Neverland (Completed)

Chapter 37

Ali's POV

I felt my heart break watching Peter fall to the ground in tears, no sound came out of his mouth, but I could see how broken he was over this. I never knew Scott like Peter did, I still hurt to watch him lay on the floor in a bloody heap.
I looked at Scott's lifeless face, and tried hold back the sob I felt in the back of my throat.

"We all cry in different ways, we all go through grief in our own way." I heard my grandpa say to me. He knew how to calm me when I cried. I missed my dad more than anything at that time. I remember the police that showed up to our front door telling us the news. I remember my mom fell to the floor, she cried. My brother and I went to ask her what was wrong, she never said anything, the cop told us. As first I felt numb, it didn't process that my dad died. When I finally processed the news, I started laughing, soon my laughter turned to sobs, heart breaking sobs.
I was kneeling on the ground, I felt my tears fall down my cheeks. My throat was sore from holding back my sobs. I could barely feel the hand that grabbed mine, I stared at it until I registered that it was Aaron's.
Suddenly Peter stands up and walks to the side of the deck. He turns to look off to the side, his red eyes went wide. I stand and walk to him, I call his name to get his attention but he didn't answer.
"Peter what's wrong." I heard Andrew call, Peter didn't respond. I shook his shoulders, he jumped.
"Peter. What are you look at?" I sniffle, I look in the direction he was looking at.
"He's gone." He told me in a whisper.
"Who? Hook? I see him by the wall, he's there. What are you talking about?" I assure him.
"No, the shadow, the shadow is gone." He shouted, he backed up, he nearly fell off the side. I grab his arm and pull him back. Black transparent arms wrapped around Peter, in a hurry, I held onto Peter for dear life. With one yank, we fell in the ocean.
I felt the force of the water as we were pulled through the water. We launched out of the water and landed in the middle of a clearing in the woods. I staggered trying to get up to get to Peter who was unconscious. I tried to shake him awake, he didn't wake up.
Laughter echoed through the trees, the shadow appeared behind me. I jump and turn, he disappeared again.
"You really think a gun would kill me? You're pathetic to think that." I heard his booming voice, I couldn't see where he was.
"Show yourself." I command, he did as I said and appeared about 5 feet away from us.
"Happy?" He smirked.
"What do you want from us?" I question.
"Do you realize? I want to watch you suffer. I want you to be terrified. I want power." I could hear his grin, I would love to smack it off his face. He lift up the box in his hand. "It's a good thing that I found that fairy and got what I wanted. If I didn't, I wouldn't be very happy."
I scoot closer to Peter. The shadow took a step forward, "You were my original plan, you know? And when that didn't work, I had to change plans."
"What was your original plan?" I asked, I was keeping him talking until Peter woke up.
"I was going to have you find the flower, and then give it to me, I would kill everyone. It would've been easy to manipulate you. But you were hard to control after you found your brother. I had to do things my way. I had to have you think there was a good side to me, just so you could help me on your own will." He explained, lifting the box up to his face. "Now I have the flower, I can be god. I can control who I want and be whoever I want. I have more power than you could ever imagine."
"Why do you have to be god, when you could have friends and family who care about you? Peter is still your brother, I don't know what happened between you too, but I know that you can come back from this. You don't have to do this." I don't know if I was convincing myself that there's was some good in him or I was trying to convince him not to kill us.
He stopped and stared for a moment, maybe my words were sinking in.
He shook his head, "This has been my dream since I came here."
I stood up and watched him open the box, it showed a single white flower, a magical essence surrounded it. I ran as fast as I could, he was distracted by the flower that I swat the box out of his and tackled him. He looked as if I could go through him, but he felt like a living breathing person. I wasn't strong enough and he pushed me off with barely any movement.
"You're really getting on my nerves Allison." He warned in a low tone, I stood up and ran at him again, I was pushed into a tree. The shadow noticed Peter stood up and smiled "Good morning sleeping beauty."
All three of us realized the flower was on the ground, the shadow and Peter looked at each other and darted towards the flower. I didn't know what to do, everything was going by so fast.
Both of them dove at the flower, I anxiously watched, not knowing what to do.
A beam of lightening struck down between the two. Dust flew in the air, 10 feet up. My heart stopped, the shadow won?
After the dust cleared, both Peter and the shadow staggered backwards, glaring at each other. It was intense. It was like a western showdown.
"You going to kill me Peter?" The shadow spoke up nervously, he took a step back. Peter inched closer to the shadow, I saw malice in his eyes. He ran as fast as the speed of light, catching the shadow by the throat.
"Peter." I walk forward, he turns his head to me, his eyes soften. "Don't. It's not worth it."
He warmly smiled at me, he grabbed the shadows head and jerked it to the side forcefully, snapping his neck. I stared in awe and horror at the scene.
"He made me kill Wendy, he tried killing you and threatened killing my boys, multiple times. I can't just let that go." He told me, he walked towards me and enveloped me in a hug. He looked at the body, we thought we saw the body move. Peter struck him with lighting twice. It burned a hole into the ground incinerating the body.
"He didn't deserve the death he got, he deserved much worse." I spoke lowly, it surprised Peter, he snapped his head to me. He grinned, showing his teeth, he's never done that before. Not in front of me at least, he looked almost heavenly.
"I love you." He whispered. I stared up at him, I wrapped my arms around him.
"I love you too." I whisper, just before our lips touched, a familiar voice shouted out to us. We turn our heads to look at the culprit, Matt.
"Thank god you guys are okay. Jeez, I'm guessing you killed him, and bit overkill much?" Matt took the scene in and smirked with his eye brows raised.
"Definitely not." I laughed, I looked up to Peter who chuckled.
"We'll catch up to you okay? Go on ahead." He told Matt. Matt caught on, nodding he winked and gave us thumbs up. He walked on ahead, when I couldn't see him anymore I felt Peter's hand rest on my cheek, I look up at him.
"Time to go home." He said, smiling down. I wrapped my arms around his neck, and kissed him.
I was home now, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.