Title: Neverland
Author: vashsunglasses
Fandom: Peter Pan
Rating: T
Summary: The island devourers all that die on its shores.
Disclaimer: I don't own Peter Pan.
I am a shadow.
A trickster.
You look right at me, but you don't even see me.
I devour your friends right before your eyes, but you are blind to me.
We are intimate, you and I.
I am always watching you, even when you sleep.
Even when you laugh.
Even when you kill.
The flesh of a child tastes so sweet.
I have it all planned out, you see…
I attract little lost children like flies to a web.
I steal ships filled with people and deposit them into my waters.
They can't escape my hunger.
You can't escape it either, my delicious pastry.
Eventually, I will taste you too.
Mmm, you still can't see it, can you?
Didn't you know that it was I who whispered to you in your sleep?
That it was I who taught you how to fight?
How to kill?
How to lead young boys to the slaughter?
To drive men mad in their frenzy to kill you?
Didn't you know that you were just bait in my web?
You are the sweet, sweet poison that brings joy even as it kills.
A loaf of bread with a scorpion inside.
And I, I feast on the bodies of the dead.
You bury them and mourn, but I suck the marrow from their bones.
Why hasn't anyone noticed that the bodies disappear soon after burial?
Mmm, foolish sheep.
What?
You still haven't figured out who I am?
What I am?
Oh, my sweet cake, my Pan.
I am Neverland.
Note: There used to be a lengthy explanation of the meaning of this story here but I've been told that it ruins the mood so I took it out. If you still want the explanation please send me a private message asking for it and I will give it to you.