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Chapter 16

Samantha clawed at the dirt with all her might, while shouting for Peter to answer her. Peter could not respond, as he could not hear her. He lay still his mind full of dreams.

"Peter I have to go home. I love being here but I can't stay a child forever" her voice was soft and kind.

"Why not?" Peter asked as he tilted his head to one side

"I want to grow up."

"Why that's boring and not interesting at all" Peter folded his arms across his chest.

"That maybe but it's what is going to happen to me while I am growing up I am most looking forward to." She smiled as she tucked a loose strand of dark brown hair behind her ear. "Peter I want to meet a man, who sweeps me off my feet and I fall head over heels in love with him. He will be kind and gentle. He will propose on one knee and we would be married in the spring. We will have two children a boy and a girl. We will grow old together and watch our grandchildren and our great grandchildren grow up around us."

Peter just sat for a moment looking at her, a slight smile form on his lips and he said.

"Wendy if that is what you want then you should have it." He stepped towards her and placed a hand on her arm "Though I will miss you."

"I will miss you too Peter Pan but I will make sure every child in my family from now until the end of time knows about you and your adventures." Wendy smiled.

"Peter please answer me" Samantha shouted as she fought with a large piece of branch.

"Wendy? Is that you?" Peter practically whispered so quietly Samantha could not hear him. Samantha started to cry as she pulled the branch, which was still refusing to move.

"This branch will move!" Samantha shouted. "I don't care that it's probably bigger than I am, it will move!" Samantha pulled the branch with all her might and it suddenly slipped free "I did it." Admittedly it wasn't the whole branch Samantha held but it was enough for her to be able to remove other pieces so she get to Peter. She threw the branch through her ceiling hole. Pausing for a moment she took Peter's hand in her's and said "I will get you out of here, I promise." Samantha then set about digging again. Peter on the other hand had slipped back in to unconsciousness.

"Wendy!" Peter shouted as he hovered above the Darlings nursery balcony. "Wendy!" After a few minutes Peter flew into the nursery, he slowly looked around nothing had changed since he lasted visited. The door to the nursery then flew open and a woman walked in.

"Hello Peter." He recognised the voice but he could not place the face.

"Sorry I am looking for Wendy, Wendy Darling?" Peter stared at the woman.

"Peter I'm Wendy. You have been gone for ten years. I'm twenty four now." Wendy smiled. Peter flew closer and tipped his head on the side and looked deep within her eyes.

"Wendy it is you" Peter smiled. "Your old!" he exclaimed

"Thank you Peter" As he looked her over he notice she was slightly larger than he remembered.

"You got fat" Peter stated flatly as he took up his usual cross-legged position in the air.

"Peter I did not get fat." Wendy smiled and sighed. "I am having a baby." Slowly she moved and sat on what was her old bed. "Peter a lot has changed since you last visited." Wendy smiled. "I met a man." She blushed. "Oliver. I fell in love, deeply in love. We married and now I am expecting our first child"

"Sounds boring." Peter sighed.

"No Peter, it is an awfully big adventure." She smiled.

Samantha finally broke through to the small area where Peter was lying.

"Come on Peter wake up" Samantha shook his shoulders and Peter did not move "I guess I am going to have to get you out of here on my own" Samantha pushed the large branch off Peter's chest and unceremoniously pulled Peter by his arms through the small hole and out though the hole in the ceiling. Samantha collapsed on to her back and took a deep breath, now she had stopped moving she realised that her hands, wrists and ankle hurt like mad. "Peter" Samantha called with out sitting up "Peter answer me"

"Would be an awfully big adventure" Peter mumbled. Samantha sat bolt up right and looked at Peter. His chest was now not moving. All pain forgotten Samantha stood and ran to him.

"No Peter that sentence better not have started with 'To Die' I will scream." Samantha said. Tink then jangled in her ear. "I know he's not breathing. Tink I need to think. What's CPR, CPR…Come on think" Samantha stared at Peters lifeless body. "Okay so check airway." I opened Peter's mouth and it looked empty. "Um what else do they do on ER. Um" Samantha closed her eyes. "Hands on of each other, use the heel of my hand on his chest." Samantha placed her hand in the middle of Peter's chest. "And it's press to the tune of Nelly the elephant." Samantha then started she did one breath for every verse of Nelly the elephant. After five minutes there was no change in Peter and Samantha's arms ached and her wrist throbbed. "Tink it's not working. I don't what to do now." Tears then started streaming down Samantha's cheeks as she placed her head on Peter's still chest. "He's dead and it's all my fault. Neverland is going to die and I am the one who caused. I killed Peter Pan" Samantha shouted, her sobs getting louder and faster until she could not breath properly any more. By her right ear Tinkerbell said

"Sam you forget, as long as there are story's about him and children talk about his Peter Pan will always live. You will never stop people believing in him and Neverland"

Samantha raised her head slightly and slowly her tears stopped falling she then started to say quietly.

"I do believe in Peter Pan. I do believe in Peter Pan." She was repeating it over and over again until Tinkerbell started to join in to. They were getting louder and louder.

Across Never bay and upon the Jolly Roger a defeated Robert sat with tears still fresh in his eyes, and then as if hearing something he frowned and then smiled. Robert then started chanting, "I do believe in Peter Pan, I do believe in Peter Pan."

Without questioning Christopher took his brothers hand and started chanting with him. The lost boys looked around the ship and passed uncertain glances with each other and then they started chanting. Hook who was within his quarters jumped out of his seat and said to Smee.

"What is that noise?"

"It's chanting Captain." Smee replied.

"Chanting?"

"They are chanting for Peter Pan"

By this time all the occupants (apart from the pirates) were chanting 'I do believe in Peter Pan'

The question you should have dear reader is...will chanting be enough?