Hi guys! Sorry for waiting, but I had school stuff. Originally, I wasn't intending to do this episode, but I realized it would be better to do it because some moments are important for other chapters and they just can't be in flashbacks. I don't own Peter Pan, I only own my OC!

"And then I went like this! Boom pal!" I could hear Michael's voice from downstairs. Letting out a sigh, I tried to finish my sketch of the Jolly Roger. Why Jolly Roger you might ask. Well, I had a nightmare last night.

In my dream, I was in Neverland, playing hide and seek with the Lost Kids. While we were hiding from Peter who was supposed to seek, I ran into Hook's pirates! After that, they took me to the Jolly Roger and tied me up to a mast. However, the worst thing was that Hook had said how no one knew I was here and no one would save me. He was right because after that, the pirates made me walk a plank. The last thing I remembered was seeing sharks in water before everything went black…

I shuddered at the nightmare. After I told my Grandma about it, she tried to assure me how that wouldn't happen.

"Don't worry Liz, it was just a nightmare!" Grandma's voice said over the phone. "But it seemed so real…" I whispered. "But it wasn't! Listen Liz, Peter would never let anything happen to you!" "And how can you know that?"

"Aren't you two…" "For the last time Grandma, he and I are not what you think we are!" I said a bit more harshly. "Sorry Grandma!" I quickly realized my mistake. "It's alright Liz, but I don't understand. He likes you, you like him, what's the problem?" I snorted at that.

"Nothing's wrong Grandma." "But I see it is!" "No, it's not. Besides, it just wouldn't be possible. He doesn't like me, he likes Wendy…" I covered my mouth at saying the last part. Great.

"But how can you know that? I'll bet in fifty pounds that he…" "Listen Grandma, I've got to go, my friend's just arrived!" I cut her off, but I wasn't lying. Harrison was waiting for me outside. "Elizabeth…" "See you!"

After that, everything was sort of usual. John and Michael still didn't like Harrison. If anything, when he was with me, my male cousins seemed to be whispering something and pointing at me. Once, I heard them saying things like 'Liz' and 'Peter'. Wendy was friends with Harrison; we kept going to Neverland…

I started thinking about Grandma's words. Why was she so convinced he liked me? Who could like someone naive and ugly like girls at my class have said? Harrison and I were best friends, and I wanted it to stay like that, especially after trying to forget about Peter turned out to be failure. There was another problem that I haven't told my Grandma though.

"Superheroes with masks are awesome!" I heard Michael saying. "Michael, it's nice that you saved that girl from the bully, but you shouldn't go on and on about it! Heroes don't brag!" Wendy stated, obviously just as annoyed as John at Michael's bragging. I had my own problems to be annoyed though. Putting my sketchbook in my pocket, I joined my cousins downstairs.

"Yeah, maybe, but being a superhero is great!" Michael was sitting on a chair. "You can get to help people and fly around…" "Cause I'm a hero and it's totally awesome!" Peter opened John and Michael's window and flew into the room.

"Peter! You know what, today I was a total superhero like you and…!" Michael stood up from the chair. "Huh, like me? That would be the day because I'm the one and only hero in Neverland!" Peter cut him off.

"There was this girl and…" "You can tell me later, it's time now for…" "Neverland!" my cousins and I chorused. However, I remembered my nightmare. No Elizabeth, if you try to turn it down, they'll make you go with them anyway. As long as I stayed at the Never Tree, everything was going to be alright?

"Alright, let's go! Not a moment to lose!" Tinker Bell sprinkled John, Michael, Wendy and me. After passing Big Ben, we were in Neverland. However, we heard a commotion on the Jolly Roger, and it turned out Meera was captured and tied up to a mast! I shuddered a bit, remembering my nightmare.

Wendy, John, Michael and I were sitting on a mast and watching something really fun. "Fire, you blundering heads!" Hook shouted angrily and Dagan, Jake Sorrow and Asbjorn ran to their machine gun. I smiled.

