Yes I'm back! Did you miss me? Sadly this story won't be lasting for much longer since I've planned it out and have already got the ending. Oh well, enjoy what time you have left!

For a couple of weeks I'd noticed Hook nor any of the other pirates were playing up, they hadn't attacked at all. They were up to something, I just knew it. Whatever it was I didn't want it to hurt my boys, not a single one of them. They were too special to me and also all I had. Without them would I even be standing here at this moment or would I be 6 feet under by now? Who knows, to be honest I didn't want to know either. All I knew is that they'd saved me countless times from danger and I was thankful for that. Me being their 'mother' and looking after them in everyway was my way of saying thank-you.

I loved them a lot but most of all I loved Peter. That sounded cheesy, right? But you know what? I was and still am madly in love that I don't really care. His eyes as hazel as the nut itself, his hair as brown as chocolate and as soft as silk, he had the cutest little button nose that I'd ever seen in my life, his lips were soft and gentle. I got the whole package, he had a great personality and he was as handsome as ever. What more could I ask for? Any girl would die to be in my position.

"Lex, Lex!", I heard from a distance. The voices bought me out of my constant daydream as the sound began getting nearer with footsteps to accompany them. It sounded like the whole of the lost boys to me, they sounded like a herd of elephants when they ran together. Whatever they had to tell me must be important because of the franticness in each of their voices. This thought got me alert so I stood up ready to be bombarded by the boys.

I was right about the bombarding but the problem was one of them was missing, I counted five, there was meant to be six. It was them I noticed just who was missing, "Where's Cubby?", I asked in sort of a rush.

They finally grew quiet, some of them scratching their head in way of thinking how to answer my question. Finally I saw Nibs look from left to right to see if any of the other boys were going to answer but when he saw that it wasn't likely that they were, he sighed and stepped forward, "That's what we've been trying to tell you. He's missing".

As I heard the final word all the alarms went off in my head. My first instinct was to run out there to find him but I stayed put as I realised what they were doing. They were trying to trick me, Nibs was more than likely hiding in the bushes outside of the hideout ready to pounce and scare me to death as soon as I ran out of the tree. So I just played along, "He's probably right where you left him", I said passing it off as nothing and waving my hand around like I did to show I wasn't bothered.

This time Tootles stepped away from the line that had formed. It was only then that I realised he had a piece of paper in his hand. He sighed just like Nibs, "That's less than likely", he said in his cute baby voice, "We found this right around where we were playing and Cubby went missing".

He held out his hand to give me the note and I instantly took it, reading it then once again just to make sure I was right. It said, 'There's a way to get your little friend back you just have to work out this riddle. It'll tell you where he is. Don't go North nor go East, he's at the place that you like least'. At this moment in time I couldn't think straight to even begin too figure out what this meant. So I began to question them. Holding up the note, I looked at them, "And where were you playing exactly?".

The twins looked at me ashamed, "Mermaid Lagoon", they said together. At that moment I began fuming, they knew I didn't like Mermaid Lagoon because without Peter there the mermaids would do everything and anything to get you dead…this sometimes included the lost boys. They were jealous of how close they were with Peter. That's why I never went there, I knew what they done to my grandmother and mother so if they knew I was Peter's girlfriend what were they going to do to me? Just the thought of the place gave me goose bumps. It scared me that girls would do anything for love including murdering someone, I never wanted to end up like that.

I took a deep breath trying to calm myself down for their sakes, "How'd you get there anyway? Its quite a walk away", I stated, curiously.

Slightly started fidgeting so that's how I knew they had more bad news to tell me, "Peter might have flown us there, left and when he found out Cubby had gone missing he made us go back but is hiding outside because he's scared of your reaction to know that we went to mermaid lagoon without him being there most of the time when you instructed him not to let us go there. Ever. Don't forget I said maybe so it might not be true but if it is true just tell him you didn't here this from me", Slightly ended with a satisfied smile. Oh Slightly, what a bad liar you are.

I crouched down to his level which I think made him just a teeny bit more nervous than he already was. I smiled a little bit to show him I wasn't mad, well I was but I wasn't going to show him that. I was going to show my anger on Peter for doing all this behind my back. "Can you please take me to where Peter is?", I asked. It was only after I said it I realised just how fake I sounded but right now I didn't care, I was still fuming.

