Chapter 7: Unwelcome Ideas

Hook and Smee visited a woman who had watched over the outer realms of the afterlife her name was Casandra, she was a dark skinned Caribbean woman with a thick Caribbean accent, she would often take the most wicked souls the ones who were truly evil and throw them in a place known as the Void.

The Void was a place where a person would just spend there eternity in limbo the only contact they would have would be the other wicked souls that were in there with them, but Casandra was never one to just send a soul into the Void, she would often look into that person's soul to see if they were truly evil, to see if they should be truly be given that kind of eternal punishment. Of course as far as James Hook was concerned Peter Pan was one such soul, no way should Peter be allowed to have any kid of peace in the afterlife, not after the way Hook's own life had been nothing but a nightmare and all so that boy could have his entertainment. And if that wasn't enough there was the fact that he had lost his hand to the crocodile, the one who eventually swallowed him whole, the one's who's ticking clock literally had kept him awake at night a reminder that death was creeping on him.

Hook and Smee walked into Casandra's cave "good day my lady" Hook said bowing and taking his hat off to greet her

"There is no day time here James Hook" Casandra said looking up at him "There is no night either"

"I was just trying to be polite" Hook said

"And what is it you be wanting pirate?" Casandra asked

"Very well lets get to business" Hook said "there is a soul here and I believe that soul should be banished to The Void"

"Oh" said Casandra "And what has this soul done that I should be banishing it?"

"He chopped off the Captain's hand and fed it to a very hungry crocodile" Smee said, this earned him an angry glare from Hook

Casandra just laughed "I'm not here to help you settle personal vendetta's pirate, and besides didn't you know that there would be risk when you decided to become a pirate?"

"Of course I did" said Hook "But it is not another pirate that I am talking about, who I am talking about is someone who had the devil inside of him" Hook said

"And you would not know it since he looks like he is just a boy" Smee said

"A Boy, you want me to be sending a boy to The Void"

"Like I said, this boy had the devil in him, he chopped off my hand for fun and threw it to the crocodile just to antagonize me, he killed members of my own crew just for sport"

"Because you pirates don't kill each other all the time" said Casandra "Because you men have no violence, you are all perfect, because children don't imitate what they see you doing"

"Are you saying that it is may fault that boy harassed me for years?" Hook said angrily

"Children may get rough with each other all the time" Casandra said "They may hurt each other but that is part of being innocent"

"I agree" Hook said "but he was not being just an innocent child and I did not teach him to act that way"

"Maybe you did and did not realize it and then maybe you did not" Casandra said "But it is true that the face if evil can show itself where we least except it" she added

"So bring this boy to me and I will pass judgment on him" she then looked at Hook sternly "but whatever I decide you will respect, is that understood James Hook?"

"Of course my lady" Hook said bowing, he and Smee then exited her cave

"So how do we find Pan?" Smee said

"He will come to us" Hook said

Meanwhile in the fairy realm Peter and his friends had managed to come across a fairy dance that was being conducted

"The fairy dance" Peter said gleefully

"Are you going to play your flute?" Maimie asked

Peter smiled "it has been a long time since I played my flute for the fairies" Peter said

"You played for the fairies?" Wendy asked

"I use to conduct their ceremonies" Peter said "my flute was all the music they needed"

just then another memory started coming into his head it was one of Wendy and him at the fairy dance, Peter bowed to her and she to him and then took her hand and the two started to dance and raise up in the air. Peter had played his flute at the fairy dance many times but he had never actually danced with anyone there, at least he didn't remember dancing with anyone there. He then turned to Wendy and smiled it was the first memory he had of her that wasn't in any way painful, in fact it gave him a warm feeling inside.

Also as he continued to watch the dancing he started to wonder how he could have ever thought of leaving this all behind, it was beautiful and it was something very few people ever saw, "maybe being locked out wasn't such a bad thing after all" though as he kept on watching some more he started to think about his mother, no matter how much he wanted to delude himself the bond between a parent and child was just to strong, it didn't matter how much beauty you saw you always needed your mother, she was the word for god in the hearts of children, especially his own.

Just then a very unwelcome thought entered into Peter's mind, one he never had before or perhaps he did he just didn't remember it, if he had been willing to give up everything to be reunited with his mother, if all the children who he had crossed paths with gave it up in the end to be with there mothers again, then when were they suppose to see it, when were they suppose to enjoy it and lavish in it?

Just then it finally hit him "maybe that is why we are suppose to grow up?" Peter said to himself, he had meant for that statement to only be a thought, but instead he went and said it out loud and everyone looked at him

"What did you just say?" Wendy asked him

"Ahh nothing" Peter said trying to salvage himself "nothing at all"

just then a little light came shooting out from one of the nearby trees and circled around Peter several times, when it stopped Peter could see it was a female fairy who just looked at him in shock

"You are finally here" Tinkerbelle said in her fairy language

"So I guess you must have been one of my fairies?" Peter asked

"You silly ass, it is me Tinkerbelle I was the one who bought you to Neverland"

"Oh right" Peter said

"I should have known you would forget me, you forget everything"

"I do not mean to" Peter said

Tinkerbelle just rolled her eyes, "you never change" she said

Just then she looked at Wendy, John and Michael, "I should have known they would have found you first" Tinkerbelle said she then looked at Maimie

"Who is she?"

"This is Maimie" Peter introduced "she was a girl I knew a long time ago"

"Hello" Maimie said "are one of Peter's fairies?"

Tinkerbelle spoke in her fairy language and then Peter translated, "she says of course she is what are you stupid"

"nobody calls me stupid" Maimie got up angrily "you better say you are sorry or I will unleash my invisible goat on you"

"You have an invisible goat?" Michael asked

"Of course I do and I use it when my mean brother Tony scares me"

"I though I got your invisible goat?" Peter said

"You did and then I got a new one" Maimie said

"You have quite the imagination" Wendy pointed out

Tinkerbelle just rolled her eyes, "so what are you all doing here?" she asked

Peter told her that he was trying to his mother that he wanted to see her again

"Still with that?" Tinkerbelle asked him

"I just want to see her again" Peter said "that is all"

"Well you want some company, more reliable company" Tinkerbelle asked looking at Wendy of course

"Hey Tinkerbelle wants to come with us" Peter said turning to others

"She does not seem very polite" Maimie said crossing her arms

"Believe me she is not" Wendy said

"It will be fine" Peter said "besides what is Peter Pan without his fairy" Peter said putting his hands on his hips and smiling, Tinkerbelle sitting on his shoulder, after a long time the two old friends were back together just like the old days.

To Be Continued