Peter Pan
A Young Boy No More
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Chapter Eleven- Bargaining with a Pirate"I'm sorry, Jessica, but I'm afraid I don't know where exactly we are." Remarked my Fairy Prince.
"What?" I asked a slight tingle running up and down my spine. "How do you not know do you not know where we are?"
"Same as you." He replied. "I'm lost!"
"Yeah, but you live here, I don't." I retorted.
"Would you be able to find your way around your world if it was as convulsed and foreign as mine is to me?" He demanded.
"I'm not sure." I said shivering at the thought of my old world even more twisted than it was- or was it from the sudden chill? "Is it just me or did the winter suddenly sneak up on us?"
"Non-sense. Now that Peter is back the only time it gets cold is during the night."
"But it's cold now and the sun just came up two hours ago."
"We've been wondering around for two hours?"
"Yes." I was beginning to get agitated with Okami, not to mention my fingers were going numb. "How can you not feel how cold it is?"
"I've been numb for days." He replied. "I wouldn't have lasted much longer if you hadn't found me."
"You haven't been saved yet." I said, my voice sounding far away.
"What was that?" Even Okami's twinkle sounded disoriented and far off.
My vision began to blur and spin. I got a sick, queasy feeling in my stomach. I felt ill enough to barf all over Miss Daisy ten times over and then some- yet I was starving.
I also felt a twinge of déjà vu. I Know I'd felt this way before and I'm not talking about those horrid boughs of the flu. This feeling was so hard to place. When had I felt this way before?
'JESSICA!' My head began pounding and my heart began to race. Swear formed on my hands as fear gripped me along with recognition.
I knew when, where, and why I had felt like this before. Last time I had simply ran away. This time there was no Peter to save me.
'JESSICA,' the voice called again. 'JESSICA, WHERE IS PETER?'
"Wish I knew." I retorted. "When you find him, let him know I'm looking for him, will ya?"
'VERY FUNNY,' remarked the voice. I felt ice cold fingers worm their way up my arms, around my neck. 'I'LL ASK NICELY ONLY ONE MORE TIME-WHERE IS PETER PAN?'
A lifeless laugh escaped through my numb lips. "What makes you think I know where Peter is? He's a boy, boys disappear all of the time."
'HE MAY JUST BE ANOTHER BOY TO YOU-BUT TO HIM YOU ARE HIS NEW WENDY. IF YOU ARE AROUND, HE'S AROUND.'
"That so?" I demanded. What was up with people comparing me to Wendy? "Then, Peter, please come out. I've got a dying fairy on my hands- quite literally, dear. SO MOVE YOUR BUTT! Oh? What's that? You're long gone? Entertaining Tonya at the moment even thought she doesn't believe in your existence? Lovely, be home by tea time, would you, Love?"
'HAVE A DYING FAIRY ON YOUR HANDS DO YOU?'
I knew I had over done it. Boy was that an under statement, best one of the year so far…
'I CAN HELP YOU THERE.'
"Oh, yeah, and you know as a payment, I'll take you to Pluto with me next Thursday. My dad got tickets."
'NO YOU'RE GOING TO GET ME BACK MY BODY.'
"Why?" I knew why, but I figured my only chance of getting out of this alive was to stall.
'YOU KNOW WHY.'
"Oh, but I really don't!" Maybe time with all of my dad's dizzy, blonde girlfriends was going to pay off in the end…
'I HAVE NO NEED TO EXPLAIN MYSELF TO YOU.'
"Oh, but I just- I like being included in plans. And-" Come on, all bad guys love to explain their ingenious plans to someone! "What makes you think I'm going to help you if I don't know what the consequences are?
'CONSEQUENCES? HA! I'LL TELL YOU THE CONSEQUENCES! PETER IS GOING TO COLLAPSE ALONG WITH THIS PRISON.'
Prison? Did Hook's ghost just call the Never Land, a prison?
"What if I refuse to help you?" I demanded.
'NOTHING WORTH WORRYING ABOUT. YOU'RE LITTLE FAIRY FRIEND'S GOING TO DIE IS ALL.' He- or was he considered an it? - Replied.
His statement sent a chill through my body. Okami was the only one of my friends left. Miss Daisy had taken my only friend from home and I had lost Peter to my own insanity. My father as well, but Miss Daisy had a helping hand in that one.
Okami was the last one I had left. I couldn't let him die. I couldn't.
