Captain Hook
It was now daytime and Neverland was peaceful. Out in the ocean there was a pirate ship with its captain pacing back and forth in his usual schedule. Captain Hook was thinking about Peter and Sora. He didn't know why they suddenly just stopped messing with him. Don't get him wrong, he enjoyed the peace and quiet but just knowing that they're still out there made him paranoid. Were they coming up with a plan to catch him when he was vulnerable? All sorts of questions like that. Every now and then he'd see Peter flying around and as usual shout at him. But instead of Peter fooling around like the childish boy he is, he just stares and waves and goes on with his day. When Hook would see Sora, it was like he was in his own little world.
Hook has always had a grudge for Peter ever since he cut off his hand and fed it to the crocodile. He wanted to kill Peter, and when he found out that Peter had brought Sora to Neverland he was even angrier. Another stupid child to annoy him.
When Sora played his first game of 'Pirates' he was just like Peter. Annoying, aggravating and so on. However he was different. After they flew off to the island Sora returned. He told Captain Hook that they were just messing around and didn't mean for him to get so angry with them. He unlike Peter apologized for his childish behavior.
Hook doesn't hate Sora as much as Peter but he still dislikes him just for being another flying boy with a boyish attitude.
Captain Hook couldn't take it. He walked over to the side of the ship and looked out towards the island. He saw two faint figures on the beach. Did they wash up on shore?
"Smee!" Captain Hook shouted for his first mate that always did exactly what he said. No matter what.
"Yes, I'm coming Captain!" A pudgy short man came up running besides Hook.
"Bring me my telescope!"
"T-The silver one o-or t-the um, gold one?" Smee always stuttered when the Captain screamed. Especially at him.
"Surprise me." Smee came back with the silver telescope and Hook took it and looked out towards the beach. There he saw Sora and he wasn't alone.
"W-What is it, Captain?" Asked Smee.
"It's Sora, lying down on the beach. He's not alone. He's holding someone…" Hook zoomed in on his telescope and gasped. "A girl? Sora is lying down on the beach holding…a girl?" The Captain laughed hysterically like he was insane.
"Smee! Do you know what this means?" He said as he picked up his first mate by the shoulders and held him up so he could look at him in the face.
"Uh, Sora's in love?" Smee looked frightened by his Captain.
"No…Sora's got himself, his own Wendy." Hook placed Smee down and started grinning. "Smee, ready the boats. We are going to make a little trip to the beach."
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Sora woke up on the beach and began to stretch. Something wasn't letting him move a lot. He looked down and saw Kairi cuddling him. He smiled as he remembered last night. He saw that sometime throughout last night they moved a little and now their faces are in front of each other only inches apart. Sora started blushing madly. Kairi started to stir and opened her eyes slowly.
She started to blush as well once she noticed how close they were. They stayed like that for a while. Just staring at each other.
"Good morning." Sora said smiling. Kairi didn't know what it was about his smile, but every time he smiled she couldn't help but smile too.
"Morning." Kairi smiled. "Good morning, children." They both looked up to see Hook. All of a sudden Kairi got dragged away from Sora by a big muscular pirate with a bunch of tattoos.
"Kairi!" Sora jumped up and ran towards Kairi, but before he could reach her another pirate grabbed Sora and threw him into the ground. He looked identical to the one holding Kairi. Sora tried to fly away from him but he wasn't quick enough. The pirate grabbed onto the back of his shirt and threw him into the rocky shallow water. Sora hit his head against some medium-sized rocks, but that didn't stop him.
He got up on his hands and knees, ready to dart towards Kairi again. The pirate kicked Sora in the gut; knocking the wind out of him. Kairi screamed at the man to stop, be it didn't work. Why were they doing this? What did they do?
The man came up behind Sora and grabbed onto the back of his shirt again. He shoved him into the shallow water. Sora turned his face so he could breath, and also to look at Kairi. Kairi was pulled up against the man with a knife to her throat. She had tears running down her face. Sora stopped struggling when he figured out that the knife to Kairi's throat was a message. If he didn't fight them, she wouldn't get hurt.
After they realized that Sora had giving up, the pirate pulled him up and tied his hands behind his back with a rope. The other pirate holding Kairi was doing the same.
Captain Hook walked up to Sora. "Hello. Did you miss me boy?" Sora had his head down. He was out of breath. Kairi could hear him breathing heavily. She started to worry about him. Was he okay?
