Only in Neverland EDITING

Chapter 8 A Few Broken Bones

         I watch as Luke leaves. The tone that Felix used with him kind of scares me. My brother doesn't speak very much, and when he does, he means what he says. "Just for the record I could still go jump off the cliff." I say trying to showing that I'm not scared.

"Yes," he says grabbing my wrist, "But with this on, you'll die from impact, drowning, or mermaids." He says hold my wrist with the cuff on it in front of my face. He can see right through me.

"So be it. It's one way off this island."

"Yes, but you'll never know what happened that night. What happened to Mom and Dad?"

"You make me want to go jump off that cliff right now." I might too, if he didn't have a hold of me.

"You think I'm not holding on to you for a reason? I may have been gone for a while-"

"Over twenty-eight years."

"But I'm still you brother. I still know how you work." He leads me farther away from the cliff, smart move on his part. "Besides you still don't know everything that happened that night, and I know you want answers."

"I'm still considering disowning you." I say as he starts to lead me through the forest. He sighs and doesn't say much more.

We walk in silence for a while until I remember where he's taking me. Yeah, I'm not going back there again. I rip my arm out of Felix's grasp and take off running.

"Lexi!" he yells running after me. I don't run very far before I feel two strong arms wrap around me and pick me up.

"No!" I scream, twisting and turning trying to get out of his hold. "No!"

"Nice try Lexi." He says throwing me over his shoulder. I try kicking and hitting him with all my might, but I don't even get a slight reaction out of him. "Why do you insist on running?" he asks me.

"Because I don't want to be anywhere near Pan or his lost boys, and I don't like the cages." I say quietly.

"You do know I'm a lost boy right?"

"Yeah, I guess I still see you as my brother more than a lost boy, and you're not as bad as Luke."

"What about me?" I hear Luke ask.

"You're stupid and no one likes you."

"Brat." I hear him mutter.

"What?" I ask.

"Do you have a hearing problem?"

"No." I say as Felix puts me down.

"I think you do."

"Yeah, well at least I'm not stupid enough to be like you."

That sends him over the edge. He punches me in the face. On my nose, hard enough to send me to the ground. I feel blood start to gush out of my nose. I then feel a pain in my stomach. I think he kicked me.

"That's enough." I hear a British voice say.

"She deserved it." Luke sneers.

"Go back to camp."

I feel someone help me up, and put part of my cloak to my nose to help with the bleeding. "Tsk, tsk, tsk, Alexis. You know you cause a lot of trouble. I haven't had anyone cause this much trouble since..." he looks behind me at Felix. "Since your brother came here." Yeah, right. Like Felix would cause any trouble. He never caused problems when we were younger. He's Pan's right hand man. "I can see the doubt in your eyes, behind the pain, but it's true. When he first came here he wanted to go back, but we made a deal, so he couldn't go back."

"What deal?" I attempt to ask, but Pan understands me anyway.

"I can't tell you. That comes when I tell you about your parents." Jerk.

He walks up to me and looks at my nose. "Ah... looks like Luke did a good job of breaking your nose." I move my head away from him, not wanting his help, no matter how much I need it. He grabs my chin, though, not allowing me to move my head.

He puts his hand over my nose. He then moves it and puts it over my stomach. "There, it's like it never happened. Except your still going to feel pain, maybe it will discourage you from running away."

I won't be able to run away anyway; I can hardly stand up straight. "Take her back to camp, I need to go check on something." Pan tells Felix.

"Yes Pan." He responds. After Pan disappears Felix turns me around. "Are you okay?"

"Why do you care?" I ask.

"I'm your brother, of course I care."

"If you really cared about me, you would have stopped Luke from hurting me in the first place." I say quietly.

"Pan healed you."

"He may have healed me, but he didn't take the pain away."

"Come on." He sighs. He didn't even say anything about stopping Luke from doing anything. I just want my brother back.

We start to walk, but I struggle to keep up. "Are you okay?" he asks again.

"What do you think?" I snap.

"Do I need to carry you?"

"No, stay away from me." I say backing up slightly.

"Come on then." He says putting his arm around me. Eventually he picks me up because I'm too slow. I don't say anything; I just take the help from him.

After a while he walks into camp, and sets me down. "Lexi!" Lilly yells, running over to hug me.

"Please don't." I say.

"What happened?"

"Luke broke my nose and what feels like a few ribs. Pan healed me, but I can still feel the pain."

We go over and sit down. "What's with the cuff thing?" she asks pointing to my wrist.

"As long as I wear it, I can't use magic, and I can't leave. It can only be taken off by someone related to Pan by blood or him."

"I wonder how hard it's going to be to fine someone who's related to him by blood?"

"Pretty hard, I mean we don't know how long he's been here. For all we know we might have to find his grandson, or great-grandson.

"Yeah, and who knows where we'd have to go to find him? Germany? Australia?"

"Or if we go with his accent, England." We both laugh a little at that.