The wind cut her with the fierce of its cold temperature; the colors of the stormy sky were all shades of blue. Thunder could be heard from afar and sometimes the flash would light the sky.
It had been a while since Neverland had such wild weather; it was the reason Peter Pan had a tied seal on his emotions and heart.
It was something Alexander wanted to see ever since they had gone their different ways years ago, Peter's loss of control, the truth to surface, no longer in the dark even if he knew the cost of it himself.
Alexander watched both Luna and Peter's reactions; Peter was cracking under the pressure, his acting shattering slowly. But Luna had all but run away. Her blue eyes had too many emotions in them, confusion, anger, fear, surprise.
Peter's eyes only show pain.
"This is all a lie, it has to be," – Luna spoke carefully as if her words were glass ready to shatter.
"But of course you want to deny it," – Alexander's voice was low and dangerous, his eyes piercing Luna's. – "Yet isn't that what has hunted you so many nights?"
"Luna we can forget about all of this and go back home, to our own life. Just forget about this place, time here has stop forever, but ours is not supposed to," – Ben had spoken with care as he watched his older sister. His heart ached, but he had decided his fate long ago. – "Why linger with a shadow of a boy who never had a future?"
"Shut up." – Luna's tone was final, her head was full of thoughts and she was trying to connect it all. Ever since the night of the accident Ben had turned into the caring and overprotective brother she knew. Luna had thought it was out of his own guilt over not being with her when it happened, but there had always been something wrong about that night. It had broken her family apart, had send her parents away over the stress of watching their daughter at the brink of death. – "Benedict …. You were never in danger weren't you?"
Ben remained silent, but looked away to the wild ocean, his blue eyes unreadable.
"You weren't kidnapped by Alexis nor taken away to Neverland," – Luna could not remember how or when but she found herself next to her brother who still would not meet her eyes. – "Answer me!"
"No," – it was a simple answer but it had enough meaning to it to crush his sister's heart.
"No?" – Her voice trembled.
"I was trying to get you away from him, but you just continued getting pulled by him and I had no choice but to get him out of the picture one way or another. I wanted to save you and Alexander wanted Peter, so we made a deal."
"You made a deal on your own assumptions?! Peter has never done anything to me!"
"HE ALMOST GOT YOU KILLED," – Ben roared at her, finally meeting her face to face.
"It was an accident,Ben. No one was responsible for that!"
"You keep lying to yourself after all these years, sister?"
"I …all I saw was a light…" – Luna's mind had tried going back to that night but it was all too fuzzy and she had feared it. – "What makes you think Peter was responsible for all of this?" – She was pleading for mercy in her voice, but he would not give her any.
"Because I was there when it happened."
Luna slowly turned to Peter who was on his knees, defeated by more than words. Whose eyes never left hers. He had not uttered a single word nor moved a muscle. She could understand a little of the reason her hero seemed so weak and human. His hair had gotten loose and his golden curls danced with the wind.
"I was also there you know," – Alexis said getting her attention. – "I was one of the Lost Boys at the time."
"You killed your own comrades?" – Her voice felt empty, it still burned her to think of what he had done.
"I'd do it again if it would have gotten me these results."
Something about Alexis always made Luna think he was hiding something more than he would tell. As if she could not even believe him, even if he swore his words were true.
"You lie, why now when you had so many opportunities in the past?"
"We were a family once and yet I was tossed aside."
"That's not true."
Peter had spoken; it was full of conviction as he tried to get up slowly to face his former friend.
"We never did, you just wanted a reason to leave us. So you blamed it all on me when the opportunity came. I asked you to wait, to stay at my side, but you tossed our friendship aside for you ambitions."
"I did wait Peter or have you not noticed? I'm not the boy you saved once," – Alexander gestured to himself. – "I waited just enough to see you awake to your own suffering and curse."
Peter's eyes went wide as if something he had tried to understand had finally been explained. But just as fast as the emotion appeared it also went back into the darkness of his mind. Peter had too many things to balance at the moment and because of his failure he had lost too many lives already. He closed his eyes trying to calm down his heart.
"Peter?" – Luna tried to get close to Peter, but as he opened his eyes the piercing light brown color of his eyes pierced her soul. It stopped her, not letting her move. Something about his eyes always bothered her as if they were trying to tell her his secrets. – "Peter," – she took a deep breath. – "Tell me Alexis lies."
