Chapter 2
Surprise Surprise
The wind hollered with such force it made the pounding rain blast into the side of the house. Lighting struck the ground furiously, followed by a clap of raging thunder giving the feeling the whole house would come up from it's foundation any second. The house creaked.
Riley Parkerson shot up from her bed. What was that!? She scanned the dark room hastily, shivering at the erie feeling it cast. She jumped as the thunk was heard again outside her window. Riley pulled the covers over her head, trying to convince herself she was just hearing things, but there it was again. Thunk. Riley groaned. There was definitely something outside her window. No..It's just the wind! The wind is just knocking a tree branch against the window! Yah, That`s it! All hope quickly flooded away, though as a thought struck her. That would be a lovely explanation Rye, except one problem.. YOU DON'T HAVE A FRICKIN TREE OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW!!! Once again the thunk was heard making her jump. Her heart raced. Quietly as possible she slid out of bed, cautiously making her way towards the window noticing apprehensively how much her surrounding reminded her of a scene out of one of those murder movies. Then it hit her. What if there IS a murderer out there!?! She pouted. Oh man.. I'm going to die!! There is an axe murderer out there and they are going to break in, chop me into a thousand pieces, and steal my piggy bank!! She sobbed. I love that piggy bank.. She shook the thought from her head. No. I'll kiss a mermaid before I left them take it! She swelled up with courage taking a step towards her window.
Suddenly lightning struck and the power went out. Riley squeaked. So much for courage... She forced herself to take another step forward. " Show yourself!" The words came out in pathetic squeal. She slapped her hand to her forehead. Great..juuust great!! Augh! She took a deep breath. All right calm yourself Rye..do something intellegent..like..get a weapon! Yes, get yourself a weapon! Riley paced a hand on the desk behind her, blindly searching for a weapon as she kept her eyes locked firmly on the window. " I-I'm warning you! I've got a...a.." behind her, her hand felt something long and hard. She grabbed it quickly without giving it a second thought and held it out in front of her. " a...a..stapler." She gaped down at the useless object in her head. Ooo smart one Parkerson.. we'll just clobber the axe murderer WITH A STAPLER!! GEEZ! She slapped herself mentally for the pathetic attempt at arming herself, but none the less made her way up to the window the rest of the way. Then, there is was a again. Thunk, and to add to her displeasure it was followed by a clunk. This was it. She would open the window and face her murderer. Riley gulped. Yippee.. Counting to three she sprang to the window yelling out, swiftly slidding it open.
Her eyes met only darkness and the shadow of the pouring rain. She sighed in relief. See, nothing! Absolutely nothing! No axe murderer! No Piggy bank thief! NoOAHHHHH!! Riley screamed as suddenly, from out of the darkness, something big, warm, and breathing shot at her knocking her to the floor. Panicking, she quickly rolled away from the "thing" grabbing her killer stapler and doing the only thing that came to mind. Clobber the thing to death. Raising the stapler she brought it down hard on the thing, hearing a clunk as it hit. It cried out in pain. "DIE! YOU..YOU.. EVIL..BAD..THING!!" Just then, a hand snaked it's way around her waist holding her tightly. "LET ME GO!" She kicked and punched in every direction trying to escape the grasp of whatever had her. The thing cried out in pain again.
"OUCH!! STOP IT!" Riley froze. That voice..I know that voice.. Her eyes went wide.
"Peter? It that you?" The thing froze also beneath her.
"Rye? Riley!?" Suddenly, the power flickered back on and there, laying underneath her, clutching his head in pain, was none other then Peter Pan.
"PETER!! YOU CAME BACK!!" Before he could say a word she embraced him in a death lock cutting off his air supply. He pulled back breathing in deeply, but couldn't help the smile that began to creep up his lips.
"Riley! I missed you!" Peter pulled her into a hug of his own, then, kissing her sweetly on the forehead.
"You came! You came! You came!" She was almost jumping up and down with excitement.
"Well, of course I did wh-" He was cut off as suddenly, he was pushed backward his back hitting the floor. Riley stared at him her eyes full of frustration and fury.
"WHAT THE HELL TOOK YOU SO LONG!?!" He looked up at her shocked. That came out of nowhere..
" Rye, it's only been a week!"
"Week!? WEEK!? IT'S BEEN 5 MONTHS!!" Peter's eyes grew.
" 5 months? Geez.. Well, that doesn't matter. I'm here know aren't I." She glared at him playfully finding it hard to be mad at him at the moment.
