Cherry Meets Peter Pan

chapter 10

Smee took Tinkerbell and Cherry to Captain Hook's ship. Captain Hook played the piano as he welcomed the girls, trying to seem like a gentleman.

"Okay, Hook, what do you want?" Cherry folded her arms and glared to the pirate captain who was Peter Pan's sworn enemy.

"Oh, nothing, Miss Cherry; I just wanted you two here so then I can tell you both something very important." Captain Hook said.

Cherry and Tinkerbell looked doubtful, but shrugged, deciding to humor the crooked pirate man.

"You see, I admit defeat to Peter Pan and his new ally." Captain Hook told them.

"Really?" Cherry asked.

"Yes," Captain Hook nodded to her. "Tomorrow, I leave the island, never to return."

Both Tinkerbell and Cherry looked at the evil pirate captain out of surprise surprised to hear that he would never return to Never Land. Smee mumbled, though he sounded rather drunk.

"And that's why I asked you over, me dears," Captain Hook told the pixie and human girl. "To tell Peter, I bear him no ill will. Oh, Pan has his faults, to be sure. Uh, bringing that Wendy to the island, for instance."

"Hey, you leave my cousin alone!" Cherry sneered.

"Oh, I mean no offense my dear, but you see, Peter and Miss Bell here have been through a lot together." Captain hook told her.

Tinkerbell pouted and nodded sadly.

"Why, rumor has it that already she has come between you and Peter." Captain Hook said to the pixie.

Tinkerbell sniffled and looked rather miserable.

"But what's this, tears?" Captain Hook noticed. "Then it is true!"

"Tink, Wendy would never do that!" Cherry tried to reason with Tinkerbell.

Tinkerbell looked up to Cherry with a "You sure?"look.

"I know Wendy, she's not like that..." Cherry defended.

"Oh, Smee," Captain Hook continued to guilt trip Tinkerbell. "The way of a man with a maid. Taking the best years of her life and then casting her aside like an old glove!"

"Ain't it a bloomin' shame?" Smee started to cry.

Cherry then remembered of how Peter's face went red after his and the Indian princess's noses touched.

"I suppose you have a tale to spin yourself, Miss Cherry?" Captain Hook noticed her shift in expression.

"I don't wanna talk about it..." Cherry said in a suddenly bitter tone of voice which she usually spoke with whenever she seemed jealous of someone or something.

"Come now, dear, you can tell us." Captain Hook said.

Cherry glanced back and sighed softly once. "I... May have liked Peter more than I intended..."

Tinkerbell looked up at the perky goth shocked and surprised. Cherry sighed, looking away then and folded her arms. She seemed to be in the goth part of her title.

"But we mustn't judge Peter too harshly, me dears," Captain Hook soothed. "It's that Wendy and Atticus who's to blame."

"What did Atticus do?" Cherry glared then.

"He's gone and abandoned you to become Peter's new ally..." Captain Hook reminded. "You may never see him again..."

"W-What do you mean?" Cherry asked.

"Atticus seems to like Never Land more than you..." Captain Hook put his arm around her. "He might betray you for staying here instead of going back home with you where you belong..."