Chapter 4: There are two Kinds of Surprises; Some are Good Surprises & Some Are Surprise Surprises
(I separated this chapter into two parts)
Part 1: Somewhere over the Rainbow
"Oh Peter, it's still as beautiful as it was before."
"Yep, and now that Hook's not around I'm the Captain of Never Land!" He flew in a circle up in the clouds. "Common Wendy! Let's go see the lost boys!"
"Peter I can't wait!"
The two flew down to the large island, while Tink flew behind them, slightly ticked off that she was being ignored.
"Peter, where is your hideout now?"
"What do you mean Wendy?"
"Well when Hook … I mean it can't be at Hangman's Tree anymore."
"Nah, Wendy we don't go there anymore."
"Then where are we going Peter?"
"Poisoned Man's Rock."
"Poisoned Man's rock?"
"Look here!" Peter landed in a wooded area where there were three rocks in the area.
"Well Peter which one is it?"
"This one."
"But Peter it has poison ivy all over it?"
"That's why it's poisoned man's rock!"
"But how do you open it?"
"Like this." He pressed down a smaller rock with his foot, which pushed up the edge of the ivy covered rock just enough so one could lift it.
"It's a lever system; oh Peter you're so clever!" She went down the steps into the lair.
"A lever?" He shrugged and followed her down.
She looked around. The place was roomier, but looked a lot like the old one. Peter had his own separate space with his hammock and the small space where Tinker Bell slept. In the main area other than the swirling staircase, there were small knives, bows, rocks and other weapons spread along the ground. Between them were small blankets and fluffed bird-feather stuffed pillows along the ground, and one other hammock.
"Peter, you did a wonderful job of making a new hideout! It's so quaint!"
"Why thank you, isn't it great?" He stood in the middle of the room, his arms spread out presenting the room.
"Yes, it is but where are the Lost Boys?" She asked innocently.
"Hmm…" He looked around, and then he noticed Tink fly in from the open trap door- or trap rock- into the hideout,
going straight into her portion of Peter's room. "Hey Tink, do you know where the lost boys went?"
She simply shook her head while pulling a leaf like curtain to separate her from the rest of the room.
"Humph. Well let me know if they come! Oh and tell them to make Wendy a bed…with the extra hammock!"
Tink thought for a minute and then pulled her head out giving him a smiley thumbs up.
Peter immediately went back out to Wendy in the main area.
"Tink says she doesn't know so we'll come back here later." He grabbed her hand and started to drag her up the dirt stairs.
"But Peter, where are we going?"
"It's a surprise!"
Suddenly they were flying up in the sky, over the forest, past the Indians and towards the water.
"Peter, how far out are we going?"
"You'll see just, hold on!" Peter Pan said looking back at Wendy before plummeting down closer to the water.
"I don't think I've ever been out this far!" Wendy said, before landing on a large rock outside a small lagoon and a
cave entrance.
"Hook used to sail these waters!" Peter said, "But now that the cod-fish is out, we got to explore them!"
"Oh how wonderful Peter, but what is this place?"
"This is the surprise." He grabbed her hand once again, and pulled his hands over her eyelids, drawing her deeper
into the cavern.
"Can I see now?"
"Yes."
He took his hands off of her eyes. When Wendy entered she noticed that the cavern was dark, but in certain places light barely shone through, making the lighting dim, but see-able. She looked around and saw tall white rocks, almost translucent in colour climbing up and around the cavern walls.
"Peter this is amazing!"
"Wait Wendy!" He pointed to a whole in the top of the cavern, and she noticed that as the sun went down it seemed it was creeping in on the whole, bringing more sunlight into the cavern. Suddenly she was blinded by it.
"Wendy, look!" She opened her eyes to see that the light, now shining through the crystals made rainbows: everywhere. The crystals were so reflective that in the light they shone the colors of the rainbow, projecting rainbows onto each other and off into the distance.
"This is beautiful Peter!" She said, dancing around amazed at the colors. She looked over to see that Peter, still flying was looking at her oddly.
"Peter what is it?"
"They're Never-Crystals; that's what we call them."
"Never Crystals, because their never not beautiful!" Wendy repeated.
"Like you."
"Me?"
"You're like a rainbow."
"Oh Peter that's so nice but…"
"No Wendy you're a rainbow!"
"What?" She looked down onto herself, to see how she could possibly look like a rainbow when she realized that
her pale blue dress that even her aunt had argued with her, calling it white, which it was not, had a rainbow projected onto it.
"This is so pretty!" She said grabbing the skirt of her dress and moving it, making the rainbow dance on it. "I wish it would stay!"
