That Awkward Moment When You Remember What Happened Last Night

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Time: Sometime in the late morning or afternoon. Location: Caves.

I slowly moved my arms to stretch and tried to open my eyes but they seemed cloudy. My head was pounding and I groaned.

"Shut up I'm already tired from waking up every two hours." Slightly mumbled from across the room.

"What?" Peter muttered. I kissed him to try to stop the pounding in my head. It worked for a total of two seconds.

"Why am I naked?" Marmaduke asked from the other side of the room.

"Is there anything unusual about that?" Binky asked. Nibs woke up but Libby was still sound asleep.

"Should we wake up Mary and Libby?" Anna asked tiredly.

"Wake up Mary and you die. You only make that mistake once." Binky warned her. Curly woke up quietly as did Tootles.

"That was awesome!" Tootles said.

A collective bunch of 'Shhhh's' came from around the cave.

"First time drunk Tootles?" I asked.

"Yep. I don't even have a headache-OW! Never mind." He whimpered.

"Now shut up." Marmaduke said.

"Should we tell them we have Advil in the first aid kit?" Peter whispered to me.

"More for us." I whispered back.

After we all had woken up we started breakfast. Peter and I snuck some Advil then we started cleanup which included finding Marmaduke's clothes and cleaning up the empty bottles. We decided to wash out all of the bottles and then hang them in the back of the back of the cave as a reminder to this night. It took a long time to get up and moving and we had to wrap Anna's wrist because she injured it in the fall.

"Can't we make a stop by Cannibal Cove?" Marmaduke asked. "We've been walking forever and it's hot."

"Alright." Peter sighed, giving in. We were all excited because we had been walking for a while and needed some cooling off.

When we finally arrived at Cannibal Cove the boys stripped down to their boxers and jumped into the water. I helped Anna unwrap her wrist while Nibs and Libby ran off to another part of the cove, of course. Mary grabbed her bag and went to the woods. She came back a bit later in a seashell bra and a skirt.

"I won't need this skirt in a moment." She said then jumped into the water. I peaked over the edge and saw that her legs had transformed into a long purple fin.

"So that's the mermaid part." I said.

"She's part mermaid?" Anna asked as I finished unwrapping her wrist.

"Yes." I answered then stripped down to a t-shirt and shorts and jumped into the water. Anna soon followed after me. Peter flew over to me and picked me up out of the water.

"I'm going to drop you!" He yelled.

"No!" I yelled then hit his chest.

"Fly!" He said. "Just fly!"

"You know I can't!" I yelled back.

"All you need is faith, trust and pixie dust." He said. He reached into his pocket and grabbed a bag of pixie dust. "You've got at least 1/3 of that!" He sprinkled pixie dust over me then shoved the bag back into his pocket.

"Do you believe in all of this?" He asked me.

"Of course!" I yelled as he let one hand completely drop from under me. I held on for dear life as he soared a bit higher.

"Do you trust me?" He asked. I caught my breathe.

My vision blurred as I thought back to the last time I left Neverland. Peter told me at my window that he wasn't going to come back for a while. Then he had asked me if I would trust him. I told him I would never trust him. Then he left me.

"I...I..." I stuttered. "You left me. I told you..."

Peter's face dropped and so did the height we were at. We didn't go back to the group but instead were on the other side of the cove on the island.

"You remember." Peter said as he sat me down.

"You left me and I- " I started to say but was interrupted.

"Well, well, well. Look what we have here." Hook, err, James said. "I thought I spotted you. I was beginning to think you had left Neverland for good Peter Pan."

"I don't think we've been properly introduced." James held out his hook to Peter. Peter stepped back. "I'm Hook. Although, maybe you remember my father better. After all you gave him his hook. Then he decided to pass the fate along to me."

"I think Camo and I should get going." Peter said then turned.

"Hello Camille." Hook said taking my hand and kissing it.

"Hello James." I replied with a smile.

"I must say, you are much more civil than Peter." James said.

"We were just..." I started but was unsure how to finish.

"That's quite alright. No need to explain yourself. I did however, want to invite you both to a little party my crew and I are having on the ship. It's tonight. Wear your best." He said then bowed and turned around.

After he was completely out of sight Peter turned to me.

"What the hell was that? Camille?" He asked fuming.

"What do you want from me?" I asked back in the same tone.

"What happened between you two? Why does he call you Camille? How did he know we were here?" Peter went on.

"Nothing has happened with us Peter! He calls me Camille because I didn't want Scmee to remember me. And I don't know, hmm. Maybe it was because you were flying me around." I yelled at him.

"I was trying to teach you how to fly again! But obviously you don't trust me!" He yelled back at me.

"You know, what I was going to tell you earlier when you set me down that I trust you. I wanted to apologize about what I said when I was ten but obviously YOU can't even trust ME with James. How am I supposed to trust you now?" I asked feeling the rage bundling up inside of me.

"James? You call him James now?" Peter asked disbelievingly.

"Stop trying to change the topic! Admit it. You. Don't. Trust. Me." I said stepping up to him.

"I trust you. I don't trust him." He said.

"Then don't worry about it." I replied.

"How can I not worry about it?" He said running his hands through his hair.

"I'm not ten anymore. I'll be seventeen in a few days. I'm almost an adult. I can make my own decisions and run my life." I said calmly.

"If you were running your life you'd be dead. You would be dead if it weren't for me." He said but then covered his mouth. "Camo, I'm sorry I shouldn't have brought that up."

"I'm leaving now. Maybe I'll see you later." I said turning and walking away.

"Camo wait!" He called after me.

"I'll see you later tonight." I told him. "I need to be alone. And this is not you leaving me. This is me leaving you."

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