Peter Pan
A Young Boy No More
By Raekitty13
Disclaimer: Yeah, I bet James Matti-Poo Barrie has a Tamagotchi named Mia. & btw I dooo own Wee Sing, just thought you ought to know…
Author's Notes: Yessss! Kudos to the following: Mistfairie93, -BeeVee-THEEAmazing, Luna32 & Void Delirium! Thanks you guys rock! Sorry for the slow update… anyway, on with the chapter!
Chapter Fourteen-Going on a Pirate Hunt
"Oh. my. god." I whispered, talk about not being able to breathe… What was I supposed to say to that? "YES!"
It had slipped out of my mouth of its own accord and yet I didn't regret saying. Peter smiled at me.
"I was hoping you'd say that. I-I mean it'd be pretty hard to watch over you if you went back home."
Home.
The word was a rude awakening to a very real, very recent past. My father had disowned me. My mother was going to be replaced by… by that woman, Daisy. (I couldn't help but gag at the pure thought of her and my father- which caused Peter to give me a concerned look.) And Tonya, she absolutely hated me. But Tonya wasn't at home, she was here…
"Tonya?" I asked Peter-to him I'm sure it was quite randomly. "Wh-where's Tonya?"
"She's still back with the lost boys…" Peter looked even more concerned. "We weren't gone that long …"
His voice sounded far off. I panicked, was Hook coming back?
"Peter…" I managed before everything went black.
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"Going on a Pirate Hunt!" sang a fuzzy, life sized rabbit. He looked familiar and I knew I had heard this song before, but the words were slightly messed up.
Out of nowhere Okami and Tink appeared. "Going on a Pirate Hunt!"
They were in some sort of trance. My surroundings were unclear and blurry but I could make out the three of them, the cat fairies following the bunny. At that moment I realized where I'd seen him before; the rabbit was from a movie I had watched as a small child. The original song had been something along the lines of "Going on a Bunny Hunt".
Suddenly the rabbit switched from being cute and cuddly to ugly and horrifying. He was no longer fuzzy but transparent. Hook's snide, prideful, not to mention evil, ghost was now standing where moments before had been a children's sing along singer.
"NEED TO FIND HOOK'S BODY!"
"Need to find Hook's body!"
Okami and Tink led the way, yet they echoed Hook's words. I on the other hand, had no choice but to follow the odd parade.
"WALKING THROUGH SOME TALL GRASS."
"Walking through some tall grass."
And we really were walking through some tall grass. I wasn't sure where we were at exactly. It could have been anywhere in NeverLand. I mean I really couldn't see Peter mowing the whole place or anything.
"SWISH, SWISH, SWISH, SWISH."
"Swish, swish, swish, swish!"
The sound effects were unnecessary and completely creepy. I figured it was Hook's way of making sure I wouldn't forget where it was we were going…
"GOING ON A PIRATE HUNT!"
"Going on a Pirate Hunt!"
Was this never going to end? I mean why sing? Sure, it helps for spelling tests, but finding dead pirate bodies? I had assumed someone would have come up with something a liiiitle more creative. Just goes to show one should never assume…
"NEED TO FIND HOOK'S BODY!"
"Need to find Hook's body!"
"Well, I reasoned with myself simply because everybody else was ignoring me. "Stealing someone else's song is sort of pirating and that's what pirates do, right? Pirate stuff… I mean steal it… OH! I don't know what I mean I'm talking to myself when I should be paying attention…"
"HIKING OVER A BIG MOUNTAIN!"
"No!" I cried out. Of course nobody paid any attention to me yet again.
"Hiking over a BIG mountain!"
Sure enough we there was this HUGE mountain, but instead of having to hike up it- to my relief, mind you- we kind of just flew over it. Flying, yeah! I forgot I could do that on my own now! I didn't need Peter to do so!
Peter.
"TRUDGE, TRUDGE, TRUDGE, TRUDGE."
"Trudge, trudge, trudge, trudge."
Okay, those sound affects were most definitely not needed! I mean we were flying over it! Shouldn't it have been something like "Flap, flap, flap, flap"?
"GOING ON A PIRATE HUNT!"
"Going on a Pirate Hunt!"
"NEED TO FIND HOOK'S BODY!"
"Need to find Hook's body!"
If I had to listen to much more of this, I was bound to lose it. And I mean lose it worse than I did with Little Miss Daisy…
"SWIMMING ACROSS A DEEP RIVER!"
"Swimming across a deep river!"
Okay, that might not have been in the kids' song but still! This whole thing is still allowed to be annoying! "And I'm not going swimming in that! It's bound to be freezing cold! Aren't flying kitty fairies afraid of water?!"
