Title: If Only
Author Name: Sephrenia Whisp
Category: Peter Pan, drabble
Rating: K
Spoilers: Not much, basic theme of Peter Pan
Summary: How many little girls today may be related to Wendy, and therefore how many girls could Peter Pan pick as his mother without leaving his chosen mother's bloodline?
Disclaimer: I am not JM Barrie and don't own Peter Pan. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Author's note: How I wish I were still a child, that I might go away with Peter.
Everyone knows that Peter came for Wendy a few times, and then Jane, then there was Margaret, and Margaret's daughter after her. Well Margaret's daughter might never have had a daughter. In fact she might never have had any children. Peter would no longer have a steady line of mothers. Would that be that the end of it?
I think not.
We're forgetting the other decedents of the Darling family. John's and Michael's children.
Is it so surprising that Peter might have found a mother in one of those female decedents? Isn't it possible that during the hundred years till present John's and Michael's offspring would have 'spread and multiplied' so to speak? How many young girls out there could be related, however distantly, to Wendy Moira Angela Darling? And therefore, how many girls could Peter Pan pick as his mother without leaving his chosen mother's bloodline.
If you are a girl, how can yoube sure Peter won't come for you?
I for one have pined and longed for Peter to come for me. Sadly I have grown up, at least by the world's estimation and it is too late. But I don't let this really get me down, there's still hope for a daughter I might someday have. Maybe she will be so lucky as to have the right genes in her blood that he will seek her out, to go on the most amazing adventure I can imagine. Maybe luck will be with her that was not with me. But then again, it's the hope I have for all little girls. Any girl would be lucky to have such a wonderful experience.
I however am doomed to live without having followed all the golden arrows to the magical island on whose shores children are forever at play, I am doomed to live. But to live will be an awfully big adventure, so I have much to look forward to. And I will make each day as magical as it can be and each moment an adventure. My life may not have Peter in it, but it will certainly have youth, joy, and freedom. Because I chose to have it so, and so it shall be.