End Of The Innocence

Chapter 3: Poisoned Fairy Tales

O' beautiful, for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They're beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man that we elected king
Armchair warriors often fail
And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
The lawyers clean up all details
Since daddy had to lie

Sara lost track of time as she stayed longer and longer on the island. She couldn't remember how many moons had past and didn't even stop to think that her mother might be missing her. In fact she had almost completely forgotten she even had a mother and was starting to believe that she'd lived on the island her whole life. On this particular day of much importance, it seemed like nothing more than ordinary, but no day in Neverland could ever be ordinary. Peter and Sara had picked a fight with the pirates. They thought it so much fun to watch them loose. It seemed that every new style of fighting the pirates used, they (Peter and Sara) had already been using it for weeks. But this time the pirates had been prepared, they'd been study Captain James Hooks' diary and all the tactics he had used, which of course Peter had forgotten. They'd studied his mistakes and improved on the plans. All week the pirates had been studying Peter movements, watching him closely in everything thing he did, and now they had the perfect plan which should turn the sky black and Neverland as cold as ice.

All Peters' life he had denied he had emotions of anything remotely complicated. He only accepted cheerfulness, happiness and the occasional anger. But that was it, he did not like anything more. This time there was something else though, something more than what was the simple happy and angry. And the pirates had figured it out.

Sara was swinging her sword aimlessly. The pirate's weren't really putting much heart into killing her, which made the game a lot less interesting. But Peter seemed to be taking it badly, the pirates seemed to be increasingly interested in him, but they didn't have any intention of killing him, there swords where hanging by there sides ready to protect themselves but not kill. The pirates seemed to be singing, saying something in union. It was getting louder and Sara caught snatches of what was being said.

"… Growing… School… Old"

That didn't sound good, Sara thought, but yet Peter would know that it was not true. Sara had let her guard down to long to listen and the pirates had leapt upon her. She did not struggle hard because her mind was else where.

What were they talking about, none of that would concern Peter. They dragged her towards the circle of pirates that had encircled Peter. More words of the song reached her ears.

"…Love… Forgotten…Dead…"

Death, Sara remembered that word. A word she had not heard for what seemed like a century. An imaged flashed through her mind, She remembered a grave, and her mother. Her mother she suddenly wondered. How was she, what he she been doing all this time. She felt instantly guilty for leaving her. How naive and thoughtless she had been. She was now inside the circle with Peter. He was kneeling on his knees. Hands over his ears trying to block out the pirates' yells. He was shaking his head slowly and mumbling under his breath. It was now that Sara heard what the pirates were saying.

"She will leave you… Just like all the others. She will not stay with you… She does not like you the way you like her."

Sara now saw tears seeping through Peter's eyes, but still did not understand completely. Who was she? Who was this girl they were talking about? Who where the others? Who did not like him they way he liked her?

Only when Peter looked into her eyes did she know the questions to those answers. It was her. She was the girl, she was the one who would not stay. But how did they know that. For all they knew, she could stay. But Sara knew she wouldn't the moment she thought of that. She could not stay in Neverland and let her mum live with out her. All alone with out any family left. Again she felt that pain of guilt. Sara knew one thing that she had to do. She had to get Peter away from the Pirates taunts. She wrestled herself free from the pirates grasps grabbed Peters arm and jumped off into the sky. Thinking of her happiest memory. Her mum.