Author's Note: I hope everyone likes this chapter. And I'm slowly working on more. Please read and review! I know, no Hook in this chapter!? Don't worry he'll be back with a vengeance in chapter 3.
Death Can Change One
Chapter 2
Tinkerbell flew on through the night. She felt angry at Peter, and her small head just wouldn't allow much else to float into thought. But then there was Captain Hook. She felt terrible for what Peter had almost done. For all the bad things that were in his past, she just couldn't shake the feeling of sadness for him. Peter had taken the game extremely far. Involuntarily she pictured the poor opposing Captain with two hooks instead of one. The effect was comical, if it wasn't accompanied by the deep despair that she saw in his eyes. Shuddering at the disturbing image, she flew on.
The planets and stars flurried by as she left a soft trail of glowing golden dust. The earth whirled into view and she suddenly felt bewildered. Peter had always been there to help find the right way, not that there was a right way. It had been so long since she had seen it last. Time in Neverland was a tricky thing, it passed so slowly to them. While time in the "gray zone", as she liked to call it, sped up fast. Since she wasn't looking for Wendy, she supposed it didn't matter where she chose to go. So she flew straight down parting the clouds, and was shocked at what she saw, millions of moving lights going down highways. How much had time past? She just wasn't sure. It was a city, but it certainly was not London. The air was not fogged, quite the opposite, it was clear and she appeared to be hovering close to a Northern coastline. Fear took hold as she approached closer, and the next thing she saw were two lights that sped up screaming towards her, faster and faster. She flew up just in time to miss the oncoming thing, a contraption with wheels.
She floated to a nearby tree, gasping at how close she had come to being taken by the monster. But then she saw something familiar. She had flown into a small group of houses bunched together, and she peeked through the window of one. She saw a group of people squashed on a couch, bunched in front of a box that flashed bright moving pictures. She squished her nose in disinterest. Tink then heard a soft pulsing rhythm above her. This was more to her liking, she swiveled her little hips up to get a closer look at what was making the enticing sound. She had flown up to a small balcony and the sound was coming from a black box on a minor table. Suddenly Tink realized she wasn't alone, there was a woman reclined back on a lounging chair, gently humming along with the tune. She was reading a book and Tink was immediately shocked at the picture on the cover. It was a skull and crossed bones, the Jolly Roger. Curiosity filled Tinkerbell. She had never seen a real woman pirate before. Quickly she flew to the cover of a potted plant in order to observe her better. Her thoughts flew to Captain Hook and his crew, this woman certainly didn't look like a pirate.
The mysterious woman yawned and stretched, as she attempted to rise from her chair. Tinkerbell giggled, for as she stood up to stretch her legs, she tripped over her own feet. It was then that Tink noticed that she was quite tall almost as tall as the Captain. But she lacked the gracefulness of the captain, her long legs making her rather clumsy. She regained her composure quickly, leaning against the edge of the balcony as she gazed up at the stars. She had long golden brown hair that was slightly wavy. And warm brown eyes. Tink wouldn't have called her the most beautiful woman she had seen, another word came to mind, pretty. She was cute. She had a fair complexion that was dusted lightly with freckles, and a slightly rounded face with a dimple in her cheek.
Julia Snow leaned against her balcony a sigh on her lips. Yet another Friday night spent at home reading. Well, she supposed it was certainly better than the blind date she had the previous week. Richard, God he had been the most boring and safe individual yet, that her friends had set her up with. She remembered his reaction after she had confessed that she was reading a book about the life and times of Captain Kidd. His expression was vacant and he had asked, why she would ever want to read about, blood thirsty pirates? In turn she had said the truth, the idea of it fascinated her. There had been a time in this world, if you were an enterprising individual, you could join a crew. And with a rush of intoxicating freedom explore the world and possibly get rich in the process. This had caused Richard to look at her as if she were the most insane woman he had ever met.
She huffed to herself, she never met anyone that quite understood her adventurous spirit. Well, there was the Italian guy that she had met in college while traveling through Rome. She smiled at the memory , and could feel the gentle breeze hitting her face, being immediately transported back to one of her many adventures exploring Europe. Smiling, she realized that, he was of course not the type her friends would set her up with. No, although she didn't feel a day over twenty one, she was now approaching her twenty ninth birthday. She was successful enough in her advertising job to have a nice condo close to the beach, yet she was so set in her ways, that she had no one to share it with. Her girlfriends relished the opportunity to get on her about her need to settle down and find a nice dependable man. And in truth that was what she wanted, she just didn't need someone who bored her to tears in the process. Perhaps she was the problem? All her friends had no trouble finding the right guy. She had always felt like such a big kid at heart, and she most certainly wasn't going to find him, if she continued to keep her head in the clouds staring at the stars. However she had always delighted in her belief that she would not have to change herself to find the right guy. She wanted sparks, she wanted magic, and no she didn't think that settling down with a boring stump like Richard was going to make her happy. She didn't grow up to abandon her wishes, to abandon her dreams, and maybe that, deep down, was her problem. Adults are supposed to be responsible and give up these silly childish notions of magic and true love. But she couldn't do that.
She looked up sadly at the moon, it was a beautiful night.
"I wish I could find love" she whispered to the air.
Not realizing that a fairy had heard her quite clearly.
Tink smiled in her hiding spot. Another wish from an adult, and in the same evening no less. Her thoughts immediately going back to the Captain. This woman looked like quite a match for him, and although Tink's job wasn't supposed to be helping adults, especially not Captain Hook. She couldn't help but feel that destiny had pulled her to this woman. But what would Peter say if he knew what she was contemplating? Nothing good, she could imagine, he hated all Adults. To actually bring one to Neverland herself might change things. Tink observed her again, she had settled back on her lounge chair wrapped in a blanket and had fallen asleep. This was too perfect, she flew over her and in an instant had made her decision. Peter had done nothing but infuriate her lately, she had always been there to do whatever he wished. Yet every time she did something that he may not have agreed with, he banished her. She had even brought back the Captain for him. But she hadn't counted on the Captain being so different from his old self. No, she was sick of Peter's games, it was time she got to play some of her own. And if it changed things, so much the better.
She sprinkled pixie dust over the woman's sleeping form and lifted her in the blanket up through the clouds , towards the second star to the right, and straight on till morning. Depositing Julia's sleeping form on the deck of the ship, she gazed at her one last time, an impish expression of happiness, at her good deed. Her little mind not realizing that she had placed a defenseless woman on board a ship filled with pirates.
