Okay next chapter, lol getting tired now... It's like 01:25am for those of us in the UK LOL. And have to be up early for work, so may make this my last chapter. For tonight anyway LOL

Right on with it. Whack these out.

Chapter 12: A Test of Faith

Lucy lay once again upon the cold floor of the cave she was eternally trapped in. Or so it seemed that way. Looking about her, she sat up slowly, feeling a new sense of courage in her soul. It was almost as if she was being moulded into what she had always wanted to be.

She wondered what had just happened, she saw her father vanish before her eyes. Maybe she was asleep and this was all a dream, maybe she was still lying asleep next to Captain Hook.

She didn't know, but she wanted to find out. Pinching herself she jumped a little at the pain. So this couldn't be a dream. Then what was going on?

Sitting up and pulling her legs to her chest a little, she heard movement in the darkness. A little girl walked out, slightly startled by the little girl, Lucy dropped her stiff form.

The little girl she was looking at was her younger self. Young Lucy, held a rag doll that Lucy didn't recognise in her hands. She walked over slowly and sat next to older Lucy, humming a soft song called 'Scarborough Fair.' Lucy recognised the song, but didn't understand why her younger counterpart would be humming it. Lucy never got the chance to go to Scarborough Fair, her father wouldn't let her.

"What's your name?" Asked the young girl. Looking up to her.

"My names Lucy, just like you..." She trailed. Younger Lucy looked a little startled at to how she knew her name.

"I want to go home..." The young girl spoke innocently. Lucy knew how she felt. This place wasn't exactly home to her either. Leaning back on her hand, Lucy watched the young girl play.

"Why are you so mean to daddy?" She asked. Lucy looked at her innocent form; she hadn't a chance of understanding.

"Father is no ordinary father." Was as simple as she could put it. The young girls head turned to look Lucy in the eyes. She pulled Lucy forward to her by the strap of her dress, as hard and as fierce as she could muster.

Lucy, so startled by the turn and strength in the young girl mentally tried to push herself away and succeeded in actually moving herself. Her body moved across the ground out of the girls reach.

Hitting the wall, Lucy looked to the girl.

"You will come with me and I will lead you to your family." the girl tried to sound innocent. Lucy was having none of it though, she shook her head slowly.

"Your not who I think you are." Just as Lucy had said that the bright red glow left the girl and her form slumped to the floor. Lucy a little worried stayed where she was. The young girl lifted her head pleading with Lucy to come help her.

"Help me Lucy! He's going to take me away with him, help me!" She cried out. Lucy had to admit she was tempted. But something was holding her back, like a strong will that just said, no don't go near her.

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Back in the real world. Wendy, Peter and Hook had been hanging around the chamber for almost for days. None of them had eaten, none of them had drunk, and none of them had dared to leave.

Standing Wendy began to make her way out. Peter stopped her.

"But Lucy..." He inquired. Did she not care anymore? Wendy smiled a little and took his hand,

"Come with me..." She asked lovingly of him. But he didn't understand the love side of things. So he accepted her invitation, thinking they were off on another adventure. It would give Hook and Lucy to be alone once again for a short while.

Turning to him Wendy asked,

"Call for me, if she wakes." Nodding he watched them depart, before taking a seat next to her form.

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Wendy and Peter walked for a little way before they came across a fruit tree with apples and berries upon it and around it.

Wendy stopped turning to Peter as he floated back down to the ground gently with the apples, placing them in the back pack.

"Peter?" She asked gently. He looked to her and smiled his cheeky smile.

"Peter I know you don't believe in love and growing up. That me having a child of my own must be a burden for you to bear. But you see I had to grow up in the real world. I had to be an adult. But I didn't like it. And as hard as I tried, I could never forget you. But as I got older, you grew on me more as a woman. I imagine you an adult and the things we could do...together." She blushed then finished, letting him talk now.

But he didn't, he just looked at her and smiled, offering her his hand. She looked at him quizzically, as she took his hand. And they drifted up into the air. Whispering to her, he pulled her close to his chest.

"I love you Wendy." He said simply. Those words, she thought she would never hear. Where like the icing on a beautiful cake to her. She wrapped her arms around him as they slowly danced, like they had done when she had first come here.

"Peter?" She asked again, he lifted his head to look in to her eyes.

"But I didn't think you could love, what about everything that you said to me before?" she asked. He smiled and let go of her gently so she could float on her own for a second.

He gently spun around in the air and for the first time since she had seen him, she noticed he'd grown, his voice had changed very slightly and he had grown up. All be it very little he had grown some since she'd gone.

"But how? This is Neverland, the place where people don't grow up!" He floated back to her and wrapped his arms around her pulling her to him slowly once again.

"A lot changed after you left, after Hook left. There was no reason not to have a little fun growing up here on my own.

Then the lost boys came and I started controlling my growth. I can do that you know." Peter smiled innocently as ever. She laughed a little.

He kissed her forehead lightly and they remained dancing in their perfect sky for a little while longer, until it was time to head back to Lucy.

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Lucy had stayed way back from the creature. She knew there was just something that said, help the poor innocent child, but unfortunately Lucy couldn't bring herself to actually do it.

Her faith was in god, that god or whatever controlled their tiny part of the universe would see the young girl through. And he did.

Though Lucy had to witness a lot more horror in between.

Sorry I have to end it here its like 02:24 and I have to be up at like 07:45 LOL anyway, I'll write more tomorrow, I promise ;)