Disclaimer:
Kat: .. the lost boys, mermaids, pirates, indians and Tinkerbell don't belong to me.
Kristen: and? *nudges*
Kat: *whine* ... do I have to? *puppy dog eyes*
Kristen: YES!
Kat: ... *sigh* .. Peter.. doesn't.. belong to me either...
Kristen: See.. that wasn't so hard..
Kat: ....WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!
Kristen: Idiot.. Aurelia and the storyline do belong to us..
Aurelia sighed happily as she lay on her floor staring at her ceiling. Her face was flushed, her hair was messed up, but her eyes were bright. The day had been absolutely wonderful! After teaching the boys capture the flag, (they didn't want to get two flags so they couldn't play it today) she had taught them how to play football.* The Boys had loved it and had been playing when Aurelia told them she had to go home.
"Ahem!" a woman cleared her throat rather loudly from the direction of the water. Aurelia sat up and her head swiveled to see a black haired beauty staring at her. Another head, this one blonde, soon popped out of the water as well. Aurelia's heart leapt into her throat. Oh no, Pearl! She had forgotten to apologize! Now they were going to kick her out! Or worse! This was really really bad!
"Marina wants you," the black haired one said. Marina, as Aurelia knew, was the leader mermaid. She was in charge, sort of like a queen, and she definitely had the superiority complex found sometimes in those who were in 'power'. Aurelia finally nodded and dove into the water, following the mermaid escorts to the center of the lagoon. Trust Marina to want to humiliate Aurelia in the most public area she could get to. Sheesh! Aurelia crawled onto the rock and stood up proudly. She wouldn't let anything the mermaids said get her down. Absolutely nothing! Marina's eyes were hard and her face was stern.
"Aurelia, did you or did you not yell at Pearl when she went to visit you, throwing her out of your house like a brute and being just plain rude?" she asked, her tone of voice intimating that she already knew the answer. Pearl was sitting right next to the head honcho mermaid, her eyes seemed to apologize for this public catastrophe. Aurelia gave Marina a curt nod.
"Bad day," she said simply. Marina glared.
"That's absolutely no excuse for how you treat your friends, Aurelia! We showed you your house and we were you friends when you had no one! This is no way to treat us!" Marina lectured, her voice hissing like a snake. Aurelia inwardly flinched. Marina opened her mouth to continue but Aurelia had flopped to sitting next to Pearl and looked at her first friend.
"I'm really sorry, Pearl. I had had a really horrible day and I was in a very 'wallow in self pity' kind of frame of mind and with your cheeriness, well, no offense, but you'd ruin a perfectly good bad mood," Aurelia said dramatically yet sincerely. Pearl giggled and nodded.
"That's okay, but you have to tell me who Pau...Paul...MacParty? McCharty? About that guy..."
"McCartney," Aurelia supplied. Pearl nodded happily. Marina glared at both of them, considering she had been interrupted from her rant on Aurelia. She really did like the two legged girl, but she was bored and the mermaids really did need some sort of entertainment. Peter hadn't come to visit them in a very long time. Speaking of the devil, the elfish boy suddenly landed on the rock, absently pushing Aurelia into the water. She landed with a soft splash before swimming back up and glaring at the boy. If looks could only kill…
Marina's eyes lit up with an idea. Aurelia would apologize to Peter as well!! It was brilliant! That'd be entertaining!
".. Hello Peter!" the mermaids echoed each other. Peter grinned and waved.
" 'lo Girls!" He responded cheerfully. Marina cleared her throat and nudged Aurelia.
"Aurelia has something to say to you.. don't you Aurelia?" Marina finished, giving the girl a stern glare. Aurelia flinched and made a face. Pearl nudged her and Aurelia sighed loudly.
".. Peter.. I'm... …s... sor... Sorry about what happened yesterday.." She managed to spit out before whirling around in the water and glaring at a nearby rock. Peter stared at her in confusion before a smile lit up his face.
"Apology accepted! Now that you're no longer a bad guy do you want me to show you the Island?" He offered. Aurelia turned around slowly and stared at him with wide apprehensive eyes.
".. how..?" She whispered..
"She'd love to go!" Pearl exclaimed suddenly. Pan nodded scooped up the soaking wet girl and soared into the air. Aurelia waited until she was out of ear shot of the lagoon before letting out a pathetic little scream. Her voice seemed to have been left behind with the mermaids. Peter didn't seem to notice but was absently pointing out interesting landmarks and darting here and there. Aurelia glared at him.
"You do realize the only reason I apologized is because the mermaids forced me too.. I still hate you" She growled. Peter stopped in mid air before mischief began to twinkle in his eyes.
"You shouldn't say things like that when I'm holding you about 200 hundred feet in the air.. I could suddenly… let you drop!" and with that his arms loosened and Aurelia fell. Peter was going to have fun with this! Aurelia was such a funny girl, she made a great playmate. It was so fun to see her angry or afraid. Peter sped down to the ground and caught her again only to soar into the air and threw her up, twirling and catching her again, the flight imitating an intricate dance. He finally landed in a grassy meadow, put her feet on the ground and waited for the loud angry lecture he was about to get.
