"Pan, come on," Bra urged. "Let's go home now."

"In a minute," Pan said, peering into the jewelry in a shop window. "Isn't that pretty?"

Bra sighed, but went over to Pan. "Sure, but tell me something, was it really necessary to stay at the mall until it closed?"

"Yes," she said. "Why limit myself? I wanted to look around for as long as I could."

"You did more than just look," Bra teased.

She looked down at the bags in her hands and smiled. "Guess so."

Bra took her arm. "Come on, we're leaving even if I have to drag you away from this window."

Pan let Bra pull her down the sidewalk. "Did you see the size of that emerald in the silver necklace? It was beautiful."

Bra released her arm and kept walking, in the hopes that Pan would follow. When she realized that her plan wasn't going as she hoped she turned to see Pan back at the window again.

"Pan!"

"Just one more look," she replied.

Bra groaned and continued down the street. "I'm leaving..."

"My house isn't too far from here," Pan said, quietly.

A cool wind passed over Pan, blowing her clothes, hair and shopping bags about. She dropped her shopping bags and closed her eyes. When the wind calmed, she pushed a lock of black hair out of her eyes and turned.

She was left looking into eyes that were like the emeralds in the jewelry store window. Pan stared into those eyes in awe, almost afraid to look away from their intensity and beauty.

Dark smiled. "Hello."

She blinked. "Uh...hi."

He took her hands into his and raised them. Her eyes widened, but she didn't protest. He released her left hand and raised her right to his lips, never taking his eyes off of her. He laid a chaste kiss against the back of it.

"Who...who are you?" she stammered.

"My love, you may call me Dark," he said.

"Dark," she repeated.

He glanced at the store window. "If it is jewels you desire, then jewels you will have."

"What..."

In an instant he was gone and she stood on the sidewalk alone. She turned and peered into the window. She gasped and pressed her hands to the glass.

Dark was inside, but moving so fast his form was a blur moving about the small shop. Bra ran over to Pan and looked as well.

"What's going on?" she asked.

"There's a man in there..."

"Stealing jewels?" She frowned. "We have to stop him."

"Wait," Pan said, putting out her arm in front of Bra. "Listen, none of the alarms are going off. There's something different about this man. He's seems somewhat familiar, but I don't recognize him."

Dark appeared on the sidewalk next to Pan again and she whirled around to face him. He held out his hands to her and they were filled with jewelry and gold and silver trinkets.

Pan looked up at him, but didn't touch the jewelry. He waited for her to respond, but Bra did first.

"Thief!" she cried, lunging at him.

He easily dodged her. "Bra, what are you trying to do?"

She paused. "You know my name?"

He nodded. "Of course."

"But how?"

He smiled, slowly. She frowned and came at him again. He stepped aside and she stumbled into the glass door of the jewelry store. Alarms started to blare and she stepped back in surprise.

Dark quickly made his way over to Pan and cupped her face in his hands. "Until we meet again." He tilted her head and bent down, laying a soft kiss on her lips.

He pulled away from her and levitated into the sky. He looked down at her and gave her one last seductive smile before disappearing into the night.

"Wait," Pan said, softly taking a few steps. She looked up into the sky and sirens wailed in the distance. "Don't go..."