for the request of crazzyredhead]

Ouch...Arg…Whe-Where am I?

"Ruthie. Rise and shine." I know this voice… but at the same time I don't?

"C'mon Ruthie girl, GET YOUR BUTT UP." I definitely know this bossy voice. But why is it so close?

My eyes flutter open to see them reflected in big blue eyes. Tink? I scrunch up and back up onto a wood wall, "TINK YOU'RE HUGE!" Tinkerbell gives me a look, "No, Ruthie, you're the small one." Whoa, didn't see that one coming… "What do you mean small?" I give Tink the good ol' head to toe look before giving myself one too, "TINK I'M SMALL AND NAKED!"

"You materialized out of fairy dust! It's like your built up of it!"

I sat, in a borrowed leaf tunic from Tink, pulling my hair. "Tink, how am I going to go back to the mainland like this?" I gesture at myself. What do I do? I'm Thumbelina!

Tink quit pacing to look at me, "Well, I can't have you here, I'm on a job Ruthie!"

"Then what the hell do you suggest I do?" I pitifully ask. Rock bottom is when rocks are bigger than you. Tink's hair was mussed up and her cheeks were flushed. She looked happy for some reason. Interesting.

"First we gotta get you to Queen Clarion."

"Well, Ruthie, this is an interesting visit." She looked so majestic fluttering there in the middle of the pixie hallow tree. The pixie dust pooling behind her really added to her golden like complex. Tink left me in the hands of Fawn and Iridessa since it was winter and nighttime, so they weren't needed at the moment. They loved the new Ruthie, they literally thought for five minutes to contemplate the time we would spend together. After explaining what happened before and after I was sent to Pixie Hollow, minus the sex with Hook, Queen Clarion stood quietly.

"Queen Clarion, how can this happen?" Fawn questioned flying over to her faster than my pace. Iridessa, oh kind Iridessa, walked with the slow human to their majestic queen.

"Hmmm We shall get professional information, from Fairy Gary himself?"…

A big hairy guy, quite jolly really, stood aside murmuring to Queen Clarion. Iridessa and Fawn were gone since their work requested them to be awake early hours so they went to hit their…sack? I sat idly on a bench made from pebble when two fairy guys that had an extravagant amount of golden dust falling from them. I recognized the adorable one to be Tink's friend Terrence. He would fly with Tink sometimes. It was the guy next to him that really caught my eye, medium built and handsome. His hair a sort of reddish gold that was ruffled up from the wind and his eyes were these shocking green that I can see from all the way from where I sat. Unlike Terrence this guy wore darker colors, purple and dark blue. They were tighter fitting but it wasn't horrid like, it enhanced how toned his arms, abdomen and legs were. He and Terrence went to the pool of pixie dust, Terrence said something that caused the other guy to laugh sexily. I felt my cheeks redden.

God, I'm lusting over a three inch tall guy. I turn my attention away back to Fairy Gary and Queen Clarion who were still in deep conversation. I stood up and strode to the edge to look down at Pixie Hollow. Huts were darken, some not. How long will I be this small? Will I have to stay here forever? Faint plans of leaving Neverland and going back to…London? Yes, I have to keep repeating where I'm from or I'll forget… "Ruthie?" I turned around and smiled, Terrence has that effect on people, puppy dog kid, "Yo Terrence, who's your friend?" Terrence's friend stood a little off still patting off pixie dust into the pool. Terrence turned not covering me, gentlemen like, to introduce us, "Ruthie this is my friend Zephyr, Zeph this is Ruthie." Zephyr quirked his lips in a beautiful smile that I had to snap back to reply, "Nice to meet you, Zephyr. Doesn't that mean, strong wind?" Now he fully smiled, he nodded obviously pleased, "Yeah, I'm a wind fairy… one of the fastest around."

I raise my brows, "A little cocky aren't we?" He shrugs nonchalantly, "Can't be modest about greatness, I believe so." I guess all wind fairies are a bit…self-centered. Terrence leaned back on his heels to laugh, "Well Zeph don't be modest now!" Zephyr grinned humoredly and mock-punched Terrence on the shoulder. Terrence turned to me, "So, Ruthie, why so small?" He asked in a curious tone. Zephyr stepped away, his dark purple wings were oddly graceful behind someone dark and mysterious like him, "Wait, you're a human?"

"Yep. Fully human with all its amenities." I say, having a hard time turning back to Terrence. I see in my peripherals that Zephyr has this deep in thought look in his dark green eyes yet an alluring grin on his lips. "Human…hmm…"

"Terrence, I don't know what's going on! I was on Hook's chamb- ship," Don't want them hearing and telling now… "and I begin to burn up and suddenly I'm here." I gesture around, "I mean, seriously, at least give me a pair of wings!" I joked pushing my hair out of my face while running through it. My hair sure has gotten long since I came here. Terrence was laughing at my joke but Zephyr looked sleepy or something.

"Ruthie." Queen Clarion and Fairy Gary stood in formal matter, their faces solemn. "So what's the issue?" I ask feeling myself get cold all over. Fairy Gary grins though, fat jolly man, "You see, I got recent report from Tink that she had to give an overly amount of Pixie dust to someone. I had believed it was for the several lost boys but as I can tell, you are the one the pixie dust is so extensively on. But the only conclusion to come how you felt and what Hook said about your body glowing, well, there can be only one explanation."

"What is that exactly?"

"Ruthie, have you ingested any pixie dust?"

I shake my head, "No…?"

