Authors Note: ^.^ I lurv you guys. I lurv the reviews! Thanx so much for reading. Hope you enjoy this chapter. And sorry for the whole alligator/crocodile thing, I fixed it in this chapter. ^_^ I'm blonde so give me a chance here. ::waves to Morgan:: ^_^
Chapter SevenLeaving Wendy again that night was probably the toughest thing I had ever encountered. I stood lightly on the windowsill, looking down at the angel I had grown to love.
"You know that I won't be returning, right?" I said with sadness.
"Yes, I know," Wendy sighed, but forced a smile amongst her fragile face. I smoothly stroked her cheek and pressed my lips against her forehead. A tear fell from Wendy's eye, but she still smiled. "Knowing Peter Pan was the greatest adventure I shall ever come upon,"
"I will never forget you, Wendy Darling," after saying this I flew backwards out the window and into the night sky. Wendy ran out on her balcony to watch me leave, knowing that this time, she would never see me again.
Flying back the Neverland made my heart slightly jump with joy. Two days away from my home seemed like 2 years, but in reality I knew it would have been 2 months. See, in Neverland, time was different from that on earth. One day on earth equals to one month on Neverland.
As I flew, I thought about Robyn, and I wondered how she was doing with the boys. At that point and time, I honestly didn't want to deal with another girl. Think about it; I had just lost the love of my life, and now I had to go back home and deal with another girl, with the fear of possibly falling in love with her. Or, worst yet, becoming too close with her and then her deciding to leave me, just like Wendy did. I didn't like the thought, and I quickly replaced it with something happier so I wouldn't fall.
It didn't take that long to get to Neverland. And when I did, the sun rose high above the clouds, and a warm, light breeze lifted me towards the island. Whenever I would leave Neverland, the season totally changed from nice and warm to chilly and dark. I basically was Neverland, everything that I thought or felt or believed would somehow correspond with the beautiful island. Everyone would always know my mood, which in a way wasn't so bad. If I were really upset, it would start to rain. If I were really happy, then the sun would shine brightly. If I were pissed off, it would thunder, and then everyone would know to leave me alone.
As I flew above the clear, ocean water, the mermaids swam underneath of me, flirting with me with they're eyes. Mermaids truly were beautiful, but mystical creatures. It felt good to know that someone other than Wendy loved me.
As soon as I stepped foot on the sandbanks of the island, three of the lost boys came darting out of the trees with bow and arrows in hand. They stopped when they saw me.
"Peter!" all three said in unison, and plastered smiles on they're dirty faces.
"Hello boys," I said back as I stood tall in front of them.
"Where did you wonder off to this time?" Tootles asked, his chubby cheeks a rosy pink color.
"Where do you think?" I said back with a smirk. All the boys looked at each other and said, "Wendy," at the same time. I laughed and threw my head back with a crow. The boys tried to imitate, but none could do it like I could. A large snapping of a twig was heard over in the trees, and the boys stopped they're crowing instantly. They raised they're bows up with a sharp arrow in each one, pointing at the trees carefully.
"What are you hunting?" I asked in a whisper and knelt down besides them. None of them answered, but instead looked at each other with worried expressions. "Well?" I urged.
"Uh, you see, Mr. Peter sir," Curly started. I knew it was bad, because they only called me Mr. Peter if they did something wrong. "We didn't like Robyn very much,"
"What did you do?" I said with disappointment.
"We banished her from the lost boys," Hawky answered quietly, and looked away from me, shame in his eyes.
"You what?! Why?!" I stood up and pushed all three of them down hard to ground. "Why would you do that without my permission!" I drew my knife from my pocket and stalked towards the boys, who were now crawling on the ground away from me.
"She was mean! She tried to take over!" Tootles whined and started crying.
"That doesn't give you any right!" I continued walking to them, my hand sweaty against the knife handle.
"She said that she would be in charge and we would have to listen to her from now on!" Hawky cried as he gazed upon me with fear. I stopped.
"She said what?" I asked more calmly, but still mad none the less.
"Robyn said that she was the leader," Curly answered. The boys squinted they're eyes shut, as if I were to strike each one of them then and there.
"Where is she," I said in more of a statement than a question. None of them answered. "Tell me now or I shall feed each one of your hands to the crocodile!" I yelled, and the boys shuddered. A dark cloud flew overhead.
"We don't know we don't know!" they said in fear and curled up together, crying hysterically. I was mad. I was mad that the boys would go behind my back and banish someone without they're leaders permission. I thought that I could trust them, but I guess I was wrong.
"Go back to the house, now," I growled at them. Instantly the boys got up and darted into the trees out of sight. I kicked a stone across the beach and threw myself on the ground, huffing loudly.
"This is not the best welcome back party," I said out loud to myself. Now I had another thing to worry about. Robyn was an amateur on this island, and she knew nothing about it. Well, maybe she did, considering it had been two months already. But what if Hook caught her and she didn't know how to defend herself? What if she was in the jungle right now, starving to death because she didn't know how to hunt? How could the lost boys do this to me!
I decided to confront the boys about it before going off to search for Robyn. But the whole thing would have to wait until morning. Going to and from Neverland always made me sleepy, and I really did need some rest.
I couldn't seem to find any major happy thoughts at the moment, so I carelessly walked through the trees to the house. Usually I was always on alarm of my surroundings, but at the time I didn't feel like being careful, which was a weird and different feeling for me.
I gave each of the boys' very dirty looks as I passed them to lie in my bed. They could tell I was disappointed with them, and none of them liked it when I was mad. Like I had said earlier, we were all like brothers, they really did love me like one.
Snuggling on my soft, bear skinned bed always made me happy, regardless of what my current mood was. I closed my tired eyes and sighed loudly. Maybe getting mad at the boys wasn't necessary. I mean, they did say that Robyn wanted to be the leader, but why would she do that? Did she think that since I had left without notice that I had left her in charge while I was gone? I could expect her being mad, considering I left her with 15 little boys and no knowledge of the island whatsoever, but her thinking she was the leader was the stupidest thing I ever heard. None of the lost boys are that stupid, so maybe she wasn't cut out for this.
'I owe her another chance,' I thought to myself. I knew I had to find Robyn, no matter what she had tried to do while I was gone. And that was the first thing to do on my list for whenever I decided to wake up.