"SPLASH, SPLASH, SPLASH, SPLASH."
"Splash, splash, splash, splash."
We were still flying but the whole idea of that much water bellow me with out Peter holding onto my hand was terrifying. Despite my thoughts swaying to the darkest possible filled with fear and depression I didn't fall. We just kept flying on.
"GOING ON A PIRATE HUNT!"
"Going on a Pirate Hunt!"
"Is it over YET?!" I demanded.
"NEED TO FIND HOOK'S BODY!"
"Need to find Hook's body!"
"Please!" I called to really no one in particular. "I'm Hung-"
The word died in my throat as the group sang:
"FLYING OVER A GRAND VOLCANO!"
"Flying over a grand volcano!"
At the very bottom of the volcano was a pile of bones. The stench escalating from the gaping hole and significantly humongous, shire drop of the volcano crater far below was stomach wrenching. Squeezing my eyes shut tight I clenched my stomach in an attempt not to vomit.
Opening my eyes once again, I knew the trying was futile. I rolled over onto my side and through up absolutely nothing. The dry heaves were enough to leave me breathless and gasping for air.
Upon hearing my struggles someone walked over to me while yet another turned on a light.
"Jessie?" Peter's voice was quite and full of concern.
I would have called his name in response, simply to let him know I wasn't dead, but my body had a different idea. It didn't feel like stopping its rather throat searing rollercoaster ride for stomach acids. The dry heaves gave way to some sort of liquid leaving a rather startled Peter not so dry.
Finally I stop vomiting all together. "I'm so sorry, Peter!" were the first feeble words out of my mouth.
"It's okay." He remarked although his face said otherwise, as he placed a hand on my forehead. "You're hot."
Blushing, it had taken me that long to realize I was covered in a cold sweat while burning alive. It felt almost as if the Volcano had caught me floating above its opening and had decided it no longer wanted me there. Vomiting its flaming hot lava all over me, similar to the way I had barfed all over Peter.
Volcano.
Trying to stand up I told Peter flat out, "There's something I need to do."
"Can it wait until after you eat?" Peter asked. "You haven't eaten for a long time and I think it's part of the reason you're sick now. Tonya says its definitely the reason you passed out."
"Is that so?" I asked.
"Yes," this time Tonya herself answered me. "Jess, you really had us worried. ALL of us."
At her words I looked around myself and say nine pairs of eyes on me. All the lost boys,-one standing nearer to Tonya than she to any others, I noticed- were staring at me with mixed looks of concern. Tink and Okami were also looking at me, but they looked about as horrible as I felt. And of course, Peter was still looking at me with a look of… I wasn't sure what exactly to call it.
"So, before you so much as go pee, you're going to eat." Tonya finished with a smile.
"You're no longer mad at me?" I asked.
"I wouldn't say that much." She retorted, smile long gone. "For that to happen you have a ton of explaining to do!"
I sighed. "How about over breakfast?"
Tonya nodded as Peter began to prepare us a meal.
"I swear, Daisy is out to ruin my life," I started, knowing I sounded way cliché and my voice was really husky from vomiting. I reached for a glass of water handed to me by Tonya's lost boy before continuing. "She's only after my father for his money. I just know it. Come on, Tonya. You've met his other girlfriends. You know how they all are. They all take my dad for a ride: spending his money and trying to take the place of my mother."
Peter placed a plate of scrambled eggs in front of me and Tonya's lost boy did the same for her while the rest of the boys simply served themselves. I took one bite, intending to tell more afterwards, but instead I ended up shoveling forkful after forkful into my mouth. My appetite had returned, bring with it a slight smile to Peter's face.
Peter refilled my plate and my water glass, expecting more of my story. "Normally I can get ride of them myself. You know, a few pranks here, and a slight fit behind my father's back. But this woman, this Miss Daisy is one horrid wench. I swear, she's like evil or something."
I noticed Peter had stopped eating and was listening intently to my story. It caused me to pause. I almost couldn't go on, but I needed Tonya on my side. I needed her to forgive me, so I could have a friend when I went home.
Home.Daisy was at home. Home as I knew it was no more.
"She won't go away. And she lies to my father's face, while kissing it and.. Arg! She's just so, bitchy! I mean she thinks she owns my house. She acts like it too, and my father lets her get away with it. It doesn't seem to bother.
"Tonya, I'd never use you. I would rather openly admit to Daisy's face that I hate her guts than tell my father that you were the mastermind. Not only does that give you all the glory of humiliating her, but you're my best friend and I would never put you in danger of getting into trouble, especially in my messed up world."
