"My darling boy! It's been 5 years, son where have you been? You know I don't care as long as you're safe and you're home and you are!" My mother smiled as she pulled me into a hug. I dropped my bag on the doorstep and gladly returned the hug holding her tight. I missed her so much. "James, my darling boy. I've missed you so much, I thought you'd never come home." I pulled away and smiled at her.
"I'll always come home, Mother. It may take me a while but I'll always come home. I missed you so much and everyone else, I'm so glad to be home." "You have to tell me everything. I bet you've had quite the journey, come in get yourself settled again, your bedroom is exactly the way you left it I didn't want to touch anything but of course I cleaned it from time to time." Oh, she had no idea the journey I've had. But I nodded anyway and chuckled, getting myself and my bag in the door and getting myself back up to my old bedroom.
Once I had settled everything back in place, my mother sat me down with a cup of tea and I told her everything, even about Neverland and Peter and the hook hand as well. I had to, I couldn't not tell her and well unlike I'd assumed she didn't ridicule what I was saying or not believe like anyone else would. She actually listened and believed everything I was saying, she always did. "I just have one question, son." She asked when I had finished, I nodded.
"Yes, of course, what is it?" She set down her cup of tea and looked at me seriously. "When are you going to stop pretending that you're not in love with this Peter boy? It's very obvious, sweetheart, I seen your sister in love and she was just like you. I know my children. From the way you talk about about him even angrily I can see how deep you actually care for him. Is there nothing you can do? Are you really never going to see him again?" I sighed and rubbed my arms nervously.
"Mother, Peter is but even a teenager he'd kill me if he heard me call that. I can't do anything, he's gone back to Neverland and I will never see him again, I have no way of getting back to Neverland or even getting a message to Peter. Of course I love him but I can't. Peter refuses to grow up both figuratively and literally and I did everything I could to change his mind and try to get him to stay with me here but he wouldn't.
So why should I try and force him into a life he doesn't want? He doesn't want a life, period. He wants to stay the same age forever and stay in Neverland playing games forever. I spent what felt way longer than five years living that lifestyle with him and it got too much to the point I begged him to bring me home so I could live in the real world again. You don't know how fresh it feels, how real it feels but I miss him, of course I do.
But there's absolutely nothing I can do, unless Peter comes back here on his own and magically grows up I can't be with him and he can't be with me. That's the end of the line for Captain James Hook and Peter Pan. Now, I'm gonna go surprise Saba, Kate, Olivia, Ava, Matthew, Noah, Ajax and Elijah." Yes, I had a LOT of siblings, don't ask honestly.
But I know they're gonna be happy to see me.