That time when I was unconscious when we went to see the Talking Trees, Michael told me that was when Hook got the machine gun and was firing at Peter who kept missing. Our great great great grandma Wendy described something similar to this in her diary, and after Wendy, John and Michael saw it, I was finally able to see it myself!

"Missed again!" "Fire! Fire!" Smee was shouting. However, no matter how much they did that, Peter managed to dodge all of cannonballs. Actually, the pirates were kind of ruining their ship with their actions. "Oh no, my ship!" Hook cried. But it was his fault in the first place!

Tinker Bell, John, Wendy and Michael were clapping and cheering for Peter, but I was just watching the sight with amusement. "FIRE!" Hook shouted only for Peter to dodge an incoming cannonball with ease. He then flew to where the pirates were and he started kicking and throwing them around. I flinched a bit at their flying and dancing in the air while Michael was punching the air with his fists and saying 'boom' and 'yeah'.

Soon after, all of the pirates were lying on the ground except Chuluun who was begging Peter not to throw anything at his head. After about a few seconds, when he took hands off his head, Peter threw a barrel at him anyway.

"So, who's next?" he asked. Hook and Smee were hiding behind a column, the latter laughing nervously. "Get up, you stinking rats! Get up!" Hook said. I could see he was a bit afraid. Soon, he and Peter were sword fighting until Peter used a chance when Hook was turning around to land on the Captain's sword. After that, Hook ran into his cabin with Smee not too far behind. "Captain, wait for me!" he shouted.

I giggled. Of course those scaredy cats were going to run away that easily! "Peter, you are my hero!" Meera exclaimed while Peter was cutting ropes which were tying her to the mast. I smiled a bit. Peter then took her in his arms and started carrying her in a bridal style with my cousins, Tinker Bell and me following them.

When we arrived at the Never Tree, Maia wanted to show us her new trick. Peter, Wendy, Meera, John, Michael and I were sitting on mushrooms. Wendy, Meera, Michael and John along with the other Lost Kids were judges while Peter wasn't paying attention to it. Due to the fact it was peaceful here, I decided to finish my Jolly Roger drawing.

I saw the judges gave Maia top marks. "I'm awesome, I'm totally amazing at this game!" she exclaimed. "Piece of cake!" Peter commented a bit bored. "Alright, show us how easy it is! Come on bigshot, try to beat me! Unless you're scared!" Maia challenged.

Peter looked a bit offended at hearing the last part. I knew why. He didn't like being called a coward. It was a well known fact. Well, at least to me, Tinker Bell and the Lost Kids, I didn't know for my cousins. Even our great, great, great grandma wrote it in her diary. "Alright then, no problem!" he smirked with his beautiful brown eyes closed before opening them once again and…. Elizabeth, stop dreaming!

"I'm judge and jury!" Tinker Bell declared with two leaves in her hands. On the leaves was a score number 10. Maia sighed. "Obviously." She stated. Peter then flew to a swing to do whatever Maia wanted him to do. Meanwhile, I was drawing. "That's cheating; he's not supposed to fly!" I could hear Maia saying.

I chuckled under my breath. In Peter's case, rules were made to be broken! "Yes!" I pumped my fist in the air. After a long time, the drawing was finally finished. I sighed in relief before lying on the mushroom and looking at the sky.

That was when I remembered one song from a film that I watched when I was little. How did those lyrics go? Oh yes! 'Look at the sky, tell me what do you see?' I looked down before looking at the sky once again.

'Just close your eyes and describe it to me... The heavens are sparkling with starlight tonight, that's what I see through your eyes…' But wait, it wasn't a night time here! The sky was blue, filled with many kinds of clouds which we were learning about at school these days and… 'I see the heavens, each time that you smile. I hear your heartbeat just go on for miles and suddenly I know my life is worthwhile, that's what I see through your eyes…'

Suddenly, I wasn't looking at the sky anymore, but at the brown eyes of a figure which was flying in the air above me. I let out a scream. "Whoa, Liz, it's just me!" Peter said after covering his ears because of my scream. "Sorry." I said while feeling a bit embarrassed. And I was lying. I was embarrassed a lot.

