Lily and Neal were being separated. Currently, Lily was being carried over Felix's shoulder to Pan's camp. Her hands and feet tied to together. She kept glaring at Peter, who was staring back with a smirk on his face.
"You won't get away with this. They always find a way to find each other!" Lily yelled at Pan. Lily thrashed around in Felix's arms. "Put me down. Let me at him!"
"Can you please gag her?" Felix asked Peter annoyed at the young girl. Peter shook his head and took Lily from Felix's shoulder and held her in his arm's bridal style. He stopped and let the boys continue walking back to camp.
"Put me down." She said dangerously.
"No." Peter said simply. Lily sighed in frustration before she flipped backwards out of his cradling arms. But, she fell straight to her butt afterwards. Peter smirked and held his hand out, but she got up by herself.
"Why do you have to be so stubborn?"
"Why can't you let us go?"
"Touche."
"Look. Just take me and let them go. Fair deal."
"No. You are not the heart of the truest believer anymore. You've been corrupted." She sighed.
"I fell in love once and he broke my heart. Is that it or was it that one time I let a guy, who obviously wasn't my one 'true love,' kiss me in the Enchanted Forest?"
"That's where you were?" Peter asked, trying to hide his guilt and jealousy.
"Maybe." She said, challenging him. He untied her feet and pulled her by the ropes on the hands.
"C'mon. I don't want you to miss the celebration."
"What celebration?" She asked, just as they arrived to the camp. She saw the bonfire and looked to Pan's hands to find the pipe.
Tiger Lily woke up inside Bae's cave. Her head was on Bae's lap, but he did not mind. He looked at her like a little sister, like family. Likewise, she looked at him like an older brother.
"Good morning! Hungry?" Bae asked. Lily nodded her head.
"Okay. Let's get going then." They both sat up and walked out of the cave cautiously.
"Baelfire?"
"Yes?"
"What are we hunting?"
"Anything really. If I find something, I try and eat it."
"Isn't that a bit dangerous?"
"Well... It's how I've been living." Tiger Lily instantly felt guilty for being a little mean.
"Sorry brother."
"Hey look it's okay. You don't have to say sorry about your questions towards me. You can ask me anything, okay?" Baelfire smiled at her.
"Okay." They continued on.
"I've got an idea." Tiger Lily said, "Let's split up!"
"No Tiger Lily! That's dangerous!"
"But, you always go by yourself!"
"But you haven't! Now, come along now. I think I see something up ahead." He said softly. She huffed and followed Baelfire because she trusted him.
Baelfire stopped Tiger Lily from getting any closer. He obstructed her view of what he saw. He quickly turned around and crouched down with Tiger Lily.
"You need to run as fast as you can back to the cave, okay?"
"Why? I won't let you die!" She whispered back.
"I'll be fine! Just go back and I'll be right there with the food! Start the fire, okay?"
"Okay." Tiger Lily said before she sprinted towards the cave.
Baelfire returned to his normal height and cautious walk towards the figure in front of him.
"Pan." Baelfire said, "What do you want?"
"I see you found a girlfriend."
"I found a way off this island without your help."
"Sure, but what will you do with the girl?"
"What do you mean?"
"Surely you can't bring her with you. She's just extra baggage for you."
"No. The deal was if I found a way off without you, I'll go with or without your permission."
"Which you still don't have, but she wasn't part of the deal."
"You won't do anything with her because she's going with me!"
"We'll see about that." Peter said before he vanished. Baelfire did a 360 before running forward trying to hunt for two.
Tiger Lily was running towards the cave until she stopped when she heard some odd yet delightful music. She walked towards it as if she was in a trance. She walked into a clearing, where she saw Peter sitting on a rock playing a pipe.
"That sounds lovely! Can you teach me how to play it?" Tiger Lily asked Peter.
"Well, hello to you too!"
"Sorry... I never heard something so... alluring before."
"It's okay Tiger Lily. No harm done."
"So can you?"
"Can I what?"
"Teach me silly!"
"Oh! I would-" He was interrupted by a blade of a sword cut into him from the side. Tiger Lily gasped and looked behind Peter to see a figure retreating from the scene.
"Wait! Stop!" She yelled at the person, but she knew it was useless. She caught Peter before he fell off from the rock.
"Peter! Stay awake, okay?" Peter nodded.
"In my tribe, I was one of the healers. Let me look at it." She lifted up his shirt to see the blade cut into his side to the middle of his belly.
"Spiritual or physical healer?" Peter asked trying to stay awake.
"Both. Good! Keep talking. I need you to stay awake Peter."
"Is it bad?" He said wanting to look, but Tiger Lily grabbed his chin and brought it back up.
"It's better and easier if you don't look." She said keeping eye contact with him. She looked back down. "Shouldn't you be healing now with your magic? Or is that not how it works?"
"The tip must have been coated with wolfsbane or something to stop the healing process." He said before groaning in pain from Tiger Lily getting him into a standing position. She was holding part of his weight.