They were holding each other's stares, their hopes and their own break point. –"Tell me he was trying to get to me, that everything that's going on it's just some bad dream. Tell me the boys are alive! That they are waiting for us to go back." – Luna was not sure if she was crying out of anger, sadness or just out of tiredness but she never gave it much thought. – "Tell me a lie, Peter."
"I'm sorry, Luna." – He didn't have to say anything else. She understood the message in his words as he had told her in her bedroom before "I never lie."
"See, I told you he was useless. Now let me break this dream!" – Ben said taking out a sword and running towards Peter, but Luna who was standing between them push him away
"NO!"
"Get out of the way Luna!"
"I won't let you!" – She yelled angry, pushing Ben down, he was stronger than her even though he was younger, but she could hold her ground. – "Stop this!"
"I will when he dies!" – Ben eyes were dark. The always blue eyes that would mirror Luna's were gone. They were full of darkness, something had posses her brother. Suddenly something kicked Ben in the side, Luna look up to see Alexis glaring at Ben.
"I don't remember telling you to do that," – Alexis gave Luna a stare as he took out his pistol smiling at her. – "Your sister is just as bad as he is Ben. By the way darling, Peter almost got you killed back then." –The way Alexis spoke to her made Luna tremble with fear as he held her face firmly. – "Because both of you should have never met in the first place."
Luna felt something stir in her heart, it hurt her but she tried not to show her tears.
Alexis turned her so she would see Peter as pale as paper looking at her with pain in his face. Something was happening to him and she didn't know what was going on.
Luna felt paralyzed with fear.
"You are killing him and you don't even care." – Alexis whispered in her ear.
"No. I'm not, I would never." – Her voice sounded more like a dream that a real statement.
"He will soon be frozen just like his own heart."
Luna's heart skipped a beat when she heard the gunshot, but a silver glow surrounded her and protected her from the shot.
"Silver Bell!" – Peter tried toget to the pixie, but Alexis was quicker, knocking her down with a slap.
"I thought something was missing in this picture, come to die at you masters side Silver?"
"No!" – But Luna was held back by a hand on her arm, angry she turned and her eyes went as wide as they could. The boy looking back at her was Nick only his always warm eyes were cold. – "Nick?"
Silver Bell flew towards Luna trying to pull her away from Nick, but he would not let her go.
"Silver Bell?" – Luna felt confused at the pixie's reaction towards the boy, but Peter switched Luna with himself just in time to protect her from an arrow Nick threw out to harm her slashing, Peter instead.
"Nick, what are you doing?" – Luna yelled surprised, but as Nick tried to hit her again it was Silver Bell that protected them, unlashing a huge flash of silver light blinding them momentarily.
Peter held Luna and with all his energy he pulled them both towards the Cliff near them. For a moment Luna stared at Peter as she heard everything become silent, quiet, dead.
Peter looked pale and felt cold, Luna thought he looked like he was about to freeze. Scared that something would happen she hugged him.
Alexis feeling the change in the atmosphere, tried to see what was going on, all he got was a smug smile from Peter as he disappeared from sight. The ground around them had fallen and so did they.
They were falling fast, nothing stopping them this time and he had no more energy to spare or happy thoughts to fly with.
He was at his wits end and he was about to face it.
"I'm sorry," – his voice sounded broken. – "I'm so sorry for everything. I never meant to harm you I just wanted you to stay with me."
"Peter, fly! We will hit the water!" – Luna was panicking, her heartbeat out of control - "Peter!"
"Luna …Stay safe." – He gave her a smile as he slowly gave out.
"Peter! Peter wake up!" – But as Luna tried to wake him Silver Bell held her and with a flash she and Luna were gone, leaving Peter to fall into the cold ocean waters, frozen in eternal sleep.
Alexis watched everything from above, his hair a mess with the passing winds, the night upon him like a dark veil. He had to stop from yelling out swirls of profanities in front of his crew. He whispered to himself, but someone had heard him and that was all he needed at the moment as he looked at the fairy near the woods fly away.
AN - I'm so sorry 4 the wait I had so many things going on that the little bit I had to write to finish was in a stop. I made this chap a little longer as an apology. I thank u all 4 the support ur all wonderful fans *hugs* the story has for the moment 6 more chaps till the ending *unless the chaps r too long and so I push it for another page* also some changes at the last chaps that I had to work on had me a little stuck but its all fine now. thank u again I appreciate ur patience on the wait.