Title: Love on the High Seas: "In the Shadow of the Monster"
Author: Pirate Turner
Dedicated To: A certain Indian family member whom we recently lost
Rating: PG
Summary: Tinker Bell and Tiger Lily mourn a friend and brother.
Challenge: Ficcers' Unite Marvelous Disney challenge for 6-14-10 to write a fic that included the line, "Not everything can be fixed with pixie dust."
Warnings: AU, Femme Slash
Word Count: 334
Timeline: This story takes place before the start of the series.
Disclaimer: Tinker Bell, Tiger Lily, and Peter Pan are & TM Disney and any other possible respective owners, none of which is the author; are used without permission; and may not be used without permission. Everything else is & TM the author. The author makes absolutely no profit off of this work of fan fiction, and no copyright infringement is intended.

Tinker Bell watched the enflamed body of a dear friend float away through tears in her blue eyes. She was so lost to the grief in her heart and the memories in her mind that she did not hear her lover approaching until Tiger Lily knelt beside the leaf Tink huddled on and very lightly ran a finger down her silken wings. "I don't believe he's gone," the tiny Fairy whispered.

"I know," Tiger Lily answered, her voice equally as soft and low. "He was my brother."

"Mine too. I only wish I could have spent more time with him." She sighed as her blonde head hung and her wings fluttered sadly. "But Peter will never leave me alone long enough to do what I want to do."

"Why don't you just leave him?"

"You know why," Tink replied, turning and looking up into her girlfriend's shimmering brown eyes. "I'm the only one who's even close to being his equal. I have to stay where I can keep an eye on him or his temper will doom us all."

Tiger Lily nodded. "You know how much I hate you being right sometimes." But Tink was right. Some one had to stay close enough to the dreadful Immortal boy that they could stop him whenever he started to go too far. Tiger Lily had seen the innocent lives that Peter Pan had destroyed and knew him, despite the friendship with the boy she faked in order to stay close to her beloved Tinker Bell, for the monster he truthfully was.

"I know." Tinker Bell sighed, her wings fluttering against Tiger Lily's finger. "So did Danya, but not everything can be fixed with pixie dust." She turned, wrapped her tiny arms around Tiger Lily's finger, and held to her as she cried.

Silent tears slipped down Tiger Lily's face. One day they would be freed from Pan, but even then she would not be able to hold the remarkable woman she loved in her arms without fear of crushing her.

The End

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