Sora never answered so Hook just continued. "You know, I've been getting lonely. But it appears…you haven't been." Hook looked towards Kairi and smiled. Hook walked over to her and looked right into her face.
"Kairi? Was it? I mean, that is your name isn't it? Since Sora screamed it out once you were forced away from him. I can only imagine how heartbroken he would be if we, disposed of you." Kairi had more tears running down her face.
"Don't you DARE touch her Hook!" screamed Sora. He might have not finished school, but he knew well what 'dispose' meant. He wasn't going to let anything bad happen to her. Hook turned around and smiled.
"I'm glad I make you angry Sora." Hook turned back to Kairi. "Tell me, girl. How do you feel about Sora? Do you care for his safety?" Kairi didn't know what to say. She was too shaken up to speak at the moment.
"Don't talk to him Kairi!" Sora wanted to make sure that Hook didn't figure Kairi out. Then he'd know her weakness and then she will never be safe. But Sora's outburst earned him a punch to the gut by a pirate who was standing by.
"Ignore him." Hook continued. "Answer me these questions and I'll let you be. Understand?" Kairi nodded. "Good. Do you care for Sora's safety? For example; if I were to drown him…would you care?" Kairi nodded. "Do you like being around him?" Kairi nodded. "Do you like him?" This time Kairi didn't respond. Did she like Sora?
"Interesting…bring them to the boats. We're taking them with us back to the ship." Hook walked off into the woods. He must have gone off in search for Peter. Sora and Kairi got placed into the boat with their backs against each other. The two men got in and started rowing back to the ship. The other man stayed behind to help Captain Hook.
Since Sora and Kairi's hands were tied behind their backs, Sora moved his hands around to grip Kairi's fingers. Kairi gripped Sora's fingers back in a worried grip. Sora's thumb was rubbing across her hand in a comforting way as if saying everything was going to be okay. But they knew that it wasn't.
Once they got to the ship; Sora and Kairi were once again pulled away from each other. The pirates untied their hands once they knew that they weren't going to do anything. Kairi got tied up to the mast and Sora's leg got tied up to the chain of the anchor. Sora and Kairi knew what was going to happen. Hook was serious about the whole drowning thing. All of a sudden they heard a crow. They both looked up and saw none other than Peter Pan.
"Peter!" Sora shouted. He was glad Peter showed up. Peter flew down and kicked one of the pirates into the water. He then flew over to Kairi and untied her from the mast.
Once she was free, she immediately ran towards Sora. She threw her arms around his waist and hugged him tightly. Sora gladly hugged her back.
"Sora, I was so scared." Kairi sobbed into his chest. "It's okay, Kairi. Everything's okay now." The last Pirate had ran and hid behind one of cannons the moment he heard Peter. Quietly, he came out of hiding and pushed the anchor off of the ship and into the ocean. Sora heard the chain unraveling and pushed Kairi away so she wouldn't go down with him. Kairi fell to the ground as Sora went flying onto his chest and dragged to the end of the ship.
"Sora!" Kairi ran after him and jumped to the edge of the ship and grabbed Sora's hand just before he went into the water. Kairi was holding on to the ship with her free hand. "Sora, don't let go!" Peter rushed over and started to fight the pirate who came out of hiding.
"Kairi, let go." Sora needed her to let go.
"No, I'm not going to let go!"
"Kairi, if you don't you'll get dragged under too!"
"I don't care!" Kairi was never going to let go of Sora.
"Well I do!" As Sora and Kairi continued to argue, Peter was still fighting the pirate. This guy was twice the size of Peter, but he still held up.
"Please Kairi. Don't do this!" Sora didn't want anything happing to Kairi, but she just wouldn't listen.
"Sora, don't you remember what you told me? If you don't try to save one life, you'll never save any!" Those were the words that Sora remembered the most about his past. The anchor was just too strong for Kairi. Sora's hand was slipping from her grasp. She looked over to Peter. "Peter! I need your dagger!"
"Alright!" Peter kicked his dagger across the wooden boards of the ship towards Kairi. Kairi looked at it then towards Sora.
"I'm going to have to let go. I promise, I'll be right there!"
Sora shook his head. "Just give me the dagger. When I say go, you let go of the ship. Okay?"
"Let go of the ship, not you. I got it." Kairi used her foot to kick the dagger off the side of the ship. Sora caught it by the handle and placed it between his pants and belt.
