It was huge. And when Robyn thought huge, she meant huge. She could only see about seven people milling around but there must have been more if they needed that much space. The inside of the big tree was completely hollow. On one side there were holes all the way up that looked suspiciously like bedrooms. If you walked up the stairs that zigzagged back and forth, you could reach platforms to walk to the holes.
Robyn watched as Pan pushed off and flew up to a hole on the opposite side of the room. There were no stairs leading to the small, rail less balcony in front of his room. Meanwhile, Slightly had come up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder. She was getting come curious looks. All the people surrounding her were boys minus one. Some of them were looking at her hungrily while others just looked in wonder.
Turning quickly, she grabbed Slightly's hand and hissed in his ear, "I don't like the way they're looking at me; take me home, now!"
Grinning, he slung an arm around her shoulder. "Relax, luv. 'S'just the gang, they won't hurt yeh." Stilling smiling, he continued loudly, "G'day mates! This is a new recruit. She's our guest so don' be doin' anythin' stupid, 'right? Name's Robyn; she's Wendy's great granddaughter, for those who remember her. Yeh'll show her a good time, yeah?"
There was a cheer from a couple of the teenage looking people in front of Robyn, and she smiled nervously trying to look like her heart wasn't going to explode any minute. Just then, there was a whistle from above them and they looked up to see Pan watching.
"Can I borrow the lady for a moment, Slightly?" he called down.
A groan came from one of the boys in front of her. He shook his dread locked head. A girl came up beside him and put a fair skinned hand on his dark shoulder. The contrast made Robyn's head spin.
"Don't worry, Cullen. She can handle him." The girl's voice was sweet sounding and devoid of any accent.
The dark boy, Cullen, turned and wrapped his strong looking arms around the thin waist of the girl. "I know, 'Mara. I'm just worried. You thought you could handle yourself too, didn'tcha?"
A blush crept onto the fair skinned girl's cheeks. Then, in front of everyone, Cullen kissed her frankly.
"Oy! Stop rubbin' it in Cullen!" a voice yelled from somewhere.
Robyn diverted her eyes onto the sight of Peter floating gently down from his room. Slightly's arm was still around her and she drew comfort from that fact. He gave her a light shove forwards closer to the darker haired, floating boy smirking down at her.
"Care for a ride?" he asked, smartly, holding a hand down for her to grip.
She grabbed his hand and quickly was pulled up so her arms were wrapped around his neck. She could feel one of his arms around her waist and she struggled faintly against the feeling of him so close to her. Especially after the way he'd treated her not so long ago. He ignored it when he felt her moving and let go of her quickly when they grounded themselves on his balcony.
He pulled aside a fur covering and mock bowed. "Welcome to my humble abode," he said, still in his superior tone.
Robyn entered and saw a hammock hanging from one corner and huge bed dominating another. It had a bearskin on the top of it. Pan strode around Robyn and sunk down onto it, patting his hand beside him. She did what he motioned, sitting and putting enough room in between them. He inched a bit closer to her and she struggled to put more space in between them once more. Then, so quickly before she'd really had time to register it, Pan had thrown himself on top of her and she was laying flat on the bed with him kissing her neck.
Robyn shoved him off and sat up. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" she yelled.
With a grin, this time a sexy one, he said, "C'mon, don't you think everyone knows the reason you're up here? If you weren't here, you'd be in someone else's room; most likely Slightly's, he seems to have taken a likin' to you."
"You make me sick!" With that, Robyn strode out of the room, quite forgetting that Pan was her only way down. Making a frustrated noise, she sat down with her legs dangling over the edge of the platform. There was a jingle from somewhere near her. Tinkerbell.
"Tinkerbell," she called. The faerie appeared in front of her. "Do me a favour, will you?" A mean smile appeared on the face of the miniature girl. "Give me some Dust, I need down." Tinkerbell, still smiling turned and flew into Peter's room.
A second later he exited, shaking his head. "If you're that keen to get down, girl, why didn't you just ask?"
