Slightly sat on one of the higher branches of the Tree with Venus beside him. He was watching her as she tried intently to describe something to him. Her language consisted of a mix of several different languages and therefore some of the Lost Boys who could understand other languages couldn't get any more out of her than Slightly could.

"De piraten hielden me capitive!" she insisted, waving her hands. "For -" Venus counted to seven on her slender fingers "- sete meses! J'avais si peur, Slightly. Sono felice che you are mit mir hier. Je sais cela toi et Peter will - Quel est le mot? Protect? - protect of me now."

"Uh... Yeah, 'course, luv," he said. His eyes had narrowed at the sound of Peter's name but regained their wider shape when Venus threw herself onto him in a hug. He patted her gently on the back as she kissed his cheeks in gratitude.

"Je souhaite - I wish to speak of the English better avec toi," Venus said seriously, searching her new friend's face with her bright blue eyes.

"Er, me too." He looked around. "Yeh, uh, like it here?"

Venus let out a flurry of words too fast for Slightly to get anything from, but gathered she was impressed when she ended it with a contented sounding sigh.

"Yeah, that's right," Slightly said quietly, putting his arm around her and patting her shoulder.

- - -

Peter sat up on a high rock overlooking the bright blue waters. Robyn sat beside him, staring out, looking troubled. Finally, she turned to the boy beside her.

"You know I'll have to go back some time, don't you?"

Peter jumped and turned to face her quickly. His eyes were burning and she almost shrunk away from him in fear.

"You can't!" he said fiercely, grabbing her arms so hard that she struggled to pry him off of her. "We need you here Robyn!"

Finally managing to release herself from his strong grip, Robyn unconsciously rubbed her arms to try and relieve some of the pain she was feeling. "Don't tell me that Peter. I love it here. I love being with you here, but it's not my place."

The forever young boy stood up and started pacing. "I'm not stupid. I'm not blind either. I knew you would have to go home. But now, after everythin' that's happened? Not now. Please not now."

Robyn's blonde hair fell into her face as she turned her face downwards, trying not to cry as she saw the strong boy in front of her do the same. "Please Peter. Please don't be upset. You knew I had to go back."

Behind his head, Robyn could see clouds rolling over the sky, darkening ominously. As a tear started to travel from his eye down his cheek, the heavens opened and rain like nothing Robyn had ever seen started to pour from the sky. Soon she could no longer see anything but the boy in front of her.

Peter wiped furiously at his face, though no one could have told if it was tears or rain he was wiping away. He let out a loud scream that terrified Robyn, bent his legs, and sprung high off the ground, flying desperately as high as he could manage.

As Robyn started to lose sight of him and could no longer hear him, she searched her surroundings. "Peter?" she called loudly, trying to let him hear her over the torrent of rain that was ringing in her ears. "Peter please come back! I need you!"

Whether or not he heard her, she didn't know, for if he did, he didn't appear out of the sky like some ascending angel. Robyn started moving slowly through the puddles now forming at her feet. She wandered until she was under a tree. The rain ran swiftly off of the huge leaves above her head. She tried calling Peter again, and this time, he appeared behind her, dripping wet.

They stared at each other for a long moment before Robyn threw herself onto the darker haired boy. She sobbed and sputtered out words that he never fully understood. He assumed they were apologies but never wanted to ask her later on. Finally, she lifted her head from his chest and stared at him, sniffling.

"Come on," he said. "This place'll be under water soon, we hafta move." Looking down, they both saw that the puddles were now up to their ankles and still growing.

Peter flew them quickly through the flurry of raindrops. It only took a couple minutes before he set down underneath a big overhang on a hill. Robyn saw that they were standing in an entrance to a cave. She could see the waterfall where they had first truly kissed down the hill, now swelled to several times its normal size.

They entered the cave, finding it completely dry and full of several large, glossy leaves that must have been put there to sleep on. Peter shook himself off while Robyn wrung out her top and skirt as well as she could manage.

He lay down and opened his arm so she could come lay beside him. Within minutes, Robyn had fallen asleep but Peter lay awake for hours, until the rain started to clear and he could almost see the moon through the treetops.

- - -

The next morning, Robyn woke alone in Peter's room. She could here him yelling frustratedly about something to Slightly. The other boy would just laugh and then mutter back to which Peter would respond by yelling and swearing.

Robyn climbed out the window and moseyed on down the tree. She hopped down into the hole and was greeted with Peter yelling some more.

"How do we know she's not a spy for the pirates, Slight, eh? What if she's only here on their command?"

"Pan, calm the fuck down, mate. Why didn'tcha think o' that before yeh let her in here?" Slightly ran his hands through his hair in frustration. "Besides, mate, we've been talking. Seems as if everythin's alrigh' with her. No funny business."

Pan sighed. "Alright. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. But if I get any inkling that she's up to something, she's out of here so fast, despite the attachment you've got for her."

Slightly muttered something under his breath and headed back to his room, where Robyn figured Venus was waiting for him.

"Peter?" she questioned tentatively. He looked startled as she took a couple steps towards him; like he didn't even notice she was there.

"I've been - I've been thinkin' a lot about whatcha said last night, Robyn," he began. "And, well... you can't leave!" Robyn had never heard him sound so desperate or child-like. "Don'tcha understand? Ever since you've gotten here, Neverland's been alright! It was dyin' so quickly before! Do you understand what I'm sayin'?"

Robyn shook her head because, indeed, she didn't.

"You're what's keepin' Neverland alive! You are Neverland."

There was silence for a second before Robyn started laughing hysterically. "Peter, I've been here for - what? - a couple months? You've been here forever, wouldn't it make more sense to assume that you are Neverland?"

"That's what I thought too! But then why has Neverland been healthier than it has been in a long time, when you're here!"

"I don't know, Peter. All I know if that I'm going to have to go home eventually."

"You can't leave, Robyn," he said, moving towards her and putting one hand on her neck under her hair. "I need you here."

She turned away and studied a wall with twisting designs and names carved into it. "I need you too, Peter. But I also need my home and my family."

"Why can't this be your home now?" he asked, seeming genuinely puzzled.

"And my family? What of them?"

He sighed then looked up at her. "Maybe we can make our own."

(A/N: I used a language translator for this chapter. Surprise surprise! Most of Venus' words are French, but I threw in some German, Dutch, Italian, and pretty much anything else I could get my hands on. Review it, a'ight? Translation of Venus' speech:

"The pirates held me captive! For seven months! I was so afraid, Slightly. I'm happy that you're with me here. I know that you and Peter will protect me now."

Anyways, I believe there's only one chapter left, maybe two if you're lucky. Sorry for the delay in updates, please Review.)