"But I said that it wasn't true", Slightly said timidly. I think he saw in my eyes that I was angry, I might not be showing it on the outside but he could see it, I just knew it.

I shook my head at him, "Come on Slightly, you know you were telling the truth, they know you were telling the truth", I said pointing to the other boys, "And guess what? I know too. I'm not that silly. Just show me where Peter is and I promise that none of you will get in trouble".

"Promise?", he said holding out his pinkie. I nodded, took it and shook it. Once he was satisfied, he smiled, "Okay…", and took my hand as I got back up to my normal height, dragging me up the stairs and out of the tree house with the boys closely behind us. He motioned for me to crouch down so I did, he cupped his hands around my ear and whispered, "He's in the bush right straight in front of you". My eyes snapped over in that direction, now that I looked at the bush I realised it was shaking. He wasn't that afraid of my reaction, was he? I scoffed at my own thought, what a wuss.

I got up and gave Slightly a nod as a thanks and they all headed back inside. I think they knew this 'mother' and 'father' alone time which I greatly appreciated. I headed over to the bush and laughed to myself as I saw Peter shaking and looking at the opening to the hideout intensely, I didn't know he could scare that easily. "Peter", I said making him suddenly fly up in fright.

He soon stood up straight and bold to show just how frightened he was, he would have fooled me too if I hadn't of seen him shaking him ass off just waiting for me. And plus I couldn't take him seriously when he had pieces of leaves and twigs sticking out of his hair in every direction. "H-h-h-how", he stopped and cleared his throat then carried on, "How'd you see me?".

I shrugged trying to think of an excuse without bringing Slightly's name up and getting him into trouble, "You stick out as clear as day in that bush. Sadly your light green outfit doesn't blend in with the dark green of the bush as much as you'd like to think. And plus, you can't hide from me", I smirked.

He started rubbing the back of his neck, which with him was always a sign that he was nervous, "Erm so about Cubby going missing…", he started.

"Yes about that…", I said in the calmest voice I possibly could. He sighed a sigh of relief as he thought I wasn't mad from my tone, oh boy how wrong he was. Before he could even blink I was up in his face, "HOW COULD YOU GO TO THE MERMAID LAGOON AND LEAVE THEM THERE? YOU KNOW BAD THINGS ALWAYS HAPPEN WHEN YOU'RE NOT ABOUT AND THIS JUST ABOUT PROVES IT. IF CUBBY'S DEAD I'M BLAMING YOU", I finished, prodding him in the chest so hard that it even hurt my finger a bit.

I was just about to head back inside when Peter spoke up. Oh god, how I wished he wouldn't. "Hey wait a minute", he called after me, "How is this my fault? If you'd have allowed them access to the Lagoon in the first place then they wouldn't rebel and ask me to take them there, would they? And then none of this would have even of happened".

I turned around, not an emotion in my face. He was seriously starting to piss me off. I walked up to him trying to size him up, "Oh this is just so typical of the famous Peter Pan, isn't it?", I said, my hand and arm motions showing my anger for me, "You don't take responsibility for your actions, you've always got to pin it on someone else, haven't you?".

The more he got annoyed, the more he'd try to do what I was doing to him, size ME up. "Well you can't really talk-".

I pushed him in anger, "Well what am I doing now, hm?".

As he was about to mouth off back to me, he stopped a second and just looked at me with lust in his eyes. I wondered what he was up to. "Well I just wanted to tell you that you look really cute when you're angry", he yelled still in his aggressive manner. Suddenly I saw that his tights seemed to be getting a little tight around his crotch area. On the inside I was giggling but I couldn't show him that when we were in the middle of this disagreement so I just smirked at him and said, "I can see that you really think that", nodding my head towards his bulge.

He looked down to see what I was staring at and instantly went a bright pink, "Yeah well, that doesn't matter anyway because I love you", he shouted at me, still sounding angered. I wish he'd give this up and just take all his anger out on kissing me, that's what would make me really happy right now."Well I love you too", I shouted back, keeping my angered posture.

He stared me out, "That's like, the second time we've said that to each other", I shrugged, pretending not to care when really my insides were exploding. "I'm going to come and kiss you now", he yelled once again.

I stomped my foot pretending I was still really pissed off. It started off being real but now its just one big game of pretend. "Well you better!", I shouted aggressively.