Peter had simply been watching her dance around when he realized the sun was starting to go down. The crystals were loosing their rainbow shine and becoming pure translucent white sparkles. "Come on Wendy! The lost boys should be back by now!"
"Okay!" She nodded, realizing that even the rainbow on her dress had been fading. She followed behind, flapping her arms to get some speed to catch up to Peter Pan.
Part 2: Stabbed in the Back
Back at the hideout, the boys were waiting for Peter and Wendy to return, quite impatiently, I might add. It didn't take much for them to get into fights, arguing about which story Wendy should tell them first and what each of them should say to her. That all stopped when they heard a noise coming from the top of the hideout.
"Lost boys!" A female voice chimed out.
"Wendy!" "Mother!" They yelled out.
Tink who had been watching rolled her eyes, but she smiled a fake smile in her direction. She looked over to where the old hammock used to be and smiled to herself; a kind of smile that would make one question the intent of the smile itself.
"We missed you!" They yelled.
"Oh I missed you boys too!"
"Where's John and that…that little one?" Cubby asked.
"Well John and Michael had to stay back for this adventure…they needed their mother."
"And we need ours right?" Slightly asked.
"That's why we need Wendy." Peter Pan said. "She'll be our permanent mother!"
"Oh well Peter…" She started, and then looked back at the young boys faces. "Only if you promise I get to visit my own mother every while…"
"Scouts honor milady!" He bowed in a respectful manner.
"Why did you…" "…leave your mother?" The twins asked Wendy.
"Well I … it's actually a long story."
"We like stories though, don't we guys?" Slightly asked.
"Yea!" They all agreed.
"Well alright." The boys all sat down all at once, even Peter, waiting for the story.
" Let's put it this way; there was once a girl who lived in a house; a home with her mother and father…but there was only one catch… "She had to grow up". She told her father that she would have to live in a separate room; a room for adults, because as society would have it she had to learn to grow up sooner than later. But one day, at a beautiful party, a boy asked her to dance. Now, a lady should always say yes to a dance presented by a gentleman, so she could not say no. After they danced she was told by her father once again, "You have to grow up." So she left to go sit with the boy that she had to dance with. Now instead of being a prince, like in the other fairy takes, he ended up being mean, and rude…and arrogant…and pompous…"
"What does pompous mean?" Cubby asked.
"Well it means…never mind. Anyway I bet you'll never guess what this boy's name was?"
"Stinky!"
"Pirate!"
"Pirate is close…I guess…" She laughed.
"Captain Hook?"
"Closer." She said giving them a curious eye. She looked over at Peter before saying his name. "His name was James, just like the evil Captain James Hook."
"So what did she do? Kill him?" Slightly asked eagerly.
"Not…exactly."
"You see there was something this girl liked to do; she had a hobby; a pastime, and when she told the boy about herself, he was mean… just as mean as Captain Hook. You see he didn't believe in Peter Pan and the lost boys. So he teased her, and called her a liar. And then…"
"What?"
"He made her cry…and what's worse is that rude boy didn't even say sorry…and he just, he just…"
"He?"
"He …hit her." They looked at Wendy's eyes that they were glossy. "…and you should never…ever hit a girl. SO she …went home…and then her father told her to grow up for a third time…this time he told her that she had to…or should…marry the evil boy. So she ran away, and escaped that horrid fate… and now she is …is …"
"Happy?" Nibs asked.
"Yes happy." Wendy said whipping the tears from her eyes before the boys could see her cry.
"I think it's time for bed boys!" Peter declared.
"Sure lets get…" They all jumped up as if they were going to go to bed.
"Because I'm sure that you boys did what I told you to do!" Peter continued.
"Oh yea! It's in the other room!" Slightly said.
"Yea, yea! Surprise!" Cubby said.
"Surprise?" Wendy asked sniffing.
They started to push Wendy into Peter's room, and that's when she noticed another hole in the wall; one that wasn't there before. It had a curtain covering the contents of it.
"What is it?" She asked.
They pushed her through and noticed that there was a new room. It had a mat in the middle of the dirt floor, and above it was the other hammock that Wendy had seen out in the boy's room earlier. On it was a small pillow, with fresh feathers sticking out on the ends of it. She walked around the room, and saw that on the wall something had been scratched on it; "tOo wEndee, oUrr mOthr ! fruM lOst boUys." She smiled and looked down to see each of their handprints underneath.
"Do you like it huh?" Slightly asked eagerly.
"Oh boys I love it!" She hugged them all in a tight embrace.
"Now you have a place to stay Wendy!" Peter flew over to her and landed in front of her.
"Thank you Peter!" She said smiling widely to him. Somehow, maybe it was his naivety and carefree attitude, or maybe it was something else that made her smile whenever she felt low. This was exactly what she needed.
