Pan

DISCALIMER: I am not J.M.Barrie, I am not the guy who wrote the movie, and guess what – I'm not Peter Pan either! I would also like to say that I am sorry if I offend any Micronesian people by spelling Wendy with only one 'd' I have been informed that this can be taken as an offensive word.

SUMMARY: After she left, Pan hated Wendy Darling most of all. The girl who had enchanted him, who had insulted him: the girl who had killed him. (Metaphorically of course!)

Chapter 6.

"Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control." -Wess Roberts


Pan was going to change the ending. He just needed to know how.

The more he thought about it the more it seemed that his conclusion that Wendy was the key came back to him. Still uncertain Pan did what all his childish experience had taught him, he went to visit the mermaids.

He sailed to the lagoon where they lived and sat on the shore, staring into the black waters in confusion. Slowly he pulled out a small set of pipes. They were obviously old and out of use, the gaps between the pieces were slightly too small and as Pan hesitantly brought the light wood to his mouth the notes ran together. The same tune he had always used came back to him and he played it slowly, his fingers occasionally stumbling until a ghost of his former self returned and he and his inner child played the pipes together.

Slowly the mermaids appeared, gliding and hovering in the water. "Hook." They said in their strange high voices,

"Mermaids," He replied, laying aside his pipes but still crouched in the old, familiar, childlike position,

"You need answers," Pan nodded his head,

"Can Neverland be broken?" It seemed wrong to him to voice his thoughts out loud, as if once out in the open it would be possible that Neverland could prevent his plans in someway, could find some new way of holding him.

Nothing happened.

"Why would it break?" The mermaids asked as one, smiling secretive smiles.

"If I was to leave, if I was to find a way to break Neverland's hold on me."

"Others have done so. You will be replaced." So that's what it boiled down to was it. Others had figured out a way to break free. To be free. Yet a noble part of Pan recoiled

"And what of the new Pan? Would he break free?"

"It is uncertain."

Peter thought for a while, and the mermaids watched him in open, scornful curiosity. Slowly a plan began to formulate in his mind, maybe to change the ending he needed to change the story?

"And if I told the new Peter." Pan said softly. The mermaids eyes widened and their mouths opened.

"Destruction! Death!" the screamed, their cries aching to the ears, they sped into the distance, desperate to get away from him.

"Destruction…death…" What did that mean? Would Neverland be destroyed? Pan looked at the beautiful water, thought of the Indians, the pirates. If the Island was destroyed would they disappear? Where would England's abandoned boys go?

He walked slowly back to the Jolly Roger, lost in deep thought. It was obvious that this wasn't just about him anymore; that considering his future meant considering the future of everyone else on the island too. Pan sighed, he had never felt less like Hook and he had never felt less like Peter. He was thinking of the consequences of his actions and the consequences were frightening.

He came to a clearing, one he remembered clearly. Gradually he walked to the tall buttress roots where the Fairies danced and peering through the wood he became absorbed in the flights of fanciful fairies. Suddenly he spotted a familiar face, and in excitement he hissed "Tink!"

The small face looked up at him, and he watched her face recoil even as she came closer.

As she approached he took a respectful step back and the tiny fairy looked at Captain Hook in wonderment, his face seemed so familiar, his hair less black, his eyes less cruel. She stared at the man who was so much younger than she remembered him being and listened in amazement as he said in a voice at once confused and light hearted,

"Tink, it's me, Peter."


A/N: Another chapter. SHINING STAR OF VALINOR - I would like to thank for inspiring me to write this chapter – a review for each chapter, I love you! SIR PENT - please see the disclaimer. THELOSTBOYS78 - that was a very good point, in answer to your question, no one has noticed. Maybe that's an indicator that things are different!

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Tweeny