" I Suppose.." Her eyes softened. He smiled. She eventually smiled too.
"Oh the hell with it! Your here! Your here!" Suddenly, she heard a voice outside her door. She turned to Peter in terror. "Oh my God! You gotta go!" His grin became a confused frown.
"What? But I just got he-" She cut him off again jerked him off the floor and frantically pulled him around the room.
"I've got to hide you somewhere!" Her fathers voice was heard again calling for her. "Oh my..Oh my..Oh my..This is NOT good! Uh..umm.." Spotting her closet it seemed to glow a holy light as if the answer to all her prayers. Pulling Peter forward she ran towards it. Hearing the click of the doorknob, Riley violently wrenched the closet door open shoving the boy in. She slammed the door shut just as her father entered her room, wearing a worried expression. Riley leaned against the door in a obvious-trying-not-to-be-obvious-way, smiling innocently.
"Are you ok!? I thought I heard you scream!" She looked at him her face clueless.
"Scream? I didn't scream?"
"But I though-"
"Dad, I think your hearing things, maybe you should get some sleep.." She grabbed his shoulders leading him to the door.
"Ya..I suppose your right. Maybe I should go to bed.."
"Great idea! Good night!" She pushed him out shutting the door behind him. Letting out a sigh, she made her way back to the closest. Opening it, she stared at the wide eyed Peter. She smiled slightly at his expression. "Come on out it's safe now." Cautiously he started to make his way out.
"Soo..who was thaATTTT-" Without warning, he found himself shoved backwards again, the door slammed in his face. Riley smiled nervously, as her father peeked his head back in the door.
" I just wanted to ask you if we had any more hot coa-coa mix.." He looked at her curiously. "What`s wrong? You look like you've seen a monster!" Riley shifted positions against the door. fidgeting her hands around.
"N-nothings wrong!" She grinned awkwardly. Her father shook her head.
"Good night.."
"Night!" He shut the door again. Riley growled, running her hand down her face in frustration. That..was close. She started to open the closest again, when once again her room door sprang open. She jumped.
"Oh! One more thing..Alyissa called today, she wants you to call her back. But I told her y-"
"DAD!!"
"What?"
" I thought you were going to bed!?"
"Right ..Right..bed. I guess I'll go, I mean..it's not like your hiding any boys in the closet!" He chuckled. Riley laughed nervously. You'd be surprised.. He said a final goodnight and closed the door. She sighed. It's about time! Opening the closet door she stared at Peter. Her eyes widened. In his hands he was swinging around one of her bikini tops .
"Hey Rye?" he questioned innocently. "Why don't you ever where this? You'd look hot in it." She quickly grabbed it from his hands.
"GIVE ME THAT!" She blushed madly. Peter rolled his eyes then curiously made his way around her room, picking up things here and there staring at them in a confused way.
" You people down here sure have strange things," he stated shaking her portable CD player near his ear, before casually tossing it over his shoulder losing interest. Diving, Riley caught it seconds before it hit the floor. She growled at his back as he moved on to find something else to play with. He cast a curious eye at a crystal figuring of a couple dancing gracefully lying on her desk and immediately reached towards it with a look in his eye like a child might have in a room full of glass that had a sign stating Do not touch. Noticing the look, she took no time as she flung herself across the room at him. She grabbed his hand firmly giving him a look that cleary confirmed Don't. You. Dare. He took a step away disappointment covering his face.
" I was just looking around!" She shook her head.
" You call it looking around, I call it destruction of property." He sighed and plopped himself down on her bed. He watched as Riley stared over at him like she was waiting for something. He glanced over at her through the corner of his eye. She was still staring at him.
"WHAT!?!" Riley placed a finger to his lips.
"Shh! My Dad is right down the hallway!" Quieting his voice, he muttered a quick apology.
"But why are you staring at me!?" She ran a hand through her hair.
"Well are you ever going to tell me whats been going on sense I left-
"You mean sense you got sucked through the eye?"
"Same difference, or why you didn't come back for so long, or how you even found out where I lived!?"
"Oh..Well, where do I start?"
"How about from the beginning.
"Ok." He then, began to explain everything that had happened sense she was taken back to earth. About how, he, himself, got sucked into the eye and Hook coming along to, and how the pigeon had gotten a hold of the eye and how he had chased it through the "School."
"I Knew I wasn`t seeing things!" She suddenly piped up, before letting him continued with his story.