Robyn opened her mouth to say something sarcastic but closed it when she remembered that he might not take her down if she was mean. Roughly, Pan grabbed her and jumped off the ledge. For a second he let them both freefall and Robyn clutched at him, burying her face in his shoulder. When he caught them both, they were a lot closer to the ground and shaking, Robyn let go of the boy and stalked off, looking mad.
"If that's how you're gonna say thanks, luv, you might as well leave," he called to her. She turned and looked at him. Then making up her mind, she headed for the exit. With a bit of struggle, she climbed out the hole and started walking. It looked like late afternoon and Robyn had no idea which way would be the way to the water.
Inside, Peter just shook his head and looked back up his room.
"Who bit 'er ass?" said a thickly accented voice.
Pan turned, smiling at a longhaired boy stepping off the stairs. "Dunno, Nibs," he said. "She got pretty pissed when I tried anythin'."
"Or should I say, didn'choo bite 'er ass the way she liked?" Nibs brushed some of his black hair off his face. "'Ow long d'you think we should give 'er before we go after 'er?"
"Not too long," replied the flying boy. "She'll get lost fast enough."
* * *
"Dammit!" Robyn yelled. "How did I get lost so quickly!?"
When she stopped walking for a moment, she heard water running. Travelling the direction she heard it, she came upon a stream. Thinking, she followed it, knowing it would eventually lead to the ocean. She was right, and within twenty minutes, she had reached a beach. Feeling the sand under her toes relaxed her. She tried to forget Pan, the boy who seemed to hate her one moment and wanted to kiss her the next. The boy who confused her and annoyed her more than any other boy she'd ever met in her life.
It was when she was standing with her toes in the water that a strong pair of arms grabbed her roughly around the middle. Something was tied quickly around her mouth to prevent her from making any noise. Robyn struggled briefly until she felt cold metal on her throat.
"Now you've got the idea, lass," a gruff voice growled into her ear.
She was dragged to a small rowboat and as she was pushed into it, her gag slipped off. "SLIGHTLY!!!" she screamed shrilly. A blow was delivered to her head by a thick hand and her gag was retied.
* * *
"Pan, I don't think you should be the only one to go after her," the pale skinned, Asian looking girl who had kissed Cullen, said.
"You don' think we can all go, do you Amara?" Nibs asked.
"Nooo." She dragged out the word. "But, I don't think Pan should go alone. So far, he seems to have had little success with girls." Here she looked pointedly at him. "Maybe Perdy or I should go with." She made it sound almost like a question but everyone knew she was demanding.
"Whatever," Pan said, and shrugged.
The only other girl in the room, a small blonde with bright eyes stepped forward a bit. "I'll go," she offered.
"Settled then!" Slightly said, clapping his hands once. A second later, about ten were standing outside, blinking the sunlight. Tinkerbell did her bit on the blonde girl and within moments both her and Pan were floating a metre or so above the heads of everyone else.
"Okay, here's the plan mates," Pan's voice took on an edge of command. "We find the girl, and bring her back to the tree. Everyone meet back here when the sun hits the water? Sounds good?"
"Pan," Slightly said, "yeh can't be surprised she ran off. Yeh're not even acknowledgin' she has a name. Girl. Sounds like a pet."
"Listen you." Pan sank down so he was almost eye level with Slightly. "Don't tell me how to talk to -"
He was cut off by a voice shrieking, "SLIGHTLY!!!"
Heads snapped around, listening for any other sounds. There were none.
"'S'the pirates, I'd bet," Nibs said.
"They'll have seen ya with her, Slight," said a boy with dark hair standing on one of the Tree's branches. "Known she's with us. They'll take her to the ship, they will."
"Okay, new plan: me and Perdy'll head to the ship. You hear either of us crow, you guys come runnin' 'kay?" Crowing was the easiest way for the Lost Boys to communicate across the Island. The sound travelled far and they were the only ones who could make it.
Another boy with dark hair, identical to the one in the tree, let out a crow and went running off into the bushes, presumably towards the water. With whoops and yells, the rest of the teenagers followed. Peter glanced at Perdy and she saluted quickly and winked before they both flew off in the direction of the ship.