"Now boys go get ready for bed and wash up!" She nudged them all off and out of the room. She yawned. She was tired. She had had so much to think about. Yes she missed her mother, her father and of course her brothers and she hated running away from growing up. But on the other hand, she was never happy when she was growing up; being alone in her room was lonely and being with anyone her age seemed rather boring as they all were growing up as well. Her father and mother meant well trying to aid her to grow up, but she hated seeing her brothers still running freely in their room playing games while she was confined to her own in the evening. Father wasn't all bad of course; he had accepted most Peter Pan stories after that night when he saw his ship, but he would be reluctant to admit any of it. Maybe that was what she missed…being able to not worry about growing up. Things got so much more complicated; mother trying to explain the way women were, father trying to explain the way marriage is for love but for wealth as well, how she would change as she got older, and how innocence seemed to be slipping out of her fingers. She sighed to herself, before laying back to rest on the new hammock bed when she felt a sharp stab in the back of her shoulder.
"Ouch!" She yelped getting up and reached back to see that a prickly object…a bur possibly? It was stuck to her skin and must have cut her. How could a bur have gotten all the way down here?
"Wendy?" Peter, who had been lounging in his own hammock, had heard her yelp and peaked in from his own space.
"Oh Peter it seems that …"
He looked to see a small bit of blood and a bur sticking out of her back. "How did you do that Wendy?" He tilted his head in confusion.
"It was on the hammock, and it cut me!" She said.
"Someone must have put it there…but who?" Peter said.
"Well Peter I don't know if anyone actually…" She didn't get to finish Peter was already investigating, asking the boys which one of them did it. He entered in the room to see that Wendy looking in her hammock for presumably more burs. "They said they didn't do it!"
"Oh course they didn't Peter." She smiled painfully.
Suddenly they heard a small bell like sound from the other room; they went over to see Tink bellowing in laughter.
"Tink did you do this?"
"Me?" She mimed. Her proud attitude overcame her betterment and she nodded, hiding behind her leaf curtain.
"Well Tink I'll just have to banish you…"
"No Peter, please don't" Wendy begged.
"Well then, you are banned from our adventures for a week!" Peter said.
Tink got all red and then kicked her foot before sitting down on her small bed.
"Sorry Wendy." He flew over closer to her, who was now walking towards her own room.
"It's okay Peter; it's not your fault." She said.
"Do you need help?"
"Well yes, but be gentle Peter!" She said sitting down on her own bed.
He simply nodded.
He looked at the bur. It was stuck right on the top left of her shoulder. He grabbed it with a quick motion and as
quick and delicately as he could, pulled it out of her back. It left a small but deep gash in her other wise blemish free skin. She whimpered a bit, but didn't make much of a sound.
"Oh thank you Peter."
"One second!" He left and came back with a small piece of fabric; it was soft and placed it against her damaged skin.
"I have it now, thank you." She nodded at him and took over reaching back holding it over her injury.
"Wendy?" She looked up to see him perched up in the air.
"Yes Peter?"
"Was that story about you and the evil James boy?" He flew to the other side of the room. Always restless, she thought.
"Why yes Peter, I thought you would figure it out."
"He hit you?" He stared at her with that same expression that he had when he first found out that she might have been moving out of the nursery the first time.
"Well yes Peter, it wasn't nice, but …"
"Well then while you are here, Peter with make sure that no other person can harm Wendy…or boy can hit her!" He said triumphantly.
"Oh Peter, things like that are not easy to control you know. I mean you cant help if I trip or fall, or if I scrape my knee because if you're not there than I cant depend on you, and one shouldn't have to depend on another for everything; then again some people do, but I couldn't possibly do that, because it's not responsible of me…"
"Girls really talk too much."
"Oh…well actually Peter…"
He just looked at her waiting for her to go on.
"Goodnight." She simply said smiling.
"Night Wendy!" He left the room, and she fell asleep on her hammock bed dreaming of the adventures to come.
Authors note: PS. the more reviews the better so... REVIEW? ^_^
Okay so for one, yes Tink is up to her normal jealous acts, and no i do not hate Tinkerbell, but she is way to easy to use as a character to add some drama to an otherwise Disney rated scene. I know i also added the fact that "James" hit Wendy...i didn't rate this T for nothing...but again i wont be getting too adult with this because I'm trying to follow the Disney plot from the original. Lotsa surprises though?
I also want to add some further emotions between Wendy and Peter, because although it was revealed that Wendy fancied Peter in the first, he was too naive to truly notice. I want to add some teenage love drama...with some jealousy and other good stuff...and a few little antagonists here and there. Plus the real question is...does Wendy actually end up staying in Never land or...
