The floorboards creek as the footsteps come closer. I can hear the water crashing into the side of the boat outside my cabin. Of course, today has bad weather, but I have no other choice. I won't stay any longer. Gripping the chair leg tighter I creep to the side of the door and wait for it to open. The door creaks open and the captain steps into the room, gazing around, searching for sings of me. And with that i grip the chair leg tighter and swing it at his face.

Of course, he happened to turn at that time and ducked just before it contacted his jawbone. The captain straightened and grabbed my arm before forcing me into a wall and grinning a toothless grin at me. My head swims with the contact and I try to keep my unfocused eyes on him, glaring at him.

"Ellie."

"Well laddy, you're in a right temper today aren't ye? What are we going to do about that eh?" He growls as he lifts his dagger and brings it down my collar bone. I yelp in pain as the blade cuts my skin and warm blood runs down into my shirt line.

"Ellie?"

"I say 10 slashes, given this is your 10th time trying to escape eh, love?" The captain continues as he brings his dagger down to my arm and cuts through it. This time my yelp turns into a cry of pain as tears burst forth and i try to remove is grip from me.

"Ellie!"

I can hear someone calling me, but I don't understand, the captain never used my name, and I don't remember this part of the memory...

"Ellie!" It calls again and my eyes snap open, revealing a face looming over me with hands gripping my shoulders.

I yelp and use my body to roll the person over so I'm kneeling over them, quickly I pick up a discarded sword that lays next to me and point it at the persons throat. Suddenly hands grip me under my arms and yank me away from the boy on the ground. I yell in protest before my eyes finally come into focus, revealing my little brother on the ground staring up at me in shock.

I drop the sword I'm carrying and go limp in what I assume to be Felix's arms as Charlie climbs to his feet. "Oh god, I'm so sorry Charlie!" I cry as I watch him in horror.

"S'ok" he replies as he picks his sword up off the ground where I dropped it and looks at me. "What happened to you?" he asks, watching me in concern.

Unconsciously my hands once again shift to my arms, and I yank my sleeves down further, just in time before Charlie sees. I can tell he saw my actions, but not what's underneath. I stand up straight and leave Felix's arms to look at my brothers both staring at me. The other boys surrounding us return to their activities and I notice that Peter is nowhere to be seen. "It's a long story, I'll tell you both another time but please not now." I plead as I look into their eyes. They both nod, with concern still present and I see Felix watching me with guilt plain on his face.

"Ellie," he slowly says, his deep voice reassuring me even after all this time, slowing my heart-rate. "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry I left, I just couldn't do it anymore." I nod, letting him no I understand, even though I don't really. But I can't help but want us to be a family again, so I push aside everything for a while and head towards where the bonfire was last night. I notice a boy still watching us in weird clothing, made of a different material and wearing colors I only see in flowers. As I watch him I can't help but notice the resemblance between him and Charlie.

He's standing there watching us but glances away when I look at him. I make my way over to him, and sit on the log next to him as he shifts uncomfortably. "Hi, I'm -" I begin, before he cuts me off.

"I know who you are. I saw you last night, you're Felix and Charlies sister." He interrupts, and smiles apologetically at me. I nod and smile back.

"So, who are you?"

"I'm Henry."

"You don't seem to be very into this Henry," I note.

"I'm not, Pan kidnapped me." Pan? Peter Pan, the voice in my head whispers.

"Peter kidnapped you?" I ask in doubt, I know there's something different about him, but he doesn't seem evil enough to kidnap someone. Perhaps you're wrong, the voice in my head whispers again.

"Yeah," he answers, "why?" Henry turns to fully look at me with a confused expression, i shrug and am about to reply when I hear Peter talk.

"Well, it seems our two guests have become acquainted," Peter remarks as he strolls over to sit on my other side, his legs only a few inches from mine.

"Peter," I hear Charlie say as he walks over to stand in front of us, Felix looming over his shoulder. "You aren't going to send her back are you?"

Peter turns to face Charlie and I notice his face softens fractionally as he looks at him, "No Charlie, I won't send her back. Who knows," he continues as he stands up again to look at me face on while backing up a few steps, not breaking eye contact, with a raised brow. "Perhaps she'll be of use to us, after all, you did say she told wonderful stories." Peter's eyes have now gained a darker quality and I notice Felix standing stiff as a board next to Charlie. I glare at Peter.

"Those days are behind me." I reply frostily as I continue to not break eye contact with Peter, and I see a shift in his eyes, like the news upsets him. Curiously, I wonder whether it's because I'm not playing along with his game, or because it's obvious a lot has happened since then.