"I'm sorry, Peter." I muttered softly. A tear rolling down my cheek froze halfway down my face in the cold.
'WHAT WAS THAT?' Hook's deceased voice sounded pleased. I had forgotten that thing, what ever you wanted to call it could read minds.
"I said, what makes you think I'll be able to find your body?" I asked. "I mean you've been searching for a century."
'YOU WILL FIND MY BODY, JESSICA. AND YOU WILL HELP ME TO COME BACK. I CAN TAKE YOUR LITTLE FAIRY FRIEND'S LIFE JUST AS I CAN GIVE IT BACK TO HIM.'
"If you're so strong, why can't you find your body on your own?" Sarcasm and wit were my only defense.
'BECAUSE IN ORDER TO FIND MY BODY I NEED TWO FAIRIES AS MY GUIDES. AND SINCE I DON'T BELIEVE IN FAIRIES-"
"STOP!" I exclaimed, gently placing my forefinger and thumb around Okami's head as to plug his ears. "I get it. So you need someone who does."
'SMART, CLEVER GIRL.'
"Okay, but I only have one fairy and Prince Okami doesn't know where your body is!" I was really getting worried.
'DON'T FRET, MY DEAR. YOUR LITTLE FAIRY PRINCE WILL REMEMBER ONCE MORE WHERE HE AND THAT RETCHED FAIRY OF PETER'S-'
"Tink." I interrupted.
'WHAT?'
"Her name is Tinkerbell- Peter's fairy." I tried.
I got the impression that Hook's ghost was giving me the evil eye even thought I couldn't see it. 'TINKERBELL THEN – BURIED MY BODY ONCE HE LAYS EYES ON HER ONCE AGAIN.'
"Again?" As far as I knew Okami had never met Tink. I was even more surprised to hear that the Prince had helped TinkerBell resurrect such a monster. I wanted to ask Okami about I, but he had fallen into a sort of trance-like state.
'YES, AGAIN. NEITHER OF THEM REMEMBERS THE OTHER. YET AS PETER HAS TOLD ME, TRUE LOVE SHALL PREVAIL TIME AFTER TIME.'
"So wait, a minute-" I said. "Prince Okami and TinkerBell love each other? I thought Tink loved Peter, hence the reason she hates Wendy so much."
I really wished my fairy wasn't asleep at the moment. I needed him! I had a TON of questions for him; not to mention that I really didn't want to be the only one making bid decisions here.
'AHH- THAT IS WHAT TINKERBELL HERSELF THOUGHT UNTIL SHE MET YOUR FAIRY, PRINCE OKAMI.'
Suddenly Okami felt even colder in my already numb hands. "Okay, enough chit-chat. Save him, please."
'WILL YOU FIND ME MY BODY?"
"Just save him!" I exclaimed.
'NOT UNTIL I HAVE YOUR WORD.'
"Will it save the Never Land?"
'POSSIBLY.'
My only friend was dying on my finger. I had to save him. I didn't need to-but I had to.
"I'll do it. I'll do it! Just save him!" I sobbed. "Please… save-him…"
I don't know what he did or how he did it. I just remember opening my eyes to Prince Okami fluttering above me. My vision was no longer blurred.
"You've saved me twice now." He said softly.
I felt warm, no longer cold. My stomach had stopped heaving and I noticed my hunger yet again. Hook's ghost had gone. The only thing left of our meeting was the horrid feeling I had in my gut.
The feeling of betraying Peter.
Now not only had- I introduced him to a friend whom didn't believe in him, slap him across the face for asking a simple question, and storm away from him in tears, but now I was working against him. I was going to have to bring back his worst enemy to save my only friend, to save myself.
I had sold not my soul but Okami's to the Devil-no, to a pirate. Bargaining with a Pirate I decided then and there, was a hell of a lot worse than bargaining with the Devil. Especially when the pirate was already DEAD and belonged IN hell instead of roaming around in the living world.
I cursed my luck quietly before asking my fairy quietly, "Do you know what I did to save you? Do you know what we have to do?"
He nodded, his friendly smile long gone. "I'm sorry." He said. "You should have let me go."
"I couldn't. I couldn't loose you. I can't lose-" The waterworks had started up again. I whipped away a tear, frustrated with my lack of control over my emotions. "I can't lose anyone else. I just can't… I'm sorry."
"Don't be," he said softly landing on my shoulder. "And you don't have to worry about me leaving you. As long as you believe in me I will always be here for you, always."
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