The Light Inside (Peter Pan OUAT)

Chapter 1

Peter Pan's Pov

"Tomorrow early in the morning we'll be getting new additions to the lost boys. I hope you all will be on your best behavior when they show," I informed the boys, as they are were gathered around the campsite.

There was a moment of silence and it was broken by the laughter made by all of us around. We were quite aware that our behavior contradicts best behavior. I looked around at all of my laughing stock of boys, and I had come to notice all but one was laughing.

Devin, remaining 15 years old, was sitting on one of the oak logs around the bonfire with his head down. I silenced the boys and sent them to go back to their tents, except for Devin. I sat next to him and he looked up at me. Devin gave me a small smile and looked back down with his light ash brown bangs drooping over his face.

"What's up mate?" I asked him.

"You see, I've been thinking. What if we were good?" He asked hesitantly.

"Like, you want us to stop torturing other people and ruining their lives?" I asked as I raised my brow in confusion.

He nodded and I chuckled a bit.

"The thing is, mate, if I were to stop, it would ruin all the fun me and the boys will have. I'm sorry, I just can't do that." I insisted, and Devin nodded his head in understanding.

"Yeah, figured you'd say that." Devin remarked lifting his head up to meet my eyes.

"But Pan, I know you're better than just a devilish demon child."

I pursed my lips and held my chest, "Wow. Is that how you think of me? Your leader?" I retorted in a playful manner. Devin looked slightly petrified and I rolled my eyes playfully.

"Look, all that's in me is nothing but darkness and evil. There's nothing I could possibly do to change that and I've learned to accept it. You should too." I informed him as I placed a hand on his shoulder. Devin adjusted his seated position and faced me once again.

"What if there was some sort of way to bring the light back in you? You know what they say. If the first two choices aren't sufficing, there's always a third option."

I shook my head and scoffed a little but Devin just stared at me, "No, I'm serious. I know there's light in you. You just need a way to bring it out. This place is filled with darkness, I came here because I thought I could find a place where I can finally belong. But now that I'm here..." He trailed off. He looked at me with slight guilt and looked back at the ground.

I studied him and felt my eyes intensify with anger. Nothing but darkness will ever fill my soul. I take power in any form, if darkness is what I get and it keeps me alive, then so be it. I got up and started to lift Devin in the air choking him in the process. I held him in the air as he fought to breathe.

"I already told you, darkness is in my soul and it will remain that way. Nothing and I repeat nothing will change that!"

I stared at the boy in the air as he fought the tension of his body hovering over the surface of the earth. I released him from the air and stormed off to my tent ignoring the wheezing Devin lying on the ground. I lied down on my bed thinking about what Devin said. I have no light in me whatsoever. I have no idea what light he is talking about. There's bloody zero percent of light in me. He can't be right. Whatever, tomorrow is a new day. It'll be better. I close my eyes and drift off to sleep.