"Okay, you ready?" Sora looked up towards Kairi. He could tell she was afraid. "Kairi, don't be afraid." Kairi nodded. "Now!" Kairi let go of the ship and they plummeted into the ocean.
Kairi never let go off Sora's hand. When they were under, Sora pulled the dagger from betweens his pants and belt and handed it to Kairi. Kairi took it and stared at him. Sora pointed down towards the rope around his foot. She suddenly understood what she had to do. She grabbed onto Sora's shirt and pushed herself down towards his foot. Then she grabbed onto his pant leg to hold on. She then grabbed the rope and started to cut it. She was losing air quickly.
Once she cut the rope, Sora pulled her up by her arms and put the dagger back between his pants and belt. Kairi was almost out of air. He knew that she would never make it, Kairi needed air and she needed it now! There was only one thing to do.
Sora took Kairi's face in his hands and made her look at him. She was looking at him desperately, telling him that she needed to breathe. Sora leaned forward and then closed the gap between them. Kairi was shocked at first, until she felt a bit of air flow into her mouth. She understood what he was doing.
Kairi then leaned forward and started to give him air back. While they were exchanging air they kicked their feet to rise to the top.
Once they came above the water, they separated. They just stared at each other unsure of what to say. Sora's hair was wet and no longer defying gravity. But as it began to dry for the couple of minutes they were waiting there catching their breaths, it suddenly started to regain its shape.
"T-Thanks." Mumbled Kairi, blushing madly. Sora was too.
"Sorry, if that made you…uncomfortable…I was trying to make sure you didn't drown." Kairi nodded. Sora grabbed Kairi and flew out of the water. He landed on the ship next to Peter and gave his dagger back.
"Are you guys okay?" Sora and Kairi just nodded. "Well, I think you guys need to take showers. I'm going to go off with Tinkerbell for a while. I'll be back late tonight so, you guys have the fort to yourselves." With that, Peter flew off. Sora and Kairi just looked at each other, unable to speak.
"Let's head back…" Sora looked towards Kairi to see her shaking from the cold water. He took her into a hug and flew off towards the tree fort.
When they got inside, Kairi went to go take a shower. Sora went into the kitchen to make some hot coco. He didn't care if it was the afternoon. He wanted hot coco and that's that. Plus, Kairi was freezing so maybe if the shower doesn't warm her up, this will. After Kairi got out, she exited the bathroom with nothing but a towel on.
Sora turned around and blushed when he saw Kairi. "I'm sorry!" he turned around blushing.
Kairi looked towards Sora embarrassed. "It's okay, Sora. I just needed to get some clothes." Sora heard her change and then he heard footsteps come up behind him. She tapped his shoulder and he turned around. She was in a baggy white t-shirt with purple plaid pajama pants. She took the hot coco mug and thanked him. She sat down at the tiny table in the middle of everything. Sora sat down next to her.
"Sora?"
"Hm?"
"Why did those pirates come after us?"
"They don't like me and Peter because we bother them by just living here and messing around."
"Oh. And, since I live here now…they'll be after me too. This is why you guys live underground. Your hiding." Sora nodded.
"I'm so sorry I didn't tell you sooner Kairi. It's just…I thought that, if you knew Neverland wasn't all hopes and dreams and happy endings; just a place that had pirates trying to kill you every second…" Sora looked down depressed.
"You thought that I would change my mind about coming here…" Sora nodded. "I really wanted you to come here. I'm sorry." Kairi shook her head. "It's alright. I understand."
They sat again in silence before Sora spook. "Those questions you answered. Obviously the first two were true." Kairi giggled.
"What about…the third one." Kairi looked up at Sora. "Sora…I've only known you for a couple of days."
"That doesn't matter…" Kairi looked down towards her feet. Sora just stared at Kairi. It's now, or never.
"Kairi?" Kairi looked up at Sora. Sora cupped Kairi's cheek with his hand.
"Sora, what are you doing?" Sora looked at Kairi in a begging way.
"I'm doing what my heart is telling me to do." Sora leaned in and kissed Kairi gently on the lips.
Kairi was shocked at what Sora was doing. Kairi wanted to back away, but she didn't. She just stayed still and closed her eyes. Kairi just couldn't help it. He was so gentle, and it felt really relaxing. Slowly, Kairi started to kiss Sora back. Sora was shocked at Kairi's sudden reaction, but just smiled and enjoyed the kiss they were sharing. But no matter what, they just couldn't part. Neither of them would allow it.