I looked at Tonya, but she still didn't seem convinced. I was going to have to tell her. She deserved the truth anyway.
Staring down at my plate I continued yet again, I couldn't look any of them in the face. I simply couldn't watch them judge me.
"I almost killed her." My voice was so low, I could feel their eyes staring at me. "The only thing that stopped me was my dad. He shielded her. At that time and place he chose her over me. At that time and place I shattered ever bone in his arm. At that time- 7:42 pm- that place, my childhood home, I became an orphan.
"He disowned me in front of her. She won. Daisy now has my dad all to her self. I have no home to return to. I have no mother, no father, no best friend, no home. Why? Because of Daisy, sure, she didn't kill my mom, but she killed any chance of me excepting someone else to stand beside my father.
"Tonya, I'm not asking for your pity. Just your understanding and your support. Please, forgive me?"
I looked up again. She was staring at me. Just staring. She wasn't going to forgive me. On top of that everybody knew my darkest secret. If things had gone my way, I would have been a murderer.
I couldn't take my eyes off of Tonya's face. I felt I wouldn't be able to bare the shocked look on Peter's face. Now he knew, he knew that I was capable of killing. Maybe he would realize that I was his enemy and he would stop being nice to me and kill me before I could help Hook. Maybe he would end my misery. Maybe he would kill me before I could kill him.
"Eat more food, Jessica! I swear you look as though you haven't eaten in months!" Tonya shouted at me.
I knew she hadn't meant to be loud, but in the silence that had followed my confession, it was louder than bloody sin. I couldn't help but smile. She had forgiven me. She didn't admit to it, and considering it was my best friend Tonya, she wouldn't ever simply because she was just that damned stubborn.
"Truce?" I asked quietly, standing to get more eggs.
"Truce." she confirmed standing as well.
I dropped my plate, tears blurring my eyes, as I hugged my best friend. All the things that I had gone through, in the last seven hours since I had seen her pouring out of my eyes in tears. She simply held me and patted my back.
"I'm sorry that you got into trouble because of me!" I sobbed.
"That's not why I was angry," Tonya told me.
I pulled away from her, finally able to wipe my tears away for a while. "Really?"
Tonya nodded. "Like you said, that woman is clever. She wove her words like a spell, causing me to just hate you because you never actually thought of me as a friend. She said you thought I was a nut case, a pity party set for one. She said to you all I was, was a girl far worse off than yourself."
"Never." I whispered.
"I know," Tonya whispered hugging me again. "I should have never believed her, never. I'm sorry."
"Don't apologize, it's not like you're the only one to have fallen under her evil spell. My dad was far worse than you."
"We really need to get rid of her." Tonya nodded.
"Naw, I figure that if he makes her that happy I can just stay here. Out of the way and forgotten."
Tonya shook her head. "You can't stay here. I need you back home."
"But-"
"How about more eggs?" Peter asked picking my plate up off the floor.
My story didn't seem to have left him with any bad feelings. As a matter of fact he wanted to hear of all the stunts I had pulled on her and my father's previous girlfriends. I became grand story teller for a while, but when Okami landed on my shoulder I knew I had overextended my stay.
He looked horrible and Tink looked just as bad. They were together finally and at last and by George they were happy about it. But something told me their current condition was due to Hook's curse. I needed to get out there and find it fast… but how?
I obviously couldn't just dart outside with Tink and Okami and just randomly start walking off. It wasn't as if I knew where it was or anything…
"Going on a Pirate Hunt!"
Suddenly my dream flooded my mind and I realized that I did know where to go. I didn't need to take Tink with me, just Okami so I could fly. But how to get away?
"So, before you so much as go pee, you're going to eat." Tonya's words came back to me and I knew what I had to do.
"Peter?" My last words to him, I cringed inwardly.
"Yah?"
"I really have to pee…"
He gave me a twisted kind of smile. "If you go around the back of the tree house you'll find this really big bush, you can use that right?"
I nodded. "Have any tp?" I figured I might as well go while I was at it.
"Tp?" He asked.
"You know, toilet paper?"
"Oh." he remarked as Tonya's lost boy threw a roll at me.
The boy smiled. "Tonya need it, too."
"Extra from our last Daisy prank." Tonya smiled.
"Sweet," I said with out a smile as I headed out the door.
I walked out the door with Okami still on my shoulder. Tink was inside with everyone else. I found the bush, did my business and left Tonya and Peter a fair well note in the mud around the corner with a stick.
"What's the plan?" Okami twinkled.
