Part Fourteen

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Hook POV

The ticking was not stopping. Constantly. Tick, tock, tick, tock.... on, and on, until it filled your head. Why did that imbecile have to drop the luggage? Why did that great, ugly beast have to swallow it?

"Enough!" I yelled. "I can stand it no longer. Kill the blasted creature! Load the cannons, and don't stop firing until the beast is dead!"

"Aye, aye, Captain!" They all ran off to do my biding. It had only taken me one death to scare them all into obeying my every order. It was splendid. No one ever listened to me like this in the Indian Tribe. All I got was ridicule and disrespect. But now... They all feared me. And fear means respect, and respect means getting what you want. And I like getting what I want. And, most of all, I like this new hook. I screwed it into my wrist, and smiled slyly to myself. Just you wait, Peter Pan.

I would avenge my hand if it was the last thing I ever did.

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