Chapter 4: Forgotten Memories

Peter quickly pulled Maimie behind him then drew his dagger

"Stand back Maimie for she is a pirate"

"She is, I thought she told stories" Maimie asked back

"I think Peter certainly remembers you" John said turning to Wendy

"Stay back pirate or I will kill you" Peter said fiercely

"That wouldn't work here and even if it did there is to be no violence here" Solomon said

Peter looked up at Solomon then slowly put his dagger back into its holster, he then sternly looked at Wendy

"What do you want?" he asked her

"I just want to help you Peter" Wendy said "we all do"

"I don't need any help" Peter said

"I think you do" Wendy told him

"Well I seem to remembering things now, I remember you declaring that you were Red Handed Jill"

"Yes I did but there is more to it then that" Wendy said

"It doesn't matter I don't like pirates and that is what you said you were" Peter said "so just stay away from me"

Peter started heading deeper into the words and then sat up against a tree trying to clear his head, Maimie sat down right next to him

"Why do fight pirates?" she asked him

"I just do" Peter said "or I use to, there are not that many in Neverland anymore"

"What happened to them all?" Maimie asked

"I don't know maybe I killed them all"

Maimie just laughed, "since when did you kill things" she said

"I kill many things" Peter said proudly

"I don't remember you killing" she told him

"No, all right then what did I use to do when you knew me"

"I remember when you use to tell me about your adventures in the garden, I told you about how romantic they sounded"

"romantic" Peter said

"You do remember that romance does not mean I am despising you?"

"You think that romance means to be despised?" Wendy asked, she and her brothers had been listening and watching

"I know what it is" Peter said " I also know that it is meant for people who grow up"

"But you did grow up" Maimie reminded him

"I did not grow up" Peter replied back harshly

"Yes you did, why do I have to tell you this again, you were the same age as me when we met, now you are much bigger, which means that you grew up"

Peter was starting to get frustrated now, no one was going to tell him that he had grown up, just then more flashes started to come back from Peter's long distant past, it was memory of Maimie of the two of them talking all about his adventures and about the world outside the gardens. Peter looked down at Maime and as much as hated it admit to himself she wasn't so short in his memory.

"Well perhaps you just shrunk" Peter said looking down at Maimie

"People do not shrink" Maimie said laughing

"But people do grow" John added

Peter then looked up at Solomon, "why didn't you tell me that I was growing" he demanded to know

"You never asked?" Solomon said simply "and what did it matter, at the time you really didn't seem to mind"

"Of course I mind" Peter said " I don't want to grow up"

"Well you didn't now did you, you are still a child just not a small child and besides would you rather have remained a baby"

"Yes" Peter said with his arms crossed "well I didn't mind growing up a bit, but just a little bit, but not this much," just then Peter started to wonder just how much he had grown up and then looked back up at Solomon

"How much have I grown" Peter asked

"I would say you are almost on the cups of adulthood" Solomon said "did you really spend all this time believing you were still a small boy?"

"Well no one told me I was this old" Peter said "somebody should have said something"

Wendy couldn't help but laugh to herself, she should have guessed that Peter in his own mind was much younger then he actually was, I suppose when you have no one to tell you just how old you really are that it can happen, things also started to make sense for the 1st time.

"So you really believed that you were no more then the age of this little girl, no wonder Hook thought you couldn't love" Wendy said

"My name is Maimie, Maimie Mannering, I was the first person from the outside world that Peter ever met, right Peter"

"Were you?" Peter asked "I can't seem to make sense of everything that is inside my mind"

"What is inside your mind" John asked

"Well you three were playing with wooden swords and you were telling a story about some lady"

"That was Cinderella" Wendy said "you use to tell my stories to the lost boys"

"Lost Boys, why does that sound so familiar?" Peter asked

"They were friends remember, they came back from Neverland with us" John told him

"Oh I see" Peter said

"Your memories must be returning now that you are free of Neverland" Solomon said "What else can you remember?"

"Well I remember you, you were giving orders to other birds, you use to tell them something about not having seconded chances" Peter said

"I use to tell them that because they could be so lazy and they would act like they had a second chance, I always use to remind them not everyone gets a second chance.

"And I remember you" he said looking down at Maimie "I remember seeing you crying and asking you not to be scared, I remember us sitting in the snow and talking"

"You told me about your adventures and I told you about how the people outside the gardens knew all about you and you asked me to tell them all about you, about how you played games, but you played them all wrong" Maimie said

"I did?" Peter asked

"Yes but I taught you" Maimie said proudly, then she looked at Peter sharply

"What is all this business about you not wanting growing up, you never told me you never wanted to grow up"

"Everyone that meets me knowns that" Peter said "certainly I must have told you"

"No I don't believe you ever did" Maimie said "is it because of what happened with your mother?"

"Something happened with your mother Peter?" Wendy asked

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