Terrence, the witless wonder spoke up, "Wait, that one day when you were sick. A lot of us were floating around your mouth while you were asleep. It was morning which meant…"

"Meant you all were emanating extra dust into her without your or her knowledge," Fairy Gary finished. I glared at Terrence who smiled apologetically. Zephyr stood aside looking at me in a whole new light. "Which what, means she's going to die!" He asked angrily.

Fairy Gary waved off his anger, laughing, "Don't be silly! She simply has what has been called 'Dust Syndrome' it happens when non-fairy takes into their body pixie dust."

"Alright, I got that part, but what does it mean to me? Will it go away? What's happening to me?"

"Well-" Fairy Gary begun, but Queen Clarion placed her delicate hand on his shoulder, gracefully, "Fairy Gary I think I shall tell Ruthie of her situation, you need your rest." She turned to Terrence and Zephyr, "So do you two."

"I think, I'm going to stay around. I mean someone needs to escort our new addition around Pixie Hollow." Zephyr requested, giving me a wink. I rolled my eyes as he chuckled. Terrence nodded too, "Yeah, I'll stay too. I mean, someone has to keep Zephyr off of Ruthie right?"…

We sat in a glamorous room inside the giant tree, everything was out of a fairy tale. Haha. Oh god, I've become spastic. Terrence was observing the many portraits of fairies that adorned Queen Clarion's walls, more of Tink though, while Zephyr sat relaxed on an arm chair.

"Ruthie, Dust Syndrome is a serious matter although only temporary."

"It depends on how you see how serious, your majesty." I stated, crossing my arms over my chest, it was cold and the garments Tink lent me weren't cutting it.

"You see, Ruthie, that Fairies are unable to hold on emotion at a time. That is why pixie dust works on us so well. We are able to hold onto one emotion and that emotion triggers pixie dust all the time. That is also why Humans can hold onto pixie dust when they are happy."

I know that… I mean when I left the first time I was in a fit of confusion and the second was when I felt guilty… what does that mean?

"So…?"

"Ruthie, Dust Syndrome effects occur when one diagnosed is terribly full of emotion or deflated from… rigorous activity." Queen Clarion grins slyly at me, "Ruthie, I know perfectly why you didn't tell me what happened during your moments at Hook's chambers. I am a lady as well, and it is not something we boast about to monarchy."

I grin as well, relieved, "So you know what…we did?" I blush bright when I remember Zephyr and Terrence were in the room as well. Fuck. Zephyr gives that wanting look again where he's looking at me through half lidded eyes but also a look of jealousy plays on his features. Queenie giggles politely, giving me an all knowing look, "Ruthie you look quite…alluring. All fairies have a certain glow only such fairies can see. Believe me, I know when a fairy has become mature. It's a monarch gift."

"But I'm not a fairy."

"Alas, you have fairy qualities at the moment. But anyway, you felt a burning all over, am I correct?" I nodded. "Well, you see Ruthie you're burning the dust in your system causing you to travel to someone that had the same feelings as you were at that moment…" She then gives Terrence a knowing smile. Terrence's faced contorted into a confused one. "Why are you looking at me like that Queen Clarion?" She covered her lips as she giggled, "Ruthie, you were found in Tink's hut earlier this night."

Zephyr stared at me then toward Terrence then back at me. He focused on Terrence for a long moment before bursting out in guffaws. "TERRENCE! YOU SLY DOG!" He leaned over and punched Terrence on the shoulder. Terrence, and I repeat the witless wonder, rubbed his arm still confused, "What? I don't get it…?" Zephyr shook his head, his body shaking in laughter. Queen Clarion covered her lips as she giggled, Zephyr calmed down a bit to say, "Terrence, you and Tinkerbell…have been engaged into some… 'Rigorous activity' earlier this night huh?" He wagged his eye brows suggestively. I finally caught the joke, I begin to laugh a little as well.

"Oh not you too Ruthie! Tell me what so funny!" Finally we look over to Queen Clarion. She stands gracefully up, "I believe I should leave for a certain inappropriate matter to discuss in front of a monarch." She left the room in a wave of majestyness. "Goodnight."

The moment she left, Zephyr burst out laughing, "Ruthie you gotta tell him, this is just too funny." I give Terrence a humorous smile, "Terrence were you and Tink…uh…canoodling earlier this night?" Terrence tilted his head, "canoodling…?" A light went off in his eyes, "OH!" He suddenly blushed extremely red, his entire body becoming a red beacon, he took of his acorn cap and fiddling with the top averting his eyes from us. He nodded embarrassingly, "Yeah…me and Tink sorta done…it." Zephyr and I give him a little applause. He goes red but smiles as he chucks his acorn cap at Zeph. "So what if I've been…sleeping with Tink, what about it?"

I sigh, "Well, Terrence, I was also canoodling," Zephyr snickered, "before I traveled to Tink." But before I was traveled I thought of someone I wasn't with. I thought of Jack. Was Tink thinking of someone else too? I glanced at Terrence who was glaring at the laughing Zephyr. Terrence would be shattered. He isn't around Humans to understand these feelings.

I faked a yawn, "Well, this is as much fun as I can take for tonight-"

"I highly doubt that." Zephyr commented.

I glared at his smug smirk, "So I guess let's call it a night. Terrence can you bring me over to Tink's? I mean, you already know so well where she lives…" Zephyr burst out laughing again, clutching his stomach.

"Can't Tink and other Tinker fairies are at an overnight convention. They're building something big." Terrence objected.

"Where do I stay then?" I ran my fingers through my hair while pushing it off my face.

"With me, I got a really big bed…" Zephyr wagged his brows at me again…