Chapter 10: Bonding bet. Friends

As everyone walked out of Casandra's realms they were then back in the realm of lost souls Peter looked down at the all the lost souls and then turned to Maime who was standing right next to him

"do you think this is going to be me?" he asked her

"why would you think a silly thing like that" Maimie asked him

"I don't know" Peter said "I guess I am just worried, I am not as confident as I once use to be"

"everything will be fine" Maimie assured him

Peter smiled at her "I rode your goat every day" Peter said

"You did" Maimie asked

"Yep it was the finest goat there ever was, thank you for giving it to me"

Maimie smiled "I knew you were still there Peter, I do not care what that Neverland did to you, you will always be the nicest sweetest and bravest boy I have ever known"

Peter smiled then picked then bent down and picked the little girl up in his arms and looked at her

"I can't believe how little you are" Peter said as he held up so she could look directly at him

"I cannot believe how much you have grown" Maimie said looking right back at him

To everyone surprise especially Wendy's Peter did not take offense at this, instead he just looked at Maimie and smiled

"And what has changed so much about me" Peter asked

"Well one you can hold me just like you are doing now and you are so much more taller and all your babyteeth are all gone"

Peter then turned to look at Wendy "I think I finally understand what you meant" Peter said

"What she meant by what" Maimie asked

"When she called me ungallant and deficient, well I know what ungallant means, Hook use to tell me that all the time"

"to be deficent means to be incomplete" Maimie said

"but you never seemed incomplete"

"I think for someone who was at Wendy's age I was, like Solomon said I am on the cups of adulthood, I had no idea I had gotten this old"

"Well still that was a mean thing to say to him" Maimie said turning to Wendy

"Maimie it is all right" Peter said turning her towards him "thank you for defending me, but I said and did some things I should not have said, I was not the same boy that you knew" Peter said

Wendy looked at Peter completely amazed if this was the Peter Pan that Maimie had gotten to know then she had been very wrong about him, both her and Hook had been, but as Peter said he had said and done things he shouldn't have done it looked liked Peter Pan was finally opening up.

"You know just what you were did not make you a bad person" Wendy said

Peter looked at her questioningly

"Hook may have been able to act very gallant and may not have been deficient, though I guess he is since he had lost a hand, but it was him who had kidnapped us and you saved us, so even with your faults you are better then him"

"Though I still wish you did not become more like Tony" Maimie said

"Who is Tony?" Michael asked

"He was your brother was he not"

"Yes and he loves to scare and be mean to me, when I told you about him you said you wish you could be just as brave as him"

"I did?" Peter asked

"Yes but as I told you, you are so much braver then Tony, you are even the bravest boy I have ever know"

"But I do not think I stayed that way Maimie, I think I changed, I think something about Neverland changes you and it changed me, I feel like I have been sleeping and now I am waking up" Peter said

"With you finally having passed on" Wendy said "Neverland can no longer control you, you are free now"

Peter then put Maimie down and looked at Wendy, "I do not feel free" he told her "I do not understand, what am I, why am I, why did I exist, there must have been a reason?"

"maybe the world needed you" John suggested

"needed me for what?" Peter asked

"I do not know, I suppose it all was clearer when we grew up" Wendy said

Peter threw his hands up in frustration, "that is no help to me!" he screamed out

"calm down Peter" Wendy said "maybe this is why you need to find your parents or at least a grown up that can help you"

"I don't remember you being so sympathetic to me before" Peter said

"you never gave me the chance, Peter all you had to do was just talk to me, I would have tried to help you"

"how Wendy you could not have given me back my parents, no one could"

"no but you could have at least spoken to mine, they would have helped you"

"you do not know that" Peter said

"Peter you never tried, you were ruled by fear and you could never overcame it, but I was there with you, I was there then and I am here now and whatever happens I am by your side"

Just then Tinkerbelle appeared and spoke to Peter, Peter then turned to all his friends, "Tink has found the realm that we are looking for" Peter said "the realm of the grown ups, hopefully hear I can find my parents"

"What are you going to say to them" Michael asked him

"I do not know" Peter said "but whatever happens thank you for being with me"

Peter started following Tinkerbelle towards the realm, Wendy looked at Peter, she could almost swore that she was no longer looking at the immature boy from her memory but someone who had been blossoming into a man and probably could had been a great man. Wendy also had another realization, that Peter Pan was a rather sad and lonely person and that the only way she could have had him if he was a sad and lonely person. Peter pretended he was happy that was his greatest pretend and Peter that Wendy wanted was sad and depressed and that was the Peter that Maimie met, the irony is that this sadder Peter was a much nicer Peter one that might have followed Wendy back home, one that Wendy might have stayed in Neverland with, one that was far from being either ungallent and deficient.

To be continued