Peter had felt the disturbance, he knew Luna was in danger, he had to reach her somehow, he needed to be there for her and yet as he took flight he fell. Peter only remembers ever falling from bad emotions once when he had fought Hook, but this time it was different. He felt a sudden pain in his chest as he tried to reach Luna; his heart was beating strong and painfully as if trying to tell him something.

He had stopped flying midway because of the pain.

His hand changed to a smaller size, reflecting his past self.

A voice echoed in his head, a voice that had hunted his dreams so many times in the past.

"Peter, I'm sorry I have to grow up"

Then one last beat made him fall from the sky unconscious.

"Peter"

He had woken up buried in snow and all alone.

Away from where he needed to be, away from his promise to keep.

He couldn't fly,he was stuck in the ground again, with nothing but regrets.

He let his shadow search without him in hopes he could know what had happened as he had wondered the woods lost and filled with anger lost in his own disappointment, he only stopped as he saw a flower bloomed in the middle of a pile of snow.

"I'm calling you; you damn idiot, stalker and annoying brat. I'm calling you so where are you!"

He ran towards the voice finding his Luna.

…..

"Peter," – Luna called out to him as he had gotten lost in his memories. She was still in shock over Peter kissing her forehead; it had been out of character for him to do so and it had surprised her. She had decided to play it cool and in a mature way.

"Sorry I got lost in my thoughts."

"Are you alright? What happened?"

"I fell and hit my head."

"You fell while you were flying?"

"Yes, I wasn't concentrating."

"Peter, Nick got hurt because of me." – Luna stared at him, but Peter only listened wide-eyed. – "Alexis found us and in order to get to Nick he acted as if he was going to shoot me, Nick got in the way to protect me," – she saw a flash of anger in his eyes, his hands had closed as he tried to hide it.

"Is he…" – he paused, hurt in his voice, –"is he alright?"

"The boys managed to help him on time with Tiger Lily's help, but I didn't get a chance to see him since I came to find you."

"Why?"

Luna looked up at Peter not understanding his question, –"what?"

"Why did you come to find me? I thought you'd be happy if I was gone so you could go back home."

Luna didn't think and she had acted before she could stop herself.

She had slapped Peter in the face, angry and hurt she turned away and went back into the forest, but Peter stopped her holding her arm.

"That hurt, butI deserve it for the way I have treated you. You're right. I didn't try to understand because I just wanted to stay in my own reality of what my life should be."

"This isn't like you, Luna. What's wrong?"

"You don't get it! Nick got hurt in front of my eyes and it was my fault, then you go missing and I thought, I thought…" – She couldn't say it, the words could never leave her mouth, but tears travelled down her face. – "How could you think I would be happy if …" – She saw his panic in his brown eyes.

"Luna, I didn't mean it that way but you wanted to go home so badly I thought..."

"I SAID NO," – she yelled at him as if trying to express what she couldn't say. – "I…" – As she looked straight at Peter the words died in her mouth, she realized how much things had changed in her behavior towards him and the boys but mostly to herself and it was at that moment she decided not to lie to herself anymore.

Luna couldn't tell Peter Ben had been there, that he had told her they could go home, that she had been happy she could go back to her own reality nor that Ben had probably been involved with Alexis. The reality of the situation was that she did not want to accept that there was a possibility Ben had help Alexis hurt Nick.

"Luna?" – Peter moved closer to her, but stopped at the sound of footsteps, he glared at the direction of the sound pulling Luna behind him, his dagger at hand. – "Luna put on your hoodie,"–Peter whispered to her as she followed his command.

A man with tan skin came out from the shadow of the trees, covered in native winter clothing with long dark hair and many accessories made from nature. Peter seemed surprised as he saw the man stand in front of him and did a small nod with his head, his blond curls moving along with the movement.

"Chief," – he whispered

"Tiger Lily!" – Luna whispered surprised as the young Indian girl now with her hair untied ran towards them. She stood between Peter and her father, eyes full of defiance. She spoke in her own language, old but not forgotten, to her father trying to explain something Luna could not understand but she noticed Peter did.

"Tiger Lily, don't fight my battles," – Peter told her putting his hand on her shoulder – "It's fine, I started this anyways. Its time I took responsibility for it."

"Peter!" – Marcus had appeared running towards them but was pushed down by Indians as they captured him. – "Dammit, let me go!"

"No!" – Luna moved towards Marcus, but Peter held her back in a firm hold.

"Let him go, Marcus was not involved. I'll go with you, just let them go back." – Peter lowered his weapon in defeat.

"Peter, what are you doing?" – Luna asked him feeling a little nervous, but he ignored her, instead Tiger Lily spoke again to her father with anger.

"Lily!"

