A/N: Hey team!

Got my number for entering Uni. I have a lot more options than I thought I would. It's incredibly confusing.

So I wrote this instead of thinking about it. =P

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Map

50 Years Ago

Nevi's feet were set down lightly upon the grass by the shadow who flew off quickly into the night. She smiled in ecstasy at how real the entire world felt. She'd thought it was real before, but being actually there, she could tell just how wrong she'd been.

This…right now…this was…

"Nevi!"

Peter Pan ran towards her, sweeping her into his arms and spinning her around as he finally grasped the reality of his situation. A girl. He had risked everything, the very essence of Neverland by bringing her here. But when he looked at her, smiling and beautiful, he knew he wouldn't have it any other way.

When Peter took her hand in his, holding it within his own, Nevi didn't think the world could feel more like home. But as he looked into her eyes, so full of life, he couldn't stop himself from bending down to take her lips in a soft kiss. Unlike other times when she'd visited in her dreams, her skin was warm to the touch. And when she threaded her hands up around his neck, he held her closely, inhaling her scent and learning more of her.

"That was pretty fantastic for a first kiss," Nevi said finally as they broke away, a smile playing at her pink lips.

"Come on," Pan smiled, a little shocked at what he had just done and having no idea where it came from. But he would never regret it; she was Nevi and she was here. "Let's get home."

Present Day

Pan was lying in his hammock with his hands behind his head when he heard the sound of knocking at his door. Ella had dropped in on him with food almost an hour ago, and it was quite late at night for her to be making a return call…

"Come in," he murmured, watching the door slide open an inch. A brown eye peeked its way into the crack and Pan's eyes widened in shock. Whoever he'd been expecting at his door, it had most certainly not been Wendy Darling. Sitting up suddenly, he shuffled backwards. He wasn't exactly scared, more worried that he was going to scare her. But she simply slipped silently into the room and shut the door quietly behind her. If there was any sense of fear within her, she didn't let it show.

"Peter," she said with a nod, her honey brown hair falling into her face. She pushed it aside, annoyed, before sinking to the floor and sitting there as she eyed the boy carefully.

"Wendy," he answered with caution in his voice, drawing his legs up so that he too, was sitting cross legged. She seemed to relax a little at that and pulled out a scroll of parchment from within the coat she was wearing. It took Pan a moment to figure out what she was unrolling before him, but soon was craning his head to get a closer look.

It was a map. And not just any map; a treasure map.

"I found it under a loose floor board in my room. I figured, what the hell. Ella trusts you now."

Pan hesitated, "She doesn't. You shouldn't either. I wouldn't trust me."

"Be that as it may, I don't need to trust you, just your word. Can I do that?" Wendy was challenging him; fierceness in her eyes that mirrored the pirate get-up she was wearing.

Pan nodded slowly, examining the girl curiously. She'd grown a lot in the last week. Rather than a young girl, she was looking more like a young woman – not exactly in appearance – but in the way she held herself, that fierce self-protective glimmer in her eyes. She was becoming like Ella.

And once again, it was his fault.

He kept his musings to himself, though, pushing them aside lest he close up and Wendy get scared again. Pan glanced at the map and frowned, "Is that…"

"It's Shayan," Wendy confirmed with a nod. "But when I touched the point where we are, it began to glow and gave me a vision of a field encompassed by cherry blossoms. Then that appeared." She was pointing to the left corner of the map where the words Neverfall Stone were written messily, as though someone had been in the biggest rush when they wrote it.

"It's a map to the Neverfall Stone?" Pan's eyes widened. If that was true, then the stone actually was here. He could take it back and…

There was no point. He wouldn't make Wendy sacrifice her life just so Neverland could live. He doubted if she was even the one anymore. Felix had been convinced, but the girl before him lacked belief, especially belief in him. How could he expect her to stay side by side with him for eternity if she could barely even look at him?

He didn't. And that's why he leant down and closed the map swiftly, handing it back to Wendy with an expressionless face as he muttered, "Get out of here Wendy."