Aurelia's feet didn't seem to want to work for as soon as his arms had let her go she had collapsed on her knees. Peter frowned. This wasn't right. He knelt next to her.
"Lia?" he asked softly absently using her nickname. She was trembling violently. Peter gently touched her shoulder and she screamed and looked up at him. He backed away in shock at seeing the tears making silent tracks down her face, dripping off of her chin. Peter felt extremely guilty.
"Gee whiz Lia I'm sorry!" he cried, she stared at him blankly. Her eyes seemed almost dead as if she wasn't entirely there. Peter was getting worried and began to shake her shoulders gently.
"Lia! Lia snap out of it! Whats wrong Lia?"
"S-s-s-st-o-op s-s-sh-sha-k-king me!" She finally cried. Peter let go and she took a deep breath trying to calm her palpating heart.
"Why don't you like flying Lia?" Peter finally asked.
"None of your business." She mumbled. He leaned in and gazed into her eyes.
"How come you are so afraid of it?" He asked again. Peter continued to badger her incessantly. Aurelia couldn't get away, she was too afraid her legs would give out again. She could barely feel them after that insane flight through the sky. Peter was getting annoying.
"FINE!" She snapped angrily, "You want to know whats wrong? I lost everything to flying!! Everything!" Peter sat down next to her and listened quietly. Aurelia had lost all her steam, but she still spoke in a watery voice suggesting she was not done crying yet.
"I had a perfectly fine childhood, I had two loving parents who loved me, and they flew. Not like you of course, because normal people can't do that. But daddy liked planes. He had his own private one and took Mommy and myself on joy rides all the time! They loved me and I loved them and life was so happy.. one day.. I was feeling sick and asked not to go.. and they of course agreed to let me stay home.. I watched them take off.. and then.. as they were coming back.. they.. I.. " she took a deep breath, " I ran out to meet the plane, and as it touched the ground.. something.. something happened.. it.. the plane... I could see my parents waving at me, and then Daddy.. daddy looked down at his controls frowning.. something.. something horrible went wrong.. I don't know what happened.. but.. the the next thing I know.. the plane is a giant fireball on the ground.. all of my dreams, my whole life went up in those flames.." She ended in barely a whisper. Peter was shocked. Even he wouldn't like flying if something like that had happened!
"They tried to stick me in an orphanage but I ran away.. no one wanted me.. I was too bitter.. I wanted my parents.. not some stupid replacement.." her voice cracked and she couldn't continue.
Peter sighed. He wasn't sure how to react to this but decided to just.. try out something weird.
"I'm really sorry Lia.." he said quietly, not daring to look at her. "I guess these things just happen ya know? You shouldn't.. leave it up to…." Peter left off as Aurelia suddenly slumped against his shoulder. Peter started in surprise before looking down at her. Asleep. She was asleep. He sighed again.
"Gee whiz if your gonna go all ballistic you should at least have the decency to stay awake." He grumbled before picking her up and flying towards HangMan's Tree. He couldn't very well take her home, not knowing where that was, and he didn't trust the mermaids. Might as well take her to his home.
A few hours later Aurelia moaned and her eyes blearily opened. She saw a worried face hovering over hers and blinked again. Peter? What?
"You okay?" He asked, there seemed to be a hint of worry in his voice. She nodded and snuggled deeper into the bed she was currently occupying. Aurelia slowly recalled everything that had happened and bolted up again looking around her wildly.
"Man, I was worried!" Peter suddenly exclaimed, he was busily polishing up his dagger. Aurelia eyed him incredulously but decided to go along with it. Him acting was better than him being a rude inconsiderate jerk.
"Oh, um, sorry. I guess I kind of lost it back there." Aurelia said not daring to meet Peter's eyes, instead her eyes traveled over the expanse of.. where ever she was. Wasn't it getting a bit old for her not to know where she was? This was like the fourth time this week!
"Now where the bloody hell am I?!" She exclaimed outloud, angry at herself. Peter sat next to her on the bed and remained completely calm.
"My place. The Lost Boys live here too. You should have seen their faces when I brought you in here. I thought Tootles was gonna explode! They got really loud, though, and I didn't want them to wake you up so I sent them out." Aurelia blushed in embarrassment. She didn't mean to kick the lost boys out of their home.
"Oh, you didn't have to do that."
"It's okay, they were annoying me anyway." Peter responded carelessly randomly punching a pillow. They remained in a comfortable silence before Aurelia's curiosity got the best of her again.
"How long have I been out?"
"Since last night. We were gonna..." Peter was cut off by a loud grumbling sound. Swiftly, he pulled out his dagger.
"Um, Peter..." Aurelia started.
"Shhh! I think there's a bear here," he shushed her.
"No, Peter..." she tried again.
"Shhh!" he repeated waving his hand at her flippantly, as if that would quiet her down.
