The Discovery Of Neverland

Chapter 24

POV: Lex

I feel guilty.
If I told Jerry what happened with Devin I could have prevented from all this to happen.

But than he would have been mad at me for failing to bring Devin. Knowing Jerry that would have ended bad for me.

Right now I'm walking back to the Echo Cave.
I have to get Devin back to camp.

I reach the Echo cave when I suddenly hear a laughter behind me.

"Wow you really missed me, hm?"

I turn around and find Devin sitting in a tree.
I hate this new Devin.

"Come on Devin" I say annoyed "you have to come back to the camp"

He jumps from the tree on the ground.
"No thanks, I don't exactly wanna get killed"

I grab his arm as he passes me by.
But it only makes him chuckle.
"Really?" He smiles "you wanna do this again?"

I see the glimpse of my knife still in his pocket making me letting him go.
I forgot about that.

He walks to me until he stands so close he has to look up for our eyes to meet.
"I don't get why you came back here"

"I came back to bring you to the c-"

"No" he says while inspecting the wound he created on me. "It's not that"
He takes off my sleeve that I used as bandage. "Why are you really here?"

I push him away "what the hell are you doing?"

He scoffs at me and says "just let me help you, it looks bad"

I let him silently take off the sleeve as he looks into the wound. He takes out a little bottle from his pocket and drips it into the wound.

"That hurts!" I say, sighing that he has stop doing whatever he is doing.

"Don't be such a baby, it just helps for the wound to not get infected. Honestly I'm surprised it hasn't been infected already"

I watch him put the sleeve back on as a bandage.

The moment of silence stops when he asks
"So? Why are you really here?"

I honestly don't really know.
I don't know what brought me back to this place, what brought me back to him.

The fact I didn't answer his question seems to entertain him. "Aw, you really missed me"

"I did not- shut up"

He laughs as he walks away from me.
I don't stop him this time.
It's not like I could anyway, he is still carrying my knife.

I yell "Wait"

A big smile appears on his face. God I hate that smile.

I mumble "I brought you this"
As I roll an apple towards his feet. "I assume you must be starving here"

His eyes light up as he takes the apple from the ground.
he walks back to me as He takes a bite and says with mouthful "thanks".

I don't say anything. What the hell am I supposed to say?

He leans in for a hug and I freeze but this time I don't push him away. The moment he notices that I let him hug me he starts to smile.

I end up pushing him away anyway.
I'm supposed to kill him not hug him.
What the fuck is happening to me.

"This is wrong" I mumble.

He hugs me again. "Does it feel good?"

I never been hugged before. I mean, i never had parents or siblings and the only person I really ever had was Jerry. And he isn't even close to being affectionate.

For the first time I hug him back.
"Yeah, it does feel good"

He buries his head in my chest.
"Than that's all what matters, don't you think?"

He is right, I hate it. But he is right.
If Jerry saw me right now he wouldn't be killing only Devin.

Devin let's go off me and gives me back my knife. "Here"

I look at him confused. Why?
But before I can ask him anything

he says "I trust you" with a smile.
With that being said he walks away.

Leaving me standing like an idiot staring at my own knife. I can't help but smile. I never knew it felt so good to have someone trust you.

I walk back to the camp when all I can think about is Devin. And how the hell I'm gonna get this hunt on him to stop.

I actually start to like him enough that I don't want him dead.
That little shit actually made me care about him.