"It's alright but… Why is your face red?" Peter asked me curiously. "Oh! Must be the heat in here! Haven't you noticed how hot it is today?" I blurted out and started waving with my right hand as if I was cooling off. Peter raised an eyebrow but said nothing, much to my relief. "What are you drawing?" he pointed at the paper in my left hand. "Oh, nothing special…"

I showed him the Jolly Roger drawing. Peter's eyebrows furrowed. "It looks really good, but Liz, why would you draw that seadog's home?" I shrugged my shoulders. "It just happened." He gave me an 'I know you're lying so spill it' look. I sighed. Of course, I was a terrible liar!

Luckily before I could say anything, Michael arrived after going to drink water. He was carrying something in his hands. It was a box, and when turned on, a light was coming from it with a sign that was similar to flowers we used to drink water here in Neverland. From what I've understood, a guy called El Hookito and his companion El Mosquito showed up and saved Michael from Hook's pirates. His name was a bit weird though. Who would call himself El Hookito? I didn't like the sound of him.

"Isn't that cool? And he has a mask!" Michael was showing everyone. "A real one like in the movies!" "Like in what?" Maia asked. "Like in films!" John stated. "Cinema? Like on TV?" He and I then tried to explain to Maia who was looking rather confused. "Never mind." Jon told her.

"Yeah but where is this El Burrito from?" Peter asked. That was a good question. "El Hookito." Wendy corrected Peter. "But who cares where he is from? He saved Michael!" she then said. I wanted to know where he was from. His name sounded fishy.

"Right, but no need to dwell on it all day! How about a game of hide and seek all over Neverland?" Peter suggested. Everyone cheered at that. "You hide and I'll seek!" Peter declared and everyone ran away. I was about to do the same when I remembered something. In my nightmare, I was caught by the pirates because I was playing hide and seek!

No, I was going to stay here at the Never Tree. "One, two, three…" Peter was counting while I was trying to climb in a nearby log. "Ready or not, here I come!" I stayed hidden in the log though. After Peter flew away to search for everyone, I got out of the log and ran into the hideout.

After about a half an hour, the Lost Kids and my cousins came in. I was glad I wasn't alone anymore! Sure, I had my sketchbook, but after drawing Neverland (from a perspective when we were flying), I was beginning to run out of ideas!

"Did you see how he knocked that Asbjorn?" Baby asked. "It was like, amazing!" Maia said in amazement. "And did you see his triple backward flip? And bam, then wham, then kazam! No problem for El Hookito!" Michael said. I frowned a bit. One of the reasons why I didn't like this 'El Hookito' was because I hated Spanish. Again, it was my problem. But, even with it, El Hookito was still a suspicious guy.

However, everyone who was laughing stopped because of who was behind Michael. It was Peter, and he was looking really mad, with hands on his hips and a rather angry expression on his face. "What? What's the matter?" Michael was confused at expressions on our faces.

"Oh, Peter!" Michael turned around to see Peter. "You'll never believe how El Hookito managed to…" "Stop going on about your El Hookito! I mean come on; don't you think it'd s bit weird that all these pirate attacks have been happening since he showed up?" Peter cut him off. He had a good point.

"What are you trying to say?" Michael folded his arms. "I give up." Peter let out a sigh before walking out of the hideout. Michael immediately started running after him, me joining him instantly. I could see Wendy telling the others to leave him to cool off.

Michael and I ran out of the hideout. "Are you looking for Peter?" Tinker Bell asked us. "Yeah!" "I think he's up there hiding out!" Tinker Bell pointed to the highest part of the Never Tree where nothing could be seen because of its leaves. "Want some help?" Tinker Bell sprinkled us with fairy dust and we were floating in the air. "Thanks, Tinker Bell!" I told her.