"Oh shush yourself! It's just my stomach! I'm hungry, okay?" she exploded. Honestly that boy was so difficult!!
"Oh. Want an apple?" he replied, quite unphased, handing her a red apple.
"Thanks," she answered slowly, before hungrily biting into it.
"You know, you're a really weird girl, but you're not that bad." Peter said. Aurelia nearly burst out laughing. Well if that wasn't the most random thing she had heard all week.
"Well, you're the first pantyhose-wearing, flying boy I've met so I don't know if you're weird, but you're not that bad either."
Aurelia quietly finished her apple and was fiddling with the core. Peter paced around the room, as if battling some internal conflict he was facing. The girl watched him with amused interest sparkling in her eyes. He finally seemed to come to a conclusion, spun around and faced her.
"Lia?"
"Hmmm?"
"I'm bored. Will you tell me a story?" He practically begged. Aurelia smiled.
"Sure, let me think of one."
"Make it a good one!" Aurelia had a sudden brilliant idea flash into her mind. This could be fun! Her smile turned mischievous.
"Ever heard of William Tell?"
"Nope."
"Okay, I'm gonna act this one out. Think you can help me?" Peter was nodding his head eagerly.
"Sure, what do I have to do?" He demanded.
"Stand right here with this apple core on your head."
"Oh-kay." He raised an eyebrow as he accepted the browning core and placing it on his head, where it balanced precariously. Aurelia picked up a sling shot, tossing it from hand to hand she began her story.
"Alright, now William Tell was excellent with a bow and arrow."
"Just like me!"
"No, better!"
"Yeah, sure."
"Anyway, he was once dared to shoot an apple off his son's head. So he did," and with that Aurelia aimed the slingshot in her hand, and fired a stone at the apple core on Peter's head. There was a pause before..
"Did he miss too?"
"No, Peter."
"Can I take this apple core off my head now?"
"Yes, Peter." She said exasperated.
"I liked Wendy's stories better. She never hit me with rocks."
"Well la-dee-da for her. She was missing out," Aurelia picked up the hook from Peter's mantle and inspected it. Peter looked at her, a strange expression on his face.
"Do you really want it back?" Peter asked taking Aurelia by surprise.
Considering it, but changing her mind, "No, you're right, you have more use for it." Peter smiled.
"Thanks, Lia."
"No prob, Bob."
"No, Lia, my name is Peter."
"Duh! I knew that," she playfully punched him.
"Oh really?" he punched her back lightly.
"Yep! I'm brilliant!" She exclaimed grinning.
"Really? So am I!" Peter responded.
"No you're not!" She retorted.
"Yes I am!"
"Are not!"
"Am too!"
"Are not!"
"Am too!"
"Are not!"
"Am too!"
"Are not!"
"Am too!"
"Are not!"
"Am too!"
"Oh give it up already!" Aurelia finally cried out.
"Never!" Peter shouted.
"You're so stubborn!"
"Yeah? So?" Aurelia didn't have an answer for that. Oh well! It was fun! She just laughed and collapsed back on the bed. Peter followed her example and lay down next to her.
"So, where do you stay when you're not collapsing on guys in a meadow?" He asked quietly. Aurelia laughed lightly. Peter wasn't so bad.
"Chatting with the mermaids, sunbathing, swimming, teaching the lost boys games, telling them stories.." She trailed off, "trying not to be killed by Indians or pirates." Peter grinned happily.
"Will you come here now and tell us all stories every once and a while? I'd like to hear stories about ogres or dragons.. " he said looking over at her. Aurelia smiled and nodded.
"Sure."
"Where do you live anyways?" He finally asked.
"Maybe I'll show you where it is some day.. but I won't tell you right now." She finally said with a grin. Suddenly they heard the sound of tinkling bells and a ball of yellow light flew over. Aurelia gazed up into the angry jealous face of a very pretty little fairy.
"Er.. hi?" She asked looking up at it before her brain decided to stop leaving her in the dark.
"OH! You're Tinkerbell!" She suddenly exclaimed. The little fairy glared at her angrily and then tugged on her hair.
"Ow! Bad ball of light! Get the bloody hell away from me!" Aurelia cried before swatting at it. Peter laughed.
"She's jealous!"
"She shouldn't be. I hated your guts up til today."
"Really?"
"yup."
".. so.. we're friends now right?"
"Sure."
With that Peter smiled gleefully before closing his eyes and falling asleep next to the fiery girl who was currently swatting away a very angry pixie.
Notes: That was like a totally horrible place to end it.. YIKES! But anyways Kristen is gone on this trip thingy.. so this is unedited so it may be very bad.. I'M SO SORRY!! I'm a horrible writer I really am! I saw the second movie for the second time in theaters today I adore it! I can't wait to see it again next week! Also.. Kristen is on a retreat.. so I may not get any other chapters done this weekend.. I may finish them and then send them all to her for inspection. I promise We'll finish around three this weekend! Don't worry! *smile* Keep reviewing! Everyone who reviews gets a girl scout cookie!