AN: This chapter is quite short. Sorry. And thanks for the reviews Jade, Yuki, and Serena, I really appreciate them.
Chapter Three: Jane and Wendy's Folly
Jane waited impatiently in her bed. She was clad in a simple nightdress and was excited, and sad. This would be her last year going to Neverland with Peter, she was growing up, and she was forgetting how to fly.
She wrung her hands in her sheets and watched the window. Soon, a golden light was seen flitting around near the tree just outside. Her breath hitched. He was here.
Peter Pan and his (quite common) fairy Tinker Bell flew in. He grinned at her; he still had his first teeth.
"Jane! I hope you have wonderful new stories to tell us! Oh, it's so BORING with everything gone or dead. Come on!" Peter was bouncing in midair he was so excited to leave. Jane stood up and walked gracefully to him.
"I'm ready now, Peter," she whispered.
"Not without me you don't!"
Alleya checked the time. Now would be good. She pulled her small sack to her and placed it across her shoulders. She left her medicine on her desk and made one last check to make sure she had everything. She did.
She took the small dagger and slid it into the sheath that was around her waist. She slowly opened the door and poked her head out, checking for her mother. It was all clear.
She tiptoed down the hallway to her sister's room and leaned against the door. Her heart pounded erratically in her chest. She crouched outside of her sister's room and waited, listening.
She heard a boy's voice, "Jane! I hope you have wonderful new stories to tell us! Oh, it's so BORING with everything gone or dead! Come on!"
Then her sister's voice, "I'm ready now Peter."
Alleya flung the door open and stepped into the room.
"Not without me you don't!"
Jane, Peter and Tink spun. Peter looked at the girl in question. She had long golden hair and intense periwinkle blue eyes. She radiated anger.
"NO! You little wretch! I won't let you come!" Jane screamed.
"Who is she?" Peter asked.
"My little brat of a sister! And she can't come!"
"Why not?" Peter asked.
"Because I don't want her to, Peter! She would ruin everything!"
"But-"
"No! I will not allow it!"
Tink flew from Peter's shoulder and observed the new girl. Alleya watched the fairy with polite disinterest and Tink immediately liked her. She wasn't like her mother or sister.
Tink landed on Alleya's shoulder and looked at Peter.
"Tink wants her to come."
"NO!" Jane snarled. "Don't let her come Peter, don't lead her to Neverland."
Tink leaned into Alleya's ear and began to whisper frantically.
"Tink said she'll lead me there if Pan won't."
"You can understand her?" Peter and Jane asked at the same time.
"Yes, can't you Jane?"
Jane looked at her sister in anger. Alleya nearly crowed with delight when she realized that Jane couldn't understand Tink.
Peter shrugged. "Whatever."
Tink flew above Alleya and covered her with fairy dust. Alleya smiled briefly at the fairy and then she lifted off the ground. This was…there was no other word for it…cool. She was flying!
All of Alleya's life she had heard her mother and sister trade stories of flying around with boy wonder Peter Pan and she was finally doing it! Tink fluttered around her head, clearly enjoying herself. Alleya shifted her knapsack and spun in midair.
"This is amazing," she whispered as she watched London speed by under her. Soon, Jane and Peter flew up next to her. Peter regarded her strangely, and Jane did her best to ignore her sister.
Tink led them up into the highest level of atmosphere and looked back at the three humans. Peter, the boy who would never grow up, Jane, a girl much like Wendy that had (in Tink's opinion) finally become a woman, and Alleya, the pale, golden haired girl who would seemingly kill to get away from her sister. Tink liked her.
She pointed ahead, the second star to the right and straight on til morning. Alleya grinned, they were almost there.
Wendy walked slowly upstairs, a nightlight in her hands. The house was quiet, and she carefully avoided Jane's room. She knew what was in there; her lost childhood. She tiptoed down to Alleya's room and knocked softly on the door.
"Alleya? Are you asleep?" She pushed the door open and looked around. Alleya's medicine lay on the desk; she had never taken it. Her dagger was gone, as was her knapsack.
"Alleya! Alleya where are you?!" Wendy cried out. She felt a chill run down her spine and she spun and ran to Jane's room.
She wrenched the door open and ran in. The room was empty; the curtains were blowing merrily in the light nighttime breeze.
"No…" she ran to the window. It would appear that the daughter she had been keeping from Neverland had finally escaped.
"NOOO!"
Peter and Jane veered toward the ground, landing near the Lost Boy's tree home. Tink called out to Alleya, who had pulled ahead.
"You honestly think I want to spend time with my sister, when I came here to get away?" Alleya cried incredulously.
Tink laughed and turned back down to Peter. She landed on his shoulder.
"Where's the wretch?" Jane snapped.
Tink glared at the girl and began talking to Peter.
"Tink says she went on alone."
"Good, less I have to worry about her."
Alleya soon came to a large tree. She landed lightly and sat down at its base. She pulled her journal out of her knapsack and began to write.
I have lost track of time here, so it is simply DAY ONE,
I am here, in Neverland! Can you believe it! It is wonderful! I've never felt so healthy in my entire life. I can move about freely as if nothing was holding me back. I love it, I can simply not get enough of it.
I am sitting at the base of a large tree as I write this, and it is nice to be free to write without someone (Jane) interfering with it. She's off with Pan, but then again, she is so dependent on men that she may even try to seduce a little boy.
Disgusting.
I hear something, I must go.
~Alleya
She quickly stuffed everything back into her sack and looked around.
"Well, tis an unusual find! A human girl, alone, in the forest of the fairies!"
"Who's there?" Alleya called out; she slipped her dagger from its sheath.
"The name's Robin Goodfellow!"
AN: I hope you keep enjoying this guys.