We flew up to that part of the Never Tree. "Why are you acting like this?" Michael asked when we landed there. "I mean really, El Hookito is nice!" Peter was sitting on a chair which I presumed was like his bed and cutting a tree branch with his dagger. I knew why he was acting like this though. It was obvious Peter was jealous! In my opinion, that was stupid. El Hookito was a joke compared to him! I then realized that I did sound a bit like a fan girl. Wendy was right about that part.

"Nah, I think it's another one of Hook's schemes!" Peter retorted. "Hook's schemes? Come on, you're jealous, that's all!" Michael pointed his finger at Peter accusingly. I honestly didn't know what to believe. If it was a part of Hook's plan, that would explain the reason behind that 'El Hookito' name, but at the same time, it was obvious Peter was jealous.

"Not true!" "Yes it is!" Michael retorted and Peter folded his arms and looked away. "You were jealous when I was a hero too and…" Peter snorted at Michael's words. "Ridiculous! I can't be jealous of a hero who… who… who won't even show his face! Masks are stupid!"

Sorry Michael, but I had to agree with Peter on this one about masks being stupid. I never liked them. "No, they're not! And you know what? I'd rather leave if you're gonna be like that!" With that, Michael flew off the Never Tree.

"Mich…" I could hear Peter trying to call out to Michael but stopping after seeing there was no use anymore. I sighed, preparing to fly off the Never Tree myself. "Liz?" I turned around to look at Peter. "What?" I asked a bit harshly, but I didn't care. It was Peter's fault Michael flew away!

He needed to sort out his jealousy issues. I was jealous of Wendy, but no one except John and Michael knew about that! "What do you think about all this 'El Burrito' stuff?" Peter asked me. "If it was Hook, then it would explain the 'Hookito' part. I don't like masks, but I don't know. What I know is that you need to fix your jealousy issues before you hurt someone else like Michael!" I told him the last part a bit coldly.

"I'm not jealous!" Peter retorted before folding his arms once again. "That's what I'm talking about!" I told him but he snorted once again. "Peter, I don't understand why you're jealous. El Hookito sounds ridiculous, but you? You save everyone, you're a hero!" I stated. At hearing my words, Peter looked at the ground for a moment, refusing to look at me in the eyes. He started muttering, but I could only hear words like 'powers' and 'shadow'.

What did it have to do with any of this? "What did you say?" I asked. Peter sighed. "If it weren't for my powers, I wouldn't be the hero of Neverland." "What powers are you talking about?" I was confused. "It's thanks to my shadow that I'm fast, strong and that I can fly." He admitted. I was dumbstruck. So that meant without his shadow, he was just like everyone else? At the same time, now I knew why my childhood idol was the way he was.

However, something else came to my mind. I remembered all of the times I saw Peter fight against Hook and his pirates. He did use his powers, but there was something else. How would you use your powers if you were a coward? Now I also knew why he hated being called a coward.

But he wasn't. If anything, he was a hero not because of his powers, but because of his bravery! I finally decided to speak up. "Power doesn't define who we are Peter, but our courage and mind. And no, I won't tell anyone." I said before flying off. However, there was one problem.

While I was in the air, I couldn't fly anymore. Instead, I was falling to the ground! "No!" I screamed. I closed my eyes. Come on ground, you're waiting for me to collide with you! Just let's get this over with. However, suddenly, I felt a pair of strong and gentle arms holding me tightly.

I opened my eyes to see brown ones staring right back at me. "Peter! It's you!" I exclaimed and then felt a bit embarrassed. "Did you ever doubt about that?" This was like, the second time he caught me while I was falling! I liked it though. In those arms, I felt so safe and… Elizabeth, now was not time for that! I was staring at Peter, he was staring right back at me and for some reason, his face was a bit red.

