Confiding with the enemy

Sora woke up on the beach with his hands behind his head. Sora sighed and rolled onto his side and reached out to grab something but his hand gripped nothing but air. He let his hand fall onto the sand and looked over. He was expecting someone to be there. He was expecting her to be there. Sora groaned and rolled back onto his back.

"Kairi…Where would I think you could be happy with me?" Sora murmured. It's been three days since he last saw her. Sora wanted to fly back to her, but he knew that it would only be tougher to leave if he kept visiting. Besides, to her he's been gone for months. Was she mad? Upset even? Upset or mad that he never returned.

Sora chuckled. "I can barley even last a couple days without you. How can you last months without me?" She rejected him, broke him down. Sure she kissed him, but it was a farewell kiss not something from emotion. "Do you even miss me?" Sora shook his head, not even wanting to think of an answer. Sora sat up with his knees bent upright with his arms resting on them lazily. Sora looked out towards the sea and noticed a pirate ship. Sora stood up and flew towards the ship. Before he could even land, the shipmates were already screaming at him to go away. Sora ignored them and landed on the ship only to have swords pointing at him. Sora rolled his eyes and whispered something about pirates these days.

Hook's first mate Smee ran over to Sora and started poking him in the chest.

"Now now, young man. You have no business here so shoo! Off with ya."

Sora shook his head. "It's 'you' not 'ya'. Anyways, is Hook around?"

Smee glared at the boy. "Now listen here fella, we don't want you to cause the captain any trouble today!"

"I'm not here to cause trouble, honestly."

"S-Sora P-P-Pan! You are a liar!"

Sora held up his hands defensively. "I'm not lying. I just need to speak with him."

Sora saw Captain Hook stride up to them with his hand and hook behind his back. "Funny, I don't remember ye making an appointment." Hook laughed at his own words which the shipmates also laughed at even though it wasn't all that funny. Such fickle people.

"Where's your lass matey? Has she finally run home to Daddy?" She crew laughed.

Sora's heart started to hurt. "Hook…"

"Guess she finally got sick of the boy who flies. I know I am."

"Hook!" Sora tried getting his attention; try to make the pain stop hurting.

"Probably kissed him and ran off with another man!" Hook let out a hearty laugh that the crew joined in with.

"James!" Silence. The crew has been told never to call hook by his first name. Hook slowly looked towards Sora, anger in his eyes.

"I need to talk to you. Alone if we may. I-I'm not here to cause any trouble and it's certainly not a trap. Peter doesn't even know I came here. No funny business, I promise."

Hook looked at Sora for a moment and noticed he had no weapons on him. Hook nodded and the crew let down their swords while hook led Sora into his cabin. When they were there, Sora walked over to the window and looked out it while Hook just stood watching the boys ever move.

"Alright, speak." Hook acted as if he were talking to a dog. Sora never took his eyes from looking out the window.

"Chin says hello."

"What?"

"Chin, your once second mate. She says hello."

Hook shifted a bit. "How do you know her?"

"She's the nanny and maid of Kairi and her family. She told me about it, she wanted me to tell you that she said hello."

Hook looked at the boy questionably. "Is…that all you wanted to talk about boy?"

"Actually I wanted to talk to you about something else. I couldn't talk to this about Peter, because I didn't know what he would say."

"Then why come to me?"

"Because you're a Grownup. Grownups always know the answer to everything…" Sora turned and looked at Hook. It was then that Hook saw the sadness in the boys' eyes. It made him shift uncomfortably honestly. He never had seen such sadness in the boys' eyes who taunted him with courage all the time.

"It's…about Kairi. She never came back with me."

"As I can tell." Hook grinned a bit but it was instantly wiped away when Sora shot a glare at him.

"I don't know why I'm feeling this way, but without her…I just feel empty. It's like when she left, she took a part of me with her. It's been months in the outside world, and I don't know what I should do. I miss everything about her…so much that it hurts. I don't know what's wrong with me…I was hoping you could help?"

Hook was astonished that Sora came here to confide in him and ask for advice.

"Well, only you can tell what's wrong with you."

'He's not trying to attack me? He's actually helping me? Not what I truly expected…' Sora thought.

"I understand now, what Peter meant that is. Saying I was going to end up becoming hurt. He wasn't talking physically, he was talking emotionally. Why do I have this pain?"

Sora looked at his hands confused as if trying to find the answer.

Hook walked over to Sora. "You know Sora, between me and you; I respect you as a person just not as a boy."

Sora looked up at him. "I don't get it."

"When you first arrived here in Neverland, I thought you were going to end up just like Peter. Annoying, obnoxious, bothering me because he's bored or because it's 'fun'…but the first time you messed with me, I knew you were a bit different when you returned to apologize for your actions. It was mature of you, responsible, almost grownup-like. So I respect you, but I still have a problem with you."

"Oh…I get it now…but that still doesn't help."

Hook walked away from Sora to look out towards the ocean through the window.

"I believe, you are feeling what you are feeling because you feel something for the girl…"

"Kairi."

"Right, Kairi. And you can't be the same without her with you…correct?"

"Yeah."

"Maybe you should return to her. See if she hadn't changed her mind. Quite frankly Sora, I miss the old you."

"What?"

"Hard to imagine me saying that, eh?"

"Kind of. Thanks…"

"Right, well off you go before I change my mind and start to fight you. And uh, give Chin my greetings."

Sora nodded and exited the ship and flew off to the outside world. Hook almost felt like a father to Sora now. Well, step-father seeing as how they attack each other sometimes.