Once Upon A Pan

Chapter 18

Peter POV

I'm walking around camp just like I've done for the past week every morning when an old friend pops into my head, Hannah.

I wonder how she's doing.

"Pan, foods ready" James says.

I nod and sit down on my log.

The lost boys are talking about magic.

"Well hello Henry" one of the lost boys says "glad you decided to join us".

I turn to see Henry standing behind me.

"Hello Henry, come take a seat" I say.

Henry looks at the log next to me and trudges towards it before collapsing onto it.

"Pass Henry some food" I say.

"Yes Pan" Tom says.

"Enjoy" I say.

"When will I be able to go home to my family, to where I belong?" Henry asks.

"Henry, don't you understand, you are home, this is where you belong" I say smiling.

"No, this isn't where I belong. I belong with my family they love me, your an unloved boy who will never be cared for" Henry says to me tossing the bowl of food at the tree and walking off into his tent.

All the lost boys stare at me looking confused so I say

"Boys carry on eating, our guest simply isn't happy to be here at the moment but don't worry that will change".

The boys laugh and carry on eating and chatting.

The more I think about about it the more I see how right Henry is. The only person that ever loved me I left behind because I was jealous of Richard. I have nobody but her who would give their life to save me. I love her. I need to see her.

At that moment it felt like my wishes were finally coming true for as I looked over my shoulder I saw Hannah.

Hannah POV

I walk into the camp to find Peter already looking at me.

He starts to smile and runs towards me lifting me into the air giving me a huge hug.

"Are you alright?, I'm sorry I left you, where's Richard?" Peter asks.

"It was terrible, just terrible" I say.

At that moment all the lost boys gather around me and I see Henry appear out of one of the tents.

"This group of people came out of nowhere and threatened to kill us if we didn't lead them to you, we both refused to help them and this woman Regina ripped out Richards heart and crushed it right in front of me" I say.

"How did you escape?" One of the lost boys asked me.

"Well I decided to lead the,not your old camp on the other side of the island. They said if I showed the,not your camp they would let me go. So when we arrived they thanked me and I ran as fast as I could towards you. Who knows how long it would have taken them to realise that I was lying to them" I say lying.

"Don't worry, we'll protect you now" Peter says.

"Thank you" I say.

"Henry, come over here" Peter yells.

Henry slowly approaches me and says

"Hi I'm Henry I'm being kept prisoner here by Pan".

"Hello I'm Hannah I'm a friend of Peters" I say.

"Poor you" Henry says.

We both laugh.

"How dare you say that" peter says punching him in the face.

"Peter, don't start this again" I say.

I run over to help Henry up and he smiles at me and gives me a strange look.

"Well Hannah there's only a spare bed in Henry's tent or my tent" Peter says thinking I would choose his tent.

"Okay I think I'll stay with Henry for the time being" I say.

"Yeah, yeah sure" Peter says confused.

""Okay, sounds good" Henry says smiling at me " would you like help with your bag?" Henry asks.

"No I think I can manage" I say.

We both laugh as my bag is tiny.

We enter the tent and Henry gives me a quick tour around the tent and then sits me down and says

"I knew they would find me, are they okay?".

"What are you on about?" I say.

"My family, they are here and your helping them" Henry says smiling excitedly.

"Fine fine, yes they sent me in here to help you escape and to find out what Pan's planning but you can't tell anyone and you can't give it away" I say sternly.

"Okay, okay I can keep a secret. I'm so happy" Henry says.

"What's going on in here?" Peter says walking in suspiciously.

"I was just telling him some stories about you and he's getting excited about the fact that you'll become all soft and let him go home to his family" I say winking at Henry.

He smiles back and we both look at Peter but he doesn't look happy.

"You are never going home, so get used to the fact that we are your family now and if your family tries to save you, I'll kill them all" Peter says.

"The only person I could ever say was like family to me here is Hannah" Henry says running out of the tent crying.

"Now why did you do that?" I question.

"I was telling him the truth, just because he doesn't like it that's not my fault" Peter says smiling.

"Peter, why have you got Henry here?, how is he important?" I say hoping for answers.

"Henry has the heart of the truest believer and if he gives up his heart to me before the timer on skull rock runs out, I will absorb all the magic in Neverland and become immortal. If I don't then I will die. That's why he's important" Peter says.

I'm speechless I can't physically say anything.

"How...How could you do that to someone? How would Henry even be able to give up his heart to you" I ask.

"It's the only way that I can survive and he rips out his own heart like that woman, Regina, did to Richard" Peter says.

"He would never do that, he would never give his heart up for someone like you. Now get out of this tent" I yell.

"Fine, fine. But you'll see, he will give his heart up. Just wait" Peter says.

He then walks out the tent with a huge grin in his face.

I run out my tent and start to run away. I need to tell Hook and the others this.

"Where are you going?" Peter says grabbing my arm.

"I can't be around you right now, I need to get away with my thoughts" I say.

"But why can't you just stay in your tent and do that?" Peter asks.

"Because I want some space. Now let me go. LET GO" I say.

Peter lets go of my arm slowly and kisses it.

"Don't be to long" Peter says sadly walking off to his tent.

"I won't, don't worry" I say looking out at the horizon.

There's no time to waste. This is worse than I thought. I must tell the others before its too late.