Neverland's Shadow

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Belladonna:

My dark purple hair was tied back with a black ribbon and my dress had changed into black, leather jeans and a black half-shirt. It revealed a large scar running across my stomach. When I walked out of the cabin, Hook had glanced at it but didn't say anything. I could see the question in his eyes but I wasn't ready to talk about it and he seemed to notice it. We walked together towards the center of their little village where it seemed everyone except the children were gathered. I held my head high and my white eyes connected with every human that dared to look back. Some of the emotions that I could smell were frustration, disgust, awe, excitement, hostility, wariness. They were such emotional beings. The scent of cinnamon lingered in the air and I looked around quickly, a fairy of some kind was nearby but staying out of sight enough. I doubted any would openly come into a crowd of humans with so many of them being so on edge. It was most likely just a spy from Pan to watch them.

Hook was making sure to keep the distance between us small, he was more protective than I thought he would be. I stared up at him as he was addressing the crowd. He was saying something about the land and their plan for the night but I couldn't focus with the smell of cinnamon filling my nose. It felt like it was getting stronger and stronger. It wasn't until I had the sense of someone standing behind me did I recognized the smell. An arm wrapped around my waist and a hand was placed over my mouth. Then the darkness swooped in.

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Hook:

She was standing right fucking next to me, in a group of people, when she was taken. It wasn't until someone screamed that I whipped around to watch a flash of green and black disappear into a cloud of smoke. It had taken me all of a minute to understand what happened before I set my men into motion. Men scrambled to grab weapons and awaited my orders at the edge of the village, faster than I had seen most of them move in a while. Smee stood next to me, ever the faithful second-in-command, glaring at everyone as usual.

"Are you sure this is smart? She's a fairy kind. Wendy, I had understood, she was human, but you don't know this creature."

Smee's voice was a mumble next to me, careful not to let the men hear. I scowled down at him, barely sparing the others a glance.

"She came from Wendy, the island gave her to us when she left. As far as I'm concerned, she gets the same treatment as her. I refuse to let her go when she can be saved."

Smee rolled his eyes and was about to say something else before I leaned down and got in his face.

"No one deserves to be stuck with that fairy bastard who took her. He already hurt her, without good reason, and then he dared to take her from me when she was right next to me. I will not forgive him for this slight."

I practically was spitting in Smee's face before I turned my stern gaze to the pirate men gathered in front of me and nodded. Like a pack, my men dispersed, all in the same direction, toward the bastard that stole Bell from me.

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Belladonna:

My white eyes strained against the light of the treehouse. The darkness that wrapped around me had disappeared too quickly and my eyes were too sensitive to the sudden change. The first thing I saw was Peter Pan's green eyes staring at me, his face too close to mine. Wendy appeared in his mind and I transformed against my will, once again, the clothes the only thing that remained. He wasn't holding me anymore but his eyes had moved to the bandage on my wrist, pain etching into his features. I backed away until I was out of his grabbing range and waited until he spoke, discomfort obvious on my face.

"I'm sorry, that I did that. I didn't mean to. For taking you all of a sudden too, I just needed answers. And I feel like.."

His eyes drifted over my stomach as his words drifted off. His brows knitted together as those green eyes flashed back to me.