"Well then," he continues, still watching me, as he crosses his arms over his chest, and I try to discreetly admire his chest and arm muscles. "We'll just have to see how you fair in fighting, come on Charlie, let's see what your sister can do."

The lost boys, as Peter calls them, stop their tasks and surround me and Charlie as they form a circle around the two of us. Peter and Felix walk backwards into the crowd and Peter watches with an amused smirk and a malicious gleam in his eyes as Felix stands stiffly, obviously worried about this confrontation. Someone throws me a sword and I catch it deftly in my hand before raising it to meet Charlies. A smile appears on my face as I watch Charlie look at me with an embarrassed smile. "Just like old times brother." I say as I take a step towards him.

"I'm so going to get my butt kicked," he replies as he walks forward to meet me. This causes the crowd to stir, before cheers for Charlie ring out and our blades finally clang together. It takes all of 15 seconds for Charlies sword to fly across the circle into the dirt and my sword sitting at his throat. Charlie had sure gotten better since he last saw me, but he was still no match. Silence meets me as I drop my sword from his throat to look around and see the lost boys watching me in admiration. Peter looks impressed and Felix has relaxed so he now has a sly smile on his face.

"Well well, we've got a swordsman in our ranks," Peter says as he steps forward with a smile on his face. It's almost genuine, and I can see something in his eyes, is that admiration as well? I can't help but be proud of what I've just achieved. "Now, lets see how you fair with some others. Felix! Edmund! Alex!" Peter calls, and my brother enters the circle along with two other hulking figures. Gosh these boys look vicious. Felix has a smirk on his face but his eyes twinkle concern as he looks at me and Charlie and Henry are watching worriedly as the boys advance on me. I won't lie, I'm a bit worried as well, but when I first learnt to fight I faced more boys than this. I should be fine.

Soon enough we're fighting, clashing swords and ducking blows, Felix swings his club at me but I can tell his heart isn't really in it, so I decide to get him angry. With one quick slash I nick a cut into Felix's forearm, he looks up in surprise and I smirk at him. "Come on Felix, you can do better then this!" He smirks back and I can tell I've finally gotten him into it as he swings his club and I jump over the top of it before turning to meet one of the other boys swords. I kick him in the gut and he flies backwards into the sand as I turn to block another of Felix's blows. Quickly I catch the eye of Peter and he's watching my every move with a smile on his face, and I realize this one is genuine, I don't even think he knows he's wearing it.

After a few minutes one boy is down for the count and it's just me, Felix, and one who clearly doesn't like me very much considering how much it appears he's trying to behead me. My strength is draining and I finally manage to sweep out the other boys feet before turning back to Felix and ducking another attack by his club. He's got an exhilarated smile on his face as we face each other, and then he glances behind me and his face turns panicked as I realize the other boy must already be up. Swiftly I turn around and jump back just in time to avoid a slash that would have probably killed me.

But the blade catches the material of my neck hole and cuts it through to just below my shoulder, exposing my neck and collar bone. I hit the boy in the head with the but of my sword before sighing with relief, only to turn back to Felix and see him gazing at my neck and shoulder in horror. I turn around confused and see all of the boys staring at me in either shock, horror, confusion, or a mixture of them. Peter is glaring at the boy on the ground with ice cold eyes, and then he turns to me and also catches sight of me, before his face takes on an identical form to Felix's. Okay, now I'm confused.

I look down and suddenly see the reason behind everyone's horror. The cut the boy had done exposed my neck and collar bone. And with that, it exposed my scars. I gasp in surprise and pull my head up to meet the eyes of Felix, Peter and Charlie, even the boy who just tried to kill me is looking at me in sympathy, while Henry just stands there like he understands what happened. They all could see the think pale pink marks that covered my neck and collar bone, and extended down my arms under my shirt.

Suddenly its too much for me. People have no right to look at me and judge what happened, nobody knows, nobody understands. Tears form in my eyes as everyone watches me and Felix steps forward, "Ellie-".

But before he can say anymore I run, and the tears begin to fall. I break through the crowd of lost boys and take off into the forest. They saw, a voice says to me, they saw, and now you're going to be some ugly charity case. I run and run until I collapse on the ground and begin to sob. I swear, if I ever see another pirate again I'll kill them, I think to myself as I lay there on the leaves looking up at the trees.

Of course, I should have been careful what I wished for.

I'm so sorry guys, I know I said we'd see Emma and them this chapter but it ended up being too long, so next chapter. At least you got to see Henry. :)

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