Kristen and My logic: 2 + 2 = Splork!!
Disclaimer: Moo!
Warning: mild cursing, mild violence..pickles
AND OOO I FORGOT IN THE LAST CHAPTER! When she taught the boys how to play football.. it wasn't American football! It's European football! Soccer!! But she's British.. so I thought I'd mention that! ^_^
"He's here to see you sir," a voice called in the middle of a seemingly empty room. There was one man standing within the shadows, staring at an empty spotlight that seemed to be focused on one area of the spotless floor. His wise eyes narrowed in thought. A bold boy sauntered up to the spotlight and stood in it fearlessly. His eyes bore into the old mans calmly, daring him to some unknown challenge.
"I know what you are going to ask and before you even start your argument, just answer my questions," the man growled. The boy nodded profusely.
"Do you believe that she will return?" he asked, he did not make it apparent who the 'she' was, but by the way the boy was reacting, it was quite obvious he know who the man was talking about.
"Doubtful, she does not wish to return, there is nothing waiting for her," was the response.
"And she does believe?" the man answered his face hardening.
"Affirmative. She's a very special girl."
"You WOULD think that, wouldn't you?" the man grumbled, yet his face softened as memories of the girl flitted before his eyes like mischievous tricks of the light he could not quite catch onto.
"Permission to Jax's request has been granted, you take full responsibility for this now boy," the boy's face lit up, his eyes glinting in the light.
"Thank you sir," he started, with an evil little smile, " Aurelia shall have quite the surprise when she returns home," he said before laughing.
"Lia? You're sure you're okay now?" One of the twins asked, she rolled her eyes, picked the boy up and threw him into the air. He squealed in delight.
"POSITIVE! If any of you ask me that again I shall tickle you until you explode!" Aurelia declared as she caught the twin and put him gently on the ground. She smiled at them all.
"For heavens sake I'm FINE! Trust me boys!" she exclaimed throwing her hands up in the air and falling backwards on the bed.
"You'd think I had gotten chicken pox or something,"
the boys had returned to the hideout to find Peter and Aurelia sleeping together. She was curled up next to his body heat, Peter had his head thrown back, his mouth gaping open with drool running down the corner of his mouth and was snoring softly. Luckily his head was turned the other way, so he didn't drool all over Aurelia's rich auburn hair. Tinkerbell had been in her room, but it appeared that she couldn't get out. Aurelia sheepishly explained that the fairy had annoyed her so much that she threw her into that room before grabbing a piece of cloth and tacking it to the front. The cloth had been stretched and thus created a trampoline affect whenever Tinkerbell tried to run through it. Aurelia had fallen asleep to the sounds of a BOING…THUNK! BOING…. THUNK! And some very angry sounding bells through out the entire ordeal.
When the lost boys returned, Tinkerbell had been released, and was now sulking in the corner, her light a very fiery red. If looks could kill Aurelia would have dropped dead many, many times. Peter had laughed when he found out about the cloth, and threatened to use it again if Tinkerbell's temper got the better of her again. Tinkerbell was not a very happy girl when she heard him say that. In fact she had let out a stream of curses that made Peter, the only one who could understand her, blush heavily, especially when Aurelia asked what Tinkerbell was saying.
Speaking of Peter, he hadn't told anyone about what had happened before Aurelia feel unconscious. He had instead opted to tell them that he was giving a tour of the Island and she suddenly felt ill. It wasn't exactly a lie par say, but it was stretching the truth quite a bit. No one had to know the truth though. After he said that he looked over to Aurelia, who was looking quite pale, and smiled at her. One of those heart fluttering, all knowing smiles that yesterday Aurelia would have loved to wipe off his face using a nice cream pie. Today though, it was almost cute in a, "you conceited arrogant boy, I wish you'd just trip and fall on your rear to show you aren't all high and mighty and perfect" kind of way.
Much later that night Aurelia was nodding off and yawning. The boys had begun to play different games. The Twins were playing checkers; Tootles was asleep; Cubbie, Slightly, Nibs and Peter were playing charades. She stretched before standing up.
"Well you chaps, I best be off before I spend another night here, and I think I've worn out my welcome! I shall see you all in the morning! Or afternoon. Goodnight boys!" she called before pausing, " and goodnight Tinkerbell, I apologize for my rude behavior."
Aurelia didn't give them a chance to protest her leaving, grab her arms and tie her to a chair. She ran up the stairs, through the forest as quickly as possible, to the bush and crawled through to her wonderful cave. Aurelia quickly lit a lamp, and had a bite to eat before yawning again. Suddenly her muscles tensed. The hairs on the back of her neck raised and her fingers twitched in anticipation of spinning around and beating who ever dared. Someone was in here with her. Her fingers twitched in anticipation to spin around and punch the person who had intruded into her cave. It wasn't Peter or the lost boys, or a mermaid. The mermaids never visited at this time, and the boys didn't know where she lived. She was positive it wasn't a pirate or she would have seen him.