"You know that tall grass?" I asked him quietly.
Okami nodded.
"How far until we get there?"
"Half hour if we fly."
"And if we walk?"
"Two hours?" Okami guessed. He didn't seem to like the idea of walking.
Apparently, like me, he just wanted to get this over with. He wanted to betray his love's human about as much as I did. Something told me this wasn't going to be a joyful Pirate Hunt…
"Let's do this thingy…"
Okami covered me with fairy dust and we were off. The thirty minutes seemed to drag on forever but I didn't want to talk and he didn't seem to either. So we flew in silence.
Upon reaching the grass I decided the silence was a downer and I needed to stay flying as long as possible, I asked Okami a question that had been bugging me lately. "Are you my fairy?"
"Yes." He answered.
"But how were you able to help Tink then?" I demanded. "I wasn't even thought of back then!"
"I was your mother's fairy then."
"So it was my mom and Peter who were destined to love each other." It wasn't a question. It was a statement.
We were a now working our way over the mountain. I felt myself slip slightly. Wendy and Peter weren't made for each other, but my mom and Peter were a different story according to Tonya.
"No. You're mother carried the seed of love and planted it in Peter as she crossed over. It is very rare, our arrangement. But Tink and I love each other and your mother already had your father. I was you mother's fairy, but when she died, instead of me dying as well, she unknowingly saved me by passing me on to you.
"In her planting the starts of love in Peter, she passed on her life force to you and you have never doubted the existence of fairies, so of course I was re-born as your fairy. In being re-born I forgot the where abouts of Hook's body and my love for Tink.
"It wasn't Peter's magic as Hook seems to think that buried our memories, but your mothers."
"So in following through with this, I'm undoing my mother's last works?" I asked. "Am I going against everything she ever did?"
"It was bound to happen. You can't fight destiny." Okami said in an attempt to reassure me.
We were finally at the top of the mountain, it hadn't taken as long as I thought it would. The view from here was scary. It was so high up, even the tallest trees of the jungle looked like little green dots below us. The sun was almost as high in the sky as we were now.
Peter, Tonya and the lost boys were bound to be looking for us by now. Hopefully Tink would know what we were up to and keep Peter and the others off of our trail. I had to do this here and now before I had the chance to back out. Even though, according to Okami I didn't have that choice to.
"Are you tired?" I asked Okami. When he shook his head no I suggested we continue and he agreed.
We decided not to descend any simply because, even though the mountain had in deed been BIG, the Grand Volcano was even bigger. It would save us time and I wouldn't notice the exact point when we'd cross the deep river. It looked like a little line drawn by a pre-school-er from this height.
If I had thought the thirty minute trip to the tall grass had been a long flight (which I know I had) it was nothing compared to the five hour trek to the volcano. Not only was the trek five hours long, but we passed it yet again in silence. I couldn't think of anything to ask. I was fighting with myself to fiercely to even begin forming sensible sentences. Okami seemed to have understood.
As we began to climb the mountain I had to ask Okami the next question that was bugging me. "How do you know its love?" I blurted.
Okami didn't seem surprised. "Love, is a feeling and you know it with every fiber of your being. It just is, there is no questioning it and no doubting it."
Did I love Peter? I asked myself. No, I'm questioning it.
The true question in the matter, I decided, was could I grow to love Peter. I knew the answer and it was an all out hell yes. So maybe the actual question was: "Do you think Peter loves me?"
"I think like you, Peter is too young to be able to determine what exactly love is. He has liked you that is for certain, for a long time, and had this not gotten between the two of you, who knows how fond you would have become of one another?"
"How do you think he's taking the note I left him, right now?" I asked.
"Would you like to see for yourself?" Okami asked me.
I looked at him. "We can do that?"
Okami nodded, "But we're going to have to stop flying."
"Sounds good, I'm getting hungry anyway." I yawned before adding, "And tired."
We found a place to sleep and Okami hid us from the others, even though we had a head start, we figured Peter would be persistent. We then found edible food and ate. But before going to bed, Okami told me how I could see Peter.
"You must think about him before you fall asleep. And I'll do the rest."
"That won't be too hard," I answered with a sad smile.
"Good night, Jessica."
"Good night, Prince Okami."
Author's Notes: I'm sorry! It takes me a long time to update! I'm so horrible with this stuff! But the good news is that I have found an efficient way of updating… so now all I have to do is work on finishing chapters sooner. Lolz Thanks for reading this far in my story! You are amazing in my book and if you review you'll be amazing in my eyes and I'll give free virtual cookies… and not the kind that clog your computer either! The good, chocolate chip kind!