He didn't say another word, he just marched up to me and full-on kissed me exactly how I wanted it. It started out being forceful because of all the anger we were both letting out but then as we got more into it, it started to get hot, steamy and passionate. He pushed me against the tree trunk, rubbing his hands up and down my body as we were still kissing while mine was up in his hair, running my fingers through it. Just then we heard the door to the tree house open and little pants as the lost boys tried to catch their breaths back. Whatever had happened it must have got them alert and it must be important since they were trying to interrupt our moment. We were both fully aware that they were there but chose to ignore them and carried on with what we were doing hoping they'd go away. It seemed like that wasn't going to happen when we heard them all clearing their throats. So me and Peter separated, sighing and looked at the boys. That's when I noticed there was only three of them, where the heck were the twins? I felt my insides go funny as I looked at each of their faces and saw that they were truly scared and worried. It seemed that Peter had only just picked up on the twin's disappearance as I saw his face turn from one of no emotion to his angered/worried face. "Where's the twins?", he demanded. I put my hand on his shoulder to calm him down a little since I could see that the three boys were already frightened enough. Tootles put his hands behind his back nervously and switched from one leg to the other as he answered, "That's what we're trying to tell you, we don't know"."We don't think this is a coincidence that both the twins and Cubby have gone missing in less than a day", Nibs carried on, he didn't seem nervous at all to talk to us. He was the bravest one out of the lot, nothing ever seemed to get to him.

"We think Hook might have them. After all his ship has gone missing but is still in NeverLand with all the pirates hiding upon it…well that's what Peter told us, isn't that right?", Slightly finished, smirking as he'd known just by the last bit he'd gotten Peter in trouble with me. After all Peter didn't tell me any of this.

I turn around in Peter's direction to see his angered face once again and him shaking his fist at Slightly, mostly likely telling him that he'll get him later. Peter was so occupied with threatening Slightly he didn't notice me looking at him at all until I had been standing there for currently ten seconds. When he finally realised, he seemed surprised. That was until I raised my eyebrow at him and tapped my foot repeatedly to show him that I wasn't amused. "Is this so Slightly? I think he failed to mention that to me", I huffed. He began rubbing his neck once again like he'd done about twenty minutes previous, "…About that…I was going to tell you but we didn't really have time to talk until you came out shouting at me-".

I cut him off, "Well if you hadn't of been such a pathetic little boy hiding in the bush then I would have known and maybe the twins wouldn't have gone missing". He started opening his mouth to most likely defend himself but I put my hand up to stop him. I wasn't in the mood for even an argument right now and I wasn't about to let him make my mood even worse than it already was. "Don't even bother", I tried to say as calmly as I could. But since I was already close to tears it came out as more of a squeak. Normally I would have been embarrassed about that but right at this moment, I could really give a flying fuck. And without another word from anybody I stormed inside. Without anybody inside at the moment I let out a breath to calm myself down and to mostly stop the tears coming. For the rest of the night me and Peter didn't say a word to each other. I couldn't really be asked with him, he was acting so childish lately. But I did keep a strong face on for the three remaining boys. I did our usual routine; making them dinner, giving them each a bath, reading them a story and putting them to bed. Occasionally through the course of the night I'd look over at Peter to see him staring at me but as soon as I'd even glanced at him, he'd turn away. When it was time for me to go to bed I realised that with this anger in the air neither me nor Peter could sleep in the same bed so I got a spare quilt and pillow for me to go sleep on the rug but as soon as I'd gotten there I saw Peter had already taken up my place and was sleeping soundly. Even during an argument, he was still a gentleman. Deciding disturbing him wouldn't be the greatest of ideas, I went back to our bed and laid down. For a long while I struggled to get to sleep, thinking about how it really was my fault all this was happening. As their 'mother' I'd failed to keep them safe and well. Who knew if they were even alive right now. That thought made tears well up in my eyes and instead of keeping them back like I'd usually have done, I let them flow freely with the sobs soon following after it. So that night, I cried myself to sleep.

The next morning I was woken up by several someone's shaking me awake. I decided it was too early so I rolled over trying to ignore them and go back to sleep. "Lex, Lex", they called, "Tootles has gone missing".

