"Smee, if I do not return back to Dabloon, take good care of my daughter. Raise her like I would. Make her mother proud…" Hook went to climb onto the Jolly Rodger.
"Daddy, don't go!" his daughter ran towards him, arms open wide.
He bent down and hugged her tightly and whispered to her, "Daddy loves you, and remember…my crew is your crew."
Then he left.
Those were her father's last words to her. As she stood in the center of the rickety, old crew's cabin getting stared at by Hook's old men, that is what she remembered. The only man she recognized was still in his faded blue and white striped t-shirt with cracked glasses hanging on his nose.
"Smee, is that you?" Lacey stepped forward as the old man smiled and hugged him tightly.
"My adopted girl!" he smiled as the crew applauded.
You could easily tell Smee grew older than when she first remembered him. He has gray bags under his bright blue eyes, which now sighed with relief. Age spots were up and down his arms and his pearl white beard was now overgrown and shaggy.
"What are you doing here?" Lacey looked around.
"We came because news spread about your departure and we-"
"YOU!" the crew shouted from behind Smee
"-Got worried and took a handful of rowboats."
"Took, you mean steal?" Lacey chuckled as Smee nodded.
"We are pirates, aren't we?" was his reply.
Lacey looked at the surrounding men and noticed a few from her younger days. She saw Noodler, who had scrapes and tears on his backwards hands along with Bill Jukes, whose tattoos were barley noticeable because of his newly gained wrinkles on his body.
"How did you know I was on Neverland?" Lacey was curious for the answer.
"We thought-" Smee tries to say
"YOU thought." The crew corrected again
"Fine, I thought that you would be getting revenge on Peter Pan here, possibly to quench your thirst about your father." A dead on reply.
"H-h-how did you know?" Lacey was stunned.
"Well, I knew you since you were a little lass'…." Smee chuckled.
"So..you came to help me?"
"You know it. We all want our fair share of revenge for that rat killing off out captain." The crew nodded in the back.
"My father gave me this, well, he told me to find it." She held up the bottle of poison, "It kills instantly."
"Ah..instant death." Smee thought.
"So, your not really needed here." Lacey hated to whisk them off after all they went through to get here, but she had no choice. She didn't want them to interfere with her plan. She didn't even know if she wanted Peter dead. She was thinking this through.
"Lacey, we miss the action of Neverland. We would love to take part, or at least watch the action unfold. Please, give these old men what they came here for…" Smee and the crew gave here puppy-dog eyes.
Lacey may have the characteristics of a male, but she was a girl at heart.
"Oh, ALRIGHT!" Lacey shouted, "Just stay here and I'll visit you tomorrow."
"Thank you captain Lacey!" the crew shouted back as she climbed the ladder back up to main deck.
She had a lot of thinking to do. Should she spare Peter's life? Though, captain Lacey had a nice ring to it… Decisions decisions….
