Take Me Away

Chapter Twenty-One

My eyes flutter open, and the boy is gone. I sit up quickly, and look around. Instead of a toddler in my bed there's a grown boy that is none other than Peter Pan. I plop my head back down, and look at his sleeping face. "Peter?" I say quietly. He really is asleep I guess. His bare chest facing me I can't help but to look. All the scars. I run my fingers over them, and he shivers grabbing my hand. His grip rough then soft. His eyes still closed as he places my hand over his heart. "Feel that?" He says with his voice all scratchy. I nod, "that's what you do to me." His heart beats fast under my hand, and I look down to my hand. His eyes open. "I don't know why."

I take my hand away, and his hand slides around my waist pulling me into him. He was so warm, and his breath even more so. My skin felt like fire under his touch.

"Pan!" Someone yelled.

Peter groaned and got up peaking out the door a bit. "Yes?" The boy looks at him, and laughs.

"This is our chance, Killian is drunk on the beach. We can at least have a little fun with him."

I look at Peter as he mulls this over, and then a grin appears. "Get everybody to the beach!" He shuts the door, and quickly gets dressed. "So, the book is true that you hate each other?"

"We bicker a bit, yes, but today I'm just having fun with him. More so he hates me I guess." Peters grin expands ear to ear. He hopes over to me in bed and kneels in front of me. "Thank you, for healing me. Where'd you get it?"

"Uh, doesn't matter." I smile, and shrug.

He leans in closer, and kisses my forehead. Then my nose. Finally, my lips. The kiss was soft and sweet then rudely interrupted by one of the boys yelling for him again. He disappears. Kid at heart is all I can think at that. "Erin, aren't you coming?" The little boy from last night walks into my room. I smile, and decide not to ask questions. I hop up, and he takes my hand as we walk to the beach. He must've been about 3-4 years old. Don't know why he'd be here but I ignore the thought.

Once we get to the beach we see Hook being strung up in the sails of his own ship, and let me tell you he didn't seem happy as his eyes fluttered open. It was a kind of angry flutter. I laughed, and Hook glared at me then gave me a soft look. "Come on, love. Tell these kids to let me down?" He asks so nicely, but I don't wanna go against Pan. I nicely sidle up to Peter though, and kiss his neck. He grins, but pushes me away. "Nope, you can't seduce me into letting him go. Not gonna happen." I sigh, and cross my arms walking away with a pout. "So, not what I was trying to do." I blow a strand of hair out of my face defeatedly then shrug to Killian. He'll eventually get down, yeah? Yeah. At least I hope. Maybe I'll come down here later to help him out.

All the boys run into the forest chasing after shadows, and sounds that I couldn't see or hear. "It's the spirits of Neverland." Peter whispered in my ear then he started running into the forest with a stick in one hand he did a calling to all the boys chasing after. I walked after them because I was kind of nervous. What did he mean spirits of Neverland? That's not possible. You're young forever here you can't die. Right? All these questions running through my head I bump into Peter by the fire that is glowing higher than ever before. He stands tall amongst the others staring at the fire, and he slips his arm around me behind him. If it is the spirits aren't they like shadows? How can anyone see them in broad day light?

I lose my train of thought staring into the flames, and all I see is little people. Running from something. An animal. "Long ago, there was a creature that came here from another land." Peter started to explain. I looked harder into the fire as he talked. I saw him running in the fire though he wasn't running from it. "Everyone was too scared to try and send it back where it came from. So I had to."

"You didn't have to do anything." I said in his ear.

"I had to save the people, Erin. The kids, everyone. I had never ripped out a heart before that. That was the first time, and I sent the body and the heart into a portal to god knows where."

"But why?"

"To send a message."

I look at him staring into the fire, and more things play in the fire. "The original lost boys. Derek, Dylan, Blake, Styx and Myself."

I nudge my head into his shoulder. Then a question rose in my head. What the hell happened to the others? "Peter what happened to the others?"

He doesn't answer my question. I figured he'd heard me though, so I walked away. From the fire, from him, and into the woods. Stumbling around, I found a dagger. I picked it up, and it had symbols on it. Must be one of the lost boys, I thought. I stick it in my belt, and keep walking. Might as well have a weapon on me.

I get to the edge where the beach is, and Hook falls off his sail. His men scurry to get him, and I can't see if they actually do.

"Hello." A woman's voice arises from behind me. I turn around, and face a woman with blonde hair tied up in a messy knot on the top of her head. Her outfit seemed to be made of only leaves, and other things from nature. "You took Peter from me."

"What?" I almost choke in laughter, but she sticks a knife up to my neck. 

"You know exactly what I am talking about. Play dumb, and i'll carve you up into a doll."

My eyes widen. Wasn't Tinker bell supposed to be nice? I put my hands up in surrender. "Okay, okay, sure." I say, and she backs me up into a tree. 

"You know you are going to have to play for that right?" She says. I still don't understand exactly what she is talking about. "Because of you Peter Pan has abandoned me, and for that? Well," all of a sudden a decorated stick appears in her hand, and she holds it up. "I can't let you get away with that."

"Tink, what are you doing!" I see Hook running to us, and she points it to him making him freeze. 

"I'm a freaking fairy with magic, did you honestly think running at me or trying to attack me would make me stop?" Tink laughs. 

"Well, I thought I might give it a try, love. See, you're kind of still puny." 

Thinks face turns red, and before she goes to do whatever it is she was going to do to him. Peter runs out of the forest. "Tink, what are you doing?"

"I'm making everything back to the way it was supposed to be. Just me and you, Peter." She says, and if she didn't have crazy in her eyes and my life wasn't depending on her then maybe I would've felt bad. All of a sudden, Peter disappears, Hook disappears, Neverland disappears.