BECAUSE PETER PAN IS EVIL. Yeah, I've gone and twisted everything up, because I am a terrible person. You have every right to hate me. I have NO IDEA how chapters for this book will work. Considering that I'm stupid, and doing this right when school is four days away, I don't know how often I'll be updating or whatever. Just hang in there with me okay? Please? Grasa and Adi!
~Otaku :U
There were not many things that you could truly say that "everyone" knew. There was stuff most people knew, and certain groups knew, but if there was one thing that truly everyone knew, it was the tale of Peter Pan. Or, the tale of the tale of Peter Pan. It was the scary story people elaborated on at night. It was the story that had morals that mothers taught their children. It was even classified as a basic lesson in school. That story was known across the planet, and as a result, relatively no one knew the story of Peter Pan.
The best thing to call all the stuff we said would be a story about a story. No matter what, you could not ever trust Peter Pan. What had been said really wasn't confirmed as a tall tale, or utter truth. Either way, people would heed the warnings. It was said that when someone read or told the story of Peter Pan, he would appear. Just like what the books said. And to follow suit, you would be whisked away to Neverland. However, the stories didn't usually end with such a happy ending as the Darling children. From what people had been hearing, they never came back. Of course, no one knows what happens to the children when they go to Neverland. But people didn't want to start disappearing. It's part of human nature to fear the unknown. So naturally, people stayed away from the stories of Peter.
But this is what was true. Seven children had gone missing. A few had suffered abuse, some were orphans. A couple had even been in average middle class families. Other things rang true about them too. Some of them had told the story to other children while the others had admitted (in a rather triumphant way at that) that they had read the story. Other facts were that all of the children were female. All of them ranged between ages six and fifteen. None of them had been found to date.
Forensics obviously looked at this in a practical way. Six to Fifteen were common ages in cases of kidnappings and pedophilia, which was much more possible than a fictional character coming to life and stealing children. As a bonus, they were all female. On top of that, Peter Pan was a wide spread story. Possible kidnappers could have convinced these children to read the stories. They also could have simply found out about this because clearly, for anyone to have this information, someone besides the child knew that the story had been read and or told. There were plenty of explanations that people thought of. You always heard could be's and possibly's, but there was never one true answer. And those that believed in the story of Peter Pan clung to that one fact more than anything.
The fact that nobody had an answer meant that anyone could be right.
And that was what scared people most.