"Whose there?!" she cried spinning around to glare around the room blindly. She lit the two other lamps in the room. It was empty. Aurelia shivered, and it wasn't from the cold. She took one more cautious look around the room before she slowly blew out two of her lanterns, and hung the third by her bed. She would feel much safer with it there until who ever was in the room decided to show him or herself. Aurelia slowly crawled into bed and pulled up the covers to her chest. Her knees bent and suddenly.
POP!! A small silver glowing ball of light appeared on her knees.
"JAX THE GREAT IS HERE!" the fairy cried, punching his fist in the air. Aurelia screamed and smacked the fairy across the room. Jax was thrown against the wall and landed with a sickening crunch. He moaned.
"Is that any way to treat your assigned fairy?" he grumbled, slowly standing up. He checked for any permanent damage for his intimate moment with the wall before flying back over to his charge. He slowly landed on her knees again and she stared at him curiously.
"Its your own fault you know, you shouldn't have frightened me so!" she exclaimed before pausing, "What are you doing here in the first place?" Jax straightened out importantly before crossing his legs Indian style and sitting precariously upon her kneecap. He grinned. Aurelia took this time to see what the fairy looked like.
He had on a silver shirt and black pants that stopped at his small green slippers, his gossamer wings seemed to sparkle in a bluish silver tint. He had a shock of black hair, and dark green eyes. Jax was a very handsome fairy indeed. She imagined a small blond fairy with a ponytail standing next to him and giggled at the thought of what a handsome couple they would make. Her glow being so golden, like the sun, and his glow being so silver, like the moon.
"Why Lia! I'm you're fairy! My name is Jax. I know that you know that each baby is assigned a fairy," he started.
"But that was stopped because so many of you were dying, and what am I going to do with a fairy? I don't WANT a pixie!" she intervened, Jax waved his hand impatiently at her.
"Quiet you!" he exclaimed before continuing, "I have watched you from Neverland silly girl, far away from any kind of idea of disbelief you could get in that crazy head of yours, but now that you're here, I'm allowed to show myself to you. I got special permission from Lysander. Isn't it great? … do you think my entrance speech was a little much? Jax the great has a strange ring to it, how about 'presenting the almighty, the powerful, the wonderful…Jax!' or is that also too much? How about 'and heeeerreee comes Jax!' no, no that sounds too much like those game shows you humans watch," he muttered to himself. Aurelia blinked.
"Can we work on your introduction a bit later? I've had a hard day," she said with a sigh, flinching at the memory of her crazed outbursts.
"Ah yes, so Peter knows of your past. It's a good thing that you told someone Lia, I'm proud of you." Jax tenderly said, giving her knee a pat.
"Hey," she paused, "how come I can understand you, but Tinkerbell only sounds like a bunch of chimes? And Lysander? The Lysander? He still exists? The head honcho of the fairies?" Jax shrugged nonchalantly.
"Well, you can understand me because I'm you're fairy You can't understand Tinkerbell because she is Peter's fairy, only the assigned child can actually understand what the fairy is saying. And let me tell you sometimes when I'm trying to communicate with people and they just don't play charades so well…" he trailed off, forgetting the question entirely before shaking his head to rid himself of those distracting thoughts, "yes right, and of course it's the same Lysander. Fairies only die with the children's words of disbelief. So if you say anything about not believing in me I may have to hurt you."
"How could you hurt me if you're already dead?" she asked a small smirk on her face. Jax glared at her and flew up to her face, poking her nose.
"Be NICE!" he roared. It wasn't that loud b but Aurelia still flinched.
"BUT I DON'T WANT A PIXIE!" she bellowed back, Jax cowered on her shoulder and started sniffling.
"I worked so hard just so I could be visible for you, so I could keep you company when you were lonely. I know you better than anyone Lia, I watched over you ever since you were born," he whimpered, his nose sniffling very once an a while, he gathered some of her shirt and blew his nose. Aurelia flinched.
"Alright Alright" she grumbled, "you can stay around," Jax grinned happily jumped up and threw his arms around her neck. Or tried to.
"You won't regret it Lia!! I'll be the best companion ever! Just you watch!" he shouted.
"Now if you don't mind, I'd like to go to bed," she mumbled. Jax nodded happily and Aurelia moaned before slowly getting out of bed and grabbing one of the bottles, she emptied the water out, grabbed Jax in her hands and tried to shove him in there.
"HEY! What're you doing?!" he shouted. She shrugged.
"We're going to pretend you're a genie. " Aurelia explained before she finally got him into the bottle and set it on her shelf. She was just spinning around when the jar exploded and she barely had time to cover her head.
