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A sob escaped Jane's throat as she clung to Peter's limp body.
"No Peter no! You can't die! I will not lose you do you hear me? You can't make me fall in love with you and then just die like this, you can't!" Sobs wracked Jane's body and her tears fell onto Peter's face.
"What's happening?" Thomias asked in a panicked voice. "Why do I feel so shaky?"
"Well you complete imbecile, you killed our past so there is no way there can be a future. If he dies then we both die because without him we do not exist." The other Peter (let's call him Pete so there's no confusion) replied. Thomias stumbled backwards to fall into his throne.
"Maybe it's better this way," he said. "At least this way I can be with Jane again."
"No, if you died as a boy then Jane never married you and she won't know you as you are now. She will only know the boy Peter," Pete said with a stony face. "It won't be long now. His heart has nearly stopped beating, and when it does, we will cease to exist."
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Peter wandered aimlessly through a gray mist. He did not know where he was or how he had gotten there. He remembered Jane's lovely face looking down at him, and the feel of her arms around him and her beautiful stormy gray eyes full of love and anguish. She loved him! He had been so unsure of her feelings, but she had said it! Then what had happened? He had fallen asleep or something and then he woke up in this dense fog. Where was Jane now?
Tirelessly Peter trudged on, hoping that any second he'd either find his way out of the mists, or wake up in Jane's arms. Suddenly he heard a noise. It was faint at first, but then it grew steadily louder. It was a woman's voice and she was calling his name.
"Peter!"
"Yes? Here I am! Who calls?" Peter cried out looking in every direction for the owner of the voice. Then out of the mists a tall and slender woman appeared. She had gray blue eyes and long flowing brown hair.
"Jane," Peter whispered immediately recognizing the woman in front of him. "What's happening? Where are we? How did you get so old?"
"Calm down Peter all of your questions shall be answered," Jane replied. "You were stabbed very deeply Peter, and you are dying. Right now you are hovering in between life and death."
"What? I'm dying? What happened?" Peter asked in confusion.
"The man who called himself Thomias accidentally stabbed you. He was aiming for me, or rather my younger self. You see when I died it left Pet-er Thomias very hurt and very lonely. The pain and loneliness drove him mad and all he ever thought about was how he wished he had never left Neverland.
"Anyway, you've been given a choice Peter since your life was ended before your time by someone who shouldn't have been near you at all. Now, your choices are that you can either die and stay as a boy for all eternity, never having a single care ever, or you can choose to live and stay with Jane. You would not however be able to stay a boy anymore. Every child must grow up eventually Peter and you are far too old to be so young. Growing up though would mean enduring all the hardships of normal life, and all the pain that goes with it, but then there are also all of the good times too. Not everything about life is horrible."
"Well it would be nice to never have to worry again, never have to hurt again, but...but I can't leave Jane."
"So you choose life then?" Jane asked.
"I-I think I do, but Jane...are you going to die like Thomias said?" Peter asked worriedly.
"Well everyone has to die sometime Peter."
"Well yes of course, but are you going to die young? While you are carrying a child?"
"Peter, Thomias was just a shadow of something that could come to pass, a shadow that somehow found a hole in time and managed to crawl through it to get to you. Your future has not been written yet, and what happens in it will be due to choices you make, and choices Jane makes. If it does come to pass though that she has to leave you before her time do not blame yourself and become as Thomias is. Then you would have dishonored Jane's memory. Instead you must live your life exactly as I...she would have wanted you too." Peter nodded in understanding.
"Well then, I guess I choose life. I want to live!"
"Good! I had hoped you'd choose that. All right, you're going to be sent back now. You may not gain consciousness right away, but there is a very diligent fairy working her hardest to keep you alive." Peter nodded and closed his eyes waiting to be sent back. "Oh and Peter!" Jane said.
"Yes?"
"Could you tell Pete...Thomias what I said about living like I'd want him too? I'm just a shadow too like him, but I think it would be better if he knew that." Peter nodded and then everything went black.
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Tinkerbell wiped her brow and landed on Pete's shoulder.
"She says that's all she can do for him now. I think it was enough though. I don't feel as if I'm about to disappear anymore," Pete said patting Jane on the shoulder. "I do believe that he'll pull through now. Fairy magic is powerful stuff, not to mention his strong will to live."
"Look!" Jane cried as she looked at the unconscious form of Peter. "He's waking up!" Sure enough Peter stirred slightly in the make-shift bed they had lain him in. Slowly he opened his eyes and smiled when he saw the concerned face of Jane looking down at him.
"Hello love, thought you'd finally rid of me?" he asked with a mischievous grin.
"Oh you!" Jane laughed taking his hand in her own. "Oh Peter I'm so glad you're awake! You gave us such a scare. I honestly did think that I'd lost you."
"Ha! You can't get rid of Peter Pan that easily, ask Hook. That old cod fish is still trying to beat me."
"What's happened?" Thomias asked running into the room. "Did he live? I feel different, what's changed?"
"Calm yourself man, yes the boy pulled through. He'll live to grow up and turn into a wonderful man." Pete said.
"A wonderfully unhappy man," Thomias replied.
"Oh about that," Peter said. "I saw Jane Thomias. She talked to me and told me that she wants you to go on with your life. She doesn't like how you've driven yourself to the edge of madness by her death. There's nothing you can do to change what happened to her, but you need to continue living." Thomias looked at Peter with sadness.
"I just miss her so much," he said as tears started rolling down his cheeks.
"There there, get a grip on yourself old boy. Come now, it's time to take you back to where you belong." Pete said. Then he turned to Peter and Jane. "After we leave all that has happened here will fade from your memories. You won't remember anything that has to do with Thomias or myself. You will believe that you had been stabbed by a misplaced jab from Hook, and that Jane had flown in and pulled you out at the last minute. We must go now. One thing you will remember though Peter is what Jane said about not knowing the future, and how each action we make will influence it in some way. Now, I bid thee farewell. Come Thomias." Then the two men walked off and disappeared leaving Jane and Peter alone.
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A/N: Okay I lied. I'm going to make another chapter. There was just too much stuff to put in one chapter. And I know that that was a crappy spot to end, but I promise you the next chapter will be much better. Okay now for reviews...I got two of the sweetest reviews!!!
Pamela: Thank you sooooo much for your review. It was one of the kindest ones I've ever read and it's inspiration like that that makes me continue writing. Hee hee, I made everyone think Peter dies! No Peter can't actually die in a Peter Pan story, then it wouldn't be Peter Pan anymore:o) Thanks so very much for your review and I hope that this chapter and the next will please you as much as the last 9 did.
Rain Seaker: Thanks I'm glad you like it! Your review was so nice! Honestly you can write like me if you try, I'm nothing special. Anyway, I did bring Peter back, I could never kill him off I love him too much! I do write stories where evil wins, but this one is too good for that. Thank you so very much for your review! I hope you enjoy these next chapters!
A/N: Okay so I'll try to get the last chapter up tomorrow, but no promises. I've been neglecting my other fic Love's End way too much and my few readers there may stop reading if I don't continue. Okay, so please review and I'll give you a big hug!!! Thanks!
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