Its been a long time since I've written anything. Years since I've written fanfiction. So I'm saying right from the start this will probably be pretty awful and I probably wont finish this. Bet you really want to read it now huh? But I'm going to try really hard. I have bout 5 months before I go back to grad school, 5 months to do what I want. And really appreciate any feedback. Or any message really. Maybe I'm just being nostalgic. All right, I've stalled enough. On with the show.

Lily walked through Central Park lost in thought. She had often come to the park in her four years at NYU to study, or picnic with friends, or to watch her fellow New Yorkers living their lives. But those days were soon to end. She had graduated last week; finally after four years she had walked across the stage, thrown her cap in the air, and gotten her diploma. The last week had been a whirlwind of family dinners, graduation parties, packing, and tearful goodbyes to so many friends she would try to keep in touch with and acquaintances she might not see until their reunion. In three days Lily would also be moving on, out to Chicago where a job awaited her. Her family had finally returned home and she was taking these last few days to savor the city she had come to love. She had had her last sandwich at the Bowery Diner, had breakfast at her favorite greasy spoon by Union Square and had had more NY pizza in the last two days than shed had since she was a freshman getting drunk every weekend. She had shopped at all her favorite stores and taken pictures of famous buildings and random back alleys, the tourists in Central Square and the marquis on Broadway trying to capture the essence of NY which she knew was an exercise in futility. How can you capture the air of excitement? The hustle and bustle of the city that never sleeps? So now she was walking along the pond in Central Square, not paying any attention to her surroundings just thinking of her life over the last four ears and what the next few years were to bring.

Alone in the park it was easier for Lily to be honest with herself and realize that she didn't feel ready to be leaving college behind and going out into the "real world." There was still so much she wanted to do, she wanted to travel, and be irresponsible, and work as a bartender. Graduating from college, moving on to the next stage in your life is one of those moments where you realize that you might not be quite as grown up as you thought you were. And time has nearly run out to be a child. As she thought these things Lily began to sing a song from Peter Pan under her breath.

I won't grow up! I wont grown up! I don't even want to try…

Never gonna be a man

I wont!

Like to see somebody try

And make me

Anyone who wants to try and make me turn into a man catch me if you can!

With the last words she took a flying leap off the footpath and onto the shore of the pond but before her feet could touch the waters edge her world went black.

"Be careful what you wish for Lily Stern"

Lily understood the words as if the understanding had been planted directly into her, without hearing for she had no ears and no body, and the void had no voice. She began to feel fear but before it had fully bloomed she felt a sense of calm and again she understood what she was supposed to

"don't be frightened, we are going to grant you your wish"

Lily was about to say that she hadn't wished for anything when she felt a light humor, "I guess it wasn't so much of a wish as a challenge, but still you did speak your desire aloud, and you desired it strongly enough that when you jumped elements you were able to cross"

Lily was more confused than before but it is not good for a soul to be in limbo without a body for too long and so the darkness sent her back down to earth with a last whisper "It will all be alright, you should be grateful, not many are granted their wishes"

Lily woke up confused. She did not remember coming home yesterday; she could remember being at the park and then a bizarre dream about being careful what you wished for. Or maybe walking in the park was also a dream the whole day was muddled. She rolled over onto her back and was stretching her arms when someone shrieked above her.

"Oh Samuel, you rolled over! I knew you were advanced for your age"

Lilly's eyes popped open, who was in her room?! But before she could do anything she was swooped up onto a woman's arms and cuddled into her neck. Lilly knew something was seriously wrong. She looked at her hand and stared at the chubby baby's hand that curled and flexed when she wanted. She experimentally kicked her legs and began to panic as her stubby baby toes went no further than the woman's ribcage. She heard an echo from her dream from the night before, be careful what you wish for. She wracked her brain what had she wished for? She was being nostalgic, had she wished for childhood again? The woman was speaking again.

She cooed "oh Samuel, you wait till your papa comes home, He's going to be so proud that his little boy rolled over already, maybe you'll do it again when he comes home?"

and then it hit her, she had been singing that silly song from Peter Pan "I wont grow up/ Anyone who wants to try and make me turn into a man catch me if you can!" Oh God, what had she done? She heard a ghostly echo of a laugh and mentally cursed the fates. She might not have been quite ready to face the real world and be an adult, but that didn't mean she wanted to do her childhood over! The thought of going through middle school and high school again was unbearable. And what about her family? They must be going crazy! Overwhelmed and with no other recourse Lilly began to cry. She wanted to be home, she wanted her body, she wanted her apartment and her family and her life back. The poor woman desperately tried to quiet her juggling the baby up and down, offering her a rag dipped in soup, making silly faces but nothing helped until she brought her to the window to look out over the street. The shock of it stopped Lilly's crying at once. Looking down onto the street teeming with life. There was not a car or neon sign in sight, no neatly paved roads with yellow lines, or sidewalks. No Duane Reads, Lilly wasn't even sure if she was in New York anymore. She could see some horses and carriages but mostly just hundreds of people carrying out their shopping, men in suits and caps, women in dresses and shawls. It looked like a scene out of a dickens novel but Lilly knew it was real and in that moment of shock all she could think was "were not in Kansas anymore"

AN: Let me know what you think. Is it moving too fast?