The Discovery Of Neverland

Chapter 19

POV: Lex

Of course Jerry is making ME go to echo cave.
I feel like after he came back, he changed.
I mean he has always been an asshole but he doesn't trust me anymore.

I get to the echo cave. This place sucks because to get in you will have to say your darkest secret. Together with the pirate clove this is everyone least favorite place.

Just when I'm about to say my darkest secret I catch a glimpse of Devin. That little shit.
He is laying against the rock wall. He looks pretty much dead already.

I smile. This has to make Jerry trust me again if I come back with the murder of Wendy.

I grab Devin who suddenly wakes up and tries to crawl out of my grip. "Please don't kill me!"

I chuckle "oh I'm not gonna kill you, Jerry will when I bring you to him"

He starts to cry his eyes out and holds onto my tightly. The entire situation creeps me out. especially cause I beat him up not long ago, for a good reason cause he deserved it. And now he is clinging into me because his life depends on it.

I push him roughly off me and he falls back down on the ground.
"I don't get it"
I say while watching him sob like a little mess.
"Why would you kill Wendy"

His sobbing stops and he just looks at the ground while he mumbles "it was an accident"

I almost feel bad for him. Almost.
I grab him and lay him down over my shoulder, carrying him back into the woods.

As time passes by he keep whining. After a half hour of his crying I get sick of it. I put him down against a tree and try to find something to put into his mouth so he shut the hell up.

"L-Lex?"

"What?" I say annoyed while trying to find a good rock.

"Peter would have killed me if i didn't do what he said"

I stop searching and look at him. "What are you talking about?"

He starts to cry again and doesn't say another word. But it's too late for silence now. I need answers.

I pull him up while pressing my knife against his throat. "Speak"

I watch the tears will his eyes as he says
"Peter told me to kill Jerry if not he would have killed me but Wendy accidentally drunk the potion instead and she died"

I lower the knife but still press Devins body against the tree.
I don't know if I should believe him.
So I say "How am I supposed to believe you? You could be making this up"

His voice weakened as he says "take off my shirt"

I take a step back while letting him go.
"Ew freak, I'm not gonna-"

He rolls his eyes at me as he pulls off his own shirt. Oh. It's covered in bruises and scars.

"Peter did this?" I say hesitatingly

He nods.

I mean I'm not surprised. We all know Peter is messed up but i didn't think he would actually do something like this to one of his own.

"Wow" is all I manage to say.
I look away as I realized I had been staring to long at his chest.
Devin uncomfortably puts his shirt back on.

I snap out of my pity for him and say
"I'm still gonna bring you to Jerry, he has been wanting to kill you even if you hadn't killed Wendy"

"Tch" suddenly Devin walks up to me "because I like guys right? That's why he hates me"

"Yeah and so do I" It's simply wrong.

All sadness seemed to have disappeared out of Devin. All what's left is anger and hatred.

"Oh, yeah you showed me that when you punched me in my face" he walks up to me closer, too close. "Did you enjoy it? Hm? Punching me?"

I don't know what to say. I reach out for my knife in my pocket but it's gone. I look back at Devin and he is holding it in front of me.

He presses it against my chest. "Not so fun now right?"

"Stop it" I hiss

"Why? Does it make you uncomfortable having a guy so close?"

"No!" I yell " The knife is what makes me uncomfortable"

He chuckles. "Imagine how it feels like to get beaten up over and over again. Imagine how uncomfortable THAT is"

He now stands so close to me that I can feel his breath against my skin. I have never seen this Devin before. The Devin I know is always a little pathetic mess. It's almost too easy to bully him.

He slides down the knife across my chest leaving a cut. I grunt when I feel the stinging pain of his blade into the wound.

I look at the wound he left but when I looked up he was gone. He run away.

I sigh out of relief that he didn't kill me.
I don't get why he didn't, he could have.

I was gonna kill him by delivering him to Jerry.

For now I don't care, I'm just a glad to be alive.
I bandage the cut by ripping off one sleeves.
I make my way back to the camp.

There is no way I'm gonna tell Jerry what happened.