"As much as I loathe you, Pan," Wendy answered, tapping the scroll on her knee impatiently, "Even I don't think Neverland deserves to die."

"You don't understand what that entails, Wendy." Pan almost groaned. He didn't want to have this conversation with the girl. He looked up at her, his gaze softening. "You'd have to stay like this – a fourteen year old girl – forever. And you'd have to never want to grow up."

"I'd have to stay with you," she murmured, looking at the ground. That seemed to be the only thing that concerned her, the rest was secondary.

"I would never ask you."

"You already did," she answered in remembrance of her short time in Neverland. "And I ran away."

"Exactly. So there's no point-"

"I ran away then," Wendy interrupted, looking up at Pan. "But I won't let the world die just because I don't want to be near you."

"Wendy," Pan was confused by her words. Never in his life would he expect Wendy to even consider going back to Neverland, "I-"

"You have to promise me one thing though, Peter," Wendy cut across him once more, knowing that with Pan in this state, she had the upper hand. "You won't ever touch me."

All he could do was nod in agreement, speechless at her words.

"We'll leave tomorrow night," Wendy planned as she stood up. "I need some time to get supplies."

"Okay." Pan was still reeling at this newfound plan, Wendy's want to help and the fact that Neverland could actually be saved willingly.

"Wendy," Pan said finally as she stood at the door. Eyeing her honestly he said, "Thank you."

Wendy simply nodded, and shut the door, leaving ban to lean back in his hammock and stare up at the ceiling once more. Only this time, a happy smile made its way onto his lips.

50 Years Ago

"Unfortunately, Felix seems to be taking his own sweet time building you a treehouse," Pan was saying as they trekked back to camp. "So you're quite welcome to mine if you'd like."

"And here I was thinking that Felix was actually beginning to like me," Nevi sighed.

"Oh, he does," Pan smirked. "Maybe a little too much."

Nevi frowned at Pan's words, looking up at him in curiosity. "You're saying that-"

"Felix has taken a certain fancy to you," Pan poked at her arm playfully. He'd never see the boy as serious competition. Felix was too caught up in his own drama to even consider pursuing Nevi.

"Really?" Nevi seemed surprised. At first Felix had been distant, and then he'd grown closer like the rest of the lost boys, but always – still – there was a wall between them. "I guess I never realised he felt like that."

"You don't have to worry about it." Pan snuck his hand around her waist and laid a cheeky kiss atop her golden hair. "Let's just enjoy your first night in Neverland shall we?"

He spoke just as they were entering the camp. And the moment the lost boys spotted her, they came running towards Pan and Nevi as if they were all that existed in the world.

"Maybe not for a while," she smiled, looking up at Pan apologetically. He smiled in return, but there was something off about it. The lost boys swarming around them only reminded him of what he'd failed to begin to do that night. He needed to act fast. Nevi couldn't grow up. She had to stay. He needed her to stay.

"So how's that plan coming along Pan?" Felix asked as Pan excused himself from the storytelling. Felix knew, but he needed to goad his leader into action.

"Shut up, Felix," the boy ordered, before leaving Nevi and the Lost Boys and resigning himself to his room.

Present Day in Neverland

"So," Felix hesitated as Nevi appeared in front of him. "It's done? The map was planted?"

"I watched the girl find it," Nevi answered with an indifferent shrug that didn't befit her ethereal qualities. "It'll keep them away from here for a little while on their wild goose chase. Eventually Pan will return though. He'll think he has the Neverfall Stone when really, he'll just have one really large diamond."

"So you know where it is then…the stone."

"Of course I know, Felix," Nevi sighed trying not to let her impatience get the better of her. She had to keep playing Felix's feelings if she wanted to keep him on her side. "It belongs to me. I honestly don't know why you would just assume that I'd leave the one thing that can undo my curse in plain sight."

"So what happens when Pan returns Nevi?" Felix clenched the muscles in his arm, almost afraid to hear the answer.

"I'm sure you understand the ways of the world, Felix," she answered, looking him dead in the eye before finishing simply with a careless wave of her hand. "When Pan returns, we kill him."