking up at the apartment she currently shared with her brothers. Younger but older, a concept she was still trying to grasp 3 years later. Her life was changed, her whole time and being that is. She should have been dead in this era, not living and breathing. But the years spent in Neverland had put a stop to all things normal. Now she simply existed in a timeline she didn't belong in. The cold began to seep into here bones, but she didn't care, the cold felt welcoming almost numbing. She still had moments when she feared that Peter would come back for her; he very well could if he wanted to especially now that he had what he wanted. She remembered the final battle, Henry's death and resurrection. Parts of his heart were with Peter, but a little part was given back to him enough to bring him back. A spell that was casted by the evil Queen herself, she also cast a spell on Wendy to help set her free and cloak her from Peter's sight. Regina had said there was no way to make it permanent so all she could do is hope that it would last long enough for him to forget her.
She sighed at the thought, and as much as she wanted to be inside with her brothers but it was too painful.
'It'll never be the same; they will always be looking out for me because they're older.' She thought sadly to herself, slowly turning away from the door, she slowly headed for the direction of the forest. She needed to clear her head, the long school days and the part time job didn't help much, and Henry's constant reminder of fairy tales just made things worse.
'Why must he constantly remind me? I'm a person not a character in a story. It damn well hurts every time it's brought up.' Thoughts like these always swirled through her head, when she wasn't thinking of the Pan himself; her fear was the reason for that. Years of being stuck in a world where you don't grow up with a psychotic boy who was cruel and wanted immortality, didn't make it easy to forget. Forget. A word that she wished the meaning would actually work on her, but alas the easiest of things never seemed to happen for her.
She sat on a log of one of shorter trees that had fallen over and stared out into the darkness. With the little bit of light that was still around the shadows seems to move and dance across the ground. The shadows used to scare her, but she found them rather comforting now cause she knew who shadows was whose and when it was nature causing them. Her eyes scanned the forest for any signs of life, once satisfied that there was no one there she dropped her face into her hands and wept. She could feel the cold air biting at her face, chilling her to the bones. Even with her warm tears, she still felt frozen like her heart. The time in Neverland frustrated her; she couldn't live her life in this world now because of it. He destroyed her.
'Remember Wendy you're mine' His words still echoed in her mind, she knew a part of her still belong to him even though she was far away. Looking up she noticed the purple glow covering her skin. It was finally time the spell was wearing off. She sighed hoping that she was long forgotten, the back her mind telling her otherwise. Once the glow had subsided she shot her head up to the sky, watching the stars or a certain star. 'Second star to the right' she thought dully to herself. She could admit that she kind of missed Neverland itself, but she couldn't miss them, the Lost Boys or him.
It seems like hours before Wendy finally rose to leave, having finally coming to the assumption that she had been forgotten and was therefore safe. She dusted off her knee length black skirt and quickly adjusted her stripped sweater. Hoping to come off presentable to her brothers when she get home knowing full well they won't have turned into sleep until she was home, just another part of the over protective brothers act. Not that she can blame them, even if her being trapped had been her fault in the first place. Sighing she shuffled her feet to get them moving as the wind rustled through the trees. She only managed two steps before she froze. Something wasn't right; she could feel it in her bones. She could feel his eyes, cold and sharp stunning her in place. She could feel her body begin to shiver, not from the cold but from the way he watches her waiting to pounce. She slowly turns to face behind her, there he stands leaning against a tree eyes trained on her, dark and unreadable.
"Well look who I have finally found." His words drip with venom, she shivers again at his voice.
"Please leave me alone." Her voice drops to a whisper, her eyes refusing to leave his. Slowly he pushes himself off from the tree and starts to saunter over to her, his icy grin pasted across his face. Her eyes widen, her feet moving of the own accord taking her backwards away from him.
"Now is that a way to treat an old friend?" He questions her, his smugness has returned.
"I-I don't want you here. You're not real, you can't be real. Please don't be real…" she trails off fear creeping into her eyes.
"Oh Wendy darling, I am very much real and very much here." As soon as the words left his mouth he appeared in front of her, his bony hand reaching out to grab her wrist as she tries to flee.
"No." She whispers, watching his grin get bigger. She quickly looks away trying to find another way to get free from him.
"Now what was it I had told you before hmm? Oh right you're mine and you did not have my permission to leave." His voice drops low and husky; his other hand finds her chin, he forces her to face him. She puts her other hand up in a feeble attempt to push him away. Of course she failed, and found herself nose to nose, her hand pressed against his chest.
"No please just let me go?" Tears were pulling at the corners of her eyes threatening to fall. His eyes gleamed in the moonlight, a smirk formed on his face as he seemed to have come up with an idea. He slowly brushed his icy lips against her soft warm ones, and then forcibly kissed her with a bruising kiss. She fought to try and turn her face away but the hand under her chin kept her in place. So she refused to give in to his whim and refused to kiss him back like she expected he wanted her to do.
He finally pulled away after what felt like minutes, his dark eyes pierced through hers.
"Come with me back to Neverland." His voice was a soft purr, entrancing and enchanting. She could feel herself falling for it before she snapped out of it.
"No!" She yelled at him giving him a shove that knocked him off balance. Quickly turning she ran from him, from the forest down the street and back to the apartment. Once she was safe inside she slid down the door on to the ground where she crumbled and began to cry. The noise brought John out his room; he looked at her with a worried look. She was a mess and she knew it, but could she tell her own brother what just happened. John knelt down beside her and pulled her into a hug.
"Shh it's okay Wendy." He tried to give her comforting words but knew they were all but useless.
"He's coming for me. John he visited me just now. He wants to take me back there." She mumbled into his shoulder. His arms tightened around her.
"Well he's not going to get you, we won't let it happen." He whispered softly to her, trying to calm her. "Well go see Regina tomorrow and see if there anything more she can do for you. Okay?" He offered. She nodded to him, before pulling away and picking herself off the floor.
"I don't mean to worry you John, I'm sorry I just didn't know what else to do. I thought err hoped he would have forgotten me." Her voice was weary, but she managed to be strong and speak clearly.
"Just get some rest and we'll get it sorted in the morning." Those were John's last words before he disappeared into his own room. She wandered down the short hallway towards her room, collapsing into bed she didn't care to even change. She pull the cover up to her chin and attempted to get some sleep but even that was hard for her, cause while she dreamt, he crept in whispering her name and calling her to him. Telling her to join him in Neverland and stay with him forever. It caused her to wake up screaming this time startling both Michael and John as they came running to her room half expecting Pan's shadow to be dragging her from her bed. They both hugged her tightly and agreed to stay with her the rest of the night. They definitely need help and they hoped that Regina would be able to help or even Emma if there was anything she could do. Wendy unfortunately feared for the worst, she could feel it in her gut that she wasn't going to get away easy. 'When Peter Pan wants you, he gets you. And once you set foot in Neverland you are never truly free from it.'