"So thats about what happened. The bird got away and I decided to come find you."
"How did you find my house." He went a little red all of a sudden.
"Well, you see I was going around house to house looking in the windows, when it started to storm. I was staring to give up hope of finding you so I went to find some shelter from the storm. I landed on the roof of a house, when suddenly, the wind came up behind me and I lost my balance and started to slid down the roof. I caught hold of the edge of it and held tight, but the edge was wet with rain making it hand to hold on. So I moved down so I could put my feet on the window ledge. Then, to my surprise the window flung open knocking my hands off the edge of the roof and I fell forward into it and onto something soft, you. Then, you started hitting me with something on the head. Then, you spoke and well, you know the rest. So it was basically dumb luck that I found you." Riley blinked.
"Ook..Soo what are we suppose to do now?" He leaned back on her bed thinking.
" Find that bird before Hook and his men do."
"The pirates? Pirates are here too!?" He nodded his head. "This keeps getting better and better!" She shook her head. "Ok..ok.." She stood up. "So where is this pigeon at?" He looked down. She groaned. "Peter, please tell me you know where the pigeon went!"
" I know where the pigeon went." He glanced up at her smiling slightly.
"Not funny! Peter, Do you know how many pigeons are in this state!?!?!" She began to pace madly her face in her hands.
"Well, think of it this way!" He grinned up at her. "We will get to spend some quality time together!" He only succeeded in making her pace faster.
"This can't get any worse!"
"Actually it can." Riley stopped pacing and turned to him .
"What do you mean, it can?" Peter suddenly found his feet very interesting and refused to look up at her. "Peter! What do you mean it can!?" Her face was so close to his he could feel her breath on his cheek. He moved his gaze upward and found himself staring straight into her flaming eyes. His face burned red.
" Umm.." He gulped. "You see..well, the Eye of Neverland never closed.."
"Which means!?" Her voice was now almost at a hiss.
"Which means, that it is slowly pulling pieces of Neverland to Earth.." She grabbed the collar of his shirt pushing him to the bed.
"Explain yourself Pan, while I'm letting you live! What do you mean when you say it's pulling pieces through!"
" I mean like the Pirates, Mermaids, or the Indians." Her eyes widened.
" Your saying there will be pirates, mermaids, and Indians roaming the streets of Seattle if we don't get that Eye back!?!" Peters head sunk into the bed like a turtle as Riley inched her face forward with rage.
"Y-yes.."
"We have to get the Eye back and quick!"
" Might I add, that not only do we have to get it back we have to get it back before Hook because remember he still wants to destroy Neverland w-" She glared down at him with such fury it was making him scared.
"Shut up!"
"Yes ma'am." Riley let go of her death lock on his shirt and went back to her pacing and mumbling to herself. Here and there Peter would catch a phrase or two like, "If school wasn't enough, " or, " Why does the world hate me so much?" He couldn't help, but smile at the stressed out teenager. Pulling himself up from the bed, he made his way over to her and placed his hands on her shoulders. " Rye, don't worry it will all be ok." She shook his hands off.
"Easy for you to say, your not the one that has to hide a pointy eared, flying, teenage boy!" He took her hand in his and brought it to his lips softly.
"Some would consider it a honour to hide such a handsome thing as me." Riley snorted.
"You are so..so-"
"Charming, courageous , ruggedly handsome?"
"No self-centred, egotistic..and.." He smiled up at her with a smile that could make any girls heart melt. "and..annoyingly cute.." A slight smile started at the edge of her lips while the rest of her face trying to remain in anger. It made her face look quit comical. Peter set himself down on the bed again and patted the spot beside him for Riley to do the same. She hesitated a little, but soon complied and sat down beside him. They sat in silence for quit sometime each indulging in there own thoughts with the only sound the pitter patter of the rain outside. Breaking the silence, Riley suddenly spoke. "So, how are we going to find this pigeon? Presuming it hasn't lost the Eye yet over the city."
"So you'll help me!?"
"Of course I'll help you, you half-wit!" Her eyes flooded with emotion, but remembering she was trying to be mad at him she quickly added, "BUT I'm only doing this for the good of the city and Neverland. You can go choke on pixie dust for all I care." She folded her arms together at her chest and turned away from him. Peter beamed down at her despite the insults towards him. He knew she didn't really mean it. Wrapping his arms around her, he hugged her tightly then planted a light kiss on the back of her head. She shook her shoulders in attempt to get him off of her. "Oh, Bugg off." Peter smiled then grabbed her hand.
