Desperate Romantique- I promise Wendy/Peter stuff no need to worry about that. Lots of other stuff too, can't say much or else I'll give the outcome away lol ;) Oh and sorry for it being a fast chapter, just was working on an idea for all.
Anyway on with it, I'm on a roll now LOL.
Chapter 11: A Test of Courage
Lucy had felt herself falling, had felt an everlasting amount of pressure being added to her whole body. She had lost all sense of vision, had lost all sense of co-ordination and had been shoved into what felt like an eternal darkness.
Eventually Lucy lost all sense of concentration of all knowing. She eventually found herself lying on the cold hard floor. Smooth rock underneath her. When she opened her blurry eyes, she couldn't focus yet very well and she slowly clambered to her knees, then eventually her feet.
She looked around, she could see nothing. There was no more wind or rain, or clattering of thunder, blasts of lightening. Standing fully, she made her way steadily across to the way she thought she'd come in. But as held her hands out in front of her, she came to a dead stop. There was a wall.
Following the wall for what seemed like hours, she finally came to the conclusion that she was locked in the cave. Maybe their had been a cave in and she had been trapped inside.
"JAMES!" She shouted, repeatedly, but still to no avail. Lucy was now getting scared, lonely and afraid. She didn't understand what had happened. The bright lights from before were gone. Maybe he'd planned it, maybe he had run and left her hear. To die, or to be held prisoner here.
Either way she felt cold and alone.
"Lucy..." Came a voice she knew all too well. Turning slowly to face her father, she felt her back press against the wall. She was terrified, like she had never been terrified before. She knew her father would follow her somehow, and now he was in Neverland, maybe when she had been unconscious days ago, maybe then he had arrived and Hook had locked him away in here. Had hook not understood her when she told him of the stories, of the pain that her father had inflicted upon her, had he not heard; or did he simply not care? Was what they had this night nothing to him, was she just another of his whores, locked away now his chamber. Would this be where she died?
She felt as though she was going to throw up, her whole self was more terrified now than she had been on the night she first ran away from this very man.
Stretching out her arms she desperately searched for an exit, any kind of exit, anything to put some distance between her and her father.
"Lucy, you shouldn't have run away... You know that was a very bad thing you did and I am not best pleased." He spoke deep and one toned, he was full of all the imaginable hate that the devil could dish up on a plate and serve to a human.
"Father..." Lucy attempted to try and calm him, but he was no longer a one time man, he was here for a reason and that was to kill Lucy, his only daughter.
"Father you can't, have you no shame? I am your daughter, your soul; I am a part of who you are!" She pleaded. But once again this was over looked; he neared her more and more, every step sending a chill through her body, sending another wave of pain in her stomach. Any second all her fears would be across the cold stone floor.
"You are nothing, you are weak and pathetic, and you are a dead flower a rose with thorns. Lucy Chapman you are failure, and you deserved to be squashed, destroyed, eliminated like the pain you are."
Lucy felt close to tears, her father words were like knives in her heart. She started to round away from him, as he followed her around the room, spitting nasty words at her with every step away she took. She felt herself wanting to crumble; she had felt herself beginning to give into to what he was saying.
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Wendy had been sat leaning back against the wall, watching Hooks every move as Hook stayed in the darkness. Though whilst her daughter was fighting her own personal battle with whatever she was fighting at the moment; there was another battle going on right before her. Between Peter and Captain Hook himself.
Captain Hook had so far kept his promise to Wendy about not hurting her, the lost boys or Peter. For that she was grateful. But Peter had that mischievous look in his eye, that she knew all too well, the one that could turn James into Captain Hook within moments.
"How did you survive?" Peter asked of him, child like.
"Poison... You know that..." He trailed. Of course Peter knew that. Peter Pan knew everything.
"I should finish you where you stand!" Peter blurted out mid thought. This caught Wendy's attention and she instantly looked up to him.
"Peter!" She spoke harshly. He looked to her with an 'oh but!' kind of a look. Coming out from the darkness, Captain Hook walked further across to his one time enemy.
"You can try but you shall not succeed Pan!" He growled.
"Captain!" Wendy growled too. "Both of you stop it! This has to end, right here and right now!" Before either man or boy had the chance to speak, the light began to fade all around them. Wendy turned her head immediately towards where Lucy still floats mid air.
"What's happening?" She asked, walking across to her. Not getting to close for fear of getting blow away again. The elderly woman once more appeared.
"Lucy is in the midst of her courage battle..." She spoke coarsely. Wendy looking to her as the man and boy, who now approached; did too.
"Why is light getting dimmer?" Peter asked, looking to the old woman. Her eyes focused on the boy who would one day face three tests of his own.
"The light being bright signifies that the girl is in a happy safe and confident approach to life, that she is winning her current battle. As the light dims, it means the opposite. That she is loosing her battle, getting weaker."
Wendy already knew that was coming, but she didn't want to believe it. The light grew, and then fell. Grew and then fell again.
Looking up to the daughter she did not recognise anymore, she took a deep breath and whispered...
"Hang in there hunny, mummy's here with you." she spoke gently, the only way she knew how to comfort herself and send comfort to her daughter.
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Lucy was now on her knees, he was stood over her, shouting abusive language at her. She couldn't take much more, she had to be brave she had to be strong and fight away this thing that had replaced the father she remembered. But Lucy even though she was a fighter like her mother, could barely hang on to a single strand of courage.
Lucy saw an image appear across from her, it was her life, her mother and she watched on her father, the man she had admired as a child proceeded to make her mother, Lucy's mother break down. The man she had called 'father' was no more a father to Lucy now. As Lucy watched images fill her view of her mother finally succumbing to marry him, after threats of money worries and status.
She watched on as her mother struggled through life with her 'father'. Then her birth, then her passing. Her father had been a bastard from day one; he'd slept with women behind Wendy's back and had several other children. An anger began to fill Lucy as she struggled to breath on the floor. Still her father standing and shouting at her.
The images before her sped up, the shouting got louder, her breaths got shorter. Until she finally broke. Lucy finally found her courage and her body flew backward up to her feet. She threw her fist at her estranged father, hitting back with everything she had.
Lucy stepped forward feeling stronger than ever. Her fist making contact with him, his form falling backwards over and over, until his bloody form fell gently to the ground. Disappearing.
Darkness once again consuming Lucy.
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A blast of pure white light left Lucy's form and she glowed with a purity that attracted the attention of her mother, Peter Pan and Captain Hook. They all looked from her to the old lady, who smiled with wisdom.
"Test one is complete."
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Okay magical mystical stuff happening there, sorry if it's a bit out of character for what would happen in the land of Neverland. But who knows, maybe this sort of thing could happen there?