"ACK! You destroyed one of my bottles!" she cried out spinning around and seeing Jax hovering in the air whistling innocently.
"Bottle? What bottle? I didn't destroy any thing! And I'm not a genie! Have you ever met a genie? They are probably the most arrogant self-centered shallow people ever! I knew a nice one, though. The poor man was claustrophobic, I believe his mother put him into the wrong kind of work. He did come from a rather poor family of genies if you can imagine that. He always made his lamp easy to find just so he could get out again. Poor man…" Jax trailed off tapping his chin thoughtfully. Aurelia rolled her eyes.
"I would get the pixie with the shortest attention span ever." she muttered. Jax obviously hadn't heard her, he was still going on about his genie friend. Aurelia got up and picked up a lantern.
"...so then he put his lamp in the jungles. Have you ever heard of a lamp in the jungles? The jungle is a nice area though…"
Aurelia threw the candle over her shoulder and slowly washed out the lantern, blinking away sleep. Man she was tired. Her head was nodding while she was drying the lantern, before she noticed that she had kept it half in the water, so she would just get the end she wasn't drying soaked again. This was bloody annoying!
"...and then I told that toucan that he could keep his colorful beak, he wasn't really worth my time..."
She haggardly stood up and stumbled over to the 'sewing' corner. She picked out a few random scraps of cloth and shoved them into the lantern. A fairy could sleep in it if she tipped it over right? It looked like a good area. Of course, if it had been filled with spikes it would have looked good at that point in time.
" and who would ever think that you would ever want to go snowboarding on a pickle, it's the most absurd thing ever! Although when I tried it…"
Aurelia grabbed the yapping fairy blearily and shoved him into the lantern.
"Sleep." she ordered before blowing out the candle and collapsing onto her bed, within a deep sleep before her head touched the pillow.
The next morning the small fairy woke up to find himself in a lantern. He flew out of it and looked around to see his charge sitting on the edge of the water enjoying a banana. Jax quietly tried to fly over, and just as he was about to zap her with a shock to see her fall into the water in surprise…
"Hey pixie... are you water proof?" she asked. Jax yelled out in surprise and his wings gave way from shock and he fell into the water.
"That answers that question." Aurelia murmured as she scooped him out.
"My name is Jax! J-A-X Jax! Say it with me now: Jax, Jax, Jax, your turn," he said after he had finished sputtering and coughing up water.
"Ajax." she said with a malicious little grin. His glow turned a dark maroon color and Aurelia laughed.
"Calm down Jax I was just kidding with you. So obviously you're waterproof. By the way, I was wondering, how did you destroy my jar?"
"It was an accident! It'll never, ever happen again, Lia. I promise."
"Well, alright, if you promise, I...hey! Uncross your fingers!" Jax laughed gaily.
"So how did you do it exactly? I'm curious." She said after a moment.
"Simple, that's one of my powers."
"Really? And here I thought all of you fairies just had a bad experience in the glitter aisle in an arts and crafts store."
"HEY! I can do the sparkly thing too, but it doesn't quite work with my manly man image."
"Oh of course. Everyone who sees a guy in black panty hose with silver wings is always going to think he's a manly man. Hey, maybe that should be your introduction, 'I am...MANLY MAN JAX!'" she finished with a cry and punched her fist into the air dramatically before laughing.
"Come on pixie, I'd like to introduce you to my mermaid friends."
"Oh good, I was so hoping to meet that blond one. I always did prefer blondes."
"Of course I'd get the flirt for a fairy." she grumbled before diving into the water and swimming to the lagoon.
"Attention all mermaids!" Aurelia cried in a loud voice, "I'd like you all to meet someone."
As they all crowded toward her, Jax took his cue, bursting into the air near Aurelia's ear, he announced, "I am Jax! Manly man, Jax!"
"Oww! Not so loud, pixie!" Aurelia attempted to swat him away, "I can't believe he actually used that introduction."
Suddenly, sounds of bells were apparent. A yellow green light illuminated the foliage behind Aurelia and Jax. Jax gave out a low whistle as the light came closer into focus.
"Well there's a pretty package."
"Close your mouth pixie, you're drooling." Aurelia hissed
Aurelia attempted to swat him away a second time, this time succeeding. "Sexist pig," she muttered, "Every time a dress comes along they have to make some derogatory noise and/or comment." Tinkerbell nodded slightly in agreement with this statement but discreetly, so Aurelia wouldn't get any weird ideas of them being friends. As far as Tinkerbell was concerned, Aurelia was competition and the enemy.
"Don't worry, Tinkerbell. Jax won't be making crude comments anymore," she shot him a look that plainly said, "Watch your mouth buster." Jax glared at her reproachfully but thankfully kept his mouth shut.
"Tink such a mouth! Gee!" Peter's voice was heard through the thick woods.
