Disclaimer: Peter Pan and all the characters, places, etc. contained therein belong to somebody who isn't me. You guys all belong to yourselves. The rest is mine, muahahaha!

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The rating's been upped to PG just to be extremely safe.

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Okay guys, here we go!

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It's at this precise moment that Anna sleepily stumbles back into the attic from a trip to the bathroom. Her shoulder-length brown hair is rumpled and pieces of it stick out randomly. "Why are you guys at the windo- oh!" she cries, awake in an instant. She rushes to Gracie's side.

"Hi Anna," Peter says.

"Oh!" Anna gasps, staring at Peter. "Oh!"

Gracie gently nudges her in the ribs.

"I knew it," Anna finally says, placing a hand over her heart. "I've always believed in you!"

Kaela stirs in her bed but doesn't wake.

"Won't you come in?" Gracie says, stepping back from the window to make space. Peter lands lightly on the wooden floor.

"He's really here!" Madeline says, ecstatic.

Raven rolls over in bed, half-asleep but disturbed by the voices. "Be quiet," she moans, keeping her eyes tightly shut. "I don't care if you psychos wanna stay up all night but I've gotta wake up at dawn to clean the orphanage. Shut up!" She puts her pillow over her head.

Peter motions the girls to keep quiet than tiptoes over to Raven's bed. He leans down and whispers something under the pillow to quietly for any of the others to hear. "Michelle?" he whispers. "It's me."

After a stunned silence Raven cautiously removes the pillow and looks into Peter's face. She gasps and sits up in bed. "You came!"

"Who came?" Nora asks from the next bunk, blearily rubbing her eyes. "Oh great, Raven's finally lost it- ah! Oh. My. Goodness. Oh my goodness!"

"Keep your voice down," Gracie says in a rush. "We can't risk waking Matron."

Nora nods in understanding and gets to her feet as quietly as possible. Matron Hallis is in charge of the orphanage. None of the girls understand why she chose this job; Matron, as she's called, hates youth in all its forms and actually locked Gracie in the cellar without supper for a night when she discovered that the girl was telling stories about Peter Pan.

Madeline runs to Kaela's bunk and begins shaking her. "Peter's here!" she cries as quietly as she can. "Wake up!"

"Huh…wha…Madeline?"

"Peter Pan!" Madeline repeats.

Once Kaela realizes what the girl is saying she reaches over to the next bed and carefully pokes Katrina in the stomach. Kaela deftly catches the flying shoe midair then smacks her friend completely awake with it. "Hey, Kat! Guess who?"

"Who?" Katrina asks, putting her shoe back on.

"Me!" Peter says cheerfully.

"Peter!" Katrina and Kaela each scramble out of bed excitedly. "Oh, this is gonna be so much fun, I can hardly wait!"

"Let's go, what are we waiting for?" Kaela asks. "Katrina, it's our pact! It's finally coming true!

Anna has woken up Charlie, who stares at Peter in admiration. "Good thing I know how to use a sword, I have a feeling it's going to come in handy," she whispers into Anna's ear. "Our lives just got a lot more interesting."

Peter somehow manages to quiet the general buzz of excited orphans and begins to speak. "Are you ready?"

"For what?" they chorus.

"To come to Neverland," he says as if it's the most obvious thing in the world. He's probably right. "The lost boys can't wait to meet you and hear all your new stories. Won't you come?"

Gracie and Anna nod vigorously. "We're ready!"

"Let's go!"

"Wait!" Madeline says. The girls turn to look at her questioningly. She runs and grabs her teddy bear, hugging him tight. "Okay, now I'm ready!" she proclaims with a smile.

"Great! Follow me," Peter says, striding towards the window. "You girls'll love flying!"

"Peter, the pixie dust," Charlie points out.

Peter freezes mid-step. "That's right!" He turns on his heel. "I'm sorry girls, I didn't bring any extra pixie dust with me!"

They make depressed sounds and their shoulders slump.

"Don't worry, I'll think of something . . . " he says, biting his lower lip. After a minute he snaps his fingers. "Got it! I'll get some and come back tomorrow, that should give you time to get ready!"

"Promise you'll come back?" Katrina asks.

"Please?"

"Don't leave us!"

Peter raises his hand palm-open. "On my word of honor I'll come back for you," he says in a rare moment of solemnity. It dissolves quickly. "See you tomorrow night, be ready!" He flies out the window and gives the girls one last wave.

"Look at Sallie, she slept through the whole thing!" Raven exclaims.

"Alicia too!" Nora adds.

"Girls, wake up, you'll never believe what happened!"

In no time at all Sallie and Alicia have had the entire story explained to them. They exchange a glance and snort.

"A boy flew in the window," Sallie says sarcastically. "Right. Did his little fairy friend come with him?"

"She's a pixie," Charlie corrects.

"Whatever. The point is that things like that can't happen."

Alicia grins wickedly. "But do you know what can?"

Sallie takes the cue with glee. "Let me tell you a story about Jack the Ripper. And unlike your little group hallucination thing this is completely true, I have historical evidence. Once there was a beautiful young girl who was-"

"Stop it!" Madeline interrupts. "He was here, he was!"

"Let her finish," Alicia snaps testily.

"Thanks, Alicia. As I was saying, the girl was walking-"

"Stop!" Raven commands. "Peter Pan was here, I saw him. Are you calling me a liar?" She cracks her knuckles threateningly.

"Not a liar," Alicia says. "Maybe you're just a mental case."

"That's it!" Raven launches herself at Alicia, aiming her fists straight for the girl's nose. "You won't have freckles anymore by the time I'm through with you!"

"No!" Charlie and Anna cry, trying to pull Raven off of Alicia, who is getting trounced. "We can't be too loud, Matron will wake up!" When the girls are finally separated everyone stares at each other.

"Look, it's practically three a.m.," Gracie says sensibly. "Peter will come back tomorrow night, he said so himself. You'll see then," she says with a dark glance at Sallie. "For now, let's all get some sleep."

The girls nod and get into their beds.

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