However, before I could ask him why, I saw something else. A sign which Michael was showing us could be seen in the sky, which meant Michael was in trouble! We landed and Peter put me down. After that, I showed him the signal. "Michael must be in trouble!"

"If he's calling for El Hookito, then let him wait for El Hookito!" He sat on a rock with his arms folded when Tinker Bell flew to us. I sighed. I couldn't argue with Peter about this when Michael was in trouble! "Fine then, you can stay here and sulk all day, Peter Pan!" I ran into the forest.

I was in the forest where I found the box with the El Hookito signal. However, while I was picking it up, I could hear some noise! I pointed the light from the signal at part of the forest where the noise was coming from.

"Hey!" the person who I was really glad to see at this moment was in the air with his back turned to me because of the light that I was pointing at him. "Sorry!" I exclaimed before turning off the light. "I'm so glad to see you!" "Same here, well, Michael is a bit of a little brother to me." Peter explained.

That was when we heard some voices talking about signal. There were two people and they were dressed in black costumes with masks over their faces! There was a rather fat one and a tall one. "El Hookito!" Peter growled. "Peter Pan!" El Hookito growled back. "El Hookito!" "Peter Pan!" "El Hookito!" "Peter Pan!" two heroes were glaring at each other, ready to start a fight.

I felt angry. "STOP IT!" I shouted, making all three of them look at me. "In case you haven't known, my cousin is in trouble! I don't care about who loves you more because I lo…" I stopped at that immediately. I was so stupid!

"The point is that it's because of both of you that Michael's in trouble, so we're going to save him!" Peter, El Hookito and his partner looked a bit ashamed. Well they should have! We were walking through the forest and towards the Jolly Roger. "Is she always like this?" I could hear El Hookito asking. "Nope." I could hear Peter responding to that.

When we arrived at the Jolly Roger, Michael was tied up to the mast, Chuluun was waiting with his axes out while the rest of the pirates ran away. El Hookito, El Mosquito and I climbed to the deck when Peter and Tinker Bell joined us. Again, another dramatic scene.

"Please, not on my head!" Chuluun dropped the axes and covered his head with his hands while the pirates ran away yet again. All of us ran at the pirates, ready to fight. Jake Sorrow was with me. Knowing I had no weapon, I quickly took a nearby broom. I then remembered one of our great, great great grandmother's diary entries.

'Pirates may be scary, but if you can trick them easily, you'll be the winner!' Jake Sorrow was swinging his broom at me. "Oh look, you haven't tied your shoe!" I quickly pointed at his right shoe. "What?" Jake Sorrow looked at his shoe. "But it is!" I used that as a moment to punch him in the face. He fell into a nearby bucket.

I rubbed my right fist which hurt. "Not bad Liz!" Peter exclaimed. "Thanks." I smiled back. After that, Peter freed Michael by cutting his ropes with his dagger. "Wait a go, Peter!" Michael cheered. "You too Liz! That punch was totally awesome!" Michael hugged me. I laughed, returning the hug. "Wait a go El Hookito!" Michael then ran to El Hookito.

"That was pretty good I must say. El Hookito was impressive!" Jaro stated. "Better than Peter Pan!" The pirates agreed with him. "Did you hear that?" El Hookito started cheering and nudged El Mosquito's shoulder. "Who's the best? It's me because I'm the terrible Captain Hook!" El Hookito took off his mask and… it was Captain Hook!

Everyone was shocked to say the least. "Hold on Captain, you men to tell us that you were the one beating us to no end?!" Jaro demanded. "Actually, El Mosquito did most of the work!" Hook said sheepishly, taking off El Mosquito's mask. It turned out to be Smee!

"I just admired and watched!" After Hook said that, the pirates started throwing potatoes at Hook and Smee, making them run in Hook's cabin. Peter, Michael, Tinker Bell and I were laughing. "This time, I've got a feeling we won't need to take care of the Captain, the potatoes are doing it for us!" Peter stated and we burst into another tour of laughter.

