Not even five minutes into my journey to a beach, my thoughts were interrupted. "Nice outfit."

"Holy sh-" I stopped myself as I spun around to see Peter Pan leaning against a tree I had just passed. Walking back over to him, I shoved him out of frustration. If he does this stupid popping out of nowhere thing one more time, I trailed off in my head trying to think of things I could do that would hurt him.

"Was that supposed to hurt?" he asked amusedly.

"Shut up. What do you want, Pan?" I asked crossing my arms.

"Well, I was just wandering through the forest minding my own business when I suddenly find my favorite Lost Girl not anywhere near a beach even though I know she left well over thirty minutes ago. Not only that, but she has on entirely different clothes. And it begs the question, what were you doing?" His relaxed demeanor was betrayed by the slightly threatening undertone in his voice.

"Oh, the clothes thing? Well, I thought that if I had clothes that looked like the rest of you, then Felix would stop hating me as much and I could finally win him over," I joked earning a sharp glare in return. Rolling my eyes, I turned and started walking away. "Not that it's any of your business, but I ran into Tinkerbell, talked to her for a little bit, borrowed some clothes, and now I am on my way back to a beach of my choice. So, see you later!" I said with mock enthusiasm and a wave of my hand.

A hand grabbed my wrist and spun me around so that I was now face to face with frustrated looking Peter. "That wasn't part of our deal."

"The way I remember it there was nothing said about not taking a detour on my way there," I countered trying to tug my arm away from his hand, but his grip tightened slightly. "Let go."

He continued to glare at me for a minute until his smug look returned. "Okay," he said letting go of my arm. I turned back around and started walking only to be surprised when I heard footsteps following me. Turning around to look at Pan, he had stopped walking but was still smirking at me. "Something wrong, princess?"

"Why are you following me?" I asked, frustration bleeding into my voice.

"The way I remember it there was nothing said about you having to go to the beach by yourself. I'm tagging along," he responded throwing my words back at me.

Knowing I had no counterargument to what he said, I let out an irritated groan as I moved through the forest. Every time I forcefully knocked a plant out of my way I earned a chuckle from my unwanted follower which made me even more frustrated.

By the time I broke through the edge of the forest and walked onto the beach, my plan of action had changed to just running around on the beach and ignoring Pan to the best of my ability. Ignore him and his annoying face and his annoying attitude and his annoying existence, I thought to myself even though I knew I was overreacting a little. I was used to having as much alone time as I had wanted before I came here, so these major chunks of time to myself were important to me. Might as well get started, I thought as I started looking for my iPod. Seeing it wasn't in my new belt where I had stuck it, my next thought was to feel around in my other pile of clothes.

"Looking for something?" Snapping my head up revealed a very amused Pan sitting on a nearby rock slowly turning my iPod in his hands.

"How did you even get that?" I asked irritation and surprise flowing into my voice.

"Magic. There are just so many uses for it. If you want it," he said slowly with a wicked grin, "Come and get it."

Walking over to where he was sitting, I knew I would regret trying to grab it back. When I was about three feet away from him, he disappeared in a blink. What the… "Looking for me?" I turned to my right and saw him about ten feet away. "Magic," he reminded me. Giving it one last go, I headed his direction already preparing for him to disappear on me again. Unsurprised when he left my eyesight when I got close, I turned around to find him lounging on the rock again.

"Don't get me wrong here Pan, this has been a blast. However, I'm not interested in spending the next hour trying to get something from you when you'll just poof away whenever you feel like it," I said as I stopped five feet from him.

"If you really wanted it, I'm sure you could think of another way to get it," he smirked.

"This has to be one of the most round about way someone's gone to ask for a kiss," I joked trying to distract myself from the thought that was creeping through my head. He knows, my mind kept repeating. "If you have something on your mind, come right out and say it."

"I think you know exactly what I'm wanting," he said knowing look. "Take it from me."

Conflicting feelings coursed through me. On the one hand I could own up to whatever it was I could do and try to take it. If you do that you become even more of a pawn to him in his weird life game. Or I could pretend that I had no idea what he was talking about. He'll read through that lie in a second. Who knows really how he'd react to lying. He hated it enough when I tricked him with the song. Is a lie worse than that?

"Look," I started, "I have no idea how it works. Whatever it is that I did, I've only done it twice." Honesty is the best policy right?

"Hmm…funny, I'd say three times. From what I remember you said this should not work by now, but you've been listening to it for days. Very mysterious," he said looking at me strangely.

"I'd call that a happy accident," I smirked.

"Stop stalling and take the damn thing," Pan commanded again.

I narrowed my eyes at him before I spoke. "I don't take orders from you," I said raising my voice. "I already told you, I don't know how I did it." Turning around, I stomped away from Pan, not caring if he'd follow me along the shore.

"Maybe you need a little incentive then," I heard him shout to me causing me to turn back toward him. As soon as my eyes made contact with his body, he stood and raised his arm. No. He released my iPod into the air straight toward the ocean.

"No!" I shouted running a few steps closer as it soared through the air. No, don't fall in, I cried in my head. Just as it was about to fall into the water, it disappeared from my sight and I felt a weight in my right hand. Opening my hand revealed my iPod safe and sound. Clapping graced my ears and I turned my head to glare at Pan with as much hate as I could muster.

"See incentive," he smirked.

"You got what you wanted. We're done here," I told him as I put my headphones in my ear so that I could run out all my frustration with him.

He looked at me like he was developing a plan. One I'd really like to not be part of… "I think this revelation calls for something new. On these days, we should spend part of your time figuring out this power that you have," Pan decided.

"That wasn't part of the agreement," I reminded him, but the argument sounded weak to my own ears.

"As was pointed out earlier, you didn't say that you were to come alone," Pan grinned in satisfaction. "Maybe next time you'll think through your wording. See you later," he added with a wink and began walking away.

That arrogant little prick. Irritated beyond belief, I put on the first song I came to and took off down the beach breaking in my new shoes and pounding out my feelings into the sand.

Author's Note:

Thanks to everyone who has read, reviewed, and followed so far! Life has gotten busier for me, so I will try to update when I can. I'm hoping for at least once a week. Thanks again!