* * *
"Let me go, you insufferable, disgusting, ugly, asshole!"
Robyn thrashed against the big pirate holding her arms behind her back. Unlike all the stories, most of the pirates seemed to be under the age of twenty. The only one that looked too much older was Captain Hook. She had recognized him as soon as he had come into her sight.
His hair was shinier, and skin was cleaner than the rest. And of course the hook on his left hand. That was the one thing that gave it away. His boots shone in the sinking sunlight. He came closer to her and put the tip of his hook under her chin and lifted her face up.
"Haven't I seen you somewhere before?" he drawled. Robyn spit at him. He stepped sideways and raised both his eyebrows. "Now that's no way to treat your host, young lass."
She glared at him as he walked on all sides of her, studying her. The tip of his hook rested on her back and as he moved, it was dragged lightly around to her shoulder.
"Wendy, is it?" he asked. Robyn said nothing, "Well lads, you all remember Miss Wendy, don't you?" There was a cheer from the crew. "She's come back for another visit. My, my, what shall we do with you?" There was a pause as he thought. "Jukes!" he yelled and a pirate came running up.
"Yes Cap'n?"
Hook smirked down at Robyn as he said, "Put her in the lowest room of the ship. Lock the door. We'll use her to catch Pan."
Robyn struggled as arms wrapped around her and picked her from the ground. She was taken down two flights of short stairs before she was shoved roughly in a room. The door was slammed and she stood up from the dirty floor she had been shoved on and threw herself onto it, pounding. She turned and saw a small window.
Instead of pounding on the door, she decided to waste her energy on hammering on the window. On the first blow, it swung open. It was one of those small, round portholes that you see on all ships. Robyn had started to climb through it and once she had gotten her head and shoulders through, she heard the door behind her open. Hands roughly grabbed her and pulled her back through.
"Don' be goin' anywhere, girlie. Pan's on 'is way; the Cap'n wants ya," the dirty pirate that was holding her growled. Another one was leaning on the doorframe behind him, cleaning his nails with a knife and laughing lightly.
Robyn was brought up from below deck. She gritted her teeth when one of the pirates would intentionally let his hands linger on her, or moved them too high or low. She was thrown onto the deck. When she lifted her head, she could see through her hair, Pan and a girl standing on the mast. Pan had a small knife our and was grinning with pure delight.
"Hook, let her go!" Peter nudged the girl beside him and she let out a loud crow.
There was a yell from the beach and Robyn watched as quickly, almost twenty other people were airborne and flying towards the ship with incredible speed. But Hook wasn't stupid. He grabbed Robyn around the shoulders and pressed his hooked hand to her throat.
"Don't try anything, Pan. Unless Wendy's any use to you when she's dead."
Slightly was the first to reach the ship. He flew up behind one of the pirates and delivered a blow to the back of his head, rendering him unconscious. The others followed quickly. There was a yell from the pirates and yell from the Lost Boys as the battle begun.
"Peter! Hel -" Hook clapped a hand over Robyn's mouth.
"Don't be expecting anyone to save you," he snarled into her ear.
"Robyn, DUCK!" yelled a voice and she did so.
Pan's small knife had gone flying through the air and caught Hook under the arm, sticking his coat into the wooden wall.
"Blast you, Peter Pan! This is not over!"
But the leading boy in green payed no attention as he swooped down, grabbed Robyn around the waist and fast as the Venus Fly Trap, darted forward, grabbed his knife from Hook's coat and was airborne again.
"See ya soon, Hookie!" Peter called over his shoulder as he flew back to the Island.
There were calls of "Codfish!" and "Cowards!" in between the laughter from the other kids.
(A/N: Yeah, I know, dumb place to end the chapter but it was getting SOO long! Anywho, I'm trying to update ALL my stories, but I'm also trying to start another one! Wow, am I dumb or what? But you should all Review now because it makes me happy and it's almost CHRISTMAS!)