But the Chief put his hand up signaling for the Indians to release Marcus who moved quickly next to Peter.

"My daughter seems to have faith in you, Peter Pan," – his voice was deep. – "I will allow this to pass because you have respected my wishes in the past. But unless you clean yourself from that shadow you will never prosper and unfortunately neither will Neverland." – He looked at his daughter and turned to leave.

"Chief, I can't promise you anything but I swear I never meant any harm to your people," – Peter said as he kneeled in one leg as if to show respect and an apology. The chief nodded and left with his group, Tiger Lily looked back at Peter and Marcus giving them a sad smile as she left.

"Let's go back to the cave," – Peter said after a while not meeting Luna's eyes, something had bothered him and he did not want to show it. They had gone back to the rest of the group that waited for their return with worry and eager faces. As Peter arrived in the entrance he was pushed down by Andrew and Seth, Calin and Zeke joined in to greet him also after the other two had done their mess. Luna smiled and also greeted them as they went towards her thanking her for going to find Peter. They, along with Marcus, then went to Nick's room; Luna had felt so nervous she didn't know what to say to him or what to do as she stayed in the entrance watching the scene unfold.

Nick was awake in his bed with just a red shirt and dark jeans; he looked a little pale with dark shadows under his eyes. His hair was a bundle of wildness. Luna noticed Nick seemed distant and worried, she could see the bandages from his wounds under his shirt just as clear as his tiredness in his eyes.

Peter walked, standing in front of him with arms crossed.

"What happened to you, Pete? We got worried you had been caught," – Nick told him as he tried to get up but was too weak and fell back to the bed. Luna felt it made her heart hurt to see him that way.

No one said a word as Peter sat next to Nick and hit him in the back of his head.

"You fool! I asked you to look after Luna not to get killed! You are my best strategist and as one of my boys I expect a little more concern over you own life, or do you want me to personally hunt you down to the ends of the earth for making me worry so much?"

"Sorry," – Nick looked like a kid who was been told off by his father. – "But it's not like I was going to let her get hurt because of my mistake, not after everything you went through to…"

He never finished his sentence as Peter took his head down with his arm in a half hug.

"No apologies, just please, please don't ever do that again, Dominick."

"Yeah."

Luna was sure she saw tears in Nick's eyes as he hid his face with his arm. The other boys went towards them and started to joke around.

Luna stood there watching them, they were a family. Peter was like an older brother to them, maybe even like a father figure in some way. They were all they had in their everlasting life and had lived together for a long time, had pass through many good and bad things together and somehow they had crossed all their fears.

"Welcome home, Luna" – She opened her eyes wide as she heard Nick's voice, it was a single sentence but somehow it had trigger something in her. Welcome home he had said, they saw her as family as part of their group. The reason why she had let go of Ben and run towards Nick in order to protect him that time had been clear, she was just too stubborn to admit it.

She thought that the words she had wanted to say to Peter suddenly meant nothing at all, because no matter what she had always made him believe she wanted to return and so now he also wished for it. Silent tears fell once again from her blue eyes.

"Luna, what's wrong?" – Seth asked, going towards her worried.

She raised her arm, hiding her eyes, they all remained silent watching her. – "It was always just me and Benedict at home all the time, aunt Marcy would stay sometimes but it was not the same as a real family, as having your parents saying welcome home. So Ben and I felt the house was empty and we got accustomed to depend on each other only and never try and think on things we would never have. That's why I didn't want to get close to you, I was going to eventually leave so what was the point? But you all just…You don't care you never cared about how messed up I was and just continue to be at my side and here I am now just a mess of emotions and acting like a lost child. I had a fight with my mom and I regret that, I regret that so much I wish I could have told her what I really wanted at the time that's why I won't make the same mistake again," – Luna said as her tears continued. – "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." - Silence greeted her for a moment and then a hand held her arm down gently so she could face the owner of it. It had been Seth who gave her a sad smile, and then Zeke held her arm, then Calin, Marcus and lastly Andrew. They all smiled at her as if understanding her, then Peter with Nick at his side held her other hand.

"Welcome home, Luna" – all the boys said in unison as they gave a wide smile.

"Thank you" – she whispered over and over again as her vision got blurry then Peter lowered his head to her side to whisper in her smell of pine trees covered her nose.

"Thanks for coming after me, Sweetheart,"– he said as he kissed her cheek.

AN - while working on this chap I finally got to show a little of Peter and the boys as a family, I really liked working on that cause is a softer part to the story and u get to c another part of the characters *smiles*.

I thank u all 4 ur great support it's what keeps me going with the story cause when I write I do it for fun and so others can also enjoy it. knowing u like it and are having fun makes it worth everything *smiles* so thank u all