"Is there a river or a stream near by?"
"There is a small cave that a stream goes through just up over there." He said as he pointed straight ahead of them.
"Okay. We'll be there soon."
"Here. Use my pixie dust to fly us there." He guided her hand to the necklace attached to the vial of pixie dust. She took it off of him.
"You sure?"
"Yes."
"Okay. You said so..." She said as she sprinkled the dust on both of them and she believed, for the both of them. They started flying to the cave.
"How is it that you don't know much about the island?"
"I don't go out of the tribe's territory a lot." She landed them outside of the cave. She dragged Peter into the cave and set him up so he was leaning against a boulder. He was breathing heavily.
"Here take this." She said as she handed him a canteen of water. He took a swig before placing it down. She ripped his shirt so she can clearly see the wound. The wound was still bleeding out. She held the canteen again.
"I'm going to clean the wound. It might sting, but that only means it's working." Peter nodded at Tiger Lily. She started pouring the water on the wound, cleaning it out. She heard him hiss.
"Told you." She mumbled. He chuckled, but it turned into a groan of pain. She looked up at him smiling.
"I'm going to have to stitch you up so you might want to think of something else." She said as she took her sewing kit out of her knapsack.
"Like what?"
"Your family, your friends, your problems other than this..." She suggested as she ripped his shirt even further to open up the space so she didn't accidentally sew the shirt and the wound together.
"Or me having to make a new shirt after this..." She chuckled at his witty comment. She started sewing the wound close. After the first stitch, he hissed and grabbed her arm.
"Hey, calm down." She said softly to him, "Think of your family."
"I don't have family. I'm an orphan."
"Okay... Think of something that makes you happy. Happy thoughts."
"I can't think of any."
"How is that possible Peter?"
"Nothing's impossible."
"Distract yourself because I really need to sew this up before it gets infected!"
"How?"
"I don't know think of something!"
"Don't you know some spiritual-" He was interrupted by Tiger Lily slapping her hand over his mouth.
"Then just suck it up!"
"Jeez..." She continued sewing the stitch up. Once again, Peter grimaced and stopped her. She looked at him with a "really Peter?" expression. He smiled back and asked, "Is there anything else to keep my mind off of this?"
"Keep talking while I sew." She went back to work.
"That's not going help..."
"You didn't even try it."
"I don't have to."
"Rant, Peter. Just rant."
"No I don't want to."
"You sure about that?"
"Yes. I'm quite sure!"
"You completely sure about that?"
"I'm quite sure, thank you very much!"
"Well..." She finished her last stitch by making a knot and cutting the sting off. "I'm done. See, I was right."
He sighed and looked down. He smiled at her. She ripped a part of her dress and dampened it with the water in her canteen. She started cleaning all the dried blood off from around his stitches, being carefully not getting the stitches wet.
"I got to go! Don't want anyone worrying about me now or I can't go into the jungle alone anymore!" She chirped. She went to leave, but Peter grabbed her wrist and pulled her back down.
"You're just going to leave me here?"
"It's quite save in here and you can walk in an hour. You're not dying right now silly!" Lily said, although she did not know he was actually dying very slowly right now.
"But, I need to get back home now."
"I do too!" Lily said as she got up to leave again. "Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to be heading back now."
"I do mind, Tiger Lily."
"What do you want me to do Peter?"
"Here take this." Peter held out some more pixie dust. "Fly me back to my camp. Please."
She nodded as she took the vial and sprinkled the dust on both of them. Little did she know that Peter wasn't believing for her. She was believing for the both of them.
Peter was in the center of the circle of Lost Boys. He was making a speech about victory and how they should continue the celebration. Lily saw Henry at the edge of the camp on the other side. He was laying down. Most probably still asleep, but it looked like he was waking up. Lily looked to Pan and all around her. She saw no one paying any attention to her and with that she discreetly rushed to Henry's side. She leaned near Henry's ear. He was still breathing.
"Henry, your grandparents and your parents are here to save you! Even Hook is planning on saving you! Don't tell Pan you know me. Don't tell him I told you." Lily whispered into his ear before she was yanked by braid by Pan.
"What were you doing?" Pan asked.
"Seeing if he was breathing. Don't want a dead kid now do we? Unless you do kill the Lost Boys off once they grow up." She snapped back. She made sure to make a quick glance at Felix.
"Just stay away from him. Okay?" Pan gently said as stepped closer to Lily and brushed a piece of hair behind her ear. She scoffed and stalked off into the shadows on the other side of the camp. She made sure to harshly bump his shoulder while she went past him.
"You know fire is dangerous." Felix told Pan.
"Only if it is not tamed." He replied. "I plan to douse her flames."
Henry groaned. Peter dismissed Felix to go watch Lily, who was sulking dangerously close to the edge of the camp.
"Ugh! What happened?" Henry asked.
"You fell asleep." Pan answered.
"I did?"
"Don't worry. It was just a little catnap." They both glanced behind Pan at the Lost Boys celebrating and dancing around the fire. "The night is still young."
