DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ANY CHARACTERS OR ANYTHING ELSE TO DO WITH SEAQUEST, HOOK OR PETER PAN. THIS STORY IS NON PROFITABLE AND IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOUSES ONLY.

HI EVERYONE! THIS IS MY FIRST STORY SO I HOPE YOU LIKE IT. PLEASE R & R, I'D LOVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK.

STORY ISN'T SET IN ANY PARTICULAR SEASON, SO CHARACTERS ARE A BIT MIXED. IT ISN'T NECESSARY TO KNOW THE PETER PAN / HOOK STORIES TO READ THIS, ALL IS EXPLAINED.

The tiny fairy flew across the water as fast as she could. She was picking- up the strongest feelings of pain and loneliness she had felt in a long time - a lost boy. A boy who was unhappy and needed her help, who she would take back to Never Land, her home. That's what she did - help boys who were lost in the world by taking them to her world to live with others like themselves, where they could be happy again. Unfortunately she couldn't tell where the feelings were coming from, and she had run out of time to look. Morning was coming and without the stars to guide her, she wouldn't be able to find her way home. It was time to leave. She would come back again soon, and would always make sure to fly the same way until she either found the boy or made sure he was happy and didn't need her.

* * * ONE YEAR LATER

Her wings flapped frantically as she fritted about above the land. She had been up all night looking for lost boys, but thankfully that night it seemed everyone was happy and so she began her journey back. She flew low past the dock, which she noticed had a large crowd gathered on it, and was highly decorated with balloons and banners reading "happy anniversary" and "welcome home". The people were setting up tables with bottles of champagne and candles on them so that they could see through the dark night. She continued to fly far across the sea, and was about to head upwards into the sky when she was overcome with a feeling of pain and loneliness. But this wasn't just any feeling; it was the same feeling that she had gotten exactly one year ago. The signals she was getting this time were nowhere near as strong, but there was no mistaking it - it was the same boy. She watched the water carefully looking for signs of life, and was surprised when she didn't see a person, but in fact a huge object coming towards the surface. She looked on, confused, as it cruised the surface slowly in the direction of the docks. Too big to be an animal she thought, but then that only left a ship of some sort - nothing else could travel in water like that. She realized that this ship was where the feelings were coming from, and suddenly she knew why. Only one type of people had ships that big.pirates. She had thought that pirates only existed in Never Land, but this was the only explanation she could think of for such a strange looking ship. If she was right, then the boy was in more trouble than she had first thought, and it was time for her to put an end to it. The fairy shot forward like a shooting star, leaving a trail of gold dust behind her. When she reached the top of the ship she began to check it for some kind of entrance. She didn't have time to wait for it to reach the docks, and she couldn't be sure it was even going there anyway. It could easily just disappear under the water again. She was going in.

* * *

Lucas was sitting on the side of the moonpool with one hand circling the surface of the water in a lame attempt to play with Darwin. He had so much on his mind at the moment that he had almost gone into a trance, and didn't realize that someone was actually standing behind him. He felt a hand on his back, bringing him back to reality and making him jump so much that if the person behind hadn't reached out to catch him he would have fallen straight into the pool. He quickly righted himself and looked-up to see the Captain staring at him with a confused look on his face.

"Sorry.I thought you heard me coming."

"Not exactly."

"So you wanna tell me what's going on?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"I mean you've been in here on your own nearly all day, you were a million miles away when I came in and you were supposed to meet Dr. Westphalen in the labs to clear up the equipment half-an-hour ago."

"Sorry, I guess I forgot. I'll go down there now."

He started to head for the door but Bridger put out a hand to stop him.

"Not so fast kiddo. Now I know something's not right with you, but I also know that no matter how much I ask you're not gonna tell me."

"So."

"So that's it. I'm not going to hassle you because I know I'm fighting a lost battle. What I am going to say is try to enjoy yourself. This is supposed to be a celebration you know! A whole year at sea - the maiden voyage of the best ship in the ocean. Besides, I thought you'd be happy to be going home and seeing your parents again."

This made the boy smile.

"Yeah, I am."

"Good. Now, go help tidy-up the labs then come down to the mess and enjoy the party.that's an order."

He smiled at Lucas and left the room. Darwin swam up to the surface.

"Lucas lie."

"Yeah, well sometimes it's the best thing to do."

"Darwin not understand."

"There's no point ditching your problems on other people when you don't have to."

At that he grabbed his hoody and pulled it on before making his way towards the exit, but as he neared the doors he heard a scraping noise and a crash behind him. He turned around to see that on of the diving packs had fallen off the wall. He figured someone hadn't hung it up properly, and went to put it back. When he turned to leave again he noticed the doors were shut. He pushed the button for the doors to open but was surprised when they didn't. He tried again but still nothing happened. Deciding it must be one of the crew playing him up he called through to the other side. When no response came back he tried to manually force the doors open but found they still wouldn't move. Eventually giving up he slammed his hands into the doors and spun around to face the room again, leaning back against the doors in defeat. Now he was going to get another lecture from Bridger about not turning up at the labs again, and he was going to miss the party - which he was actually looking forward to. His thoughts of the party were cut short though by the sound of the cover closing over the moonpool, and a low humming noise that he hadn't heard before.

"Who is that?"