"Fat chance!" Pulling her off the bed, he began to drag her toward the window. She pulled in the opposite direction with all the force she hand.
"Peter! What do you think your doing!?!" He stopped jerking her across the room for a second.
" Talking you with me to find the Eye of course!"
"Peter! It's the middle of the night, not to mention it's storming out side! Plus, I can't leave I have school tomorrow morning!!"
"You point?"
"The point is I'm not going!" He realised her hand sighing.
"Fine fine, we will wait till tomorrow, BUT only if you tell me what a school is!" Riley chuckled and led him back to sit down.
~*~
* Next morning*
Riley woke with a start. Memory of what had happened last night flooded through her mind. Or that is what she thought had happened. Had Peter Pan really come back or was it just a dream? She closed her eyes. Please oh please let it have been real!! Riley's eyes scanned the room. There was nothing. Riley sighed in disappointment and confusion. I know it was real! He came! He eyes told the truth though, no one was in the room except her. Her disappointment and confusion turned to anger. Dreams were cruel. She had actually thought he had come. How could she be so stupid. She slammed her fist down hard into the the pillow beside her making it groan. Stupid! Stupid! Stup- wait..sense when did pillows groan in pain? OH MY GOSH! Riley jumped up covering her mouth with her hand in surprise. Staring down at her bed, she couldn't help the foolish looking grin that took over her mouth. She gaped down at Peter with sympathy as he held his stomach tightly where her fist and hit, gasping for air as it was suddenly knocked out of him waking him up. She rushed forward towards him.
"Peter.." She started to laugh at the scene of what had happened started to form together in her head. "I'm so .." Laughter. " I'm Sorry..I didn't.." Burst of laughter. " I didn't mean to..." She feel to the floor she was laughing so hard. Finally, taking a break from laughing to the fact of lack of air, she managed to get her composer back and go to Peter. He glared up at her obviously not liking being used as a punching bag. She smiled down at him then, moved to sit down beside him. " I'm sorry. I didn't realise you were there."
"Where well else do you think I would be!?!"
" I don't know. I just thought for a moment sense I didn't see you that maybe last night was just a dream...and..and I got angry and punched my pillow..which turned out to be you." She suddenly got very defensive. "So don't blame me! It's your fault! You shouldn't have been where my pillow usually is!" Peter rolled his eyes.
"OH my bad! I'm terribly sorry I took your pillows spot!" His voice dripped with sarcasm. Riley growled and got off the bed.
"I'm getting ready for school now if you don't mind!" Peter jumped up grinning.
"Great lets go!" Riley started at him dumbfounded. Can we say multiple personality disorder?
" I hate it when you do that!" She forcefully jerked her closet open pulling out a shirt.
"Do what?" He smiled happily.
" You are totally mad at me one second and then the next your perfectly happy!"
"I don't do that." he stated innocently.
"Uh, yes, you do."
"Do not!"
"Do too!"
"Do not!"
"Do to- wait no! I am NOT starting another one of these fights! I know you are just trying to frustrate me! I'm not going to argue with you. I am just going to get ready for school in peace!" Peter chuckled putting his hands behind his neck and leaning back like he was on something and floating around the room. He wore a playful grin on his face circling around her.
"Aww..your just mad cuz you know you won't win!" She rolled her eyes at his comment unfolding a pair of clean shorts to wear.
"Ya thats it." And to think I actually missed him! Peter continued.
" I knew it! Your just chicken! Most girls are though when they are against me.." Riley sighed frustrated. Thats it. Reaching up she grabbed a hold of the back of his shirt and gave it a hard tug. Peter unprepared for the sudden jerk, lost his balance in the air and fell straight down. "WOAHHH!" With a *BAMB* he landed onto the hard unforgiving ground. Riley chuckled. I feel better now.
Peter sat up groaning. Note to self: Never boast in reaching distance of Riley Parkerson.
He shook his head. " So Rye, when do we go to school?" Riley glanced over at him.
" We aren't going to school. I am."
"Well what do you expect me to do all day!?"
" I don't know hang around the house.." Suddenly a picture of the house in flames and Peter flying around it flashed through her head. Her eyes widened. "On second thought no..you are not staying here alone."
"Then what do I do?" He could look for the Eye I suppose? No..what would people do if they saw a boy flying over them!? I shudder to think. Then what the hell am I suppose to do!?! He definitely can't go to school with me. Riley sighed. There was only one thing she could do. Play hooky.