"Wait. I remember something." Henry chose his words carefully. He wasn't sure about his father, but he was sure about Lily's voice. She wasn't suppose to be there, but he took her warning not to tell Pan about her seriously. "My dad. When I was asleep, I could have swore I heard him calling for me."
"Really?"
"Must have been a dream." Henry knew Lily may have been telling him his parents were looking for him, but he knows his father is dead. He didn't want to chance Lily's other warnings though.
"How can you be sure?"
"Because my dad's dead."
"I'm sorry Henry. It makes sense to dream about the things we lost and the things we hope for." Pan said glancing behind himself at Lily, whose face is barely seen if not for the fire in the middle of the camp, before turning back to Henry, who could not see who Peter was looking at. "Like your father being alive and your mother coming to find you. But eventually, you find new things to dream about. And when you do, it will start to come true."
"How do you know?" Henry asked, piecing together the truth that Pan wants him to believe, the one Henry is now starting to believe.
"Cause that's what I did. Now you're here. Neverland used to be a place where new dreams were born. You can bring that magic back Henry. We can be your family." Pan said smiling at the end. He got up and nodded at Felix. Felix went to the Lily and pushed them behind a tree out of Henry's view, before Henry could see her. Felix gagged her as well. Lily was trashing about against the tree. Felix hushed her by putting a knife at her neck before giving Peter a thumbs up. Peter gestured for Henry to stand up.
"I'll like to play a song. A song for our guest of honor, Henry." Peter started playing the pan pipe. He started playing the song that first Lily into a trance. Lily's eyes widened when she heard the song. Felix darkly chuckled. "You hear it don't you Tiger Lily?" She glared at him before kneeing him in the balls. She turned to face the fire, but it was too late. Henry was dancing around the fire. She heard him tell Pan he can hear the music now. Lily took a deep breath before turning around to Felix, who was in pain. She held her hand out to him to help him up. He looked at it and took her hand. Felix didn't hate Tiger Lily. He was quite fond of her actually. She was the opposite yet similar to Pan. He respected her because she would the most honest and wasn't afraid to stand for what is right and what her heart tells her. Felix found Lily refreshing. Lily pulled him up. He let go of her hand and walked back to the fire, sharpening his knife. She sighed and started to follow his lead, but Pan grabbed her shoulder and pulled her back to the tree.
"Can't have Henry seeing you now, can we?"
"He doesn't know me. I never actually seen him in person until today." She lied to Pan's face.
"I want to believe you, I truly do. But, I can't take a chance on that." He said stepping towards her. She took a step back.
"A chance on what?"
"If you're lying of course!"
"I'm not! You know me! I can't lie for shit!" He chuckled at her remark.
"True, but I can't take a chance, you've you changed Tiger Lily." Pan said.
"It's Lily now." He grabbed her arm and dragged her along the outskirts of the camp in the shadows. "Where are you taking me?"
"To my room."
"What? To keep me prisoner?"
"Would you much rather a cage like Baelfire?"
"No." She knew she had to protect Henry by staying close to him and that means she had to stay close to Peter, whether she likes it or not.
"Good. Now, I have a few rules for you." He said as he opened the tree's door. He gestured for her to go down the slide first. "Mi Lady."
"How charming." She sarcastically said as she rolled her eyes. She went down the slide and Peter followed.
"One. Stay away from Henry. Two, you may wander, but not too far. Three, don't try and be a hero. Four,-"
"This does not seem like a few rules to me." Peter sighed and sat down on the bed.
"Just trust me on this, okay?"
"Trust? Peter, that is the last thing you'll get from me."
"Why? Just because I protected you from the truth?"
"No, because you were planning to kill me."
Tiger Lily quickly dropped off Pan to his camp and dashed back to the cave, where she got back just in time to prepare a fire before Baelfire came back with a deer for dinner.
As soon as Tiger Lily ran away, Felix came out of the shadows while the other lost boys came out of their tree houses and went back to their daily lives on the island, consisting of hunting and playing.
"That's the one? The one with the heart of the truest believer?"
"Yep." Peter told Felix as Peter watched two boys play tag. One was running across the bridge that connects the tree houses while the other chasing after him.
"But Peter, I don't think she is going to be easy to trick."
"Oh I know."
"Then what's your plan?"
"Make her a lost one. Make her trust me blindly. And when the time is right, kill her."
"And the impending war between us and the tribe? She will never condone it."
"She doesn't have to know we are the ones fighting the tribe. We just need to make her believe someone else is attacking..."
"Who?"
"Hook." Pan turned and said. Felix nodded and turned to leave. "Oh and Felix?" Peter stopped him.
"Yes?" Felix turned around to face Pan.
"Next time I ask you to attack me with a sword dipped in wolfsbane, don't cut too deep."
"Sorry." Felix said before sulking away to another part of the camp. Peter grinned evilly as he traced the stitches with his finger. He got everyone on the palm of his hand.
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