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Chapter 15

You could feel the explosion before you saw it. Hook smiled as he felt the Jolly Roger rock slightly. Moments later there was a flash of light and the Never forest shook in the blast. A dark cloud rose high above Neverland and where Hangman's tree use to be. Robert stood with his mouth open wide and tears in his eyes.

"Robert remember the film." Christopher said quietly. It took a moment for the words to reach Robert but when they did he could not help but smile.

"See boy's Peter won't be saving you or anyone ever again." Hook shouted. "Who still wants to sign up. Remember pen or the plank."

At the Darlings home

"Jennifer I do not need to see a doctor. No offense doc" Roger said as he paced in the middle of the nursery, with his wife sitting on the edge of Samantha's bed and a doctor, following behind him with a clipboard.

"So Roger how long have you felt unwell?" The doctor's voice was calm and soothing.

"I feel fine" Roger replied with a hint of anger in his voice.

"How long have you been angry?"

"Currently a few moments but life wise. All the time!" Roger started at his wife. He knew she was worried about him but he was really rather frustrated now. "Look if you could just go. I mean I can't be on top form seeing that my children are missing and the last thing I did was shout at them" Roger ran his hands over his face. "I am more than happy to continue this conversation after my children have returned."

"But I think…" The doctor stammered

"Jennifer if you could show the kind doctor to the door." Jennifer stood and indicated for the doctor to follow her. When they that both left the room Roger paced faster and mumbled to himself. A few short moments later Jennifer came back into the room, she took one look at her husband and said

"I'm bringing the doctor back"

"No Jennifer its not me it's . . .it's Sam she's been hurt. .I think. . Something big has happened and she is panicking. There is nothing I can do to help her."

"Are they all okay?" Jennifer asked quietly.

"I think so but I can't be sure.

Outside Hangman's tree

Samantha stared at the sight before her; Hangman's tree bore no resemblance to what it was before. The top part of the tree had all collapsed on itself and there was mud and parts of roots thrown all over the place. Samantha clambered to her feet and stumbled forwards slightly. She ran her hands over her face and neck.

"Thank goodness, no blood or cuts" Samantha sighed. As she took a few steps she realised that her ankle throbbed "So a sprained ankle, great!" Samantha sighed and knew that she really should be grateful that all she got was a sprained ankle. She hobbled to where the entrance used to be and she started digging. She pulled at anything that would move.

"Come on Peter stay with me. I will find you, please don't die please!" Samantha repeated to herself, as with each centimetre she cleared she knew she was getting closer to him.

Deep within the rubble of Hangman's Tree.

Peter slowly opened his eyes; his head hurt and his whole body ached. He tried to take a deep breath but he couldn't, as there was something on his chest. He strained his neck to see if he could see what it was, through the darkness he managed to see that it was branch from the Hangman's tree. He lent back and rested his head on the floor. Peter frowned, "I'm not going to be able to say goodbye to Samantha." Through the silence he hear the faintest of bells. "Tink are you in here?" A quite jingle replied. "You came back Tink, I can't believe you came back! After what I said to you" Peter smiled. "Are you hurt Tink?" another fainter jingle "Oh." After a moment Peter shouted "Don't let your light go out Tink. If you can come to me get here. Tink you mean more to me than anything in this world, don't let your light go out!" Peter then started to kick out to try and move the piece of tree pinning him to the ground. "Tinkerbell!" Peter shouted Tink faintly responded "Don't you dare Tink, don't you dare!" At that moment the ceiling decided it could no longer take it and collapsed on top of our beloved Peter Pan. Several large pieces fell upon Peter and a cloud of dust made him cough. "Oh my head" Peter groaned "Tink" Peter's head was spinning and it hurt. He closed his eyes in an attempt to stop the room from spinning. "Don't leave me Samantha, please don't leave me"

Outside Hangman's tree

Samantha clawed at the ground and felt when it gave way. "No don't do that, that is very, very bad." Samantha moved several branches out of the entrance and managed to make enough space for her to climb into. Samantha slowly made her way into Hangman's tree. The slide that she had used before was covered in debris, there was dust in the air and Samantha could not see much in the darkness. "Peter! Can you hear me! Shout, scream, bang something, so then I know which way I am meant to go." Samantha sighed. "Just give me something, anything. Please." Samantha closed her eyes and tried not to cry. Through the silence she heard a jangle of bells. "Tink!" Samantha's eyes flew open and she turned to her left. "Tink if you can jingle again" again there was a small faint jingle. "I promise I will find you Tink, just hold on." Samantha was now frantically pulling at the debris. "Just hold on!" after a few more branches and handfuls of mud was removed Samantha found Tinkerbell. She was lying on a small ivy leaf, her light was fading and she was finding it hard to move. "Hey Tink, I am so glad I found you." Samantha smiled, taking Tink in her hands Samantha slowly raised her to her face and whispered "I do believe in fairies and Tink I do believe in you" Samantha repeated this getting louder and louder. After a few moments Tinkerbell's light started to become brighter and brighter. After a little while longer Tink we back to full bright.

"Tink are you okay?"

"I think so, thank you so much Sam." Tink smiled as she slowly stood up. "From what I could tell Peter should be just over there." Tink pointed to the right of Samantha.

"So if I dig in that direction you think we should find him?"

"Yes"

"Here goes nothing" Samantha said. Samantha managed to pull many pieces of wood out of the way and push dirt to the side, yet after a while she could not help but feel defeated. "I am never going to find him, all this will be in vain because I could not find him in the rubble." Samantha sighed "The last thing he said to me was I love you and I ran away! I will never have a chance to tell him that I have always loved him" Samantha wiped away several falling tears.

"You will have a chance we are nearly there!" Tink said trying to be upbeat but she felt as defeated as Samantha.

"Wait Tink. I am sure that I dig up here." Samantha stretched her hands above her head and pushed on the ground above her. She felt it bend and slowly is started to break apart. "This way we, I can put debris out the way properly." After a few more minutes the hole was large enough for Samantha to climb out of if she needed to. "Okay." Samantha knelt back on to the floor of the hideout and started digging towards where Tink thought Peter was. Samantha was concentrating so hard on digging that when Tink tried to get her attention Samantha did not hear her.

"Sam!" Tink yelled, still Samantha did not respond "Fine we'll do this the old fashion way" Tink smiled and flew behind Samantha's head and grabbed a section of her hair an pulled with all her might

"OW, Tink was that necessary!" Samantha said as she ran her hand over the back of her head.

"Look" Tink flew down and pointed at something on the dirty ground. Samantha's eyes followed Tink and rested upon a triangular piece of green material with a red feather.

"Oh Tink it's Peter hat we have to be…."

"Samantha" Tink interrupted.

"What Tink?" Samantha asked as she picked up the hat.

"Look"

Samantha raised her eyes and looked upon a still, tanned hand.

"Peter!" Samantha shouted.