~*~
"Stop fidgeting!"
" Sorry I can't get comfortable." Peter squirmed around under the covers trying to find a comfortable position while Riley shifted her legs around trying to make room for him to lye flat. She had to convince her dad she was sick, but first needed to hide Peter. She had first told him to get into the closet again, but he refused giving it a disdainful look muttering something about "bad past experiences" and "to close of contact." Rolling her eyes, she gave in searching for somewhere else for him to hide. After a long search, she came to realize the only other place to hide him was under the bed covers. Thats how they came to be at the current situation. Peter seemed to be enjoying the situation more than Riley though, who blushed madly any time he brushed up against her leg.
"Peter lye still! My dad should be coming in any second!"
"I'm trying!" He kicked his legs around at least a dozen more times before Riley kicked him to stop, hearing to door knob turn. She heard him mutter a soft "Ouch," but other then that he finally laid still becoming totally silent.
The door opened sluggishly to reveal Mr. Parkerson. He gasped down at his daughter is shock.
" Dear Lord Riley Danielle Parkerson is awake at 7:00 in the morning! I never thought I'd see the day!"
A hushed "To true.." made it's way to her ears from under the covers. She kicked him again shutting him up. Returning her attention to her dad she gave a pathetic smile up at him, before faking a slight cough.
" Well, don't get used to it. I'm only up because I feel horrible. I didn't get any sleep last night.." Hey! It wasn't a complete lie! Her father glanced down at her with a worried expression.
"Are you all right? Are you sick?" He made his way around her bed to feel her head for a temperature. Sure her head was warm, but not nearly hot enough for him to believe she was sick. He moved his hand away from her hand.
"Well, your head is hot." Riley laughed mentally. Obviously his doctoring skills were not to up to par, if he couldn't tell she had a normal temp. Oh well! All the better for me! He sighed. "If your really not feeling good maybe you should just stay home today." He patted her hand. "You sure you will be ok alone?" She coughed again.
"Ya, I'll be fine. I'm just going to go back to sleep." He nodded.
"All right I'll see you tonight when I get back home around 6:00 ok?"
"Ok." He stood up walking to the door.
"Rest up." With that he closed her door and was gone from sight. She waited till she heard the raising of the garage door and the start of the car engine, before throwing the covers of her and Peter and jumping up. She was already fully dressed and ready to head out for a long day of searching of a bird. Well, as ready as she was going to get anyway. She sighed to herself, before Peter and herself headed down stairs and out the front door to start the search.
~*~
Hook growled, making his way back towards the park. He had lost sight of Pan after chasing after him for quit a bit. It didn't matter how well of shape he was in. He just couldn't match up to the speed and energy of the boy. He wiped the sweat from his forehead. Getting lost on his way back to the park managed to torture him by making him walk all night trying to find it again. He snarled cursing. He was ready to give up of finding the park again, when suddenly, there it was off in the distance. He sighed finding the strength to quicken his pace and cross the street entering the park. He scanned the area looking for them all. Sure enough, there they were huddled together like scarred little girls. His men. His pirates. Pathetic. Why am I punished to have the biggest bunch of dolts for my men!? He rubbed his temple feeling the start of a headache. At least he had found them so they could start on there search for the Eye. He knew Peter would already be searching for the Eye, that is if he doesn't already have it, which he most likely doesn't. He will be searching for it though, no doubt going to find that girl to help him. He shook with anger remembering the girl and the way she had evaded him. She was just as bad as Pan. If not worse. At least she couldn't fly. He let out a frustrated sigh. Showing his anger towards the two teenagers was not the important thing right now. The important thing was to find the Eye of Neverland Before them. Then, he would take care of them. He grinned maliciously, going to round up his men. Pan and the girl would pay.
A/N: HEY!!! SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG TO GET OUT!! I've been so busy lately, but luckily I've been sick (Well, it's not lucky I've been sick for me, but it is for you!) ANYWAY, I'll I've been doing is writing all day! So I got this chapter done and most of the next one. So it shouldn't be long before I get the next chapter out! : ) I know nothing really happens in this chapter and it sorta drags, but I needed to get all the info in there. Next chapter will be the actual start of the search so it will be more active. *Grins mischievously* BUT ANYWAY, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO MY REVIEWS!!! I haven't been giving you enough credit for how great you are so I'm going to start thanking you personally! : )
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