That made me instantly shoot up and look at them frantically, "What?", I put my head in my hands and whined, "When will then end?".From the side of me I heard Nibs answer, "I think this might answer that". I turned my head towards him to see what he was talking about. He was holding out a note. I instantly took it off him and began to read 'This'll all end when I have each and every one of your precious boys Alexis. This'll all happen unless you hand yourself over and let us kill you like I'd originally planned. Follow the clues and you'll soon find where we're hiding - Hook'. I didn't show any emotion, I couldn't. I was still in shock. It was all my fault they'd gone and most likely being tortured. Why did I have to escape instead of letting myself get killed? Ugh I'm an idiot.A groan from the other side of me made me jump. I looked over to see Peter lying there, completely dead to the world…Or so I thought. "Peter!", I shrieked in surprise, "What are you doing here?".He turned over, groaning once again, "Floor. Too. Uncomfortable.", he mumbled. I called his name a couple of times, getting no answer, he was pretending he was asleep again. I sighed and got out of bed and whispered to Nibs and Slightly my plan to wake Peter up. They giggled a little bit so I had to shush them. "On the count of three", I instructed, looking at them to see if they'd followed and they just nodded once, "One. Two. Three. PETER THE PIRATES ARE ATTACKING AND THEY'VE TAKEN EVERYTHING". I expected him to shoot up in bed all confused and THEN get up. But nope, no such luck. He just winced a little bit and pretended he was still asleep. I sighed giving up and walked the boys out of the room and into the food area. I looked everywhere for some food but nothing. Today was just really not my day. I turned around to the boys and tried to smile my innocent, sweet grin, which by their faces they knew I wanted something. "Boys", I called sweetly, "We don't have any breakfast. Do you mind going to go pick some fruit or something?".

Instantly they groaned, "No", they both said stubbornly. None of the lost boys liked going to pick fruit like they said a 'grown man' would, they liked to play games instead to prove what children they really were which was usually fine with me.I knelt down to them and did my best puppy dog eyes, batting my eyelashes, "Please?", I tried to say cutely."No", they still said, drawing pictures in the sand beneath them.

I sighed getting up and slapped my palms on my thighs in frustration, "Oh please boys? I'd do anything, literally anything".

"Anything?", they chimed together, looking at one another and raising their eyebrows making me wonder what they were thinking. "Anything", I repeated, now becoming hopeful that I wouldn't have to go picking for fruit myself."Well…", Slightly started, "We were kind of wondering what it'd be like to kiss a girl since we've never kissed anybody before".I immediately stepped back in shock, "No", I said instantly, "No, no, no, no, no".They started giving me that puppy dog look with the pouting lip they knew I couldn't resist, "Please?".I groaned and huffed, "Fine. But if Peter finds out and gets mad at me then I'm totally blaming you two, got it?", I said pointing a finger at them both.

They both looked at each other and shrugged, "Fine with us". I didn't feel right about this but I did say I'd do anything even if I didn't realise that they'd go to this type of extent, I thought they'd be reasonable, apparently not.

They each got up and stood side-by-side already puckering up. I bent down and pecked them both on the lips, wincing as I did so. They both pulled back in disappointment. "Hey! That wasn't a real kiss!", Slightly exclaimed throwing his arms in the air.

"Well that's all you're getting", I said tapping him on the nose. "I've done my part of the deal, now you do yours". They both grunted in reply and ran up the step and out the door. Just at the right moment Peter came out of the bedroom stretching his arms and yawning. "Hey!", I called jumping over to him. "I'm sorry about yesterday", I said going on my tip-toes to kiss him on the lips but he moved his head to the side making me kiss him on the cheek instead. Pulling away, I frowned at him, "Fine, be like that. I was only trying to make things right", I grumbled, turning away. I decided to start on patching up the boys clothing if Peter was going to be childish and ignore me. I hadn't been doing it long when I heard a panicked call from Slightly. "Lex! Lex!", he called running down the stairs. As soon as he stopped I said, "Nibs has gone missing, hasn't he?", taking a guess. Slightly nodded. "Oh god", I moaned into my hands.

Peter came rushing out, "What, what?", he asked worriedly.

"Nibs has been taken by the pirates", Slightly explained. Peter sighed, he knew we only had one lost boy left. "Oh yeah, there was this left where he got taken. Don't know what it has to do with anything", he remembered fishing something out of his pocket.

