Chapter 10

"Once upon a time," Captain Hook released his grip from Wendy's neck as the pirates excitedly congregated in front of Wendy. "There was a boy named Peter Pan who decided not to grow up."

Hook slammed his hook between Wendy's and Amy's head making Wendy gasp and Amy flinch, "skip the prologue."

"So he flew away to the Neverland where the pirates are."

An excited pirate gasped and raised his hand, "was one of them pirates named Noodler?"

"Yes," Wendy replied.

"Look, cap'n, did you hear? I am in a story!"

Captain Hook was having none of it and shot the pirate right in the chest to the screams of the Lost Boys, "What fun he must have had."

"But he was rather lonely," Wendy looked at Amy.

"Lonely?" Hook looked aside. "He needed a Wendy."

Like how the Doctor needed an Amy.

"So what happens when Wendy goes back home? Hmm?" Captain Hook enticed an answer – obviously picking up on the fact that yes, she does want to return home eventually.

She didn't know how to respond, so Hook cut her free and held her by her hair, "She told him stories, he taught her how to fly. How?"

"You just think happy thoughts. They lift you into the air," Wendy cringed.

"Alas, I have no happy thoughts."

"That brings you down."

Hook placed the point of his hook right at her neck which made the Boys gasp, "how else?"

"Fairy dust! You need fairy dust!" Michael yelled, scared of what Hook might do to his sister.

"What of Pan?" the grip on her hair got tighter when he made Wendy look at him. "Will unhappy thoughts bring him down?"

"He has no unhappy thoughts," Wendy argued.

"How if his Wendy walks that plank?" Captain Hook dragged her to the planks, Amy tried to struggle to get free, and the pirates cheered for Wendy's demise.

The pirates began to chant. Amy found no way of getting free. She strained to see what was happening and all she could see was Wendy's extremely frightened face. It got worse when the sound of ticking was made heard. Wendy stood on the edge of the plank and ultimately fell. Amy tried to yell out for her, but the cloth in her mouth made her silent.

"Well, it looks like you've gotten yourself tied up, Amy," the Doctor walked behind everyone and towards Amy, pulling out the cloth in her mouth as the pirates frantically tried to pull their swords out. "Safest place to be. Unless the boat capsizes, then not so much a safe place."

The pirates let Hook through to see the Doctor. The Doctor looked on at Captain Hook. He was staying a fair distance away from him.

"Ah, the man to save the day. No, Peter?"

"He and I, well, we haven't exactly been on the best of terms," the Doctor half lied, but made it sound that he had pure contempt for Peter.

Hook studied the Doctor's face, "You know what it's like, I see it in your face. You know what alone feels. How it feels every single day, waking up, knowing loss. I can also see that you hate Peter. Everything you want he has. Join me then, Doctor, and we can take down Pan."

The Doctor looked at Amy. She was tied up and gagged but she was shaking her head. Hook took the hesitation as a no.

"No? Alright then, to the planks with him! I'll keep Amy for myself," Hook snickered.

The pirates swarmed the Doctor, but he calmly walked with them. The sound of the ticking clock became louder, and it made everyone stop in their tracks. The ticking began to move until it was audible overhead. Hook yelled for his pirates to climb up and shoot it as he went to arm himself with guns. Hook couldn't believe that the croc was flying! No one seemed to even notice the fact that Amy was being untied by the Doctor. When she was free, they hid themselves in Hook's room. Soon after, Wendy arrived and began to collect the swords.

"Ready?" Wendy handed Amy a sword.

"Yes," Amy grinned at her.

Just a few minutes later, the Lost Boys came in, freed by Peter, and now armed by Wendy. Although the Doctor didn't like what he was seeing, he couldn't control what was going to happen – this was the last fight between Peter and Hook.

"Now!" Peter shouted.

With that, the Boys, Wendy, and Amy ran out with swords in tow and began to fight the pirates. Knowing that the Doctor wouldn't forgive her for killing anyone, she did her best to defend herself and not murder any of the pirates. Some of them jumped overboard when they were overwhelmed.

"It's Hook, he flies!" Amy heard Hook yelling from above. "And he likes it!"

Looking around, everyone was still fighting, but they weren't killing. The pirates couldn't bear to kill children.

"Doctor!" Amy saw him dodge the swords.

"Amy!"

"Hook's flying."

The Doctor looked up and his eyes immediately widened, "that's not supposed to happen. Give me a moment!"

The Doctor ran into Hook's room and into the TARDIS, hoping that he could try and affect the gravity. Hook by himself was already bad enough, but with him flying? That could have equaled something as bad as the Cybermen.

"I know what you are," Amy could hear Hook from above.

"I'm the best there ever was!" Peter cockily replied.

"You're a tragedy!"

"Me? Tragic?"

"She was leaving you, Pan! Your Wendy was leaving you. Why should she stay? What are you to offer? You are incomplete. She'd rather grow up than stay with you."

Peter was having a hard time competing with his emotions and Hook's taunts.

"I'll call out her name!" Peter was on the verge of tears.

"She can't hear you!"

"No!"

"She can't see you!"

"Wendy!"

"She's forgotten all about you."

Hook had Peter in his grasp.

"You die alone, and unloved."

Amy inadvertently looked for the Doctor, and she wondered if the Doctor was there, would he take what Hook said to heart? Surely, Amy was growing up in his mind, and he couldn't stop the inevitable from happening. It was a terrible time to think about what would happen when she hit old age, but Hook's determination to bring Peter down was clouding Amy's mind.

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