A/n: Yay! Finished another chapter! Dis time it was on my new computah, and on WordPerfect! WordPerfect is...different, but it's neat-os anyway! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Me no owny Peter Pan.

Julie landed softly behind a large teepee hut, Peter still far behind. After flying for a bit, she had gotten used to it, and she seemed to know where everything was in Neverland, as if she had been there before, not to mention that Peter said he had to make a few errands on the way.

Julie looked around a bit, but seeing that no one was at the Indian's site, she sat on a log in front of the fire pit and sighed. Peter said she could talk to the Indians if she got there first, but how could she talk to them if there weren't any?

Twiddling her thumbs she whispered under her breath, "Well, at least I'm not soaked with mermaid water—never going back there again."

"Water?" A hoarse voice croaked from behind her.

Julie swirled around and stared at the face that made the voice. She saw a young Indian girl, her hair in two long braids down to her waist. "Who are you?" Julie asked.

"I'm Tiger Lilly," the girl spoke.

"Tiger Lilly? I thought you would be dead by now—no offence, of course, but you should at least be grown up," Julie said in disbelief.

"No one grows up in Neverland, not even I."

"Oh. So…what are you doing here, why didn't you come out before?"

"You were a stranger, you could have been with, you know—"

"Don't worry, I'm not with any bad guy," Julie interrupted cheerfully.

"—okay, and you had the code word, which is water, so you're good right?"

"Err…sure."

Tiger Lilly walked up to Julie and grabbed her arm. "Come with me."

Julie stood up awkwardly and let Tiger Lilly lead her to the largest teepee, located in the middle of the Indian grounds, and covered with pictures of buffalo painted with red clay, with a column of smoke slowly arising from the hole in its top.

"Do I go in there?" Julie asked nervously.

Tiger Lilly nodded.

Julie opened the door-flap and stepped inside the hut. She was immediately surrounded by smoke illuminated by the fire in the middle of the hut. She waved her arms around to clear the smoke from her eyes, revealing an old man, sitting behind the fire, facing her. His dark eyes stared curiously at Julie, and his tall feathers on his hat reflected the glow of the fire. Julie shrunk back at the sight of him.

"This is my chief, and my dear chief this is—" Tiger Lilly said, but realized she didn't know Julie's name. "What is your name?"

"My name?" Julie looked at Tiger Lilly in confusion. "Well, my name is…" Julie coughed. "Well, isn't it smoky in here?"

Tiger Lilly looked at Julie expectantly.

"If I tell them, and they're on the bad side, then something bad might happen, like in all those movies," Julie thought as smoke clouded her vision once more.

Then, the tall Indian chief spoke, "Her name is Julie."

"Hey! How did you know?"

The chief just nodded silently and beckoned Julie to come closer.

After hesitating for a few moments, Julie stepped toward the chief.

"Good Julie, come closer, I have a story to tell you. Tiger Lilly, you get water for today for finding this girl."

"Thank you, my chief," Tiger Lilly said and left the teepee.

"Now Julie, take a seat. We wouldn't want you uncomfortable here, correct?"

Julie "No, duh."

The chief raised an eyebrow.

"Um...I mean of course not...chief."

"From your eyes, Julie, it seems like you're with Pan, and as you may know by now, we Indians are not. Julie, do you know why we're against Pan?"

"His dagger is a tad to pointy? He's a nutcase? His clothes are the wrong color? I have no idea."

The chief lowered his eyebrows and stared at Julie with a stern look. "No, it's because he and his lost boys are awful for reasons your young ears should not hear–"

"I'm not young!" Julie interrupted.

"–and you should also not hear until you understand more of Neverland."

"What more is there to understand? Big place, fairies, pirates, mermaids, and Indians...is there anything else?"

The old Indian's mouth crinkled into a friendly smile, "In appearance, no, there is nothing more."

"In appearance?"

"As I said, you have yet to understand Neverland. You must leave now, I hear Pan approaching. If you trust us, do not tell him about me or Tiger Lilly. Do not tell him of our meeting."

"Why should I trust you? We're all on different sides."

"I did not say to trust our side, but us as people."

Julie did not reply to his last comment, the wizened old Indian's words still jumbled and confusing in her mind. "I–I have to go..." Julie stood up and exited the tent, the Indian chief staring silently at her as she left.

Julie stood outside the tent blinking her eyes furiously, the sun–or whatever the star is that illuminates Neverland–seeming a hundred times brighter, coming from and almost completely darkened room.

"Julie!"

Julie turned to see Peter landing behind the chief's teepee. She looked up to the tip of the teepee to see the smoke that once was billowing out of it had gone out. "Hi, Peter.

Peter grinned. "Have you seen any Indians?"

Julie narrowed her eyes. "No, Peter, there's no one here, not even a squirrel."

"Really? Guess we'll have to go back to the tree house. Maybe the lost boys and Feather have seen something."

"Okay, let's go."


And that was it! Hope you enjoyed it. Writing about the Indians was fuuun! Please r&r!

WickedFaith: Here's more! Thanks for reviewing again!

Tymiko the Pirate Girl: Thanks a bundle for the reviewn'...teenagers annoy me too, even though I am one...the single digits were the best, I miss them so much! Hopefully Julie will get better...eh?