I looked up expecting there to be another note but to my surprise a necklace with a small metal skull as the charm in his hands instead. Slightly handed it to me. "Thanks", I said taking it with a weak smile. Then Slightly just walked outside and Peter in going back into the bedroom, whistling on his pipe so he didn't he of boredom, I'm guessing Peter wanted to avoid me and not talk to me yet which was alright with me because I felt the same right now.

I sighed deciding it was time I figured out these riddles so I could get the Lost Boys back. I gathered all the stuff that had been left where the boys went missing and sat down at the table trying to figure it out. "Don't go North nor go East, he's at the place that you like least", I said over and over trying to figure out the riddle they left when Cubby went missing. Well there's no point me getting a compass because I don't know my North from my South anyway. I know that sounds stupid but I was never that good in Geography anyway. Okay, okay, so a place I like least? Well there is Mermaid Lagoon but that can't be it because he was taken from there, that'd be stupid. Just taking someone from a place just to be put back there once again, what's the point in that? Just then Tinkerbelle came in. I hadn't seen her in about two or three days. "Hey", she smiled settling herself on the table in front of me, "Where's Peter?".I shrugged, "He's somewhere being mad at me", not really bothered.

She nodded kind of awkwardly, "Erm so what's that rock near the twin's bunks doing there?", she said interested and confused.

I whipped my head round to see what she was talking about and below and behold, there was indeed a rock. I stared at it shocked, I hadn't seen that yesterday or this morning…Then again my mind was occupied with other things to really notice but it was as sure as hell not here before. "Now I get it! Hooks leaving me clues to where the ship is and where he's hiding the lost boys. I was wondering why I didn't get anything given to me for the twins".

"Erm what?", she asked, looking at me like I'd gone insane.

"All the lost boys have gone missing, Hooks taken them, hidden his ship and now he's giving me clues as to where they are", I shrugged, not understanding it myself.

"Huh", she said stroking her chin understanding now. "And these are the clues that you've been given?", she gestured towards the stuff on the table. I nodded and she glanced over and read the note that was left on Cubby's disappearance. "Well that riddle is easy to figure out. Don't go North nor go East, he wants us to in the middle which means North-East".

I gasped, "How did you get that? I've been sitting here for forever trying to figure that out".

She shrugged, checking out her nails, "I'm just smart I guess".

I nodded slowly trying to take this thing all in, "Well what's in the North-East that's so important?".

She stopped examining her nails and began tapped her chin, thinking, "The only thing I can think of is Skull Rock".

And that's when it all suddenly came together, "SKULL ROCK, that's it!", I exclaimed, jumping up from my seat, "That's why we got the skull necklace and the rock, obvious clues that I was too stupid to figure out", I said slapping myself on the forehead. "And as for the bit that says 'he's at the place that you like least' he was trying to talk to Peter then, Peter hate Skull Rock".

"You think I don't know that? I've known him since he was just a baby", she snapped at me, her face going bright red, taking me back. She suddenly realised what she'd done and stayed red, this time in embarrassment. She did a small smile directed at me, trying to make me feel better. "Sorry my old crush on Peter still sometimes gets the better of me".

I waved my hand, "Its fine. Now let's go to Skull Rock and get those boys back", I said, grabbing my sword and walking towards the door in determination.

Tink was about to go when she suddenly stopped. making me turn round, "What about Peter?", she asked pointing towards our bedroom.

I shrugged, "If he's interested, he'll figure it out", and carried on my way out. Plus I don't think either of us are in the mood to be on the same side for possibly fighting pirates just yet, I thought to myself. Once we'd gotten out into the air I realised we'd better take Slightly with us, "Tink, I think it's a good idea that we take Slightly with us, I don't want him getting taken by the pirates".

"Too late", I heard from behind me. I snapped my body round to see Tink standing on another note on the ground.

I slowly walked towards it fearing the worst. Tink flew off of it as I picked it up. It read, 'You've probably figure out where we are by now. Good luck fighting us, you're gonna need it'. "That's it", I said feeling my face go red with anger, "This ends right now. Its either me or him dying tonight and I'm pretty sure its not going to be me".

Without even asking Tinkerbelle sprinkled me with fairy dust. Obviously we're going to be flying there, I thought. I thought of my happiest memory which just happened to be Peter telling me he loved me for the first time and before I knew it we were off towards Skull Rock, ready to fight.