When we returned to the Never Tree, everyone who was there had finished drawing El Hookito. "Nice drawings guys!" Peter commented while looking at the drawings. "It was amazing! You should have seen the trashing Peter gave to Captain Hook! And how Liz punched Jake Sorrow!" Michael commented while Peter was smiling at him in the air and I was giggling.

"Too bad you missed the drawing part though Liz." Meera told me. "It's alright. I anything, I'll draw El Hookito for you guys and then I'll bring it here!" I shrugged it off and Meera, Ficelle and Baby smiled. "Was El Hookito there too?" Baby asked.

"Sure uh, but actually though, he is…" Michael started. "A huge hero!" Peter said while landing next to Michael and putting an arm around his right shoulder. "He was valiant and brave, but he had to leave Neverland because other children far away needed his help." He explained. Meera and Baby didn't look happy at hearing that.

"You know what; I think sometimes a hero from a legend is better than the plain ugly truth!" Peter whispered to Michael. Another proof he was a hero!

We returned to London and landed on John and Michael's balcony. While Wendy and John ran in, I could hear Michael and Peter talking about what happened today at both Neverland and at school. Michael apologized to Peter while he told Michael how even though he save dthe girl by accident, he must have been her hero.

"ELIZABETH! HARRISON'S WAITING FOR YOU!" I could hear Aunt's voice. "Well, see you then friends." Peter said before flying away. I was preparing to go downstairs when John and Michael stopped me. "Liz, wait!"

"What?" I asked them. "Don't go there!" "Why not? Harrison's my friend!" "But he wants you to be more than that! Don't you see?" Michael exclaimed. "So what? It's not my problem you don't like him!"

"Why do you think we don't like him?" John asked. "Because I'm not blind! I see the looks you're giving him when he's here. I see that you always whisper something about Peter and me. Well you know what? This is the way it is!"

"But why don't you at least tell him?!" Michael asked. I felt angry. "Because we've been through this many times! He likes her and besides, if he did like me, it just wouldn't work out." "But you're missing the point!"

"No, John, Michael. You two are missing the point. Peter is Peter Pan, a.k.a. the boy who would never grow up. He chose to stay young forever a long time ago, before four of us and even our great, great, great grandmother was born.

And what about me? Ever thought of that? I'm going to grow up. I'm going to become the very thing he hates becoming. I'm going to have a husband, children, I'm going to have a family and I'm probably going to be a painter or an Italian teacher! Now, if you two don't mind, I'm going for a walk with my friend!" With that I left the room and went to join Harrison.

John's POV

With that, Liz left the room. I sighed. Michael and I didn't like that Harrison at all. He liked Liz, that was why! "John, we need to do something." Michael told me. I nodded. "But what? You've heard Liz!"

"But she likes Peter and he likes her!" Michael exclaimed. I shook my head. "We don't know whether he likes her, but we can find out." I then remembered the time when Loki was giving us trouble. "Remember when Loki showed up?" I asked Michael. He nodded.

"Well, Cynthia, Chubs and Tinker Bell let it slip how all Peter ever talked about was Liz! He was even a bit red when they said that and wanted to change the subject!" Michael shook his head in disbelief at my words. "Those two are so blind to each other's feeling's then!" I nodded. "But it's our job to show them the truth!" Michael and I then started discussing about who else we should talk about this.

We were making a pact and making plans. Little did we know that another person in the room was doing the exact thing, only her intentions were opposite…

That's it! John and Michael decide to team up. Can you guess who's against what John and Michael are making a pact for? Now, I know those Peter and Liz moments are really slow, but I promise there will be more of them soon and I hope you liked their moments in this episode. This was also setting up for 'The Shadow Thief' episode, which I'll write after two or one chapter after this one. Shout outs to those who can guess the name of the song Liz remembered and from which movie it is! Please tell me what you think and if you have ideas! Until next time!