He couldn't see anyone in the room, but moonpools don't close themselves and the doors to this room were never locked - even at night. Lucas knew there would be a perfectly logical explanation for what was happening, he just didn't know what it was yet. The humming sound seemed to be changing directions rapidly, so Lucas couldn't see where it was coming from. His eyes scanned the room looking for answers, but found none. Things were starting to get scary now, so he decided it was a good time to try the doors again. The lights flashed.went out. Even the lights on the computers and equipment had disappeared. The only light that could be seen was a small, bright glow moving slowly towards him. The humming had turned into more of a flapping noise, and Lucas could now see why. Hovering in front of his face was what could only be described as a fairy - but fairies don't exist.do they? He leaned in to take a closer look at the thing in front of him. Yes, he had been right with his first guess. It looked human, well except for the glowing, the wings and the overall size of it. The little fairy must have been no bigger than his hand. He also noticed that in a way it kinda reminded him of Hitchcock - bright blue eyes and about the same age, although the hair was totally different and you'd never catch Hitchcock in a dress that short.

This had to be Ben's doing. He couldn't imagine Ben leaving the sub without one last prank; after all, it was a special occasion. He had expected the man to try something a bit more extreme than a hologram though, this wasn't his usual style and he must have realized Lucas would've worked it out being computer related. Lucas put out a hand to test his theory, expecting it to pass right through the fairy. He was surprised to find that it didn't and he ended-up pushing it backwards to which it retaliated by kicking his hand. He was about to come back at it with a nasty comment but stopped when he realized what had just happened, and that this "fairy" might actually be a fairy.

She had to laugh when she saw the expression on his face. It was one she had seen many times before with other children, but she still found it funny.

"Yes I'm a fairy, yes we do exist and just incase you were wondering, my name's Tinkerbell. What's yours?"

"No way." was the only response she managed to get out of him, he was too stunned to even think about answering the question. In fact, he had been so entranced in the fact that the thing was talking at all that he hadn't even registered a question had been asked.

"Strange name - not something I'd want to be called, but."

"Lucas." He came out of his little daze and cut her off mid-sentence.

"Now that's more like it, easier to say."

"Yeah? Well you haven't heard my surname."

Lucas couldn't believe what he had just done. Was he actually making conversation with this thing?

"So you think I won't handle it? Try me."

Now he knew he was going crazy. He had just been challenged by a fairy and he was actually going to respond to it.

"Wolenczak."

"You win. Let's just stick to Lucas. Anyway, we'd better get going."

"What do you mean? Going where?"

"Never Never Land of course! Trust me you'll like it."

Lucas didn't like the sound of this. Whoever heard of a place called Never Land?! Well, wherever it was it definitely wasn't on the sub.

"I'm fine here thanks. Actually I should be going. There's somewhere I'm meant to be right now and the Captain'll kill me when he finds out I'm not there, so would you mind unlocking the doors."

"Hey, you're not going anywhere except with me."

"But either way, you still need to unlock the doors.right?"

"Wrong. What's the point in unlocking the doors when we're going out through there?" She pointed up towards the ceiling hatch, which Lucas now noticed was completely open. "Well, off we go, times running out."

She flew down to him, grabbed his sleeve and began to drag him towards the back wall. OK, now he was convinced - it did exist, it was real and it was unfortunately stronger than him. Lucas tried to shake her off but she wouldn't let go. He knew that he wasn't particularly strong anyway, but this was getting ridiculous - he was being outdone by a bug! She had dragged him almost to the back wall now, which had taken a lot longer than she had expected because of the resistance he was putting up. Usually they just came with her voluntarily, but this one was going as far as to dig his heels into the metal grate floor as hard as he could to try and stop her. Lucas knew he wasn't tall enough to reach the hatch anyway, so he wasn't worried about having to go anywhere with her, but he still thought that now would be a good time to put an end to this.

"Hey! Will you get off already?!"

She didn't pay any attention to him, and continued to drag him even to the point where he was sure he felt his feet actually leave the floor.

"Holy.shit." were the only words that he could get out now. That was it, he'd had enough. He pulled himself away as hard as he could, sending the unexpecting fairy off balance. She swung around fast, letting him go and inadvertently throwing him into the back wall. He smashed head first into it making the little fairy cringe.

"Sorry!" She said as he grabbed his head, half dazed and not really knowing what was going on. When he pulled his hand back he could just about make out a red patch which he guessed was blood, although he couldn't trust his eyes at the moment as he found himself seeing three moonpools and about ten fairies.

"I don't know why you're fighting me but I only want to help. You'll just have to trust me."

The next thing he knew he was on his back on the floor. The fairy had actually grabbed his ankle and pulled his feet out from under him. Lucas was still dizzy from his little encounter with the wall, and was in no state to try and put up a fight now. She grabbed the bottom of his trouser leg, which she noticed was falling apart and soaking wet from being scuffed along the wet grated floors of the moonpool. Bridger was always moaning about the state of his wardrobe and the fact that these were the shortest and smartest pair of jeans he owned and they still dragged on the floor covering most of his shoes. He liked to wear baggy, skater style jeans because it was handy for getting him out of UEO functions and official meetings. The fact that it really annoyed Bridger was just an added bonus.

The fairy now flew upwards still holding his trouser leg so that he found himself hanging upside down in mid-air. He had had trouble standing-up straight after that head injury, but being upside down completely threw his senses and he finally lost his battle with both the fairy and consciousness.

TBC.