Concentrating

"Tootles? Tootles? Are you even listening to me?"

"Sorry, what were you saying?"

Slightly shook his head, "really Tootles, don't you know it's bad to ignore people?"

Tootles didn't say anything, which was probably because he was absorbed in his task – putting thread through the eye of a needle. He sat on a stool, his tongue sticking out of his mouth and his eyebrows furrowed.

"Why you pulling that face? Are you sick or something?" Asked Nibs.

"I'm concentrating."

"Is that what that's called? It doesn't look very fun." Commented Curly, who at the time happened have just come in from a mud fight with the twins.

"If Wendy were here she would make you wash up." Said Tootles surveying him.

"Well that's because she was our Mother, you aren't, so don't you dare try giving me a bath." Said Curly who stamped his foot for emphasis.

"I will not try to give you a bath" said Tootles crinkling his nose in disdain. "That's a woman's job."

"I don't know any boy who does concentrating, only Wendy used to do it" muttered Nibs.

"Yes," said Slightly, as always he was ready to give away his 'memories' of his life before he came to Neverland, "I remember that only Mothers ever concentrated, so that means that it is most definitely woman's work."

"What are you concentrating for?" asked Twin 1.

"Yeah, what's the point of concentrating when you could be playing?" added Twin 2.

"I am concentrating because before Wendy left, she tried to teach me how, so I could mend clothes." Tootles said. Just at that moment Peter came into the underground home, crowing as usual.

"Hullo Peter!" chorused the Lost Boys.

Peter began to tell of his latest adventure when he looked around at the lost boys and saw that Tootles wasn't paying any attention.

"Tootles! What do you think you are doing in ignoring me?"

"I tried to tell him it was rude" Shrugged Slightly.

"He's concentrating!" the twins chorused, and suddenly started dancing around poor Tootles.

Nibs joined and began chanting, "Woman's work! Woman's Work!" This then became a taunt of all the Lost Boys just shouting "Woman! Woman!" Over and over again at the poor Tootles who was still trying to 'concentrate'.

Peter found the game fun at first, but then started to tire of it, as he did with most games.

The lost boys sensed Peter's boredom, and so Nibs piped up "We should go on another adventure! Kill some pirates!"

"Run our – " said Twin 1

"Swords through them!" Finished twin two.

"Throw stones at them as they walk through the jungle!" suggested Curly.

They all looked at Tootles, waiting for him to say something, but when nothing came they all looked back at Peter.

Peter walked over to Tootles and stood over him, "is that what you think of your leader then?" he asked.

"What?" asked Tootles who hadn't heard a thing.

Luckily for Tootles Peter was at one of his forgetting times, and he began to wonder why he was standing here.

"Well?" Peter turned to the lost boys, "What are we going to do now?"

The lost boys looked at each other, and repeated their ideas from earlier.

This time though, Tootles managed to catch onto what was happening and added at the end, "steal Captain Hooks hat!"

That, Peter thought, was a good idea, a worthy adventure.

"Then" said Peter Pan, standing with arm in the air holding his dagger, and the other sitting on his waist, "We shall steal Hooks Hat!"