"Why, hello girls," Peter approached mermaid lagoon, for, as you know, where there's Tinkerbell, Peter's never far behind.
"Oh, Peter!" was the general response from the mermaids.
"Oh, Peter!" Aurelia mimicked, a bit too dramatically, feigning a faint into the water below her.
Tinkerbell, outraged by Aurelia's incomprehensible lack of Peter-adoration, flew over to her swiftly, latched on to a hunk of her hair, and pulled with all of her might.
"Ow!" Aurelia screeched. "Oh, that's it, pixie! I've had it with you!" she reached out and grabbed Tinkerbell tightly in her fist, grinning maliciously.
"Oh, Peter," she began sweetly, "can you tell me something? Is your pixie waterproof?"
"C'mon pix, you and I are going to have a little chat," Aurelia dove into the water with Tinkerbell still grasped in her fist.
"That's it! I am officially starting the We Are Not Genies - Don't Abuse Us Pixie Union. I will be acting as president, vice president, secretary, treasurer..." Jax trailed off. NO one was listening to him. The mermaids' eyes were wide with shock. What on earth was Aurelia doing? Peter glared before diving into the water after her. He saw her swimming towards a cave and he quickly grabbed her ankle. Aurelia twisted to face him and she squirmed to get out of his grip.
Smirking at his apparent victory, as she could not get out of his grasp, Peter suddenly gulped a large quantity of water as her free foot was plunged into that place where the sun don't shine. His eyes rolled to the back of his head and he began to slowly sink.
"Oh, jeez, this is all I need!" she said to herself, "You are one lucky pixie, you know that?" Aurelia dove deeper down to catch hold of Peter before he drowned himself.
Her lungs were starting to burn but she swam through the tunnel and dragged Peter out of the water. She made sure he was still breathing. He was, so she decided to take these few precious moments when Peter was so incapacitated that he couldn't speak, to berate Tinkerbell.
"Now look you pathetic excuse of a very sparkly candle, tug my hair again or do anything that even remotely annoys me, and I will make sure you don't annoy me… permanently. " the angered girl hissed in barely controlled rage. Tinkerbell shuddered at the sound and felt very frightened of the girl. Aurelia paused and her face softened considerably. She let Tinkerbell out of her steel vice grip and let her hover in the air.
"TinkerBell, I'm tried being nice to you. What more do you want? I want to be your friend, and I want to be Peter's friend, and I have no intention of taking him away from you as you obviously think-"
"Aha! So here are where the lovely lasses are hiding." Jax waltzed in the room casually and Aurelia sighed. Tinkerbell started before she quickly flew over to Jax.
"Good day Miss Bell," he said cheerily, giving her a low bow.
"Flirt," Aurelia thought to herself as she smiled. Tinkerbell began to yell at him although Aurelia could only understand what was going on through Jax's responses. It didn't seem that interesting so far. Although, Aurelia learned a very valuable lesson, when a fairy is one who is easily distracted, it makes eavesdropping difficult. She eventually gave up when he began to talk about a zebra. Even Tinkerbell seemed to be getting annoyed with him, although there was a small glint of interest marked on her pretty face. Jax's face was glowing in content, of course, he was a fairy, and thus, his entire body was technically glowing. Tinkerbell blushed under his constant approving gaze. Aurelia was not in the mood to play matchmaker to fairies.
"Besides, " she thought, "if there are fairies, there should be cupids, so I'd be depriving some poor archer out of a job. " This did not help in Aurelia's growing boredom. She finally looked at Peter. An unconscious boy was not a very good source of entertainment. Aurelia sighed before she rolled him over onto one of her nice furs.
"You'd think he'd have a few more brains than to grab my ankle." she muttered. Peter started to stir and slowly his eyes blearily opened.
"Where am I?" he asked groggily.
"Well Peter, you finally get to see my home." Aurelia answered, dramatically sweeping her arm around the room.
Notes: DUDE! I found the coolest thing in my garage.. I have a Peter Pan Board game! But it's not the Disney Peter Pan.. It's based off the Original.. Peter baby looks like a real elf.. not a cute boy with pointy ears and green panty hose except.. I kinda lost the little Wendy playing piece.. so I took my McDonalds toy of Jane and she's officially in the story. ^_^ Its such a cool board game! I may have to take a picture and stick it online for all to see.. (I may even have to learn how to play it)Did you know they have a Peter Pan desktop theme? I found two of them.. I have the most awesome Peter Pan theme now.. *laughs* Sorry this was out kinda late.. these weeks have been extremely busy for us.. Total suckage. We're trying! I wrote the first half in a couple'o'hours on Tuesday night. YIKES! Welp.. I'll see ya next time on.. GEL'S AMAZING AUTHORS NOTES! (theme music plays) dum de dum dum dooo!